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Show PAGE FOUR PROVO (UTAH) EVENING HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 19 3 5 Liberty thro all tk lead" Liberty Bell The Herald Every Af ternooa except Satul7 ad Sanday Moralaa; published by the Herald Corporation, 50 South First West street, Provo, Utah. Kntered as second-class matter at the postofflce In Provo, Utah, under the act of March S. 1879. Gilman, Nicoll & Ruthman. National Advertising representatives. New York, San Francisco, Detroit Boston, L.os Angreles, Seattle, Chicago. Member United Press. N. E3. A. Service, Western Features and the Scripos LeagTie of Newspapers. Subscription tertfte bV carrier In Utah county 50 cents the month, $2.7tfor six months, in advance; J5 00 the year In advance; by mail in Utah county, in advance, 54.60; outside Utah county, $5.00. "Those who are governed least are governed best.' The power to tax Is the power to destroy." Thomas Jefferson. Potato Shows Folly of Curbing Plenty The potato which the last congress thoughtfully handed to Secretary of Agricaulture Henry Wallace turns out to have been a hot one; and the frantic juggling of it which has been going on in Washington ever since is a symbol of the difficulties dif-ficulties which beset a government that has to wrestle with abundance under rules laid down for handling scarcity. That is to say that our entire farm problem the whole business of trying to get a decent cash income for the men who raise our food is, like all our other economic problems today, a thing of contradictions. The farmer needs more money. The obvious way for a producer of any given commodity to increase his income is to bring about a rise in prices or at least to prevent a decline de-cline by limiting production. The AAA seeks to apply this time-stained practice to agriculture. This plan was applied successively to wheat, cotton, corn, and hogs, and in the main it worked well enough. But last summer congress decided to extend it to the humble potato; and the agriculture department is obviously reluctant to do any such thing, which is not exactly surprising. We have today (are you tired of hearing about it?) some millions of people on relief. Money to buy food for these people peo-ple is none too abundant at best. By progressively cutting down on our production of foodstuffs, we simply make the task of keeping them decently fed that much more difficult. There is, in other words, something monstrous about the idea of reducing the production of food at a time when a large proportion of our population has a hard time getting enough to eat. Applying this program to the potato a staple of diet for the poor for many generations just makes the monstrosity more evident. And that brings us to our underlying trouble. Our interests in-terests as consumers conflict with our interests as producers. When we cut production and raise prices, the producer half of us is highly pleased and the consumer half moans in anguish. In, the face of that fact, we are able nowadays to produce everything we need in great abundance. From potatoes to automobiles, from bacon to steel rails, we can glut the market mark-et any time we take off the brakes. So far our only approach to this development has been in the traditional way; the way, that is, by which the producer pro-ducer is protected ahead of the consumer. We automatically think of diminished production and higher prices as our remedy. The case of the potato might help us to see that a direct reversal of that policy an attempt to take advantage of abuiidAireer rather thair-to curb-it is well-worth a little earnest contemplation. "At Your Own Risk" -Perhaps the most heartening thing about President Roosevelt's neutrality proclamation is the fact that it lays down a new policy for American citizens in time of foreign war namely, the fact that any citizen who sticks his head into a mess overseas does so strictly on his own hook. "Any of our people who voluntarily engage in transactions transac-tions of any character with either of the beligerents do so at their own risk," says the president. Here is a sound principle that ought to be made part of our permanent policy. Think what trouble it would have saved us in the stormy years following 1917 ! Strictly adhered ad-hered to, it would have enabled us to stay out of that war. When foreign nations are at war, the place for Americans Ameri-cans is at home. The man who travels in the war zone, lends money to the fighters, or sells goods to them, has only himself him-self to blame if he gets into a jam. s " U.S. Diplomat OUT OUR WAY BY WILLIAMS CM. ICk. HERES Y DC CQXCXC AM' 7U' TRAIL RkSMT ( 3IT OS MULE A ) I HERE f WWERWUM D0Mk DE OMCM aoiw'? v is looseX 2lJK WAT bK I IQHT . Si I - U!7fi chin atari I MerryGo-Round (Continued from Page One) : j SIDE GLANCES - By George Dark n i3s y NtA gcmnce. wc