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Show m nw n m BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER nn 1 It I P-- Vf W M on VMigp!.t5)T i'6Tggq HOME FRONT Fear of Farm Land Boom Phillipr TH RUTH WYETH SPEARS Adds to Inflation Worry OCR OWN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON VACATION GAS III kbaNSPLANT a bit of the for. 1 est to your garden wood cut-o-f this trio do the trick. The Y baby deer and his friends, the bbit and squirrel, all come on pra Z8884. They are to be cut Lm plywood, wall board or thin Uiber with jig, coping or saw, painted according to dictions and placed outdoors to Jij their bit to the surroundings home. j your 15 cent. price o! the pattern Is demand and unusually sn large to Hue contuuons, tugnuy more jut SnjTia required in filling order for a r!0f the most popular pattern number. a-Send your oracr ui. The Weitport Ed., Kaasai City, Ho. IS cent for each pattern Pattern No. desired. ....... Address 'or t'oSC JiTO BITES . tute available transportation? A. Lissen, save time by seeing your legal staff. Nm EUEV Q. What is the meaning of the clause "for vacation purposes for which adequate alternative transportation is not available"? A. That is put in to make it harder. Q. What is "adequate alternative transportation"? A. Boy, will the ration board get into arguments over that one! When is alternative transportation really "available"? A bus runs to my vacation place but it is always crowded. Does that consti- Enclose tine or itches, those rrosquito torments that so ften "PO"1 summer fun. get Mexsaaa, formerly Mexican Bert Powder. Groundhog in Hibernation During hibernation the ground hog's body temperature falls to ibout 37 degrees, or just above and its heart beat slows down to less than ten beats a min ute. Q. What is all this certification business? Kow do I certify that I have enough gas, or coupons for enough gas, for a vacation trip? A. You must put it in writing. Q. Won't OPA take my word? A. You've been an A card holder long enough to know your word is never taken. Q. Do I really have to certify my speedometer reading before I leave? A. Yes, sir. The OPA wants to start you off on your vacation under the usual suspicion or not at all. Q. Must I certify that I have a vacation place to go to? A. Positively. You might be fool ing the OPA. DON'T LET CONSTIPATION SLOW YOU UP How? By just using the gas without going on a vacation. Q. What would be the difference. It would be the same gas wouldn't it? A. There you go quibbling again. Q. A. When bowels are sluggish and you irritable, headachy, do as millions the modem do -- chew laxative. Simply chew chewing-gubefore you go to bed, taking only in accordance with package directions sleep without being disturbed. Next morning gentle, thorough relief, helping you feel swell again. Try Tastes good, is handy and economical. A generous family supply feel FEEN-A-MIN- m T Q. If I am driving to my cottage and inspectors hold me up as a pleasure driver what do I do? FEEn-Mii- ns A. You show them a "vacation validation" certificate. This makes the vacation valid. Most Men Stammerers Q. But does it make me valid? A. On an A card you can never Although no one seems to know why, more than ten times as many be quite valid. men as women are given to stam Q. I have a cottage 20 miles mering, research shows. away. A neighbor has a better one 40 miles away and wants me to spend my vacation with him. If we pool our gas we could make this trip using less fuel than if we took separate ones. Would this be per- Mien mitted? A. Probably not. It sounds too reasonable. Q. After reading all the require ments I do not feel like going on a vacation by car. Must I? A. So you're running out on us KIDHEYS need diuretic aid after all this trouble! Then overstrain or other ic cause slows down kidney fraction, the back may ache painfully. Niturtlly, urinary flow may be lessened frequent but scanty often smarting. "Getting up nights" may ruin sleep. To relieve such symptoms, yon want ftidt ummUthn of kidney action. To help attain this, try Gold Medal Capsules. This diuretic has been famous for "er 30 years for such prompt action. Tike care to use only as directed on pack-iOnly 35s at drug stores. Accept no abttitute. Get the gttutint Gold Medal Ctptules today. They e c, e. wsstl e ADOLF DECIDES ON A NEW UNIFORM ("I am putting on the uniform of a soldier, never to take it off until Germany is victorious everywhere' Hitler in 1939.) Tailor Ah, Herr Hitler, what can I do for you? Hitler I need some new clothes. Tailor I hadn't expected you 10 soon. Hitler That goes for me, too. But SNAPPY FACTS AlOUT RUBBER it's an uncertain era. Anyhow this uniform hasn't stood up the way it should. Tailor After all, you've had it ever since 1939. Has it had steady wear? Hitler Has it! Tailor Is. this the one you put on when the war broke out and said you would never take off until it - censwsnrtten of Satellite m highways, which hearing en rubber (ontumptian, urn steel frons 1,500,000,000 fallens in 1WS te 22,000,000,000 gallons I 1940. Sam figures to keep la mind when gasoline, shaft 8 U mentioned today. The esnntral h general, gwayula rubber has the Mm qualities and characteristics oi plantation tr rubber, except ot It has a high