Show SECOND SECTION Local and personal happenings from the communities of the Bear River Valley Advertising messages from and Editorial of Features interest to all the family merchants who are anxious to serve Magazine To present the news ofour city and county complete! every week Our Aim: and fairly To foster the growth of a sense of valley wide unity and pride that will pay dividends in valley progress To give expression to the finest ideals that are characteristic of the people of the communities we serve Garland Utah Thursday October Vol 3 No 11 $200 The Year 1930 23 Times Timely Comments (EDITORIAL) OUR GREATEST GLORY CONSISTS NOT IN NEVER FALLING FIVE MILES BACK “Five miles back from our main state highways who knows what conditions he will find?” asks Governor Roosevelt of New York “There the highways are poor and hazardous essentially in the same condition as in the time of our grandfathers” This is not an exaggerated statement In all parts of the country magnificent fast trunk highways go from city to city from state to state But a few miles away farmers are attempting the impossible task of employing motor transport for their commodities and themselves on roads that were unsatisfactory even in the horse and wagon days As a result for many months of the year an impassable barrier of mud stands between them and their markets and the outside world Here is one of the main causes of farm In the past two or three dedepression cades there has been a revolution in inone of whose major effects has dustry been the motorization of transportation Industrial prosperity has as one of its cornerstones quick efficient and economical transportation of goods over paved highways W e will not have agricultural prosperity until farming areas are given the same advantage—until in short they are prowater-proo- f vided with year-roun- d surfaced roads that are not seriously affected by weather is It significant that many of our leading “farm relievers” are turning their attention to this problem income producers are pot contributing Admittheir just share of the tax load millions of dollars tedly hundred of worth of intangible property are now escaping taxation have also been the tax burden given showing Figures is carried by that all of property which earns only about FurtherUtah the income in of more it is contended that the coiisitution as it now stands exempts practically all intangible property from taxation ' and help THE AMENDMENTS The forces for and against the constitutional amendments are arrayed each other to fight the battle of the polls next November and both sides are getting into action With all the arguments being advanced on both sides of the question it is well for the voter to keep some fundamentals in mind and avoid confusing details the man now overtaxed Why not leave it and the tax authorities as to how and to this property is to 'be taxed? relieve they should be passed to the legislature to arrange the details extent what FARM PROSPERITY IN RISING EVERY TIME WE FALL— Ralph Waldo Emerson ment But when we are financially weak- -' ened we need the soundest and wisest of men and measures The coming election is no time for rash experiments” — Calvin Coolidge PRIVATE ENTERPRISE SHOWS THE WAY of engineers Recently a commission from the British Post Office which operates the telephone system in Great Britain came to this country to study the American telephone industry’s method of handling toll traffic This is a ion with a system good example of how a at nat- telephone our privately owned sys- - government-owne- looks d tern to secure progressive ideas No other country has service equal to ours either in efficiency or economy The industry has achieved its aim—to give “the best possible service at the lowest possible cost” THE DIFFERENCE The difference between good times and bad is a matter of less than ten per cent The public in the volume of business can help turn a period of depression into of a period prosperity by taking advantage of low prices when opportunity offers “It’s all in the breaks of the game” said football player as he limped off the the field AND THE OIL INDUSTRY The petroleum industry is playing an important part in bringing about farm prosperity by making it possible to build thousands of miles of servicable secondroads at low cost ary or It the ions has been the experience throughout under widely varying conditthat nothing is superior to asphaltic econom- nation oils in the construction of yet permanent farm roads A survey roads upon which asphaltic material road VOTE the amendments will bring intangiand large incomes to the tax rolls If bles BUT ical of be advantagously used was recentthe United States Bureau and it was shown that m many states road oil is most successful in e roads to a condition m raising which they are satisfactory for travel and transportation of commodities might ly conducted by of Public Roads greatest measure of prosperity livalways been enjoyed by farmers most In highways rural sections the residents are kept away from their markets during many months The important thing after all is whetof the year by unimproved roads which some is be to there of her readjustment in winthe tax burden whether the tax dodgeij is become a succession of mud holes and ter This condition can economicallymaterto be brought to the tax rolls The great is quickly be remedied by the use of mass of detail that is being discussed are long interesting and informative but after all ials that andthough inexpensive it is left to thelegislatureto detenpina wearing v servicable how the tax dodger is to be made to carry his share of the tax burden WE NEED THE BEST deOne point which appears rather1 finite is that intangibles and some large The has ing near ford “When times are good we might afto take a chance on radical govern Think This Over: Reliable Studies Show that when the home mercrhants cease to advertise the mail order houses prosper |