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Show Read Anything in It, Gentlemen? frROVo. Utah cQuntV. UTAtt. Thursday, December 8, 1949 Big City Congestion Problems Get Worse Some of our scientists have been telling; us for a long time that the country's biggest big-gest cities were getting too thickly settled. They've been saying that sooner or later the drawbacks of bigness would start to outweigh the advantages. . Today signs are multiplying that a few of our great centers may already be beyond the size best calculated to serve their citizens citi-zens well. . A prime point made by students of city growth like Lewis Mumf ord is that congestion con-gestion tends to breed congestion. Mumford argues that many of the things cities do to relieve overcrowdedness actually serve in the end to intensify it. Highway and other transportation improvements im-provements are examples. Super-thoroughfares are designed to break traffic bottlenecks bottle-necks in and around urban focal points. Too often, even with no important increase in population, or in number of automobiles, the new roadway becomes as clogged as were the old routes. It has attracted traffic that previously went elsewhere. The same thing can happen on rapid transit systems. A city builds more subway lines to ease the pain of rush-hour travel to and from downtown. In no time at all, traffic has built up beyond capacity again. New York City tears out an ugly slum and erects handsome elevator apartments, well-spaced for light and air and set in an area of green lawns and shrubs. There is great pride in this achievement, until it is realized that there are now far more people peo-ple in the re-built zone than ever before. Taking It Easy A modern physical condition, one which was unfamiliar to our forefathers, is that which leads to nervous breakdowns; heart diseases, hyper-tension and other painful results. This is the inability to relax, revealed re-vealed in a constant drive to accomplish more work or to take part in more social activities. A professor in an Eastern school, who teaches a course in methods of relaxation, says that tense people are often superficially superficial-ly calm, and that this extra effort at self-control self-control adds still further to their tension. She recommends the development of a sense of proportion and the adoption of sensible aids to relaxation and sleep. Americans of two or three generations 'ago had less need of such advice. Their whole pace, and that of the world they lived in, was slower; their fatigue was more likely to be of the healthy sort that comes from a normal amount of physical or mental labor. Few of them were troubled by insomnia. in-somnia. Nowadays we need to be checked occasionally in our headlong pace, to listen, to words of advice on how to relax, ana how to lull ourselves to sleep at night. Thousands of work-bound folk pour out of the buildings every morning and try to cram themselves into overloaded buses. The worst aspect of the problem, according accord-ing to Mumford, is that once & city becomes congested every move it makes to relieve the condition is tremendously costly. Subways Sub-ways cost more than widened streets. Superhighways Su-perhighways cost more than normal routes. Existing buildings and streets have to be torn down and expensive property acquired. ac-quired. As population mounts, the cost of providing pro-viding regular city services such as water, gas, sewage 'disposal and power goes up faster than the rise in numbers. Huge pipelines pipe-lines and storage facilities must be constructed con-structed at heavy expense to bring water into every home. Gas and oil are drawn from fields sometimes 2000 miles away. New York City's current water shortage is one of the signs dramatizing the problem. The city's development of new facilities fell behind population growth and it may not catch up for several years. Another critical fact : the congestion drives people into outlying areas for quiet, fresh air, light and space. Their departure speeds the decay of the older city center, which inevitably yields less and less property prop-erty tax revenue. The city tries to compensate compen-sate by upping taxes, which only tends to drive more people away. The same thing occurs