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Show "' y ' v 3 .j J 4 3 ' , iW. jeii'jtyl5efctiB6 ifctaMvw3HMp .'ni " , ' r " JiSA,.rfr ' fff XJ' A.sfc jfc Ji cat f A&- THE PAYSON CHRONICLE. PAYSON, UTAH Weds Vicfdr NATIONAL TOPICS INTERPRETED Di Wi&iatu BliiciaXf M 0MAl PRES5 BLDG. ington.- - The American Llb-lKu- e baa laid aside its swad I ' clothes dting y League and has put on tang pants ln Qat tlie Held of comparatively new 4up and promoted consistent-ion-partisathe league can said t 'ive plunged t0 the political warfare. If b rally can stand as a Vl3i n. its influence is due to be an important way in the tag national elections, rally that really marked the Campaign debut was a plc-- e thing. It was picturesque a use of the time and the ind the very nature of the ind the manner of approach f 11 of the couritry-bu- t ith h is'hB(1 ,oten bride,ore and more lm- picturesque lloudemoo o'( we because the head 0 cayalrj (eaggf wa8 Alfred E Smith, ne Democratic candidate for I Oakland, a sldency. and by all odds the . has passed tarful an(l pungertspeaker ay mark in ( present day. It was a din- heduled for n more than 2.000 persons tate ,n the Onion and matel.v ie halfway c held in exactly the same suspension bn of tte Mayflower hotel here e, San Frano two weeks earlier President jletlon about ,elt had addressed about the bay hrid'--i number of persons at the thorough V,n 17 $50-- plate dinner. As the Bronx, lher rode of Interest, attention ! to the fact that the , New Yorkph i months of.J8 was presided over by Bor liflonK Alabama Dem ar ended. furr other speakers were and the j bridges jr DUths alone .("Brothers, a southern co- f the )regou, are Lcrt-- 1 tang head a department of Lehigh of t7 n Pennsylvania, and former Judge Charles I. Dawson of tee complex were: a 111;. 'till. Ky a Republican, ie Lincoln inferred above to Mr. Smith as nlata river, colorful speaker, and from highway brf the comments I have heard, river In ttt;ni8 to he the consensus that ilo and Ni has he Justified the descrip-thNew ! better than in his league ind Island; Be was introduced by Mr. er the Capt a8 A1 Smith of America. and and Sugaijcdpfj to assure his audience cal lift ra. included millions listening by anal near t that he dared patriotism e party, that he was a eandl projeetsplss for no other office under the tlon were c that he had no ax to grind and bores were: such critical shots as he might rear. were without personal anl-te- r was bn'ty for anyone But he did not ental dlito hi punches when he pilloried In Colorafi New Deal and he showed no ompletioa cy when he drew the deadly 'ruary 4, (el between the Democratic r Indepen form of 1932 and the policies and brinpeh Mr Roosevelt had carried asln water,,, gh. believe It may be said o the Cols ha readied the leak of his cb when he laid on the speak- stand copies of the Democratic TE nODform of 1932 and the Socialist tform of the same year and In best East side twang he chaired, anyone to deny that Mh mevelt had been elected od a intern Ho ticket and had carried the Socialist promises. a Presidents breathing spell ranee, his message to congress the state of the Union, his staff advisers. his monetary policies med other meaty subjects which former governor of New York ked to pieces in his own Inlmita- He begged congress to way. serf itself again and quoted from e Bible In his plea It should Tern to the fathers house and be sin one of the three branches of federal government . Through the speech wa9 Mr. if the 'nUh's chosen theme that a great or korQ ,nigef lies abend, a danger that the I finer a ij ppaj wlj ,,S(roy everything enitetin cj (p hl(j U1(1(e America was e outstanding nation that It is holm dte the President of having ao.USP( C,HSS class and as nights rte(j i IH, vv nation faces i the most gigantic lax burden ever ' nown. To tills he added that It Is Pet III not be the rich who will pay, vast army of Individuals p ijf.utrlth "that Incomes from a hundred dob Calif'irs month to Cve thousand year. ,rs of mie Pina Hy, in conclusion, Mr. Smith b -- one? a unl-rldg- . yry( ,t aid: Rusty, Let me give this solemn warn- roams There can he only one capital, rre ,0,ng: . iVashington or Moscow gua There can be only one atmos- ( 6 of goverimient, the clear, rree America or fllr rtsh C pn t,rea,fl of communistic Rus- r Sla. ' There can be only one flag, "a Stars Mnd Stripes, or the flag of godless union of the Soviets stool j.j.Tliere can tie only one national an SIht Spangled Runner broP,tftMI he Internationale, there can l.or n Ae only one victor. If onr Const! npp rOi tutlnn wins, we win. But If the l( Constitution stop, stop here the CoUstitr tlon cannot lose. m li 7 J, 8 11 l,re ... v of Pf1 to bee -- But what of the significance of ,,tbe league dinner Rnj the Smith sneeihT ; The Smith Prior to the Walkout 1 ill ng P1 dinner. leagues in secret the ex ecu five council met W'hetlier jt committed the league to a deli tsJte stand was not formally an WASHINGTON. O.C. nounced, yet surely there are grounds upon which to base a statement that It means to support candidates and platforms on the con-se- n atlve side. With equal emphasis, it can be said that Mr. Smith has walked out on that section of the Democratic mrty that sticks by Mr. Roosevelt, lie