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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, TREMONTON, UTAH Page Two Thursday, February A on Thureday of Each WeU for Friday Distribution Fhone 23 First West Street aa Second Entered af the Post Office at Tremontoa, Utah, 1925 15, October Class Matter at Tremonton, Utah, a. N. Editor-Publish- RYTTING, J er AiYiEKII. $2-5- Lay t A Neither Right Nor Left it one other words, they look upon relations between capital and labor as a permanent conflict in which we can hope, at best, ANNIVERSARY for an occasional armistice. This theory is also accepted, in BOY SCOUT effect if not in words, by extremists in the private capitalist The work of the Boy Scouts is one of the most important camp who would deny the inherent rights of labor. activities carried on for the youth of America. ab- trary, we feel that those who narrow down the choice between such repugnant extremes are dangerously confusing the issue. We believe in the middle way: the way of realistic adjustment belaissez-fair- e e tween ism and current economy. old-styl- ject capital- absolutist rule-of-thu- We rethink- CAN THE FARMERS USE FOREIGN LABOR? The farmers in Box Elder County are faced this year with a very acute labor problem. Most of the farms are stripped of key help required on so many irrigated farms necessary to supervise imported laborers, and to do the very vital job of irrigation. American in Box Elder This means that every County should, and must assist if the farmers are to produce the necessary food supply for the war needs. This will mean men, women and children, on the farms and off the farms, will have to assist the farmers to produce this needed food. Every farmer, who can use German prisoners, Mexican Nationals or school children are asked to make their wants known immediately by notifying the County Labor Association or the County Agent. The county labor association has tentatively ordered enough German prisoners and Mexican Nationals to assist with the work they can do, if the farmers can supervise them, and will state how many the3r can use. The plan is to put the German Frisoners in the labor camp at Tremonton and the Mexican Nationals on the farms. able-bodi- ed Many problems are involved, such as farm housing, transportation facilities, exchanging of help with neighbors, more complete use of farm machinery and equipment, help for the canneries and other food processing plants, and an urge to do all possible to win and end the war. Sugar beets, to illustrate, must be thinned, if we produce our goal quota, by foreigners imported, and by men, women and children from the farms, from town homes, from business houses and all. This labor problem is serious. Let us all seriously think and then religiously do our part. Many lives are involved as long as the wrar lasts. They will use all the institutions at their disposal to get tive chores. black-and-whi- ' WITH THE U. S. NAVY ON WAY TO SICILY.-Asl- cr. y.t M this ship of ours sails the high seas, even after every J? ber of the present crew has been transferred away i flat story of the searchlights will linger on in the wardr Ym-th- and forecastle like a written legend. it is me story oi a iew mmura when the fate of this ship hung upon the whim of the enemy. For some reason which we probably never know command to es Alarmed by Change First, there are those Robert Moses who are alarmed by and of sort change, any change, and that does not exclude hence would turn back the clock of results, The successors of the government. history. They would block the in- New Deal in office will not dump all unexorable forward march of labor the worthwhile advances made in ionism, and would restrict governrecent years. They will not because ment to the more primitive role it they cannot. New facts and new played in a more primitive day and attitudes have come into existence. moage. Whatever the views or the But they can and must revise the tives of such people, the plain fact is innovations where these block the themthat they automatically place flow of investment capital and otherselves in the camp of unreasoning wise tend to stall the capitalist reaction which is quite a different mechanisms. thing from intelligent conservatism. I think that the impact of war, forBrought up en the Jeffersonian idea that the government is best tunately, is jolting some of these which governs least, Americans people out of their absolutist attiwill have no truck with the stattudes; they are becoming fewer in ist dictum that the government number and many of their leaders is best which governs most. But are being mellowed and tempered as practical men they recognize by experience. change and are ready to utilize at of the other end the Second, government beyond the limits ideological scale are the clamorous visualized in Jefferson's more collectivists. these Psychologically primitive society. are one breed, whether they call themselves fascists, communists, soIn the same way they will have We can no truck with those who see the poscialists or leave out of account the mere dema- sibilities of economic life only as a schemers contest between labor control and gogues and and consider only the honest col- management control, as a perpetual lectivists. In recent years they have seesaw of strikes, lockouts, strugbeen especially articulate, so that gles for dominance. They .believe