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Show rage -- Two Record Prosperity for U.S. Looms In Post War Period BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER Week Published at Tremonton, Utah, on Thursday of Each Vhcue Z3-- J First West Street Entered at the Post Office at Tremonton, Utah, as A. N. RYTTING, 2nd Ctesa Matter Eric Johnston urges government and business cooperation to fulfill promise Editor - Publisher SUBSCKIPTION RATES P $2.50 $1.25 75 ONE YEAR (In Advance) SIX MONTHS On Advance) THREE MONTHS (In Advance) Loss of productivity of American farmland through soil erosion is a major threat to the prosperity and the very life of this country, Secretary of Agriculture, Claude R. Wickard warns. Conserving and building up our soil resources should farm project, Secretary Wickard be the number one post-wadvises. Describing the conservation of soil and water resources as one of the "imperative jobs of America," he points out: "No other nation has lost so much soil in so little time. Erosion has ruined for other further cultivation some 50 of our million acres of cropland equal to at least without total present cropland. Another 50 million acres are topsoil, and riddled with gullies and ditches, unfit for anything but meager production. Still another 100 million acres of cropland have lost more than half of their productive top-soIn short, erosion has already damaged more than two-fiftof all the cropland of the United States." ar one-eigh- th il. hs GASOLINE FROM FARM PRODUCTS American farms have the answer to any possible shortage of natural coal and petroleum reserves says Dr. Ernest Berl, research professor at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He has discovered a process for making these fuels from farm and sea plants, according to PATHFINDER. In involves changing the carbohydrates (cellulose, sugar and starch) into hydrocarbons (oil and soal) by extracting the oxygen from the carbohydrates. Using this process, Dr. gerl says, sugar can on 2.1 per cent of the nation's crop lands could produce as much gasoline as USA's 32,000,000 automobiles used in the year before the war. His process will make about 2,500 gallons of gasoline, 3,000 gallons of middle oils and 1,000 gallons of lubricating oils from 100 long tons of dry sugar cane and still leave the usual 8 tons or so of raw sugar cane. '' THOUGHTS AND SHOTS One of the most wholesome things that could happen in the United States would be for every senators and every representative, after serving six years, to go back home and try to make a living under the laws which they have passed. Sen. W. Lee O'Daniel of Texas. x Science has made great progress in delaying death but hasn't had much luck with the other member of the firme, Wichita Eagle. x Smartest postwar plan was suggested by a Kansas editor who would give the alphabet back to the children. Lawrence, Kas., Outlook. x A local resident, upon receiving his income tax blanks, remarked that as near as he could figure out the government must have made a mistake and sent him the terms of e a Russian Hill City, Kas., Times. program. lend-leas- x Visitor (in defense plant) "Look at the youngster with the cropped hair and slacks, It's hard to tell whether it is a boy or girl.'" War worker "She's a girl and she's my daughter." Visitor "Forgive me, sir. I wouldn't have been so outspoken if I had known you were her father." War worker "I'm not. I'm her mother." Hudson Star. Experts find that "solid" wood is from 20 to 40 per cent gas. Now you know what to expect of political platforms. Arkansas Gazette. PUBLIC HEALTH ! COLUMN A healthy condition of the people of the State is indicated by reports from local health officers for the week ending April 28, which show a further reduction in the number of cases of communicable diseases throughout the State. A total of 427 casea was reported for the week as compared with 444 for the previous week and 669 cases for the corresponding week in 1943. Six cases of pulmonary tuberculosis were reported 3 of the patients are r Washington, DC Every phase of American business from the farmer to the international industrialist will share in a golden era of postwar prosperity if government and business cooperate to take fullest advantage of six economic potentials, according to Eric Johnston, dynamic president of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Erie Johnston To transform fully these potentials into of unprecedented proportions, with a resultant tangible prosperity of living, Johnston urges that govstandard our of heightening ernment and business adopt a middle course "to work together from the largest possible area of agreement," Outlining a post-wa-r program for"? m fina checkupi determiri. government and business, Johnston the tempo and thoroughness with tails on the government to: which official controls and inter(1) Remove the penalties now ference will be done away with. f NO. 1 POSTWAR PROBLEM taxes. BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER- - Imposed on profitable business; (2) loosen war time controls; (3) Systematically release depression made restrictions; (4) intelligently liquidate our swollen government-in-busines(5) utilize existing mechanisms of social control to cushion the transition from a wsr to a peace conomy; (6) sponsor but useful public works, and a graduated system of financial aid to demobilized soldiers and demobilize war workers; ") plan for the rehabilitation of war shattered veterans to resume productive employment; and 3) sharply revise price controls to prevent inflation, Johnston urges business to do Its utmost to provide maximum employment and suggests that the ex- tent to which it can and will do io s; He lists the six economic potentials on which he bases his hopet for a brilliant postwar future for the United States as: 1) The greatest plant capacity hi our history; (2) greater sources of raw materials, natural and synthetic, than we ever had in the p:t; (3) the greatest number of 8itilld ! mechanics and technicians available to any nation; U) a backlog of accumulated