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Show Friday, December UINTAH BASIN RECORD, DUCHESNE, UTAH PNEUMONIA SHOWS INCREASE THROUGHOUT STATE By Mrs- - Tracy Roberts Mrs. 0. E. Curry and daughter Glena Luray, made a business trip to Heber City Saturday, returni- ng home sporting a new Buick. Miss LaVar Allred returned home from Salt Lake City Thursto stay for day where she expects the rest of the winter. Leo Defa and Alfonzo Defa took a load of lumber to Roosevelt Monday. A number from Hanna attended stake conference at Duchesne Sun- day. Frank Defa made a business trip to Roosevelt and Duchesne Saturday. Dee Wilson returned home Saturday after spending a couple of months in California. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Van Tassel returned home last week from Colorado where they have been visiting relatives and friends for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pilling motored to American Fork last week where they visited Dot, for awhile. their daughter, Mrs. Bernice Young Is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Cleala Collett is teaching school at mas as Tabiona until Christa substitute for Mr. Nation. The furnace that was being installed in the Red Cliff ward is now completed and church was held Sunday night. The weather looks a little more like Christmas in Hanna this morning. Monte Bowers and Mr. Clements were Hanna business callers on Monday. G. A. Wilckens, Carl Wilckens and Steve Wilckens of Duchesne were Hanna business callers Sat. urday. MYTON FACULTY PRESENTS ENTERTAINMENT MYTON BAND GREETS SANTA CLAUS The school band and a marching group of students met Santa Claus at the town Christmas tree on Main street Tuesday afternoon and after furnishing several musical selections to an appreciative gathering of Mytonites, conducted Santa to the school building. We are very proud of our school band and always glad to listen to their music. The Record Does Duchesne county reported one case of influenza, four cases of pneumonia, one case of scarlet fever and one case of tuberculosis for the week ending December 16, a slight increase of disease over last week. New cases of pneumonia reported to the Utah State Board of Health reached a total of 62 during the week, according to Dr. J. L. Jones, state health commissioner. This is more than double the number reported in the previous week, and is the largest number reported in any one week this year. Dr. Jones emphasized the importance of early medical care in treating pneumonia. Everyone, he said, should be on guard, especially at this time of year, against this highly fatal disease. There is now being presented to many moving picture audiences throughout the state, he said, an educational short entitled, "A New Day," which show's, in most dramatic form, the fight of a modern family against this disease. It shows how pneumonia usually starts, its early symptoms and the importance of calling the doctor immediately when pneumonia is even remotely suspected. In addition to the rise in pneumonia, increases in influenza, mumps, scarlet fever and tuberculosis were noted. On the other hand, new cases of chickenpox, and whooping measles cough dropped considerably. There were no new cases of diphtheria, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia or typhoid reported. The total number of communicable disease cases reported for the week was 425, an increase of 59 cases over the preceding week. Expert Printing The faculty of the Myton school play, Sound presented a three-ac- t Your Horn, Friday evening at the school auditorium. A large audience enjoyed an evening of entertainment of the highest grade. The cast was especially well selected as each member gave an excellent portrayal of their individual parts. Musical selections by several of the Myton students furnished entertainment between the acts. The funds raised at the entertainment will be used to buy curtains for the windows of the gymnasium. 0 PsrQClOJI S P tll0 makes taxSTMLNT PAYMENT POSSIBLE Depression-Born- , it Repairs the Ravages of Prosperity and Nobody Profits Except the American People; Hinterland Made More Modern by Federal Works Projects By DEAN R. BRIMHALL Have you a friend who says: "Why dont the unemployed do something useful?" If he wont shut up, show him some of the following figures and then tell him to look around in his own community. Mr. Brimhall, an official in the employment division of the W. P. A., points out that the popular conception of the W. P. A. as an agency devoted to correcting the ravages of the depression is inaccurate. On the contrary, the unemployed are now actually making up for the ravages of prosperity." ly for depression neglect, or for prosperity neglect, too? There are no general figures to quote. But anybody who has