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Show All Things Arc Reld Hyc PROVO;-UTAH. COUNTY; UTAH; SUNDAY; JANUARY 18, 1948 Time for a New-Act ; . When NewcYorks last Ararietyrattd-ticture 'house throws out the itasre show in favor. of the double feature, it- seems thatvaudevUfe! : at last is officially dead. Then along comes - a Tokyo dispatch aymsrthat this -guy Hiro c hito is still wowing them over there with an ; acrobatic clown Act , r ;:J t . His performance doesn't sound likelmuch.- He takes a:fan in his toea and fans himself. He swims in. the rain, holding an open um-" um-" brella in .one Jiand. . (Presumably he .can do . the same.lriclt when it isn't, raining.) The story doesn't say what he does for an encore -maybe he writes under-water. . Anyway as we said, it doesn't sound like much of an act. We guess that what keeps him going. is good press-agency and a' softhearted soft-hearted management."" , Used to be that Ilirohito's publicity was pretty extravagant. - For'? several years, he was billed as being descended from some god or goddess. The yokelslbelieved it, too. Then one thing and'ipother kicked the props from under this sort of promotion. Sd whoever is handling his publicity decided to build him up as a sort of simple-minded man of the people. He-is "a man of few accomplishments accomp-lishments and robbies," saya his latest press release, but "these few are unique." He's now advertised as being courageous and dem hito isn't quite the cloWn and dope that he s now said to be . In fact, it' is dearif -Tojo is telling the truth that Hirbhito was fronting for the Tojo outfit and that, far-from being a dope, he knew everything that was going on in advance. There is .also a strong suspicion thati when the present bosses stop running the show and checking the. box office personally, per-sonally, Hirohito may try to bring the old management in again. . For that reason, it seems odd to note that the American' management in Japan 'seems to go as completely for Ilirohito's clown act as the audiences, do.'" Perhaps their, main concern is to keep the audience happy; His past history and present popularity show that he can be & serious trouble-maker. So we wonder why the American bosses don't retire him to some actors home and put in one of their own acts to replace him. Progress In Triplicate To get an automobile driver's license in Shanghai, it is now necessary to present 14 photographs and fill out three forms. The formality of taking a driver's test, however, is omitted. This should go far to dispel the notion that China is a harkwarrl nation. Tiw latest ocratic,-an emperor whose ambition is to (Shanghai gesture offers abundant proof that the Chinese are perfectly at home in the most advanced methods of modern, enlightened bureaucracy live in the folksy manner of British royalty. Hirohito is living up to his press-agentry and acting his part, on and off the stage. For one who used to demand and get star billing. he's very easy to get along with these days.) A Hhic Cnn Fonl Ynn His present spot in the show is just dandy.l ",,D,S an r001 1 ou The pay is fine. He has no complaint about .This other wk fae more interegt iii-urwwiiif room. ,in is the alibj of th wh .rf ff The soft-hearted management seems to be detours which mav ind lin in Vklinrt allnvs f taken in by all this. Hirohito is stealing the I i am too busv to read." is th lihi nf V j- a ' i - V.-' .J... XZJAUr : -L i r w m. ii jr vr mi m. ite. l -1 Once News Now History From the Files of The Provo Herald 20 Years A go JAN. IS, 1921 r: An attempt to shatter , the worla endurance record was being made over San Francisco bay region ly CapU Charles KIngsford-Smith. Australian and 3Lt George Fond U. S. Navy In 1 a Felcker ( monoplane mono-plane married Eva Farley fnd Oulnn Lamor Qayton Tobe Ralle, former graduate man ager at the BYU , signed a contract con-tract to coach at the Duchesne county high at. Roosevelt two skeletons found in- a cellar of a farm home near Nauvoo, wen tlieved to be the remaina of JTnaAnVi anrl Tlvnim Smith Tom Heeny and . JacK snarkey heavyweights, fought 12 rounds to a draw in the Madison-Square Garden.' . W Years Ago Desk Ghat QUERY , QUADRUPLICATE - ? - ..did'ja .ever know a groom, whose ; chief accomplishment was being a perfectly wonderful won-derful dancer't who ' didn't make his bride's parents share their home? : . .did'ja ever see -a more self-' self-' satisfied look than that which adorns the face of .one - who has succeeded in gilding' th conversation with the one foreign phrase be knows? , . . .and on the other hand, would . you endure the Invective and ridicule of your political opponent op-ponent just for the privilege of serving thankless, voters for little pay? ..do you ' remember 'way back . when Monday was just Monday Mon-day instead of the day -after? t ' i t it 1 TELLING OFF THE CYNICS The man who misses all the fun Is he who says: "It can't be done. In solemn pride he stands aloof And greets each venture with re proof. Had he the power, he'd efface The history of the human race. JAN. 1. 