oc-curs in industry. Most new factories today are in city suburbs or rural areas nearby. So the great city finds itself confronting confront-ing a weird dilemma. It needs more and more money to meet its colossal cost of dealing with congestion. But that very congestion con-gestion has produced a fanning out of people peo-ple and industry that makes it increasingly difficult to get even normal revenues, let alone greater amounts. And somehow the flight to the suburbs never goes far enough to produce a real break-up of the great urban concentrations. Millions stay close in and other millions pour in at intervals to'enioy theaters, stores and other attractions. As if all this woe were not sufficient, the atomic energy commission now warns that great havoc would result in Washington, should an atom bomb be dropped on any of New York, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Chicago these thick concentrations. But the final twist is this: the cost of dispersing these centers obviously would be even greater than the expense of keeping them going as they now are. Alben W. Barkley ra&y be our oldest vice-president ; he also seems to be the most chipper in many years. Despite medical progress the common cold is likely to remain common for awhile. Wqshington Merry-go-Round Junketing Senators Create Bad Impression; Thomas, Pals Christma s Shopping In Paris WASHINGTON When Sen. Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma wrote a letter to Secretary of Defense .Louis Johnson last fall wanting a special Air Force plane to carry a Senate Appropriations subcommittee through Europe, someone In Johnson's John-son's office at first questioned the expenditure. This caused the Senator from Oklahoma to challenge the use of government airplanes by Secretary Johnson, vice president Barkley and other brass hats, with the result that Johnson pulled in his horns, and Senator Thomas got the plane plus six crew members. Now that Senator Thomas and colleagues have toured Europe supposedly on official business It appears that Secretary Johnson's first impulse was right. He should have stuck to his guns. For the chief results of the Thomas Junket are an overdose of hospitality in Spain, an underdose of hospitality in Sweden thereby bringing bitter complaints from Senator Thomas -and the general impression left upon Europe that U. S. senators are ignoramuses. To illustrate why Europeans got this impression, impres-sion, here is an interview published by the highly reliable Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune: "Wetsaw the French defense minister today," Senator Thomas told the press, to illustrate the fact that his committee was in Europe to see how the American taxpayers' money was being spent. "He showed us the rooms Napoleon's mother lived in. Think of that! Man's name was Bidault or something. You can find out who he is tall, slim fellow." In other words, the chairman of the Senate committee did not know the name of the French defense minister, who is not George Bidault, but Rene Pleven. M. Bidault is the premier. "1 PARIS NIGHT CLUBS "GOOD"! Thomas went on to tell the press about the Paris night clubs and theatres his committee had visited and named with approval the Lido, Bal ,Ta bar in and Folies Bergere. "Good shows," he commented. "I'm chairman of the committee," he explained when newsmen admired his suite at the Ritz. "I always get the best rooms." Thomas went on to say that his committee liked Paris. "We've gotten all our Christmas shopping done," he explained. Contrast 1 Unlike the Senators who toured Europe at government expense, Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and wife took off for Europe by slow boat last month, paying their own way. "When my father-in-law died," he explained to a friend, "he left Mrs. Humphrey a $500 bond. He said I had never had time to travel that I worked too hard. And he wanted us to take a honeymoon. So we're using this bond to help pay our expenses. It's the first time I have been to Europe." Contrast 2 Unlike certain bibulous senators who guzzled Franco's wine in Spain and then recommended that he get a $100,000,000 loan, Senators Brewster of Maine and Ferguson of Michigan took a quiet, hard-working tour of the world's trouble-spots