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Show PAGE TWO PROVO (UT'AH)' EVENING HER'AL Bj, TV E S DAY, FEBRUA RY 24, 19 3 1. V 4 - Y-.V : .- I V V The Herald . : A SCRIPPS-CANFIELD NEWSPAPER ' " - Every Afternoon, except Saturday, and Sunday Morning Published by the Herald Corporation, N. Gunnar RaBthuson, president, in the Herald Euildins, 50 South First West Btreet, Provo, Utah. Entered as second-claa matter at the postoffice in Provo, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879 Gilman, Nicoll & Ruthman, National Advertising Representatives San Franclscc office, 507 Montgomery street; Chicago office, 410 North Michigan avenue; New" York office, 19 West Forty-fourth street; Boston office, IS Tremont street; Detroit, Michigan office. Room 2-266 General Motors Building. Subscription terms by carrier in Utah county, 50 cents the month; $2.75 for six months, in advancer $5 00 the year in advance; by mail, in the county, $4.50; outside Utah copnty, $5.00. r. W GOODBLL, Editr and Manager. J. A OWENS, Advertising Manager ,"'.,'.;. . THE TRUTH QUICK -V: ' . ' x ' Y. V Nither this newspaper, nor any of Its stockholders or officials has any connection whatever, directly or indirectly, with any political party,; public uUlity, real estate promotion or other private busineas except the publication ' of newspapers devoted solely to disinterested public service. "Proclaim Ubertj throughout the lan d' l1 Our Exports and Prosperity An excellent, common-syne view of tfce relationship of export trade to the, current business depression is to be found in remarks made recently to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce Com-merce by John iMcHugh, chairman o' the executive committee., commit-tee., of the Chase National Bank of New York, the world's largest .bank. x ; '. i A-Pfav remarlfinff fri ffopfnrrnfrri customer cannot D03- sibly buy fronvus unless he can. somehow get the necessary !n11nra Mr.' Mcttnorh rointed out : ' ' "We intensified his difficulty in this matter by raising our tariff in 1930. The time has surely come to forget whether we are Democrats or Republicans and think of this matter in business termsl This is no time to advocate free trade' noi to advocate the sweeping away of the whole protective pro-tective tariff system to hich we. have so long been accustomed: accus-tomed: But it is time to consider downward adjustments designed de-signed to permit the foreigner to sell enough goods in bur niarket to put him in possession of dollars that in turn will enable him tq carry out the volume of export which is necessary neces-sary t3 keep a balanced situation in the United States." The remark is commended to all who would like to see 3ocd times return. . , v Y. . Louis Wolheim . It is the queer fate of xthe actor to be remembered, not so much for himself as for certain characterizations that he has" given which have found" a warm place in the heart of the public. : . - : ," . So it is that Louis Wolheim will probably Be remembered by most of lis, not as Louis Wolheim' but as Katczinsky, the uncouth German infantryman of "All Quet On the Western Front," and as Captain Fiagg, tfie officer of marines in the stage production of "What Price Glory 1" Those two characterizations got from Wolheim what might be called perfect performances ; perfect, in that 4tri hard to see how they could possibly have Been improved on. As long aSThere are living people who saw either one of those two line snows, i-uui3 uvuuieun wut not ue luiguLtcii. dui it will nojbe Woiheim. himself that we remember. It will be, rathefT the Katczinsky and the Captain Flagg that he cre ated vior us. ,.. - Observations Y- Y V Hard times is that period when there are more people - standing in sfront of a soup kitchen than in front of a .movie. taxe3. That ..loud noise you hear is tha people cussing high : We'., wish somebody would apply this jclea of a motorless glider to our autoiripbile. ' - i ' YyV ; ' ' - - - V ' - V ' Risky jobs : Being a rhovie star or king of Spain. Something To Think About v A VThis thing called iisiness-in the United States is , so imsoUnd and so uncertain and unreliable that it has ' us half of