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Show iV t. v' ' - ' ' 4., A. . PROfrO " (Iff AST EVENING HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1937 PAGE THREE -'A Queer Actions o Judges Not to Bar Editor's Note: This Is another an-other of a series of articles by S. S llahn, noted western attorney and general counsel for the Scripps League of Newspapers. rtaiin, in this series will discuss things seen and heard on a 10,000-mile journey around the nation, from which he has just returned. re-turned. BY S. S. HAHN Justice hippodromed., The bar association in New York is much upset over the conduct con-duct of some members of the judiciary, ju-diciary, and has taken drastic action ac-tion to discipline jurists for soiling soil-ing the ermine. This rumpus has merely poised anew. America is notorious for the number of incompetent in-competent judges. Judge Charles Fricke of the Los Angeles superior court permits per-mits a cage of snakes to be brought into court for the men and women jurors to .gaze upon in horror. A snake Crawls out of the cage. A panic is created in the courtroom. Jurors and spectators spec-tators jump frantically on chairs. Frightful screams fill the temple of justice. Were the snakes brought into court to testify ? Certainly the jurors could not tell whether the snakes were poisonous poi-sonous or not by just looking at them. Judges Jail Selves-Judge Selves-Judge M. A. Musmona of the criminal courts of Pittsburg commits com-mits himself to jail oh a self-imposed three-day prison sentence. He claims : "A Judge should know something some-thing of the environment and the daily routine in a prison. A picture pic-ture is necessary for an ample understanding of the situation." Judge H. D. Landis of Seward. Neb., recently completed a 10-day Belf-impoeed penitentiary sentence as an experimentation to observe criminal behavior. It is a mistake for judges to think that such experiments qualify qual-ify them for the administration of criminal justice. It is not necessary for a judge to be able to lay an egg to be able to appreciate that an egg is rotten. Does No Good Nor does self-imposed imprisonment imprison-ment prove that such an experiment experi-ment qualifies judges to understand under-stand the administration of criminal crim-inal justice any more than sitting sit-ting with the pilot of an airplane cabin qualifies one to understand the intricate mechanism of avia- , tion. The antics of self-imposed im- ! prisonment are not the" means of creating enugntenea juages. ine fact remains that you cannot make a race horse out of a mule. The remedy is for judges to have greater experience in the trial of lawsuits before they are elevated to the bencfh, or even aspire as-pire to it. The records of our judiciary disclose dis-close that in most parts of the country judges are appointed to the bench for political reasons and not because of their qualifications and judicial temperament. Big "Y" Show On Paramount Stage Tonight at the Paramount is the occasion of the big annual event of the B. Y. U. in the way of entertainment, the Pep Vodie. Six big acts will be presented on the Paramount stage at 8:30 p. m., in addition to a big new screen program. The' pepvodie program ig arranged ar-ranged by the, social units of the school who have been practising night and dav to win one of the many cash prizes. Judges of the contest are to be Fern B. Ercanbrack, Gail Plum-mer, Plum-mer, Farrell Collett and Earl J. Glade. The Val Norns unit will offer "The R.M.C. School of Basketball": Basket-ball": the Cesta Ties present, "Rocky Mountain Baby Derby"; the O. S. Trovatas offer "King's X"; the Brickers will score in "Russian to Victory"; and the Brigadiers present "Fighting Cougar Cou-gar Scratches Back." Just what the Vikings will do is a big mystery. Music for the program will be furnished by the "Y" Swing band. More than 200 people will take part in the program in all, promising promis-ing one of the biggest schows ever offered on a stage in Provo. On the screen the Parar lount is presenting pre-senting Anita Loos' latest story this time a riotous comedy,. "Mamma Steps Out," with a cast headed by Guy Kibbee. Alice Brady and Betty Furness. Miss Amusing Dance with HOWARD K E A li K S and his Orchestra "Music As New As Tomorrow" EVERY SATURDAY at the Beautiful New PAL0MAR BALLROOM - SPANISH FORK The Flood 4"J- ' x I rx,r- - i n VK ' "apt'(s -toft' , -',v....Ir v M :: :'j:":':'"'x':y:' c' V I :-:::; RssaiP z. '- s- ?v s f i? , .y. , Editor's Note: Following is the sixth of a series of articles reprinted by the American Wire from "Rich Land, Poor Land," the latest book by Stuart Chase, nationally known economist, with Chase's permission. Your attention is called particularly to Chase's farslghted prediction, made last year, "God help the people of the Mississippi valley when the next flood comes." 