resin content, bout 20 per cent, compared with 4 per cent In Ire rubber. The first snanufactvro of rubier foettwear owtsido of tho Wilted State took plaea isi Ui In Searlaad. Official Figures Show Agricultural Unit Values Have Increased 20 .to 24' Per Cent in Year. ended with victory? Hitler (sadly) Ach, yesl Tailor Well, there's a limit to the wearing quality of any material. It looks pretty worn everywhere except in the seat That's as good as new. Hitler That's easily explained: I haven't had any chance to sit down in it. Tailor Were the pants always as baggy as this? Hitler I'm not sure whether they were that loose to begin with or whether I've shrunk. Tailor Well, let us go on. Now about the length of the pants? Hitler Make them a lot shorter than the old ones. Tailor A lot shorter? You don't want running pants? SOU! Hitler-IZZ- AT MANPOWER SHORTAGE Utterances made by the fair sex ii in recent years: 1941. "What a man!" 1942. "What? A man!" 1943. "What's a man?" e e e Descriptions of the Hour: He had the worried look of an "A" card vacationist. CMirrrz on". ilfW ' J CARDtOARO "1To I M "'- I 1 SRAME Q V By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst mid Commentator. TELE FACT WAR RAISES VALUE OF FARM REAL ESTATE (VALUE PER ACRE IN U.S.AJ 00000 0000000000 0s 00000,00000 00000 Q 00000 00000 03 00000001 000000000 1912U0O0O0 1917 1921 1929 1933 1942 Each symbol represents 5 of Trust Building Washington, D. C. For many months now, government offices and conference rooms, no matter how they might echo with glowing reports from the home or the battle front, have never been quite free from a ghost It hovers in the corner and sends chills down every spine it is the ghost of Old Man Inflation, trying to come back to the scene of his crimes in the roaring, twenties. The Office of War Information has just issued a warning that this specter may appear in his most frightful form if we are not careful. The fat pay envelope is the inflation danger you hear most about. But there is a worse one, namely, a farm land boom. So far, there has been no spectacular rise in farm land prices but a dangerous trend has been discovered in some states and the bureau of agricultural economics is decidedly worried. Here are some figures. WNU Service, Union Up 20 Per Cent As of March 1 of this year, increases in farm land values over those of the previous year were 20 to 24 per cent. In September, 1941, I wrote in these columns: "Money to burn! "And the burning question is how to stop the conflagration before it starts. The chief danger is another prairie fire of farm land speculation such as started in Iowa in World War I . . . Today, two years after the present war started, farm land prices are up 1 per cent Remember, that was written in September, 1941. Well, steps were taken to prevent speculation then and they met with success. How ..." ever, as we have seen by comparing figures, land prices in some states have now increased considerably. That is natural for much has happened since 1941. In 1942, as the Office of War Information points out, "for the first time in 20 years, the annual average of farm prices reached parity with other prices." Since the outbreak of the war, the average of farm prices has risen more than 90 per cent, and farm income by about 80 per cent while the average prices paid by farmers, including interest and taxes, has increased about 25 per cent. Farm income was around 19 billion dollars in 1941 it will be about 22 billion for 1943. That means, of course, that the farmer has money to spend and it is natural that land values would rise to some degree. As I said, they have gone up as high as 24 per cent in some states and less than 6 per cent in only six states. Those figures, says the bureau of agricultural economics "bear watching"! It is also reported that bankers in some parts of the Middle West believe that in some cases, the land values have risen beyond their real e earnworth based on the ing capacity of the land. That, if it is true, of course means that right now some farmers are buying land that won't pay for itself. It is reasonable to suppose that they are not members of that unhappy group of 85,000 farm owners who met Old Man Inflation before and who lost their property under foreclosures in the decade that ended in 1939. If they are, they deserve to suffer again. But the unfortunate thing is that when the farmer long-tim- 1912-1- 4 BRIEFS value loses, the rest of the country does, too. We have struggled through minor industrial panics, as we used to call them, but when the farm goes, it means that things are in such a way that there is no stopping until everybody touches bottom. Campaign Worked in '41 The article which I wrote in 1941 reported a meeting here in Washington of mortgage bankers, insurance people, farm organization representatives and others who were urged by the Farm Credit administration to make normal appraisals of land. Apparently they did a pretty good job. Meanwhile, an educa tional campaign was started urging the farmer, instead of rushing out and buying land with the first money he got as income increased, to pay off his debts. It was gratifying to see the results. In the next year (1942) the net reduction of mortgages was 360 million dollars as against an average of 120 million reduction over the three preced ing years. Of course, there is noth ing Old Man Inflation hates worse than seeing debts paid up. Another thing which has helped the present situation is the fact that the farmers who are buying land now usually put up a large initial cash payment. In other words, they are avoiding future debts and that is another thing, of course, which is equally unpleasant to Old Man In flation. There is nothing to stop the farm er from speculating in land if he wants to, buying on a margin the way the gamblers used to do on the stock exchange. Now such transactions are considerably limited by law but there is no law to keep a farmer from gambling if he doesn't know any better. 