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Show - i I r5 - I-- TRADE AT HOME - When you spend your money with a local merchant, or employ a local tradesman, you are helping to btiild local payrolls and a better and happier hap-pier community. mi WHAT FOLKS SAY "In these hard times people need humor and ong more than ever before." be-fore." Sir Han'v liuder. V 3 ' VOL. 10, NO. 23 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1933 PRICE FIVE CENTS 1 s e r 1 TODAY -By-Arthur Brisbane (Copyright, 1933) ) t F. G. Konfils, Power Hitler In His Stride Fencing Out Genius I ns u ranee Go.- Money MIAMI, FLA.. FEB. G. Bonfils is dead, one, of the most powerful characters developed by American journalism, and one of the ablest, most useful men in the state, of Colorado. F. G. Bonfils fought and worked for those near him. He was first for Denver; second for Colorado; l third for the states surrounding u. which, as he proudly said were lJ "Blanketed by the circulation of his Denver Post;" fourth, for the United Stales, and there was no fifth. HIS city, HIS state, xaio readers and bis COUNTRY and ;nothing beyond except for general benevolence. A powerful man was F. G. Hon fils. When you looked into that clear blue eye you knew I ha I a fight once started with that man would go on forever. When he learns on arriving in heaven that the fight with Lucifer is ail over, everything peaceful, nothing: more to fight about, Bonfils Bon-fils will be a much disappointed man. YOUNG Mil. HITLER, new chancellor of Germany, loses no time in emphasizing his resemblance resemb-lance to Mussolini and Cromwell. He dissolves the Reichstag, even before it meets, commanding the election of a new Keicnsiag on March 5th. That is as though Governor Gov-ernor Roosevelt should send wore! to the new congress. ' "n neean i (come to Washington. I am going to elect a new., beder congress." That Germany will long 'endure this fascist government is doubtful. For more than fifty years Germany, Ger-many, including practically all Ger- 1 V n n V V11 fW 1 1 I man worKingmen, nas wcc. bated by the social uemocranc : " ' i.. a in infnrmpd The riit- pany, emv - - ler regime, adding greatly to the force and violence of the Communist Com-munist party, forbodes serious trouble. v Germany may become more than ever "the land of political murders." mur-ders." ikKUK CONGRESSMEN would of the , even a well ."Buy 'buy keep all loreign aciois ui United States, no exception: for a short time. The idea. meaning extension of the American" program, urges tickets only for American ad ors. excep a pity 4'here should, however be inns. It would have been to keen out Salvini Bernhardt, Duse, for they had something to ' teach,' more valuable than the few 'dollars they took away. Who .''would not g.-ve a great deal to go back a Ifttle over a hundred yeai arid see Rachel iu her prime, ui J farther back and ec Adrienne Liecouvreur in Oedipc. just bct'-re the Duchess de Boullon had her murdered fOl real auuu.' intii -- ? '' no obstacles. Creat actors, painters, paint-ers, writers. musi'Maiis. sculptor:-., should be welcome everywhere al ' ways. g . - ... i ..ii,.., iiifli n w-iwitim op THE GEORGIA REAL. ESTATE LOAN ASSOCIATION, including fifteen of the largcyt life insurance companies. do.ug business in Georgia, has declared a moratorium mora-torium on all Georgia farm mortgage;, mort-gage;, unless the (aimer has abandoned aban-doned his farm. A generous spirit of co-operation and great good will has been shown by the life insurance companies. com-panies. And those inclined to ap prove: thoughtlessly any mortgage repudiation should remember that the money in those farm mortgages, mort-gages, like other mortgages, docs not. belong to life insurance officials, offi-cials, it belongs to policy holders and represents protection, for widows and children. Their ONLY protection. That aspect of the situation sit-uation should not be overlooked. Henry Ford predicts an era . of prosperity In which money wilLbe -lof little consequence, simply used - - ( - - "niove things." Mr. Ford's reply to fthe technocracy nonsense is brief. Mit is silly to suggest that man can . be dominated by the machine which he creates and controls." But man has been dominated .too much by money. The intelligence intelli-gence of the country has been cen-tered.on cen-tered.on getting more and more of money that means nothing, neglecting neglect-ing the real problem which is to produce and DISTRIBUTE things, that the people need. noKi ; ce siamus are ust-u, FAVOlfi?