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Show PAGE TEN PROVO (UTAH) EVENJM HERALD,, FRIDAY,. JUNE 2 2 .19.3.4 The Herald Every Afternoon except Saturday ,mn& Sunday Murals Published by the Herald Corporation, 60 South Pirt West street. I'rovo Utah. Entered as second-clasa matter at the poatoffice in Provo. Utah, under the mm lcrtmfUMuZI act of March 3, 17!. tMXSSJ Gllman, Nicoll & Ruthrnan, National Advertising '' repreaentati ve, New York, San Francisco, Detroit, "Proclaim Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago. Liberty Member United Press, N. R. A. Service, Western through all Features and the Scrippa League of Newspapers. the laad" Subscription Aerms by carrier in Utah county, Uberty Bell 50 cents the month; $2.75 for six months, in advance; $5.00 the year, in advance; by mail in Utah County, . In advance. $4. 50; outside Utah County, $5.00. A Memory We Woilld Not Want To Revive The American H(yrie has always been a good deal like the weather. There was a lot of talk about it, but very few ever really did anything. . Sentimental songs about Getting Back to That Tumbledown Tumble-down Shack, and Shanties in Old Shantytown have been extremely ex-tremely popular, though it's hard to see just what there is that is really attractive about shacks and shanties. But apparently there was a lot more reality in these songs than there is in most popular songs of the day. A report of the American Public Health Association reveals some startling things about the Great American Home. -- -j -:" ' ,1 Only, one-sixth of rural homes have plumbing. Less than? one-fourth of the nation's homes have running water; less than half have electricity. Dr, Haven Emerson, president of the association, points out in addition that many private single dwellings are fire-traps, and that the average American home is wasteful of heat because not properly insulated and very uncomfortable in summer for the same reason. f He achtjs that many small homes of the south lack the screens in .doors and windows that alone will prevent malaria ma-laria among the occupants. In addition to this, as applied to individual homes, recent revelations in the New York City investigations of tenement conditions have shown horrible hor-rible Conditions of housing that are duplicated' to some degree de-gree iA almost every American city. ' Thus the huge housing remodeling program of President Presi-dent Roosevelt gains considerable support. Certainly there can be no better use of federal funds than to loan them for rebuilding the American home into something that will be fit to sing about. Perhaps, if the housing program is successfully carried car-ried through, a future generation of song writers will cease to chant of tumbled-down shacks and cabins in the cotton and write some tender lyrics to "Tha Fireproof, Insulated, Tile-bathroomed Old Electrical Home of Mine." At least that would be something worth singing about. . Burden of Government Growing ' Under the military autocracies of Europe, every worker carried a soldier on his back. . ' This country is approaching the point where very soon every worker will carry a government official or employe. C The census bureau has just announced that state and local governments cost every man, woman and child the astounding as-tounding sum of 476.80 in the year 1932. That did not include in-clude the enormous sums spent by the federal agencies. . , It is now estimated that one out of every six holds some sort of a government job. That an increase in-rrabiirr empltrment will come from the assumption of more functions under more complicated 'living is to be expected. The people must pay for such services as sanitation, road building, and the dozens of other things that must be done by cities and counties. But they cannot pay for useless and duplicated jotos. ( The movement urged by this newspaper for many years to consolidate counties in Utah isxone method of: reducing this enormous burden. The automobile and highways haVe made the present geographical boundaries unnecessary. Many counties could be. combined with a saving of official salaries. Tax money spent on these departments which render real service is well spent. But that given to officials whose work is duplicated or could be eliminated is complete waste. 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It is rapidly getting so that auto and autopsy mean about the same. fi fi It is said that six quarts of oil will cover a square mile of sea. But have you ever let a sardine tin drip on your white flannel trousers at a picnic? 