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Show ff - - PAGE TWO PROVO (UTAH) SUNDAY HERALD SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1936 SECTION TWO The Herald Every Afternoon, except Saturday, and timm&mj Moralm Published by the Herald Corporation. 0 South First West street, Provo, Utah. Entered a econd-clM matter at the pustoftice In Provo, Utah, under the act of March 3. lx7S. Oilman. Nicol & Ruthman, National Advertising representatives, New York. San Francisco. Detroit, BusKin, Los Angeles. Seattle. Chicago. M. nib-r United Press. N. E A. g-rrlcs. Western Features and the Scrlpps League of Newspapers. yur.scription terms by canler In Utah county So cents the month. JJ.00 for six months. In advance; $3.70 the year In advance; -by mall IS. 00 the year In advance. "Proclaim Liberty through all the- land"' The Liberty Bell New Parking Restrictions After vears ot experimenting with various forms of 'entk-men's agreements'; to control the parking problem in the business section, thi decision has finally been made to revert to the original city ordinance with a parking limitation of two hours. Voluntary agreements among employes of stores and offices to refrain from parking their cars in front of the stores in the busv retail section, broke down because there was no wav of enforcing the agreement. A few selfish individual indi-vidual failed to see the necessity of 'cooperating, others followed fol-lowed suit and soon there was nothing left of the original. Plail'L nder the new program to enforce the restriction without with-out fear or favor, everybody will be treated alike and nobody-will nobody-will be able to monopolize the same parking space throughout through-out the day, forcing legitimate shoppers to drive elsewhere to do their trading. Although, the enforcement of the new parking restriction restric-tion means an added expense to the police department, the innovation will be well worth the cost lo the business men, as well as tlie shopping public, in greater convenience and saving sav-ing of time. ' i w two-hour restriction should not work a hardship on anyboiV Two hours ought to be sufficient time for anyone to "transact ordinary business in one location. England Adds Her Bit to Gaiety of Nations me rmgusn nave long enjoyed tne inuoor sport of looking look-ing down their extensive noses at the quaint goings on in these United States, and remarking that some things are reailv done evah so much bettah in London. We do furnish our share of the world's comedy, of course. Occasional we pop up with a Huey Long to receive, in green silk paiamas. the skipper of a visiting warship; or we send a Zioncheck to congress, or bring forth a technocracy pipe-uream. pipe-uream. r find some other way of provoking condescending mirth abroad. Hut we have never yet created a world crisis by rowing about whether a woman who has two living husbands is to occupy our White House as the country's Number One Woman. In .-spite of its immensely serious aspect, the great Wally Simpson affair has ust the faintest but most unmistakable flavor of (iraustark! It might have been devised by Robert W. Chambers, with music by Sigmund Romberg. That it should be happening in upland, of all places, is enough to make a siureme court justice chuckle. ldwin. most conscientious and well-intentioned i i i -1 - . - 1 . - -4' 1 1 1 . - 4- i 1 1 no Vl o Stanley I. nf statesmen. (foes tooK ever h between s unmU t a'K r '.(telVo 1 lie cao'li'-i. coneinng mmciiuuv iw ww ilh ir.enace look likt people I a er.armmg young wi'iiian iumi udiuimuc, ,uutn -on-.. -thing out of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two :o have man aired to retain their dignity are precisely ... , . 1 1 .1 1 1 the two ;tbo:; whom all the tuss is being made tne King arm Mrs. Sirups m. All t'nis. appar. rtly, is what you let yourself in for by keeping an anachr'ni-m alive in this modern world. Kngiand. a most thorough-going democracy, has kept the institution of kingship. With everything else in the land brought up to date, it has insisted on preserving the kingship king-ship under glass, like a treasured fragment of the 18th century. cen-tury. The king has iv-ne of the power his forefathers enjoyed, but he is supposed to play by the same rules they played by, to act a- if he am all his connections were of finer clay than that of the common folk. It strms to h;. 'c occurred to King Edward that this is pretty ridiculous. Why not take this museum piece out from under i' glass case, blow the cobwebs off, and bring it up to date.' , Why no, ii.d. .! '.Cit iens of a republic are probably barred, bar-red, by the nature, of tlimgs, from discussing the question intelligently; yet they c-an hardly be blamed for taking an intense in-tense interest in it. any more than they can be blamed for having a sneaking feeling that what Edward is fighting is princi j ally dyed-i u-t he-wool old-fogey ism. And meanwhile . . . who would have thought that a pretty woman from Maryland could rattle the august bones of the entire Jlritish empire? SIDE GLANCES "Now, please understand that about painting. 