1938 A. Lv. Booth was appointed city judge to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Don R-Ellertsen R-Ellertsen the classic drama festival at BYU scheduled "Lady of Lyons" the new rule of the state tax commission requir ing merchants to file monthly merchandise inventories was strongly protested Mayor Alma S. Kirk of Pleasant Grove (And planned a wheel on which to announced appointive officers to roll serve for the next two years 'The load his arms could not con Ellsworth Chamberlain, former trol. . a. - . ai Asmrt - ! siuaem i me t was icavuie iur an LDS mission B. Glenn We'd have no steam or trolley cars, No streets lit by electric stars, Then, when some keen, barbaric brain. Of life's conditions dared com plain. Smith, formerly of Spanish Fork, resigned as president of the Dixie junior college. show from the star act that the management is trying to build up, but the bosses don't cut The Chopping Block Minutia those who cultivate their own illiteracy ani , BY FRANK C. ROBERTSON keen behind the strpnm nf npnirrcoe Brethren, let us now consider him down to size. He keeps on getting a lot!' "I just do today's work and let tomorrow' e case ot the American farmer, of publicity. As a result, he seems to be! take care at. iJLtTSZ JlSSfWAJ t - I iy uuuucu iur we wu wsi v who fail to plan ahead. j living. He is the bucko who raises all the food we eat, food prices have gone up a bit more than cheered as loudly by some audiences as he was when his divinity build-up was at its; "I can make enough monev as it is " is the tn"S n 4.v i. f. 5 Ul Vl 1 wse wno imaKe one should work While all this has been going on, one of for monev rather than for results iiuumw b uiu uuases, iciiuw name uj. iuju, has been having a little trouble in court. He is being tried tn a charge of trying to put Hirohito s present management out of busi you will find that the farmer is still poorer paid than anyone ex-cent ex-cent white .collar workers. But: when you consider the spread be- j tween the big estates and the little lit-tle five-acre guy or the renter, it is readily apparent that vast numbers of farmers are worse off white collar other commodities so, ergo, heithan the average is a selfish, greedy son-of-a-gun. I worker. If nnlv u miiH live withntit in recent years, too much power has been' him ne Eht to be shot, concentrated in the leadership of our labor' T1 ls Jst the trouble. Shoot unions and that Dower has hn .jhnc ! the cuss and we wouldn't have cavuoU ness by violent strong-arm .methods. And j Harold E. Stassen, Republican Presidential 12 food' " hli Kmiy took ovei i. i t-.- j.; n: i ' iVCiJ"""vij rresiaenuai the storv would be the same and it is clear from Tojo's testimony that Hiro-i candidate. If you cut down the farmer's income you hit, not the big fellow, but the poor devil whose life is BY RUTH LOUISE PARTRIDGE I am glad that somebody 1s taking up the business of a bell for Provo. Somebody who seems to have some influence. I have consistently deplored the removal of all bells from this town and eot nowhere with it. When the carillon was put into the Joseph Smith building, I took heart, and hoped, but shucks, you can't de pend on that bell at all. It sounds when it listetn. or something. There was a time when Provo could boast many bells. All the the story would be the same and Cut down the big fellow, say we'd have to shoot them. Nobody j you. and bolster the little guy already drab as dirt and without ; church buildings had them ex hope. 