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Show PAGE TWO PnOVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1939 o f ' "Liberty th land" Tfi Llbrt7 Ivtry Afteraoon (Excepting Saturday) and Bunday lorntnj Ius'!hl ty tha Herald Corporation, " It Boctb Ttrrt Weit btret. Provo. Utah. Entered at aecond elaaa mattar at tha ptori!c la Provo, Ltah, under tha act ot JJarci J, 1171. ....... GlL-nan. Slcol Ruthman. National Advertising- rtpra-unutivfi, rtpra-unutivfi, New ""forlc. Saa Krtnclaco, Detroit. Boaton, Lot Ar.selei, Chicago. Member United Press, N. E. A. Servlca. "Wettern Features, the fccnpp i-au of .Newipapera and Audit Buraa ef Circulation. 1 " Subscription term by carrier In Utah county. CO cents tha month. J.0 tor aii months, in advance; ti.Ti tha year, in advance; ty mall in county, l&.Ci; outiida county S.7I t-s J ear ia adranca. Ti. Herald iil not aaauraa financial responsibility for any errors which Ksay appaar In adverUfer-nents pubiuned In Ita columns. Ia thoss Inatancaa whara tea papar 1 at fault. It will reprint Hist. Pr of tha advertlaamant ta whlca the typofrspfilcsj " mists. occurs. Aii Ambassador Talks - -Joseph P. Kennedy is back home for the holidays, and there is so far no evidence that the United States ambassador to England has become unduly Anglicized. Mr. Kennedy appreciates Britain's plight, sympathizes with the Allies but that's as far as he is willing to go. He has not returned to America to' start the bands playing or the flags waving. Frank and undeluded, he said: "There is no. place in this fight for us. It's going to be bad enough as it is." That is our ambassador to England speaking. Few men are as well qualified to inform or to advise us. Mr. Kennedy says there is no reason, economic, social or financial, for our getting; involved, - It's his job to know about such things. It is also his-duty to make suggestions. All right, he has made one. Let's keep it handy in case we ever need to consult con-sult it in i the' days to come. CUT CJR VA Z-j VILLlAl.S Stalin Retracts There, seems to have been some mistake. The Soviet Union wants it known that a recent article in the official Comintern organ, demanding that Romania capitulate to Russian demands, does not reflect the attitude of the government- i yy " " This retraction by the Soviet government is a more eloquent elo-quent tribute.to Finnish heroism inrepulsing invading Reds than any- volume of panegyrics that might be written by a neutral observer. It is hard to believe that Joe Stalin. himself him-self 'was not speaking in the Soviet press ultimatum to Romania. Ro-mania. And, if he Was, it is clear that unforeseen developments develop-ments made him recant. . ' . -' . - ' The unforeseen developments were the tough spirit and dauntless courage, of the Finns. That was something talin had -not counted on. His program for the week probably included in-cluded a sweeping subjugation of Finland and then a quick shift of activities to the Romanian border. Thanks to mighty, little Finland, the Romanians may not heed to face the problem prob-lem of Russia at least not for a while. - Deciding Block-Booking - r When" Congress meets in January, it will be asked to consider a .bill introduced by Representative Matthew D. NeelyV West Virginia Democrat, who would ban block-booking of movies by Hollywood distributors. Advocates of the bill protest that present methods of booking films makes it impossible for theater-managers' to separate the wheat from the cfiaffV .- .- .. ..' " . r:;:;'M: .-'..v- Word is now getting around Washington and.Hollywqod that a certain movie, which panned the legislators,"may have a. lot to .Io. with, the final vote on the Neely. bill. It is said that a lot of. congressmen, who were invited to see the film at a National' Press Club showing, were so burned up over the depiction of congressional life that they have been won over to the Neely bill. : ' i l y.. : . ;, y Without regard for the merits or disadvantages of the bill to bar block-booking, it is to be hoped that the congressmen congress-men won't take a stand one way or the other, On an issue of thjs kind simply because they happen to be sore. After all, it isn't the first time they've taken a publie ribbing. That's one of the things they get $10,000 a year for. - - ... Not