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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER Page Two at Tremonton, Utah, on First Thursday. Thursday of Each Week for Friday Distribution Entered at the Post Office at Tremonton, Utah, as Second Class Matter October 15, 1925 A. sr. RYTTING, SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR - 52.50 Editor-Publish- RATES (In Advance) SOLDIER RATES from Congressman W. K. Granger Two major pieces of legislation have been before the Congress for the last two weeks. These proposals are of utmost importance to the entire country. They have to do mainly with the transition e to peace-timfrom A bill passed by the Senate deals with unemployment compensation of civilian employees who have been working in war plants. The greatest difference of opinion was whether or not the several states or the federal government should administer the law. As the bill finally passed, the authority for the law's administration would rest in the hands of the several states, with the federal government insuring the unemployment fund of a state if it were found necessary to do so. This bill, as passed by the Senate, has since been referred to the House Ways and Means Committee where it has e. ? , will no doubt pass the House ma-- ! terially different from the original Senate version. The other piece of legislation known as the Colmer Bill, has to do with the disposal of HR-51- $1.75 year, 1944, to 13 cases as compare"! with 63 cases for the corresponding period in 1943. Five of the 13 cases reported are from Utah County. A delayed report of a death from Rocky Mountain spotted fever war received from Salt Lake City. According to the attending physician the patient was probably infected while visiting Big Cottonwood Canvon. Fortunately, for those who like to visit in the canyons. the ticks which are responsible for the transmission of Rocky Moun tain spotted fever, as a rule go into hibernation about the middle of July. One case of tuberculosis and cases of rheumatic fever were re ported from Davis County. An ad ditional case of rheumatic fever was reported from Box Elder County. A case of typhoid fever was re the patient ported from Vernal is a male adult, 60 years of age. The source of the infection has not been determined. The totals for the week were a? follows: chicken-pox15; poliomy elitis, 3; influenza, 1; measles, 5 German measles, 2; mumps, 23 rheumatic fever, 1; scarlet fever, 11; tuberculosis, 1; typhoid fever 1; whooping cough, 23; resident gongonorrhea, 12; orrhea, 16. resident syphilis, 20; syphilis, 12; and rheu matic fever, 3 Legislation Of The Week war-tim- - non-reside- nt 25 non-reside- nt surplus property ranging all the way from food to war plants. The main controversy in this legislation was whether or not It should be LOOKING BACK administered by a single administrator or a board. As the legislaTHROUGH THE LEADER FILES tion passed the House it provided OF FIFTEEN YEARS AGO for a single administrator with an advisory board consisting of the heads of the cabinet, as well as Bear River Claims other agencies that have been set Another Victim up to prosecute the war, such as George Bigler, 47, of Deweyville, chairman of the War Production was drowned Sunday afternoon, about one mile west of Collinston. It is estimated that there will He was crossing the river on his be about one hundred billion dollars of surplus property to be dis- horse, when the horse stopped sudand Mr. Bigler plunged into posed of, and fifteen billion dollars denly water. the ci.to of which will revert worth He came to the surface twice, vilians and for civilian consumpbut being unable to swim, he lost tion. The directive set forth in this life. his legislation contemplates an. orderly and economic way of disposing of this property, to realize the Thieves Take Oar From greatest dollar return for the gov- Utah Auto & Implement Co. ernment, and at the same time Early Monday morning, thieves preserve our economic econmy. The bill provides that in the broke into the Utah Auto & Imsale of war plants and installations plement Co. and stole a Ford none can be sold by the adminis- coupe. It appeared that the door had trator where the value is more-thaa million dollars without a been sprung by an iron bar. The car was found in Pocatello, majority vote of the advisory board. It further provides that no Idaho a few days later combat Naval vessels can be disposed of without. the consent of Local Seminary Opened Congress With these two exceptions the administrator has great Monday, September 9th latitude in discretion and vast The Bear River L. D. S. Sempowers. inary opened for Instructions Monday morning1. Three courses were to be taught. Old Testament. New COLUMN The total number of cases of communicable diseases reported to the State Department of Health for the week ending August 25 was 153 as compared with a total of 187 for the previous week. Local health officers reported 3 additional cases of infantile paralysis, 2 from Utah County and 1 from Ogden City. This brings the total for this disease for the ; Testament and Church History. Students were urged to register if they desire a fuller chooice of time and subject. State Outing For Old At Ogden More than 300 people attended Folks Held the Old Folks Fair Park in outing Ogden, at Lorln Tuesday, August 27, 