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Show BEAU RIVER VALLEY LEADER, Trtmonto:i, Utah Page Two Thursday, February T BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER Published at Tremonton, Utah, on Thursday Ml of Each Week for Friday Distribution f Fhone 23 First West Street Entered at the Post Office at Tremonton, Utah, as Second Class Matter October 15, 1925 A. N. RYTTING, Editor-Publish- Frontiers of Expansion $1-7- to America that its had scarcely had who officials The touched. been repeatedly "proved" very that the limits of the nation's productivity had been reached now set gigantic tasks and stood dumbfounded by the speed, the sureness, the efficiency with which these were carried out. It became manifest that im- eration. ventilation, garbage dispos- Under The Capitol Dome By William T. Iglebeart The swishes and swashes of contending currents mighty near ewamped the state legislature this last week aa they .dunked into the troubled liquids of the state liquor control laws; nigh overheaded themselves in school financing; tested out deep waters of election the shallows of old age assistance and actually made no declarations of a positive character that will either beach or submerge any voter of Utah. Clifton Kerr, the beligerent bishop from Tremonton and Ward Holbrook the quietly intent senator from Davis had the fireworks of an intended blowup of the liquor commission stolen from them by Governor Maw's release of an attorney general's opinion that every, or almost every, law on the books had been bent if not busted by wholesale sales of intoxicating beverages The longitudinous Adams of Pleasant Grove, chainnaned a house committee with Kerr as ranking Republican. Senator Holbrook chairmaned a less regular but more pugnacious clique in the senate. Both wanted to and did vocally castigate alleged sins of commisom mission and sion, favoritism, downright malfeasance by the state's dispensers of drinking liquor. That gunfire hasn't subsided and probably won't for another twenty days. Everybody thought when this twenty-sixt- h session started that the main idea was going to be to pass some laws that will provide a better place in which to live for the returned G. I. Joes and Janies- To date, it is regretfully reported, only two or three out of 500 total bills put in, have been passed to even let the men and women in the service know where Utah is- True, there are quite a number of proposals pending for post war planning and the hoped-foconstruction deriving herefrom that will furnish the hoped-fo- r employment. But at the end of the mark of this session, none of them have been put into law. For the past number of years the school people and all those concerned with the education of Utah's best crop have been determinedly trying to solve the question of finaancing Utah's fine educational program in a way compatible with both the educational desires of the people and the abiliNone ty to pay of the taxpayers. of the measures calculated to acdesirable ends complish those have even gotten beyond committee consideration. And as the twenty-sixt- h session got into its forty-thirday Monday, both houses had sifting to tell the lawmakers which bills they could or could not further consider and act upon. Seven senators and seventeen representatives, or better, the major-orit- y of either, can tell from now on out what laws the lawmakers will have a chance to pass upon. Mast questions of civil service retirement privileges, tax ceilings, post war aviation, highways, appointments to various state commissions, salaries, sale of liquor by the drink or otherwise, control of livestock on the public domain, fishing and hunting opportunities, the care of inmates in public institutions, these and a lot more of equal interest are out on the Hmb which the shifting committees can decide to saw off or leave dangling Of course, if the legislature decides to get at all of this business they can make some mighty worth while determinations. But so far as the record now shows the posacsibilities have far complishments. Governor Maw finds himself in a not enviable position because even the Joint appropriations committee gave his money bill, last week presented, scant courtesy. What the senate will do with his recommendation of appointments iscems destined for equally Impolite consideration. Partisan politics again last week Jumped Into law making consideration. In talking about hoped-soon-to-- r two-thir- ds d com-mite- es - t TOOK a great war to demonstrate ITcreative forces, far from being exhausted, 5 By Ernie Pyle in the Pacific. Pending receint l iErnie Pyle is with the navy OIJIVM.L . ' .L- -. .L.--. 