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Show PAGE TWO PROVO (tJTAH) SUNDAY 13ERAI& SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1937 SECTION Tvm "Proclaim Liberty tkrough mQ the lun Tha Libert? The Herald Every Afteraooa Except SaturAar, ad Sunday Morning Published by the Herald Corporation. 60 South Fir at West street. Provo, Utah. Entered as second-class matter at the postofflce In Provo, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. Gilman, Nicol & Ruthman. National Advertising representatives. New York, San Francisco, Detroit, Boston, LK)s Angeles, Seattle, Chicago. Member United Press, N. E. A. S Feature? 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 mail in county SS.00; outside county $5.75 the year in advance. I Was Thinking-- By ELSIE O. CARROLL GOSSIP IS VTCIOlfe I was thinking what a vicious practice eosalp is. Most of us in- Member United Press, N. E. A. Service. Western ffdulge in it, feeing that it is 8 harmless pastime if we merely repeat re-peat what is told to us. But even though we have no intention of injuring in-juring another, often by themere repetition of ugly facts or supposi tions we unintentionally help to create a monster which destroys a reputation. I out oua WAY By WILLIAMS For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole World, and lose his own soul? Mark 8:36. Sometimes the best gain is to lose. Herbert. What Medical Care? One year and a half ago the American Foundation, endowed en-dowed by the late Edward Bok to study problems of government, govern-ment, asked some 2000 leading doctors for their opinions as to whether our American system of medical care needs to be modified or radically changed and, if so, along what lines. The answers of those physicians were made public the other day with the publication of two large volumes entitled: "American Medicine: Expert Testimony Out of Court." If you are in any way seriously concerned about the big problem of national health, get and read those two volumes. They deal, forthrightly and frankly, with every phase of the whole intricate structure of American medicine analyzing what's wrong and what's right with present medical practice and education, and discussing most of the social, economic xfid medical proposals for better distribution of medical care ana reducing tne size oi ine nation s doctor Din. But to the average layman, the most remarkable feature of this report on medical care will be the hearty chorus that arises from the doctors queried. They say, in effect, "What medical care?" Admitting, as most of them do, that adequate medical care is not now available to a large section of the population, these physicians insist that the first big problem to be solved is the improvement of the quality of medical care and the personnel of the medical profession. As one of many doctors whose testimony is cited in the report puts it, the best medical care procurable today is "not yet good enough." In other words, they say, it is more im portant to raise the standard of medical care than it is to distribute mediocre medical services more widely and cheap ly. Better medical education, along with speedier applica tion of new medical knowledge and stricter licensing, say many of the physicians quoted, is the real key to the solution of the problem of better medical care for more people. And hand in hand with better medicine, they say, must go increased public understanding of and demand for modern mod-ern scientific medical care. "The present extent of quackery and the widespread use of nostrums." says the Foundation, "emphasize the fact that a better educated public is a condition precedent to any nation-wide plan for making adequate medical care generally available. "The parties in interest are the medical profession, the public and the government, and all three must 'search to gether' if the problem of supplying adequate medical care to the whole population is to be found. Altho it was not intended to prove anything, but merely to illumine and define the problems facing medicine today, the Foundation report makes clear that in any national planning plan-ning for health betterment the two factors of quality of medical care and public co-operation must be given first consideration. There is a peculiar fascination for most people in the calamities that come to their fellow-men. It is amazing: how quickly a crowd will gather to the scene- of an accident; how avidly all the details de-tails of a tragedy are relayed from group to group; how persons without with-out any motive other than morbid curiosity will call at houses of mourning and attend funerals. It is such as they who set the ferment oi gossip, going with that insidious phrase, "theyS "They say .je completely collaps ed when she died and that her sister had to make all arrangements arrange-ments for the funeral. He blames himself somehow thinks he let her get