said it was a choice either to put on the mantle of hypocrisy or we can take a walk. He explained It probably would be the latter course. And frankly It seems with the personal following that he has, a walkout by Mr. Smith cannot be described as otherwise than serious to the party from which that group Is defected. It has all of the earmarks of an Interesting political situation. Immediately after Mr. Smith had spoken, quite a few Democrats in congress tired back at him and In defense of the New Deal. Men like Representative Doughton of North Carolina, a Democratic wheelhorse as chairman of the powerful ways and means committee; Speaker Byrns and a flock of others. They insisted generally that the Smith barrage was more helpful to the Democrats than campaign speeches they themselves could make. Administration leaders In the executive department are beginning to fire also, but they are smart enough to let the enthusiasm aroused by the speech die down before they attempt to upset arguments advanced by Mr. Smith, I have no doubt, from the signs even now cropping up, that an effort will be made In congress to discredit the league. It looks like Senator Black, Alabama Democrat and chairman of the senate lobby committee, probably will dig Into the league's files to show how it was financed to a large extent by such wealthy men as the Duponts, among others. Such an investigation likewise will carry an undercurrent of a movement to do away with political Influence of such men as John J. Raskob, former Democratic national chairman, a league director, and Jouett Shouse, former executive chairman of the Democratic national committee and the league president. If that fight gets started It will be a mudsllnglng beauty. So, summarized, the picture resulting from the leagues dinner Is that of a major feud as well as a major political movement because there Is a really bitter fight between personalities In sight as well as the possibilities of a third party movement WILLIAM By UTLEY C. ADVENTURERS CLUB of every twenty of you read this will be killed Injured in a motor vehicle accident within the next five years. This Is based upon the fact that one person out of every hundred was so killed or injured ln 1934 Further conclusions and 1935. would Indicate that, unless you are above the average in safety, one out of four of you will be Injured within 25 years, and one out of five within 20 years. Unless something Is done about ONE ltl irw s t A V-- ' v ' m Hrakemans Jump for Life By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Huntetr. . . . Something Is being done about It, and there Is not a person ln the United States who Is not Invited, even urged, to do his share In pro tectlng his own life and the lives of 125, 000, (XX) other Americans. But first, a little more about the problem America faces . . . Despite early Indications that promised Improvement ln accident prevention, the year 1935 closed with the ghastly toll of deaths In motor vehicle accidents soaring to e mark. There were a new 36,400 traffic deaths, as compared with 86,101 for the previous year, 1934. From 1933 to 1934 these deaths hideous, painful, messy deaths, most of them Increased 15 per cent Snuffs Out Lives at Start. In the lust three years more than 10,0000 children less than fifteen years of age went to their untimely thoudeaths ln traffic accidents sands more will never play ball, dance, write, read, or be able to pursue successfully the happiness that Is every Americans right, because they have been crippled or blinded or cruelly cut up. What may come as a surprise to some Is that fatal motor accidents In rural districts lead those In the cities by a wide margin. In 1934, 60 per cent of all such fatalities occurred In the rural districts, and the figure swelled to 63 per cent ln ' j lx lyy r 4 i V? i'' ',i IfevX' s j V'r , yn. all-tim- 1935. What to do about It? Perhaps we might take a lesson from the railroads. In the early days they im ft U II M W 1 U 14 U pare In fatal traffic accidents were the devil la-g- he today, and I would advise you all to take a good, deep breath before Is he before time a It be to long because holding going starts, youre finished. Norman became a railroad brakeman Just about the time the United States entered the World war. Those were the days when men were running for the recruiting stations, all the and sixteen-year-olkids, like Norman wae then, were being dragged out of high school to fill their Jobs. He worked two or three year on that brakeman Job and did it darned well. But It wasnt until February, 1918, that he ran Into the adventure on which he is now going to give us the lowdown. It was late at night and'the train Norman was braking had Just hill at Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Norman had started down a nine-milover the back top of the train to set up air retainers on the 10 Just gone cars nearest the engine and he was on his way back when his lantern went out, leaving him to travel the tops of the cars ln darkness. able-bodie- d d Smashups on rural highway caused 63 per cent of the 36,400 traffio deaths during 1935. Below a typical accident scene are shown W. W. Cameron (left), managing director of the National Safety Council, and