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Show 1 PAGE TWO PROVO (UTAny EVENING HERALD; THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 19 3 0 OUT OUR WAY By Williams TC rrr. . TI I ! t 1 1 A SCRIPPS-CANFIELD NEWSPAPER , Every Afternoon, exeept Saturday,, and Sunday Morning Publlshedby the Herald Corporation, N. Gunnar Rasxmuon, president. In the Herald Building, 50 South First West street, Provo, Utah. Entered aa second-class- matter at the postoffice in Provo, V Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879; V , . - Gilman, Nlcoll & Rutnman, National Advertising Representatives San Francisco office, 607 Montgomery street; Chicago office, 110, North Michigan avenue;'New. .York office, 19 West Forty-fourth street; Bosidnofflce, Tremont street; Detroit,. De-troit,. Mlchlganof fice, Room 2-266, General Motors Building. . - Subscription termsBy carrier in 'Utah county, 50 cents the -month ;' $2.75 for six ; months, Ih advance; $$.00 the year in advance;by mail, in the county, $4.50: , outside Utah county, $5.00. ' " . j " ' R. W. GOODEUL. ...... -:- , -: -:- -:- ' EDITOR and MANAGER J. A. OWBNS" -:- i -:- - ) -:- ADVERTISING MANAGER m IScTirt-Canfield Neither this newspaper, nor any of its. stockholders or officials has any connection whatever, directly or indirectly, with any , political party, public utility, real estate promotion, or other private 1 .business excepj the publication of newspapers devoted solely to disinterested public service. THE TRUTH QUICK THE OBSERVER l Postoffice Service By Jim Marshall. It has always seemed curious . to this Log of Logic that while -nearly everyone complains ' therc 1 are too many laws - . ' V the 'only people we ever elect U4ol congress or the legislature or evrFHlje city ' council are - those whose sole passion in-life vis to make more laws ' this may b all right but darned if we can - see- it and we hereby offer an idea that might Stop wholesale law-making , , . i ; , , : i -. Here's what happens how: . for two, years everybody kicks ' about the millions of law3 . thenan, election comes, along . and two or three or six men . whvnt think of anv better . game than law-making yell at the -voters . about tne law8 they are going to make the one who yells the loudest - and promises to pass the more laws ... .. J-is triumphantly elected by. the very people ' who a day of two before were complaining that - there werestoo many laws already irwhat; this DefienfeTbepartment proposes is that on electien day the names of those citizens who j have not been harassed Into In- nanity ' ' 'or bundled into jail as felons I shall be put -Into glass bowl , 1 5 from this bowl an ; infant ' captured at the dark of the meon in a graveyard shall draw a name I fad the unlucky weight who ov. iy the , name-shall become rfiiiteressman if or , the district or ; fined $10,000 and Jailed for five &cars In the event of refusal This system would Invariably . choose some worthy f plumber ' f.r bank clerk as the representa-Ctlvo representa-Ctlvo of the people f J . instead of wishing, to make ' lavs his sole object, would be to pret the congressional session over, - In the shortest possible, time so he could get back to work he -would rushvto Washington speedily .kill every proposed new law shake hands with the ' presl dent and catch "the first train " Wk to the prumblng shop or the NInth.National ,. i , , . ' ,. i -oje N-,-' ' This scheme Isn't, our Sown inV ' "-entioh and we don't claim credit i .for'it '. ' ' i but It's a eood one and " It would work y .,: , for that matter It Is the only, ir cheme - that WILL W9rk if we are really to,, have an- end o the multiplication of new laws r AND LISTEN: If you want I fewer laws youTI have to send C - back to congress men who. want fewer laws -, .instead of men .whose whole lives are wrapped up in making niew ones, " i - s I SBlllSlBSBBBBBBBSBMBMBsBSSHBBSMBBSSiSBSSMSJfcl TT 3 . . 1 a n ..... .