1 ...LI- .1 ... iriu Kiir inruicr (nut i jrum ffuuusmng 6 Jew ncM'ipur before) his takeoff from San Francisco, of which the following is on. - L- - Well, here we go again. It has been four months since I wrote my last column fv France. In four months of a writer the habit. He forgets the rhythm of words; falls toStta habit of not making himself think or feel in J self-PYn- This first column is a man-kuie- r. Your mind automatically resents the task of focusing itself again. Your thoughts are scattered and you can't get them together to put onto paper. Words come hard. You have to think again. You curse the day you ever took up writing to make a living. So until I'm once more immersed in the routine of daily writing, and transported once more Into the one track world of war, I'm afraid you'll have to be tolerant with me. There's nothing nice about the prospect of going back to war p .' 1 i ' s J 4 - - , health-givin- man-hou- ; e d anti-tan- k d j pur-chase- r, make life bearable when darkness and gloom. And thlu!? ng is that out in the j be damned good and post-wa- pJj stinkin 1 ON CALIFORNIA'S FRONT or so are being written In San 1 hit tl Cisco before taking off Pacific. They are a ver, nJJs report on the home front -- If you can bear a little nnhkl clag I'd like to go back wer last four months of furlough. '; bring you up to date on the PtJ I f gal Son's recent actlvitiei. Well, since leaving France ind turning to America, I hav-eCrossed the continent three timet f Had eight teeth filled. Spent my Christmas with "That Girl" th1 D j again. Anybody who has been in war and wants to Emit Pyle go back is a plain the war started. Mowed the Ian1 once. j damn fool in my book. I've been photographed 1$ Tm certainly not going because I've got itchy feet again, or be- times, and was made president i cause I can't stand America, or be- the Rio Grande Steamship cause there's any mystic fascina- Navigation company. (Blubber dwl tion about war that is drawing me sion.) I've been kissed by Paulette Goddard, Olivia DeHaviland aid1 back. I'm going simply because there's Jinx Falkenberg all in one aftetf I a war on and I'm part of it and noon Hallelujah! Six people sent me oil painitajif; I've known all the time I was going back. I'm going simply because they'd done from photographs. Tvtl sat up all night three nights ot I've got to and I hate it. This time it will be the Pacific. trains, and three nights on airplanett When I left France last fall we I've said "no" to at least 500 l thought the war in Euorpe was quests to speak, and have managed about over. I say "we" because I to keep well supplied with cigarets I mean almost everybody over there Kind people have flooded me fittf thought so. I felt it was so near the gifts. Mayor Clyde Tingley of j end I could come home and before buquerque opened it with a JSft the time came to go again, that side wrist watch, which so overwhelm;' of the war would be finished, and me that I left it in a safety depos:' box back home. Who would dare only the Pacific would be left. But it didn't turn out that way. wear a $500 wrist watch? Now nobody knows how long the I've had luscious apples fron European war will last. Naturally Washington state, pecans from Mii l all my friends and associations and sissippi, half a dozen homemade! sentiments are on that side. I sup- hunting knives, two college degrees.J: pose down in my heart I would a Texas cowboy belt, two foxhole! rather go back to that side. For shovels, one baby jeep, sun glasses over in Europe I know the tempo for the Pacific, and one nobie of the battle; I feel at home with it friend came through with 10 pounds in a way. t of bacon. And yet I think it's best to stick We've had so much company iu with the original plan and go on to our house in Albuquerque that one;; the Pacific. There are a lot of guys night I slept on a canvas cot in toi in that war, too. They are the same woodshed, and one night on the & guys who are fighting on the other ing room floor in my new sleepisf side, only with different names, haff (1 rtirln't clppn verv i that's all. It is not belittling my either.) felt I've friends in Europe to desert them all the Despite frenzy, and go to the Pacific for a while. most pathetic in my happiness it I'm going with the navy this being home. I've had a wonderfci, time, since the navy is so dominant time. ! in the Pacific, and since I've done U very little in the past on that part People are always asking what of the service. I won't stay with think of the "home front," expeflj the navy for the duration probably ing me of course to raise hell W, ' two or three months, and then back it- I ashore again with my noble souls, Well, I don't know. In the to, the doughfoots. place it's so wonderful to be hat cri Security forbids telling you Just that I find myself reluctant to what the plans are. But I can say cize or even admit any flaws In I that I'll fly across the Pacific, and home front. It is true that a great many peop j join ship on the other side. Aboard ship I'll be out of touch with the don't know there's a war on, . world on long cruises. It may be don't seem to care. And yet I f"j there will be lapses in