Dr. C. H. Watson, president, signing resolution starting campaign to cut fatal motor vehicle accidents 35 per cent by 1940. ln the final analysis the reaching of the goal lies with the Individual. An Educational Campaign. For the very reason that It IS individual acceptance which can make or break the campaign, It will be largely an educational one. It will be localized for each state, and for virtually each city, maintaining cooperation with public officials, traffic safety leaders, safety groups, educational heads, civic organizations and Individuals. It ts planned much of the existing to safety effort along lines which will make that effort permanent and consistent, rather than spasmodic. New ways of appealing to the Individual motorist, to arouse a sense of responsibility and sportsmanship, are being sought State-widschool programs are being started. Organizations, under the leadership of the National Safety Council, will urge the adoption of uniform laws, Including standard drivers license legislation, and adequate administration of bodies. They will attempt to standardize accident reports, provide for more complete statistics and their interpretation. One of the important steps will be to make available to the country at large the engineering and educational technique of the states and cities now doing outstanding work. The National Safety Connell will place eight field men In key points of the United States to the work. Booklets, written In popular style and explaining the methods of successful campaigns along engineering, enforcement and educational lines, will be prepared for nationwide distribution. Services to newspapers will be Improved and expanded. Only Five States Still Out As this Is written 43 states and the District of Columbia have endorsed the campaign and pledged Ex- their wholehearted support e How cities and rural highways com v fellow adventurers, and meet the new GATHER ofaround, the club. He is Norman E. Spencer, and don t bother wheeling out that big, comfortable easy chair for Norman, because he isnt used to that sort of thing. If you wrant to make him feel right at home, just let him hang by his knees from the chandelier. For Norman is a railroad brakeman and, from the looks of his story, railroad braketnen must spend most of their time dangling by one hand or one leg, or one eyelash, our several assorted kinds of certain death. us about Apyway, It Is that sort of experience Norman Is going to tell 1. c Dnlo - 3 of called instrumentalities Wreck after himself. wreck ghastly and deadly threatened the very life of the roads. They had to do something. They did. They set a definite Congress frequently goes off on a tangent In which It will set about goal of safety, of lives saved, which exposing this or they were determined to reach. that or the other They installed better rolling stock, Digging the prac- better roadways, Improved personamong Up Secrets tices of private nel and safety devices. They edtheir employees. They business. Id the last several years ucated It has been particularly active In reached It What that goal was exposing to public view secrets of mathematically, Is purposely left out, because It doesnt matter. What corporations and Individual representatives and senators have blown "(Soes matter Is that the railroads established a definite objective and off much steam concerning salaries paid business executives and they refused to give np until It was have directed Criticism at private attained. America has under way today Just business as well for some of Its such a campaign to reach a defiother expenditures. NATALITIES ar" nite objective. The war to save A few years ago Senator Norris coUiixon with. of Nebraska, among others, spoke Uvea started January 1, and it is at great length In criticism of our being conducted by the National 33 Safety Council, with the governments diplomatic service be- PEDESTRIAN of Industries and federal, state, cause of the salaries paid and the expenditures allowed for operation county and city governments. of our foreign diplomatic offices. Would Save 38,000 Lives. 67 The Norris attack apparently did vs This is a war to SAVE lives, not considerable damage to the diploto destroy them. If It ghts the comatic service because It made operation of the American people, V-- many callable men fearful of enterIt will save 88,000. The definite ing that field where highly trained is a 35 reduction of cent OTHER goal per men are necessary. ln motor vehicle deaths by the end rMOTOR VEHICLE But all of the time during which of 1940. criticisms have been leveled at priIn the National Safety Councils vate business on account of sala campaign 36,400 motor deaths, the FIXED OBJECT rles paid business executives and total for 1935, Is taken as par. OTHER VEHICLE because of other expenses, the sen Duflng the first year of the drive ate Itself has beeD going ahead from (the present year) the goal Is a reyear to year using taxpayers money duction of 7 per cent ln the numCITIIS to suit Its own purposes. For In- ber of these deaths, an actual savstance. Col. Edwin A. Halsey, secing of 2,548 lives, leaving a total of Deaths caused by various types retary of the senate, lately has 33,852 deaths for the year 1936. motor vehicle accidents In