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Show THE PROVO HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1921. THE PROVO HERALD Published by The Herald Company, Provo, Utah. WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY. EVERY MONDAY, Entered as secocd class mail matter June C Provo, Utan,, under the act of March 3, 1879. &b6cripUon price. . .13.50 1911, the year, at the postoffice, 30 "the 1707 ttirtiilatiDnriny new paper published in Utah south and east of Salt Lake City. The Provo Herald's circulation is, we believe, FIFTY PER ?ENT GREATER than that of any other newspaper circulating in Provo. ' "T '" ' - : Y Thankful put nnder civil service those positions requiring technical education will have Provo has much to be thankful for, beneficial results. It will result tomorrow. . This .city haa noL..gone many in a greater number of high class men , own. as far into the valley of depres-. , When seeking public employment American other as have many sion the length of employment does not de for I t:tfe: pend upon Darttsa'n politics, a man In The city has gaijied in population. will to do bis best In order endeavor number of homes, in business, and in to hold his job. The lone of public the enlarged university. These are mo4laiialiltonrov-whe- B immoral but zihey material thtogvlod?nj methods' are displaced, cost of he are real oojecis ui inuuftSBiviug. doing public buainesiwill decrease vi gV4 stride forward In discarding a prac when men once well trained are re- tically useless commercial club form I tained in stead,. of breaking In a new adopting crew of untrained men at short Inof business therefor the more modern chamber of tervals. ., " commerce idea. No big business likes frequent turnDuring the year Provo "entertained over of employes for the reason that 6re Timpanbgos hikers than ever it it is costly. There Js no good reason . did before, whicb 'fact gives promise why the public business should not be Cf ever Increasing streams of moun- conducted upon the same principles. tain climbers ana" tourists coming this way; it bespeaks for the wider adverWe Sure arc Busy tising of this city, this valley and this i - Bomethiftg-to-btbaBkfuU f Pretty state. .' .' During the year the roads connecting Provo and Pleasant Grove on the north and Provo and Springvilla' on the south have been completed, giving these three cities their first inter-cit- y This paving brings fthe pavement. three cities more closely together, In business, and in a social way. We sow are the most Intimate of neigh- - 'cities will be able to do much to com-paon for the welfare of .each of them. The Herald hopes for this inter-citand promises its aid at 1 y ; all times. . During the year considerable progress .has been made in the erection of the city, and county building, a monument that will always .stand for the unity of Utah county, and will place this county amqng the very foremost cf counties in the in termountain region In the matter of public building?. During the year the city, has done a- great deal of work upon street improvement and has had its eyes opened to the need for greater effort along this line or municFpar endeavor, ' It has Increased its parks arfia, and has Improved them. Water rights added to the city's supply promises sufficient water for a city of 50,000 popula' 'tion. the the year During largest enrollment of children in our public schools - :; ; - wasv -' - : - During the year the Brigham Young university, the church's leading educational Institution, increased Us service to the young people by affording them a wider field of educational effort; the university becoming a university In fact as well as In name. The Herald believes the B. Y. U. was' particularly fortunate, in securing for Its presidency Dr. Franklin S. Harris, under whose administration the unito advance In Influversity ence, In eaniber of students, and in educational service to all the people " of this region. Yes, we have much to be thankful for; but not so much that we have nothing left to be done the coming years. "Wnat we have gained merely gives a nun nigner goal w aim au , iertain Civil Service At the last monthly meeting ot the Ogden chapter of the American Association of Engineers, the committee on legislative matters " reported In favor of a civic service" law .for the state and is. subdivisions and a zoning law for the cities. The chapter ratified the report and authorized the committee to confef witn other engineering oodles of the state In order to draft bills for the purpose of enactment into law at tha next meeting of the legislature. Both of these laws are needed and many of the states have them.' Tha civil service cover tne :npioymenrTf tae tecBnlcar ana clerical employes of the state and provide the similar laws or ordinances In ' counties and cities. As matters now stand the spoils system isvin effects Ability 'energy and! integrity are often placed secondary! to political favoritism. When