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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHI, UTAH Built on Air Lots "WOLF!" CRIES SOUND ONCE MORh SEEN and Ht AR around tne Todav. Calamity Howlers, Foreseeing Unutterable Doom. Try Years Gone By, to Seare the Pants Off Us. The Merchandise Mart is buj over tracks ef the Chicg t North Western railway. The iej. road retains ownership of the arej on which its tracks operate. sold air lots, representing poSSes. sion ol the space above grou-occupied by the entire buiHag NATIONAL CAPITALI lots necessary to sink caissons. The air was actually subdiv-jji- j into lots and the diagram of ti aerial real estate filed in the o$ ot the recorder of deeds of Co county, 111. ' ui(uiur.Tn!U CORRESPONDENT n ji .,, . , a had already been cr.angeu ding oi its own pre&ireen? Why not jusi obi( " p..i.,.o utility execu- . .,,... ' has happened is happeng o probably will happen It t Francisco bay ferries. mjgh fore-duce them to exercise a for hind; sight instead of waiting as are to mey prove "S',! sight me aic. suming mat trouble about waiting for tnat demonstration-st- ill assuming thy are right-- is that they will be in the who inposition of the motorist uncer his rights on sisted exercising trailic regulations; "He was right, dead right, as he nw. .co drove along. But he's just as dead as if he d been wrung." Out in San Francisco the ferries, of naturally, suffered a huge losswere business when the new bridges r ',J - j t f rr opened up. To recoup some, they obtained permission to reduce their rates. So they made the for a car 30 cents instead of 50 cents, and the round trip 50 cents. Whereas the bridges charge 50 tents toll each way, except for a slight reduction for commuters. As a result, the ferries are doing a land oince Dusiness nauims auto mobiles, and the bridge revenues are not what they should be. So the six counties that guarantee the bridge, which means that they have to make up any deficit in paying operating charges and interest on the bonds, are alarmed. They are appealing to the state railroad commission to reopen the case. What they want, of course, is to force the ferries to charge just as much as the bridges. Boiled down, if they get what they want the ferries might as well go out of busi- A; , The calamity howlers have predicted many dire reckonings for us all, but here we are, hale and hearty. deserts (upper right) and our people are Despite predictions, our farm lands have not become not facing famine as are some Chinese (lower left). Ti e end of the world has not come as predicted by Wilbur Glenn Voliva (upper left) or Robert Reidt (lower right). dust-blow- n ness. Jacob G. Lipman. After exhaustive studies with the aid of a corps of 30 news of catastrophes and wars reflected in the WPA engineers and statisticians, often enough to give the nation the jitters, the 1937 Dr. Lipman submitted a report last which said, in part: "calamity howlers" are emerging from their hiding June, of of Soil Destruction. Warns new batch places like groundhogs from their burrows with a "We have about 200 years to go fearful predictions. we unless start Last seriously conserving for time the next was the year Suicidal war, deserts, our soil and renewing it where it have but surewill which years many Judgment, and blights plagues since 1844, and with them, has been destroyed or impoverished. ly bring devastation to all farm passed The six most vital elements of the Millerites. the lands these have always been soil, essential for our food supply, of the Dud. Proves Doom Another favorite the topics am'ong are nitrogen, phosphorus, potash, Toskilled and unskilled prophets. In 1925 Robert Reidt of Freeport, calcium, magnesium and sulphur. unthe and raids the most of One bombing day, Long Island, made Page are being used certainties of a new institution in hu- newspapers by predicting that the Nearly all of them million tons of at rate the many up are man affairs undeclared war world would end February 26, 192G. a year." giving an added note of terror to Collision with a comet would demol Granted that the American farmthe old familiar war songs. ish this planet, he said. Nothing It is yet too soon to tell whether more was heard of Mr. Reidt until er has dissipated his resources, that scenes the optimists or the pessimists in 1932, when he "revealed" that New is not toissay that behind the not perpetually on guard the war scare controversy are cor- York City would be destroyed at 11 science to mankind's carelessness. On rect, but only the booming of can- o'clock Sunday night, October 9. The theoffset debit side, floods and drouths non and the whine of shells could appointed time came and went. He was last reported running a tea have magnified the devastation, but the other calamity-howler- s means of restoring the soil are being who are raising their voices in lecroom. developed and improved. constantly ture halls and before microphones. The cry of 'Doom!" was taken D. Dr. P. , in B. 1933 Peterson, agricultural Arthur Ware, by up again According to some prognostica-torsexpert for the Freeport Sulphur the fertility of the soil in the who tried to prove there is some United States is being reduced at thing in a name. The Britisher flood- company, is one of those who debunks the terror of the dying soil. Buch a rapid rate that the country ed the world with pamphlets, bookwill some day reach