the col- ize that I could very easily let 0J; umn, simply because it's imposself sit down and take it easy sible to transmit these pieces. But never think of war again, except it. f we'll do our best to keep them go- an academic way. ing steadily. I've had no bad incidents duroi, I haven't figured out yet what I'm these few months at home. Butji tt going to do about seasickness. I'm have learned from experience one of those unfortunates with a it's almost impossible &J terrific stomach on land, but one times infuriating in a helpless that turns to whey and jelly when I of way to talk to most civihaw. J get aboard ship. I know of nothing feelingly cbout the war. that submerges the muse in a man On trains and in public p as much as the constant compulsion find myself drifting automaticallj i to throw up. Perhaps I should take hnv in unifnrm with overseas we along my own oil to spread on the bons or service stripes, for troubled waters. talk the same language. Friends warn me about all kinds As an example of what I of horrible diseases in the Pacific. one man said to me one dayio'i About dysentery, and malaria, and plete good faith, "Tell me fungus that gets in your ears and just exactly what is it you Ba"j ..,, your intestines, and that horrible like about war?" I think I must have turned I swelling disease known as elephantiwM.-asis. white, and all I could do Well, all I can say is that I'm at him in shock, and say. God's gift to germs. Those fungi will God, if you don't know, then i o shout and leap for joy when I show never tell you." It's little thu up. Maybe I can play the Pied Piper that which make returning role maybe the germs will all fol- feel their misery has all teeB , low me when I get there, and leave bom the rest of the boys free to fight. I don't think America at So what with disease, Japs, seaincapable or either unwilling sickness, and shot and shell you ting fully into the war. more f see I'm not too overwhelmed with We need only to be told relief at starting out again. to do, and to have scarcities j, But there's one thing In my favor grimness applied clear acro where I'm going; one thing that will board. !' A! - ( J ' i I non-producti- on man-hou- LOOKING AHEAD flf.. SAN FRANCISCO mense untapped strength resided in al, and air conditioning; furniture ator Mitchell Melich of Moab our national muscles, our genius for made of plastics, nylon, composinow should dared that the story mass output, our talents for "ration tion materials, embodying qualities be "Morals and the Governor," alization" of in- never dreamed of In connection with rather than as during the late cam dustrial proc- household goods. paign "Morals and the Mayor." esses, our res- Aviation of Tomorrow In ourcefulness Representative Tom Reea, loquacious Salt Laker put in a bill that overcoming bar- Will Prove Unlimited riers. would do away with all political Aviation is another field wherein America has the any parties by simply forbidding potentials of expansion are so only begun to un- clear that the least imaginative are and all state or county or municiderstand its own stirred The by the perspective. pal employees from holding office productive capac- pressures of war have served to in partisan organizations. ities, and one of crowd decades of aeronautical inmost difficult vention the the for the last was day Friday Eric Johnston and improvement into a few problems of our years. The developments now being introduction of new bills without future Is to adjust our thinking to applied to destructive purposes will getting the consent of either house that capacity. Even in our most surely be adapted to constructive few and rules or suspending the period, it is now clear, purposes. Electronic debills can be expected to get such optimistic we had underestimated our own peacetime favored treatment with the result abilities. In the last 20 years we vices today used to direct deadly fire, to detect approaching enemy r that the 500 bills thus far present- have raised output per and to locate invisible tared will hve to be abought enough, by about 40 per cent More sig- planes,will serve to make aerial drivgets If not more so. nificantly, we have learned that this ing safe and easy, and to make accistepped-uproduction ean be fur- dents in the skies less likely. ther enlarged as the workers themGreat systems of passenger and selves become aware that they have service through the skies, freight much to gain in the general ava- millions of privately owned small lanche of abundance. We have the wing or helicopter of planes found new materials and new uses thousands of elaborate "air for old materials, new fecundity in types, do not tell the whole story. yachts" by GEORGES. BENSON Industrial branches thought sterile. President Martini CetUft of We are only at the foothills proSearcy. Jriiiset duction, with mountains still to climb. Government Rebate There is good reason for doubting