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Show -- Two ge x-a- BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER Published at Tremonton, Utah, on Thursday of Each Week 23'J First West Street Entered at the Post Office at Tremonton, Utah, as 2nd A. N. RYTTCNG. Editor SUBSCRIPTION' Class- Thursday, March 30, BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER- - AMERICAN HEROES BY LEFF Matter - Publisher RATES ONE YEAR (la Advance) SIX MONTHS (In Advance) THREE MONTHS (In Advance) $2.50 $1.25 ... 78 TWO MINUTE SERMON A RAY OF LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS We have all seen people who go about their daily work with an expression of indifference, lack of interest and sometimes even gloom upon their faces. They act as though they were unhappy or were thinking gloomy thoughts or brooding over some secret grief. No doubt some people do harbor a secret grief in their hearts, which from time to time may rise up and assert itself to the point of mastering their disposition. No doubt some folks take a sort of sadistic pleasure in torturing themselves with gloomy thoughts. I think such a tendency should be resisted and should be overcome. It is not conductive to happiness, either on the part of the individual or those with wham he comes in contact. More than this it is not conductive to good digestion and good health. It is one of the gifts that the Creator has given, to man that he can smile and laugh. The gift also brings with it the trait of creating a happy spirit within oneself, and by it, submerging and crowding out the gloomy and unhappy thoughts. I think that God wants us to be happy, to smile and laugh, and by our will, to put happiness within our hearts, even though we may have' unhappiness there. To be happy within makes for happiness without and contributes cheer to the world and good health to him who practices it. A light heait is a ray of light in the darkness. j ( (By Thomas Hastwell) a 1 vVv ri -. i- -- A,y f r?-- k; Torpedoed at night, men of the Merchant Marine abandoned their climbed ship. Frederick R. Zito, CadetMidhhipman, left hiii fife boat, fireman. Unable to looben the hand over hand up the falls to free a were picked rope, he rot them free, then towed the entangled man until they of ,xvra War That the line duty. is heroism His lifeboat a beyond mp by Bond you buy may eave a life! u s Treasnry DcparSmcnt fa?t-linki- d THOUGHTS FOR SERIOUS MOMENTS True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. Humphrey. is but the luggage of erudition A heap of en Balzac antiquity. The aim of education should be to convert the mind into a living fountain, and n ot a reservoir. That which is filled by merely pumping in, will be emptied by pumping out. John M. Mason. SAFETY SLOGANS .... The man who wakes and finds himself famous, hasn'J been asleep. WHAT WE THINK (By Frank Dixon) Notwithstanding all the pleas that are being made for the support of the war effort there are many throughout the country who are falling short of full cooperation when it comes to the matter of the conservation of tires and gasoline. While professing to cooperate in the war effort they are nevertheless, resorting to every means to chisel on the gasoline program. Though they are aware that there isn't tires enough for everyone who needs them, nor gaso line enough for all the needs, they resort to every scheme and subterfuge to secure more than their fair share. It is not a mark of shrewdness or intelligence to chisel on the tire and gasoline rationing program, since ninety- eight per cent of the enforcement of the rationing program depends upon the honesty and the patriotism of the individ ual. If the individual is dishonest and unpatriotic he is going to chisel on the tire and gasoline rationing program. If he is honest and patriotic he is not going to chisel on the rationing program. The rationing program as it pertains to tire and gasoline was set up in order to insure that that portion of these vital items allotted for civilian use might be distributed in such a manner that they would contribute to the largest degree possible to the war effort. But for the rationing program and the restraint imposed by it the supply of both tires and gasoline would long ago have been cornered by those with large means and the prices increased to many times the present market. The rules set up for the distribution of such tires' as are allotted a county provide that tires be supplied doctors, veterinarians, mail carriers and those connected with public health and safety and to farmers and producers of food on the basis of their cotntribution to the war effort as ex pressed in the amount of food produced on their farms. Because there is not now and will not be for the dur ation, enough tires to supply every car owner, who under the rules, is entitled to tires, some are going to have to go without This may be a hardship as well as a very great inconvenience, but it is unfortunately the case and there appears to be no solution. Because of this situation those who are fortunate enough to secure tires owe it to their country and to their fellowmen who have