Show I All of o America was so ro preoccupied on Thursday with football it Is doubt doubt- doubtful doubtful doubtful ful that any great number of ot the peo peo- people people pie had time for Zor thanks Thanksgiving Thal has h. h oat lost much of Its earlier significance It has become the day of sports This country countr Is too highly pros pros- prosperous porous to have any great thoughts of oX thankfulness such uch as lIS the early col cot colonists colonists had The pioneers of Utah gave thanks In the days of their distress They had hadon hadan an on intense struggle to live lire and when their hardshIps lessened they did not fall to be thankful There arc aro poor people In this coun coun- country country country try today and many of oX them Ulem have heavy burdens to carry but the big majority of the people are housed and clothed and led fed better than were ere kings In the days daS of long tong ago In the eastern part of the city where sunflowers covered the vacant lots this summer large flocks of spar spar- sparrows sparrows sparrows rows are to be seen They arc are feed feed- feeding feedIng ing log on the seed If U the birds served a good purpose as aa do most birds there would be re rejoicing re- re rejoicing that nature had provided for them in that way But sparrows have ha few friends in inthis Inthis Inthis this country They have ha ceased to be and are regarded as a nuisance Imported from England a number of years ago they have multiplied so rap- rap rapIdly rapIdly rapIdly Idly as to be a pest in nearly every state elate of the union The sparrow in America and tim th rabbit in Australia are contributions for England receives no praise c. But England Is not alone In giving to this country c the undesirables Utah received the v It l The Mediterranean moth came from the shores of that great groat eat sea The corn com borer Is an Importation The boll weevil wee was from front Mexico Agriculture In America Is constant constant- constantly ly Jy battling against foreign enemies One might In the earlier periods this same me trouble did not exist Within the past 75 years the nations have been brought Into close com com- munion Travelers from distant land land- come to our shores every day Commerce extends to ports which were unknown to even the Ule makers of our geographies Americans buy shiploads ds of trop trop- tropical tropical ical Seal products They cross the oceans for lor coffee tea silks rubber pineapples plea ples bananas cocoa hemp and one onehundred onehundred onehundred hundred other articles of general use They m Import rare plants and In the traffic they get the blights the weevils the moths the borers Today agricultural experts of the government are kept busy trying to fight light back strange diseases end and bugs It is La the price we pay for the mod- mod modI I cm con facilities of transportation When sailing vessels crossed the theseas theseas 0 seas 55 and before locomotives pulled train people lived much within their own circle When Columbus tailed sailed westward one half the world had only a faint Idea of how the other half lived lInd Europe knew of India In only a hazy way and the Far Tar East as lIS a whole had no commerce with the west except by camel caravans across a ades desert des rt region Today no country Is so Isolated that It does dotS not enter Into the monthly statement of foreign commerce Four countries have e entered Into an agreement to cut their production of oX sugar They are Cuba Germany Continued on rage race Two NEWS AND VIEWS Continued from P Pare Page ge One Poland and Czechoslovakia Cuba is 15 isto Isto to 00 reduce Its output to tons It Is u planned to 00 extend the agree agree- agreement agreement ment to 00 Java and other sugar producing producIng producing ing countries This is 13 news which directly Interests Ogden With a on world production the price of sugar will ad advance ad ad- advance vance vane and that will give to the sugar Industry in Utah much needed aid What benefits the sugar manufacturers manufacturers helps Ogden Whenever there is 15 an adverse sugar year ear business In Ogden Og Is unfavorably affected Utah wants higher lead copper zinc potatoes wheat tomatoes peas sugar higher wool livestock and all aU aUthe the things that bring Utah dollars Utah must bo favored in those channels of at trade trad In order arder to 00 continue to 00 pay the high prices demanded for goods produced elsewhere which Utah must have Ogden people cannot go on an buying autos In such great numbers as aa to 00 ex exhaust ex- ex exhaust exhaust haust the parking parking- spaces unless Utah Utah's s buying power is 15 maintained at ata ata a II high level So we rejoice every time Urne a a. commod commod- commodity ity In lit Utah Ic n large quantities is s given en a higher value Anyone can get in the public eye ere these days by posing peeing as a a. trans ocean transoceanic ic flier All that tha t Is necessary Is to announce a flight across the rolling waves make a dash over aver the tho edge ede of old ok ocean when the fog tog Is 13 s thick and then return Much of this stunt lying flying is 15 isa s sa I a game of pretense and bluff It If Germany Is successful In producing synthetic rubber at a 8 cost lower than the cost coat of af production In Singapore tho the Germans will w be able to pay of off orf their war debt by selling rubber to America There are tires In n use in inthe Inthe Inthe the United States Slates To keep those Urea tires renewed renel calls for millions of af aol col collars dollars lars Ius of af rubber The Joke would be on us If U finally we had to 00 pay the reparations through the channels of trade Commerce now n and d then plays strange pranks |