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Show THE HELPER JOURNAL, HELPER, UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over President Scraps Farm Board and Combines Several Bureaus Into One Agency; Wins First Round With British on Debt3. WHAT the President terms the credit administration" wag created by executive order which. If It meets with congres- t slonal approval, as Is expected, will become operative May --'7. The "farm credit Henry Morgen-thau- , administration" replaces the federal farm board, the federal farm loan board, and the farm credit activities that have been scattered through seven different govern-meu- t Jr. agencies. The "administration" will be headed by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., with the title of governor, and an assistant, for the present at least, Paul. Bestor, with the title of commis- , sioner. Governor Morgenthau said, after Issuance of the order, that the activities of the government In granting loans to farmers and farm organizations will be fully Id the past, with the government milking loans through the Department of Agriculture, the It. F. C, the farm board and other agencies. varying rates of Interest were charged and different purposes and conditions were set up, and under the new regime. Governor Morgenthau said, unity of purpose and treatment will be observed strictly. He also declared that all employees of the new credit administration will be placed under civil service Instead of under a patronage system as exists In many of the bureaus at present The executive order Issued by the President directed the abolishment of the farm stabilization activities of the farm board which have resulted In losses of three hundred million dollars, except that he provided they should be continued only to liquidate the left over holdings of the board. This consists of thirty million bushels of wheat and twenty-eigh- t thousand bales of cotton. In the message to congress accompanying the order President Roosevelt said his purpose was to "maintain and strengthen a sound and permanent system of agricultural credit subject to federal supervision and operated on the basis of providing the maximum of security to present prospective Investors In bond3 and debentures resting on farm mortgages or other agricultural securities all for the purpose of meeting the credit needs of agriculture at minimum cost." The consolidation of these various activities under one head Is expected to result In an administrative saving of two million dollars a year. efforts of TUB cancel or European nations greatly reduce the war debt owed to the United States are on, and It Is said President Roosevelt has won g""4&: liiv uioc civil luiau iai the extent of con- sidering world economic conditions before any discussion of war debts. As a result of Mr. Roosevelt's Insistence It Is reported the British government has backed down from the posiSir Ronald tion announced by Lindsay Austen Chamber of chancellor the lain, exchequer, when he said that Britain would not swap economic concessions for revision of the debt. The British are now willing to discuss economic concessions before the debt question Is taken up. By virtue of this sudden change of front on the part of the MacDonald ministry, the world economic conference Is likely to be held In April or May Instead of next summer or autumn, as the European powers were planning. The British ambassador, Sir Ron- ald Lindsay, has discussed with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, the questions to come before the economic conference before the debt question Is considered. The French are also willing to discuss economic before questions considering war debts. Following a White House conference between President Roosevelt and M. Jacques Stern, vice chairman of the finance committee of the French chamber of deputies, M. Stern, said that he had not discussed war debts with the President; that their conversation had been confined to the economic conference which the deputy thought "it would be very Important to hold as soon ns possible." Asked about the debt, he said "It would be very Important for France to pay the December Installment ns to President a mark of respect Mr. Roosevelt mid Mr. Roosevelt. Hull have takeu the position from the start that the war debts fire secondary In Importance to the removal of the tariff, embargo, quota, exchange and other restrictions on International trade. poratlon Is given authority, under the bill, to borrow the five hundred million dollars, but will have no powers beyond turning the money over to the relief administrator. Ten days after the appointment of the relief executive, the Reconstrucwould tion Finance corporation cease to have any. control over the granting of loans to states or municipalities for relief purposes, and thus all of the government's relief financing would be under the one Jurisdiction, Intermoii.ntain Briefly A change." Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, of England, will preside at the economic conference and will name the date for Its convening. n.OOI) SAFEGl'APDS GIFT OF APPLES Oi i :;k scrip i i an SONS OF I TAII PIONFLT.S PRICE, PROGRESS of the farm relief bill In the senate has been slow. Senatorial dignity would not permit of the speeding up of the ponderous machinery of the upper house regardless of the plea of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace for speed and for the passage of the bill as originally written by the President and his advisers. There Just had to be hearings on the bill, and everybody, for and against, must have a chance to talk, and they have talked. At this writing It seems that "a" bill will eventually pass, but whether It will be the bill that passed the house, and Is acceptable to the administration, or whether It will be so radically changed as to be unrecognized by Its proponents, or unacceptable at the White House, Is for the future to reveal. In other directions FARM relief along more rapidly. The proposal for refinancing farm mortgages has taken form and the proposition Is for selling of farm mortgage bonds to the extent of from nine to ten billion dollars on which the government will guarantee the Interest, but not the prinIt Is expected the governcipal. ment's guarantee of Interest will make the bonds marketable at a comparatively low Interest rate. Farm leaders have urged a government guarantee of the principal on such bond Issue, but such a guarantee would make them a direct obligation on the government, and mean simply an Increase In the national debt of nine or ten billion dollars. Guaranteeing the interest only means that should there be a complete default on the part of the farmers, which Is never probable, the treasury would have from three hundred to four hundred million dollars to pay annually until the bonds had matured. Is a growing belief In that the budget will not be balanced during the next fiscal year beginning July 1, regardless of the economies made by cutting the pay of government employees, reorganization of bureaus and departments, and reductions Id payments to veterans, amounting to an expected total of some seven hundred millions, and regardless of an added revenue from the tax on beer, estimated at about one hundred and fifty million. The relief grant of five hundred millions provided for In a bill now before congress, and the two hundred millions for the reforestation plans, will alone offset the economies. It Is probable that the more ambitious plans of the President will be financed through new bond Issues, but there will be Increased Interest charges and a sinking fund to provide for which will run Into hundreds of millions annually. Along with these things tax yields are falling short of estimates because of the continued prostration of business. THERE . FIVE hundred million do'lars to provided by the federal government and distributed as unemployment relief by the states Is called for In a bill In the Introduced senate by Senators r of New Wagner York, Costigan of Colorado, and La Follette of Wisconsin. The bill provides that the huge sum shall be given out right to such states as shall apply for Senator aid, and places .the La Follettt responsibility for seeing that the money Is given wisely In the hands of a "federal relief administrator." This otlieial would be appointed by the President, with the consent of the senate, ami carry on his duties Independently of any other de- partment. The Reconstruction Finance cor- - and rapid preparations vent possible flood been made here. LAKE SALT to damages CITY, pre- ha.f IT. F. a resident of this city, his one hundredth birth- Crow-ton- , celebrated day anniversary wood. by splitting fire SALT LAKE CITY, IT. A so ciety known ns the Sons of Utah has been organized and Pioneers a statewide organizawill tion, according to announced plans. TOOELE, I T. B. F. Bauer of Salt Lake, owner of the famous Bauer apple orchard, four miles south of here, has donated sevei hundred bushels of apples from he storehouse for the needy of thi: section. The Tooele county commit sum will handle the distribution o of 250,000 men sixty-eigh- the fruit. POCATELLO, IDA. W. P. Hav enor, county surveyor, reports thn most of the county roads stood w well during the past winter, witl the exception of a few that wer cut up by heavy travel when tb' snow first melted. IIYRUM. ITT. Through the 'ee operation of the Ilyrum Lions elu' and Ilyrum city, a summer camping and recreational park will In Blacksmith Fori: canyon. PROVO, FT. Provided business men of Provo will back scrip, Pro-v- o City may undertake three projects during the coming summer will provide considerable which work for the city's unemployed. AMERICAN FORK, UT. The Alpine school district is confronted of closing the with the necessity 1032-3school year at the end of the period unless it Is possible to work out some means of carrying on the term. .BOISE. IDA. The order suspending federal aid for road construction leaves Idaho with one bridge in the air without approaches and one pair of approaches without a bridge, and three highway jobs ready for bidders and no authority to grant them contracts. JEROME. IDA. A few 103f crops on the North Side project or ' rTRECTOR of the Budget Lewis W. Douglas has completed the task of revising the payment to veterans under the terms of the economy hill giving the President dictatorial powers for such revision. This revision eliminates from the pension rolls all veterans with disabilities, and reduces the payments to those with service disabilities by approximately 15 per cent, the same percentage of reduction as that