not been so fortunate to conserve their tires in every way possible. They should do no driving that is not absolutely necessary They should realize that the country is at war, and is on a war basis, and that unnecessary driving is not a contribution to the war effort. The same condition exists with the use of gasoline. No honest or patriotic man will chisel in times like this on the use of gasoline. Gasoline is ritically needed in the war to fly the planes and drive the tanks. What the army does not need is distributed among civilians. When a man chisels on his gasoline or patronizes a black market he is not honestly or patriotically contributing to the war effort. The ration program has no police force except the police force of honesty and patriotism of each individual. Where there is no such honesty and no such patriotism the program breaks down. Fortunately the chislers represent but a very small minority. They are the exception in every community. , , It has reached a point where every group of inductees leave town hurts. Most small towns are about stripped down in- the matter of young men of service age. Every group that goes from now on will leave a noticeable gap. -- x An exchange notes that it should be said to the credit of the Indian that when the white man took over the country that - it was free of debt x safety. M 'X GEORGE S. BENSON J?rtsiieHt-J(ardiH- g College Searcy, Jrkatuat namely, the army and the navy, United We Stand Aviation still sets me agape. The sight of a powerful bomber overhead, riding thin air in open defiance of the law of gravity, inspires awe. So does its obvious might as an engine of destruction. Back of this mechanical miracle, on the ground, in not one place but many places, the wheels of industry are whirling to produce such ships. More than 3,000,000 men and women, more adults than live in Chicago, work in the aircraft factories of America, it is said. What a change! Only four years ago the entire payroll of this industry was less than 50,000 people. Imagine what would happen if powers which created this huge expansion were suddenly reversed. Suppose the aviation industry had to go back overnight to its prewar rank and nearly three million workers had to face life- without employment. A Senate Committee. The United States Senate wisely has appointed a committee on Post-WEconomic Policy and Planning to study this problem and related ones. Testimony before this committee recently brought out the fact that nine of the principal airplane manufacturers have a total of 29,430 and each of these has a circle of suppliers, perhaps five to ten. It is plain to see that anything injurious to one of these nine big manufacturers spreads out quickly into all industry and touches the affairs of small firms in many towns and cities. It hurts millions of working men and women, their grocers and butchers. Sudden cancellation of government contracts would do this. Aircraft manufacturers are especially exposed because of their extremely rapid development. Since Pearl Harbor every time an airplane manufacturer got a little money from one job, he needed it right away to handle a much bigger one. As a result, aviation firms are top heavy, doing more business than they have capital to handle. It is a patriotic work, entirely justified by the war emergency. Manufacturers have expanded their operations with the sole object of winning the war, without stopping to worry about overexpansion. Aviation Needed. Aircraft companies are headed by alert men of ability, pioneers. They are well able to take care of themselves personally, but they can not keep their workers without business. Having a healthy aviation industry after the war is for everybody's good. Helping it settle down to a peacetime basis without wrecking the nation's whole business set-uis vital. The government alone can do this. By refusing to let aviation get tangled up in the borderless jungle of bureaucratic procedure, government can perform a vital service to national prosperity and national four-engine- d ar rs, 1944-mod- p el con- goods already ordered.To an outsider it would seem sensible to put responsibility for winding up contracts in the hands of the same people who made them, AHEM IY When peace comes and tracts have to be cancelled, the government should move fast to pay for LOOKING C' UTAH FARM WAR NEWS Can You Fight A Lttle Harder, Mr. Farmer? War requirements place a voluntary call on the nation's farmers to take stock of their resources and courage to see whether they can make advances "beyond the ordinary call of duty" that will close gaps on the food front indicated by preliminary reports of prospective, plantings, members of the Utah State AAA committee stated today. Reports show that the total of individual farmers' mentions to plant would leave the nation short of critical oil and food crops. The oil crops among the top farm fighters were lagging far behind needs, with intentions reported as about 74 per cent of the goal for flaxseed and SI per cent for soy beans .Other sectors of the farm front in which the nation's farmers need to move up are dry beans at 83 per cent of the goal, dry peas as 86 per cent, Irish potatoes at 90 per cent, sugar beets at 65 per cent, and tame hay at 95 per cent. In Utah, particular emphasis must be given to increasing intentions on dry beans, sugar beets, potatoes and vegetable crops if goals are to be attained, AAA officials re- ti mated at about 270 for food, 160 to 185 for feed, 25 for sctd, 40 to 50 for industrial alcohel, and 60 to 80 for exports. This ehfeappe. uice would result in a caxi.0Ver of bushels on July with the present estimate of 75.i million of imports.' 