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Show August 19, 1943 BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER Page Two . i.ru'i-1- 1 Week Published at Tremonton, Utah, on Thursday of Each Z3-- J Phone Street First West 2nd Class Matter Entered at the Post Office at Tremonton, Utah, as , N. RYTTtNG, Editor - Publisher & yy- J w - - ""' u This Soldier May Be Your Boy BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER A- - u - -- - -- - --- --- TOWN. AND FARM IN WARTIME $2.50 ONE YEAR (In Advance) SIX MONTHS (In Advance) THREE MONTHS (In Advance) 51.25 75t A revised scale for payments Agricultural Payment Bates ENCOURAGE OIL PRODUCTION NOW William R. Boyd, chairman, Petroleum Industry War .deCouncil, warns that: "The huge and increasing military crude oil mand, the failure of the government to provide needed reserves, our price incentive to increase desperately to manpower and materials difficulties, and the necessity combined make fuel oil in preference to gasoline, have all to create what properly may be called a critical oil situation. "So far," says Mr. Boyd, "no plane, no tank, no jeep, no truck has failed to move; no ship used for war purposes has had to remain in port for want of oil." And that is the message which the families of men in the service wish most to hear. Though automobiles may rot in garages and homes may be chilly, these inconveniences will be taken in stride so long as oil reaches our fighting fact. Inmen. All of which emphasizes a dividuals holding the highest positions in industry have sons in this war, just the same as the hardest working welder. They have a common stake in quick victory, and in an uninterrupted flow of supplies. little-appreciat- 7- 1 y to fanners under the 1943 Agricultural Conservation program has been set up by WFA to adjust available funds to the increased number of eligible farmers. The revised rates, with the former rates in parentheses, are cotton," one cent per pound ( 1.1 cents), corn, 3 cents per bushels (3.6 cents), and wheat, 8.5 cents per bushel (9.2 cents). Rates remain unchanged for rice and tobacco. y?v yy Equal Drafting of Fathers Drafting of fathers with children born before September 15, 1942, will begin at approximatelynathe same time throughout the tion, the Selective Service Bureau of WMC said recently. "wSiiiii- - V'w ;: ; y mmmm A E i U SICKENING RECORD UUM.H r AvLLf I've got a home, too. Mister! Every extra bond you buy through the out Local newspapers in two important defense centers carPayroll Savings Plan will help me get back to it. "Figure it ried accounts a short time ago of two disastrous fires. They ernment bureau (composed of lewer were nothing unusual. Similar occurances are taking place men than was first feared) is hopeSurvives 500 Hits all over the country.. In one of these fires, flames swept lessly swamped with details, would be too small a matter to worry anythrough a planing mill and lumber yard doing an estimated except for the fact that the body, : $150,000 damage. In the other fire, an entire block in a very existence of the law hinders the war effort. It keeps contractors congested district was wiped out, leaving 200 persons homein a quandary that slows down proless. Damage was estimated at $100,000. At the end of this duction of military necessities; postpones victory. year, the total fire bill for the nation will amount to three The Actual Figures or four hundred million dollars a tremendous sum even The Renegotiation Law authorizes in these days of billions. and directs the Secretary of War, ( Jl Who is to blame for this tragic and disastrous fire loss? No probing in the ashes ot ruined buildings is necessary to find the answer, because everyone is to blame. We are a careless nation. Any fire prevention authority is familiar with the sickening record, and can establish proof of our national .carelessness with a recital of needless destruction that makes a joke of our touted war conservation efforts The truth is that there can be no real conservation until destruction of property by fire is effectively curbed. Also, as any fire prevention authority will testify, there can be Despite a bail of 500 ballets, an no curbing of the fire loss in this country until individual American plane returned to its base citizens learn to take the simple precautions which are neces- after a raid on Sicily. Staff Sergt. Henry B. Hicks examines the rudder sary to prevent it. of the ship. 4 conto make Americans are fire Many agencies striving scious. Fire departments, city, state and federal officials, together with private organizations, are constantly pounding home lessons of fire prevention. If these lessons were but received in the spirit that they are given a spirit of appreciation of the value of life and property fire losses would iy GEORGE S. BENSON g curve downward in an amazingly short time. College Kansas ceurcy. x y LOOKING AHEAD PrtsideHt-JXardin- Bureaucratic Blight ELWOOD PUBLIC HEALTH COLUMN Reports from local health officers to the State Department of Health for the week of August 13, show a total of 285 cases of communicable diseases as compared with 220 cases for the previous week and 162 cases for the corresponding period one year ago. This increase is due to the delayed reporting of 94 cases of pneumonia from Salt Lake County and the 89 cases of whooping cough. Nine cases of polimyelitis were reported for the week 1 from Brigham, 5 from Salt Lake City, 2 from Provo, and 1 from Juab county. In the areas reporting polimyeparents are urged to keep their children away from crowds and to see that they secure adequate rest and a proper diet. Direct contact with anyone who Is litis ill should be strictly avoided. Care should be maintained in protecting all food supplies from contact with flies and everyone should be urged to wash his hands thoroughly before meal time. ' Two cases of malaria fever were reported from Brigham