thq time either getting in or getting out of a --depression;: and that is, why it wants to be rid of con-gress.v con-gress.v It does not .want congerss to look into that situation sit-uation It wants to right it with another one of these gigantic bubbles, which will burst with greater disaster and more starvation than ever. - . "This, the. worst condition wa have ever met, but :it is not as bad as the future will produce unless congress con-gress does its duty." Senator Brookhart, Iowa. v q. where and when did Edward W. Bok die? A. At Lake Wales, Florida, Janii- q. who are the three Ruths in congress? - A. Ruth Hanna McCormlck Illinois, Ruth Pratt of New York and Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida. Q. How i3 the drone of an airplane air-plane engine produced over th 2 microphone? . A. The National Broadcasting company . says that the sound in NBC programs is produced by a Stream of. air, forced through a rubber rub-ber hose against the diaphragm of the microphone. The sound is caused by the vibrations which the silent stream of air sets up. in the microphone. , Q.. How can a copy of the Wick-ersham Wick-ersham report be obtained? A.' It can be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Gov-ernment Printing Office, Washington, Washing-ton, D. C. for 15 cents, money order or coin. Q. How are the colors produced in the Neon tubes that are used for electric sign advertising? A. Neon lamps are a development of a. gaseoua conductor tube employing em-ploying neon gas, which dates back to about 1911, by applying a high voltage la tubes fitted with electrodes elec-trodes and containing the gas. The electrical discharge through the gas causes a luminous glow.' .The characteristic char-acteristic color of- Neon Is a reddish-orange glow, ; but the addition of 'small amounts - of mercury & light blue color is obtained, and by adding other gases In con juction with neon, or by using colored glass tubings other colors are obtained. Q. Why was President Johnson impeached? Was he convicted? A, The impeachment was made on the ground that he had removed from . office, without the senate's consent, E." M. Stanton, secretary of war and on other charges He was tried by the senate which voted 35 fci? conviction and 19 for acquittal, but -a3 a two-thirds Vote -was necessary neces-sary for -conviction) the impeachment impeach-ment failed. Howdy, folks! The Katloiu league has ordered the stitches i the official baseball changed. There Is no truth to the report, however, - that the baseball cover will be embroidered with forget-me-nots, , , ' The stitches will be changed to give the pitchers a better hold on the horsehide. -"13. .:, : Why not cover the balls with flypaper? fly-paper? I SPORTS SECTION - . . . ; .' ' . This is Adolph 0Shrlmp, ardent sports fan, who does not believe that different stitching will .give baseball pitchers better control. "What is- needed," says Mr. O'Shrimp, "is a ' hand-crocheted baseball, with dainty fill-Insertions fill-Insertions of x pink r and gree lace velvet." Photo by John Nusink. When Marjorie Hartnet,- New York, - learned f her parents were p!anning to Bend her to Germany to school because she failed in high school, she committed suicide. In some parts of the orient butter U made by putting cream in a gourd and dragging It behind a horse. "If you are' an average person you will consume about 139 pounds of meat this year. v Marriage .licenses in Moscow cost . seven cents. , zz"' " OUT OUR WAY BY WILLIAMS Mvje.R HAje" see4 -rvr POOR UTTtJE CAUF E OP TrtERE., vjTh His-. Foot caoOthT im' -Th att CPevtce. - AMO.tF X HAO -O MAvie JuST 'IrtOOGT' WAS Poor OapumCi Mf ha. B&es 1v.. for uFFER tMCr. ' TROM 'THiR.'ST AmO WuKlCe? rfHtKiV OF vlT, MISTER STiFFVt-woop DOU-UHS FE.R W BOSS- Alt A if '1 "SO' k . i Mitt II ; .X I Old Silas Grump sez he can remember re-member 'way back when .women did their preserving In th' kitchen, and not In front of a mirror, HYMN OF HATE Thumbs down for Tillie Getz - Mlgosh, how I do hate 'er! She flips her clgarets . Behind nly radiator! An English law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our Idea of the height of useless, legislation