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Show --4 PAGE TWO PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST - 7, 1939 Liberty.' through ail the Jand" T& Liberty EDaily.:; Herald' 'U' ' - ' - .'V. ' , , - I w Cert Afternoon (Excepting. B&tnrday) and Sunday Morning . . Published by the Herald Corporation, BO Bontb VI mt West Street. Provo, Utah. . Entered as aecond flku mttr at the poatofflee In ProTO, Utah, under the net of March I.187. Oilman. Nlcol A Ruthman, National Adrertlalna; representatives. New York, Kan Franclaco, Detroit, Ronton, lxa Angeles, Chicago. - -s reaiurci ana in ocnppi iiwgu j ( nwrvojii. Subscription terms by. carrier , In Utah county, CO cents the month. S3.00 for six months. In advance: 15.75 th rear. In advance; by mall In county. Ifc.OO;' outaiae county 95. 7b tbe year in aaanc. , By WILLIAMS T 4-1 The f Herald , will not assume' financial TMponelblllty for : ny puDiispea in i. coi- ia at lauii, ! w wiu erron which may appear Jn advartliementi umna. In thoea lnatancea where the ' nanar reprint! that part of the-advertisement In which the typorrapb ical mistake oocuri -T" We Expect Much, tiitt We Give Little We expect a great-deal from government. We expect it to maintain order, to protect our property, to, maintain friendly ye advantageous 1 relations with other- countries. We expect it to feed us if we're broke, to provide work for us if we're jobless, ta saviour business from bankruptcy .with timely loans, to promote in general better conditions. of life. ; ' ' V ' " ' -""r We expect all those things aid a lot more. What do we give? Well, we give the taxes we pay consciously or unconsciously, un-consciously, and, we vote (some of us) every year or so. At election time, we may even give a few moments to reading the papers or listening to speeches to find out what goes on in public affairs. By and large, most people contribute no direct time or effort to making democratic government work. Such contributions con-tributions as we domake is usually confined to criticism of those who are giving their timemake it work, yhom we lump under the name of "politicians." Jn fact, the pitifully small attention given by the average person to public matters is well shown by a recent survey made by two Harvard professors. Ttyeir findings are shown in an article, "Where Does Your Day Go?" in Every Week Magazine.. They arranged for 103 persons to record in detail de-tail how they spent the;1440 minutes of each day. So much for sleep (about eighf hours and 24 minutes, by the way), so much for gating, working, transportation, and so on. And the amount of time devoted to civic and political activities was found to be no more than it takes to pronounce the four words themselves. Only about one-tenth of 1 per cent of the people queried had any such activities whatsoever, . In Germany, everyone puts in certain time at the service of; the state. Spain has now instituted such a regime 15 days a year, hot or cold. Countries of that stripe are insisting insist-ing on arievy of public service, or service to the general interest inter-est of alivi- v We don't want that here. The democratic way is to accept voluntary service to the republic in matters of general interest. That's what the word republic means. It derives from res publicae, Latin for "the public business. Yet for this public business, the average American has no timei not even the time to be well informed about it. His only interest usually is to squawk about how it is dongjby those who do take an interest. If you doubt it, just try organizing a committee among your friends for some public purpose, and see how many will actually lend an active hand. Yet the very genius of democracy is the voluntary acceptance of, t gese t is when they are not accepted that a man 'conies riafrig Along on Tiorsehack itncf say2!, OkaJrf I. , AT. TT T J Ji. I' President Roosevelt left Washington temporarily to attend at-tend a clambake. He no doubt reasoned that a clam's shell is , easier to break than that of a congressman. y - ' A An inventor sues his wife for divorce on grounds of cruel- ty. lie moaestiy aamits tnat nis inventions are notning com- pared to her inventions for plaguing him. OUT . OUR WAY f ' f IT OU5HT-R3BE Z fir, ,-V.H- ,-: : "i ; I 1 EASY TO FIMD " y Ji..Atu - & h . THAT PICKLE , ; t . . (1 n : S h k A RELISH "THERE'S j'0ffz , rj ,: ( 't,, h U hi v'l"1 iJjSEET'- cxJKiM tinKty yfexs w . v as ar. ft b cat astsV - "T M CoV. 1M SV NCA SEftVlgr. INC.;- P f Slap By Labor Arbitrator Hurts Bridges Most The 1 Washington Louisiana Of Merry-Co-Rouhd's Exposure Politics A Doubly Historic Feat One of the most resourceful, brilliant and consequential feats of rhodern American Journalism is that of Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen in exposing in their "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column political conditions condi-tions in Louisiana. Readers of the Daily Herald, in which "The Washington Merry-Go-Round" appears, inay find it interesting to glance' back over t'h3 step-by-step record of what Pearson and. Allen wrote and what happened thereafter. Here are he highlights: The first L-ouisiana column that Drew Pearson and .Bob Allen Al-len wrote in the Merry-Go-Round pointed an accusing finger at George Caldwell, construction superintendent of Louisiana University Uni-versity ; at E. N. Jackson,xits business manager; and at James Marshall, WPA foreman. AO of them are now either in jail or out- on bail. Governor Leche, on whose propertyPearson; and Allen said WPA materials were used, has resigned. The system of deducting five per cent from state salaries another part of the Pearson-Allen , expose is a present subject of Federal in vestigation. The Merry-Go-Round quickly followed up this first bomb shell with others. Seymour Weiss was singled out on July 13 as one of the behind-thescene figures in the scandal and as having been implicated in the Bienville Coliinjnist Expose Louisiana Graft f V N vv I 1 ( t . " .r J i -. ? C : X. hotel deal with Dr. James Mon roe Smith. Four days later .Wjeiss was indicted for activities in .the affair. The Merry-Go-Round was the first to point out that "hot oil might prove another bombshell" in New Orleans. This story was Written on July 3, Other newspapermen news-papermen rushed to Louisiana by big dailies have since jumped on the story. The Merry-Go-Round also led the field in disclosing, that John Rogge, new Assistant Attorney General, wsa probing into many many , more tmngs in the graftr ridden State' of Louisiana than those you read about in the newspapers." The column named nam-ed flection frauds, hot oil,, forg-Ing forg-Ing of names on unempolyment compensation rolls. This story came on July 3 and it was not until July 17 that papers throughout the country featured Rogge's: flying trip to Baton Rouges , to confer with batteries bat-teries torgcrvernment .agents0 who4 ' had concentrated in Louisiana. Few correspondents realized, until un-til mid-July how hot. th Louisiana Louis-iana situation as. getting. But as early as June 30 Pearson and Allen announced: ,flt the, Federal Government really rolls up its sleeves acsl investigates Louisiana it will find a situation which makes Tammany Tam-many or Pendergast look like peanut-pushing politicians." . . Perhaps it was this Merry-Go- Round prodding which induced the Federal Government to send ; G Men,' income tax investigators, narcotics and hot oil agents on to Louisiana ; ' v -t" The whole job that Pearson and Allen have done has been historic, his-toric, both as a journalistic achievement ach-ievement and in its political consequences. BRIGHT MOMENTS In Great Lives" Thomas Corwin, the Ohio senator sen-ator who served as secretary of the treasury under President Fillmore, was one day speaking to a young and promising politician poli-tician whom he. had heard joking jok-ing with the crowd. To the young man he saldi "Donft joke, my boy. Tou should always remember that the crowd looks up to the ringmaster and down . to the clown. The clown is the more cleverlfellow of the "two, but he is despised. Ifdu Jwould ' Succeed lnJif you must be solemn, solemn as Vn ass. All the great monuments on earth have been built over solemn asses." By BRUCE CATTON Ptoao Herald Washington ? Correspondent . i WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 The most interesting thing that has happened to Harry Bridges lately, in the opinion of people at the capital who keep tabs on the fiery west "; coast ! labor leader, is not