their books and speeches, both here in arbitration and accommodation, and in England, are available for and are convinced that empiric reason and cold logic must displace study. brute force in industrial relations. Most of them may not agree Their common sense and native among themselves. Each conshrewdness reject theories of autotributes a piece or two to the matic happiness and planned securiover-a- ll of a planned and picture ty, just as they would reject theories virtually automatic world. From of perpetual motion. cradle to grave, from womb to The very character of our Dontila- tomb, life would be charted In tion makes the way of moderation, advance. What every man shall of compromise, and accommodation plant or manufacture, how much almost a necessity. We are a people he shall use, systems of economof the most diverse racial origins, ic priorities and rationing, administered by state and national pretty nearly a federation of nations within ourselves, and a people and finally international boards of many different religious faiths. and agencies would be elaboraOur cultural roots are in many soils tedand presumably enforced by of many continents. Such variety, police action. exWhere the collectivlst schemes Including every conceivable treme, can be balanced only through provide a role for private enteran average. Americans prise, as many of them do, the risk a tough human alloy too represent unyielding element is taken out, a fair return to be shaped by reformers accordis guaranteed on investment, and ing to preconceived designs. They markets are assured in advance. must follow their own which Most of these collectivists are Is neither Right nor destiny, Left. and Idealistic. They The chief are so conscious of the unsavory constitutional virtue of our form of government govern, of the capitalist way of ment by laws, not by men or by life that they are blind to its acarbitrary edicts is that it provides complishments and blinder still to wide scope for almost any variety its unexploited potentialities. In of economic life. Is their annoyance they would throw ted to untrammeledIt not commitlaissez faire, alout the baby with the bath water. though some of the founders of our Middle Ground of government may have thought so. Neither Is it committed to total state Reality Somewhere supervision, let alone control, of ecoI am convinced that I speak for nomic processes. Our government the great majority of Americans in provides the ideal structure for a Insisting that there is a middle type of economic life. ground of reality somewhere beA tween these extreme threats to our Our task is not to drive governtraditional life. Call us progressives, ment out of business or business out or liberal progressives, or con- of government. Such absolutist sepservative liberals such tags have aration is possible only on paper. lost their old meanings In the pres- Our task is to adjust old values to ent crisis of growth and change. new conditions; U cure economy Whatever the tag, we deny that and government alike cf abuses. We America faces a choice between a shall Indeed be unwise if we fail to congealed old order and some exsurvey the common ground on which perimental new order On the con old and new can meet and blend super-planner- s. power-hungr- y and Mrs. D. E. Cook of Syracuse, were visiting with the Hansen and Larson families, Sunday. EAST GARLAND Ursel Rhodes entertained 14 small friends of her son, VauMrs. VVATANABE FUNERAL ghn, whose seventh birthday was on Wednesday. The small people Funeral services were held Mon- stopped off on the van. They en a jolly time playing games day at 1 p. m- in the East Gar- joyed and doing full justice to the reland ward chapel for Kaziyi Wata-nabfreshments served by the hostess. 59, who died of a lingering illness in a Brigham hospital, Jan. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Oyler 29th. visited with relatives in Salt Lake over the weekend. Bishop R. J. Potter was in City charge of the services. The opening The Y. G. L. C. held their reguprayer was given by Warren E. lar meeting Wednesday evening at Hansen and the benediction by J. the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy II Sorensen Oyler Sr., with Mrs. Donna Oyler Mrs. Leah Oyler and daughter, Shaffer as hostess. President Pearl Erma, sang' two numbers; Mrs. Rhodes was in charge A valentine Ruth Hansen rendered the solo supper was planned. Mrs. Rhea "One Fleeting Hour." Mrs. Merle Rhodes reviewed the book "HomeLarsen gave a splendid piano se- ward the Heart" by Dorothy Mclection of "Nearer My God To Kay. A pleasant social hour folThee" with variations. The speak- lowed. Mrs. Wendell Hansen and baby ers were Dean Capner of Garland were brought home from daughter and four Japanese friends who the Valley Hospital Friday. Both spoke in their native language. are doing nicely. The many beautiful flowers, the large number of telegrams received, the filled chapel and recreatYOU ional hall, attested the esteem in which Mr. Watanabe was held by MONEY his countrymen. Interest rates and repayMr. and Mrs. Jesse Petersen and ment terms reasonable u Mrs. Jewel Johansen of Penrose suit your convenience. were Tuesday evening guests of their sister, Mrs. Orvil Grover and AUTOMOBILE LOANS family. SERVICE - e, SEE US IF NEED Bp. and Mrs. R. J Potter, Mrs. L. M. Holman and Leo Oyler went to Ogden last week to select fur- nishings