the status of lets and announcements that the "History, if nothing else, should Chiria, and instead of $90 worth of earth would cease to exist on June teach that dire predictions of soil exhaustion are risky," he says, "befood being available for every per- 12. son in the country, there will be Two years later Wilbur Glenn Vo- cause the same acres have been only about $15 worth. liva, cult leader of Zion, Illinois, farmed and refarmed for centuries took up the torch of prophecy. Mr. in Europe and are still producing Most widely spread of all the presenis the om- Voliva wasn't sure whether the abundant crops." calamity-howlint-day He declares that American acres inous prediction that the "dust world would end in 1935 or 1930. The second group of calamity-howler- s should be more productive rather bowl" will emerge as an American of the Sahara where only those who try to shake the than less, pointing out that scien of of 127,000,000 faith present population pioneers with the cry: "It tific prescriptions in the form of balcould possibly exist. can't be done!" have pretty gen- anced fertilizers and chemical comFew, today, raise the cry that the erally suffered the same disappoint- pounds which enrich the soil are end of the world is coming, as they ment that overtook those who pre- being added to the cen,tury-olpractice of crop rotation. Sulphur, like dicted the end of the world. frequently used to. The end of the world! That cry nitrogen, phosphorus and potash, Calamity-Howler- s Still Wail. is required by all growing plants that once struck terror into the Even Columbus, who had to con- and animals, Dr. Peterson explains; hearts of men, and which is still remembered when bombs and shells tend with his share of scoffers, did soils deficient in sulphur will not go screaming through the air, calls not envision the day when ships support normal plant growth, but to mind the days of with a net tonnage of 130,717,015 such deficiencies are being met by would cross between the Old World adding sulphur to the soil, either Mother Shipton. and the New, as they did in 1936. alone or in fertilizer mixtures. Thoney Prophetess. Nor did the Wright brothers foresee She not only predicted the end the time when Fungicides and insecticides, to liners of which of the world, but foresaw the Great the airlanes wouldglistening sulphur is also important, are chalk up a record Fire of London, the deaths of kings of 439,000,000 passenger miles in one conquering other menaces aga nst which older generations were powand princes, the invention of auto as they are doing now. mobiles and steamships, the Amer year, erless, and have altered There are still many calamity-howler- s the situation, he completely ican Revolution and hundreds of says. who defy history with preevents. other Still other modern "wolf" criers dictions of dire happenings about to The only trouble with Mother Ship-to- occur. point out that in 1936 nearly 100,000,-00bushels of wheat were "burned was that she never existed, for In 1934 Gustavo Meyer as great, stilling clouds arose her famous prophecy was later said that Professor away" there would bo an epi- from the Dust Bowl. proved only a clever forgery, writ demic of scarlet fever of terrible ten and supposedly discovered after of Fanners the in the great wheat belt, United States the described events had passed proportions however, have refused to yield to to confirm can Nothing navy. tlrs into history. Nevertheless, for one medical record, panic, and they are giving the most breathless night in 1879, nearly ev be found in navy 103.000 and however, the men in the effective answer ye: devised to the , ery church in England was jammed navy rolls are by taking the of evidence ample to the door.s with the faithful, who nec essary to overcoir.c the steps another that went prediction wrong. of end awaited the the confidently es in their path. A modern They are pioneer in the predicworld, as the prophetsuch simple and luteal using of tion calamitous events was H. p. ess had foretold. as p.ckct windbreaks and Miller When William shouted Hennie, noted British economist. ranks of trees. They are plowing for London the Writing pictorial fir: ows at "Doom" in the autumn of 1813, thouangles to the pre sands of America's believers in the magazine.of The Sphere, he said in ailing winds, so that (lie sw eep ot issue the October 1020: 10, Second Advent trembled, went the storms will be lm ken up. "Within ten years the power monhome, and prayed while taking the Incidents such as these may com last stitches and tucks in the res- opoly of coal will be broken and it hir.e to prove that calamity-howler- ; be will broken not by political and urrection gowns they were to don have a value in dramatizing tin that night. At 12 o'clock they went economic methods but by the ar- do out on the hilltops to await the end rival of a new fuel which will re- menaces which threaten mankind of the world. They waited until place coal! Long before our coal While whole countries are mentals measures are exhausted, con! min- thrown off balance by their morning. enough heat is generated tt ing as we know it today will have Then the Rev. Mr. Miller exweld together the constructive ele and the coal beceased, strike will dehis that calculation plained ments in the community. This vv;e rived from an assumption that the come as obsolete os coal itself." seen in enterprises f'oi Some