OCR Text |
Show i LEHI FREE PRESS. LEW. IT All "QUOTES" Chance Unemployed Youth to Get Glacier National Park fi '' COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY ft NATIONAL CHARACTERS J I , . - - f ? i t , f , t r- r-- 'h , iu-- I f NOT -- ANTIBy ANTHONY EDEN Lord Privy Seal. BRITISH British are not "anti" any in Europe. They are do not hostile to any people, nor THE to they regard any as antipatheticnever have British people them. The been good haters. Their Inclinations forhave always been to forgive and this indeed, get at once. Sometimes, Inreadiness has even seemed a little been have who those to comprehensible esour comrades In arms, but It is an sential element of the Hritl-sl- i charac- R ter. e are not the past, so today. should we but "anti" any nation, be and must be "anti" any who might seek by force to break the peace. We shall always be found arrayed on the side of the collective system against any government or people who seek by a return to power politics to break we up the peace which by that system are seeking to create. And let us not forget that the covenant itself provides the machinery whereby a peaceful settlement of International disputes caD be secured. As in wVL f 1. MIm Jotephln Roche, Chairman of th Executive Committee of the NYA. 2. What I to Become of These Young People Now They Are Out of 8chool7 3. Aubrey Williams, Executive Director. By WILLIAM C. UTLEY I snort of iliKuimt the mau tossj-- J his hat on table. And as be sunk Into the chair, his worn newspawanted" per, folded with the ! ds to the outside, their gray columns smudged with the sweat of much haa dUnf;, fell to the floor; he didn't bother to pick It op. He bent In defeat, his hands hung limply from the arms of the chair. His eyes fixed In a red shire on the thin carpet, his nostrils widened In a neer and his lower lip pouted. He looked as If he would do something desperate If there were anything desperate to do. Ills throat was dry as he spoke. "I give up I "I've been In every darn place In y this town where they might need to do anything. I'm a graduate engineer with one of the best records In my class and I can't get a job washing dishes. I've been trying for three years. "The Jobs there are go to married men who have families that need food and a home. That's all right, I suppose they should. But Lord, I want to get married myself some day, and here I am twenty-fiv- e without a chance In sight of getting myself any kind of a start. I've got a right to my' life and happiness. But I've got to work I "And what do they say to meV 'You've no experience. We can get good men with years of experience for what we have to pay you.' "Good Lord, how am I going to get experience if I can't get work?" The man Is, of course, a hypothetical case. But If you think his counterpart dues not exist In reality and In appalling numbers, you are sadly mistaken. The International Labor office at Geneva has just Issued a statement which declares that at least 25 per cent of all the world's 25,000,000 unemployed are less than twenty-fiv- WITH any-bod- e years old. But wait, despairing youth I There may be an end In sight for all this. America has an Idea. It may work and It may not, but at least something is going to be done. The President of the United States Is speaking . . "I have determined that we shall do something for the nation's unemployed youth because we can 111 afford to lose the skill and energy of these young men and women. They must have their chances tn school, their turn as apprentices and thIr opportunity for Jobs a chance to work and earn for themselves. "In recognition of this great national need I have established a National Youth administration, to be under the Works Progress administration." $50,000,000 for Youth. Out of the $4,800,000,000 which congress in the emergency relief appropriation act of April 8 turned over to Mr. Roosevelt that he might sink pub-li- e dollars Into the mire of . depression to make a foundation for a sturdy structure of sound prosperity, $50,000,-00will be poured as a pylon to support the new NYA during Its first year. As chairman of the executive committee of the NYA, the President named Miss Josephine Roche, assistant secretary of the treasury. She was long a professional champion of youth and later, as a coal operator, waged the battle for the rights of young men and women In different director she will form. have Aubrey Williams, first assistant s to Harry L, Hopbjns, administrator. These two will set up, the organization which will execute the challenge taken up by the President to remove youth from the depths of disillusion and defeatism and the dangerous radicalism which so often arises from such conditions. Youth In the case of the NYA la limited to men and women between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five. Here are the services the organization will attempt to perform: 1. Find employment- - In private Industry for unemployed youtn. "Work designed to accomplish thl.i shall be set going In every state In order to work out with employers In Industry, commerce and business, ways and 0 works-progres- means of employing additional imtkuu-ne- l from unemployed young people." 2. Train and retrain for Industrial, technical and professional employment opportunities. 3. Provide for continuing attendance at high school and college. 