3f C f . A HOSPITAL REPORT y. . j This is Mrs. Egbert Newly rich, Provo society dowager, who when the doctor declared she was anaemic aud must take iron, sniffed haughtily that she could afford something more costly than mere iron and swallowed two gold wedding rings and a platinum plati-num brae e 1 e t. She will recover. Sfm 3fr f The trouble with college boat races is that we usually collapse before the winning crew does. ft ) 1ft !( OUR NEIGHBORS I The song is ended, but the radio program lingers on. j - wfi 3fi Sft Li'l Gee Gee declares she can be very comfortable in her ne-aiod-ernistic chair, but she s5h she has to put a boy-friend in it before she sits down. ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SEZ: "A model home isn't worth a darn without a model family inside." But if it were not for those miscreants mis-creants who have been hoarding their money where would the government gov-ernment look for purchases of its new issue of bonds? V' fr $ , ' THOUGHT FOR TODAY One good thing about these long skirts. They keep the I I flapper's shoes shined. j Pfr Small boys who have been attending at-tending school all winter will soon be able to increase their vocabularies vocabu-laries by becoming caddies. fr Sf Sf if. ... He laughed when I sat down to play, but he quit when I trumped his ace. Heretofore sold only in slices, cheddar cheese can now be pur-cased pur-cased in a sealed tin of convenient size. The "green" cheese is pack ed in cans and sealed, but In a new type safety valve permits all gases that are formed during the ripening ripen-ing process of the cheese to escape. BOY BREAKS ARM SPANISH FORK Joe Carr, 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kendall Carr of Helper, suffered a broken arm Monday while assisting his uncle, Thomas Chadwick, who was loading load-ing hay at the Chadwick ranch in Spanish Fork canyon. He was brought to Spanish Fork for medical med-ical attention. BEHIND THE SCENES IN SCIENCE k , , WASHINGTON BY RODNEY DUTCHER SKA Servlr Staff Crrupm4emt YASHINGTON Today isn't exactly ex-actly Christmas, but 'your correspondent corre-spondent must report At once about ihe Jingle Bells Committee, because be-cause he has just obtained the low: down on it. I forget the official name for it, but it's known as the Jingle Bells Committee throughout the Interior Department, because It's the departmental de-partmental committee handling the reindeer problem in Alaska. The fate of 50,000 reindeer depends de-pends on its long and frequent deliberations. de-liberations. Reindeer are the meat supply of the Alaskan natives and the problem prob-lem arises because a private company com-pany claims title to most of the animals. The villagers claim title to many of them and. since the deer roam free over the ranges, nobody can' tell which reindeer is whose. The company tries to round up the reindeer every year and brand them, but in roundups 40 per cent of the little does and fawns are crushed or otherwise done to death, so what the heck? Is there going to be a New Deal for reindeer and the natives who haven't any money and must Hve on deer meat? You bet! The good old Jingle Bells Committee, Com-mittee, is fixing It up so Uncle Sam will buy out the private company, com-pany, let the reindeer, roam untagged, un-tagged, and allow each village to kill all it needs for. food. The Jingle Bells Committee plans a federal corporation which will have title to all the reindeer, with natives on the board of directors di-rectors Including a few " Eskimos. Eski-mos. iPWA will pay the bill.) OUT OUR WAY HH ."DID TOO1, MAI I C30T SUSPICIOUS, AND WATCHED HIM. WHEN WE COME TO . A NICE BUNCH OF STONES, HE'D POINT 4wAY OFF IM A FIELD AN' HOLLER, THERE GOES M KMBBII ANu IHcKk WAS no rabbit; ill. BETf WHV MOTHERS GET GRAY (?) WHOmdFIR5Tp IN AMERICA By Joseph Nathan Kane Author of "Famous First Facts" Who first manufactured pens in America? Where was the first peace society organized? When were sheep first brought to this country? Answers In next issue. G6RTRUD5 EDERLE FIRST AMERICAN WOVAN TO WIN ENGLISH CHANNEL. 