made In the wages of government employees. The economies that either have been, or are expected to be, effected cover the reduction of 15 per cent in the wages of all government employees made by the President; reduction In veterans' benefits and administration now made; reorganization of the departments and bureaus In the administrative branch of the government, for which the President has authority, and on which he Is now working; postal service economies, now being considered. When all have been completed the following savings will have been effected : Veterans' benefits and 3 non-servi- of t'tnh e d-- congress with some amendments made by the senate. One of these amendments removes the state quota milt restrictions on the lion dollars remaining of the relief funds In the hands of the Reconstruction Finance corporation. This makes It possible for states that have borrowed up to the quota previously provided to continue to borrow until the sixty-eigh- t million Is exhausted. In the house the bill was adopted without a roll call, but with the Republican members In opposition. This opposition was not directed at the bill but at the methods of ruling the house by the Democratic majority. It was the first of the administration bills that had not received support In the passage through the house. administration Twenty-thre- IDAHO FALLS, IDA. A li'oeral supply of storage water in the Jackson lake reservoir may result In an unusually high water condition in the river, particularly if the run-of- f from the upjier watersh'. is for the purpose of reforestation and other work In government forest reserves and along the rivers, passed Reorganization FT. and Colorado bands have entered the third annual interuitv.m'.ain to be held here band tournament April IS, 14, and 15. E employment Busy Readers tolj for BAND MEET LCSMS NATION-WIDboycott on all Jewish business and profespreparatory commission named for the purpose of preparing an sional men In Germany has been clamped down by Chancellor Hitagenda for the economic conference has listed the following subjects for ler's National Socialist party. The announcement states that It will last consideration : "The original and present weight "until Jewish life In Germany is of debt and Interest obligations. paralyzed." Hitler's government "Price of primary commodities while not officially countenancing and price of manufactured goods, the boycott. Is not expected to Intervene. both wholesale and retail , At Nazi headquarters It was said "The existing volume of producthat the boycott "is a purely defention In different staple commodities sive measure solely directed against entering In world trade. "The willingness of creditors to German Jewry as retaliation f ji the make International loans and their campaign In foreign unwillingness to receive payment In countries." .All over Germany Jewish owned v goods and services. "The distribution In different shops and department stores closed countries of the available gold sup- their doors and were picketed by storm troopers. plies of the world. between the "The disharmony stable and fluctuating rates of ex- THE President's bill providing for A Hews eight-mont- still are unharvest-ed- . grain were left last fall, due to lack of money for threshing and storing, the farmers finding it more ecoJerome county Stacks of nomical stacks to keep it stored than in elevators. in the MONROE, UT. The city of Monroe recently completed an extensive improvement program of the town's waterworks system, Including the laying of new pipe. IDA. Judge C. D RUPERT, Phibbs, 17, pioneer of the Minidoka project, was found dead of a bullet wound in his home here. The wound is said to have been A letter to his widow told of his intentions to kill himself be cause of ill health. EPHRAIM, UT. Drives to ex terminate gophers and grasshop per are being inaugurated here. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Lad. of supervision on the part of tht federal government over the grazinv. has almost denuded the 25.157,000 acres of public domain of foliage, according to the secretary of the Utah Woolgrowers' association. PROVO. UT. An agreement to turn back to the city 11 per cent of their salaries during 10."3 has been made by Provo City employes. IDA. Near the POCATELLO. end of an adventurous life, Charley Sing, Jti, is spending his last days at the lianuock county poor farm, after an attempt to end his life because be disliked going there, failed. The old Chinese came to more than years ago to aid in the construction of the first narrow-gungrailroad through this became the and he then section, town's first cook. OGDEN, UT. Of a total of 75C.U cattle in Weber county, tested for tuliereulosis since last December, only 32 were reactors, it is reported. $480. 