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Show -v.-tC if1, v' 4 - -as '4: - - PROVO (UTAH) EVENING HERALDi THURSDAY, MARCH lit 1937 PAGE TWO n SECTION Bf WILLIAMS SIDE GLANCES - - - By George ClarkllT 2- The Herald Every Aftermoa Except Saturday, and Suitday Mora la a: Published by the Herald Corporation, 60 South First Vt street. Provo, Utah. Entered ab second-class matter at the postofflce In Provo, Utah, under the act of "March 3. 1879. Oilman. Nicol & Rcthman, National Advertising; representatives. New York, San Francisco, Detroit, Boston, Los 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 throuft-h all Ike land" Tke Liberty Bell Howdy folks! The time is coming when the only way an average citizen will be able to buy a good steak win be a dollar down and a dollar a week. Household Economics: Giving your wife all your poker winnings so she can pay her losses at e v , ' J - , - , . . I OUT OUR WAY - : v i i Faith affirms many things respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing- which they deny. Paschal. Our enemies are our outward consciences. Shakespeare. bridge. Honesty Among Public Officials We were talking about the growing dishonesty among our public officials, in a little group, the other day. A remark re-mark was made that the surety bond rates were going up out of sight as a result of peculations and breach of trust in public pub-lic office. "Are politicians from whom public officials are usually recruited, any more dishonest than other people who are not attracted to politics?" somebody asked. "Business men, for instance?" Another gentleman in the crowd ventured the observation observa-tion that the percentage of honest politicians is just about the same as you would find in the business world. "Politicians are just a cross-section of the community," he said. Wer pondered his conclusion. It is certainly true that men in public life are not above the average in honesty, and it is true that finding honest public officials is going to be a hard task unless we have something better to draw from. This democratic system of ours provides that we elect our friends and neighbors to positions of public trust. After they are elected they must hold our community purse-strings, they must decide matters of finance, they must take in and disburse public moneys, they must pass on legislation that may, install or remove huge private profits in a variety of industries. They are daily in contact with offers of bribery, offers made by many of us as private citizens. Until we clean up our own house we cannot expect too much of our office holders. We cannot sneer and smirk when the word "politician" is mentioned, then tnrn around and offer him a case of liquor to pass favorably on our bill in the legislature. We can't do that and remain honest with ourselves. There is a lot of smug hypocrisy in the world, and nowhere no-where does it become more odious than in our dealings with men in politics. We countenance their knavery, then censure them for it. We encourage them to take graft, then ridicule them as grafters. It is time the clean breath of fresh air and sunshine swept through government, from bottom to top. It is time we looked honestly and frankly at this problem of governing govern-ing ourselves. It is time we elected a higher type of public official, then encouraged him in remaining above suspicion. Until we have learned that hard lesson, we have made little -progress in slf government. F,r HEROES ARE MADE -NOT BORN. " The Great, Wide, Beautiful World Never has the adage that life is what you make it been more truly illustrated than by Juanita Harrison in her new-book, new-book, "My Great, Wide, Beautiful World," which is condensed this month in the Reader's Digest. Lifeto this woman, has been a beautiful, thrilling ad-venture.beCause ad-venture.beCause she made it so. A negro woman without a cent, sheVetermined to work her way around the world. She succeeded and, best of all, did it with seeing eyes. She refused re-fused to allow travel to become a routine of time tables and trains. Everywhere she went she saw everything, from the slums to the palaces. Elephants and monkeys, white-kerchiefed peasants and native feasts, hardship and laughter, all combine to give her a pleasant memory that can never be taken from her, and which is worth to her all the millions ever minted. Her secret of success is in being herself, sunny and jolly at all times, whether in talking with a coolie or in dining with i an East Indian potentate. As she savs of certain races, "They were reserved, but not with me." This woman had a great time traveling. She would have had a great time at home, as well, for she has the priceless secret of squeezing the last drop of real happiness from each minute. No matter where you put her. she would always find this a "great, wide, beautiful world." Ray of Gladness BY X REPORTER Being- glad just for the sake of being glad is a little too much of a chore for me. But I'm not such a moper that I can t feel a little thrill of gladness glad-ness when a beam of light comes streaming thru and brightens up a dark spot. Hidden away down toward the bottom of a day's batch of mail -probably not considered important im-portant enough to appear in the day's telegraphic news report, came this: "Nearly one thousand college trained men are expected to