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Show rage -- Two ALL BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER AMERICAN T-- Office at Tremonton, Utah, as 2nd 'I I wV7 A. N. RYTTEs'G, Editor - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION KATES $2.50 J1.25 75 ONE YEAR (In Advance) SIX MONTHS (In Advance) THREE MONTHS (In Advance) UiaA V WHAT IS AMERICA? J M j 1 7 ADJUSTING LIVESTOCK. NUMBERS , Livestock producers throughout the Nation are studying their major problem of bringing record livestock numbers into line with available food supplies in aix orderly manner that will result in the greatest possible meat production for the war effort. Adjusting the record beef cattle numbers is complicated by a cattle population that far the grazing capacity of our ranges and pastures so that a drought would create a very critical situation, stocks of feed n grain on farms almost bushels less than a year go, a ds What is this America, at whose call ten million of our finest youth are torn from lives that had barely begun? Is it the rich rolling pastures and grainlands of the plains the cotton fields of the South, the wide forests of the i r y star-spangl- ed "Long may our Land be Bright With Freedom's holy Light "Protect us by Thy Might "Great God, our King." THAT is America! x FOOD FOR STARVING KIDDIES By urianimous action on April 16th, the House of Representatives passed a resolution urging the Administration to send food to the other countries in Nazidominated Europe as is already being done so successfully in Greece. This follows the passage in the Senate on February 15th, Senate Resolution 100 without a dissenting of vote. Careful study preceded this Congressional action to make sure that relief to children could so be controlled as not to aid the enemy. Experience in Greece and France has proved this. A passage of these resolutions is in line with the known attitude of State Department officials. Unanimous action in both Houses of Congress certainly would not have been possible unless favored by the Administration. by-partis- an A recent nation-wid- e Gallup Poll has shown overwhelming public sentiment in favor of child feeding. Hund- reds of thousands of petitions, resolutions and individual letters have been sent to Washington urging that the children be saved. Stirring editorials have appeared throughout the secular and religious press of the country. Organized labor, the official bodies of all religious faiths and almost every means of expressing public opinion have demonstrated that in this mattoer the American people retain all of their historic interest in humanitarian and spiritual values. Shrewd assessment .of strategic values has also played a large part in this decision. Helping those who help us and so enabling them to help us more appeals to the common sense of the average man and woman. democracy as the ruling world sense to save the freedom of makes it the, philosophy loving democratic people from destruction. The wives, mothers and sweethearts of this country do not want their men to have to face the totalitarian alone during the difficult days ahead. Geerman children are still eating well. It is of the utmost importance that people who share our ideals eat too. Their children must not be allowed to perin mind and body. ish or become If we intend to sub-norm- al x RIVERSIDE J Mrs. Melva D. King returned home from Pullman, Washington where she spent a month with her husband, Ted King, who was stationed there. Mr, King has been sent to Las Vegas, Nevada. Mrs. Karl Welling and Kay Barlow Welling have gone to Kingston, Arizona to visit with Elaine Welling, who is stationed there with the air force. Mrs. E, W. Ward and Rayola Walker were in Salt Lake City the last of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Ward the birth of a son last week at the Valley hospital. Mother and baby are reported to be getting along nicely., Mr. and Mrs. James Burt and children of Ogden and Mrs. David Allen of Perry were visrting here Monday with their sister, Mrs. Ronald Ilales. The Primary officers held a business meeting at the Ray Cap-enhome last week. Refreshments were served after the meeting by Mrs. Capener. The Leland Capener family were Salt Lake city visitors the latter part of the week. Mrs. Helen Lee, mother f Mrs. Capener returned home with them and will visit ker for a week. ce er At the spring initiation banquet Wednesday evening in the Mirror room of Hotel Newhouse in Salt Lake city, Fay Hadfield of Riverside was among the nine girls second degree receiving their pledges to the Alpha Iota sorority. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Tingey, A. A. Capener and Mrs. Lester Coombs were in Ogden Monday f. ..sir i'.' .' is is half-billio- West? Is it the billowing smoke of ten thousand stacks, rising above the greatest industrial plant man ever created to make the swords of war from the plowshares of peace? Is it the unified will of a strong new race, born of all beraces and creeds, who found freedom and opportunity tween its borders? It is all of these and yet none of these, this land of ours .. . America is the thin sweet chorus of children singing "My Country, 'tis of Thee "Sweet Land of Liberty . . ." In the homes and schoolrooms of our country, uncomflag, little lips prehending young eyes on the understand forming the words they cannot yet vs - t transportation situation ryy : - r',, i ill ' , . - -t or our worknearly ers plowed the soil, but things have changed. Now two farm hands working in a field produce for nine factory workers whose families must eat. In statistics: Ten million farm hands stock the pantries of 43 milIY GEORGE S. BENSON lion other laborers, not counting the Preside white-collCollege workers. The factory town is America's big market for farm products and practically everything else. Those 43 Pulling Together million workers last year received One of the first political discussions I ever heard that rose above 