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Show f LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI, UTAH J) 4 1932 Decreases U. S. Weddings, Divorces "I Lore Hubby" Club Cheer i Up Spouses , Long suffering PuenU, Calif. husbands here were walking primrose paths following formation of 1 Lore My Husband club." The club, sponsored by the La Puente Valley Journal, was established for the promotion of a more humane treatment of husbands. The club never meets, and has no dues. The sole requirement for members Is the practice of devotion to husbands. Husbands are behind the club. "Ifi a great Idea," said one husband. "We have a Mother's day, and a Father's day, but the ihxt hard working husbands appear to be forgotten altogether." Officials Cite Job Scarcity as Reason. from three to five days to elapse between the application for a marriage license and the issuance of the same." The ten states with the rate of their increased wedding activity were Missouri, 3.5 per cent ; South Dakota. 2.7 per cent ; Nebraska, 6.6 per cent ; West Virginia, 1.7 per cent; Mississippi, 5.1 per cent; Arkansas, 5.2 per cent; Oklahoma, less than of 1 per cent; New Mexico, 6 per cent; Arizona, 1 per cent, and Utah one-hal- f of 1 per cent. For every divorce In this country during 1932, the bureau disclosed, there were C.l marriages. This represented a distinct gain for the Last year there were 5.8 weddings for every divorce. Nevada Leads List Nevada, with Its Reno, continued to lead the list of states in the rat Id of divorces to marriages. Nevada reported nearly as many endings as be ginnings of married life. There were only 1.8 weddings for every divorce In the state. New York and the DIs trict of Columbia, on the other hand reported 21.4 and 35.3 weddings for every divorce during the year. In Illinois during the year, the na tlonal slump In both marriages and divorces was reflected, although the decline in divorces was by far the heavi r. Weddings In the state numbered G5.0S8, the bureau revealed, for a decrease of 9.1 per cent. Divorces totaled 11,745, declining by 15.5 per cent from the preceding year. There were 5.5 marriages for every divorce, and 8.4 weddings for every 1,000 of population In the state, as compared with 1.51 divorces. Wisconsin reported 14,035 marriages during the year, for a decrease of 5.1 per cent from 1931. Divorces totaled 2,358 in the state, declining by 10.9 per cent. There were 6 marriages for every divorce and 4.7 weddings and 0.79 divorces for every 1,000 of popu lation. In Indiana, marriages numbered 36,- 105, dropping by 5.9 per cent, while divorces totaled 6,322 for a decrease of 13.1 per cent. For every divorce there were 5.7 weddings, while for every 1,000 Inhabitants of the state there were 11 marriage and 1.93 divorces. Census Washington. Cupid hag been hit by the depression, but his bitterest enemy divorce, has suffered even more. The bureau of the census has dis closed that the third year of the de pression. VX'; saw a sharp decrease both In oiarrla;;es and divorces. The bureau pave no reasons, but of ficials express their belief that unem ployment, reduced earning power, and lack of confidence in the Immediate future were responsible. Marriages in 1H32 totaled J'Sl.T.'t, the bureau reported, compared with 1,000,791 in 1931, a decrease of 7.5 per cent. The decline began In 1930 with a drop of 5.9 per cent. Divorces were 160,329 In 1932, com pared with 1S3.6G4 in the previous year; the decrease was 12.7 r cent. 1 while the decline was 4.1 per cent. There were in 1932, the bureau 6tated, 7.9 marriages for every l.WN) persons in the country's total popu lation of 124,S22,O0O. as compared with 8.5 in 1931 when the population was 124,070,0e0. At the same time, there were 1.2S divorces for every 1.000 of population in 1932, as against 1.43 one-tent- mar-rlage- s. x-- 19.'-'3- In 1931. Joseph It. Keenan, Cleveland attorney, at his desk In the Department of Justice where he directs the crusade and racketeers. against gangsters Keenan, who gained valuable experience In his drive on Cleveland gangsters In 1019, has begun by compiling a comprehensive list of gangland personnel Politicians with criminal affiliations will come in for special attention, he said. Viewing Figures by States. In arriving at the national percentage decrease in the number of weddings, the bureau found the declines In various states ranging from a drop of 43.5 per cent in Iowa to only 0.8 per cent in Texas. In ten states the bureau found Increases In the number of marriages. These gains were attributed by the statistical census officials to eluding stringent marriage laws by skipping across a state to the nearest parson In