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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD FABLESGEORGE IN ADE SLANG By Bell Syndicate WNU Service Son Became the Pearl King How a Macaroni Maker TOBA, The arrival of the Washingtonfirst robin does not .guarantee the - immediate arriv-Th-e of spring but when the first robBolt in is observed, folks generally consider that there is little left of winter. An out and out bolt by an individual in party politics likewise does not guarantee important defections, but, like the arrival cf the early robin, an individual bolter, if he be a man of consequence, has a story of its own to tell, A bolt in party politics never attracts attention unless the bolting individual is of some consequence and, therefore, has a personal following. Thus it is that when we observe a bolt by a nationally known individual from fcis lifelong political affiliation, we immediately understand its significance. The scope of this significance, however, is the thing that concerns us. Nearly everyone knows now that former Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, Democratic Presidential nominee in 1928, has made known that he cannot support President Roosevelt for They know as well that the four other individuals who asked the Democratic National convention to push Mr. Roosevelt aside and nominate a Democrat can be classified as important individuals along with Governor Smith. No one dare say that former Sen. James A. Reed cf Missouri, former Governor Ely of Massachusetts, Bainbridge Colby, secretary of state in Woodrow Wilsons administration and Daniel F. TamCohalan, one time many chieftain, are unimportant in politics. They have consistently figured in Democratic party councils and thus It becomes apparent that these five robins presage something more than just their own departure from the ranks of Roosevelt supporters. I make this statement notwithstanding the declaration by James A. Farley that he would not dignify their statement with a reply. Of course, Mr. Farley as Postmaster General, Chairman of the Democratic National committee. Chairman of the New York State Democratic committee and delegate to the Democratic National convention, necessarily was a very busy man at the time the Smith statement, refus'ng support to President Roosevelt, was released for publication. Nevertheless, I am in a position to know that the Smith statement threw quite a scare into New Deal ranks. Frankly, they Aid not like it How much they do not like the Smith statement remaim to be seen. I believe that no one can how forecast exactly much strength this group can pull away from Mr. Roosevelt In the NovemMuch will depend ber election. upon their personal activities henceforth. If men like Smith and Jim Reed and Ely take the stump, If they go out onto the hustings and actually campaign for Governor Landon, the Republican nominee, it seems to me obvious that such campaigning will damage the Roosevelt cause materially. Smith al The Smith defection becomes the more Important in my opinion be- cause it occurred almost 'irmiltane-Thir- d with the deParty ousy velopment of a third party under the leadership of Rep. william Lemke, of North Dakota. This picture may not be entirely clear to everyone. It is substantially this: Lemke and his colleagues are attempting tc draw together the extreme radicals, the leftist groups. The bulk of these will come from the Democratic party if the Lemke organization develops any particular strength. The Smith group represents the or rightist, element conservative, In tlie Democratic party. Thus we see detraction from the Roosevelt strength on two sides. I do not mean to say here that the combination of these circumstances will insure President Roosevelts defeat Anyone who would make such a declaration at this time demonstrates his lack of knowledge of political maneuvers. What 1 am seeking to show, however, is that robins have arrived in the back yard and in the front yard of the New Deal party and if the leaders of the two obstreperous groups engage viciously In this campaign, the time may come when Mr. Farley will recognize tlit'ir Importance. Theie already has been evidence cf the influence of the Lemke radical segment I think everyone agrees that the announcement of the third partys organization vitally affected the type of platform that was written in Washington and adopted by the Democratic convention at Philadelphia. From many sources comes information that the Democrat, c platform was made much more l.beral-so- me critics describe it as more socialistic than would have been the case had representative Lemke stayed out of the pohticnl picture. lie nas the Letnlie backing of Father Coughlin, the Detroit radio priest, and his national union for social justice and he has the backing of the remnants of the late Huey Longs adherents. In addition, the Townsend pension followers will be found behind Lemke to some extent. I have observed these third party movements many times before and usually they have failed to live They nearly up to expectations. have developed fights always among themselves because the very nature of and the very reason for their existence lies in their varied conceptions of what government ought to be or ought to do. Their sincerity precludes them usually from compromise and when politicians