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Show PAGE TWO PRQVO (UTAH) SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1940 8B& Stmla'M Herald OUT OUR WAY I By Williams Was With Local Writers Each week this column will feature the activities and achievements achieve-ments of the Provo Chapter of the League of Utah Writers. Publlhl Every Sunday Mornlnr (Dally Herald Every Afternoon Kxcept raturdny and Hunrtny) Published by tut Herald Corporation. (0 South Flrtut Wit fcilreet. r'rovo, Utah. Entered aerond claaa mtttter at the pontofflca la Provo, Utah, under the act of Mnrca 1. 173. , Oilman. Nlcol A Kuthman. National Advertlaui repre-eiUauvt, repre-eiUauvt, N York, tan r'randsco, Detroit. B"ton, jom Aneelcs. ChlfRfro. Member United Press, N. K. A. Service, E'litor' Exchange, the Scrippa l.e:irae of 1 N?wifpcn and Audit JJureau ot Circulation, Subscription terma by carrier tn Utah county, 6(1 cents til month, 13 08 for atx montUa In advance. the yc. In advance: by mall In county. IS 00; outalde county 15. TJ t year In adanr. -Liberty throurh all th Und" To. I.fbrtf BU Tba Herold will not Annum financial reepotiUi!Hty for any error which may appear In advertisements published In Ita column. In thoaa Instance her th paper la at fault. It will reprint tnot part of tfca advertleement tn hlch th ty porraphlcaJ mlstak occur. Honest Intentions, Acts, Not Enough? One of the most penetrating comments we have read for many a day on today's world came out of a Panama newspaper news-paper the other day. The editor was discussing North American relations with Central and South America, and the manner in which Axis propaganda is trying to undermine every step that is taken to increase good will. The United States, he believes, "will make no headway if it depends only on the honesty of its acts, the sanity of its intentions, and the integriy of its attitude being cbrrectly interpreted, because the enemy may always be .trusted to act so iis to distort and disfigure every act so as to discredit the United States and further its own ends." Well, there you have it. Honest acts, sane intentions, integrity of attitude all vain without a propaganda which will persuade people that they are really such, a propaganda outweighing the other fellow's insistence that it is otherwise. This takes a pretty pessimistic- view, not only of the situation, but of human nature itself. The United States has never in its history been less imperialistic toward the countries coun-tries to the south. There is considerable faith here that in the long run the solid demonstrations of action, the repeated manifestations in concrete form of genuine good will, are certain cer-tain to prevail. At any given moment, Nazi, Fascist, and Falangist propaganda pro-paganda in the Latin countries can whip up a certain amount of anti-Yankee sentiment. But if we build solidly, increasing trade on lines that prove mutually profitable, if we increase cultural contacts and learn mutual respect for each other's ways of living, if we develop increasing good will in fact, we shall ride through many propaganda squalls. That is not to say that the United States could not do vastly more in presenting its -point of view to South and Central America. - It could, and it should. But to ape the German. Italian, Spanish, or Japanese methods would be fatal. There is good reason to believe that many of the southern countries are fed up with the deluge of propaganda showered upon them from abroad. Honest acts, sane intention, integrity of attitude will in the long run prevail, provided that we add to them every reasonable opportunity to have them understood. fa if TJnmniiitii , . . . No human misfortune is found readv to turn it to their circling ever around the weak and sore-beset, waiting for them to stagger and fall. Newest of these schemes to profit by the extremities of others is the "trade school racket." It is known that there are jobs now for trained mechanics and other skilled workers, while the unskilled still find it hard to get a job. So "gyp" job-training schools immediately spring up to snare the savings sav-ings of hopeful young men with promises of jobs in airplane and other defense plants. The Northwestern National Life insurance Co., the Minneapolis Better Business Bureau, and various chambers of commerce have had complaints of such "schools" which neither had equipment for proper training, nor connections to get