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Show THE MIDVALE SENTINEL Published Every Fr.iday THE SENTINEL, MIDVALE, UTAH Friday, February 2, 1945 Page Six Entered as Secoad CIUI Matter at the Postoffice at Midvale, Utah, under tbe Act of March 9, 1878. lOOKING HOWARD C. BARROWS Support Urged For Gas Tax Bill AHEM Editor and PublithtJr IV A E. BARROWS, A..s.tocJ.te Editor IY GEORGE S. BENSON Costly Dreams SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year (in advance) ............ $2.00 Advertisin~ Rt.t.U Given on Reque.~t REMARKABLE PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE In the confusion of political proposals to bring medical and hospital service to all the people, progress that has been made along those lines is apt to be overlooked. At the present time, one out of every 8 Americans pays his hospital bill in advance through non·profit plans serving the populations of 42 states, 7 Canadian provinces, and Puerto Rico. This number is increasing rapidly, as the public becomes aware of the facilities that are available. The hospital bill which one person out of every 10 in America has each year, averages $75. And another $75 is the usual cost of physician, surgeon, and special nurse. lllany of the plans which provide for prepayment of hospital bills are coordinated with medically sponsored plans which pay doctor bills for hospital cases. American initiative is meeting the health problems of the nation on a practical, inexpensive, and voluntary basis. That is the American way and is preferable to the idea of compulsion under socialized medical plans. SAVE YOUR OWN BACON Knowledge of fire causes and of conditions which permit a small fire to become serious, is very essential to fire prevention. 'Without such knowledge, inspections are valueless. A simple xeport that a cellar contained rubbish, or a store was selling cotton batting in the basement area, means little. But if this · rubbish is beneath the stairs or the cotton is open on a table at the foot of the main stairway, any experienced fireman can visualize the inferno he would have to go through to reach a fire in the basement. Study shows that a large pexcentage of fires endangering life and property originate in basements and cellars. Such fires may result from an accumulation of paper and boxes, or the improper use of spigots instead of pumps for the discharge of oil from drums, or the continued use of defective stovepipes, or any one of several causes which, even though corrected, could develop between inspections. Repeated fires of this character emphasize the inaccessibility of fires in cellars and basements. As a result, the important facts to be considered in controlling such fires, are the location of stairways and other entrances, and providing means of fighting fires in basements from other than an interior stairway. Many basements are bonnd to remain a serious fire menace unless they are provided \vith a sprinkler system which, if not supplied by a connection to a street main, could be fed by hose lines from a fire engine. The foregoing simple suggestions will enable any person having the well-being of his property and community at heart, to safeguard his own premises at little or no cost, with possibility of great saving to himself. $8,068,310 IN TOLLS In 19 years before Gandy bridge between Tampa and St Petersbw·g was taken by the government, tolls of $8,068,319 were collected. CASUALTY WIRES During 1944 "we regret to inform. you" wires were sent to the homes of 495,052 Americans. Before the mJddle of 1945, end of the tederal fiscal year, some weary worker in Washington will yank a crank or touch a button and watch a calculating macblne grind out some tell-tale totals about Uncle Sam as a farm executive and plantation operator. The figures will not be da ttering but enough preliminary data are available already to cushion the shock for his admiring public. About ten years ago a foolish notion grew suddenly, almost mysteriously, popular. The idea was that poor fanners got poor {anyhow didn't get rich) because they never had a chance. Big fat capitalists, it seemed, kept the juice squeezed out ot them all the time. So Uncle Sam, wlth Rexford Guy Tugwell standing on his shoulder and wbisperina: in his ear, dashed to the rescue. Rescue the Farmer! A famous federal project, one of many to torti!y band-picked relief cases "back on the soil.'' was the 2271-acre Deshee farm near Vincennes, Ind. It was taken for granted that 42 families could make a living there after the government bad paid half a million dollars for the land and one ot 20 agricultural lending agencies bad helped out with $100,000 more. It was, however, \Oo much to expect. '!bey couldn't make a living. With 50 acres per family, homes clustered in artistic groups like chairs at a lawn tete, the "farmers'' were supposed to do specialty production of top-grade produce and truck to yield fancy prices. Un1ortunately. somehow, Ule plan didn't work. Deshee is being sold, as are many of the government's other pipe-dream farms. Among them is the 3453-acre Lake Dick farm near Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Psychology of Relief. An early discovery at Deshee was that specialty farmers don't often get on government relief rolls. The relief farmers lmew little more than that they needed to plant seed and scratch the ground. By this method of operation, Deshee had 20 families too many. Finally the community sl;lrank to eight families. Many of them left because they didn't like the surroundings. People on relief become fastidious. High prices on just about everything