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Show the uintah basin $300,-00quidated a loss of more than has been charged to the state. it was Being a political business, as all politically controlled, just The jobs government business is. went to the deserving. The state built a mill at a cost of $3,044,000 and Governor Sorlie of North Dakota says its actual value is $1,500,000. The mills losses were close to one million dollars. The state bank was the most ambitious program, but it failed to accomplish when its originators When the Nonpartisan claimed. relinwas management League more was quished, its paper deficit than $100,000 and the auditors estimated that if liquidation were required, the losses immediately would run between one and a half and two million dollars. experNorth Dakotas unhappy lesson valuable a ience should be States. United for the people of the Government is to govern and not to provide us with the necessities and luxuries of life. These come only from honest labor. The very checks and balances of government, made to protect our political liberties, are a handicap in business. Government may regulate, but never run private, business successfully. 0 EKSIN FARMER. Established 1924 Published 1st and 15th of Each Month at Roosevelt, Utah. matter at Entered as second-clas- s the post office at Roosevelt, Utah, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Official organ of the Uintah County Farm Bureau Office: Rocsevelt Standard, Roosevelt, Utah. Telephone 30. 50c Subscription Price, one year H. Harrison. Violet Harrison. ...Business .Editor George Manager GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS Few people realize that only demagogues seek to capitalize economic problems as political issues e laws are fragile and that while economic laws are inexorable. During the discussion of means to help the farmer, it is well to remember that no amount of government subsidizing will take the place of brains and individual iniative. North Dakota learned to its sorrow that economic salvation does not lie in legislation. The people of that great state tried it through the Nonpartisan League. The Bank of North Dakota, the Mill and Elevator association and the Home Building association all went the same way. The Home Building Associations program called for an expenditure of $275,000. Although not yet li- man-mad- FARM BEILEP PROMISED Sixty United .States senators have agreed that congress shali not adjourn until some legislation has been passed in an. effort to help the farmer. This pledge was made to the people after the house hid to pass the Ilaugen bill which sought to remove the blighting t, feet of world market conditions on the domestic market for American Subscribe today for THE UINTAH farm products. BASIN FARMER. It will keep you The opinion of the host known informed on the Basins farming British and American economists problems. have been sought on the question and they were summed up and explained to the senate, by Senator Watson of Indiana. This is expected to form a basis upon which some Chester H. Hartman, Prop Breeder of Purebred Cotswold satisfactory measure can be constructed. Sheep and Earred Rock Chickens Sir Josiah Stamp, foremost EngMT. EMMONS, UTAH lish student of economics., summed in up the study of the question was His sethat VWVVWAV points. eight logic 'Ifli'AWAV.W.V gregating the surplus farm products for export would tend to, increase The Basin Pharmacy the prices at home. This would increase the cost of living and bring the necessity of higher wages which in turn would add to the most o! the farmers living expenses. Thus an unending circle if increases might be set in motion and the ends sought would be defeated. The results of the proposed legislation, of course, are all a matter of conjecture, and the exact effects will not be known until the proposal jP is put in operation. In the light of what has happened in the past, however, economists are abL to predict very nearly wbat will come to pass. CRESCENT FARM f jr Send us your mail orders Prompt service and the best price always. boys TTTRFE LEARN TO i I By FARMING Gates Tires RED FRONT GARAGE (Continued from page one) The boys rented the 27-ac- farm re Cole Batteries and put bought a team and tools, in a cotton crop. They bought, for brood sows and two barrows Time out; each partner to fatten. fori of school was spent in caring livestock and in cultivating the Authorized DODGE GOOD DRUG STORE Phone 54 ROOSEVELT, UTAH Siyiavwywwvvwww? 