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Show ifAGlf FOUR PROVO (UTAH) EVENING HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1935 I The Herald Every Afternoon except Saturday and Sunday Horning Published by the Herald Corporation. 60 South Firat West street. Provo, I'tah. Kntered an second-class matter at th- postoffice in Provo, Utah, under th act or March 3. 1S71. Oilman, Niooll & Ruthman, National Advertising representatives, New York. Han Francisco, Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago. Member United Press, N. K. A. Service, Western Features and the Soripps League of Newspapers. Subscription terms by carrier In Utah county f.fj (!, t.s itie month S2. for six months, in advance; Jii.f'O the year, in advance; by mail in Utah county, in advance, $4. GO; outside Utah county, $6.00. "Proclaim Llbertr through all the land" Liberty Bell 'The power to tax is the power to destroy.'" 'Those who are governed least are governed best." Thomas Jefferson. Hurry Up, Huey! Huey Lon;', surely no middle-of-the-road man, still seems to lack a jrreat many of the trimmings that make Adolph -Hitler one of the world's best clowns. Like Adolph, Huey has his own Ixrdyuard, his own regiments of militia, his own stronyarm government even his own song, a lugubrious lugub-rious ditty entitled: "Every Man a King." (In Louisiana already, al-ready, hundreds of Huey's olitical foes have been crowned.) But Dictator Long still lacks an official salute, a password, pass-word, and a uniform. Whert he harangues a crowd, there is a distressing lack of raised right hands; a ghastly silence instead of a blood-curdling roar of: "Hail, Huey!" Huey's storm-troopers ought to have uniforms fastened, fas-tened, we think, with screws and nuts instead of buttons. Five gallon oil cans, with holes to see out of, ought to make good helmets and be a delicate tribute to Huey's firm pals, the oil companies. Each trooper, of course, ought to have a gas mask, for use when on duty listening to the fuhrer's four-hour orations. Each uniform, of course, would -have oversize pockets, which will come in handy when Huey starts dividing up all the wealth. Maybe we an- a bit impatient ; perhaps Huey already has thought of these things. If so. we apologize. We just wanted to be sure that the Louisiana circus had all the trimmings. Kill This Vicious System In the United States today there are 175.OP0 independent independ-ent government units. They employ :;.2o0.ooo men and women. wo-men. Salaries amount to $4,000,000,000 a year. Your share of this is $1-10. which YOU have to pay! This fantastic government machine is staffed to some extent by civil servants; to a great extent by political appointees, ap-pointees, thousands of whom have a few qualifications for their jobs save-that they "voted right." Recently a commission was named to inquire into public service personnel. It has just reported: "We find that our government units do not generally offer of-fer the more capable men and women a fair chance, in any way comparable with that offered by private business, industry in-dustry or the professions, for a life-time of honorable work affording opportunity for advancement based on merit and accomplishment. . . The spoils system is primarily responsible respon-sible "for this condition. . . The curse of the spoils system is that it wrecks the morale of civil servants. Thousands of them work faithfully and efficiently for long years. Instead of being rewarded with top jobs and food salaries as t hey would be in private business busi-ness they see these good jobs handfd. out to political incompetents, in-competents, usuallv of no merit whatever and frequently knowing nothing about their jobs. Public service should be a career, just as in any other profession. The reward too should go to the hard-working, the efficient, the competent. Public service should attract our best boys and girls, by insuring them a square deal and a just return for their brains and ability. The s;oi!s system is making a farce of government administration. ad-ministration. It should be abolished, and a clean, honorable merit system installed in its place. National J HORIZON TAL Answer to Previous Puzzle , 1 The national banner of 6 Ready. is the capital of this country. !4 Dog chain. 15 Age. 16 Jockey. 17 Observed. 18 Perfume. 21 Snaky fish. 22 Sea eagle. 23 Note in scale. iQPG 24 Lava. 25 Beer. 26 Gilds. ' 29 Book of maps. 33 Meadow 34 Loom bar. 29 Falsifier. 40 Stone pillar image. 42 Genus of frogs. 43 One receiving a legacy. 45 In the . protectorate protec-torate ended. 4 7 To entwine into fabric . r.l Pitcher.-f.C Pitcher.