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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, TREMONTON, UTAH Page Two BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER Published at Phone 23 ) Phone 23 Entered at the Post Office at Tremonton, Utah, as Second Matter October Class a. N. RYTTCNG, SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR - $2.50 Editor-Publish- 15, 1925 RATES (In Advance) SOLDIER RATES 15-R- - S 1 $1.75 YOUR VOTE DOES COUNT COMMUNITY If During the past week many expressions of gratitude have been heard, over the release and the prospective return of Boyd Borgstrom, to the home of his parents. Undoubtedly, some of the strict, set military rules of the Marine Corps, of which Boyd was a member, have been set aside in this particular instance, and one cannot help but feel deep gratitude, that even in the stress of war time regulations, the officers of the Army, War Department, or whomever they might be, have been sufficiently moved to grant the Borgstrom family this consideration. We realize that every mother places as deep a love and affection for her son as the Borgstroms do for Boyd, but we dare venture there isn't a mother, with a son in or out of the service, but what rejoices with this mother, that her son is coming home Mr. and Mrs. Borgstrom have received many letters, phone calls, telegrams and cards, expressing sympathy over the loss of the three sons who have been killed in action, and one reported missing; expressing joy in the fact that the other son is coming home. These messages are coming from every part of the country, from all classes of people, and prove most conclusively that calloused and we Americans, indifferent as we sometimes like to make believe, are united in the bonds of sympathy during such times of sorrow and distress. Thank God, we live in such a country, where regardless of political or religious faith, whether we are rich or poor, educated or unlearned, the petitions of individuals can still be heard and considered. hard-boile- or er A GRATEFUL someone with a lot of enterprise and energy were to take a poll of all persons who did not vote in the last national election and ask them why they did not vote, the answers would probably be something like this: "I just didn't think my vote would make much difference one way or the other in such a big election." Even in a democracy where one man's vote counts as much as another, and where national elections have been decided several times in the past by a mere handful of voters, this type of thinking still prevails among many persons. Nothing could be further from the truth. Let us examine a few close elections in our country's history for proof In 1884, New York state, which then had an electoral vote of only 36 as to its present 47, was the deciding state in the contest between Grover Cleveland, the Democratic candidate, and James com-jsar- ed G. Blaine, the Republican candidate. Cleveland polled 563,154 votes to Blaine's 562,-00- 5, which gave him a plurality of 1,149. of these 1,149 voters or had voted for Blaine instead of. Cleveland, the Republican candidate would have had a plurality of one vote over his opponent and New York would have gone Republican. It is easy to see from these figures that a few votes make a lot of difference in some elections. If a majority 575 d, DELINQUET CHILDREN OR DELINQUENT PARENTS? Just recently the county commissioners of Tooele County passed a curfew ordinance, making it unlawful for any minor under the age of sixteen to be on the streets or public highway after ten o'clock, unless accompanied by their parents or guardian, and makes parents responsible for their actions. Undoubtedly Tooele city and county have been experiencing a wave of juvenile delinquency as a result of the many additional families which have moved into that war-boo- m center; but the fact that the county officials have been foresighted enough to take the step that will help curb the spread of such delinquencies, deserves commendation. According to a news release, some 25 juveniles, with their parents, have been notified to appear before the juvenile court the past week, and according to the sheriff of that county, parents will be held as contributing to the delinquency of a minor, if they should have had knowledge, or contribute in any way to the violation. Warrants will be sworn out for their (the parents) prosecution. The principal charge against the juveniles in this case, is the use of tobacco and liquor, which is a violation of the state law, and the county sheriff seems to have made up his mind that if the parents are to blame, they will have to answer to the court, as they will be asked to appear at the same time the child is called for hear- ing. A is also being made on the sale of liquor and tobacco to children, with promised prosecution if any evidence is