t. m. reg. u. . pat. owi Howdy, folks! With the gridiron grid-iron experts tipping off daily the winning plays- in football, how do any teams lose? V Joe Bungstarter, who is getting lazier every day, says he prefers football to baseball because at a football game you don't have tc stand up and stretch at the sev enth inning. f Foreward to 'We Drivers' ECONOMY NOTE Ezra Pinch penny, pen-ny, Jr., son of Ezra Pinchpenny the stingiest man in town, is a chip off the old block When young Ezra wins a friend's last dime In it poker game he doesn't give him carfare home he lends him a road map. 3 f fi Recent reports from Provo authorities au-thorities show that 2 per cent of the automobile accidents are due to the drivers hugging too close to the curve. f f The favorite song of the office cigaret smoker is "Let the Rest of the World Go Buy." 2ft 2ft 2f. 2ft sjc . , -jj INTERESTING FACTS The landlord has an easier , job raising the rent than the , , tenant has. NolMMly knows so well as we drivers, how dependent a machine can be upon the man who runs if. certainly everything has been done that could be done to make motor cars operate as they should regard less of the driver's skill. And still, cars can't do a thing except under human direction. Even the self-starter, for example, deserves its name only in part. There must still be a fooi ;o press the pedal or a finger to touch the button or turn a key. Power and speed in abundance are waiting wait-ing in modern engines . . . iut they await the command of a driver. Steering is a direct and simple thing, but it still depends on a pair of hands on the wheel. And so. in every true sense, the automobile that comes to us from the factory is an unfinished mechanism. It still lacks the most important part . . . the driver. Manufacturers may build into their cars any number of provisions pro-visions for economical operation, comfort, ease of control, fine performance, per-formance, safety, dependability, and long life; yet all are subject in the long run to the intelligent use and maintenance of drivers and owners. We Drivers A Series of Brief Discussions on Driving, Dedicated Dedi-cated to the Safety, Comfort and Pleasure of the Motoring Public. Prepared bf General Motors ' N HORIZONTAL 1, American envoy. 10 Foretoken. 11 To hurry onward. 12 Knapsack. 13 Upon. 14 Roof point covering. 15 And. 16 Writing fluid. 18 Year 19 The reason. 20 Bone. 22 Gaiters. 24 Knock. 27 Bellows. 29 English coin. 80 He is U. 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(pl ).17 To discuss. 19 Matgrass. 21 To depart b boat. 23 Ship's deck. 24 Genus of frog 25 Disciples. 26 Butter lump 28 To harvest. 30 Sharp pull. 31 To require. 33 lie was ambassador to . 34 Damp. 35 To leak. 37 Sundry 39 Serai. 40 Grass blade. 42 Molten rock. 44 Membranous bags. 46 North Americj 47 Being. 48 Meadow. 50 Company. 52 South Americi 53 Road. . , " " w " lf-V Pss p jllL- utt a I M tviir fs TO n 5 o ti 5S 555 ss$ TJ cv 47 icjT? I I I I I 1 I I I FT f 3 Cft wfc 2f An item in The Herald declares a movie actress in Hollywood is able to speak seven languages. Maybe it just sounds that way. 3fn 2ft 2ft Politics make strange bed fellows, fel-lows, but they soon get accustomed accus-tomed to the same bunk. 2f 2ft 2ft 2ft ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SEZ: "Marraige is a fifty-fifty proposition proposi-tion a woman gets a ring on her finger and a man gets one in his nose." 2ft 2ft 2ft 2ft The medevial knight, who could put on his armor without any help now has a descendant who knows how to get into his dress shirt. 2ft 2ft 2ft 2f And probabably the champion of all the endurance champions is mother. I "Make a sentence using the word INDEMNIFY." I "I don't know, indemnify j care." ' 2ft 2f 2ft 2ft Joe Bungstarter graduated from the School of Hard Knocks, and has been attending all the reunions ever since. 2f, 2f, 2f, 2f, "Who was this fellow, Pan?" "Why, he was half man and half goat." "Ah, a husband?" 2f 2ft 2ft 2ft No Hunting Allowed. WHIM f Wi WANT TO GO I THIS MOMENTUM WANTS I US TO CO I THIS Schilling pepper Enjoy the luxury of fine pepper. No. 1 CURVES AND TURNS o matter how expert we may be as drivers, we are all apt to fall into habits of driving that don't quite measure up to what we really know is right. For instance, we all know that we ought to be careful about passing cars, especially when another car is approaching from the opposite direction. And yet there possibly isn t one of us who hasn't, at one time or another, moved over in the road to pass a car, and then wondered if we would get around in time. Now here's an interesting thing about that. When we try to pass a car that's going forty miles an hour, it's just th same as if we tried to pass a standing string of cars 126 feet long. In other words, it's like passing eight cars parked bumper-to-bumper in the road. If we try to pass one going sixty, it's