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Show x PAGE FOUR PRbVO (UTAH) EVENING HERAED, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1934 I. . ScrlptwLtaqml "JPi-oclalra Liberty through all the land" Liberty Hell The Herald Every Afternoon except Saturday, and Sunday Morning i'ubliahed by the Herald Corporation. 50 South First West Street, Provo. Utah. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in Provo, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. Oilman, Nicoll & Ruthman. National Advertising representatives, New Yrk, San Francisco, Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago. Member United Press. N. E. A. Service, Western Features and the Scripps League of Newspapers. Subscription terms by carrier in Utah county, 50 cents (he month; $2.75 for six months, in advance; $5.00 the var. in advance; by mail in Utah County, in advance, $4.50; outside Utah county, $5.00. OUT OUR WAY BY WILLIAMS Budget Mystery Two Answers Why did President Roosevelt make his budget deficit greater by a bill ton dollars than anyone, even the treasury, estimate ? Why did the president fail to note that several billion dollars included in the deficit were going- for loans, part or all of which will be repaid ? Why didn't the president show the brighter side of the situation ? We can only guess why he chose to make things look blacker than they are, WHEN THE TRUE PICTURE WOULD HAVE BEEN BLACK ENOUGH. There are two probable explanations for the presidential presiden-tial attitude. One is that he hoped to give the country such a budgetary scare that the nation would rise up in arm? should congress try to increase it by raising any fixed appropriations. ap-propriations. To this paper that explanation seems the logical one., and a typical Roosreveltian bit of strategy. The president is, thank the lord, the smartest politician of a decade. He is a master of political strategy. He is the ruler of Washington Washing-ton politics not only because of his rank but because of downright merit. There may, however, be another reason why the president' presi-dent' stretched the budget deficit. That' reason would be that he has more PLANS for spending. In that case, he proposed pro-posed to give himseif a leeway of a couple of billions. Let's hope that the first, and not the second, is the real reason why the president put so much red in his budget picture. Training For Government A neat idea for training college students for public careers has been evolved by Chester II. McCall, Secretary Roper's assistant in the commerce department. Mr. McCall would frke to have 150 or 200 selected college students brought to Washington for three months every winter, to study the operation of the federal government at first hand, watch how executives and solons do their work and attend lectures by cabinet officers and others. In many ways this is a very sensible suggestion. It would be fine training for the young collegians, for one thing; for another, it ought also to be a good thing for the government officials with whom they would mingle. Young collegians are notoriously quick to' see thru sham and bluff. A politician functioning for three months under the eyes of a gang of boys and girls from the campuses campus-es would have to tend to his knitting. Hot air and bunk would get him no place. Ho would have to be good to make an impression. -fe- SCIENCE Dr. Joseph F. Rock, international interna-tional author and recognized explorer, ex-plorer, is soon to publish a book which will indicate that the Nak-his, Nak-his, natives, of Northern Yunan province, China, have a civilization civiliza-tion 2000 years old. Dr. Rock first penetrated this territory .which lies near the bor der of Tibet, about 12 years ag:o when making a survey for the American department of agriculture. agricul-ture. ,The Nakhis, or "black people" as they are known, are one of the extraordinary races or tribes surviving sur-viving to this day. They number 200,000 people, and have kept alive a culture at least 2000 years, Dr. Rock states. 3fi 2fc 3f Headed by Mrs. Land3teiner, now of Rockefeller Institute, and' Jansky, scientists now are trying try-ing to evolve a workable plan whereby blood strains in humans can be traced. They have bvon able to distinguish between L00 Hindu and 500 English specimens, without error, in recent tests made in India. Two Polish doctors also, the Hirzfelds, working with the Siberian Si-berian army during the world war, noted the difference in the blood streams of Turks, Greeks and others who lived in the same community.- 1 ' Drs. Verzar and Wasczeckv arm-waving, and using if for milk WE-HOO- ( I KMEW IT! WHY , ALICGJ 1 WELL, I DON'T HOO-WE I KMEW IT! VOU CANT KNOW WHAT CANT GET YOU'RE TOO GET ALONG YOU WANT. I ALOMG. BOSSY - I WITH A PINE HE'S AS NEAR V THAT'S ALL. KNOW YOUf MAN LIKE A AINT AS h BOO HOO.