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Show THE PRQVO HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1922. . THE PROVO HERALD - TTH 2.500.000 Mil Published by The Herald Company, Proro, Utah. EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY. E. C. Rodgers, Editor and Publisher. 01 Harry Butler, Circulation Manager. J. A. Owens, Advertising Manager. Intermountain Advertising Representative, Leo L. Levin, Ness Bldg., Salt Lake Entered as second class mail matter June 6, Provo, Utah, under the act of March i, 1879. 3.S0 Subscription price . IMUPH 111, at the postofflce, the year, 30 (pptjriqht The report to the Federal Trade Our local merchants might wisely commission made to the senate and give somo consideration to the recommendation of the National Commission charging practlcaUy a price plot on the of the Associated Advertising Clubs of part of the three leading tobacco manuthe World, which recently passed a facturers in their operations with the resolution strongly favoring the estabJobbers, has aroused more than usual lishing of a C. O. D. postage permit in all parts of the country, plan. Under the plan, direct by mail interest advertisers may send out return en- particularly in the tobacco growing velopes and cards to prospects with a states, and more particularly among permit notice printed in place of a the tobacco growers themselves. stamp. The return matter can then All the facts are not yet available, be mailed and the permit holder pay the postage upon delivery. Merchants so it would be unfair to suggest either in towns such as ours are likely to be criticism or praise of the work of the lured Into a dangerous trap if they commission. It is quite evident, how permit such a plan to go through with- ever, that a large-sizemonkey wrench out protest. They may see only that has been thrown into the tobacco ma they may use the scheme themselves, tobut direct by mail advertising is as chinery. The discontent of the limited as It is ineffective in the bacco growers will not be lessened by smaller communities. On the other the findings of the commission, and of hand, such a plan would mean the course the multitudinous most sweeping invasion of the coun- elements in all sections of the country try by the mail order houses that ever will take full advantage of the situahas been known. The mail order men tion. The tobacco growers contend the would save hundreds of thousands of dollars, which could then be put Into prices they are paid for the leaf as intensive campaigns to take trade and compared with the prices the public money from the home town. The mer- pays for the finished product are out chants know they can serve our peo- of all proportion, and this brings the ple quite as well and quite as econ- manufacturers dangerously near the omically as any mall order house in nether millstones. News reports indithe world, and that the buyer can cate a determined effort to have the actually see the articles being bought public study the figures so there may and get prompt delivery, but the cata- be a protest loud and long regarding logue offers of the mall order spe- the price of a smoke. The Federal Trade commission has cialists are painted In alluring colors, and when they, can be put out with- not yet made any definite statement out the danger of waste for lost stamps as to the profits of the manufacturers, affixed, local trade will dwindle in but the issue must be squarely faced. Fairness to the tobacco companies deevery community. This whole matter will rest in the mands that the findings on profits be hand3 of the new postmaster general, given to the public at the earliest posand If the merchants are wise they sible moment Great concerns like the will lose no time In calling his atten- American Tobacco company, Liggett tion to the gravity of such a ruling so & Myers and the P. Lorillard company now under such vigorous attack should far as local trade is concerned. Merchants in several towns tin- - not be subject to the Injury of a half They must doubtedly will take this matter tip, completed indictment. , to no less than entitled and are our to not add pro-hurt would It and want, test to the others. The merchants the publication of the entire bill of parcan stand open competition from the ticulars. If, in addition to the allegamail order men, but they should not tions of price fixing there are, as be subjected to unfair advantage. The hinted, to come figures to show the money spent at home