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Show i 4 '1 t f 'J ' r H4 i --4 1 J. r u FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1931 AMERICAN -FQBK .CITIZEN AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Office Alpine Publishing Company DaiWin-Plume 85 A PROGRESSIVE, INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION Entered in the Post Office at Ameficari" Fork, Utah, ai aecond class matter. Subscription rate $2.50 pw year in advance. 80 centa a column inch. rate ol lO centa per eight-point line per insertion. Want ada. Rate -2 centa Ter word each in sertion. Payment must aocompany advertisement, Advertisement . rates : Display, Legal notices and readers, legal r A. F. GAISFORD, JR.. -EDITOR A$MBEIH930 UTAH STATE PRESS ASSN. W,t, l! foreaL pMtu'rt,-or crop, including building, was I3214II.1T2. of Which faW tmpi;, J 'SfthJaa4 oacviM bfMf ranis,- 4I.MM repreeentM th. value of bwludinr tumL ail turn twitting inoiuaiiur tta v W.llein.v " Where The Money Goes It costa the average American family a little more than one-third one-third of ita income for food. The average wage-earner has an income of $1,513.29 a year, or just under $30 a week, out of which he spends $548.51 for food, according to the moat recent statistical compilation of figures on the cost of living. Rent, whether in the form of maintenance and taxes on a home, or in actual rent paid to a landlord, averages a little over one-fifth of the total income or, in the case of the average wage-earner, $342.14. Clothing for the entire family, on the same scale, comes to $237.60, leaving $385.04 out of this average wage-earner's wage-earner's income for miscellaneous expenditures. That is substantially a quarter of the average worker's, yearly earnings, out of which he has to pay doctor's bills, cost of educating his children, all amusements, his life insurance premiums, if any, and everything else that he spends money for. On the same basis of figuring the average wage earner spends $16.33 for automobiles. Since the cheapest automobile sells for around $500, this means that only one wage earner in thirty buys a car in any given year. With ordinary care, however, how-ever, even a cheap car will last for years. It is a safe assumption assump-tion that at least one out of every ten wage workers in America owns an automobile. , Doctor's bills for the average family run nearly four times the cost of automobiles. Insurance accounts for $43.23 a year out of the average family income. And after paying for all of the things already mentioned, this average American working man has $90 a year left for cigarettes, Christmas present or other non-necessary expenditures, besides putting $78.93 in the savings bank. Those are figures which cannot be matched anywhere else in the world. Nowhere has the man wno works with his hands such a surplus above his actual living as he has in America. For that matter, no worker under airy other flag has as comfortable com-fortable living quarters or as good and ample food. It is this surplus of earnings above expenses that has enabled American workers to carry through a long period of depression and unemployment un-employment without being reduced to beggary and starvation. Adapted te Apparel A farthingale bench la broad seated chair without arms, made In tba tlraa of Jamea I and KHaaneth to accommodate the largv-booned dreaaee or farthlngalea worn by th women of that period. Nigkt'a Darkeet Hew Tha naval obaervator ears that no Itfht la received from tba sun when It la 18 degreea or more below be-low tbe hortxon and during those boars there la none that ta regular y the darkeet. JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, MD "ROUGHAGE" arnyarda, feed lota, Unea. roada, 7? ' When I sell an Processed Oil once v . v they T1H1 nt Coooce Gene-Prottawd Mow ou dc gauge urn yo Jktf your m.IMge bU i&u JL ceaM a decided ptcfawK ooce jtm have bad k . c retted . . . wfeea ffVe apace of time bel k yoar craakcaee. In valaa to your motor; and to HatTX oU id bfweca fepilr bill, fcj yon, it epfckh; aV-enafrtwd Yoa auy never hive nec4 ' leogtheaed ...