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Show Page BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER ... . mursuay 01f Published at Tremonton, utan, on ti First West Street at the Post Office at Tremonton, Utah, as Entered Thursday, February BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER- - Twso xm Phone T 23-- J Paying tribute to i; fighting men who fell on foreign fields daring World War I, Indiana has erected at its capital of Indianapolis Matter A. N. RYTTIN'G. Editor - Publisher this striking Memorial SUBSCRIPTION RATES $2.50 ONE YEAR (In Advance) BIX MONTHS (In Advance) ... -fHREE MONTHS (In Advance) Hoosier Monument War 76 WHAT IS AN ACRE OF LAND WORTH? basis for Perhaps it would be wise to set up a new the old than better something putting a value on land "dollars per acre" method. That old system may measure price today, but it 'doesn't go far enough. It doesn't measure value in terms of productive capacity foi next year, or for other years to Your War Memorial; War Donds U. S. come. wheat farm" wouldn't it be Instead of a "320-acr- e 10,000-bushper year wheat farm?" Or better to say, "a dairy instead of a "100-acr- e dairy farm," to say, "a w 25-co- farm?" Those yardsticks would be more realistic than anywould thing based on square rods or acres, because they measure ability to produce, not only this year, but per year. The "per year" is important. Nature was wiser than man when she covered the prairies with grass, to keep the rich soil from blowing away or washing away. And when she put trees on the hillsides, 1 to help control run-of- f and turn natural moisture into pro- ductivity. But Nature has provided us with a few horrible examples, too. The Grand Canyon of the Colorado, miles wide, thousands of feet deep, and a thousand miles long, is only a big erosion ditch perhaps put there to show us the terrible power of water on the move. Nature always will pay dividends to the man who uses his intelligence to protect the soil from misuse and from the harmful effects of uncontrolled surface water. And man is learning to help Nature guard the soil by crop rotation, wise use of fertilizers, terracing, contour and strip farming, and practical ways of controlling soil erosion. In every county in America, there are men who have studied and tested out soil conservation methods, under federal and state directors. They are ready and anxious to to show him how to apply work with each landowner the methods best suited to his conditions. Man and Nature make a powerful team wnen they work together. For what is done to safeguai'd the fertility of the soil today is infinitely more effective than anything that can be done tomorrow and next year to bring lost fertility back. DISCHARGE PAY FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES legislation providing for discharge pay for members of our armed forces was passed by both Houses of Congress and is now waiting the signature of the President ,who undoubtedly will sign this bill very shortly. The legislation provides a discharge allowance of $100 to any soldier serving for GO days or less; $200 for a soldier serving in the continental U. S. for 60 days or more, the payment to be made $100 at the time of discharge and $100 thirty days hence; an allowance of $300 for soldiers who have served overseas including Alaska, payment to be made $100 upon discharge, and $100 thirty and sixty days hence. This discharge pay applies to all military personnel from Private to Captain whose base pay does not exceed $2400 annually. This rate of discharge pay is made retn active and applies to all personnel in these categories who have been discharged since December 7, 1941. There are exclusions, however, of persons who, upon their own initiative, were released from the service to engage in civilian employment and those who spent their enlistment period in educational institutions. In other words, in order to receive severance pay, a serviceman must actually have been serving in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Air Force of the U. S. The - much-discuss- ed -- x- Peoplc with incomes of less than $5,000 annually will have paid federal income taxes in 1943 estimated to be 10 per cent of their aggregate income; those with incomes more than $5,000 will have paid 30 per cent of their aggregate earnings in federal taxes. However, the people who earn $5,000 or more annually represent only 4 per cent of the total number of taxpayers in 1943, and they pay 43.4 per cent or almost half of the total income tax bill. Ninety six per cent of the population earns less than $5,000 yearly yet, in spite of their numbers, they pay only 56.6 per cent of the income tax. x War bond sales continue to increase but their effectiveness in the war effort is partly lessened by the fact that an increasing number of purchasers are not holding their bonds. Total redemptions, of all war savings bonds sold, from May, 1941 through December, 1943 amounted to $2,051 million, or 8 per cent of total sales of more than $25 billion. The monthly redemptions continue to rise and reached