100 billion dollars in their pay enof America's nathe level of gossip had to do with velopes; tional income. Dreamers who casomething called "the tariff wall," a toward Europe lookhigh, protective, import tax. I lis- reen their necks farm prosperity tened only, as becomes small boys, ing for post-wa- r while two mature neighbors talked need waking up. America's exports years have been it over. Their genuine interest was in recent pre-wcontagious and I still remember running less than 5 per cent of namuch of what they said. The im- tional income. Every little bit helps 5 per cent. pression I got might not have been but it's still We Help Ourselves accurate but it was fairly typical Devastated Europe can't do much of views at that time. America soon after the war. Manufacturers in the North, I for Post-wa- r favors will be from us to gathered, were all in favor of a high One of our greatthem, exclusively. tariff. want didn't protective They r services to Euforeign-mad- e things to enter the est possible United States and be sold in compe- ropeans would be to lower our tariff tition with things they were making. bars and buy what they can spare so Those northern manufacturers, I they, in turn, may buy more of our was informed, were Republicans. manufactured goods. We can't serve My neighbors, like most farmers in the rest of the world well unless our that climate, were Democrats and own people are prosperous. But if opposed a high tariff. If Europe had ingenuity and enterprise may rebetter and less costly merchandise main free, our factories- will hum to offer, they were in the market and our farms thrive as never before. for it. when two-tmr- ds AHEAD ar two-thir- ds ar post-wa- - Farmers Produce Those two respected neighbors have passed on, along with most men of their generation. The tariff wall, as a political issue, is dead too. I have told this homely story, however, to spotlight an issue that is very much alive. Suspicion. All Americans need each other. Mutual distrust among men of different industries is a bigger hazard to this country than prejudices based on race or religion. Business progress requires confidence; credit is only part of it. Besides being a great country, the United States is big. In its three million square miles dwell 135 million people. They can't all be acquainted but they need to be friends in spite of personal interests and tastes that differ. We have to look out for one another now or we are sunk. Patriotic groups do not have completely opposing interests in the United States. Farmers are not merely consumers; they are the real producers. Manufacturers and their employees, no matter what they produce or how much, are still the country's big consumers. Workers Consume Of all the people in America who toil, 18 per cent work on the farm and 82 per cent do something else. It was not that way 100 years ago PUBLIC HEALTH COLUMK I i Communicable disease reports to the State Department of Health from local health officers for the week ending April 21 show a slight increase in the number of cases of communicable diseases over those reported for the previous week. Salt Lake city and Weber county each reported one case of epidemic meningitis both of the are infants. Thirteen patients cases of this disease have been reported since the first of the year. Six cases of tuberculosis were reported four of these are residents and two are non-residen- ts of the State. The totals for the week were as follows: chickenpox, 69; influenza, 24; measles, 37; German measles, 36; epidemic meningitis, 2; mumps 116; pneumonia, 12; scarlet fever, 72; tuberculosis ,all forms) 6; whooping cough, 47; gonorrhea, 10; syphilis, 8, and rheumatic fever, 7. which cannot be expected to improve, anl slaughtering facilities handicapped by labor shortages so that the needed slaughter must be spread over the year or market gluts similar to those expeiiem ed in hogs may result. CATTLE ON FEED April 1 saw the smallet number of cattle on feed in the 11 Com Belt States in the last six years. The number was 23 per cent smaller than a year earlier, and cattle in feed lots in Western States also was materially smaller. These figures reflect increased marketing of fed cattle during the first three months of this year, compared with last year, and probably a reduction in the number put on feed. Available market and slaughter records Go not indicate, however, that more short fed cattle were marketing during this period this year than last. If cattle feeders in the Corn Belt carry out their reported intentions as to marketing cattle, the reduced numbers on feed will not be reflected in apprecibly smaller marketings of fed cattie from April through June. The percentage to be marketed is indicated as the largest reported in the last 10 years and 20 per cent larger than reported a year ago. 1944 WAR APPROVED SEED POTATOES The War Food administration has announced its minimum requirements for war approved seed potatoes which axe similar to those in effect last year and provide that the potatoes must be must not have more than a certain minimum per cent of specified diseases, must be of a size agreed upon between buyer and seller, must bear the information on the tag prescribed by WFA, and must meet the final pack inspection. The War Approved grade was established in 1943 by State certification agencies in conjunction with WFA. Tolerances for defects or inherent weakness are greater for this grade than are allowed for certified seed potatoes Under ,the WFA requirements, growers must not only meet minimum specifications set up by WFA, but also must meet the requirements of the various State certifying agencies. FOOD RESERVES WISE Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard feels that the biggest hurdles oon the food front are still ahead and points out that we need to maintain the largest possible food reserves. "I want to commend the people who manage our food supply for maintaining the reserves as they have," he says. "It is a sound policy, despite the comments made by those shortsighted individuals who would squander our current abundance in a spree of unrationed eating." INCREASED ACP PAYMENTS . . . GREATER YIELDS Increases both in crop yields and total agricultural production have accompanied increases In AAA pracpayments for tices from 60 million dollars In 1936, the first year of the Agri- field-inspecte- d, soil-buildi- ng Betty Rae Walker is visiting in Ogden this week. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mrs. J. O. Ashcraft and daughter, Mrs. Margaret McGulre of St. Anthony, Idaho are guesta this week at the Ray Ashcraft home in Tremonton. lory, at ptr .uncan m aulagret ioc ma- - cCill. avviage. actus lor Uie aUUtT lJii tiley ...- - t.am ttU-- tusuu-y- , tae vvi ' p bud J fcxpencutuifc oi 4 fec6 274 milium uouais iwr u- practice unuer Uie ACt' pro-- r 1 S whicn emphasizes pnieuc" wiu increase protraction Una and in the immediate future SUGAR MATERIALS RELEASE GRALN Purchases by the of industrial alconol anugvemnitnt sugar-being materials for alcohol nunwac" ture are expected to release 9 a to i5 million bushels ox gram for feed and other purposes m 1844 Snip meats of sugar, alcohoi, black strap and invert molasses are be. ing received from offshore areas under the purchase program. The U. S. has aiTanged to pur chase blackstrap molasses, indus. trial alcohol, industrial raw sugar and invert molasses from Cm. blackstrap molasses from Haiti" the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii; and industrial alcohol from Mexico. Purchases are tentative, depending on the sugar crop in these areas. Present indications are that production will be larger than expected particularly in Cuba. earl-ie- Importation of sugar and sugar-bearin- r, g materials, however, is not expected to increase the supply of sugar for home and commercial use. Alcohol needs for this year are 63S million gallons, compared with about 200 million gallons per year in peacetime. Alcohol is used principally in manufacture of explosives and synthetic rubber, MORE TRUCK PARTS Farm trucks may benefit from the recent WPB order providing for an increase in the output of truck and bus replacement parts. Producers have been given authority to cut in on military production on a limited basis to meet the growing shortages of automotive parts for the civilian transportation system. BETTER RETREAD RUBBER Grades A and C synthetic rubber camelback may now be used without restriction for retreading tires, according to the office of the Rubber Director. Those grades are superior to grade F, the only type available for unrestricted use during the past several months. ORD is continuing to stress the importance of keeping old tires retreated as a means of overcoming the serious tire shortage. TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE The office of Defense heeding WFA's warning that transportation will be a major farm problem this year, has announced procedures for the appointment of transportation advisory committees in the 1942 0DT districts. The committees will develop plans for the movement of perishables or seasonal farm products whenever motor transport facilities are found to be inadequate and will work cosely with producers, haulers, dealers and receivers, and others affected by transport problems. RUSSIAN SEED TREATMENT By employing process of "artificial vernalization," Russian farmers are able to plant winter wheat in the spring. The process, involving moistening the seed wheat and exposing it to temperatures, is completed in three to six weeks and givs the wheat somewhat the same treatment it would receive normally in the ground from fall until When no spring wheat spring. seed is available, the Russians actually gain an entire crop year by the process, because winter wheat seeded in the spring will not develop grain heads. Russian farmers are credited with developing artificial vernalization and have used it in past years when fall planting was impossible or the crop was winterkilled. . g practices Similar used by American farmers include use in Northern commercial vegetable areas of plants grown in the to South, treatment of potatoes scaand permit earlier planting, rifying legume seed to speed germnow ination. Sugar beet growers are able to produce seed in 0,16 summer year by planting in late warm or early fall in climates dam enough to prevent winter growW check but cold enough to of the beets. WAR ACE'S FATIDSR STICKS TO IDS GUNS Come what may, America's c their keep plowing on When fighting front. (now a Major) Richard of Poplr, Wisconsin, was hcrai 01 ed as America's new ace 2 of Ji wars with a record s nese planes shot out of the his farming parents took th fai in stride. Carl Bong, the V it let said he couldn't with his work, and went R continue repairing m was almost time to rtart cm the Bong farm, and Tmspor-tatio- near-freezi- time-savin- on busines. Richards entertained at a family dinner Sunday when all members of their family were present except Lieutenant Ford Richards, who is in Alaska. Those from out of town were: Mr. and Mrs. Carl Robinson and Mr. and Mrs. Grant Richards of Afton, VVyo.; Corporal Myron Richards and wife of South Carolina; Mrs. Ford Richards and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Patterson of Salt Lake city; Mr. and Mrs. Nolan Ballard and small daughter of Benson. Mrs. Louisa M, Bigler has gone to Salt Lake city to remain indefinitely. W COllUii'ueu Lull! til Ctoa Matter 1944 Consex-vatio-a ue iucl tuc ui c FARM WAR NEWS First West Street at the Post cultural UTAH GIRL UP Week Published at Tremonton, Utah, on Thursday of Each Phone 23-- J Entered Thursday, April 27, BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER- - rar-me- rs Tfy) utah o-r- Wxlv FoietrSTcf) f?Anqe nee fightees From Goinq Up In SnoKe Cag pJ This series of cartoons on Fire Prevention is sponsored by the Tremonton lions Club want to get behind. (Continued On r6 |