1 studied in years: 1 . gStJsjl rcj I , Wc ... . . k a. , V-r -,; J--- - so sugnuv nunici trv nv. palace and prime minister's By George Clark I understand something a Paris academy for two V,, sffH OUT OUR WAY r- - - J v irv ' J- r. M. REG. U. S PAT. OPf " " " fc W 1 ' ffM9Ja BY HEA SERVtCE, IWC. Washington Merry-Go-Round (Continued lrom Page une. $25,000-a-year director of the Cotton Cot-ton Textile Institute, was then head of the bureau. How the Paris Par-is boys worked it is not known, but Miss McCann was fired. That was an evil day for them. They soon found they had traded the frying pan for the fire. ALABAMA TO THE RESCUE , Miss McCann did not take the ousting meekly. She fought back with the same crusading spirit she had displayed in disapproving the playboys' Bohemian antics and expense accounts. Miss McCann caught the first home-bound steamer and rushed with her story to Representative William B. Oliver. Now Mr. Oliver Oli-ver is not only a staunch Alabaman, Alabam-an, but he was also chairman of the appropriations sub-committee that handles the commerce department depart-ment appropriation bill. In other words, Air. Oliver was a very potent po-tent eruy. Also, as he promptly demon-strated, demon-strated, he could get just as hot i under the collar over bureaucratic ! high-handedness as Miss McCann. When he heard her story he went directly to Secretary Dan Roper and demanded a sweeping investigation. investi-gation. No one has ever accused Llncle Dan of being a crusader, but Oliver was not a man to be trifled with. SECRET PROBE So H..Colt McLean, head of the Paris office, was ordered to return re-turn instantly to Washington and explain. When he arrived tne probe got under way, surrounded by the most extraordinary secrecy. Guards were posted outside the door of the hearing room and the blinds were drawn. Conducting the proceedings were three top-rung i commerce officials, assistant Sec retary Draper. Solicitor Trimble and Malcolm Kerlin. aide to Roper. The matter might have gone no further than some reprimands and a shake-up of the Paris office had not the entire personnel of the bureau leaped into the fray. As une man, the staff rose, in outrage at Miss McCann's charges. They bombarded Washington with bitter bit-ter attacks against her and other critics. One of their targets was Thomas Thom-as Butts, another dismissed subordinate sub-ordinate in the Paris office, who had returned to Washington and hurled a blast of charges. Charges and counter-charees filled the air. The affair soon developed de-veloped into a battle royal. What had begun as a probe of a row over a minor job grew within a few weeks into a general investigation investi-gation of the bureau, both at home and abroad. Scores of infractions of rules and other instances of official of-ficial laxity were uncovered by Oliver, acting as prosecutor. 5? . . jj OIL ON FLAMES Constantly pouring oil on the flames and aggravating the situation situ-ation with pecuiiar obtuseness were the bureau officials. One, for example, solemnly charged Butts with engaging in political activity because he had contributed to the Democratic national na-tional committee. Since Roper and other department executives are contributors, this accusation promptly boomeranged. .V .J SUPPRESSED REPORT I Now Washington is wondering whether the thousands of words of spicy testimony taken in the secret investigation, including that obtained by Oliver and Kerlin Ker-lin in trips to Paris and London, will ever see the light of day. Oliver is voluntarily retiring from congress after the first of the year. With him out of the way, the chances of the record being be-ing published or of the bureau be- ME GOT SO TKED WAJTIM1 11 FOS THE BOSS-TO LEAVE f PER A MIMUTE SO HE COULD LOAP ON THE JOB THAT HE CANT cm too rr wmw THAT I THE BOSS HAS LEFT. What You Should Know About NEW SOCIAL 18. Can a Person Receive Both Old-Age Benefits Ben-efits and Public Assistance for the Aged? It will be possible for p. person to receive both Old-Agf. Benefits Bene-fits and some form of public assistance for the aged. This might occur in p. case in which a man's Old-Age Benefit would be small because he hau worked only five or six years before retiring. Suppose the man's benefit amounted to $15 a month. If the state in which he live., has a system of old age assistance, and the payments to the needy aged under this plan are more than $15 a month, he can apply for this assistance on the basis of his need. Such cases would become less and less numerous as more people peo-ple began to receive substantial Old-Age Benefits. As