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Show Thursday, October BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER Page Two BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER Published at Tremonton, Utah, on Thursday of Each Week Phone 23-- J First West Street Entered at the Post Office at Tremonton, Utah, as 2nd Clasa Matter iy GEORGE S. BENSON Pusi&HtviardiKg College A. N. P.YTTIXG, Editor - Publisher Responsibility SUBSCRIPTION RATES - ONE YEAR (In Advance) SIX MONTHS (In Advance) THREE MONTHS (In Advance) $2.50 51.25 ... 75 HATS OFF TO CHEYENNE, WYO. The City of Cheyenne, Wyoming is receiving unusual commispublicity this week due to the fact that the city sioners and the county commissioners of Larimie havo turned down a government project of $22,000 and asked that the money be spent where it was needed more. The news dispatch that has caused this publicity follows: The city of Cheyenne wants the money put in a more useful spot. County Clerk Verner II. Franson, who acted on instructions received from the county commissioners, said Cheyenne has formally rejected a new health unit which was to have been constructed with federal funds. In a letter to George S. Cowdrey. district engineer of the federal works agency, Franson said that city officials agreed with the commissionrs that the money which was allocated for the unit be placed elsewhere, where the need is greater. The commissioners claim that the $22,000 unit would have little advantage over present facilities. Military authorities at Fort Warren, in November, 1940, said the city of Cheyenne and Laramie county were in dire need of the improvement of local health services and recommended a fulPtime health unit to be sponsored by the com- munity. The sponsorship was obtained and plans went ahead for the construction of the building to house a health unit. The building contract already had been given to a construction company. Franson's letter pointed out that since November, 1940, the city of Cheyenne had provided health buildings and his-pitfacilities. "The new buildings would merely duplicate these endeavors," the letter went on to say, "and it is the desire of the board of Laramie county commissioners and, I understand, the city of Cheyenne, to request that whatever allocations have been made to this project be canceled or transferred to a community that may have more need for this money than we do." al Perhaps this is a sign that clear thinking city and county officials realize that government grants for unnecessary projects only add to the great national debt that is continually piling up. . x THE ANIMALS OBJECT Civilization received a rather sharp slap in the face the other day when Reg Manning, in his daily cartoon appearing in the Salt Lake Tribune, pictured the lowest typfe members of the animal kingdom loudly protesting the insults that are being heaped upon them from the human element. The cartoon pictured the louse, skunk, cockroach, snake, hyenna, wolf, and coyote bearing placards asking that civilized man stop referring to such people as Hitler and Tojo in the same manner as themselves. The point stressed was. "let the humans tVo tka for their own mistakes, and not inflict such insinuations on us. h,m Over two billion people walk daily of them on the earth. Probably 75 never do any broad thinking. They keep so busy trying to earn food, clothing and shelter that vague notions about social, scientific and governmental progress seem hopelessly high and rarefied. Of course these generalities don't apply to the United States. We do things better in this country. Realizing what a big share of the human race struggles daily for a bare existence, one may ask Why don't their governments do something about it? The shameful answer is that they do. Government restrictions are themselves responsible for most of the poverty and ignorance in the world. Freedom at Work Good ideas put into execution benefit a great many people. Henry Ford had a good idea, for example. It enriched him; it benefited thousands who helped him execute it and made broader horizons for millions of others. But if a man with an idea can't do anything about it (not having enough learning or enough capital or enough freedom) everybody loses, nobody benefits. The more liberty people have to solve their own problems, plan their own work and determine their own destinies, the more abundant lives they lead. of a China, where I spent 20 normal lifetime, is a much governed For centuries, literally, country. s consumed the fat Chinese of the land and managed to keep the masses poor, groping in ignorance. Coolies toil from sun to sun with crude tools, live on half rations and earn less in a month than a Detroit welder draws in two hours. Living standards in any two countries differ as their measure of freedom differs. Fruits of Liberty Individual liberty in America has been greatest; governmental supervision the smallest ever known since the history of nations has been recorded. And what has been the result? Living standards in America reached a much higher plane in ten generations than they attained in China in forty centuries. Americans are all free to have ideas and develop them, so our gain from constructive thinking and working has been enormous. Already America is rich, and Oriental countries are still poor. There is more to good living, of course, than simply being at liberty to live well. Prosperity such as America has (such as no other country ever had) is a direct result of volume production which is characteristic of America. The hod carrier drives a car and the farmer's wife, far from the city's noise and soot, has an electric refrigerator and washing machine. The fact that makes our country marvelous is that most people can afford such things, that retail prices are within their reach. And it is volume production that keeps prices down, along with the competition afforded by Free Enterprise. Our Wealthy Poor It is also