one party employs this method the other Is compelled to do likewise. This method has no defense except that of personal and party selfishness. It results, to a large xtent, in public extravagance. No employe has any in-- f n'the to do his best work when he n; ,t change of party domi- -' ' ..:t in hi (lismidi-alTo law-shou- ld Ihiiaa1han1 rtU Hn I si or. uyiual liivusimuui j Pi t 11 eenta the month Sworn Circulation "TKSTffivIi&fflSm Belgium is Thankful As It Rises from the Ruins of War Wk Americans are a clever etimes. We can out- and out-braany-diinvent, out-figthing on two legs, or four legs or on six legs for that matter. But once in awhile we, are awfully easy. Take potash, one of the three absolutely necessary elements In raising food. Before the war we bought our supply from the potash trust in Germany. During the war we delved a lot and found that In one district In California there were deposits that would last this country 200 years. Certain rock in Wyoming will supply all our needs for 800 years. Green sands on the New Jersey seashore contain enough potash for the eastern country But experience showed indefinitely. that all wer more expensive to mine than are the German beds. . But we went at it After the war great talk came from Germany of selling potash to Xmerica for f 40 a ton. We bit. As the best price the American potashers could offer was $125 a ton,' we refused to ... . 11' a v. ..w g d. ... " j The American plants had, to shut down. Then, when th ships came in from Germany, we were Just knocked stiff to find that the price of the German potash was $150 a ton. That's all.. But the German potash trust paid a 20 per cent dividend this year, and told Ita stockholders that while It had sold potash below cost to German farmers, big profits were still forthcoming by reason of the high profits charged American farmers. Meanwhile our own potash deposits lie untouched, the Americas companies' workmen are Idle and money that could be spent In. this country and added to the national wealth is sent to some trust abroad with a jaw- breaking name. Potash is as dear as ever In Amer ica. And hardtq get at that because as little as possible is sent over here in order to keep the price up. Teddys "Best Chief" Goes Ttghet Since election day there has been disposition in other big cities to sneer at Cleveland the fifth city In size for electing a former chief of police to the exalted place of mayor. Jtiut it is not ireakisnness there s a reason. Back same fifteen or sixteen years ago; Theodore Roosevelt, then presl dent, rather shocked the conceited metropolitan cities with this declara tion: "The city of Cleveland has the TieBtcbTef of "police In "the United States." And Theodore knew. Be sides having been police commissioner of New York, he was himself in effect one of the best policemen the counr try ever had. All right.' A few years ago, this b$st chief rolicewas7nframed' orfThe force by unscrupulous politicians. As an answer the people of Cleveland elected him county commissioner twice by enormous majorities. Whereupon, he became the best county commissioner Cuyahoga county ever had. That's the record of Exhief of Po lice Fred Kohler, the newly elected mayor of Cleveland. , It is not freakishness for the people of a big city to elect a man to manage their affairs who has twice made good for them. They just simply voted for Kohler in expectation that he would turn out to be the best mayor V they ever had. ' ' . y HUGH REDWOOD. (Written for International News Service andLondoa Daily News.) !LONDL, Nov84 The harbor station at Ostend l$til! a place of desolation. I found it so on recent visit There is plenty o splinter jslass in its gaunt and the autumn wind blows coldly over its unprotected platforms. But as soon as the long train, with its great German engine and ita big. easy coaches pulls out over the sew and track you feel in your bones assuming that you are wise enough to leave Ypres out ofyour itinerary that you have come to f Land of Good Hope. - The carillon of Bruges echoes across a plain that was assuredly never more fertile and never better tilled. From the canal bank Reside Ihe worksof La Brugoisv which the Germans stripped bare of their machinery, I listened to the bells playing German music one Sunday morning; and later, as I traversed lhe whole hreadth. of Bel gium and sought generally la ain, for traces of the war it seemed to me that the carilloneur must be. something of a symbolist For Belgium is steadily setting her self to forget the war. Her ideals of today , are peace with her neighbors and witbra her own gates. To attain these ends she must trade, to trade art-ade- well-lai- " she must work, and she is working as, I verily believe, no other country is working. , .. .Forces of the Future. In Ghent and in Brussels they Im and pressed upon me that communal effort are to be the forces of the future. Bolshevism in Belgium was stillborn Labor is sane and '7 soundly