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Show PRO VP (UTAH) .EVENING HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1938 PAGE TWO ill Libert? taranca all the la" Tae Libert The Herald Every Afteraooa EiMpt Saturday aad Sunday Mo r alas Published by the Herald Corporation, 60 South First West street, Provo, Utah. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice la Provo, Utah, under the act o March 8. 1879. Gllman, Vicol & Ruthman. National Advertising representatives. New York. San Francisco. Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago. Member United Press N. E. A. Service, "Weitern Features and the Scripps League of Newspapers. Subscription terms by carrier in Utah county SO cenu the month. 18.00 for six months, In advance; 15.75 the yar in advance; by mall In county Ii.00; outside county 15.76 the year In advance. We have thought of thy loving kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. Psalms 48:9. Kindness is wisdom; there is none in life but needs it, and may learn. Bley. ff OUT OUR WAY . . m m Fiaht Cancer With Knowledge There are few who have not been saddened by the loss of a friend or relative who has died of cancer. This month, the Women's Field Army of the American Society for the Control of Cancer -is building a living memorial to those thousands thou-sands who have died. The memorial is not an obelisk ot stone but a vital crusade with a message of encouragement and hope for our own and later generations. The armv honors those who have died by appealing to the living to unite in a movement to fight cancer with knowledge, to spread the message that in its . early stages, cancer i curable. Probably half of the 150,000 men and women who died last year could have leen saved had they known the symptoms of cancer and acted on that knowledge. Recognized cancer danger signals, which may mean cancer can-cer important enough to warrant a visit to the physician, are i . . - , 1. Any persistent lump or thickening, especially of the 2. Any irregular bleeding or discharge from any body opening. , 3. Any sore that does not heal, particularly about the tongue, mouth or lips. 4. Persistent indigestion. 5. Sudden change in the form or rate of growth of a mole or wart. Durinc this month a group of Utah county women have accepted the call from the Women's Field Army of the American Amer-ican Society for the Control of Cancer. Their slogan is "Fight Cancer With Knowledge." No finer tribute can be paid to the memory of those who have died . of cancer than by supporting this movement to save human life. WILL POWER. IS FAR. MORE IMPORTAKJT THAW BEAIKJS IT DOWT TAKE BRAINS TO PUT MONEY IM TH' BANK, BUT LOOK. AT TH' WILL POWER. IT TAKES TO PUT IT THERE AMD LEAVE IT DO YOU THJKJK I'D BE W DEBT AMD SLAVIW LIKE THIS IF I HAD A FAIR, WILL FOWEB? SI r A.. t3'V a " 'IVL I'M STILL FORTH' BBMNS- IF I HAD TH' BRAINS, it? WRITE A GOOD 5TORY TH' FIRST TIME. AM' NOT HAVE TO SEMD IK) A THOUSAN3' BEFORE, ONE WAS ACCEPTED T TAKES WILL POWER TO WRITE ATHOUSAN , AM W1LL ROWER. IS All T uavc y I f w w By WILLIAMS I VOU GOT rc AMD HE AIN'T AMD GOLDIE'S GOT BOTH AM' NONE OF YOU'RE HAPPY AKID I A1MT GOT EITHER AM' I'M MOT HAPPY - SO WHAT? n T. M. NEC. U. 8. PAT. Off. COPS. 19M BY NEA SERVICE. INC THE MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS 4-27 -- .-- - I Was Thinking By USEE O. CABBOIX I was thir. is th:tt pt-op Meddling In Business Canada right now is right up to its ears in a problem paused by governmental meddling in business; a mix-up which should serve .s a good example to government agencies agen-cies in the United States. During the last century Canada needed a transcontin- lw nental railroad, so tne government suosiuieu pnwuc m dustrv to the tune" of $250,000,000 to build one. This undoubtedlv was a much-needed move tremendously in developing the country. But the government wasn't satisfied to let a good job alone. Seeing that the one line made money, it went into the railroad business itself, building a government-owned rival transcontinental line, the Canadian National. As a result, when the depression came along, neither line could make a dime. The government pavs $50,000,000 a behind them. To their amazement. year deficit on its own lino. The other line hasn't paid a LTS m"d dividend on common stock in eight years. j those tin own by Pynha were And, so far, various Canadian governments haven't ! changed into women. v , i rri i i t 4. ' Navajo Beliefs found a way out of the mess. The one point on which most , Many q n our Canadians agree, however, us that it is folly for government I own countiy havq simiiar myths, to blindly enter competition with the private industry which i The Xavajos believe that long ago develops the real worth of the nation. !the people of the earth grew very ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME ving how strange it of so many dif- tfeient land.- have practically tne .