find jobs open to them in the steel industry when they graduate this spring:, according; to estimates made by the American Iron and Steel Institute. (I was pleased to note, also, that someone else knows that a student may "graduate" "gradu-ate" as well as "be graduated.") "The number of such youths going into the steel industry this year will be larger than ever before, reflecting the expanding operations and increased employment employ-ment in the industry. Most of them will be from technical and engineering schools. "A number of steel companies have organized plans for recruiting recruit-ing college trained men, close contacts being maintained with various institutions for that purpose. pur-pose. Likely candidates for jobs are selected from among the graduating classes. Some companies compan-ies also are planning to offer opportunities for summer training train-ing in the mills to under-gradu-ates. "... A large majority of the college men chose 'overalls' jobs at the outset rather than 'white-collar' 'white-collar' work. Twelve per cent entered en-tered the sales department and three per cent entered the administrative ad-ministrative department, all the others showing preference for the various producing divisions of the corporation." And so forth. Now I have been one of those benighted persons who have worried wor-ried along since the depression's crux under the notion that there isn't a fair place for youth, col-lego col-lego or otherwise, in our funny modern world. I have imagined the colleges and universities turning out hordes hor-des of graduates to a life of doing nothing but wearing out shoe TOWNSEND TEST TO BE DELAYED Although Townsed tests may begin March 15 in several cities of Utah indications are that Provo will not open its tests on that dat eDr. J..W. Aird said Tuesday. Dr. Aaird and four other representatives repre-sentatives of the local club met with Salt Lake City, Ogden, Logan, Brigham City and Price delegates Monday night in Salt Lake City to review the joint undertaking. un-dertaking. If adopted, the plan will call for an expenditure of $200 within a month by a selected person. In transactions, merchants will bf, asked to sign contracts to agree to contribute two per cent on all business thus obtained, this tmaount in turn being used tc provide a pension for all oyer 60 years. Isom Lamb, who started tin first test at CheTan, Waihln explained to the state advisory board members Monday night details de-tails of the plan. SCIENCE A new, lightweight gas mask is said to give absolute protection protec-tion to workers engaged in tunneling, tun-neling, mining or sand-blasting. This mask straps over the face and exposes only a rectangular window at eye-level. Dust-free air is breathed in through a flexible flex-ible rubber tube connected to an air-supply line. If this supply fails the hose can be disconnected and air breathed in through a filter in the base of the tube. leather in job hunting. It pleases me a whopping lot to know that just one American industry will provide jobs for more college graduates than will leave my state's university next June. That's something, and I'm glad about it. 9$jUkA mm n,mm miim STORIES IN STAMPS BY I. S. KLEIN I'm IMF m f 9 4W I Whews Caavams Started Eastward "CRANCE and Turkey are at log- gerheads over permanent control con-trol of the Syrian district of Alex-andrfetta, Alex-andrfetta, whose chief port of that narne once was the starting point 1tfi&tensfv caravans to Persia and India. From the time of Alex ander the Great's victory over the Persians in the fourth century, B. C, to the building of the Suez Canal in 1869, Alexandretta thrived as port of transfer from ship to camel, and even now it is an important seaport and rail terminus. But, built on a marshy plain, the city of 12,000 inhabitants is a drab, unhealthy place. It has become the center, however, how-ever, of a rich region where cotton, cot-ton, tobacco, licorice, and citrus fruits are grown, and where oil has been discovered. Placed under French mandate after the World War, this district now is being sought again by Turkey. Tur-key. Two stamps issued by Syria, in 1925 and 1930, illustrate the port. ! Copyright. 1937. NEA Service. Inc ) Italy has 14,313 miles of rail ways. CALM IN THE STORM The United States Supreme Court in Session .... Sketched from Memory by George Clark 5 Calm and grave, a.s though quite unconscious of their position in the midst of the moHt turbulent political maelstrom of recent years, the justices of the U. S. Supreme Court meet for their last session before reconvening March 1. Thi unuKual and revealing sketch was made by George Clark, staff artist for NEA Service and The Herald, from memory after a visit to the court's seaiilon. Photographers and artists alike are forbidden to make pictures or sketches of the court while it is in session, but the talented Clark recorded the scene in his mind's eye and set it down on paper later in the day. The justices, shown as they appear on the bench in the magnificent mag-nificent new supreme court building, are as follows, left to right: Justices Jus-tices Owen J. Roberts, 62 ; Pierce Butler, 71 ; Louis D. Brandeis, 81 ; Willis Van Devanter, 78; Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, 75; Justices James C. McReynolds, 7&i George Sutherland, Harlan F. Stone, 65; and Benjamin