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Show Thursday, September 1, 1938 THE PARK RECORD PAGE TI1RE3 'Penalty Oaths' Are of Several Different Kinds The saucer wouldn't break, so a .Chinese witness in a Cambridge (England) court had a hard time promising to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Breaking the dish was his way of saying his soul also would ,break if he lied. Such oaths, when a person swears to tell the truth under pain of punishment pun-ishment if he lies, are called "pen- alty oaths," and take many different forms, observes a writer in the jWashington Post. For instance, in Assam province, jlndia, witnesses grasp a dog or chicken cut in half with one blow. This implies the same fate will strike them if they testify falsely. jAnother Indian region has the Ispeaker stand within a circle of 'rope. He'll rot like rope, it's be-jlieved, be-jlieved, if he commits perjury, i Sometimes the head of a tiger, bear or other fierce animal is jbrought to "court" in Siberia and Africa. Those involved in a suit icall upon the animal to kill them jif they lie. William the Conqueror swore "by I the splendor of God," and King John by God's teeth." Slandering the Pig We often say someone is "a dirty pig," but little do we realize that we are slandering the poor pig. This little animal is naturally clean and will not wallow or sleep in filth unless un-less nothing better is available. Pigs are among the cleanest of all farm animals if allowed to be so, asserts a writer in Pearson's London Weekly. Week-ly. Most pigs are "pigs" because their owners force them to 'ive and ibathe in dirty places. Neither is the pig more lazy than other animals, ani-mals, if allowed his freedom. ! Plant and Factory ! A plant is a set of machines, tools, etc, necessary to conduct a me-Ichanical me-Ichanical business, often including I the building and grounds; or in the case of a railroad, the rolling stock. 'A factory is an establishment appropriated ap-propriated to the manufacture of Something, including the buildings and machinery necessary to such manufacture. Plant in the broader sense includes such things as manufacturing man-ufacturing plant, hydro-electric i plant, power .plant, and railroad plant. 'X Xli-Vi '.wrl'i No. I riT-RITK 1 I HiW JT rom Impressions takwi in your home.C ThouaHods of plfnami patrons. MONEV- 1 TRIAL BACK GUARANTEE YOU'LL BE I ' s SATISFIED. Monthly payments possible. ' xfv J?'J?Tna-'!HI directions and catalog. WHITE ME TOUAYI C. T. Johnnon. Pres. of UNITED STATES DENTAL COMPANY tXlrt. SPA ISSSMMwauhMAn. Clca, HI. The CIGARETTE of Quality T-Tavsa vnl i Innked vim V J w - into this finer cigarette's Tko worst BODY ODOR .i Th worst body odor comas from P. O. perspiration odor b-der b-der the arms. Take 1 mloaU to cse Todora bow. amailnf deodorant cream that work directly on underarm .uilnm Mnrmallv lops odor 1 19 i days. Todora also reduce amount of perspiration. Made without lard Todora Is utterly different dif-ferent from stiff, a-rainy paste: 1) Soft smooth at face cream. (1) Loaea do stick film on Buyera or underarm. l) Leae lardy" smell on clothe, lit IM. 0t It todaymoney to-daymoney back If not delighted. Trial alte nu. Send coupon. DEODORANT CREAM : FREE! ? Send coupon for trial lie to McKesson obblnt, Fairfield. Cobs. Dspt. T-l. , 1 1 DU -. .I1- .i'-w-X is o j O 'v'O HEALTH i 0 Diet held important in satisfactory cure of goiter trouble, specialist says. By Dr. James V. Barton" "PHERE are many cases of J- goiter where the physician physi-cian is undecided as to operation. oper-ation. He knows that the patient pa-tient could afford the time and money and would get results re-sults almost immediately, but there are other matters that must be considered. In many cases X-ray treatment treat-ment solves the problem notwithstanding not-withstanding that this often requires months of treatment. treat-ment. In some early or threatened cases, rest and iodine give encouraging results. Some years ago when a patient became be-came nervous, easily eas-ily upset, irritable, and was losing weight, some high-ranking high-ranking physicians put these patients to bed in a dark, quiet room and fed them as much food as they could get them to eat. The food was made as inviting invit-ing as possible and P9 Dr. Barton the patient's likes and dislikes in food were carefully considered. Sometimes the results were gratifying gratify-ing and other times the patients were really worse than before. This "forced feeding" with hard exercise has been used with good results in patients with early mental men-tal symptoms. The food nourished and the exercise strengthened the body, the circulation of the blood was improved, and the quality of the blood itself was improved. Importance of Diet. Now some physicians are trying out this treatment of giving large quantities of