-i WHY, HE'S A DAVE ? WHY, J YOU'LL FIND J SWELL GUY I I ALICE f j NOW-A-DAYS. ""V" A PRINCE! Vs- V K HE JIS WOULDM' L ' STAND PER YOUR (fJ&h C A HADDA - J J gMl 4 4 W rue CAnrrcn r a r . ' : 1 ' j.r Do You Know? These Curious Things ; he sleeping habits of animals ! are among che most interesting j topics of conversation. Horses, unlike cows, can sleep perfectly while standing up. The reason for this is that the joints of the horses's legs lock and keep him from toppling over. Mackerel and other fish sleep while swimming, and so do ducks, and wild hares often sleep with their eyes open. In each instance, when danger threatens, a "flash" of intelligence to their brain tells each of lurking foes. Some brilliantly colored tropical trop-ical fish, when resting, burrow, in the sand on the river bottom, so that they will not be easily discovered, and the whole fish family knows but one member that sleeps on its side like hu- ! man beings, that fish being the wrasse. The parakeet, of tropica"! countries, coun-tries, sleeps with its head hanging hang-ing down, and so does the bat. The kakapo, a parrot of New Zealand, sleeps all day, like the owl family, and for its slumbei? selects a burrow under a rock or tree where it passes away the daylight hours coming out at nicrht. This Curious World THE CUSTOM OP CLINKING GLASSES ORIGINATED IN THE DAY5 OF THE ROMANS, i-n . Howdy, folks! Times may still be haru, Mil me woir ac our door has gained four pounds during dur-ing the past month. Of course the increase in his weight may be due to the fact that we have trained him to take a bite out of every bill collector who rings our doorbell. I TODAY'S NEWS i :.t When speech-makers in the House of Representatives wave their arms about in sweeping ges-tirres, ges-tirres, why should this energy he permitted to go io waste? It shouldn't, responds Prof. Horace T. MeGoof, noted Phinney Ridge scientist, who has just Invented a machine for harnessing the energy expended in congressional BEHIND THE SCENES IN WASHINGTON WITH RQPN EY DUTCHER were able to detect clear rac:,il differences among Hungarians, German and Gypsies in Hungarian Hungar-ian communities established centuries cen-turies ago. These pioneers believe that it will be only a question of time until all questions of ancestry and the migration of man, can be told by a simple drop of blood in a test tube and eventually, they hope to determine what the first "pure" race upon the earth was a difficult task now chat many nations are intermarried. Youth Is Injured In Gun Accident SPANISH FORK Fred Thomas, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Thomas, was shot through the left shoulder with a .22 caliber rifle Sunday evening at his home. The youth told Dr. J. W. Hagan and Dr. S. W. Georges who attended at-tended him that he had been inspecting in-specting the gun when it was accidentally ac-cidentally discharged. The bullet pierced the shoulder and emerged through the youth's back, striking no vital portion of the body and Jews, making only a flesh wound. ing cows. Bravo, Prof. MeGoof! A .large number of women are taking up dentistry. Well, their capacity for one-sided conversations conversa-tions should prove a valuable asset. IIELPFU. HINT When you want to get rid of guests turn on the radio. Nine chances out of ten, someone will be giving an imitation of Mae West. Salt Lake preacher denounces gambling as a ' means of getting money for nothing." Worse than that, it frequently is a means of getting nothing for your money . .Well, . if- Paul Whiteman is ever out of a job, he can have the gpalie.'s position on our hockey team. If people are the right kind of people,, any form of government can be made to work. POETIC OEMS His borrowing has caused a loss To him as well as me; For I have lost the dough I lent And he his memory. Music Note r The difference be- ALLEY OOP The Lost Is Found! -8 By HAMLIN 00T FOOZY, Oil PAL, CAN'T OH, ALL RIGHT , YA RUN OUT ON ME NOW? YA CRAZV BABOON f GOTTA KEEPGOlrV FOR A (BUT I'LL SEE THAT VIHtLEf SHE'LL TIRE OF HER V. SHE TlRES PRETTY UJTt-PFT PRETTY QUtCK.AN'V DANGED SOON' THEN WE CAN 6ET OUTA THIS MPS'; . flMVunvl Rl IT 1 V f HURRV' 1 wl5H SWE'D kV ' Grr THfT HtfXDj AN' BREAK ER All rw 7 HERE SHE' 'NOSAUR BUSINESS nlFV'X rS ? ( GIVES ME A PAN, v lc vcoMEsy r Bv heck J UTTLE ZOOZU 15 ALL ABOUT VT-t SAW GONEf HE'S RUN ) YOUR UTTLE PET AWAV WHATLL TEAR1N' OUT, SO I DO? YOU GOTTAJ CAUGHT TN -1 VJAS FIND HIM f f JUST GONNA BRING MtA BACKT I NAUGHT V W AROUND TA KETCH TH' 5CALY-MOED JTTLE DARUNG V LIZARD ! AR-RGGH f I'D LKE TO J ZOOZUf OOO V V4RNG YER NECK -j ' BY RODNEY DUTCHER NBA Srlee SlafT ( urreiianlrn( TyASHIN(TON.- Senator Uut-y Long will resign on one on-dftion. on-dftion. He promises your correspondent corre-spondent that if Congress will pass his redistribution-of-wealth bill he will quit and resume law practice. There's not much chance. Huey figures he can make about $250,000 a year at law. His bill would limit the amount anyone could earn to $1,000,000 a year, inheritances to $5,000,000, and, fortunes to S50, 000,000. Every needy person over (JO would receive re-ceive an old age pension of $30 ;i month. '.'Why retire alter lliaf" li was asked. "I don't like it -..-re." n-li-d hurly-burly Huey. 'I love . peace and quiet and a chance to be with my family." He will support eveiy Roosevelt Roose-velt measure "that doesn't conflict con-flict with my bill." Meanwhile, attempts to oust him from office don't bother him. "In 16 years of public office." he boasts, "there hasn't been a time when there weren't motions to kick me out." 