Show I m Events in Review I 'll-'- The farm bureau will welcome all of us to a bounteous dinner and an excellent program tomorrow night at the high school Tonight valley sportsmen meet at Tremonton to Sunday is regular organize a valley wild life federation stake conference with Charles A Callis as the visiting speaker and the MIA offering an excellent evening program Boy scouts will hie to Ogden Tuesday to a big honor program for the district Garland Lions are already planning The high school is busy Wheat day for August 13th Tonight the preparing for their opera later this month basketball team plays at Brigham City and should win but the game is not over yet The Garland Auto Co ran into financial difficulties last week-en- d and have been refusTheir friends hope to ing to do any business with anyone see them successful in their efforts to straighten matters out at an early date When they do they promise to let us have the details Miss Hazen’s classes at the high school Mon day nights on parent problems are proving most interesting A traffic safety Home discipline is next week's subject council is soon to be organized at Garland it is predicted t Sugar-beegrowers will get federal aid this year according to an announcement from Washington D C in this issue Published 'weekly every Friday morning in the interests of Garland and the Bear River Valley Box Elder County Utah Office Bank Building Garland Phone 49 Vernald Wm Johns Editor & Publisher matter - August Entered as Second-ClaUtah 1928 at the Post Office Garland under Act of March 3 1879 Subscription: $2 a year single copies 5c Vol X No In this community and county the more realize that there must be a greater public consciousness of the individual’s responsibilities in regard to traffic safety which local sentiment The gave rise to our editorial of There is a will here and now last week bids fair to increase of saner safer driving to do something for the promotion habits Your editor thispastweekhas heard a score or more of men say that they intend to be more careful not to drive down the middle of the road more careful to stop at stop signs a little more courteous to others on the road a little more thot-fu- l And well they should! One day a of others’ welfare little over a week ago the papers reported seven Utah citizens killed in traffic accidents Seven days later the number had Four years ago this week— it was quite an event our lives and we cannot easily forget Jt— we embarked upon a task we had never once seriously looked forward to the publishing and printing of a newspaper When we came to Garland to do this work we neither hoped to stay nor feared we could not succeed We accepted The things a$ wre found them and set about doing our best result was of amazingly little concern to us now we look back on it However we have found that doing our best has brot its fair rewards A degree of success has been achieved Present Far from it Of course we are not satisfied We see new conditions cannot much longer be tolerated fields of growth and service ahead and those fields must be The support and cooperation of our readers made fruitful We have no cause to prowill help us on our way materially mote other than the well being of the people of this valley and We have no desire other than to enjoy our just community share of that well being And now on with another year Advertisement' The advertisement in the center of this page appeared almost exactly as it is seen here this week in the big Progress edition of the Salt Lake Tribune to tell its thousands of readers that Garland is indeed an ideal place to live We reproduce it here as a community service There will be no charge whatever to the Lions or the city or anyone else We might add that the regular rate for an advertisement of this size in the Garland Times is the grand sum of two dollars and fifty cents and any page of the Times is read as studiously as is this one since all the valley news is found there On the basis of the ability of the Times to render real service to its readers and their interests it asks for support ft I IX ' it More Careful Driving Coming And Ahead The drive is on! in An N: r Every page of the Times is a front page again this week and than the paper we believe there are more valley news write-up- s has ever had in one issue There is a reason why readers enOur Greetings to a number of new subscribers joy the Times “ " ' “ this issue' 27 FEBRUARY 4 1938 Looking Back 'I I alert citizens - risen to sixteen Civic clubs of the state have almost unanimously indorsed a plan whereby responsible persons in each community would report to state highway officials all infractions of traffic laws that come to their attention whereupon the guilty persons would be sent a letter reminding them of the act and urging to greater caution For some reason the state highway commission apparently has not seen fit to put the idea into operation We believe much good could come from its adoption and urge that be given a real trial excellent it FINE HOMES shooL Or superior CITY and a wholesome rural environment offers We commend the state highway every advantage as a healthful residential community officials on their suggestion that each A flour warehouses a sugar mill grain factory community organize a Safety Council theusands of acres of fertile fields a plentiful water supto supervise education of old and ply great annual crops of grain beets and hay on nearby in the safe use of the public yoting farms an extensive stock feeding industry a steady Such a council thorofares will be annual income organized in Garland in the very near abundance An municipally-owne- consistently is soundly A of pure spring: water Is furnished by a tax levies have been lowered system water rates are reasonable the city financed new sewage system under construrtion will open section for residential development by Spring a splendid Well stocked meet every modern buyer’s stores and shops are prepared All of the things that mean a healthy happy and culife are found here enhanced by the attractiveness of city— the friendliness and hospitality of its people ltural the to requirements Garland Lions Club Armaments and War Are armaments an aid to peace as some maintain or are they provokers of war as others just as intelligent maintain? Great armaments possessed by any one nation cause other nations to arm in fear and distrust Lack of sufficient armaments by a nation may lead better armed nations to attempt to raid the property of the former Doth arguments are right and neither argument is wholly right Greoduspidon unkindress and hate are the underlying causes of war and armaments are only incidental causes of too little importance to justify the attention they receive or the 2 rgument that goes on concerning them future the mean time and all the time for that matter let us each religiously obey a few simple traffic rules such as the following: Don’t exceed the 50 mile speed limit Don’t pass other cars on hills or near curves or at high speeds road Don’t ignore stop signs Don’t drive in the middle of the Don’t drive fast in areas residential i More Snow Needed in Mountains Every snow that comes from now on is going to be welcome Water measurements on Utah’s mountains doubly show that there is yet far too little water in the snows to meet next summer’s requirements In normal seasons about twice as much would have fallen by this time of year February and March can easily bring the amount up to normal Weather can be wet or dry when and as it pleases and in times past the late winter period has been known to make up early deficiencies r |