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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. Hyrum, Utah, Friday, July 2, 1948 Your Neck and That Other Guy Our countys traffic safety record could deteriorate As a matter with devastating alacrity this week-enof fact, its pretty likely to unless nearly everybody uses extraordinary caution, from the moment we climb into our cars until theyre back again, safely in the garage. Its simple mathematics, and the odds arent pleasant to contemplate. Very possibly 31,000,000 passenger cars in the United States will be trn our highways at some time during the three days of the Fourth of July weekend. Thirtyone million cars are enough almost to dog every street, highway and country road. Even) the will be subjected to heavy traffic during the three-da- y period. Main street and the street or road in front of your home wont be excepted. million drivers are enough to commit just Thirty-o- n about every error in judgment, enough to violate every motor vehicle law, enough to ignore every traffic safety rule ecer written or thought of. Ordinarily, driving a. car, you have to be careful. Theres always danger of getting yourself into trouble. But this weekend theres another guy you have to take into account : that witless nincompoop, that careless maniac, the guy driving the other car. You could be driving perfectly safely and sanely, and he could come along and wreck your car and kill all its occupants. Hes no one you know, this faceless moron. Dont let contemplation of him and the tricks he may pull cour you on your fellow-maBut keep him in mind nevertheless. If youre on the highway, hes your responsibility for the simple reason that its your neck thats involved. Someone has pointed out that no more sensible way of celebrating this great day could be imagined than for these 31,000,000 drivers to give it a place, in history as the first modern American holiday ever to be celebrated 4 d. by-wa- ys . . n. . , uy g so high that high wages mean very little. We ajl agreed that housewives are complaining bitterly about the cost of food. Sure, they are buying all the meat that is offered in the reteil shops, but they are not very happy about the prices they must pay. There most assuredly is no disposition on the part of livestock owners to gloat over the high pricjes they are receiving. Actually, stockmen have little or no voice in establishing the prices they receive for their livestock, nor do they have anything to say about the retail price of meat. These prices are established by the old laws of supply and demand. As a matter of fact, retail meat prices are established by the consumer, . and are based upon the ability and the willingness of the consumer to buy the supply of meat that is available. Buying power, reflected through high consumer income, as a result of the successful demands for higher and higher wages, is at an high. In the face of this, the meat of is dwindling because during and immsupply after the war, producers cut deeply into their ediately breeding herds in order to meet the record demands for meat. Hervy use of grains for industrial use and heavy exports abroad all helped to create the present shortage of meat. One of the Washington experts, in his letter this week, pointed out that most crops are good, with a bumper crop of corn likely this summer. Feed prices will drop somewhat, he predicts, and result in more - livestock. However, meat, milk and egg prices wont reflect the resultant lower prices until late next year which is a to time wait. He also predicts that higher proceslong sing costs will retard any decline in grocery prices. There wont be much difference in what the consumer pays, even though the farmer gets ess for the raw material. The difference will be eaten up by transportation, processing and profits along the way. It s encouraging to note that the U. S. consumption of meat, per capita, is slightly less than anticipated for the second quarter of this year. As a result the meat shortage we. were promised for this fall and winter remember ? may not materialize. The years available supply of meat is being spread out more evenly over the entire year. . . - . all-ti- , Good crops this summer should mean more meat on without a traffic fatality. 1950. the market And more meat on the market It should be remembered tha; detath never visits a should mean by relatively lower prices. highway scene unless someone has been driving recklessly. Thats 1950, ladies and gentlemen. Can you wait? ' Adherence to a few simple rules could make this a death- less holiday week-end- . Youve heard these .simple rules so often, its almost theyre insulting to repeat them. But this week-enriskwhos doubly important. It isnt just you, yourself, and this ing your life. Its the other driver as well week-en- d theres likely to be 30,999,999 of him! So remember: Drive slowly in heavy traffic and do not try to pass other cars on hills or curves. Keep on 'he right side of the road at all times, do not speed and do not weave in and out of traffic. Do not drive when you feel drowsy or if youve been drinking. ' Be sure your lights are right, your brakes good, your steering mechanically perfect. ' 31,000,000 And if youre one of this week-endgood luck. Youll need it! d, s! Gnn Reaper By Bill Long Im going t Todap- P"7 thing fine for young fat! gmgi to advise them to build a fence for ts no use. The baby M ' lTc in a pen as long as it takes jpcul: to build it. " (fri What made me