Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-23 | Page 9 | People and Things

PEOPLE AND THING S SA B By FRED BAGBY A We Democrats ts are a peculiar peole peo Ie le mused Sheriff S. S Grant Young Instead of sa saying ing Now Now how can we get together to defeat this or that Republican who is holding we hear the party politicians conS con whispering How can we get and beat this or that Demo Demo- Jat at who is in of office I repeat we are arc strange people Dr r. r U. U Gi y sa says s 's there there have been ore nore crazy dIseases going the during the past winter ian han he he can recall in many rears ears One belonging to this crazy classification going the rounds now is a ar throat Infection in In- said to be caused b by the or pneumonia germ which lodges in th the throat Instead of the lungs causing a general lion tion of the throat which sp spreads ads to the lymphatic glands It causes excessively ex- ex c high temperatures arid and makes the patient v very r sick but as asyet asyet yet no serious consequences have been noted It is reported prevalent school children among I f C is always being cussed and discussed ed but h k there are 50 men In Salt Lake iwho who are lre not doing any cussing just now They are arc 50 men who hold pl places ces on the substitute list o the local postoffice but for man many moons have had scant con con- t f n with the payroll The These e et 1 t men now see jobs and pa pay paychecks checks checks in sight It all comes abo aboUt t it is explained by W. W E. E r- r Block assistant p postmaster beI because be- be cause cause of the passage of a bill providing providing pro pro- viding for at least hours p per r month employment for all sub sub- I So a a silver lining is be be- 2 ginning to appear on the clouds o of adversity that have hovered over the postoffice substitutes Well Vell boys Its It's up to the governor to do something isn't it said Mr He appointed Eugene B. B Palmer then on the local staff but later head of the Palmer Bond and Mortgage company ot of Salt Lake t M his secretary The acting governor proceeded to dictate a pro removing every appointive Republican can officeholder and naming a de- de erving Democrat to fill his place As a grand added a clause appointing Judge Powers to till fill the vacancy in the U. U S. S senate from th this or of course the whole action t J waS was n a big scooP and no one outside of the what had happened until the they rend read the paper the following morn morn- Ing The newly appointed Democrats were as astounded astound d as the ousted o sted Republicans were dumfounded For a f few w who ho rs' rs c consternation reigned supreme su- su preme in the Republican camp campI I of Ut Utah IL in Wash rash ington The telegraph graph wires I fairly siZzled with messages The news reached Vice President President dent Roosevelt Governor Wells and S ry Hammond just as s they were entering Utah aboard the train Governor Wells VeIls wired his appointees that It was just a Democratic joke and to sit tight until he arrived For lack of oC legal affixation of oC the great seal of the state of Utah to the proclamation the great poUt poUt- cal coup turned out to be just a great political joke