around too soon after the baby came." "They say Dr. left her and went to a football game." They say her husband used to be jealous of the doctor was the doctor doc-tor one of her old suitors?" A week later. "They say tried to kill Dr. ; that he thinks the doctor's neglect caused the death." "They say Dr. really tried to commit suicide ran his car off the bank purposely. "They say that the child really does look more like the doctor than its supposed father" . . And so a hideous story evolves a veritable snake from less than the proverbial horse hair. SI M.ppreg&.' tAVACKW' V AM'THAT f I POMTf A VEM 7 hah? V&i-W 1 7 cApiMMM! euy mad wes had Ij,bxsur.ev - IN OOOPi-S Itrf A RELIC ETTEBL TH WHILE MB I VEAE.S SOU l-r-i OP eETTE QVS- OP HAVM4 V HAD IT 1 OAT DEE 5 U- QAV5y I A HE WAS FT. THATS &UT, NOW- V PEE J TV. rT HALF OF IsJONE OF ISJO, I'OOWTT FROfA P& r A. MILLIOM l US EVER I THIM C I - COCOfcUT. X X AT. OWE l HAD TW' WANT IT, w " -T7 I r I 1 time i V pleasure) if I'm 2gg ' V PEEL SORRV OF- G3MUA UlSl , - V FER TWKjUY-J r I LOSE rT- Crwme. Im.Mt. THE COME'DOWK). 4-14 j (g) MASS ACTION IN DIVORCES MARION, O.. April 24 U.R Divorce hearing for three members mem-bers of the Sarback family were held in one day. Heard yesterday were the petitions of Joseph Sar back, his brother Michael and Michael's son Fred. Scrap Iron BY X REPORTER Normally I'm not a pessimist. But lately ITe been carrying around witn me a definite, expanding, ex-panding, ingrowing grouch. The cause of it is scrap Iron. Back home after a swing thru the western states I find my memory of an otherwise entirely entire-ly pleasant trip marred, distorted distort-ed and blighted by an endless panorama of loathsome scrap iron. Scrap iron is not in itself loathsome, not especially. As a youngster I used to track it to its lair and trap it for the horse-carted horse-carted junkman who, for some mysterious reason, would give kids a few spendable copper pennies pen-nies for half a wagon load of assorted as-sorted rust and iron. A too vivid imagination in these latter days may be responsible for the chronic feeling of nausea that the sight of the west's scrap iron parade has given me. No town is too small to have its great heap of scrap iron along the railroad tracks these days; no siding too short to hold at least one freight gondola filled to overflowing with the sinister stuff. Sinister? Yes, very much so. Surely you have guessed the reason rea-son that has sent battalions of junk gatherers combing the west in recent months and keeps a staff of buyers and transportation men busy getting it to seaports and away in ships. War. The war god-rides again and he must have steel and iron to ride upn. And some find it profitable to feed into his insatiable insati-able maw the cast-offs of civilization's civiliza-tion's progress, to be made into the machines and devices with which civilization may destroy Itf f self: In the hillocks and mountains of scrap Iron that adorn the rights-of-way of every western railroad these days, I noted old Iron bedsteads, bed-steads, sewing machine frames, engine blocks, battered mowing machines, tractor wheels, huge pulleys a thousand and one rusted, rust-ed, useless scraps of metals that can and w:: lbe melted and turned shiny bright again and fashioned into a thousand different differ-ent devices for killing human, beings. be-ings. Oh yes, the west is getting combing in these bright spring days of 1937. Some of the great mass of death-dealing junk is going go-ing to Japan; some of it across the Atlantic. We are helping to fashion for the war god a longer, stronger sword, a new suit of armor. My nausea comes from the thought that some day he will call upon us, too. for the fine young flesh to feed into his sausage saus-age grinder. Wool Price Finn In Boston Market BOSTON, April 24 (LU! Volume Vol-ume of business on the Boston wool market was small this week but prices were mostly steady to very firm the U. S. Agriculture department reported today. In domestic wools, the original bag lines of western grown wools received most attention. Australian Austral-ian wools moved occasionally at strong prices. Buyers showed little lit-tle interest in the new medium grade fleeces from the middle west. V. A. Powell, 146 North Fourth West. Call at Paramount for tickets. No "Defeat" Marvin Creator, managing editor of the Milwaukee Journal, gave to the American Society of Newspaper Editors one of the most sensible comments on the part of the press in American politics that we have yet heard. Last fall, he remarked, President Roosevelt was triumphantly trium-phantly re-elected despite the fact that a majority of the nation's dailies fought him. Was this, then, a defeat for the press, as many people have said? Listen to Mr. Creager: "Few editors wish to see newspapers reach such power as to be able to control elections. What we have seen is in no real sense a defeat