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Show page four PROVb (UTAH) EVENING HERALD, WEDNESDAY MAHDH 10. 1937 OUt OUR WAY. By WILLIAMS SIDE QLANCES - - - By George Clark : The Herald " " '. " ' .... If Kvery Afternoon Except Saturday. Bd Sunday Mornlac Published by the Herald Corporation, CO South First West street. Provo, Utah. Entered as second-class jnatter at the postoffice In Provo, Utah, under the act of March 3. 1879. Gilman. Nicol & Ruthman, National Advertising representatives. New York,San Francisco, Detroit, Boston, IjOb 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, $3.00 for six months, in advance; $5.75 the year in advance; by mall in county $5.00; outside county $5.75 the year In advance. "Proclaim Liberty through all the Inn" The Libert Bell 3- Therefore being: justified by throughr Lord Jesus Christ. And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that -Moses said, Rise up, Lord, aqd let thine enemies be scattered; and - let them that hate thee flee before thee. Numbers 10:85. Cost of Labor Peace The cost of labor peace, settling the 1937 strikes, will probably be found in a price rise which has already begun. . Steel prices have been advanced from $3 to $8 per ton for second and third quarter deliveries. Pittsburgh scrap rose - $2 per ton in two weeks, Superior ore rose 50 cents per ton, adding $1 to pig iron costs. Tin bars are now $4 over last year's price. These increases will probably be reflected in all principal commodities. The outstanding development of the labor picture is the rise of John L. Lewis who in four short months has won his principal unionization objectives, eclipsed the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor which may eventually have to join C. I. O. or disintegrate, and set himself up as arbitrator over the labor destinies of four million workers. (25 million if his plans for mass industry organization succeed.) After the accord reached with Carnegie and Big Steel, 40 hour week, $5 for 8 hours, time and one-half for overtime, and recognition as a bargaining agency, effective March 16, practically the entire industry followed suit, jumping steel payrolls about 200 million dollars and starting the price rises already mentioned. The principal reason for the rise of the C. I. O. and the wane of A. F. of L. is that the former shepherding unskilled workers, outnumbers the latter's skilled craftsmen because of progress of industrial mass production, requiring less skill. Out of the recent conferences and settlements, John Lewis looms as one of the most powerful figures in the United States and a possible Labor candidate for the presidency in 1940. .There are two sides to the picture: Steel, operating at close to 86 per cent of capacity, can take advantagrrf world scramble for the metal, avoiding cessation ces-sation at peak production period. The industry can now comply with Walsh-Healey act, getting benefit of vast arma ment, navy and building program. Fro;yi 80,000 to 1 00,000 ,riu;Ann.i nu ,x,;u k, m., 4 sis which would have followed pected has been avoided. With motors, steel and utilities meeting Labor half way. it is believed other industries will fall in line. On the other hand, resultant price rises may cause falling fall-ing off in third quarter demand. Living costs, already up 22 per cent in three years, may rise another 25 per cent within with-in the next 14 months, creating another gap between wages and living costs, and making for a "labor inflation," There is no apparent authority to check Labor's future demands. The steel settlement marks the second time the Wagner act and Labor Mediation Board have been ignored. There is no present assurance that labor will recognize any limits of concession. 8IKTHCws of .' jjj effuy 'p i sS&SS - " - ' faith, we have peace with God Romans 5:1. 1 ;n c4-aj ;nHn.,T Dnniir "Big Strike" previously ex Court Calendar 1937 BY NEA SERVICE. INC T. M REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. Washington Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) istration's secret sabotaging- of his law barring U. S. loans to war debt defaulters. The recent $3,600,000 credit of the Export-Import bank to Italy, undoubtedly an indirect violation of the Johnson act, has embittered embit-tered him. Although Italy defaulted de-faulted on her debts, he has seen Roosevelt rush forward to lend that country money. Senator Borah, at heart, is no real foe of the courts. Also, despite de-spite his refusal to support London Lon-don last year, he is, and always will be, an old-fashioned Republican Republi-can