a new high of $207 million in December, or 21 per cent of sales. In the previous month redemptions of Series "E", the "people's bond," were $150 million or 23 per cent of sales and 83 per cent of all redemptions. i t .jdrf womw TOWN AND FARM IN WARTIME non-father- -- ty PrtsidtHt-Jiardiit- g College Searcy, jrxaiuat Dollar Daring Investments make jobs. Large in vestments make good jobs. Paying investments make permanent jobs. Communities where substantial capital has been put to work wisely are prosperous communities. Their ra- tio of gainfully employed people is high. Incomes are adequate for gracious living and merchants prosper because their customers have money to spend for something besides a bare living. These desirable conditions result from investments. Not all projects prosper. Not all investments are wise. Nobody can be perfectly certain in advance whether a proposed venture is a good one, but if our enterprisers had always withheld their investments until they could know how things were going to turn out, America never would have become the world's most influential nation. We would be on the back bench with China and India today. Fish in the Sea An incident in the career of James A. Patten illustrates perfectly how boldness in business creates wealth. Deals in wheat, not fish, made Pat- ten's name familiar to every adult American in the first ten years of To Determine Tax You Owe As soon as wage earners get their wage and tax receipts from employers they should make out their annual income and victory tax returns to determine how much if any tax they must pay by March 15, the deadline for filing, the advises. Treasury Department Some wage earners will owe a substantial amount, many will owe a small figure, and others will get refunds. Sets Maximum Vegetable Prices To prevent sharp increases in fresh vegetable prices, the Office of Price Administration has announced maximum prices for car- one-four- slow-movin- Jr Hound-U- p U. S. civilians will get 63 cent of the Vitamin A allocanur in 1944, WFA says, as the Ar gets most of its vitamins throu a balanced diet. . . Bum any paT ing material that comes wittw from soldiers abroad to avoid jZ sect pests and plant diseases, ii vises the Department of Agricm. ture. . . With the largest winter cabbage crop in history, WFA hai asked the Kraut Industry to mai 80,000 more tons of kraut. . U. S. war casualties as announce up to January 25 were 142,28!k including 32,662 dead, 4743 wounded, 32,699 missing, and a. 805 prisoners of war. . . In g eral, ration cost of meats is high, er and of canned vegetables, lows during Fabruary . . . WFA ordered packers to set aside it least SO per cent of all canner m s. cutter '"beef for the U. S. armed forces. . . Prices of fresh tang range irom tour to five cents lea per pound under recent OPA than under thhe previas regulation. . . Farmers and oft th bulk users of gasoline may replace losses from their storage faeffitfc resulting from fire, theft, accident, or other circumstances, under a new OPA pro. cedure. . . WFA will soon releaat approximately. 4,000 cases or la. 000 pounds of dry pea or soup powder from government reserva to civilian consumers. Owners of farm trucks and other truck operators are requested by the Office of Defense Transportation to cooperate in a reporting system which the ODT has established to help truck and bus operators with their tire procurement problems. Any operator eligible for tires but unable to obtain a tire Canning Sugar Now Available Housewives may now get five pounds of canning sugar by using extra-ordina- certificate from his local rationing board because of exhausted quotas or other reasons, is asked ry Aiwavs a Man rot always be a one can awcys oe a man. One can the 20th Century, but he once laid out a million dollars to build the first fish cannery in Alaska. While it was still in the planning stage, the famous plunger consulted his banker. Bankers are proverbially con- servative. "The fish are still in the sea, Mr. Patten," the banker reminded, after hearing the business man discuss potential returns. "It is worth trying," Mr. Patten said. "If I lose, I lose. Out of three pioneering ventures, if two are successful, it is enough." He built the cannery and it prospered and grew. Hundreds of men were employed. Good jobs were created. People in many lands were supplied food at fair prices. More Than a Gift Fish taken from the sea and sold In cans the first year had a value somewhat above 1.5 million dollars. In the absence of Patten's venturesome spirit, this progress would have been delayed; might never have come. This is the spirit of progress and adventure that gives America leadership among nations; that currently is feeding the famid world. lies of a A mellower millionaire than Patten might have endowed very richly some uplift movement for underprivileged Eskimos (if any) and accomplished much less for humanity than did this investment for profit that started a new industry in a war-curse- new country. After this war will come the greatest demand for new jobs that the world has ever known. The whole