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Show TIIE BOX ELDER PAGE TWO you could have started with $2,000 in July of 1893, invested it wisely in steaks, and cashed in at $1,526,985 in July of 1945 as 1 say, Roger Babson was so kind as to send me an almanac this year. N e ui0-- 3 o urn al A Semi-Weekl- Newspaper Successor to HE COX ELDER NEWS 1 (Established 1806) and After looking through Mr. Bubsons almanac, I believe I can say Id prefer the Dr. e Miles one, even if it is full of agonizing testimonials, or the Old Fanners almanac, even if they dont send it to me free, THE BOX ELDER JOURNAL (Established 1909) Inc. Published by The Box Elder Published every Tuesday and Friday afternoon t Brigham City, Utah, and entered as Second Class Matter at the post office in Brigham City, Utah, in January, 1909, under the act of March News-Journa- 3 bach-ach- l. 1879 William M. Long, Editor Charles W. Claybaugh, Business Manager Mrs. Gladys II. Johnson, Advertising Manager Ralph R. Channell, Mechanical Superintendent Subscription Rates: Anywhere in Box Elder County $3.00 n year, $9.00 for eight months, $1.00 for four months; outside Box Elder County, $4 00 a year Single copies 5 cents. Subscriptions must be paid In advance, at office of publication or by mail. The Gallup poll last week showed that President Trumans popularity had fallen about 20 percent. Maybe Harry forgot to gargle. "O. P. A. Price " i Before shes married, a girl wants a man her life and sweep her off her feet. Later, she wants him to sweep off his feet before he comes into her house. price The wonderful wizards may help get our peacetime civilian economy straightened out and working again without inflation, but the amount of bungling theyre applying to the job at present gives many a business man and buyer serious cause to doubt it. Most of them admit bad as the 0. P. A. is that inflation would be worse. But they are beginning, wishfully, to doubt that removal of the 0. P. A. would result in any prolonged inflation. They think a slight case of competition might set in (in spite of heavy of governmen meddling) and the prices back down to where they bring used to be. Heres a story, supposed to be factual, thats going around this week: A company that wanted to make door knobs for new houses spent nearly five months trying to get a price decision out of 0. P. A. that would let it go ahead and then all it got was a no. The time card of the company was revealed as follows: May 20, 1945 Asked local 0. P. A. what to do about prices. May 21 Visited local 0. P. A., got forms and instructions. June 12 Mailed froms and exhibits to Washington. July 9 Asked local 0. P. A. if there had been action. July 11 Washington 0. P. A. wired: Unable to determine jurisdiction. July 31 Washington 0. P. A. asked for photosl August 21 Photos and samples sent-to Washington. September 3 Wired Washington 0. P. A. Production stopped, workers laid off. September 7 Washington 0. P. A, wired: Expect decision next week, September 13 Washington 0. P. A. phoned: What is kirksite? Send samples. September 15 Samples sent to Washington 0. P. A. September 20 Wired Washington O.P.A.: Can we do anything to expedite? September 28 Local 0. P. A. advised: Keep pressing Washington. October 1 Local O. P. A. asked if Washington had acted ; wired Washington. October 3 Local 0. P. A. announced Washington had reached decision a price exactly covering cost of materials and plating, about half competitors price, i October 12 Washington 0. P. A. denied appeal for relief. Note Door knobs not being made. ! . to come into The Medico They fill his waiting room, an eager throng, And stand in queues outside his office door. His nights are short with phone calls, days are long With symptoms, pains and tummy-ache- s galore He is Backs that have catches in them; sprains;... a head Thats woozy; eyes that wander off, or meet. 0 what a way to' earn ones daily bread And then not have a moments time to eat! Eight quarts make one peck of trouble. s. News-Journ- Moody, the evangelist, was born today, February 5, in 1837. Charles Dickens was born clay after tomorrow, the 7th, only it was in 1812. It sounds slily to say someone was born day after tomorrow, doesnt it? Ive never been able to understand why almanacs do it that way. But its consoling. If you never amount to enough to rate a red-lett- er birthday anniversary on the wages in the city go up. A sim- j John L. Lewis, in that patri- pie bit of economics is over-otiway of his, (looked. came home at last to the A. F. of L. All you who have eyes to How much pork or potatoes see, take note of the little pearl does a corporation eat? When of wisdom he dropped during Henry Ford drops another mil-th- e speech. Amid j10n in the bank does he eat any veiled threats at the C I.O., the Great John L. stated that his return to the mother Federation While an increase in corpor-"fre- e would be the means of saving ae earnlrgs that is not lmmein America. enterprise chately reinvested in an expand- ,, ing economy does not help the free enterprise The slogan farmer a speck, an increase in has come to symbolize the cap- working mens wages always italistic way of life. Though we does. The principal business of wish with all our hearts that a farmer is filling stomachs. we could credit John L. with Doris Duke or Tommy Manville authorship of the slogan, we already have all the food they cannot, for its roots grow deep- can eat or waste conveniently. er. Not even that noisy mouth-nicc- c An additional addof Wall Street and Big ed to their