300-milli- Can Bid On CCC Wooden Bins Commodity Credit Corporation will do its part toward relieving a tight lumber situation by offering its wooden bins to the highest bidders between April l and 17 provided bids equal or exceed established minim urns. Farmers will be given first consideration, but after April 17 the offer will be thrown open to the public. The minimum prices have been set on a basis of 10 cents per bushel of capacity for unerected bins, 111 cents for erected bins, and 12 cents for erected and painted bins The capacity of ,bins range from 1,000 to 3,400 bushels. Sales of the bins will be handled by county AAA committees, who are to of unerected bins, poorly la. cated bins, and others considered in excess of local needs. Many m. erected bins are still at manufacturing plants, while others are stored in counties. Announcements of bin offerings and minimum prices will be posted in newspapers. In case of duplicate bids, buyers will be decided by drawing lots. -' dis-po- port. Nationally, wheat and corn intentions were right at the goals, while oats and sorghums were weU above the goals to more than offset short barley intentions. Total feed grains corn, oats, barley were about 103 and sorghums cent the of goal. per While the report showed that farmers plan to push production close to the limits of their resources, it also showed that, unless farmers can raise their sights on what they currently consider their production limits and adjust plans more closely to war needs, production needed from the nation's farms will be short. The necessity for "doing just a little more than seems possible under war conditions" is emphasized by the WFA announcement that "even complete fulfillment" of the present program "will not satisfy the needs" for food. OUmeal Situation Eased The tight oilmeal situation which has plagued the feed picture throughout the winter, appears to be greatly relieved. The state AAA office" has announced that the state allocation from the April is expected to be sufficient to set-asi- meet all essential requirements which are not met through normal trade channels. This will be the first month when the supply available to the state from the 20 per e cent will be sufficient to meet nearly all of the requests received from feeders and dealers. . the jaywalker has no defense. Remember The bank of safety pays 100 per cent and never fails. Drinking and driving do not mix. They know what is involved, how much has been done, and what commitments contractors have made. Action Necessary. Army and navy are organized for action and this will be an advantage when the war is over and people begin hunting work. Anyone who slows down this process with horseplay will be taking on himself one terrible responsibility, because the United States now has a million contracts in force valued at 75 billion dollars, enough to make or break private enterprise at the close of tin wai WASHINGTON NEWSLETTER (by Congressman W. K. Granger) JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Every year since 1932, J. Edgar Hoover's F. B. I. has made a detailed analysis from various angles of all major crimes committeed in the U. S. The 1943 analysis recently completed is unusually interesting because it reveals startling wartime juvenile delinquency. The most significant of these facts is that in 1943, for the first time since 1932, at least, 17 year old boys made up the biggest group of actual and accused lawbreakers in any age bracket. Arrests of this age group increased 27.7 per cent over 1942. This seems to be one of the indirect costs of war, mainly because home life is more or less disrupted. AS WE BECOME THE AGGRESSORS The seriousness and magnitude of future war plans become apparent as the Army transfers 36,000 youthful candidates for air training to the ground forces because of the desperate need for qualified young men for pending operations. This move has become necessary because of the lack of youthful men in the ranks of the infantry, as well as the failure of draft boards to meet requirements by 100,000 men a month since last July. In the past, the Air Corps has taken preference over all other branches of the service, but now the Infantry takes the limelight. This critical need for young men has likewise necessitated the drafting of previously occupationally deferred men under the age of 26. SEAMEN'S MAIL EXPLAINED Naval postal officers have recently pointed out that letters to seamen are being Improperly addressed, often in violation of national security rules. Failure to use the proper form in addressing mall to these men results