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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD Marriage May Reunite the House of Bourbon "grf5 ADVENTURERS Q CLUB I HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF, PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI There are many ocWashington. casions on record where several important issues Ever-Norm- al have engaged the of conGranary attention gress and frequently one of these issues has aroused such bitterness and developed such a controversy that it overshadowed all others. That has been the case in recent weeks during which President Roosevelts plan to add six justices of his own choosing to the Supreme court of the United States completely subordinated everything else. But the crushing defeat received by the President through refusal of the vast majority of Democrats in congress to support his court reorganization scheme suddenly has directed attention to other major questions. Outstanding among these is Secretary Wallaces farm bill and the wages and hours bill which is claimed to contain comthe laboring plete protection-fo- r classes. It is of the farm bill that I shall write now since it Is much more imminent as far as congressional action is concerned than is the case with the wages and hours proposition. The basis of Secretary Wallaces piogram is what he calls the granaiy." There are other provisions included in the bill but the idea of a maintained supply of farm products is the heart of the plan. Now, It seems that if the words granary mean anything, they must be accepted as meaning a continuity of supply at a level which government agents arbitrarily determine as the proper rate of accumulation or sale of such supplies. The house of representatives has been muddling along with the question for several months. It has been under much pressure from Secretary Wallace and his associates and from some of the farm leaders whom the secretary has convinced of the value df his scheme. The farm leaders as a whole are far from unanimous on the proposition despite the fact that Secretary Wallace and the tremendous propaganda machine within the Department of Agriculture has been exceedingly active in an effort to sell the plan to the country as a whole and thereby bring additional pressure on congress. I shall not attempt to give all of the details of the Wallace proposal here. It is too complicated for explanation m the limited space available Indeed, I have found quite a number of members of the house of representatives who are unable to give a complete explanation of how the plan would work and they admit it. It is a piece of legislation that must be complicated In order to accomplish the tilings its proponents claim for it and my observation of government agencies leads me to the conclusion it is so complicated that the chances of it succeeding are almost niL ever-norm- al ever-norm- In the first instance, as I have granary idea said, the comprehends a constant level . of supplies. At first blush, it would seem that storage of wheat or corn or cotton or other farm products in a big crop year to be sold in years when crops are small should work out to keep prices at a satisfactory level. That is the theory. On the other hand, in times past this same sort of scheme has worked out to depress prices instead of maintaining them and the farmers have been the losers. Included in this legislation are provisions for benefit payments to farmers under certain conditions when the price level falls below parity. This injects into the problem again the influence of the general price level of all commodities in the United States whether from the farm or from the factory and it also forces upon the United States additional nfluence wielded by the level of prices in foreign countries where the law of supply and demand continues to operate without impossible amendment at governments dictation. No doubt, the Wallace proposal would boost prices at present. This is true because we have had several short crop years and there is no suiplus now. But with indications that the current wheat crop, for example, is going to be exceptionally large, it is entirely possible that the nation as a whole will have a surplus of wheat this fall. In addition, there will be wheat crops grown in other countries as usual Some of our wheat must be sold in foreign markets and compete with wheat grown in Russia or in South America. It is easy to see, therefore, that the lack of a wheat surplus in this country i3 exceedingly temporary. ever-norm- The granary, if it works as the theonsts claim, would stole or keep off ever-norm- !t Sounds Great ofthemirketth.it poition of the crop which is not needed for current consumption. That sounds fine Gieat users of wheat must buy their supplies far ahead. If they do not take this precaution, they stand a chance always of finding their bins empty and are faced with the necessity of closing their mills. It Is this feature that causes long range buyers to resort to what Is called hedging. That is, they sell on option nearly as much as they buy on contract They are thus able to offset losses whether the price of wheat goes up or whether it goes down and the losses or the gains are distributed throughout the industry. It is the only way by which the industry can protect itself. Mr. Wallaces scheme proposes doing away with that sort of thing, not directly but through the effect of the granary. In other words, the net result of the granary would be for the government to hold these stocks and feed them Into the market as demand for supplies requires. This sounds feasible and It probably would be except for the fact that we have no means of controlling production In the other wheat producing countries, and I repeat that I am using wheat as illustrative of all farm products. In fact, the Wallace plan provides no