cities of covmade public his annual report The records of many cities and and on rural highways. It and shows senate operation ering states during the past year Justifies that the taxpayers' money to the exthe belief that the goal can be ob- ecutlves of the National Safety tent of $.'t.2!K1.852 had been spent tained, says a Council expect to have all 48 states report of the Counfor maintenance of that one branch cil If a dozen states can reduce behind the drive within the next of congress There are 90 senators, their fatalities all the way from 7 few weeks. each of whom has an office staff; to 23 per cent In a Some of the things already acyear when the there are some 30 odd committees average was going up, as It was complished by the drive, even In Its In operation, each with a staff, and InRt year, othpr states should be present Infancy, make an Imposing there Is the regular senate organable to effect substantial reductions list: ization with a large personnel. ConIn Maine, the system of standby nslng the same Intelligent accisequently, salaries alone take up dent prevention methods ard accident reporting is being proa considerable chunk of the total The tools for accident preven- moted. outlay, but Colonel Halsey's report tion are at hand, as will be shown Governor Wilbur L. Cr.oss, of Con disclosed that general contingent One of the chief has appointed a Com nectleut, facing problems expenses" of the senate had eaten such a drive Is organization In mlttee of Seventeen" to carry on up $701,000. Included In this total areas of scattered It Is a safety crusade of contingent expenses" was aD not so difficult to population A hill has been introduced ln the cement and unify Item of $.'!.( KK) for the cost of senNew York legislature to create of civic organizations the Interest ate Investigations In the last year. where there are masses of "Board of Safety First." Almost half of this amount was . Arnold Vey, Traffic Engineer people, as there are In the cities used by the munitions Investigation But It Is In rural districts that 63 In the New Jersey department of committee headed by Senator Nye, per cent of the fatal accidents nr m it r vehicles, litis just submitted Republican of North Dakota, who cur. True, much of the correctlxe piniosed constitutions and hy laws of critilately was made the subject work for these districts can tie ad for the New Jersey Safety CounelL cism on the senate floor because of Governor A. B Chandler of Kei Blnlstered from state capitals tint attitude. his committee's e Waon , e tucky has delegated the adjutant One Little Slip Might Cost Legs or Life. general to formulate a statewide mansafety program. Picking his way back carefully over the swaying car tops he Indiana has started a $100,000 aged to get back to the first car. But when he came to Jump from the WPA safety campaign. front car to the engine tender he hesitated. The gap was wider there In Y. A. Assists N. Michigan. Governor F. D. Fitzgerald, of Michigan, has appointed a State Safety Council and plans are under way for the expenditure of $40,000 ln National Youth Administration funds to conduct a safety project A state safety director Is to be appointed Immediately in Wisconsin. The newly organized Iowa Safety Council Is already making considerable headway. Safety Director Asher Frank, ot Florida, recently conducted a two-da- y state-wid- e safety conference. A permanent state safety commission Is being formed In Oklahoma, growing out of a three Norman Took His Time About Gauging That Jump. months highway safety campaign. A state safety director has been than It was between the cars and the unsteady light that came from the appointed In Nebraska. firebox of the engine cast moving shadows that made It hard to Judge state-widNew Mexico plans a the distance. safety conference. Norman took his time about gauging that last Jump, but luck PennCalifornia, Massachusetts, that night was running against him. For, at the same instant that sylvania. Delaware, Illinois, Minnehis feet left the end of the car, the engineer opened the throttle sota, Kansas, and other states are up wide. The train leaped forward, ruining Norman carefully at work on safety programs. timed leap, and down he went between the engine and the ear, The campaign should not only headed for certain death beneath the wheels, save lives; It should materially delie fell feet hrst. Like a drowning man, he says, I was grabbing crease the number of Injuries. More than a quarter of a million persons at anything I could get hold of. I guess It wasnt my time yet, for somelast year escaped with their lives how I managed to get one hand on a small chain that runs down the from traffic accidents, but bore the back of the tank to the coupler. And there I hung, with my feet and marks of Injury. More than 150, legs dragging on the ties, my body sort of stretched out by the speed of to the train and the pull of the ties as my legs rubbed against them. will be crippled 000, however, the end of their days. Norman Struggles Inches From Doom. Suggestions From Harvard. "My feet were only Inches away from the wheels of the front car Doctor Miller Mcdlntock of Harand I knew that any sudden lurch of the train would throw my feet right vard university says