City, making a total of 110 cases reported in the state since the first of the year. Sevier county reported one case of tularemia the attending physician reported that the disease was contracted by a decrfly bite. The paUent Is a male, 50 years of age, and his occupation is listed as "farming." Disease totals for the week are as follows: chickenpox, 29; German measles, 2; measles, 12; mumps, 14; pneumonia, 94, scar-lfever, 11; tuberculosis, 2; tularemia, l; whooping cough, 89; gonorrhea, 9; syphilis, 11; poliomyel- -' et sweet com, pumpkin or squash lima beans, and tomato pureVw der an amendment to Director f distribution order 22.4 which duces the quantity that canJT. are required to set aside from 194, production to meet government J. quirements. Gifts To The U. S. A. f J Thousands of Americans, in dition to paying taxes and invest" t ing in War Bonds, have given era! million dollars in cash tithe government and many other1 gifts. The Treasury to date hsJ completed more than 20,000 trans-- I actions in connection with contri-f buttons; ranging, in cash, frora cent to several hundred thousand dollars, and, in gifts, from tinfoir to Rolls Royces. Cash donations total about $4,423,000. ed -- x- I ( A SUBSCRIPTION RATES j - I A very successful ward social was conducted last Thursday evening by the M. I. A. officers. A large crowd gathered at the ball grounds and an evening of sports, where en-Joy- ed everyone participated regardless of age. Refreshments were served. The climaxing feature was the community singing around the bonfire. Little Tarry Holland, of Brieham City, is spending his vacation with ms aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mxs. Joseph E. Hansen. Mrs. Helen Lawrence was in Brigham City on business last Friday. Miss Lola MorUnsen has returned home after spending a ten day vaca tion in Payson with her cousin. Miss Anna Marie Johnson. A house party was given in her honor Just before the returned. Miss Lavern Petersen spent two days last week with her grandmother Mrs. Amalia Petersen in Brigham City. Mrs. Wayne Larson and children have returned home after spending two weeks with her mother in Mink Creek, Idaho, Many friends and relatives from all parts of this valley gathered at the home of Golden Andreason to show honor to his father, Casper Andreason, on his 80th birthday. Refreshments were served by members of the famliy to each guest Mr. Andreason has been very active in the affairs of this valley practically all his life, having come to Bear River City with his parents when a child of six years, and lived his entire life in this valley. He has been engaged in farming and has operated threshers and other machinery where he has become associated with many men. He has given employment to many needy persona. Mrs. Alden Thompson spent the weekend la Providence visiting with relatives. Early in December 1942 this column offered a pointed protest to a federal law calling for the renegotiation of war contracts. What I wrote at that time aroused a deal of criticism. My article was frankly a forecast, saying what was likely to result from trying to enforce the Renegotiation Law. I am no prophet. I only wish I had been able to foresee the worst. The law is a year old now and a Senate committee has learned and told part of the sad story. Discussing the needlessly rapid growth of government bureaus, I wrote: "The law governing the renegotiation of war contracts will (by itself) create four boards, many branch offices and possibly 200,000 jobs for auditors, investigators, etc." In this same connection I mentioned that an estimated 100,000 married men had been needed to fill the November draft quota; i.e., every man of draft age who took a soft government job exposed one more husband and father to military service. Figures Disputed After the article was published, an administration man whom I admire, a man of unquestioned competence and patriotism, assured me with emphasis that only a small fraction of the 200,000 jobs I had suggested would actually be created by the Renegotiation Law. I do not know how many men finally were assigned to this job of fighting windmills but the pace set during the first ten months indicates that between 300 and 400 years will be required for its completion. This is true if the report of the Senate committee headed by Harry S. Truman of Missouri can be trusted, and I think it can. Hearing that an unnecessary kov- A number of people from here attended the funeral of Mr. Frank in Logan, Monday.' The Franks lived in El wood for a number of years and have many close friends here who extend sympathy and love to members of the family in this hour of the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Chairman of the Maritime Commission, whenever in his opinion excessive profits have been realized, or are likely to be realized, from any war contract, to recover such excess profits and revise the contract price. Ignoring what, to one who is not a lawyer, looks like an unconstitutional assignment of judicial authority to executive officers, the law made some 85,000 separate contractors subject to its provisions. At last count, 203 of these had been obliged to do-ov- er their government contracts; too many, but less than V of 1 of the 85,000. Progressing at this rate they will get through some time before the middle of the next millennium unless, as I suggested in December, they build up an enormous bureaucracy. Not Worth Doing Careful study of this renegotiation work proves the law worthless as a revenue measure. Take the War Its Department as an example: auditors have refigured contracts totaling 8.6 billion dollars and claim to have recovered for Uncle Sam 300 million dollars. This looks big on the deceiving face of it, but actuof this revenue to 90 ally 80 would have come in quite automatically through the excess profits tax that was working satisfactorily when the federal "Renig