found. Undoubtedly the pin ball and marble machines will fall into the same category We have been informed that Attorney General Grover Giles has made a request for the checking of juvenile delinquency in Box Elder County, and that if more cooperation is not forthcoming, he will take steps to clean it up himself. Is it not possible that delinquent parents are also somewhat to blame for our own juvenile problems? p Is One Way on First West Street check-u- has been held through the years which have followed since we constitutionally made the pay rate. Let us look back, for instance, to 1896. Let us compare the salarofficials. A studv of governmental salar ies then paid to our public ) some are Here examples: striking ies in Utah presents a picture of (1896) $2,000 a year, I comparisons which is interesting Governor, a year; secretary of $6,000 In that it shows tne unjust low (1944) a year, (1944) state $2,000 (1896) to level at which pay legislators Utah Should Progress Here IF IT'S NEWS Thursday of Each Week Tremonton, Utah, Distribution for Friday Thursday, October 12, - In 1916, with the United States closer to the war raging in Europe, the November election was the closest in many years. Woodrow Wilson, running for a second term against Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate, went to bed late election night apparently a defeated man. The electoral vote stood thus : Republicans, 254, Democrats, 264. The report was, however, that California, where the outcome was in doubt, would go Republican. That meant that California's 13 electoral votes would be added to the Republican total of 254, making 267, or enough to cany the election. Not until the next day did the election count in the western state show that the Democrats won by 466,200 to 462,394 a plurality of only 3,806. A switch of 1,904 Democratic voters in California to the Republican side in this election would have meant that Charles Evans Hughes would have been the war president instead of Mr. Wilson. Hardly a day goes by that the newspapers do not report an election in some community so close- that a shift of only a few votes would change the result. The balance of power in many an important issue therefore often is vested in one or two persons. - It is not likely that as a voter you will be the deciding factor in this or any other election. But the fact remains that individual votes do make up the total and the total decides the election And your vote counts as much as anyone else's. It is not only your privilege, but your duty to vote Tuesday, November 7, As a good citizen you should do nothing less. POSTWAR AIR TRAVEL Travel distances, measured in time required to cover them, will shrink sharply after this war This shrinkage will be done to a great increase of speed in transport planes which will cover main routes al- ready planned to crisscross the United States. Orders for these super transports now are being placed. Two types of planes in general are being ordered. One has a cruising speed of 240 miles an hour and the other 300 miles an hour or five miles every minute. Before the war, transport planes flew at an average speed of 160 miles an hour. planes may become available in 1946. They will carry between 50 and 60 passengers, in cabins equalizing the air pressures at high and low With Ernie Pyle at ljj. ' $4,500 a year; state auditor (.$;, $1,500. (1944) $3,500 a year ( be $4.00 t. year after January'' '( 1945) ; state treasurer (1896) a year, (1944) $3,000 a year be $4,000 a year after January,; 1945); attorney general ( (1944) $4,500 a year; .f perintendent of public instruct (1896) $1,500, (1944) $4,00; preme court judges (1896) j'3 a year, (1944) $5,00 a year; 4 trict court judges, (1896) $3,0) year, (1944) $4,000 a year; ni bers o? both houses of the leg Iature (1896) $4.00 per day, (i $1,500. j the Front: $4.00 British Flier Hero Wins Hard Fight Against Death per day. There are three departments government the executive, judlcj.; ary and legislative. The scheda, shown above displays the dispanV which has continued cm dou; through recent years in the mat' of payment to our government Rescued by Americans, He Finally ficials, Ends in Army Hospital in England By Ernie Pyle (EDITOR'S NOTE: While on his way back to the United States for a much needed rest, Ernie Pyle interrupted his vacation to bring readers this special story from London, England.) LONDON. The story about the RAF pilot who was trapped in his wrecked plane for eight days had a happy ending. He is alive, and doing nicely. And even though he has a long hos-- pital ordeal ahead, he is happy and grateful and the sun shines for him again. it shows the legislate branch inexcusably accorded fair treatment The time has j, rived to rectify that condition, tk' time has arrived for Utah to tt into line with a policy of fair treat; ment to its