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Show TWO PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD, r?JDAYgOCTOBER 27, 1939 OUT OUR VAY ::y Willi a:.:s this curious w :.:.) IT .e i i ; lTry Afternoon -( Ecpt!nr Saturfliy) r.d Sunday ilornlnf Put"shd Ir th Hra:i Corporation, II South 71 rt Wcl Street, l rovo. L'lab. Kntered "3nil eiaae matter at fee foiof;;ce In I'roto, Ctatt, under the. act of Marcb. Gi'rr.an. Nlcol A Ruthmen. Nitlanil AdvertUlnir repre-l3!i:Uii, repre-l3!i:Uii, New Tprk, a i'ran ico, Detroit, liotion. Xx Anreles, Ch'.rngo. Mfmbtr L'r teJ lref. f. E. A. Service, Wettern Feature. tl; nn i-.-fi. if .etiirr n4 Audit iiurttt t Cirf jiit;o:i. 2 uc. r tj. Hon terme ty frr'er la Utah countr. 19 cent the zno:-.::x, 1 C tr six m..nt'ia In advance; fi.H the year, lri at.erif; oy meii in tjjnty, Ii(iU; outi3e county 5.Ji the jtir ia 4anee. IS throuiH eH Ue U d Tie 1AtTlT Tfce BeraJa ::i tot uiuni flrfer.clal reponiit!i;ty for ny errora which may appear in -ir!iif,Tinu puLlibed ' In it coiumm. In thoe tntanee where tSe taper ! at Tau;t, it will rrprint trial part c the advertleemec t la tl tit ty s-cgraj'hlcal mistake o-iia. II ere' s To the Navy! . Whileit's true that the people of the intermountain we.-U, living at an elevation of over 4000 feet, more than a thousand miles from the Pacific coast are not "navy-minded," the observance of Navy Day on October 27th should never be allowed to pass by unnoticed. Navy day dates back to the year 1921 when congress by special act set aside this day, the birthday anniversary of the late President Theodore Roosevelt, as a-day in which to pay homage; to the United States Navy. Due to the geographical peculiarity of the United States, the Navy will always constitute our first line of defense. This country will never relinquish her position as onet-of-the leading, sea powers of the world, ; dominating the western hemisphere, the two Americas. . The. United States Navy is rich in traditions, and a history of participation in past wars of which any citizen can well be proud. The people of all the state, responding to the proclamations issued by national and state officials, join on this day in paying respects to the Navy, the pride of the nation. Bigger and digger . v It has been noted before that big business Is getting bigger. It seems to be inevitable, a part of the times, for in all lines the really big businesses have been growing bigger throughout the past 10 years, despite depression and despite de-spite all efforts to whittle 'them down. Even a country like Russia, which "went socialist" what did it get? The big-gpblg big-gpblg businesses of all, in the form of Vast, state-owned trusts. Bigness seems to go along with modern technology. The United States now has its first $3,000,000,000 bank. It is New York's Chase National. Both the National City-and City-and the Guaranty Trust also show- total resources of over two' billions each Yet it is only a few years ago that everybody every-body gasped when the first banking institution-announced total resources of over a billion. . , , - Plow of funds from abroad has helped bring about such results. It is further proof that the United States is having dumped into its lap the financial leadership of the world. Aud further proof, too, that bigness itself probably cannot be abolished. It can only, be controlled or directed. " s , ' ' ' . The Roosevelts have discreetly solved the delicate problem prob-lem of entertaining foreign, emissaries.. .from belligerent nations by arranging a reception instead of the usual dinner. Thus, diplomats will balance supper plates on their knees-instead of chips on their shoulders. For Further Details See Your Favorite V 0 VAep5 : sjc Tee partes ofe f 1 t y fj COPff. 