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Show OREM-GENEVA TIMES Published Every Thursday Office of Publication. Route 2, Box 276 B, Orem, Utah Printed at 57 North First West, Provo, Utah M. NEFF SMART, Editor and Publisher Entered as second class matter November 19, 1944 at the postoffice at Orem, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. MEMBER: Utah State Press Association Subscription Rales: One year, strictly In advance $3 00 Six Months .. $2.00 WHO IS TO BLAME ? No one is getting enough money for the work he does- No one is satisfied with price he gets fr what he produces. But to the other fellow, wages are getting out of hand and the price of everything he buys is beyond reason. Certainly no one will argue that, commodity prices being what they are. wages must be high enough to meet the cost of living. Wages being the greatest factor in commodity prices, there appears to be nothing to do but let both go on up, trying to maintain a balance until something pops. The popping, sure to come as anything is sure, will not be good for this nation or the world, since so much of the" world's economy is pegged to our own. We might be praying for a wise man to appear out of the ozone to stop the mad climb if we had not already learned by painful experience that no man is wise enough to bring all other men to their senses. No man is wise enough to convince con-vince all other men that selfishness is the, all-encompassing sin of mankind and that in the aggregate, man is going to get all he can all the traffic will stand. We have lost (if we ever had it) our sense of moral responsibility. re-sponsibility. If we can get more for a day's work than the work is worth in the saleability of its product we grab It eagerly and let the other fellow figure out how to make enda meet. If we can sell our $5,000 house for $10,000 or $15,000 we are smart and our smartness is the buyer's hard luck. We all want higher wages, large profits; but we resent the other fellow getting them when his gain takes anything from us. Ideally, then correction of the seemingly endless inflationary in-flationary ascent in which we find ourselves should come from the individual. Yet imagine any man fool enough to say, "I am being paid more than I am worth for work I am doing.'' The property owner, the producer, the manufacturer, the wholesaler does not normally say, "I will sell for cost plus a reasonable profit and' will not hold out for all I can get." In our attitudes we are not being smart. We just think we are. We are not outfoxing the boss by drawing more pay than our job is worth. We're not clever in taking an excess profit. But until we accept the moral responsibility of acting otherwise we need not expect the other fellow to do so. We cannot demand complete honesty of our neighbor until we are willing to be completely honest. An invitation to everyone to visit the newly opened Cougar Cove Drive - Inn Located at 5th East & 6th North in Provo Under the Management of Herbert B. Stratton WE SPECIALIZE IN: Home Made pies Home Made Chili Tamales Hot and cold Sandwiches Meat Pies Hamburgers and Hot Dogs We feature delicious ice cream dishes in 20 flavors. Our Fast car service is efficiently handled hand-led by courteous Boy Car-hops. The Cougar Cove Caters to Everyone Desiring Prompt Pleasing Service in a clean desirable atmosphere. tOtS O' FOLKS, WHEN "W BET ARE. UKE POLITICIANS-" THtV FOR - trf THEIR r FEED, SEEDS. GROCERIES Phone Orem 0531-R3 Geneva Steel Is across from us Remember your cow with a well balanced Dairy Feed and jj,ey will remember you with L.:u r- I lhem Bunkers Dairy Feed $3.97 Cwt. 20 Percent Protein LOOKING Mm it GEORGE & BENSON PmUittHirilii Cttltfl i Suttf. J(rkutU Letter From China It cost $7,000 for my friend So Tin Wong to write rne from Canton, China. He wanted to explain that it now takes 5,000 Chinese dollars to buy one meal for one person. Mr. So philosophizes that it isn't how .many dollars one gets, it it what he can buy with these dollars that really real-ly counts. Do you wonder that Mr. So has decided to leave China, it be can, and go abroad? Mr. So wants to leave bis native country, even though he makes several sev-eral thousand dollars a day. Mr. So's trouble is inflation. It is so bad that his wages will not permit him to live in China and care for his family. The value of the stamps 'that brought me, his air mail letter, let-ter, amounting to $7,000, would make the $3,000 meal worth only two-thirds of the value of the post-' post-' age. Certainly, Mr. So was not discussing dis-cussing a very extravagant meal. Tour Dollar . This change has taken place since X was in China in 1925 to 1936. (Then, one American dollar, according accord-ing to the rate of exchange, would buy only three or four Chinese