for the press. It is rather a striking demonstration that the public power of the press lies in informing in-forming rather than in exhorting." In other words, the newspaper is primarily what its name implies an organ for disseminating news. It did that job very ably in the last campaign. It gave the voters the facts and the voteis made up their minds on the basis of those facts. There is no shadow of a "defeat" in that. I was thinking of the old game Gossip ' we used to play. Once me starter ot the game whispered to her nearest companion : ''Mrs Nancy Pohansen had lumbago in ner Knees and couldn't do her share of the work at the church festival so Mr. Johansen induced Abigail-Thorderson to go and take her place on the committee." After that sentence had been passed fi-om ear to ear around the room it turned out to be: "Mr. Hans Lumbeau cut his niece and seduced a gal at the church where her third son works on a committee at festivals." No wonder, as the old story relates, re-lates, the woman who had ruined her friend's reputation by a care-leas care-leas remark discovered that it was as impossible to repair the wrong as to retrieve a bag of feathers scattered to the wind. Old Uncle Jeff has the right philosophy. He always made it a point to say something good about a maligned person. One day as he sat with his fellow-loafers on the Post Office corner while they tore the reputation of a fellow townsman towns-man to tatters, one of his friends said, "Hey, Jeff, I'll bet even you can't say nothin' good about Skunk." Jeff scratched his head for a moment and then said, "Wall, boys, you all know duraed well thay ain't another sun-of-a-gun in Dry Holler that kin spit tobacco juice as fur as Skunk Sadler." Howdy, folks! The picnic season will soon be here, and Little Provocations Pro-vocations Jr. is already practising how to sit down in the mayonnaise. mayon-naise. The world is getting better. It doesn't take half as long to get a wrong telephone number as it used to. SIDE GLANCES i By George Clark P V- Out of words are welded swordf That pierce with hate, with doubt, despair; Out of words are fashioned crowns That bless with love, with peace, with prayer. amp News BY I S. KLE1M It isn't nice to be so curious about your neighbor's quar-relSiAny quar-relSiAny way, she wili be over tomorrow and tell me ail - - .about iL'' TF little Aden can have a stamp issued for it by the British government, gov-ernment, the proud, better known people of the Isle of Man are demanding de-manding special postage stamps of their own. From 1891 to 1907, revenue stamps were issued for the ble of Man. and even now this famous island in the Irish Sea has its own bank notes. v Great Britain will nave only one stamp, of P-2 -penny value, in the British Empire's special issue of coronation stamps, while Newfoundland New-foundland will add to the colonial juries punted for it by the mother country, with a special coronation issue of 13 stamps. Argentina has corrected the "insult'' "in-sult'' to Chile in a recent map stamp by reissuing this stamp with its Chilean border clarified. But the Falkland Islands, owned by Gieat Britain, still seem to be part of Argentina. New in postage are two special service stamps issued by Czechoslovakia, Czecho-slovakia, for delivery of mail only to the person addressed. The stamps are triangular. With increase of postage rates. Japan is changing the designs of its stamps. That country also is planning a series of patriotic stamps for th promotion of aviation. These may be part of the new series. MOTTO FOR RADIO I SOPRANOS Practice what you screech. '( y Purple will be the popular color for flappers' bathing suits this summer, it is announced. A bright color is necessary in order that the suits may be visible to the naked eye. An auto tire's a trick lout, No matter where you roam; If it is going to peter out. It does so far from home. Dear Homer: How do the flappers flap-pers keep those dinky little hats on ? Reader. Vacuum pressure. by MARIE BLIZARD 1937, NEA Service, Inc. BEDTIME STORY "I'm going to get up early in the morning and work in the rock gar "en." Gashouse Gua ia one of the meanest men in town. .vTien he and his wife were rrested for fighting in their apartment, Gus grabbed the best seat in the police patrol wagon. CAMPUS JOE SAYS: When you are trying to make up your mind to kisM your girl and Mirprise her, don't kJw her. and surprW her! Some men are so lazy that they never attend baseball games, as it is too fatiguing to stand up in the seventh inning and stretch. : YE DIARY I Earfle home, where Dame Pro-voations Pro-voations doth suggest that I do wash and polish the petrol buggy, and I do tell her the chaise do be as fresh and spotles, mm when it did come from the facto rie assembly as-sembly line, which do be a slight fib, for Lord! the petrol buggy do be as dirtie and mud-splattered as the coach in which Napoleon rode