199 6V E SFVICE. Wfl. T.M, PgC. U. S. Drouth Brings To Farmers in BY BRUCE CATTON Dally Herald Washington V Correspondent . WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 While the nation's attention has been centered on the European war,1 a major disaster has developed in side the United States. One of the worst autumn drouths on record has parched farm lands in 30 states. Confused mass migrations of stricken; farm families are beginning in northeastern north-eastern Texas, and , in Oklahoma. The Farm - Security Administration Administra-tion reports that 115,000 families are In urgent need. - An informal committee of con gressmen and senators , is study ing the situation and is preparing to ask for relief funds of at least $50,000,000 before this session of Congress adjourns. , Department of Agriculture peo pie -say-that this drouth is freak ish. It is spotty for while it cov ers the Ohio and Mississippi valleys,' val-leys,' the great plains area and the southeastern states, it does aper 1 A ""5 oij 0 IDS ;f VpI.v JMr&) J THE SPARROW. FIOHT PT. ClfF. Disaster " . i :. , ' ., Western U. S. not cover all of any one of the states affected. - In any drouth-area state there will be one county where there is no harvest and no pasturage, and an adjacent county where bumper crops are being gathered. In some localities - adjoinim? farms . will show similar contrasts. South Suffers the Most In northern . Mississippi Arkansas Ar-kansas and , parts of Alabama, the situation is worse, because heavy floods last spring devastated many farms. After the floods subsided the nearly destitute farmers man aged to get a crop in and hoped for . the best. ' But the autumn drouth dashed their hopes. Congressman .' Wall Doxey of Mississippi, a member - of the drouth committee, says conditions in his district are desperate. ".We've got a nearly complete crop failure,- not only of cotton but also of corn' and ; gardeii truck,' lie says. 'Tlfe cotton crop isn't running 20 per-cent of nor mal, and we don t have enough corn to feed our chickens until Thanksgiving.- Folks down there are selling everything- they have just to get enough -to eat." ; f ; Congressman: Francis Case of South Dakota says, .the drouth in the Black Hills area is the worst ever experienced there. . ' His own district, illustratesi the spotty nature of the drouth; of its 24 counties, about a third are getting in good crops while another an-other third report ; extremely bad conditions with- the rest, report ing that they are at least able to get in enough feed for their live stock. Need More Money . t or Distressed ; ; Farm Security Administration, which ls making grants to distressed dis-tressed families, says it is going to' need some more money before very . long. At .the - beginning , of this f ascal year, it had $118,000,- 000 for grants and loans and ap plications from 400,000 families, a far higher total than the money would cover. . : ' , " ' " c Since most crop loans are made in December and January, money which was set aside xor that purpose pur-pose is still available and can be drawn on for . the drouth emer gency; but it will have to be replaced, re-placed, and the . estimate is that the $50,000,000 the congressmen are talking about will be none too much.. - - - ; If heavy rains come now they won't undo- much of the damage as far as this fall's crops go, but they will help next year's wheat crop. Planting of winter wheat has been going on during the last few weeks, but unless the drouth ends pretty soon the seed won't sprout.- , Incidentally, the drouth brought an unexpectedly high percentage of compliance with AA's crop in surance and acreage control program pro-gram in the wheat belt. . - i . Expecting a high war demand next year, many farmers had been refusing to go in on the program and were planning to sow lots of winter wheat. The drouth upset their plans, and nowl tnere is a rush to get in; on the program. ; r Roasted butterflies are relished as a food by the natives of the Bugong mountain's of Australia.; rnnr TNT d a i MOV J LllUOTV Twenty-five Yearo Ago Today From the Files of the Provo Herald October 27, 1914 The city commissioners appoint ed the following members of the library .board: LeRoy Dixon, S. P. Eggertsen, and J. M. Jensen, reappointed re-appointed for two years; George A Startup, Arthur Southwick and L. E. Eggertsen for three years. The holdover members were Mrs. J. W;S Aird, George Powelson and O. W;, Andelin. ' . oOo 'Last week a fine 12-pound boy arrived at the home of Alex Mor-tenson, Mor-tenson, the plumber, and he is unable to plumb his shop as a consequence. con-sequence. But they think he will get over the shock in a few days and get back to regular work again. Mother and son are doing well and everybody feels better," i Louis Storrs of the Fifth ward returned from Germany where he was engaged in L. D. S. missionary mission-ary work previous to the war. After leaving Germany he spent some time with relatives in Eng land. , Outside of his war experiences, experi-ences, being arrested on suspicion of being a spy, etc., he had a pleasant time. " , - The Ladeis' Democratic-Progressive club met at the home of Mrs. Archie Thurman. Short talks were made by Messrs Walter Adams and Archie Thurman and several selections were given by the Dem ocra tic-Progressive quartet. ' Hours Announced gy Revenue Man Office hours for Freeman E. Adams, zone deputy collector for 1-j rT - rr v ... , . 