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Show 1 f " ". ' ' "" v ' V PROVO (U TAH E VBJNI N Qr .H-B-RAL D,- T HURS D Y, J V N 25 4 986 SECTION iTWO , through' an th land" The Liberty Befli The Herald JEvery. Afternooa, except Saturday, ad Saadajr Moralit- Published by the Herald Corporation. 60 South First West street, Provo, Utah. Entered as second-clas matter at the postoffice in Provo. Utah, under the act of March 3. 187!. - Oilman, Nicol & Ruthman. National Advertising representatives. New York, San Francisco, Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago. Member United Press. N. E. A. Service. Western Features and the Scripps League or Jejvmpapers. Subscription terms by carrier In Utah county 50 cents, the month, $3.00 for six months, in advance; $5.75 the year in advance; by mall $5.1(0 the year In advance. Those who are governed least are governed beet.' "The power to tax is the power to destroy." ' Thomas Jefferson. We Cati't Ignore Issue of Soil Conservation ' We have become so used to having our government ap-rMach ap-rMach things sidewise, with a crab-like, scuttling movement, that the pious woras about soil conservation in the party platforms look like a cloak for crop control. The parties pledge themselves to take eroded land out pf production and restore it. Remembering what the U. S. supreme court said about the original AAA crop control scheme, the ordinary citizen assumes that this talk of conservation con-servation is just another plan to do what the court said the AAA could notvdo. .. Probably it is, to a certain extent. But anyone who doubts that the problem of soil conservation is very real and pressing has only to look at a survey recently completed by the U. S. Soii Conservation service to learn that he is in' error. TJiis survey reveals, for instance, that no fewer than 735,000,000 acres of once-fertile farm land in the United States have been from 25 to 100 per cent destroyed by erosion. ero-sion. . This is an area four times the size of Texas, 23 times the size of New York state; it represents one of the most titanic losses of natural resources that any nation ever suffered suf-fered r jjc ji During the last century, the survey reports, the country has suffered a direct monetary loss by erosion of at least $10,000,000,000 which will be doubled or tripled within 50 years unless something drastic is done. Sixty-five per cent of the tillable land in the great Piedmont Pied-mont section, reaching from New Jersey to Alabama, has been stripped of its topsoil by wind and rain. Five hundred thousand acres that were under cultivation cultiva-tion in. fivij coastal counties in Alabama a few years ago now are abandoned and worthless. Erosion is costing Oklahoma $50,000,000 a year. Sheet erosion is mmacing 12,000,000 acres of Illinois' incalculably rich, black corn land. In the country as a whole, more than 50,000,000 acres have been so gullied and eroded that they will never again be good for anything. J It would be oossible to to on citiny facts lik thesp for i Dlief opinion. half an hour. ' Enough has been said, however, to indicate! "ln, 'TiLft . , . f i 11 i Au a ii i . , there is no, law that makes it that when the Republicans and the Democrats talk about soil ! mandatory for yie state to aiio- conservation measures, they are not just talking about a new I fate the surplus to past year's way to reduce agricultural production. If we were living in the piping times of complete prosperity, pros-perity, with no farm surpluses, unemployment, or unbalanced unbal-anced budget to worry us, this thing that is happening to our soil would strike us as. the most serious problem of the century. . V , ' u T. W,K V session of the legislature pro- iciu ; uul il i naiui) cxu eAagcirtiiun lo say inai in me long , vided surplus funds be used to OUT OUR WAY BY WILLIAMS I WELL-I-UH-I l4A-WAPL-WAk V A Isym EAV -I DIP EVERY y DOM'T BELIEVE WWEM OU SAID JpidW'A THIMQ I COULCpTO I IT- I KNOW AM I I WS WAVS NOTMJMQ L I RfJ?Al a aad.t tuiKit'ttr Aim . 