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Show PROVO (UTAH) EVENING HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3; 19 33 trah all t4brt7 BU The Herald Every AfteraooB except Saturday, aad Sunday Manias Published by the Herald Corporation, 50 South First West Street, Provo. . Utah. . Bntered as second-class matter at the pbstofflce In Provo. Utah, underline act of March 3. 1879. Gilman, Nicoll & Ruthman, National Advertising representatives. New York, San Francisco, Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle. Chicago. Member United Press. N. K. A. Service. Western Features and the Scripps L.eagrue of Newspapers. 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 Utah County, in advance. $4.50; outside Utah County, $5.00. Fixing the Power Rate Yardstick ' Watching1 the various elements of the new deal take shape these days is a liti:e bit like peering into a test tube iii, which a clie-:Uct Is luteinizing an entirely new, elaborately, elaborate-ly, complicated kind of synthesis -with the added factoithat at JeastJLicYV of the chemists on the outskirts are not dead slur e that the whole mess won't presently blow up and wreck the laboratory. v -Some of us, find onu part of the experiment most interesting", inter-esting", and some of us I'ii.ci another; but certainly one of the most .striking in its potentialities is that being conducted at Muscie Shoals. A great many reasons were advanced for the Muscle Shoals program while it was being debated, and one of the chief ones was that it wouid serve as a yardstick by which electricity rates could be measured; and it is pretty evident now that the authorities are going to do everything they can to make the yardstick a good one. Howdy, folks! It is now proposed propos-ed that college football teams adrtpt an NRA code. Yeah, there ought to be a minimum mini-mum wav scale for good half-hacles. half-hacles. 3fi And in some sections of the country the code should prohibit players from using brass knuckles. 3C ! SUPERMAN NO. 1,347 OUT OUR WAY BY WILLIAMS It has been announced already that consumers of power from Muscle Shoals will be charged, on the average, two cents per kilowatt hour. The significance of this figure rests upon two facts: First, that this according to power authorities at Washington ;is just a little more than half the average power rate for the nation last year. Second, that the Muscle Shoals authorities are taking the utmost care to make the return they will receive from their, sale of power equal to the return a privately owned utility would have to receive in order to meet fixed charges, taxes, interest and depreciation. " - - u J x '..-- "T v "These rates," says David E. Lilenthal, director of power pow-er 'utevelopm en t at the Shoals, "have been computed on a cpijseryatfve basis to cover all the costs of furnishing the service,' including operation, maintenance, depreciation and taxes. ,ln addition, we have made provision for interest and retirement although such provision is not required by the Tennessee Valley Authority act." It is easy to see how far-reaching the effects of this experiment might be. If the plant at Muscle Shoals, operating oper-ating under precisely the same financial conditions as a private pri-vate utility might operate, proves able to sell electricity for half the rate the private utilities charge, the general public' is likely, to get a new attitude toward utility rates in general. It isn't hard to see why the "power trust" fought the Muscle Shoals project so bitterly. A Leader Sets An Example ! - A notable phase of-the administration's efforts to bring about business recovery has been the tolerant, broad attitude atti-tude that has been part of the campaign. There have been no efforts to whip everybody into line ami stifle criticism. On the other hand, frank, open discussions have been encouraged. encour-aged. ..: Freedom of speech and action have been highly held by Amerieans and by English speaking people generally, for a good many years. Perhaps the most notable demonstration of this spirit was made in England during the World war. Even in that threatened nation, there was no succumbing to the ideas of dictatorship. Remember the militant opposition oppo-sition to Kitchener's war ministry by Lord Northcliffe, largest larg-est British publisher which, his historians agree, furthered reforms that saved the day. - . America, of course, has had many examples of the same thing, tho, perhaps, none quite so striking. Be that as it may, Roosevelt has earned a new measure of respect and confidence by his splendid course of action in this- regard. J. Horace Aspirin, this department's depart-ment's agricultural erpert, has qualified as an outstanding authority au-thority by his study of the farm problem. After spending three days locked in his room with a keg of sarsa-parilla, sarsa-parilla, an add ing mac nine and an old copy of the Police Gazette, Mr. Aspirin has decided that the condition of the average citizen will be greatly improved if farmers can be persuaded to plow under every third row of spinach. if, if, if, if, A Salt Lake baseball writer says that "sliding" requires brains. How does he get that way? A'paper napkin nap-kin on your knee hasn't any