-EiQUIDATING LOANS WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 U.E ifarvev Couch. Reconstruction Fi- nance, corporation director, recom-' recom-' . mended r today to. a senate sub- committee that congress liberalize and clarify legislation controlling the ?100,000,000 self-liquidating funds in the 1532 relief act - MORTGAGE REBELLION New York, Chicago Join Farmers In Relief Pleas. BY UNITED PRESS Opixxsition to mortgage foreclosures extended from the farms to the great urban centers of the country today. While the situation became increasingly tense in the agricultural ag-ricultural belt, the holders of mortgages on property in New York and Chicago heard pleas for relief. In New York, where approximately approxi-mately $3,000,000,000 in mortgage certificates are helt't, a movement va. started to obtain from thr holders permission for an interest reduction of W-i per cent, and deferment de-ferment of payment on principal. Pleas 'Are Numerous In Chicago individual cases of relief pleas to mortgage holders became more numerous. Harry B. Ressler filed suit in superior court seeking a modification of his mortgage mort-gage contract, reducing its terms to within his ability to pay or refunding re-funding to him the amount already paid. The agitation in both rural and urban areas has resulted in adoption adop-tion of a mote lenient attitude by creditors and foreclosures have de creased in recent weeks, according to a national mortgage survey now being conducted by the federal home loan board. After sham increases in 1931 and i most of 1932 foreclosures declined in response to organized opposition by farmers backed by sympathetic government officials, the., survey showed. Serious Problem The magnitude of the mortgage problem was disclosed with figures showing that mortgages on homes total about $22,000,000,000 while mortgages on farmers aggregate more than $0,000,000,000. At Sioux City, Io., in the heart of the farm revolt are, R. D. Maiktll lay in a hospital so badly wounded with shotgun and rifle bullets that physicians said today there was almost no hope for recovery. re-covery. Markell was wounded when he defied fellow dairymen who at-lemittd at-lemittd to keep him from deliver- ! ing his milk to the Sioux City mar-j mar-j ket. Two others were wounded, neither seriously. FOUR HELD IN TIRE THEFTS Provo police Saturday "irai-d up liio Wednesday robbery of Bud's Servi'-c station on Seventh East and Third Sooth and recovered 12 of the 13 tiics st'len from the tlaee. Heed Bullock. 19, Kenneth' Hardy 21. Ralph, Jones. 19, and a juvenile. 17 years old all of Provo were arrested ar-rested Saturday and Police Chief Otto Birk was taking steps late Saturday evening to bring charges against the three youths. The 17-year-old boy will be turned over to the juvenile :ourt. The 13 tires were stolen from the service station early Thursday after aft-er entrance had been gained by !';, king out two panes of glass iu -i rear window then unlatching th'j wipdow. Four of the tires were sold the same nrght in Springville, the police found in their investigation. investiga-tion. Police Officers L. C. Davis,. Bert Hal la day and James Show assisted Chief Birk in clearing up the theft ot the tires and tracking down the thieves. (t Provo Be Definite assurance that Governor Henry H. Blood ami his staff will be in attendanee at the Charity ball to be held here Tuesday, February Feb-ruary 14, ha.ve beer, received by officers of the Provo Women's council, sponsors of the affair. Governor and Mrs. Blood will lead the grand march, an event which alone will easily be worth the $1 charge. Brigadier General W. G. Williama, chief of the governor's gov-ernor's staff is cooperating with Miss . Wllma Jeppson . in planning the details of the grand march. Inasmuch as all the proceeds of the ball go for unemployment relief, re-lief, 'the women in charge of the. 3 I Sportsmen xjutiin mw .... Accomplished Here Provo Bay Diking; Securing: Domain For Publiq Use; Planting of German Brown, Powell's Slough Mentioned. Editor's- note: The following communication, outlining the activities of the Provo Conservation association during the past s vera! years. Is printed at the request of the officers of the association who prepared the article