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Show - S. . . :rf . PAGET TWO PRO VO (UTAH) EVENING HERALD, FRIDAY, JAN-UAB SECTION TWO - - "T"i,twm IJherty The Herald ".-' -! Brer? Aflrrtsaa except Saturday an Sunday Bforalaa; Published by the Herald Corporation. 60 South First West street, Provo. Utah. ' Entered as second-class matter at the postofflc In Provo, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. Oilman, Nlcoll & Ruthraan, National Advertising representatives, New York, San Francisco, Detroit. Boston, Ios Angeles, Seattle, Chicago. Member United Press, N. E. A. Service, Western Features and the Scripps League of Newspapers. Subscription terms by carrier in Utah county 50 cents the month. 92.76 for six months, in advance; $5.00 the year in advance; by nfail in Utah county, in advance, 14.60; outside Utah county, $5.00. Those who are governed least are governed best. "The power to tax is the power to destroy." Thomas Jefferson. Hospitals "Hold the Bag" One of the things that give hospital superintendents gray hairs is, as you might expect, the automobile traffic cLCiclent . David H. M. Pyle, president of the United Hospital Fund of New York, discloses that the average victim of an auto accident runs up a bill of $33 when taken to a hospital for treatment ; -and an increasing percentage of these bills never get paid. The hospital can't help itself. The traffic victim is an emergency case; treatment can't be refused while his financial finan-cial standing is examined. !' And, too often, when he recovers and gets the bill, he reveals that he can't pay it, but that he'll settle as soon as he collects damages from the driver of the other car. And that may be the last the hospital ever sees of him. This means an added burden for the hospitals. If we don't insist on financial responsibility on the part of motorists, motor-ists, we must at least contribute more generously to hospital funds, so that the institutions can continue to care for the .victims of our mad traffic situation. Little Drops of Water It has been raining and snowing in the west recently, and the scores of reservoirs that hold water for power and Irrigation are filling up again. There was quite a water shortage last fall, and many of the reservoirs went abnormally abnormal-ly low. In some parts, there were six inches of rain less than nortrtal, for the year. fSome scientists say that 1935 was the low year of the drptfth cycle; others assert it won't come until 1939. Nobody No-body really knows. But a REAL drouth would mean a loss of millions of dollars to western stales. Through Utah, Idaho and Colorado, lakes are lower than they have been for many years. With a generous snowfall this winter, they will fill up again. But, if they don't, there's plenty of underground water, say the agricultural experts. It'll have to be found through wells and pumped and that's costly. i Just how much the west depends on water it probably never will realize, unless there is an actual shortage. More than, any other part of the world, perhaps, we have to have watr to conduct agriculture and manufacturing, through water power. Until we DO know more about wet and dry cycles, we should do all we can to conserve what water we have. Conservation Con-servation may cost money, but it is infinitely cheaper than the results of a shortage. That Election-Year Myth "Yes, sir," said the man at the cigar counter, tearing off the comer of a $2 bill to break the jinx, "it's going to be tough. Always is, election year. Unsettles business. Bad time election year." The bad luck of the $2 bill and the bad times of election year are twin superstitions that hang on and on,, despite facts. Anyone who is afraid to carry $2 bills around, may deposit them with us any time. And anyone who believes the election year myth can do his mourning somewhere else. As a matter of statistical fact, election years are generally normal. The exceptions are better than normal. No one ever has heard of anyone who stopped eating because politicians did more talking than usual no mean feat, that. No one delays buying a car or a radio or a new home just because we go through a government-changing spasm every four years. Election years are supposed to be bad because business is "uncertain" what the result is going to be. Well, so is everybody else, but that doesn't stop anyone from living or eating or expanding his own affairs. And just when, in all history, has the future been certain? Wc all go along on the assumption that things, comparatively, com-paratively, will remain unchanged in vital, respects ; or that, i changes come gradually ad justment to them will be simple. And that, nine times out of ten, is what actually happens. Just how much harm the election year myth does we don't know. Not much, probably. But ANY harm is too much, these days. GUT OUli WAY BY wiixilMs (ffftlill! LISTEN, WORRY WART HI iP " L " 11 NATURE INTENDED VmW?? , IS I YOU TO SMOKE, SHE'D ) WWC W I I WAVE PUT A LITTLE Vs? I 1 1 AY 'll I SMOKESTACK CONMN - I V I urA TW TOO ER mil W X SACK OF NOUR" ., I ww? www v j r ,i lib sa mm& . . m mmm i vtrtA or t KlA-n V 9 L-S W "W C (5 MAKES MISTAKES SUE MUST, ER YOU'D HAVE A NOSE LIKE A ELEFUMT CLTZ YOUSE AtLUS got rr ihtro SUMPW 9 t. M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. 