'cepting.of course the LDS ones, can tell where the thing might The Washington Merry-go-Round (Copyright 1948, by the BeH Snydicate. Inc.) Drew Pearson Says: Paul Porter 'Spells' His Price-Control Comment WASHINGTON Paul Porter, former OPA director, was asked by a newsman to comment on prospects for a Republican-approved price control program. "The only onswer I can give," said Porter, "is a four-letter word." "We can't print it," warned the newsman, "but I'd like to know what the word is, just to gratify my own curiosity." "I won't say the word," replied Porter. Til spell it T-A-F-T." EXIT AIR WATCHDOGS agains remedy. Farmers Farm-ers are like wives: We can he would "carrv on and imnim.n - . neither live done by your predecessor,, General Bradley.' Gray! wlth them nor nu uuiuiiig sdoui israojey. "And I appreciate your Mayflower ancestry." Huber went on. "But what I hon that work together bn behalf of the little fellows who came over here on crowded cattle boats and whos' names we can't pronounce." "We certainly will, congressman," replied Gray, flushing. F MERRY-GO-ROUND President Truman, after firing Chairman Jim Landis of the civil aeronautics board, is now in the neat position of having not a single top administrator administra-tor to regulate the vital airlines -of the nation. His other top airman, Ted Wright most noted air technician of the world, has just resigned as head of the civil aeronautics administration: while the third man, Charles Stanton, has taken a four-year leave of absence to build up the Brazilian Bra-zilian airlines at twice the salary he gets from Uncle Sam. This leaves the nation's airways denuded f government administrators. It also leaves lower personnel of both the CAB and the CAA with morale shattered and ready te follow their chiefs into private business. Behind all this, it seems fair to recall that one Harry Truman has made some fine speeches at Princeton university and other places about the importance of young men making a career of government gov-ernment But when a man does adopt government service as a career. Harry Truman seems to go out of his way to fire him. Two days-after his Princeton speech last June, for instance-, he fired Ray Wakefield, a Republican, from the federal communications commission, dc-. dc-. spite his long and meritorious career first with the state of California, later wth the U. S. government. On top of this he fired Landis as head of the . civil aeronautics board despite the fact that Landis had served faithfully as chairman of the securities and exchange commission, spent grueling years as wartime head of civilian defense, plus several years on a meagre salary governing the airlines of 'the nation. Then Just as the senate was rebuffing Truman's Tru-man's plan to replace Landis with a military man, Mai. Gen. Laurence KuterTed Wrirht slammed in his resignation as head of the civil aeronautics' administration. This is just as great a loss as Landis. For while Landis, as head of CAB, allocated airline routes and fixed general policy, Wright, as head of CAA, reg- , ulated airline safety, Every country in the world recognized him as the top air-safety technician, Wright gave as his- reason for resigning not only low' government salary but the lack of opportunity op-portunity in government services. In other words, politicians were appointed to juicy plums over h's - head. - President Truman will have to do some tall persuading to get anyone else of high calibre to f-- step into one of these jobs. - MAYFLOWER VETERANS ADMINISTRATOR j " Gen. Carl Gray, new veterans administrator, - seems to have been greatly Impressed, by the fed -' era! witch hunt Appearing before the house vet-. vet-. erans committee lat week, he told congressmen? "- "There Isn't anybody any more American than I '- 'am. v.- ' v - v "In fact, nn f mjr ancesters came .to K this country any. later than 4ne lsth century." . Committee members then each had a few' ' words of welcome for the new administrator. When it came his tunv-able.-skeptical Walter Huber, ' - Akron, 0 Democrat, pointedly told Gray he hoped Senator Pappy O'Daniel of Texas. thratn.H to duck out of a "Meet the Press" radio program unless newspapermen who interviewed him were ma own personal mends. "Meet the Press" is supposed sup-posed to be a tough, two-fisted radio interview, but those Pappy finally selected to face him across the microphone .were Walter Trohan of the Chicago Tribune, Bob Johnson of the Houston Post, and Sarah McClendon of several small Texas papers. They covered Pappy with verbal kisses . . . Venerable Ven-erable Senator Bob Wagner of New York, is sometimes some-times accused of being too ill to be on the job. However, he was able to conduct a most significant housing survey. It showed that nine out of every ten mayors in cities of 50,000 population or over believe that private enterprise cannot take care of low-cost housing. The government, they feel, must do it . . . The state department is getting ready to