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Show REFLEX JOURNAL BULLETIN LEADER AUGUST 12, 1982 U.S. Needs The Mexican Workers And They Need More Of Our Dollars AND COMPLAINTS the American economy is being siphoned off by illegal Mex- By TOM BUSSELBERG SALT LAKE CITY Whether many Americans like it or not, the United States needs Mexican workers just as much as its southern border needs that shot in the arm it's big brother can give. The barn and graneries are captured in this photograph taken 47 years ago at the John H. Layton farm. - LAYTON An article in last weeks paper announced the John H. Layton home at 683 W. Gentile, Layton was just placed on the National Historical Register. The article described the home in detail and told a brief history of John H. and Hannah Layton, the original owners of this very impressive house. FRANKIE Josephine L.ayton Dickson was bom in this home just shortly after the building was completed. She is one of two children born to John H. and Hannah Layton who are still living. The memories of Josie Dickson growing up in Layton at the turn of the century are beautifully preserved in a journal of her life written by her husband, Elburn Dickson. The following article is taken from this journal. THE NEW year in 1898 was just 12 days old when the twelfth child of John H. and Hannah Maria Phillips Layton was bom in the Newly built home. The regularity of the labor pains had given time to summon the midwife, Emma Sargent Nicholls, who arrived in time to officiate at the delivery. The baby was named Frankie Josephine. She was bom on the same day that the last living member of her four grandparents, Hannah Phillips, had died. JOSIES mother was en- dowed with a generous amount of musical talent. The family had acquired an assortment of records of the best vintages and the family spent many evenings listening to Caruso, McCormick, Gallicurchi, Chopin and Emma Lucy Gates. Near the phonograph stood a Story and Clark piano. Josie still has the piano and phono- graph. Grandma, Lottie, Leona, Josie and Norma all played the piano with a skill rarely seen. THE HOME boasted an attractive picket fence. Adjacent to the house on the south was a utility room equipped with a coal range stove, a half ton flour bin, a cream separator and a washing machine. The basement of this room housed a furnace that circulated steam heat to all twelve rooms. This was the first such heating plant installed in any home in Layton. hand-operat- CLOSE BY this utility room was a thick stonewalled cellar, partly underground, a most ideal place for the storage of farm produce and vegetables. The south wall was shelved and was laden with a variety of bottled fruits and pickles. A sturdy pole spanned the building to which was hung several home cured hams and shoulders and in cool weather a half or quarter of choice beef. Josies family not only had the reputation of being welldoers and thrifty but of setting one of the best tables in town. The meals always contained a rich variety of garden fresh vegetables and generous servings of lamb, pork, poultry or choice beef. The meal was topped off with cream puffs, pie, cake and delicious homemade ice cream. North American people the problem stems like a direct threat to security. THAT OAERFLOWS into beliefs that social problems have increased due to Mexican influx and created an "economic burden for the American taxpayer. He said the situation is perceived as a problem when it's perceived Mexican workers are displacing Americans. The Mexican worker generally performs tasks the Americans won t do. The nature of the work, salary and barrels on skids to get drinking water from this well. When the town piped spring water to the homes the well fell into disuse. The two hundred plus acres of the Layton farmland is located in a half a dozen plots adjacent to the homestead. Josie inherited a choice building lot near the homestead and 28 acres of the Layton estate. by the American because of its (often) temporary nature were substantiated by two programs conducted in San Diego and Los Angeles. IN EFFORTS to recapture jobs held by illegal aliens an attempt was made to fill vacan- EXTENDING from the homestead to the street an onlooker can still see a flawless cement sidewalk with the name Layton etched at the cies created when arrested Mexicans were evicted by end. Paralleling this walk was a hedge. Another hedge skirted the eastern edge of nearly a quarter acre lawn. The lawn itself was further adorned by four native evergreens, two spruce and two long needled pines. One of those dreaded east winds uprooted two of the trees. 