the deportation proceedings now being prosecuted against him, but the action of an arbitrator in slapping slap-ping down his longshoremen's union for refusing to pass a Los Angeles harbor picket line. ; ' Mixed up in the case are (a) Bridges activities as a radical agi-tar agi-tar tor rather than as a labor leader, lead-er, and (b) "a foretaste of the scrap which is due to break in September when V Bridges' f west coast contract with the waterfront water-front employers comes up for re? newal. ; Practically no one in Washington" Washing-ton" expects" the government to succeed in proving that Bridges is a member of the Communist party and hence liabale; to deportation; but by - the same token, '. no one doubts that Bridges is an earnest and willing -"fellow traveler" ' which is what makes the Loa Angeles: An-geles: case interesting. Order Suspensions " -1 LastvMay the Japanese steamer Meiu Maru was being loaded with scrap iron , at a wharf " in San Pedro During ' the noon lunch cmnese sympatmzers threw a picket" line across ' the wharf in protest. ' Sixty-one ' longshoremen refused to pass through the picket wie. and resume loading the ship. The Waterfront Employers Asso ciation-cited this an an : illegal stoppage of work and demanded that i the union' discipline the re calcitrant longshoremen. - J Under the coastwide contract between longshoremen and em ployers, disputes which cannot be settled ootherwise go before an ar bitrator, named at the beginning of the contract year by the Secre tary of Labor Arbitrator for the Los Angeles-Sa'n Diego district' is presently, came this case of the Meiu ; Maru, the picket line, and the longshoremen. Stalmaster has finally ruled that this stoppage of . the. work was il legal under the terms of the con tract and that the men-involved must be punished by one week's suspension from the union's hiring hir-ing hall lists. . In his report Stal master said! " What, at first seemed to be only the action of a few longshoremen longshore-men individually violating the basic agreement now develops to be action approved, by the union leadership. Thele is evidence of a consistent and studied effort to sanction illegal stoppages where demonstration picket lines are in volved y ;. : - If. If. The Longshoremen's Union . is now. Charging Stalmaster; -with bias 'and demanding his removal by Secretary Perkins which it won't get, the secretary taking the position that Stalmaster was appointed ap-pointed last fall for the life of the contract. Meanwhile, Labor Department De-partment officials remark:- That Bridges' men have repeatedly repeat-edly ? passed . through picket lines set up by Sailors Union Harry Lundberg, when their contract called on them to do so; that Bridges , himself is as. much re sponsible v as ; anyone for the appearance ap-pearance : ; of the . ; anti-Japanese picket . line in ; the first place, and that hence the union s claim that the longshoremen would endanger their lives by passing through the picket " line does not hold very much water; and that earlier this year Bridges told a Stanford Uni- versity audience that his union had "taken the lead" in demonstrations demon-strations against Fascist, nations and had "slapped an economic boycott boy-cott against shipments of munitions muni-tions to . Japan." The, point of all this, as they see it, is that if . this precedent stand3 if refusals to pass "demonstration" "dem-onstration" picket lines are accepted ac-cepted . as contract violations Bridges' activities as a radical " leader ,will be sharply circumscribed circum-scribed henceforth. ' - Meanwhile, both employes and longshoremen are getting ready for the contract renewal in September.