the promised jobs. Look before you leap, these agencies advise all young men considering taking training courses, and it is, good advice ad-vice in this case as in all others. ! so great that, some arc pot advantage human vultures Oh, Surely Not Thatf fit ihinking I1Y ELS IK C. CAHKOIX I was thinking when I was teadine about opportunities for middle-aged and older women the statement that there are more than five hundred occupations open to the weaker sex, of a few oi the women who have succeeded in careers outside of that greatest of all woman careers motnerhood and homemaking. About a year ago Malvina Hoffman Hoff-man was given an award for eminent achievement in sculpture. Miss Hoffman is a native New Yorker who began her career by studying paintiriK and then turn ed to sculpture. She has been decorated dec-orated by the French and Yugoslav Yugo-slav governments and is the possessor pos-sessor of many medals for her work. A large number of her sculptured creations are in permanent per-manent exhibitions in the art galleries gal-leries and museums of the world. The work for ' which she was given the recognition a year ago was the modeling of various types of human kind lor the Field Museum Mu-seum in Chicago. This work took five years and involved a trip around the world in search oi .subjects. In her search she visited pans of the earth rarely penetrated pene-trated by white men. It was necessary ne-cessary often for her to model in clay under the most primitive conditions, and frequently her undertaking un-dertaking entailed great hardship and danger. Her completed models must give her great satisfaction, for "they will stand" as was stated stat-ed at tne program at which me award was made, "a valuable source of study for anthopologists a gift to posterity. Thought of Miss Hoffman reminded re-minded me of an item in the newspaper news-paper some time ago about another an-other woman sculptress. She was Adelide Johnson wno refused charity char-ity when she was about to be evicted from her studio home because be-cause she could not pay her rent. In her disappointment and discouragement dis-couragement mreatened to destroy her work. Mrs. Johnson spent lit" ty years working on statues of famous American women. At one time she had studios in London and Berlin and made a good living from her work. Reverses came, however, and she suffered greater and greater personal discomforts. She could not afford heat for her rooms, and when interested persons per-sons who learned that she was breaking her pieces of sculptor because they were not appreciated, visited her, they found her home us cold as tne marble in her statues. She discovered, when her plight became known, that people uid care for her. One unidentuied nurse sent her a check for 1000 through ihe:Jied Crosa and others. .came to her aid, begging her to came to her aid, begging her allow them to show in a tangible way the appreciation which she thought everyone lacked. A few women have made success suc-cess at statesmanship and have iilled important government positions, posi-tions, Ruth Bryan Owen and trances tran-ces Perkins are examples of these. Nellie Revell was the first woman press agent. It ha3 been said, of her that she "Refuses to accept the Mark Twain dictum that life is a swindle. She is active in writing writ-ing and broadcasting. .Since she blazed the way, women press agents are plentiful and successful. success-ful. Two in New York are said to receive salaries around $30,000." Here but two or three of the large number of positions open to MJkuj MM -IMt r mm BOR.N T. M, Rtt;. v. 3. PAT. OF. .CQPW. 1tO BY NFA SrBVICF. IXC. Olson's 'California T. V. A Plan Down Roosevelt's. Alley GS- BY BRUCE CATTOX Daily Herald Washington Correspondent - WASHINGTON, t Dec. 28 Gov. Culbert L. Olson of California rolled one right down F. D. R.'s alley when he called for a regional federal authority like TV A for the vast Central Valley project in California. Nevertheless, candid New Dealers are a bit skeptical of the plan's chances. In the first place, a bill setting set-ting up such an authority would have to get by congress which wouldn't be easy. Stalwart public-power public-power men like Senator Norris and Congressman Rankin have saved TVA from repeated attacks, but putting over a brand new project pro-ject in a different part of the country would be tougher. Beyond that, the Central Valley Authority even if it did get