1 " 1 ,. ::C fell r iN V'r' .'S"' ' ; ' : I ' U 1 'j. i U Writer Appeals For American Neutrality "Let America be truly neutral. Iri spite of everything, let us stay out of thia war;' That was the conclusion of my last ,Forum article. Again I repeat it and submit sub-mit that the real thing that matters mat-ters is that we stay out of this war. All the, talk in congress and out of it about neutrality, the arms embargo, cash and carry, contraband cargoes, international law, foreign trade, restricted zones, dictatorships and democracies, democra-cies, etc. etc., only adds to confusion con-fusion unless such talk is the outward out-ward expression of a since, pure motive to be truly neutral and an unswerving determination to stay out of this war. 'Again I repeat: This is an imperialist im-perialist war. It is not primarily a war between dictatorships and democracies. There is not the slightest possibility of the United States being attacked by any foreign for-eign dictator. The danger to America Am-erica is that the imperialists in this country will suck and drive this nation into the awful slaughter slaugh-ter and destruction. Our real danger dan-ger is from within not from without." with-out." "... '.. - ' I listened to a round table dis cussion of this question recently, over the radio, by a group of high school students; and was appalled by the lak of fundamental, clear understanding , expressed. .The splendid boys and girls participating participat-ing were like unto so many parrots par-rots chattering only what they had been taught to lay. It was clear of course, too, that the teachers who had taught and coached them had imparted to them only the arguments (propaganda) found in the text books and drilled them in the technique of the Imperialist advocates." Hardly . an original thought was expressed. Wisdom and understanding were entirely lacking. No such discussion could be indulged by mature men and women who lived through the first imperialist (World) war, especially especial-ly those who fought on the battlefields bat-tlefields abroad or in . the markets at -home. -. .. "Experience is. the greatest teacher" but our schools and teachers may and should supplements, supple-ments, experience by , making the path of experience more safe. The great function of education is to teach the students how to think, not what to think. When boys and girls are taught and .trained what, to think and, how to act, it becomes indoctrination and regimentation. regi-mentation. , . The real forces that are respon sible for this war and where those forces are rooted, - when they spring are not generally being studied. What " they actually amount to are not generally understood.' un-derstood.' What must be done , to make a decent world in which to live is not . being determined. These - things I . submit are the rea vital problems. ' ". ' '.' Let us devote ourselves to solving, solv-ing, these problems. Let us not allow al-low American imperialists to drag or force the .American .people and nation- into the present imperialist war. : " .,.., , E. A. MITCHELL the U. S. bureau of internal revenue; rev-enue; whose office is on the second sec-ond floor of the post office building build-ing here, are 8:30 to 10 a. m he announces. Pers6ns wishing to see him at- other hours should call for appointments... , i i L3 I r. m. Kts u. . pr. CM. , ' ) AKSVER: . The domestic bull, attacks.