dollars. dol-lars. While we do not have that kind of inflation in this country, America 1 actually moving slowly in that direction. j Although American workingmen have the highest wages that they ever earned, they are complaining that they cannot buy much with those dollars. From 1920 to 1940, when American dollars had pur chasing power, an American work jman could buy an automobile and , could buy a home. Today he can probably buy neither, yet he has far more dollars than he had then. I Inflation does not help working peo- pie. It burdens them. Raises Don't Help i I wanted to buy a new automobile automo-bile this year. But when I found that it would take in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of $2,000 to buy even an average car, I decided to have my ,old one overhauled and get along with it. However, the overhauling cost half as much as it used to cost to buy a new automobile. It's hard to tell, under inflation, whether one is wise or foolish. Meats right now are very high. Yet, I understand that in some places both wholesalers and retailers retail-ers are trying to get by on the smallest margins they've ever had. Others are handling meat with no profit at all. You see, whether a man gets an adequate diet for his family depends on other things than how big a raise he gets from his employer. Raises do not help when there's inflation. A Solid Economy If we would like to increase inflation in-flation and have more dollars in our pockets but be able to buy less with them, then we should encourage a high federal budget, high federal taxes, and still higher wages. All these things have inflationary influence influ-ence on our economy. If we wan1 a solid economy, where dollars will buy more and we can actually live better, then we must do these things: (1) Work for lower taxes, whict would leave more in the purchasing stream and would stop discouraging discourag-ing investment in new industries and new tools for workmen, (2) Oppose the high budget with extravagant extrav-agant fedei-U spending, and (3) Work for stable industrial relations. Industry, labor, agriculture, and all other American groups should understand un-derstand these facts. With shoulders shoul-ders to the wheels we must wort for a stabilized America that car lend stability to a confused world "I don't blame you ... I'd get a divorce, too, if my husband wouldn't let me send my clothes to the MARINE CLEANERS. Their pick up' service is so -convenient." THIS 'II THAT By Ethyl N. Hair THE ROLE OF PSYCHIATRY AND THE HOME IN DIVORCE HI FOLKS: At last I have got around to the request, WHY DIVORCE? And I have written this a dozen times and yet I can't say that it pleases me, or ever will. Statistics Statis-tics have nothing to do with divorce, nor the times, nor the church. Only the people. Marriage Mar-riage is an adult institution-it takes two very mentally healthy individuals to make a success of marriage. Today, we educate our children for everything under the sun, except marriage. Schools Sch-ools cannot possibly be held responsible res-ponsible for the education of religion, rel-igion, or marriage. When a child enters school it is too late to change personality traits that make for a wholesome or unwholesome un-wholesome characcter. So failure fail-ure of marriage in this day and age belongs wholly to the parents. par-ents. It is the parents' duty to rear wholesome children, and these last two generations of parents have failed miserably. It takes two to make a quarrel, and always one is a little more to blame than the other. SELFISHNESS, SEL-FISHNESS, spoiled bratishness are the two main contributing characteristics to divorce. Ask any judge or divorce lawyer. Some people would have you believe that tartling . changes in our ideas, and marriage habits in recent years are responsible for the high rate of divorce.and others think it's woman's inde pendence. One very learned man said to me recently: 'our divorce laws are all wrong. "Let the lit tle lady pay the alimony, make Papa care for the children and home-at least six months of the year, then turn about,' It may work-I couldn't say. But if you are considering a divorce, my advice is to consult a psychiatrist. psychia-trist. You or the other half have some personality traits that need a weeding out. AND REMEMBER REMEM-BER divorce is a shattering emotional em-otional crisis. Mentally and physically phys-ically you can live, but it's like losing an arm, you're a cripple for life. Remember, divorce solves nothing. The second marriage mar-riage is often a failure-divorce like alcoholism, is a mental illness, ill-ness, and begins in the home in the cradle. So if your marriage is going on the rocks consult con-sult yoii're minister or a psy-charist, psy-charist, take a- year or two to find the underlying