partisan. During 31 years in public life Borah has never jumped the GOP traces. He always al-ways talks about doing- it, but when it comes to the crucial test, he hews to the party line. Senator Burt Wheeler of Mon- tana, like Johnson, has been of- lenutxi U.L me type or appoinx- state. He waged a bitter behind- the-scenes fig-nt several years ag-o to prevent the appointment of a federal judge in Montana recommended recom-mended by ex-National Committeeman Commit-teeman Bruce Kremer. Kremer is now one of the biggest big-gest lawyer-lobbyists in Washington, Wash-ington, sits at the right hand of Attorney General Cummings, frequently fre-quently dines at the White House despite his big corporation connections. con-nections. Wheeler fears that if the Supreme Court reform goes through, Kremer will have a lot to say about selection of the new judges, not only for the Supreme TH1R.TV YEARS TOO SOON Court but for the circuit courts. Down deep in his heart, Wheeler Wheel-er considers Roosevelt much of an opportunist, and his Court scheme an instance of this trait. Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming, Wyo-ming, another able and hardworking hard-working Democrat, secretly is piqued at the Administration's indifference in-difference to his federal incorpor ation bill. This act, designed to J increase the power of Congress to deal with labor, industry and agriculture, O'Mahoney believes would obviate the packing of the courts. Although he dislikes the Roosevelt Roose-velt plan, O'Mahoney is likely to vote for it rather than see the reactionaries win. Senator Nye of North Dakota is a militant Liberal, but subject sub-ject to occasional outbreaks of GOP partisanship. He kept out of last year's presidential fight because he was secretly for the New Deal, but in the closing weeks of the campaign permitted the disclosure of some Munitions committee testimony regarding Elliott Roosevelt which savored of Republican propaganda. Like O'Mahoney, Nye is no last-ditch last-ditch foe of the President's proposal, pro-posal, -and in - the end many be found voting for it. MERRY-GO-ROUND On his 750-acre farm near Washington, Supreme Court Justice Jus-tice Van Devanter raises thoroughbred thor-oughbred Hampshire hogs . . . Attendants of the House of Representatives Rep-resentatives say that of the fire feminine members of Congress, Mrs. Rogers of Massachusetts, Republican, Re-publican, is the most regular in attendance. Next in regularity is Mrs. O'Day of New York, Democrat Demo-crat . . . Side by side on the roll of the House are the names of Congressman Kniffen of Ohio and Congressman Knutson of Minnesota. Kniffen, Democrat, insists in-sists that the "K" is silent, as in knife. But Knutson, Republican, insists that his "K" should be sounded . . . Congressman Elmer Wene of New Jersey wants the world to know that he operates a baby chick hatchery. He not only mentions it in his official biography, but also has pasted a babv-chick sticker on his name-plate name-plate at the door of his office . . . Pennsylvania is represented in the House by an osteopathic physician, physici-an, Democrat Ira W. Drew.... Champion equestrian of the House is Oklahoma's Phil Ferguson, who can spur his horse to a gallop, lean over and pick up a hat from the ground. (Copyright, 1937. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) FORUM 'n Agin 'Em Sees Nothing Sacred About Supreme Court Editor Herald: When the founders of the United States decided that Engi nsn government was tyrannical, did they give ear to the appeals of conservatives that the "king ruled by Divine right and guidance?" That superstition exactly parallel the argument that our supreme court is a sacrosant institution! How can people with common sense see the supreme court in any other light that what it actually is: a -number of old gentlemen who have mostly grown rich in law work for corporations or else were appointed ap-pointed as ordinary politicians, often after their own people had turned them down for further public service. Persuing commonsense a little further remember re-member that most men are influenced in-fluenced by interests of their class; hence rulings of the supreme su-preme court as to constitutional questions reflects the bias of the majority. Thus we have our constitution meaning . one thing . From the Darkness BY X REPORTER A man with a white walking stick and a paper shopping bag filled with groceries came out of a store just in front of me. He started tap-tapping his way down the sidewalk in the direction was going. "May I walk with you?" I asked him. Sure