volume production that keeps wages high and working The Chinese people prosperous. peasant produces little and therefore earns little, working as hard as he war-lord- he can and using all the knowledge mucn. not which is possesses, one American worker can master the for hour an skill and draw $1 he produces that reason obvious much and actually earns $1 an hour; nor does he hurt himself working. American workers know more than Coolies because they are permitted to know more, not because American they have better brains.because more they workers produce have better tools. Plant owners who in provide the jobs are interested the also so provide they production, tools at an average investment of rail$6,000 per job. Some industries, roads, for example, invest as much n as $25,000 in equipment per Ameran that job. It is no accident ican workman produces three times as much as a German and six times as much as a Japanese. Freedom of progress does it Private Enterprise. Freedom to Think The ruling class in China does not have a monopoly on the naion's s are pretty brains. Some to destroy smart enough stupid; just other men's opportunities. In fact no small set of people anywhere can do a whole nation's thinking without retarding progress, destroying op-of portunities, cutting off sources great wealth and, in so doing, lowering everybody's living standard. The United States is still a long way ahead of China but American living standards will go appreciably lower if a handful of people insist upon doing the nation's commercial and industrial thinking after the war. War work has to be it must be. But managing absolutely everything is too big a job for any mundane few. It results in rationing sugar beyond necessity and letting fruit worth many fortunes rot on trie ground for want of canning sugar. But why go into all that again? In America, as in China, the ruling class holds no monopoly on thinking equipment. Denying people the right to do the best they can with what they have is not regulation; it is restraint; it is a on the ankle of a nation. J one-ma- war-lord- ball-and-cha- in WAR BONDS for 4 ' 21 I and other antisubmarine vessels of the Navy are equipped with quadruple tubes, meaning they are capable of firing four torpedoes simultaneously, making it more difficult for the target to escape. U. S. destroyers TOWN AND FARM IN WARTIME f rini :l 1 r II. giM-un corn Pro wmugs Ceiling prices on wet corn milL ' ings sold as anW i and poultry feeds but chiefly! protein supplements for dairy cat tie were set recently by OPA levels around $7 a ton above set by the price "Freeze" tww March, 1942. Help Farmers Collect Ration Points To assist farmers in sending OPA the ration points they collect from the sale of rationed foods, local rationing boards are mailing farmers the necessary reporting form, addressed envelopes, and Farmers complete instructions. who either sell or transfer rationed foods, such as fresh or smoked meat, all types of sausage, lard, butter, and cheese, are required to collect ration points from purchasers. The full cooperation of farmers Is essential for the success of the OPA food rationing programs, said. ; I J May Up Frozen Fish Prices ; Winter prices on many 8peci of frozen fish have been set the processor level by OPA, may mean an increase about 10 to 15 per cent in retail frozen fish prices, but it is expect, ed to result in greater supplies this product. J Dairy Payment Kates Rates of payment which will be made to farmers delivering whole milk and butterfat to offset increases in dairy feed cost since September, 1942, have been announced by VFA The rates range from 30 to 50 cents a hundredweight on whole milk deliveries, and 4 to 6 cents a pound on butter-fa- t. They are applicable for October, November and December, Herring Catch Increases 130 Per Cent Prehminary figures show an & crease of 130 per cent in thig yearV catch of Alaska herring over the catch of 1942 one of the most pressive increases registered thin' year by any major American fist! ery the Coordinator of Fisheris said recently. Most of the Alaska1 herring catch is reduced into fist meal and oil. The meal goes into' poultry and other animal feeds,' of which it is an important part, tin--l 1943. Use Book ....Four November 1 Housewives will start using and "C" green stamps "A," from new War Ration Book Four 1. These Monday, November stamps will be valid through December 20 and will be used for buying processed foods in the same way as the blue stamps in Book Two. The last blue stamps in Book Two( "X" and "Y") remain good through November 20. Book Four is being distributed the latter part of October the exact time and place being announced locally. One individual may apply for Book Four for all members of his family residing at the same address. The applicant must have Army Cuts Butter Allowance The peacetime daily butter lowance of two ounces per soldier has been reduced to approximatelj 1.12 ounces per man, the War Department has reported. This in.? eludes butter used as a spread ai in cooking. '3' Points Needed To Buy Tongue Ration points are required to buy all varieties of tongue, and of this meat may be soli point-frethe OPA said recently; e, Some consumers apparently believe tongue can be purchase! withhout points, because bee! "Long-Cut- " tongue was removed from the current table of consuc-epoint values for rationed meats "Long-Cut- " beef tongue, OPA plained, is an untrimmed type which is not sold at retail a War Ration Book Three with him for each person whom he wishes to obtain a Book Four. r ex- - Civilian Rice Supply Normal Rice will be available this year to consumers in average quantities of the past several years, but may not be adequate to meet the large demand resulting from increased buying power, the War Food Administration said recently. Under controlled distribution, however, states whose population normally eat the most rice will get the most proportionately. Modern warfare