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Show Seen and Heard 'Round the Town By EDGAR Give Vour Merchant A Hand Retail merchants are doing a distribution and tax collecting job upon which depends the morale and health of millions. They won't get one more cent for the merchandise mer-chandise under the point rationing ration-ing system and yet look at the endless detail and work that it will require. Next time you go in to buy something, keep in mind that your merchants problems have been multiplied many fold and all he can do is grin and bear it. Veyo Goes To Town I am told that Veyo has a unique sytem for collecting Red Cross memberships. It seems that James Cot tarn simply announced in church and at the school that the Red Cross drive was on and that the community had such and such a sum to raise. Those desiring de-siring to contribute to the drive were invited to bring the money to him or to other places in town. The report indicates that the drive went over the top promptly. More power to you, Veyo! Answer This One Farmers are getting riled over the names that they are being called because they are asking some consideration, both from the manpower commission and that of getting a price that will make it possible for them to' stay on the farm. Following are some of the questions that the Northeastern North-eastern Dairy conference asked some of the farmer's critics: "How can farmers be the cause of inflation when they are selling their farms to go to work in factories ? "How can farmers be the cause of inflation when dairy herds are being sold because of insufficient returns to pay bills and hire labor ? "How can farmers be the cause of inflation when the farms have been and are continuing to be stripped of all hired labor by the attractiveness of factory jobs ? "How long would the protected, industrial worker stand it if he worked 80 hours per week instead in-stead of 48; if he worked for approximately one-half of what he is now getting and then was called insulting names?" Respond To Call Three St. George citizens responded res-ponded to the call for binoculars issued in last week's Seen and Heard. The glasses are needed by the boys who are taking the cross country flying course. Those who responded were District Attorney E. J. Pickett, Postmaster William Brooks and Joseph Prince. These men are to be congratulated for their willingness to help these boys. . . . Incidentally, classified ads in the News bring the same kind of results every week. Try one next time you need something some-thing or have something to sell. Helping Uncle Sam The Apex mine is probably one of the county's greatest war helps to Uncle Sam. Over 1,000 tons of copper ore has been shipped from this mine since it was re-opened. This copper runs about 30 per cent pure copper so that over 300 ton of copper concentrate has been produced. Even with their reduced crew that is operating there now, they have a pay roll of around $3,000 a month and expect that before long they may have a larger crew on the job. At the present time a bridge is being built across the Santa Clara river. When completed, this will be of considerable assistance to the ranchers as well as to the mine. Funds are said to have been set aside for building a road into the mine but in the meantime mean-time the road is in bad shape, due to the storms we have been having this spring. I am told that the county has agreed to help keep this road open. This sounds like a fine proposition, because be-cause this mine undoubtedly is one of our county's greatest contributions con-tributions to the war effort and may soon develop into a real producer. pro-ducer. At least Mr. Patterson has thought so, or he wouldn't have spent the thousands of dollars that he has on its development. The forceful, vigorous, effective men are those who execute their idoas while they are full of the enthusiasm of inspiration. Orison Swett Marden. j |