circulates and exploiting of the tobacco growers on returns to the spender. When it goes the one hand and of the public on the out of town it goes into the maw, of other, then there should be no delay the giant corporations that have little in their publication. The companies use for small communities except what should have early and full opportunity to clear themselves. they can get out of them. anti-tobacc- o MONEY-B- UY FOR CASH SAMUEL KOPP Lowest Prices. Phone 446- West Center. WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 4, 1922. b sack Patent Flour, extra special $1.10 sack Cracked Wheat 3S 3 pKgs. Quaker's Pancake Flour 35 Armour's Skinned Hams, extra quality, per lb 33 New shipment Picnic Hams, lb 20 New shipment Smoked Bacon Squares, lb 30 Sauer Kraut, our own make, lb 10 2 lbs. Fresh Honeycomb Tripe 25d 125 C Fresh Buttermilk, per gallon 2 pkgs. Raisins, Seeded or Seedless 43 , 3 lbs. Prunes, fresh stock 40 2 lbs. Full Cream Cheese 45 2 lbs. Good Ranch Butter G5 2 lbs. Creamery Butter 85 2 lbs. Nut Butter (Oleo) 55 Fresh Salmon, lb 2S Fresh Halibut, Lb 28 Fiesh Sablefish. lb 20 Fresh Ctafish, lb 20 Fresh Herring, lb 15 Fresh shipment Finnan Haddie, lb .30 (... Large Fat Fresh Oysters, lb 70 450 3-l- 9-l- b. bright yellow, coming up to them suddenly, "will you be a darling and come and talk to my French officer? The girls have all been practicing their Berlitz en blm, and he's almost losing his mind! Dick," added this matron, who hRd linked her arm about Harriet's waist, "for heaven's sake go clean up I Can't you find time to talk I've been to your wife at home? watching you for five minutes, getting my arms burned simply black will you come, Mrs. Carter? That's the poor soul, over there with Sarah. I don't know why I've had a French governess for that girt for seven years!" "To save the life of a fellow crea ture " Harriet said In her liquid French. She went off, laughingly, In the other woman's custody, Richard looked after them a moment. He saw them. Join the group of smiling girls and the harassed Frenchman ; saw the alien's face brighten as Harriet was introduced. A momept later a boy wffh a tennis racket dashed up to them, and there was a scattering in the direction of the courts. The girls surrounded the boy, and streamed away chattering. The matron in yellow came back to her card table. And Harriet, unfurling her parasol, deep in conversation with the captured soldier, sauntered slowly after the tennis players. The afternoon sunshine sent clean shadows across the clipped grass; the stretched blue siflt of Harriet's parasol threw a mellow orange light upon her tawny hair and saffron-coloregown. Richard had a child's desperate wish that he was dressed, and might run after them. But It was not at. the tennis that he looked, twenty minutes later, when he reached the courts; although' a brilliant play was being made, and there was a spattering of applause. Ills eyes instantly found Harriet's figure; she was still talking to the Frenchman, whose olive face was glowing with interest and admiration, and not more than eight Indies, Richard thought, from her corn. Harriet's own face wore the shadow of a smile, her lashes were dropped, and she was gently pushing the point of her closed parasol into the green turf. The chairs In which they sat had been slightly turned from the court. Richard engaged himself In conversation with two or three men and women who were watching the youngsters' game, and piesenuy found himself applauding his son for a brilliant ace. But after perhaps five minutes he walked quite without volition, straight to Harriet's neighborhood, and she rose at once, Introduced her new friend, and with a glance at her wrist, announced that she must go. "Ward said he would drive me home the instant It was over," said Harriet, clapping heartily for the triumphant finish of the set. "I'll drive you home!" Richard said, Instantly. "I've the small car." "Friday night !" Harriet smiled. For Friday night was the night for a men's dinner and poker game at the country club, and Richard usually liked to be there. "I can come hack !" he persisted, suddenly caring more for this concession than anything else in the world. Without another word she agreed, Lade her Frenchman what seemed to and when Richard a voluble good-by- , the bowing officer disappeared turned with a reminiscent smile. "And now what?" "Where did you learn to chatter Richard said. French that way?" leading the way to the line of parked d