-f.C I .and measure. Court ai d cf a house CS Goddess pea 59 Con fid' r. . tO is th.s country's king. 1 Perches. VERTICAL 1 Otherwb. . HENRY M OR G iE JNTIH1AJU 3DO T E UB; l NUE OjAINr AfriDD Atsli I 'm!atie aTlo o G'OuT RO'THT' I DiEQAlM HENRY MS LQCiUB " , IP ODD El "TOO'Tl iSUC 'giEp ifrs UNIT' 1 -E nAG-ODPONfc I. OE E :LtL'UiMPaSElJN EnSECQ E T AP I lEiSfTT 79 TB- SiFPp::llpa sr- 555 SS -: Mt- l",r,T si 35 I (tq I ""zzn r"Hw 111. Banner V) Narrow tillet. 19 Iniquity. 'u Vulgar fellow 2 Merriment. 2S Young sheep. 29 Every. Co Cravat. "I To loiter. T.2 Constellation. ?,5 Work of bkill 06 Capuchin monkey. 37 Being. 3S Hurrah. 4U Masculine pronoun. 41 Measure of a tea. 44 Plural of this 4(S Unsuited. 47 Homeless child. 1S Unbleached color. 49 Region. f, To sell. 52 International strifes. F3 Toilet box. f4 To scratch. 55 Drunkards. LEjNTiHL 2 Cogwhcl. o Ti gape. i'l'-t-' ript. :. Kssays. Hinnzf 7 Ai.dul Katiali Ye h in Pa -ha i of this 'iniry. S I.iL'lit bri'wn. '. Tu c l imp. i v s : --t 1 1. 1 1 The, 12 Hull it lit of tilm. OUT OUR WAY 7 ONE-ACT PLAY SLATED A jm A I PLEASANT GROVE The ono- g If if f S llf? I act play "Second Best" will be A JJ if U II n fisn? i Presented at tne First ward 11 f I tfw V YV I cnaPel Tuesday evening. February llll tyk ffAl finT M slfH tXS - I ! lmso!i,Amia Mane" Walker, Burt IX yyiiyy raVL M Jpy West- Dorothy Williamson, Mark I jmii JyiT-lh Gamette. and Louise West. Miss y- fl V Thelma West is coach. n. JL lTV : S. P. A Ser vice i Although many measures pn-: pn-: posed thus far m the twenty-first ; I'tah Legislature have aroused outspoken opposition taxation prop. sals in particular th1 kcens;. alarms aie being sounded against the state compensation revision re-vision bill introduced in the lower house by Representative Stanley , N Child of Salt Lake county. Opponents, after more than n week oi diligent delving into the i many intricacies of the bill, haw i brought to light several phases i that are causing owners f small ' industries and business the grocer, gro-cer, r:, rpen er. plumber and contractor con-tractor to v:ew ;t as exti t-m iy dangerous to th-ir interests. Kvn the hon.eMwner is b-.-ginning to se-.-it as a likely menace to everyday living c nditions Apparently, say those concerned it will be most hazardous under . th- proposed law. t give employment employ-ment to individuals of small business busi-ness houses, such as eb-ctricians. jilumbers and carpenters even for minor improvements and alterations altera-tions in residences. This would make it dangerous for the hnv-ovvners hnv-ovvners to deal with small employers employ-ers m favor of th' larger institutions in-stitutions who are definitely carrier.-- oi workmen's compensation compensat-ion insurance. Opponents of the bill also point out that it will be extremely difficult diffi-cult for small business firms ami . individuals employing one or tw; p. rsor.s t' fan di .nze thcmslV-S with all the state laws and rules and regulations of th- industrial commission They say that failure fail-ure to do so would probably result in an act of ommission and make them liable t" injured employes for amounts gr eatly in excess of benefits bene-fits provided in the act. Th- homeowner the opponents argue, are vitally affected by that section of th' proposed law that creates a lien and preference for compensation awards ahead of everything ev-erything excepts taxes. Under thus section the possibility of such a lien having preference over existing exist-ing mortgages or outstanding bonds would make it verv difficult to borro wmoney on real property Awards on single compensation occurrences oc-currences might exceed $25,000, Other s-'ctions objected to are Urn.se delegating authority to non-eommissioi: non-eommissioi: persons to inspect places of employment to determine deter-mine health; salety and welfare conditions: the making of the industrial in-dustrial commission more than an administrative body, and that depriving de-priving the state tax revenue on compensation premiums amounting amount-ing to about SoO.OOO annually. The first mentioned would lead to spying spy-ing upon employers by any person designated rv the commission. Objections to the weekly compensation com-pensation allowed was also raised, investigation showing that this migh reach as much as $45,000 in some cases. While expected opposition to the! .Holbrook individual income tax j bill, especially from those affected; by the jacking up of taxes in the higher brackets, has not developed to any grJdt extent, there is ap-1 parently a growing demand from . thcse seeking more state revenue' to include incomes down to $500: in the taxable lists. Proponents of such inclusion ar-j ' gue that in order to provide any j i appreciable revenue and to afford j : property tax relief the smaller in- j 1 comes should be taxed at least to ; the extent of paying a $10 filing fee. This they declare, would add , hundreds of thousands of dollars i to the anticipated $1,000,000 yield of the present Holbrook bill. An j amendment to the measure provid-1 mg foi the inclusion is expected; to be offered. The strongest opposition to the Iuvis county solon's measure has come from those against the pro-j posals to delete the present prop- ! erty tax offset provision. They de-clare de-clare doing away with the offsets1 would materially lessen the ability1 of I'tah industry to compete with outside manufacturers. Utah cigar j and smoking tobacco manufactur-i ers say they will he put out ot ; business by the proposed tax on 1 cigars, cheroots, smoking and ehewmg tdhacc ) and snutt. ; I'.arly evidence tends to the im-r im-r ssk n that tax increase bills arc to have speedier, it not more ta-vi.rao!t- consideration than those ; proposing tax reductions, although th only tax measure thus far 1 j asv. . l m the taxpayer's favor in that it extends the period for re- ch-mption of certain tax delinquent pn.j-rtK-s three months. Moves to speed up the Holbrook' from corporation franchise taxes; were defeated in the senate late ; last week, but everything points to the early enactment into law of tins and other tax increasing measures. Greater difficulty is anticipated an-ticipated in getting action on the . bill exempting homesteads up to $2,000 from taxation although it is. looked upon favorably by many legislators. i Much legislative proing and con-' rung Is expected too on the T. V 1 Jensen resolutions proposing submission sub-mission of constitutional amendments amend-ments to the voter's, which, if approved, ap-proved, would classify tangible property for assessment pur-poses and raise the aggregate of state-school state-school funds. The Xielsrn hy request bill banning advertising by dentists, is arousing considerable adverse comment irom folks who don't mind learning in advance of a tooth-filling or pulling ordeal the qualifications of the man who is to do the job The opponents of the measure point to the fact that the horse- breeder must freely advise pros- ! pec tive customers of the qualifica-1 flora of Gallant Knight or' General Jones as a producer of fine j stock. So why shouldn't a dentist' be permitted to tell the work' of his qualifications, his methods and what1 not" They can see no harm in it. nor in advising the public as to costs and the like. Many senators and representatives representa-tives last wee.- joined in an invitation invi-tation for their constituents the folks back home' to write them ad lib regarding their view on pending or proposed legislation. The invitation reflects a widespread wide-spread desire on the part of the lawmakers to obtain a close-up view of what the average man wants, how he wants it on the statute books, and how he feels gen- about legislative doings eral. VALLEE CASE SET NEW YORK. Feb. 4 dnv--A last-minute attempt by Supreme Court Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo , to reconcile Rudy Vallee and his ( estrange? wife, the former Fay ' Webb, or effect an amiacable out- 1 of-court settlement of her suit for ; increased alimony, failed today. The case will go to trial tomorrow tomor-row with sensational evidence promised in Mrs. Vallee's attempt to set aside a $100 a week separation separ-ation agreement as obtained by fraud. BY WILLIAMS BEGIN HERE TODAY A HOI. LISTER. nrrltT find 241. Hnd work In a library. Mir fnlU in loe lth TOW MICKI.E. I'oiniurrrinl a r t I t , ulthouKh Mnrned ag-ninaf him by SAKAH Iv KM', her roonimutr. I.nter she merti PETER KEX-IALI,, KEX-IALI,, wealthy and prominent, who l enuiiced to VAI.KHIA llEVNEH, kociety Kirl. Valeria pend much of her time with a tn.T crowd without I'eter knowing a). out It. Tony unk Ann to marry him and ahe agrcea. Although Tony ha promised to "nettle down" and KHve money ao they ran be married he doea not do thia. Snrnh Iteeoiuea enKaged to JOHN MAC-DONALD MAC-DONALD and dinplnya an ciit.iKc-ment ciit.iKc-ment ring. Tony promlxea Ann a riiiK lor a hriKtiiina cif. Sarah and Ann prepare a fea-tUe fea-tUe . hriHtmna V.t e dinner hut Tony f.-iil to appear. OW (.O OX WITH TIIF. STORY CHAPTER X JAC crossed to the telephone. ' I'll find out where Tony is." he said. "I wetit by for him but he was busy ami said he'd be here in plenty of time for dinner. When Tony's busy, the sky could fall." He gavo, the operator the number, num-ber, waited, but there was no answer. Mac said, uncomfortably, "Shall I dash out and look about a little?" "No." said Ann sharply. "Please. Pel rather you wouldn't." Mac returned to his looked sober, troubled. Ann said, with an brightness, "Let's dish hnir. He effort at up. Sarah We won't wait on Tony. He doesn't 1 deserve a hot dinner, being more than an hour late." They sat down at the table, keeping keep-ing up the pretense of payety. 