for publication. MECHM COMES TO PROVO MEET Sportsmen Invited To Attend Meeting To He Held ' Tuesday Night. ,f. Arthur Mecham, of Ijogan, ."oriner state fish and game com missioncr, will be the main speaker at a sportsmens' meeting to be held in the city court room in the city and county building at 7:30 Tuesday evening. Mr. Mecham will explain the biennial bi-ennial reports of th elfish and game department and will discuss how a political machine acts in the department. de-partment. Some of- the sportsmen are in favor of forming a new association associa-tion f r the purpose of securing commission form of fish and game Government, according to Ed Ram-beau Ram-beau and are backing a movement vvhefpby Provo bay can be made into one of the bed duck refuges in toe sta'e. 'The meeting is called for the purpose of organizing the new as sociation and representatives from jill towns will be present. "All sportsmen in lavor of a square deal for 6C1OOO portsmen ' instead of a few arc requested to be present," Mr. Rambeau said. 700 WITNESS T CARNIVAL More than 700 winter sports enthusiasts en-thusiasts bra vrl the cold weather at Vivian park Saturday afternoon to witness the B. Y. U. Winter cat nival and to see University of lUah ski jumpers win from tl?e B. Y. iT. jumpers. The If. of U. ski men annexed he contest by a score of 405 to 313, the longest jump r.f the day being made 'by Harold Kimball, a leap of 74 feet. Otis Rich was second with 71 ieet and Warren Kimball was third with 70. Trux-t'jn Trux-t'jn t'urvaricc "f the "Y" made a lc-)j, of ;0 feet to lead his team mate:; Atcb Jonf... 40 feet, and Cal ai i , feet. The icoiill.i of tl.v contests: Cro s country ski ta-p Archie lone:, first; Pick Passey, second; Eugene Larson, third. Time 10m. .'!!:;. (Only race 'timed.) Men's snowshce race -Henry Stewart, first; Ray Stewart, second; sec-ond; Dave Condon, third. Girls snowshoc race Melba Frost, first; Floy Hansen, second; Vcia Condor, third. Faculty ski raceKarl Young, ffrst; George Hansen, second ; W.i-liain W.i-liain Sncll, thiru. Mens' ski glide Truxton Pur-vancc, Pur-vancc, first; Floyd Biddulph, second; sec-ond; Herbert Higgins, third. GiHs' ski race Margaret Swcn--sop, first; Vera Condor, second; I toy Hansen, third. Faculty ski glide- Karl Young, first; George Hansen, second. Girls' ski glide- Floy Hansen, first; Vera Condcr, second; Kath-ryn Kath-ryn Stokes, tl?ird. "Y" Mens' ski jump, Truxton Purvancc, . 56 feet, 136 points; Archie Ar-chie Jones, 46 feet, 110 points; Cal Cnrr, 38 feet, 67 points. Charity Ball To Brilliant Occasion jfaffair feel that the entire conimun ity should rally to the support of the charity ball. This is the . first time that a social affair of this magnitude has been attempted here, and extensive cooperation is necessary to insure its success, they say. All the civic and social clubs of the. city will be expected, to. assume as-sume some responsibility in taking a block of tickets for. the ball. The Ladies' gymnasium where the'.ball will be staged, will be specially decorated dec-orated for the gala, affair according accord-ing to those in charge The best music obtainable will be secured for the occasion. - Presefit e wr jrro rects Prompted . by the thought that much of natures beauty, many beautiful birds were threatened with extinction, that many beautiful beauti-ful trees and plants grew more scarce each year and for many other reasons, a group of our citizens citi-zens organized the Provo Conservation Conser-vation association, believing that with group action more might be accomplished In educating the public pub-lic and in creating sentiment favorable favor-able to a correction of some of the things they considered wrong. It is a deplorable fact that their efforts ef-forts have had so little support, both moral and financial. Among the problems worked on arc the following: 1. We have spent much time and effort trying to stop the tendency of all the public domain going into pi ivate hands. We maintain that the public domain should be controlled con-trolled by an organization similar to the forestry department, or by that group. We have east of Provo approximately 8,000 acres of mountainous moun-tainous privately owned land which we hope some day may be purchased by the state fish and game department, and turned over to the foiestry department y.na used something like this. Wh&t would be better than