Law" was passed. Net recovery therefore has been 60 million dollars or 710 of 1 of the amounts involved. The worst- - feature of the affair is that manufacturers have to turn their attentions from production of military essentials and let our fighting men wait while they palaver with government auditors. One manufacturer of h gun mounts for steamships said recently, addressing the American Legion convention, "We shut down our plants two weeks to take a fiscal inventory essential to a formal audit. The historic display prepared for the Price Adjustment Board blacked out our drafting room for more than ten days." A Tragle Ending He went on: 'The time wasted by management i renegotiating has resulted in a loss of at least 100 h Merchant mounts which Secretary Knox says are the finest antiaircraft weapon in the world. These 100 gun mounts which were not produced because of renegotiation would have adequately protected 100 Merchant Ships from enemy airplanes and submarines. And, I guess, that at least forty more of these cargo, ships would have reached Murmansk instead of being sunk if they had been protected by h these guns." A loss of 40 merchant ships which the speaker said cost at least one billion dollars with their cargoes, would certainly dwarf the contemf bureauporary effort of crats to glean 60 million dollars the tedious way from builders of war materials. A small increase in the corporation tax rate would have raised the money without putting a monkey-wrenc- h in the works. And now there are 840,000 men of draft age on the government payroll in civilian clothes, the Costello Congressional Committee has revealed. five-inc- I August Crop Report The following comment on the August Crop Report was made recently by Marvin Jones, War Food Administrator. "The July Crop Report made it clear that farmers in the face of many difficulties had substantially met, and in some cases exceeded, the crop acreage goals. During July, growing conditions were favorable and current indications are that yields per acre in 1943 will be the second largest on record. The progress of the year's production so far is gratifying. The hard work and the determination of farmers have placed us in a position to meet essential food needs, given average weather from now on." "However, the crops are still to be harvested, marketed, and processed, and in the case of the feed croops, fed to livestock. Farmers will need additional workers for harvest, and food processing industries are short handed. The wartime food problem is not solved, though present production prospects are encouraging." Benefits Granted To WAC Members of the Women's Auxili iary Corps, as soon as they take! the oath as members of the WoJ men's Army Corps, become eligJ ble for National Service Life in surance and the free mail privilege? Furthermore, a member of thd WAC who is married to a services man is elegible to receive the usi ual family allowance for soldiers'" wives. J J Clothing Ceiling Retail and wholesale ceiling pri. ces for women's, girls', children and toddlers' fall and winter dress? es, suits, coats, blouses and othe outer clothing have been provi(ie by DPA at levels equal to or lowe than those of last fall, in amende ment No. 1 to maximum price regl ulation 330. 1 I Army Needs Doctors To continue the standard of thf U. S. Army the healthiest army u( the world, 7,500 additional physicians and surgeons will be needei during the coming three month and an additional 2,500 by Jan. War Ballots For Army Blank forms are available to all officers and enlisted men of the Army to enable them to apply for war ballots for elections to be held this year, the War Department reports. Public Law 712 requires these forms to be available in years when officers of the National Government are elected. The forms will also enable legally qualified soldier voters to participate in state elections. . uary 1, 1944. Major General o t Food F rices Down "Retail food prices as a School ODT two-fifth- authorities and school bus have been warned by against delaying the over- hauling of school buses. efforts to obtain necessary repairs may result in buses being laid up when schools open this fall. The shortage of skilled mechanics and the scarcity of repairs parts may result in unexpected delays, and a check-u- p may reveal that some buses cannot be repaired and must be replaced. The ODT suggests that school authorities or school bus operators contact local ODT district maintenance advisory committees to help solve problems that may arise. Last-minu- te ;"Clothing costs rose AAE 0U (Alp KtS Ybufe, Imat Yet tX) YDUft SUPPOSS fVWS AS 6ALAMCB M eel Set Aside Dried Fruits Dried fruit packers must b& aside for government procuremei their entire holdings of raisto prunes, apples, apricots, peachel pears, and currants during 1943-4- 4 season under a continu of last year's program, tlr tion (Continued On Page Three) i. STCADV AS IV8 on ; me end of YouftNOse, ViW MAKES tbO SO AWRHJ.V CLEVER?" m ftve-inc- bullet-proo- MS cen I 0NB WOUi.0 HAftOUV per fx sonally lower, costs of livingcent. .8 per workers dropped city FATHER WILLIAM 00 .5 Other costs, including house fu nishings, utility rates and se vices, were stable or increasec cii moderately." With meat prices back by OPA and vegetables m Civilians Get Canned Goods Civilians will receive approximately 6j million more cases of canned apples, fruit cocktail, beets. five-inc- group4 s i representing about total living costs declined by per cent," Secretary of Labof Frances Perkins, said recently if discussing changes in the cost f living from June 15 to July lif Repair School Buses Now operators Noii man T. Kirk, surgeon general says; "The casualty rate in the army to date has been very low, and one the main reasons has been availability of trained surgeons 4 the battlefields and in hospitall behind the lines to give our wound ed men quick, efficient and experf care." V |