you may, ne said, in a hearty, nappy-sounding voide. "Just let me take hold of your arm and I can put this stick away." He was light on his feet, and seemed to know instinctively when we were coming to a crossing. cross-ing. He warned me once that we were coming to an especially bad crossing where two streets met obliquely. "Auto drivers expect blind folks to be able to get out of their way," he said. "They don't see the white walking sticks very plainly, I guess." "Folks generally are pretty kind to blind people," hi volunteered. volun-teered. "I .go all over the city. I don't suppose there's a street or a store in the downtown district dis-trict that I haven't been on or in. I can tell by listening to the footsteps of others and by following fol-lowing their voices. There's always al-ways somebody waiting to help me across a street intersection, it seems." My companion volunteered the information that he had been totally to-tally blind for three years. "It was pretty bad knowing that I was going Uhnd," he said. "I thought at first I couldn't bear it. But later I found that life was still pretty sweet, even in total darkness." ne iom me wnen to turn a corner by a street car barn: "There's quite a hole there, isn't there?" he inquired. There was Streetcars and buses ran down into a deep pit to spend the night. "I knew another fellow who was losing his sight about the time I was," he confided. "He used to talk about jumping off the bridge. 'Not for me,' 1 told him. I was getting used to the darkness by that time, and since then I've learned to enjoy life all over again. "Years ago every blind person used to be just a blind beggar, the attitude of the public has changed all that. Folks are pretty kind to blind people now. They pension the needy blind and everybody tries to help them along their way. It isn't so bad for blind people now." i SEA STRIKE SETTLED LE HAVRE, France, March 10 U.P) A seamen's strike which tied up all French shipping in the harbor, har-bor, yesterday was settled today. The liner Normandie, delayed by the strike, will sail at 5 p. m. for New York. this year and something entirely different another year for, you know, even that court changes its mind occasionally. Therefore, wherein is the merit of all this clamor about the dangers to our constitution if Roosevelt has a chance to appoint some new judges to give .new point of view to the old set-up? It is simply because the opposition' op-position' knows that Roosevelt has thought of a perfectly constitutional consti-tutional method of achieving what the people sent him to do, that the Liberty leaguers and their kind have engineered such a vast propaganda to frighten the people by appeals to their superstition about the supreme court and the constitution. They were quite content so lon a they knew their friends were on the court to make ineffective in-effective the efforts of Roosevelt to bring- about a new order of justice v,fpr. the average man. GEORGE EVERETT' Howdy, folks! There Is no truth to the rumor that the Congressional Record will run several comic strips. The Congressional Con-gressional Record is funny enough the way it is, unbiased un-biased observers believe. At that, the Congressional Record Rec-ord might increase its circulation among the flappers of the nation by printing the life story of Clark Gable or Robert Taylor. i HANDY HOUSEHOLD HINTS . . sj; Don't throw away the old crank-case crank-case oil drained from your automobile. auto-mobile. It has a hundred household house-hold uses. For ins lance-One lance-One drop makes false teeth snap into place easier. Preserves the surface and adds a polish to bald heads. One drop in each nostril stops snoring. Keeps peanut butter from sticking stick-ing to the roof of the mouth. A small amount on the cat"s tail allows it to slip smoothly thru the baby's hands. Three drops enables the Adam's apple to slide up and down easily. YE DIARY At noon to the Sutton coffeehouse, coffee-house, where do ask Blondy, the waiter, what there do be for lunch, and he doth rattle off " Roast beef -fricasseedchickenstewedlambbaked andf riedpotatoescottagepudd 1 n g-milkteaand g-milkteaand coffee." And I do reply re-ply sarcastically: "Bring roe the third, fourth, sixth and ninth syllables." syl-lables." And he doth retort: "I'm sorry, sir, but we're all out of syllables. syl-lables. And so, silenced by the fellow's ready wit, do dine on corned beef and cabbage. Vice President: Have you met our credit manager? The Visitor: Very informally he called me a liar once. POME How doth the little fountain clerk Improve each