refuse to compromise, their organization, whatever it may be, naturally disintegrates. ly. Word that comes rather direct from inner councils in Europe indicates a tremendous fear on the part of Italy and France about German plans. The British like- wise are displaying nervousness and the present alliances and combinations of power existing in Europe are none too stable. It is just possible that Germanys Hitler may, by his present activities, force a new cementing of these alliances and understandings among other powers but at this time there is no mistaking the fact that Europe, outside of Germany, is a bundle of nerves. It seems that the basis for this nervousness is rooted in the clever scheming of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, who is something of an economic dictator under Hitler. Dr. Schacht is a brilliant negotiator. He understands economics, trade and finance as well as any man in Europe today and when you couple such knowledge with diplomatic keenness, you obviously have a man capable of accomplishing results. Dr. Schacht is employing the methods he knows best, namely, economic understandings, in making new connections with central European power and the Balkan states. These countries always have looked to England and France for protection, especially since so many new states were created as a result of President Wilsons idealism. To see Dr. Schacht cleverly and cautiously gaining good will those causes among peoples France and Italy, and to a somewhat less extent. Great Britain, to wonder what is about to happen. Those nations always have been about German nervous plans. Probably the bulk of their fear was inspired by German silence and by the swift manner in which German moves have been consummated. However that may be, the fact remains that none of the important powers in Europe know what to expect as a result of the activities in which Dr. Schacht is now engaged. In the case of Italy, an economic weapon in the hands of Ger-- , many might easi-ly prove disas- Italy trous because Ita Case ly virtually exhausted her gold reserve in the late war and her government cannot go on much longer in furnishing purchasing power for her people. France has been able tj open certain markets to the little entente and to the Balkans and has, in addition, provided some financial aid. Thus, when Dr. Schacht pats the neighbors of Germany, France and Italy qmckly develop cases of jitters. It seems that Austria and Hungary cannot depend fully on Italian markets because of the low gold reserve in Italy. In the meantime as well, France has ueen losing millions in gold as her own domestic situation has been embroiled in a political whirlpool The Austrians and the Hungarians and some of the other central Europeans recognize that unless France gets straightened out, there will not be purchasing power available there for their surplus produce. So, Dr. Schacht Is cultivating what appears from tins distance to be a fertile field. There is no information from abroad at this tune pointing conclusively to early conihct of arms. Yet, there are those in a position to understand European conditions and European psychology who think that a clash is not ar off. They recall tlie antecedents of the World war and it must be admitted that there is a sliange parallel evident today. Wwitrs Nwapper Union. a time upon ONCE this start like a fable, and like one, but it is all read even Once truth. upon a time there lived in Tobamachi a macaroni manufacturer by the name of share-the-wealt- h The European disturbances continue apace. It Is a situation that is extremely teresting and one in Europe that probably will unfold, as the weeks go by, in curious ways. I say curious because to us In America, it has been rather difficult to understand the meaning of many of the maneuvers that followed the outright subjugation of Ethiopia by the power thirsty Mussolini of Ita- ISE PROVINCE Moto who Mikimoto, was blessed with nine chidren, three daughters and six sons. The eldest, Kokichl, a boy, achieved distinction by doubling the output of a stone mortar in which he ground wheat flour. He did not care for the macaroni busmess, however, and kept his eyes open for something more profitable. In 1875 two British warships dropped anchor in Toba and remained several days. Kokichi, now in his eighteenth year, cornering all the chickens, eggs and vegetables in the village, hired a fleet of bum-boatswooped down upon the English navy, such as it was, and cleaned up a snug surplus. Business stunts much appealed to the young man. At twenty-on- e he shook Toba, came to Tokyo, married and set himself up as a dealer in mother-of-pear- l, expanding through the empire, and trading abroad as well. Makes Audacious Move. At Japans third industrial exposii, tion in Tokyo, 1900, Dr. Kakichi a noted zoologist, delivered a lecture on the possibilities of producing cultivated pearls. Mikimoto was among those who attended. What he heard that evening made such a profound impression upon the son of the macaroni maker, that he then and there closed out all his business connections, turned his efforts into cash and retired to the island of Tatokujma in Ago bay, Miye Prefecture. There he undertook in earnest, win or lose, those experiments with oysters that within a few sho;-- t years, to the great disgust of