recognize the bloodiest dictator in Central Ameri ca General Somosa of Nicarasua . . . Prodded bv President Truman's plan for health legislation, the Republicans are getting busy. Senator Taft's labor committee will hold hearings in late January on two opposing neaitn bills one, introduced by Taft himself, calls for federal doles to state health agencies; the other, offered by Senator Murray of Montana, provides tor lar-reacnwg national health insurance. The doctors don't like the latter. i j with government help. The farm er, no matter how poor he is, is the last man to be willing to accept ac-cept charity, and if you don't give help on a personal basis you have t and the Mormons put their bell in the old tabernacle, an exquisite building that used to face north on the tabernacle block. What ever became of that fine old bell? Then of course the bell now In dispute served as fire bell, and to do it 6n a commodity basis. I as curfew. All through Thy child- That's what the new deal tried (or years, and it worked out this way. The more property you had the more the government aid you hood the lovely sound of that bell rang in the night and told children chil-dren it was time to be in bed When it was rung as a fire bell, KaberUoa DOWN EAST POLITICS Maine's Governor Horace Hildreth. elbowinz energetically for the seat of retiring Senator Wal lace White, pulled a neat publicity stent the other day. Ih full view of the press, the governor paraded parad-ed into the White House to thank President Truman Tru-man for aid sent to Maine when fire devastated the Bar Harbor area. It was a clever way of stealing the glory from Cengresswoman Margaret Chase Smith, his leading contender for the senate, who really deserved the credit for pushing federal assistance. Truman probably didn't realize what be was geting in for, but he was used as a megaphone by a governor who has opposed most of his policies. Note Hildreth's constant adviser in Washington Washing-ton is Senator Owen Brewster who gave a break fast in his honor, and who, when the federal disaster dis-aster bill came up one year ago, voted to slash it to ribbons. UNDER THE DOME There's backstage talk of selecting Chester Bowles, ex-OPA administrator, for vice president Bowies' boosters point out that nothing could bother the Republicans more than to have, as a constant reminder of their inflation mistakes, the man who blocked inflation as a running mate on the -Truman ticket . . . John Locke Green, Repub licatf .leader of northern Virginia, offered to bet $1000 with Congressman Clarence Brown of Ohio, that Senator Taft would not be nominated. Brown, who' is Tait's campaign manager, refused to bet . . . A beautiful Hungarian waitress has turned up in the senate coffee shop, Alice Buzasi o attractive that one suitor flew down from New York-- to spend a few minutes with her; drinking conee : in ine snop. immigration authorities, suspicious, sus-picious, paid a visit to check the lady's papers, but found she was OK Senator Glen Taylor of Idaho is demanding a probe of an alleged $100,000,000 which he thinks was spent by the Chinese government govern-ment for lobbying in the USA, Taylor claims it was taken out of U. S. relief funds, (Copyright 1948, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) without them. Since we have to tolerate toler-ate the American Amer-ican farmer maybe we should inquire if he has anything any-thing to say in his own defense. Not that he hasn't already said plenty. Farmers Farm-ers are the loudest squawkers in this here country. When I was a boy farmers used to say, "If the durned taxes wasn't so high a man could make a decent living." In those days taxes ran about 12 mills on the dollar, just about, or a little less than the average village tax in these days. Now when half of their income goes for taxes the farmers are still squawking. Those farmers who survived the Great Depression are better off than they were, most of them. They are worth collectively fifty billion inflated dollars. Some of them have been brazen enough to pay off their mortgages. Others Oth-ers have installed electric lights and bathrooms. Their average in come is perhaps only a little less than that of the 'average wage m m ill worKer. xes, uw iarmer is geiiing up in the world, and a lot of DeoDle. especially the wives of working men in the cities, think he should be slapped down again, Nobody blames the housewives for being sore about the cost of living. Everybody else, manufacturer, manufac-turer, middleman, working