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Show THE BULLETIN FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1938 THE SUGARIIOUSE BULLETIN A WEEKLY PUBLICATION Printed at 2044 South Utb East Sugarhsuse, Utah Issued every Friday p. m. Sualneaa Office and Plant at 2044 South 11th East Advertising Kates on Application O. C. CONNIFF, Publisher Salt Lake City, Utah . Phone copy for newa Items and events of Interest to The Bulletin" or Commercial Printing Company Hyland 384. In the office Copy for newa Items, aoclal and sport activities, must be In tlx following Issue of not later than noon Wednesday, for publication "The Bulletin." . COMMENTS MERCHANDISING The suburban community is a merchandising, social and cultural center. It serves the people of the community, and of the It creates real estate values for both section surrounding it. These real estate values provide for town and farm property. are supported by taxes. which schools and government Of these three functions of the suburban community the first essential is that of a merchandising center. Without the places in which to buy and sell, without merchandising facilities, the business would not long1 exist, and with its passing would go property values, both in the community and surrounding section. The stores, banks, newspapers and all things which make for a social and cultural life for tne people would, in time, disappear. There is a continuous effort to centralize merchandising in Merchants and mail order houses are seeking the the cities. trade of all the people those of the suburbs, towns, and farms Their efforts, and are succeeding to a very considerable extent. convenient and and automobiles cheap supported by good roads, bus transportation, have been responsible for the death of hundreds of suburban centers whose merchants did not offer reasonable or successful competition. These sections died because the centproperty holders and residents and those of the surrounding comthe of what themselves to value ers did not appreciate the munity provided. EMPLOYS BOX CARS FOR HOBO CHAPELS Sky Pilot of Rails Tells of Seven Years Work. Pueblo, Colo. Robert I. Bell, itin- buildings of any single faith. For seven years Bell, who calls himself the sky pilot of the rails, has been conducting services among the nations professional transients. Any box car is his chapel his congregation the thousands of hoboes and drifters who frequent "jungles over the country. He has lived in vacant lots and groves near railroad yards where their temporary hoboes ..make homes. He has brewed coffee and mulligan in tin cans around their open Area. Knowing the language, habits, and problems of the hobo, Bell is respected and has influence among them. His mission, however, is not so much concerned with those hardened men who have been on the road for years. He is interested more in the young boys who wander aimlessly over the country and who, he says, invariably get into trouble. He tries to rehabilitate them and send them home. Being a "box car bishop" is not an easy job, Bell pointed out. He came to Pueblo because a distraught mother in Kansas City asked him to hqlp find her son. The system he uses is simple and effective. He has little trouble making friends with the men. One of his first questions to the hobo is: "If son and you you had a knew he was down in these jungles, what would you do? Invariably the answer, phrased in strong language, is: "Id come down here after him in a hurry." Bell carries a portable typewriter, kit and small a Boy Scout first-ai- d leaflets of the books of the Bible. Although wandering about the hobo jungles has resulted many times in dangerous situations, Bell said the men usually are and sympathetic. ten-year-o-ld British Motor Magnate Gives Away 50 Millions London. Lord Nuffield, motor magnate, passed the $50,000,000 mark in his philanthropic activities when he donated nearly a million dollars to the Oxford and District Joint Hospitals board recently. Lord Nuffield frequently is referred to as the Rockefeller of England because of his charitable gif'.s. Last year he disposed of more than $30,000,000 in less than a month. In November he gave to the distressed areas, following a few days later by placing another $10,000,000 of his motor company stock in trust for his employees. Three weeks later he donated another $10,000,000 to Oxford university for medical research. In addition to his known donations of $50,000,000 it is believed many other millions have been given away during recent years. Amounts under $50,000 are handed out so frequently that they are not mentioned. Lord Nuffields career haa closely paralleled that of Henry Ford. Like Ford, he got his start in a bicycle shop. Today cars bearing his name are found in all parts of the empire. multi-millionai- re $10,-000,0- 00 