1 Keeping up tbe pretense of believing believ-ing Tony would come strapglinp in at the end. All through the long meal they were pretending, Mac doing his best, his booming filling the unhappy lapses. Afterward they stacked Wishes and put them in hot Sarah and Ann would "do" bass the suds, them later. "Come along with us to a movie, Ann," Sarah suggested. "It will serve Tony right to find nobody home. Do you suppose he could be ill? Maybe you should phone, Ann." Presently they were gone, giving Ann the chance to crawl miserably to her room and let tears, held back so long, have their way to weep her heart out. She was still awake, hours later, when Sarah returned. Still awake when Christmas chimes began to ring, heraldine the advent of a glad day. And then at last Ann slept slept until the telephone aroused her. She heard Sarah's voice, calm and cool. "Sure, Ann's here. No. I won't. She isn't awake and she didn't Bleep any last night and " "I'm awake." Ann called. She was desperately relieved. Suppose something had happened to Tcny. Suppose he really was ill!" "Hello." "Ann. this is the dim-wit who loves you." "Oh!" Then he hadn't been ill or hurt. "I'm coming right over. We're having Christmas dinner together. At the swellest joiDt in town. Ann. can you ever forgive me?" T7ELL. thought Ann, it was best " to make the most of this fast-waning fast-waning holiday. "I'll get ready," she said dally. She went back to her room. Sarah Houdy, folks! If you are fond j of light fiction try reading the ' seed catalogs. ' The World's Greatest Optimist: The man who takes down the top i of his automobile in February. I SCOTC H COMEDIAN ENDS IT ALL Funerai services day for Angus Mc Kiltie, high-salaried high-salaried radio monologist w ho is reputed to have received $100 a muiute were held to- for his broad-ca-sts. Mr. Mc-Kiltie Mc-Kiltie committed suicide yesterday when he discovered thrifty soul that he was! that he his sleep. taiked in Photo by Boyd Davis Then there was the telephone j operator who kept plugging away ! until she got her man. i And it's pretty hard to bp tunny 1 every day unless you're a congressman con-gressman POET'S CORNER ! An old-fashioned beau i In an old-fashioned car, i With an old-fashioned girl ; Cannot get very far. j The Bureau of Fisheries plans to tag 30,000 fish in an effort to trac-e then migrations We believe tiie experiment Sarah said, fairly flung the morning newspaper at her. "Let Tony wait. Ann. and read those headlines. And look at the pictures! " Ann stared at the huge black type. "Society Group Principals in Near Tragedy." Pictures . . . Valeria Va-leria Bennett's eyes, staring innocently inno-cently out at her. "I'm glad that double-crossing Valeria Bennett's been found out," Sarali said. "If 1 don't miss my guess, she's lost more than her reputation." The story ran that a party had been in progress at Van Balen's apartment at an early hour of the morning when an inebriated and jealous husband Marvin Walters had joined the group unexpectedly, brandishing a pistol. Guests had wisely barricaded themselves in, but not before the invader had shot at Van Baleu, slightly wounding him. In the ex- 1 citement someone called the police. "Well." said Ann, "maybe It , won't make any difference to Peter Kendall about his fiancee being ' i there. Nothing seems to make any ; difference any more." Presently, she thought unhappily. Tony would be explaining. And not long after that he would be kissing . her and so the hurt unci disappointment disap-pointment of last night would be itucked away. Perhaps after awhile it would be forgotten. VN Christmas Eve. Peter had driven Valeria out to Kendall , wood tfl see a mammoth Christmas , tree which had been decorated for the children of the community. ! "If you don't mind. I'll wait for I you here." she said. "It's terribly icold and ihese thin shoes are hardly the thing for all that enow." "Back in a moment," Peter said Valeria watched, her lips curling a little, as his long strides carried him to the crowded area about the t "X Tfc would be more interesting if used on hitch-hikers. ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SEZ: "One of th" best vays to avoid gray hair is to leave th' car in th' garage." ga-rage." The best example of poetic justice jus-tice to date is that of the lady who sharpened a pencil with her husband's raror and then asked him to shave the back of her shingled neck. SUCCESS STORY He was fired with ambition when hired. He thought he was truly inspired, ut he went on a spreee. And the next morning, he. With all his ambition, was tir-ed. L'lke: My wife explored my pockets last night. Mike: What did she get? Luke: Same as any other explorer ex-plorer enough material for a lecture. lec-ture. HOMER BREW'S DIARY All the daye reposing in ted, with a greate cold, and Lord! it be mighty pleasant thus to lie, surrounded by pillows, smoking black cigarroes, reading a gootie i sea stories playing noble musick on the harmonica and eating licorice licor-ice jellybeans, and. In all truth, never a more jollie daye d'd spend in this lyfe. with naught to sKil my vast content, except when Dame Brew a pox on the prettie creature doth refuse to put a dash of parsnip wine in my mid-afternoon egg nog. Thru arrangements with the local weather bureau, two days of fair weather will be given to every new subscriber to Provocation Provoca-tion who ravs 50 years in advance "Let Tony voait, Ann, and read these tree. People crowded about him. j Shook his hand. As the minutes passed. Valeria's Irritation increased Sometimes Peter was impossible. i He came up Just then, two big red apples in his hand. "Have one?" "No, thanks," Valeria replied coldly. "Etored?" queried Peter quietly. Valeria's intuition came to her rescue. "Sorry. I was such a 1 wretch. But I have a headache. I've i had one all night." j "Why didn't you tell me?" He was all concern in an instant, i "We'll stop somewhere and get something for it." 1 "No. I have a tablet at home I that gives quick relief. And be-j be-j sides. Darling, I've just realized I haven't wrapped your present or anybody's and it's getting late." ! "Surely you won't bother with 'wrapping when you're feeling ill," Peter said. j "I'll be all right after I take the , tablet." She seemed quite cheerful now. j Valeria was saying, "We'll go j riding in the park tomorrow, Peter, i Remember last Christmas how ; pretty it looked? The snow was ; deeper than this, wasn't it? And ; the trees were marvelous. Come early about nine will be all right, j We'll,, go to the park. It will be i white and beautiful. a ; T3ETER was having breakfast alone when Don came into the dining room next morning. ; "Well," Peter asked, "is the i world coming to an end? Think j of meeting you before noon." ! Don answered the affectionate j raillery with a low growl. "Beastly head. I rang for the papers." He opened a folded newspaper. A moment later he glanced up. "You haven't seen this yet, Petei ?" "No. Anything starUine?" I WHOowFIRSTp IN AMERICA f Dv Trtnh Nathan Kane I Author of "Famous First Facta" Who received the first patent fur a Dlant? "When were penny postcards first issued? Who built the first steam warship? Answers in next issue. Chicago KI OJJQ MAO PlOST COURSE OP FIRST TO WAVE AMBULANCE SERVICE. l&69. OP ITS KJfsO ISSUED I739. Anei to Previous Questions pHARLES B. MACDONALD, of ' Wheaton, 111., designed and built the course of the Chicago r.clf Club. Dr. Edward 13. Daltoa had tw horse-drawn ambulances outfitted for service. Reneath the driver's seat was a first aid box. Only three numbers of,the Children's Chil-dren's .M.ig;i7ihe were published. Ohio is collecting a sales tax to prove to the rest, of the country that people are buying. HTiARV RAvmonD .354 Kit A SERVICE INC. headlines !" p W-ifH Don said. "Well, you'll have tc see it! It's that Valeria" Peter reached for the newspaper'. After a while, reading mechanically, mechani-cally, scarcely taking in the details of what he read, he heard Don's voice. "I think you're lucky to find oat the truth about that girl. Now that you know, I'll tell you something eise. This isn't the first time she's been at Van Balen's. She was there one night vhen I dropped in. I saw her bsg on the fable the oat you brought her from Paris. Peter said, "Never mind. Don," and left the room. He drove straight t Valeria's apartment. A sober-eyed maid opened the door. Her voice was agitated. "Miss Valeria's not uc yet, sir." "I'll wait." Peter's tone was prim. The maid shut the door quickly behind her. The house vas wrapped in stillness. still-ness. Last Christmas morning, Peter remembered, he had come over and found it tilled with people. He had just returned from abroad and his gift the gold party bag with the m jeweled monogram had beer- among them. After the others had gone he and Valeria had driven to the park. The trees and shrubs were fantastic fan-tastic shapes, covered with snow. Last night he had thought it sweet . of Valeria to remember. The door opened and she en-, en-, tered the room. Valeria's faceuwaa 1 white, her eyes frightened. Sh came to him. raising her lips to ; his. But Peter did not kiss her. H ' grasped her wrists, held her away from him and gazed coldly down at . her. Vr.Ieria whispered. "Surely yon don't believe those dreadful things in the newspaper! If you'll only , not get excited. Peter dear, I cao explain " (To Be Continued) |