completely sober. The Bolivian government now refuses to pay the balance of $7,500 due on the plane, though before the crash it had insured the P-38 with Lloyds of London. Bolivia has even stopped $10,000 payment on another plane, a P-47, even though it was already al-ready delivered in La Paz. Yet the dealer here, Paul Aubin, can't sue Bolivia unless it waives diplomatic immunity. Furthermore, the relatives of the passengers killed in the Bolivian crash cannot sue without the Bolivian government's consent. I HELP FOR FRANCO? The American charge d'affaires in Madrid, Paul Culbertson, has cabled the state department that crop conditions are extremely bad and a Spanish revolution may start anytime. Culbertson Culbert-son reports that the only way to prevent the overthrow of Franco is an American loan. Therefore, with Vice President Barkley's son-in-law, Max Truitt, on Dictator Franco's payroll, a new drive for a loan to Spain is certain. Barkley, incidentally, usually disagrees with the policies of his son-in-law; never helps him. I MERRY-GO-ROUND The battle of the admirals isn't over yet. Admiral Blandy, commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleets, fired another round last week while at the New York Yacht Club. He told a Navy audience that they must keep up the fight not only in writings and speeches, but in everyday every-day conversation ... the new FHA policy against racial discrimination isn't worth much. It won't stop landowners from enforcing racial restrictions restric-tions as long as they don't put it in writing . . . Secretary of State Acheson may deny it, but he has authorized George Kennan to begin drafing a new international control plan for atomic energy in the light of Russia's successful atomic bomb explosion. The new plan probably won't be accepted by the Russians, but it will face the fact that they now have the bomb General MacArthur has recommended that the 27 American lend-lease frigates which Russia has finally returned to us now be given to the Japanese. MacArthur feels it is time to rebuild the Japanese Navy as a bulwark against Communism Com-munism in the Far East. r BOLIVIA DUCKS 1 Bolivia is ducking all responsibility for the tragic P-36 collision that cost 55 lives over the Washington Airport. CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES GOP stirs in DixieGOP leaders-Jn Georgia will shortly hold a strategy meeting to decide whether to try reviving the Republican party in the south. Georgia has the leadership to spear- head such a movement, but needs money to hire paid organizers. Meanwhile, the Republicans are keeping on close terms with such southern Democrats as Congressman Jim Davis of Stone Mountain, Ga., whose voting record is 97 per cent Republican even more so than Senator Taft's. Russian Industry humsThe American embassy em-bassy has warned the state department that, contrary con-trary to predictions, Russian industry Is breaking break-ing all production records, especially in tanks, planes and war materials. Ambassador Kirk says He,Yissian. 'ctories are turning out so much turf Kfn. t. i : - . .uuotvw is planning to announce mail the five-year plan has been achieved in four years. Wo thing ton Column Few of Early New Dealers Still Hold Government Jobs Once News Now History From the Files of The Provo Herald 10 Year 8 Ago Dee. 8, 1939 Bert Crane was reelected to the Provo school board. In the AlSine district, Charles J. Cobbley of Lindon was elected, while the Nebo district elected E. E. An derson . . . Dr. Vasco M. Tanner addressed the public forum on the subject, "Utah Lake, One of Utah s Greatest Resources, ' at the Central school building . . . Lewis Berry was elected noble grand of the Provo Odd Fellows lodge . . . Dedicatory rites were set for the Provo First ward chapel, with Pres. Heber J. Grant scheduled as the speaker . . . The pace of Europe's wars speeded up and there were persistent threats that the conflict might spread into the Balkans or in Scandinavia. The big and little powers watched anxiously as Finland reported she was standing stand-ing off the Red army thrusts and some of them sent war materials such as the. Finns had been re ceiving in the past from several powers, including Germany and the United