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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHL UTAH Sally Sez Our vjovernment -- How It Operates By William "does anybody label aa apartment APTLY NAMED A friend was moving, and pointed out to us the ouilding in which his new apartment was situated. It was one of those apartment bouses which, in their signs, go In for abbreviations "the Soandso Apt." Why In the world, we asked, Bruckari THE DEPARTMENT OF aptr tf "If you'd see how abbreviated these) rooms are, said the friend, gloomily, "you'd know the sign Is quite correct. They aren't apartments. They're nothing but apt-- " Los Angeles Times. sure-enoug- h JUSTICE Is one p:iEItE American characteristic of the HERE'S QUICKEST, SIMPLEST i. people that constitute, something of a pUrzie to me. Vh ever they have dealings with their government that result In disagree ment. they simply rt.i)e, , compromise. They want to go to court and fljjht It That reference, of course. U to civil matters, criminal of charges which the government I, the prosecutor occupy necessarily a differe- status. In theory, there may be no compromise In this respect. . Since the government must protect Its own rights its well as prosecute in- tmwuuis who violate the rights of 'hers, it u readily seen that it requires a great law olfire to look after t ie business of the distinguished client. I'ncle Sam. He really has an Immense amount of litic-itirnA i view of that fact he has his lawyers iu every Important city In every st.He in tiie Uuion. They are u.sin.tuiea as to make them available to the greatest number of people and thus avoid as much espense Masked Dancer of Mas Island. to me individuals and to the govern ment as may he. since it would be Im- Prepared by National Oeorraphlo aoclety. When a man buys a wife he ravi for aslilngtuu. U. C WNU Service. possible to place them in every com It has been nearly her with pigs. The theft of a pig la munity. me government s law office, the De- ALTHOUGH since NIas Island, pumsnaoie withthedeath. Dutch East Indies Throughout Indian ocean off partment of Justice with a cabinet the coast of Sumatra, was first there are, at intervals, government member, the attorney general of the mentioned In rest houses where weary offlciala or history by the Mohamunited Mates, at Its head, naturally medan other travelers may spend the night merchant Soleyman, today it has to have Its headquarters in WashA mandeur, a native "boy" who knowa shows less progress than more many ington. The attorney general Is Just isolated more or less about cooking, la in spots on the world map. like the general attorney for a railNeither wireless nor cable connects charge. In NIas, outside of Goenoeng road or a bank or any other organi- the Island with civilization, and only SItolI, a coast village, there is Just one zation. He Is the legal adviser to when an occasional boat calls does it of these houses, a large building which the President of the United States, have contact with other lands. Yet formerly was the home of a German among his other duties, and repre there flourished an ancient civilization. missionary. sents the United States in every mat NIas Is about 80 miles In length. The Lolowua, which is reached during ter in which the United States has north end of the Island Is the second day's travel Inland, la an barrather an Interest He, or one of his repre- ren and uninteresting, and at times Interesting place. The chief la an old sentatives, represents the United the traveler's ardor Is somewhat weakman, but a lively one. Recently visiStates likewise whenever penal stat- ened by the Intense tors found him wearing a wonderful heat utes are Invoked against anyone who trails which are steep and slippery, upstanding mustache of gold, a high transgresses the law of the land. headdress with golden ornaments, and and the meagerness of food and shelThere Is no better way to show the ter. But all these are for- an enormous earring. hardships varied Interests with which this im- gotten when he reaches the rich cities When he danced with the other men, mense law office Is concerned than to In the South and Is lost in admiration leaping high in the air and performing set out Its administrative organiza- of this present-da- y example of a long-ag- o strange antics with the greatest agil tion for handling the vast amount of civilization. ity, one could well believe the reports work. that he had had his fun at taking Centuries ago adventure and possiThe attorney general, of course, is bly shipwreck brought Inhabitants to beads. He fondly stroked a worn and the boss. His right-hanman is the these shores; and here, cut off from weathered old wooden figure which solicitor general of the United States, the world through generations, these stood In front of his house and ex who appears In behalf of the attorney people developed their own laws, their plained that It was hla grandfather. general at all times in the Supreme own art and methods of warfare. Ancestors are not dead, according Court of the United States. There Is Here primitive people built great to the Nias Idea, They live somean assistant to the attorney general, cities with paved streets, carved enorwhere else, but are still Interested In an office created especially to deal mous stones where ghosts of their antheir descendants. Through offerings with one type of prosecution, namely, cestors were wont to sit; and here, and sacrifices made to the small woodlaw violator. even today, warriors wear metal arthe anti-trus- t en figures, the advice and assistance Seven assistant attorney generals mor, while their chiefs have coats of of the dead are sought by the living, serve In their respective fields with gold dedicated to use by human sacIn some sections, after a death, the more or less limited subjects that rifice. Yet comparatively few people relatives and a magician gather at the they may become specialists in their have ever heard of the Island of NIas. grave and Invoke the spirit of the deIn their early trade with the Spice ceased to come to the wooden figure work. One of them deals exclusively with questions involving tax laws Islands, European ships sought the which has been prepared for the occa and enforcement of prohibition; a sheltered waters along the east coast sion. All watch intently for a spider, second devotes his time to defending of Sumatra, passing through the Strait for It is in this form that the soul will the government's interests In the of Malacca ; and today this same route become visible on the grave. When at last the Insect Is caught it Is taken United States court of claims where Is taken by the richly laden ships plyUncle Sam Is always a defendant and ing between the East and the West to the house and placed near the figure into which It Is expected to disappear, never a complainant in suits for Island of Gold. wooden figures are not only In These money; a third has an assignment of Soleyman tells us that the early Nias termediaries between the