read the descriptions of work-relie- f projects wall recall phrases like these: A rural school built in 1882 has been entirely rebuilt, inside and out, from basement to flagstaff, and is entirely modern. An abandoned school building d and thorhas been reconditioned for use. oughly brick high school y A was built, replacing one condemned as unfit by the board oi education. The old municipal hospital was a potential death-tradue to fire hazards. The library was a Revolutionary landmark and had fallen into disrepair. The bats, said a circuit judge, have taken this courthouse, and the court will not sit here until something is done about it. It has now been thoroughly repaired, and the judge can preside in dignity and comfort. Swamp Reclaimed this is a familiar phrase in the description of road projects. "A smelly garbage dump, the resort of the citys flies, rats and buzzards, has been replaced by a d handsome incinerator. It will no longer be necessary to dump sewage into open creeks from which cattle drink. Five acres of swamp were turned into a playground. These examples they are all steel-reinforce- two-stor- p, 23, 1938 money to put up new school buildings or lay a new sewer. But what private initiative was powerless to do 'in the heyday of prosperity, the federal work program began to do in the depth of the depression. That work began under the C. W. A., continued under the state E. R. A.s, and is going on full tilt under the W. P. A. Roads, Parks, Schools, Clothes In just the last two years, under the W. P. A. the unemployed lave built 30,000 miles of new roads, repaired 116,000 miles more. Statistics such as these dont tell much. What one needs is the imaginative power to conjure up the innumerable farming communities to which a ten or fifteen mile stretch of mud-hole- s has been the only way to get to town, and multiply that all over .arm-to-mark- U. G. Miller, State Farm Debt Miss Jean Morrison Adjustment supervisor, says that from the period of September 1, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Morrison and 1935 (or from the time the F. D. daughters Betty Jo and Carrna A. has been in connection with the Gayle, were dinner guests at the rural rehabilitation organization) home of Clay Spratt, Tuesday eveto September 30, 1938, there have ning. been 609 cases settled with a debt The members of the Utahn Rereduction of $355,205, and taxes lief Society enjoyed a Christmas paid in the various counties of the party Tuesday afternoon. state as a result of debt adjustLittle LaVoye Moore is spendment problems worked out of ing a short time in Salt Lake City, visiting with relatives. From this one might infer that Quite a number from Utahn the organization settles cases only participated in the temple excuron the basis of endeavoring to get sion, which was held in Salt Lake the creditor to reduce hi3 debts. City, last week. This is not so. We ask the crediMiss Jean Morrison, who has tor to reduce his debts only when been attending Weber college in the farmer is indebted beyond his Ogden, returned home Sunday to ability to pay, and when the spend the Christmas vacation. creditor would probably not be Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hadden and able to get more for the money Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hadden, invested from any other person were Duchesne visitors, one day who might purchase the property last week. if foreclosed. We endeavor to try Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Spratt, who to work out plans whereby the have been spending the past few creditor can get the most for his months in Utahn, have returned to noney invested and still keep the their home in Draper. farmer on the farm and off relief. Will Abplanalp, Gene Abplanalp For information contact youi and Keith Abplanalp made a trip :ounty F. D. A. committee, your to Price, Saturday. Rural Rehabilitation supervisor oi Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Baum your county agent. You are Invited and daughters, Elva and Jessie, also to attend the Farm Debt Ad- were calling at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar White, Sunday justment committee meetings. The meeting for December will afternoon. be held at the Rural RehabilitaThe following Utahn people tion office in Roosevelt on Tues- were Duchesne visitors on Monday, December 20, at 7 :30 p. m. day: Mr. and Mrs. Herb Lang, The county committee consists Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tobias and of the following members: Levi J. son Ronnie, Mr. and Mrs. Herb Anderton, Duchesne; Ray S, Jor- Birch, Mrs. Will Abplanalp and dan, Roosevelt; William Stone, son Tommie and Mrs. Eugene Ab$62,-97- 0. The United States is a better place to look at since the federal works program started to" clean