-1 passed, New Years is over, and the holiday season has ended. V GoshXwe can hardly wait) untli St. Valentine's Day! ' ' ' in f Inte stine StaUstics: An mateiy 100,000 letter writers this morniner wmtA "1929 . crossed out, and wrote "1930 Instead. ' P. S. They'll do the same tomorrow. to-morrow. J ? .-,, : -' & -i . ) . ' ; . -i , : . Great Men of History - This la Eph-ralm Eph-ralm Mo Silo, . youthful ', Inven-. Inven-. tor, who leaped " overnight - Into national f a m et Young McSllo is '"i the - boy who first . thought of pouring glue into a eras meter to make It run slower. ' , Prohibition may be all right, but .fVJ How often . do Americans stop to think of the service rendered by the United States postoffice? ' Not J often, but occasionally some astonishing figures make even the most careless of us rfve the matter a little consideration." . " ' . ' - ' k .. m. v. u w. i !,,-,-( -: . , Dec, 23, 1929. A total of 33,640 letters were mailed from j eVse4to S iiuvu w( uay, w say uytmng oi uunarea3 oi aaaiuonai parcels.. - ' ' This tremendous mail was handled efficiently and speedily speed-ily , by the postoffice force, augmented by nine , extra nien for that occasion. . , i , ; We took the holiday mail service merely as a matter of course, but when we consider that on that ONE LAY, an array of two letters for every man, woman and chM in Provo Pro-vo were sent on-their way, we lize the outstanding service rendered by the postoffice department. ; , j One thing during the recent holiday season was especially especial-ly pleasingcooperation in early mailing was better than ever before. - . . Which' does go to showjthat citizens in Provo; at least, are fully cognizant of the fact that the postoffice has SOME JOBrparticularly in the holiday season! - The Editbr Scans His Hope Chest, ,; , Novelty. .x x-"" v- , -( -y,J- That's what we need for this year, if anyone should come around an ask you ; , "What does an editor : need for 1930?" ' . . i Here we are, supposed to delight, edify arid brighten the world each' day with thedoins of people-rnand people insist m doing the same old things, year after year. : . Sometimes we look at next year and shudder so that the uilding . trembles. ; . ; - ; We just KNOW that,; along about February, somebody is going to receivetiletter mailed inVOscaWana-on-HUdson n the fall of '93. -N, . ' ; - And a day. or two later a farmer in the Big Bend will plow up a watch he lost in 1902., He will wind it up and it vill run perfectly. They always do. . N - But, before that happens at least seven people will be hot with "unloaded" guns, ' V ; Soon after, somebody wilf poke a lighted match into k jas tank to see how much gas there is. . l- Along in April a man will bite a dog. One dog gets bitten bit-ten every year, usually by somebody with an ambition to make page one. .1 . ' . .- n , ' In Julv women will rtnssr l-psnliifin-no ormirJd nnm dtr. I y- . . x . u..K,v.Vito u5u)i iicn ab.yico n hothinw: eilllf A Vin4- in rll Al i UTO.6 awucrwuji, i0, au cAtcpi, nie pretty women, wno will be out on the beach wearing them. ' - .; - : ; In September about twenty-seven hunters will be misi ;aken for moose and dispatched via the buckshot route. : In November. ... . - - , i. " ; 5 .Why doesn't humanity have a new idea7 Mice in a while ? , iPul-lease! . around about this tlnieof the year. . An easy way to get warm, if your apaitment is cold, is to tell the janitor jani-tor what you think of him. His reply will make your blood boil. ' s; : .. Suspicion: What a'person feels when he goes into a chop suey restaurant res-taurant and sees the Chinese waiter eating a 'ham sandwich.''. I O LI'l Gee Gee claims she would be in the Ziegfeld Follies right now if it weren't for her neyes, hair, legs; voice and figure. - X ; art5shannon; . yyx T. HOPS 1T OOESKlT- ' - Nvammq- woo - y. . y r x j 5 1 oFTCki y bot i'm V i . amo ;x-CAM-t aer BACK 1 rxfoT . , ; FAR EMOOCH rXo. MAVe. ;.-; 1 .