calamity-howler2,300 Biblical days from the time arouse the Ezra went into Jerusalem signified country with forecasts of slow and reclaimingif the- soil, and may bi the howl becomes lone repeated 2,300 modern years was in error, horrible annihilation. so that new measure fo because of the time lost in the A moderate warning, which was enough, healing other ills will be forth change from Julian to Gregorian taken up and distorted with fear- coming. calendars. He announced that the some results, was issued 4? Western by Dr. Newspaper Union. man-mad- e out-sho- g one-fift- h d fear-stricke- n 50-ce- nt 30-ce- 0 calamity-howlers- non-existe- ful'mi-nations- , large-scal- s - 50-ce- nt been built. world-shakin- g n because the utilities could, had they used foresight instead of hindsight, have supplied the consumer at just as low rates. As abundantly demonstrated by the San Francisco ferries. If those ferries had reduced rates back before the bridges were authorized, it would have been necessary, in all computations as to whether of construction such bridges was economically sound, to figure tolls on the basis of ferry rates. This sort of figuring was done, but it was done on the basis of a 50- cent ferry charge, hence a toll on the bridge. On that basis calculations were made showing that the bridges would pay. Had those calculations been made on a round straight toll, trip, which the ferries are now charg ing, the bridges might never have consumer, j HOME FROM WORK ? NOT WHEN No Hope of Speed Crop control and wages and hours to enact regulation legislation, which congress was called in extra session, do not promise very rapid action. Very little doubt exists that both will be enacted, but every indi- cation is also that congress will make haste slowly, and in rather exaggerated fashion. The one contingency that might result in beating the wages and hours bill is that the American Fed-oration of Labor and the Cornimltee for Industrial Orgamat'on should j HEADACHE IN j j j 1 he inexpensive way to ease head it yon want last results-- is aches with Bayer Aspirin. The instant the pain start, simply take 2 Bayer tablets with a half glass of water. Usually k a few minutes relief arrives. Bayer tablets are quick-actin- g because they disintegrate in a few seconds ready to start their work of relief almost immediately after taking. It costs only H or 7i to rclicvt when you get most headaches the new economy tin. You pay only 25 cents for 21 tablets about apiece. Make sure to get the genuiM by insisting on liayor Aspirin. J ooth decide openly to knife it. Some think that the A. F of L. could do it ill alone, but no one here in touch vith the situation doubts that both could do it. Nor does anv one doubt that they Aould kill it if they dared! Neither f the organizations likes it even a ittle bit. That resolution adopted ay the A. F of L. bristles with opposition to the original plan, and .vhile it was disavowed by leaders n the discussion that the same lay against the present orm, the opposition is there. Why else, it might be asked, would in organization as politically mind- d as me a. h of L. devote sum- ieni time 10 put throuph a resolution castigating something which . 15c 2t Is WNU Service. tablet m Serious Poison You! Say Doctors mam Modem doctors now say that ths old idesflf poisons truing iuto your blood from constipation is HUNK. They claim that constipation swells up the bowcia causing pressure 08 nerves in the directive tract. This nerw prpssure is what causes frequent biliiwji uir,7,incs3, eietls, headaches, upset stonisca, dull, tired-nlectin, sleepless nitihis. costea bad taste and loss of appetite. tongue, suffer hours or even d.ivs longer tnas You must CIKT THAT PHI necessary. Bt'HE OFF THE NEUVE8 TO GET IlELIEF. Flush the intestinal system. ofter.diog wastes are gone the boivcls rctura to normal size and nerve pressure STt'TS. Almost at once you feel inarvelously refreaW-blue- s vanish, and life looks bright ac:i:That is why so many doctors are now i eisting on gentle but QUICK ACTION. Tb is hy YOU should insist on Adlenta TiJ efficient intestinal evaeunnt contains SKVhn inerediea and carminative eathartio Adlerika acts on the stomach as well entire intestinal tract. Adlrrika relic7" etemaoh GAS at onee and often rcmonj bowel congestion in half an no;ir,A? violent action, no after cfTecta, jus- - Qtllljj results. Kecommemled bv many doocd and druggists ior 2ii years. " .... C Bel) Syndicate. cent a But It Can't Taxes were not included in the announced program for congress. But since the announcement of the program the budget figures have been worked out. It has developed that the deficit for this fiscal year will be much larger than was anticipated. It is now certain that the rioht . 