legislators. That treatment should be in the natt-increased salaries, an advanc ment to a point that at least lows to lawmakers sufficient come to pay heir expenses whi r serving the state. of ' in. The Future of When I returned to London from France on my way to America I n j eventually he should have 90 per J cent use of his leg. That means he tracine . the will probably walk with a limp, but Marvin Jones, War Food Adne' pilot's wherea- he will walk. at a hearing of the Ho" bouts. It took alistrator, As his wife wrote me, in a beautimost a week to ful letter: Special Committee on Post-find him. Finally j "We have our fingers crossed to lolicy and Planning, stated: I located his hos"It is impossible to separate home for Christmas. After him get I trav-ele- that I guess he and Clare Margaret problem of production, storage at 1 pital, and l halfway can teach each other to walk." disposition of food from the across England of the land on which it i Clare Margaret is their baby, now to see him. My nine months old. and the prices and incct prduced friend. Bill Strand and farmers RAF which the At receive, or fm; the pilot hospital felt iWJ of the Chicago I enjoyed living over again the the machinery, tools, and Tribune, made climax to those eight days of im- with which it is produced, orfrt Ernie Pyle the long trip with prisonment in his wrecked plane in the processing, storing and k me just for company. France. ling as well as transportation. 1 An RAF station wagon, driven by When we rescued him that day I basic problems of soil, price, t a WAAF, met us at the station and had not wanted to badger him with income will remain in peace asw took us to a hospital out in the coun- trivial questions, so there were some as in wartime. try. The lieutenant had been in- things I didn't get straight, and and industry formed we were coming. We were other things I had straight which he the"Agriculture twin evangels of modern ushered into a small, sunny ward, was mixed up on. lization. Neither can prosper and the lieutenant began smiling as been I had out the other. If one languish his leg thought we walked through the door. He held wounded while he was still in or later the other will (?.' sooner one for his out the right left hand, told me it didn't But he air. the The farmer and fc; effect. the was still tender from bullet wounds. stock producer furnish the rat happen until about three hours after he had crashed, when material, and in turn, if prospe; When we got him out of his there was shelling and shootous, help furnish a wider marts plane that day almost a month ing all around him. He said that for the finished article. At ago we knew that in a very few whatever kind of shell it was time if factory wheels at days he would either be dead or made a terrific racket when it turning, they afford a market over the hump toward recovery, came through the plane and products of agriculture. I because bis burned back was struck him. Amen no is in "There place gangrenous, and gangrene works The little hole in the side of the for a philosophy of scarcity. Or fast. through which he had thrust is the heritage of abundance." plane Well, he was first taken to a clearhis hand we, thought that had divi30th of the American station ing been torn when the plane crashed. sion. He was very drowsy from morBut actually the pilot had made it to come When he to, began phine. BACK all he could hear was a lot of chatter himself during those eight days, tryin German, with voices answering ing to tear a hole big enough to get out. THROUGH THE LEADER FILE to Haps, Herman, etc. it off on with He worked OF FIFTEEN TEAKS AGO and at The drowsy lieutenant figured cocka he had the in crowbar little that he must be in German hands after all. But it turned out that he pit. He asked me if I thought he Young Couple Married was hearing wounded German pris- could ever have made the hole big At Logan enough by himself. I told him there oners talking to each other. Two popular young people w wasn't a chance. reThe lieutenant's back married Saturday, October He said the worst thing in those when Ervin St. 1929 at sponded to treatment. The ganLogan, the After was the thirst. eight days grene was cut away, and it was Tremonton took of for his bft first couple of days he wasn't seen that he would pull through. HoneyvH Miss Hunsaker Vera of but was at thirst the all, hungry He was moved next day to anHe said that for hours The young couple were to m torturing. other field hospital, and then and days he visualized creeks full of their home in Tremonton. three days later he was evacuwater, and all the pubs where he had ated to England by air. left a little beer in the bottom of Three Persons Injured You may remember that when we In Auto Accident glasses. got him out of his wrecked plane he He had seen the columns 1 wrote Superintendent C. H. Skidnr asked the date