demands for all types of commodities; (5) the people wiU have ac cumulated unprecedently large sar-ln.es with which to satisfy their deferred demands; and (6) an eco nomic vacuum will exist In mot of the nations of the world, and it is an immutable law of nature that a vacuum must be filled. Servicemen Express Opinion New Guinea April 15, 1944 Dear Editor: After reading Rev. R. F. Goff's "open letter" and having- given it careful consideration, we have come to the conclusion that there are a few things the Rev. seems to have forgotten in his rather blunt and untimely statements. We are three boys from Box Elder county. We were born and raised there and we have seen the Japanese slowly obtain control of the land around where we live. The Rev. said that it is their right and privilege as American to do this. Why then at the citi-zen- ts outbreak of ,the war did a num- ber of these "honorable citizens" turn out to be traitors to our country ? If they have been proven by the F.B.I, to be loyal Americans, why then were they evacuated from the West coast? It isn't so bad having to fight the Japs over here, but 'after the war is over we hate the thought of having to go back home and probably working for the same race we have fought the war to rid the freedom-lovin- g people of the world of. If they are so with money, why isn't this money being invested in War Bonds? As "loyal citizens" it seems to us this should be their first aim to win the war. In the past some of our farmer's farms were mortaged to the y hilt. The Japs with their of money eagerly stepped in and offered this indebted farmer a price that no white man could match and took over his farm. Is this an illustration of the "helping hand" of a true American, The Rev. brought in the statement, "why did this country allow our forefathers to buy land here," Our forefathers came to this valley when there was noth over-flush- ed MB. FARMED : WHO PAYS over-suppl- ing but sagebrush and alkali to their perseverance and hard labor they made the green and productive valley what it is today. Maybe we are inclined to be a little bitter, but I believe any one would be if he had to go .through what some of our boys are every day. The Rev. questioned our attitude toward brotherly love, but he only mentioned and explained it in one sense of the word. To show brotherly love and kindness does not necessarily mean that you should uphold them in their practice to take away from you all you have struggled to build up all of your life. Some of the boys we went to school with have become some of the best aviators the Nipponese Air Force has. We trusted these boys and treated them as we did the white boys. What did they do for us in return? Possibly some of these very boys have shot down boys in our Air Force who went to school with them. He said that it is not the boys who are complaining, but some men who have their own interests at heart. We can assure you that we are just as interested in what is happening back home, or perhaps even more so, than our families who are there. It doesn't do much for our morale to read a letter such as the one presented for publication in the Leader by Rev. Goff. We are over here pushing the little "Sons of Heaven" right back into Japan and we aren't complaining about the job either. It kinda cuts deep though when we read your "open letter" and . if things go as that letter suggests we won't even have a home to come home to. look at. Through Lamont Gardner, Deweyville Harry Petersen, Tremonton. Lyle J. Barfuss, Tremonton FOR THIS? non-reside- nt April 18, 1944 Dear Editor: In your edition of March 9, you published an open letter written by the honorable Reverend R. F. Goff and after reading it and consideruig its contents, I believe the Reverend should hear the soldier's side of it. If the Japanese are entitled to purchase all the farm land around the valley, what is to become of the returning soldier? I citizens? I went to school with and lived around them all my life, and I don't believe there are many citizens, as you call them, that would give their lives for the United States as we are. You speak of it in a Christian way which I appreciate, as it is your profession to look at it in a religious sense, but, Reverend, can you see our side of it? These very Japanese that we're fighting, a good share of them were schooled in the U. S. They learned the ways of our country and what are they donlg now? I'll tell you. They are shooting our boys out of the skies, they are fighting against us on land, so why should we sit back and let them buy our land? You say this land, the land that your and my forefathers toiled so hard to clear and make fertile should, in fairness and justice, be sold to the Japanese so that when we come home we won't find white people but instead find the guys we're fighting, on our property and we will be left out I write this from the island of New Guinea, 7000 miles from home and our only way of letting the home folks know how we feel is by letters. We as soldiers believe ,tbe people in the valley are justified in drawing up the plan for refusing to sell Japanese their land, "Jid the white people that do sell their property while we are away and not giving us a chance to buy it are not true to their American soldiers. Of course, the labor shortage is very serious, and many farmers find it difficult to operate their property, so they sell out to Japanese instead of some white fel low who might be able to run it. If the Jpanese can run more than their share of land, why can't we? In 11 respect to you, Reverend, I write this so that you can see how the soldiers feel about your point of view on this subject and there are a number of us from Box Elder county. My closing thought is thia: Until we can buy aa much land in Japan as we want, I see no reason why we should sell them all the land they want in the United States. As long as the Americans have had dealings with the Japanese we have never been given the freedom to exercise proprietorship of industry and land in Japan that the United States has in thia offered the Japanese