shining minute? By serving ice cream soda With little ice cream in it! Indignant Man (who has leaned against newly painted rail ) : Why don't you put "Wet Paint" on that rail? Painter: I just did. It is only a question of time - A LUTE TO Ufotee BEGIN HERE TODAY KATE asd CAROLINE MEED live on a farm, Meed Meadovra, UhlBeIr lovable. Indolent grandfather. grand-father. MAJOR SAM MEED, and two old Negro -rrvanta, ALTHV and ZEKE. Kate la engae-ed to handsome MORGAN PRENTISS, -o neglects her (or beautiful and wealthy EVE ELVVELL. Major Meed loses the farm to JEFF HOWARD, a bitter yonag uronataiaeer. Kate hates Jeff, bat he. In spite of her Insolent treat-meat, treat-meat, gads himself lovinc her. Morgan offers to marry Kate If she will desert her family. Kate realizes he la unworthy and rejects re-jects him. Just as he Is on the point of Jilting her for Eve. Kate feels hurt and adrift, but glnd of her freedom. She work Bp a cottage cheese route and Impulsively Im-pulsively decides to ask Jeff to be a customer. 7IOW GO aii WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXII jgEFORE the idea could cool Kate obeyed her impulse to add Jeff Howard's name to her list of customers. She changed into riding clothes (shabby boots, breeches and linen jacket) and set off on Brown Boy. When she reached Meed Meadows Mead-ows she inquired Mr. Howard's whereabouts from a farmhand and learned that he was gathering apples. ap-ples. It amused her to see his surprise when he looked up from the basket he was packing and found her there. Kate said, "I've come on business, Mr. Howard. My sister sis-ter and I are taking orders for cottage cheese and baked eoods. We'd like to list you for regular deliveries." "Well!" Jeff exclaimed, sur prised and flattered. "I'm right fond of cake, and pie, too. The man I've got cooking for me can't make either. Yes, IH take some. Regular regularly," he corrected himself hastily, college triumphing over cabin. Kate's eyes were discreetly lowered low-ered to her order book. "Two cakes a week, say? And a couple of pies, Mr. Howard?" "Surely. Yes, indeed." Kate said, "How about cottage cheese? Would you like a pint of that delivered twice a week?" "That would be suitable," he assured as-sured her quaintly. Salesmanship was now in Kate's blood. She made another suggestion. sugges-tion. "We have very good beaten biscuits. If you'd like several dozen of them each week, it could be arranged." JEFF HOWARD had the moun-J moun-J taineer's distaste for the "little cracker biscuits" that Blue Grass people set such store by. But then,, he reflected hastily, he could feed them to the chickens. He calmly ordered four dozen a week. Kate's prices he accepted without quib-hWng. quib-hWng. - Iflfe SSfti M pjiPP sJL I enjoyed this sort of thing when we were here on our honeymoon. Yon were looking at me instead of the scenerv." until architects will design a cozy garage, with built-in living quarters quar-ters for the family. Post No Bills. Alpha Kappa Psi Initiates 16 Men i Sixteen new members. rerre-1 senting eight ciues United States and Mexico were initiated recently into the Alpha Kappa Psi, national commerce fraternitv. in a ioint initiation ceremony held by the Brigham Young university and University of Utah chapters in Hotel Newhouse in Salt Lake City. Following the ceremony, the Beta Delta Chapter of B. Y. U. were guests of the U. of U. chapter chap-ter at a stag smoker in the game room of the Union building. Dr. A. Rex Johnson, grand vice-president was present. Twelve of the sixteen pledges come from the B. Y. U., Beta Delta chapter. These men are: Ezra Clark. Bountiful; Verl Clark, i "Our man, Zeke, will deliver the things," Kate told him. "Every Wednesday and Saturday evenings, if that's agreeable?" " 'Twill be," Jeff replied, experiencing expe-riencing a sense of disappointment. disappoint-ment. "Have you any preference, Mr. Howard, about cake icing and pie filling?" "None at all. Just anything you fix up." "I shan't fix any of it ud." Kate lied aloofly. "Our cook will do it an. lhank you. Mr. Howard, for the orders. Goodby." As she rode home she remem bered her lie and thought, "I told Caroline I hadn't much false pride left. Well, I must be coated with it! Why should I mind cooking for him? . . . But I do. because I hate him! I'll not let him picture me toiling over the food he eats!" Then she dismissed Jeff Howard as a person and considered him only as a surprisingly good customer. cus-tomer. Yes, she and Caroline would be able to keep the family above water at this rate. She'd show Morgan Mor-gan Prentiss a thing