and said his wedhis rescue, and he was mod- Warren Taylor and Primary! about ding anniversary was only three estly pleased about them. He pervisor, Lydia Robinson, nan1, days away and he hoped to make laughed at one thing I had said ly escaped death when the d' it back to England for that. He was that his as he rolled them which they were riding was sty eyes, nearer right than we had thought. there in his imprisonment, were like by another automobile. The ir He arrived in England one day "big brown tennis balls." parties were taken to the of after the anniversary. seem his like did eyes Actually by the occupants hospital After that he was in an Amerithat. But in the hospital that effect car which struck them. can general hospital for 16 days. As had gone, and his eyes seemed of his wife says, he was treated like normal size. His face had filled out Club Officers Chosen He was lord." patheir prize "my his color was fine. He smoked f By Agenda Girls tient And then he was removed to and and laughed, and his discontent was t S. R. The Agenda B. H. now is RAF the hospital where he because the hospital wouldn't elected as their officers for and will be for a long time to come. only out on leave immediately. him let His wife and baby come to see him year 1929-30- , Miss Gladys Mo sen as president; Miss Femes' twice a week. The ner. vice president, and lieutenant has strong leanHis present condition is this: Louise His back is still painful but is healHeusser, secretary ings toward America. He didn't tell us on that day of the rescue, treasurer. ing excellently. Unfortunately he has but he had bis flight training in to lie on it, because of his shattered the states. He trained at Clewis-toConference Is Heard leg being in a rack. His right hand, on which a bullet Fla., and was in America By Radio In Chapel from October of 1941 till April had cut the fingers to the bone, is Through the courtesy of 42. out of the bandage now but is still Shaw ajid Iverson Furniture He had been flying in combat for the Tremonton ward was penw- -' very tender. two years, and although his plane to listen to the October L. D ' His right leg, which was not had often been hit, this was the conference over the radio, & wounded at all, is giving him first time he had been shot down. He a new Marestic radio was tnsta trouble. Because of lying for of remarked over and over again how in the eight days in ene position, with chapel. An expression the leg bent and pressure on lucky he was to be alive. courtesy frvr the rrpria.tirTi He was regretful that his wound extended to the management certain nerves, lie has lost conwould take so long to heal that the trol over bis foot. He can move war would undoubtedly be over be- the above firm. the leg all right, but the foot fore he was well again. As he said, just flops around. The doctors Drab Country he would "like one more crack at think it will eventually be all The interior desert c.intryo" those Jerries." right. a His left leg is the worst problem. The lieutenant was smoking tralia has been described of not miles miles but and ing As you may recall, his left foot Lucky Strikes when we visited him, was pinned under the rudder bar all and he said, "You can see I've been but miles find miles " that time, and the calf of his leg in an American hospital." I took had a shell hole in it. We couldn't him a Zippo lighter as a in God He Trut' gift, and tell just how bad the wound was he was very proud of it. As soon The motto, "In God Wc when we got him out. as he can use a pen he is going to placed upon the bronze Well, the wound was apparently write notes of thanks to the two cent piece, the coinage of which caused by a shell American soldiers who discovered authorized by the Act of Apr!'f on which exploded inside his leg. It him. 1854. It first was placed exco? the completely destroyed about an inch those anand During silver coins (with eight days of of both bones in the leg. There was guished imprisonment he never of the dime, which was too imply a cap there, with no bone gave up hope that he would get January 1, 18G6. It appeared whatever. out. It was even stronger than the adoption, in 1907, of then, He has already had three operabope, for be said he was posisigns of the double eagle tion! on this leg, and he will have tive all the way through that he eagle, (rom which It wai 0 would get out. many more. They will have to The Act of May 18. 1908, to ti graft in new bone and then give it feet 30 days after its passage, months to grow and strengthen. The He is Flight Lieut. Robert Gordon the motto on all coins of the 1 j doctors say it wiU be 10 months to Fallii Lee, of Selbourne, Orchard States except the dime. Sin. a year before he can walk, but that road, Shalford, Surrey. dime It has appeared on the Agriculture be-ea- r d 'I. lafe! a civ.: fc, LOOKING 5'. Vs. H- - n, Tr-w-as - f j. ?; |