cause, it will pay dividends in happiness, in years to come. Advice Given On Tree Stump Eradication "How can I eradicate a tree stump?" is a question frequently asked, according to S. R. Bos-well, Bos-well, Utah county agent. ' The following information secured se-cured from Raymond R. Moore, extension forester at the agricultural agricul-tural college: In the autumn bore in the center cen-ter of the stump a vertical hole cf 1 to 1 and one half inches in diameter and about 18 inches deep; put in 1 to 1 1-2 ounces of saltpeter and fill with water, and then plug the hole tight. In the spring take out the plug and pour in about 10 ounces of petroleum pet-roleum and ignite. The stump will smolder away without blazing blaz-ing to the very extremities of the root, leaving nothing but ashes- .... See 50.000 Feet MtiHRange Military Flight Predicted By Tester for Boeing Aircraft Research. SEATTLE. N. D. Showalter, chief of flight test for Boeing Aircraft Air-craft company, predicts military flight at altitudes from 40,000 to 50,000 feet more than nine mile above sea level "for the near future." The forecast, made at a Boeing-sponsored Boeing-sponsored symposium on high-altitude flight, established Ave mile altitudes alti-tudes as at "present practical levels" for regular commercial air travel. Military craft operated at altitudes alti-tudes ranging from 30,000 to 38,000 feet during the war. The vast testing and development of high-height flying military craft bas made commercial flight In the substratosphere practical, Showalter Showal-ter said, and provided an altitude safety margin well beyond operating operat-ing levels. Flight Called Safe. "Research program In which military planes pushed above the 40,000-foot level have given u adequate ade-quate experience for commercial operation at lower altitudes," he laid. "Present development indicates indi-cates commercial flights should be safe, economical and comfortable at 25,000-foot altitudes." "We believe that an entirely appropriate ap-propriate altitude margin 1 provided pro-vided by the background and experience ex-perience at and above 35,000 feet" Showalter cited his company's 10-year 10-year program on substratosphere research and development, and outlined out-lined the tests designed to "build an adequate altitude margin into the airplane." Boeing flight crews, he said, have spent more than 1,300 hours above 25,000 feet end conducted more flying fly-ing at 40,000 feet or higher "than all the rest of man collectively." The program has been carried on during dur-ing the last five years in connection With army air forces. About 650 man-hours, aside from mechanical work on equipment, have been spent for each flight hour in the conducting of tests and compilation com-pilation of data, he said. Needs Consideration. Discussing government regulations regula-tions of aircraft, M. F. Vanik. Boeing airworthiness engineer, said new federal requirements in high-altitude high-altitude design "must be carefully considered" because of the wide extent ex-tent of the field and its national importance. im-portance. "The basic philosophy of government govern-ment aircraft regulations," he said, "is to establish uniform safety rules of minimum standards which will result in maximum safety commen surate with the best interests of the general public, the development of aviation and the current science and art of aircraft design and operation. "To realize the full advantages to be obtained with high-altitude airplane air-plane design, regulations must be kept at a minimum, and those that are considered necessary must be kept general and flexible to allow achievement of the best realization Experience in high-altitude design gained through the war will be translated into commercial airplane design, he said, and high-altitude flying soon will become common due to its advantages in speed, eom-fort eom-fort and economy. Sucker bait is a phrase you have heard used or used yourself many times. Anglers know Its meaning when they watch the fish bite for the Impossible. The term also applies ap-plies to individuals who send their bard-earned cash on get-rich-quick errands. Your income invested in United States Savings Bonds will mount steadily and safely In value to serve you 10 years bence. The American who buys bonds regularly regular-ly with the dollars he doesn't need today for living costs will not wind op a poor fish. V. S. Truuurj Vtpartmt Cse Common Sense Common sense is the best safety rule for tractor operation, extension specialists warn operators of the nation's two million farm tractors. Dangerous practices, such as driving driv-ing close to ditches, cranking the tractor while it is in gear, driving too fast and refueling while the engine en-gine is running, are ways to invite s Uip to the hospital. Mr. ancTMrs. ShefTAston are enjoying a visit with their son, Don who is home on a furlough from Sipian. Don is a Baker 3rd class in the U. S- Navy. Uncle Sam Says ' Qf wmmmm L Pumps Open Way to New Ore Body at Silver King fX":f.5 . '" ""' ' f Pumping equipment like this Deep below the earth's surface. 