Congress; Con-gress; blessing would face a huge problem in connection with getting its electricity into the consumer's hands. . THREE ROADS ALL. ROCKY Power distrifcoition systems all up- and down the Central Valley area are tied up in the huge network net-work of the Pacific Gas and Electric El-ectric Co. A. public povyr authority authori-ty operating in the valley could . do .one of three things duplicate this distribution system, at great expense and likely on a non-profit basis, acquire P. G. E.'s lines by a tedious, expensive and uncertain un-certain process of condemnation, or simply sell power at the dams to P. G. E. for transmission and resale. - Public-power people don't like any of those prospects. As one friend of Governor Olson's plan sums it up: the expense of the first alternative would practically ruin the project's chances, the lejral battles incident to the second sec-ond might last for 10 years, and adoption of the third course would benefit a private corporation considerably con-siderably but would do little directly di-rectly for the public. Nevertheless, Central Valley's potentialities are enormous, and with FDR giving Olson's idea the okay the plan will undoubtedly be pushed So far, Central Valley has remained re-mained a Bureau of Reclamation proposition. (Just incidentally. Reclamation is in the Interior Department, De-partment, and getting Secretary Jokes' consent to the removal of the project may not be a simple job either,) Basically, the works now underway under-way are aimed at flood control and a general redistribution of the valley's water resources. Tn ef-fact ef-fact it calls for elimination of flood perils in the Sacramento river and a siphoning of stored-up water off to the valley of the San Joaquin Joa-quin for irrigation. . The national defense angle could figure in all of this. The Federal Power Commission recently re-cently mentioned a prospective shortage of electric power in northern California, and the annual an-nual report of Reclamation Commissioner Com-missioner John C. Page asserts known deposits f various important import-ant strategic minerals,- which would require large blocks of power pow-er for processing, are within transmission distance of Shasta Dam, MAN EXONERATED SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 28 (U.R) A coroner's jury today had exonerated Jack Illingsworth, Salt Lake City, of blame in the death of Kenneth P. Clegg, 25, who died last Monday of a broken neck after an alley fight with Illingsworth. Clegg fell during the fight and suffered the fatal in-jry. in-jry. women have been considered. Other fields have given opportunities oppor-tunities which women have as eagerly accepted positions they have filled with entire success. - THIRTY VEARS TOO FORUM 'n Agin 'Em Writer Says Peoplcj Must Assert Power Editor Herald: "A minority of 10 per cent of the people is farcing the majority of 90 per cent Into the war, while the 90 per cent stand by silent and helpless," says the arch bishop of Cincinnati. That appears correct with one exception, namely, name-ly, the 90 per cent are not helpless. help-less. The fact is the 90 per cent have all power in 'their hands. Undoubtedly they don't realize it or know 'how to use their power. The zero hour is close at hand, the 90 per cent must awake, arise and assert their power at once or it Will be too late; the 10 per cent' will very soon plunge this nation into war unless the 90 per cent stop them. Why do 10 per cent of the people want war? Why do 90 per cent ofthxl ptupit' warn, icatc : The 10 per cent want war because be-cause they think their stocks and bonds, their privileges and power pow-er are threatened. Tha 90 per cent want peace because be-cause they think their liberties and freedom, their security, their lives are threatened by war. This is a commercial war an economic war, an imperialist war. Everyone who has eyes to see knows that is so. Everyone who is honest in 'his statements says that is so. All the chatter and jibter about democracy, religion, civilization etc. is nonsense or hy-pocracy. hy-pocracy. "Where your treasure is there will your heart be also." The 10 per cent whose heart is in war have their treasure in the great international jackpot of world imperialism. im-perialism. They demand that our wealth and our boj's be plunged into war to save their treasure which gives them privilege and power. The 90 per cent who want peace know