Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soap-Dish Detail. Elder Benson, as he is known to fellow Mormons, settled down to the life of an Apostle in a ten-room Devonshire-Norman-Spanish house in Salt Lake City. Like many good Mormons, the Bensons set aside one night a week to be spent with their six children (the eldest, Reed A., 24, is now an Air Force chaplain). Such "family nights" are always opened with a prayer and a reading from the Scriptures; then Benson flicks on the family jukebox for some spirited dancing with his four daughters...
...cooperative household. How late may the girls stay out? A committee is appointed to hand down a ruling. How much time can be spent watching TV? Another committee decision. Mrs. Benson hands out work assignments according to ability: a few years back, one Benson tyke, too small for any other job, was given responsibility for keeping the soap dish clean. Like all good Mormons, the Bensons neither smoke nor drink alcohol. They take no coffee or tea, eat meat sparingly...
...Flies. For his new job, Benson needs to stay in training. In the past generation, the Agriculture Department has provided a case history of centralization of power and bureaucratic growth-from 33,000 employees and an outlay of $251 million in 1933 to a staff of 67,000 and a budget of more than $1 billion last year. (Benson has slashed about 10% from the budget requested by the Truman Administration for the next fiscal year...
Private-Enterprise Job. There are many other methods by which the U.S. Government might lessen its farm load by turning over more of the job to private enterprise. Among those being considered by Ezra Benson and his advisers...
...More aggressive selling. Benson has not forgotten what salesmanship did for the Idaho potato...