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Show PAGE FOUR PROVO (UTAH) EVENING HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 193 1 V v- ' Proclaim liberty throughout the land" subscription terms by carrier in Utah county, 50 cents the month; $2.75 for six months in advance; $5.00 the year in advance; by mail, in the county, $4.50; outside Utah county, $5.00. R. W. GOODELL, Editor and Manager. J. A, OWENS, Advertising Manager THE WtUT II QUICK 'c Neither this newspaper, nor any or indirectly, with any political party, public utility, real estate promotion or other private business except the publication of newspapers devoted solely to disinterested publio service Are Children Happy? The story about the 13-year-old Indiana boy who killed himself because he couldn't make a neighborhood football team is one of the most pathetic bits of news that the papers have printed in a long time. It emphasizes something that we too often overlook; that a child can, on occasion, be .the unhappiest mortal alive. Little disappointments have a way of seeming blacker, in childhood, than adults generally realize. Most of us, as we go bumping along from one disappointment and disillusionment disillu-sionment to another, acquire a sort oT case-hardened philosophy, philoso-phy, and learn to discount the value of the prizes we fail to get. But a child hasn't any philosophy of that kind to sus tain him. Instead, he has to grin and bear it ; and some times the grin doesn't come easily. Even an adult gets the notion, now and then, that he faces a world which is in conspiracy to cheat him. How much more terribly does not such an idea bear down on a child's mind? For children, in general, are rather lonely. We can do our best to understand them, to be pals to them, to comfort them; but there .is , always something of a barrier between us, because they look out at the world with unspoiled eyes and we do not, and they know it. There are moments in which a child feels that. it is hopeless for him to go to an older person for sympathy, no matter how kind and well-meaning well-meaning that older person may be. So, when things go wrong, hehas to fall back on his own resources which means thaF every so often he has a pretty thin time-of it. Of course,Jt very seldom ends as tragically as this case in Indiana did. But if wc are wise we shall let this pitiful story teach us something ; teach us that a youngster's un-happiness un-happiness can be infinitely more real arfd deep than we dream, ancl that our greatest wisdom and our deepest sympathy sym-pathy and understanding are imperatively demanded, over and over again, if there has been given to jis the tremendous 5 nd priceless- responsibility of bringing up a boy. Our Automobile Business It is rather surprising to hear that the export trade has accounted for practically all of the increase in production of American autos since 1923. A survey conducted by a Uni-versi'iyoT Uni-versi'iyoT Michigan expert shows this to be the case, and indicates that the domestic market has not appreciably expanded ex-panded in eight years. "Production abroad by American companies," remarks the survey, "will do more to limit our future exports than competition from European producers." The automobile business, thus, seems to be pretty securely se-curely in American Hands. Yet one is entitled to wonder, just how much this will help the ordinary American worker if American factories located overseas are going to grab off most of. the export trade. That is a point which the tariff makers might ponder over a little. Observations - Add 99 parts of hot air to and the result is congress. A politician has only one method of meeting any crisis increase taxes. - Expenses run higher for living in pints and quarts. VOLTS, AMPERES, WATTS Do you know what they arc what they mean? Magnets, generators, motors, induction, incandescence, incandes-cence, -fuses, meters they affect every moment of your life, awake or asleep, in this age of electricity and niachinery. Everybody in this modern age has occasion to use elementary knowledge of electricity and electrical construction. Our,, Washington Bureau has ready for you a bulletin, written in a popular way on ELECTRICITY, containing the elementary facts about this all-prevad-ing stuff of which all matter in the universe is probably probab-ly a manifestation. You will find it fascinating read ing and full of valuable information. Fill out the-coupon the-coupon tbelow and send for it: CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 160, Washington Bureau - Provo Evcntn" , 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. c." ; I want a copy or the bulletin ELECTRICITY, and enclose ,, herewith five cents in coin, or loose, uncancelled, U.; S postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs: NAME ST..