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Show Pie BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER Week Published at Tremonton, Utah, on Thursday of Each Phone 23-- J ) First West Street Entered at the Post Office at Tremonton. Ptab, as 2nd Cteas Matter A. N. RYTTING, Editor 1 '' .. $2.50 $125 75 A MORAL QUESTION By Hon. Samuel B. Pettengill) (Printed in September Issue of the Farm Journal) When I was in Congress I found that when people came wanted down from my district to Washington, they always to visit the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. It is a most wonderful feeling to see those printing es as they turn out an endless stream of dollar bills, press- 10-dol- lar bills, thousand-doll- ar bills. rsiirrrrst It GEORGE nd dollar The magic of it takes you in its grip. You feel like Jules Verne: "Now I have the papers and the world is mine." But finally you begin to ask yourself: CAN THE GOVERNMENT PRINT A JERSEY COW? Can the government a loaf of print a quart of milk? Can the government print bread, or a ton of coal, or a battleship AND, IF IT CAN, WHY DOESN'T IT? WHY DOESN'T THE GOVERNMENT PRINT 30 MILLION JERSEY COWS AND GIVE ONE TO EVERY FAMILY IN AMERICA? When we ask ourselves these questions we realize that esmoney is not wealth. We can't eat money, and we can't cape from the obligations it imposes upon us. What would you think of a parent who contracted a vast debt and then said to his creditors: "You can collect payment on that from the sweat of my children. I myself am not going to do any worrying about it whatsoever." You'd call him a rascal, wouldn't you? And you'd feel sure that his sins would eventually catch up with him. Right or Wrong What's the difference between the things this imaginary individual does, and the things we have all been doing as a nation for the past ten years We've been piling debt upon debt. We've been recklessly brushing aside the day of payment, with the subconscious thought that some day those magical printing presses would get us out of trouble. And we've been building up a catastrophe that, unless we face it soon, will be liquidated only by the sweat and sorrow of our children and grandchildren. If you think of our national fiscal policy in these terms of parent and child, you suddenly realize that above all else it is a profoundly moral question. "A man who wastes his father's inheritance, a drone who lives on the honey of the worker bees, a man who does not pull his own weight in the boat, "those who vote us into earning their livings for them," or a nation which charges a fictitious prosperity "on the cuff," are all of the same class. We have no right to ask our children to pay bills for things we use up now. Indeed, we need not doubt that our children will see the dishonesty and resent it. That will mean repudiation, a frightful thing, or an almost equally frightful price inflaf-tion- . bills'. S. PreiidtHt-JiardiH- g Human Frailty be handled to keep business men from picking Uncle Sam's pockets g while he fights a war, has far-flun- been a lively topic in Washington for two months. One of the first things the 79th Congress had to think about was repealing or revamping the famous Renegotiation Law. An Old Subject Renegotiation has been discussed at length three times in this column and the facts can't be reviewed in one paragraph but, in extreme brief: The law sets numerous political apmanufacturers' pointees war contracts to be certain (by revising the contracts if necessary) that none of the contract holders makes too much profit. Do you ask "How much is too much?" Well, it is seldom more than 16 per cent or less than IV2 per cent of sales. Between these two indefinite rates the man who comes to check up is the judge. The law says so. As you have guessed already, I "ream opposed to the capture" feature of this law. I think that part of it ought to be repealed. If I may indulge in a little irony, let me say it this way: I don't think the New Deal's highly trusted scrutators ought to be exposed to such temptations. Some naughty business man is almost certain to corrupt one of them. Money bends men's principles sometimes. A High Ratio The foregoing sentence is not a pointed indictment. Jesus of Nazareth, highly regarded even among his enemies as a judge of human nature, selected twelve men and one of them was (putting it mildly) irregular. I don't believe any expert working for the Army, the Navy or the Maritime Commission can hire many renegotiators and average eleven out of twelve who are strictly honest men. My sympathy goes out to any man who finds within his grasp a lot of money he can not honorably take. d For years I have served an college, working at a rate to tax human endurance. But I suspect that if I might head a renegotiation board for three months and manage to block off my conscience with novocaine, Harding College could have an endowment that would make Harvard jealous. Nothing Fantastic There exists one corporation, I am told, with a billion dollars of war contracts. Many much smaller firms have more than 100 million dollars in government business. Mr. holds the whip on profFor ten years now we have heard it said that the gov- Renegotiator its. He can permit a firm to earn ernment can "create" purchasing power by borrowing against six per cent or cut it to one per the future. .Well, so you can, for a short time as long as .cent One fifth of his generosity, a million dollars, might tempt people feel pretty sure that their neighbors will sell them paltry a weak character. a Jersey cow in return for the pieces of green paper rolling If the Weak One's prospect should show no interest in such off the press. he need not lose heart. But if they begin to doubt the honesty of that paper, He can mark time and make delay. if they begin to suspect that the presses are running wild The very fact that a firm is being may cause its stock to in an effort to overtake the debt, the