PERILOUS SPORT OF Reunion Recalls Days of the Famous X1T Ranch. Wild Boar Hunting Is Being Tried Out in South. DARK AGES REVIVED Dalhart, Tex. If youve ever wondered how cattle brands were born, listen to the story of the X1T ranc-h- , whose former employees rein reunion here. met cently During the 180s a Chicago syndicate acquired 3,000,000 acres of west Texas range land in exchange for building the huge red granite Texas capitol building in Austin. The syndicate commissioned "Barbecue Campbell, first XIT foreman, to buy an entire outfit cattle, horses and chuck wagons. With one outfit came Ab Blocker, greatest of the Texas trail drivers. I need a brand, said Campbell. "One that will be hard for a rustler to change and one that can be made-wita single iron bar." Blocker thought a moment, then traced a design on the ground with his boot heel. "Hows that?" he asked. It was the XIT, designed to become famous throughout the cattle, country. XIT cattle roamed literally millions of acres and the exploits of its cowboys were known throughout the area. XIT has no cattle now and its ranges have been made into small plots and sold. The syndicate now has only a few thousand acres of land and that, too, is being sold. Its however, have now formed an association which meets every year to swap stories about the old days. Many stories concern "Barbecue Campbell, the foreman. Once he needed a smoke and didnt have one, so he ordered a whole carload of brown cigarette papers. old-time- Skipper Flays Softies; Radios Keep Them Ashore Halifax, N. S. Bluenose sailor-medescendants of the iron men who sailed wooden ships fifty years ago, are a thing of the past, in the opinion of Captain Angus Walters, skipper of the most famous of all Historian Says Era Is Nova Scotia fishing vessels, the LuFavorable to Great Men nenburg Banker Bluenose. "The pleasure-lovin- g generation New London, Conn. The present of softies, bunch a are of today some great men, commented the man who took comage may produce according to Dr. Dumas Malone, mand of the Bluenose when director of the Harvard University launched in 1921 and has helped her press and for five years of the Dictionary of American keep her title of queen of the North Atlantic fishing fleet ever since. Biography, who has made some inThe future of the fishing industry teresting generalizations based on in Nova Scotia was threatened by a statistics from his work on the dicof young men willing to shortage tionary. He said engineers, inventors and dare the hardships and dangers of businessmen are making places for bank fishing, the Bluenose skipper themselves beside the soldiers, writ- declared in an interview here. He did not know if this shortage was ers and politicians of old. "Achievements fit public life cer- caused by the prospect of poor returns from fishing or whether it tainly will not decline," Dr. Malone was effects of our said, "but it seems likely that we eeking just the age," he said. will produce a greater proportion of Automobiles, radios, dance music artistic and literary works than forand other distractions had lured the merly. "The present age is one of intense young men away from the sea, he added. vitality. It is in dynamic times such as these that great things are done. Those who will become famous are Campus Dog Pledged to most probably those who are alignGreek Letter Fraternity ing themselves with important modis Columbus, Ohio. "Bismarck ern trends, end losing themselves in he been has but a Just dog, plain . combination . The of a dythem . namic period such as ours and a pledged by an Ohio State university man of great talent and vitality fraternity, and thus becomes the only canine in the world officially might bring remarkable results. affiliated with a Greek letter organization. Furniture Making Haa No The lanky, tan dog, living at the Zeta Beta Tau house, is well known Its Bar for Workers Age by. a majority of the students and Grand Rapids. Theres one inon the campus here. He dustry that doesnt throw a man on professors the scrap heap because of age. Its has been loyal to Zeta Beta Tau since last winter when he was furniture manufacturing. "An artisan doesnt really begin picked up, freezing and Bismarck nearly caused his frato get good until he turns the to sever diplomatic relations ternity mark." Thats the consenwith the girls sorority. Alpha Epsus of manufacturers here. In a plant with 164 workers, 27 silon Phi, recently. Walking into the dog the feminine per cent are between sixty and seven- was ordered headquarters, of the coone out by 45 cent between ty-six, per fifty In another, hiring eds, who later admitted she. did not and she was addressing such an 189, 17 per cent are between sixty-on- e realize personage. important Those are fairly and sixty-fivevery Zeta Beta Tau Immediately, typical percentages. in