In his retreat from Miscow! sprinkle with paprika serve. find Culmsee Poem Asked For Anthology; Use The Beabar Publishing company has asked Carlton Culmsee, instructor in-structor in jounalism at Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university, for permission per-mission to uae his poem, "Cape Perpetua," in an anthology. The poem won second prize in a contest conducted in 1925 by The Lariat, poetry magazine of Portland, Port-land, Ore. I SPRINOVIIXE BIRTHS 4e $g Mr. and Mrs. Morris Thorte of this city are the proud parents par-ents of a baby daughter, born Thursday, April 15, at their resilience resi-lience here. The tea plant grows to a height of 30 feet In its native state, it is an evergreen tree, which bears long narrow; leathery leaves and oeautnui white or rose tinted .owers, followed by woody cap sules containing three round seeds eacn. BEGIN HERB TODAY DAPHNE BRETT, good -looking;, tarfrufol yearns: Kmw York d-vert d-vert linsr execs five, 4eelda rent m. beamtUal Conaeetleut estate es-tate her father left her whea he vraa killed, la a haatia- aeeldent. She aeeda the ararr after ae years ( pravlaMaa; for the ea-ratloa ea-ratloa of her younger slater JENNIFER, who Mas just naished college. Dapaae rents to aUraetlre yonag architect oae LARRY SMITH. Aad inatedlately Daphae flads herself llklag Mr. Smith, more thaa she cares to admit. She is lea to believe that he Is tarried. Meaawhlle, Jennifer re tarns from school and vacation, bat she's not the unsophisticated little sister Daphne pictured her. Bounding into Daphne's apartment apart-ment she announce1 at once her party plans for the evening, requested re-quested a cocktail, and got a date vrlth TUCK AINSLEY, Daphne's beam. Daphne, shocked, tried to reconcile recon-cile herself to the "new' sister. Jennifer, six years younger, looks on Daphne as oldV-fashioned. And Daphne, resenting this, decides to do something about it. WOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER VI "T DON'T want tea," Daphne Brett said to Anne Cockerell in the round room at the Ritz, the last week in October. "If you've ordered it, you can call the waiter back and tell him to brew something some-thing more stimulating for me. I need it!" "You do?" Anne asked, her eyes taking in the smart details of the bright scarf and hat Daphne wore with her usual tweeds. "You don't look in need of any stimulation." Daphne permitted herself a speculative, embracing study of the occupants of the room before she answered. Then she said cryptically: cryp-tically: "I do, very much. T need a mink coat, eight diamond bracelets, a sheaf of orchids and a telephone call from Clark Gable inviting me to dinner. Then, maybe I'd feel better." t Anne folded her arms patiently and composed herself to wait for Daphne to "come out of it." Daphne swallowed hard, "I don't know. I never felt this way before. Did the feeling ever come over you suddenly that you were nothing more than a dull lump of clay? That your girlhood was gone forever and it never had been much good anyway? That you felt as though you were sitting out in the middle of a very large island ful by yourself?" "Certainly," Anne said, most heartily. "It's usually when my latest permanent is letting out its last feeble gasp, or I've had a cold, or I haven't had a nice compliment compli-ment from a man in a long time. Have you tried analyzing the thing?" "No, I'm not much given to self-fmalysis." self-fmalysis." "Maybe that's1 what you need. It seems to me there are lots of things you need. Want to hear them?" Daphne tilted her glass upward phd nodded. "Well, one thing you need is . new and exciting beau. The old ones that you hare are not enough." "Had is the word. My beaus are all coming around to see Jennifer Jen-nifer now." "Really?" Anne asked, a bit surprised. sur-prised. "How about Tuck? Strange as it seems to all of us, It appears that Tuck really has a heart and he seems to have given it to you ' ! h-" f ' !" ---s 13 ' i 1 ffr " !hJbj j I f i 0. I j .iii u.-j'iy-ii Illustration by E. H. Gunder "Did the feeling ever come over pou suddenly." Daphne nenl en, "ihal you veere nothing more than a dull lump of clay? That your girlhood vtas gone forever?' Anne. Maybe that's why he likes me. I can't see any other reason. I'm not the type you'd expect Tuck would care for, am I?" "Why not?" Anne asked, reasonably. rea-sonably. Daphne twirled her glass by its slender stem. "Oh, I mean that I'm sort of mouselike and you'd expect Tuck to demand the gorgeous gor-geous type. Jennifer is the gorgeous gor-geous type." Thooey ," Anne said, inelegantly. inele-gantly. "You'd be if you wort a different type of clothes. You happen to wear simple things that don't draw attention to your good looks. Oh, you've got them or you wouldn't have dozens of beaus hanging around all the time. Maybe, on second thought, it might be a good idea for you to splurge on a new outfit Something Some-thing you really can't afford. It's been known to help." 