1 ui ti uc iAA. l 1 rSir vi l Lirrrtez unui 11 1 AJr waved at ybu-WMrs;i sucw a polite 1 cjuick mb dTi HE DOKI" WITW A H03E k MAM,AND A I WAVE VOUD . IF HE AiMT A CAS 7- I &ETTERl SlAy f l IV BUM ? WE DOM'T ' ' t HOI MOR- J WashiE Chez Ruling To Force School Tax Fight Into Court SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. June 24 r.!: A court battle to force $800,000 in surplus state tax revenues rev-enues into Utah's school fund loomed today following attorney General Joseph Chez i u ling against ihe proposal. The plan proposed by Fred M. Nye, President of Ogden City school board and pushed by H. A. Dixon, superintende n t of schools at Provo, was refused flatly in the Attoreny general's school fund as proposed. "The state constitution does not guarantee schools $25.00 per capita per year. If the amount paid by the state in the past has ; not fulfilled this amount, it can not now be paid retroactively." Chez explained Kiat the 1936 make up dtficits in the school ruk-it-will probably prove the most important of all. Whichever party is put in power next November, vthe ; Cuml ot t;u' t unent year, but not campaign to save the greatest of our resources the land f)rf'10"-s rs .b Ix. i ...;.u ..n u .: .1.4 :.:.... , Chez ruled that the $800,000 iiiul ue iiiccutru wun an uie ueiei inmai ion inai would .should he used to decrease the iuxninn. wrV n .mn. Ka .riifii o mno ,m t,. ., in-oAin.. .w.,,. i . ..: 'TTeDeiiions were numerous. She rK- h i v c v.miuism . f i v jyv., uii 1 1 1 . u. 1 1 1 1 1 t 1 1 t 1 1 1 . i e v y iui cue i unuiig year. " - ! Difficulties in administration of Who RnlfPfl Whflf? tun tis allocated back to schools proposed were in the rnannei pointed out by Chez "The money could not be paid as a txjnus to teachers as such compensa.' on is forbidde.il by law," he said. Superintendent of schools Landon objected to some of the liberal planks Borah had i Charles H. Skidmore indicated the succeeded in writing into the platform and announced his stand by telegram to the convention. If there was any "bolting-" it was done by Landon, not Borah. In Idaho there seems to be some confusion about who bolted the Republican platform. It has been said that Senator Sen-ator Borah bolted i. Nothing- could be farther from the facts. Borah was satisfied with the platform as it was written. state association of school boards led by Nye and Dixon soon may institute a friend! v mandamus suit. SOME OF US ARE FINDIN G IT HARD TO CLASSIFY WH&M 1 TALK TO J f I THIS FLLA I Afsj K THKT l'f PRETTY MWCH SLw , K U&E8AL- EVEN fV CSTiv radical.' j 1 W ljls. J.. J but, cosrt- I. WHErJ T TLK TO Q srL v'lrtf this pevvN gss SFQ$0&r & 1 MUST Be A HIDE- J i STORIES IN STAMPS Hy I. S. KJcin & Madame La Ressou TJAUGHTER of a Prussian field marshal, Catherine of Anhalt-Zerbst Anhalt-Zerbst was determined to become a thorough Russian, when, in 1745, at the age of 15, she married Peter, nephew and heir to the Empress Em-press Elizabeth. To master the Russian language, she got up many a night and walked the floor barefoot, repeating her lessons. Peter III soon depended on Catherine for his decisions, so much so that he called her "Madame "Ma-dame La Ressource." But often he would insult and kick her. In 1762 he was dethroned and Catherine Cath-erine became empress. His death was said to be due to "apoplexy." As empress, Catherine was one of the most resourceful and determined de-termined rulers of Russia. But the peasants' lot became worse and crushed them all, making life more miserable for the poor, while she lavished countless wealth on her numerous lovers. After 34 years of rule, Catherine died in 1796, of apoplexy, this time real. Her portrait appears on one of Russia's stamps issued in 1913 to commemorate commem-orate the tercen-t tercen-t e n a r y of the founding of the Romanoff dynasty. (Copyright, J936. NEA Service, Inc.) jffl e. m EDipnvir L Can you ) answer this o AAA TRAFFIQUIZ 1. About one second is required for the pupils of our eyes 1j grow small in order to protect them against headlight glare. Having passed the lights, about how much time is required before we can see as well as we did before being be-ing affected by the glare? a ( ) Two seconds, b ( ) Ten seconds, c ( ) Thirty seconds, d ( ) One minute. 2. Over fehe past decade automobile auto-mobile fatalities haVe declined in only one age group. Check the one you think it is. a ( ) 5-14 years, b ( ) 14-25 years, c ( ) 25-50 years. 3. How many boys and girls are members of School Safety Patrols? a ( ) 50,000. b ( ) 100,000. c ( ) 250,000. 