So Many Baths , J : . It is not necessary now, Americans learn, to take a daily-bath daily-bath in winter. In fact, it's better not to. Dr. Morris Fish-hem, Fish-hem, editor of a daily newspaper column, says a couple of bath's' a week'are'siifficleht. .Jn Jersey City, N; J.; Dr. Fish-be Fish-be in's recommendation recently-won-'support when the water commissioner urged residents to take only one bath' a' week to conserve water. . . . ; . ... " : . thT . Conservation" of water Js not the doctor's reason for advising ad-vising fewer-baths. Too much bathing in winter," he pointed out, is not good for the skin. Other physicians have recently come to his support in urging over-fastidious folks ,tq spend less time in the baththub. and beneath showers. ' - - ; Toxitizens below the -age of 12, this news is aslgratify-ing aslgratify-ing as the rumor that the circus is coming to town. To many of them Tfvill provide potent propaganda against parental suggestions that the weekly bathing programrmight profitably profit-ably be expanded from the conventional Saturday night rou- j tine. . " V IT'S A EIAUTIFUL CREATIQM, ALLY VtH Afsl GIVE NC "THT 1 RIGHT FIR. ST TH1N53 YOU J I JTCZ- A CHAMCG ( WOULDN'T J I KNJOW THBY'l-l. HAVH TO B3COMS A WOSK I 01i2 ON 'EM SAY1NJ' "CUMPGS DY V f STACIAW' GIT ) COULOM'T 4ttl J MIKE LEAR.Y, HUB CAPS BY J I PROMOTED FROM AFFORJ TO -V JOE JULOSKi; AW' SOCfj; V HU3 CXPS TO SEWD FAW3 S is, UKE TH' MOVIE PICTURES, , EUMPER3 WITH HIS PHOTO 4ff iSi AM' GIVE TH' MECHAM ICS J I A SALARY RAISE OR. AUTOGRAPH rt V- A LITTLE PUBLICITY J OF SO CEMTS A OM THAT " T ' A:WEErC -jr- ' y rv? iN SZU( Piff J THE UMSUNJG ARTISTS COPR. BY NEA PERVtCr. rXC. T. M. PFC. V 9. PT. QPP. Heavy Budget Slashes Face New Deal Agencies for 1 940 FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia' . COP8. 19J9 iV NEA tnt INC. T HDCG. tt . PAT '.' j -:J j' yTJ??gTyf "'r'l A hat! well it serves me right. If I hadn't peeked, it mijrhta been something I wanted for Christmas. ' By BRUCE CATTON ' - Daily Herald Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 The heaviest . budget-cutting yet seen under the New Deal is now being worked put between the White House: and the budget director, according to reliable sources with- in the administration. y y President Roosevelt wasn't fooling fool-ing when he said he was going 'to slash' expenditures next year; The blue-penciling'; now going on is raising howls of anguish all over town. 1 Savings contemplated are said to run to hundreds of millions, mil-lions, with some of the - most s'acrament of New Deal "pets" feeling the ax heavily. ' " - " , ........ r . "As an indication .that the' Presi dent is readly "determined to cut, it is reported that even : the Civilian Civil-ian Conservation . Corps- apple - of the i President s eye, and one of the most' widely-praised of all New Deal agencies-ia going to take a substantial slash. . ... NYA, FSA," Both to 'Suf fe , . "Another New Deal favorite is the National Youth i Administration,- which -has $100,000,000 to operate on this year.' Reports are that it is going to .have to get along on $70,000,00anext. The Farm - Security Administration, which got $198,000,000 -this ;yearv has been warned to expect a reduction reduc-tion tq about $125,000,000. i WPA, . spending '$1,477,000,000 this year, is also said 'to be in line for a slash, although the extent ex-tent of the projected cut is not known. . , Foresee. Cuts In Aid, Grants i Grants-in-aid made . under the j Social Security board , sums al- loiceo to ine scaiesior, oia age assistance,- aid ,.to ,;the .blind.rand allotments . for dependent : children are expected ito .be reduced Iby 10 per cent.,, For those grants, this year, therejwas appropriated $278,- 000,000 . -i. .:. y z v It is not . the i only emergency bureaus and agencies that '' are affected. af-fected. Budgets - for the ; regular departments are also being pruned heavily r a common question 'among under officials in . the departments these days is, "How in the world are we gcingto operate next year ? "indicating at ' least that the'.W6rd has gone"' out. that some ruthless cutting is to "be done. ; ; Even such ' organizations as the old-line ' research ..bureaus in,, the Department of Agriculture for instance, in-stance, have been, warned, .to ex pect reductions, and to plan the next year's ; work on the . basis ol compieting. all projects tiow under way but not to- start any. new ones. . One report has it, that such- bureaus bu-reaus are slated - to- receive ; less than in -any year (since -pre-New Deal . days,.,.. Incidentally,, -t certain "career". men;. who. have been; in service since .before the. New.