it up. It is not only better looking than it was in 1932 it is better states. forty-eiglooking than it was in 1929. It wasnt just the depression that Every road in the country has been in need of new bridges and left the country looking like a dump-hea- p culverts for safety. The W. P. A it was the old system has built 19,000 bridges and 1S3,-00of not doing anything, no matter culverts, and repaired more how much it needed to be done, than you could shake a stick at. until some private individual could New roads look like a raw gash make money out of it. And that in the landscape. The W. P. A. has system dates a long way back into fixed beautified landscaped prosperity days. call it whatever you like Up Disintegration Began Early It is customary for us to think nearly 40,000 miles of roadside, so that now it is a pleasure to ride of the New Deals recovery prowhether along it. gram as an attempt successful or unsuccessful, accordProsperity left us with a lot of old street car and railroad tracks ing to the point of view, to repair the ravages of the depression. scarring our streets. The W. P. A. oka, and Owen Bennion, Mt. Em- planalp. has torn up over 400 miles of them mons. Mr, and Mrs. Melvin White This is only partly true. A large made a trip to Salt Lake City, and smoothed the places out. In part of the recovery program conLectures addition, along our waterfront the Art, Drama, Music, sists of an attempt to stop the lamented prosperity Monday. late the In new 81 work-reliW. not built We wish you all a very merry docks, A. has P. slide into chaos that was blithely actual projects, era there was a contemptuous Christmas and a happy and prosand and multiwharves be could ones improved of on in the piers crazy days imaginary going phrase for most of the United perous New Year. plied indefinitely. And these dis- 128 others. prosperity. hintercalled was the States it The looks of America its vis- reputable, insanitary conditions of New V. P. A. Structures the How many new school buildings land, a polite way of saying was ible apparatus of community wel- neglect date from prosperity days. million people, young and old, The hinterland backwoods. W. the constructed been have and by Private Initiative and Contractors fare, its roads, parks, schools enrolled in all branches of to were be unkempt, ignorant, supposed so on are only part of the whole Private initiative which boasts P. A.? Nearly sixteen hundred. uncivilized. The hinterland had no the W. P. A. education program process of civilization. And I wish that it is the source from which How many old school buildings music, art or drama. But who last fall. to indicate briefly that the neglect all our blessings flow seems to repaired? Over sixteen thousand. hinterthe was One branch of this program proIt cared? only and consequent disintegration of have overlooked a lot of oppor- New hospital buildings construct- land. demonstration nursery vides 900. over weled 99. to in Reconditioned, increase the public tunities the whole process of civilization the are towns that in schools that turns waking however, out, It and America did not date from 1929, fare back in prosperity days. Our New courthouses, town halls now that up to modern educational methods. hinterland music, enjoys inadministrative other so now buildings? are was who contractors and gobut began far earlier over it has been given a chance to have There are over fourteen hundred ing from bad to worse under cover dignantly complaining about W. P. Over 500. Old ones fixed up, to enjoy. Over three million W. P. A. nursery schools. Some where were 2000. Count in the firehouses, some A. competition of our prosperity. a month attend the con- day all our children will go to people A. no warehouses, W. P. garages, municipal Before the New Deal Dealt they then? They had and other performances of nursery schools. This is just a certs h to take the bread and jam out gymnasiums, armories, and other In 1935 we had about and other mu- beginning. A. W. orchestras P. of the population of the country of their mouths then; and why city, county and state buildings, sical units. Over a million people Recreation Centers comes on relief. How many of them got didn't all that new construction and the grand national total a month attend Federal theatre Our communities are beginning there because of the depression? and improvement get done by to over 42,000 improved, repaired and some of these are to realize that public recreation productions, seor constructed. to wait for them ? Why did it have We have now set up a social hinterland. The hinter- centers need leaders and instrucAnd over 6000 dangerous and out in the the C. W. A. and the E. R. A. curity program which provides art. The new W. tors. The W. P. A. operates over even land for people