food to their early thyroid thy-roid or goiter patients. These patients pa-tients have the usual symptoms rapid heart, nervousness, poor ap petite and sleeplessness. Dr. Israel Bram, Philadelphia, author of "Exopthalmic Goiter and Its Treatment," has this to say in Medical Record: "Diet is paramount in the treat ment of exopthalmic goiter. The sufferer usually very thin must eat his way to health. All stimu lantstea, coffee, tobacco and alcoholmust alco-holmust be forbidden. Small amounts of meat may be given once a day. The average patient requires practically twice the amount of food that would be taken during health." As much rest as possible should be taken but Doctor Bram points out that there are many of these patients who must continue working or starve. Don't Get Excited Over Metabolism Test When the heart beat is persistently persistent-ly rapid the first thought (if the heart itself be sound) is usually that the thyroid gland in the neck is manufacturing too much juice. As this juice speeds up the body processes, proc-esses, the heart rate is, of course, "speeded up." To make sure that the thyroid gland is at fault and that a goiter, even if small, is present, the basal metabolism test is made. The patient pa-tient is warned not to eat any food after his evening meal of the night before the test, and goes to the physician's office or to the hospital before breakfast the next morning. He lies down quietly with body and mind as much at ease as possible, breathes in oxygen and breathes out the "used" air (containing carbon dioxide) into a tube carrying it to the soda lime chamber where the amount of carbon dioxide can be measured later. If too much oxygen is being used or too much carbon dioxide is being manufactured by the body processes while at rest, that is if the body processes are working at a rate of more than 15 per cent normal, goiter goi-ter is considered to be present. Test Often Fails. This seems simple enough, but physicians know that if the patieni is excited, perhaps afraid of the test because it may mean an operation, they cannot breathe slowly or naturally nat-urally and the heart is faster because be-cause of this fear or worry. In addition, ad-dition, as the patient has not had any breakfast, he misses the "settling" "set-tling" or quieting effect of the food which would draw some blood down to the stomach from the "excited" brain. For these and other reasons, if the first test shows more than 15 per cent, further metabolism tests are made. It is only natural that with so much at stake operation, anesthetic, anesthet-ic, stay in hospital, expense pa tients are upset or excited at the first test, a few days' rest and re assurance by their physician and by the physician or nurse making the test, make more certain the true reading or measurement. It should be remembered then that the basal metabolism rate must be persistently high when taken under un-der favorable conditions (quietness cf mind and body) before your physician phy-sician and surgeon would consider operation or X-ray treatment necessary. nec-essary. Bell Syndicate. WXD Servlc. Speaking of Sports i Football Is Game of Woe, ail Coaches By GEORGE A. BARCLAY PESSIMISM time is here. It's that preseason mourning period when football coaches pine over the games they're going to drop and lament la-ment over the stars they've lost from last year's squad. From the West to the East and back again it is a tale of woe. Out on the Pacific coast Stub Allison, Alli-son, coach of the University of California's Cal-ifornia's Golden Bears, will tell you with considerable justification that the remnants of last year's great eleven will face stronger opposition from at least three schools Stanford, Stan-ford, Washington and Southern California Cali-fornia Graduation robbed the team of six first-string men who were picked on one or more Ail-American teams. Among them were the mighty Sam Chapman, now outfielding for Connie Con-nie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics, his cagy quarterback, John Meek and linemen Bob Herwig, Yard Stockton and Claude Evans. But Allison Al-lison still has Yic Bottari at left half and Dave Anderson at full, as well as a number of new luminaries who promise to shine. Same Old Story As you move east it's much the same story. At Nebraska Coach Biff Jones will remind you that the Huskers lost their entire first-string line with the exception of mighty Charles Brock, center, as well as Quarterback johnny Howell and Halfback Harris Andrews. But ob servers agree that the squad this year will be better balanced than last year. In their own Big Six circle the Huskers rate as the team to beat. Oklahoma, hard hit by graduations, will present a heavy, fighting team, Kansas is expected to be better and Iowa State a threat in any game. In the Big Ten of the Middle West, Bernie