natural pearl dealers throughout Christendom, gave Mikimoto the title of Pearl King. Though scoffed at by the gem dealers, laughed at by the toilers of the sea who had watched him in his efforts to rend profit from the shells of the bivalves with which he labored, Mikimoto, regarded as a visionary by all save his wife, stood at his task undaunted. With the first news that he had succeeded in his audacious raid upon the customary habits of oysters by forcing them to make pearls for him in unlimited quantities, pearls that could not be distinguished from the natural gems, European jewelers, fearing a depression in the natural pearl market which might throw upon the necks of Continental beauties pearls less costly but equally beautiful, brought action in the French courts against pearls forced to perfection by cultivation, alleging that they were mere imitation. Scientists Stand by Him, Prominent biological scientists from America, England, France, Germany and Japan, summoned to discuss tlie issue, found for the defendant. Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford university, and a zoologist of international fame, said: As they are exactly of the same substance and color as tlie natural, or uncultivated pearl, there is no real reason why they should not have the same value. The former macaroni maker, whose tomb, i.lready planned, has g for its base a mortar, surmounted by a colossal granite pearl, has the satisfaction of knowing that his cultivated and tamed oysters ara. equally dependable in their offspring with the progeny of wild oysters. Today, Mikimoto has II pearl cultivating plants in Japanese waters and one at Palu island m the South Pacific, totaling over 40,000 acres, where 5,000,000 pearl oysters are cultivated each year. Seventeen patents held by Mikimoto for pearl cultivation have given him the lead against numerous rivals now springing up in Japanese waters. Tlie principle upon which he conducted his experiments finds justification in the fact that the mantle of the pearl oyster secretes the pearl substance (nacre) which forms a coating around any foreign substance, like a grain of sand, a piece of shell, etc., that might find lodgment in the oyster. Now Fabulously Wealthy Mikimoto solved the secret of how, through a delicate operation, certain foreign substances of certain shapes and characters, could bo deposited in the oyster with reasonable certainly that at least five per cent of the oysters so treated would produce a marketable pearl within from four to six years. The Pearl King of the World, now a posse; sing estates, villas, yachts and luxuries beyond classification, is the simplest of men, fico from g amour, Unspoiled by prosperity, arid in his attitude toward life still the macaroni makers son. He is now in his seventy mnh year, funoun't-by s, In the Picture It Seemed MR. WHIPPLES DRESS SUIT there was a Kid who In a tall grass just two miles this side of the Jumping-of- f Flaee. There was a Railway through the Town but no Fast Train ever unless It stopped at Wimpusville had a Hot Box. Sherman Whipple spent his early Youth In this benighted Burg. When only three years old Sherman sized up his Environment and knew that he was in Dutch. After that he wasnt Interested In anyIt may thing except be true that the Sharks on Sociology, who cannot understand why Lads leave the Villages and flock to the Bright Lights, never served a Term In one of these Hamlets where the only regular Visitors, In the old Days, were English Sparrows and Drummers. Now a Picture Palace smiles where once the Feed Store was. The sky is full of Antennae and the Honk of the Ilenry is heard at 2 a. m. Not so, however, when the Earth-l- y Career of Sherman Whipple was still in its Springtime. The Town of Wimpusville had a complicated Case of Mopes and Chidders. It happened that when Our Hero was about 8 years of atm lie saw in a Story Paper, which Ins Mu lead with great Regulmity, a benuiiful Wood-Cu- t depicting a Scene in High ONCE Time-Table- Life. It was in a Conservatory with Palms all over the Place. There was a Lady who was very Slender at the Waist and much less slender just Below, and she was in complete k s and wore Diamond and had two Cubic Feet of Hair and was, according to the f Standards of Days, a rav-inBeauly of the Statuesque Type. Iler name was Alys. It was Alys Low-Nec- Ear-Bob- Pre-Gol- g Montague. THE CORRECT SOUP AND FISH In the Picture It seemed that Alys was peeved over some Proposition that had been put up to her by the Gentleman in the Long Tall, who was none other than Geoffrey Durante. Although It showed in the that Alys was shrinking away from Geoffrey until only a clever illustrator could prevent her from doing a Flop and although the Reading Matter indicated that Geoffrey hissed Have a care! when Alys hinted that she had learned of his Secret Marriage to Gladys Marston even though tlie Circumstantial Evidence indicated that Geoffrey was a terrible Pup, his Wardrobe saved him. Evidently he was a Villain, but still a Gentleman. Sherman Whipple was fascinated by the First Part Costume. It was his first Meeting with the John Drew Habiliments. Never, in Ileal Life, had he seen any one all duked out In Thirteen and the Odd. A TALL TREK FROM THE Pie-tur- e HOME-TOW- The practically determined his whole Career, lie made a secret Vow