- An unusually bitter fight is in prospect and it will be complicated still further , by the action of Bridges' union in announcing an-nouncing its refusal to abide by the arbitrator's finding in the San Pedro case. Early Galifdrhia Bandits Revedlecl as Lone Rovers " 'NEW YORK (American Wire) Robbery today is a business; a business involving" fast cars, machine guns, and such mechanical devices. Once it was different, as Joseph Henry Jackson, famous San Francisco Fran-cisco literary '.light and authority on old California days,' reveals in his fascinating new volume," "Tin types in Gold," (Macmillatn Co.), a careful analysis of the careers of four early California bandits. Most famous and interesting of these was Black Bart, who robbed stages and left insulting poetry behind. be-hind. - r-r, -h'Y VSV Obtained ?S0O ' His most famous poem was left by the,1 bandit,, who wore a flour e&ck over 1 his head,' after he robbed, the Wells Fargo box which was being carried on a stage along the Russian river. ' - ' It was on August 3, 1877, that he obtained $300 in coin, and left behind the following poem: Tve - labored long and : -, hard for bread, - . . For honor and for riches, ; But on my corns too long ' you've tred w .' (The last line Is unprint- . table.y . "- ' The handit2 signed the verso "Elack Bart, the P08," that being his pun for 'poet . - For years, this most annoying bandit roamed California.' He stole constantly from the stages, but ha never fifed a. shot, or harmed any individual. ' ' - y " v - ' t'i0 ;"".'"FlnaIy Captured ; . . Ills' career' started in 1875 before be-fore the famous poem and ended in 1883 He' was finally' captured, when the express company bolted the treasure box to the stage, and Bart waited too long, trying .to open It. He was found to be a studious San - Francisco man, named -C. E. Bolton. He confessedand con-fessedand tho he had committed 28 armed stage robberies, was let out of San Quentin in a ' little more than four years! Thereafter, Black Bart, most famous western bandit, quietly, disappeared forever. for-ever. - . - , Larson Speaker fo Aspen Grove ASPEN GROVEMany master pieces of art have had their inspiration in-spiration in the Holy Bible, it was declared by B, F. Larsen. Brlgham Young university professor of art, in rua sermon .at the Sunday . eve ning services held at Aspen. Grove, and events of the scriptures Pro fessor Larsen told his audience that the finest artistic experiences of the past were connected with religion. V . ". A vocal duet was given by San-ford San-ford Bingham of American Fork and Maxine Nicholea of Provo. X In the Sunday school held Sun-, la-r morning, the adult class heard a talk by .Dr. A. C Lambert, dean of the summer session. . : The Sunday services were held in the Alpine summer school aSTJmder direction of Dr. -Wayne B. sembly hall. Referring to a number or the great masters who portrayed on the canvas- the notable, characters Hales, member of the Y. Ui faculty and of the general board of the 'Young Men's Mutual Improvement Im-provement association. - . Jupiter is the largest of the planets, .with a diameter of 86,720 miles, whichis' about 11 times that of the earth. For every square rnlle of surface on our own earth, Jupiter has -120 square miles. Child Must Be Educaied to Rely Upon Itself Early 49 Cini.B TRAINING x A frequent source of irritation ih f amilyJife is di agreement of the parents over .the strategy of child training. train-ing. Such irritation is likely to be reflected in the char- acter ot tne cmia ana to con- mm f ... J stitute a handicap in life. Tne science of ehild training train-ing is a comparatively new science and one that has not been sufficiently explored ex-plored by parents and prospective pros-pective parents. Cer tai n positive results have" been attained thru experiment and studyresults that serve as a guide to intelligent intelli-gent training of the growing grow-ing ehilrl: It is unfortunate that modern life tends to reKeve the father of . a great deal of tlie' mutual responsibility of bringing up . youngsters. When this task falls on the mother4donef the .father; sometimes 'comes into-the pic-ture pic-ture only long enough to misunderstand and to criticise the mother's methods and accomplishments. -.-;-- Modern mothersfwho study child training seriously have , not only the hild to contend with but . the other parent who - has" not had time to look into the- subject and vaguely feels-that the good old-fashioned methods are not being pursued. ' , ' . There have been many recent improvements on the "good old-fashioned methods,1' and a working knoivl- edge of these improvements can do lvonders for the Child. " y X ! . JlZ4r! ..