- Deal take such reports , so. seriously that they are now . quietly, looking for -jobs elsewhere. Source; Eliminates. Chance ; To-Squawk --i One thing that adds to -the pessimism pes-simism of the various bureau and department people is the fact'that if these reductiins aremade by the White - House they- wpn't -bc able to squawk. When Congress proposes to slash, the appropriation appropria-tion for a -given department or agency, the officials involved can issue statements protesting that their essenUal work will be ruined. But if the President ', proposes the cuts, ' no one dares to say a word. ... How far it will go is a question. Next year is an election year, and there is a tendency here to . look on "-these -reductions as campaign material. It is even suggested that they can be nullified by the simple process of having bureaus and departments, de-partments, simply . ,go ahead- and spend their whole year's appropriation appro-priation -in .-the first six or eight months,. . trusting; to a "deficiency appropriation rwhlch . would be voted after the election was over to. make up the difference. - Congress can checkmate that very easily, , however, , by ; stipulating stipulat-ing -the rate per month at ' which each appropriation may be spent. If it actually votes the reductions, and ... doubts the administration's willngness to abide .by, the. result, it will probably do just that. ; - ODDITIES IN I ! THE NEWS SAD NEWS WASHINGTON It's kind ' of touch to bring; this up less, than two veeks before Christmas,; but fourth ; quarter installment payments pay-ments on incomes taxes' are due today. . 1 . SANTA CLAUS - SEATTLE Christmas is ho fun unless you can share it with chil dren, Edward .M. Rail said today as he pointed to 7,000. sacks and boxes of candy he .will nresent to any . child who comes to his store or even writes him a. postal card.' '.There's . no catch to it," said Rail,; who is 56. "I like kids, tnais an. l like to make 'em happy because I remember a free turkey dinner I got. in . Denver when I, was. a 14-year-old . orphan and had just climbed off a frieght train." ' War Developments 1 ' f S TONtA . . ' 11,1 ' Latest- developments in the war against Finland as shows in this map i includes:, . 1. Finn. . troops wage counter offensive recaptur ing. iSaiias . as Red troops attempt to. cut the country- in two. 2 Finns counter-attack on. Karelian isthmus. 3--Finn reinforcements sent tcv Petsama. area, to- try .to halt Reds from joimngi forces. SAVE THIS COUPON Standard - American - Encyclopedia ' ' t 15 - Great Modern Volumes Sv of these- coupons a c h differently numbered r!u ' tha racial rift-prlce f thl offer entitle en-title you to on volume' of tho .16--volume standard American Encyclopedia. Encyclo-pedia. Books may be obtained a tb l?J'r. Herald, Proyo v v ,.j, i. Craxiium Crackers ; WORLD S KNOWLEDGE , Man ': has learned a lot since Adam's day; and . the . knowledge is; all ; neatly.' categorized, under hundreds - '. of - , scientific' ' terms. Match up-, the definitions given be low with 'the proper term, y ;. : : 1. The hypothesis that traits of character are reflected in forma tion of the: skull: (a) archeology, (b) anthropology, (c) phrenology, (d) sistology. , f y. 2. , Collection , and study of stamps: (a) biology, (b) philately, (c) physics, (d) philology. 3.' Science of ' -earthquakes: " (a) paleontology, b) zoology, (c) seis mology, (d) appendectomy. i 4". ' Origin ot derivation of words (a) etymology, (b) entymology, (c) Egyptology,' (d) mineralogy. 