1326. GEW1N3 NEEDLES AT VsAOLCOTTV I U.E. COHN.966. FIRST SHlP-TQ-SHOSiE COmmeROAl. TeLEPHOHS M SERVICE OEC. 193L3. Answers to Previous Questions 1TISS EDERLE made the chan-nel chan-nel swim in 14 hours and 34 minutes. By using the cold swaging process, needles of uniform uni-form size and shape were made at a price much lower than the cost of the crude needles previously pre-viously made. The first ship-to-shore telephone conversation was between Walter S. Gifford, president presi-dent of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and Comm. H. A. Cunningham of the S S leviathan. WITH RODNEY DUTCHER rpHE collapse of a , beautiful dream and the departure of one of the New Deal's more attractive at-tractive dreamers that's the meaning of the investigation of alleged over-appraisals of land in PVVA's Housing Division and the resultant resignation of Director Robert D. Kohn. The dream was that you coutd get property owners Interested in self-liquidating low-cost housing projects, involving slum clearance and employment of builders, at a limited investment net profit of 6 per cent- if PWA only would lenM money for such projects at 4 per cent. A thousand' projects were submitted, sub-mitted, of which nine were con ft1 J sidered fair enough to be accepted. accept-ed. (Architects were too dreamy, promoters and real estate interests inter-ests too grasping.) Now the nine projects are be Ing investigated, in the belief that they were overvalued, to the detriment of. the flream and future fu-ture tenants. Kohn, an outstanding architect, archi-tect, resigned after a hot private session in which he accused Ickes of crossing up everything by constant con-stant interference. There's a lot to that everyone who works under un-der Ickes has the same experience. But Kohn was a poor business manager', an idealist, and a delightful de-lightful personality, who fought off hundreds ot crooks and cranks, but not enough of them to keep him from his present plight. Kohn's chief trouble was til at he appointed many dreamy subordinates, sub-ordinates, who apparently let project sellers set the values ol their properties at their own fig., ures. No one is suspected of dishonesty, dis-honesty, (Copyright. 134. NEA Service. Inc.) LOOK Mr IM " 7 -the; eve nio 'yOU DO THAT. TO KEEP ME FROM (SETTING NICEL STONES FO OUR ROCK C3ARPEN?, ANSWER ME Do You Know? These Curious Things Education has cost the federal government more than $1,00,000 monthly. Under the emergency relief re-lief program. Uncle Same underr took to send 70,000 young men and women to various colleges thruout the land. The cost for educating these students is more than $10,000,000 for the nine-month nine-month term. When congress decided to build the capital city on the banks of the Potomas river, Maryland donated all the land on which the "First City" was to be built. In fact, all the land that now is included in the District of Columbia was once a part of the state of Maryland. The founder of the oldest civilization civ-ilization in the world, Fo Hi, the first emperor of China, was the first man to invent writing. Fo-Hi invented a form of cir-culiar cir-culiar diagrams, by which the Chinese man of learning was" able to express his ideas and words in a form of writing, his type of wruing was very primitive and is known as the Pa Koua. The active life of an oyster is said to be 10 years. How long it lasts after that only the taste of your stew can tell. , - - Try The X-New ' Drink With That THE CENT0'LAGUR DRINK IS HERE! nJMSSBS.! X- AT THE FOLLOWING PLACES: Y A. C. ANDERSON GROCERY AVENUE GROCERY BANYAN LUNCH BILL'S PLACE (7th E. 3rd S.) CLAYTON CASH GROCERY CONTINENTAL OIL CITY DRUG COBBLEMORE CUBBARD LUNCH CORNER CASH FIRST WARD GROCERY DENHALTER BEVERAGE COMPANY - 753 South Univers. BYWILLIAMS WELL- UH-GOSH, WE GOT A TON OF 'EM IN TH'CAA,NOvV-AM' TH'CAA,NOvV-AM' WHO HASTA WRASSLE 'EM INTO TH' CAR? AN' WELL . X'M ALL IN? I CANT UFT ANOTHER STONE, GOSH, GIVE A GU A BREAK. mm n seaviec. tnc. r. m. nta o. s. pt. orrj Bright Moments In Great Lives David Warfield, the great Amer ican actor who started his theat rical career as a four-dollar-a-week usher and whose ambition it once was to become a great comedian, come-dian, finally got his break while doing a Jewish specialty with Weber and Fields, David Belasco, the great im-pressario, im-pressario, sent for him. "I want to star you," he said. "I believe we can do great things together." "All right," said Warfield. They never signed a contract, but they went on to produce such reat plays as "The Auctioneer," "The Flying Dutchman" and 'Merchant of Venice,' 'with War-f:cld War-f:cld in the leading roles. RECOVERS FROM INJURY SPANISH FORK Frank B. Dart, eight, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dart, is recovering following fol-lowing an infection in his right foot, caused .by stepping on a nail two