in delay In delivery and, m some instances, 19 set-asid- ever-mounti- Less Feed Wheat Reason For Allocating Inroads of the war appetite on what once was a surplus wheat supply have placed definite limitations on the amount available for feed so that the Commodity Credit Corporation's Feed Wheat program is now on allocation basis to states, the Utah State AAA committee reports. The supply of wheat available for livestock feed is so limited that the CCC Feed Wheat sales must be restricted to areas where feed grains are not available if the best interests of war food production are served. The necessity for allocating the CCC Feed Wheat indicates that farmers and ranchers who have relied heavily on this source of feed would begin to adjust their livestock numbers and plan their 1944 operations in accordance with the reduced supply. How much feed wheat will actually be available during the calendar year hinges on two factors, both more or less uncertain to this point the size of the 1944 wheat crop and imports. Heres a rough idea of how the war has given almost too much relief to the wheat headaches of recent years: Supplies of about n bushels (July 1 stocks of 616, production of 836, and 25 to 30 of imports) had slumped to bushels by January 1. These bushels disappeared about in this fashion 270 for food, 290 for feed, 55 for seed, and 55 for industrial alcohol. January to June disappearance is es- 1,480-millio- 810-milli- 3Iore Nitrogen For Fertilizers A new WFA regulation permits fertilizer manufacturers to use 80 per cent of the organic nitrogen fiscal they used in the 1941-4- 2 year, rather than 70 per cent as previously allowed. The action results from improvement in the general supply of organic nitrogen, although WFA points out that it may be some time before additional supplies will be available to manufacturers. . Deadline For Support On Heavy Hogs April 15 has been set as the date on which the .temporary emergency support program for hogs weighing from 270 to 330 pounds will terminate. After that date, support prices on live hogs will again apply to Good and Choice barrows and gilts weighing 200 to 270 pounds, the Utah State Committee announced today. The support program was extended in late December to cover hogs weighing from 270 to 300 pounds to encourage orderly marketing and to protect farmers from prevailing heavy discounts for the heavier hogs. The same factors resulted in the support being extended to hogs from 300 to 330 in late January. At the time, it was stated that the extensions were temporary and would be terminated when the emergency was over. 670-milli- actual loss. To insure delivery, the following form should be used: Seaman's name, name of ship, Postmaster, San Francisco, New York, or New Orleans. Never use a specific street address or place name of a foreign country. This rule is for the seaman's own protection. Difference In Shortages "Can we . . . with any honesty. . . translate a shortage of a few foods famine?" Lee d into a Marshall, director of Food Distribution, asks. His answer is "No." and he points out: "In this country, when we have a shortage of one food, we can turn to something else. In Greece, in Yugoslavia, Poland, Norway and other countries occupied by the Axis, a food all shortage means a shortage of peothe ones foods not just the eatple like or are accustomed to full-size- ing. REHABILITATION PROBLEMS STUDIED Physical restoration for the handicapped so they may as nearly as possible approximate normal capacity, was called the basic need in vocational rehabilitation by Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt at the first meeting of the professional Advisory Committee held last week. These 20 specialists will map the new program for aid to the men and women crippled in industry state-feder- al Worm Parasites are Sheep practically free of the many deadly plagues that afflict the cow, the pig, and the fowl. This relative immunity of the sheep to the acute transmissible diseases accentuates the losses due to worm parasites. Feed Hay to Uens laying hens with vitamin A as well as protein and minerals. Second third cuttings are better than and the first cutting for poultry feeding . ." Your Tires Must Last Rubber director, Bradley Dewey, a emphasizes that in order to avoid serious situation and necessity tor drastic action, the public must make their Urea last while a steady flow of goods is maintained to the armed forces and to keep essential transportation rolling. "Where demands are insatiable and immediate," he points out and advises that some military items are now short up to 25 per cent Forceful evidence that relief on Urea font in sight La the fact that demands alstill far exceed the supply though we are not producing yn" thetic rubber at a rate greater than the rate at which crude rubber was consumed in this country in any year prior to 1941. Bags Must Be Used paper Supphea of textile and larg? not are fabrics bagging acenough for 1044 requirements, cording to WFA but the cense1" of old bags tion and new avert a crista. Total supply of bag la expected to be about (Continued On Page Two; Old re-u- se 1 |