11 dwelling. IN THE beginning the nurture of these populars required the planters to both carry and haul water for all those years before water from the Davis and Weber canals was available. The pasture sporting its native grown grass served numerous horses, sheep and cattle for more than 75 years. It was plowed up in 1964. The Layton family was among the first in town to own an automobile. Their first car was a Hudson and their second a Hudson Super Six with jump seats. Josie was about 15 when she thrilled at being able to drive this luxurious car. Kaysville cousins would come over to visit Aunt Annie. They, together with Josie, would dress in knee and ankle length dresses and would wallow and splash around in the big irrigation ditch out front. IN JOSIES youth she fell in Americans. It failed, largely because employers paid less than the minimum wage, Dr. Chac said, adding that in San Diego similar failure resulted after efforts to retain unemployed Anglos failed. Citing statistics refuting PERSONAL The John H. Layton home, recently listed with the National Register of Historic Places, is shown just after a snowstorm in 1905. MEMORIES claims Mexicans place a heavy drain on American social service agencies, he said of 433 interviewed in one study taxes had been withheld for nearly percent of the workers s while more than had a ponon withheld for So75 love with baseball and the rougher sports. She did have one special love and that was ice skating. Her favorite rink was in the south end of the cow pasture and east of the tithing yard, now filled for the houses on Ronald Avenue. At age five Josie followed her brother Harold and Clyde Bone into the barn for explorations. The 25 foot hay stacked to the rafters challenged her curiosity. By means of crude steps carved in the hay by her brother Ed with a hay knife, she inched her way to the top. Her explorations were cut short by a slip and then a tumble to the bottom. The impact not only knocked her breath out but left her unconscious for a scarry two hours. manager. Three of the six officers including the president were girls. The Domestic arts teacher pursued her pet project, namely, to design and make uniform dresses for the girls and suits for the boys and faculty. The dress goods for the girls was a light serge with black serge for the faculty and navy blue serge for the boys. The project never got off the ground. the lines from her grasp. The loose lines dangling under foot instigated a runaway. The mare missed the gate on the west side of the field , veered to the right and picked up speed as it ran to the northern extremity of the field only to be halted by the fence. As a youth Josie attended school at the nearest of seven schools in Layton. Like many other students at Layton Elementary she gives Elijah King high marks as a gifted teacher. IN HER day this school had but three rooms, one upstairs and two downstairs. She esti- mates that the number of pupils attending was 40 or 50. There was an outdoor privy and drinking water was self served from a bucket with a dipper hanging from the wall. At the ringing of the bell pupils lined up like soldiers outside the front door and marched in HER LIFE was only spared the luck of landing on a padding of loose hay. With no real doctor available the family had to settle for an army orderly by the name of Ingram. His lack of training resulted in a faulty set bone on her right leg. by THE TELEPHONE was another luxury she enjoyed. The Layton family telephone In her number was "28R4. day you turned a crank to get central (the telephone operator). When she responded you gave her the number which she in turn rang. With a half a dozen neighbors on the same line you were sure to have eaves droppers listening in. This made your business everybodys business. Groups of young people made use of the pasture as headquarters for a variety of games. On some of the hot summer days some of the r' r r" 4 Lombardy popular trees were branded by the Gentiles ture located west of the the Immigration Issues conference held last week in Salt Lake City was told. Dr. Manuel Canto Chac, a social sciences professor at the National University of Mexico, who said, "I feel for an important section of the IN THE earlier times just west of the rock cellar, the Layton family boasted a flowing well capable of supplying culinary water and also drinking water for the flocks and herds. Neighbors came with as designating Mormon country. The Layton homestead boasted a long row of these trees boardering the northern perimeter of a four acre pas- ican immigrants who also make heavy use of schools and social services are unfounded, to a stirring march played generally by a student. Josie often played the march music. In the fall of 1913 Josie attended Central High School at Kaysville. For lack of room some of the students were quartered in the city hall next to the jail. The main group were schooled in the old academy building located in the northwest part of town. Days later after going through the torture of transportation by buggy for 15 miles with her leg