like trying to pass a line of more than sixteen cars standing in the road, and sixteen cars in a row will reach half a block. This is probably a new idea to most of us. If we kept it in mind, we would never pass a car unless we were sure that there were no oncoming cars for a good long distance ahead. But turning aside t pass is not the particular kind of turning that we are interested in discussing here. What we are .now concerned with is taking curves and corners. From time to time in these discussions we will find that the same old laws of Nature will be involved. Foremost Fore-most among them will be the laws of momentum, and momentum plays the major part in going around curves. Because momentum not only wants to keep us going, but going in the same direction. When it is trying to make us go straight instead of curving our course, it operates under an assumed name, if you please. For then we call it "centrifugal force." Now of course we all know what centrifugal force is. We feel it when we go around curves. Highways and railroads are banked at curves to offset centrifugal centrifu-gal force. Aviators bank their planes at turns by tip ping them with the controls. But even though we all know about centrifugal force, few of us realize how powerful it is, and how much greater it gets the faster we go. A 3000-pound car making a turn of 500-foot radius, has to overcome a centrifugal force of only about 156 pounds at 20 miles an hour. But at 30 miles an hour, that force has grown to 360 pounds, and at 60 it is nine times as great as at 20 . . . over fourteen hundred pounds trying its best to push us off the road! The only thing that keeps us on the road in the first place is the friction between our tires and the road. The minute the centrifugal force gets stronger than the force of that friction, off the road we go. The trouble is that we often don't realize how fast we're going. On road trips, for instance, after we have driven at a certain speed for a long time, it seems a small matter to increase our speed a few miles an hour. Then after a while we may do the same thing again. In other words, we keep putting forward our basis of comparison till by-and-by we have lost our usual sense of how fast we are going. Then, the first thing we know, we are face-to-face with a turn or even half way around it and we feel Old Man Centrifugal Force trying to push us off the road. So what do we do? We clamp down the brakes. It's the only thing we can do when we find we're going too fast. But just the same, approaching that corner too fast has kept us from taking it as we should have liked to. For if conditions permit, it is often desirable to increase speed as we go around a curve. As long as our rear wheels are not being retarded, but are actually pushing us around the curve, our steering is effective and our car is under control. The long and short of it is that we can't take liberties with the laws of momentum and centrifugal force. Man's speed laws may not always be observed, but Nature's speed laws always are! WAV I face were the stiffening of the Britisrh and the high-handed militancy mili-tancy of Mussolini. Of the two, the attitude of. the British probably prob-ably counted most. Now a- new behind-the-scenes factor has just been reported in confidential- cables received here. In the middle of last summer the British military intelligence made some startling discoveries in Egypt. There, a group of over-enthusiastic Fascists had hatched a plan to alienate the Egyptian government govern-ment from the British. They had actually won over two or threa members of the Egyptian cabinet. A friendly Egypt is considered essential to the safety of Suez and the British "life-line" to the Orient. The discovery was followed almost al-most immediately by the concentration concen-tration of the British fleet in the Mediterranean. i NOT WANTED Secretary to Supreme Court Justice Cordozo is William Stroock, son of the chairman of the New York Bar association's character committee; also an honor hon-or graduate of Harvard and of Yale law school. At the close of the court's term last spring, Cardozo asked his young aide to continue another year. Stroock agreed, and in preparation for the winter, leased a modest suburb home. Just before the court reconvened recon-vened last week Stroock and his wife prepared to move in. But the real estate agency informed him that the house, regardless of the lease, was not available. "We are terribly sorry, Mr. Stroock." the agent explained. "But in this development, all building contracts contain an anti-Semite anti-Semite clause. At the time the house was leased to you we did not know you were er wen, er Jewish." "The question of my racial antecedents an-tecedents was not raised," said Stroock. 