for the newly decorated chapel. and Mrs. Cliff Barber, Mr. FIRE INSURANCE JAMES BROUGII Agency Tremonton, Utah will the oblit-erat- e us was Ul I'm not sure snm weren't just turned out r .. and i well-meanin- g middle-of-the-ron- tre for good. We've never yet low for sure why the Italian bis the shore didn't let us have iff eral of us inquired around wh got ashore after daylight WeJ found the searchlight men tb selves, but from other Italian diers and citizens of the lei jiietr ,fi never given. Our great, bad moment occurred that the people just as we had were so scared at whatevera, our ended long about to attack them from outtkTt invasion voyage in the watpr that. , " from North Africa to start anything. and stopped at I guess I'm always going to J, in jive '' our designated coast of Sicily. Our ship was about three and a half miles from shore, which in the world of big guns is practically hanging in the cannon muzzle. Two or three smaller ships were in closer than we but the bulk of our invasion fleet stood far out to sea behind us. Our Admiral had the reputation of always getting up close where he could have a hand in the shooting, and he certainly ran true to form throughout this Invasion. place off the south ren m J to love the Italians, for anybody behind those searchlights and that night and we of this ship w J De lenmg our searchlight jan St. Peter by now. Before closing this Caught By Lights. All five of them stretching out over a shore line of several miles pinioned us in their white shafts as we sat there as naked as babies and Just as scared. I would have been glad to bawl like one if it would have helped for this searchlight business meant the enemy had us on the block. We not only were discovered, we were caught In a funnel from which there was no escaping. move We couldn't possibly fast enough to run out of their beams. We were within simple and easy gunning distance. We were a sitting duck. We were 6tuck on the end of five merciless poles of light. We were utterly helpless. "When that fifth searchlight stopped on us all my children became orphans," one of the officers said later. Another one said, "The straw that broke my back was when the anchor went down." A third one said, "The fellow standing next to me was breathing so hard I couldn't hear the anchor go down. Then I realized there wasn't anybody standing next to me." We got all set to shoot at the lights but then we waited. Our Admiral decided there was some possibility they couldn't see us through the slight haze, although he was at a loss to explain why all five lights stopped on us if they couldn't see us. We had three alternatives to start shooting and thus compel return fire; to up anchor and run for it; or to sit quiet like a mouse and wait in terror. We did the latter. I don't know how long the five lights were on us. It seemed like hours. It may have been five minutes. At any rate at the end of some unbelievably long time one of them suddenly blinked out Then one by one, seemingly erratically and with no purpose In mind, the others went out, too. The last one held us a long time as though playing with us. Then It too went out and wt were once again alone In the blessed darkness. Not a shot had been fired. Assault Boats Land. Assault boats had been speeding past us all the time and a few minutes later they hit the beach. The searchlights flashed on again but from then on they were busy fanning the beach Itself. It didn't take our attacking troops long to shoot the lights out from close range. Viss j. ' any-- Ml r has si i Jojra, series V beco the navy I want to tell you tfej member of our ship's crew r didn't make the invasion trip i ard i ar 1 us. She was the ship's dog, and is the story of her and her mar? He is a regular navy man, ic petty officer of many years' senr He is tattooed, windburned, g bai lor, and quietly profane. His off say he Is an excellent worker rj not giving his name because S story concerns his getting drunk ( As k ! The Bat there i Taiis time j jyjj when hot weather came along j n th got the mange. Our friend docterl, f King it with everything he could find, if s other sailors helped him witht doctoring, but still the mange No worse. They finally clipped her lo So close so they could get medicinf her skin more thoroughly, but k ing did any good. When they hit the last port k fore leavmg Africa my friend me hp wpnt ashnre and Mara the country for a French or can army veterinary, but coulif find any. True Dog Story. When I came aboard ship beautiful dog was frisky and ! but the sailors had given up hope of curing her. Something ii: be done. The other sailors left to our friend. Whatever he dw do had their approval. He later that you couldn't Just put i ashore, for she had grown up tom a! ship and wouldn't know how care of herself on land. So our friend solved It in his I way, the morning after tS anyWf ask didn't He aboard. heln him. or tell anybody wt": was going to do. He just Ufi weight around her neck anfl. down into the water. That w end in the tradition of the seili I heard about it a few hours and stopped by the rail to ten friend I was sorry. He couldnt about it. He just said 'let's p low and have a cup of cone 1 A few hours after that ssJ il 5 m j he had started wn-- having YO ho prx pre D Bi i J else. I sa In the nfflcfrs talking i ! Um ha WH ! j very seriously. It didn't aboard 9J keep good. Drinking &H