of value, an aspect of warborn inflation, is what saves our country from charging off these highfalutin agricultural expert. ments, almost completely. Losses on Deshee, and others to sell soon, may be small because of well-timed sales, but this fails to prove that the government can farm, least of all with human misfits on the land. • No Future in This Up to now, the Federal Security Administration has sold quite a few of the government's resettlement projects. The total number disposed of before the end of 1944 cost the taxpayers o:t America some 71 million dollars. All the government realized from the sales was 27 million dollars. It means that the FSA is. so far, liquidating these costly dreams at less than 40 cents on the dollar. In farming, government manage.. ment is showing a loss of 60%. We have no right to expect that losses from government management would be less in manufacturing. It they ran only 50%, it would mean production cut in half, wages lowered accordingly and prices advanced; per. haps doubled. Undertaken on a big scale, it would mean living stand. ards, for all of u.s, half as high as we are used to. I'm in favor of keepin' our private enterprise system. COCONUTS IMPORTED A United States coconut candy company imports 25 million coconuts annually from Caribbean nations. W FA TO BUY CORN The War Food administration plans to buy 50,000,000 bushels of corn in 1945. •:.,_o_o_o o- •-•- • •- TheFW~ L~ I Y<; - •-••• It! FISHER and BECKERS BEER On Draught JACK'S DeLuxe I ·:·-~ ~h~e ~if 2~ ·-·-·-· ·-·-·--·- II I :· BUY YOUR CLOTHES -from-Merchant Tailo.r Pressing Alterations Victory gardeners of Utah should buy seed and supplies and make their spring plans as soon as possible, is the advice of specialists of the Utah State Agricultural college extension service, who are now plotting methods to meet government food goals in 1945. Reconunendations of specialists include ~<more gardens 1 larget· and better gardens, and. greater production per square foot of ground," as objectives of the 1945 victory garden program. Additional emphasis is placed upon the fact that demands for food in 1945 are increasing and will continue to increase during the war and jn the immediate postwar period, so that the need for victory gardens will continue to be urgent. In view of this fact, everyone is urged to grow a garden this year and also because of the danger of a possible drought over a f"arge part of the cormtry. Another recommendation was that towns, cities, and counties organize immediately for the 1945 victo1·y garden program. Specialists state that individual home gardens have increased in this state since America entered from the war from the sum of 14,000 gardens to the amazing total of more than 69,000, and in order to meet the food demands of a nation at war the number will have to rise to an even ·greater peak during 1945. "SMALL" BUDGET A 1946 budget of $83,000,000,000, smallest in 3 years, was proposed by President Roosevelt in a speech to congress. The figure compared with a $100,000,000,000 budget in 1945 and $93,000,000,000 in 1944. A novelist claims the best cure for hysterics is a kiss. Now the only problem is how to give a girl hysterics.-H I. Phillips. . I A~1'11111//1 Style, Oualily and Long Wear Cleaning - VICTORY GARDENERS GIVE EMPHASIS TO EARLY SEED BUYING Why Thousands of Docton Have Prescribed - F 0 R ... H. F. Rasmussen Salt L:ike City-Officials of the Association of Southern Utah Civic Clubs, the Association of Northern Utah Civic clubs, and members of the Utah Municipal League, an organization of 190 smaller towns and communities of the state, this week issued an appeal to Utahns, particularly of the rural commrmities for the support of Senate Joint Resolution No. 1, before the State Legislature. The measure is a proposal to let the people of the state vote as to whether or not the uSe of highway taxes (gasoline tax and auto licenses) should be. llmited to the purpose for which they were levied-for construction and maintenance of highways and airports, where the state money is matched 3 for 1 by the federal government. At the request of the Civil Aeronautics Administration one small change was made in the wording of the proposed amendment. It originally limited use of gasoline money to highways and '~airplane strips." This was changed to read "highway and aeronautical purposes'' which would allow its use for the full construction Of airports, large and small, including emergency fields. Under the new wording the C A A can tna tch funds with the state in the construction of airports. Mayors, city and county commissions, and town boards, civic and service clubs, and individuals interested in highway construction have been asked by Tom Jensen 1 Mt Pleasant, secretary of the Association of Civic clubs of Southern Utah, and secretary of the Utah Postwar Highway Planning committee, to wire or write the senators and representatives from their districts immediately asking a favorable vote upon the resolution. I - .. Under the Capitol Dome.. By Wll..UAM T. IGLEHEART UTAH STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION If the voters of Utah don't have laws to guide them at the next election it won't be because the 26th session of the state legislature isn't trying to frame legilation that will permit them to konw just how to vote for whome. Half a dozen bills ranging from an extension of the county attorney's term to 4 years, to a headless ballot are already in the hoppers o! both houses and as the 3rd week of the session concluded Saturday, assurances had been given that additional bills will be