'No. That's right, they were not "Well, she has no business throwing a party if she doesn't know any more men tnan mat. Stroock reported the matter to personally. He still has a bullet in Justice Cardozo, "In my opinion a contract with a clause of that nature is not valid," said the justice. "If you were not my secretary I would urge you to fight it." However, Stroock and his wife found other living quarters. - MERRY-GO-ROUND Grand-uncle of Justice Cardozo was the Jewish rabbi who officiated offici-ated at the inaugural ceremony of George Washington . . . Brazilian Brazil-ian Ambassador Aranha has par- But in view of this clause 1 ticipated in live revolutions in we can't let you have the house.' eight years, most of which he led fe) his shoulder. . . . The Emperor of Ethiopia once received a coronation coron-ation present of 500 bottles of Chi-anti Chi-anti wine from King Victor Emanuel Eman-uel of Italy. The United States sent a gold-framed photograph of I Herbert Hoover. . . . Roosevelt s ' inner circle intimates that he will make full use of his power under the new banking act to reorganize the federal reserve board. It looks as if Governor Marriner Eccles and M. S. Szymczak, jung Chicago business, will be the only ones to stay. (Copyright 1935, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 9 . . Installation Of Officers Held By Springville Post SPRINGVTLLE Officers of the American Legion for the coming year were installed at a special meeting of the Legion, as follows, F. C. Packard, commander; George Nelson, first vice-commander; LaVar Anderson, second vice-commander; vice-commander; Harold Christensen, adjutant; John Miller, historian; Harlan Boyer, chaplain; A. E. Wignall, sergeant-at-arms; William Wil-liam G. Phillips is the retiring commander. com-mander. He was recently elected vice-commander of the district and In this capacity he officiated at the Springville installation. Clyde Tervort of Payson, district commander, spoke briefly at the meeting, emphasizing the importance import-ance of a rifle club in the Legion. The , Legion meetings hereafter will be held the first and third Wednesday of each 'month, it was 'announced. sUN-TAN BY NARD JONES C 1935 NEA Srvic, Inc. UTTERE pred Marsh. CHAPTER XXVIII comes Montez," whls- 'Like to meet herr Jo nodded, watching the actress. She was astonished to note that the storied and glamorous Lollta Montez Mon-tez was hardly older than herself. She had the faultless skin of youth smooth and soft even beneath be-neath her thick make-up, and her mouth was as Irresolute as a child's. It was only her eyes which betrayed that Lollta Montez was older either in experience or years. But which of the two. it was, Jo eouldnt for the life of her discern. As the actress caught sight of Marsh she smiled faintly and nodded her small dark head. "Miss Montez . . . this is Miss Darien." "How do you do?" said Lollta Montez pleasantly. "I should have met you before. I'm ashamed of myself, really. But," she shrugged helplessly, "I was pretty well worn out and I thought I should rest before be-fore this terrible Drann got hold of me again." Montez was so slight, so young (except for those disturbing eyes ) that Jo sympathized with her. almost al-most pitied her. She had heard that movie actresses work hard, that, considering their "life on the screen, their salaries are not as fabulous as they seem. And now, looking at Lollta Montez, she understood un-derstood this for the first time. "This waiting must be worst of all Jo ventured. "You're right. I could wring Pragonet'a neck." Marsh laughed. "So that't what they're waiting for?" "That's what we always wait for." said Montez shortly. "When Pragonet'a here, then Barley is drunk. And when Barley Is sober, Prago net's gone. "Has anybody looked for Pete?" THE actress nodded. "Yes . . . but be wont come until he's ready. Then, in answer to Jo's incredulous expression, she added. "He can get away with it. His contract's almost up. and the other studios are clamoring for him. I wish, they'd, get him," "W treat coins to stay out here iId the sun all afternoon waiting tor Pete Fragonet, Marsh promised "He may be able to pull that prima donna stuff on you people, out ne'd better not try It on me. 1 used to go fishing with him before be ever saw a movie camera If he's at the Inn I'll smoke dim out!" "I wish you would." said Montez "Every minute we sit around here ts going to make Drann meaner, and he's hard enough to please as It ls. When Marsh had hurried toward the Inn in search of Fragonet, the star's tone grew more oitter. "All Fragonet thinks about is Fragonet It's a shame that one man can get away with so much but when mil lions of women yell for bis picture any studio will let blm run up the expenses and wear out the others in the company." Lollta 's words chilled Jo somehow. some-how. "I 1 can't imagine bin doing do-ing It on purpose." she said slowly. "Oh. he doesn't mean to do tt, perhaps. He Just doesD't think. It never occurs . to him