& NO. ' V . ' ' city, V .' . 1 am a- reader of the Provo - - - - The H A SCRIPPS-CANFIELD NEWSPAPER Every Afternoon, except Saturday, and Sunday Morning Published by the Herald Corporation, N. Gunnar Rasmuson, president, in the Herala Building, 50 South First West Street Provo, Utah. Entered as second-class matter at the postofflce in Provo, Utah under the. act of March 3. 1873. Oilman, Nicoll & Ruthman, National Advertising Representatives San Franciso office, 525 Market street. Room 523; Chicago office, 410 North Michigan avenue; New York office, 19 West Forty-fourth street; Boston office, 8 . Tremont street; Detroit, Michigan, office, 601 New Center Bldg. of its stockholders or officials has .. .. fkUk one part of accomplishment, men who measure the cost of Herald, J. STATE , A. Evening Herald. any connection whatever, directly h-J Howdy, folks! Most of the speeches back in Washington are being made by new congressmen. con-gressmen. The green driver does the most tooting of his horn. Same way with congressmen. If new congressmen would work as hard on the job as they did to get it, this session would be 100 per cent efficient. LEADERS OF STATECRAFT Congressman Morton Mothball (right) has proposed pro-posed the only new tax that has met with public approval. Mr. Mothball advocates a nuisance tax on women who persist per-sist in cosslnintr tnree hours every morning on a four-party telephone line. Photo by Jim Needham. Cheer "up, things could be worse. Saxophonists might play the xylophone! xylo-phone! MAN WAS MADE TO 3IOURN It's easy enough to be pleasant , When troubles are light as- a feather, But the man worth while is the man who can smile When fitting a stovepipe together. to-gether. The honking of geese used to announce an-nounce spring. Now it announces a traffic jam. A SPIKES VICIOUS LIE! This is Gishouse Gus, who today tnreateneu to sue rumor- mongers who accused him of being a radio crooner. "It's a dirty lie!" shouted Gu3. "These slanderers slan-derers say I sang a crooning melody over the radio at 11 o'clock ; Monday night. But, I have, a perfect alibi. I can prove that cn Monday night at 11 o'clock 1 w.s cul cracking a safe." Photo by Sherman Sparks There is no truth to the Crumor that patriotic Chinamen ar demanding de-manding that the name of cucumbers cucum-bers be changed to queuecumbers. jJ J. IIYMT OF I$ATE The lo.west knave Of all the folks Is he who springs Depression pokes. Football players aren't the only men who make bad passes. We made at bad pass yesterday, and the other crap-shooters took $3 from us. l i HOMER BREW'S DIARY (December 11) Earlie up, and don my powf pantaloons, pan-taloons, and to playing at gowf (a Scottish game), but did lose my gowf ball, and when I could find naught of it, in an hour did return home. And do find Dame Brew 'in the : scullery, jai&j the prettte creature crea-ture doth shew me a dozen bottles of cucumber cordial, ivmchhe did make unbeknownst to me, which do please , me mlghtUy and I do tell her,' as a reward, to visit the bazaars, ba-zaars, and buy whatever gauds and Jewels , she ' doth desire, Just so . she do not spende more than a nickel. And or whistling merrllle, to ' the prmlery. . " - s - ' There is only one ; sort of', literature litera-ture that has meat in -every line, and that's the butcher's bill.. TODAY'S DEFINITION J Hell: Spending a rainy Sun- j i day in 'a country hotel with ) j four children. . . I J.. , Christmas gift note: If you are mad. ai''you neighbor,' give his small son.n. drum, Xox Christmaa.; PR,,'- ..'ntfii H lr:;-i .".: .-WallT your .horses. - ' --.