submitted to clariiy the methods of both voting and counting the votes. There will be no more Maw-Lee ballot difficulties or their like, say the lawmakers. The legislature really got down to business this past week with all committees in both houses functioning smoothly and turning out the new ones for consideration. While thejo~nt appropriations committees were subdividing their chore of meeting new demands with what money there may be, the demands by no means ceased coming in. Among last week's new requests for instance--Senator Alonzo Hopkin CD-Woodruff) would create a new cent~nnial committee to plan for 1947 and would give that committee $275,000 to work with. The agricultural committee of the house would create a new dairy department in the state department of agriculture, and so on with minor appeals to the exchequer. These and others are not contemplated in the governor's budget. Nor are the requests for increased salaries from everybody in public service from town board members to justice of the state supreme court, including all state elective and appointive officials as well as all employees of the state. The legislature promises to scrtiitnize those lists rather minutely. Other revenue taxing proposals include the provision for civil service and retirement benefits for non-teaching employees oi the school s and employees of the state's custodi~l institutions. There may not be harmony as regards all of these but the past week did produce a notable ex- * ample of what hannony can be when representatives of the state's major industries and of the principal unions of organized labor got together and ironed out their difference on proposed broadening of the scope and benefits of the state workmen's compensation act and the occupational disease act. Quite a number of the 112 bills submitted to the house and 123 in the senate give teeth to existing statutes such as weliare provisions making parents and guardians financially resopnsible for custodial cases where possible and the house agricultural committee measure centering responsibility for soil and water conservation activities in Utah with the state board of agriculture. The old familiar homestead exemption bill emerged again under the authorship of Rep T Earl .Foote, (D-Provo>. The financial troubles at the State Liquor commission would be given legislative relief under the legislative proposal of Reps Selvoy J Boyer (DSpringville) and Clifton G M Kerr <R-Tremonton). Rep Fred J Milliman ill-Mammoth) would expedite divorce proceedings for ,it is said, the benefit of war hasty brides and grooms while Sen Sol Selvin (D- Toole) and Rep Frank Bonnacci (D-Helper> have both introduced a bill which would provent racial discrimination in public places. The house gave its approval to 14 varied measures last week none of which developed much debate or opposition. They killed 2 proposals, one !or constitutional amendment that would permit 18 year olds to vote, the other calling for a certificate of inspection of motor vehicles before transfer of title can be made. Bills they passed included authority to tax federal property with the consent of federal authorities; enabling counties to set up reserve funds for post war planning and employment; extending the permission for women to work in mines; extension of the soldier voting law; continued abbreviation of the school year to provide farm labor and some others of less consequence. The senate disposed of 13 mea- POULTRY ASSOCIATION SETS ANNUAL MEETING Tbe 22nd annual stockholders' meeting of Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative association will be held at Hotel Utah in Salt Lake City, Feb 16, according to H M Blackhurst, assistant general manager. Among those who will make talks or lead discussions at the meet are: A W Cherrington, Springville, president of the association; Clyde C Edmonds, secretary-treasurer and general manager; Ezra T Benson, member of the Council of the Twelve of the L D S church, and fonnerly executive secretary of National Council of Farmer Cooperativesj Horner Huntington, Chicago, executive secretary1 Poultry and Egg National board; and national sales representatives, B J Holmes 1 San Francisco, Albertus Willardson, Los Angeles, and Samuel Leviton, New York City. The business sessions will include the re-election of officers and 3 directors. The directors whose terms expire are: E J Ercckson, Payson; Lorenzo Harrison, Malad, Idaho; Wllliam H Gardner, Midvale. The opening session will convene at 9 a m in the Lafeyette ball room, with an aften1oon session at 1 :30 p m and a banquet and floor show at 7 p m. Several hundred people are expected to be in attendance at the sessions, according to Mr Blackhurst. sures, among them authorization for pay increases of 15 per cent in counties of the 1st and 2nd class and 25 per cent 'in all others; reducing the age of girl attendants at theaters and other places of amusement to 16; providing for retirement of members of county fire departments, changing the make-up of the state board of health to permit the appointment of 3 lay members, and various others making minor technical amendments in existing laws. The big controversial measures remain to reach the floors of both houses. Thus far it has been a remarkably calm and peaceful gathering with no broken heads or hurt feelings reported yet. But there are plenty of potential fireworks that may begin to explode before very much longer. Have you paid your suoscription? GRAND OPENING * • 8:00 A.M. Saturday, February 3 Glen's Service Utah Oil Refining Co. 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