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Show 1 V ' 'r t' THE BINGHAM NEWS, BINGHAM, UTAH MAKING CACTUS CANDY V K ' ! Cactus candy la the latest sweet meat to be prepared by confectioners at San Antonio, Tex. , The heretofore worthless desert plant is belug used for muking candy, after a complicated process of crystallizing and purifying. These girls are cutting with a machine the raw, plant which It the first step in the making of the cactus confection. Flapped Donel'A." With Shifters She Repudiates Organization Re-puted to Promote Promiscu-ous Flirtation. SUCH A SOCIETY HEEDLESS She Founded the Original for "Jazz" and Pocket Money Now Busy Pop. ,' ularlzlng "Necker" and Other r Slang Phrases. ? New Tort. Life la Just brimming over with excitement for the flapper these days. ' No sooner has the fame of one exploit ceased to be a nine days' wonder than another comes along to take its place. A few weeks ago she waa reveling in the glory reflected by her adoption of the turned-dow- n ga-losh as footwear for promenades on fair days rather than "protection for stormy weather. Now it's the activi-ties of the Society of Shifters that have again turned on her the spotlight of tublicity.. She denies, however, any responsi-bility for the organization which, ac-cording to Gertrude Robinson-Smit- h of the Vacation association, under the name of Shifters, Is promoting "pot-ting parties," and flirtations. As a matter of fact, the interest of the flap-per In the Shifters is gone and when the name did mean something to her it wax not such an organization as that described by the head of the Vacation association, with a Fifth avenue head-quarters and an ornate badge. " , '' "We don't need badges or secret or any other kind of societies to have "petting parties,'" said a high-scho-flapper after the latest version of the , far as the flapper was concerned, the I field waa quickly exhausted. Wall Street Adopta Shifter Idea. " But in the meantime the Shifters had expanded into Wall street Not for months had Wall street played a game that so tickled Its fancy.. The Idea of getting a fellow, to pay from $1 to $10 for a brass clip worth a frac-tion of a mill appealed alike to the office boy and the head of the firm, and the "stinging" process went mer-rily ' on. ' ,. . : Now, apparently, some near Ponzi has capitalized , the flapper'B idea Into a commercial proposition and has in-vested money in printing a by-la-and making - ornate badges in the hopes of reaping a huge profit , But the new society of Shifters interests, the flapper only in so far aa It pays a tribute to her cleverness. She is done with It " She has other and more important matters on hand, the most important, of which Just, now Is the popularizing of four new phrases, one she has adopted from the theater and three she coined herself. From the theater she has taken the phrase "I will so say," spoken . by the French father who assays American slang in Irene Bordonl's "The French . Doll." The flapper has discarded "I'll say so" and her "I will so say" is her most emphatic affirmative in classroom and Broadway, , ' .: The epithets she has evolved from her own lexicon are "junk," "necker" and "heavy necker." "Jnnk" Is any-thing she considers unimportant or un-worthy of consideration. : A "necker" la a "petter" who puts her arms around a boy's neck. A "heavy necker" Is a "petter" who hangs heavily on said neck. "Necking parties" have superseded "petting parties," '' t - yuiyupco vi uie Dinners, --ana wno would pay for the privileges of Join-ing a flirting society when one can have one of her own? That's all Junk, o far as we're concerned. Somebody may hava taken up the Idea and be trying to make a regular business of It, but we started it Just for a 'Jazz.' " Inspiration for Pocket Money. The original Shifters, she explained; formed by a group of high-scho- ol flap-pers, had no officers, by-la- or head-quarters except In the heads of Its members. It was founded, first to pro-vide new sources of pocket money, and secondly in the spirit of the old, familiar schoolboy game of "pass It." Her plas for a different sweater for every iay In the week and several pairs of ''last hopper" shoes (those low-heelfr- f, horse and Jeather sport shoes originally designed for golfers) getting beyond the resources of the parental pocketbook, the flapper was forced tp evolve some shejne for pro-viding the articles Without which she felt herself debarred from association with her kind. - So she adapted the old Barnum maxim, "There'a one born every min-ute," to the Innate predilection of every achoolglrl to belong to a society and wear a badge. She took a brass clip, such as used In any business office, with the characters "O. K." stamped on It and with It fastened to-gether the two ends of the scarf she had purloined from her father's stock. This clip, worn in that way, became the official emblem of the Shifters. The badge aroused curiosity. All the girls asked the original group of found-ers what It signified. flt'a the Shifters' badge," they were told. "It's a new society. Everybody Is Joining Don't you want to come 'j7 You can become a member by pay-ing me a quarter. Then I'll give yeu a badge. That gives you the light to get is many members as you can. Girls of convincing tongues and la-tent aelllng ability collected as high is $12 a week for membership while :he going was good. The membership fee ranged from a quarter to as much its the traffic would bear, but was ed chiefly to the smaller sum. So I THE BINGHAM NEWS ; - - Published, every Saturday , v Eingham Canyon, Utah ... ' - Gtorge Reynolds, Editor r- '; Clark and Reynolds, Publishers Price7$2!oo per year, In advance Bourgard Building, Main St., Bingham Phone 91 "NUFF SAID" JIM'S PLACE To the Miners of Bingham Jack Curnow and old time miner in Utah has purchased the New Wasatch Hotel and is anxious to hcve all the boys come and visit him at his new location. 