1 1 Dealer 1 line of Good Used Call or Phone 160 A good Car? Vernal, Utah 1 I the F. TUCKER Owner 1 cotton. They had some discourage- gj llillllil! lav ments, for the first litters of pigs, and were poor in March, farrowed not win any prizes did JIIIIlIIIi03niF5ItifllllIl!!!ti!!;!i their hogs when shown at the country fair, g and But when the boys had sold their Co. fattened hogs and completed their EARL J. FREEMAN, Manager 1 records at the end of the season, earned $142 had found they g they j Vernal Cleaning Tailoring j through their hog raising enterprise. g PLUSH COATS, VELVETS and The cotton yielded a fraction over,g 50 had per: 15 bales, and the boys PLEATED SKIRTS their for cent of the selling price Jg OUR SPECIALTY work. seasons g Parcel Post Paid One Way Althogether, according to reports I of to the United' States Department iiiiitiHUfii made three brothers the Agriculture, enough money in 1925 to pay all of 1III1IIII11I1M231S1 their indebtedness to their father and had team, tools and capital sufTINGLEY & SONS ficient for a larger crop in 1926. jj :l j Performs Operation With Kitchen Knife BUYERS OF Seed, Wool, Honey, Pelts and all lawfully Auckland, N. Z. Dr. Walter Brem-me- r sailed for London recently. A few days out of Auckland, William Torrington, member of the crew, was stricken with appendicitis. Dr. Bremmer Seated him medically, but when the trouble became acute it was apparent an operation would be neces- caught furs. MYTON, P. UTAH O. Box 54. sary. Doctor Bremmer had few surgical instruments with him. But he did hove resourcefulness. So he had some of the kitchem knives sharpened and sterilized. He had a table Ice the ships dining room cleared and with chloroform for an anesthetic he set about his task. Among the imssengess were Miss Alison Barnett and Miss Eugenie Ju- roulhaic, trained nurses, of Boston. They assisted Chief Steward Charles Edwards in applying the anesthetic. 1 irst Officer J. & Hooker, who had sharpened and sterilized the kitchen knives, acted im the capacity of instrument assistant. y Show Glutton Fish J t of 7;J00,000 orB. M 1 111 111 111 11 1 -M t I iH B !l j B iB ' g !j B Wong Sing Mercantile) The store with a complete j line of j Groceries and Provisions, Dry 1 Goods, Nations, Ladies and Gents Furnishings, Boots and g Shoes, FUrniture, Hardware, j Sto. ves, Ranges, Harness, and g Jg Saddles. y11 l You will profit by trading here. FT. DUCHESNE, UTAH j J j 111 WOOL C. $ Washington. Seven eight million years-agor thereabouts, g Get out prices before selling. when the present State of Kan- H Write today for our price list. sas was an inland sea, a giant We also sell wool bags and g fish turned cannibal and swaly twine. I lowed what might easily have been one of ids own progeny head first, fins, tall and all. CHAS. FRIEND & CO. Tn all proiufbility, however, he Inc. paid the price for his gluttony, 917 for Wazee he died Denver, Colo. I St., SHEEP FOR MUTTON BEST immediately after! Today scientists ()f the National museum, under direction of the For a small flock the mutton .. Smithsonian institution, are pre- - !! p!l!!D!!ll!IIII!!!ll!!II!llllllilllil!lM type of sheep is perhaps the best .. paring his fossilized skeleton, in- and most profitable for the average ;; closing that of his undigested farmer to raise. This type of sheep .. last meal, for exhibition at the sesqulcentennlal exposition at patronmatures quickly and the lambs are ;; .. I hlladeiphia this summer. Por- yon ones izing the usually ready for market at about h!us ia the name of the giant -four or five months old, much de- .. Ash and of the fish It swal- already have. lowed and they X the belong to a pending upon care, feed and pasgroup which has long since been ture the ewes and lambs receive dur UINTAH CREAMERY ;; extinct. The present specimen ing that period. Sheep respond to .. measured about twelve feet COMPANY rs from good care and attention as much, if ;; tip to tall. The smaller fish ti sS .. reached nearly six feet. c. J. Nelson, Mgr. fi not more, than any other kind of M y UTAH live stock. II U I " The Basin Pharmacy A lie-fus- ed FARMER Encourage " f " "" fH"miniii'miiiiii.K neola Home |