Bierman, coach of the Uni- BO McMILLIN versity of Minnesota, shakes his head over the prospects and predicts pre-dicts that the Gophers' reign will be over for a spell. His pessimism is generally accepted, for most football foot-ball folks agree that Ohio State has by far the best material in the conference, if all the talent Francis Schmidt now has lives up to expectations. expec-tations. Coaches around the conference will be wary of the team Bo McMil-lin, McMil-lin, who was head coach of the college col-lege boys in the All-Star game, sends out for Indiana university. It is admitted that McMillin hasn't a corner on all the talent and he'll point out how many men he has lost and how few he has coming on. But material or no material, the man who beat Harvard almost single-handed when he was down in Centre college in Kentucky is a smart coach and he'll show his op ponents plenty of skill in the con ference schedule. Purdue and North western figure to be fairly tough. The sad story of losses by gradu ation is repeated at Notre Dame when Elmer Layden is asked about his team's prospects. "We won't have a great team," he says. "It will probably kick some games away through lack of experience. Of one thing I'm sure, however, it won t be because they don't try." Coaches in the East are a bit chary about confiding their prospects, pros-pects, but Lou Little, coach at Columbia, Co-lumbia, will tell you that he has been devoting a lot of serious time to exploring the possibilities of the new football rules. He concludes that the changes will produce live lier formations and higher scores. The changes, two in number, are as follows: One moves the ball in 15 yards from the sideline, instead of 10 as in the past. The other permits three unrestricted forward passes over the goal line instead of one as has been the custom hitherto. Little believes that moving the ball in fur ther will greatly help short side at tacks near the side line. The other change is likely to prove important as a stimulus to attack, he contends, "In the past," vhe says, "As soon as a team threw one incomplete pass over the line the defense moved up in a group. The men on defense knew the offense wasn't likely to throw another pass at risk of incompletion and loss of the ball iipfsp ', v. Grab a Mask TF YOU'RE an ambitious young ball player bent on breaking into the major leagues, grab a mask and mitt, pull on a chest-protector and get behind the plate. There's a shortage of first-class catchers and an., abundance of opportunities for youngsters who have promise. That's the opinion of Charley Barrett, Bar-rett, senior scout of the St. Louis Cardinals who has spent the last quarter of a century combing the countryside in search of talented young ball players. V 1 BILL DICKEY "Twenty-five years ago every ma jor league club held it an absolute necessity to have at least two star catchers on the squad," Barrett pointed out. "But today you can count the number of first-class re ceivers on the fingers of one hand "As a matter of fact there are only two or three outstanding catch ers in active service at present Bill Dickey of the New York Yankees, Gabby Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs and Ernie Lombardi of the Cincin nati Reds." Reason for the dearth of catching material, according to Barrett, is the fence-busting craze ushered in by Babe Ruth and subsequent high priced home run sluggers. "About six years ago I made a survey of this condition among youngsters starting out in the class D minor leagues," he said. "I advised ad-vised them to try their hand at catching, but they scoffed at the idea. They wanted to become home run sluggers. They practiced batting bat-ting to the exclusion of practically everything else and they refused to put on a mask and mitt. '"The result is that today the av erage big league scout covering the minor leagues finds any number of big-time prospects for all positions except that of catcher. Yet major league managers are crying for good catchers." Here and There T ISCOVERING hitherto unchart-ed unchart-ed lakes filled to the brim with black bass and speckled trout is the summer hobby of Bob Becker, hunter, hunt-er, explorer, fisherman, and authority author-ity on dogs. Among the half dozen lakes he turned up this year is one in the Kenora region of Ontario, Canada, to be called Lake Becker in his honor. In the fall and winter Becker varies his program in Chi cago of writing about fishing and hunting by conducting a radio se ries entitled "Chats About Dogs." On his fishing and exploring trips he usually takes along his champion cham-pion terrier, Redlands Defiance, as a companion. flack Wilson, who blasted out 58 home runs for the Cubs back in 1930, is still "box office" in Chicago. He proved it recently by drawing 8,000 customers into a semi-pro park to watch him