States. W Years Ago Dee. 8, 1929 Movies playing in Provo were Greta Garbo in "The Kiss," Sally O'Neil and Jack Egan in "Broadway "Broad-way Scandals," Colleen Moore in "Footlights and Fools," and Betty Compson in "On With the Show" . Prof. J. C. Swenson addressed the Spanish Fork Kiwanis club . . Tom E. Demos was elected noble grand of the Provo Odd. Fellows lodge . . . Gene Tunney entered a boxing ring for the first time since vacating his world's heavyweight title a year and a half previous. He said he felt "embarassed" in the squared circle. "It s such unfamiliar atmosphere," at-mosphere," he added ... A real estate ad in The Herald advertised adver-tised a new modern home with full basement and every convenience, con-venience, with three-quarters of an acre of land, all for $3250. Q's and A Q: Was Wagner's opera "Parsifal" "Parsi-fal" written expressly for Bay-reuth? Bay-reuth? A: Wagner specified that for a period of 50 years it was not to be permitted a performance elsewhere. else-where. After twenty years, the Metropolitan Opera House, in violation of Wagner's wishes, launched a performance of its own which resulted in one of the historic his-toric musical battles of tne early 20th century. , Q: Are there any examples of true Jacobean architecture in America? A: Bacon's Castle near Smith-field, Smith-field, Virginia, is said to be the only true Jacobean house in America. It was built in 1655. Q: From what family of seals is the commercial seal fur obtained? ob-tained? A: It is from sea-lions that the seal fur of commerce is obtained, the most valuable species, sometimes some-times called the sea-bear, being an inhabitant of the North Pacific. Q: What is honeydew and what causes it? A: It is the sweet material exuded ex-uded from the leaves of many !lants in hot weather. Honeydew s usually caused by the punctures punc-tures of aphids or scale insects. Q: Who published an almanac under the name of "Poor Richard"? Rich-ard"? A: Benjamin Franklin. BARBS By HAL COCHRAN A New Jersey man found two pearls in a restaurant oyster and then probably complained about the check. e It's interesting whfen an astronomer as-tronomer finds a tail on a comet. Most of us can't even find the comet. A doctor removed a tiny bell from the throat of a Pennsyl vania girl, which had tinkled Castor oil is used in the hydraulic hydrau-lic brakes of automobiles. Invalid Woman Runs Business by Phone CLOQUET, Minn. (U.R) Helen I Weston, bedridden for the past 20 years, runs several bulsness enterprises en-terprises from her bedside. All Of Cloquet's 2,500 telephone; subscribers acquire greeting cards, magazines, cosmetics and even quotes on furnace-cleaning Jobs from her. Miss Weston hired two men to clean furnaces after a company she solicited work for fell down on the job. When people continued con-tinued to complain to her, she decided the only remedy was to organize her own cleaning crew. Buenos Aires, 172 miles from the sea, is the second most lmpor-tant lmpor-tant port in the western world. DALLY DAWDLE SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRIST AS. 14 I It I I "I can put rt off whlla" Savt thli Drocraailnatnr. She wonders why a lot of folk. including aioagtri. bate '' J K ATOMIC TEST CHIEF - Lt-Gen. Lt-Gen. Ewood ft Quesada of the Air Force, above, will command the Joint task fore that will carry out a new aeries of atomic bomb tests at Eniwetok Island In the PadfJe. Exact dates of the testa, sponsored Jointly by the Defense Department and the Atomic Energy Commission, were not disclosed for security every time the tot uttered a sound. She used to be a ringer for her mother and dad. V A Michigan girl insisted on marrying a man while he still had scarlet fever. Was his face red! A musician says every violinist should have two instruments. since fiddles, like fiddlers, get tired. Not to' mention listeners. Isn't it peculiar how many women who claim to be masters of culinary art flock to the cooking cook-ing schools? Nagging children while they eat brings emotional upset which causes tooth decay, de-cay, says a dentist WhatH ' you have. Junior, spinach or a dental drillinr? Uncle Sam says .that 20,000,000 of the 27,000,000 autos on the road early this year were of prewar vintage. With some we've seen, that