5. Science of diseases, ; their treatments and progress: (a) pe diatrics, (b) " pathology, (c) neu rology, (d) ! hypochondria. . : -Ansers on Page Eig-ht . Maverick: Mobbed' by Fans -vv'-.ri Lcce! ".'Writers Tyy. vxzlz itli cz. vill feature the activities and Ec&ieve tr.t3 cf tt rroya CI..".. t:r cf t9 Leajue cf Weitern Writer. Utah Author's day, Dec. 16, will feature the following Utah authors au-thors : Frank C, and Obe Robertson, Rob-ertson, Sprir.gville, Utah, writers of western novel3 and short stories; stor-ies; Olive Wooley Burt, author of children's books, youth editor, Salt Lake Tribune; Lei a Home Richards, novelist; Vere Mathews children's poetry and prose; Eva Willes Wangsgaard, poetry volumes; vol-umes; Ruth Louise Partridge, novelist. . Meet these authors in. person at the Deseret Book store; they will autograph your Christmas books. Several of the local chapter members mem-bers will be in attendance and many other Provo people who are interested in writing and in promoting pro-moting the arts. , Y u Only League of Western Writer members will autograph, books, but , many publications of other Utah writers will be displayed and promoted. This sor of coop eration is one of the first advant ages to be gained by affiliation with state and local writer's or ganizations. Without . publicity the greatest books would largely remain on. the shelves, unread and unappreciated. X Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Robertson Robert-son of Springville were also-present from Utah county. All good books are not bestsellers, best-sellers, and all best-sellers are not good books. Time i3 the final judge. r Through the Ages Beacon Publications, v 154 Nassau St., . New , York, I announce, an-nounce, tha Inclusion, In their anthology, "Christman Lyrics" of 1833," a- poem VIOLET-LIT, VIOLET-LIT, by Cherry 31c Kay . of Provo, Utah.; Mv ; . . This volume contains the selected .work of , contemporary contempor-ary American . poets. Mrs. McKay's , poem will appear later in ,- the Dally Herald's column UTAH VERSE. Ttuth Louise Partridge was guest speaker :, at ; the .monthly meethig of the Salt Lake Chapter, League of Western - Writers, - at - the Art Barn Tuesday night. She talked of her trip to New York and other cities connected., with Mormon history that she visited to obtain data and material for her forth coming .. Mormon novel. . The Provo Chapter, League of Western Writers, met in the Art room of the Provo public library, Thursday night, Dec. 14th in regular regu-lar session, President Wilford D. Lee in charge and presiding. - In the absence of Oliver Smith, chairman of the writer's program for B. Y. U. Leadership week, Mr. Lee reported a tentative schedule of meetings and program subjects of interest to writers and the public generally. Mr. Robertson gave an informal and " interesting resume of the state of British markets. He states that the war situation is notxaifecting sales there, but that the.; price, of the. English , pound having gone down, sales prices are naturally affected. This will be counter-balanced by the increased demanded. . . Mr. Robertson has himself I just received an order from i his agent Lotions Robertson '. . novel - immediately and four ' more as quickly us possible. Ills latest story, now on the newsstands, appears in Ranch Romances. It Is a story called, . "Man Hunt on Iron Mountain." Moun-tain." . 1 . .; ... . ; : . . . Mr. Robinson also reported that one, of his novels, written fifteen years ago, has Just been translated. trans-lated. Into the Hungarian language. 'Attending 'the meeting were Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, J.r F. Wakefield' and the regular mem bers of the .group. , , 7 f U I' fV (L3 n In good weather, 32 lakes and 36 mountains are said 'to be visi ble from the summit of Snowden, England's highest- mountain. LULLAY, THOU LITTLK TINY CHILI) Lullay, TIiou little liny Child, By, by, lully, lullay . . . Herod hath charged his men of might 11 children young to slay . . This is the famous Coventry Carol, first used in 15th century Mystery Plas dealing with the life of Christ. It was. sung by women of Bethlehem in the play, just before Herod's soldiers camo in to slaughter their children. 