play with a team from McKeesport, Pa. . . . Winter fishing fish-ing is not harmful to summer fishing, fish-ing, as is generally supposed, according ac-cording to a survey of the Institute of Fisheries Research of the University Uni-versity of Michigan. Castoff Stars r ASTOFFS from the St. Louis Car- dinals' far-flung minor league farm chain are popping up all over the major leagues in the role of stars and in numerous instances they're proving a plague to their former employers. Four key players with the Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh Pirates were at one time in (s. i c V" Mace Brown Bill Lee the Cardinal organization Cy Blan-ton, Blan-ton, Bob Klinger and Mace Brown, pitchers and Johnny Rizzo, hardhitting hard-hitting outfielder. Other stars once with the Cards are Bill Lee, pitching ace of the Chicago Cubs and Paul Derringer of the Cincinnati Reds. One of the home run leaders of the year in the N'ltional league is Ival Goodman, right fielder of Cincinnati. Goodman once played with a Cardinal minor league "farm." E Western Newspaper t'nioa. Constitutional Ccn'.itutiaml Amendment Ko. 1 fltOCKKDS ()-' LAM'S AND OTMKK i';u)i;:n Y i-muanknt kund - l.M KOK.M SrSHlOL FUND 1 JOIST MS') UTIttS I'liOfOSISU to A.:i:n sKrrios .t. artici.k 10 Or TilF. COSHTITUTIOS OF TIIH ST AW Or' L'TAH. KKl.AT- i.m; to the i-i:hi:f.is oh LAMS AS It -nHKR I'HOI'hllTY Al CliVATtSG A I' tin MASK ST FVSU ASl A USIPOIIU SCHOOL prs: i rr t::. cq:i:,:l;s asd rvi::.!C schools. it i-f.:j'rj ln the Legishturt dt the sfd.'i? of Vi -h, tw-tkir.: of a!! the inrmber elected to each house roren ri'ir g (,';")'.".','! : SECTION 1. Tlmt it la proposed to amend section 3 of rtide 10 of the Constitution of the state of Utah as amomk'il by tlie vote of tho electors at tho general election ot 11)30 to ro iu :.s follows: Sec. 3. The proco.'Js of the sales of all lamls thct hive he?n or may hereafter be grunted by the United States to this state, for the support of the common s:honls, and five per centum of the net proceeds of the sale of United States public lands lyinjj within tho state und sold by the United States subsequent to the admission ad-mission of this stnte into the Union, shall be and remain a permanent fund, to be called the State School Fund, the ipt.erpit of "hi h onlv. xhill be expended for the support of the common com-mon schools, lhe interest on the State School Fund, the proceeds of all property prop-erty that may accrue to the state by escheat or forfeiture, all unclaimed shares and dividends of any corpora tion incorporated under the laws of this stite, the proceeds of the sales of timber, and the proceeds of the sale or other disj.osition of minerals or other property from school and state lamia, other than those grunted for specific purposes, shall, with such other revenues as the Legislature may from time to time allot thereto, constitute con-stitute a fund to bo known as the Uniform School Fund, which Uniform School Fund shall be maintained and used for the suimort of the common and nublic schools of the state and nDtiortioned in such manner as the Lctrislatun shall provide. The pro Hions of Section 7. Article XIII of this Constitution sh ill be construed as a limitation on the rate of ta:;a tion on tangible property for district school purposes and not on the amount of funds available theretor and, iur-ther, iur-ther, no moneys allocated to the Uniform Uni-form School Fund shall be considered in fixing the rates of ta-tation speci fied in Section 7 of Article XIII. SECTION 2. The secretary of state is directed to submit this proposed amendment to the electors of the state at the next treneral election in the manner provided by law. SECTION 3, . If adopted by the electors of the st:ite. this amendment shall take effect the first day of January, 1939. Constitutional Amendment No. 2 RATE OF TAXATION PURPOSES DISTRIBUTION- A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 7, ARTICLE Kill OF THE CONSTITUTION CONSTI-TUTION OF -THE STATE OF UTAH, RELATING TO THE RATE' OF TAXATION. PURPOSES ASD DISTRIBUTION Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Utah, two-thirds of all of the members elected to each house concurring therein: SECTION 1. That it is proposed to amend section 7 of Article 13 of the Constitution of the state of Utah, as amended by the vote of the electors at the general election of 1930 to read as follows: Sec. 7. The rate of taxation on tangible property shall not exceed on each dollar of valuation, two and four-tenths four-tenths mills for general state purposes, two-tenths of one mill for high school No spice or condiment has a longer long-er history than the mustard seed. Probably in ancient days next to salt it was used more than any other seasoning. The reason for this lies in the fact that it is a cosmopolitan plant and grows in many places. The tiny seeds, which may be brown or yellow, are used in their own form for spicing pickles and fruits and for a few other purposes. pur-poses. The ground mustard flour which we know as dry mustard is one of our staple condiments. Then we have a large variety of mixed mustards mus-tards which vary in flavor, both on account of the kind of mustard which is their base and because of the liquids which are used to blend them. This is often vinegar and sometimes wine. f- lit. 