a more liberal neighboring state. "All ten states," the bureau said, "adjoin those in which recent changes made in the marriage laws require lnfer-entiall- y Lumber Mills Are Busy as Prices Mount Payrolls Increase and Production Shows Gain. New Orleans. Long faces in the southern pine lumber Industry, which rank i second to King Cotton as the big shot of Dixie pay rolls, are brightening. Employment has Increased, prices have gone up, and the piles of lumber weathering in the mill yards have diminished. After the stock market crash the Industry, under urglngs from the White House not to create unemployment by reducing manufacturing output, and assured that prosperity was Just around the corner, carried on. During 1031 the price of lumber, under the weight of piled up, unsold, unwanted lumber In mill yards, slumped rapidly. Operators offered their wares St lower and lower prices In an effort to move the product and raise cash to meet pay rolls, bank obligations and taxes. In January, 1933, the Southern Pine association reported that for one week 17,074,000 feet of lumber were manu factured shipped. but only 15,000,000 feet Unfilled orders totaled only Washington. Dramatic stories of men battling frigid blasts and treach erous terrain to save thousands of waterfowl from starvation last winter are told In a report of the biological survey. Fighting through Icy weather, 20 to 40 degrees below zero, United States Game Protector Kenneth F. Iloahen and helpers on foot and sled carried corn and wheat donated by farmers and sportsmen to selected feeding sta tions In southern Montana during a severe February freeze. There the grain was gobbled by thousands of wild ducks, most of them mallards. Earlier In the winter Reservation Protector Hugh M. Worcester at the Upper Klamath Wild Life refuge, Ore gon, led a score of volunteers on n two-da- y trip which resulted In the ducks and saving of 1,200 100 horned and eared grebes. The e birds were transported to pens at headquarters for recovery. d accurate than the one Columhus was using and in some ways even superior to the one we use today." Mason's most recent expedition was financed jointly by the Nelson art gallery of Kansas City and the Museum of the American Indian, Heye foundation, New York. 0 p Drilling for "Dry Ice" Booms Fields in Texas Midland, Tex. A new type of drill ing activity Is booming in this section of Texas. The search now Is for carbon dioxide gas wells which produce "dry Ice." Derricks are oeing erected in Mora, Harding, and Torrance counties. The northeastern part of the state already has several "dry ice" wells, which are proving to be better commercial assets than oil wells. Writes and Reads 5 Languages Nine-Year-O- ld South American Indians First Mathematicians Mo. Indians In Dalhart, Tex. Bobby Ryan, nine years old, can speak and read five languages. He was born of American parents in Manila, Philippine Islands, where he had a Chinese nurse. He acquired a Japanese nurse when his family moved to Yokohama and Tokyo. He learned the French and Spanish languages from books and conversation. Cen- tral America used anaesthetics long be- fore Columbus made his voyage of discovery, and were acquainted with the fundamentals of mathematics long before white men learned them, according to Gregory Mason, explorer and arch-eologis- t. "How many Americans realize," Mason asked, "that the Toltecs built a pyramid three times as great in bulk as the biggest In Egypt, that the Peruvians made tapestries finer than any of Europe, and that the Mayans Invented zero 600 years before the Hindus which means that the Mayans were able to multiply and divide 1,000 years before Europeans could. "The red skinned natives of Yucatan, whom Cortez called 'Farlarians,' were better astronomers than the Europeans, and had a calendar far more White Men Forbidden to Fish on Reservation Focatello, Idaho. There was weeping and wailing among sportsmen here when the Indian council at the Fort Hall Indian reservation ruled that white men could not fish there under As the reservaany circumstances. tion Includes choice fishing spots, white sportsmen are pleading with Indians for a reversal of the order. Cathedral Work Halts No Funds ice-bou- ref-Bg- Woman Battles 20 Hours d and Lands Fish 400-Poun- D. th J. Kaya, Prafaaaor at Animal aaadiT, Ohio Sttta Lnlvriiy. Hua-- s W.VU Barrlea. Cost of feeding a work horse today la Just one-fiftas much as it was 1b 1918. which explains the demand for horses and harness at farm auction sales. Feed costs make np 72 per cent of the total cost of keeping a work horse. In Illinois, where feed prices are even less than In Ohio, the cost Is h of the war-tim- e rate. Feed for a horse that works 120 days a year amounts to about 3,000 pounds of grain, 5.0i0 pounds of roughage, and pasture. About 2,500 pounds of the roughage Is legume hays, the other half timothy. At January prices the total cost of feeding a horse for the year on a corn, alfalfa and timothy ration was J21.20, In Greene county, plus a six months' pasture charge of $4.50. If oats are fed Instead of corn, the cost mounts to $20.30 a year, exclusive of pasturage. Cost of a half corn and half oats ration was $23.00, exclusive of pastur L .r4 h one-sixt- py.