think of baby-fenJ saw tlJ It was a beautiful! day. made out of this heaw 1 1 steel fence used around Jof and big factories, it had rod across the top, with welded to it, and steel w the bay? I asked the the house. Yes, she said he got out of it even be1 Eec; P. a ce , m was finished. ') spec I crar I remembered one hot da summer. The learned to climb out of her ? pen, one of those small, be slat affairs they put babies? keep them from crawlings and pulling off table scam; one-year-o- bric-a-bra- If youre c. Gal li; a sola pn qu: & and interested in this disc; you know what a play-pAbout the time a baby turn' is u? year old, a play-pe- n e Thats what it is! the Anway, Little i Wife I the baby was getting out and oli Id have tok in tfr' fence pen her, yard that the baby would be tented to stay and play the inclosure. I put up jl battle. Id built pens for i of the two older kids, as f play-pe- n, for turned a year old. T built a told the L. hold her as to build it. Billy, ; fence for Judy w:, and it c long as it toot I built a fence ? and while I still was b amused ' liimsd' j back and forth af the part already finished. f ing it climbing he- - It sounded like a pretty i logical argument to me. Itf The American Farmer American farmers are living more like city folks than at any time since pioneer days. And barring war or economic catastrophe, the living standard of rural families measured in goods, services and opportunities is likely to continue to advance toward a new. high level, in . . the next decade. laugh. The L. W. put on a expression and began painting horrors of our beloved yoc-- running out into the street, cars sped heedlessly by. She world pictures of the darling font gnashed by the savage of huge and hungry dogs d cruise the neighborhood in b stant search of unfenced olds. She reminded me that Fathers Day by little brood I paid me honor for my in;r, and devotion to them the ; around. I bought a roll of and some posts and started bu ? one-y- c Not long ago the cover of the Saturday Evening Post carried a picture, painted from life, of a farmer, and his family seated in their living room. They had to add a picture of a prize steer, and two blue ribbons, shown hanging on the wall. If it werent for this fictitious adI dition, it would have been difficult to identify, either the ing fence. or home as the a farm family. people Farm income has almost tripled since, the beginning It 'was a hot day, that but I swung the of the war. Part of these earnings have been - translated from morn to night. I & into more comforts and less work. That extra money sledge that about four inches besides meeting the inflation spiral at each turn has ground, in our yard, huge n; meant better homes,, modem kitchens, electricity and formed a solid wall of resis the water. It has meant better and more efficient machinery, to any such thing as wore end of a steel post. I lightening the farmers physical burden and increasing his ers on my hands, cracked r productivity. It has meant better, care of the land, and self on the shins with its priceless fertility. It has helped 2,500,000 fewer farm- sledge when Id miss the my back, i ers harvest 20,000,000 more acres today than before, the and advice, offered neighbors war. little help. Stretching Whpe farm income! has trebeled, farm savings are was reminded for the third more than four times what they were in 1940,. and, the is no job for an amateur. doesnt national farm mortgage debt has been reduced by 20 three experiences I you an expert. Farmers arent themselves percent. today mortgaging up to their necks to buy land, as they did after World1 War All hr all, it took about I, More than any other vocational class, theyr, seem to hours of my time, a total time. hours of the neighbors have learned from experience.. as Js More and more fanning is coming to be what many about $30 for that fence of it as evpr got built. a great way of life, if you and behold, ere the atevj always have known it to be and' know your business and have got what it takes. hung, before I had it tW t on Once upon a time the American farmer had only, to securely to the house c was feed the United States. Now it seems he has the world end, the forth and or much of it to feed. Its a big job. It behooves Ing merrily back talles the at that fence, us to wish him success! Seven Continued On Page , -f The High Price Of Meat The national political party conventions, the heavyweight championship and hows fishing stack up very well as conversational topics, admittedly, but for general interest and incidence they dont hold a candle to the high price of meat. As background information for your future participation in discussions of the popular topic, heres a concise and forthright discussion from an editorial by Nelson R. Crow which appears in the current issue of the Western Livestock Journal. Those of us who spend a great deal of our time working with cattlemen, catttle feeders and breeders of registered livestock had quite a confab the other day, and, of course, the discussion was centered on prices. We all agreed that stockmen generally are. taking a sober view of the price situation. There are few who are particularly elated about the relatively high prices being paid on the markets for fat catttle, and it must.be admitted that the cost of replacement cattle, is rather frightening. It is true that wage earners have very, high buying power, yet the cost of everything the wage earner must e P: sun-burn- ed . ; , one-year-- |
