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Show I venerate old ace, ami the man who eaa lai love not without emotion sunset of life. opon tls LoncfeDow t S Hen are afraid of bren bic down where they a strongest, bat :.are . adds afraid of their weehnenwg Henry Ward Beecher i . Successor to Public Opinion Volume One Number A WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE Twenty-Fiv- e DEPENDABLE Scandinavian Committees to Meet I OF LOCAL AFFAIRS PUBLISHED AT PROVO, UTAH INDEPENDENT OUR FLAG! City Proceeds With Plans For New Municipal Power Plant City Engineer Leads Two Commissioners In Study at Ft. Collins Plant Journal Baccalaureate Service Stresses Spiritual Values in Education M the flag: All members of the various was still . committees for the coming Scan- City Engineer E. A. Jacob in company with Commis- dinvlan reunion are requested there. sioners J. P. McGuire and Jesse Haws left for Fort Collin., by President A. C. Anderson to meet Sunday at I a. m. at the Colorado, Thursday morning where they will meet G. E. Provo seminary for final check- -' Hines, chief engineer of the Ulen Corporation and a lug on all details. Scandinavian aarvlcee. thorough study of the construction and operating features willRegular FLAG DAY, on June 14, be held at 10:30 a. m. follow-- ! of the Fort Collins municipal power and light plant. comes from the fact that lug the committee meeting. The plant at Fort Collin is a Congress first authoristeam turbine plant bavins two ed the Flag of United 1500 kilowatt unite. The Provo States June 14, 1777. City plant will no doubt be patThat date is now observterned after tbie plant except k. ed as Flag Day throughthat there will be contracted for Y1' out America. Provo, two 2,000 kilowatt unite a the giving capacity of plant 4.000 kilowatts. r The age old challenge from the time of the First Man, Mayor Anderaon be jnt received a report of the operation Adam, to subdue the earth" was reiterated Wednesday of the Fort Collin plant over morning once more by Dr. George R. Hill, as he addressed period of two yean. Fort Collin the graduates of the Brigham Young university at the 62nd. own the distribution intern havi Commencement in the Utah stake tabernacle. He was held from a private followed ing purchased it by President Heber J. Grant of the Board of Trusutility three yean ago. The City who declared the sole purpose of establishing and tees, wholesale for power purchased one year and on June 1 1938, the maintaining the Brigham Young (By Mary Ellen Cain) Each year on June 14, there are patriotic programs which include new eteam plant was put In open university is to make Latter Day AMERICA IS SICK Saints. We ran get all otheq ation. speeches about the Ignificance of the Flag, Its history, and many Tbs manger of the plant, G. things in education without paytribute to thoso who gave their llvea to keep our Flag from stain. H. Palmas, states then hu not ing out money by the chnrch. If FROM TOO MANY But, always, on July fourth one must bo either a "lake warm Veen one second of outage oq we fall to make Latter Day American or a very tactful person to avoid chastising persona who time when The plant was not de- Saints out of our students wo GOOD THINGS show disrespect to the Flag. livering current on the line dur- have failed Indeed. There are dozens and dosens of Flags used as decorations that He two of its Dr. accomHill's operation. yean ing Gaeth challenge was Says to remain flying and slashing in the night hreeaee; are permitted reporta that financially, the plant panied by the picture of "new has been a complete eneeesa dur- worlds to conquor, ever widenAmerica la suffering from small flaga are handed out, by doting parents, to email children who ing the put three yean. ing and increasing as the tire of too many good things, believes besmirch the atari and etrlpSe "with candy, Ice cream, soda pop, and what have you; they tear them Into shreds, drag them In the mud. Grose Income amounts to 1622.-00- 0 a wheel expands from the hub Arthur Gaeth, B. Y- - n, history who la leaving this week or trample then) under foot thate Just a part of their celebrating and the net Income la $171,-- , as It Is pushed out from the cen000 after operating the plant and ter to greater and greater areas. for Europe for study and a vaca- the freedom of America. The little children are not to blame, of course, but how can setting np $102,000 for city taxee Thus It Is with knowledge, for tion, conducting a party of Ameri-and depreciation. He states fur- though man's knowledge has can tourists over lands where hq children be expected to grow up to be loyal cltlsona If they era not ther that the plant should earn grown Infinitely, yet with It each for the,r f Uuht that miLionrafolThe ITa rpect U ft $70,000 a year net. Fort Coiling sector of the rim which hinds the must come from the home. has the lowest residential rate In area about the hub of knowledge chnrch. If each of us could hut look Into the hearts of those who have America ia the leading eredltot the atate of Colorado, the average becomes e vaster field for connation she ia the most exten- seen an American Flag draped over the casket of a loved one then rate being 1.92 cents per kilowatt quest, urged Dr. Hill. hour for 500 kilowatt honn. Both President