accounts would not Business, the National Associa- noticeably increase their spendtion of Manufacturers, originings for groceries. But give the ated the slogan, although it working man an extra $10 per claims to have done so in 1942. week and fully of it It was at the N.A.M, convention will go into food purchases. was the that year where slogan supposedely cooked up to be When it comes to eating, no fed as a steady diet to the millionaire can hold a candle to American public thenceforth. a factory worker! Think of this when it comes time to sell your pcach or cherry crop 11 might free enterprise have its be-- ! also pay you to remembor the years when your crops went on the ground for want of a market. Those years, the Big Money bought fruit aS USual but by'BoyS of Hitler biography Adolph didnt sell your crop. TweKonrad Heiden, you'll get . an youmillion working men werent In 1926 Hitler nty eyefull. Quote: but barest neanything buying promised the employers ns he cessities. It is quite different had in 1920: We stand for the when the masses of the people maintenance of private proper- have in their pockets. money We , enter-shall ty. protect free George N. Anderson. prise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible econom- ic order. And Hitler did, as long as he could. QUIT YOUR SKIDDING "Free Enterprise" 'S ,V,T i f- - A AfA' " . S' r endar, you still may get a line in somebodys almanac. end G. N. Anderson j e, When some people get religion they seem to think they have a strangle hold on Deity very cozy feeling indeed. 0-;- - . v-- s' A' Atpin J . a A J ' $ ... 'A 4f A jjA 't v-- rJ Oh. ISLc ty. to L:ep you for I i j home-comin- g i DEALER YOTi SAYS: I YOUR TRACTOR half-millio- n one-thir- W FOR d spring mm work V "Farmer vs. Labor" Now we read how the manufacturers are enlisting the farmer in the battle against high wages. A certain farmer organization in South Dakota threat- ened to quit selling produce unless the strikers patriotically gave up their demands for higher wages and went to W'ork. It is hard to determine whether the farmer's hankering for a new car or his proverbial love for Wail Streets applesauce is the main reason for this strike against the strikers. At any rate, the farmer consorting with Big Business reminds one of the tiger and the goose joining forces to exterminate the rabbit. j Some of the messes we can get ourselves and other people into with a little ole Usually the farmer is afraid newspaper sometimes would drive ya crazy. of high wages. Our school books All we try to do is report the news, the lit- tell us that farm implements cost more, hired men Avoid making a quid tfop in front o news that the big would tle, would demand more, expenses onolht vaSicU. A collision ma) dailies and radio care the stations dont city of marketing rise, whenever rtiu to bother with. We try to report it firsthand, but sometimes we have to accept it second-han- d or even third-hanAfter all, we have to go out occasionally and see whats happening at the coffee shop maybe some first-hannews, you know. Well, last week one day we returned to our desk and found a note that said Dr. Mtr-rc- ll biick from New York City obstetrics gynecology. Now thats good, clear, legitimate newspaper office shorthand. It was so obvious we didnt even bother to check with whoever Buys AUTOMOBILE and TRUCK INSURANCE from fho had written it before we wrote that Dr. and FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP Mrs. Merrill had returned to Brigham City. at an attractive saving in money. That was our fatal mistake. The note didnt say Dr. AND Mrs Merrell. It just Friendly, superior claims service. said Mrs. Merrell. The Dr. was we learned too late just there to identify her, FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP to let me know which Mrs. Merrell. Dr. Merrell is still in New York City studying Automobile and Truck Policies are obstetrics and gynecology (salvage some credit for us we did spell gynecology Continuing form" (renew by mail thus !). eliminating annual resale cost) The paper had been out maybe 30 minutes when cafl.s began coining to ns about that National Standard Form little item. Probably it hadnt been out three nvnutos when calls started coming to STANDARD FORM FIRE INSURANCE POLICY for Dr. Morrell's oflice and home. We can see dwellings, household furniture end personal effects. the patients, whose family doctor has been out of town for a month, lining up at his For complete information, see office, beating down the door, arguing with his receptionist saw' it in the l. S. M. RASMUSSEN Now where is he? Maybe it real98 Phone 81 So. Main ly wasnt that bad, but probably it was worse. We didnt dare check. FARMERS AUTOMOBILE Sometimes when we think of the responsibilities we assume every time we sit down Inter INSURANCE Exchange e and write a little item, we shudder. Truck Insurance Exchange Sometimes in the night we wake up scream- WS3E THESE Jhe d m,American RAY ! w-- TWO ADDITIONS L. from two years . . counter-intelligenc- e corps, U. S. army, in Manila and the Pacific and Far Eastern theaters. Formerly employ ed by C. Y. and M. Hardware company, and before entering service as route supervisor for the Coca-Col- a TO TO ANDERSON just returned service with the . le lv -"- SMSKTr- - AND WE'RE READY d. al e'cral-y- l iBBBsaiaukBBasBBaniBi IBBB1 g By d Ales' It cal- It is often more important to share the first dollar than the last one. ! raar-an- d al al al We Wake Up Screaming News-Journ- al News-Journ- the roofs of the houses in which