'A WIN E S GALLONS QUARTS FIFTHS OS SALS AT UTAH STATE L1QUOI STORES AND PACXAGE AGENCHS Roma sweet (fortified) wines contain 20 alcohol by volume Amendments purpo high oses, whicn shall constitute tn , gh school fund; said furr1 unal! be apportioned in the tmnner the Legislature Legis-lature shall provide, to the schoo districts dis-tricts maintaining high schools, and juch levy for district school purposes whiri together with such other funds as may be available for district school purposes, will raise annutlly an amount which equals $-5 for each person of school age in the state as shown by the lar.t preceding school ccni-.u.i-, tho same to be distributed among the school districts according to the last preceding school census; and in addition an equalization fund which when added to other revenues provided for this purpose by the Legislature Legis-lature ah-ill be $5 for each person of school age as shown by the last preceding pre-ceding school census; suid equalization fund shall be apportioned to the school districts in such manner as the Legislature Legis-lature shall provide. Said rates shall not be increased unless a proposition to increase the same specifying the rate or rates proposed and the time luring which the same shall be levied, be first submitted to a vote of such of the oualified electors of the state, as in the year next preceding such election, shall have paid a property tax assessed to them within the state, and the mnjontv of those voting thereon shall vote in favor thereof, in such manner us may be provided by law. SECTION 2. The secretary of state is directed to submit this proposed amendment to the electors of the state in the next general election in the menner provided by law. SECTION 3. If adopted by the electors of the state, this amendment shall take effect the first day of January, 1939. Constitutional Amendment : No. 3 ! HOURS OF WORK ON PUBLIC WORKS ' A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING TO AMEND SECTION 6, ARTICLE Iff OF THE CONSTITUTION OF UTAH. RELATING TO HOURS OF WORK OS ALL PUBLIC WORKS. Be it resolved by the Legislature of the state of Ut:ih, two-thirds of all members elected to each of the two houses voting in favor thereof: SECTION 1. That it is proposed ta amend section C of article 16 of the Constitution of the state of Utah. See. 6. The Legislature shall de- tormina the hours that shall consti- ' tute a day's work on all works or undertakings carried on or aided by the state, county or municipal government; govern-ment; and the Legislature shall pass laws to provide for the health and safety of employees in factories, smelters, and mines and shall determine deter-mine the number of maximum hours of service per day. SECTION 2. That the secretary of state is hereby directed to submit this proposed amendment to the electors elec-tors of the state at the next general election in the manner provided by "SECTION 3. If adopted by the electors of this state, this amendment shall take effect the first day of January, 1939. n I, E. E. Monson, Secretary of Statc.M of the State of Utah, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct ropy of the 3 Constitutional Amendments proposed by the regular session of t'.ie legisl ..ture of 1937 as the same appears of record in my office. I further certify that they will appear on the ofiici.il ballot at the general election November 8, 1938, under the nu:nbtr and title herein designated. In witness whorof, I hive hereunto here-unto set my h .nd nnd nffixed the Great Seal of the Stnte of Utah, this 26th day of August, 1933. Secretary of State. It is to King Edgar that we owe the holidays which fall at Easter, j Whitsun, and Christmas, as well as' our half-holidays, such as Saturdays,' observes a writer in London Tit-! Bits magazine. King Edgar lived in the Tenth century and was re-. sponsible for many sane laws and reforms. In his day noon was about three in the afternoon, at which i hour Nones were recited. Later, Nones were moved to midday and periodically the people were given a half-holiday for the purpose of i praying. Unfortunately in time re-j lirrirmc nhcprvnncfl cravo wav in boisterous revelry, and the authori-j ties stopped the weekly half-holiday.' It was not until the Nineteenth j century that half-holidays and cer- i tain festivals were observed. I .-A LumS T llmm tewaai I II 3 ' V, I |