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Show THE lb SERVING VALLEY RIVER date so far removed a one-ten- th r How's Business ? By: Roger W. Baoson (?LGOKfflG y&i! AHEAD The volume of Business today, as measured by my Composite Business Chart, is 24'.; above Iw GEORGE S. BENSON " Pruldtat-Xsr- iiif normal. This is an advance of CttUft six points over last month and StitCI, J.'iMdt is the highest business has been since January 1949 when busi- WHAT'S A TRILLION ness was 23f, above normal. My When I was a schoolboy in forecasts optimistic previous have been more than vindicated. Oklahoma I interlaced my Also five years after the close of scholastic education with sea World War IT a postwar slump sonal jobs on my father's place has failed to materialize. Had it and on neighboring farms, The not been for the coal and other neighboring farmers paid well strikes, and especially the in- My earnings weren't large but in fluence of the coal strik? on those days a dollar, to an Oklaallied Industries, the first half homa schoolboy, was a tidy sum of this year would have seen a And the actual earning of much higher volume of business. dollars helped me in my arith The settling of the coal strike metic studies. Both at school and naturally increased coal oroduc at work as a farm hand, I learntion; increased coal production ed to hava great respect for any enabled the sta?l industry to in such sum as $100. That amount crease the production of steel: of cash savings started me the increased production of steel through my first year at college. enabled the automobile industry I did odd jobs on the campus to to Increase .its production and earn the remaining cost. this chain of events operate A dollar was valued by an through many other industries. Oklahoma farm boy of 1920 as This is a good illustration how representing approximately the the various industries are de energy it took to plow an acre of pendent on the welfare of each land with a plow. That other. We can not have real made it pretty valuable. I guess prosperity unless all industries that's why my school teacher prosper the welfare of one in- had some difficulty getting me dustry is therefore the concern to comprehend the huge figure of all the others. So much more $1,000,000. It took a lively imag the reason why all industries ination to visualize $1,000,000 should try to evolve a system robust young farmers strung out that would reduce strikes to a across the land, all plowing awav minimum because of the terrible at their acre. The line would. irredeemable loss they cause to in fact, be 41,667 miles lone and every man, woman and child In would reach just about twice the U. S. around the globe at the Equa The other day I was walking tor tiown Washington Street in Bos A BILLION IS BIG ton and there were pickets I'd been out of college several marching In front of certain years when we Americans first drug stores asking that their began to hear vague talk in pickets lines be not crossed at terms of "billions." To have to this particular drug store. The wrap basis of the strike was because and my plowing farmers around around the globe enough the store management would not times to represent $1,000,000,000 accept the demands of labor and in expended energy was much too I wondered if labor ever stopped much. I had to find some other to think that maybe in some device.. Of course measuring cases THEIR demands might be our arithmetic unfair to the employer. Indus- a billion was had taught that trial relations today are the thousand million! (awesomelv) But it required aftermath of World War I and IT a number of for me to get years and the "beforemath" of World any real understanding of the LTI War at which time maximum meaning of $1,000,000,000. production and industrial peace A "billion" still whistles off will determine the future of this my tongue accompanied by awe. nation! And just as I'm getting used to tne idea of using the term. I've V. S. Supreme Court The supreme court of the United been obliged to go back to my States was formed in 17.00. arithmetic book looking for one-hor- Sg t WHEEiSr& 0fto BUTlTSuRE THV TSjX Complete FERGUSON HUNSAKER IMPLEMENT CO. i:- - ri Lj H rrf: X milA 0X t ' ' 7 - - ' f - ill w . i x. iy-- TfHC . i - ilium w fT f or-r-i """"" r ": "s - ( t m. J ) m I te- 1 -- m , , -' x-s- .. -- X ill Brings in Remote Stations! I- . Xxx-!:IX3- ;" hi Here's the 3 way ,1 designed to ret w . " jdriway stations, j times as sensitive as prcvi models! Lightweight. Maroon plastic case. Simulated leather handle. Today's biggest portable value! Model 165. Only ! super-portabl- . - c- " 1 L ..... bD J A & o-- rtl 114 "i SsS ' UX co -- LxJ m J f i 7" O --n -- ! 5 e . fJ 'WiTiV ZlPt r vrri i -- ' . rrxtp w yo less battery RUSS ELECTRIC DIAL 5111 llttftlUNTOM I I 1 I l I 'W"i i.Btajj.,, hiiiiuii,.,,... tw I - u 2 1. v,, W .inn I- M 1 se I Af ' D, Entered at the post office at Trcmonton, Utah as Second Class matter October 15, 1925 under act of March 3, 1879. A. N. RYTTING, Editor-Publishe- t-- ( Published by the LEADER PUBLISHING COMPANY. Inc. on Thursday afternoon, for Friday Distribution SUBSCRIPTION RATES (in advance) 52.50 per year BUSINESS UP MATERIALLY I Urdiy U down-to-ear- th BEAR THE ThL 500 B. C, has arrived for understanding bly large indebtedness, it is 'eminent dangerous. Millions of ol a trillion what a trillion is. Our national gravely must only about to $256,000,000,000 people expend years of unseconds have ticked off in that debt has risen is work to pay it. In hard rewarded It is rapidly. and increasing recorded time. fact as the 1,000,000 people to, correctly, referred earning $50 terms. plained in All a week, would have to work 100 A DANGEROUS TRILLION debt. dollar" trillion to tackle the storage "quarter it. However, I've got tbL full years and turn over their total the in to need us machine reognize new of The postage UU11UU, it. our mailing department at Hard significance of such an incredi- income to liquidate it if the Io freezing. DIVING INTO A TRILLION ing stamps 1,000 envelopes per A trillion is. we know, a eave the WART, THE SPEED COP hour. If we never billion; and a billion is a machine a rest, we'd have to run WEAE 3 --YOU TMNK ROADS) thousand million; and a million it on a 24 heir shift for 114.155 HEY. FAT-HEAis a thousand thousand; and a years not 4vctt in stmv a THIS GOAD GO GOr thousand is well, a thousand is trillion envelopes, it, a century TtOWE-STXY'S- n HUN5AKER a thousand times one of those ago, the value of all the personal I j (SEEAfS UKE RIGHT WHERE long-ag- o extinct things I used to property, the assessed value of get for plowing an acre of land mineral, wJtar and timber re m UKianoma. But a man with a sources and manufactured goods, plow is much too small a denom- plus the savings and bank inator in this problem. accounts of all the people in the So: If you were to drive from United States had been converNew York to Los Angeles and ted to dollars, it would have then turn right around and re- totalled only !5 of 1 per cent of turn to New York, you could a trillion. perform the feat 166,000,000 And, lastly, if all this seems times before would silly, perhaps it is. But maybe it you have driven a trillion miles. We isn't I've taken this fight with think of a second as something astromomical figures because, as T.inrt fleeting, so short a fragment of ia tax paying citizen watching the ' JiUV l time it doesn't show on the face growth of the federal govern- PARTS - REPAIR - FIELD SERVICE of most clocks. Yet, since a ment, I've found that the need another word. I haven't found mention of it In my arithmetic. It's to be found only in the higher mathematics and it isn't ex- Ui ifi jymonton. Utah LEADER I |