country. I remain, as ever PFC Thomas D. Hunsaker, Btry B. 224th AAA SI. Bn. THATCHER Mr. and Mrs. A, W. Bergstrom and Mr. and Mrs. James Peterson attended funeral services for Mrs. Ivy Fox at Farmington Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. P. C. C. Peterson had as their guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. James Wise of Ogden. , Mr. and Mrs. George Bradshaw of Tremonton, called on Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Bergstrom Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Chria Peterson had as their guests Sunday Mrs. T. E. Adams and children and Mr .and Mrs. Leroy Peterson and children of Tremonton. Mrs. Mary A, Wight' of Salt Lake city is a guest at the home of her son, A. N. Wight, thia week. Mrs. John Cranier and children of Corinne, Mr. and Mrs. James Archibald of Ogden, Mrs. Emma Archibald of Garland and TSer-geaFarrell Archibald of Bush-ne-ll hospital, visited with Mrs. Amalia Anderson, Sunday. A clinic was held at the school house here Thursday. Miss Johnson, county nurse, was in charge. Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Pierson and children of East Garland, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Anderson, Sunday. Mrs. Ralph Forsgren of Corinne spent Sunday visiting with her father, Albert Johnson who has been seriously ill for the past two months, but is much improved. Mrs. Kenneth Anderson of Garland called on Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Anderson, Wednesday. She and baby daughter will leave Thursday for SIkeston, Missouri to join her husband Ac Anderson. Misa Beth Waldron accompanied the music studenta of B.R.H.S. to Pocatello, Thursday, returning on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. John Groberg and baby of Ogden .were the guesta of Mrs. Grober's mother, Mrs. Mary P. Anderson. Mrs. Groberg was Misa Dairy Anderson. pre-scho- ol Be CACEfui. WITH F1RE-This aeries of cartoons on Fire Prevention is sponsored by the Tremonton Lions Club nS?! 4, Most the South Pacific u not the haniiif-.l: in to around. Howpv. r r . ' ernwi,. 3 joy their mrlf.nr, . e and instrun -- ni' '.ih,..L . . iy include musical xyiopiionts, cigar-- oc u"urs harmonicas. L.!' c v 'r . M hand-mad- o .lnollier Cniieiin believe you made some very blunt statements relative to letting the little fellows buy all the land just because they are citizens, but did you ever stop to consider how many of them are true nt ts. Only 44 casea of measles were recorded for the week as compared with 134 for the corresponding week in 1943. The number of cases of scarlet fever reported show a slight increase over the previous week. No casea of influenza were reported for the week. One case of malaria fever was reported from Davis county. According to the attending physician, the patient Is a who came to the State in order to work In one of the war Industries. Four cases of acute rheumatic fever were reported from one of the army base hospitals. Thursday, May from COWLEY'S About This and That COOKIES AND CAKES Every day we are told that Sugar Rationing is the hardest to "take" of all rationing that to get along on the Sugar allows is almost impossible. Well we just have to do it and under the circumstances Wg are all really glad to do it There are a number of ways to "ease the pain" among them m syrup and honey, and of course we have .plenty and at lew prices! But, many people are taking of our large, complete and fresh stock of cookies and cakes. We have lots of them: & of bulk cookies 25c to 35c; a large only large variety at priced variety of packaged cookies It really will pay you to and save Sugar and still your family. too call in satisfy 9 SHOES Yes we still have a few ration free shoes for children, in sizes 8J to 2J. We did have a nice v- and very good ariety values too, some of them we bought specially for this event, some we selected from our regular stocks and of course had to reduce prices. But we were glad to do it, glad to help you get shoes for the family without surrender of those precious shoes stamps. Many of you know the high quality of our shoes you know the high quality of Peters and Weatherbird shoes for the entire family. But, we have a confession to make, we did try a few shoes of other brands, but we have learned our lesson. We are always proud to hand you a Peters Shoe, ,proud to put it on your foot because we know and you can see that the workmanship is good, that the materials are the best obtainable yea even in war time we axe proud of our shoes because the Peters Shoe company will only of produce the number and styles sacrificing without can shoes they quality. And so, by staying with the line of shoes we are proud of, we may not have all the sizes, all the styles you want, but we will not have to apologize for the the workmanship, for the fit, for offer you. wear of the shoes we e BROOMS In our House-cleanin- bulletin g we didn't mention brooms. Well-stock was rather low then and we didn't like to list an item that wouldn't go around. But now we have plenty of them and four kinds to choose from; priced 98c to our -- 1.59. o "SHORT" ITEMS One of our headaches these days and is .the problem of equitable "short fairly distributing such items as our quota of boys and shirts, pillow tubin?. otto over-ali- a bananas, facial tissues, and nn items you all want and onlyto he once in a while. We want W fair, and to help those thatwbicn ua. Will you help us decide is the best policy: Shall we sneu such short items out on the but limit quantities and give eshall veryone an even break: or orders all take orders and fill in jFj placing the rest stock? Will you help us aeo We absolutely refuse to bac short items out from the room. "r It is we really gratifying-- discovered that somo peoP,e re: cour read these bulletins. We of on every think it will pay you in a while you will find of something you need and o REMEMBER MOTHERS DAf MAY 14 We have many items In j ye store that will please, and are bul" our in practical. Next week letin we will have a tions for the Lite shopper. Sincerely. 4 9 Cowley's |