the whole theory of Excess Is a bad thing; everybody frontier land as the chief source is against it. Every time the word of American prosperity. The recollecis mentioned it brings up frontier, I am inclined to betions of paying excess baggage on a trunk, or recalls some friend lieve, was far more potent in whose doctor has warned him forming American economy. against excess fat or excess sugar. The frontier developed our "pio"Excess" always makes you think neer" instincts and character and of something that's fine in moderagave us the invaluable inner con tion but very bad, dangerous, sinful viction that "everything is possimaybe, if there is any extra. ble." I am the last man to discount It would have been a good thing the importance of the frontier. But for the United States and everybody we should be playing false to our in it, if the man who first said "exancestors and squandering " . I Hi cess profit," had used a term that pioneer i their spiritual heritage if we let the meant exactly something. Excess no a territorial frontier of image baggage is everything over 150 longer with us blot out awareness 1 pounds, of course, and doctors know of other, greater frontiers still with excess or excess fat what precisely us the frontiers of science, new insugar is when they find it, but what dustrial processes, new goals of genis excess profit? Who knows what eral welfare. it is? Quite often it is the unfair Food of tomorrow may be machine use of an ugly word. Beyond Old Frontiers made. Taxed at 85 Per Cent. Lies Virgin Wealth There is such a thing as excess In the heart of that wide expanse The whole quality of modern life profit, without a doubt; easier to beyond the old frontier are 11 states will be altered by the plane, preWhat the recognize than define. Nevada, Wyoming, Arizona, Ida- cisely as a generation ago it was government calls excess profit how- ho, New Mexico, Utah, Montana, revolutionized by the motor car. A great deal has been said and ever, may not always be too much. North Dakota, South Dakota, ColoI think everybody has a right to rado and Oregon, comprising an written about plastics, which also know just what it is that corporaopen up alluring horizons of Indusarea of 1,107,780 square miles tions earn and then have to pay 85 whose trial innovations and expansion, new has exploitation cents out of every dollar back to been started. That region scarcely is abput opportunities for risk capital and the government in a special tax. the size of India, where nearly 400 dynamic brains. We have only beConsider this: million people live; or of western gun to explore the frontiers not only The war choked out a few firms of chemistry but of medicine, light Europe, where more than 250 milMaterials for completely, but a majority kept go- lion people live. Yet that frontier metals, synthetics. ing and soon found their sales swol- empire of ours has only 6,400,000 new varieties of textiles drawn Costs inlen by war conditions. from coal, air, natural gas, cellu- creased too but, even so, most of population. lose, casein, glass, soybeans, potato Montana has potential water powthem are making much bigger prof- er of 3,700,000 starch are and horsepower, only a the area of already isavailable,limitits annually before taxes than they sixth of which has almost growth been tapped. New did in a good average year of busiMexico has coal lands estimated to less. ness before the war. The 1940 tax Edible fats, I am Informed, 192 billion tons. Our frontier yield law calls profits "excess" if they will be made from coal or petrocontains nearly all the metempire are greater in any one year than als and fuels leum. Foods will be processed necessary for colosthe average annual profits of 1936 sal growth. electrically, with ultra - violet through 1939. This great undeveloped empire Is rays, to improve their flavor; Gift From Government. g not necessary for our future growth ingredients will be artificially added to make faAlong with increased costs, born and expansion. Apart from it we miliar foods more nutritive. Inof war, many big corporations en- have nearly 2,000,000 square miles calculable improvements will be joy economies also incidental to war. of land containing only about 80 permade in canning and preservCosts can usually come down with sons to the square mile. Moreover, ing and distributing foods. greatly increased volume, and many the techniques of farming and Inmanufacturers are selling every- dustry alike the productivity per The new science of electronics, an r on the soil and in the faextension of the miracles of radio thing they make to the government as fast as they can make it. Some ctoryhave been enlarged to the and television, offers almost Inexare relieved entirely of sales ex- point where every square acre can haustible possibilities for business ventures. Among the devices now pense and kindred expenses, like comfortably give home and