that their liberty and even life is at sacrifice if this nation is plunged into war. Let every one of the 90 per cent speak up and act up now. Let them write or wire their congressional congres-sional delegation and the administration adminis-tration that they oppose any participation par-ticipation in this foreign war. Such a display of power would keep this nation at peace. E. A. MITCHELL EDGEMONT MRS. EVA GILLESPIE Reporter rhono 040-J-2 The Edgemont Literary club met Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Sharp Gillespie, with Mrs. Emma Brereton in charge. Mrs. Merne Schoney. received "As the Seed is Sown" by Christine Whiting Whit-ing Parmenter and a poem, "Resolution" "Reso-lution" was read by Mrs. Brereton. Holiday decorations were used in the entertaining rooms and tasty refreshments were served to Mrs. Nellie Ludlum, Mrs. Pina Schoney, Mrs. Weeks, and Mrs. Olive Gilles-pi, Gilles-pi, guests, and members, Mrs. Cordelia Cor-delia Booth, Mrs. Emma Brereton, Mrs. Merne Schoney, Mrs. Bertha Salisbury, Mrs. Amy Taylor, Mrs. Annie Gillespie, Mrs. Louise Trotter, Trot-ter, Mrs. Loia Wiscomb. Mrs. Lo-leta Lo-leta Dixon, Mrs. Lydia Hogan and the hostess. Mr and Mrs. Claude Conder entertained en-tertained all members of their family at Christmas dinner at their home at Olmsted. Thcfee present were Mr. and Mrs. Clairs Banks and son, Miss Maxine Conder Con-der and Mr. and Mrs. Don Edwards Ed-wards of Salt Lake City, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Conder, Misses Vera OOM sz-28 and Jean Conder, Phil Conder and the host and hostess. The Literary lesson will be given Tuesday at Relief society by Class-leader Class-leader Louise Trotter. All ladies of the ward are invited to attend, beginning at 2 o'clock. . Mr. and Mrs. Allen Stewart have returned home after spending spend-ing Christmas in Salt Lake with Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Sportsman. Miss Coleen Cash is visiting with) relatives in Salt Lake. Mrs. Effie Pinegar, president of Lincoln P.-T. A-, Mrs. Price McBride, and Mrs. Camenish, members of the committea on school lunches, were business visitors visit-ors in Salt Lake on Friday. ACCEPTS POSITION Jos. H. Clayson of Provo, senior at Brigham Young university and part time assistant in the bureau of visual instruction, left Saturday Satur-day for Ontario, Calif., where he wilt be employed by the Smith chain of markets. : Mr. Clxyson returned in July from an L. D. S. mission . of 27 months in the British Isles and the Eastern States. SERIAL STORY BY TOM HORNER Y K S T V. R OA Y I Inilrr the doc (r' -nreful questioning;, Mnrr ndmit thnt ahe in in love tvith Jerry. But she en re too much for biin to nllow him to lvreelt hi rnrevr. Sh tells Jlr. Connelly utic lieiieven Vnlerle In sincerely In love Willi Jerry, liti rmiea. if nhe ever discover Vnlerle I mnU-ini? mnU-ini? n fool of Jerry, to do nil be ran to break up the romnnee. 0 ' DR. CONNELLY'S SURPRISE CHAPTER VI TTUGH CONNELLY found op-'JL op-'JL portunity, at breakfast, to tell his wife of his conversation with Mary Warde. It was no betrayal of Mary's confidences. He knew that the girl realized that Martha would know eventually, if she hadn't guessed already, that Mary loved Jerry. There could be no secrets from Martha. "I don't know why he has to fall in love with this Valerie," Martha said for the fifth time. "If it were, Mary, she'd have sense enough not to let him ruin his career " "Let's not pass judgment on the girl before we see her," Hugh cautioned. "She may be everything every-thing Jerry says she is. Mary tells me she is sweet, decidedly attractive. We have to give the girl a chance." "But if she really loves Jerry, she should be willing to wait. What's two years? I waited three for you." "The situation was different then, my darling," her husband laughed. "You would have been awfully hungry, going practically without food those first years after I left medical school. Things are different now. "These young people have an entirely new outlook on life, new problems to meet. We can't say what was right for us is right for them. Don't forget, too, that Valerie has money of her own." "You don't think Jerry would ever " Martha was angered at the thought. "I hopa my son will never live on his wife's money," Hugh agreed. "But that's up to Jerry. It is his life, and his to live as he wants to. You and I are getting old, Martha. Our children are growing 'up. We