that some day he would wear the whole Smear, Wood-Cu- t Silk Underwear and a on Ills Stilrt-Sleev- Mon-icgra- You might say that a Dress Suit was the Lode Star of his Existence. lie steered his whole subsequent Course In life toward a Conservatory, In which he might have a bantering Flirtation with some Heiress who carried a Fun and used good Perfumery, When lie packed his Wicker Suit Case and did a tall Trek from the Coin Fields, it was not suspected by the Oafs and Numpklns of Ids native Township that lie nursed his ambition to write Ills Name in Letters of Fire on tlie Society Page of some Dally Paper. That Alys Was Peeved. We need not follow him through his early Struggles to tell of the weary Years during which, if he had lost one of his Collar Buttons, he would have been practically Destitute. Suffice to say that at last the Sun of Prosperity jammed Its way through the clouds, and Sherman found himself with an Apartment of his own and a sweet Balance at the Bank. The dream of a e was to become a joyous Reality. He felt that the Time had arrived for him to break out of the Shell and Crow three times and let the Woild know that he had arrived. So he went to a Real Tailor and said he wanted a Dress Suit with more Satin Lining than ever had been seen on any Vaudeville Stage. He wanted at least one Velvet Collar and he wanted a little to connect the Buttons in front and he wanted much Braid down the Trousers. The Tailor tried to tell Sherman that Evening Dress, or Full Dress, or Formal Dress, or whatever one may choose to designate the fantastic Garb, should be characterized by an unobtrusive Elegance and not Complicated by innovations. NO QUIET RAIMENT FOR HIM All that stuff about cutting out the Decorative Effects went for Sweeney. .Mr. Whipple had waited only 30 years for arrival of The Day and now that he was about to back into a real Set of Nifties and carry his own Scenery, he didnt want any Vestments that were quiet and sedate. He wanted a Dress Suit that would sound like a Saxophone. He had his wish. After the Hot Raiment was delivered he spent many an Hour in front of the Mirror and had a great many imaginary Chats with Members of tlie Opposite Sex who were not unknown to the Haute Monde, whatever that is. He could hardly wait to flash the proud apparel. Ills first Chance came when he was Invited to attend a Smoker given by the Members of the Twelfth Ward Bowling Club. When he showed up at the Function he had on everything except Lip Rouge. There were 400 Stags present and 30!) of them had committed Social Errors by appearLife-Tim- Dew-flick- er ing In Sack Suits. BAD NEWS FOR THE DRESS-SUI- T One Day, after the beautiful had been In the Camphor for a month, Mr. Whipple found something in a Magazine which almost froze his Blood. The Piece went on to say that the Man of Tashlon who wished to be En Rapport with the late Wrinkles, could not be do Rigeur, a la Mode and absolutely Razmagash even If be wore a Dinner Coat at Gatherings attended by Rai-me- Ladies. It was jn-- t like sticking a Knife Into tlie heart of Sheiumn Whipple. He couldnt scoop up all of thp French, but he surmised that tlie Money which he had tied up in tlie Swell Harness was going to he a Total Loss. Ifa had no Chance to he among those present at tlie Metropolitan Opera House, and the Weddings were out because the only Friends he had In He Woild had been married for ycais. Little remains to be told. Sherman still 1ms the Dress Suit but It binds across the Shoulders and tlie Pants are so tight In the Legs that they no longer conform to the Rules laid down In that sparkling Department headed "Stylos for Men." Often, as ho sits by the Radiator, wailing for Sp:ipg to show Up. Sherman wishes tint be h n saved ids Coin and bought a Radio, Molt L: Thie-- doMinod to wear Roval it' lies are limn with them already on. j Mit-sukur- flour-grindin- 18 giandcluldun and 13 r. n. Co(.;sk! t W U SirvU i Ten Tons of Chain By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter TT ERE S a detective yarn for you a smuggling story Jt. e the good points of an thriller, plus the add tional good point that every word of it is true. Maybe some of you boys and girls have wondered what really goes on behind V the scenes with the customs men. Well, heres one of them to give us the n and sL us the yarn of an actual happening. He is John Lynch of hrL A A all old-tim- low-dow- York city, a Distinguished Adventurer, and a heck of a swell yarn nr. -, P- John barges right into his yarn without any preliminaries I he says, it was back in 1914. I was discharged from the' Fifteenth United States infantry at Tientsin, China, and got a job with the Chinese Maritime Customs in that port. I f to were search all ships, coming and going, for smucL)' My duties goods and Vs not as pleasant a job as you might think, because it enaS crawling into all sorts of odd corners and out of the way places durm the course of your search. Well, t -- Customs Officers Ordered to Search the King Sing. There youve got the whole picture in a nutshell. The picture that is of the average working day. But theres always liable to be a day thats a little different from the average and its just such a one that John Lvndm is going to tell us about now. , It was in 1916, two years after he had entered the customs service. John came to work one morning