5$C 5jc BY STUART CHASE Big floods are unpredictable, since they depend on a conjunction of circumstances especially heavy snowfall, snow-fall, violent rains in March, frozen earth to speed the run-off. People forjret these thing's, as peasants around Vesuvius Vesu-vius forget eruptions. But they always come! God help the people of the Mississippi valley when the next one comes. The critical point of the whole system is Cairo. Here the Ohio comes in. . . . Man is a greedy animal. If he had built his levees a little back from the banks, leaving the natural flood basin in forest and bird colonies, he would have had a better chance of controlling the river. But no. Crop lands have crowded in on the natural flood plain, leaving leav-ing behind levees built close to the banks. A large part of the increasing flood damage in recent re-cent year.s is due to the occupation of river banks and valleys by cities, towns, industritl plants, bridges, railroads rail-roads and highways, and thus far have taken few steps to control them from above. The engineering policy of flood control for 200 years has been to get the water off the land by drain, channel, chan-nel, levee or culvert. In big streams, dredge the channel chan-nel and hustle it faster. The policy is vicious, stupid and wrong. The only intelligent program is to hold the water in the soil or in the artesian basin, pond, lake and farm reservoir. When this is not enough, hold it with big dams and artificial reservoirs. Floods encourage silt, and silt by raising stream bottoms bot-toms encourages floods. The Great Wheel turns. From the raindrop on the height of land, down a thousand miles to the salt water of the ocean, one problem locks with another, and there is no solution, either for the continent or for man, except ex-cept in co-ordinated control that comprehends all problems. Loos' last picture story was the sensational "San FYancisco." Doors of the Paramount will open at 6:15 for the Pep Vodic. and a complete screen program will be presented both before and after the stage entertainment. First feature will start at 6:15. Police Seeking Hit-Run Driver Police officer Wesley Robey was today seeking the driver of the car which knocked down and injured six-year-old Harry Conger, Con-ger, 105 East Third North, at Fifth North and First East Wednesday Wed-nesday morning. The Conger boy. a B. Y. U. training school student, suffered a cut lip and severe nose injury when struck by a car. The boy was treated by Dr. Fred R. Taylor. Tay-lor. The car beiner sought bore a Salt Lake City license number. C ARD OF THANKS For all the acts of kindness and words of comfort and consolation during our recent bereavement, at the time of the passing of our beloved daughter and sister, Gay, we are indeed grateful. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew M. Jensen and Family. Watkins To Speak At High School A. V. Watkins, general counsel for the Provo River Water Users association, will address Provo high school faculty members and junior high school social science teachers Tuesday at 4 p. m. in the high school teachers room. Mr. Watkins will outline the Deer Creek project fo rthe instructors in-structors who are planning an active educational campaign regarding re-garding Utah-Salt Lake valley water supply in their classes. Carveth Wells T o Discuss Boulder Dam A desolate desert region converted con-verted Into a vast playgroilnd by six and one-half million tons of cencrete! That's just one of the accomplishments of Boulder Dam, which has created the largest artificial ar-tificial lake in the world Lake Mead a reservoir large enough to supply each inhabitant on earth with 5,000 gallons of water! These and other Interesting facts about Boulder Dam will be discussed by Carveth Wells in the Continental Oil company broadcast, broad-cast, "Exploring America with Conoco and Carveth Wells," which may be heard at 6:45 p. m., Sunday Sun-day night over station KSL, Salt Lake City. Special! 1930 NASH SEDAN Motor overhauled, finish and rubber perfect. scThofield AUTO GO. $365 SPRIKGVUIE i LOCALS The Springville chapter of American Red Cross, which operates oper-ates separately from the Provo ahd Utah county unit, has gone over the top in the latest drive for relief funds for the flood victims, vic-tims, Officers of the organization announce. Officers of the Sprihgville-Ma-pleton Bull bloc association announce an-nounce the purchase of a purebred calf from Robert M. Iliff, Independence, Inde-pendence, Ore. The animal, which arrived here February 10, after a 39-hour ride, will be placed in the east bench bloc for two years. The calf is said to be outstanding and attractive and is one of the richest animals of the breed that belongs to the association. Members of the association feel that the type and production bred into this calf will do much to improve dairy herds in this vicinity. vic-inity. He is a son of Liliac Sir Duston and Romulus Liliac Louise, a grandson of Liliac St. Mawes, the Maoris Liliac, Liliac Romulus and Liliac St. Mawes Annebell, bred by the estate of Harry D. Iliff, Independence, Ore. Robert Dowdle of Springville, senior student at Brigham Young university, made the honor roll for the autumn quarter, according to a list of honor students recently recent-ly released by Registrar John E. Hayes. Mr. Dowdle is majoring in history, his-tory, and minoring in political science. There were 14 students in the honor list from the senior college and nine from the junior. Seventeen towns in seven states were represented. A large number of Springville people were in Spanish Fork Friday Fri-day afternoon to attend funeral services for Tony Clayson, husband hus-band of Mrs. Clara Brown Clay-son, Clay-son, a former resident of the city. Business nouses of Spanish Fork also closed during the afternoon after-noon in respect to the family. Burial was in the Spanish Fork City cemetery. The high school junior prom is scheduled for Friday night, at Memorial hail. The class will be in -charge of the assembly program pro-gram at the school in the afternoon, after-noon, when a pep rally will also be held in anticipation of the basketball bas-ketball game with Spanish Fork Copyright 1937. Liggett H Myiu Tobacco :x". '' ' ...... ,. Hundreds Left Homeless in Wake $t h ill -hi - Jh " ; : i JSaer-- m mi mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmma This scene' was duplicated over a wide area in Southern California as weekend rains raised already swollen rivers out of their banks and flooded a wide area. In Venice, where this picture was taken, 85 city blocks were reported under water and boats supplanted automobiles as a mode of transportation. : 9 j- early in the evening. Class officers in charge of the dance are: Mat Olsen, president; Velma Olsen, vice president; Phylis Smart, secretary-treasurer; Venice Whiting, Qwenevere Johnson, Ruel Cran-dall Cran-dall and Leland Clements, committee com-mittee members. Funeral services were conducted in Thistle Wednesday afternoon for Lewis Edwards, 74, who was accidentally killed under the wheel of a D. & R. G. railroad train last Saturday afternoon. Mr. Edwards Ed-wards waa known and remembered remem-bered in Springville for his attendance at-tendance at stake conferences and other church meetings here. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Brown went to Thistle to furnish music at the funeral and were accompanied by Mrs. Lola Weight, piano accompanist. accom-panist. Burial was in the Springville Spring-ville Evergreen cemetery. One of the successful and enjoyable en-joyable events of the past week was the annual M Men and, Gleaner Glean-er Girl banquet, program and dance, held last Saturday night, at the high school. The affair was held in the form of a cabaret entertainment en-tertainment this year, with the banquet served at small tables. Wilford Mower acted as master of ceremonies and a large crowd attended. Co. Timpanogos School Patrons Ask For Traffic Control Enforcement of traffic regulations regula-tions on Fourth North and Fif'.h West and protection from cars of scnool children in the Timpanogos district are asKeu in a peuuun , citizens to cooperate with them presented by Timpanogos P.-T. A. in eniitfling greater safety pro-officers pro-officers to Mayor Mark Ander-ptection for qooS. children in son Wednesday. i crossing city streets. jyirs. tvennetn tL. weigni, i -i. A. president, and Mrs. G. R. Wil-lett, Wil-lett, vice president, presented the petition which bore the signatures of fifty parents and teachers. "At the present time there is no city protection for our school. The junior police who ate usually sixm grace oo s nave ueen Ju , Ci(y rpsj(lent is charged with forg-are forg-are now doing excellent work. It , ' Hp is aneged to have written is very necessary that there 'check for $g passed at a Pleas-should Pleas-should be installation of auto- j ;U) Qrove drug store, nntic signals and assignments of j ' . n,-eviou hearine in Judee police at the school crossings," it was pointed out to the officers. Fifth West street which runs directly by the school property is the main highway running through the city and bears the brunt of through traffic on the wide-lane artery The parents ask that strict ob- Mild, ripe home-grown and aromatic Turkish tobaccos. aged three years . . . make Chesterfield an outstanding cigarette ... give them a more pleasing taste and aroma. of Calif. Floods servance of traffic rules should be required by direct contact with officials responsible for enforcement enforce-ment of traffic regulations. 'This is the most, serious problem prob-lem confronting the parent-teacher organization of the Timpanogos district, and it is of vital interest to every parent," the officers explained. ex-plained. The P.-T. A. of Timpanogos school are urging other interested JIRY SELECTED Selection of jurors got under way Wednesday morning in the Stanley Beuter case in District Judge Abe W. Turner's court. ntfr 2.S-vear-old Salt Lake D.tllas H. Young's court was de clared a mistrial when one of the jurors became ill and halted proceedings. pro-ceedings. The Taj Mahal is located at Agra. India. It is an architec- tuially beautiful mausoleum. eres or you . . . a picture of Chesterfield tobacco just as it comes out of the 1000 -pound wooden hogsheads hogs-heads after ageing for three years. If you could be there when these hundreds hun-dreds of hogsheads are opened up ... if you could see this mild ripe tobacco, prime and ready to be made into Chesterfield Cigarettes . . . see the golden color of the leaf . . . and get a whiff of that delightful aroma . . . you'd say . . . think DUST STORMS.. SWEEP MIDWEST HUGOTON, Kan.. Feb. 8 BE Dust storms, sweeping sections of five states in the dust bowl area today became a serious threat to human life. Pneumonia and influenza sufferers fell easy victims to the dust which made breathing difficult. There have been nearly a dozen deaths here in the last few days. Doctors say the dust does not cause disease but that it adds a serious hazard in all illnesses. The increased death rate recalled re-called the "dust pneumonia" deaths in Lamar, Colo., area a year ago and local authorities asked Red Cross headquarters at St. Louis for aid. Two Red Cross nurses were en route here today to aid overburdened doctors. The dust clouds, blotting out the sun and closing down over towns like a thick heavy fog, have moved through parts of Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico for four days. Residents Resi-dents say they rival in scope and damage the worst stornis of 1936 and 1935 when crops were ruined and farmers discouraged and beaten financially, left the area. The prolonged blowing became so severe yesterday that all activity ac-tivity was slowed over an area of hundreds of miles. Where the clouds centered lights burned on streets an din stores and homes. Chickens went to roost, thinking it was night. Few motorists attempted at-tempted to drive cars and all traffic was warned off highways. Force of gravity on the planet Venus is 15 per cent less- than that on earth, but the air is thinner thin-ner and would counteract most of that difference. n apple V aroma Delicious . . . makes me of fruit cake." t ! i t I |