Grant and sively Industrialised nation, she we would know something of the true significance of the Flag. To them, those stars that once were placed over the lifeless, left It la probable that the President F. 8. Harris of the B, enjoys absolute regional security, and engineer will visit Y. V. who also addressed gradu- entering the sphere of influence shoulder of the dear one are no longer Just stare that represent the municipal plants at Loveland ates, etch urged a humble and of no other nation, except Japan states they are guiding stare that light the dark pathway along and Colorado Springs Colorado prayerful life, filled with the at Guam and Phllliplnea; she has which they must walk. And ths blue la to them liko the blue of amount of before returning to Provo. the eky it helps them to look up up into the heavens, not down spiritual vision and the desire to the largest and ia completely immune Mr. Hines will return to Chi- serve God and one's fellow man at the grave. The clean white etripee admonish them to carry on, blockade or from but embargo cago after going over the Fort as he foundation of all success despit all these things America keeping their lives end their country clean and free from stain. And Collin plant and F. C. Yarllng, worth while. that was is a sick nation today, suffering the red stripes are cold reminders of the precious life-bloelectrical engineer for the Tien Miss Freda Decker, Valedictoron soldier-so-n or the In battlefield stilled dethe too of withered veins the spilt from good many things, Corporation, will remain in Provo ian, gave a brilliant Interpretation or husband, brother or father. and work upon the design of the of the nature of science and its clared Mr. Gaeth, before a group of adults, students of foreign snd We would not wish to destroy n picture of one of our soldiers distribution system. ( Continued on Fmv Two) domestic affairs Sunday morning I who gave their lives for us st least not In the preeenre of their at the Provo Fourth ward. , dMr ones Neither would we desecrate their names the Flag Is all "From every point of view that and more to many, many American cltlseni. Let ns not open America has an ideal set-uWe the wounds of their aching hearts by desecrating their Flag. fCostinurd on Paco Two) New Worlds to Conquer Envisioned By (graduates r en Utah Bankers Spokesman Presents Point of View Thousands at Great Tabernacle Hear What is Wrong with Business in America p. No man or woman can say his education is complete, regardless of how much learning or intellectual training he may have attained, until he has felt the power and in fluence of the Spirit of God" declared Bishop LeGrade Rich- ards, newly appointed presiding bishop of the L. D. 8. Church In hie baccalaureate sermon delivered to nearly 400 graduates Sunday night at the Utah Stake tabernacle, which wae filled to overflowing with parents, relatives, and friends of the graduates. Quoting scripturee and prophecy throughout hla addreea. Bishop Richards stressed the used of the companionship of tha Holy Spirit as a guide in life to truth and a protection agalnet error. "Zion shall increase lu beauty'1 was interpreted to refer mainly to the lives of its memben, who through study and training become a more delightful people, seeking the truth of all things by the power and spirit of the Holy Ghost. Preceding the sermon in ths tabernacle, an open air concert was presented for an hour by the Brigham Young University band led by Robert Sauer. Inside thq tabernacle, after the opening of the convocation by President T N. Taylor of the Utah Stake, and of the Board o Trustees of the university, the B. Y. U. Mixed Chorus under Johq Halladay, sang Psalm CL by Cesar Frank. After the sermon ths chorus again sang, the con"The cluding number being neavene are Telling by Haydn. J. J, Keeler wae at the organ. Tha University male chorus also sang Praise the Lord, O My Soul" by Roland Smart. Joseph Fielding Smith and George F. Richards, members of the Quorum of thq Twelve Apostles, offered the opening and closing prayers Provo streets were lined Sunday night by thousands of dtl-en- s prior to tha Baccalaureate sermon In tha tabernacle as they watched the Academic Procession, headed by the board of trustees, and tha faculty and followed by the graduates march from thq Education building to the tabernacle. nt Little Susie Larsen, 1$ months old child of Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Larsen of Provo was found drowned In an irrigation ditch in front of their home 8nnday evening. The child had been missed for about 15 minutes. -- a "Go Ahead" Signal For First Unit of Deer Creek Conslroction Soon To Be Given Contractor Many hundreds of Frovoans, along with thousands of other guests of the. Utah Bankers Association, went to see Deanna Durbin, noted Hollywood star, at the Great Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Saturday night, and remained to Five Condemnation Suits Filed listen to Merle Thorpe, editor of the "Nation's Business", Miss Durbin it was, as C. D. really At Heber Thursday For Washington, Delightful was Merle Thorpe who caught the ear, if not the eye, and Possession of Deer Creek Lands who gave a message which was the talk of the town afterwards. With the hearing; for temporary possession orders five