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Show jjjCTION two PROVO EVENING HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1928. MEEKER'S SOUL GOES EZRA In Smoking Room ! 'HOWDY,; BROTHER!' EXPRESSES I "Yes.", mused grizzled snioker-,polmn)y, "these Scotch jokes . do gat on your i?erve after he ftfst several hundred. RegnindM rue ' of the young fellow who asked an eld timen 'What is Scotrabd Yard?; f'The old i boy grinned., i 'Thal'8 asy,' he said. Two, feet eleven - - lll',"Ky"'"mMWlllii.a, x' 7' v ', inches.' " 7 h ' ' ' - . p- w, - ' scmrrs late. Two of the littlu. band ef 18 lay silent under thf purple skv. SOMEWHERE IN UTAHV Doc. 7. brother!"' That's how it is in the west. An 1 trt. hre7-o- nt the-- wind brinjr back from the Gone-Btales of human ccmi lis ment, stories glamorous, of' love and hate, desire, and victory, t i'lonef r' Sacrifice 0 We who have lived comfortably in cities are inclined to forget the sacrifices- made by the pioneers. But, traveling: thru the old west- the west that is. at ill .much as it iwaa. in days gone by ono recaptures the old spirit. It .was the spirit that gave birth to the western feeling of friendship; the spirit that ehouta, Howdy, brother!" to a oliance-me- t friend along the way. ... . -- "Howdy, AH! - AN R you are. " ' ; -- , : . ' ' toon 1st; 9 p. m., symphony; l0"p- - ' m., dance music with intermission ''-- M . numbers. KQW,' Porttand--- A p.' ni.p dinner concert; 7 p. m.,' NBC program; & p. n.K NBC program; 9 p. m., NBC program ; 10 p. m., NEC program. BC progi am ; 10 p. m., p. iu NBO program. KFI, Los 'Angeles-- 5 p.' m., Dr WttUeisW. Strong; &;45 p. m.,..Opal Snow, ballades: 6 p. m., Hanea Sisters; 1 p. in., KBC progrerm 8 p nr., NBC program;. 9 p. :m., Packard Concert Orchestra; 10 p. m. v .,:. ;!.. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8 - ? KFI Symphonettes;, Ugui"JLnlld- - Jt must have been some young; meri asking "wHcre'ToT go' to see a concert nigtit fisplic wailing,' eerie' cry of a coyote orchestra; 8 p. m. Jack Martin's KHJ, 1.ob Angeles 5 p.'m., story ; football game to whom Horace drifts down the wind-the moan-!t,;i- f. Hawaimns; 5:30 p, m., market re man and his air, castle;. 8;30 p. mi Greeley said "go west." Thpi.-mbci- s t .. r' '., rf tr.rf litt'e bnmf wittiin the fort do not sleep TURBINE-DRIVEthat night. She lows of the galloping Indians OuTflanT-r- 4 KGtT, :i- teetotaler and never d,oe3 any testing. "Billingsgate ' beer does 'not nSed testing," he says. And there i PROGOlS tftime too Land-of-Time- :i f f" of an life LQJJDONOh, for.the Edward Hipwell, 83, Who has held that job' for some I time, at Billifrgsgate', is entitled to enter any alehouse and tavern in the ward and test the quality of the betr. The strange purt of this fitdry is that Hipwell was recently reappointed to-- the job although he is a Y I ; na, ; RADIO SPIRIT-- OF WESTERN AMERICA , 'PAGE HIRES'-- 1 ports, news by United Press; 6 p. organ recital; 6 p, m.; ;nlghrty do-m., the Three Boys;. 6:45 p. m., lings; 8:45 p. m'., world wide news;, weekly sports review; 7 p. m.. NBG 7 p.' m' concert orchestra,; 7:39. p. program; 8 p. m., NBO program; m , movie club; 8 p. m.,, radio car. p. nv, BOAT MAY INVADE POLAR; SEAS: N i ; It is only when we are out on thn plajnii jmet now in th soft" wind and yfllow sunshine that we.cnn fer as lin the' noh!e slrcngth of their heaitd- - thudc men and woiiieu ' of the old west. t ; Today, people fura 'itlL9 fcf the east aie strurk by lhe spirit of th' west. But. we westerners ' tan-'seem to what It is. It is born with us, vo un Jut stand it, on vv ; - - !- v 1 i .. - v . v ;j: . k- f ' '' k" - . - - - '.. I M - ,. , t . ; . , ) mm 4 t itLr.J I . ,' 1 ,n A - ' tell-the- the, woods of Pennsylvania, the fat lands of the. east, whips snapping, oaths crackling",, bull teams slogV ging onward to the sunset. White wings snaked over the lush spuing grass of the plains. fere a man died,'nd they, buried him, driving the wagons over the grave to blot It from sight ; Here a, woman died and left behind a tiny babe, to be gathered up in sunbrpwned arms and carried on ward to the land beyond theblue - U - - ' ' s,L, ' ; 'V ' - 4 - ?,' ' - '.W" ' J - ' horizon. , Up thru the mountains theywent, shirts black with sweat, hauling the creaking wagons up the gulch-side- s with rawhide ropes. ' Until, ont a morning,, they stood at ' the crest of the pass, while the snow wind whipped the' tattered canvas of the. wagon covers,, and looked down on Oregon," sunbathed in the morning, and felt the wind from the Pacific on their tanned cheeks. Some of them forget the trail line; .across half, a continent, paved with the bones cf men and animals conquered' by the . to the Pacific. Pathway J er never forgot. But The years, whitened his hair and bent his back under their ' weight, but he fought his fight to keep the ' .