-a me myths to explain certain e.-.ilv beliefs about the phenomena phenome-na of the eaith and about their own origin. One of the most interesting in-teresting group of related myths concerns the flood. Some of these resemble very closely the Biblical account of that significant event. j According to Creek and Koman i mvthology. after man had been c tated bv Prompetheus from clay, and had been given the gift ot fiie with all its advantages for piogie.-sion, he, in time became so corrupt that Jupiter- decided to ide-ti.jy him. Accordingly, there :oecuired a great flood that cov--ied the whole earth with waters. ! Of the entire human i ace, only two. the nteous Deucalion and ms were saved. When the waters abated, the ship in which they were carried rested upon It helped Mount Parnassus, and they con sulted an oracie to Know Dy wnat means tne earth might he repeopl-ed. repeopl-ed. The oracle directed them to cast behind them the bones of their Great Mother. They understood this to mean the earth which is the common mother of all, so they fathered stones which they cast A wicked. They believed that the two opposing forces, good and evil, warred in the world for many years, evil finally winning. Evil was visualized aa Cyote who stole the only surviving children of Twe-hal-sodi -or good. The bereaved father cailed upon the Great Spirit to aid him. This superior su-perior being caused the waters of the sea to rise. The people fled to the mountains. But at last the mountains, even to the last one high peak, were submerged. This catastrophe resulted in the death of all the wicked people. But the good escaped by means of a long hollow reed through which they climbed upward through the water wa-ter to safety. The joints of the reed represented the nights spent on this upward flight. When they reached the top of the water, they saw that even the highest peak was submerged. They were then taken in spirit form through space where they visited the sky, sun, and stars until the waters subsided. Then they returned to the earth again. One of several flood myths of the Yuchi Indians of Soutn Carolina Caro-lina is to the effect that once up-one up-one a time a big turtle sat right in the middle of a huge puddje of mud singing and dancing. The rabbit said the turtle was proud of Water and the people begged him to quit singing and dancing because they feared he would make it rain. And sure enough, a big cloud came up and it rained and lained. The people finally took a boat and sailed around on the water. At last they got some dirt from the crawfish and spread it on the water and it formed mud. While it was drying the buzzard flew over it flapping his wings and this made the hills and mountains. moun-tains. When this mud dried up it was the new earth. Still another of these flood stories as told by the Indians of Arkansas is to the effect that because be-cause the people were very wicked God told them that he would cause a great flood to destroy them. He directed one good family to build a raft covering many acres and to build a houjse on the raft and a storehouse for food, and put into the raft a pair of all kinds of animals ani-mals that could not live in the water. The flood came. When everything but the creatures on the raft perished. Then the flood subsided, and the good family and the animals left the raft and lived on the earth once more. Stories such as these bring to our minds interesting speculations about our relation to the various races of the world those that lived centuries ago in Greece and Rome, and those of our own country who are regarded by us as inferior beings. be-ings. They make us ponder upon the true significance of the fatherhood father-hood of God and the brotherhood of man. Steady Is The Word ONCE NEWS, NOW HISTORY! 1 FIFTEEN YEARS AGO TODAY I After his death, Edward IV, of England, was accused by his uncle, Duke of Gloucester, of having hav-ing been illegally married to Elizabeth Grey, thus making it impossible for the allegedly illegitimate ille-gitimate offspring of Edward to claim the throne. FORUM 'n Agin 'Em Reader Contributes Current Quotations Editor Herald: Kindly print the following quo tations from Representative Usher L. Burdick in a speech in the House, Washington. D. C. He has documentary evidence to sup port his statements. "That 20 billion dollars has been spent to lift the nation out of the depression. "That instead of doing that we are still in it and every last dime of the money is gone; "That on this amount of money gone, we have to pay 600 million interest every year; "That farm values alone have shrunk by 48 billion dollars; "That if the administration which spent the 20 billion had thought out their program logically logi-cally they could at . least have saved tne people the interest on this enormous debt; "That if this is economically a sound proposition it is about time to begin to use the sense God gave us to the end that we put money into circulation, not