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Show OREM-GENEVA TMCS THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1950 Orem - Geneva Times Published erery Thursday at Orem, Ulah M. NEFF SMART, Editor and Publisher (Entered as second class matter November IS, 1944 at the pottoff.. at Orem, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1897. MEMBER: Utah Slate Press Association Subscription Ralesi One year, in adrance $3-00 "OREM, UTAH COUNTY" In Sunday's Tribune was an attractive story, with art, about the election of John W. Gillman, Orem, Utah County, as president of the Utah State Horticultural society. We liked the story and we were happy at the recognition recognit-ion which came to one of our own, but we were irritated more than somewhat by the editor's effort to locate for his readers Utah's fifth largest, city. We appreciate such thoughtfulness when reference is made to a village the size of Tridell, or of Meadow, or of Crescent, but we had figured that Orem, long ago, had established itself as one of Utah's major cities, and that it was hardly necessary for editors to explain that it is situated in Utah County. But perhaps the fault lies here, Mayhap Orem is hiding1 its light under a bushel. Certainly there is work for the chamber of commerce to do so long as our city, population populat-ion 10,000, is referred to by state editors of metropolitan metropolit-an newspapers as "Orem, Utah county." TEN CENTS A YEAR One dime. That, we are told, is roughly the annual per capita cost to the world of keeping up the United Nations and 12 of its specialized agencies. World War II cost us each about a thousand times more a year. And two thirds of the dime we are each giving to the UN this year will go to care for the refugees and displaced! victims of that war. . Never has a more inflated price been asked for a more inferior commodity than war. Without being advocates of peace at any price, we can safely say that we are getting our ten cents' worth out of the United Nations, with all its imperfections, and. might even be prepared to go a mite higher in our expenditures for peace. THE HIGH COST OF GAS This is why your gas costs you 2612 cents a gallon. Guy in Texas owns five acres of land. He pays a fax to keep that land. He pays it every year. That is the first tax. Whatever purpose he puts the land to, he has to get just that much more out of it to offset those taxes. That is a law of arithmetic. Bird comes along and discovers oil. Makes a deal with the Texas bloke to rent the land from him. Deal is closed. clos-ed. Both now start to pay taxes on any income that comes from that land. Four big trucks roll up with drilling equipment. Each truck is individually taxed. So is the fuel used in it. The drivers pay taxes. The drilling equipment is unloaded. The cost of that drilling equipment is way higher than it should be. A piece of machinery that once cost $2,000, may now cost $4,000. Mostly because of taxes. Tubes, cables, forges, coal and riders are hauled in. Every item is carefully taxed. The future cost of your oil is already soaring because of the vicious chain of taxes. And yet not a foot of rock has been drilled as yet. Not a drop of oil has come out. Drilling starts. Labor demands must now be met. Labor dues must be paid. The drillers, already taxed for everything they use or do, must demand more moiiey for everything they Up goes the future cost of your oil. Oil starts to flow. Tanks, barrels and pipes are brought to the site. Each item is taxed. The workmen who install them are taxed. The companies who manufacture them are taxed. Add more notches to the cost of your oil. The oil now flows to a refinery. The refinery does certain things to that oil. And your government does things to the refinery. Without boring you with detail, will merely say one oil company paid on the last statement I saw, over 57 million mil-lion dollars in Federal and other taxes ! Add that pocket change to the cost of your oil and gasoline. But we are only getting started. The refined oil is now pumped into a tank car. It will be shipped to your distributor. That car may roll over three roads before it arrives in your neighborhood. Each road pays a heavy tax. I know one railroad that paid over 69 million in taxes on its last statement. Chalk up more notches on your cost sheet. But now we are getting near home. Surely the taxes . must be running out. That's what YOU think! Your distributor pays taxes, too. Every tank, truck, hose, pipe and building is waterlogged with taxes. But here comes his truck now (fresh license plates last week) It is a new truck. Your distributor just bought it. And not only did he pay a federal tax for the privilege of buying it, but a state sales tax for the same privilege. All this on ton of the truck manufacturer, who if he is like one manufacturer I know, paid as high as 200 million for the privilege of making trucks. Your retailer gets the gas. Must we list his taxes? The taxes on his land, his station, even his telephone calls ! But now YOU drive up to buy five gallons of gas . , . for the payoff! So help me, on top of that procession of taxes, these professional windbags you insist on re-electing to office year after year, have the machiavellian crust to demand de-mand a 5 1-2 cent per gallon tax and then pretend they love the common man and are socking the rich. They are just socking you ! . Didn't anybody take arithmetic in grammar school! " Bridgeport (Conn.) Sunday Post PRUNING TIME SHARON INDUSTRIES haspIentyof PRUNERS, PRUNING SAWS and LADDERS, at the Manager's home, second house south of Geneva Dairy in Orem. OFF WITH THE OLD. Oil WiTH THE NEW .vr- v , zr -;r (INDIA mm A MWf iPnl 1 WINDSOR Blanche Neilson 0689 R3 The social science lesson will be given at Relief Society on Tuesday afternoon by class leader lead-er Emily Long. Tw onew teachers, Carma Lee Whiteley and Mrs. Gray, are teaching in the Junior Sunday School. , The monthly DUP meeting of Camp Windsor was held at the home of Mrs. Blanche Niel-son. Niel-son. The biography of Annie Hansen Johnson, a pioneer of 1866 was read by her granddaughter, grand-daughter, Mrs. Nielson, " camp historian. Class leader Vida Ly-strup Ly-strup gave the lesson "Early Schools in Utjih." After the meeting a social was held with Mrs. Nielson and Martha Keetch as hostesses. Mr. and Mrs. Acel Nielson (Beth Baxter) are the parents of a baby daughter born Tuesday at the Utah Valley hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Baxter are the baby's grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Laisle Kirk of American Fork, former residents