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Show rage -- Two LET'S NOT HAVE THIS EPITAPH! BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER Published Department Agricultural Economics UUb State Agricultural College Utah farm price index for all commodities was March 1944 as compared to 183 for the same month in')'Rn T-f- i Entered at the Post Office at Tremonton, Utah, as 2nd Class Matter J October 15, 1925 SUBSCKIIHOX ONE YEAR - 52.50 Editor - Publisher RATES (In Advance) SOLDIER RATES - THOMAS of lor Friday Distribution A. N. RYTTTNG, a The Utah Price Situation P. By W. at Tremonton. Utah, on Thursday of Each Week First West Street Thursday, May BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER-- an increase of 10 per cent (table 1). During the past v . I'tah crops increased 26 per cent, while prices received for animals, beet cattle, iamus, and nogs, decreased 7 Per cent Tli a A cw ran co in tliic nrrr,nn vfjvic. f folila for lambs and beef cattle to 10 per cent for hogs. For t same period prices received for butterfat in whole milk ' creased 30 per cent and in sour cream 13 per cuit. 75 & WHY NOT A JUNIOR FAIR? Clubs of the county, Last week the leaders of the record as favoring a Junior went on in their annual meeting, three-darodeo which y Fair, to be held in connection with the is set for next August. In view of the fact that it may be one or two years more before the County Fair can and will be held, we heartmovement. ily endorse and promise full support to such a There are many reasons why such an exhibit should be held, but in our estimation, the opportunity for these to be young people to exhibit their work at home seems F. A. and F. Club members paramount. Each year the members groom their livestock for the shows at Ogden and Salt Lake, and local people little realize the fine quality of animals these youngsters raise, unless one should happen to be working with them. 4-- H m .in -- f a 1 k. ur A x 1 BUNGLING BUREAUCRACY J sS" f 4-- H 'Underneath this pile oP stones Lies all that left of old Bill Jones.' in Box Elder County and Bear River Valley have always been well represented, not only in the livestock shows, but in clothing, canning and public speaking projects by members of these two junior organizations, some having won national recognition. Why not give them the opportunity to show the home folks what they can do. TO MY SON Though we are miles apart in this beautiful world In thoughts we are close together So here's a token to you my dear To treasure through all kinds of weather. I love you more dearly as time goes by And more precious you grow to me We know of a junior show that had a very small beginand F. F. A. show, ning a few years ago in the form of of the one important shows and now it is being recognized as 4-- H of the state. it top-not- . So it matters not if we are far apart Our Spirits are closer you see. There is only one Gene, that can hold the place You hold in my heart 'tis true And always I think of your dear sweet face Just because there is only one you. seems, we have all the advantages that should show. Live, go to put over a Club leaders, high schools with their vocational training programs in sewing, canning, homemaking, agriculture and livestock, makes it a natural for a real junior show, that someday can be joined with the County Fair to give this county a real showplace of the countless things with which this particular section has been so generously endowed. Here, 4-- H ch So happiness dear is my wish for you On this birthday and others as well May your lif e be so full of such beautiful things That to others God's love you may tell. X WE SPEAK OF INCENTIVES . . . May your life be a star, shining bright in this world That others will see it and know That our happiness here comes out of the heart From the seeds of love that we sow. As a rational animal, man never works without a definite objective. In other words, he must have an incentive. During war, patriotism supplies an incentive, but in times of peace men generally demand financial recognition of their efforts. Recent announcements of incentive rewards by American business demonstrate how it recognizes that man puts forth his best efforts when paid according to his worth. General Motors Corporation, for instance, paid $955,000 to employees who offered 25,400 constructive suggestions during 1943. What is true of the individual worker's need for an incentive is equally true of companies of men banded together for tasks too difficult for individual workers to do alone. If one man makes his maximum effort when there is hope of recognition and reward, it is reasonable to expect stock holders to do so. For the stockholder is 'only the worker a truck driver, a clerk, or perhaps a widow with insurance money to invest. If the economic climate is such that invest ments promise dividends and a measure of safety, such people put their savings into the stocks of companies that build plants and furnish jobs. Has anybody a plan for demonstrating these truths to men the framing our postwar tax laws in Washington? x "No government employment yet planned can take up more than a fraction of the unemployment slack that would exist if priVate business were