take it out. "That the maximum payments on a 2 per cent transaction tax would yield the first year about 18 billion dollars; That the payments every month (at the maximum) would be about one billion 600 million; "Thateach month will see a raise in the general business for the reason that one billion 600 million has been spent which was not spent before; That it will be spent by those at the botom of theeconomic scale while at the same time taking tak-ing more than 8 mbillion persons over 60 years of age out of competitive com-petitive employment: "That at the end of the twelfth month after H. R. 4199 goes into effect there will be a business upturn of at least 20 per cent above the starting point, or a total of 180 billion dollars; "That a two per cent tax on the additional money, will net three billion 600 million in additional ad-ditional tax fund, thus more than doubling arty possible deficiency in the available tax fund at the end of the year. "That this is a plan not merely to help the aged, but to effect a permanent national recovery." Congressman Burdick recommended recom-mended that the federal government govern-ment take over the possession and operation of the nations credit for the benefit of all the people eliminating interest the dragon that threatens to eat out the vitals of the Republic, and that this money be circulated by and through those who need to spend it, provvJing work for all who want it. - P. E. HOUTZ, 571 East First North. By X REPORTER I heard the youngsters around the place so frequently refer to this boy and girl or that boy and girl as 'steadies," that it piqued my curiosity. It was plain that the boys, high school boys, look ed upon certain couples as belong ing exclusively to each other and the girl in the case therefore taboo as far as they were con cerned. "But suppose," I said to a high school junior, "suppose you should see a girl who looked mighty pretty to you, and suppose sup-pose she was 'going steady' with another boy, would that bar you from asking her to go to a dance or a movie with you." " 'Hands off and no chiseling' is the motto," he replied. I argued, "Well, that may be the finest kind of sportsmanship, but it isn't my idea of chivalry. Who ever heard of two knights agreeing as to which would carry off the fair lady assuming that both wanted her?" I was given to understand that knights are definitely back numbers, num-bers, and that one of them wouldn't get far if he started treading on people's toes at good old K. H. S. Still, I argued, "Suppose the lady in the case was stuck with a "steady' who no longer enchanted en-chanted her with his constant companionship. Suppose you, being be-ing unattached, came within range and you liked her very much indeed and she indicated she would like to shake the old boy friend. Could anything be arranged on that basis?" Well, seeing that I had set up a typothetical case that was just about perfect, probably there would be a shift of affiliations there, and a new pair of "steadies" "stead-ies" to go places together. But I was given further to understand un-derstand that in the ordinary course of events such things SATiply "weren't done." I worked up quite a lather of indignation over the unfairness of such a system to the girls involved. in-volved. A boy can break such a compact so easily and pick up the threads -of new associations so quickly. A' girl, tho, who has "gone steady' througn tnree or four years at -high school, may find herself clear out of the running run-ning i'i her single chance at romance ro-mance is upset. I vowed that if I were a high school lad again such things would not be. Following which I put on my comfortable slippers and took my customary chair by the fireplace. From the Files of The PROVO HERALD April 27, 1933 Mrs. George H. Brimhall was elected president of the Women's Municipal council by acclamation. She succeeded Mrs. W. T. Hasler. Other officers and directors were: Mrs.'E. C. Rodgers, vice-president; Mrs. George Hansen, second vice-president; vice-president; Mrs. G. H. Heindsel-man, Heindsel-man, secretary; Mrs. Jesse Johnson, John-son, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Alva Nelson, treasurer; directors Mrs. Allex Hedquist, Mrs. L. C. , Potter, Mrs. J. M. Jensen, Mrs. Ralph Poulton, Mrs. Lillian Wil- kins. President and Mrs. Warren Harding were reported to be coming com-ing to Utah a.d through Provo in June. With the confession of Robert LaRue of Santaquin, the recent postoffice robbery of that city was no longer a mystery. Cbear up ! Twenty years from now these will be "The .good old days." International Note: When a diplomat "lays his cards on the table," he usually has another deck up his sleeve. ' C . ! GLOOM NOTE Statisticians report rapidly 2roping- birth rates all over the world. From our observation, observa-tion, the babies that iall to get born aren't missing much. f fc ! Irf the old days, couples0 went to the movies so they could hold hands without being seen. Now they go to the talkies, so they can kiss without being heard. sjc sjc sfc Real Estate Agent ' (enthusiastically) (enthusiast-ically) Well, pal, what do you think of our little city? Prospect Well, I'll tell you. brother. This is the first cemetery ceme-tery I ever saw with lights. 