1936 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. THE PROBER i-n n AjjJ$ Em era arr welcome for tbe Forum and Agiii Em column. Tttay rfhould bear tbe writer's mime and address; avoid per-Bomtfraea? per-Bomtfraea? be as brief as poe-' poe-' slliXeV 1 U'- r.' Site ; Howdy, folks! Why not become be-come a masseur? They live off the fat of the land. )fr ft 3ft if About the only way to get China on the radio is to stack the supper sup-per dishes on top of it. HOME HINTS For that "different" effect in the living room, try turning the carpets over and nailing the chairs to the ceiling. For itching back: Tack the nutmeg nut-meg grater to the wall at a convenient con-venient height. Rub. A gallon of gasoline poured into a balky stove usually will start a good blaze, eight fire companies and a funeral procession. Leaving up the picture of Aunt Emmy while the room is kalso-mined kalso-mined is a good idea if you don't care much for Aunt Emmy. An easy way to press clothes is to lay them on the floor, uncouple un-couple the hot water tank and roll it over them, and then replace the tank. if ift ft ifi Joe Bungstarter got so absent-minded absent-minded today he filled the bathtub with beer and drank a glass of water. He reported that bathing in the beer wasn't so bad, but )ft ift if Jft Addled axiom: All work and no play makes jack but dulls joy. T ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE " ' SAYS: Washington Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) face by persuading his people that they are being attacked by Europe, Eur-ope, and become the mad dog of the Mediterranean, This would precipitate pre-cipitate general war. NEW AAA I SIDE GLANCES By George Clark A wife is a person who, if her husband sends her flowers, wonders won-ders what he's been up to, and if he doesn't weeps that he doesn't love her any more. 2. if, if. if. Li'l Gee Gee thought her new boy friend was lying when he told her he had a pressing engagement last night, but she found out later he was a pants-creamer. 2ft $f if. Cong "ressmen are complaimii about the vost of living in Washington. Wash-ington. The boys must be getting ready to raise their salaries again. 2f. if if 2f One way to get taxes down would be to give congressmen a commission com-mission on every billion they cut off the budget. Now that the plan of revamping the AAA is completed, Henry Wallace is almost of the opinion that the overhauling may have done some good after all. Reason is that when Wallace first became Secretary of Agriculture, Agri-culture, one thing he wanted to accomplish was an all-embracing system of soil conservation, whereby where-by the government could help rebuild the land on every man's farm. However, even in the days of the Brain Trust, this was considered too idealistic and visionary. It was marked down as something to aim at within the next few years. But now, under the revamped AAA, this goal virtually has been attained. Its provision whereby a farmer sets aside a certain acreage acre-age each year also gives the government gov-ernment the right to tell him how it shall be planted in legumes, grass, etc., according to chemical analysis of the soil. This is virtually what Wallace originally wanted. i PRAYERFUL ATTITUDE Senate Democratic Floor Leader Joe Robinson was holding a press conference in his office and during dur-ing the course of the discussion rested his hands before his face. He might have been in an attitude atti-tude of prayer. As he did so a photographer clicked his camera. Joe bolted upright, snapped: "Here, you! Destroy that plate. I don't want my picture appearing in the papers of the country in a prayerful attitude." I www f Gti an mA to, mc r. m. nta. u . rut. T,. "-f i HI LOVE LYRIC - A guy I like Is Mister Boots, He never warbles "Okay, Toots!" if if if if" How to be popular: Get your arms full of bundles, climb on the 5 o'clock car at Pike and Second, hunt through your puse for five minutes and then try to make the motorman take a tax token for