- The most centls farm tcrjerl: without wtrr4ng. 2.TXT: I csrn a Wi I n .OC3 . . Tjxcli week tills ccl'iina w uents of t!i Irovo CI.apter ct -tlto The Writer's Digest for October carries an interesting article BACKGROUNDS. It begins by saying: "By and large there are two kinds of writers in the world. The professionals who sit down at their typewriters and reach for a sheet of, pap'r, and the amateurs, who sit down and reach for the moon.'' . ! The . article is by Donald Hough, a professional writer, further on In the article he says: . . ."a writer must have as, intimate knowledge of his background and characters and action as he would have to have if he were writing an article." ' J could write a poem a week for one whole year, about what I saw In four days while on vacation. But will ITS Katherine Newlin Butt says that writers are essentially or did she say potentlallly lazy. She gets a frantic urge to cook, or do charity work just about the time she should start work on a new serial, or else start moving the furniture around. " " Esther L. Schwartz, prolific writer and professional critic, says in an article in THE WRITER; "I'm a student of human nature of course, as every writer should be, and I've read Freud and Have-lock Have-lock Ellis and many of the psychologists, psy-chologists, but I'm blessed if I can see any other way to gauge human hu-man nature than to write my own feelings about people. So I write the way my sweetheart acted act-ed the first time he kissed me... You can write about anything in this world and sell it, if you have the good sense to use only what oniiniii ua.u w Committee members to aid in planning the annual Homecoming festivities of Brigham Young university were announced Friday Fri-day ty Ray jacobson of Iovo, Homecoming chairman. Everett Manwartng, Vernal, and Burton Todd, Denver,Colo., will be in charge of men's" organization, organiza-tion, participation. yl via Hinckley, Hinck-ley, Salt Lake City, and Afton Bigelow, Provo, will seek "cooperation "co-operation of girls' organizations. Participation of student classes will be handled oy Darwin Reese of Provo, senior class president. Dale DeGraff of.IIeber City, student stu-dent social chairman, will direct pep rallies and pre-Homecoming game activities. Merlin Slack and Wilson Hales of Provo,' will be co-c h a i r m e n of Homecoming dances. Cornelius R. Peterson, general secretary of Brigham Young university alumni association, associ-ation, will make arrangements for the annual lettermen's lunch r- - y r- - r r - A t ... , t (Z -H..' . . - " y' couth v.:' --c-4 r uw ijsjto Liurro. ; yr--- funnv-: : c:; : known r; T1 -v.z becaure cf the ruri ti:-e t.l hi; fcull3 have Ux-n h;-jv,a t c CM WitU rroi-ct? A is a h feature tlm isct!Ifi.- i. .I Leasfua cf V-nii r V. i,' you know about. That gives it veriKirr.ihtu le. T hune about ' , ; Olivrr vh it alout the North; Batr.! shaw about the tror-ic.-. people actually live the ground of the thi t; their storiJd h-f r.- t! : them. They murt or if." couldn't write of th- a with L.. xk-wntc, xk-wntc, . i::,' thry facility and cor.vlncir;:n: It is Inner awnroncM that rnrtlt.-i writers. Iazir.crrj can't quite hlil it. Work and the ;ouJ :: to write of the things j'ou hr.f.v. bring this inner awartr.e ;i t-fruition. t-fruition. The' Chattanooga Write r';i u!; Nanture Poetry ruiUci t t i . r5 Nov. IS, 1930- Address m-ir.u-. scripts to Mrs, Cyrti.i Griffin Martin, Mar-tin, 412 East fk-cond fctrcrt, Chat-; tanooga, Tenn. . ' Tho i;uscil lj(UtH ?Ii n;..ji:tl I'rii aTkrd f If ) Nv:: s ;, i n u to Joy i h wi fs.ir is-r I . s t !!u ii jHnis. Lirrrj:::s m A 'COMUAUn, j,u:.!i..ht l.y - Yale l'i.S r-ily i"f .; : . That's heartening i'-n't it? Piryt books, and first s tor if 3 fiiy.icni-y fiiy.icni-y click. Several of the writers affiliated with the 'Study Group r 1 the Provo chapter have cr.rolh J for Ruth llarwood'K p')ctry ! - s vA the Urigham Young university. ' Cella A. VanCott p.i-.-l A nr. a Prince Red ! report the i ;! c f a serial each to the ChiMien's J'ri' r. 1. Both serials are to a j ; ir in the near future eon and alumni reception held connection with Homecoming. All campus org j nl-Mion:?, i eluding social ui;it, ei t , 2, ir. clubs, will be ashed to take j in the Homecoming 1 '. ' ;;!; Chairman Jacob; -.on ar.nour.c-Several ar.nour.c-Several contest ev j are ned to stimulate their -r 1 1 ; ; tion, he said. in ll Englisl i m e n con?, u in e rc:.:- mately 4f00 tons of tobacco nually. 11 the earth stopped moving in its orbit, it would full into . t he-sun he-sun within two months. SAVE THIS COUPON IS ',r it C."rur-on .Modern Vc I S 5 of !irt-f j-"r- f'rrrj. this t.-e Sf'i iJ t ittl I. lily it-iiJ, i'Etrtffc ir - r - r !C "oupon No. : |