-- ? ) ; v ; -w-.. ... i. wry! r froxi- - ' ' 'ri - . v i I . , J ZS ' ' RtaU.S;lAT.O. TRAFFIC AMD "jft-A. PARKEjRS 7.r?.MLl.tftMe, CI S30 SV NCA SCRVICt INC.. (Continued From Pat Or told they will stop when on or 'get hurt" TNDIA seks absolute self menr suggesting refusal to te, a situation that worric. Britain labor, government, Xbaripd of Indiaamong othei pciial details. x The spring shade ' roller that hoists-roiir,blind8 was inventedin 1864 by . Stewart Hartshorn, who made a million'out of it. ' If . rhi well-meaninpr Malv-i I. Gandhi has hia way India will 1 a lesson, w-4 ' ' ; Taxes collected ,by : rajahs, overnight dictators, would be used to supply pure watt fght); plague' and famine. p-.:j. , -: -'-., VQVEItNOn Roosevelt of 1 "T3" V6jrk asks? $800.000 . for r prisons and' an emergency c; praon"of 1.000,000. v : Vhy not: have separate pri ior voung; criminals. y, all s.u tweoty-one, instead of locking l up yithHhe criminals, to( 1 thdrHratfe more thoroughly ? Jthrtppcns that very yo craralhala are the most numr dangerous, cruel; ' and gen given to murder. They need bi '.tcoataicn't;'.. which -should in sbme 5ars of hard work, av when ,thoy took up crime t aJUematave. ,.:. ' ' 1 119.305,)99. American brothers sisters.-: " '.. The bureau of economic puts our population at 111..-. Including, you. , Wejhae increased 14,000,0C 4- L At one1 of the oldHague'confer-ences. oldHague'confer-ences. years ago, nations agreed that, in war- time, they - vouldn't t Coachella valley, jpalif orma, drop bombs - from- airships. , feet below sea-level. ' . : Jf you eat American dates, chances are they, cornel from the 200 I Xiub'.well threat and etc VAPOl ! - Man Orders Filled., Add 107o for Postage. JohnsonT$ , Schramm - Johnson s Stores and entire orgfaniza-tion orgfaniza-tion now a part of the Walgreen Wal-green chairi of 350 stores. LDLUM tULUJJJJn AMUratl ofi W.algpeeii Co. s Thisest of Ours Its Romantic History television - today consists of. ascan-nlnsr ascan-nlnsr disk' th&t cnntnlnn n siarioa of holes arrane-d unlmTIv nH S revolved by a synchronous motor J In front of the Image to be trans-j mitted. , ', As the disk revolves the holes cut the Image into many sections and affect a photo-electric cell which transmits . the Impulses Into. Naftxceland the process is reversed. Aluminum is about the only metal that, can't be choromlum-piated choromlum-piated but nobody knows whv. A peculiar member of the fish famUy, found on the Pacific coast from California irA zepnfthd, is the cabezon, somietlmea knowa U the singing, fish." 'ine caoezon "rn thp latter.? tltle by doing a radio signals. At the reclevlng endO!! "oaKingvOr -singing" while i auuui m me eunace. 11 reaches a lerpth of about 15 inches. Two othjer members of the cabezon family" axe found In " the Pacific and sonth Atlantic. ---... , THOSE TALL STUMPS ; 'A few decades back, the giant r tumps of cedar and, fir trees al- ''Tavs caused much comment among yisitors to the :. Pacific .northwest, necially among those people who lived in the east. , As these ' trees were invariably -cutabout 10 or J5 feet from the :. "SgT ", ' ''' V ground. th- tourists started a story among themselves to the effect that the northwest was A "big snow" ccMntry. i , V . .- - They reasoned ' that as the trees were cut in .winter, they must have .been cut" at the level of' the snow ar.d when the snow, melted, it left the long , stumps sticking high In the air. They didn't know that the tree fallers cut slots high up on the tree trunk and stood on boards Inserted In-serted there. "V ' . i : : Television : in. of course, in the experiment stage, , but there are several television broadcasting stations sta-tions which send out . moving pictures pic-tures every night to television rr'iteurs all over the country. Tli3 average popular system of 2 1L NEW LA: EEAUT. r. :, Seo the new Ford Cars at our showrooms 01 241 West Center St. Phohp 343 r-1 -7 IM( A Y - . km i n a iT.. 1 - ....-, 1.. -. ,. .. 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