his fare. MERRY-GO-ROUND When Wallace summoned farm loaders to Washington to formulate formu-late v. a new AAA, cotton sharecroppers share-croppers sked to be represented through their Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Wallaee declined . ... As a WPA project, white collar relief workers are plodding from one movie house to another through the country taking a cen sus of the film business . . . The Senate's baby, Elmer A. Benson of Minnesota, has struck up a friendship friend-ship with the senate's other baby, Rush Dew Holt of West Virginia . . . . When "Puddler Jim" Davis of Pennsylvania delivered a raining rain-ing discourse in the Senate recently, re-cently, his only listener wascolleague wascol-league Joe Guffey of Pennsylvania . . . . The bonus is a bewhiskered issue to bewhiskered Congressman Tinkham of Massachusetts. Sixteen Six-teen times it has been presented during his term of office. Sixteen times he has voted "No" . . . . Abolition of New Deal emergency agencies would not lighten the burden of McCarl's general accounting ac-counting office, which is three to five years behind in its general routine. This in spite of taking on 1700 temporary employes to help in emergency accounting . . . . Probing for valuable papers to be stored in the new Archives Building, Build-ing, examiners have found War Trade Board records stored in the White House garage . . The 1935 bill for Congressional printing print-ing and binding was more than $2,500,000. Biggest item of the bill is the Capitol's daily, The Congressional Record. Squabble Deplored Edtor Herald-In Herald-In a recent newspaper we read of .two- lawyers who fought a verbal battle climaxed . with murder. mur-der. Isn't it possible to settle a misunderstanding in a more) agreeable manner than to resort to, the. press? Are some people not prone to take advantage, of 'freedom of speech, and the press" ? It is anything but up lifting. After all, the post office site doea concern Utah county as well as Provo City. We are all equally interested. We haven't finer men than our Utah county commissioners. Likewise our city commissioners are among the elite. The citizens of Provo have had no opportunity to voice their opinion on the site of the pro posed iederal building, vvny flasn t a mass meeting been called, peti tions circulated, or some effort made to obtain an expression from the tax-payer? The City and county building sets against the street on the South, and has a full half block to extend Eastward when neces sity requires. In behalf of the city and county, I implore you men to forget differences, get together and let's not ruin the scenic beauty of our magnificent city and courity building by placing it in the rear of another huge structure, struc-ture, which will shut off the view from both North and West, placing plac-ing our beautiful building in the shadow of the federal building. Let's get rid of the old "eye sore" i on the corner. I was born and raised out in the county and educated in Pro vo. Thus my heart and interests are equally divided. I have felt grieved since reading Mr. Lar- sen's letter in the paper. I am sure he did not take time to read it over, or he would not have sent it in. God bless the peace maker. The site of the proposed build ing should not be a subject to a 1" r w h n i . i n . i i . 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Daily average sales of general merchandise in small towns and rural areas in 1935 were higher in dollar volume than for any year since 1929, the commerce department depart-ment said today. Last year's sales were 19 per cent over 1934 and 44 per cent over 1933. Bright Moments IN GREAT LIVES General U. S. Grant had just asked of President Lincoln additional addi-tional federal troops. He explained ex-plained as his reason that it was necessary to have additional armed arm-ed forces to guard and hold terri-toryl terri-toryl captured in the south. These forces, the general explained, could perform this service just as well by advancing as by remaining still and by advancing would force the enemy to keep detachments to hold them in check, or else lay their territory open to invasion. "Oh, yes! I see that," said Lincoln. Lin-coln. "As we say out west, if a man can't skin a calf, he must hold a leg while somebody else does." Only within the last 50 years has poultry been bred for egg production. pro-duction. Prior to that time it was bred only for fighting purposes. ERSKINE JOHNSON-GEORGE SCARBO 5S .SSSS VCvW N -VW VCSOi by YE DIARY 1 1 :;: Lay long abed, playing sweetly on my harmonica, but my wyffe cry up from helowstairs: "Get off that cat's tail, thou lout!" And