accomplish ing this exchange and cooperating with the forestry people in build-ng build-ng trails and roads, planting troes and stocking wit hwild animals. Dyking Project Just southwest of Provo and west oi me sieei pianr . uey -.umii. ow acres or lana, most oi wnicn nas lain there worthless for many years. We had the state game commissioner and the department engineer look over this project last October, and have secured their promise to construct a dam across the channel connecting this bay with the Utah lake and raise the water in the above area, which we think would make one of the best bass , perch and catfish hatcheries in the west. Also a very fine duck (Continued on Page Six) Sportsmen's Dance Ready All arrangements have been completed by tl3 entertainment committee of the Provo Conservation Conserva-tion association for the big get-acquainted get-acquainted dance to be held at the Elks' home, Friday. February 1" at 3 p. ni. Those in charge promise "fun. eats and a good band." All past or present members of the association associa-tion and .sportsmen everywhere are invited to be present. Memberships at M) cents can be obtained at thi door. This is all that is necessary for admission to the affair. Provo Concert Is Staged In Benefit Of Canyon Home That the citizens of Provo are greatly interested in the Girls' new canyon hoinoMs evidenced evi-denced by the loyal support shown in the advance ticket sale for the grand ensemble concert of the Associated glee - clubs of Utah to be presented Saturday evening in the Utah stake tabernacle. The chorus, with its two hundred hun-dred male voices, and leading ai t sis, ' -. recognized as an "id iUiti'lin.T event In musical and entertaining circles. Prices of admission have been reduced to the minimum that all may attend and tickets may be obtained from M. I. A. workers in every ward. Proceeds will be devoted towards to-wards the completion of the canyon building, the work on which will go forward as soon as weather conditions permit." BANK DIRECTORS NAMED Directors for the First Security bank, of Provo for the ensuing year were elected Saturday morning at a stockholders meeting, .... officers for the next, term to be selected by the directors some time next week. J. Will Knight, R. J. Murdock, F, G. Warnick, R. E. Allen and Charles I Smith, president of the First National bank of Salt Lake, Were named on the board of directors. US. MEEDS I FLAT 0 WM SftVS Let Money Hrnipn-ize Hrnipn-ize With Commodity Commod-ity Prices. , . t IIY WILLIAM K. BORAH Senator From Idaho A dollar which it takes three times as much wheat to buy, three or four times as much cotton to buy,, two or three times as many hogs to buy in 1933 as it did in 1920 is not an honest dollar; it is a dishonest dollar. Our dollar is appreciating in value c!ay by day. The money of other countries harmonizes with the price of commodities. And what is the result? The remit re-mit is lhat they arc not only taking tak-ing our foreign markets but, over a high tariff wall, they are taking our domestic market. It is alarming to note the extent ex-tent to which they are underselling our people here at home, and thus adding to the millions already unemployed. un-employed. How To If lt It may be that inflation, oi re ftation. or change of the currency "pit nation, is no. the remedy, but 1 ask those who criticize the proposal pro-posal to state to ns how they are going to maintain the gold stand-aid stand-aid under those conditions. V" are losing our markets day by day, both foreign and domestic, . iiri n-ver more aggravatingly than at this very hour. How long can that continue without some remedy? rem-edy? And what is your remedy? How long dare we to continue tnis fSjrif tine toward the brink. 