1929. Each ward of the Stake prepared their own luncheon. The day was pleasant and all expressed themselves as having enjoyed the outing very much. Presideittz7(are(Hf College Searcy. Arkansa$ Managed Economy Business took me to Indianapolis in the last week of May, just in time to witness another sickening fluke of manhandled economy. Dead hogs lay uncounted on the ground by the roadside in the sun, 100 loss to their owners, to the nation's wealth and to the world's food supply. It was a blunder, of course. Surely this time nobody will say, "We planned it this way." It was two years ago that the government named an arbitrary price on fat hogs and guaranteed it for two years. The aim was for the people of the United States to have the right amount of pork at the right was price. Obviously, only the first step. In order to get just the right amount of pork, the government rationed corn, which is essential in the growing of pork. Feared Figgishness The next measure was to ration pork so just the right number of hogs would feed just the right number of people just the right number of days. It was assumed that smart bureaucrats knew precisely how many pounds of grain it took to produce a pound of pork, and could figure how many eaters there were and bow much ham and bacon they ought to eat per family per day, or per county per degree Fahrenheit, or something. If there is one reader of this column who lacks such knowledge, I want to offer some facts of life about hogs: Just ten months from the day a farmer consents to tol erate another family of pigs on his estate, he can be selling prime shotes. America Is now In the third generation of swine since the government guaranteed the price. Apparently pig culture has become a national hobby. Grown for Profit Now when pigs are right to eat. they are ready to selL and the creaking timbers of America's bulging had been heard in Washington for several weeks before the OPA lowered the bars, took ration points off pork and released the squealing deluge. Had the figured right? No! Hog receipts at eleven main packing centers exceeded processing capacity. Result: em bargo. Indianapolis was only a sample. Hogs arrived too fast to kill. Packers quit bidding for them. Farmers with trucks full of hogs formed caravans on the roads. Traffic jammed. Lines waited and waited some more. Pigs died of thirst and hunger and were piled outside the stockyards. Then the green flies came. They didn't have to wait on the OPA purely unofficial. To Err Is Human Carpenters hide their mistakes with putty. Doctors, it has been said, bury theirs. I hope no Wash ington braintruster was too disappointed when (after ration points were lifted off pork) the American people failed to eat up the conse quences of hit error. After alL enough pork is enough. And what happened was no worse than this nation had every right to expect. The law of supply and demand is a law of nature, no less than the law of gravity. In like degree they are God's laws and no mortal can make headway against them. Even doubters say pork is probably the easiest market of all markets to guess; and what a flop! War caused no part of the ridiculous pig fiasco. If such tinkering should become a national r policy, we would be in for e a sad season of muddles, price-fixin- g d, Board, etc. PUBLIC HEALTH LOOKING AHEAD . pig-pe- n big-wi- I post-wa- man-mad- PEARSON --- - i" " er AW OtkW fOU Washington, I C. OIL ACCORD This column, it should be noted in advance, is likely to be dull. Eut if you are interested in keeping your son or husband out of another war, it should be important. The United States and Great Britain are just concluding the first agreement aimed to remove the danger of war an agreement on oil. Oil is one of the most ticklish economic subjects in the world. Oil is what makes a nation's battleships move, runs the automobiles, sends the planes into the air in fact, spells the difference between a nation of strength or a nation which must bow to the whims of others. The present oil agreement seeks to settle the battle for oil; eliminate one important cause of war. The last war was scarcely over when Great Britain began maneuvering to corner the oil supplies of the world. British leaders were quite frank about it. V. United States Protests. Finding itself in this position, the United States government jumped into the battle for oil with vigor. The secretary of state, Charles Evans Hughes, wrote a series of blunt, bare-facenotes to the British, wantto know why they barred Ameriing can oil companies from Palestine, since Palestine was not British but merely mandated to the British by Meanwhile, the British, though barring the U. S. from their areas of interest, quietly invaded ours. They turned up with concessions in Colombia, not far from the Panama Canal. Even in Panama proper, a g British company staked out a huge and suspicious claim in an area where no gold was known to exist History Begins to Repeat. In World War II, history at first began to repeat. The five senators who toured the world war fronts came back with the story of how the U.S.A. was rapidly depleting her oil reserves while the British were hoarding theirs. They told how the British were trying to keep us from further developing oil resources in Arabia; how the British had a refinery on the Gulf of Persia, 50 per cent idle, while we