brains. if, if, if, if, INFANTS' DEPARTMENT Rubber flooring is being advertised ad-vertised for nurseries. -For bouncing bounc-ing babies? if if, if, if. Scientist declares that sprinkling sprink-ling dust from airplanes will cause rain. An easier way is to have the car washed and polished. if, if, if, if, The next war. according to a scientist, will be fought with poisons. pois-ons. In that case the United States is safe, because a Million bootleggers could spring- to arms overnight. if, if, if. if, CASUALTY NOTE Our winter overcoat, which we liave worn for six years, is so thin that 27" moths died of starvation starva-tion this summer trying to get a square meal off it. if, if, if, if, According to Joe Bungstarter, wro played 18 holes at the Timp-anogos Timp-anogos golf links this morning, his game is getting better and better. bet-ter. In fact, he said he broke the curse record. if, if, if, if, City limits. GOV; vS ! " ' VV He OMLNf WORl 'ELM tB8R vjAC? f0t OMCE! HArt-HH H.E. OEM PamTs AGrNl, 'EM OFF OEM PAntTS GvnjiME , WES.AW' HE'S GOT TO GrT g, -E.R eH DE. STfenKirv V rT5-jSr CMAQACttLRS BEKiO HIM DCRE il -t-t-the.v MAWe I szrrmr 1 ! SET FOR Lt f E L ' V e 033 BY MKA WVtCC INC. MCO. U . PAT. OT. g.3 t t-, W " "nil (Continued from Page One) state department told the allied powers that the U. S. A. would reduce war debts if they reduced German reparations. This happened at the famous Lausanne conference. Officially the United States was not represented. Actually Allan Dulles, one time counsel, for the House of Morgan, at that time assistant to Norman Davis, was on the scene. Despite repeated state department depart-ment denials, Sir John Simon, in an official note, reminded the United States of this pledge. So if the state department handled hand-led war debt discussions now, it would lay itself open to another British reminder. The treasury, on the other hand, can pretend to ignore ig-nore completely the Lausanne commitment. if, MERRY-GO-ROUN D Oklahoma friends of if, former Bright Moments In Great Lives Many slang expressions have classical origin. Lycurgus, cele-barted cele-barted lawgiver of the Spartans, was the unconscious author of such term a "brick," meaning a person able and reliable. A visitor in Sparta, being shown the city by Lycurgus, remarked on the condition of the walls, which were in a sad state of repair. He asked if the citizens were not afraid that this condition would make a conquest easy for the enemies of Sparta. Lycurgus conducted him to the plain, on which the fighting hosts of Sparta were drawn up the most formidible fighting organizations organi-zations of antiquity. "Behold," he said, "the true walls of Sparta, and every man is a brick." Detection of criminals is being greatly aided by a new discovery discov-ery perfected in England. The use of the infra-red ray has shown that bloodstains, entirely invisible to the eye, are readily revealed. The first test was made by F. W. Martin of the Department of Forensic For-ensic Medicine at the University of Glasgow. Criminologists believe this to be a vast forward step in the detection of crime. A new fountain toothbrush is new being marketed. It forces a liquid carbonic spray thru the bristles, thoroly cleansing the teeth and acting as an atomizer at the same time. It was invented by a Norwegian. SCIENCE In the Anhalter station, Berlin, Germany, coats and hats are fully protected from thieves by a mechanical me-chanical burglar-proof, hatproof automaton, making the theft of clothing impossible. - The device is somewhat similar to a hat rack. The guest simply hangs his cat, hat or umbrella on the rack, drops a coin in the slot, and his clothing is safe, becoming securely fastened to the rack by a clever arm that clamps the clothing cloth-ing and hats securely to the rack. When the coin is placed in the slot, a key is released, and this is used to release the lock when the guest is ready to take his belongings belong-ings and depart. EVERYTHING IS BEING REVISED THESE DAYS! -MMmi ANY 001 I owe foR Trte MAsree 2 C,AV$Sk AMP OE FOR WE PAM& fM Zfff)M mtZZZg&Y OMe to petfrovep Statement of the Ownership, Management, Manage-ment, Circulation, etc., Required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912. Of Evening Herald published daily at Provo, Utah for October 1, 1933. State of Utah County of Utah ss. Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforepaid, personally appeared J. Al Owens, who, having been duly sworn, according to law deposes and says th,at he is the Business Manager of the Evening Herald and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, owner-ship, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 411, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to-wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing man-aging editor, and business managers are: Name of Post office address Publisher Herald Corporation, Provo, Utah. Editor Ernest R. Rasmuson, Provo, Utah. Business Manager J. A. Owens, Provo, Ulah. 2. That the owner is: (If owned by a corporation, its name and address must be stated and also immediately thereunder the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding one per cent or more of total amount of stock. If not owned by a corporation, the names and addresses of the