-'-. . - rf ju ; gu .. . : K'nif AART SHANNON. :''5 VDerived from ...castor.oil ."and t1 eI1tlPl 'Cite-ehnAt riUr- THE OBSERVER i By Jim Marshall There are some very interesting book3 out about Mexico and some of the politicians and nation-savers nation-savers and other animal-culae ought to read them . . Mexico used to be and still is largely an-agricultural country . we used to be mainly agricultural agricul-tural with thousands of little communities that were almost self-supporting self-supporting altho today 'most any American community would starve in ten days if transportation failed . .1. Just as the Mexican Indian was dependent on land sJ the American Amer-ican came to be c'.e;.e;nJe.it not on land but on n.o.iey it is a bit sad .n..t today not one American on. of -1000 could suppoit himself and lii.3 i'amily.r if you gave him 160 acres of the finest land in the west about all the average man knows is how to be a serf for a weekly wage ' and if the serf-holders serf-holders don't want him he starves Well, anyway time rackea along in Mexico,' until one day the country awakened to discover that about 99 per cent cf the land was owned by 1 or 2 per cent of the population the land-owners lived in the cities or on large and lazily-run haciendas and didn't give a wh'.iop what happened to the othe; 98 per cent of the people and curiously enough this is just about what has Happened in the United States with money instead of land . . . Nearly all the money-owners in the United States (a few per cent oi the people own nearly all the money) live in cities and don't give a whoop what happens in the farming country or in what circumstances the rest of the people ive or for that matter if they live at all as long as they can pay intereset on mortgages and heavier taxes and hot complain too loudly Mexico as anyone knyows is just a poor backward country without any heaven-gifted tycoons of industry or financial wizards but they had some doin's down there a few years ago and decided de-cided that land-wealth was toj highly concentrated and today most of the land is back under its original ownership all the former landowners are very sore about it but they just don't have anything to say about it . . . AND, LISTEN: If the .Mexicans .Mex-icans had the sense to see the dagger of cprjfi.trated weatjh it seems that we smart Americans ought to be able to see it, too because if we don't . . . This West of Ours Wc roll over the paved Overland trail between San Antonio, Texas and San Francisco, Cal., at 60 mile an hour in luxurious automobiies, equipped with balloon tires, shock absorbers and soft cushions, objecting object-ing petulantiy if tne trip takes 1j minutes longer than two days. It was only 50 years ago- that travelers expected to journey to ktake around three weeks, and then they weren't -sure they would ar rive alive. However, the time element didn't concern the travelers of those days Nor did a little thing like not beinj able to go to bed for three weeks amount to m.uch. Attacks from -Indians were what caused gray hairs to cieep in among the; black. Now travelers purchase baskets from sleepy Indians at functions; are startled if a scraggy, underfed coyote crosses the highway; eat three meals a day; sleep in skyscraper sky-scraper hotels en route. BAND CONCERT SPANISH FORK The junior high school band will give a concert, con-cert, Thursday evening, December 17, at the junior high school building. build-ing. The band will he assisted by Mr. , Elmo Coffmah, soloist of Springville, Mr. and Mrs. Max Thomas-and Miss Blanche Thomas, also a ladies' chorus from the high school, and violin solos by Eugene Jacobsen. A small admission' fee will be charged. JTKKfcRS Can you start from one point of Ine above ib5aSnand move a pencil the en tire length of every line, without remov- . bg the pencil or going over the tame line lwice . ;. I Stickler Solution 1 t' - - ' , J RQSES OPERA SjAKI EIR OUT OUR WAY OM - OH - OOM MOW VttJ I GrVT anoiher job , f 1 OH-mowj "ThehVu soonj B CALUM rv OH.OI-A. 1 OES "Tv-PH GRAV MV VAAD - GouP- In The Mail Box! Editor Provo Herald: Twelve years ago next month "Jonathan and David" "became brothers and were elected to of Ill A III I M-J AlJ T -tea. C. ik,rs I . . V i - . MV HAD OUr? A TH FvON V V 1 , CAm't yon DVE. I p ,,, HCft. u T. orr. PPQrPV MOOR Ni M Gr by r sewvicr wc ---- BEGIN flERE TODAY MARY HARKNESS plot! to en-nare en-nare THE FLY, who she believe "framed" faer brother, EDDIE, with the murder of old MRS. JUPITER, and later ran Eddie down and killed him. She la aided by BOWES of the Star. Mary's fiance, DIRK RUYTIIER, believes Eddie eullty, an do police. BRUCE JUPITER returns from