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Show Thursday. April 15, 1937 Keeping Up Wi cience ervcc Science Servica. WNU Service. Qlndians of Arizona Learned to Live in Land of Contrasts Ilopi Most Advanced Tribe in Farming Indians In Washington. the farmand white Arizona, ers who took over part of the land after them, have had to adapt themselves to many contrasts in living conditions, Dr. II. L. Shantz of the United States Department of Agriculture told an audience THE TIMES-NEW- S. NEPHI. UTAH Life Is Lonjrer and Better, Thanks to Work of Scientists National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart National Pre DulMlnr Whlnton. 1ONCER better life, biologically Washington. Senator McKellar. life, and an easi Tennessee Democrat, arose in the er life. That is science's gift senate recently to Silly LatO offer a bill that to mankind. Dr. C. C. Furnas, would repeal a Doomed Yale professor of chemical of law provision engineering and author of a prohibiting the employment of both v hi- JD, - N. Y. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. C tion respecting government publi cations recently when the house appropriations committee was holding hearings on a bill appropriating funds for several government de- - r . -- "Quotations" v. c:ArH; partments. Mr. Taber estimated that gov ernment publications were costing twenty-mil-lioti-dolla- wife or a woman's husband already is on the federal pay roll. It was not the importance of this particular repeal proposal, however, that interested me. Senator McKellar's action was significant and interesting only because when marriage repeal of the" clause and federal law was proposed. It marked the beginning of the end of one of the most abortive pieces of legislation that has been on our statute books. I refei to the economy act of 1933. I cannot refrain from recalling a prediction that I made when the economy act was before congress in 1933. It was introduced and supported by the New Deal legislature in an effort to carry out a campaign promise made when President Roosevelt was running for ofYou will remember fice in 1932. that he promised to reduce the cost of government twenty-fiv- e per cent, saying in many speeches that the cost of government was too high and that a reduction in taxes was necessary. It will be recalled likewise how he said that "Taxes come from the sweat of every man who Cive the help you are able to give now rather than wait for the greater gift you hope to bestow by and by. If the poor widow had waited to cast mora into tha treasury when her fortunes improved, she never would have won that commendation of tho Master. There may be far greater need for that help you can give now tl tn there will be for your greater assistance at some later time. (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York, stimulating book, 'The Next man and wife by the government. Hundred Years," summar It has been in effect since the sum- In the neighborhood of of 1933. The provision ought a year. He called them ized in a recent address what mer to be and probably will be repealed administration propaganda. science and technology are because, as far as I can see, there "Every organization in the gov doing to us. The record is is actually no sense In the national ernment, "Mr. Taber declared, "is efgovernment refusing to employ out all sorts of propaganencouraging. sending ficient workers because a man's The expectancy of life at birth has risen from less than forty years in 1880 to almost sixty years at The expectancy for all present. ages up to sixty has increased. Of each one thousand people born this year, almost 30 per cent more will survive to age fifty than will survive in a similar group born In 1900. Science is giving us a biologically better life as well as a longer one, Dr. Furnas contends. Most epidemics have been eliminated. Tuberculosis is on the run. Even cancer Is beginning to think about slipping. Colds, influenza, infantile paralysis and the various diseases of senility are still to be touched but they will be, and perhaps surprisingly soon. People Learning About Diet. Dietary deficiency diseases are on their way out and will soon be a rarity. Dr. Furnas feels that the average diet Is still very poor but It Is Improving. The public is learnd ing, be said, that the foods such as granulated sugar and white flour are poor substitutes for food and that there is a great virtue in the protective foods: vegetables. fruits and milk. They are respond ing to the exhortations of science and the health of the next generation will show it. The material side of life is improving. Dr. Furnas observes that the cave man expended almost 100 per cent of his efforts in getting his meals. By the time of a certain tea party in Boston that figure had dropped (for Americans) to 88 per cent. That is, in 1775 56 per cent of the average American income went for food. By 1931 that had dropped to 38 per cent. In other words the struggle to fill the stomach has steadily become less severe, which leaves a larger part of the average dollar to be spent for other things. Big Increase for "Sundries." The item of "sundries" which includes education, travel, books, all recreation, rose from eight per cent of the average American Income in 1775 to 24 per cent of the income in 1931. This is a three-folincrease and is tremendously significant. We now spend three times as much on tha extra curricular activities, which are the most pleasant part of life, as did the revolutionists. We are now