the number num-ber of those aged 65 and more who received the Old-Age Benefits increased, the need of people of this age to receive public assistance assist-ance would diminish. THE ing drastically house-cleaned are not promising. A few officials may be shifted: there may even be some dismissals. dismis-sals. But there will be no real shake-up. That is, not unless some one else on Capitol Hill takes up the cudgels. In his four years as head of the commerce department, Uncle Dan Roper has repeatedly demonstrated that he does not act unless forced to do so. y MERRY-GO-ROUND Angling for inclusion on a VVh'te House reception list, a Washington matron sent in her genealogical table, with a drawing of the family tree. . . . The state department has never stayed more rigidly aloof from any matter mat-ter than it does from l'affaire Simpson. Department spokesmen will hot even give an answer to the question. "Is she an American citizen ?" , . . Most state department depart-ment officials give a Spanish flourish to the pronunciation of "Buenos Aires." . . . Mrs. Melvina Thompson ("Tommy") Scheider, private secretary to Mrs. Roosevelt, Roose-velt, has a hobby. "My hobby." she says, "is my sister's baby, one year old. We named her Eleanor. Guess why!" ... To intimate friends. Cecelia Cummings, wife of the attorney general, proudly shows a portrait of "Homer," with an accompanying love verse which he composed about her. . . Eleanor Elean-or Cooke, wife of Rural Electrification Electrifi-cation Administrator Morris L. Cooke, does no first-naming with her husband. She calls him by his middle name. "Llewellyn." ( Copyright 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Target of Public Clamor f" - i? if .Radiophoto copyright 1936. NEA Service, Inc.) -Resign!" "Down with Baldwin!" "BoO-oo-oo-oo!" The clamor of disapproval assailed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin whenever he was recognized in his dashes about London to confer on the "constitutional crisis". He's seen here leaving his car at No. 10 Downing Street to attend the cabinet meeting that decided not to rush King Edward's decision on abdication. By WILLIAMS AW, THAT AlMT HE'S OUST WAVING A TOLKbH TIME TRVNA LOOK AS TIRED AS HE THOUGHT HE WAS WHEN tmp rOcc: uac vaattuim' 'IM. SECURITY LAW END. Judge Stump Dear Judge: Ever hear of a housewife who failed to ask the letter earrier, "Is that all?" Harry Cilutz. Mrs. Lydia Whackenholler of Portland, Ore., has gained fame by her originality in this matter. She refuses to do the usual thing. Instead, she just takes what mail she gets and remarks. "Wonderful "Wonder-ful weather, isn't it?" STUMP. Ail-Time Peak HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 10 (UP) Automobile registrations will reach an all-time peak this year at 28,277,000. according to a report re-port today of Travelers Insurance Co.. statisticians. The total was based on complete com-plete reports from 34 states. New Mexico showed the largest gain, 16.06 per cent, and Connecticut ranked second, with 15.39 per cent. Howdy, folks! There Is no truth to the rumor that department depart-ment stores are going to petition congress to pass a law abolishing Christmas. Joe Bungstarter has been trying try-ing to grow a beard for the last two months In anticipation of the arrival of the usual consignment of Christmas neckties. 4 & : I PRE-CHRISTMAS CAROL Lives there a man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said: "This year I won't be sour and surly, IH do my Christmas shopping early!" Dear Homer: What is meant by the phrase, "the witching hour?" Reader. That's when your wife greets you when you arrive home at 3 a. m. with, "Well, which story is it this time?" "What a whale of a difference just a few dents make," sighed the man who had just turned in his old car. 9f Sfa 3$c 9f "How" queries an editorial, "can the American people be induced in-duced to consume more wheat?" Why not start a concerted drive to get housewives to burn more toast ? EFFICIENCY NOTE Why don't architects of movie theaters put the balconies on the ground floor? Then nobody would have to walk upstairs. if, ijc f And then there is the campus egotist who says: "Now, really, I don't think I'm much of a college celebrity, but then what's my opinion against that of hundreds hun-dreds of other students?" if, if, A baby born in a tornado finds out very early what life Ls like these days. Night Club Manager Where's our bouncer tonight? Waiter He tried to talk back to his wife and the doctors are still trying to revive him. 2ft 2f J ift No cover charge. -- Mlt m i BEGL HERE TODAY KAY DlX. pretty airplane trwardrsa, falla In lore with TED CHAHAM, Vfteran pilot wko filea the trana-Parlfic roatr. Ted, however, la not Intereated fn romance. He la devoted to two Intereatat hla Job in the air aerrlce and his sdopted mb, DICKIE, 