dogs. And then' she laffs and and laffs. - f LOCAL WOMAN SUFFERS : i MENTAL COLLAPSE r '"" : "; 1 -" 1 - Friends of Mrs. Amanda McBun- nion will be distressed dis-tressed to hear that she - is now in a sanitarium, recovering from a mental breakdown. break-down. Mrs. Mo-Bunion, Mo-Bunion, who is an ardent radio ra-dio fan, went slightly crazy last week, after hearing "Walking "Walk-ing My Baby Back Home," played 57 times in the same everkag. She will recover. Photo by James Hood Whnh Lii Gee Gee dances with her e( beetle, she callshim ". "Mustard" "Mus-tard" because . he isalways on her fs . WISE FE1 He talks of -scocz&s anc margins In an expert sort of way, But he's never tried to gamble. For he knows It doesat pay!) . ,Li'l Gee Gee isona diet, She onlered .1 split pea- at the Gobble-and-Gallop restaurant, ate half of it for lunch and saved the other half for dinner.? - I the observer: MARSHALL YE DIARY (Februarie 23) To the prlntery betimes, where arrives a fellow who doth offer to sell me an insurance pollcie, which will pay me 100 . shillings if I do fall from a glacier, develop lep-rosy lep-rosy or be . bitten by a South American jaguarT "And Lord! it doth seem like a generous and noble no-ble offer, but I do aske for A poll-cie poll-cie to protect me from bunions, chUblalns, and galloping hangnails, with : double; indemnity for -the seven-yeur Itch. But the fellow do 3y I bo48 crazie as a loon, and doth depart, In high dudgeon, which Irks mo not at alL And so to worke. Eugene O'Neill's latest play will require three n;gnts for one performance. per-formance. Gosh, are audiences now -joing in for endurance contests? Today's weather forecast: Rain, snow, sunshine, hail, unsettled and maybe fair. ART SHANNON. A child we know asked Its father or a hammer the other day and when the Old Man asked why the child said: ' . ' "1 wanta . busft upv my . electric train and that meccano set you gimme for Christmas . . M to which the father replied with an expression of deep horror not to say loathing --and told the child in trembling accents that, it ' must "be construc tive and not destructive '.,."'. - When he had finished giving the child ; this highly-moral lesson -the father Sat .down and wrote ; a letter to his newspaper -asserting that the armyand navy and the air corps and Gen Eutlcr all ought to be built up to a high state of . efficiency : - v in order that when the next war comes along they will be able to go out and do a good job of destruction - where it's most neded Personally whenever we have seen a child whacking at" a dol with a hatchet ( or mauling a play thing with a sledge-hammer we have cheered it on humanity is the world's great destroyer and we are all for encouraging en-couraging children in the ways they will inevitably follow when j they grow up . ' letting them play about them with .hammere and hatchets and kills a' s's tprc; odd endfi of tw-fi-hv-rniiM Whn tr are young will fit ihem to.be gc( oaiucrs: wnen they row upj v ' - IIUV WAVV 4MI, I "Each man kills the thing he loV ,;. . hc migat nave gone iaru ana said that each man kills a' destroys anything he can nanas on : , . , -wia wnai s more ne s pre bf It 81 vau can IuiImi from f frequent pictures of armed htti standing Destde the carcasses small and Inoffensive deer - personally we always want! a cracK at una Kind or ner but then we are slightly balmy ai way . -i : $-''.,-. - At the present moment r-inanity r-inanity has. about deatroyed-pcace deatroyed-pcace and contentment on. earth altho nroeerlvrun - tfir ! reason why the world shouldn't W body for a minimum cxpehdft J or laoor . ; J -it's. just what . we're lust a s bunch of destroyers and '- do know any better - I AND. LISTEN: Before voU U the next child who is batterihsr the parlor furniture with an ax' ask yourself just how construct! a.wu ic-r- w !UtirB OI ItiC rami, FJT wriiep DAUKR O'Neill will require three nightif i one performance.. 11-. 11 1 1 1 1 a 1 11 , 1 11 I, .ill I 1 " " - wm- - ' " . - ; ' ' ' " 1 ' 1 '' ,' """""" " ' ii 1 1 ipii t . ., 1 , I 1- . 