living and work In connection with admiralty people were rich In gold ; that ate they litigation and foreign relations as coconuts and covered their bodies with the dead, but are guardians of the homes, custodians of matrimony, and well as much of the financial conthe oil; that when a man wished to troversies In which the government Is marry he had to take the head of an protectors against curses of the enemy. concerned; a fourth does nothing but enemy. If he took two heads, he could Magicians Are Numerous, consider the government's rights in take two wives; if he obtained 50, he Almost every village has at least one land matters, and with the memory could have that many wives. or medium, a man or woman magician In mind the Job of oil scandals still In manuscripts of later periods, who can talk with the spirits through embraces great detail; a fifth assist- chiefly Arabic, occasional references These magicians the wooden ant attorney general is the official are made to this island. Ancient maps must learn allImages. must know the formulas, criminal prosecutor of the great law locate an Island of Gold near the presthe names of all the spirits to be Inlawtrained a Is a sixth highly Office; ent site of NIas, and the Portuguese in voked, and during the ceremonies they yer In matters of customs, the laying l.r)20 outfitted an unsuccessful expedi- must carry out all the Instructions of of duties at the customs houses, aption to search for it. the spirits. They are believed to be praisements of merchandise and such to cause rain or make the sun able for minor visits, Nias attract Except like, and the other official of tnis ed little attention from the Dutch until shine, to foretell the future, and to class seems to be the general super the middle of the Nineteenth century, bring good crops. They can determine intendent, for It Is he who watches when they established stations at sev which are the lucky days for marriage, atStates United of over the scores In the North and South. for eral cutting bamboo, for starting a points In torneys who represent Uncle Sam or for any other undertaking. nature came to the aid of un But Journey, their respective Jurisdictions through- friendly natives In keeping the Island When a Nias chief has a pain In his out the country. Isolated. In 1?1 a series of earth stomach, he believes that some spirit It must be remembered, however, In the other world Is trying to get con accompanied by a great tidal quakes, or thief that before the automobile coast trol of him, and It is necessary to sacthe settlements, wave, destroyed the bootlegger Is convicted, there must and a little later uprisings drove the rifice a chicken. If the pain Is exhe evidence to satisfy a court and a Dutch from the greater part of the Istreme, be might have to sacrifice a Is guilty. So Jury that the defendant is only during the last 20 man. It land. this law office has a group or mguiy years that the white man has really Lature, a deified ancestor, fishes with rrnlnPd Investigators who do nothing ruled the land. a net which Is the rainbow, and when but run down criminals and gather the people see this they are greatly Little villages with evidence. on the eastern shore of alarmed, for they know that he will are beaches The nonnrtment of Justice now das the island. Inland, through the heat catch them If they do not at once offer of the prohibi charge of enforcement haze of the valleys, one can see clumps sacrifices. tion laws, too. The old chief entertains some travelof coconut trees on the hillsides, al Rot thP nolicv of the government is most hiding the brown-roofehouses ers royally. He brings warriors with to look after Its citizens who have of other villages. Occasionally the spears and shields to perform mock been found guilty of law violation, green background Is pierced by the battles and give weird dances. To the and the attorney general is chargedh white spire of a German mission. accompaniment of drums, he sings the with that duty as well. He houses In the villages are sound, visitors' praises at great length, the The his subordinates, of raised high above the ground, and the warriors shouting their approval at the correctional bamboo-barrewindows, as well as end of each line. course, every penal and reu me Dy of the roofs, are filled Institution operated Coconut trees are the NIas substiraised portions t (n wnnoctlon - Wlta with men, women and children. They tute for a soda fountain. A coolie i government, uu rriP out the national policy are a sickly looking lot, their yellow scrambles up a tall tree and throws tn make better citizens out color suggesting undernourishment and down green nuts. With a few strokes are released Half the year these of his long knife, a man deftly cuts of violators before they much malaria. i xnere and half on sweet away the busks, making a small hole on rice live again Into society, for par- people srstera and an arrangementleft to the potatoes, but there Is never enough In the nut With mouth pressed tightmatter ly against this, one drinks the sweet dons, the latter a of either. water. President, and constant Means Little to Them. Money those means of Improving Lolowua was once a city of 2,000 inlithave as are, they they Underfed prisoner, who will accept Instruction whose houses, erected In two habitants, and to earn tle ambition to cultivate the fruit a means of equipping them them more long rows, faced a pa led court which i;Ive might I vegetables w thnnr rcaUl uu .i uveunuuu In front of the houses are stone Is of little use to them, vigor. Money . crime. ... most part taking the place slabs, polished like glass and wonderthe for pigs The courts, of course, much of the of currency, and to obtain carriers Is a fully carved, beneath which the peonathrough which ple place the skulls of their ancestors. real problem for the traveler. The Is see can Tall Sepalent of Justice workconstitutes and pillars of stone form backs to the want not money tives do and, resting on these places "seats," but the Judicial y they no use In working. Occasionally the souls of the ancestors, it a of of bit honor, and third branch of the government coast buy the to down aMde from eo treated be Uke part In the festivities In is but believed, traders, Chinese and of whl h etoth from ie executive value. of the mortals. little has money esta;...shment U interior part the the government's WAY TO STOP A GOLD FOLLOW DIRECTIONS PICTURED BELOW r X 4 rwker it's Technotrarr. " .tiw is the !. lTP'r .. I. toir Jeali end in ,he'r k,rk to Irseeoie' Si! fATEONIZE wiik 5BliilB Early Matches ago, the original A century thosphorus matches were sold in boie's of 50 at a trifle over one tent a match. h tin Lai Tei! GIRLS 'rclissici Eeiirtj Fill in Coupon for Catalog Nsae State- - atr Culture School of Beauty finish Salt Lake City, Utah No Criminal Type? many surveys, scientists the conclusion that is no such thing as a crimi- After ire approaching there nal type. Inc. WM. 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