Show f The GARLAND TIMES f Published at Garland Utah —A little city in which People like to live SECOND SECTION Local and personal happenings from the communities of the Bear River Valley Advertising messages from Editorial and Magazine Features of interest to all the family merchants who are anxious to serve To present the news of our city and county completely and fairly every week Our Aim: To foster the growth of a sense of valley wide unity and pride that will pay dividends in Talley progress To give expression to the finest ideals that are characteristic of the people of the communities we serve Vol3 No 15 $200 The Year Garland UtahThursday November 13 1930 Times Timely Comments (EDITORIAL) OUR GREATEST CRIME PREVENTION GLORY CONSISTS THEORIES FAIL According to the American Eugenics Society crime costs the United States at least $10000000000 a year In other words every 3 seconds we sustain an loss of $1000 due to crime Thus Crime becomes a financial as well as a social problem We must all pay for it Scientific crime prevention then not only safeguards the persons and properties of our citizens but directly benefits their pocketbooks Unfortunately there has been little scientific crime prevention in the United States We have attempted to fight crime on the thepry that a social and economic disease can be cured by legislation Recently the Grand Jury in one of the largest American cities charged that there alwas a liance between the police department the corrupt politicians and the crime element Protection of this nature is the greatest possible stimulant to crime It can only be stopped by a public demand for the enforcement of basic laws Crime statistics indicate that major crimes such as murder manslaughter and This in spite robbery are on theincrease of a vast volume of suppressive legislation while it restricts the has no effect on the OIL—THE “NUISANCE” It is interesting to note that sudden demand for what was hitherto considered a nuisance — crude oil — led to the founding of the American petroleum industry Many years later a similar demand for another nuisance — gasoline — was responsible for the industry’s amazing expansion and development In 1859 crude oil was regarded s a valueless substance encountered by salt drillers The world need for a satisfactory illuminant — kerosene — found a u$e “for it — Years later the discovery and application of electricity to lighting seemed to forecast the sudden death of the oil inThen the automobile came into dustry existence and a tremendous demand was created for gasoline which to the ind'us- try had been a waste found in distilling crude oil The war accelerated the demand for The birth of the machine age petroleum brought with it a need for lubricants of all kinds The airplane came into being as an important consumer As a result the oil industry almost overnight found that its facilities were entirely inadequate New fields were discovered new refineries built and old ones enlarged transportation facilities ex More efficient processes were tended developed and market outlets increased No other industry has been called upon to make so great a capital outlay within so short a time or to so enlarge its scope This cataclysmic progress was responsible for the industry’s present problem — mainly that of Once it was called upon to perform a necessary public service in producing more oil Now it is giving every effort to achieving another and eqully important public service — that of adjusting supply to demand and reserving our invaluable petroleum resources EXPENSIVE BUT IN RISING EVERY TIME WE FALL— Ralph Waldo Emerson ork according to a recent survey by Foundation of Chicago The survey analyzes the average farm income by states In one state with an average of only one horsepower per worker the average crop value per worker is In another state where each $475 a year worker has the equivalant of 141 horse power the average income is $1700 It is said that mechanical power will reduce or double the speed labor about one-ha- lf of operation Electric power —the most efficient and economical form of mechanical powr-e- r —is being extended to American farms throughout the nation as rapidly as possible In its widespread use is at least a partial solution of farm problems and the key to agricultural prosperity Animal power is generally wasteful expensive and inefficient The machine is doing for the farm what it has done for indushis w the American Research try SAVINGS HAVE WE LEARNED A LESSON? It is said that the investment in the waterway from Chicago to St Louis will No great industry was harder hit by cent five At aggregate $27500000 per interest this means an annual capital cost the recent industrial depression than of $1375000 The estimated maintenmining Prices of metals — principally copper ance cost is $338000 a year and for three months of the year the waterway will be — have been at the lowest point in many is useless because of ice years The result has been a falling off Therefore if it in mining payrolls employment purchasto return a profit to the public the waterAn industry ing power and dividends way must in nine months of each year effect a saving in freight rates of more which is losing monfcy cannot progress than $1713000 Modern America needs nlore copper zinc and other metals than it has The proposed Mississippi wraterway lead needed before The demands for would cost $98000000 Almost $7000-00- 0 ever will return to normal mine products would be saved annually in freight There is every reason that the present decosts before it justified its existence Asis only temporary suming that the wrater rate is 20 per cent pression below the rail rate the wrater carriers beBut we should have learned one lestween St Louis and Minneapolis would son from it — that we must be careful in Exrequire freight revenues aggregating 35 our legislative treatment of miningmillion dollars a year to effect this saving cessive taxes and multitudes of restrictive — almost six times the entire revenue of laws are discouraging to the industry evthe Inland Waterway Corporation in en in prosperous times —and in times of 1929 depression they are ruinous Those who have advocated higher taxes and more A multitude of experts have declared that waterway developments would never laws for mining in order to “relieve” The people should other industries many of which are depay for themselves watch carefully when schemes " are “ad- pendent on mining for much of their livelihood had best turn their attention elsevanced for wholesale expenditure of pubwhere lic funds POWER DETERMINES INCOME FARM KISSED FOR TWO PAPERS HE REPRESENTED Appeal is told in a recent issue of the San Francisco Examiner Instructed by the Examiner to meet the actress in Reno and accompany her to the coast Davis made such an impression that on arrival she refused to have any contact with other newspaper men When she was leaving sne put her hands upon Davis’ shoulders kissed him upon either cheek and then squarely upon the mouth remarking as she did so : “The right cheek for the Carson Appeal the left for the Examiner the lips my friend for yourself' “Madam” said Davis without the slightest sign of bashfulness “I also represent the Associated Press which serves 380 papers wrest of the Mississippi river” IN HOME AND INDUSTRY Gas along with electricity and water has become one of the services vital to modern home life Up to recent years it was used almost But now gas heating solely for cooking and cooling systems as well as gas refrigerators are giving the home owner new standards of convenience cleanliness efficiency economy and comfort Gas has long been the preeminent industrial fuel It is taking a foremost place in the home Visitor — Those are wonderful strawberries you have there Do you use fertilizer on them? Farmer —No just cream and sugar Tom — That’s an expensive car It will run into five figures Joe — Well I don’t know how many it will run into but I’d have- - been of them just now if I had not jumped out of the way AMATEUR NIGHT While one Chicago man was shooting himself in the leg when cleaning his gun another let a rival ganster get away with a mere flesh wound because his automatic That was Tuesday evenpistol jammed ing which must have been amateur night in Chicago — Kansas City Star HE SAID 380! A story of how the late Sara BernThe income of the modem farmer is determined to a large degree by the hardt noted actress favored the late Sam Davis editor of the Carson City (Nev) amount of mechanical power employed in rTTL 1 111 llA L ilJLb (TSx V rTTL 1 JL NOT IN NEVER FALLING “TIME’S UP!” He who buys radio time for fifteen minutes and tries to talk sixteen knows what it is to have words snatched from his mouth — Boston Transcript Reliable Studies Show that when home the mercrhants cease to advertise the mail order houses prosper |