1 and A TO Metropolitan policyholders including about onefifth of the total populations of United States and Canada have huilt up their reserves front millions into billions. TpHE financial story below is a record of JL achievement by n:ien and women who are planning: to avert wan or to build estates" You; may 1 admire their steaidfastness of purpose last year under handicaps which tested courage, : These people policyholders of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Compamy are building for their futures: They would "like?., to know what the future holds in store? for them and for the country as a whole. -V U ..:. '.'. Let them, and other citizens, examine any chart of our country's unparalleled prosperity over the past hundred years. It appears, not merely as a jagged line, but as a series-'of towering steps which ; rise steaoiiy onwara ana tipwara. It is heartening now to recall that, after each depression, our country has always gone forward' to greater heights of prosperity and better, sounder standards of living. Today this country has hibre riches and betterxfacilities than ever before with Which to commence her nqxt great period 'of development. v V A review of the financial history of the United States since it was founded in i783 should turn any pessimist into an optimist : 1 v The Metropolitan will gladly mail: free' a book- let,"The Development of Prosperity in Ameriqa?; ; telling of past ups and downs ahbLfan 4.4V AAVXV ouwil UiJ lUUUWOU , Metropolitan Life Insurance Company . Financial Report to Policyholders for Year Ending December 31, 1930 V Assets -. . - . : . . . . . . $3,310,021,818.17 ( Larger than any other financial institution in the world) Liabilities x Statutory Reserve . . . J $2,870,453,034.00 Reserve for Dividends . payable in 1931 upon a Industrial Policies. 4468,156.00 ' " Ordinary Policies . . 48,028,166.72 ; Accident and Health Policies 2,029.150.00 . Totaf'Dividends ) . 94,625,472.72 All 6ther;i4abilities - J s f . v 142,783,S51.75 Unassigned Funds V. . j ' 202,159.759.70 , S $3,310,021,818.17 ,863,2309531 299,461,766.79 .1 - - i - Income in 1930 I ll Increase in Assets during 1930 ; XP5r1.fri I iff: Tnenrnnrd Tcciiir1 j ' Revivedandlncreasedinl930 ! 305,037,927.00 : (Excluding Increase on Gronp Policies)- " t;,'. Total Bonuses and Dividends to , Policyholders from 1897 to and ' including 1931 . . . v . . ;B 62266109 y Life Insurance Outstanding . " Ordinary Insurance i T: I $ 9,286,568,051.00 Industrial Insurance (premiums - v payable weekly or monthly) j 6,821,768,687.00 Group Insurance 'I" . i . i 2,702,629,646.00 Total Insurance Outstanding , -I 18,810,966384.00 x Larger than any other life Insurance1 company 1 th wporld) Policies in Force . . . 44,82663 1,492,052 Gntup Certificate) s : - . . JMore than any pther life insurance company) Accident and Health Insurance : ' . : ' ; , v : Outstanding - - ; a PrincipalSum Benefit 'Hi I I $1,4(,110,601.00 , Weekly Indemnity 3 5 ? S 15,172,026.00 W? CAB 4 at Pi li SS2afc4 yr r ere: I E r px. wdi 11. r ' 5: - . Metropolitan ; Life Insurance Company Some Noteworthy Daily Averages 'I jof the Company's Business During 1930 2,144 per day in Number of Claims Paid. v .- I 19,639 per day in Number of Life Insurance Policies Issued and Revived. " $10,907,716 per day in Amount of Life Insurance" 9 . , . . Issued, Revived and Increased. , $2,093,529 per. day in Payments to Policyholders and Addition to Rescrve f $988,323 per day in Increase in Assets. V I'ii'i- Growth in Ten-Year Periods X - -1 . ' 1 Number of Life Outstanding Asscti Insurance Policies in Life Insurance. at End '' Force at End of Year at End of Year of Year il870 ; ; . 9331 i : $U,335,108;. . . $833,914;19 lsso ;: 117,088 : : 19,167,349 . 1,947,821:79 1890 ; 2,099,882 ; : 235,037,926 . .-10,781,173.01 1900 . 5,494,057 ; : 923,877,917 . . 62,158,0343 ,1910 .1188,054 . 2,215,851,388 . 313,915,1729 1920 . 24,176,752 ; : 680,012,514 . - 98013,037.17 - "i -'S " . - . 7 1930 '. 44,82663 ri8,810,966,384 . 3,310,021,818.17 This Company lis a mutual organization. It has no stock and . I- f MoiStQckholdcrSe A 3 ; : nIi7rrlo rxttlttiTHn A TkT :t tt?t? ttCtottt ATkTirT rvrm a TvTr . TwTTirr ; .Trnn tk FnEDZniC:: XL ECKER, Prczldsnt LEUOY A. UI7COLIT, Vicd-Presidsnt and G:n:rc! CcnrrJ; pes - |