7 ye-ara old. Dickie and Kay become cloae frienda and soon the three apend much time together. One niajbt Kay and Ted have a lona; talk in which he explain hla views on marriage. To be nor-eeaafal, nor-eeaafal, he says, a ninrrlaaxe mast he planned aelentifically, Joat aa a plane fllicht. Kay does not agree to all this, bnt when he asks her to marry him she says yes. The mar Ha are takes place and the honeymoon is a flistht to the Orient. Later, with Ted away for weeks at a time, Kay Is lonely. She tries to keep busy, carina; (or her home and for Dickie. Ted is working on an invention, when he fa ia port, spends less and less time at home. Kay is deeply disappointed because be-cause he ia unable to be home for Christmas. She elves a dinner party and later goes with three friends, DORIS I-EE. RALPH BAMiS and MONTE BLAIXE, to dance. NOW GO OX WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XVII TTHEN Ted returned home, three " days after Christmas, Kay met him at the dock with Dickie at her side. "The little wife waiting with open arms!" she thought, as the giant flying ship settled down in the harbor and taxied up to the landing. "Was old Santa Claus good to you?" Ted said to Dickie. "Sorry I didn't make it home with my presents in time for the tree, but I've got them in my duffle bag. "And what do you want?" he said to Kay. She looked up at him. "You always seem to know just what pleases me, Ted," she said quietly. "But nothing special? Nothing In jade to match those gorgeous eyes!" "Oh, Ted, don't tease!" she said. "Of course I'm dying to see what you brought." He took a box from his pocket and opened it, disclosing the loveliest love-liest jade bracelet she had ever seen. Oh, it's beautiful!" She stood up on her toes and kissed him. But they were both strangely quiet during the drive back to the house built on the sands. Ted sensed that something had come between them. He said, "Darling, you're not worried about anything?" "No." "Did I miss a big Christmas dinner? din-ner? Whom did you invite?" "Doris and her crowd. And, of course, Jerry." "I'm glad you asked Jerry," Ted said. "We hadn't missed a Christmas Christ-mas dinner together for almost 20 years Prominent Figures First Christmas 4 Y v x -. ..?.-. . . i 1 41f 1 m IQ07 S istle backer tn selling penny stamps to raise money to Bght tuberculosis. ,o honor ot Miss Bissell a luncheon was held December 8 in Wilmington. Delaware, at which Dr. Thomas Parran. Surgeon General or the United States Public Health Service, was the chief speaker and Mr. Hodges the oastmaster. The luncheon was attended by 350 distinguished physician? i nd laymen, and messages of congratulation were received by M'ss Blssei rom tuberculosis associations all over the country, and from toretgi ountries that sell Christmas Seals to finance their tuberculosis program. At- Owning and Being Owned By X REPORTER When I was considerably younger young-er I used to feel something like pity for men, especially elderly men, that I'd see rambling along the roadside on foot, with all their worldly possessions slung in a bundle over their shoulders. I pity them no more. They are to be pitied only if they pity themselves and I doubt that very many of them do 'that. This is no plea for a civilization, civiliza-tion, having plenty, which compels com-pels men, especially old men, to roam hopelessly in search of something they never can find contentment. But even if our civilization traded trad-ed a guarantee of all material needs as it easily might of r a reasonable amount of effort reasonably reas-onably expended, there would still be certain philosophers who would trudge the highways and the byways, by-ways, detachedly watching the race of man careening along on its mad and generally futile career. Such philosophers I would envy. Not necessarily for their leisure, leis-ure, for leisure In itself is no wtjoeoet - ' 'JSTSSW'S ' ? ! y.:-X''-::-.-:-:-:y.w IT AY laughed. "That's what he kept telling us. I'm afraid he talked too much. He told what a gay dog you were in Paris in wartime." war-time." Ted smiled. "Good old Jerry." "People drifted in during the evening," Kay said, "and then we went to the Palace and danced until un-til almost morning." Ted gave her a quick look. "We?" "Monte Blaine and I and Doris and Ralph. We went to hear Dudley Dud-ley Nix sing. He has a grand orchestra." or-chestra." For a long while Ted was silent, si-lent, and he appeared to be thinking think-ing hard about something. But when at last he turned to her h squeezed her hand. "I'm glad you had a good time," he said. "After all, Christmas only comes once a year." But they did not mention the party again that day. Next morning morn-ing Kay heard from Doris that Ted had called Monte in and lectured lec-tured him. It was something, Doris explained elaborately, about Monte's last, trip as an apprentice