means World War I. A shipment of snow was taken south for some Florl-dans Florl-dans to look at it. As far aa we are concerned, they can have all of It. Ship your Christmas presents early so the mainland can avoid the rush, the crush and the slush. By PETER ED80N Dally Herald Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEA) Oscar Chapman, newly sworn in as sec retary of interior, is sometimes called "the last of the original New Dealers." The shoe fits. tnougn not too well. Oscar Chap man was made undersecretary of interior by President Roosevelt in May, 1"33. and held that Job right up to the time President Truman promoted him. So he is the only cabinet or little cabinet officer who has stayed on the job during 16 years of continuous Democratic rule. This means that there has been a greater turnover in the Demo cratic dynasty than many people realize. If it's true that the United States is now overridden by, a self-perpetuating machine that has ruthlessly flattened out all political opposition, it has been done with many changes of driver, maintenance crew and road gang. There were something over 3000 government Jobs that paid $10,000 a year or better, up to the last pay increase. This Includes In-cludes generals and admirals, career diplomats and the heads of the independent regulatory agencies like interstate commerce commission, who are supposed to be non-political. A fair fuess made, by ex-President Hoover's reorganization commission is that something less than half of the total about 1300 are political appointments for policy-making jobs, responsible to the president. Whatever the number, there are today 'only about 23 of these top policy-making officials of the Truman administration who were in Washington government jobs in the early days of the New Deal. The list is worth running over, to see who the real veter ans are, along with Oscar Chap man. Resignation Reduces List riavM T.I1inthal. lust resigned as atomic energy commission chairman, was made iva cnair-man cnair-man In 1933. The present TV A chairman, Gordon Clapp, also went to work there in 1933. in a minor capacity.. Athru J. Altmeyer, social -security commissioner, went to work under the NRA blue eagle in 1933. Next year he became assistant labor secretary, wnicn puts him close behind Chapman. AmhsiuHnr to Britain Lewis W. Douglas was Roosevelt's first director of budget, out ne Drone with tha nresidant in 1934 and got out of government till the outbreak of tne war. Supreme Court Justice William n rmi ?l as is often esarded as a pioneer New Dealer, but he wasn't made a member 01 se curities exchange commission until un-til 1936. Postmaster. General Jesse M. Donaldson has been in government govern-ment since 1908, was an assistant PMG in 1932. Defense Secretary. Louis W. Johnson wa a civilian aide to he Kprretarv of war fom 1933 to 1937, then assistant secretary of war till 1937. when he got out of government for 12 years. Stephen T. Early, now undersecretary under-secretary ' of defence, was of course Roosevelt s first ana oniy press secretary. And Presidential Secretary William D. Hassett first entered government in ihjj as an NRA employe. Marriner S. Eccles, Roosevelt's fiscal brslntruster, was made a member of federal reserve board in ,1933, chairman 1936-48. Edward H. Foley, Jr., under secretary of treasury, was made an RFC attorney In 1932 and has been in government service since. Secretary of State Dean Ache-son Ache-son was Roosevelt's first under secretary of treasury in 1933, but broke with the president and; did not re-enter the cabinet until 1941, as assistant secretary of state. Assistant Secretary of State Ernest A. Gross was a state department de-partment legal adviser In 1931-2 and an NRA lawyer the next two years. Since then he has had a varied though non-political gov ernment and army career. Dates From Hoover's Day Chairman Harvey J Gunderson of RFC has been a member of that organization's board since 1932, an original Hoover ap pointee. Chairman Paul M. Herzoa of NLRB was first connected with. that organization as an assistant secretary from 1933 to 1935. . Acting chairman Leon H. Key serling,of the council of economic advisers was New Deal Sen. Rob ert F. Wagner's secretary in 1933. Joseph P. O'ConnelL Jr.. now chairman of civil aeronautics board, was assistant general counsel of PWA, 1933-38. Oswald Ryan, vice chairman of CAB, was federal power com mission general counsel 1932-38, when he first became a CAB member. ; Winfield W. Riefler, being considered con-sidered for the post of chairman of the council of economic advisers, advis-ers, became chief of the RFC statistical division in ' 1933 and has held various government ad visory positions since then, though never active politically. Thursday! Friday 1 Saturday! 