spending five billion dollars per year on education and 10 billion for recreation. One would almost think we were leading a profitable and pleasant life. Despite this higher standard of living we are working less. Between 1900 and 1930 the average real wage, in terms of standard commodities such as food, rose 48 per cent while the average working week dropped almost 15 per cent. The long time trend since the depression is not yet quantitatively discernible but it will undoubtedly be upward for wages and downward for hours. "This is all to the good," says Dr. Furnas. "Note that I am not saying that life for the average man 13 good as yet, I am only saying that it is better than it was, much Present Helpers A Crocheted Party Dress to Dr. C. C. Furnas Tells of Big Improvements PAGE THREE Pattern 1388 She'll be proud of this dainty. da, propaganda in fancy colors, crocheted frock, in a clover leaf pamphlets with pictures of resettle pattern. In one piece, gathered to ment projects, pictures of WPA contrasting yoke, it's effective propositions and all that sort of in string or mercerized cotton. Pattern 1388 contains directions thing." r rrvival of InternaAn tional tratif will be the nio.t powerful tingle forre fur ravins, polili-fj- l and averting the danger of war Cor dill Hull. o (lowly, Mi rain, whirl) change are rlianginit tula like rlouJ beU ill Uurunt. fore the mind. The great erhUara of the world are the rapluiua of the modi-rworld ' arm of progrrts. Ait hous Murray liuiler. 1 cannot aland a aatl riprrimion on aomrone'a fare. I wixli to are everyone happy, amiling and enjoying hiniM-l- l l&nuce Jan I'uderru tki. REMEMBER THIS CROSS IT MEANS FAST RELIEF 15c tor u DEMAND AND GET rttV I rUU. IfORBt DOZDt GENUINE BAYER ASPIRIN MI MM r": a" f.,ven"l on! p.at f " been able to obtain of the cost of of it and of all stitches illustration It for it government publications not easy to ascertain how much used; material requirements. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins his fellow-botanis- ts these beautifully done magazines in an cost each department or agency. '"address here. Nor is it easy to determine how Arizona is a land of many conmuch is paid for the distribution of trasts, he pointed out. Its "low the countless thousands of state137 THIS Is sea feet above only spot" ments issued for the press or mailed mounof its level; the peaks highest in millions of copies to voters. The tains rise above 12,000 feet. Its whole thing constitutes a maze that normally dry climate Is broken Into is so complex that it is staggering. twice a year by rainy The government printing office lists seasons, and sometimes punctuated 73 periodicals of the magazine type with cloudbursts. 25 Temperatures for which it will take subscriptions Got It Bad to zero have ranged from below or sell individual copies. These, of Rastus You ain't yo'self no 127 above. GAME CARVING SET course, are printed documents. They more. Sick or sompin? It's a World in Itself. do not include the many pamphlets wak-l- n' Mose Got insomnia. Keep Of its total area, 42 per cent is that are mimeographed or published up every few days. for only 25c with your purchase desert, 23 per cent natural grassotherwise by many governmental land, and 38 per cent is distributed agencies. of one can of B. T. Babbitt's A writer muses on what the among three types of forest. At Statue of the top of the San Francisco peaks Nationally Known Brands of Lye I mentioned the distribution of of would say if she could Liberty speak. there are tiny patches of real Alpine ficial statements for the press and She'd still in meadow. Of 18 great world types of probably claim to be Times-UnioThis is the Carving Set you need address and 23c to B. T. Babbitt, to voters through- - her twenties. Rochester vegetation, Arizona has 9; of 22 for steaks and game. Deerhorn deInc.. Dept. W.K., 386 4th Ave., out the labors." Weighmg country. types distinguished in this country, sign handle fits the hand perfectly. New York City. Your Carving Set no There is driven was act the Well, way, economy Cost the Knife blade and fork tines made of will reach you promptly, postage the state has 12. It is a world in as far as I can through, despite declaration from fine stainless steel. Now offered for paid. Send today while the supply itself. Those Girls! to the one senators but calculate and see, representotal, many many In this world dwell Indian tribes only 25c to induce you to try the lasts. "That is a pretty dress you have tatives that it was impossible to Washington correspondent recently on. brands of lye shown at right. of most diverse agricultural abiliOFFER to took structure occasion of governmutilate the weigh the output Use them for sterilizing milking to ties. Heading the list are the Hopi, wear "Yes. teas." it I only BfiBBlTTSl Dein that bill and of press statements from the ment as machinea and proposed equipment. dairy GOOD who raise ample crops of corn, "Whom?" would partment of Agriculture for one of one can dissolved in 17 still have a Contents that government beans, melons, squashes, and other His curiosity had been function properly. And here were week. gallons of water makes an effective, WITH produce, irrigating them with mere The Shoe Fit inexpensive sterilizing solution. some of the most ridiculous provi- aroused by the tremendous volume dewater. of have can of any of the lye decupfuls a They You Solicitor a small ofbetoday Buy EITHER pay come delivered to to that been had in bis sions that legislation brands shown