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Show f r lagt THE JOURNAL 4 MOSCOW LOUDLY APPLAUDS Optimistic About U. S. Future V M 5f There have been warnings, from time to tin .1 resources of the United States would be exhausted the population of this country, in some future d to maintain a suitable find itself sh 5t: , hard-presse- living. For the benefit of readers who may have ru such fears, we call attention to the statement of G. Moulton, president of the Brookings Institution v that the underlying resources of the United State support a century hence a population at least double tv the present on a plane of living some eight times a vu that of the present. This prediction, if accurate, and Dr. Moulton in a position to have the facts on which to base an foS forecast, seems to allow ample room for exoanmrTt, Tt United States during the next hundred years. After tht might as well let some other generation worry. Borrowing at a High Bate 1 ,1 ; i . i S' ! ( The JOURNAL A weekly newspaper published in ; !' i WII w w the interests of the residents of Davis County, at Layton, Utah. Entered as second-clas- s matter at under Act of the Layton, Utah, March 8, 1879. Business experts know that the lending of money at a record-breakin- g pace, with the Government, cominc: banks and other credit agencies falling over themselva provide funds to consumers. A financial writer suggests that there are some perils ' connection with a large private debt, especially in view of tj large volume of installment loans outstanding. Neverther figures show that credit advanced in 1949 was 9.7 per of disposable income. This compares with eleven percent! 1939 and 9.2 per cent in 1929. Apparently, this is about a normal rate but there been some expansion of credit since the end of last year. One phase of the commercial credit policy revolves arour home building. Veterans are allowed to buy with no downp? ment and the public generally gets low interest rates and lot periods in which to pay- - The fear is that a downturn in W ness could throw much of this property on the market but! view of the population increase of 19,000,000 people in iltAlJ ten years, this seems unlikely. Retailors Are the Victims A spokesman for one of the principal retail associate of the country recently said that retailers are being made u victims of an intolerable situation resulting from delays J Sound Mind Mtkcs a Sound Cody final government action to eliminate excise taxes. Stores i Published By TODAY'S PIECE is inspired by a woman who lives in Flushing, serious sales losses on excise taxed merchandL suffering INLAND PRINTING CO. I New York, and who requests that.we use only her initials, L B. and these losses are mounting daily Phone: Kaysville 10 Mrs. L, B. 8 husband has been ill a long time, not down and Many prospective purchasers of taxed merchandisebe i out, but always feeling bad. Eventually he developed nervous Indigestion (Which usually comes from worry.) postponing their buying in the hope that the taxes will J WrUBCD Month after month he frequented the doctors' ofpealed. And in the meantime, the retailers are not the c; UTAH STATE PtlftS ASSOCIATION fices, trying first one and then the other. He got ones who are adversely affected. Production is down in k no better; if anything, he was consistently NATIONAL EDITORIAL getting factories which produce the goods and employment suffc worse. Finally, he consulted a chiropractor who ASSOCIATION treatments accordingly. for a of months. But 23? couple still there was no improvement in his condition. These excise taxes were 100 per cent war measures, .be could see that he was not only not imNat'l. Advertising Representative was widely said and believed that they would be proP he was proving, steadily becoming a chronic Newspaper Advertising Service. repealed when the war ended. Yet they are going on 22 No. Michigan Ave. h years after the last shot was fired. They apply to many Chicago, 111. Then one day Mrs. L.B. read a list of tual necessities transportation tickets, for example, baoy and watek books in a newspaper that doctors recomSubscription: $1.00 Per Year well as as jewelry cosmetics, costly inexpensive Carnegta in Advance. Payable mended for nervous patients, patients suffer- a taxed items or so on. and one of time the Each we In combination buy with from nervous disorders of any kind. She went right Ing no I The Weekly Reflex, $3.00 per year. ices, we must pay up to 20 per cent more than the those books. Why, they didn't seem in the feast like medical books. Instead . purchase price because of -- this levy. aC they were F oi common-sens- e Albert W. Epperson books." But she read them, and she just Past Congresses have postponed consideration Editor Manager persuaded her husband to read them. This wasn't diffitax repeal. This Congress is at last but slowly-li to cult do for he was like the proverbial drowning man Richard O. Anderson around to doing something about it. Some Congressm , News Editor grasping for a straw. He was sick of being sick! half. Howe taxes about the should that be reduced by J. V. Woolsey to the oe demands P,artKu',ar hoght do yu thlnk carried through for total their repeal mentary justice Display Advertising Manager Ju.st this: To live one day at a time, and not to worry fjk V the past everyone. Ernest R. Little nor to take heed for the future. Classified 'llttmir l: HUY-- tYfllilM'llfr 'Mil 'HIM' WlJQ -- c c ... d ' , 4, 4t j If i H T Why when he started that course," says Mrs. L. B., 4 ne at once began to improve.. He became. less Advertising Manager nervous, he discarded the idea newly developed that he SALLY'S SALLIES must have heart trouble, and he even enjoyed playing with our son whose noise and activities so recently had unnerved him." In an amazingly short time my husband was cured. I hope our experience may help some of completely whose trouble, though maybe unknown to them, is your readers purely mental We have found to our great benefit that when the mental attitude is right little will go wrong with the self. physical Senator Kenneth S. Wherry, Nebraska Republican, says 1950 will be the crucial year in which the grand jury of the people will decide on whether America is to go farther down the road to spendthrift socialism and national bankruptcy or call a halt and get onto freedom highway.' The record shows that that choice cannot safely be left to Washingtons bureaucrats and politicians. The job of stopping the spenders is a job for the average citizen. Stanley High in Readers But he wants his eyes tested for six-year-- old television, tpo. Doctor. Free Elections' Offer Farce . V There is no reason why any American should j by the Russian proposal for free elections in w conditions attached by the Communists include the ... al of all troops from the former German capital. This would be vastly different in effect tions and upon Russia. The Soviet troops would wit to the boundaries of the city, since their zone eneir ot g The United States, British and French Jroop,J zo hand, would have to withdraw to the British where, many miles away. u neiaf Withdrawal of the Western Allied troops wou of Western authority not only in West BerJ of the River Elbe. It would permit the Russians t munist German organizations to move into the nfesta$; of the capital, carry out a purge for the purpose Vj yj ing a democratic order and then the Russians Berlin. , up. . & |