not able to go full steam Paul G. Hoffman, South Bend, ahead when the war ends." Ind., pres., Studebaker Corp. And if at any time, anything goes wrong Written by Mrs. Edgar Winchester, for her son Eugene, on his Slst birthday. He is with the Coast Guard Service, of U.S.A. June 1 Deadline For Farm Sign-u- p Box Elder County farmers were reminded today by A. W. Bishop, chairman of the Box Elder County AAA Committee, that only 18 days remain for signing a farm plan for participation in the 1944 AAA program. All farmers must be signed up by June 1, 1944 if they are to be eligible for payment on practices carried out, Mr. Bishop said. Payments this year are being made exclusively for practices. The provision which limited the amount of payment under previous years' programs to an allowance based on the acreage soil-buildi- FROM MAY1 xcuee bupnim peemr reoti sweirf you, from this Remember, My Prayers are with you. ,mwW777777777, IS OUT UNPERMITTED BURNING I give to heart of mine A love that is strong and true So (county , TO 0CT31 rm iyapdcn) Thi3 scries of cartoons on Fire Prevention is sponsored by the Tremonton lions of eah farm or ranch has been eliminated this year. Individual farmers will be limited only by the state allowance of $859,374. If the value of approved practices carried out exceeds the state allowance there will be a uniform downward adjustment in all rates of payment, Mr. Bishop said. The list of practices available for payment has been simplified for 1944 and only those ipractices which increase production and conserve the soil are being paid for. Practices adapted to Box Elder County are Protected Fallow, reorganization of irrigated system, seeding of permanent pasture, seeding grazing land, contour farming, harvesting legume and grass seeds and land leveling. Preliminary check of 1944 Farm War Plans being signed by Box Elder County farmers reveals that sugar beet, dry beans, and corn will be short of the county's 1944 food production goals unless an extra effort is made by farmers who are in position to increase their acreages, Box Elder County chairman announced this week. Goals for wheat, potatoes, barley, oats, canning peas, tomatoes, apparently will be substantially met or exceeded in the county, although the estimates are based on sign-u- p of about 53 per cent of the farms in the county, the chairman said. Causing most concern, however, is the need for increased marketings of beef cattle and calves to provide meat needed for the war effort and to reduce numbers to safe levels in keeping with severely limited feed suppliesin prospect for the balance of 1944. Food production must be kept at a high level in 1944 if the nation is to give proper backing to the armed forces in carrying the war to the Axis, A. W. Bishop said, pointing out that 1944 food production goals are set even higher than the last seven successively record - breaking harvests. The goals call for production of the various crops in accordance with d war needs, so the entire war food plan may be kept to gear with the military plans. carefully-calculate- Club Tho inprpflM in nricfvi received O for dairv products included the products. The increase of cent in prices received for (J subsidy or support prices for these commodities by the govennment. resulting in a price index for In March of this year egg prices higher than livestock, pia were 3 per cent lower than they crop farmer in a muc h better were a year ago. This decline nomic position than u-- has for a number of years. Fo7! does not include the sudden drop in price of eggs during' April, period previous to last year th! 1944. Poultry prices were 18 per livestock producers benefitted W cent higher in March, 1944 than cheap feed grain but under pres. ent conditions, with higher feed they were in March the previous year. Cheap eggs and high poultry prices, they are finding it ffiore to maintain difficult prices will result in hens going to profit market. This unbalanced relationPrice changes for individual crops and of the between eggs price ship during the year varied from the price of poultry is not favorincrease for apples of 40 per cent able to increased egg production as for alfalfa seed. Feed grain prices increased 26 per cent requested by the government The price index for Utah crops Farm Prices During was 208 in March as compared to The Two Wars Compared 200 for all livestock and livestock From 1933 to 1939 there vraj some improvement in prices in the United States and in most other countries. However, since 1939, when World War n' began, there has been a rapid increase in nearly all prices. In tie United States the prices of agricultural BY GEORGE S. BENSON products have increased at about the same rate as they did during College other major wars. In January, 1919 searcy. rftcattsas four years after the outbreak of World War I, Utah farm price One-Wa- y Ride index was 203. In January, 1944, When a nation of free people four years after World War n diturns its political course in the began, it was 204. In other words rection of State Socialism, there is we now have war or inflated something strangely final about it. prices in industry and in agricuNot one comes back without a revolture. lution. Many an ignorant European toiler has danced in colorful costume livestock beneath what he was told to call an 1943 1941 Unit Commodity arch of triumph for Government Man100 Beef $10.70 lbs. $11.40 cattle, agement, learning very soon that it 14.00 12.70 Veal, 100 lbs was a yoke of endless bondage. 