f Europe with a woman friend and Is ordered out by his father, who makes Mary his heir. Bruce votfs to rout Mary, who he thinks is a grold-diffser. Dirk forbids Slary to see Bovren or continue the Investigation. In-vestigation. She Roea to Miami on ie Jupiter yacht, hoping The Fly will be at Illaleah to see his horse run. 1 She meets COUNT DE LOMA. De Loma is listed as the owner of The Fly's' horse. MR. JUPITER has a ear of the same make as that used by the murderer, but he explains it was bought for experimental ex-perimental purposes. Bovren overhears Bruce nnd Louiwe qunrreling: because she rnnnct explain where she sot a diamond , bracelet. Louise says It Is Jlary". Bruce makes her Rive (he bracelet to Mary, who discovers dis-covers it was stolen from Mrs. Jupiter the ninht she was killed. NOvgo OS WITH THE STORY "CHAPTER XXXV ft! 11. ilENRY BATES, detective, stood for a moment deep In thought. What he had just seen puzzled him grteatly, apparently, and his watchers 5new he would never rest until the meaning of those events was clear. "Now what," he mused aloud, "what makes The Fly act dopey like that? Just looking at a courthouse steeple?" Neither Mary nor Mr. Jupiter had any explanation to offer. Bates jerked himself up: "Well," he said briskly, "I'll be toddling along. I'll tell you what I 'find in here if I find anything." He Indicated In-dicated the package of torn, pieces of cardboard in bis coat pocket. "But " he paused again, impressively. impres-sively. In the doorway. "I'll say this much right now you're not going to see much more of him abound here. He's got the jitters over something. I look for him to take a run-out On us, maybe tonight. I'll bet if you were to go up to his room vigbt now, you'd find him packing bis grips." Down came Mr. Jupiter's stockinged stock-inged feet -You think so?" : "I do." It sounded like an oath. Mary d reur a deep Ibreattu "Well," she said resolutely, "here's one thing that won't go withljlm!" She held out' the bracelet. "Why,- that's Mamma's I " Mr. Jupiter exclaimed hoarsely, f Where did you get It?" r ; Mary told. ; As he listened, blinking blink-ing from her to the bracelet and back; again, i a light hardly sane . came into tne oia mans eyes- ana spots ;pt burned iln-i jifled cheeks. HeTreachJBdJforneck-lace HeTreachJBdJforneck-lace and his hand shook.; v f . "Here, you don't want-that, boss,?, Bates intercepted .It, ; Quickly . palmed It:- and ; handed f It back to - GolP! -Tr-H OF ME ART ACHES O AO FOUMO AM' ARMCHAIR aE.oT OVE.R WoH , MOW! HAF 1M OOH Gulp. cam't yon Dve. CM? OHWOH MUST fice; Hopkins, ity commissioner , i and David was chosen road super- j intendent under Mr. Hopkins. From j . I that day until now, these two men j have worked together for Provo j city and they called in good men to work with them. They worked together like one man and they moved more dirt and made more ems oF- lose it if you leave It lying around your room tonight." He tried to mask the quick alarm in his eyes as he' added "Does The Fly know you've got that?" "No." T3ATES drew a breath. "Better lock it up before he finds out." He turned to Jupiter, who had relaxed re-laxed a bit but was still white as a sheet. "There's your case. You can send him up on that, and if you take my advice you'll do it, and notmonkey around any longer. He's liable to get ugly if he has any suspicion you're laying for him " He stopped and slapped a fist into his open palm. "Listen! It never struck me he'd bo fool enough to keep the stuff on him. But if he hasn't disposed of it yet, then maybe It's in his room. When he's on the roof tonight with you. Miss Harkness, I'll make a search. If it's there, we'll wait right there and nab him when he comes down. If it isn't " "Nab him anyhow," Jupiter finished. fin-ished. "By God, I'll make him eat that bracelet, chain and all!" "He couldn't claim, could he," Mary suggested, "that Eddie did it for him and turned the stuff over to him? I want to see him sent up, but I don't want there to be any doubt, either, about whether it was he, or Eddie, who did the killing"- "You'll have to take a chance cn your jury," Bates said. "That's all you can do. If he can make them think it was Eddie, of course he'd beat the murder rap " "He mustn't! He mustn't!" Mary cried. "We can't let him get away with that!" "Well, well," Bates soothed her. drawing her into the