-.- - fi--$-'- ;fs:sn - f.-sr- j"" j'itm XL! ' a If) i w- m "1 age. Prices of grain and hay in Greene county In January were 29 cents a hundred pounds for corn, 46 cents a hundred for oats, 3 cents a pound for alfalfa, and 2 cents a pound for tim Highly Adorned Indian Royal Elephant. othy. a pouna or ear corn fed with a roughage of mfxed hay is equal In feeding value to a pound of oats with mixed roughage. Specialist Says Young Sows Most Efficient Prepared by National Geographic Society. Wajhinrton. D. C. WNU Servica Ceylon, Is donning for its Perahera which have been held annually In the city for cen- KANDY. companions come into view. Then the first of the frantic dancers weaves in and out, with rhythmic step, to the beat of drums and clash of the brazen cymbals. It requires of an hour for the richly caparisoned elephants, the glittering groups of dancers and dignified chiefs In gorgeous robes to pass in front of a reviewing stand. Scenes of Wild Excitement. Every now and then the procession stops. At such times the music becomes faster and faster. Drummers, beating madly, leap Into the air and pirouet In a frenzy of excitement. Trumpeters blow shrilly, adding to the din. Tirelessly whirl the dancers, stamping their feet, waving their arms, advancing and retiring, as they spin to the rhythm. Rarely, even In the East, does one see such utter motional abandon to the accompaniment of such clamor. The participants in the ceremony cover many miles In their gyrations during the course of the Perahera, and at the end are in a state of complete exhaustion. There are no women dancers. Feast for Artist's Eye. To convey some conception of the brilliant colors of this kaleidoscope of swaying elephants and wild dancen requires the services of an artist rather than a writer. A particularly large and specially bedecked elephant, with gold and silver howdah, not disdaining the use of science In Its decorations, has a bright electric eye in the center of his forehead I Another In cloth of royal blue, heavily embroidered with silver, carries on bis back a king's ramsom In Jewelry. There was a time when the king of Kandy took part in the annual pro cessions. Surrounded by his chiefs In resplendent costumes, it Is easy to Imagine his progress through excited throngs of loyal subjects. Today the king is gone, but the chiefs remain to carry on the tradition. Perhaps soma of the chiefs would gladly discontinue the practice of appearing In the pro cessions, but the simple countryman expects to see his lord In all the glory of Jewels and cloth of gold. He makes the Journey to Kandy only once s year, and on that day wants to see the parades as his father saw them. Night Ceremony Is Weird. But It Is at night that the Perahera takes on all the glamour and weird-- j ness of oriental pageantry, A beautiful, clear night, with a full! moon and myriads of stars overhead. makes a perfect setting for the flow ing stream of lights and gyrating hu man beings. Smoking censers swlni from hand to hand and braziers, lnf; which glow husks of burning coconutsJfi are held aloft by hundreds of torch bearers to augment the street lamr in casting a fairylike spell over th costumes and shining scintillating brown bodies of the thousands enthusiastic marchers. The coconut husks burn with a M ful yellow-re- d light and emit acrlj fumes, too pungent for occidenta tastes, but they have Illuminate! Perahera parades for centuries an still serve that purpose well. It an incongruous sight, amid such pom and circumstance, to observe quant ties of coconut husks being rushe along in modern Jlnrikishas to Kee the braziers .constantly supplied witl fuel. three-quarte- turies. There is a tradition that the Perahera processions have been held anA young sow Is the best sow, acsince the time when Buddha's nually cording to J. W. Wulchet, extension Tooth was brought to Ceylon, hidden specialist In animal husbandry for the within the coils of the hair of a Kalin-g- o Ohio State university, who recites the princess, some eight hundred years results of ten years of experimental after the death of the Hindu sage, tests with 1,407 brood sows