individual owners must be given. If owned by a firm, company, or other unincorporated unincorp-orated concern, its name and address, as well as those of each individual member, must be given.) Herald Corporation, Provo, Utah. Ernest R. Rasmuson, Provo, Utah. J. A. Owens, Provo, Utah. Mrs. Fred Singleton, Provo, Utah. N. Gunnar Rasmuson, Logan, Utah. Coast Investment Co., Provo, Utah. -Second Coast Inv. Co., Provo, Utah. No one of the stockholders of which, through ownership own-ership of stock in these companies, owns as much as 1 of this newspaper, except- Ann Murphy, J. L. Marshall and The Scripps Newspapers, Inc., all listed below. t R. W. Goodell, Salt Lake City, Utah. The Scripps Newspapers, Incorporated, Wilmington, Del. The sole stockholders of which are: E. W. Scripps, Seattle, Wash. J. G. Scripps, Seattle, Wash. Josephine L. Scripps, Seattle, Wash. Ellen Browning Scripps, Seattle, Wash. Ann Murphy, Seattle, Wash. J. L. Marshall, Seattle, Wash. R. L. McDaniel, Seattle, Wash. H. W. Parish, Seattle, Wash. LeRoy Sanders, Spanaway, Wash. E. C. Rodgers, San Luis Obispo, Cal. H. B. R. Briggs, Los Angeles, Cal. 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: (If there are none, so state.) , None. V 4. That the two paragraphs next above giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear ap-pear upon the books of the company but also, In cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing em-bracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the companv as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him. 5. That the average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the 12 months preceding the date shown above is S568 (This information is required from daily publications only.) J. A. OWENS, Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of Sept. 1933. (SEAL) N ' . J. ELMER JACQBSEN, " (My commission expires April 3, 1936.) Do You Know? These Curious Things Thot the custom of celebrating Mother's Day is relatively new, and has, despite its short existence, become one of our most generally accepted holidays. On this day, the second Sunday in May, the mothers of the nation are honored. The day was consecrated at the suggestion of the late President Woodrow Wilson to the memory of mothers who are dead, and to the thought of the mothers who are alive. The originator of the movement move-ment was Miss Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia and formerly of Grafton, Graf-ton, W. Va. It has become the practice to send flowers to one's mother upon this day, no matter where she may be, and to wear a white carnation if she is dead, in honor of hec memory, and a pink one if she is living. While the holiday is not legal, its observance is national in scope, and there has been some consideration consider-ation of making it a legal holiday. Secretary of War Pat Hurley have launched a quiet boomlet to run" him for governor next year . . '. . They admit privately that his chances are slim right now, but say conditions may be radically different by 1934 and thev want him to be on the ground floor if "things break right". . . . Secretary Secre-tary of State Hull likes nothing better than canoeing .... He has a trick way of holding the paddle, in one hand and slipping it noisely through the water like an Indian. .... Senate investigators of Cool- idge-Hoover ocean mail contracts contemplate criminal prosecutions. They have the goods on several former high government officials and a number of wealthy ship owners. . . ."Holy Joe" McKee, New York mayoralty candidate, recently recent-ly had to take a big salary cut as a banker. . . . McKee abandoned politics to became head of the Title Guarantee & Trust at $50,000 a year. . .Recently he got notice of a healthy pay slice because of poor business. . . .George Otis Smith, who decently gave up the chaii-Ynanship chaii-Ynanship of the federal power commission com-mission when asked to do 'so by President Roosevelt is planning to withdraw completely from government govern-ment service November 1. . . .That date will complete 40 years employ-men employ-men in the government, and will enable Smith to retire on pension, . . . .There is no love lost between two of Hoover's staunch supportersPat support-ersPat Hurley and Bert Snell, Republican floor leader in the House. . . .Professor Oliver M. W. Sprague, ex-adviser to the Bank of England, now adviser to the U. S. treasury, has on his desk a small tin tooxmarked "cake." in it, however, how-ever, is not cake. . . .It contains the fancy brand of smoking tobacco tobac-co that Sprague learned to like in England. . . .Whiskey distillers, contrary to the usual impression, have not yet organized their Washington Wash-ington lobby. Different companies have between them. . . .When t' unified dry forces start going again liquor interests probably will have to unite. . . . After all it was only the appointment of Will Hays as-movie as-movie czar which saved that industry in-dustry from government control. (Copyright, 1933, by United Feature Feat-ure Syndicate, Inc.) Mere s More Good New for IHcSMlIkfl BSBfflffl(8G?S EVERYONE WANTS GOOD MAGAZINES. . . . Everyone has not been able to afford them because of the price. 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