paper will not purchase renegotiated go down. Friends of the renegotia cow. We'll find out for sure, then, that the government ator then can buy a block of it on a thin margin and sell at a profit can't print the cow or the milk which she produces. after the firm has been treated more Money and Milk liberally than was expected. . . . One of the silver linings of the dark cloud of war is Just an idea. Germs of Hunger going to be a clearer understanding of the difference In all seriousness, I am opposed milk and money between real wealth and its symbols. to the present working of renegotiaIt is true that the government, through its taxing pow- tion. I have reasons apart from and corruption. Renegotiaer, can take money from the pocket of Jones and give it to bribery tion eats up cash reserves earned Smith, who perhaps is on relief. Or, the government can bor- by manufacturers in war work, withrow against the future, and thus create an illusion of pros- out which they will be obliged to start off men as soon as the perity. It is, however, no different from the son who in- war islaying over. And jobless men don't herits a farm from his father, and then mortgages his in- buy much of the good products heritance in order to buy a shinier car than his thriftier farmers grow. The recapture feature of this law contains the seeds neighbors posses and otherwise wastes his inheritance in of depression and poverty and want. riotious living, like the prodical son of old. Another thing which is breaking the illusion of money, , Keep on Backing the Attack is the ration card. The ration card is a new form of money, nun jvui ruivuAca vi i. and without it (with respect to hundreds of articles BONDS. Give War Bonds today) for Christmas. the crisp green bills off the of ed unen-'dowe- bel-twee- n 4 the Bureau presses pouring of Engraving and Printing have no present value. It would be possible to maintain some form of society if money, as we know it, were dispensed with altogether, and we had nothing but ration cards. This, in fact, is what a strictly communistic society would do. With ration card money you could obtain only such goods as the State Commissary had, and only in such quantities and at such exchange value as the State prescribed from day to day. Such a system, of course, makes men slaves of the State. Average Mortgage, $10,000 We cannot have a free society unless the possessor of money can exchange it for anything whatever which suits his fancy and is within the limits of' his purse. The free exchange of money for any commodity is the heart of a free society. In time of war we are glad to accept restrictions upon the exchange value of money, but only so long as the necessity requires. A good deal of the apparent prosperity of recent years has been due to the fact that we have been it on the cuff" for thirteen long and consecutive "charging we have years 11 IN WARTIME ft 1 nnn.i-- i " day. ' Simplify Gas Rationing All "B" and "C" gasoline coupons issued after December 1 will be worth five gallons each, compared with the present value of two gallons for coupons of these types in the East and Midwest and three gallons in the Far West. This means "B" and "C" books will "contain fewer coupons than in the past, but each coupon will be good for more gallons than before. No increase in the amount of gasoline allowed is involved. Farmers To Get Batteries Approximately 20 per cent of the fourth quarter production of flashlight batteries will be distributed to farmers, according to WPB. This makes enough batteries for about normal consumption available through farm outlets. Fertilizer Outlook American farmers will have more nitrogen and slightly less-potas- "fertilizer the 1943-4ypaf," than they had in the pre4 vious year, according to testimony of WTB officials before a Senate on Agriculture and Forestry. Farmers should have four tons of nitrogen for every three they had last year, accord- ing to present indications. WPB is endeavoring to make additional quantities of potash available for agriculture in 1944-45. More Hosiery For Children Production of infants' and children's hosiery will be stepped up shortly as a result of priority assistance given to manufacturers for procurement of necessary yarn. The WFB action resulted from a falling supply of infants' and chil- dren's stockings.' Step Up Truck Production increase in its 1944 A civilian truck production program has been announced by the War Production Board. So important is this program that it has been given priority ratings equal to aircraft and high octane gas. Provisions are also made for production parts for civilian use. In spite of the four-fol- d increase, the new goal of 123,492 trucks is still far short of the pre-wproduction four-fol- d ar of approximately 700,000. To Store Meat For Spring A Peggy, the daughi of Mr. and Mrs. Oleen Nelsen, ia jT fined to her bed suffering wthkk ney trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Simpson m baby, of Ogden, Mr. and Mrs. JT of East Tremonton, spent Sunday f four-year-ol- in wide variety i J FARM There are many things I will never be quite able to understand of course, but the one puzzling me now is a rather general impression that political appointees are, by nature, honest whereas business men just naturally have to be watched. Anybody who gives the matter a serious thought knows it's not true, but the idea exists just the same. War contracts, and how they can CITY"? Friday evening the ReLef Socks, of this ward wil! fcoM the;r At 6:30 a delictus lot stDDerl' be sold, after which quilts 1 nd ing apparel will be sold. Tae d, is invited. Mrs. Augusta Iversen, of this dt Mr. and Mrs. Calvin O. Anderson two children of Garland, were vSt. and Logan on ing in Brig-ha- TOWN AND bearty, nuuasi 13 Mrs. C. W. fciaUfiford t EENSON College monkey-busines- BEAR RIVER I AHEAD X ONE TEAR (In Advance) SIX MONTHS (In Advance) THREE MONTHS (In Advance) 100-doll- ar J - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES bills, Thursday, November 18, BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER Two of rationed meats will be available to the housewife during the low ebb of meat production next spring under a rationing plan Tecently announced by OPA. Meat wholesalers will be loaned points to fill their storage freezers with veal, lamb, mutton and the lower grades of beef between now and the peak period of meat mid-Januar- y, Reduce Christmas Lighting The American people nave been asked by the Office of War Utilities to confine Christmas lighting decorations to Christmas trees inside private homes. Saving of electricity will mean direct savings of fuel, manpower, transportation and materials. the d home of Mr. and Mrs. Heber Ha? Mr. and Mrs. Mark McCoy spm Sunday in Corinne, visiting Mrs. Coy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. How Mrs. Holger Rasmussen, of Coriia, ' spent Wednesday visiting with Ms jf I Manpower Head Praises Farmers Assurance that farm men and are occupying key positions in the war effort has been given by Paul V. McNutt, chairman, War Manpower Commission. "When the history of this war is written," he said, "I am certain that much credit for victory will go to the men and women of our rural districts. Certainly in no war has the production of food played so vital a part and certainly no group has rallied behind the war effort with more eagerness and devotion. We of the War Manpower commission have done evrything in our power to maintain the Nation's agricultural labor force at top capacity. Every acre of land that can be planted brings victory so much nearer." women New Use For Farm Waste Peanut shells, ground corncobs and similar waste agricultural materials have been found useful for cleaning engines, bearings, valves, pumps, and other machinery and metal parts, the Department of Agriculture has announced. The new use has been found by scientists at the Northern Regional Research Laboratory at Peoria, Illinois. Several hundred tons of ground corncobs now are being used each month for burnishing metals and cleaning war machinery. Movies For American Troops t any Monday. j Mr. and Mrs. Emil Andersen m two daughters were visitors in Lot Miss Arietta Checketts, daughter1 of Bishop and Mrs. Charles Checked was operated on at a local hosjxtj, Monday for appendicitis. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Johnson business trip to Logan on Monday Mr. and Mrs. Percy Brailsford asj children, of Provo, are visiting tives in this city and in Brigham. f Mrs. LaMarr Iversen return home Tuesday afternoon from a loo, hospital, where she has been recen. mad,-- ing medical treatment. t Mrs. Lovene Jensen had the fortune to receive a broken finger when a window at the house fell on her finger. infe schod t linn MiMmq 1 CHIMNEY JACKS and - r- The U .S. Army is well on its way to having motion picture equipment everywhere in the world that it is needed by its troops. Movies are shown 125 times daily for U. S. troops in Aleutian outposts, according to the War Department There are 63 projectors on the island chain, one on each occupied island. A continual flow of films has been shown during the past five months. Army Saves On Food Bill A saving of 11 cents per person per meal might seem trivial to a housewife feeding a family of four, but in an infantry division of men it adds up to a striking total. In one division $83,767.25 was saved over a period by food conservation measures the War Department declared 15,-0- five-mon- Thressa Brailsford, 00 th WORK I WATER JACKETS! I WATER HEATERSI I Galvanized Pipe 1 PIPE FITTINGS J In 1 1 o EWER PLUMBING! & HEATING ( Tremonton m Phone 126 s, New Mending Bulletin Available ( A new edition of the wartime bulletin, "ABC's of Mending," has recently been issued by the Department of Agriculture. The booklet gives directions with illustrations for mending household fabrics and furnishings as well as clothing. Skillful and prompt mending is encouraged, because the longer any fabric can be made to last, just so much is the burden lightened on civilan goods production. A copy of the booklet may be had by writing to the Office of Information, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington 25, D. p-N-r- I EYES--N- constantly added to the national debt. When the war is over, the debt will amount to perhaps $300 billion, a sum equal to an average mortgage of $10,000 on every American home. These political professors and economic charlatans now tell us when the war is over they propose to continue deficit financing in whatever amount may be necessary to obtain "full employment." However necessary it may be to go into debt, in times of acute domestic depression or foreign war, the process obviously creates no real wealth. Ultimately it could lead to repudiation as terrible as those we witnessed in France, Italy, Germany and Russia after World War I, and which we will no doubt witness in many countries again. Unless we as a nation, have character enough to compel our government some day soon to live within its mcr" the Republic which we inherited from our fathers will disappear. Dictators are the receivers of bankrupt Republics. " " - A o. 1 Tool OY Production ! 1 C. Canned Luncheon Meat Consumers will be able to buy more canned luncheon meat during the coming year, according to the War Food Administration. Canning of this product is encouraged because it prevents waste of good bits and trimmings of meat at packing plants. f , Never has there been such a need lor good vision fresh, alert, tireless vision! Whatever YOUR task in loday's war effort, it is mighty so play vitally important safe! See the registered op lometrist here NOW! ... If Glasses Are Needed Guarantee Nothing Dovn--- 1 SI "' rsu fllnll a No Interest. No ExW Laraest Manufacturing end Dispensing Opticians Modern Optical Offices Throughout the West IN LOGAN - 9 NORTH MAIN IN OGDEN - 2443 WASHINGTON BLVD. |