disciplined. I talked with the editor of the offi cial Labor newspaper in a room that itself told me almost as much- - as he There was a portraits place of honor on the wall. Not of Lenin, not even of Em He npt of Karl Marx, Vandervelde, the Belgian apostle of co-operation, - but of William Morris, whose dream' was of a world made beautiful by and for the workers. r On the way from Brussels to Liege the express steamed into a lofty sta tion, bright with the morning sun shine streaming through a clean glass roof on to paint still cleaner, thronged with busy people, hunmung with the throttled energy of half a dosen trains at its dosen platforms. Outside there was a pulse in the air as of a mighty loom, and through the mist one caught fleeting glimpses of vast modern factories in process of erection. Everything was eloquent of life and labor. From the railway, at any rate, not one sihgie-thingwas visible to recall the years of war andTuln. stay! There was just one. It was the name board in the station, which had been left unpainted, apparently of set purpose. On- - the - faded -- and scaling wood one might faintly discern, in German characters, the word Lowen. For this was Louvain. The Motto of Liege. ' I At Liege, for a matter of 21-2in : money, one may spend an hour or so upon the broad bosom of the Metis. The Lieois have no eyes, it would seem, for ail that one tees, no ears for all that one hew, on the steamer trip to Seniug; yet, in the ceaseless- - ring ot hammers, upon new steel, in the endless extensions of iron works, motor works, glass works and the like there Is a lesson for the whole-o- f r - ' Europe.: Long live ourselves Is the slogan ot Liege. The hotel keepers act up to it in one way; the workers in another . " and better. One disembarks at the Passerelle, and is faced almost Immediately with an Inscription on a wall tablet: "In this square, on the night of August 20. 1914, the Germans, is Hard Up Ex-Kais- er is obliaed to live on money forwarded from Germany, for which he must first j e ni gef Dutch gulden. . who.' notwithstanding" & The the low rate of the mark, shows great Interest, in charitable institutions in Germany as. well as in Holland, continues the statement, sees himself compelled to economize as much as possible and to decline requests reachGermany asking for ' reing him from ' ' lief. As a fitting and suitable climax to this the Dutch papers learn that "ten members of Jhe staff at Doom will be dismissed at the end of Ihe month. hitrntlonal News Rervlc. LONDON, Nov. 23. The is "hard up." His court marshal officially says so and, in a statement issued by him at his residence at Doom, pointy o"uV thegfavorable condition oOhrormerTliperor's exchequer. Owing to the fact that all the properties wfthe Hohenzollern family included inMhe private fortune cf the and Qtber members of the imperial family "have bee t seized by the Prussian government and that the negotiations Tetween;tfce crown and the state have pot net been successhe ssfj'S, fully concluded, the rp; t 3 franchises; its values and rates established by official authority, and its securities licensed for sale bv 'the JEstate of Utah. t. , - - If you place your savings, small or large, in the"divf--- l g shares of this necessary enterprise you dend-earnin- enable the industry to expand and you secure to self a high rate of return on your investment. . . By OSCAR WENDEROTH Formerly Supervising Architect of the U. S. Treasury Department. , and builders In New ARCHITECTS have Jmt discovered tLat - Use the coupon below to learn our easy payment plan whereby you may invest in small as well as large " '. amount. .. i. a '' building frontinc op four I treeti la a law unto itself as regards , height regulations. For the first time since July it, 191$, when these regula-ttowere put in force, a building is eetng erected which takes advantage ( the moat important exception In the rulea. To avoid entirely shutting out - 5h cub from the streets of New Tork lheinewjejght regulations Bay that in eertain sonea a building may rise from , the street liie to a height one and half times, two times, or two and a i half times the width of the street In ' the Time Square sone the regulation sas that a building may rise to a height of twice the width of the street. The exception to this Is the Hotel Commonwealth, now being built on the block between 65th and 66th Streets, Broadway and Seventh Avenue.. Covering, .aa it does, an entire block, this building is a law unto It- -t self. It la an exception to the 200 foot law of Its sone, and Is allowed to rise two and a quarter times the width of the street In Its case, Seventh Avenue, one hundred feet wide, is the standard and the street walls of this hotel,, which is to be the greatest In the world, will rise 225 feet above the sidewalk. The law supposes a line floor. The design of the hotel, with Its' crawn irora me center or eevenia Ave- - z,5uu rooms, win mass It one or tne nue to