shipped oil clear across the Atlantic to British armies in the Near East Yes, it looked as If history would gold-minin- repeat On however, representatives of the British and American governments negotiated an Informal understanding aimed to eliminate the oil battles of the fa tare. It was an excellent, agreement And during the last two weeks in Washington, Lord Beaverbrook and his associates have been negotiating with Secretaries Ickes and Hull to make this Informal oil agreement formal and binding. This time, the British have been far more cooperative and than la 1919 with one possible exception. After U. experts laid their excellent April 29 ground work, Lord Beaverbrook kicked over the traces at some things, and he seems to be keeping a more watchful eye on the Interests of the empire than on a fair future peace. For instance, he has been insisting that Britain have the right to ban the sale of U. 8. oil In England, despite the fact that British Shell sells In this country. However, the basic agreement Is truly en couraging when it comes to future peace. Provisions of Agreement It provides, first: "That petroleum shall be available in international g trad to the nationals of all countries in adequate volume, at fair prices and on an equitable and basis." This means that if the U.S.A. runs out of oil or vice versa, it is up to Britain to help supply us unless, tor example, one or the other attempts to conquer Ethiopia as Mussolini did, and the world countries attempt to cut of? their oil as the League tried to do to Italy but because of pressure from the big companies, could not 29, far-sight- far-sight- peace-lovin- y da The agreement also gives "equal opportunity" for "acquisition," "de- In areas under conThis eliminates cutthroat rivalry for new fields. Each nation is to respect the valid concessions of the other and its citizens. Finally, and very important, "exploration, development operation of refineries and distribution shall not be hampered by restrictions Imposed by either government or its nation- velopment" etc., cession. als." MERRY-GO-ROUN- D low-dow- n B careful with ems Mr. Wood was transferred to Northern Utah from California where he was employed by the Conservation Service. Soil Mr. Wood Utah graduated from the State Agricultural last spring. college With Ernie Pyle at the Front Brave Medics Carry On Under Heavy Nazi Shelling While Hundreds Are Hit, Ernie Has Charmed Life and Escapes By Ernie Pyle ON THE WESTERN FRONT. The afternoon was tense, s. and full of caution and dire little lane where the infantrymen I was wandering up a dirt were squatting alongside in a ditch, waiting their turn to advance. They always squat like that when they're close to the front. might-have-been- . Suddenly German shells started banging around us. I jumped into a ditch between a couple of soldiers and squatted. Shells were clip ping the hedge-rigover tops and our heads ht crashing into the next pasture. Then suddenly one exploded, not with a crash, but with a ring as one I had just left had been hit while I was on the way. A solid armor-p- i jrclng shell had gone right through a window and a man I knew had bis leg cut off. That evening the other officers took the big steel slug over to the hospital so he would have a souvenir. When I got to another battalion command post later in the day, 1 though you'd they were just ready to move. A sera high-tone- d geant had been forward about half struck L. I.,,,. belL The a mile in a jeep and picked out a debris of burned farmhouse. He said it was the cleanErnie Pyle wadding and dirt est, nicest one he had been in for a came showering down over us. My long time. So we piled Into several jeeps and head rang, and my right ear drove up there. It had been only couldn't hear anything. The shell had struck behind us, about 20 minutes since the sergeant 20 feet away. We had been saved had left But when we got to the by the earthen bank of the hedge- new house, it wasn't there. A shell had hit it in the last 20 row. It was the next day before my minutes and set it afire, and it had ear returned to normal burned to the ground. So we drove A minute later a soldier crouching next In line, a couple of feet up the road a little farther and away, turned to me and asked, picked out another one. We had been there about half an hour when "Are you a war correspondent?" I said I was, and he said, "I want a shell struck in an orchard 50 yards to shake your hand." And he in front of us. In a few minutes our litter bearreached around the bush and we ers came past, carrying a captain. shook hands. That's all either of us said. It He was the surgeon of our adjoindidn't occur to me until later that ing battalion, and he had been lookit was a sort of unusual experience. ing in the orchard for a likely place station. A shell And I was so addled by the close to move his first-ai- d him. hit beside to down right put explosions that I forgot That's the way war is on an afterhis name. noon that is tense and full of for some of us, fctid A few minutes later a friend for others. awful realities Oma Col. of mine, Lieut. Bates It Just depends on what your numof Gloster, Miss., came past and ber is. I don't believe in that numsaid he was bunting our new ber business tit all, but in war you battalion command post. It was sort of let your belief hover around supposed to be