Each time I open your newspaper I cannot help but think that the Legislature needs better things to do. In the latest issue, Adam Gardiner, of West Jordan, wants Philo Farnsworth’s statue removed from the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol in favor of Martha Hughes Cannon, the first woman in the U.S. elected to a state Senate seat.
Now, while I have no quarrel with Sen. Cannon’s achievement, I cannot place it above what Farnsworth invented as to its impacts on the world in communication and technology.
I remember going to the state fair as a young boy.