rose anger and stalked present Most of the older employees are wood carvers and turning laths out of ..the house, behind their canine Before the injured men. Many have stood at the same bench 50 years or mare. And most brothers would return, they asked suitable apolfor, and received, of them own their tools, an investment of from $250 to $500 in itself. ogy. editor-in-chi- erant preacher, has more churches In this country than the combined TELLS HOW CATTLE BRANDS WERE CORN n, ef pleasure-s- half-starve- d. half-centu- ry fifty-nin- e. e. pledge-brother- Celery Traced Back to the Ancient Egyptians The ancient Egyptians are credit- ed with the growing of celery long before the coming of Christ. However, the white, crisp vegetable that we have on our dinner table is used in a different way. Where we enjoy eating it, the Egyptians used it in their funeral rites. According to Information from a breeding institute, Egyptologists found a garland of it on the breast of a mummy of the twentieth dynasty discovered at Sheikh - abd - el Kureh, near Thebes. This would make it approximately 3,000 years old. The celery which we eat resembles wild celery which thrives all over Europe and Asia. However, wild celery is slightly acrid in taste. Ancient records of this vegetable are rather indefinite. So it is doubtful if celery was cultivated for eating purposes until the Middle ages. It is supposed that the Selinon mentioned by Homer in the Odyssey was wild celery. Dioscorides distinguished forms of the plant. Much later, in 1629, Parkinson wrote that "sellery was rare in England. Apparently the garden vegetable was introduced into Great Britain from , Italy. Italy probably began New Species of Diatoms Found in Drinking Water Chicago. To Field Museum of Natural History there has come from Harbin in Manchukuo news of the discovery in Chicago's drinking water of a number of new species of diatoms previously unknown to science. These were discovered by Dr. B. V. Skvortzow, who is engaged at Harbin in a comprehensive study r diatoms of the of the world. Several months ago the department of botany at Field Museum collected, by use of a filter, a quantity of sediment from ordinary Chicago tap water and forwarded it to Doctor Skvortzow, who sent back a description of seventeen different kinds of diatoms. Diatoms, it is explained by Dr. B. E. Dahlgren, chief curator of botany at the museum, belong to the group of minute aquatic plants known as algae. They possess a siliceous external skeleton or covering which is the part ordinarily studied. The skeletons are highly varied in form, but in general resemble a pillbox in shape, and frequently are marked with elegant sculpturing or intricate patterns of dots and lines. Therefore, they ore favorite test objects for the microscope. fresh-wate- - Washington. Uncle Sam himself is reviving the sport of kings. Not horse racing, but something a great deal more exciting and hazardous. Back when plumed knights wielded lance and sword for ladies fair the sport of kings was the wild boar hunt. This savage and stout hearted adversary was a true test of royal xnettle and royalty carefully protected this beast with the great razor sharp tushes. Norman kings once forbade anyone to kill wild boars without royal permission. The penalty was to put the culprits eyes out. . The first experimental wild boar hunt last fall down in the Tellico Plains, Tenn:, district of the Cherokee national forest worked out successfully and another was arranged for this fall, Jpst the Thing for a King. The reason for these hunts is that boars are becoming too numerous in Haleys Hell and. other wilderness sections of the national forest a condition that would have warmed the royal hearts of Henry II (1154-8and Charles I U625-49In those days Englishmen and Frenchmen hunted ' the boar on horseback, with the help of beaters and great boarhounds. The beaters would go ahead into brush, trying to stir up the boars. Trained dogs were held back until one waa sighted. A dog unskilled in the art of boar fighting would rush in and be ripped to ribbons by the quick turn of the tusks. In Germany the boars were hunted by sportsmen on foot, armed with short, strong spears and aided by large hounds. When a hunter approached the boar often would attack. The hunter would either spear it or wait for it to rush onto the point of his weapon. Take the Place of Bears. British sportsmen in Bengal liked to go bear spearing until the beginning of the Nineteenth century, when bears became scarce. Thee they decided to hunt wild boars and found the experience just as thrilling. They called it The boars in India are of a large species. One of the largest hoars ever recorded in India was killed in 1927 in the Gogra Kandir jungles by the Fyzabad Tent club. It measured 37 inches at the withers and weighed 325 pounds. Nevertheless, it really was not any larger than one killed near the Tennessee-Nort- h Carolina line by Ben Ellis. His trophy also weighs . Utahns in the National Capitol Wendell B. Anderson . 