can't run their lives for them forever. They have to stand on their own two feet. "We've given them all we can in a home, in education, in training train-ing to be I honest, good men and women. The rest of their lives is entirely up to each, one of them." He bent to kiss her goodby. "I've got a busy day ahead of me, and so have you. ' Everything should be perfect for this 'announcement 'an-nouncement party' tonight. No dates for Sheila and Kathleen. We Cannon Rassmussen, a young B. Y. U. student, a member of Dr. Culmsee's poetry class of the summer school session of this year, has sold a poem his first ever submitted to any publication to Goodhousekeeping. Who says there isn't a Santa Claus? Eva Willes Wangsgaard has a poem in the Dec. 14th Saturday Evening Post. A heart-warming. LETTER FOR CHRISTMAS Dear Folks: I somehow haven't learned the knack Of saying easily, "I can't come back This Christmastime." For, as I write, I see . The homemade star that tops the balsam tree, The painted paper toys that wore so well As trimmings, and the crystal, silver bell. Beneath the colored lights, the tinsel streams On scooters, skiing togs and other dreams Become concrete. And there's the added thrill Of stockings that you always , used to fill With small surprises given just for fun: The dog that barked, the lizard that would run. The goose that laid the golden egg, the car That bucked and whirled. How dear these trifles are Now that they come as ghost toys from the past. Whose worth and transience I have learned at last! Such joys are dropped by love and sacrifice From time's swift wings, and are not offered twice. But having known them, I shall never lack Dear Dad and Mother, don't expect ex-pect me tack. Another Ltahn to score for tha holiday season is Christie Lund Coles, temporarily a resident of Spokane, Washington. Mrs. Coles was second place winner in a state-wide poetry contest for Washington. Winner of th Deseret News Christmas Story, and poem contest, con-test, were Marge Stewart of Salt Lake City with her story "Little Guy" and Eva Wille3 Wangsgaard Wangs-gaard with her poem, a sonet sequence se-quence called, "Above This Clamor." Cla-mor." The Utah Verse column award for the year will be announced shortly. There were a great many worthwhile contributions entered and many more are on hand for the ensuing year. Many surprise CHRISTMAS RUSH want Mary there, too. As Valerie's sorority sister, she has every right to be included. "It's up to you, Martha, to keep the twins in line. Let s not condemn con-demn Valerie without giving her a chance. See you at dinner." Martha finished her coffee slowly slow-ly after the doctor had gone. Hugh was right, she knew. Hugh was always right. TT was not easy to dislike Valerie -1- after you met her. Her blond beauty, her undeniable charm, were major csscts. And she was doing her best in an uncomfortable uncomfort-able position, Martha could see, trying to make Jerry's family like her. True, she was Inclined to be the center of attraction, she demanded de-manded attention and got it, anywhere any-where she might be. But that, too, was her privilege, the just due of every strikingly beautiful girL Despite her determination to dislike the girl, Martha found herself - half approving Jerry's choice. They would make a striking couple this tall, smiling man-son of hers, so like the Hugh Connelly she had loved so many years, and this small, utterly feminine fem-inine creature. But a single doubt lingered could Valerie, would Valerie bear up under the trials which every doctor's wife must share? The doctor seemed entirely won over. He had apparently accepted Valerie without reservation, welcoming wel-coming her into her future place in the family circle. His voice came to Martha now, as the dinner ended. "I think a toast to the future bride and groom is in order," Hugh was saying. "Then I have a surprise sur-prise for you." Martha sipped the wine without tasting it, her eyes roving around the table. She had expected Mary to ask to be left out of the party, but here she was, pushing Valerie into the spotlight at every opportunity, op-portunity, leading the conversation into channels where Valerie could shine in small talk about new plays and books giving Valerie every chance to show to best advantage. ad-vantage. Martha wondered if she herself would have been as generous. gen-erous. The twins had accepted Jerry's choice, too. As always, everything