OPPORTUNITY Some cash and resources of not less than $10,000. Address P. 0. Box 1606, Salt Lake City, Utah. ill:::! ;it::!;;;:i;:i::i!:ni:;!i!::nn:-;;n- ; driveway. he suddenly, with .a side wise from his wheel. "I I want realize that I appreciate the inthe crudeness of my rushing In New Jersey that Christmas I realize that we all have imon taken you too for granted! I was In trouble, couldn't think of any other way out of it. But for any man to put a proposition like that to any woman " They were driving very slowly. He looked at her again, and met a wondering look In her beautiful eyes thut still further confused hiin. He had been uncomfortably conscious of an odd confusion in touching upon this subject at all. Yet his mind had been full of It all day. "I never felt .It so, I assure you I" Harriet said with her lucid, friendly look. Richard felt that there was more to say, but realized that he had selected an unfortunate time for these day. posed much and I you--we'- ve confidences. "I'm afra!d I've been extremely stupid In the matter," he Raid, feeling for Ms words. "I've gone about it To tell you the truth--i-Wclumsily. does that boy want?" It was Ward who was coming toward them across the green, with great springs and leaps, like some mountain animal. "Give us a lift!" shrieked Ward, flinging himself upon the car as its speed decreased. "Something Is the matter with my engine engine pectoris is what I call it! Father, Mr. Tom Grant expects you to dine at his table tonight, he said to remind you. And, Harriet, angel of angels, we will he about six or seven about the groaning board; Is that all right?" "I told Bottomley six or seven," Harriet said, serenely. "Ward, get In or get out," she added, maternally, "don't hang over the door in that way!" She had put her arm about the boy to steady him; they began to discuss tennis scores with enthusiasm. Richard drove the rest of the way home almost without speaking. He planned to see Harriet again that evening, and left the club at eleven o'clock, after an Incredibly dull game, with the definite hope that the youngsters would dance, or in some other way prolong the summer eveHis ning at least until midnight. heart sank when he reached Crown-landthe lower floor showed only the tempered lights that burned until the latest member of the family came In, and Bottomley reported that the young persons had gone upstairs at about half-pas- t ten, sir. It was now hat blood-curdlin- g s; half-pa- eleven. Richard debated sending Harriet a massage to the effect that he would like to see her for a moment. The flaw In this plan was thnt he could think of nothing about which there was the slightest necessity of seeing her. He felt restless and anything but sleepy, and glanced Irresolutely at the library door, and at the stairway. Suddenly uproar broke out upstairs; there were thumping feet, shrieks, wild laughter, and slamming doors. With a suddenly lightened heart Rlch- - her lungs with great breaths of the sweet air. "What an hour!" "What I meant to say to you up there on the porch," Richard said "when that that woman Interrupt ed large manufacturing company with a branch in Salt Lake City wants representation in Provo and vicinity. Business established. A splendid opportunity for someone with business ability. white I meant to say was this," motors. "Oh, we lived in Taris old Mrs Rogers and I," Harriet reminded him carelessly. And reaching the little rise of ground that lay between the clubhouse and the parking field, she stood still, looking off across the exquisite spread of fields and valleys. banded by great strips of woods, and flooded now by the streaming shadows Riid golden lights of the late afternoon. "What a day!" she said, filling A BUSINESS A oiT iE smoothly "What .added, fiance you to justice to you jij jjj jjj jjj jjj Z hrf. By W. H. ATKIN8, bq Kb to ley r? Horr i "firs. Carter? said a woman In J! crip to wt.m v. L Jacquelme Carpentier, The Provo Herald has the largest circulation of any newspaper published in Utah south and east of Salt Lake City. The Provo Herald's circulation is, we believe, SEVENTY PER 5ENT GREATER than that of any other newspaper circulating in SAVE ASSERTS HE 1850 Is It a Price Plot? HMci spring, Georges Carpentier. f!uEf I. N. Provo. u cnampion a mm - cento the month Sworn Circulation Our Merchants UAYBE SHE'LL SNUB DEMPSgY " Harriet herself interrupted with a laugh. "You say 'that woman' as If It was "Arrfy Hawkes Amy Hawkea Amy n bitter, deadly curse