N. Cardozo, 67. MEN OF VISION Prof. Horace T. McOoofy, Provo Pro-vo efficiency expert, Is In Washington Wash-ington today to show the government gov-ernment how to effect some amazing economies. Prof. Mo-Goofy Mo-Goofy will visit the Bureau of Standards and explain to them how ten million feet of lumber can be saved each year if ail yardsticks are made only S2 Inches in length. "We must save our forests," he explains, "for if we don't, there will be nothing left this summer for campers to set afire. Some of the wine sold in state liquor stores is said to be 20 years old. Golly, what rattling good stuff it must have been when it was fresh! Voice Over Phone: "Is Mike Howe there?" At the Other End of Wire: "What do you think this is the stockyards ?" Joe Bungslarter refuses to begin be-gin a journey on Friday. No Joe is not superstitious. Saturday's Satur-day's his pay day. HUMAN NATURE j Cheering because the price of what you have to sell is going up; grumbling because the price of what the other man has to sell is going up. it -Possess? 'Now, suppose you don't wish to retire at age 55, but would rather continue your payments " YE DIARY I Earlie up, we spending the night at Squire L. Wiley's poultry poul-try ranch on the Isle of Bain-bridge, Bain-bridge, and Babie Brew doth query: "Why are the chickens making such a noise, daddy?" And I do reply: "They probably want their breakfast." And she doth retort: "Well, if they're so hungry, why don't they lay themselves an egg ?" . . . .A blessing on the little cherub! VINEYARD Reporter Phone Ol-R-4 1 MRS. GEORGE F. WELLS The outstanding event of the year was the bazaar and hobby show held Monday afternoon and evening in the ward hall. From a social, educational and financial standpoint it proved to be very successful. More than 300 people attended and contributions were received from nearly every family in the ward. A delightful program was held at - 8 o'clock and the committee in charge wish to thank all who assisted in any way. A substantial substan-tial check to add to the. building build-ing fund for the new ward chapel was made at the many concessions conces-sions during the show. The Primary, M. I. A., and Relief Re-lief Society organizations were the sponsors. Mrs. Paul Van Wagner of Heber is visiting here with her j parents Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Murdock. Mr. and Mrs. Dee Humphrey left Monday for Orangeville, Emery county, where they will make their home. - V Mrs. Nora Anderson gave the lesson at the work and business meeting- held Tuesday afternoon at Relief Society and Mrs. Ellen Holdaway, who has spent the winter win-ter in Los Angeles, told of th work being done by the Relief Society women of the Adams ward. Mrs. Vilate Shumway was in charge of the meeting. Members of the R club will be entertained Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Edna Gammon Gam-mon with Mrs. Ideal Toone assistant as-sistant hostess. An invitation is extended to a'.l members to attend. at-tend. Mrs. Georg-e La r sen and Mrs. Mabel Clayson and twin daughters daugh-ters Lorene and Loraine of Spanish Span-ish Fork, visited ere Moqday with relatives also they ttehded the bazaar and hobby show. ALUTETO&e brbcUIMKk BEGIN HERB TODAY KATE and CAROLINE MEED live on (arm. Meed Meadows, with their Indtleat, lovable irrand-father, irrand-father, MAJO.c SAM MEED, and two old Neffro servants, ALTHY and ZEKB. Kate Is eng-aged to MORGAN PRENTISS, who arg-leeta arg-leeta her (or EVE EL. WELL., beaatifnl and wealthy. Major Meed loses the farm to JEFK HOWARD, a bitter youns; mountaineer. Kate hates Jeff for taking- their home, bnt he, in spite of her Insolent treatment, finds himself In love with her. Kate deeldea to irtve up Morgan, fast as he is on the point of Jllt-Injr Jllt-Injr her for Eve. Needins; money, Kate and Caroline work up a eot-tagre eot-tagre eheese route, bnt soon afterward af-terward thetr row dies. One day Kate finds Caroline crying;. Questioning; Ques-tioning; her, she learns Caroline Is preparing; to marry MR. GRAYSON, GRAY-SON, a well-to-do widower whom she does not love. Kate protests agralnst this sacrifice. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXIII pAROLINE hesitated, then burst out breathlessly, "Mr. Grayson's Gray-son's promised me $1000 a year for Gran'dad! For the house here. He says he's always admired Gran'dad and would consider it an honor to give it, through me. He's a kind man, Kate!" Kate was too surprised to answer an-swer for a moment. Then she Said, "Yes, he is kind but he's even smarter than he's kind, Caroline. He's buying you. You're SO years younger than he is. You're other desirable things, too pretty and feminine and easily managed. . Aren't you worth a thousand a year bonus, over and above your board and keep?" Caroline said in a gentle, tired voice, "We'll not be able to pay out, Kate. Every week we go in debt a little deeper. Winter's coming com-ing on. Well need coal and food, and warmer clothes." "We can make our old clothes do!" Kate answered sharply. "Are you too proud to wear patches? We can eat plainer food! Caroline, Caro-line, we haven't begun to economize econo-mize yet! We won't have to Burn coal till the dead of winter. There xe old trees on the place that Zeke can cut Well get a man to help him, on shares. There's our fuel! And we've still got the order for