Americans pause today to commemorate Labor Day – and in Central Utah the biggest celebration for the public is at Payson where the annual Golden Onion Days and Homecoming festival is nearing its climax. Labor Day has come to signify the unofficial end of summer though one hopes many more weeks of fine weather remain to be enjoyed. For most of us, vacations are over and ahead lies a long stretch until the next national holiday. Labor Day has also traditionally meant the end of school vacation. It’s back to the books for the kids, and most have gone back already. For them and their teachers, it is a new school year, a new beginning. This year, too, we face the long stretch of the presidential election contest, so strenuous and wearisome to candidates and public alike but so all-imggrtant. The campaigns wm now gin to move into high gear. In short, there’s a definite feeling that things get going again after Labor Day, for us as individuals and for the nation itself. Thus we savor and appreciate this holiday as a pause that refreshes, a day of relaxation for mind as well as body, before we plunge back into the workaday world. Politics and politicians, the cost of living, the international situation – we’ll worry about them again tomorrow. Heavy thinking is the last thing we want to indulge in today. But the name of the day is, after all, Labor Day, and we ought to devote at least a moment’s thought to it. While Labor Day was originally set aside to honor the blue-collar workingman and woman, it is upon the labor of all Americans that the economic and political strength of the nation is based, whether we work in ship or office or factory or on the land – labor in the strict meaning of the word, but also labor in a far broader sense. It was a labor of the intellect that conceived the ideals upon which this nation was founded 200 years ago. It was a labor of the spirit and of the body that gave those ideals practical expression, that made this country great and extended it over forest, plain, desert and mountain. And it is labor of the highest dedication which has preserved this country for two centuries against all enemies, against all dangers foreign and domestic. This has never been a holiday gram this labor. There never will e. May Labor Day continue to be the kind of holiday it has always been. But may this Labor Day, especially, be the beginning of a new year for America – as, indeed, it is the beginning of a new century. Red Tape Relief The words ”govemment” and “red tape” are used together so often that most people have come to believe that, like love and marriage or a horse and carriage, you can’t have one without the other. It is encouraging to see evidence that this is not necessarily so. Take the nifty way the Federal Communications Commission is handling applications for Citizens Band radio licenses. The licenses – cards approximately five by eight inches in size – come already enclosed in envelopes. All a clerk has to do is type the license number and the name and address of the licensee on the outside. Strategically placed carbons, also already inside the envelope, transfer the info to the license and at the same time to a change-ofaddress card, which the radio operator keeps for possible future use. Even though the agency is being deluged with DB license applications at the rate of about half a million a month, people are receiving their licenses in less than three weeks. Would that red tape in the private sector getting service on a subscription to a magazine, for instance were handled as efficiently. So They Say -Bishop James F. Bausch, executive secretary of the U.S. Catholic Blshops’ Conference, at a seminar on world hunger. “Most people live out their lives without the necessity of seeing a lawyer . . . very often. People ought to get along with each other. They should talk about problems among themselves. I, for one, am not yet persuaded that there is among consumers a vast, unmet need for legal servicesf;.