78 West Broadway Salt Lake City SENA TE ROOMS y-- Newly Furnished Throughout STEAM HEATED Hot and Cold Water in all Rooms. ; i -- r; Mrs. M. Atherley. ' t ' H I ' ' ' ? ' THE COAL STRIKE All nature Is stirring In recognition of the spirit of Spring. 8. are the : pplg, captulns of lntlusfry nd busl-KT"- '- es nieli are, preparing for activities. ' Men who have been out of employ-- , nien.t are turning to .the opening of V'1 the spring season hopefully.. But over a half million coal miners have laid down their toots. They have gone on ' strike. How long the strike wlU last nobody can say. Long enough to bring about ' windy controversies. Chairman Borah , of the Senate Labor Committee talks ,r of government operation of the mines. - i" This he pointed out as the alterna-- : live If the coal industry is not reor- - v,; ganlaed. That would mean govern-men- t ownership, not an alluring proa--- v pert When one looks on the govern-- " ment operation of the rallronds during the war. Tliat mess la still fresh In the minds of the people of this coun-- :. .. try. . ! Need Schools In Mexico City. , Mexico City. More than 60,000 chil-dren of Mexico City are without school accommodations, according to news-paper reports. Of th 160,000 children of school age in the capital, it Is said there is room for only 100,000. Pres-ident Obregon is supporting Governor Gasca of the federal district I his ef-forts to supply .more facilities. Killed by Bathrobe Mishap. London. Tripping over the tassel of bis bathrobe, a Devonshire veterinary surgeon fell downstairs and was killed. j J A NEW WONDER A Salt Lake firm is to be congratu- - lated on Introducing to this western state a wonder. What Is It? Don't ask us for technical explanations right now. This new, thing has come tow unexpectedly. It IS the development of radio to the point of permitting its popularization, accesIble to all. There Is'flo room for skepticism any. more than . when wireless communication suddenly developed. Thousands are now abla to listen to orators in far off states, musicians and vocalists can now be heard by this wireless won-- - der The Radiophone. Scraps of news are also scattered broadcast and In time it is wondered If the people of Bingham will do away with their "Bingham News". There will have to be adjustments, perhaps some government regulations, and all that rt of preliminary detail. But the big thing to contemplate, when all goes well, the thing to Mir the emo-tions, will be the union of thousands of homes by the noiseless links of a great radio chain. . Behind Scenes in Radio Studio How Music and Other Forms of ' Entertainment Are Broad- - . : casted to Millions. - KEEP CHECK ON APPARATUS .V " 7T v. Every Precaution Taken to Keep Out-Foreig- n Sounds "Listening Posts" Established to See That Ap-- . paratus Works Smoothly. ". "'. c""1 , v. New York. There is much the same fascination in going behind the scenes of a great broadcasting station as Is found behind the curtain at a theater. A general working idea of the op-eration of wireless electricity is al-most universal in America today. Al-most every night the general public has suddenly become familiar with the Intricate mechanism of such appa- - ratus. The distribution of upward of a million radio telephones has edu-cated the public far more rapidly than could years of ordinary study. The audiences which gather dally to lis-ten In on the programs broadcasted the country over probably aggregate over a million listeners. Almost all are fumlllar with the operation of the broadcasting station. ; An evening spent in one of the great broadcasting stations la a rare priv-ilege. ' ' ' ! '.." t, V' ' ' 'Most of us hare probably Imagined, tho broadcasting station to be a maze' of complicated apparatus with some; thing the appearance of a factory or a laboratory. The stage from which the programs are broadcasted, to call' it such, Is in reullty an attractive studio surprisingly barren of technical apparatus. The Radio Studio. The walls of the studio are hung " with rich curtains, which are designed to be useful as well as ornamental. Besides lending an air of elegance to the Interior, they serve to deaden the "sounds which come from adjoining rooms and at the same time prevent any possible echo or vibration. The studio contains several phono-graphs and the cases for records whose music is to be broadcasted. There is a grand piano for accompany-ing the soloists. A number of easy chairs are