7) ). g. 325 pounds. Buckthorn Sometimes Is Called the Christ-Tho- m The buckthorn is one of a very large family whose members grow all over the world. Some of them have long and interesting histories, but only a few of them live up to the family name by producing thorns, says a writer in the Chicago Tribune. Probably the most famous va' ricty is the Asia Minor pean buckthorn, Which is sometimes called the Christ-thorIt get its name from the legend that the crown of thorns which Christ was forced to wear was made from this shrub. English, writings in the Eleventh century mention the buckthorn (also known as waythorn or Hartshorn) and its uses in medicine. Welsh physicians in the Thirteenth century used to advise that the juice of the buckthorn berry be mixed with honey end taken as an aperient drink. Cne of the most interesting relatives of the common buckthorn is the species wh'ch grows in the western states. The Indians like the dark berries of the western buckthorn, which is unique in that it is said to color the body of anyone who cats the berries. Soldiers fighting Apaches in the early days reported they found Indians whose bodies were red from gorging on the buckthorn berries. The buckthorn's use in medicine is not its only recommendation. Its small greenish-yelloflowers are especial'y favored by the bees; goats, sheep, end horses like to eat the berries, although cows refuse to touch them. Gathered before they are ripe, the berries make a yellow dye used for staining papers ar.d maps. A different shade of yellow dye is prepared from the bark of the buckthorn, and the ripe berries make a green pigment when mixed with other ingredients. To the landowner, farmer, and outdoor fan the buckthorn is a decorative shrub which bears an attractive purple berry in the fall and keeps its waxy green leaves until very la!e in the season. and-Euro-- , n. w tariff no-tl- one Tariff, tariff, tariff epitomizes era of our national existence Just as "wagon wheels roll along" expresses 1 the epoch of the Mormon hegira the plains and over the dividef to Utah, and the gold rush to Call- -' a-- fornla. The tariff warcry is now the fadBy no means ing echo of the past. la the tariff less important than for- a merly but a "light rather than "he at approach has subrogated science for chaos. The United States Tariff Commission waa created in 1916 in response to a persistent and widespread popular demand for a source of accurate and unbalaed information relating to the tariff and for a sounder and more modem procedure in tariff making. An earlier attempt to establish an agency to examine the administration oil the customs laws and the effects of tariffs upon industries and trade bad been terminated in 1912 by failure to appropriate funds for Its maintenance. However, during its short life the Tariff Board 1909-1- 2 produced some Interesting reports containing factual data and information addressed to specific tariff problems. These reports, prepared by a special and Independent agency of the Government, stood out in sharp contrast to the information the Congress was accustomed to receive from parties having direct financial Interests in the tariff legislation under consideration. Belated recognition of the value of such reports, as typified by those relating to wool and to ths cotton Industries, provided a strong argument In favor of establishing a permanent Tariff Commission. co ss ab as Commissioner after 2 years as economist on the Staff. REPRESENTS WEST Commissioner Brossard is the only person on the Commission representing the great Intermountain section of the country and its important tariff problems. Although he is a republican he haa the confidence of the democratic members of the Congress EDGAR B. BROSSARD from this section as well as that of The Tariff Commission Is one of their republican colleagues. They call the most Important Independent on him for facts about the tariff just boards of the Federal Government as the republicans do and they all Utah haa been represented by Com- get the same carefully prepared and missioner Brossard for the past 14 substantiated factual information years, or during the two thirds of its without any political coloring. life and the period of Its greatest Dr. Brossard looks upon his job as one of research and In growth, usefulness, and Influence. Dr. Edgar B. Brassard Introduced accordance with the law as It exists. himself into this mundane sphere on He says: "Congress determines the April Fools Day, forty eight years tariff policy, not the Tariff Commisago. His daddy had to pay a dollar sion. The Commission Is an independoctor bill but