accidents are under them. I tried to pull myself up on the chain, but every time I caused by four types of conflicts gained a few Inches away from the wheels of the front car the friction on the highways regardless of speed of the ties would pull me right back again." (which affects only the severity of It coytd have been only a few seconds that Norman wai the accident). They are: struggling with that chain, but it eeemed like hours to him before 1. Overlaps In the paths of apIt was over. Time and again he would pull himself up almost to collisproaching vehicles head-othe point where he could get hold of something more solid and ions, etc. rigid than that chain only to become exhausted and fall back 2. Overlaps between the moving again. Finally he got hold of an iron bar that crossed the back vehicles and objects at side of road of the engine tender, put still his troubles weren't over. He had Impact with parked cars, bridge literally to chin himself on this bar and at the same timi edge abutments, etc. himself over to the right in order to get to a ladder that ran down 3. Intersection accidents. the back of the tender. 4. Internal stream conflict due It was a feat that called for the trained muscles of an acrobat, but to the difference In speeds of veNorman bad to do It or die. And, to make matters worse, the train at hicles moving ln same direction. that point roared Into the tunnel just east of Harper's Ferry and he was Overcoming the Difficulties. all but stifled with the smoke and heat and steam that poured back on The proper highway would overhim from the engine. He bad to hang on ln that difficult position until, come all four of these basic diffat last, the train shot out of the tunnel before he dared try to edge his iculties, says Doctor McClintock. Its way any farther along the bar. requirements would be; Norman Climbs His Tallest Ladder for Life. . 1. Physical separation of the two Once the train was out ln the open again he started his slow, difficult streams of traffic moving In opposite directions. The new roads with Journey. Inch by Inch he worked his way across the bar, while his musto give out on him. At length, though, ho parkways down the middle meet cles ached and threatened cn ladder the side of the tender and began to climb to the It made got this requirement 2. Traffic lanes reserved for movup. Never before, and never since, has that ladder seemed so long as tired and aching muscles that night When, finally,! ing vehicles only. There would be It did to Normans be got to the top of the tender be lay down flat on bis back. no parking. I 3. No grade crossings for any just lay there, he says, and looked at the stars. And I know they were never more lovely. When I got back Into he cab type of Intersectional traffic. 4. Sufficient number of lanes for the engineer remarked that It had taken me a long time, and I the segregation of fast and slow ve didnt say a word. It wasnt until we had got to the yards and the hides and provision for accelera rest of the crew and I cleaned up and were about to have sometlon and deceleration lanes. thing to eat that the reaction set In. I trembled so then that the Of more Immediate Importance other fellows thought I had a chill and gave me a big horker of are the clarification and enforcewhisky. 'Just for safety's sake, they said. But I thought to myment of existing safety codes, esself that I should have had that hooker an hour ago, the other side of Harpers Ferry." pecially as they concern the IndiServio. vidual who is not likely to be working directly with one of the organizations engaged In the campaign. act as Insulators. The temperature The battle can be won." says Bees Cluster Together at the outside ring of the cluster Is M. W. t'anieron, managing director and Generate Own Heal maintained at an approximate temof the National Safety Council, If During the cold months of winof 57 degrees Fahrenheit perature every person will take It upon himter, conditions within the beehive throughout the winter. This cluster self to drive carefully, keeping his are entirely different from wdiat of bees moves from place to place eyes on the road and his mind on they are In summer. In a normal within the hive, always keeping In his driving; obey the laws and supcolony drones are not present and contact with the food supply and officials; main- no brood rearing Is In process. As the cluster does not break again port tain a safe speed at all times; keep the winter approaches and temperauntil outside temperatures rise high tits car In a safe condition; observs tures drop to around GO degrees enough for bee flight. the rights of plestrlans and chilFahrenheit the bees cluster tightly Unlike their close relations, the dren; be courteous and sportsmanl- together Into one big ball with the bumble bees and wasps, the honeyike. and set a good example to queen at the center. At temperabee workers survive the long winothers." tures below 57 degrees the bees at ter months. It Is only the ImpregThat's the challenge. It's up U the center of the cluster generate nated of the wild species the Individual heat by muscular activity, while that live through the winter. C Wotara KmnM TVSaa. those on the outside of the cluster Montreal Herald. e n s uni? - , |