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Show in C ! 1 YJewi-oum- A ;T H E ! al Semi-Weekl- Friday, March 11, 1949 Newspaper Successor to y BOX ELDER NEWS (Established and 2896) (Established 1909) have your first crocus or your Dont bother us. We saw a guy on Main street yesterday wearing a straw hat! You can . first robin. - - Doc Anklam used A lot of fellows . ' td say: C - w I know have lost their shirts because they put too much on the cuff.- J - i i it I long for the good old days when all that the government gave away was seeds. News-Journd- l,, Ive never got hurt by things - I didnt say. deals, It isnt being wise thats hard its being Jflst multiply the possible prize value by wise at the right time. your chances of winning and you can read-l- y sfee . , . ' Its not smart to carry your shotgun or You simply must enter Classys Cash facts at your Contest; 'Hie cards are on the We havent played a game in this column tabfe. We arent trying to avoid income tax a long time, have we ? Heres one that for (hem Jieh I) or build up our advertising excam across the desk: penditure for the year. Were simply try ing! to buy our money's worth of promotion You may be able to track a rabbit when a for classified advertising. snow is on, but how about running We're, trying to get every user or reader of light down the more than thirty animals hidden thoie classified ads to help us promote in the block of, letters below? Prepared by them, ;and join in the fun of a friendly local Edward Demitz for Natural History magacontent. And were trying to give each" and block contains the names of birds the zine, every contestant a very good chance to be and animals from all over the world; some well repaid for the small amount of time some some swim and some fly. creep, run, and! effort required. Heres , what were The trick is to find them by forming their ito be us Youll a favor trying say: doing if you enter Classys Cash Contest. And names from the letters by starting with any letter and then moving to an adjoining letwe'll appreciate itf , ter in any direction, including diagonally. Throughout the year, literally hundreds In any word you can come back to a square of readers and advertisers have you already used. Twenty is an tell iu hbw pleased they have been with the score. The list of 31 is found results they have obtained from a classified ad, jhow well the classified page has served below, upside down. A L K S them in any, number, of interestingly varied N P T O wags. ; And we always appreciate those G B R H . . kind words. ' A C S A those and yer asking people, others, S P L T to go iust one small step farther. Were (jst tjtudg u jo to write out their classified ad Experience, in 200 words or less, and uiog B uuog u 'wo w boo b ojoq b jeqM briig oir mail it as their contest entry to the sn qea (uop asaod Avojq) . yujclg pu wog uuog I'uiqog pjy; .rooug 'qwaj office, along with the official spuutg ' quipi uooq oqoq uon wq obooj entiy blank. - We those booq ' oo BQ$ . a true with eapect. qtwi OJ90 experiences dJBQ 'qaqoqog )BO aog clarified ads to be interesting reading. , jooo - We uooqag , ssy to them dsy ady :;sjj aqj, dramatize a story ss?g expect weye been negligent in teiiing, ourselves: If you haven't taken care of it already, l classified ads ; do an That. and if you earned more than $600 last year, are a effective amazing job, remarkably means of contacting thousands of people in Box Elder county. One Job And Two People - We expect the 25 or 26 stories we publish to be tforth the $50.00 prize mone were of John Pitkin was as perplexed in the decihe was obliged to make as was Hamlet sion them. jfor fering .. Its no give away. in his soliloquy, To be or not to be. He Its no trip to Honolulu, either, of course. had been employing two clerks, but busiBut fifty bucks IS fifty bucks ! ness, had slowed down so much that he frit it necessary to discharge one of them. But which one? He liked both both worked Fup In The Legislature hard and faithfully, both were honest and .We absolutely refuse to commit ourselves capable, both dressed neatly, and both treatto k - contradiction of Mrs, Whiteheads ed the patrons with fairness and courtesy. opinion-(blesher!) on the relative merits An idea came to Pitkin 'in the middle of the of the Examiner, but we night. are indebted to that newspaper for a flash The next morning he said to Joe:. Son, I of brilliant reporting on its front page last want you to take a day off. Why not go out ,f. night. in the country and have a good time? An Associated Press story from Salt When Edward came in, he said the same Lake City reported the senates passage of to him. Then, having rid himself of thing a Mil permitting Utah banks to close their rubdoo'rs on Saturdays during the summer the two young men, he chuckled as he work bed to went his and hands speedily months, and Senator J. Francis Fowles op a pack of stamping Joe and Edward-oposition, to, the measure. on was which small each the word of cards, . Fowles ' said the measure would deprive ' Why? bank150JOOO persons in northern Utah of As the customers came into the store, ing services because Saturday is the only each the two cards, with the day they can get away from their work to Pitkin handed : I am obliged to let one of my explanation bank. ioJa' go Theficomes the paragraph we treasuure v clerks go. Will you please drop through the But it is going to be passed, be predic- slot in the nail keg the name of the, clerk And Pit-ki- n ted :jq$t before the roll call, because a few you want me to keep, and why? were most customers of the noted that here been have around girls his with to request. comply quite eager hands. holding your O you senator! That night Pitkin tallied votes" late into the night. The final count gave Joe three and Edward forty-fivhundred and seventy-twTaxes On Dead Livestock er i half-coc- k. News-Journa- ls . News-Journ- . News-Journ- al al above-the-avera- ge , . . - . al " aH - - , . News-Journa- , - . U s - Ogden-Standa- rd , . ng . Law and equity sometimes on opposite sides f the center stripe running down the oldjhigway f life. a couple weeks ago," when the snow still was on the ground, a stock-ma- n came in and said assessors were, and had been, out Assessing livestock for taxes. 