7 Shopping Days Till Christmas PARALYSIS CLAIMS VICTIM BOISE, Ia., Dec. 15 l'.i: Thcl-ma Thcl-ma Silva, 10, Shoshone, .died today to-day at a Boise hospital of infantile paralysis despite a night-long battle by firemen to save her life with an artificial respirator. The girls' death was the latest In a email Infantile paralysis epidemic epi-demic which was ; centered in south-central Idaho and Infected 13 persons during the past month. -ffl- :.nr mm n-n Li-L 'i i 5 9 '': i (V:. V ; v. : i St I i Admirers of Mayor' llaury Maverick', of San Antonio, ; Tex, con-;Eratulate con-;Eratulate him just after a jury found him innocent of charges that he conspired to pay pell taxes for a group of voters. Maverick is t right. . Center is -Mrs., P. H. Edmundsori, San Antonio: society ' "' ' ' 'Qfe"3rt, "and left is Albert layerick, the mayor's; fatherly :C!iIcon" Proises ' : Editor's, Note: . This the . tenth of a series of articles by Victor B. WestphaL editor of : The Seattle Star, who Is flying , by Pan - American Clipper to all nations of South and Cen- ; tral America ' t rsln nn un-& un-& ersiandlng ' off their attitudes -toward a United States of all the Americas. - - ' li'-V-V' i'i'-i., . '.. ; '-"..." ... BY VICTOR B. -WESTPHAL An American Wire Feature . SANTIAGO, Chile It is . with , a "pang bf ; regret : that - I ; - must fly ; away, from; this happy land of pleasant . peo- - pie, beautiful' homes,1 with its f marriage of Spanish - tradi-' tradi-' tiona 4 and modern . American customs. i' - - . Yes, a'land of charming seno ..." ritas and; ice cream , cones, of peons and , high-powered motor iiara. oi aitar candles and r 'XWWMi)ti 5i I electric ' lights i -r-in other words. .. Cde lightful. blend i ing of the old - and the ;new. .But beXore 1 X take w ing j across the I Andes,, here are t ray final , notes I on the . charm- j ! ; Ing people , who live here-notes . y hand ',quo.t e s uTCTPfiiT froin. , folks, -in WESTPI.AL all walks of - me,- and most of whom would be glad to join the United -States .- jji a greai au-American union. k Here's what thev hart a I talked with them during my' last hours here: ' ;. 4 o ;, . Fernando "Santa . Crnz,'-head of - anspories unidos; only Chilean office ot Turlsmo: ."There is a . muchr.bettcT. feeling, toward Americans Ameri-cans .here .than there used to be. FomerlyAmerlcan'salesmen would - conje jdown here ahd use high-pressure methods on our busin They'd jwaht; an order right away aw ixiat uoey coma cable It to their r office fand also ' wanted ' cash on the line; t; : . . ,But ; aH r that has changed. There. is. more honesty In deal-ir.gs, deal-ir.gs, more give- and take than before. With the teaching of " Ejiglish In our schoola the tie link Vig our two nations will grow stronger and .stronger. , . , ,f 'Closer, cpropcration between the United States and , the . JL a 1 1 n ; American countries would be marvelous, the. most ' wonderful, thing.. we could do. . vThe less dealings, we ..haw . with Europe the better for all o; '''' '' Isabel RourLa Puga, co-proprietor of Gray's shop, handling American-made children's clothes. (Her mother , was Chilean.iand her, father fa-ther American. ; She was born in Chilefeut .lived in ; California; for six; ya?s, where she was secretary to Dolores Del Rip):, , ' 'The closer the 'United States and Chile crA "get together the bet. ter it will be for all of us. . , ' ''Our busine3 shows, that the people hare want tt? 'dress American. Ameri-can. We were the first shop to order children's clothes from the tTnitrr"! Btnte-a' .'Nnur ecreral r,f h v ,tr s,am -ar 4lain. lilceuise." : 'Abovemusical Ota valos, natives of the Andes, low, Jorge Rojas, Santiago ice cream peddler. n v. LAURA MARTINEZ, Uruguay an, clerk in cosmetics store: ."The Americans are very charming and we would like to see more of them. How would I like to see Chile and the United . States get along better bet-ter together ? I don't know ex cept 'that unity is" much better than to be. separated. - Allcrto Obrador, barber: "I ad mire the 'spirit of ! work of the Americans. They also have a good understanding' of the Chilean people; peo-ple; It would be marvelous if we could form some sort of an ali- Americsin -unioa, ...... ; . "That was the dream of Bolivar of which we learned at school. The or.ly things that are holding it up are the distance which separate us and the ignorance-each one of us has of the other country." 4 Esther Espinola, flower "girl" for 25 years: "I have lots of American customers. They are very good people and very attractive. attrac-tive. I ncrr have had any difficulties diffi-culties with them, liven when they don't know the language I understand under-stand what Vcy want and iny prices are always right." - NEXT: . Surx-rktj InU-rxk'.. , r " " ' " -- ' |