or two! Why. she thought hopefully, shouldn't Meed cottage cheese become as famous fa-mous as Meed hams used to be? And there was an idea! Make enough money on the cheese and baked goods to build a smokehouse! smoke-house! Then they could go into the ham business professionally. Go after the Louisville orders again. Advertise in the newspapers THE next week the cow died. It happened suddenly. It was one of those things you simply cant believe. Even when they saw good old Hyacinth lying cold and stiff on the stable straw they couldn't believe it. She had been sick only a few hours. It was from a poison weed, the veterinary said. He reminded them that she was old. A fine Jersey, but old. They oughtn't to grieve, he said, because all animals have to die sooner or later. "We didn't think of Hyacinth as being old," Kate protested. She and Caroline had tears in their eyes. Partly for Hyacinth herself, whose ways had been so gentle. But mostly the tears were for the cottage cheese business, which was, to nave built a smokehouse and set them up in the baked ham business. They vjent to the house and broke the news to their grand father, who was confined to his room with a sprained back. Kate tried: to tell the news casually. She said, "Gran'dad, you know we told you Hyacinth was sick this morning. Well, we called the doc tor. But now she's dead " Later -she saw him groping in Bright Moments IN GREAT LIVES Thomas Francis Marshall, the great American statesman, was never voted as a reformist of any nature. Particularly, he had never been invited to join any temperance temper-ance societies. One evening, aft.r a rather gay party, a friend chanced to meet him, and escorted him to a room in the old Mansion House, a familiar landmark in Louisville. Marshall became very ill, and during the course of his groanings his friend asked: "Are you unwell, Mr. Marshall?" "God forbid," said the statesman, "Just simply throwing up for fun." Oakley, Idaho: Eugene Carter, Salt Lake City: Ned Kirkham, Salt Lake City; Verl Harrison, Springville: Russell Robertson, Leodore, Idaho; Ross Sterling, Spanish Fork; Kay Bunnel, Helper; Help-er; Heber Smith, Salt Lake City; Kenneth Taylor, Provo; Carlos Taylor, Chin., Mexico; and Ford Rose, Provo. the drawer of his bedside table and said sternly, "If you're looking for that apple brandy, Gran'dad, it's gone. I took it away this morning. You'll have to take Hyacinth's Hy-acinth's loss like the rest of us without benefit of liquor." Caroline, adding small figures in the account booksaid one evening, eve-ning, "We're spading too much on coal-oil. We'll have to light the lamps later and go to bed earlier." Wouldn t candles be cheaper?" Kate speculated. "We could use them for everything but reading. We can't afford to strain our eyes." CHE was very conscfous of eyes just then, for she had discovered discov-ered that the Major's were giving him trouble. It was difficult to get him to consent to an examination, for he dreaded the cost. Eventually they persuaded him that going blind was poor economy. The glasses cost $12, to be paid by weekl pittance. pit-tance. Soon -after that, both Kate and Caroline had to go to the dentist. Then Zeke got a . splinter embedded em-bedded so deeply in his wrist that he had to visit the doctor to have it removed. (Over the protests of Althy. who insisted that a fat-meat fat-meat poultice would do just as well.) All in all. the family budget was wrecked and debts began to menace. One day Kate went into the bedroom and found Caroline weeping weep-ing quietly, her head in her hands. "What on earth's the matter?" Kate demanded. "Go 'way!" Caroline commanded. "Go away and let me aloneP "I will not," Kate told her. "Not till I find out where the funeral is." "There's no funeral," Caroline replied, lifting her head. "It's a wedding. Mine." "What do you mean?" Kate asked blankly. "I'm going to marry Mr. Grayson," Gray-son," Caroline said steadily. Kate sat down and stared at her sister. "You dont mean that, Caroline?" She was suddenly frightened. There was something so bleak in Caroline's announcement announce-ment So definite. "Is it the sort of thins V apt to joke about?" Caroline asked. She got up and smoothed her hair at the mirror. "Do I look facetious?" face-tious?" "No," Kate answered, swallow ing. "But you wouldn't marrv that man, Caroline! You couldnt!" "He's a fine person." Caroline said, wheeling about and faant? her. "He's a gentleman. He's from good stock. He's fond of .me. ; "Why?" Kate demanded. What else is back of this?" 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