'As soon as the snow goes off and these animals; get on green feed, a lot of them are going-t- o die. A lot of stock that been assessed has died. But Joe has a good word for everyone. be all on the tax rolls, and the farm--wh- o Joe is never too busy to do a little extra theyll have taken an awful licking in for me. livestock this winter will have to go right I like the way Joe gives me back my ahead and pay taxes on dead animals, he change. explained. Joes voice is so gentle and human. is we understand it, taxes are supposed Never saw Joe out of humor. on property as of the first of the Joe can keep ten people in good humor Any such deadline is bound to while he waits on one.' work some injustice.- One minute before Because Joe likes me he shows it. a (leadline and one minute after a deadline Joe knows me on the street. ares separated by a difference out of all Joe sent my little niece a big sack of two to minutes. actual the when she was sick. candy proportion We.' have no suggestion for once, Joe carried my bundles all the way tlnless it would be a reminder that the home one day when the walks were slipcounty commissioners are meeting at the pery. court 'house as a board of equalization on . And Pitkin decided that he own vote would be to keep Joe working. Adapted May 31, June 1 and June 20. The commisfrom Myron F. Anderson in World Horizons. sioners are pretty reasonable fellows! ror-exampl- . - s i I I Phone your news to t X Mate the and 727 fc Dt ! be accepted for his own merits. We are leaving Washington, D. C., tomorrow for Texas and are looking forward to a fine drive through the South, with stops at Montgomery, Ala., Gulfport, Mass., New Orleans, Beaumont and College Station, Tex., to confer with various federal about the Indian , school at Bushnell. I cut her pictures out of the News (she had mention ed she had voted straight Democratic all her life, and knew Truman would be President elected) and sent both clippings and a letter, as follows: March 4, 1949 Mr William Long "President (Harry S. Truman, and state experiment station Dear Sir: Enclosed Box Elder News-Journyou will find workers on current brush con- two I hope you will clippings. Brigham City, Utah trol problems, take time in your busy life to Dear Mr. Long: Best wishes, read them. The one will warm Several months ago you wrote Mr. and Mrs. Dale W. Young your heart, and the other con- an interesting editorial about Agricultural Experiment the Civil Rights problem, and station. Spur, Texas. its relation to the South. We were especially interested 'in Salt Lake City, Utah. ter the great colonizer. Brig this editorial because at the March 3. time we were living in College Dear Mr. Long: Station, Texas. Yesterday I had a thrill. I Texas is a Jim Crow" state, received a letter from President tax and the poll maintaining to be delivered to Mrs. and yours, H. R. W. Truman holding quite strongly to the Sleater. Around January 12 I views of the K)ld Southern Reb- visited her soon after her 100th els regarding the race quesbiftbday. Never have you seen tion. Some of the most obnox- .the" of 'Mir! TiV Deseret Son! But I didnt ious. weeds, are called. Yankee Nqwsequal ' printed pictures of , the weeds in. Texas and their cold " for held Her, and for Mrs. Sleater: houe open winds are called "Northers.' over Her the radio. she talked We dont claim to foe author!-- . home was filled lies on the race question, but daughters with flowers. All of thbm were living in ' the South under Jim sent to sick 'people, after the Crow and then recently living house. mm in Washington, D. C., where open I came home after my visit gives me real pleasure to, ex- discrimination there is no News-Journwith of the and read the against race and one-hal- f we have is colored, population some ideas on the subject. To us color makes no difference. If' a person is decent, honest and courteous that is what counts no matter if one is black, white, yeHow or green. We have met some fine neNegro George at the groes. Spur Experiment Station is undoubtedly the best laborer there and with him there is no color al . line drawn. One thing we have noticed of some colored people is that once they are given their liberty they seem to take unfair advantage of it. The people in the South realize this. The majority of the Southern people would like to see the colored people elevated to a higher plane in society but they know it will have to come gradually, toy education, and preceded they are opposed to any abrupt . change. . .Its e, Commercial sardine ' must be done at 2ht jw hi dark of the moon because V ermen spot the schools bv tit faint glow. ( . (Personally, if we were colored we would do all In our power to move north of the Mason-Dixo- n line. If some of the neovernight groes were moved from their shanty towns in the deep South to some colored sections of Washington, D. C., they probably would feel they e. o, were in heaven., . The negroes are a cheap supHow do you account for it? asked his ply of labor, but this benefit is because of the bur-de- n Edward is a mighty fine young