hallway, "it's not likely." He called a cheerful goodby to the old man, who was pacing about, obviously excited. ' "Mary!" Jupiter called out sharply sharp-ly after her. "You need any money for anything?" Mary felt an impulse im-pulse to laugh and cry at once. It was his way of thanking her for J what she had done. . "No," she said. "Not that I know of, thanks." "You'd better have some. You can't tell what you're going to need it for," Jupiter insisted. The embarrassment em-barrassment of taking It was somehow some-how alleviated by Bates' presence. She would have refused, but she knew that it pleased him to give it to her. Bates closed the door and drew her away a few paces. "That old man's not going to last if we don't get this Fly locked up pretty soon," he said. "His arteries aren't what they used to be, if I'm any judge. Best keep him as quiet as you can, and tonight I'll get the goods on that crook if they're in this hotel. Leave it to me." . .'Mary 'lelt undecided, and faintly rebellious. We're not going to hurry things too fasti" she warned him. "Wait and ee what happens tonight. I'm not telling ; Mr. Jupiter, but I'm going to wear the ruby necklacel? Bates stared. $S - DTI . - ; M 5oDther&?ajd Bfcuce. Wy shV& ?! bef arliaysh e IddedV M t ' "Nobody would shoot Into a mbb Je.jtha.tTnd'he'd kno it! ' Bates objected." "I could put a;xnan $n both exitthonthHjpf f BY WILLIAMS v FROM GRAY tAATTic QOMT VWORR, MORE Kl TfAReE. good roads than any same number of men In Provo city. Every man knew ?Vhad do ,m"ch .orkt every dav, and they did it without a boss. j have kept tab Gn every officer of Provo ity for 56 years we that pay them ought to do that and not spend so much time finding fault by hearsay. WALTER COX. might steady think?" him, aon't you "OATES" considered.- Might," he conceded. "If he wants it bad enough. Only he's liable to make a wild grab for it and anybody that tried to stop him would be at a terrible disadvantage in that crowd. I wouldn't fire a gun In that mob. I know that." "He won't try there. Leave It to me. What's the matter with taking him out to the yacht?r- "You think you could?" Mary shrugged. "My blood's uj. I feel as if I could do the impossible tonight." "Then go ahead. I'll play ball." The prospect thrilled him, she could see. . "We'll let it btand this way,", Mary told him. "You search his rooms, and whether you find the rest of the plunder or not, wait there. If he comes, it will mean I've failed. And if I fail with him tonight it's not likely I could succeed suc-ceed another time. Arrest him. If he doesn't come, you'll know we've gone out to the yacht. Better have a man on the roof to tell you the moment we leave, and you follow. Is that clear?" "Right. Want me to go down with you until you stow that stuff away?" "Thanks, no. I don't think there is any danger yet." "Wait." He stepped into his own room which was on the other side of Mary's, and took down the receiver. re-ceiver. "Is Mr. De Loma In his room, do you kmpw? No, don't ring him! I merely wanted to know whether oh. you 'ass!" Furious, he started to hang up, then changed his mind and held bis hand over the mouthpiece mouth-piece until a man's voice answered. Then, disguising his voice, he shouted at the top of his lungs. "Hello? Hello, Bill? Is this you. Bill? What? 13 Bill Jones there? Hello!" A grin overspread his face as he hung up. "Phew! He's there, all right. And mad! You should have heard what he called me!" Bates rubbed an ear tenderly. "Well, run along. You know he's not in the lobby, at any rate." Mary walked across the half-empty half-empty lobby to the desk, stopping at the window to ask for her mail. Dirk had not written. She experienced ex-perienced the old, familiar sickness that swept over her whenever she let herself stop to think of him, to face the awful possibility that he did not mean to write. Aloud she said to the day clerk, who looked up startled at the depth of tragedy in the gray eyes turned to his, "I want to put some valuables valu-ables in the safe." "Will you just step around to the manager's office, please?" He indicated indi-cated a door at the side - which opened into an office just back of the desk itself. There was a, door immediately behind the desk and it stood open now. Mary saw the sleek" head of; the manager ' bent over his books. ; Obediently, she walked around tor the