weeks ago. The injured foot seemed to heal then the infection developed. A twoheaded snake lived for months in the N. Y. Zoological park. When it was fed, a cardboard card-board was placed between the two heads so that one would not get the other's food. IT HITS FERG. SERVICE GOLF COURSE HEDQUIST DRUG VIRGINIA HAM HOUSE HANDY SERVICE HIGH LINE SERVICE HANSEN CAFE KEELEYS(Both. Stores) KIRKWOOD DRUG LARSON'S GROCERY STORE MOULTON GROCERY Bottled and 117 I on Merry-Go-Roiihd (Continued from Page One) lifted his bow and at once had held the audience spellbound. "Ah," said Holmes with a sigh, after Stone had finished. "What a triumph! I sometimes think that I would give ten years of my life to be afcle to play like that." "Yes," replied Justice Stone, "but some of us would give ten years of our lives to be able to write opinions like yours." Justice Holmes brightened, showed that even he enjoys praise. Then after a moment's pause, he said: "My boy," Stone is only 62 God. sees through all this modesty." mod-esty." ADJOURNMENT COST Members of congress, nome-ward nome-ward bound, pay for railroad tickets at the rate of 3.6 cents a mile (slightly less to points south and west). Adding Pullman costs, they pay roug'nly five or six centos a mile. Uncle Sam pays them fifteen cents a mile. The biggest hand-out is to the two resident commissioners from the Philippine Islands, who each get $1500 ($2000 prior to the Economy Act) whether they go home or not. . i MERRY-GO-ROUND . One congratulatory message received by Henry Fletcher, following fol-lowing his election as Republican national chairman, was from an old Democratic friend, Frank Polk, secretary of state under Wilson. . . . Wired Polk: "You are just the man for the place. Your experience in Mexico untangling un-tangling revolutions ought to help you a lot in this new job." . . The morning after the senate agriculture committee's interrogation interro-gation of Professor Rex Tugwell was a sad occasion for "Cotton Ed" Smith, who had' led the hue and cry against the young Brain Truster. . . . "Cotton Ed" read every morning paper he could lay his hands on, and what he found turned his heart to stone. . . To a visitor he cried bitterly: "The ' press of the country has gone to the dogs. These stones are a mass of inaccuracies. Why the biggest event of the hearing, the applause that greeted my speech, is completely suppressed." . . If only Uvalde, Texas, could see Vice President Garner's hew official of-ficial limousine! . . A new super-streamline super-streamline model; long, slinky, and as shiny as a new dime, it is .the last word in "class." . : . When the stocky little VP settles back in its luxurious cushions, he is practically lost to sight. The new membership drive pamphlet of the national Republican Repub-lican club is one of the most effective ef-fective political documents put out by any party in a long time. . JThat-' perennial juvenile "Young Teddy" Roosevelt, "dis- THE SPOT! MAESER CASH STORE MOUNTAIN CASH STORE PARK GROCERY REDDEN MARKET RIVERSIDE GROCERY SCHRAMM-JOHNSON DRUG SHOEMAKER GROCERY SUNSHINE CAFE SECOND WARD GROCERY STADIUM LUNCH SOWARD GROCERY Distributed by- Yvasningt Japanese Honor Aviation Pioneer : x. . ' U J : I (dr;.; .fo h i The most famous mustailie in life world is pt i petuatcd in bronze on this inomumnt to Japan's aviation pioneer, the late Lieut. Gen. Gaislii Magaoka. in Shiba park. Tukio. The grandchildren grand-children of the late president of the IniiKMii'l Aeronautic Society of Japan are sJmvnaii 4hey uu veiled the iiiwuuinent.. tant cousin" to F. D. R., (according (accord-ing to Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long-worth), Long-worth), is author of the booklet. . . . Miss Frances (Robby) Robinson, Rob-inson, secretary to General Hugh Johnson, continues to dazzle lem- inine Washington with her attire . . . Her latest is an ensemble, obtained in New York, consisting of a red hat, white jacket, candy-striped candy-striped blousep (that looks like crepe paper, but isn't), navy blue skirt, and blue-and-white shoes. (Copyright. 19'4, by Uniteol Feature Syndicate, Inc.) In Australia, the usual practice prac-tice of the bushnWi is to marry the daughter of his mother's brother, or his fnother's nWh-N er's brother's daughter's daugh- ICI. JOHN T. TAYLOR GROCERY THORNTON DRUG THOMAS GROCERYx TEXACO. SERVICE (All 3) TELLURIDE SERVICgl university market Vineyard merc WILLIAMS 6th WARD GROC. W ATKINS SERVICE-WEST SERVICE-WEST SIDE DRIVE Ave., Provo, Utah |