4. Under what conditions of weather did most automobile fatalities fa-talities occur in 1935? a ( ) Clear. b ( ) Rain or snow. c ( ) Fog. 5. If your car "pulls" to one side j-ien brakes 'are applied, what Is the probable cause? a ( ) Soft tire on that side t ( ) Brakes not equized. c ) Too much weight .on that side. ' Nr Turn to page four, section two for the correct answers. Howdy, folks! A Provo inventor has perfected a device tnat wui eliminate foe. It should come in handy for the political prophets who are trying to predict exactly how the election will come out. Silas Glump. of Mud Hollow, is pretty mad. He tried for three years to secure a League or isa. tions franchise for his town, un til told it had nothing to do with baseball. if- igton Merry-Go-Round Continued from rag One) yin Mclntyre that the Guffey Bill must be passed. "If necessary, hold Congress in recess until toe Convention is over," Jim urged. "Otherwise we lose the State of Pennsylvania," Other master . minds In Philadelphia Phila-delphia also called the White House, emphasized now senous would be the miners' political reac&on. What the White House did is not known. Mclntyre spent part of Saturday afternoon in the cocktail lounge of the Mayflower. Twice, however, he called John L. Lewis, urged him of all people to do something about Senator Hastings, Republican oppositionist op-positionist to the Bill. (Lewis and Hastings get along like two wildcats). wild-cats). In the end, Senator Joe Robinson, Robin-son, the man whom Roosevelt went all the way to Arkansas to bless, got the floor at ten minutes of midnight and moved concurrent resolution adjourning the Senate. Th Guffey Bill did not pass., To force passage, the Adminis-toation Adminis-toation could have begun real work on it a week before, or Congress could have been held over. Instead, a spokesm a n for Roosevelt telephoned Lewis to say that the Democratic platform would include a plank favoring the Guffey Bill. "That's mere lip service," Lewis replied. "It will take eight montos .or a year to pass a new bill, and during all that time what becomes of my men?" A few minutes later, another phone call came from Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. One of Farley's assistants informed Lewis that Norman Thomas and Gardner Jackson were planning to picket the convention con-vention with striking share-croppers' strike, to call off the picketing. "Why in hell should I pull your chestnuts out of the fire?" Lewis SIDE GLANCES - By GeorgcClark i "Mr. Schmaltz our club has voted to give you this sea son pass to our ball cames. : & you and ii will only hurt us," Farley's man replied. He also promised that Jackson and Thomas Thom-as could have a conference with Joe Robinson, "scar of Arkansas." Arkan-sas." in Philadelphia in order to This message, when relayed to adjust the share- cropper dispute. Norman Thomas by long diatance telephone, received this response: "Well, that may be very nice growled in reuly. "What have you 1 for the Democrats, bul I'm run- fellows done for me?" ning for President of the United "Well,' it isn't going to help States on the Socialist ticket and I'm going ahead with this." - Meanwhile, leaders of the sharecropper share-cropper movement are draf;.ng a plank for the Coughlin-Lefke Third Party which would put it categorically on record for the emancipation of the tenants farmer. far-mer. ' No wonder that, between coal-miners coal-miners and1 share croppers, New Deal master minds who know Roosevelt must get the labor-farm vote to win, are worried. (Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) $ ti LAURA LOU BROOKMAM WORLD SCIENCE - Marraaduke Z. Greasecup of Lehi, has invented a pianola attachment at-tachment for lawn mowers, so that the industrious householder can listen to the latest music while cutting his grass. Literary Note: A row of data in a modern novel means proceed pro-ceed at your own risque. if. If. )f "!f YOU BETCHA! The pedestrain usually, knows what the motorist is driving at. Sf, 3f 2f mf According to a local news item, a whole hive of bees got tight on a quart of hard cider. "How doth the boozy little bee " if. if. if. ( TRAGIC FIGURES The motorist who went for a "little spin" in his new airplane. ' 2fi 3fi if if Abou'j the only way to get motorists to look at scenery is, to have it painted on the billboards. bill-boards. 3ft Sft if ft "Have you ever drunk all you wanted?" we asked Gashouse Gus. 1 "No," he replied. "I can't hold a bottle long enough." For every person who can sit before a camera and look pleasant, pleas-ant, toere are 100 who simply look anxious to Ipck pleasant. 