and the W. P. A.? The magic of unsightly old structures have been P. A. civicenjoys sd far inadequately art centers, many of 9000 public recreational centers room to make economic whose helplessness private initiative seems not to torn down often out in the and assists in over 6000 other hinterland, far them would not be cured by the return have worked in a lot of cases all for playgrounds or new municipal have an atcenters. Last summer, in a sample aggregate monthly of the prosperity of 1928. These over the country. The profit in- housing. over 11,000,000 hours were over of 2,500,000 tendance people week, include, first of all, the needy centive didnt get done a vast Sewer Projects music and art classes, spent by young people in recreaAdd in also over a thousand new W. P. A. blind, the needy crippled, the amount of public work that desscattered all ovet tional activities led by W. P. A, them of many new of Hundreds and the needy perately needed doing. playgrounds. aged, needy have a monthly recreation workers. Our towns and the hinterland, swimming pools. Fifteen hundred attendance of nearly 200,000 mothers with dependent children Figures Quoted counties are beginning to take One moment more for the con- new wading pools for small chil-drerequiring their care at home. The these recreation projects and poor, desperately young people, Three thousand new public depression did not first create tractors. They are not being negover. workers for but beauty. lected by Uncle Sam and our tennis courts. A hundred new pub- Wanteager helpless and indigent old age All this, and much more, has To Learn prosperity saw that tragic group states, counties and localities, lic golf courses.new The hinterland wants more edu- come out of the stupendous paraparks with an cation than it has been getting. dox of the depression. We had Nearly 800 growing into its vast proportions, though you would think so to hear and looked away, muttering its their cries of anguish. Take a look acreage of 22,000 acres. Old parks Grown-u- p people flock to the W. plenty of work that needed to be everywhere made more fit for P. A.s adult business incantations, and did at the figures. education classes. done and millions of unemployed The volume of contract public public use by toilet facilities, nothing. There was no profit for want vocational people with every kind of trainpeople Young all public drinking fountains, toads, parking anybody in 'providing for old age, works construction Mothers want to learn ing and ability. It was no good training. so it wasnt done. So that large works, federal, state and local, space, picnic fireplaces, drainage more about homemaking. Illiter- telling the unemployed to go out and landscaping. group can be chalked up to the exclusive of W. P, A. work to laern how to read and sell apples to one another. We want ates These are some of the things debit side of prosperity. approximately maintained the pre and write. Workers want to learn put the unemployed to work for Industries Deserted depression level during the two that can be seen with the naked how to conduct meetings, citizens the public benefit. And now we nearare Our present workmens compen years 1936 and 1937 when W. P, eye. Underground there want to learn about public affairs, can do what we need to have ly 4000 miles of new water mains, sation legislation dates roughly A. was in full operation. at work want to take cor- done even if nobody profits from The average for the two years and over 5000 miles of new storm youths from World war days. Many of courses. Well over a it except the American people. respondence our large numbers of blind and is about $2,200,000,000, as com- and sanitary sewers. anNever mind the figures they crippled men were blinded and pared with the are of $2,500,000,000. impressive enough on landin nual their back average youthful crippled YOU ARE THIS TYPE YOU'LL contract of was volume runways, reservoirs and fields, public ing The prime when private industry utilities still unhampered by any respon- work this year is running about storage tanks, municipal LIKE THIS BOURBON THAT'S 1937. of all kinds, small dams, levees, sibility for its frightful accident the same as in 1936 and work on and rip-ra- p On the other hand, private con. drainage rate. They are the relics of those 1936 and streams and rivers. It has all been work when struction mad during prosperity days glad, we just didnt bother about such 1937 was running at the rate of waiting to be done for a long time. It took the unemployed of the only three-eighthings. to do it. level of $8,000,000,000. All over the country there are Conserving the Land and People stranded towns and regions in- Need For Houses In prosperity days there never In brief, the contractors get dustrially dead, because