pilot. Monte, overnight in Honolulu, Hono-lulu, had done some celebrating and it had beenreported to Ted. "P VERYBODY in the colony knew that Ted had bawled Monte out, and everybody knew that Monte had been seen dancing with Ted's wife Christmas night. Quite naturally, they connected the two. Kay herself thought that this was Ted's answer to her harmless escapade. She waited until Ted came home, tired and worried over some detail of his precious gyropilot. He had picked up a newspaper to read when she interrupted. in-terrupted. "Ted," she said, "I heard about what you said to Monte Blaine today. Everybody knows you jacked him up about something." He put down the newspaper and merely looked at her. "Oh Monte!" he said. Then he smiled. "He needed it, the young devil. Monte is a little bit spoiled. I could hardly keep from laughing at the hurt-puppy look on his face. Don't worry about that. We're still good friends, and " "But that isn't what people will say at the airport," she objected. "They'll say j'ou bawled him out because he went dancing with me." Ted seemed actually surprised. "But but I never thought about that! It's just that we can't tolerate Ox -v So V4s -"i jcs V in the Seal Sale I X w V mi ftir-vrrivir -n" Miss Emily P. Bissell who thirty years sro originated the first Christmas Seal sale in this country is shown abore with Leigh Mitchell Hodges, then a columnist on the Philadelphia North American .and her entnost blessing, but for their freedom from the enthralling chains of possession and fixity. Some persons 1 have known, who "owned" no share of the earth's, surface or its encumbrances, encum-brances, have come a great deal nearer to actually owning all the world and its multiplicity of beauties than some wrho have held legal title to far- more than one being's rightful share. To enjoy is to own in the true sense of the word. I have known fortunate human beings who could thoroly enjoy the fleeting glimpse of a rich country estate, seen throuerh palings or over hedges, and who would have been supremely supreme-ly unhappy had they been forced to live on such estate for any length of time. I know some Individuals, rated as fortunate, who run in a groove between their homes in the cities and some spot in the mountains or by a lake shore that they call their own. Their lives are as firmly patterned pat-terned as the lives of a tribe of termites grubbing forever in the dark. And they, as part of the fixed scenery, are owned by the man who owns nothing, who sees and passes by, the holder of a "roacLs scholarship." Such Is life. BY DECK MORGAN 1936, NEA Service, Inc. "Tolerate!" Kay exclaimed. "Monte goes out with a pretty girl in Honolulu to dance, and you can' tolerate it!" "That wasn't my information," Ted said 'slowly. "Monce disobeyed dis-obeyed rules." "He's not a machine. He can't, go on and on, like your airplanes, until he's used up and junked!" Ted eyed her. There was in his look the quiet resolution that she had once admired so much. He said, quietly, "Kay, who knows men better you or I? Who knows flying qualities better? I've seen aviation from its infancy. For five years we planned this trans-Pacific flight scientifically." "Plan, plan, plan!" she said. "I'm sick of the word." yED smiled indulgently, and it - made Kay more furious. "Don't ' look at me as though you were indulging a siliy little girl!" she exclaimed. For the first time Ted looked troubled. But he let her continue. "This home," Kay went on, "is just a place where you rest your weary head. The little wife, waiting wait-ing in port with open arms. Poor, simple thing with her household duties! A well-ordered life ashore. Dickie is just a reflection of yourself your-self an eaglet! Where do I fit in? I'm a glorified housekeeper!" "Kay! Kay!" Ted said, "you don't mean all that. You've let some gossip prey on your mind. You're hysterical " "Look at m?," she said, on the verge of tears. "I married a man, and now what have I become a trained engineer! I wanted you to be crazy about me. I thought we'd have fun together. We're human not robots or gyropilots. Automatic steering devices in a plane " "Kay!" Ted tied compassionately, compassion-ately, gathering her into his arms "You don't mean what you're say ing. I have my job, and I have you. I can't be with you as much as other men who have jqbs on land can be with their wives, but I do love you, Kay. I'm : crazy about you. It wouldn't matter to me if you threw all the housekeeping house-keeping overboard, and hired a raft of servants! But I don't think you'd want that. Now what do you want?" Kay was sobbing, on his shoulder, shoul-der, and he held her closer. "I don't know what I want," she said, "except you.' I want to enjoy en-joy more things with you. I want you to care whether I'm happy." He laughed and picked her up in his arms. (To Be Continued) |