at right. Then send veloped a variety of corn able to fore congress in many years: They fice both by mail and by special posit, then you make no more name 14 and with if the can band, your BRAND sprout successfully planted MM worked injustices on veterans of the messenger and so he weighed the payments for six months. inches deep, whereas the white of the Houses Who told Lady World war, on farmers, on retired week's grist. It totaled more than man's corn dies if planted more pounds. This, as you about us? government workers, on the army three and one-hathan three inches deep. and navy and marine corps, and said, was from only one depart Other Tribes Below the Ilopi. hamstrung and handicapped gov- ment and the weight was the weight ernment agencies in a manner I of the paper alone. Less careful farmers, but living had not seen in my long experience One need not employ a great deal by agriculture still, are the Pima as an observer of national affairs. of Imagination to think of the cost and the Papago tribes. They are not nearly as systematic irrigators It was on that occasion that I involved. First there was the pamade the prediction mentioned per itself. In the second place there as the Hopi, and they raise their DOVMWrrH SBE HERE, OH, MOTHER. above, and to which I call atten- was the cost of typing the material crops to some extent by j$$MV VoUNG VUW .HAPPNESS.' SEE 1HE DOS I BOUGHT tion because of the McKellar pro- and then of mimeographing it. But methods. They also make, use JoH,YMAr A MESS I WITH THE MONfEy UNCLE WILL NOT J'XCOMB Ot4, of native food sources such as cacS posal for repeal of the marriage before it reached either one of these A EVErJ 2 clause. I wrote at that time my stages, it was necessary that a vast GLOOM- S- v NBO GAVE ME.' tus fruits and mesquite beans. The HAVE A DOO C ( V V LET'S SET TH CHILDREN? definite conviction that the economy amount of work be done by well AROUND IHlS y Papago are especially successful in law was silly; that it would work paid men and women writers and bean cultivation; they domesticated one or two native bean species and hardships and that its basis was research workers who prepared the have cultivated them for centuries. ninety per cent politics. I predict- material that was used whether in ed further that within a year the mimeographing or in printing. Least agricultural are the Apache and Navajo. Originally roving, often politicians in the house and senate There are two publications that who had shouted so loudly about predatory, in their habits, they have to my desk regularly that come vaeconomy would begin to chisel given up hunting and warfare only strike me as being extraordinaririous provisions out of that law. under white men's restraint. The The "Consumers' Each of .those things has happened ly expensive. Apache are learning to grow corn; a product of the Agricul Guide," see now we the end. and become the Navajo have herdsmen. ture administration and The end of the law has come but the Adjustment famous for their great flocks of "Electrification News," pub Pracnot the end of its effects. sheep and for the beautiful rugs they lished by the Rural Electrification tices in federal government adminweave from the wool. are the two most existration that had been operating administration, and most elaborate periodipensive and efficiently very satisfactorily cals that I regularly see. They are Biggest Oyster Shell throughout the years were thrown sent out free not only to the Washsub new and discard ideas into the Is Fount! in Texas ' correspondents but to thouI I ou TAKE 7HAT DO5 stituted. The discarded methods ington But. MARY " 1kkiSfUQ&Pt' of voters thousands sands upon I BACK. WHERE RIGHT W.SeeAVA WHY CAH'T HEwere the development of experience to AjHy DON'T VouX any voter whose name either W ybU GOT IT I HAVE Alpine, Texas. MOTHER. and were serving the purposes for Biggest KEEP IT? A D05 THINK OF ME FOR And they are paid obtains. agency Ik TROUBLES ENOUGH PLEASE which they were intended. Some of for out of oyster shell in the world, is CHAUGE 2VVITH S SOMETHING A money. taxpayers' Wl7WOUT A OOQlX them have been restored and are EVERY SMALL the distinction claimed for an MY HEADACHES AND each of these peTypographically, but as should they again functioning V vrEi Boy Should enormous' fossil, four feet , ajervousnesSTHAt one can wander around through the riodicals is exceptionally well done -HAVE DOG'S 8ARKNG a feet and three from standpointThey magazine long wide, dug maze of government corridors and Affi and with copare pictures, replete find attempts still being made to up by geologists of the na make schemes work that are un per engraving is expensive; the artional park service in the prosound in practice, schemes from ticles and news items contained in l posed Big Bend National better." the minds of theorists. It will be them are well written, thus showPark area in western Texas a number of years before the effects ing that good writers are on the Dr. Charles N. Gould, who of the economy act will be obliter pay rolls of these agencies. And so it is throughout the gov ' ated. has been working in the rich ernment. Everywhere a correspondfossil deposits of the region, As the chiseling began and the ent goes among government offices thinks there may even be economy act fell to pieces under he meets "federal workers," among sounder thinking. the government personnel, engaged bigger shells waiting to be distributing the was in preparing and excavated. penning public the go' ernment's