no tariff. Edgar was dent body of research workers that born in Oxford, but since he has no have no power whatever to change English accent, we strongly suspect the law or the tariff policy stated In that It must have been a cattle ranch the. Therefore the work of the ComIn Oxford, Idaho. mission under a democratic adminis- The father of Dr. Brossard comei tratlon la according to from an old French family. The first the law Just as it is under a republiof ths name, Antoine de Brossard, can administration.' lived at LaFleche, Province of AnBecause of tho charactjou in France In 1298. From Brittany er of the Commission itself, the scitho family was soon established In entific character of Its work, and beNormandy and a little later through- cause of his long experience and out France In the Provinces of Anjou, familiarity with all phases of the Chanpagne, Maine, Orleans, Picardie, work of the Commission as well as Poi&u, Touralne and soon In with the agricultural, industrial, la1653 a Brossard came to Montreal, bor, and consumers tariff problems and since then Brassards have been and the Intermountain West, Dr. established in America . . . Alphonse Brossard should be retained on the A. Brossard, father of Edgar B., was Commission as long as he can be r. French Catholic who came to Monto stay. He is just as dilipersuaded tana, Idaho, and Utah in 1864, when gent In supplying the facts to Presihe was but eighteen years old. He dent Roosevelt as he was to Presipioneered In mining, freighting, dairy- dents Coolidge and Hoover and to ing, and cattle ranching . . . Edgars Senators King and Thomas of Utah mother was Mary C. Hobson, who as to Former Senator Smoot. Naturdecended from early Mormon pio- ally such distinguished and highly neers. Intelligent persons as Presidents and It Is apparent that Dr. Brossara Senators are entirely responsible for by his birth in the United States and the use that each makes of the facts his European ancestry is a typical and information presented. But they American mixture. His progenitors have all learned that they can rely in a direct line were French, Ger- absolutely upon and have complete man, English .Irish, and Welch, and confidence in the facta presented by he himself is a native born Ameri- the Tariff Commission aa a body and can a combination of Northern and by Commissioner Brossard individuSouthern States. ally. That is an achievement of no LIFE SHOULD BEGIN IN FORTY mean merit about a question so conSince Alf Landon has eliminated troversial as the tariff. himself from future Potomac Politics, But that is a condition which has your acrlbber Is going to suggest for come gradually thru the growth and whom Life Should Begin in Forty. independence of the Tariff CommisProper technique suggests that ths sion as a name be reserved until the oratory agency and the proved Integrity of is over, but you already have a thou- (Continued on Page 5) fact-findi- ng fact-findi- ng ... fact-findin- Station W-A-N- Five Kinds of Tonnage Used by Large Vessels Vessel tonnage Bhould not be confused with cargo tonnage. A cargo weight ton is 2,240 pounds, while a cargo measurement ton is 40 cubic feet. A vessel measurement ton is 100 cubic feet. The carrying capacity of ships is limited by the amount of measurement space available within their holds and by the amount of weight they can safely carry. This is called register or deadweight tonnage, respectively. The five kinds pf vessel tonnage, sand years of Brassard history. At any rate it Is Important to that Dr. Brassard selected the right college and the moat challenge jng subject. lie received a B. S. in Economics from the Utah State Agri-crocujturai college (any Boo disagreement?) in 1911 Three years were then spent in Europe as the first president of the French Mission for tho Mormon Church. Dr. Brossard was subsequently the first person to be granted a Ph. D. in Agricultural Economics at the of June 1920. Minnesota, University Thereafter he taught Economic Theory, History of Economic Doctorine. and various aspects of Agricultural Economica to Utags, and was head of the Department of Agricultural Economlos and Farm Management, and was In charge of Experiment research work in these fields. Yet bis Interest in the farmer has not made him a Physiocrat; his Interest in sweets hasnt made him a Mercantilist and after all Tugwell has gone In for sweets too. THREE PRESIDENTS Since joining the T. C., Dr. Brassard haa worked directly with three Presidents, namely, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was Chairman In 1930, and Is the senior member of the commission, having served 12.5 years g, -T Calling If you have anything to Sell, Trade, Exchange or Rent; or rent a place, buy a place, or need anything, let the public know in this Department PHONE THE BULLETIN" W-A-N- -T Hyland 364 |