Resume of Thorpes Address: Notes made during Mr. Thorpes address are here set suits to condemn y for the building of the Deer down, presenting some highlights and a general resume of Creek reservoir and the of the Denver & Rio his thinking; although very inadequate to convey his full Grande Western Railroad line around the reservoir site at message: Heber Thursday afternoon, and the announcement by Repower lives In control o My objection to taxee Is thatip' 1. Conclamation officials recently that negotiations for the bringmoney so taken from the people five Important matters: cannot he used to buy any other trol of earnings and savings; 3. ing of water from the Weber to the Provo River had been control of Production; 3. Control commodity. signal of wages; 4. Control of hours of practically completed, the long awaited everyknows WaslRngton 5. Control of prices. construction of the the for units first labor; of the project is in thing, from how to make a baby's Washington now controls one sight. Tempers to the latest scientific work to begin. It is understood patented device except how to fourth of all earnings and sav- fomlcinnslbin Suits Heard balance Us own budget. ths constructhat ings In this county. One billion Yesterday afternoon at Heber for the dollars were collected rights-of-wa- on d" Rohi-Conne- ly Washington Is ths fastest and polltls Stater, Social Security taxes, growing city In United with a yearly Increase of 257.000 cal agents tell the government new population. Yon. as a citl-n- , how to spend this money. The 40 per are responsible for this trH Federal government has mendone concentration of power. rent of the savings of this country InForus your candid camera on In Its control, even your life as lent are being activities of the past seven years surance savings directs. tn our nation's the government rapltol, and yon will see a revolution Is In proControl of production through gress. Already we have adopted the Farm Administration activle more than one half of the Italian ties, and control of wagea and fascist system. hours through the new wsge and hours bill are almost fsets today. Wve Controls of Dictatorship The source of all dictator- (Continued on Page Two) FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1938 Judge Abe Turner heard petition for temporary possession of tracts of land on which It Is necessary to locate the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Heber Branch line. Orders were issued in each case, without bond, permitting tho Provo River Water Users Association and tho United States to have temporary possession of enough land on each of tho tracts to permit construction tion company intends to start with tho construction of the railway at the Charleston end of tha line. The tracts over whirh temporary possession was given, are owned by the following persons: James M. Ritchie, Hyrum B. Carlson, John II. and Fred Price, Elmer Edwards snd James Ritchie and other. Suita were filed against each of these persons earlier in the week seeking an . 'Bowl of Rice PartjM1 To Be Outstanding Event In Provo Brilliant With Program 2000 Uuesto Flamed Exported Duchesne Tunnel The drafting of final plans and specifications for the Dnschesne Tunnel will be begun within about two weeks, it was learned from Reclamation officials today. This will mean that the contract for the building of the diversion tunand let nel can be advertised early this coming autumn. It Is also expected that within a week or ten days tnat a surveying party will complete surveys on the East bench where it la proposed to organise a conservation district whirh will subscribe for water In the Deer Creek Project. There are nearly 1,000 acres of excellent ground in this section without a sufficient water right-so- me of It without any. Contractor Now At Work In the meantime, tha Company has been Mis. Machine sheds, hunk bouses, kitchens and dining rooms and offices have been constructed near the dam site. A bridge has been Rohl-Conne- ly built acerose Provo River Just below where the dam is to ho constructed, and the diversion tunnel has already been holed In and work Is now under way. Up to tho present, tne contractor has pot put on a very large crew of men, merely using his he skeleton organization until gets the signal from the Bureau of Reclamatloo. However, moat of the preliminary work has been done in the way of bringing in equipment and preparing the ground for work. C. C. C. Boys Busy Ths Ileber C. C. C. contingent whirh has been assigned to work on the Deer Creek reservoir site has been going steadily forward with tho removal of troes and brush from tho site. The boys have also practically completed a detour on the south side of the canyon to bo nsed while the dam Is under construction. When the dam Is completed the road will pans over the dam from tho north side to the south side of the canyon and proceed along the ahoro line to Charleston. It ia understood the State Highway Commission la ready to receive bids for the construction of the highway around tho reservoir site. This will be a Federal aid project. CUJ: IT Brilliance, novelty, talent, and exclusive decorative sad colorfl features will mark the Bowl of Rico pCrty planned for tha Uta 8lake tabernacle, June 17 by the Provo Chinese Relief commttto according