my readers are slumbering is a new moon, and has been since the first. It will be a first quarter moon by Friday. ..BETWEEN THE LINES.. By A. L. Beck THESE WOMEN Im not going to read the almanac to you. You can get on Mr. B.s mailing list yourself, if you must have it. But I will say that that moon which now is shining down on me and , Roger Babson, he who can show you how fore We raised the price, three years ago, we made this same offer of renew for as many years as you like at the old price. And quite a few people took us up on it. I ran across a card in the subscription file the other day of someone who will be receiving the paper until July of this year at the old 1912 subscription rate of $2 50 a year. So I say, between now and March 15 is your chance for a bargain just as big a bargain as 'you want to make it. But maybe thats bragging. inMaybe you dont like the money-savin- g formation virtually every Brigham City business firm gives you every week in the advertisements. Maybe you dont care for the opportunities that turn up in the want-adMaybe you dont for for our staffs efforts at writing an interesting Society page, Farm page, Editorial page, Sports page, and all of the other features and news of right around home with which the is packed twice weekly. Maybe I don't mean bargain after all. Perhaps 1 should have said saving. Bargain, Friends News-Journ- heir; Ah, lives of ease and plenty Doctors know Plenty of opportunities to ease The ears that ring and pop, the bumps that grow; Toes that turn in or out; noses that sneeze; Its News-Journ- al mine, explain what Epiphany is, however. 5, l9,t I Today he cures a hundred patients ills Tomorrow theres a hundred waiting there. , hardly necessary to point out a bargain to the astute readers of this department for a second time, but in case youve been out of town, have missed several copies of the lately, or have seen sick with the measles and the doctor wouldnt let you read, I might repeat that the subscription price of the News-Jornadvances, on March 15, to $4.00 a year mailed to Box Elder county addresses and $5.00 a year mailed to addresses outside Box Elder county anywhere in the world. Frankly, when I so glibly flip off the statement anywhere in the world I mean the United States, but I say anywhere in the world because it is to be hoped it wont be too long before everyone who gives a hoot about whats happening in Box Elder county lives in the United States. The exceptions would be, I suppose, our missionaries who soon will be going out again to the four corners of the globe, and the service men who will be serving to maintain the peace they and their older brothers have won. As exceptions, theyre a fine type, so Ill stick by my guns and repeat ?5.00 a year anywhere in the world outside Box Elder county. But Im digressing. What I started out to say is that at the present time the is accepting subscriptions at the present rate of $3.00 a year in Box Elder county and $1 a year outside Box Elder county, and theres no limit on the number of years for which you may subscribe. A number of people already have come in and subscribed for two and three years in advance, and one reader laid down $12 for r a renewal, and his present subscription doesnt expire until August. Three years ago the subscription price of the advanced from $2.50 to $3.00 a year in Box Elder county. For three years weve held the line and sold the in the face of greatly increased costs of everything we buy, from less than the cost of newsprint to help-- at production or at best un unreasonably low margin of profit. But my point is that be- - retails hope and confidence and pills For wholesale aches to which mankind - four-yea- or the World Almanac, which Im ordinarily willing to spend 85 cents for, when it gets ot this far on the news stands, but which is too heavy to hang on a nail over the kitchen sink. I dont want Mr. Babson to think Im alungrateful, though. If I hadnt had his manac, even though I do prefer so many others, I probably wouldnt have known that last Sunday was the fourth Sunday after Epiphany. If I had known that, though, I probably could have figured out that next Sunday is the fifth Sunday after Epiphany, which Mr. B.s almanac faithfully records. It doesnt, so far as Ive been able to deter- dinner-invitatio- The O. P. A., were inclined to believe, has era, an essential role to play in this post-wa- r which, whether or not you recognize it from your dreams of a year ago, is now. We have to have the 0. P. A. but at what a A Captain V. L. Sprague, of the Bushnell staff, laid em in the aisles last week both at the County Educators meeting and at I left the best Civic Improvement club. n job in the world, and took When I was a up the worst, he moans. preacher, all the ladies invited me to dinner. Now I lecture on diet and health and theyre afraid to. TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY BRIGHAM (TTY, UTAH NEWS-JOURNA- Bottling company, Ogden. HELP OUR ttrCKESJ YOU WITH STAFF VIRGIL CUTLER has just completed a factory training course on the Ford tractor, to add to his mechanical experience as a former employe of the Economy Motors and four years service with the army as a maintenance mechanic. r"ii is devoting his full time to our I ord-- I erguson tractor department, to serve you better. . . . Well Be Glad To Begin Work Today On What Your Tractor Needs To Put It In First Class Condition. tssr-- Anderson News-Journa- , Your FORD - FERGUSON Dealer five-lin- ing. Anyway, we ought to! Fire Insurance Exchange mil" |