000,000 ad- ministrative branch of Inthe government. of abolition cluding functions 250,000,000 Reduction In the pay of government employees 125,000,000 Postal service economies 75.000,000 Total 1930,000,00 Among the new expenditures that will offset these savings Is the appropriation of five hundred million dollars as a gift to the states to be used for relief, and the reforestation plan of the President which congress has authorized, and which Involves an expenditure of not less than two hundred million dollars. Communists object to Daniels as American ambassador at Mexico City. Posters captioned "Out With Daniels" have appeared on walls In the capital. They call hlra "the murderer of Azueta and Cribe." These men were Mexicans who were killed In the fighting when United States forces landed at Vera Cruz In 1014. At that time Mr. Daniels was secretary of the navy. MEXICAN Poc-atell- o T T NIEIt authority granted him oy congress the President has ordered a 15 per cent cut In the pay of all federal employees, effective April 1. The order affects the employees In all departments Including offieijrs and enlisted men In the army and navy. Post Office department and all others on the government pay rolls, a total of approximately 800,000. The authority given by congress provided for such cut as reduced living expenses might warrant up to a total of 15 per cent An Investigation of living costs made by the Department of I.aUr showed a decrease from June HO of last year to the present time of 21.7 per cent, (in the strength of that report th President ordered the cut in pay ttt the limit of that allowed by the terms of the economy law. It is es'I- mated the savins In the government will ho approximately $r'.V)0KX) annually. C. 19.3. Western Naweisvr Ciilun. M -- A The Faith That Life Is Stronger & Than Death - Concerning the Origin and Observance of Lent Kaiixerine Cdelman. ve spirit of solemn festival Easter is celebrated, commemorating to all Christians the miracle and mystery of Christ's resurrection. Its season in the Northern hemisphere is the springtime of nature's rebirth, a perennial drama of life arising anew from the death and darkness of winter. The story of Scripture and the visible wonder of the earth's transfiguration tell alike of the triumph of life over death, of hope's victory over despair, of the dawn that ends the night of doubt and waiting. Easter Is a Christian festival, but all nations and peoples from ancient times have acknowledged the symbolic significance of the coming of spring. Easter Itself Is linked to forgotten ceremonies by which the sun was welcomed and the earth to beauty and fruitful-ness- . This was always a mystery ; it is still a mystery and a marvel, though man has learned a little knowledge and has made the seasons his servants. The flower that springs from the seed, the glory of green that sweeps the hills in springtime are manifest miracles. They fortify and justify the faith of those who believe that on Easter morning a stone was rolled away from a sepuleher In Palestine and death was found vanquished in the Resurrection. 3N A 'c the music of Easter u (ailing, and hope lie in every glad A HOW joyful promise train. In garden and woodland the songbirds are calling, Spring with its sunshine has come back again. M All oi the gloom and the darkness of winter, All of its doubting, its chill, and its (ear. Hat vanished, and now over meadow and y mountain Vistas of wonder and beauty appear. Great trees are bursting with buds and with f&J blossoms, etfUE forty days of Lent are re- -, ULgarded as being kept after the of Moses (Exodus example 24:28) and Elijah (I Kings, 19:8), and above all. as commemorating.; the fasting of Christ (Matthew, 4 :2).; The forty-dafast dates to the: early Fourth century. Its origin is obscure. In the early church Uje: duration either was not fixed or it; varied in the churches in different; But from the Fourth countries. century the period of fasting seems to have approximated more or less closely in most places to forty days, the fast being extended over six or seven weeks, according as Sundays only or Saturdays and Sundays A F.inuitite hluenew u hntino 'Kt iliM- All ol the joy and the wonder ol living Brushes the wings of each creature that dies. I All things unite to make Easter more lovely, To tell us thai winter and sadness are Bed; 4 AA things unite to pay homage and glory To One who in triumph has come from the dead. S How joyful the music of Easter is falling, All things of nature in unison ting, Death has been conquered, the long night is ended,, J Si if Over the meadows the glad ridings ring. And just as the darkness of winter is conquered,?!' So, too, the One that death held in thrall. Hat broken the letters and come forth in glory, Bringing new promise and hope to us aiL The modern man is perplexed with many problems, but those that touch him closest are old as humanity Itself. He seeks life's purpose and its destiny. He is aware of his own bewilderment and troubled by the sardonic certainty of death. Life makes him many promises and asks much of his energy and ambition, but grants no guarantees of peace or prosperity or happiness. And he wonders whether this is all a sorry jest, a pointless prank of fate, an incident of the restlessness of life upon a little planet, spinning aimlessly from nowhere Into noth' ingness. In the simple words that tell of the earliest Easter, there is evident the wonder of its witnesses and the Joy with which they found their hopes come true. For in the dark hours of Gethsemane and Golgotha all seemed lost save an promise of resurrection, and hope alone was left to warm the heart of The Christian finds a sufficient faith and give it courage. But the answer In the significance of Easter promise was kept and hope was morning. The foundation of his Justified, and the miracle of Easter