-' It must be remembered that as the - child grows older, the simple health safeguards of infancy must he expanded into -a-.program' designed to include all the complex needs' V of the developing personality. ; Mental health, emotional . health are . important; too; - And here tfie program must cease to be, merely a negative "preventive routine, but it .must contain positive training which .bends the twigs into the shape of the tree. .- , ; - . . As early as possible,, the child must be taught to rely .upon itself.' Simply, shielding' it from - the problems of -v life i does it no ; good. The child-training , program must -.be one that puts increasing responsibility onto; the child, that develops self-reliance, self-confidence, that increasingly increas-ingly fits it into" the society of which it must be a part. -From earliest infancy this should be-the goal in the minds of both parents, as the pattern of the child is set solid in the first six years of its life.. A growing child , is the victim of its parents' clumsiness or the happy prod-, -uct of its parents skill-and 'increasingly so intoma- vSERIALTORYsf?WJ BORDER ADVENTURE - BY OREN ARNOLD COPYRIGHT. 1939, "NCA SCRV1CC, INC. Teatrrdari Tlie "abmarlae' mmrBTllnir i broken and Uarr fa daaKcroaal. mad, Bettr learaa. Nxt, lie la to' tarn to nlien araa arlins;, bat he la angrry eaeosa kUI the f ederala. I : CHAPTER XVII n TOEirTS MjY changed her orig- inal plan When circumstances enabled her to meet Luis Barro in person. . . ' She had thought at first to learn what she could about him through his helper and- agents, using the partridge token vhich had proved so valuable to her. But there were some important details of his bigger big-ger plans which Barro did net tell his Juarez spotters and spies, she had discovered.-1- Of the three or four of his band which she had been able Jo contact confidentially .posing as a member of his band herself not one knew just what rUght.he planned to make the crossing with his large number of aliens, nor, where the crossing was to be maMShe i felt that she had to make a desperate effort to learn these essential details, in order to help the American officers, a She decided, therefore, to be even more audacious in her act with Barro, If necessary." She could act very confidential with him and say. that she had five wealthy foreign for-eign friends whom she was anxious anx-ious to have smuggled into the United States. Appealing to him for help, he probably would rise to ' the part and take oh . the Job himself, thus revealing his own plans. In the showdown, she could say that her five friends were delayed de-layed in coming to Juarez, J ' f " Accordingly, she set out to find Barro. ' : v He was not in his suite of hotel rooms; and had left no message. ' He had not been seen for more than 24 hours at El Casino Teco-lote,.the Teco-lote,.the manager there said. The manager there had not responded to her .22 cartridge token, s s .had the manager in The Place of the-Sleeping Monk, but her cart-; cart-; ridge ;'had opened somewhat the .confidence of a Casino waiter. After Aft-er she casually laid.it on her table one ay with her lipstick, the ' waiter also had placed a cartridge beside her menu momentarily; and had always . maneuvered to serve her whenever she-tame in after that. Today she went to his table and spoke to him.' . - "I am anxious to see Luis, soon," she murmured, apparently discussing discuss-ing the menu. "Where can I see him now?" - Yes, miss. ;' With the cheese toasted as usual?" he replied. Then in a lower tone, "Is not in town. Is at his rancho. Want me to send a message?' - "Is it ' fresh cheese waiter? No, I must see him myself.' '. "Very fresh. A new kind. You will love it, miss. You want Garcia Gar-cia to take you out? :fETTY MARY hadn't heard of Garcia... , '- . : v ' Who was he? She deduced, thinking quickly, that he must be another- of '' Barro's henchmen. Probably , a closely trusted, hence dangerous, one.' And yet, he might be extremely valuable to her. She decided to risk it. .- :: . That will be -fine' she nodded knowingly" at the waiter and he went away to fill; her - order for food. When he came with dessert he bowed and spoke again. : "Does the senorita wish anything eIse?