Show THE rage 2 GARLAND THE GARLAND TIMES Wm Vernald TIMES GARLAND DIFFICULT FRIDAY MARCH 20 UTAII BALANCING Cuba It might be oi to those who are envious of the slight benefit that' farmto know ers receive from this that the government has collected more than $2000000 a year in excess of what was intended to help equalize the cost of labor in the United States against the peon help in Cuba The total accumulation is in excess of over and above all $230000000 administrative costs and expenditures and it has gone into the treasury of the United States not to the farmers If the time comes when these differences of cost become greater a greater amount of this collected fund will be awarded to the farmers who grow sugar beets My good friend has intimated that our present Secretary of Agriculture and the President would deny the farmers this slight token of adjustment to equalize costs of production On the contrary I find the President has expressed a very friendly attitude toward the “sons of the soil” who sweat long arduous hours to feed the American millions better than any other country on earth NATIONAL- - interest EDITORIAL ASOCITIN sara io i i:j Entered as Second Class Mail Matter A u mist Post Office at Garland Utah $200 Subscriptions: Year Per $250 at the 1928 Outside of County From Christy's Scrap File By L THE C ChristophersoD WHO FRIEND JUST STANDS BY come your soul to try friend who just “stands by" Perhaps there’s nothing he can do — The thing is strictly up to you When troubles You love the For there are troubles all your own And paths the soul must tread alone And times when love can’t smooth the road Nor friendship lift the heavy load But just to feel you have a friend will “stand by” unto the end I Whose sympathy through all endures warm Jiandclasp is always yours— It helps some way to pull you through Although there’s nothing he can do Whose And so with fervent “God bless the heart you friend who cry just ‘stands by’!” — Author unknown to me The Black Taffeta Dress By Rebecca Mary Dunston remembered distinctly the expression on her husband’s face that morning when she had shown him the ad “But what about the dinner dress you bought labt fall? Do styles change that quickly?” “No but — ” “But what?” “Well the cleaners must have It won’t done something to it zip A1 had looked at her waistline smiled and said nothing His silence was as disturbing as the pun he got off every time she put a little jab on her breakfast toast: “Better watch that middle-ag- e spread” M Osborn Secretary “maintain the( Sugar Industry” the book written by Joshua Bernhardt entitled “Thirty Years of The Sugar Industry” on page 212 he may read that the Secretary is directed “to use those ne' cessary means to maintain the domestic industry as a whole" Now as to his statement tnat “it is just not so” that half the factories erected in the United States are not running today: 1 t0 hjs bulletin published by the Sugar De United of States the Branch partment of Agriculture revised in 1950 On page 19 it states that there have been 168 factories erected in the United States only 83 of i which were running at the end of 1950 There have been seven more factories close since that time This reveals as I stated that LESS than half of those erected These two are in operation authoritative books can be found in the library of the general manI ager at the Garland factory would like to further mention a Bulletin published by the Marof the Sugketing Administration ar Beets for the crop 1952 and therein-- a letter written by Pickett Peyton of the Coca In table was taking cherry pie “On a diet?” a curious was face It at was it— no a Al second slice of asked There on his hard work but she kept cream in her coffee fruit at no refreshments for dessert sewing club no mints at afternoon bridge Four days five days six She longed for a hot roll days t dinner or single helping of dessert Two days before the dance she took the black taffeta dress from the closet The dress slipped on easily She tried the zipper She could close it without effort Happily she stepped The in front of the long mirror black dress hugged her slimly except at the hips There it bagged a little The skirt was actually too large! Well her dressmaker Mrs Netty could alter It Mary Dunston finished the mornand an hour later ing chores knocked on Mrs Netty’s door “Good morning Mrs Netty” "Come in come in” Mrs Netty urged Mrs Dunston followed her Into the fitting room and 'held out the dress —"Can e by you alter this Saturday? It will have to be taken in a little at the hips” Mrs Netty’s quick fingers with their rough knobby joints went over the seams of the dress rapidly She lay back the sash and looked at the zipper She ’nodded She had a twinge of conscience as she recalled her explanation to him The cleaners might have been careless but there was also the matteof eight extra pounds that the bathroom scale registered The extra pounds had got her a the January new dress during sales— a black taffeta with simple slimming lines Knowing you had the right thing to wear made it so much easier to finish up the dinner dishes hustle the children to bed and dress to gc out with your husband to dinner The dlnnerwas just two weeks away Mrs Dunston lifted the dress carefully from the hanger and held it up It might pass for a size 16 She slipped it over her head and eased the skirt gently down over her hips When she tried to pull up She the zipper it wouldn't pnove wisely pulled harder and the zipper moved ’Taking It in again?” she asked up an inch She stopped to adjust Mrs Dunston looked at her the waistline and began again On the outside of the closet door sharply she asked “Again?" mirror was a Mrs "Why yes Your husband brought Dunston stood sidewise to it and at her figure this dress In two weeks ago Said looked analytically like it smaller at tha waist The dress was too tight! At dinner Mary Dunston dug her If it Isn’t right I’ll make good on spoon hard into the last section it But I took it down a whole size ‘ of a half grapefruit Al across the i Mrs Charles Cutler entertained her bridge club Wednesday Mrs F L Nye was a special guest Prizes went to Mrs Mary Bradford Mrs Ellery Ilall and Mrs Grace Haws — Holmgren Reiterates Recent Statements On Sugar Industry Who i I want to say too that there are fewer fanners today to do this task compared to the people they feed than at any previous time One more thing should be said to encourage fanners to plant beets While other this year because of crops might decline that are hanging over surpluses us that is not so in respect to Our quota is 1800000 sugar tons per year and we have only reached that twice during the life of the Sugar Act I do hope the farmers of our county will take advantage of the favorable weather and higher prices in prospect for this crop the coming year I feel sure that with our means mechanical of thinning and the improved and hoeing methods of harvesting there is reason to plant beets at good this time E J Holmgren of the coming prognostications as follows: Lam- sugar prices bom & Company B W Dyer & Company and Farr & Company For some reason or other those who wish to express their toward farmers aiways indicate that they are accepting from the government My purpose at this time is to subsidies clarify some points on which I The good president uses this obbeen by the noxious beet have word toward the challenged the Employees The farmers and I resent it president of Union No 23461 Affiliate Na- conditional payment we receive tional Council Sugar Workers and from the government is no more Allied Industry Unions American of § subsidy than the Social SeFederation of Labor curity and Old Age Benefits in I am sure that he is interested fact it is far less of one I want that the proin the sugar business as sincere- to make this clear tax of 53 cents is colly as I am and I compliment cessing 100 lbs of sugar him on his endeavors to promote lected on every United States This the planting of more sugar beets refined in the to provide a I must however take exception tax was intended to fund equalize the cost of proof the Sugar Act his opinion the of sugar beets in duction renewed and made by Congress to United States as compared again in 1948 for it does direct the costs of processing sugary to of the Agriculture — Communication Mr & Mrs D C Goodsell and daughters of Shelley Idaho were Mr dinner guests Sunday of Mrs Eamel Nielson They also The ladies visited in Iloneyville are sisters Manufacturand Chocolate ers He wrote this to the Secreon of January Agriculture tary 1 1952: "Our present problem therefore is to obtain sugar prices which will to use the language of the Act ’fairly and equitably maintain and protect the welfare of the domestic sugar irdustry’ ” My friends has also challenged my opinion that our present rctary of Agrciulture will be more friendly in interpreting the jow for the welfare of this vital industry It might be that my to information is too meagre so I would make a prediction like to direct his attention to three or four of our outstanding sugar brokers who have made it their business to predict the future of this sugar business and who are very hopeful in their EXPENDITURES PER TEACHER IN THE 48 STATES CURRENT TEAR SCHOOL PtK lpM- - i cal 3 N OREG ft 7 ft ARIZ CONN 4 WASH SNJ r‘ Cola in cane ACT Editor and Publisher EVERY FRIDAY MORNING Johns PUBLISHED iomo n la 'iIllT i— rL TCaChC v 4 P ' si s& L l i ' Jj i - ers p f 0 '' - 14 MONT i ft n mex " ‘4- $ 17 MASS fS r OHIO II 22 OK LA U 4 ' 4J "i4 - IftPENN l&MINN IftNCV 2a Utah - ' V i Jtssssiisinisewtwa t SAVER 21RI 2 wra 2ft WIS £&N HAMP 21 TEXAS 2ftcua 2 IDAHO 3x iowa 22 nA 3ft MO 31 KANft I r tr j 4 - - - - "XL"' J 3® VA c 17 n 38 NEft 39 MAINE AON OAK 4 TENH ftftS OAK 43 4ft ALA Aft GA 4ft ARK 47 SC 4ft UiSS L 4 — r T9 —- k f 1953 s"f SWNftv - — - J 2 — ft PHliHncb $5000 PER uWt rOuNMTiOMa TEACHER urln ‘(Edlfor'i hot: This It fho lovonlh In hew of durtt thowlna Utah's odueation compares with that of tha othar 47 statas Tha charts rare prepared by tha Utah Foundation from data ralaatad by tha U S Offica of Education Utah Foundation reports will bo sent without charge to any Interested c It lien of Utah upon request directed to the Utah Foundation 409 Darling' Bldg Salt Laks City 1J Utah’s expenditure was for public schools In equivalent to $517288 per teacher unit (total current operating expenditure divided by number of teachers) slightly above the national average of $509315 Utah was 20th among the 43 states in expenditure per teacher and third among the eight mountain states Unit cost based upon the number of teachers rather than upon the number of pupils reduces the distortion resulting from high oosts in schools The expenditure per teacher unit Is therefore a more meaningful measure of the quantity and quality of school opportunity than i3 the comparison of the expenditure per pupil of states with radically diffeernt degrees of efficiency In school adminis trative costs |