side door and entered. miTTC Virvtftl eafa(wii In ; tti- ntan. ger,office;4npia QUGStiCGHO Q. What does Ibid stand for? A. For the Latin word ldidem, meaning "in the same place." Q. When was Foster M. Voor hees governor of New Jersey? A. From 1899 to 1902. , Q. To what extent has the negro population in the United -States-increased since 1920? t A. In 1920 there were 10,463.131 negroes and in 1930 the number was 11,891.143. - Q. What does the name lone mean? A. It is a feminine name from the Greek and means "fertile or delightful." de-lightful." Q. How does the area of the Great Lakes compare with the area of Texas? A. Texas has an area of 265,896 square miles, and the total area of the Great Lakes is 94,710 square miles. Q. Who received the Pulitzer awards for the best play and the best cartoon in 1930? A. The award for the beat pi, went to Susan G. Glaspell for "Alison's "Ali-son's House," produced by Eva Ie Gallienne. The award )f or the best cartoon went to Edmund Duffy of the Baltimore Sun. Q. How long did the Anglo-Boer war last? . A. From October 10. 1899 to the signing of the Treaty of Peace May 31, 1902. USE FARM BOARD WHEAT WASHINGTON. Dec. 14. fcE Senator Wheeler, Dem Mont., today to-day introduced a bill providing that 50,000,000 bu?he!s of the wheat now held by the farm board.be ground into flour and given to the Red Cross for use in hunger relief. 0851 &tB Avals or protection, rather than a danger. The safe was at all times plainly visible. In fact, a light was kepj burning' above it day and night. Moreover, The Fly was not a safecracker. safe-cracker. It might have been among his random accomplishments, but it was certainly not his specialty, so that in placing the bracelet and the L O. U. behind its sturdy -lock she was making them as safe from The Fly's depredations as any'place could be. When she had dropped the envelope enve-lope containing her two precious objects into the metal box held for it, and saw It tucked away in .its pigeonhole, Mary began to .breathe more freely. The necklace was in there, too, somewhere, she remem-bred. remem-bred. It occurred to her that this might be a good time to take it out, as she must do soon if she meant to wear It tonight Impulsively, she asked for it. auid when it had been located, and'shs had signed the slip, she tucked it into her handbag carefully. It might have boen better to hate had someone with her. she reflected a trifle uneasilj. On the other hand, it might be better tactics to do it in the most obvious manner possible. pos-sible. The fascinating psychology of "The Purloined Letter" had left its impress on her, too. An instant later she was to tluubt her Poe and regret that she had ever heard of him. For as she turned about, through the open door she saw De Loma standing at the desk! 'Apparently, he had not seen her. He was standing with'his back half-turned away, looking out into the lobby. But she could not be sure that he had not turned about just an Instant before she herself had turned. Why, be could not have helped seeing her If he had faced the desk! The scene in the manager's office was directly in front of his eyes.. . How had he coma iL.z zn quick ly, and why? Perhaps it was mere ly chance. Perhaps he had not been fooled by that telephone call. of Bates' had suspected it was mere ly an attempt to locate him while the necklace was in transit But, what to do now? li cLo reached the elevator,- she would have to cross the lobby and he would see her. She might ask the manager to accompany her to her room. She was about to ask h'u l.t- . ance when a second glance through the doorway showed that De Loma had gone. She waited a few uiiuu i.. ij semi-darkness just outside the manager's man-ager's office, to give De Loma time to leave the place. Then she tool a deep breath, like a swimmer about to plunge in. and stepped out boldly on a straight line tor the elevator. She was holding hr breath until - that haven was reached, and when sLa set l-t n it at last and saw that It wai empty, she -uttered a deep relic vei sigh, and sagged against the wall of the elevator. Now. if the operator, would only hurry. . . . lie did -but not in time. - . ; : . '; ;.'... ,A tall figure eatercdrwi . "il.i, haCat sight of a woman passenger.! looked . again.;, apparently ,b?cani aware of her ddentlty f or the first A II HAILEY r"T TTJ 'riAtTtlAur "ttt |