(fee jom know that )oa eeajv to call oa fa for tbe extra tafcty factor It provide. cbangiag to Ccm-Procetied oil '; ntur. iaXifll Acre not.r:m Tho wtaj vajvt .05.1aiTO.1ana ana The Window , That : Opens On The FUTURE Handing your deposit through the teller's window eacK week is adding that much toward future security, toward future pleasures, pleas-ures, travel, study, or whatever you have planned for future years. Get in the habit of coming com-ing to our window each week with a savings deposit It will repay you. 4 per cent Interest Let Us Explain Our Savings Plan The Bank of American Fork ffi 40 Years Successful Banking farmers' 'u4 on Gelt stay so: Yoa may acver drive fut enough 10 atat fc ability 10 taad ap day after day u 60 mikt per boar. Bt when your ipculueaawr aayt k it yooraaaal oacbaagiflg time aad yoa Sad your oil io. perfect coadiooa for longer ate . . . whea yoar gat- f So many motoriatt have changed to Cem-iw ' M oO drdca. Join thete motoriiti'iai ractioo. Stop today at the iiga effcCti, Red Triaagle and tik for Coaot ' Procctted Motor OiL AU gndet SJjn THIS is the way to Travel Exam plea of Low Ronnd Trip Farea from American Fork Te Denver $36.00 Omaha .... S4jM KaneaaClty 64X0 Chic.no .. 745 New York . New Orleana MAO Lot Ang.lea 40.00 Portland . . . 49.80 Bo.ton .... 141 J1 Waahington 130.11 Praportl.aately law turm ta atarr aalata LOW FARES EAST and WEST Bsginning Beginning AAY 22nd MAY 15th Then daily to October 15th Return Limit October 31st We hear it, resd it, sense it in the very air, "roughage." It's the slogan of the swivel-chair patriot, whose colon has been on a strike for the last twenty robber-tired years. Treat 'em rough, these tired, lazy-stuffed colons ; just got to have roughage rough-age r Well, the prodigal son ate the husks which the swine didn't take and repented of his sins right away, the first victory for roughage, so to speak. Then he lost no time getting back to the fatted calf the smooth diet. Let's talk about bran shorts, "tailings," husks of wheat, or what have yout The sort recommended by solemn physicians, physi-cians, smug dietitians and artful manufacturers; and, let's talk sense. I have not found one in twenty-five routine investigations, upon whom bran has the least effect in obstinate constipation. I have tested carefully in my own case ; I might as well have taken that much Portland cement, so far as laxative effect was noticeable. Sometimes I wonder how many pecks of bran one would have to eat, to acquire a single grain of iron! And what form of iron t Possibly a trace of ferrous oxide rust! There is as much iron in a single Blaud pill as there is in a bushel of wheat bran, to there. One of the least and best books I have found, condemns "roughage" as a routine procedure in lazy colons practice that may actually do serious harm, and I agree most emphatic- tally. The "smooth diet" is far more rational to toax the warv t organ back to normal function ; I do' nofoelieTe'ii wmipping the tired horse to restore his vigor. - If commercialism were taken out of this country, and our people used real food anf exercise instead of substitutes, we'd live longer. CONOCO GEkM fAkAfflN B A S MOTOR. OIL TwaW with Ctatte FsuhmH . . . goad aa dim of yout propot awaat trip or Id at aatp fiaa year edfv Gt dMeaaOy eakiy OONOOO TKAVn BUSIAU Gat a Coaooa paMpon, la alinUEManoaa tarvkt la dat iimdi fam paaat Datvec Coketa. Travel over the smoothest roadbed in the world...Union Pacific.and arrive at your vacation destination hours or days sooner, and without fatigue! Take advantage of the low summer excur- iberal stopover privileges. s N f STOP age sion fares. Lit Interesting side trip to Zion National Park and other wonders of southern Utah, or to Yellowstone, or Grand Teton National Na-tional Parks, at slight additional cost. Visit Denver and Rocky Mountain National Na-tional Park at no extra railroad fare. For Further Information Consult Local Agent D. . BPKNCRH Caaaral Paaaaagar Aaraat Bait La a. a City. Utah URHMDN PACDIFOC The Overland Rotta STOP WORRYING You can talk with them quickly quick-ly and at low cost, and ease your mind. Long Distance charges are lower than ever. For example, station to station day rates Prom American Fork to : BUTTE $1.75 PORTLAND $2.75 LOS ANGELES $2.35 VaWwareaJbnVwra Qw TELEPHONE, Census Reports Farm Acreage and Value in Utah Aocordlng to a bulletin recently itsued by thf. Bureau of the Census, there are 17.1 5 farma In the State of Utah having a total acreage of 5.S1S.101. and total value, Including Includ-ing land, buildinga. and Implements and machinery, of $234,869,743. Those flgui-PH are given In detail for each county and minor civil division di-vision within the 8tate. Thla In th first Fiolenil census report to show these fiKurea by minor civil divisions. Of the total farm acreage 20.7 per cent, or 1.1 Ml. 890 acre, was crop land on which .nips were harvested In 1929; 5 1 p. r cent, or 288.057 acres was crop i, which lay Idle or fallow; and o x per cent, or 47.550 acres, wa Ian,! n which ihe crops falld to mat ure or were not harvested har-vested for any cause. 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