4. Work relief projects designed to meet the needs of youth. An estimated 150,000 youths will re0 ceive job training of some sort; will be aided In finishing their high school courses; 120,000 will be assisted In pursuing a college education, and additional thousands will be given financial aid to enable them to take postgraduate work. Many more may be absorbed without cost through the finding of jobs in industry. The smallest unit In the set-uwill be the local or community committee. This will be under the supervision of the state administration, which In turn will report to Washington headquarters. Efforts will be concentrated upon youths who are out of work and no longer financially capable of attending school. The tasks of the various divisions, according to the announcement from the White House, will be "to mobilize the Industrial, commercial, agricultural and educational forces to provide employment and other practical assistance to the unemployed youth; to deprovelop and carry out a gram of work and work opportunities, Job training and retraining for unemployed youth, utilizing all existing public and private agencies, Industries, schools and various training facilities which enn assist in meeting various phases of the problem." How Money Will Be Spent These tasks will all be undertaken with a view of furnishing youths (who are eligible for relief) compensation for work they may do on their new Jobs, or expense money If they are going to school Boys and girls over sixteen who have been forced to stop attending high school because they have no money for car fare, lunches and Incidentals will be given an average of $6 a month to enable them to complete their courses. An average of $15 a month will go to unemployed high school graduates under twenty-fivto help them finish Institutions will receive no college. subsidies; the students will be expected to pay part of the cost themselves, as they have In the past. There Is a rule now that those receiving work relief shall not account for more than 12 per cent of the enrollment of Institutions of higher learning, but this will In all likelihood be revoked or changed to make room for the NYA proteges. students who have been unsuccessful In their will be carefully selected for aid In completing their study. A special effort will be made to find jobs for graduates of the class of 1935. An average of $15 a monih will be paid to youths given outright work-relie- f Jobs; since one of the qualifications Is that they must be from relief families. It may be assumed that the head of the family will be holding a 100,-00- p e Post-gradua- g work-relie- f Job at better pay. Regarding this type of worker the plan says: "Particular stress should be laid upon the building and use of recreational and community centers which, depending upon local conditions and the. energy, ability and enthusiasm of local youth groups, can be anything from an "swimming hole" tc ...complete center, including all types of athletic facilities, community houses, library, classrooms, etc. In most communities these recreational centers can be made Substantially all of the direct labor In the creation of these centers shall he performed by, youths themselves, working as apprentices under the direction of skilled mechanics. Take National Census. Work relief youths will also be kept busy taking a national census of all youths tn the United States between sixteen and twenty-five- . To secure employment, the NYA will ask Industrial employers to hire youths as apprentices under special arrangements. Governmental bureaus, county, municipal and state, will be asked to take apprflt!cea and train them for public service. Concerning the latter, the NYA said: "The opportunity afforded by this type of work should be used to develop a new type of trained public servant, rather than to merely add to the Immense groups of men and women who now clamor to get Into government service." It has been called possible that this may foreshadow a permanent civil service organization, like that of England. Job training and job placement are to be accomplished by : (a) Utilizing available school shop facilities for Initial or basic trade training, through special late afternoon or evening classes, taught as work relief projects by needy unemployed persons qualified to teach the special field. (b) Utilizing available private factories, industries, or plants, at times when they are not Id regular operation, as places to hold training classes, taught by needy unemployed. (c) Using public libraries for training youths to function as librarians and enabling the libraries to be kept open for the public a greater number of hours a day. Needed. "This undertaking will need the vig- orous of the citizens of the several states," said the President "It Is recognized that the final solution of this whole problem of unemployed youth will not be attained until there Is a resumption of normal business activities and opportunities for private employment on a wide I believe that the national scale. youth program will serve the- most pressing and Immediate needs of that portion of unemployed youth most seriously affected at the present time." The NYA Is a definite step toward solving the problem of unemployed youth In America, What will be done about the remainder of the six or seven million unemployed youths In other parts of the world Is being considered by Geneva's International Labor office, with the object of doing away with the discontent that often results In serious social dangers. It la particularly worried about the method which Is being used to a wide extent by many European nations military conscription. Forced labor camps and Incorporation of young men In other organizations more or less of a military character It deplores: "Attendance at such unemployment centers should be strictly