in a farmhouse it for it's about aU you have left. about a hundred yards from us, so I got up and went with him. We couldn't find it at first. We One afternoon I went with our lost about five minutes, walking battalion medics to pick up wounded around In orchards looking for men who had been carried back to That was a blessed five minsome shattered houses just behind utes. For when we got within our lines, and to gather some others 60 yards of the house It got a right off the battlefield. direct sheU bit which killed one The battalion surgeon was Capt officer and wounded several Lucien Strawn, from Morgantown, men. W. Va. He drives his jeep himself and goes right into the lines with The Germans now rained shells his aidmen. around our little area. You couldn't We drive forward about a mile in walk 10 feet without hitting the our two jeeps, so loaded with litter ground. They came past our heads bearers they were even riding on so quickly you didn't take time to the hood. Final' y we had to stop fall forward I found the quickest and wait until t bulldozer filled a way down was to flop back and side- new shell crater in the middle of the ways. road. We had gene only about a In a little while the seat of my hundred yards beyond the crater pants was plastered thick with wet when we ran into some infantry. red clay, and my hands were They stopped us and said: scratched from hitting rocks and "Be careful where you're gobriars to break quick falls. Germans are only 200 The ing. Nobody ever fastens the chin the road." np yards straps on his helmet In the front he Strawn said Captain lines, for the blasts from nearby to the wounded couldn't get bursts have been known to catch men that way so he turned helmets and break people's necks. around to try another way. A when you Consequently, squat side road led off at an angle quickly you descend faster than from a shattered village we had your helmet and you leave It In midJust passed through. He decided air above you. Of course in a fracto try to get up that road. tion of a second it follows you down But when we got there the road and hits you on the head, and settles across it, and it sideways over your ear and down had a house blown forward a went We was blocked. over your eyes. It makes you feel litUe on foot and found two deep silly. bomb craters, also Impassable. Once more shells drove me Into a So Captain Strawn walked back roadside ditch. I squatted there, just to the bulldozer, and asked the a bewildered guy in brown, part of driver ii he would go ahead of ui a thin line of other bewildered guys and clear the road. The first thing as far up and down the ditch as the driver asked was. "How closs to the front is It?" you could see. It was really frightening. Our own The doctor said, "Well, at leaj shells were whanging overhead and it Isn't any closer than you are rlgnt hitting Just beyond. The German now." So the dozer driver agreed shells tore through the orchards to clear the road ahead of us. around us. There was machine gunWhile we were waiting a soldier ning all around, and bullets zipped came over and showed us two egg oi through the trees above us. he had Just found in the backyard an I could tell by their shoulder a wasnt Jumbled house. There patches that the soldiers near me untouched house left standing in tne were from a division to our right town, and some of the houses were and I wondered what they were do- still smoking inside. we ing there. Then I heard one of them At the far edge of the town farmsay: wrecked came to a parUy "This is a fine foul-ufor you! house that had two Germans In one was I knew that lieutenant was getting was wounded and the other our lost Hell, we're service troops, ahd Just We ran him. with staying here we are right in the front lines. into the yard and fte ''iter Grim as the moment was, I had jeeps bearers went on across the field.ana to laugh to myself at their pitiful The doctor took his scissors to plight. began cutting his clothes open see if he was wounded anywhere bui I left a command post In a except in the arm. He wasn farmhouse and started to anhe had been sick at hlo otomacB other about 10 minutes away. and then rolled over. He was Wbrp got there, thry said the a superman sad sack. J .ntl.-W-t-- it it-- p Cautions Mr. Turk If you want on why the Turks th real finally broke with Germany, it was because Hitler had moved troops out of Bulgaria Just opposite Turkey. After that the Turks weren't afraid of being attacked. . . . With Sweden and Switzerland both closed to HitX con- might-have-bee- last April peace-machiner- UTAH'S ROAD TO UTOPIA 15 Al READY "TOUGH EtlOUOH Mailowe L. Wood, junior entered on soil conservationist, duty at the local Soil Conservation District office this week. He will work in cooperation with the Northern Utah Soil Conservation District farmers relating problems d the League. Thursday, August 31, 19 u concerning soil and moisture servation. Mr Dessa Wyatt was nostess to a group of friends, one evening this week in compliment to Miss Ruby Landvatter, who is visiting here from Denver. 23 P101 West Street MARLOWE L. WOOD JOINS SOU, CONSERVATION FORCE Maurine Winterton. was a Salt. and Lake visitor Wednesday BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER Published - ler for escape, his few remaining havens are Japan which won't Utt long and Argentina. ... t |