faith Is the promise of resurrection morning became the cornerstone of and Its supreme fulfillment in the Christian faith and doctrine. risen Christ. But the question is In a more nncient story, written older than Christianity and its anwhen no legend lacked a meaning, swer as old as the everlasting hills hope was the last gift of the gods and the seasons which visit them. to a world infested with evils and Life Is stronger than death and is sorrows. And hope might have died forever renewed In joy and loveliand left the world desolate were it ness. Darkness promises the dawn, not for the promises made and kept winter gives way to spring and with every cycle of the seasons. summer. The past may be forgotThese have nourished In all ages ten ; the future Is worth waiting the faith which Is "the assurance of and working for. things hoped for, the proving of For every flower of spring dethings not seen." They have taught clares that nature is no pessimist to men work and wait and trust in and has kept her promises since the future, to keep courage through the world began. And man, who is darkness and doubt, to seek for new by birth a child of nature,' may life and happiness, even In the learn from this living lesson to presence of buffering and death. deny his own doubts and keep his courage for the work before him. It has been said that the times have taught 113 again the value of To Bring an Eaater Smile faith and the need for it. If this In northern Europe, many peasis so, then this years Easter will ants still greet one another with be widely observed In serious and the cry, "Christ Is risen." The anFor these are swer comes, "He Is risen. Indeed." thoughtful spirit. times of doubt and discouragement Then colored Faster eggs are exand hope itself Is weary of waiting changed. Sometimes Jokes are told for light and leading. to Induce an "Easter smile." were excepted. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, St. Leo (who died in 461) exhorts his hearers to abstain that they may "fulfill with their fasts the apostolic institution of the forty days." But the encyclopedia adds that modern scholars are almost unanimous in rejecting this view, because the existing remains of first three centuries show "consider-- , able diversity of practice regarding! the fast before Easter and also a gradual process of development in the matter of its duration." "The passage of primary Importance." it resumes, "is one quoted by Eusebius from a letter of St. Irenaeus to Pope Victor in connection with the Easter controversy. Irenaeus says there is not only a controversy about the time of keeping Easter, but also regarding the fast 'For,' he con preliminary tinues, 'some mints tney ought to fast for one day. others for two days, and others for several, while others reckon forty hours both of day and night to their fast.' "He also urges that this variety of usage Is of ancient date, which implies that there could have been no apostolic tradition on the subject . . . We may then fairly conclude that Irenaeus about the year 100. knew nothing of any Easter fast of! The same inference forty days. must be drawn from the language; of Tertulllnn only a few years later.; . . . And there Is the same silence. fa-- , observable In all the thers, though many had occasion to; mention such an apostolic lnstitu-- ; r tion If It had existed." who served from Pope Nicholas, e S.r8 to 807, on Friday of the Roman church. Friday corresponds to the day of. the week on which Jesus was crucified, and ninny of the early Christians were already observing It as a weekly fast day ; that Is, n day on which they abstained from eating flesh meats. Fish being the principal meat, it accordingly became the favorite food for those days when flesh meats were forbidden. Also, the fish was one of the earliest symbols of Christianity. Cleveland Plain Dealer. non-fles- h A IDA. BOISE, half million antidilution notes will be sold by the state April 14. Mrs. Myrtle Enl.ing, state treasurer, has announced. The sale being authorized by the board of examiners. Bids on the issue will be opoffice. Interened at he trea.-urdollars in tax I i ' j I y est may not exceed O per cent. The Issue is to be used to finance the slate pending receipt of VXVZ luxes the (. unties. The ntr mature dnrii:,-- February l!i" I. t' n months i:f.er Easter, the Birth of Sunday ASTER, by the derivation of its name, is intimately connected wilh the East, the point! It symbolizes for us the beginning of a new era, wiih death no longer a blank door closing upon human existence, opening upon only nncertainty or fear beyond; with sin no longer interposing a dense veil between mankind and an offended Creator. of a glorious summer, Instead, it tells of life as the Spring-tim- e illumined by the beauty of a gracious Father reconciled lo mankind of death as but the entrance to a fuller life in another uphere. A new Sun issued from the garden tomb on Easier morning, and ever since that day of the opened grave we have called the panic first day of the week Sunday and made it a happy and sliould-b- e holy ri !t day as a weekly memorial of the most beneficent ami most mucc upon it light va revolutionary event this earth has ever w ilnc-fcfir-- t made to tvhine. g day-dawni- ' declared that abstinence! was obligatory on e sun-risin- -- , |