3f 3fc 3f 2f Yoo-hoo, Junior! Sanford Reports Federal Loans Birds possess both the keenest and most far-sighted vision. The latest report from the Farm Credit Administration to Allen T. Sanford, state director of the National Emergency Council Coun-cil shows that loans to farmers and livestock growers in Utah from May 1, 1933 through March 31, 1936 totaled 13,634, amounting to $21,462,361. The tabulation listed Federal Land Bank and Land Bank Commissioner Com-missioner loans at 5,573 for $12,-144,700, $12,-144,700, made on easy terms of long-term mortgages on farm properties. Production Credit Association loans, 941 for $7,273,061 on short-term short-term low interest rates. . Emergency crop and cLouth relief re-lief loans, 7,120 for $2,044,600. The Farm Credit Administration Administra-tion system includes in its makeup make-up twelve districts1 providing a complete and coordinated credit system for agriculture by making available long-term and short-term short-term credit. Utah is one of four states comprising com-prising the eleventh district. SAYS HUSBAND INSANE CASCADE, Idaho, June 24 (OP) Mrs. Myrtle Lobear, middle-aged middle-aged wife of Frank Lobear, 57-year-old miner on trial here charged charg-ed with the murder of Walter Estep, testified late today that her husband was insane when he shot bis ' mining partner last December back in the Big Creek country. BEGIN HERB TODAY TOBY RYAN. 19. la a tanao tttml model, peaiaa; for photo-Krapk photo-Krapk to b ut la. adTertloo-menta. adTertloo-menta. She share aa apartateat with UABR1BT HOLM, also aooel. At m charity atylo ahow, Toby aseeta wealthy TIM JAMIBiON, who shower her with atteatloaa for a ttaae. Tiaa leaves towa for a tew oaya," hat the time tretehe ob aad ae'wof a ebaaea front bias. Harriet admits to Toby that the reaaoa her marriage to CLYDE SABIff haa beea delayed 1 be-rauae be-rauae Sabta 1 aot yet airoreed from hi Brat wife. BILL, BRANDT, lops a friead of Toby, 1 employed by aa ad-vertlatna; ad-vertlatna; aajeacy. Throaa-h BUI. Toby la aeleeted to pooe for a aerie of advertisement ta for the HJUyer Soap Compaay. Sooa ahe beeome ope of the moat aoacht-after aoacht-after modeU la New Yorh. She aoe to dlaaer with Harriet and Clyde ajdTOM OARSIDE. Clyde trlea to make a date with her and Toby, dlaaTaated, e;oea home. A telephone eall eme from Tim Jamlesoa. NOW GO ON WITH TUB STORY CHAPTER XXVI rplM said, "Is that you. Gor-geousT" Gor-geousT" She must k a t e answered, though she wasn't aware of what she said. But'she must hare said something, because Tim went on. easily and casually. "How're you been?" he asked. "What have you been doing t" "Oh. this and that. Pve been busy " Over and over she had planned this conversation, what she would say when Tim called and how she would say it. She had even rehearsed re-hearsed the words. And now Tim's voice was coming to her over the wire, and everything that she had planned was forgotten. "How did you enjoy your trip?" she asked. "My trip? Oh, you mean down to Maryland. It was so-so. Weather was bad most of the time." -When did you get back?" "Last week." Last week I The strange tightness, tight-ness, about Toby's heart increased. Tim V rt Hn YsmA a waaIt And this was the first time he -had I sfi. called her. All through the days "can we use the little office off , .AAn him aho nnri ' me nan ior a wnue i DIUVO apa WWam ma ara-w clung to the belief that there was some reason for his silence. There must be a reason! Well, there was. He hadn't written or telephoned because he hadn't wanted to! Tiaa went on, "I meant to call you sooner. Gorgeous, but one thing and another came along. You know how it is. It's a little lit-tle late, I guess, but I thought if, yon weren't doing anything else tonight we might step out some-where some-where ' . Ha left the sentence unfinished, waiting for her to answer. Toby fought desperately to control con-trol her voice. She , prayed he might not notice the pause, but it was a moment before 'she could speak. .Then she said. "I'm sorry, Tim. I was iQBt Jeavlng." '. It wasn't much of an untruth. After all, she had .had an engagement en-gagement for that evening. She cpnld '' hare been dancifitv : at. Jthat very minute if the hadn't, decided t? leave the. othera and come home. . And aha wouldn't nave Ttn : Jamieso'n thinking that, because be-cause ne had neglected her, there was' no onaelse to chow her at- TTE took his dismissal lightly. She never liked me. You eouH A A "Sorry," he said. "Well. I'll I go back to the store only I don't suppose you want to. I guess you're getting along swell, aren't you? "It was an awful thing to do," Maurlne said remorsefully. "I guess I deserved everything that's happened since. They let me ge after Gladys told about what I'd done." "Where are you working now?" "1 had a job, but it was only temporary. I haven't done anything any-thing for about three weeks now. That's wby I came to see Mr. was plenty king I might have a chance as a model but there's no law against trying." Toby eyed the other girL Mau-rine's Mau-rine's beauty had dimmed, and sbabbine8s made this more apparent. ap-parent. No, she hadn't a chance of becoming a model, whether she talked with Ben Blake or not. call again some of these days." "Yes, da-She da-She went back to the daven port, huddled against