control of production in this country and that question is vital. As far as I can see, nature Is going to operate to give us rain or give us drouth in accordance with the judgment of the Higher Power. No human is going to be very Influential In that regard. To get back to the question of the price level it should be said that while the Wallace plan provides what appears to be an insurance against fluctuation, It Is more likely to have the opposite effect. Because cf the influence of world prices, great storehouses of wheat In the country will hang over the market like an epidemic. No one can tell when It will strike and since markets are made up of Individuals who are human, a portion of the markets is always going to be frightened by the uncertainty of when government wheat will be offered for sale. It Is a perfectly human reaction because it involves the pocketbooks and humans naturally want to buy as cheaply as they can and sell as high as they can. When Clocks Stopped By FLOYD One of the things that happened in the administration of President Hoover is T rled Once sure to be remem-an- d Failed bered is the utter failure of his farm policy. That farm policy centered at one time in what was called the Federal Farm board. If you will go back a few years and recall the operations of the Federal Farm board, I think you will agree that the things it undertook to do were exactly comparable to, if not exactly the same as, the scheme set up by Secretary Wallace in h.s granary idea. The only difference that I can see and I watched the operations of the farm board from close at hand is a change m the that GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter Bryan Carlock of Bloc-HELLO, everybody: man who knows exactly when I 5 started. Other folks may be a little vague ab hour and minute of their lifes biggest thrill, 5 t 1 When death is staring you in the face, you dont your watches and say, Ho hum, if I dont get out of Neither did Bryan, for tT quick Ill be late for dinner. -- he knows the time. He knows It because, when the blow struck, all tht. watches stopped. It was the end of time. The end The end of everything! The day was March 10, 1933 had arrived in Long Beach, Calif., just that morning sister, who was married to an army officer, Lieut. Chef She and Bryan had gone down town in the afternoc; home at 5 oclock. The clocks and watches stopped at e; ever-norm- ever-norm- Pi! al It Was Just Before Dinner, Prince Alvaro of Bourbon, Orleans, and his bride, Carla Delfino Parodi, just after their marriage in the Church of San Roberto Bellarmmo in Rome. The wedding brought about the first formal appearance in six years of former King Alfonso and former Queen Victoria of Spain, stimulating reports that they are considering a reconciliation. They served as patrons for their cousin, Prince Bourbon-Orleans. WILLIAMS PREXY Famous Father and Two-Year-O- ld Son When- -I In the meantime, they were busy getting dinner tf Linton had come home. Sis was in the kitchen making" cuits. Potatoes were boiling on the stove and the roast The rest of the family was in the living room. Bryan the children a girl and three boys wore playing on tk , Sis came in and said, Are you all hungry? Dinners In a few minutes. And then And then terror! The words were hardly out of mouth W'hen the building began to sway and rock, T roar that sounded like thousands of firecrackers c at once. Tables and floor lamps fell over. Pla. down from the ceiling and the floor bulged upward and I thought the world was coming to an Says Bryan: house was rockmg like a boat. I couldnt get my voice for when I did, I cried out, What is it? Then I heard Che As he said it, the wall beside hnr quake! Get out! fell out into the street. The More lie Struggled, the Worse Hi The apartment was on the second floor of a brick 1 corner of Broadway and Linden. They started for the I Bryan says when he reached it it was moving like an Dr. James Phinney Baxter III, professor of history and master of Adams house at Harvard university, who was unanimously named to succeed Dr, Tyler Dennett as president of Williams college, at a recent meeting of the executive committee of the Williams board of trustees. An exclusive pose of John Jacob Astor and his son, Forty-fou- r years old, he takes office William Henry Astor, as they appeared m commune, on the steps of September 1 as one of the youngest Chetwode, their summer home at Newport, R I. William Henry reof the ten men who have held the cently celebrated his second birthday with his dad and mother, the former Ellen Tuck French. presidency in the colleges history. Socialite Back From Wild Life Hunt MOUND MARVEL The stairway was moving like an escalator 'CEa and the kids were safely at the bottom. The lieutenant i,"ts, b Bryan was half way down that tottering stairway whe-car through a broken step and caught there. s He struggled to extricate himself, but the hard a the tighter he seemed to be wedging himself in. N ne tenant was at his side, trying to get him out. Plas id in falling from the walls and ceiling. At last the lieutcmUTidre loose, and they ran out into the street. levils On the other side of the street, a neighbor was n prp lawn a great chunk of cornice beside him. He had home at the first shock of the quake, just as the corr coaa killed him. The whole neighborhood was m cpnfusion. sWlthi' carrying a woman mto the bungalow next door, her leg to" arriv Tidal Wave Threatens Destruction and E.be de And then, another terrible cry was passed from n5 five Tidal wave coming! through the stricken area. Wei', Wit blocks from the ocean, says Bryan, and we took the .jpg gr running inland. We had had nothing to eat. The roast a Qf other food back home had been blown against the nor re Wll1 kitchen. When we couldnt run any more, we walked. B twel that way for two or three hours, through streets filkthe S