Earth will look to American enterprisers to offer gainful work. If we uphold America's living standards which are different from any in the world, and better than any, we will need all the good ideas our 130 million people can devise. Freedom of opportunity encourages venturesome investment; makes paying jobs. A Tame Ending But let me tell you the rest ol the Patten story. He quit enterprising. Born before the Civil War, he lived until 1928 and witnessed the coming of taxes that tended to restrict the growth of new enterprises. Two successes out of three venturesome investments had been enough to encourage his early activities but, at that rate, if he were operating now and paying 66 percent tax on his profits he could only break even. In later years taxes on profits have reached even more discourag ing heights. A 75 percent tax makes two successful ventures out of three show an over-aloss. Some men ll pay taxes percent but Patten quit taking long chances before such rates were dreamed of. In his late years he invested in government bonds. To him this must have seemed tame. Government bonds pay returns and they are safe but they create no wealth; no jobs. if A I I! A m M II I tin 3 Lb? fl w! it fl FEBRUARY 6th to 12th BOY SCOUTS, ON YOUR WAR RECORD! CONGRATULATIONS, The Boy Scouts of America have a war record to be proud of and a big job still to do. They have been a major factor in scrap metal, wastepaper and fat salvage drives. They have upped the sale of war bonds and stamps, and lent their creed of public duty to national morale. They Are Ready To Help Our Fighting Men: J With their knowledge ofdrill and rank, and military discipline With training in signals and knot tying fatted They build model planes and identify real ones. Here's What You Can Do to Help thhe Scouts: Contribute to their scrap metal drive. Contribute to their fat and paper salvage drives. S Give public recognition to the Scout movement. O Adopt their creed of duty to God and country for your own. of 90 Total national income for 1944 is estimated by the Damages Carcasses the dressed mange Hog to Treasury Department reach $157 billion. Of this amount, carcasses and damages results in price levies $127 billion is expected to go to persons earning less than to shippers of affected animals. $5,000 a year. O Buy all . rat-fre- Help For Truck Owners rots, spinach, peas, Snap beans, eggplant, peppers, and cucumbers. The action, effective at the country shipper level, January 31, will become effective 15 days later at wholesale markets. Exact retail prices in each community will be announced by the regional and district OPA offices. to Rubber Footwe OPA will permu some sales of footwear retaileia and jobber who u excess and JrV g that otherwise might be through deterioration. PTT4 and jobbers desiring ptn for such sales must apply j to OPA district offices A nT ing imum of 15 days will be between filing of application!: granting of ers. which identify the rekaZI footwear. To Relocate Physicians, Dentists Any municipality, county, or other local subdivision of government suffering from an acute shortage of physicians, or dentists may now apply to thhe Surgeon General or the District Office of the U. S. Public Health Service or through the State Health Officer requesting the relocation of a physician or dentist. The Public Health Service agrees to pay moving costs and to pay the relocated doctor $250 a month for the first three months. The doctor agrees to practice in the community for not less than one year, and the community agrees to contribute the government's cost to the Public Health Service. $ . 0rw VKUoii to k. Ration-Fre- e May Tighten Farm Deferments To maintain their deferments from miliary service because of their agricultural activity, the registrants engaged in agriculture may be asked to increase sharply thir production goals, according to Commander Patrick H, Winston, assistant executive, Selective Service System. Approximately one million of these deferred men are el - uuf Farm Support Price Programi con-actio- n. Our dead have left their own memorials; the starved and hounded people of captive Europe can do little more than hope and pray, but to free Americans is left the choice of their own future. v. on urill pnaWav. wv . t taken, if uaaisunce is do-e- if 1 1945. Aveiage prices to egg producers ranging from a low of about 30 cents a dozen during the spring n to a high of about 40 cents a are winter or fall in late early Adplanned by thhe War Food ministration in its price support program for carlot graded eggs for 1944. WFA also announced its othproposal for support prices on er farm products, subject to (1.25 ... 1 boards. Stamp No. 40 will be good 13 months, through February 2H, I U 2ml Class DOUDS OVSR AMERICA j to report that fact to hi district office, stating the riven by the board t, .L of the certificate. tk;J1 Book stamp No. 40 in War Ration and announced, OPA has Four, additional canning sugar liir waU be available on application to local 3, the War Bonds you can. The Boy Scouts of Yesterday Are the Fighters Today! hero, hi Goetit |