the cush ions. She was glad that the room was dark, except for the sin gle light. She was glad no one else was there to know that Tim no longer cared. When Harriet reached home Toby was in bed. She lay very still a&d Harriet, thinking her room ma td was asleep, moved quietly so as not to waken her. A few days later Harriet asked., Blakj , Jt "Whats become of Tim Jamie- n of methInt son, Toby 7" and Toby was able k ' ha- . to say, naturally jjough, "Oh. he's around. I had a call from him the other night." Later the same tiy Toby stopped in at the Model League office. She was talking to Sally when she noticed a girl across the room. Toby went on speaking, speak-ing, but a moment later she turned again. Then she crossed to' where the girl was sitting. "Hello," she said, "I didn't recognize you at first." It was Maurine Ball and it was the first time since leaving Bergman's Berg-man's that Toby had met any of the girls from the store. "Hello." Maurlne's manner was diffident. "I I saw you. but I didn't know If you'd want to speak to me." "Why, Maurine!" "Well.- I didn't know " It was no wonder Toby had not recognized Maurine. She had changed greatly. She was thinner and the lines of her face seemed sharpened. She wore a suit and hat Toby had seen before, but now they looked shabby. 1 "I'm glad to see you," Toby said. "I've thought about all of you at Bergman's often. But what are you doing here?" "I was hoping to see Mr. Blake." Maurine hesitated, then said Impetuously, "Toby, I want to talk to you!" She looked about the room, where half a dozen others were waiting, some in groups, some alone. "Isn't there some place," Maurine asked, 'twheive we ould go that would be quieter?5 IT was a room used chiefly for filing cabinets, but there was a desk there and chairs. Sally nodded and Toby led the way. "This is better," she said, when they were seated. "What did you want to talk to me about, Maurine?" Mau-rine?" The other girl seemed to hesitate. hesi-tate. "I don't know Just how to say It " she began. Suddenly there was a flash of her old assurance. assur-ance. "I guess I might as well get it overl It's about the watch the one that was stolen at Bergman's. I was the one who took it." "You took It!" Maurine nodded. "I put it fn your -locker," she said. "I don't know why yes, I do, too! I thought yon were making a play tor Howard Pharia and I was crazy about him. But I didn't Jpnow they'd fire yon. Toby. Honestly, Hon-estly, 1 didnt know that!' VSo chit's, the war It happened!" hap-pened!" llaurine went on unhappily, "Mist Burrows knows about it. Gladys found out and told her anyhow I think it was Gladys. CUDDENLY Toby noticed Mau-rine's Mau-rine's hands. They were lovely long, tapering fingers, smooth and soft-locking. Toby leaned forward. "Listen, Maurine. if you want a job I'll tell you what to do. Go to the shop where I have my manlcares I'll give you the address, and I'll call to tell them you're coming. After you've had a manicure, ccme back and I'll see that you get to talk to Mr. Blake. He needs a hand model. I happen to know that. You'd be surprised how many girls pose for hand or throat or shoulder pictures. Lots of them earn their living that way. I've got to go now, but I'll telephone the beauty shop " ' She hurried away and a few minutes later was back. "It's all right," she said. "Marie will take care of you. ' They're' to charge it to my account, and you eaa pay me whenever you want to." "Toby to think of you doing this for me!" "Why not?" "After the way I treated you !" Maurlne's dark eyes were misted. "That's all over," Toby said steadily, "and we'll both forget about it. Besides, if t hadn't, left Bergman's I might never have taken up modeling. It teally was a good thing for me that it happened." hap-pened." They left the building, each taking different directions. Toby went to Duryea's, walking swiftly. She arrived exactly on the min-utn min-utn of her appointment. "Cecile sent some dresses over," Dujyea told her. "Try on the blue one, wilt youf I want to see what It looks like." Toby said she would apd went to the dressing room. She opened her makeup kit, applied ap-plied powder and. a touch of rouge, and then slipped the blue dress over her shoulders. It was a heavenly shade, blue as July skies. She went out to where Puryea was waiting. "Well " sh said, smiling, and turned slowly, mannequin-fashion. Duryea beamed. "Perfect!" he said. "It's the kind ot dress I'vs been 'wanting them to send ' tor yon. Exactly right the .color, style, everything I i Be stopped abruptly, sensing rather than seeing another sure- ence in the room . ' (To Be OpurlBnedj --. |