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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 21, State Senator Submits Important Problems Making The Home More Livable Before Legislature (Albert E. Holmgren) This session, as I view it, will hive five major issues before it: (1) Fur.d3 must be appropriated to maintain our public institutions; (2) a new revenue law must and will be enacted to the burden upon tangible property; (3) our public school system must be maintained, for which more funds will be required; (4) new highways are asking to be designated under the State Road System, the burden of the maintenance of which must "be shifted from property to the gasoline tax; and (5) the liquor problem must be hanuled and will be carried through the Legislature by what is known as the Trawes Relation Committee. These five major problems should have the right of way over all other requirements, demands or legislation. A prominent citizen of our county has asked, "What, in your judgment, is the most serious problem confronting the legislature?" A popular answer would be, "The liquor question." But I am going to suggest another answer; namely, a serious condition existing between the State Land Board and the, farmers of our state. To make myself clear, and to get a true picture of conditions, let us go back to the time when the government agreed to accept and take Utah into the Sisterhood of the States. Congress then passed an enabling act, and in this act it granted hundreds of thousands of acres of land, known as "school grant lands," to be handled and supervised through some department of our state. To the State Land Board was delegated the authority to sell this land and reinvest these school funds in improved farm land loans, bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum; but with an enabling act in junction saying, "You must maintain and hold inviolate at all times the principal involved in any only i loan." Therefore, the interest could be used in the maintenance of our public institutions. The Land Board went ahead to perform its duty. From Statehood to the present time, regardless of administrations, preferment, I believe, must have played its part in making loans and appraisements. In the interim of thirty-nin- e years of Statehood, many changes have taken place with regard to these land appraisements. Thousands of acres of what was at one time considered good first mortgage im proved farm land have been cnangeo, through, nature and her causes, into what we now call marginal or almost worthless lands. This process has gone on through these many years, and then the depression came along with the result that commodity prices have dropped, farmers have failed to meet their installments, interest payments have become delinquent from one to five or six years, the schools are demanding their funds from these land grants and the State Land Board cannot collect; so that at the present time the situation has become so serious that approximately $5,500,000 is outstanding among the farmers and ranchers of this state. To make this picture more comprehensive, the following give a fuller realization of the ywill seriousness of this problem: Today we find 1600 loans standing out among the farmers and ranchers of the state. Of these loans, 450 are now foreclosed by the state, 150 are in the process of being foreclosed, 300 have With Lamps for the y Davenport ll I O . Pub- OT'illliiiiri!' fW p -- Jk. i vW- at the Valley hospital. She is getting along as well as can be expected and is very grateful for her k .JV '.' -- Pi hi ?SSt i Wayne Larsen and Myron Clegg returned from their trip to California last Wednesday having enjoyed their trip Immensely. Mr. and Mrs. Marin us Hansen of Mink Creek visited at the H. C. Hansen home Wednesday. e The Primary convention held at Garland Saturday was attended from here by 100 percent officers and teachers. Mrs. Mary Petersen left Saturday for Wendell, Idaho, to attend a funeral of her sistes's baby. She was accompanied by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wagstaff and Mr. and Mrs. Royal Petersen of Perry. Thatcher players presented their show here last Thursday evening and was enjoyed by a good attendance, who all appreciated the performances. Norma Andersen spent the weekend home from the A. C. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Petersen and Mr. and Mrs. J. Walter Green and Lewis Hunsaker were Logan visitors Wednesday. A dance will be given here next Thursday, February 28. Luby and Peter Rasmussen of Salt Lake City came home Sunday to visit their sister at the hospital and also to honor their mother's birthday. It, ...ii.-i,.'- . ' ill III ill By Jean Prentice happiness FIRESIDE the kind depends very of lamps provided for those hours of reading, sewing or just plain ease. In many a spacious living room, and small ones also, the davenport is placed alongside the hearth, as in the accompanying sketch. Where there is no fireplace the lamp appropriate for location is the the same. Just one lamp stands by the davenport in the living room illustrated. But you can bank on that one! It knows all the tricks of good lighting, having been built according to specifications ef the Illuminating Engineering So:iety, a national group of lighting scientists. You'll note first that the lamp is placed at the back of the davenport. This balanced arrangement is possible because of the height of the lamp and the width of the shade which allow sufficient spread of light for the entire length of the davenport . . . Johnnie won't be out of range of good light regardless of where he sits on this I vzr many kind friends who have called and filled her room with lovely flowers, She will return to her home the last of the week. The M. I. A. basketball players went to Deweyville last Wednesday for their finish of the season's