is the most expensive destruction the world has ever experienced both for the destroyed and the destroyer. There is no point where we can stop in this war this side of peace so all of us will be required to buy an extra $100 Bond in the 3rd War Loan. V. S. T'tatury Department Per Cent Of Soldiers Insured The National Service Life Insurance program in the Army has grown to a 65 billion dollar enterprise, providing insurance pro tection to more than 95 per cen! of all members of the Army, a95 ccording to the War Department The program was established years ago. Alfalfa Hay Products Regulation Prices of alfalfa hay products are now set by revised maximum price regulation No. 456. Under the revised regulation, these products will cost somewhat more in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Mississippi, Utah, and portions of Idaho and Oregon. three; Set Record Delivering "Forts" Crews of the ferrying division Air Transport Command, Arm' Air Forces, have set a new recw by delivering eight flying fortress es to England and returning their home station in the Unite. ts (Continued On Page Three) rerhaps the animals have something there. x i PUBLIC HEALTH ! COLUMN tion of the cases is as follows: Salt Lake City, 4; Tooele county, 3; Uintah County, 1; Provo City 1; Utah County, 1. Local health officers reported a total of 125 cases of communicable diseases for the week ending October 15. This is 10 cases fewer than were reported for the previous week and is the smallest number reported for a weekly period during 1943. For the first time, syphillis heads the Ust, with a total of 26 cases there were also 10 cases of gonorrhea reported for the week. The number of new cases of poliomyelitis continued to decline, A total of 10 cases was reported for the week as compared with 25 for the previous week. The distribu A total of 3 cases of measles is unusually low for this time of year. One case of tularemia was re- ported from Wasatch County. The patient is an adult male, and presumably was infected through the bite of a woodtick. Four cases of malaria fever were reported from one of the Army bases. The totals for the week were as follows: chickenpox, 16; Measles, s, uerman measles, 1; mumps, 21 Rocky Mountain spotted fever, 1 scarlet fever, 10; tularemia, 1 22: tronorrhea. 10 whooping coue-hsyphilics, 26; and poliomyelitis, 10, USE THIS IN APPLYING FOR RATION BOOK IV The ADDlication form which will, be submitted at the time you register for Ration Book IV is reproduced herewith. This is a "family application." and only one blank need be completed for all members of a family group related by blood, marriage, or adoption who regularly live in the same household. Any Individual living in the household, who is not related to the family must make a separate application. Torm Approved BcDOtt Bonkio No. TH1 . 50,-0- dier," and the heroes of many generations. INSTRUCTIONS P' u; ICy,-- in Buy an Extra $100 Bond in September ' ! m Untold millions sleep uncoftined, unknelled in Hitler graveyards from Tromso, Norway, to Candia on the Greek Isle of Crete, men and women like ourselves who sought only to make the world a better place. ( yj aays. , LAST NAME tNPT VfeIwii AGE SEX 3 S c 7 messes. uw OF EACH PERSON FOR WHOM IS MADE FOR WAR RATION BOOK FOUR THE NAME IF MORE SPACE IS NEEDED USE AND SIGN - lomkle to tbe United States ROT MOKE ANOTHER COPY OF THIS FORM Street and nuznbet or R. F. D. City and State I CERTIFY that the persons named are members ol the same family and are eligible to receive WAR RATION BOOK FOU3, that I am authorized to Bake this application. Stg Be,a tals TirtCATiott xs com- munities other arrangements may be made because of closed schools or other unusual local conditions. It is suggested that you cut this blank from the paper and fill it in at your leisure for use at the registration site. 2 ich as prisons and mental hospitals. MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES of the Untied States or United Nations who receive subsistence in kind, or who are members of ollicers' PERSONS who Intend localities the schools Book IV. However, In a few 1 INMATES OF INSTITUTIONS oi Involuntary confinement, I The important thing to remember is that no new ration book will be issued for any member of the family unless his or her Book III is available at the time of application. Do not fail to take all number III books when you go to apply. The dates for registration in Colorado are October 20, 21 and 22, , File a single application lor all members of a group oi persons who ore related by blood, marriage, or adoption, and who regularly live in the same household. Include any family members temporarily away from home, such as students, travelers, or hospital patients, who are away not more than GO days. INDIVIDUALS Persons living in the same household who are not related by blood, marriage, of adoption must file separate applications. Applications may NOT be made for: . a family group who is away tempo- but in Utah, Idaho. Montana, Wyrarily, but whose Book III has been oming and New Mexico the dates left at home, may be included with are October 27, 28 and 29. In most the family declaration. will issue FIRST NAME AND INITIAL APPLICATION FOR WAR RATION BOOK FOUR FAMILIES dead," where rests 'the unknown sol APPLICATION Torm May B Reproduced Without Change Arlington service men and women in this American "bivouac of the PRINT BELOW 27 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION DOtlOS OVER AMERICA Side by side sleep Special attention is called to the fact that Ration Book IV will be issued ONLY to those individuals for whom a Ration Book III is presented to the registrar at the time of application. Therefore, any members of a family who may be away from home even though temporarily but who have their Books III with them, should apply at a registration site wherever they may be on the registration dates. On the other hand, any member of A crucxai. orrnrss I I |