so up and in high dudgeon that my musique be not appreciated. And so to worke. if, if. if, if. Fourth floor: Notions, canned goods and waffle-irons. , ;i rz linn mtr v v. z - Thi3,it.thfi.onlv.entrance V SG4ENCE Prof. H. H. Thomas, of Cambridge, Cam-bridge, England, has raised the argument that all. flowers are not evolved from a single ancestral type. Early fossil flowers kept the sexes well apart. However, many of the better known plants .today contain both the male and female elements, and only one plant is necessary to produce seed. However, How-ever, flowers5 with cross fertilization fertiliza-tion (the mate and female plant being on seperate. stalks independent independ-ent of each other) produce the sturdiest jlan& 1 All r TUDJED VOICE AND APPBACSD ON THE CONCERT STAGS AT v "THtRTEEN Hr CJflSTANOTH&C HEW YOftK TYPkT SHS TOOKACrtRE AND RECEIVED ASTTAG-E The Golden Feather A vSTkiD ALLWVM JmSPEBT 2k INCHED Blond hair, blue zyeSI BOtlN, JTajTH MANCHESTER, CONN MOVEMSEfc 27 Ql2 x MATBAibNJAL SCORES 0-0, 4- - HCROWH 6AA0EN1NQ by Robert Bruce o ws nca svk, i. CHAPTER XXIX tT was dusk by the time Larry Glenn and the other two fed eral men reached Maplehurst. They drove at once to tbe bank, where Mr. Dunn was waiting for them. Larry shook hands. Introduced his men, and went to work at once. In a few minutes he had every scrap of information about the robbery that Mr. Dunn could give him. He took an envelope from his pocket and drew out a few postcard-size photographs. He selected two and handed them to Mr. Dunn. "Recognize either of themt,,, he asked. ' Mr. Dunn looked down at a surly face in the conventional profile pro-file and sideview shots of a. penitentiary peni-tentiary rogues -al.ery photograph. photo-graph. He gave a start of surprise sur-prise as he looked at the black type beneath lt--"Red Jackson" and studied the picture with care. . "I'm not absolutely certain'" be said at last "It looks somewhat like hinu I didn't get a very good look att him, thoug-r-not closer up. Yon see, we were all herded up against the wall, and " I see, , said Larry. "How abonf the dther one;? Mr. Duiin- looked. a.' picture of a. perky, .black-haired little man; with rat-lfke eye Without hesitation hesi-tation he nodded de&sfteiyi - "TTbat'4! th ,jpi.ir Tiit.r(iki gun' on ' us while ' the other one got the cash," he said, He handed the ptetureai bci. : 'Lirry pocketed them."; " ;. . 'f-"- ;; ;7"; ; ' "Who knew about thiS tear gas Installation?". , he. asked . suddenly. Mr. ifunn ibbged np in some surprise. sur-prise. "Why, I suppose almost everyone every-one in town knew it," he said. "Yoa know how it Is, in a place like this. We saw no especial reason rea-son for keeping it a secret, anyway." any-way." Larry stood upi. ;e "It's too bad you didn't." he said. "Mr. Hobart might have been saved a very unpleasant ex perience. You see, this firing of a. shot before a Word was said that isn't like the Jackson gang, or any other gang. It's pretty obvious ob-vious that they knew about the tear gas, and simply shot first in order to prevent Mr. Hobart from using it." , Mr, .Dunn looked grave, and shook hit head slowly. "Poor Hobart!" he said. "That's my fault, I suppose, too. I'm glad he didn't have to pay a higher price for ft. . T ARRY madd some rettark to that he would like to start Ques tioning some of the other wit nesses. The young stenographer fully recovered from her fright, now, and filled with excitement at having played an important role in a stirring event came in and gave him her version of the holdup, as did the clerk who had been, knocked out by a blow with a pistol barrel. Then Tony La-Roc La-Roc co brought in Buddy McGin-nis, McGin-nis, the young Legionnaire who had given battle to the robbers. Buddy came limping in and shook hands. Larry complimented him on his presence of mind and asked him to tell his story. .So Buddy told how he had looked out of the window and seep a. man with a machine, gun, how he had got a service rifle from the supply which the Legion owned, how he had drawn a bead, fired, and made the man stagger. "I know I hit him," he said. "He didn't just start back, the way a man does when a bullet whizzes by close to him. He dam' near fell djown. He let go of his gun with one hand and reached out to steady himself. . Stood there for a couple of seconds or so with one hand on the window." "The window?' said Larry Quickly. Buddy looked his surprise sur-prise "Yeah," he said. "He was standing Just to the right ot it. If he'd been, a foot to one side the bullet'd have gone right through him and busted the window. win-dow. I know it must've gone through .him," be added, "because one