on a flat board, Dr. Rich of Ogden rebroke the leg. After weeks in a cumbersome cast, the tiny girl had the plaster removed. Dr. Rich used her fathers sharp pocketknife to rip off the cast and in so doing cut a bone deep gash, a foot long, into the patients leg. THE YEARBOOK was called the Purple and White. It showed pictures of the six faculty members with their identity. The next page displayed the photos of the studentbody officers which consisted of a president, a first vice president, a second vice president, a debating coach, a secretary and treasurer and an athletic AT THE age of 9 Josie persuaded brother Harold to let her change from tame old Chub on the second hay rake to the lead rake with a scarry mare. Minutes after the change, Joseis mare with a brisk switch of the tail whipped SINCE THIS idea of high schools for Davis County was still in its infancy, Central High School in the year 1913-1- 4 accmodated only freshmen, sophomores and juniors. In 1914-1- 5 the Purple and White changed to The Davis. The students attended a light brick building which is still part of Davis High School. A similar building had been erected in Bountiful and bore the name South Davis High School. Three hundred seventy-one students attended high schools in Davis County this year. Of these 280 went to the Central High School. Forty-seve- n were from Layton, dmg Kilfovle Family Reunion Set LAYTON The Kilfoyle family reunion will be held August 14 at 12 noon at the I.O. Stoker Park in Syracuse, 1125 W. 1600 S. THOSE attending should bring their own food, history roots and fun. For additional information contact Jim Hill or Verna Hill np 295-547- 4 two-third- cial Security benefits. "MORE THAN 96 percent said they did not have any children in public schools and more than 94 ercent said they did not use welfare or medical he continued, assistance, noting the cost of social services rendered to Mexicans was estimated at $2 million while they paid nearly $50 million in taxes dunng the same year. I LOST 101 POUNDS Where babysitting ends ' Mr and learning begins... The ONE TIME ONLY Diet Center changed the way I feel about food, life and myself. 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Further quoting from unnamed studies he indicated 71 percent remained in this country four months or less before their first trip" back to Mexico and only 11 percent worked more than a year before that first trip "Does the American eco- nomy require Mexican labor?" he asked. "If vou cor sider some of the difficulties it s often necessary to have (their) labor in some areas " Again citing wages, length of work he said Mexican workers becomes a condition for such labors. "I HATE to imagine what would happen to (many ) small businesses w hen they lose that (labor supply ). Who would be willing to work any longer hours?" Continuing. Dr. Chac said. "Lip to now, the force of undocumented workers, I dare say, was a necessity of the North American work force." He called it reminiscent of tides against immigration in 1930 on the dawn of the Great Depression: in 1454 during the Korean War conflict and sime 1975. WHY DO Mexicans seek work in the United Stales? The levels of unemployment are far higher there. Dr. Chac said, noting many jobs are not geared to high levels of employment along with lower salaries. "The incapacity of the Mexican economy to otTer labor at an appropriate level as a consequence means of required escape valve " such as workers going across the border for it. r . FOR THE Mexican esc norm to be able to absorb all o' its workers, a 6b percent n crease in the economv wooM be necessary, he continued, noting that "without doubt those levels are veiy ditlic, to obtain" and aie often ot i more "technical level" thn tends totavoi the use ot ,apn (fundsi over labor " Current attitudes lead creation of a social climate r a favorable to temporan wo t and that would elemiia bilingual schools and the rying out ot periodic raids t,u illegal aliens It's a tae ,i Americans possible :hik'tv "We thought we would r, ceive (he benefit of Mexw. n work without (paving the cost " MEANWHILE, the Me view is lean government's continue maintaining i r tinc "escape valve" loi ns to the I nited Slates It w as further noted th r technology developed h American enterpnscs has K " come a "direct cause ot in Mexico w ith opinion of illegal aliens returning ie their homeland changed TIES WITH Mexico sun I Di lightlv Chac said, noting trade wih Mexico now has surpassed Germany and the I nited kint. dom with the U.S and ih..' trade benefits both sides "To state the solution to the problem of illegal immigration it's not a problem ot a rich economy among poor eso nomies (Central and South America) but they countries are poor because of the riches of this economy be considered ' . 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