Jeff Howard's baked goods. There's several dollars cleared a week, right there!" Caroline was looking at her younger sister in bright relief. "You're wonderful, Kate! I thought I had to do it I thought t was being noble, but I was just being a spineless fooL III tell him whatever you say." Kate replied grimly "I'll not trust you to tell him anything. Ill make you write it The man over-persuaded you last night III not give him another chance at you. You're sort of weak willed, and yet you have - an enormous capacity for self-sacrifice" Caroline had reached for pen and paper. Ttn ready to write. Can you stop scolding long enough to dictate?" "Yes," said Kate. "Write this, 'Dear Mr. Grayson: My answer to your proposal of marriage is "no." I appreciate the compliment compli-ment you have paid me, and I shall always be deeply grateful for your inclination to help my grandfather, but those feelings are not enough for marriage.' Are you keeping up, Caroline?" "Yes, and I changed 'compliment' 'compli-ment' to honor.' That's kinder. Go ahead." "All right. . . . "Thirty years is too great a difference in age. Somewhere, I am sure, there is a woman more suited to you and a man more suited to me. Let us try to find them. Sincerely, Caroline Meed.' " "rZ"ATE lost no time. In half an hour she was leaning from her horse, putting the letter into Mr. Grayson's hand. "It's from my sister, Mr. Grayson. . . . No, thank you, I won't stop. I'm in quite a hurry " She rode away and left him fingering the envelope in surprise. She thought, "I hope he doesn't read it till I'm out of sight. I hope he isn't too much broken up over it." No, Kate decided, she would not distress herself over Mr. Grayson. She had rescued Caroline Caro-line from a ghastly mistake and that closed the chapter. Some thing else must be done now. Something that required more courage than tossing a letter at Mr. Grayson. She touched Brown Boy with her crop and turned his head toward to-ward home, but when they reached Rickety House she did not turn in. Her destination was two miles up the road. She came to the Hold farm and let herself and Brown Boy through the gate that led to the barn. There she found 'Mr.- Hold, for whom she was looking. She said to him, "Last year you wanted to buy my horse for your son. I told you I'd never sell him, but I've changed my mind." "Yeah," Mr. Hold remarked. "But I been thinkin of a thoroughbred thor-oughbred for Ralph. Man over near Lexington's try in' to interest me." Kate shook her head in disapproval. disap-proval. "A thoroughbred costs a lot of money, Mr. Hold. And then what've you got? Just a fast stepper. Ralph ought to have a gaited horse. He ought to have a big comfortable riding horse like this one." CHE rode Brown Boy up and down the- lot, exhibiting his several gaits. Then she got off and held his head while Mr. Hold inspected him. The man asked,. "How old's he exactly?" "Turnlnfi eight years, Mr. Hold. Just a youngster." "Me an' you know eight years is no youngster, Miss Kate," the farmer said with a laugh. "But he's a fine lookin' animal, at that." He took off the saddle and ran his hand approvingly along, the horse's glossy back from withers to croup; stooped and felt a strong hind leg from hock to hoof. "How much are you askin' for him?" "You offered me $400 last year." "That was last year. Horse's older now and I'm harder up. If I put a lot of money in a horse, Miss Kate, I'd buy a thoroughbred." thorough-bred." "Will you give me $350?" Kate asked. "Yes, I will." "Then write me a check right away," Kate urged, 4 before I change my mind. I'll leave thfr saddle and bridle here and pick them up some other time. I'll walk home." "You're sudden, ain't you?" Mr. Hold said with a laugh. "Will you come in and sit with my wife while I write the check?" "No, thank you," Kate answered. an-swered. "I'll stay here with Brown Boy." But she did not look at the horse, or pet him. She stuck her hands in the pockets of 4ier jacket and -tried to recite a crazy poem she had learned as a child. One of her shoulders rested against the horse's warm side. Presently Mr. Hold came out with the check and she sighed a receipt, holding the paper against the barn door. He said, as she started off, "It's a right smart . walk for a hot day. Get on the horse and ride him home, Miss Kate. I'll send Ralph over for him later." "No," Kate answered quickly. "No, I'd rather walk." She saw that Brown Boy had turned his head and was staring at her quizzically quiz-zically as she moved toward the gate. "Goodby to you, Mr. Hpld. He's a horse that likes plenty of oats." "Sure," Mr. Hold replied good naturedly. "HeUs a big fellow. Eats his head off, I reckon." - Kate paused again and came back a few steps. "You understand under-stand I wouldn't sell him to just anybody, Mr. Hold. Ralph's a nice boy with horses. I've watched him plowing." "Sure," the man repeated, patting pat-ting Brown Boy's anxious head. "Sure. Ralph'll treat, him fine. Miss Kate. He's a good rider. They'll get along." Kate was wearing a fixed smile. She let herself through the lot gate and walked out on the dusty . pike. She walked very rapidly and did not look back. She said aloud, beating the weeds with her. crop, "I could stand it all right ; If there was any way to make : him understand why I did it " She meant Brown Boy. . To Be Continued) . 4 :m |