voluntary, should exclude any Idea of military training, and these centers should only undertake work which under prevailing economic conditions would not be carried out by workers In normal employment" Serious Problem. In the ILO, subjects usually receive two discussions, one when they are first called to attention, and another the following year, after all the available Information has been gathered. This question is considered too urgent to hold over. The real seriousness of the problem, according to' the ILO, "is to be found Id the particularly unfortunate consequences ef continued idleness for young people, more than older persons. If adults, after long years of work, are unable to face the difficulties of life, on the other hand how can young people on their own resources successfully resist the demoralizing effects of prolonged unemployment?" The remedies for the situation, as .held up by the ILO, are pretty much the same as the plan which the President has outlined for this country. They Include work-reliejob placement and apprenticeships, and vocational training and retraining. The ILO suggests that the minimum age for leaving school and being admitted to employment should be set at fifteen years; that there should be more technical schools, and that Ita plan, similar to the President's, should be carried out It will be Interesting to see what effect the President's NYA will have on the youth of our nation. Says he : "The yield on this Investment should be hUjh." - f, 41 Wttra Newipef Mae, ADJUSTING r" A ' '"'IP.-- ,' j 4 - .rT .slit TARIFFS By CORDELL. HULL Secretary of State. I WISH to call your attention particularly to the decline in this current year of our exports to many of our best consuming markets Europe. Thus, our exports to Europe In January and February of this In year declined 16 per cent In relation to that of January and February of a year ago. If we place embargoes upon our Imports we shall, In the last analysis, witness Inevitably the destruction of our export trade. Seized with an unreasoning fear whenever a small driblet of imports of a competitive nature comes over our tariff wall even when under purely temporary or accidental conditions, such as, for example, the drouth, action Is urged which, if followed too frequently, may lead to retaliation by other countries, so that step by step such action may lead straight toward a complete embargo of Imports all around, and since one country's Imports are another country's exports, a like embargo of exports all around. RURAL RELIEF TUGWELL REXFORD By of Agriculture. Under-Secreta- TO SAVE the land and tht who depend on it is an inspiration in which all of us, it seems to me, can Join. It particularly transcends party, creed and class. I should like to see the administration of the present program carried out In such ways that this common consent can be won and kept so that our names will be blessed rather than bitter In our children's mouths. And I am willing to take this kind of pledge. But I am not willing to say that if vested interests or partisan politicians begin a fight which involves this movement we shall not fight back. We believe in this thing and we are determined to see It through. BALANCING THE BUDGET By ROBERT LA POLLETTB U. S. Senator From Wisconsin. had the courage to IFlaxWEas had heavily in this country as they have done in Great Britain, we would have had a balanced budget both In 1933 and 1934. Those who are most anxious to balance our budget are most often those who protest vociferously against any attempt to increase taxes upon wealth and Income, In accordance with ability to pay. The conservatives, therefore, who are arguing that this government should follow the example of Great Britain and attempt to balance Its budget are In a completely inconsistent position until they are ready to accept the tax burden necessary to accomplish that end. to appear in thii newspaper, This ia one of a seriea of article sponsored by the Salt Lake Advertising Club, associated civic clubs of southern and central Utah, and chamber of commerce; part of will program to point out Utah's resources so that local peopl Know Utah Better". By P. J. MULLIN No traveler to the European Alps ever beheld more riotous scenery than is experienced by the thousands who every year pour through the fascinating mountain vastnesses of Glacier National Park. In America's back door, Glacier extends Into Canada, and since 1932 has beea connected with the Canadian portion of the park as the Watertoa-Glacie- r International Peace Park. It is seldom that romance such as Glacier's Is attached to any national park. For Chief Mountain in the park was the "King's Mountain" indicated by Lewis and Clarke on their expedition map of 1S04-0In 1810 the first white men were taken across Marias pass. In 1S55 the area now in the park east of the park east of the Continental divide was allotted to the Blackfeet Indians as hunting grounds. Late iu the century, this section was the center of a fevered but unsuccessful mining rush. First wida attention to the park as a scenic center was drawn in about 1900, and in 1910 President Taft signed the bill adding it to the nation's stcre of natural beauty as a permanent park. Here is America's glacier country. Nestled among the higher peaks are more than 60 glaciers and more than 200 cirque lakes. During the summer It is possible to visit most of the glaciers and many of tht lakes with very little difficulty. Horseback and foot trails, penetrate almost every section of the park. Nowhere are the named points of scenic Interest so apt in