4 B. Y. U. Play by Play . Description of Pre-Season Tournament Games in Denver. KEEP TUNED TO KOVO FOR TIMES OF EACH GAME. MUTUAL limXMOUNTAIN wnwoKic "From the earth comet an abundant life for everyone" ha been on the radio and In the papers a lot. I can't think of anything any-thing In our everyday life where this state, doe not apply. 11 rVirTj Radio Programs, Thursday, Dec. 8 (The radio programs , listed below are submitted by the radio stations who are responsible for tbelr accuracy In ease of seeming Inaccuracies or for further Information call the respective re-spective radio stations.) KOVO 960 S:t0lMemory Lane S:15 News S:S0rish and Hunt :45INews 7:S0IGabriel Heatter 7:15 Marvin Miller 7:30ISammy Kaye 7:45'Campus Club 8:00 Mr. Feathers 8:15 8:30 'Dave Rose 8:4SIDick Haymes :00Top This :15l S:IS'I1ews S:4SIFulton Uewlt 10:00 Central Utah 10:1 J Serenade 10:30 I Love Mystery 10:4SiSercnade 11:00 Dell Trio U:1S Korn Kobblers ll:30ITommy Carlyn tl:4SNews KDYL KCSU KSL , liZQ 1490 JIM Aldrich Family Billy Mills Philip Marlowe King s Men Father Knows Curtain Call Mr aleea Guild" Players Sportfisht Suspense Teleauest Duffy's Tavern Crime mit News Supper Club Modern Musio Playhouse Harry James Dragnet Theater i Personality Time Light-Up1 Time Playhouse Lowell Thomas Tex Beneke Jack Smith Music Jan Garber D Hay mas Beulah News, weather Te Beneke FBI Hawaiian Latin Quarter Session News . Morton Downey Small Business News Weather Midnight Wtbf "" Star of the Week 'Serenade Organ Reverie Ernie Beckshet J News 'News UN Report FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9 This Store Will Be Open Every Friday Night Until Christmas 7 S.OOISay with Must 0:18 S.-lOlSun-Up Troll S:4SI 7:00 (Robert Hurleigb :l$lNovelty 7:10 Newt T:4SlWest Jamboree S.-00IF Hemminrwav 8: 1 Songs for You S:10iRequesta 8:4s!By Jensen S:00!Marvn Miller 0:15 Gordon Owen :30: Design for You 0:451 10:00 Kat Smith 10:15ILanny Roes 10:10iWoman's Page 10:45l4 Time 11:1 5 City Schools g, hool of Air 11.-30 Serenade Turkey Time 11:45 Songs m of Times L.r, rake 18 lZ:00;By Jensen Doubler 12:15 Cedric Foster 11:30 Queen for Day Todays Children :4S Ught ot World 1:00 News Life Can B I 1:15 Ladies' Fair Road of Ufa I l:30 Paula Stone Pepper Youne 1:43 Bob Eberly Happiness ! 2:00Guest Star Backstage Wife ; 2:lS!Make Believe Stella Dallai ! 2:30i " Lorenar Jones i t:45i Wtddet Brown ! l:00Gordon Owen Girl Marries i 3:15 Gordon McCrea Portia Faces ulfe 3:30 Top Tunes Just Plain bill 1:43 Front Farren 4:00IL. Barrymor Travelers 4:15F. Hemingway 4:30 Remember Aunt Mary 4:4 3 Merry Go Round Dr. Paul 5:00 Story Princess " Iwomar Secret 5:15 Fun Lady News Weather 5:30iTom Mix J Easy Rhythm :45l Newa Old Corral News Weather Swing Partners Sunshine Songs Gaslight Gaieties Marriage tor rwo Linger Awhlle Love and Learn Novatime Jaca dercn bow Lor a Lawtor) News. Weather Emerson Smith News lamborae 'arm RoundirC I Guest Star vawt Top of Morning HarT, ci,rk SfiS.M-- Potluek Party Hightlme News Hightime Friendly Time Newt MTSorel Masters Variety Parade Arthur' Godfrey Rhythms Orano Slam Rosemary Lady ofHoue Wendy - Warrea Meditations Aunt 'enn? Market Basket Helen Trent Pee Wee Hunt Our Gal Sunday f Your Own Mualc Big Slater Eddie Howard Ma Perkins Vets Review Or Malone Noontime Farm Guiding Light Freddie Martin News Farming News Frtendle Sunset and Vine ' '. Matinee Melodise Arthur Godfrey J Meet the Bane .. . Accent Melody Hollywood No we News Tune Time The Cla sales Garry Moore Allen Jensen Platter Party Hilltop House Perry Mason 4 2nd Mrs Burtoa f David Harum E ' Sever! ed Brighter Day Air Adventures Norah Drake Roger Gale Curt Massey Anne Sheltoa Make Believe Sam Browne News I News IClub 15 v Variety rime Ed. BL Murrew W, V 4 |