'TT would be nothing new to me to buy clothes I can't afford, af-ford, Anne Cockerell. , With all the clothes Jennifer has, she felt that she had to get some new things when she went to work in Wall Street." She hurried on, "Of course, she's going to pay for them later. She's getting $25 a week and when she gets dear, it's going to help." "Did you happen to tell Jennifer Jenni-fer that you wanted to get a new evening dress for the party in New Haven after the game?" "Yes, but she said she adored I don't take Tuck seriously, my black lace and she - thought l right. ; I'm; pot - used, to- having it would be grand with some new flowers." "Oh, she did, did she?" repeated re-peated Anne with asperity. "That's darn generous of her! Look here, Daphne Brett, I know what's the matter with you. In a word of three syllables, It's Jennifer! 1 Good heavens, gjxl, can't you see why you are depressed?" de-pressed?" Daphne summoned all the dignity dig-nity she could m;ister. "No, it isn't Jennifer, whatever you may think. I understand Jennifer and she doesn't bother me the way she bothers you, Anne." "Permit me to point out this to you: When Jennifer isn't around you're a smoothie, capable of handling han-dling all comers. With Jennifer around,, you do a shrinking violet act and take your cues from her. Jennifer is a gorgeous child, terrifically ter-rifically impressed with her own self and why not? It's all new to her. She's just discovered what she is. She loves the spotlight and she hasn't looked beyond her own mirror to see what's going on around her, or if anyone else has a right to that spotlight She's taking your money, your beaus and undoubtedly everything you have, and will do so .until she gets some grown-up sense or until, un-til, you apply a firm hand. When she wakes up,, shell see that she has dangerous competition in a girl like you. You're both beautiful beau-tiful in entirely different ways." Thanks, Anne. Maybe you're anyone as young as Jennifer around me. I didn't realize six years made so much difference in ages." She changed the subject, speaking with animation. "Do you know, I believe 111 get huge red poppies for that black dress and wear some in my hair." Anne saw Daphne's features light up. ' 'Atta girl! I'm glad to see you snap into it. I was afraid you were going to break out in lavender and old lace. I haven't seen you with that revivified look since the day you first described that Smith person to me." "VOU will persist in remember-A remember-A ing that, won't you? He's k leaving the Hall at the end of November. His wife probably finds it too cold in the country. Check, please, Anne." "I seem to be the one having the fun today, so I'll pay it, but what's the rush?" "I've got to get dinner it's cheaper than eating out for two and Jennifer is pretty tired when she gets home." "Then let her go sleepy-bye for a while. I want you to stop around at the Rains Galleries to see a modern show with me. I won't keep you long." Daphne allowed herself to be easily persuaded and was glad when she matched her step to Anne's and they swung up Fifth avenue' in easy strides. She threw back her head and inhaled the sparkling, crisp air that filled her nostrils and her spirit with a new sense of adventure. This was New York in October, the most exhilarating month in that city. "Nice, isn't it?" she said, sniffing sniff-ing a perfect, straight little nose and falling into an old habit between be-tween intimates of expecting Anne to understand what she meant That was the way it had been before Jennifer came. Jennifer greeted her from the lounge when she let herself in an hour later: "Oh, Daphne, I really meant to get dinner going but I'm simply dead. I never knew a girl could work so hard as they make us at that offiee of mine. Oh, Daph, I have something I want to tell you ..." "Yes, darling." Daphne swallowed swal-lowed a sigh. Was she going to hear more of this song about Jennifer's Jen-nifer's "hard" job? "We had company around 5:30 today. A- simple gorgeous creature crea-ture came by here. You know the type, not handsome but intriguing? in-triguing? Tall, quiet the pipe-smoking pipe-smoking kind just the way I like them. I really worked on him, you can bet." "That wasn't hard? And didn't he succumb?" Daphne answered affectionately as she pulled the blouse of her house pajamas over her dark head. "I wouldn't be a bit surprised," Jennifer said with a happy little laugh. "He's invited me up to Brett Hall. Cute?" Daphne gave Jennifer all 'her attention then. "If it was Larry Smith, Jennifer," she said briefly, "you can't go up there unless his wife invites you." "His wife?" Jennifer answered it wasn't a question and tilted her head with a pleased gesture in the mirror. "He isnt married. I asked him. He lives at the Hall with his mother and aunt. (To Be Continued! |