5C 5jC 5C 2 J- . g. ' YE DIARY : Naught of consequence to record thys day, except that I do go violently on record against the habit of restaurants putting tomatoes in everything they serve, and do form the National-Association National-Association -O pposed - to-1 he- U se-of--Tomatoes-in-Cookery. $c fif. Respectfully submitted. New Books In The Library THESE FOREIGNERS, by William Wil-liam Seabrook. After months of personal contact with "these foreigners" for-eigners" and first hand investigation investiga-tion of their ways of living, the author of Asylum gives us a very interesting account of the people from other lands who have become a part of this country. SLEEP IN PEACE, by Phyllis Berttley. One of the most impressive impres-sive books of 1938. With a background back-ground of the textile industries of Yorkshire, the author presents three generations of characters. Two new books recently received receiv-ed in the Junior library are: Llew-lyn's Llew-lyn's Tower, by M. Josephine Smith. A lively adventure story.-We story.-We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea, by Arthur Ransome. The exciting adventures ad-ventures of a gay band of young people who go to sea quite unintentionally. CRANIUM January was named for the Roman Ro-man god, Janus. He was god of the day and the beginning of the year, and was pictured with a head that looked two ways. Which word, name, or title in each of the following statements will make the statement correct? 1. Hamlet slew Polonius by (choking) (stabbing) (shooting) (suffocating) him. 2. Cyrano de Bergerac is a character in a play written by (Moliere) (Pirandello) (O'Neill) (Rostrand ). 3. Sydney Carton is a character in a novel written by (Balzac) (Wells) (Dickens) (Defoe). 4. The entire action of the play (Justice) (The Trial of Mary Dugan; (Ceiling Zero) (By Meets Girl) takes place in a courtroom. court-room. 5. Isadora Duncan was a (come-dienne) (come-dienne) (character actress) (pianist) (pian-ist) (dancer). Answers on Page Eight -s- 3p3y- YEUL WOfc "ZJis Cn3 &i BOB BURNS Somehow people have got the idea that my folks down home are easy going and listless, but I wanta tell you if you give 'em a goal to work for, they'll surprise you. Not long ago, a fella was visitin' .my home town and he noticed that while all the' other citizens were mostly just sittin' around, every time he saw my Uncle Hod, he would be dashin up and down the street on the run. The stranger called my uncle over and says "You seem to be the most ambitious man in town." Uncle Hod says "Am I ambitious brother. I won't be satisfied until my wife is doing all the first-class washings inithis town." Copyright, 1838, by Esquire Features. Inc. )tJLoveof 3q6Qj fit 3'- Br RACHEL MACK CW. NEA W Uc fe-jjJ . CAST OF CHARACTERS POLLY C'HGLSEY, fcrol- traaded la Londe ttcb war breaks oat. JKHHV WHITFIELD, arroi tkr Tankre who xr her through. OABBliL HANKS, privateer captain. Yesterdayi Awakealnir after hla blow la the alley, Jerry flada alnaaelf prUoaer aboard a Brlttaa ahip. CHAPTER X JpOLLY wakened at dawn and immediately set about dressing dress-ing and packing. She was pleased to think that Jerry would find her awake and profitably engaged when he came to knock on her door. It puzzled her when morning came in earnest and he had not arrived to summon her. She thought, "I must have misunderstood. misunder-stood. Could he have told her to call him when my trunk was ready?" She went through the long narrow nar-row tavern halls arid down the stairs into the public room. There was a good deal of stir there, for guests were paying their bills and getting ready to be picked up by one coach or another in the stable yard. She drew the tavern keeper aside and said, "Where is Jerry Whitfield, Mr. Toby? Where is my cousin?" "Why, I couldn't say, Miss Chelsey. Come to think of it, I've not seen him this morning." "Then he's overslept, Mr. Toby!" Polly exclaimed. "Send a boy to his room! Quick! We're catching catch-ing the Dover coach!" Mr. Toby made haste to comply, com-ply, for he was a kindly man and always concerned for his guests. He liked young Mr. Whitfield, for all that he had discovered him to be an American, and he thought Miss Polly Chelsey very appealing appeal-ing and mannerly. When the boy returned to say that Mr. Whitfield was not in his room and that his bed had not been slept ih.tMr. Toby and Polly looked quickly at each other. The innkeeper's expression promptly became evasive, but Polly's remained re-mained blank with surprise. "But I don't understand," she said. "Nor I, Miss." The man felt a wave of pity for the girl before