$ .... , ti - : ''v ? f , y - I - f .v '' u ;::: li v ' ; TV'" , I ii- - ',J' must feel Ccve Fort, i ho looking thruMho" loopholes, shoulder to thoulder.Malt a close feeling of comraileship-feeiinp it is impossible for ms, wnoi,iv io the salely of modern cities,. to lesl. e FronV similar situations a uuiver- aal jtlea of hro'Jieily lovo was form' cd in 4he old we;.it. Born1 of the plainij, clean as the pruiri' wind, noble as the snowpeaka towering above, there was oeated a new liica ii, the world's history - 'XT' - - v.f .,,3K....,,i.-.,.si.C'I .twa " rfllf'll iimm.mwtiM r"- nr hhiwki LjmriM , is why, today, f ! ''.'."..,,.,'.. the westerner, understands, aa th e t BERLIN, Germany A drawing showing how thd new1, boat, .wW'chj D. Fredric. WilholrM Goebel, noted,! 1 easterner' never can, thifteeling engineer, has invented tor Arctic exploration, will act when It encounters an ice pack. The boat hind tho simple greeting, "Howdy, amphibian and 19 built somewhat like a submarine, of heavy armor steel and it propelled by '" 4 turbines. Special devices on its bottom will 'allow It to climb, up Ice packs and to travel' upon the ice, rother!"-- - Anil '..''." y, '. " ...... i( perhaps that ' , ' j " '(I .v-- i A' S -- F I RST FAM I LIES 0:N T HE" 'f i.f ' marked " and its memories alive the hearts, of those 'who came after, but came on soft cushions running above steel ribbons. ..The trail is marked today, and its' winding miles form his monumenta monument ' that climbs from the muddy t batiks of the Great River, flows westward and then forks to- reach the blue Pacific north and south. Years come and years die, but the flowing .road livAfl nn nl with it tha mamnrira' ' of those who trod It. ' Nearly 98 years old was Ezra Meeker. But his spirit was as youthful as that of the Ohio' boy who set his feet westward 76 years n jv.-- -- ; - A . - glory-Kingin- ',X ... ' t a. L' - ft - . ' xv vsv - - - ' 'V m m - , I , t 10 GU TE EN R T Y- - S n :r.' EN V l ..1. 1 , h r . ' .1 - . ft m I IfIt . x V- ' fc v x 4 Ax- - - ' ' vy ' r f: Wll 4;x 'v VH , x x C iuh hasx 1 r-- - hA c TA . - 1 ! V 4 vV - V ' H I i,,, ' - 11 ..1" . - ': Moinnl. . l A " f .- - , ' . STAR " V ALU6 IN THE - DEMONSTRATION VALUE COUNTERS ; t KM; J . fM - j- ' ' ? ' , , 4 x, i V . Advertisements. , , : jr 'AiWl St'. V lr . as . s. . Bouillon Spoeti, eight for 1 3-f- '" Tea Set , . . g.6s jtfj-.o- j -- 1 t THE Af i N.--" x y'" 1 X jt. 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H(i. j 'a ' For your Family plate f the "Pieces of 8 I :. 4 NOW AT ALL' SILVER ;.J'i... '1 i... .... m H DolYour. Holiday . '. Hl'-H)- - i ii jll'.'lll ..l'x.. t . - , ' i 'if i. : ""lull ' .' if K 'i . '' . -- ' JJ ' E " ''' ' '" s - jj fi "' " ' ' r, k f( ;vv f ago. And today his soul has gone out on the long trail (hat leads to a greener 'land tnan "Old Oregon", end at least amid that great company of pioneers who''' have gone on before. V, a mi in ' hat 28. Over the long trail to Oregon the blue. V Ezra Mcqker .was the- last of the ha tramped behind a covered wagraHsinen';?the.ilone survivor of on) burned with the sunshine and hat greet host tpat came the free wind of the nrairrV? blued 'tI $ J I j nd frosted with ttiethM guests of -' jj'.t . out crtM the plain the snow passes; . Ingle.footlnci'' The old trail of '52! Out they d g I "; came from' the hamlets of Ohio, and. - IN CE S : trail The gentle soul of the last'of the Son of a frontiersman, he turned Oregon , pioneers is -- marching out his fresh young face .westward nee more across the bright prairie from his Ohio home when he was Hard-baile- " -- Ezra-Meek- EZRA MEEKER .. itr wind-pressur- - j a . ; an ' .!;.' , VJJ ' a an .... tht' circling Indinns With -- v-- '' - " Overwhelming mountains shad owed the valley of sagebrush, A lope coyote was silhouetted against a crimson sunset. Years ago. -- A little band of pioneeis huJdled together in Cove. Fort, amid the southern Utah hM;s. . Around thorn the circling Indians. A war. 'Whoop oni the breeze. The pop of bi rifle and the sharp ping of bullet into a log. A singing arrow toward the'Jfortt ; Inside the.. scant shelter, behind the Irtopholes, we-csec young mothers with babes in their ' arms. They crouch closely bosule valiant . ' ;v husband ... i .: An In:'!aa Tragrdy i Two of the women are vvt'eping. Outside, two bronzed tnen . lie strangely cold,, arrows thru their bodies. . ' The lookout's cry' or warning 'A. |