'IwU 8 Measure Money is not wealth. It is simply a measure of wealth, a medium of exchange, and when the situation has changed so that the lender of rnonev can go out into the country and gather up three times the amount of wealth that he could gather with the same number .of dollars three years ago. I say the situation calls for the serious consideration con-sideration of the people who ate iu power in the United States. I repeal that what T am hoping for is not a cheap dollar or a dishonest dis-honest dolla;, ;ut a dollar which .Iocs equity between the debtor and the creditor. I :mii Trank to say that I think our remedy lies first in international interna-tional action. This is true both as to gold and silver. There the safe and sound and efficient ef-ficient remedy is to be found that : remedy should have been sought three years ago. If we can not se cure relief there, then we beek . remedy lieie at home difficult but not impossible i-he "dt'ja'io!! i ? imminent nilis! more But and pedy action i' imperative. Endorse Smith As S. F. Postmaster SPANISH FORK At a meeting of the leniocratic executive committee com-mittee of Spanish Fork held at the home of Wallace W. Rrockbank, Thursday nightClarence E. Smith was unanimously endorsed for the position of postmaster at Spanish Fork to succeed David T. Lewis, incumbent. Others whose names were mentioned men-tioned for the position were Roger W. Crecr, William A. Cornaby, Itees W. James, Eliisha Warner and John S. Davis. 'Mr. Smith has long been a Teader in the Democratic Demo-cratic politics of Spanish Fork. He has been employed for several yrars in the automotive ' "department "depart-ment under Secretary of State Milton Mil-ton H. Welling. TRIAL IS HALTED IXJNG BEACH, Cal., Feb. 4 (ILK) Trial of handsome young William Wil-liam James Guy on a charge of murdering Capt. Walter Wander-well Wander-well was adjourned suddenly today to permit jury and counsel to visit the schooner Carina, on which Wanderwell was found shot to death the evening of last December Decem-ber 5. The Weather Utah Fair Sunday; Sun-day; little change In temperature. Maximum temp. Friday .. V..83 Minimum tempi Friday... 9 below Maximum temp. -Saturday v.. ..S8 Minimum temp. ' Sat...., 15 below NEWS WIRES By UNITED E'RES5 JL PLANE PARTY SAFE NOME, Alaska, Feb. 4 l'.i: Alaska's intrepid aviators today held another dramatic victory over the bleak northland's hazardous weather with" the safe arrival here of five person including a four months old baby. Bob Reeves, veteran Alaskan pilot; landed here last night with his four passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Ole Hay and their four year old son and four months old baby, after aft-er the party had been forced to spend three days in temperatures ranging down to 65 degrees below zero. MURDER PLOT UNCOVERED LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4 (U.R) Two women and a man were under arrest here today as accused participants par-ticipants In which police charged was a plot to murder the man's girl-wife, and their two infant children. chil-dren. Charles Taulli. 22, and his asserted as-serted sweetheart. Miss Florence Garofalo, 19, were booked on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. Mrs. Ruby Taggs, 29, whom police said acepted $351 from Taulli to carry out the plot, was held as a material witness. Taulli "and Miss Garofalo denied the charges. YOUTH SENTENCED HARLOWTOWN, Mont., Feb. 4 0T.n Truman Barclay, 19, today was under an eight year prison sentence for the shooting of W. W. Warn, elderly postmaster at Wal-lum. Wal-lum. Mont. Barclay pleaded guilty to charges of assault with intent to kill before District Judge W. L. Ford yesterday. yester-day. Warn was wounded Jan. 21. Enmity toward the postmaster was the only reason he gave for his act. quAKES IN NAPLES NAPLES, Feb. 4 (UP) Earth shocks and rumblings disturbed the countryside near Mt. Vesuvius today as an ancient volcano grumbled grum-bled and sputtered after silence of two years. Prof. Alessandro Malladra, director di-rector of Vesuvius obseivatory, said more than 200 quakes were registered. The most svere single tremblor shook the observatory for 15 seconds. CHANGE PROPOSAL FAHjS CARSON CITY. Nev., Feb. 4 illl'i - A proposal to memorialize congress con-gress to change the name of Hoover Hoo-ver dam hack to Boulder dam was defeated by a 20 to 19 vote by the Nevada state legislature late yesterday. yes-terday. Although the assembly has a Democratic majority of 12, most of the Democratic members opposed op-posed the motion. RECEIVER APPOINTED WILMINGTON. Del. Feb 4 npi ' harles W. Cullen. V. S. referee in bankruptcy, today appointed Herman Zohbel, of New York, as receiver for the Radio-Keith Or-pheum Or-pheum Western company and the R. K. O. Southern company, which last week filed voluntary petitions in bankruptcy. Sixth Ward Play Set For Tuesday "When Sally's Ship Conies In." will be presented by the Sixth ward M. I. A. Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the amusement hall, in place of the regular M. I. A. meeting. meet-ing. Avirs. 