the top of this ZZ6 root wall handsomest structures la ' the city, and prolonged Indefinitely as shown in Bult on the principle, the sketch. All the rest of the struc- - .with close to one hundred thousand ture must be within this line and for .owners, tt will be a permanent monu- that reason the additional stories of ment to what may be accomplished by the hotel will be arranged in a series the banding together of people fori I terraces ending at the thirtieth their common good. Ml) ni mm f : Gas & PROVO, UTAH t j s -- 'is e "EVERY PATROfl A" FARTHER" INQUIRY COUPON - , Date. V......: j... I would like to receive, without obligation, more information concerning the investment you have to offer. -. Name .. ... . City. . ... i .' . . . ......... Address... .v.. cnnnisntinins-nnnnn- . .,. .v.v;r Telephone...... r Only iTake Advantage of TMs. Qiaimce to Get a with- ELECTRIC RANGE At an Enormous Reduction! ''.-- , Contrite because of wrongs we ve did, repentant knees we bend, well- knowain that no deeds is hid from the blessed Lord, our friend, . . . Con- siderin what he'd done for us, our best is but meager py. Let's tell him thin gliwI'Thanks- wj, in harmony plus, ' gtviu' Day.- VR. OWN' UXCLS JOHN. ' Our great ' .' ': " ' at that price. g 3ft " stock-udngj3a- le present' stock-a- our soon aa any one model is sold out there will be no more : - If you BUY NOW you can get your plain or nickel finish . ' choWoflnalllt r Save $26 to $85 are offering every style and type of Hughesrange at enormous reductions. Buy now and save a big proportion of the purchase price. You get 10 per cent additional discount for cash. If you want to pay by the month' ' you canTiave your choice of these wonderful ranges for only We H. POHj A THANKSGIVIN' HYMN.' When ripeness crowns the fruitful fields, and the bins has took, their toll, a million comforts stand revealed to cheer our inmost sour. And so, this fittln' hour has come to doff our lids and say. "These blessins' pure from a Higher Power inspires Thanks- , , glvin' Day. We ain't been what we might abeen. such weaklings are we, nor ' realised the state we're in, so clost to eternity! And therefore it becomes unwell, with these poor forms ot clay, to sanctify the place we dwell with a glad TO WW na" Day. i Building Receives Special1 Allowances Under . Rules Restricting Sky Scrapers. - .. ""'t the-time- TbantfcKiYjn' - On this line we suggest the 8 Per' Cent Cumulative Preferred Shares of the Utah Valley Gas & Coke pany. Thi&.is a local enterprise and an established essential utility growing by steady and gratifying yearly increases. It is a fundamental necessity bow in half the homes of Provo, Springville and Spanish Fork - It bids for the same consideration in the other homes of thesedties.:ilt ia An industrj', existing andperatin? right under your own eyes. It hot only is here to stav but it is growing ever larger. It is secured by public Blocl-squar- e and shot eighteen people." Nobody that I saw lifted an eye to intent upon it The crowds hurry by, stalls the astonishingly cheap along the quays. At half past eight in the morning I found myself purchasing a trinket at a jeweler's shop In the Place de Meir the Regent street of Antwerp. There had been several other customers before me.. "You open early, I said to the proprietor. pUedwltn-su- r. L'Mansieur,L ha prising earnestness'lt is .my way of protecting against ihe tendencies of I open at 8 a. m. some times earlier and I close at 10 p.. m. sometimes later. And no week-end- s (this, very pointedly, in English). But what would you? To work, and to work hard is ourtmly hope, 1 was a working Jeweler.'now 4 haveny wn shop and am my own shop assistant I work as long as I please. "The eight, hours day! The six hours, day? In another "ten years' time, when we nave earned our IttlKitr Till ihun na mVn marlac JOILTS - New York's Height Laws out provocation, burnt twenty houses OLE -- In making your investments do you consider- basic fact that mutual improvement is the first el! ment to secure? If the benefits from your investment are not reciprocal, if they lo not accrue o Wh th and to yourself you have misplaced vonr enterprise : funds. ' J i t Trying-Ou- . U4W DOWN and easy monthly pay- - . ments these easy terms put our big bargains in ranges within the reach ofeveryoner-- Get the rangr you have longed for now. , - WE MUST REDUCE OUR STOCK there has been no cut in the manufacturers prices. We have a very large stock of Hughes ranges which we must move quickly, and we are taking the loss to do it Our necessity is your great chance to get a Hughes range at a price that will never be duplicated. - - As soon as our stock of any style Hughes is reduced there will ho oi tnat style at this low price. So BUY NOW. .Come in and investigate .these bargains or phone or write for our representative call it will absolutely no obligation on your part1 " - - . . - . - - UTAH PO WER S: LIGHT COMPANY Efficient u Public Service1! |