to prove about 483 B. C. that after a sow reaches three years Despite the later wanderings and at of age she rapidly loses her productive times violent history of the Tooth--It efficiency. was carried off to Goa, on the InOne and sows raised a dian mainland. In 1560 by the Portuhigher percentage of the pigs far guese, who maintain that the present rowed, in the experiments, then did relic Is only a reproduction the sa the older brood sows. The younger cred festival ha3 changed but little In porcine mothers raised 69 per cent of barbaric splendor through the centheir plga to weaning time, and this turies. percentage dropped rapidly as the Today the Perahera also commemsows grew older, until at six and a orates the birth of the god Vishnu, half years the average sow raised only who first saw light on the day of the a few more than a third of the pigs new moon In Ksala farrowed. Another version of the origin of the Sows under four years of age pro processions concerns the activities of duced litters averaging 210 pounds at a certain King Gajabahu. who is credweaning time, whereas the older sows ited with having liberated 12,000 of produced litters averaging about 167 his own people from foreign rule In pounds. India ; then returned with them to his 0 Wtiichet concluded from a study of own domain, bringing in addition the records that a sow should not be captives and a number of sacred retained in the herd after she has objects of which his kingdom had farrowed a litter as a been despoiled 800 years previously. and that she should be considerably The celebration of this victory took better than the ordinary producer If the form of a great parade, which has she is retained after farrowing as a been observed annually up to the present time. Ten Days of Fervor. The processions take place nightly The Flock in Summer over a period of ten days, beginning When the flock goes out to summer with the first evening of the waxing pasture and you no longer bring them moon in Esala. Each one has a spe to the lot of an evening, says a correcial religious significance, but for the spondent In the Missouri Farmer, you first five days the general public takes will find It convenient to park a little no active part. From the sixth evening can of gasoline, some pine tar and a on, everybody in town participair of old shears by a fence post pates, even If only to carry a lamp or where you can find them when you urge the dancers to further effort. make your occasional trip with salt The wild and eerie effect depends or to look them over. You may find a largely upon the glowing torches and sheep with maggots In hot weather silvery light of a brilliant moon, for and you won't have to make a long upon the "day" Perahera (only one trip to the house after tools. Some procession takes place in daylight times when visiting a back farm sheep hours) the sunshine gives a garish pasture we have in our pocket some touch to the glistening costumes. Per stout string or cord ; If we find a sheep haps the actors themselves feel the lack of spotlights and footlights which needing attention we catch it and hob ble Its feet, go to a fence post and get the stage of an eastern evening so our parked tools and don't have to amply provides. chase the sheep a second time to docBuddha's Tooth. tor It. Most any trip yon make to In a cool, dark room, upon a table such a flock there will be one or two of solid silver, Is the golden, d sheep that need some little attention, shrine, studded with Jewels. like cutting off a soiled lock of wool Protected from all eyes except the or placing a little tar on stained wool sons of kings and other high personwill be a worthwhile preventive of ages to whom occasionally It Is unworse trouble. veiled, the Tooth rests on a gold latus-lea- f mount A wall of glass reaching from the celling to the floor shields Saved Sugar Raising the sacred relic and many other jewThe sugar cane Industry of the els and treasures. Over the shrine enUnited States was threatened with stands a glittering silver peacock, tire extinction back In the days Just from whose tail hangs the scintillatfollowing the World war when mosaic ing emerald of Kandy, known the disease broke out In Louisiana. This world over for its size and luster. plant disease Is fatal to the cane and Back ! Back, everybody I A clear Its spread was rapid all through the road for His Highness the Temple sugar bowl of the lower Mississippi. Elephant and for the troupes of whirlLittle was known about the disease ing dancers yet to come! and any effective remedies were hard Hark! The who In to find. Federal plant experts tackled earlier days cleared the street with the problem from another