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Show Entered at the postoffice at Ogden, Utah, as second class matter according to Act of Congress, March 8, 1879. Member of The Associated Press, United Press, NEA Service and A. B. C. Subscription price 1.25 per month; 15.00 per year.The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local newsSUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1952Good Citizens 9 PromisesCharles Edison, a former secretary of the navy, a business man who has also spent years in the public service, believes Americans should know about the nine promises of a good citizen once presented by the Seattle Municipal News. So he worked them into an article he recently addressed to the 43, 000, 000 Americans who didn't vote in 1948. The nine promises are1 I will vote at all elections. I will inform myself on all candidates and issues and will do all I can to see that honest and capable officials are elected. I will accept public office when I can serve my community or my country thereby.2 I will serve on a jury when asked.3 I will respect and obey the laws. I will help public officials prevent crime, and the courts by giving evidence when I am in position to do so.4 I will pay my taxes understanding (if not cheerfully).5 I will work for peace, but will dutifully accept my responsibilities in time of war, and will respect the flag.6 In thought, word, and deed, at home, at school, and in all my contacts, I will avoid any group prejudice based on class, race, or religion.7 I will support our system of free education by doing everything I can to improve the schools in my own community.8 I will try to make my community a better place in which to live.9 I will practice and teach the principles of good citizenship right in my own home. Mr. Edison has some additions to suggest and one is a promise to join a political party and to work to make it a force for good government. If any person is too good for politics he is too good for this world, Mr. Edison asserts, adding We achieved our independence by politics, we freed the slaves by politics, we extended the benefits of modern knowledge of health, of education, and human welfare by politics. Our business may expand or wither by politics. Politics, of course, should be everybody's business. |