our doesn't go. The next day m J was called before the of pri j DUlldj a suspension given light we At lunch the boys j I w him about it and he said, jto sa he wasn't sore about it, If Ji I ly they had to do something and i That evening I haPP0! officer wm j ! the with sitting w. n i sentenced our friend. tf j make conversation I mention It was sad about thtdoteWi. artit He sat up and said, "WM I said yes, the dog wMlff I He said, "My God!" ;ia pe said: "He's one of the M j taildii the ship, ndlknew ' tried , i i was wrong, but I 0' " j an hour to get ! and he wouldn't teU j there sat Th. officer taPpear V though ht was HI said, "So that was 1, Hood Navy's Landing Job at Sicily Finished d By the end of the first week after the Sicilian invasion there was almost no indication of warfare along our beach front. The German radio told us every night that we were getting bombed, but actually a stultifying peace had settled over us. Hour by hour we could feel the ship slide back Into her normal ways. The watches were dropped a: Mr. . Ernie Pyle a u It seems that several montir ashore had heard some sounds at sea. The lights swept back and ago some sailors from our it ' forth across the dark water and picked up a German shephec' puppy. She belonged to fo after, a few exploratory sweeps one whole crew, but the puppj tei' of them centered dead upon us and our to our friend and he took tk' we held as Then stopped. and sort of by acclamation s breaths the searchlights, one by became recognized as his do; i one, came down with their beams The puppy grew into a bea. . upon our ship. They had found their mark. dog, smart, alert and sweet H must remain resilient, adaptable, and thus thoroughly alive. The threat against capitalism does not come from just one direction. It also comes from the opposite corner. Let us look at this double menace. ' s was with iti the Pacific war zones, We'd been stopped only a minute when big searchlights blinked on from the shore and began to search the waters. Apparently the watchers It Ultra-Conservativ- At t Note): This dispatch was written and firtt publuhtA i . the GJj landing on bicuy. lie is now on his way to cover if r give-and-tak- e. g Is ( Editor well-know- n men trained to appreciate our heritage and to put into practhe waters of rewe of when we think between all that lations communities home tice in their business and govuse the word democracy. ernment. AdvoEric Johnston cates of state h thirty-fiftsense. their are America observing The Boy Scouts of dominations of all economy of the We prosper best under the freeAmerica of to sort who came to the fore in the dom of anniversary. The training they give the youth Americans New Deal period regard government will accept collective action through the finest of to assure perpetuaknow we ways is one of the as in permanent conflict with private their government but only to achieve tion of good citiznship and American ideals. The Scout mem- enterprise. That assumes another purposes which cannot be achieved in variety of class war in which one or by private capital. They ascribe bership is now 1,800,000. We wish that every boy be one. the other must go down in defeat. no talents to govca, who wants to be a Scout has an opportunity to And again diehard partisans of the ernment. no porsacrifice will and They institutions groups laissez-fair- e They could be, if men of character and ideal in effect agree tion of their treasured individual with them, since they, too, look up freedoms to compensate for collecinterested in youth would get behind the movement. business and government as en gaged in a struggle to the death. One group wants private enterprise to come out triumphant in this tus sle, the other wants the government to emerge as the total master. But the thinking underlying both atti tudes is the same. I believe that we must free our selves from this thinking. To conserve the constructive and useful values in capitalism we must not seek to freeze it. We must not hem it in by too many taboos and restrictions. Within the main pattern of individual freedom i. By Ernie Pyle ing from any political direction. RobNew York ert Moses, the park commissioner, recently wr"te that "the American is too sh'ewd and humorous to, be a fanatic." I think he is eminently right. It is another way of attesting our ccm-mo- n wonder-workin- i .i -- radicals regard all economic life in CERTAIN doctrinaire what Karl Marx called "class struggle." In Self-relian- ce j Some Anxious Moments Were Experienced by Convoy Crew ai Both extremes are guilty of solutist manthinking. In practice, agreeinto healthy of boys grow To help this generation and cooperation between ment to and capital in the interests of hood, it is necessary that they have proper training for A common goals minds. respect their enrich and bodies strengthen their been more have a are to service others, law and order, a spirit of unselfish vital and more real than the part of good citizenship. class struggle. The same fallaand resourcefulness are as essential in time of absolutist need to cy continue shall we America in of peace as in war. Here thinking muddies j Navy Lands Troops on Sicily According to Plans a aerie comarisint Erie Johnston's new book. Mr. Johnston is president of the V. S. Chtmber of Commerce.) (Editor s Note: Thia article "America Unlimited." 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