--Garcia - will bo near the plaza, the taxicap with red dots on the wheel hub caps. i Within an hotnV .; , "; "No thank you," she smiled at him, and was careful to leave a tip, to mislead any other diners who might be 'watching; ''But it was delicious. . I just adore your Mexican food over hereH 1 j - She had little time, she realized. She went to her hotel room and changed her clothing - to something some-thing a bit heavier and more becoming be-coming than her .artist's smock and floppy hat. Trim "appearance is ever an asset to a woman, : she knew. -She: fluffed one or two curls that had beenlef t tight after aft-er setting, put. on a touch -of lipstick lip-stick that she didn't ' really need and smoothed on a bit of powder. Then she took up her inevitable sketching pencils and pad, which had " served ' so admirably for her front. ' ' v, "" ' Oh impulse she unlocked her suitcase and : took but the- pistol she had purchased in El Paso and had used once to such good advantage.;-Butshe- had no ,way to carry it unseen. It was too large for her' purse," too buky If put un der her. clothing. It loomed awfully aw-fully big in her dainty hand. She shoved it back into the bag and locked it again. - (Later she was to recall that 'act) . j r In" the hallway outside her door she met Carlotta, a maid. - "I shall be gone for a little while," she told the girl. "Just keep my room r ea dy for me. I made two little oil paintings on canvas and hung-them before the window to dry, so don't ' move them, please." ; ' ; . " She ptmctuated it with a smile and a silver American dollar. The maid ' therefore : went into 1 Betty Maryls room immediately, cleaned it but ignored the paintings, even though she dutifully closed the window and drew the shades lest too much dust come in, as per her routine. - . - T3ETTY, MARY found a woman making pottery in the plaza thi3 morning and set down to sketch her from a sidewalk bench. The sketch took about 10 minutes. She tipped the .woman, and ma neuvered to inspect the five or six taxicabs that waited near. Almost at once she espied one driver looking look-ing directly : at her, and with a glance verified the red dots on his wheel hubs. She sauntered tip the walk as if waiting for someone. Then she glanced at .her watch, said, "Oh, dear! and motioned to . her man, At once he pulled near her and opened'his-sedan door. She leaned then to put her right hand over the back of his seat. In 7 her fingers was her .22 cartridge, which he saw instantly. "Can you take ae to the rancho?? she queried. How far is it?" "Yes. Is about five miles, Americano miles.? He reached to slip his meter lever, and his own fingers held a cartridge like hers.. "Luis was terribly upset," fhe ventured next, riding. "Aboutthe submarine." . '' - - , YesN But he will 'laugh last He always does." 4 , "Oh surely. Betty Mary had sudden renewed fears about that, too. . . .. t'-;.-v- .-;..' v Juar is a small city and within a mile they had passed the last residence and "were on the open semi-desert land,- rolling toward some low mountains. - The road was fa rutted dirt trail, although reasonably smooth. ? - -' "I have not been to the rancho before," she told the driver. "I I have served on the olher side mostly." .. ' -. - ."You're helping him in this big ' deal, then?" - ' ' . y I "Oh; yes. ' He needs help, whether wheth-er he realizes it or not." z "He will have 100 or so. , About 50. more have been arranged for the last few days. If they are all armed then to los federales, poof! Is it not so, senorita?" " "Yes, the Border Patrol could hardly cope with so many. There will, uh, be quite a problem on my side, too." 1 "The senorita doubtless is clever. Don Luis has no other kind' of help. Save for this Peralta, who bungled last night. : He shall pay!" "A bungler, she admitted, disdainfully. dis-dainfully. "But sending 100 aliens across the line at once is a darir.g thing to tio, is it not? Even for Luis? Has he settled on a night yet? He wasn't sure, when I taw him. . That was a key question! She " realized ' Luis Barro was planning to send a crowd of aliens over but when and where? Would this taxi driver tell? And, in any event, " what situation would she face at Barro's rancho? There, if ever, she would have some desperate des-perate bluffing to do! "He hasn't said what nicht," said the driver. "But vender's tho rancho, there on the slope. You can ask Lids yourself." (To Be Continued) S. v "r- |