resid-ents of Windsor, are rejoicing over the arrival of their first grandchild, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Terry (Melba Kirk). To Shed Light on the World This Week --THESE --THESE MEN HAD THIS TO SAY: "Let us all strive to forget two things r First, the Igood we have done to others : Second, the evil others have done to us." RAY S. MERRILL of Pleasant Grove, UEA president. "The entire history of legalized gambling in this country and abroad shows that it has brought nothing but poverty, crime and corruption, demoralization of moral and ethical standards and ultimately a lower livT ing standard and misery for all the people." Gov. THOMAS THOM-AS E, DEWEY, in response to Mayor O'Dwyer's plan for legalized gambling on sporting, events. "Essentially the boom is over. We have got by the postwar inventory readjustment, but we do, not know-yet know-yet what faces us in the way of readjustment in the construction, automobile, business plant and equipment industries. Altogether, 1950 should be about as good a year as 1949." MALCOLM P. McNAIR, professor of marketing at Harvard, before annual convention of retailers. re-tailers. "Fifty percent more firms are studying this (Utah) area as a prospective site than were interested a year ago. And I am confident some of them will decide to establish important operations here." GUS P. BACK-MAJN, BACK-MAJN, secretary of Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, discussing prospects of new industrial plants in Utah. "To record recognition (of Communist China) now to a regime which operates along banditry lines would degrade de-grade the United States in the eyes of the whole world. It is unthinkable." Sen. GERBERT R. O'CONOR of Maryland. "Mr. Truman's continued refusal to use the emergency emer-gency authority proves once and for all that his labor policy is dictated more by political expediency than by regard for the public welfare." Rep. RICHARD M. NIXON, R, California, to reporters. This 'N That Elhyl Nielsen Hair in:tn:::u:::s:::n:iK:::uu:i:i::":::::ii:::i:::::::::::::is!' A Request Hi Folks, I have been asked to write a column on how to get started 'writing". Let me say before I go any further that this is one of the hardest "things that I have been requested to write about- I, have taken several classes the short story, the column, col-umn, and feature article writing. writ-ing. 1 have read a book on. how to write 'The Novel". Yet I know practically nothing about the art of writing .... as anyone could tell you who has read my column. Yet I couldn't stop writing for the life of me. That is the part I do not understand at all I get a rejection slip, and does that discourage me? No! You'd think it would. Perhaps that is why writers are often called crazy and I can agree-Once agree-Once you've been bitten by the writing bug, you'll have the fever fev-er as long as you live, that is by spells. It is like any other fever, it comes and goes- And there's nothing you can do about except write your head off and your heart out. .... So, beware! ! I will list a few of the things that helped me get started- First I won a $25 prize for a short story. That did it, I was off to a good start. Second, I wrote 12 articles on philosiphy and a publishing company agreed to buy them if I'd write enough to fill a book. I've not written a single thing on philosophy since that dozen. ,Heaven knows, I've tried and failed, tried and failed, fail-ed, again and again. Next I bought a dictionary. Then a dictionary of synonyms-Immediately synonyms-Immediately I forgot them dictionaries are a nuisance. By the time you have found the elusive word the million dollar idea has escaped you completely. complete-ly. So for the time being, forget the dictionary and get your thoughts down on paper. Proof read later, or let someone else I'm glad I am not a proof reader, read-er, their lot is not an easy one. Oft times words do not make thoughts clear, so hunt for the right word. One wrong word may spoil a perfect manuscript- Fourth, make your characters and thoughts live on paper. It is not an easy thins to do. I should know, my back room is cnucK fuu of precious man usenpts- "Have something to say" I believe it was Dorothy Dix who gave writers this most valuable advice. Fifth. Decide earlv which it is you wish to write a column, the feature article, short stories (The short story is hardest of all to write) because there is a certain technique to follow. I can tell you the five most import ant steps but I can't follow them, my characters never behave be-have as they should so you can j understand the reason I write all my short stories from real 'life. ! Sixth: By all means purchase a typewriter. They are a luxury lux-ury and a necessity. They cost a lot of money (three or four years taxes on the old homestead) they can't spell correctly, and their English is no better than mine. If you write anything about a man that is uncompli mentary, the best of typewriters go on strike. Like cherished husbands, you should treat your typewriter kindly, discreetly speaking, keep them well oiled. Seventh, give your story background. back-ground. Write about the Orem-ites Orem-ites they are the most colorful people on earth. Use the Utah Valley scenery, it is the most beautiful in the world. Go from house to house and pull out a few skeletons from dark closets, glamourize them add a dash of S A. Snarl up the hero and heroine in the first 20 pages, then unravel them. Give your story a surprise ending- Proof read and retype. Now your manuscript man-uscript is ready to send to your favirite editor. Eight: If by chance your manuscript manu-script is returned with a nice neat rejection clip instead of a fat check, don't be discouraged, it happens to the best of writers. Go ahead and try again, and a-gain- . . . Don't give up. After a while some tired editor will get weary of sending you rejection reject-ion slips and will send you a check instead- And Whoopie! w - J DISPLACED CHOCOLATE . . . One of s group of displaced per one arriving; In New York recently re-cently was Wolf Fisch, who couldn't wait to sample some American chocolate, liis dad came with him. You're made you are a full J fledged writer and can apply for i membership in the League of Utah Writers. Easy, huh? ELECTRIC "MUSCLES" THAT NEVER TIRE Electric "hired-hands" have muscles that are strong and tough and never tire. They are doing more and more jobs on more and more farms every day. At low cost, too! See your dealer to learn how you can profit more by better farming electrically! UTAH POWER & LIGHT CO. 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