to Mrs. Christen Jensen, general chairman, and Mrs. H. Mensel, chairman of tha program committee Brilliaat Program Planned For brilliance outstanding po sonalitiss havo been engaged appear, such as Bmms Lm Gates, (Mrs. A. E. Bowen of Sq Lake City), and Dr. Ernest Ila of Chicago, who will apeak Things Chinese Dr. King is a brother of Waltz King of tho Saif Lake Tribal staff, and has hla B. A. degn from tho Unlvenity of Utah, hi M. D. from Chicago ualvendt and hla PH. D. from Wastes University. He Juet recently r turned from a visit to China at dill present conditions as tk are today. Dr. Ruth King Chang of Sham hal, a sister of Dr. and WaHi Xing will also bo present ft tho party, announces Mrs. Met' sell. Dr. Changa husband Mi newspaperman In Shanghai wt has lost everything In the Jaj anaee bombardments. Other eelebritiee are promlat MRS CHRISTEN JEN8EN by Mr. Mensel, who deelan that preparations am being mad to entertain 2000 peraona at t 111 NEVADA. JUNIORS Tabernacle on tho night of Jaq A1 17, when all things will esatar Si fit HERE JUNE 14 China and Its people, even tf Jjfajl ushers being dressed In Chtnei jji Rjj ' Provoana will bavs the opportunity to hear tha 50 voles choln of the Junior Genealogical singers from the Nevada district Tuesday night at the First ward chapel la two hours of music, snnouncoa W M. Andrews, chairman of tho First Ward committee. These Juniors era gathered from Reno, Ely, and near by towns In Nevada, and are touring various cities In Utah enrouts to the M. I. A. general conference In Salt Lake City. They are famous for their accomplishments In genealogical work quits as muck as for their singing ability, states Mr. Andrews.' Arriving In Salt Lake City Saturday they will enjoy a baptismal service In the Temple that evening, and tha Conference the next day. They then are Invited to Logan for a Temple service Monday and from there will comq to Provo as guests of tho First Warden, who invite all Utah t jpitake people to attend party Tuesday evening p. m. costumes, i All Funds Will Reach CMss Mrs. Jensen M enthusiast about tho reception everybody j giving tho Bowl of Riee pari plans, and announces the pnrpoi of tha entertainment M to rail fuade for tho millions of deetltnf Chinese to famish food medicine. Already how much Thousands Register e Program Summer Recreation Provo city has tha best coordinated snd most efficiently correlated recreation! program of any rity In the west In the opinion of Professor Hugh M. Woodward regional director, who was present In Provo Monday when thq city wide recreational programs were opened and registrations for the coming summer. More than 1000 men registered fur Hoft ball alone, and all phases of the summer program received immediate response by the cilicens. Nearly 1000 students have also registered in the various centers or playgrounds, located at Pioneer park under Leater Jones, Ina Mangum and Leora Harding (300 on Monday); at North Park under Laura Banner, Maurlne Murdock, and George Sutherland (250 registered Moaday); and at Maeser School under grounds Alfred L. Pace, I rets B. Mason and Lillie Btevens, (100 entered Monday). Registrations were piling ia also In mualc classes under Mr. snd Mrs. John Bown, and students in dancing, and dramatic art Classes are now registering for next week's opening. ) the skeptic M askla if ; of tftis money xf ' ever reach Chlnaf My answer the greater part of It eertalal will. Local expenses ere bate kept down as low as poeelbh Much work and materials has already been donated freely, an committee people are spendln their time and money too to pa s over the eale of tickets" declare 1 Mrs. Jensen. ; As for National headquarter! Theodore Roosevelt Jr. has writ ten Mrs. Jensen declaring a' funds sent to them will resc China through a reliable sourei not ons rent of It being retain for general expensea-th- to beln furnished from private eontriba tJiS tlons. City-Wid- order of condemnation of the properties described in tha com plaints. A special hearing was arranged before Judge Turner at 4 p. m. Thursday, the Association being represented by A. V. Wat- ni' enri ounsei For Juno ej! JJ W. R. Butler Announces Tlrfce Sale Plana Plans for the ticket eale ar in the capable hands of W. ft Butler, who is being assisted b I. E. Brockbank, O. M. Slack I Geerge 8. Bailiff, Mrs. George W L. Worthenm, Mrs. F. W. Warntek Mrs. E. H. Eastmond, Mrs. A. L :! Booth, Mrs. Edwin F. Irwin, am Miss Amelia Buckley. Mr. Butler explains that ticks V prices have been held down ti i 50 cento for main floor seats am ;l 'J 25 eents In the balcony, and tha every person who buys a ticks 5 r should sign hie name and gtvi j j hie address on the reverse side o It before he passes In at the dooi Friday night, June 17, as the tickets will he filed for perm nent record of all who helped ii do something for the etrlckei , M L j' ijj tu Chinese people. Bale of tickets Is being handle4 u.i.; by various business throughout the etty. a card betas prominently displayed lu windows of tho firms offering A. help in this way, atatee Mr. Ik1 ler. Jack Eastmond has charge of f,' 'K hoiieit: the advertising posters and othei media for the party. Alex Hed- - , qulst at the Farmers and Mer chants hank is treasurer, and all funds will he etrietly accounted (OMtiamd s fw Tss) j |