playing. Although working under difficulty, loosing some of their players right along, they stayed with it to the end of the season. Mrs. V. L. Hansen, Mrs. Lorretta Hansen and Ruth Munns, all assisted at a treausseau tea given at the home of Mrs. Winn Hansen of Fielding Sunday in honor of her sister, Miss Phyllis Haws, prior to her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Hansen accompanied their niece, Phyllis Haws, and Hyrum Marble of Deweyville, to Salt Lake on Thursday, February 14, where they were married in the Salt It is the effort of every ci Lake temple. Immediately after the and breakfast was tizen that makes a better city. marriage a served to the nearest relatives at the Beau Brummel Cafe, given by Mrs. Grace Haws, mother of the bride. get-togeth- pull-togeth- er work-togeth- er eliminating glare and providing light as restful to the eyes as an eider down mattress would be to the body. Within the bowl is another bit of magic, an electric lamp, newly developed, which (because of two filaments) gives three different intensities of light at the turn of a switch. For sewing and the reading of fine print for long periods, the lights of the auxiliary candles, holding bulbs of from 40 to are added to that of the central bulb. "How about using a single lamp at the end of the davenport, rather than at the back?," I hear someone ask. Well, that depends on your davenport. If it is too long the lamp standard would have to be excessively and awkwardly high to shed its light the entire length. End table lamps can of course be used, but are not always practical for the location in a smaller room where space must be ts, conserved. If the davenport is of the Love Seat type, a lamp similar to the smaller one tt sketched, and using a lamp, may be placed on a table behind it. This is also an approved I. E. S. Study and Reading Lamp, a multitude davenport.. The reasons for the excellent light- of lovely designs for which have been ing are apparent when the shade is made by many manufacturers. It is higher than table lamps you've lifted, as illustrated in the smaller been using, no doubt. But that's a new sketch. The glass bowl between the candles style note ! In the interest of eyesight throws light up as well as down, thus preservation. been transferred through application and have been accepted by the Federal Land Bank and 650 are in the process of getting loans through banks and other loaning institutions to help them qualify, if possible, to get relief from the Federal Land Bank. It is estimated that 15 per cent of the 1600 loans made are now in good standing. The farmers of the in state are demanding some set-u- p the law that will grant land relief, and, at the same time, we must find means by which we can protect the State Land Board and the State School Fund. It has been suggested that the legislature make a direct appropriation of $100,000 to meet back 100-wa- interest and back water rental payments that are due. The Attorney General has ruled that this would be a dangerous precedent to establish, and we are agreed that in the end it would only extend the fateful day. Approximately $750,000 is outstanding in uncollectable interest, and thousands of acres are foreclosed, taken off from the tax rolls, lying idle and growing noxious weeds. A committee has been appointed in the legislature to draft a bill to be introduced to cope with this situation, but we do not know how far it will go. It provides for the sale and lease of farm lands acquired by the State of Utah by virtue of mortage fore- - cmooe counties of the State or the Farm Debt Adjustment Committee act as the agent of the reappraisement. The State Land Board is authorized oy this bill to cause the lands and im provements thereon to be appraised and to sell the lands for not less man the appraised value, and the mortgage debtor shall have the first right or preference to purchase or lease the same. However, such right or prefer ence must be exercised by the farm debtor within 30 days after the State Land Board has acquired title to the property. The purchase price may be for cash or on terms of not less tnan 10 per cent of the purchase price in oash uoon the execution of the con tract, and the balance in 40 equal installments, with interest on deferred payments at the rate of 4 Der cent per annum, payable It also provides that the State Land Board may lease the land to the mortgagor for a period not to exceed three years for a consideration equal to 5 per cent of the nrmraised value, toeether will all tax es and water assessments levied against such property during the term that of such lease. It further . ... -provides failure to comply with tne terms anaj conditions of such lease shall constitute a forfeiture and the right to purchase by said mortgagor shall terminate. The Land Board shall then have the right to immediately repossess the property. Another provision is that if the mortgagor fails to exercise the rights granted him, the Board may then lease the farm land, or any portion thereof, to any bona fide applicant for terms not exceeding three years upon such terms and conditions as it may deem reasonable. This bill may seem to be departure from regular or past rulings in land transactions between the State Land Roard and the farmers and ranchers, but the situation is serious, as I view it, because there are no funds coming in, farmers are becoming discouraged, lands are going off the tax rolls, and we have no other alternative. Thus, I thing this session of the legis lature is going to direct that every farmer indebted to the State LAnct Board shall have a new chance to make good, and. in the end eventually secure his property in which he has already invested his money. The least we can do is to give him another chance. I shall be happy to do my part. 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