I" she said. Hawkes Come Into Courtl" Ward cat reached had the "Well" They Intoned. "Drunk and Disorderly!" now, and Richard was investigating the oil gauge and spark plugs under ard ran up the wide, square flight to the hood. "Well, a woman like that the landing. His sou, in pajamas that breaks in nothing to her!" he said were more or less visible beneath his with scorn, strlghtenlng up. streaming robe of Oriental silk, was "Yes, but at a country club?" Har- pirouetting about the upper hall with riet offered, placatlngly, as she got a siphon of soda water. Subdued Into the front seat, and tucked the p'cgles and smothered gasps indicated saffron-colorepongee robe suugly about the that the young ladies were somewhere gown. near, In hiding. Young Hopper, un"I suppose sol" He got In beside der Ward's direction, was Investigather; there was a moment of harking ing doors and alcoves. and wrenching tefore.. tlx1!' glided cut "Amy Havke Amy Hawkes Amy 8. Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 There are still 2,500,000 whiskey drinkers in the United States, according to Prohibition Commissioner Haynes. Mr. Haynes estimates that out of the estimated 2,500,000 regular whiskey drinkers, at least 1,000,000 are in the class .of old drinkers, who imbibe almost at will, and as freely as pocket-book- s will stand, under prices of beverage liquor that are well nigh prohibitive for the average man with average earnings. But against this admission, it must be remembered that Commissioner Haynes recalls that in the old wet days there were 20,000,000 liquor drinkers in the United States. He figured that 17,500,000 drinkers have quit And he believes that of those who now find it possible or practicable to imbibe in beverage intoxicants, those of that class are consuming only 5 per cent of the quantity they were accustomed to drink in the days. When the rosy reports of "dry" directors go into the filing cabinets and tours of personal observation are made it has not required officials long to discover that the country has far to go ibefore a state of dryness that prohibition enthusiasts had hoped for can be an actual fact. As the days of law enforcement wear on their weary way these things still stand out: Bribery of public officials influenced in liquor matters has become common enough to not excite any special alarm; smuggling of imported liquors over coast routes keeps up in undiminished volume; liquor fleets are increasing their areas'of operations against opposition from gov ernment craft that is practically neg ligible; illicit distilling is growing at a startling rate; and! bootlegging has taken on something of the earmarks of achievement, legal or otherwise, if one judges alone the ease with which boot leggers defeat 4he processes of the courts and the aims of law enforcers. The whiskey handlers have kept the whiskey avenues open, and probably even the prohibition chiefs can only guess, with their limited facilites for detectng the sources, just how much illicit liquor is flowing over the coun-- ' try. None have arisen to deny many of Prohibition Commissioner Haynes' statements that less liquor, is used since the saloon days, or that the health regard of the country is better, the death rate less and that perhaps the former drinkers are more prosper-ou- t than in the old more or less care, free days. ' s v'r taken fhi, " : $ AurocAsroj ury on the opening sight attracted a common attention to the largest theIn the dullest week of the theatrical ater in the world, and $10,000 was wst tioned as the proceeds of the raid. year, when theatergoers were thinking more of Christmas shopping than they The college enrollment of the B. 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They climbed up our porch, after they swore to Harriet thnt sound they " wouldn't make another Harriet now appeared In the hallway, her hair falling In a braid over her shoulder, and the long lines of the black robe she wore giving her flgare an unusual effect of height. She did not see Richard immediately, for she had eyes only for Ward, as she caught his shoulder, and took away the siphon. here," she said, "Now, Ward-rlo-ok sternly. "Whst sort of honor do you call tills I Half an hour ago I thought all this nonsense was (topped. Shame on you ! Those girla promised me" She saw Richard, and laughed, the color flooding her face. (Continued Our Motto: "QUALITY and SERVICE" 375 West Center. Phone 164. n next Issue.) Suprior Gasoline par M Superior Motor Co. |