stories for launched Another "biggest" fossil discov Orgy Moscow. The new type of greatest spending reading. ered in the Big Bend country is a "" known as the orgy any nation ever witnessed. It ten-foI WHY DON'T YOU GET" 30 PAYS ft WHAT A HAPPY HOME THIS HAS petrified tree. No other locomotive )) touch on another me let Now, with has continued unabated pecu iree of that size, living or fossil. "SO" but popularly called LATER. Been Since mother got rid Your headaches rid cost of of the not government and is still phase continuing has ever been found in Texas. The the camel, has completed a liarity ALL HEADACHES AND NERVOUSNESS.' AND NERVOUSNESS OH, WkVlPrHER I publications. within the fact that withstanding BY GETTING RID region is also rich in fossils of dino round RIGHT- -- ) 1 Vfr?'w,-''- w V to jj of fer run use from Moscow the we weeks the last few have heard trip saurs and extinct elephants. COFFEE-NERVE- S ? WHY I'LL TRY t16 franking privito . Vladivostok, pulling a statements from administration Abuse M YOU COFFEE DON'T QUIT w .'fSwiTCHINS TO As to lege. the effect everyone sources administhat of 1 AND SWITCH To FOSTUM J -POSTUM MADE HER " freight train 1,200 tons. The tration expenditures will be cut. The knows, government mail goes "1 " Apricots From Asia May FOR 30 DAYS, LIKE V A DIFFERENT CfrS. L . . distance covered was over fact is they have not been cut the United States mails TWjf through Flourish in Dakotas 13,000 miles, according to the But the average person outside of without the payment of postage. Washington sees and hears only That does not mean, however, that Tass agency. Brookings, S, D. Califor things related to large totals of gov- the railroads or the airplanes or Equipped with a such as relief for the steamships haul that mail free. nia s apricot-blossomin- g h hill the SO used only the ernment spending vast and destitute the programs of The only difference between that sides may soon have rivals amount of water normally needed building. They do not hear mail and the letters you write or on the prairies of the North by a freight locomotive for the long public is going on receive is that the government pays With Its water load nor do they see ofwhat the government the transportation lines on a pound west, where nobody would journey. the SO can operate for about 621 among agencies ever have imagined this fruit miles without replenishing its water that relate to comparatively small basis and on stamps are used. It is It is these bulk transportation whereas when outgo. to be possible. Its long time between items of money supply. when taken together, you and I mail letters we pay the small items, name the camel apDr. N. E. Hansen, of the South "drinks" makes that bulk so large even though by cost of transportation on those letDakota State college here, has an propriate. comparison with relief the total ap ters to the government by means Asiatic species which he has been The boiler and running parts of pears insignificant. of a postage stamp. for a about dozen difler but little nursing years, the new locomotive I am going to call attention to Just It is entirely proper and reasonYour money Back.- - - . the full purchase price, plus postage! (If you live in and which seems to be quite hardy from the ordinary locomotive. The ons a small item as govern able that government mail should item, IF SWITCHING TO FbSTIM Canada, address General Foods, Ltd., Cobourg, Ont.) severe climatic conditions which so efficient'X'under the I which It not ment Give Postum a air trial. ..drink it for the full 30 days! expenses go, about require postage stamps. HELP 7 of the Dakotas. He found the orig- ly conserves the water supply is a rjoESATT me would simply be taking government most persons who do Postum contains no caffein.lt is simply whole wheat inal trees in northern Manchuria, most complicated mechanism, how- suspect the honor to read these articles money out of one pocket and putIf you are one of those who cannot safely and bran, roasted and slightly sweetened. Postum where winter temperatures drop as ever. In the cooling system are have had little information. v drink coffee.. .try Postum't test. come in two forma... Postum Cereal, tha kind you They ting it in another. Yet, in the end low as 48 degrees below zero Fah2.169 copper pipes having a length have had little information because you and I. as taxpayers, pay for the Buy a can of Postum and drink it instead of coffee for boil or percolate. ..and Instant Postum, made instantly renheit. of over 3.400 feet. These copper month. one full in the cup. It is economical, easy to make and deliare in a position to see only transportation of the government 30 days... you do not feel better, return Dr. Hansen has developed twelve pipes have fin plates which increase they ...after cious. You may miss coffee at first, but after 30 days, If I to for we the refer mail and millions isolated gov pay examples. flavor. the top of the Postum container to General Foods, you'll love Postum for its own rich, r seedling varieties which he consid- the cooling area. Each ernment publications. of pieces that are sent out from the Battle Creek, Michigan, and we will cheerfully refund A General Foods ers to, have mure than ordinary product. has some 1.700,000 such New of Taber various government departments. Representative Copr. 1937. Kin Feature Syndicate. G. P. Corp. I.icennea (This offer txpirt Decmber3t. 1937J CI "If tatern Newspaper Union. promise. plates. 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