angle and their snapping thongs, herald the apthrough the development of a mosaic-resistaproach. strain of cane from Imported Every one catches the spirit of Invarieties, the sugar growing has been fectious excitement that prevails restored to an acreage which comwhen the crowd takes up the shoutpares favorably with that planted be- ing, which swells to a roar as the fore the outbreak of mosaic disease. Perahera at last comes Into view. "Water-Cuttina- " Ceremony, Washington Star. Wonderful Spectacle. At the end of the procession comp Nearer and nearer draw the ele- the water-carrier- s bearing palanqump phants. They stop, but the halt Is of sacred wntpr tnk-pAgricultural Hints the venr beforl short, and on they come Rgain. from the Mahawell Ganga, one of Ce$ Forage and coarse grain crops con So tense Is the excitement when the Ion's largest rivers, which flowjj prise 90 per cent of the total field of the column draws near you head In crop area Quebec, according to the through Kandy. This ceremony of tly almost forget to snap your cameras. "water-cutting,- " latest estimates. Fotatoes and buckwhen temple prfe.! wheat have the largest acreages What a sight lies before you! Thouslash the surface with their swon sands upon thousands of brightly clad and attendants among the strictly cash crops. scoop np the water it j rt Oatcl FlO P V P rrrl rfiri rMihniD I a Ceylonese from all over the island, inIj of the Perahera. Apple scions were recently sent from terspersed withaM many foreign visitors kinds of cameras, the experiment station at New Bruns- armed with Behind the palanquins press massif of humanity, which stretch as far if wick. N. J., to the state of Albania In straining and leaning U rward to see the eye enn see, completely filling i' Europe. These apple twigs stored In the procession. The staccato bent of many drums a refrigerator room in transit are to be streets. Orderly, patient and chc ful Is this vast multitude, as it 1 the foundation of Albanian orchards. reaches the ears and the gorgeous temple elephant and his two flanking holds the final ritual two-year-o- g (July-August- 12,-00- three-year-ol- bell-shape- whip-cracker- New York. Mrs. Oliver C. Orlnnell, of New York and Ray Shore, with the help of Wally Baker, captain of her boat, the Ollgrin. landed on rod and reel In the gray dawn off Fire Island, broadtail swordfish, after a a battle lasting 20 hours. In making 'this catch Mrs. Orlnnell, who Is the bolder of the women's Atlantic broad-bil- l swordfish record, experienced her greatest offshore adventure and at the ,Bame time Inaugurated the 1933 North JAtlantlc big game fishing senson. I nt I 'A ft? ,V '1 . KTm Br an fee CD plo it me; IF and ass! tine oeei for to was Con Brit eral Islai lngti ters He well rei of E tract Id si the j tear! They fippe led li searcl o ea had si tance he p, jinen , t about that t; agonal d to; forkni one ot He kic was a e anc Spea lost rt who, ht wages drive h distanei bave tr was uni abandoi cab. u Part The arose vi cbe an i 400-poun-d h Hornt Antelope Ha Cambridge, Mass. Horns fj9 inches long within 5 Inches of the world record grace a mounted glnnt sable antelope which has been added to the rare animal collection at the Harvard museum of comparative roology. The antelope was bagged by Prentiss Gray, f New York, in Portuguese Angola and presented by him. B' (s he Perahera In g feet. Then the nation went off the gold standard and by May 27 the tile of unfilled orders had risen to 4C,oV.000 feet, a clear gain of 30,043,000 feet, or almost twice the shipments of the first week of the year. Shipments for the year to date, feet, have surpassed production by 71,009,000 feet, reducing plled-ustocks by that amount. The stock decrease, combined witli the Increase In unfilled orders, shows a total gain In business of over feet. During the week of May 27, the mills reported they shipped 38,541,000 feet, or more than the totals of the first two weeks of the year. During that same week, production was feet, an increase which brought more employment and bigger pay rolls to be spent with the merchants. 10,013,0(10 Kansas City, Dramatic Fights to Save Wild Fowl Are Reported Expense This Year Found to Be That of War Time Rate. One-Six- WARS ON GANGSTERS federal-state-munlcip- Computes Feeding Costs for Horses j tit n 1 ljV. 59-Inc- w'H 4. v" V m&JKitjjsj ,1,,,,,, lltlllfi j Air view of the magnificent new national cathedral now in process of construction at Mt. St. Albans near Washington. The great structure is hut tompleted and construction has been temporarily halted due to lack of funds. Ten million dollars Is needed to complete the Job. one-thir- d 1 ! 1 Jl Prospec at beate Tenant- - |