sustemerchandising, warehousing, deteri- nance to 10 or 20 times as many in- in use or foreseen for the immedi- habitants as it did a century ago. ate future are those measuring oration, etc. Business establishments with govspeeds of passing objects, matching It happens that we still have color shades, controlling tempera- ernment contracts do not offer much In this country millions of peoture and humidity, detecting flaws protest against a stiff tax on war ple, sunken in poverty, who can in metal surfaces, detecting smoke profits. Business men are able to be developed and turned into and gas, sorting and grading any see sense in it. They have generally great national assets. They are number of objects, providing bur-given liberal discounts to who will demand houses people alarms and signal systems, ' buyers whose orders keep plants glar and food and clothes, necessities Governcosts and down. unit busy counting and other automatic calcuand luxuries, on an even greatment is always a close buyer; price lations, fulfilling a long array of n er scale than the poverty-riddecuts to government departments are medical and diagnostic purposes be did. They might immigrants and that is no more than a starter. certainly nothing new. described as our "Internal ImThe war has brought Into wider Excess Prices Next. migrants." use the principle of "reactive proTechnically, the exec profits Housing, In Its more modern pulsion" or the rocket. It taxes that corporations p now are seems certain once more to has been used to fire guns, to pronot price concessions because the forms, economic After pel gliders, to give us an impetus. firms actually get the money and provide the last war we heard glamorous "bazooka." airplanes pay it back later. It is almost pre predictions for the future of the pre- on the rocket principle are already cisely a rebate to the government fabricated house, manufactured at in production in our own and other for its big purchases. The only dif-- the factory, delivered to the countries. Talk, as 1 have done, to ference is that our excess profits tax ' and assembled In a few scientists acquainted with the Is a law. War contracts are worded days or even hours. They did not potentials of the to cancel themselves the day war materialize. and rocket suddenly your imaginaends, but the tax law has to be reWhen this war ends we may ex- tion is overwhelmed by its possipealed by Congress or stay in force. excess profits tax law pect to see a mushrooming of the bilities. If our 85 How silly to talk of maturity! We is not amended to end with the war, prefabricated house industry, bringare elecomfort and only on the outer fringe of tech- unexampled ing American manufacturers will have Provided only within at of progress. the nologlcal reach prices to keep on rebating the government gance free of free men the The masses. new that the homes will energies the after government quits buying. be soundproof, verminproof, subject are given the right of way, there is Selling and warehousing costs will to periodical revision by removing literally no limit to human achieve return; there will be no or adding panels and sections. It ment savings to divide with anybody. ' Talk to research chemists and If manufacturers pay government will have new types of plumbing, new surface ef- you are thrilled by the same sense lighting; 85 heating, r of any part of profits, special hygienic properties of the Immensity of the unexplored they must hike prices. That will be fects, Into windows, centralized now opening up to our view and our an "excess," really, and the whole built arrangements. It will practical use. Vitamins, hormones burden of it will tall on us average consumers. and other Ingredients are powers We can only protect be furnished nd equipped with mechanical servants stemming from that will enlarge ourselves by having oroner ta .immeasurably the (? Jffi ! AT Writer Is on His Way Bach Despite All Arguments series comprisint Eric Johnston' new book. "America Unlimited." Mr. Johnston is president ol the V. S. Cbsmber of Commerce.) (Editor' Not: This srticle is one ol 117 J.I. Only a Fool Would Want To Return to Front 4 s I er SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) SOLDIER RATES ONE YEAR - $2.50 -- r..T ! u ? Pyle Wrote His Final Article From (Ed. Note: Before beginning his new series above, Ernie Pyle wrote his farewell from Paris to the doughboys and sailors serving on Euro- pean front.) This is the last of these columns from Europe. By the time you read this, the old man will be on his way back to America. After that will come a long, long rest. And after the rest wU. never can telL Paris 10 V Undoubtedly this seems be a funny time for a fellow funw ,i quitting the war. It is a But I'm not leaving or even especially j I'm homesick. t reason I'm leaving for one because I have Just got w say ..h i .j j ii, v - unaa . tsM - p au i had I army. have while. "fL-whim- - |