'Anna Peay Ashworth is 'directing 'di-recting the play, the cast of which includes the following Mary Harris, Har-ris, Crl Mi.rrii Ruth Grames, Max Gray, Mfs. Anna's. Paxmaru, Steven Stev-en Clark, TWoel Jackson, Fay Loveless Love-less and Keith Thomas, A small admission fee will be charged. Assailants To Face Assailants of Wilson Smith, Provc'owed slim clue:! obtained follow- barber, in tile dark hallway on the west side of Smith's pool hall last Wednesday, midnight were brought to bay Saturday when James Allen, 20, of Provo, and Erastus. Haws,U0, of Provo bench; were charged with assault and attempt to commit robbery in the city court. Prellminary?SeiTing for ihe two men was setof Tuesday by-Judge D. "R. JfSltertfeori of 'the - to ity court , Thte bond for' both f was set at $300 and-bothcre placed in jail In default de-fault brbalt!? Arreste J Frtdliy- - ,The men were arrested Friday f blowing' a f two-day Investigation by Police Chif OttoBirk and Officers' Of-ficers' B$ H Halladay, L. C; Davis and James Sf now. The police fol- State Code i Passed By Legislature Public Hearing Held On Repeal Re-peal Resolution Introduced Bv Patterson. SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. The revised code of state laws was rushed through final fin-al passage in the state legislature, legis-lature, Friday, while members mem-bers of both houses debated the best methods of making the code effective. The measure as passed provides that the code bt effective upon proclamation by Governor Henry H. Blood. Senator Herbert B. Maw, who voted for passage of the code, declared he was not entirely satisfied satis-fied with the manner of making It effective, and gave notice of reconsideration, re-consideration, Monday afternoon. Other Biisines Unit Un-it is expected that further legislation legis-lation will be introduced at that time to make the code effective at once. With this measure out of the way. the legislature is free to devote its full time to other problems prob-lems of legislation. SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 3 Mil'.) Wets and drys lined up against each other in battle array Friday as the opening skirmish in the prohibition pro-hibition controversy opened in the state legislature. The scene of the opening of what may prr ve to be an epochal legislative legis-lative fight, was the senate judicial conimittee. Dries Outnumber Wets-Dries Wets-Dries appeared to he in preponderance prepond-erance as th,? committee prepared to consider the Patterson resolution. resolu-tion. This resolution, introduced by Senator Knox Patterson, militant mili-tant wet of Crand -unty, pro poses that the electorate be given an opportunity next election day (Continue den Page Six) SK1DM0KE TO SPEAK HERE Superintendent Charles H. Skid more of the state schools will be one of the principal speakers at the ' Provo city teachers institute wl.'.ch : will be held next Saturday in the ! Central school. I In the first general session, hr j ginning at H a. m.. Superintenden! Skidniore and Superintendent Cal vin S. Smith will speak and Par- 1 bara Maughan of the B. Y. 1T Sixth grade, will conduct a demon stration. Musical numbers will be ! presented from the Timpanogos ( school under direction of In j Webb and from the Provo high j scl.'.cf under direction of Ernest Paxman. "Culture" will he the theme of n ! talk by Pro Gen it de Jmi of the i B V U in the Fifth ami c'iyth ; grades and junior and ?entor high department"', elated to T-tart at 10:30. Superintendent Smith will vpcalt on "( 'oordiua t iop of t - C'-uryes of Studv" at t hi-, depart oient .session. In Ihe first to fonitl" cruder? do partment Matilda Peterson, state supervisor of primary grades, will present an activity program and Jennie Campbelt will present the. Utah county unit of activity. ACQUITTED OF MURDER SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 3 -John F. Valdez was found not guilty of murdering Joseph Ortez at Copperton, January 2. today. The jury deliberated yesterday afternoon and several hours today before bringing in a verdict of acquittal. ac-quittal. Ortez was assertcdly slain at the conclusion of a prolonged New Year's party. The state charged that Valdez beat him to 'death during dur-ing the fight. Valdez pleaded self defense. Of Provoan Ch a rges He re ing the attack on Smith and later obtained a roofession from Haws. Smith was aflaeUed in the h'all- way near 'midnight' Wednesday he was entering the place. raised his arm when he heard the movements of the men in the dark, in time to ward off a blow apparently ap-parently aimed at his head. The three scuffled in the narrow passage for a- few moments. cno of the men clamping a headlock on Smith and - raining blows on his l.3ld. One of" the men fled south and one north in the blind alley then , back, out again to make his fway northward again. Bert Halladay made the arrests Friday following the investigation. 