description as in Glacier. But very few of the names were the product of the white man. From their earliest wanderings, the Indians applied their own picturesque designations terms which still exist. Of these, Two Medicine Valley is perhaps the best known section of the park. The road which leads into the valley ends at the chalets near the foot of Two Medicine lake. Across the mountain is Mount Rockwell and in the distance the Continental divide. At Glacier, too, there la a point from which waters flow in three directions: to the Gulf of Mexico by Cut Bank Creek and the Missouri river; to Hudson Bay by St. Mary River, and to the Pacific Ocean by Flathead river. In Red Eagle valley was once a glacier 2,000 feet thick, and the present glacier there can be seen from any point in the valley. Other picturesque points are Almost-a-DoMountain, St. Mary Valley which is the largest and most celebrated, Gunsight Pass, Little Chief Mountain, Swiftcurrent valley, Belly River valley scores of others. The spectacular Going-to-th- e Sun highway, already well known as one of the outstanding scenic roadways in the world, connects the East and West sides of the park, crossing the Continental divide through Logan pass at an altitude of approximately 6,700 feet. This road makes available to thousands of travelers who would not have time, funds and perhaps the strength for pack trips, some of the finest alpine scenery in the world. Reached through highways drawing from all parts of the country and by rail, the park is rapidly becoming an increasing attraction not only for American tourists but for people from all. portions of the world. g Intermountain News -- CURRENCY WAR By SIR PERCY BATES Chairman Cunard Line. THERE is war today, The weapons are not navies, armies or airplanes, but tariffs, quotas and shifting currencies. There Is no authorized standari of national money exchange, and each change In a tariff, quota or currency is nothing other than a hostile move In this war. Worst of all, the situation is not officially recognized as a war, otherwise we might have had a peace conference with far better possibilities Tor the good of mankind than the disarmament talks In Geneva, 1 AAA PROGRAM A. WALLAC3 Secretary of Agriculture. By HENRY who charge the AAA scarcity simply do not know the facts. The Amer- THOSE ican farmer always has produced enough food for every man, woman and child In the United States, and 1 am lure he will continue to, given a chance to stay on his farm and In business. The adjustment programs have cut down production for an export market which no longer exists; thiy have not deprived the people of one ounce of necessary food, WNTJServlee. . Briefly told for Busy Readers FRUIT CROPS GOOD GETS $4,000,000 POSTAL RECEIPTS GROW INSTALL NEW BUS SYSTEM IDAHO JEROME, IDA. Earl F. Kennedy, Jerome county treasurer, had collected approximately $150,000 in taxes for the second half of 1934, he nnnounped. Of that amount, about $110,000 represented curtent taxes due for the period, and $40,-00- 0 represented delinquent taxes for previous years. TWIN FALLS, Twin Falls county rind other fruit districts of south central Idaho are assured of having one of the largest and best fruit crops ever produced, according to reports received from fruitgrowers in different towns. BOISE," IDA. With $3,140,620 of cash on hand in the Idaho state treasury, compared with 1,927,305 in 1934 and $2,359,719 in 1933, the "public financial condition of the commonwealth appears to have improved materially in the past three years," Mrs. Myrtle P. Enklng, state treasurer, observed. - LOGAN, UT. Continuing good Increases shown in postal receipts during 1935, the postoffice financial report Issued recently showed the receipts for the quarter ending June SO, to be $2,000.98 higher than receipts for the same period In 1934. BOISE, IDA. -- More than four millions of dollars for Idaho reclamation was given the approval of President Roosevelt in a conference with western senators recently according to dispatches received here. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Organizaclubs in tion of eight more Twin Falls county was effected here. All have their leaders appointed and projects launched for 1935. They are supervised by County Agent Harvey Hale and Twin Miss Magdalena Clements. Falls, home demonstration lcad:T for the south central Idaho district. 4-- IDAHO, FALLS, IDA. An early i highway Improvement program ' here to under way expected get a short time, according to information received by Mayor B. W. Clark from the state right of way eneln-eewho said $250,000 has been for widening improvements to the Yellowstone highway. Three POCATELLO, IDA. types of projects the work relief, PWA sponsored and those sponsored by regular governmental bureaus were described as "desirable and feasible" by Senator James P. Pope in a communication to Pa"' V. Nash, secretary of the chamber of commerce. " OGDEN, UT. The Utah Rapid Transit company is financially bus prepared to install a modorn system . to supplant the .present street car system, if a certificate of convenience and. necessity ' service granted by the state" public " commission ' r, '- ' MOSCOW, Fruit IDA. and vegetable growers in southwestern Idaho will benefit from a long-tim-e now De'DJ research- - program Irrigated launched, qn an tract neat Parma by the University of Idaho , agricultural experiment station. 11-ac- - mar- Tiie TOCATELLO, IDA. riage license business of Bannock comcounty fell Off this June ns shown pared to June of 1931, It was in a comparison of records in the county clerk's office. |