their industries have moved away, leav- practically as much public work was enough time or private profit in pros- Incentive to get around to .coning there a population with no to do now as they did Sam servation work. Now we are beUncle isnt to Now move. It work, too poor even perity days. are to get around to it. Milthey are on relief. But when were or our states or towns that are ginning new trees have been of lions down. If business them they towns deserted these letting by t" and left to die in lingering mis- getting no ice cream on their pie, planted on thousands of acres by builda thousand the W. P. A. Over days it is for the lack of private ery? Back in the of miles of firebreaks have been cut EH Aos conipit'uoui of Prosperity. ing jobs. We need millions of 11 far generosity houses, and private initiative is in our public forests. Millions Prosperity Greed In some recent years a large fighting desperately to keep the acres of land have been cleared Round Jawlt of federal government from building of noxious plants. Insect pests proportion of our farm families LJagood fellow those houses, even on a contract lions of acres more. Over eight more than a million of them were on relief. The great middle basis. It wants to build those hundred bird and game sanctuwestern drought came during the houses itself. And why doesnt it aries have been established. Be People too poor to buy clothes depression, but it was not caused go ahead and build them? are needed themselves and their children most for houses caused cause the was it the depression by found nowadays to a great are population the for prosby prosperity carelessness, to rent extent of decently dressed, in garwho can't pay enough perity greed, prosperity neglect make such housing a profitable ments made by W. P. A. sewing our natural resources. articles of Fri Altogether, about half of the venture for private initiative. mil rooms. The 108,000,000 men and women, boys for build the tocant vate relief clothing initiative care of taken by people we need, and so and girls and babies, made in the rKentucky,sVoAfe-rr,,straigli- t day are unemployables. How did lions of houses the federal last two years, have gone to peothey get to be unemployable? far it has prevented hosChronic malnutrition and the dis- government from building many ple on relief, people in public instiand other the is poor a account that for And pitals, orphanages of them. why eases of poverty vast amount of unemployability, contractor sits weeping into his tutions, and to refugees from our emu and these scourges were not first ginger ale. It is his own buddies great annual floods. PINT No. 61 QUART No. 60 unloosed by the depression they who have let him down, the pri- Feed Children HALF PINT No. 62 To them, too, have gone the were already rampnTTr in pros- vate initiators who didn't initiate federal govthe let to pounds of food canned and us wont and put perity days. It paid our money into Wall street, but ernment initiate housing for the preserved on W. P. A. projects. Also there are projects for teachit wouldnt have paid us to pro masses. ing housewives how to can and test the nations health, so we let Funny Prosperity of sort prosa was preserve for themselves. W. P. A. It funny things slide, food also goes to V. P. A. school in those back The V. I. A.h Record to Dale perity we had days. It didn't mean lunches. That is the background. ComEducation does not educate hunmillion uneming into the foreground, let us ask much to the three when gry children. The W. P. A., in ada question about certain W. P. A. ployed in February, 1929, dition to establishing 2000 branch It at its on height. and repair prosperity jobs of improvement and 6000 travelling librarians, has stranded the to much mean public buildings. The W. P. A. has didnt children in done such work on over 30,000 communities loft to perish while been feeding hungry Over schools. some thousands to of off went two business happily years, STfi UGHr buildings in the last WNSKtr nourishing hot lunches besides constructing over 11,000 place where wages were lower. It chilschool to new public buildings. The question didnt mean much to a lot of towns have been served to PKUUI -- I OPR 0. V IU.M.PV OIM IUIRIPS. INC., N. V. C. two yeais. is: Does this work make up mere that couldnt raise or borrow dren In the last Long-hoped-fo- r" tile-roofe- ht 0 ef one-sixt- IF 'Jelephone IJour Holiday Greetings this year on Sunday or Monday I Oi Reduced rates apply on Both days Lowest long distance rates again will be in effect this year all day Christmas and New Years and the Monday following each holiday. This gives you a choice of two days to telephone good wishes to members of your family, relatives and friends. 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