'T'HE flower of chivalry droops in the dust at the Department of Agriculture. There. Secretary Wallace talks of "getting ri the she-stuft a new term to urbanites. "Kho-ctllff" a roforon sa 1 r ! female livestock. Prolific propensities propen-sities of "she-stuff" thwart AAA plans for production control of hogs, beef cattle, and dairy cows. Sows were chief victims inthe pig massacre. Now there's a proposal pro-posal to perform operations on cows to end their milk-giving days. And heifers will get in the neck when the beef program gets going. T RAVERY of a "little cabinet" member has landed him in the sou p. Assistant Secretary of the Interior In-terior Theodore A. Walters is on the bad books of Secretary Ickes. One of these days you'll probably hear that Walters has taken another an-other government job. Nearly all the important duties ordinarily handled by a first assistant as-sistant have been taken away from him. Supervision of reclamation reclama-tion has been technically left with his office, but Ickes insists on handling that himself. Walters, backed for his post by Senator Pope of Idaho, courted fiis downfall when he souawke.t at the activities of Administrative Assistant Ebert K. Hurlew, a Hoover administration holdover. Walters said he didn't see why fte should take Burlew's orders. Many other Ickes subordinates, including thfe liberals with whom ' higher Interior posts are stacked, also resented Burlew's power. But whereas they talked cautiously, Walters let a newspaper story leak out that he might resign if Burlcw weren't curbed. Ickes, who doesn't like to see anybody's name in newspapers except his own. then heaped added favors on Burlew and began be-gan to give Walters the works. ?taryj CONCEALED threat or rigid d of j il fecjerai dictatorship for the milk corporations is contained in the new AAA milk policy. Officials Offi-cials admit they're set to license distributors who won't agree to pay farmers milk prices as established. estab-lished. Heretofore, distributors have insisted on minimum retail price-setting price-setting which guaranteed their profits. Now the emphasis is on free competition at the retail end, cheaper milk, and greater consumption. con-sumption. (Copyright. 194. NETA Service. Inc.J Gold Plan Revealed WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 l'.R The Reconstruction Finance Corporation Cor-poration has purchased approximately approxi-mately $120,000,000 in gold since the buying program was inaugurated inaugu-rated several months ago, Jesse Jones, chairman said today. I in mm BEFORE A DUEL, EACH GLADIATOR. DRANK A GLASS OP WINE, AND, TO GUARD AGAINST THE TREACHERV OF POISON BEING SLIPPED INTO ONE OF THE GLASSES. IT BECAME A CUSTOM FOR. THE FIGHTERS TO TOUCH THE GLASSES ANn POUR THE WINE FROM ONE TO THE OTHER. . 'a MOHAIR GOAT WITH HAIR-. FIVE fEET LONG, WAS RAISED BV F. A. PIERCE, i-hjmbowt couvry. c" ,,'. if i I i ' ft jToa oooo Been sold. - sy's , 193 BY NEA tc, mc 1-17 (Continued from Page One) and chairman of the New York state Democratic committee. From time to time he has come under bitter fire for being so multi-jobbed. Only recently Senator Nor- ris complained to the president about it. Jim's triple-role is no choosing of his own. He has long wanted to withdraw from the state chair manship, has no longer any par ticular desire to continue as national na-tional chairman. His great ambition ambi-tion is to make a record as head of the postal service; to take this traditionally in-the-red department depart-ment and put it on a paying basis. Last year he cut its deficit two-thirds, two-thirds, believes he can wipe it out entirely this year. But "getting rid of his political jobs is not a simple matter. The moment he steps out there will be a furious scramble by ambitious aspirants. Factionalism will rear its head. And this in an election year is risky business. However, Jim is definitely preparing pre-paring to narrow his field of activity. ac-tivity. Only the express request of the president will keep him from doing so. T tween a coloratura and a blues singer ;is about 15 years. What the movies- need is fewer fan magazines, ana more pan magazines. ' A stakka Weets! Legal Notices NOTICE Notice is hereby given to any and all persons havings claims against the Bank of Heber City, to present such claims in writing, duly verified to E. H. Street, Deputy Bank Examiner in charge of the said Bank of Heber City, on or before the 10th day of February 1934. L. C. MONTGOMERY. Attorney for Bank of Heber. Pub. Jan. 3- 13. 17, 24, 1934. PUBLIC LAND SAL.E Department of the Interior U. S. LAND OFFICE a Salt Lake City, Utah Nov. 23, 1933. NOTICE is hereby given that, as directed by the Commissioner of the General Land office, under provisions of Sec. 2455, R. S., pursuant pur-suant to the application of Robert Rob-ert M. Boardman of Provo, Utah, Serial No. 048318, we will offer at public sale, to the highest bidder, but at not less than $1.50 per acre, at 10 o'clock A. M., on the 20th day of January, 1934, next, at this office, the following tract of land: ENWV.SE Sec. 8 T 7 South Rang: 3 East. S. L. M. The sale will not be kept open, but will be declared closed when those present at the hbur named have ceased bidding. 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