Show A Copy of this Paper Coats You Lets Than 4 cents The GARLAND TIMES Boost Your Home Paper It Boosts For You Published at Garland Utah—A little city in which People like to live — Local and personal happenings from the communities of the Bear River Valley Advertising messages merchants who are anxious to serve Editorial and Magazine Features of interest to all the family from To present the news of our city and county completely and fairly Our Aim: every week To foster the growth of a sense of valley wide will pay dividends in valley progress unity and pride tht To give expression to the finest ideals that are characteristic of the people of the communities we serve Vol 3 No 13 Garland Utah Thursday November 6 1930 $200 The Year Times Timely Comments (EDITORIAL) OUR GREATEST GLORY CONSISTS NOT IN NEVER FALLIN G BUT PROGRESS IN ACCIDENT PREVENTION Accident prevention— both the “why” and the “how” — is becoming better unThere is hardly a major inaur-trderstood in the United States which does not realize that accident prevention is an essential factor in industrial efficiency — as much an economic matter as a social matter In contrast to this a few decades ago most employers grudgingly took steps to prevent accidents believing that it was an expense that produced no return Last year there was an 11 per cent de- crease in deaths among children of school age due mainly to the improvement and extension of safety education Accident work prevention and health promotion has become a basic factor in the curricula of modern schools and is achieving remarkable results Offsetting these favorable conditions is the vast increase in deaths due to the automobile It is forecast that a new high record of 36000 will be established this year However hope is found in a trend toward modernization of traffic laws throughout the nation and- the spread of laws requiring strict examination of applicants for drivers’ licenses Automobile accidents must be checked to complete an enviable national accident prevention record i ' indicate' consistency from year to year For instance the records show a series of rainfalls over a period of years followed by a series in which rainfall was below normal Winter before last was the coldest known to modern Europe and the weather bureau now announces that the past July was the hottest month in our weather history BUSINESS AS USUAL Our national resources are as great toOur great day as they were last year business organizations are in a strong financial condition and our industrial plants are at the highest state of efficient development Credit is abundant With the exception of the difficulties that have arizen as the result of the drastic deflation of commodity prices the business horizon is reasonably clear All that is lacking is courageous and intelligent effort and confidence in the future of the country We all know that the present period cannot long endure yet many good citizens are hesitant and wait for others their courage and initiative If everybody would get into the swim they would all realize how fine it is —Los Angeles Times Although the number of motor vehicles registered in the United States increased 76 per cent in the seven years JUST THE SAME OLD WORLD from 1923 to 1929 grade crossing fatalities during the same period remained Every now and then somebody starts constant ranging between a a rumor that the world is becomings relatively minimum of 2149 in 1924 and a maximwarmer — or colder —every year and um of 2568 in 1928 The fundimental we shall either be burned to a reason for this showing is the organized crisp or frozen stiff People who harken and aggressive safety work of the railto these words of doom will be encouragroads ed by the statement of Dr C F Marvin Bureau Chief of the Federal Weather SUCH IS FAME that the world’s climate has not changed in the past two centuries Despite the The seize Mother top of Mt Nebo is for sale a new s vagaries that sometimes item says’ ' You may recall Mt Nebo it Earth in the long run “the weather was the mountain that was so famous straightens out the kinks” Dr Marvin asback in Biblical times that when it besures us came they named a cigarette As a matter of fact the world’s clim- after it — Detroit News ate may have remained unchanged for some scores of centuries There simply isn’t any way of knowing The thermomGUNS FOR THE GUNMEN eter is only about 200 years old and records dating back as far as the 18th cenOne great fallacy in the “anti-gun- ” Scattury yield very little information laws wrhich are the pet of reformers in tered bits of evidence such as river stag- -' states is pointed out by the Minmany es floods heavy freezes crop failures “ It is hard to underneapolis Star famines and other episodes that flavor stand a law drastically curbing the how history are more picturesque than pracsale of could firearms seriously interfere tical in throwing light on the subject with the gunman’s ability to buy borrow However “average consistency over a steal his ‘rod ”says the Star or long period of time does not necessarily “ As far as law is concerned Think This Oven IN RISING EVERY TIME WE FALI what reason is there for not enforcing the statute wThich prohibits carrying of concealed weapons? yhen one notices the g frequency with which suspects are arrested and later released without invoking this law one wonders just how an law consistently vTould be enforced” In other words passing a law is one thing and enforcing it or getting observance is another In' H L Mencken’s law would rephrase a Federal anti-gu- n strict the possession and use of firearms to professional gunmen ! Criminals would break this law as they break all others and citizen would be the sufthe ferer History has proven again and again that legislation is a boomerang which defeats its own purpose Anti revolver laws would be no exception OPPOSING MISUSE OF GAS TAXES In a report of the Sixth International Road Congress Colonel A B Barber dion rector pf the National Conference Street and Highway Safety contended that taxes paid by users of automobiles should be applied exclusively to highway purposes It is significant that only one of the 61 hundreds of delegates representing nations made any exception to this phase This delegate did not opof the report pose it but suggested that it be changed to read that as much of user taxes as posOther delegates sible go to the roads however" supported Colonel Barber — There has been a strong trend to regard gasoline taxes as part of a state’s Public officials look on general funds the tax as an easy way of raising money A number of instances are on record where legislatures have used gas taxes for schools general government work and the like When this is done the gas tax becomes class legislation pure and simple with the motorist paying for something he doesn’t get and others getting something they don’t pay for The fact that opposition to discrimination of this kind as well as opposition to excessive tax rates is being manifest The thruout the nation is encouraging public has been patient but signs are on d the horizon that legislators by misuse of the gasoline tax have run a good thing to death GAS TEACHES DEAF AND DUMB Anewand extraordinary use for gas It is anhas come into being in London nounced that an ordinary gas flame is be Ralph Waldo Emerson ing successfully used to teach deaf and dumb children the letters of the alphabet The method consists in showing each child how he or she may make the gas flame jump and flicker at a varying rate with the current of air produced in speaking the different letters The average pupil can learn the alphabet in this way in three months THE STORY OF FIRE PREVENTION The story of fire control is said to be almost as old as the history of man but in former centuries effort was chiefly given to working out ways and means of keeping fires from spreading Scientific work designed to prevent the occurrence of fire is of very recent origin and most of the progress has been made in the last three decades Organized fire prevention according to authority first came into being in Ohio In that state the nation’s first fire preventthe second ion association was formed fire marshal’s law was passed the first’ Safe and Sane Fourth of July authorized and the first state building code commitThese Ohio organizers were tee created called to other states to assist in starting Fire prevention was similar movements given official government support when Wilson proclaimed in 1920 Woodrow Fire Prevention Day which has since become Fire Prevention Week Now due" mainly to the work of such organizations as the National Board of Fire Underwriters intensive fire prevention activities — ranging in scope all the way from promotion of better building laws to apprehension of arsonists —are Our fire carried on thruout the nation waste is still gigantic — but it is the fault of citizens if they have neglected to learn It is to be the rules of fire prevention hoped that some day we will fully realize and waste of the the tragedy fight as a nation against it GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS “I have never believed that our form of government could satisfactorily solve economic problems by direct action — could successfully conduct business institutions The government can and must cure abuses “What the government can do best is to encourage and assist in the creation and development of institutions controlled by our citizens and evolved by from their own needs and their and directed in a sense of trusteeship of public interest” — President Hoover October 2 1930 Reliable Studies Show that when home the mercrhants cease to advertise the mail order houses prosper |