soon lost good wife. of providing separate man. adschools. and other accounted for right in these answers vantages for them.municipal Negroes as Let a rule are not heavy taxpayers to the question'why? said Pitkin. me read you a few of the reasons given in and where there Is an equal or favor of Joe: larger proportion of black to 'Joe smiles when he sees me coming in. white, each white must, figuraJoe never fails to ask about little John- tively speaking, carry a black on his back as far as taxes go. ny. my crippled son. -- Tm sure he looked over your 1 didnt expect a write-up- . word on that, or even on my letter to him. Your paper Is something. In my estimation it has the OgdenStandard beat. I mean it! Peo- - i The most important thing isnt the weight of the load,, but ,the way, in which you carry - There's no cruise to Honolulu, diamond ring or 20 years supply of vitamin pills involved in Classy's Cash Contest which. if youre even a casual reader of the you've been hearing about thens good cash money. And your chances of winning are about 17,500 times better than in one of those super-super-dup- to a host take their home Wpw have endeared yourself in ex- what will make the toW them I join ot friends. t q. to you. ry on. wishes tending all good Hazel R. President Harry 5. Truman. Whiter - Member United Press, Audit Bureau of Circula-- tions, Utah State Press Association No Jrip To Honolulu ke sub-hea- d Published every Wednesday and Friday and efn tered as Second Class Matter at the post office in Brigham City, Utah, under the act of March 8, 1879. Subscription Rates: Box Elder County $4.09 a year; outside Box Elder County $5.00 a yea. Single copies 5 cents. - ; ofe - THE " BOX ELDER 10UHNAL ' : good-lOoki- s or if you had any income withheld, beteha items on which Uncle Sara spends we can guess what youll be doing this each item they have two ballot week-en- d . . . unless, of course, youre one of squares, in columns headed Keep It Lp the be will that and Out. Cut It gang plugging away at midnight Tuesday, March 15. on The form would be headed something your annual income tax returns. like this: That word return is always a little irSo you think your takes are too high, ritating to us. Were willing to admit that do you, Mr. Citizen? Okay, what would you tithing - is returned, but not federal or state do about it? Everything the government ' of Websters does, someone has howled for, long and taxes. The third sixth definition of the word might cover, but loudly. Every service, every institution, thats going a long way, down the column to every program was instituted and is mainbe correct. tained at the specific and repeated request of large groups of you Citizens. Were Taxes make us think about government getting sick and tired of your howling about spending, and paying taxes makes us resent federal spending. We know you want us to Ye can see the save money. We want to .save money. government spending. other. side of the problem, all right. A con- Okay, you tell us where! - Just check, in the gress and an executive get elected, firmly Columns below, the expenditures you think intending, to cut down expenses and save should be discontinued. Remember, this is the citizens a little money.' But when it a Democracy, and if most of the people comes time to cut, there always., is a loud want something you think is unnecessary, and eloquent chorus raised against .cutting theyll probably get it, and youll go right down on any- particular expenditure. ahead helping pay for it, brother ! But if There! , nothing the government can give some of these expenditures are overwhelm-ingl- y up, in the way of spending, that wont hurt unpopular with you Citizens, then somebodys feelings, and when somebody's well discontinue them. feelings are hurt, or in danger of being hurt, results After the cards are tabulated, somebody can make a terrific amount of racket around those District of Columbia should be published throughout the nation. We understand the danger of radical adlegislative halls. justments, and we arent recommending Weve. done a lot of thinking about this, discontinuation of federal functions the understand. We arent just firing quickfirst year on the recommendation of a sim ly from the hip. Weve got an idea for pie majority. solving the situation, and were offering it to Mr. Truman and Congress and Uncle But say the top ten percent of federal Sam absolutely free of charge. Of course, expense items, from the unpopularity standIf they want to be big about it, and send point, were abolished. Next year they us a Form 1040 for 1949, 1950, 1951 and could knock off another ten percent- - Fin1952 marked Paid in full dont bother. ally theyd have federal spending down to where no one would think it was excessive, Bill, wed be mighty grateful. and federal taxes would be something only Heres the idea. They add a couple ' (or the elderly people could remember. maybe 20 or 30) pages to Form 1040, und on it they list specifically the principal With a shudder wide-awa- Brigham City, Utah aws-Joum- - money-Opposit- txk zuDtiI . r- So raising the standard colored people would of the equalize the tax burden. We definitely feel that improvement in the South could be made along three lines: 1. Better schools for colored people: 2. Instant abolition of the poll tax giving all the chance to vote in a free election; and 3. Granting the right to a trial by an unbiased jury for alleged crimes. As for segregation, most colored folks dont care to associate with whites any more than the whites care to associate with colored, but as education is improved each man can stand on his awn feet and HERSHEY BARS Large size PI IE |