that there" anyone else In the world but Fragonet.' Frago-net.' The actress dropped ner halt smoked cigaret. nervously fished Id her Jacket pocket for another. "Two or three dames came In this morning morn-ing to play bit parts. One of them Is probably a blond which would explain where Fragonet Is." "Is he . . . that bad?" Montez nodded. "It's funny. Tou'd think a man with so many women after him wouM get sick of women. But not he. They say now he's divorcing his wife and wants to marry some girl up in this neck of the woods. Well, God help her!" Jo laughed shakily. "Yon don't care much for Pete Fragonet, do you?" "Care for him?" Lolita's eyes widened In astonishment. "I've no particular like or dislike for him. if that's what you mean." "But you sound pretty . . . bitter," bit-ter," Jo ventured, keeping her eyes on the actress. "I don't mean to sound bitter. 1 was Just describing Fragonet like I'd describe a car. If It bad two flat tires I'd say It had two flat tires. Do you see what 1 mean?" "I . . . guess so," said Jo uncertainly. un-certainly. "Anyhow," went on the other. "1 wont have to put up with this sort of thing forever. Maybe Fragonet will leave Atlas or maybe I will." "Don't you like pictures?' Jo asked. TyjTONTEZ smiled, "it's nice work A if you can get it. But here's one who's going to save her money and get out before she's 25. When I'm 25 I'm going to take my little girl and go somewhere where I'll never even see a picture, much less make one." t"You have a little girl?" The actress nodded, smiling quizzically. quiz-zically. "She's four and cute She's never been In the publicity, so please dont say anything. I'm talking too damned much today." Jo's heart went oat Instantly to this slight, harassed young girl who was behind all her glamour and her publicized beauty fighting only for the security of her child. "You can talk all you want to me." Jo told her earnestly. Montez shook her head. "I've said enough for one day. . . . And anyhow, here comes the star at last." Jo turned to see Fragonet and Marsh walking down the slope from tne inn. KTagonet was sminng, talking swiftly to Marsh, and n showed no sign ot regret at this tardiness. But when ne waa in sight of Silas Drann be did grin dlsarmlngly, very like a small boy who has been caught in the jam closet. "1 took a nap after lunch." be told Drann. "Suppose I'd be sleeping sleep-ing yet if Doug hadn't pounded on the door.". Drann said nothing, but his face worked furiously. Finally. In quiet but cutting words he addressed the young man in the chair next to his. ""Please see that someone pvuodf on Mr. Fragonet's door SO minutes before we do aay shooting. That's just In case he's asleep." Then ne turned to Fragonet "We want to take the scene where yon and Lollta meet (or the first tlm in front of your cabin. Got yout linear' Fragonet nodded. "piOOD!" Drann turned to Lolita who had left Jo and sauntered saun-tered toward the cameras. "Yos know what this Is all about. Lolita?" Lo-lita?" "Yes. Mr. Drann." "You've been lost for a couple ol hours. Tou can't have your hair all arranged like that and youi Jacket ought to be torn." DranB stood up and called tor someone named Jasper. "Jasper, tear Lolita's Lo-lita's jacket on the arm there. Just wait! Don't tear it yet. Have we got another one like it? Did the wardrobe man bring another one like it?" "I have another one." mentioned Lolita casually. "Good girl! All right, then. J&s per, tear it." Jasper tore It, while Lollta stood stolidly. Then Lolita's maid, blacl as a night without a moon, dlsar ranged her hair. "That's better." Drann opined "You're breathless, Lollta, whes you knock at Fragonet's door here You've seen this cabin from a distance dis-tance and you've run all the waj ... I want to get that first, and then we can cut," "Want me to go Inside?" asked Fragonet. Drann shook bis head. "Not yet This may take a while. Ready, Lollta?" Lollta was ready, and Jo watched her run to the cabin door and pound upon it. She did It not once, but no less than five times and always Drann bad something tc suggest, something to omit or add. When the scene was finally shot, when Drann bad finally signaled for the silence which Is the car dinal necessity of pictures in sound. Lolita Montez was genuinely genu-inely breathless. "I always thought It would be fun to be In pictures," said a voice at Jo's shoulder. "But It looks like a lot of routine work to me." Jo turned to look Into the grinning grin-ning face ot Tubby. "Are they going , to have a love scene today?" Tubby asked. "I don't know. Tubby." , "I hope so. dont you? Jo's answer was strained. "I I think it's all Interesting." Tubby wondered, out she held her curiosity lb check- "1 xas lust talking to one ot the carpenten and be told me they were going tc do the big rescue scene tomorrow morning. Well see Fragonet paE Lollta out of the take!" (To -Be Continued) . |