Big Brother Jerry did must be right, and if they bore any animosity ani-mosity toward the newcomer, they carefully concealed it. "Let's have coffee around the fire," Martha heard herself saying. "Then we can hear about this big surprise your father has to tell us." "TT'S really not a3 big a surprise as I may have made it sound." i poems have come to the editor's desk that would otherwise have gone unnoticed, since new writers are reluctant to try their wings the first time on restricted or specialized markets. From the many favorable comments that have come to th? column, the Daily Herald is congratulated for offering offer-ing a service of that kind to writers and readers alike. Many of our contributors have since made national publications. The New Year holds many promises for them and for all writers. Utah to the Front in 1941! Once News, Now History Twenty-five Year? A pro Today From the Files of THE PROVO HERALD Dec. 29, 1915 A fire broke out in the office of the Provo Post and burned up. considerable equipment. 'We would suggest that since our neighbor has met with this severe loss (about $500) that the subscribers rally to their rescue and pay up any delinquent accounts ac-counts which may be due that paper." A stranger stranded in Provo, with a wife and six children, appealed ap-pealed to the city for aid and was given S25 by Jesse Knight and a job at Tintic. Dispatches from London predicted pre-dicted that the holiday lull in war activities would be broken by a German move in the Balkans. . President Guy C. Wilson of L. D. S. U. spent part of his Christmas vacation in Provo. - Boy Scouts of the First ward were praised for their work Christmas Christ-mas eve in collecting and distributing distri-buting goods for the needy of the ward. Rules approved by the Utah board of barber examiners stated that all barbers must sterilize their razors before every shave, and that all towels must be re-laundered re-laundered after they were used once. Trinity College, Dublin, Eire, was corporated by royal charter in 1591 COPYRIGHT. 1940. NA SERVICE. INC. the doctor began. "You know, Valerie and Jerry, this decision of yours came rather sudden Jerry leaving school and all that. "To end the suspense, the surprise sur-prise is just this Jerry has a job. Not much of a job, of course, at first, but it will pay enough for you to live on here in town. "I was telling John, down at the drug store, about you today, Jerry, and he wants you to go to work for him again. You'll be a clerk out in front at first, of course, just as you were during the summers you worked for him before. But he'll pay you more now. Ctart at $25 a week." . "What?" Valerie gasped. "Twenty-five " But Jerry cut her short. "That's swell, Dad.. We can get by on that fine." "John will give you a raise in a couple of months or so, as soon as you get into the swing of things. And he'll give you a chance to get in some time behind the case, too, so that you'll get better acquainted with drugs. With your knowledge of medicine, and all the things you've learned in school, you'll have no difficulty in passing the pharmacy board exams next fall. As a registered pharmacist you should be earning $50 to $G0 a week here in no time." "That's about three t times as much as we had the first year we were married," Martha put in. , "That's perfect, Dad." Jerry was all smile.". "When do we start?" Valerie was silent. "You can go to work the Monday Mon-day after Nevv .Ycar's," Hugh went on. "And that's only half There's a little house over on Front street, an attractive place, even if it is small I called the owner and he'll let you have it for $25 a month. We'll ell go over and see it tomorrow. tomor-row. . . . Well, Valerie, what do you think of it?" Jerry answered for her. "Val and I are just tickled pink over it. Mighty good of you to go to all that trouble, Dad. We can get married mar-ried Saturday and start living Monday, can't we, honey?" Valerie forced a laugh. "You're not giving me much time, Jerry. have to buy a trousseau, and Mother insists on a big wedding. But maybe it can be arranged. Tn. dying to see the house," she went on, genuinely delighted now. We'll have to buy furniture, and se about a cook-" "Hold on, here, to-be-Mrs. Jerry Connelly. You can't afford a cook on $25 week," Jerry bantered. "Y( don't expect " Valerie asked, incredulously. "Why, Jerry, $25 won't evew keep me in clothes!" (To Be Continued). |