'BRIGHTER SiOE SEEN BY MARY Need of Intelligent Planning Stressed By Citizens. There certainly is another side to the picture a brigiit-er brigiit-er side. Plenty of opjxjrtunities for Provo and Utah valley to forge ahead are awaiting; development. de-velopment. Many Provo citizens realize real-ize this today more so than a year ago. Some have expressed ex-pressed their views in response re-sponse to the suggestion of the Herald that now is the time for united action for at least one big civic project. Here is what a few say : Dr. Franklin S. Harris, president, Brigham Young university "The Herald is to be commended for calling our ntt ntion to the fact that we need to look into the future. 1 would suggest that now would be a good time to tcke stock of our conaitions and see what we would like to accomplish "While Tot necessarily committed commit-ted to tho Russian program, I like their ida of making a five-year plan. If we could Pit down and plan the work that we should accomplish ac-complish in the next five years, the roads to be huilt, paving to be I done, schools to erect, water works to br improved, new industries to develop, shipping facilities to be iade available, and then working closely to the plan we had drawir up progress would be m?dc all along the line." Lyman II. Rich, county agent "The 3500 farm families of Utah valley have been f for ihe bright i corner when the ' farm expenses somewhere near i many ndantagc: looking feverishly light around the farm receipts and ran come out equal. We enjoy ; on the farm over the city dweiier. but in order to balance the fam budget, the farmer farm-er nnd his wife need to s?k some questions like these. 'Do we have a garden to pi o vide a variety and balance of food? Will our farm provide sufficient feed for our livestock? Can we raise the quality qual-ity and production of our live-stork? live-stork? Have we made a plan for cash crops and so planned as to get maximum yields?- Are we in a position to raise a higher quality product thanthe average farm? A. Smoot, former county commissioner com-missioner "Referring to your edi- torta! of Thursday I would sug-I sug-I gest a thorough investigation by engineers and representatives of property.-owners adjoining Provo hfty. to determine the feasibility, of reclaiming the 80no acres owned, by the state and" federal government for the propagation of bass and other fish, as well a making food for ducks and other wild life, which in turn would produce food for the citizen of the state, if it ' not advisable to reclaim it fot farming purposes at present, and it is vei-y evident that the time is far distant when this valuable piece of land will be reclaimed for farming purposes. "Thif; project would provide employment em-ployment for hundreds of men, If the claims of those familiar with it arc correct, and every citizen within the county would be benefitted. bene-fitted. It is a project upon which federal relief money could be spemV if feasible, with much propriety." C. of C. Group Attends Meet A cut of two million dollars from Utah state's expenses in the next two years was urged by the Utah Manufacturers' association in a meeting-'in Salt Lake City Friday which was attended by nine members mem-bers of the Provo chamber of com-imerce. com-imerce. ' W. R. Butler, H. A. Dixon. O. A. spear, John O. Beesley. Sam Jones, R. E. Allen, I. E. Brock-bank, Brock-bank, Clayton Jenkins and George Slbbett were interested spectators in the meeting in which the association asso-ciation urged the cutting of expenses ex-penses rather than the raising of taxes. The Provo group took no part in the discussion. In addition to the expense cut in the state government the association asso-ciation attacked the proposal of raising the rate on incomes at the same time . of .removing: the' off- sets on income taxes. |