1. f mi.ui euvernmeni, on winch interest must be paid, will be increased this fiscal year by at least $750,000,000 This is much smaller than has been the case in the last five years, but assurance at the JL V4SiV Charm of Difficulties Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those wh dare to grapple with thern- .Madame Swetchine. Not on Program SALT LAKE'S NEWEST HOSTELRY O Onr lobby is delightfully air cooled daring the summer raonuu Radio for Every Room 200 Rooms 200 Baths i mo- ment that this is the final figure. The only sure thing is that it will not be less than that. On top of this the Treasury knows now that a heavy shrinking of revenue will be revealed in the income tax returns of March 15, next, both on corporation and individuals Corporation earnings will be smaller, it is forecast, than for 1036, due not so much to diminished business,.! for this is comnarativrlu d:ut to increased costs-w- age boosts, nigner commodity costs, etc. And u is nci earnings on which corporation income taxes are computed. Individual incomes from dividends, as compared with the returns of last March, will be down in consequence. But on way of this individual incomes will be top down because there will be nnthin m, the profits resulting from Eoenni TABLETS virtually ing. Very few people in the country believe this. It sounds too fantastic. But it happens to be true and La Follette, though never quoting it, knows it and acts on it. is no A FEW MINUTES . Income taxes on $5,000 to $50,000 stipends will be sharply boosted by congress in revising the tax law to get additional money the Treasury needs, unless there should be some totally unexpected upset. Levies on corporation net incomes will also be boosted. Corporations are now paying 15 per cent of their net incomes to the federal government, in addition to the undistributed earnings tax which, of course, they do not pay if they distribute all their earnings to stockholders. There will be a strong effort to lower exemptions and hike levies on incomes below $5,000, both of which are advocated, and have been for several years, by Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin. There is a possibility of boosting the tax on incomes below $5,000, but the chance of reducing the present exemptions is practically nil. As a matter of fact, this is one of the few points on which La Follette and the New Deal differ. La Follette wants those with the smaller incomes to pay taxes for two reasons. He wants them to know about taxes, and he knows that to get as much money as he thinks the federal government should have it is necessary to go lower. It just so happens that no one has ever contradicted the statement made by Alfred M. Landon during the last campaign, that if the government took every dollar of every income in the country from $5,000 upwards it would pay only a fraction of what the government is now spend- there EASES j Boost Income Tax 4 GENUINE BAYER ASPIRIN 40-ce- nt Now let's go back a few years in other words, use hindsight and Let's supimagine a situation. pose that when the bridge was first proposed the ferry owners had reduced rates sharply, instead of first waiting in the vain hope that the bridges would never be built, and then seen the inevitable hapObviously, a ferry cannot pen. compete with a bridge, once a bridge is built. If the bridge management is permitted, it can make any rates it pleases, drive the ferries out of business, and then raise its rates again. It costs the bridge management virtually nothing, save a little wear and tear on the paving, for traffic to pass over it. The main cost is interest on the investment, and that goes on, whether there is any traffic or not. The case is strikingly similar to a government hydroelectric project. The project may be uneconomic, but once the dam is built and the power plant installed the current must be produced. The mere fact that it loses money, that it costs the taxpayers money, is beside the point. It is, not to make a pun, water over the dam. So the competing privately owned utilities lose money, the taxpayers lose money, and nobody gains, not even the WITH ME STAY! 40-ho- Just Imagine By WILLIAM C. UTLEY xhose re- resolution, in that were seeking to build ,,n nnhlic ooinion against the wages , ..a .,,trc Kill almnct regardless of on details. So they hit it hardesi vulwhat thev considered its more that fact the nerable points, despite those points had been eliminated in the last session. Wanted No Change There is the possibility, of course, that there was a slightly different purpose that the desire was really to prevent the bill's being changed its again into something resembling oboriginal and, to union labor, form. jectionable As a matter of fact, the bitterest opponents of the bill, the folks who so effectually sidetracked it last ses- sion, holding it in the house rules committee after every one had as- sumed it would pass, are hoping to change the bill substantially. And some of the changes that these potent gentlemen want to makewould again add some of the features that William Green managed to get stricken out. As a matter of fact, the opposition of little southern sawmills and other small plants did not really reach the burning point last session until after Green's federation influence had accomplished these changes. Green The effect of the changes was to restrict the jurisdiction of the board, or whatever the governing body that enforces the wage and hour regulation may be called, to compelling the an hour maximum and the minimum. They would leave all disputes involving conditions better for labor than these particular limitations to be settled by collective bargaining. ,e HOTEL i Temple Square Rates $ 1.50 fo $3.00 The Hotel Temple. Sqnnre h !"" lilgbly de.lr.blr, friendly pl.ere. You will nlways find 'H"n",j nlale, supremely comfortable. thoroughly aarreable.Yoil en" " fore understand why this h" HIGHLY I5F.C()MMF.M1 Yon ran alio appreciate wliyi It's a mnrfc ot distinction to itoP at fiia bmautiiul hostelry F.ttNEST C. ROSSITER- - |