100 13.30 12.60 lbs Lambs, Why do they blunder into such 100 lbs. 14.20 12.70 Hogs, This question puzzles many traps? Butterfat (sour Americans. Don't Europeans know .61 54 cream) lb any better? Can't they see what (sweet cream) lb... .685 .89 happens to other nations nearby? To both questions, the answer is "No." Dairy cows, head.... 106.00 115.00 .34 35 In many European countries the enFarm eggs, doz .25 212 lightened class is the ruling class Chickens, lb and it is small. Many poor folk who 84.00 84.00 Horses, head read a little can't afford a newsCrops 1.39 1.11 paper. They don't have a chance to Wheat, bushel use their heads. Craftier people fool .84 67 Oats, bushel them and rob them endlessly. 1,20 90 bushel Barley, Can Happen Here Alfalfa seed, bushel.. 23.00 21.70 Somebody is always trying a 2.80 2.00 bushel Apples, e on the AmeriEuropean 1.25 1.25 bushel Potatoes, can people with rather poor success ton 17.00 19.20 Hay, because the average American is 4 equipped to protect himself. Unforsocialistic has tunately fooled some people on this side of the ocean. Americans who boost government management have little to say in its favor. They talk more Show about the abuses of Private Enterprise than about the advantages of other systems. If a preliminary' survey made I wonder how often I have heard the show officials means anby some intelligent person say, "In ything, approximately 1,250 sheep, America, 5 per cent of the people hogs and cattle will be coming to own 95 per cent of the wealth." the Eighth Annual Intermountain Most people who repeat the falseJunior Fat Stock Show in North hood have no idea where they first Salt Lake on June 5 and 6, heard it. It sounds like statistics For example, Emery county ebut it's not. It is plain propaganda club boys and 22 xpects 25 to dissatisfy honest people with what enter animals in the club to have and make them want girls they show. Only 30 exhibitors vent something else anything else. to the North Salt Lake show last Here's the Truth eJust recently the U. S. Departyouth will spring. These nter 90 head of cattle. ment of Commerce gave out some real figures on national income, and Uintah county, which failed to to blot out that exhibitors in the they ought enter any myth send 14 everywhere. National income is no will show of 1943, puzzle either: Everybody undermembers this June, with 25 cattle. stands personal income; that's what And Cache county, which sen' one person earns. Family income 22 exhibitors to the show last year, is the sum of what everybody in the will enter 28 boys and 16 tea family earns. Just so, national in69 cattle, four sheep and come is the grand total of what all hogs. Americans earn. Future Farmers of America In 1943 our national income was should make good showings 150 billion dollars. Two thirds of North Salt Lake as this (100 billion dollars) went to A few reports fouow. the survey. in the form of salworking people the Cache chapter at North aries and wages. Farmers got 13 ten billion more. Corporations got eight expects to send wo year, last billion dollars, and most of them three more than were not big corporations. If all eight sheep and 14 cattle. Boeder's FFA chapter at corporations are with how did they permit greedy hearts, j City, which only contribute ago, workers to beat them to 87 Va per boys to the show a year cent of the money last year? "f3 14 lined up this year, 28 neaa A Fatal Decision and five take hogs Whether they have any reason for cattle. it or not, most advocates of governBear River boys, coming ment management (which leads the chapter at Tremonton, eventually to government ownersend 20 FFA youth, 40 ship) are angry at corporations. hogs and 40 cattle. JWJ They have not been taught that corter at Heber is porations provide the jobs at which three boys, with 33 sheep, workers earned their 100 billion dolThese cattle. and six lars; nor that the 13 billion dollars all far greater than t'Ulsw received by farmers was money June. Gunnison Valley used to feed the families of those of 'W same workers. doubling the number numtx the If prejudiced people turn to govyear, and also ernment management as the plaintie to be shown. est road leading away from capitalFrom the South Cache cWj ism; if they can get enough other times as many three galt people to turn with them, they scntatlves will go tn NoruMorpni should understand that they are takLake as did last yrroad. Private entering a increase g has chapter plans to Davis made the world's most prise and chapf resentation, prosperous country; State Socialism tet has consistently failed. Some sysKaysvllle la raisin uje fgtems can be changed, but nations from two to 12. 28 going to government management at Kooseveii and do not return without violence. four sheep, ten hogs. cattle. LOOKING PresideHt-JtardtH- g shell-gam- -- flim-fla- m Survey Indicates Big Representatin At Fat Stock 4-- H 4-- H 5-- 4-- H S3-wit- ftcfl-mon- d DOJ """"j ' - one-wa- y 1 j - |