2800 feet, a huge underground chamber has been carved out of rock and this massive pumping equipment installed in the quest for metals. The picture was taken on the 2800-foot level of the Silver King Coalition mine at Park City, and indicates the depth to which miners must go to provide metals necessary neces-sary for the post war period. One of thf problems facing Utah mines today is to meet the increased in-creased costs inherent in deeper operations. op-erations. Surface deposits have long since been explored and during the war ore reserves of producing the comfort. . . the convenience ...the quiet atmosphere.,, of a fine home 185 WICK SAYS: For the Best Haircut in Town Or a Shave You Heally Get Trimmed When You t rop In At WICK SWAIN'S (YOUR FRIENDLY BARBER) 69 N. First West Provo CT 'aTOm'where I see by a neighboring paper, that the round biscuit is on the way out Yes, sir, home-management specialists spe-cialists have found that the square biscuit lends itself to assembly-line production and easy storage better than those customary ovals. Well, we're all for progress, but that's one new idea we just don't cotton to. A round biscuit, spread nicely amidships with snappy country cheese, looki like a biscuit! And accompanied by a mellow glass of beer, it's a combination that you can't improve on! Copyright, I fcJSfe'l My now a requisite to mining. mines were reduced to a low level due to the shortage of manpower and the necessity of placing all available workers on production in order to meet the demand. To siphon off the water under which much of the States ore now lies requires the expenditure of much capital both for development and for mining. Each foot of depth adds to the problem and the cost. There was a time when the miner needed little encouragement to stake a claim and develop its resources. re-sources. Times have changed and mines have changed and the incentive in-centive to develop must not be lost to the miner and the prospector. Berg MORTUARY East Center - Phone 378 Utah County Mattress Factory COMPLETE-MATTRESS COMPLETE-MATTRESS and BATT SERVICE Only Factory in Utah County We are not represented by wr. transient mattress workers, bt, will call for and deliver wit out extra charge. JUST PHONE 345 Or drop us a card 661 West 2nd North PROVO UTAH AdftrtiimMt I sit ... ly Joe.Marsli Square Biscuits, . Yet! So at the risk of being called old-fashioned, old-fashioned, I'm voting for round biscuits, that fit a hungry man' month like no square imitation ever will ... and for American beer served in the good old-fashioned way, in tall, cool mugs or ordinary glasses, with frosty sides and bubbles bub-bles winking at the brim! Think I'll step out to the kitchen for a snack right now! 1947, United States Brewers Foundation Thursday, November 6, 1947 SOCIAL SECURITY Part VII Your Social Security Card If you have a social security card, the Social Security Administration Admin-istration is keeping an Individual Indivi-dual record of your earnings in a big central office at Baltimore, Balti-more, Maryland. When you work under social security your employer sends in each three months a report of your earnings, and gives your name and social security account ac-count number, as you gave it to him. These reports go final ly to the Social Security Administration Admin-istration office in Baltimore, and there are posted to the individual indivi-dual records. There are more than 8,000.000 social security accounts in Baltimore. Bal-timore. No one can keep your record straight unless you do your part- You must see that your employer has your name and social security account number num-ber just as they appear on your social security card. You should have only one social so-cial security account. If you loss your card, get a duplicate with the same number. If you change your name, be sure to notify the Social Security Administration, Administra-tion, so your record can be corrected- If you want to know Bow much your social security account ac-count shows, you may have a statement once each year. Mistakes Mis-takes in social security records usually cannot be corrected after af-ter four years. WHAT EVEXY tZXZI SHOULD l""OW before she says "I do" The Columbia Diamond Ring Brida Boot will halo vou plan your troutiaau, your cloihat, your wadding jutt a faw of tha many details that you must handls before your wedding day. JEWELEHl "YOURS TODAY . . . A YEAR TO PAY" SEPTIC TANKS Cesspools... 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