bris and ruin and desolation. Before long, the city martial law. About 8:00 or 9:00 oclock we struck s j Bt hadnt suffered quite as badly as other sections of the in were serving soup, sandwiches, coffee, etc., so we s sPen had something to eat. ; ly-i- ever-norm- name. It must be admitted that the phrase granary has a pretty sound. But when It comes to a question of an attractive expression, one that is soothing and one that should convince us all that every problem Is solved, I submit those favorites which Mr. Wallace used when Professor Tugwell was with him In the Department of Agriculture. Who does not recall the "more abundant life, and who has forgotten the 'doctrine of scarcity to assure plenty? Atlca Richard Donald, youthful As far' as I know, neither the house nor the senate committee on pitching sensation of the Newark club of the International league who agriculture has held hearings on Bronzed socialite, pictured won his first 13 starts, shattering this gianary phase of aboard his George Vanderbilt, yacht, Cressida, on his return from a 20,000-milall previous minor league records. the Wallace legislation. Thus far, the discussion has been largely on cruise in the South Seas during which he gathered about 20,000 wild life The future will probably see him for the Philadelphia Academy cf Natural Sciences. George is on the Yankee questions involving benefits and specimens p.tching staff since shown with Tag Along, the tortoise-masco- t he picked up on the Galathe Newark club is part of the subsidies and means of marketing. islands. No attention has been given to the pagos Ruppert farm system. granary threat, and I regard it as a menace. If this discussion were devoted to only the consumer phase of our economic life, I think I should be selfish enough to urge enactment of the Wallace plan. I believe I can see where the ever normal granary idea will make bread cheaper, where It will make cotton textile goods cheaper and when cotton is cheaper other textiles are cheaper, and where other food and necessaries of life that have their origin on the farm will be reduced In price by such a legislative policy. But that is not my idea of a sound economic structure. It is just as necessary for the consumer to pay his fair share toward the maintenance of a living agriculture as It is for farmers to pay their fair share to a living commerce and Industry of whatever kind it may be. The senate Democrats have electee. a new leader to succeed the late Senator Joe Robinson, of Aikansas. He is Senator Alban Barkley, of Kentmky. In a previous column I mentioned the split among the senate Democrats and suggested that It would be diflicult to replace Senator Sir George Broadbi id ;e. the lord mayor tf London, inspects the Ancient and Honorable Robinson because of the qualities he Artillery Company had in holding the various factions of America during a fiudtn party in honor of the rntish Honourable Artillery Company on the four hundiedth Us of foumlu g recently. The B'uli h comp my is one of the mes exclusive regiments in England. together In the senile. It was not a anniversary The American company d ites from 1CJ3 when a group of pi inters in Aitk t tea who had been members of the foiecast, it was a statement of fact British company formed a similar regaaent. I Western Newspaper Union. ever-norm- ever-norm- ever-norm- Honorable Artillery Company Has Rirtbday lie Didnt Even Feel Nail in Ilis Lcjn pipe They were all exhausted by this time. There was which a tidal wave and, tidal wave or no tidal wave, Bryan wa of mu a step farther. They held a council of war and decided lve hoi neighborhood of home. nt, the They wandered back toward the ocean and, within where Lintons wrecked house they found an apartment build the M still In pretty good shape, and managed to get shelter force bea For the first time, then, Bryan noticed that his rift each damp. He pulled op his trouser leg and found the Mcnown with blood. There was a nail In the calf of his leg. lies of had been thrust there when he got caught in the brokcio of th There was a doctor In the house, he says, and He Ro wound. I was walking like a drunken man, and the do ie rott was earth shocked iment Calls Quakes Effects Worse Than Wa Diab dSpiS The tremors continued all through the night They trait0r apartment house, but in the morning they had to move on mains had been broken and there was no gas or wate' Plii to City Hall park, where relief work was getting under tle du they were pat into a truck and sent to Lennox, about twf all, Los Angeles where a womens club had been turned lnt ot, un They gave us medical attention there, says Briers. 1 lot of us needed it, A lot of the women were hysteric with the nurses there had been in hospitals in France durk has r C and had been bombarded by the Germans, but she it then affect her nearly as badly as the quake did. Our little group got off easily. My sister and her e to t been hit by plaster and the three boys had their legs skiraused tenant had had the presence of mind to hold a chair over b known escaped without a scratch. But the thing that saved was our delay in getting out of the house. If we had gon the wa debris was still falling we would have met the same fatr topic bor across the street." assibili t 1 u. WNU Service. Most Slowly Written Works Acta Sanctorum," the great collection of the lives and legends of the Roman Catholic saints, is one of the most slowly written works on record, says Colliers Weekly Except for two Interruptions, which stopped the compilation for 43 years, Belgian Jesuits have worked on it steadily since about GOO and hope to complete its some 3'i,000 biographies by approximately 1975. The 8. ' for ev 50 are Sir11 Lee, Jackson In famou1 Gen. Robert E. Le The il war, went to the yea ley as president of to end elentio block iment. wher live, 1 of 10,000 men, drove vaders. |