and took his instrnc-- l tions from the bulletin board. Officers Mitchell, Galvin ann Lynch, read a notice on that board, will search S. S. King Sing', r before departure. It was all in the days work, and there was nothing in that order fiat promised any excitement Mitchell and Galvin arrived a few minxes later, and the three of them began getting together their overalls nd lamps. The King Sing was due to leave in half an hour, so they had to work fast They went out to the ship and John began searching the fodsie and crews quarters while Mitchell and Galvin worked amidships and I John Goes Sleuthing Into Anchor Chain Locker. John prowled and poked around the crew's quarters, but he didnt fad anything. Then he began looking for other hiding places in the fore part of the ship. He spotted a manhole that led down to the anchor chain loiter, and that struck him as a likely place to hide contraband, so he lifted tee cover and crawled down inside. The anchor was down, and with it the fathoms of heavy anchor j chain, so the locker was empty. But John noticed something that looked suspicious. Footprints quite a bunch of them on the floor . of the locker. Now the anchor chain locker isnt such a popular place aboard a step Its dark, end stuffy, and little frequented except Joy the anchor ch$m Theres something doing down here, John said to himself, and he bcgai poking around in the darkness to see what he could find. t I j Shanghaied in the Bottom of the Ship! Then he found it. In the floor was another manhole leading to jh bottom of the ship. He opened that and went down. In the compartme John Picked Up One of the Boxes to Open It. below, were several small wooden boxes. John picked one up and started to break it open, when suddenly he heard the rattle of chain above him. The crew were pulling in the anchor and the chain was pouring into the . locker overhead. Joint picked up his lamp and started up the ladder. It was no use. Already, a ton or more of heavy chain was lying on top of the i opening. He yelled for help until his throat was hoarse, but the I noisy rattle of chain deadened all other sound. The ship got under f r of and was there a in way, that stuffy hole, .facing journey John, five days and nights to Shanghai, with no food no water and dog I f gone little air. , At first, he nearly went crazy. Then, as the hours and days dragged a on, he got so he didnt care. The foul air drugged him into a sort stupor. Hunger pains gnawed him inside, but he knew that wasnt Ihe greatest of his worries. The big problem was water. John would have given all his savings for just one big long drink of it in those dark hours. Five Days in an Opium Smuggling Cache! After a while, hunger and thirst roused him from his stupor and he began to look around the compartment he was in. He hoped he might find some way of getting out, but he was disappointed. Then, idly, he turned his attention to the boxes on the floor. He broke one open and it was full of opium. His hunch about those footprints had been right. There VAS smuggling going on. The opium in those boxes was worth a fortune. Five days and five nights. Then they reached Shanghai. Over- head he could hear tlie anchor chain snaking out of the locker. f Barely able to navigate, John climbed the ladder. When he came to the second ladder, he almost fainted from weakness and thirst. He was all In when he tumbled out on deck. The first mate, found him lying there and took him to his room. When the customs launch c me, John told his story of the opium cache, and then he was sent ashore to a hospital for a much-needegoing over. And I havent been in a chain locker alone since then, be says. Its not so bad when you have company. d WNU Service. is Merchants of Old Good at Ionian and modern mathematics did not count the that Babylonians Figuring, Tablets Reveal by tens, but by sixties. Numbaj Babylonian merchants more than years ago knew enough about simple and compound interest to charge their customers rates as high as 20 per cent per year, according to ancient and clay tablets which once were Babylonian textbooks of arithmetic and algebra are deposited in libraries at Berlin and at Yale University. Unlike modern textbooks of these mathematical sciences, the Babylonian documents do not deseribo general principles of calculation Instead they resemble modern devices such as the mullmhcnl'on tables or t iblea of fractions. This is one reason why the abilities of tlie ancient Babylonian matb tnnticnns end boot, keepers wese not realized by stu cuts of tlie tablets until no nuthoi ity diviovcied wli it they r ally mi ant. Another difference between Baby- 4,000 larger than 60 were expressed that number. suehwj powers sms' squares or cubes. Numbers ms than CO were expressed in tract; of of CO one-hal- f, one-thir- and so j The Beecher Family Dr. Lyman Beecher, father of distinguished Henry Ward Beecvi and of Harriet Beecher Stowe ' thor of Uncle Toms Cabin' ), ' himself a distinguished man. " was an eloquent preacher, who di with his family in a suburb of t cinnati from 1832 to 1852. preaching one of his powerful mens in which he would bci nervous wrought into a state of n ' citement, he would relax by 8 into his cellar and shoveling from toe pi ice to another, by mg "Auld Lang Syne or M)jni er tune on his fiddle, or by dn in his parlor. ( |