scattered about The floor Is, of course, thickly covered to deaden all possible sounds. ; About the walls are ranged a couple of Inconspicuous cabinets of a dark wood. There are also a couple of desks with, switches and telephones. Suspended' from the celllngs'nre two receivers hung from wires. These are provided with paper funnels, much the same as the horns of phonographs, which can be readily adjusted at any angle or height to suit the performers. Two or three at-tendants and the performers and a very few visitors are admitted, A few minutes before the opening of the performance the mechanical ex-pert directing the program he la known technically as the "operator" calls up the mechanical department and assures himself that all Is In read-iness. Me now signals to aa assist ant to put the great set used for send-ing la operation. A few moments later : he goes to the . cabinets with their rows of switches and knobs and quick-ly gives the last touches to the ap-paratus. The hum of a generator, like lliroughout the studio." Evert otie" in the room has been csutiohea fn "ad-vance to keep perfectly quiet; the raliteu Laud f ihd operator now ka-- forms them that the broadcasting ma-chinery is functioning. Ingenious Checks. ' The operator now gives his direc-tions by signs alone. At a signal an assistant winds up one of the phono-graphs, places a record in position and stands ready to release It. The an-nouncer now takes up his position be-fore one of the telephones at the desk, and, speaking clearly and distinctly, but not loudly, announces the opening of the program. It is his voice which has become so fumlllar to tens of thousunds of people throughout the eastern states, lie may be said to have a speaking acquaintance with a hundred thousund people who buve never seen his face. One number follows another on the progrnm. The greutest care Is taken to huve the entertulnmcnt go forward without any delay or Interruption of nny kind. Several Ingenious checks lire used to make sure that the broad-casting apparatus Is working smooth-ly and efficiently. There are a numbs of observer whose stations are knowt, as "listening ponts" scattered for miles In several directions which are con-stantly on the alert. If they fall to hear the program, or It comes to them interruptedly or smothered In quality, they will cnll up the broadcasting Bto-tlo- n between the numbers of the pro-gram end report the trouble In this way fhe entire field covered by tl stations Is kept under o!itrmtl a, if tvl, ThlDy-Sexfc- ans Tiave started a re . vo'dfand since about 29 must be gen-era- ls the rest f the "army" probably I will retreat ' - It is now expected that Tap will be restored to a place in public attention jgVoj-'- proportionate to Its actual size and populutlon. -- - Our Idea of the prize pessimist Is the man who thinks the world is going to pot because the woman Is going to the rouge pot iU, - ... - t--.i.i..... . - , ' ' ' In spite of aircraft, tanks and ma-chine guns, the experts have decided that the doughboy behind the bayonet Is the real goods In wan , ; A Shanghai dispatch says that a plan to overthrow the Peking govern-ment ta under way. But It won't make , much difference they have plenty of other governments. , . . i '' A prominent educator complains that millions are being spent to educate de-fectives, but nothing for geniuses. Well if a genius needs any education he doesn't need any help. Trotzky has Issued a call to the . troopg t0 De jn preparedness for a call at any moment One report has It that the reply was: "All right; we will be right after dinner." i - '" ' " ' ' . . - r Passion Play to Be Revived y V' t .- V"' A ', V ' vj-t.-v ., ) -- J . ) : mJffiw 'vJ, The famous passion play of Oherarnmergao, Bavarlii, Is to he revived for the first time In twelve yenrs. Anton Lang, whose presentation of tho role of Chrlstun hs made hm famous, will again b0 seen In liot port. The picture shews JikIm, played by Culdo Meyer, receiving the p lutes of silver from the blga priest" " 1. ' '. N "" King Boris of Bulgaria complains that Us royal elephants eat too much 'hay. feed them on , .royal Bulgarian buttermilk, "wt?11 tones up the system and adds to longevity? Somebody ought to figure up how much time and money is wasted in this country preparing, mulling, open-ing and chucking into the wastebasket "" the flood of propaganda that is engulf-ing us. Newspapers are wonderful things, but It may be observed that no Jour-nalist Is well enough informed to be able to tell what ever became of the war between the Greeks and Mus-taph- a Kenial. Duke d'Acosta. cousin of King Vic-tor Emmanuel of Italy, protests against the Ilunparian crown being wished on him. which goes to show that the kins business is not as popular as It was before the war. Why are so few young Americans studying Russian? American relations with that vast country will be closer than ever within few years, yer not many are preparing themselves for the approaching opportunities. "An economist hn figured out thnt a 'wife Is worth $2.00 cents a dn,v," pome one write. That will not the average wife, hut she will, upon the Item, demnnd of her hushnitd the $2.50 he U Withholding from b-- , |