of these Sprlngflelds, at that range, if it hits & . bone and stays in you, It hurts you so bad you drop. He didn't drop, so it must've just grazed him somewhere. some-where. Anyhow I remember htm standing there with his hand flat on the window, while I waited for him to fall doVn. If I'd had any sense Td've plugged him again to make sure." Tony LaRoeco- and Al Peters had been listening with interest. At Larry's nod they went outside carrying a' smalt black bag. "Pld5 yon get any more shots in?; asked Lajrry. "I fired one more, when I see he. wasn't going: to,, fall,, and I guess ,1 t missed," .said Buddy.; '.Then he began spurting maclting gun bullets at me and I ducked. When.. I . got my head up again they were all In tbe car and it was starting off. I fired three more at It." '' j TTEJ shook his head, as if puzzled " by something. "I can't understand under-stand It," he said. "I couldn't miss an auto, at that distance. I know I hit It. But It didn't seem to phaze it. I'd swear I heard a couple of those bullets ricochet off the body. But Lord! A Spring- neld'U put a bullet through any auto ever made." Not one of those." said Larry. "They probably had an armored car. You'd need an anti-tank gun to make hole in It . . . Where'd you think you hit it?" "Left side, at the rear," said Buddy promptly. LaRoeco and Peters came back In. "Got 'em," said LaRoeco triumphantly. tri-umphantly. "Full hand print right on the glass. Four fingers, perfect; per-fect; thumb, a little Smudgy, but we can use it." ."Swell," said Larry. "Find a photographer' shdp here fa town, shoot 'em off to Washington n'Rht away." LaRoeco hurried out, swinging the black bag. Larry complimented compli-mented McGinnis again and sent him away blushing with pride, and. then turned to tbe task of talking with (it seemed) half the population of the little town, and winnowing their Btorles carefully to extract, here and there, the grain of Information that might prove of use. It was midnight when he finally sat down with LaRoeco and Peters to review the evidence. They had one set of fingerprints which would, ultimately, identify positively' posi-tively' one member of the gang. They had a positive identification of a second gangster as Wingy Lewis. They had a somewhat less positive identification of the third as Red Jackson himself.. -a JO one had seen which direction J- the car had come from. It had been parked facing the north, but no one, seemingly, had noticed it before it reached the bank. Its route out of town, as traced from the testimony of a dozen excited citizens," was nlainer. The bandits had driven north a block and a half, had turned to k the left past the railroad station, had crossed the river by the north bridge, and then had swung, un along the national pike in a general northwesterly north-westerly direction. This, however, was not so much help as it might have, been. For as they collated their telephonic reports from outlying towns, they found no one who had seen any trace of the car in any of the municipalities lying along the national pike The car might have by-passed them by a careful selection selec-tion of detours; tbe gangster might hare headed straight for some nearby hideout (although Larry thought this extremely unlikely); un-likely); or they might simply have passed through those .towns without having been noticed. "I've a hunch they used an armored car," said Larry. "McGinnis "Mc-Ginnis evidence points that way, although ot course it's far from conclusive; but On top of that we have , good reason to suspect that they . recently acquired, one, any-way. any-way. . "They've got a wounded man with them. Unless he lost a great deal more blood than we have any reason to suppose, they won't have bad to get him to a doctor within a few hours, since be apparently ap-parently was not seriously Wounded. Wound-ed. On the other hand, they won't be able to travel on indefinitely. They'll have to get him to a doctor betore so very long. "Sooner or later we'll start finding people who saw that car. And we won't need to find very many before we can figure -out where they.'re heading for." Larry was right. Within 24 hours they began to strike the trail: a filling station man who remembered the car ... a small town druggist who sold disinfectants disinfec-tants and bandages, late at night, to a man answering Wingy Lewis' description . . . a roadside hot-dog stand man who remembered the car until they had traced the line of flight for 200 miles up the national pike. Larry studied a map thoughtfully. thought-fully. "If this keeps up," he mused, "I'll be pretty well satis fled that Chicago Is our place te hunt for them v - |