him. "Mr. Whitfield paid the bill last night, as I well recall, and drank an ale at that table near the door. . . . Wait! Ill send the porter's por-ter's boy to the stable yard. He's likely out there, looking after your dog." "Why, yes!" Polly exclaimed. "That's where he is, I reckon." j everything but sincere young She clung desperately to this sweethearts, Miss. I was saying hope until the boy returned. The to my wife only yesterday " dog was there, he said, as lively as could be, but not Mr. Whitfield. Whit-field. He'd not been there since last night. The stable boy knew, because Mr. Whitfield paid him to look after the dog. He'd given him a coin last night with orders to feed and water the dog early. Mr. Toby said kindly, "Go to your room and wait, Miss Chelsey. This is a busy time for me, as you can see. I'll send breakfast up to you. There's no knowing when something unexpected will change a man's plans." t- TOLLY went upstairs to her room. She tried to eat the excellent breakfast that the porter's por-ter's boy brought up, but she could not. She could only look at it, blankly. She noticed, with some fragment of her mind, that the boy was poorly dressed, as many London urchins were, but that his face was more open and appealing appeal-ing than most. She smiled at him absently and gave him a coin out of her knit bag, for which he thanked her eagerly. "You can take the tray away now," she told him. He carried out the untouched breakfast, and when he was in the hall he sat on the floor with the tray before him and disposed of sausages and coffee and wheat-bread wheat-bread and honey, very happily. It was a good day for the porter's boy. An hour passed. Two hours. Polly paced the floor. She knew when the Dover coach came and went. She said to herself at five-minute five-minute intervals, "I must do something!" some-thing!" At noon she went down to the public room and called Mr. Toby aside. She noticed that he seemed loathe to talk to her, for her perceptions per-ceptions were sharpened by anxiety anxi-ety now, and by speculation. She said, "Mr. Toby, is there anything you know about Jerry Whitfield you've not told me? . . . Because if there is, you must tell me now. He's more than my cousin. He's my sweetheart and we were on the way to getting married." "We figured it that way, Miss. My wife and me. It's pleasant to see young things in love right under un-der your nose. In this tavern, now, a body sees plenty of crabbed couples disagreeing over the food. Plenty of business men from Liverpool Liv-erpool and Bristol and the like. Plenty of young men coming down from Oxford and Cambridge for a fling of fun. Plenty of spinsters traveling with their nieces or their maids. Plenty ot well, of "DOLLY caught the innkeeper's wandering eye and held it. "Mr. Toby, , you're evading. I asked you if you know anything about Jerry Whitfield that I ought to know." "Well, there's nothing to amount to, Miss Chelsey. Things come up in a ' man's life, unexpected like. If I was you, now, I'd take off my bonnet and settle down for a couple of days to wait for him. He'll be back, . like as not, as apologetic as can be for upsetting you." "I'm more than upset," Polly said. "I'm frightened. Something's Some-thing's happened to him. ' Something Some-thing terrible! Nothing else would make him desert me just when we're getting out of England. . . . You're a good man, Mr. Toby, though you ARE an Englishman, and I'm not afraid to trust you, We're Americans " "My wife and me knew that too, though we've not told it Are you bound for France?" "Yes. We expected to slip across the Channel in a smuggler's boat. Jerry arranged it. That's why I say he'd not have deserted me unless he'd met foul treatment." treat-ment." "No, Miss," said Mr. Toby deliberately, de-liberately, for he believed he saw his duty now. "You can put your mind at rest on that score. It's" not that. It's something else. There was there was a young lady came into the public room and talked to him last night at the table where he was sitting, near the door. I take it they were old friends. They had coffee together to-gether they and another man that had on hackney clothes. Mr. Whitfield ' asked the barmaid to fetch three cups of strong coffee from the kitchen, and they all drank together. After that they went out together." Polly's face was still and white. "Did she have on a sky-blue bonnet? bon-net? And a sky-blue dress, cut square m the neck?" "Yes, Miss Chelsey. That was her. Fair complexioned. . . . I'd not be too hard on him, Miss. I've seen men and women come and go under my roof and I know human hu-man nature. It's weak. Human nature's weak, Miss Chelsey. . . . You wait here till he comes back. Hell come. Decent men don't desert their own." "Thank you for your Information, Informa-tion, Mr. Toby," Polly said in a voice that was much too quiet "But never mind the advice. I'fl take the next coach -for Dover. (To Be Continued) |