'Psychology for The Fighting Man9 ' I have just been reading a little booklet called "Psychology for the Fighting Man." It is one of those books published primarily for the soldiers, and every soldier able to read, ought to have it. It has 20 chapters, each written by a well- known psychologist or expert in his line. Any chapter can be read sep arately and they are all highly in teresting. Familiarity with them will make any man a better soldier and a better leader. The chapter on mobs is only one. It tells how and why mobs form, what starts a panic and how to stop one. But here are a few of the other topics I found exceedingly interest ing: Psychology arid combat Seeing in the dark Color and camouflage Food and sex as military problems Differences among races and peoples and many others. Simply-tol- d psychology. In this war, a man needs all the helps of that kind that he can get for the contrast between army life and civilian life is greater than ever, This book, "Psychology for the Fighting Man," is put out by a non the Infantry profit corporation Journal, here in Washington. It costs only a quarter. It for the soldier, sailor, private or general, ensign or admiral. And it would be a good idea for a lot of next of kin to read this book, too. It might help them to understand what the soldier is up against. . . . by Baukhage In addition to the two pairs of shoes issued every American sol- The Japanese Dome! agency dis closed that Emperor Hirohito had dier on entering the service, three sent a message of "congratulations" extra pairs must be available in re- to Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, serve, and two more pairs in proc- Vichy chief of state, "on the occa sion of Bastille day." ess of manufacture. e e e e Almost 1A billion rounds of small arms ammunition is being turned out each month. That is seven times as much as the 1918 peak. Under wartime operation, railroad freight cars must travel about 16 per cent farther on the average haul. , 1 (OLD Wft&HSTANO WITH SiOC SHELVf S.NCW TOP A NO ASS mOAftO vasaawawiawaawaw1 A bull market in wild animals is reported. So many human beings these days are discovering they can use them for doubles. e e e , -- ject. Q. AUNT MARTHA 2i7W Q. What is meant by a single round trip to a cottage? A. Don't begin this by getting Into an argument. Q.Instead of driving to a vacation place IS miles away and return is it okay if I drive to one SO miles away and leave the car there until the war is over? A. If the garage people don't ob- fCSl coat of paint the piece is finished with a modern air. The paint should match the woodwork. The diagram at the upper right shows how to make the wall decoration from a remnant of flowered chintz. If you use an old frame, the chintz picture may be given the appearance of an oil painting by applying several coats of varnish, allowing plenty of time for each coat to dry thoroughly. Note: The remodeled washstand is from m used ii uvin not Book 10 of the series of boroemaklng book cm tmwwnn wa'0 lets prepared for readers. Book 10 also' contains more than 30 other things to room often is living TODAY'S on hand Umay ptwntq woow and available from things with streamlined make materials. Booklets ore 19 cents. Address: pieces that have served a more humble purpose. Almost any plain MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEAKS washstand or dresser may be giv New Trk. Bedford Hills Drawer It en long smart lines by adding Enclose 15 cents for Book No. 10. open shelves at the ends. Here a moulda of with top plywood plain Name... ing around the edges extends across the stand and shelves. By Address. adding a plain baseboard and a st: Liu d s mm A quiz with answers offering information on various subjects J The Antwcrs The Qaettione 1. If you are .contumacious, you are what? 2. How many locks has the Suez canal? 3. In the United States navy which flag may be flown above the Stars and Stripes? 4. What great writer's middle name was "Makepeace"? 5. In what part of his body did Paris mortally wound Achilles? 6. What is Hedonism? 7. Who discovered Cuba? C v 1. Rebellious. 2. The Suez canal has no locks. It is at sea level. 3. The church pennant. 4. William Makepeace Thack- eray. heel. doctrine that pleasure is the chief or sole good in life and that moral duty is fulfilled in the gratification of pleasure-seekin- g instincts. 5. The 6. The 7. Columbus. HOW TO MAKE A 7? ) LITTLE MILK INTO ( A bowl of delicious Rice Krispies a dash of milk. 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