man denies that he is to blame so it must be the farmer. On a day when peaches were being sold by farmers for one dollar a bushel I stepped, into a store where they were being retailed for ten cents a pound, or five dollars a bushel if bought by the pound, but who would question the retailer who claims to lose money on every transaction and can only stay in business because he does such a big volume. There are undoubtedly fanners who make from ten to a hundred thousand dollars a year. A few of them even live on farms. Unfortunately Un-fortunately it is these lads the irate housewife has her mind on when she cries out against the farmer. Politicians, economists and writers like to talk about "the average farmer." There is no such animal. How are you going to strike, an average between the Byrds and the Klebergs with their millions in farm property and the one mule sharecropper of the south? ? Between a handful of tfi.t. -.1 At ' -wcoiuiy j ulu iiiecpmcn una me boys who work out at Geneva or Ironton and try to cultivate a little lit-tle acreage on the side?. Under certain circumstances farming is the best paying, 'and safest business in the country.' under others it is the poorest paying and the most hazardous; Any talk about the average farmers farm-ers is sheer bunk.- If you -want to talk about average Incomes got The less you had the les.s;u was enough to raie your hair. you got, and the very poorest just j it kept up a furious clanging that couldnt' axzord tne time to even made a fire a fearsome thing make application for the pittance and that's as it should be. Now- the government would give to ; a-days the fire fighters go sneak mm. 100 Years Ago Sneers would arise from all the crew That ever scoff at what is new. The world would sleep if things were run By men who say: "It "can't be done." The battalion boys who stayed in California and reenlisted, are now, in part, leaving at last for Great Salt Lake valley. They have outfitted for their journey over the southern route at Williams rancho. Porter Rockwell and James Shaw, who had traveled the route the previous winter, were chosen pilots by and for the company. This company started the long trek with only one wagon and 135 pack mules, consequently consequent-ly they walked all the way. They arrived in Salt Lake valley on the 5th of June, 1848. Their wagon wag-on was the first wagon that ever traveled the southern route. This southern route was the only teas able route to California to be ! "The only way, Marceila, for . . 1 t- 1b you io nave son, ueauuiui oinw and do it all is to do nothing day long. The motto of the drunken driver seems to be: life, liberty, and the pursuit of pedestrians.' The kind of a husband with, whom we have no overpowering desire to become better acquainted acquaint-ed is the one who, when his wife ' told him that the doctor looked at her tongue and said it didn't look the same as usual, callously remarked: "Well, you probably held it still while he looked at it!" r. S3 M m If rosy cheeks are a sign of good health,. some girls we know are more healtby on one side niido with uraarniM In th wintor and this was another great con- than they are on the other. . .... ....... . ' tn button tne battalion boys made to the general knowledge and well-being of western .travelers. We shall now go back to the They were in a trolley bus when a car skidded into it and 'as the owner of the car came thru battalion members, who started-, bus to get names of witnesses. for Salt Lake valley in 1847, and then turned back at the Truckee rivmr tn 1 1 m in falifnpnfa iimrlr through the winter fas TmMrfoiWwWeWy relieved when in he asked one occupant: "Were you ever wrecked? . . . andthe nerves of the passengers were loud, clear tones, the answer was: "Oh, yeah. Three times by liquor and three times by women. The middle class farmer wants an automobile, a bathroom, and enough money to educate his kids. Now that he is on the way toward getting them he finds himself called a profiteer and a skunk. It's no bed of roses, Mac. BARBS By HAL COCHRAN It s easy to be one IN a million mighty hard to be one OF a million. A London woman gave birth to three sets of twins in seven years. The report says she's doing well. We'll say! were very low in Salt Lake val-1 ley) and then resume their Jour-j nev in. the sDrins. This was in ' ScnfsmW 1R17 JCniMntt nt lm4 mB k y --i- Vt f 1JS w . r porta nee transpired with this; GANDHI CONTINUES FAST company of men until after their ! NEW DELHI. Jan. 17 .(U.B ew ..ear's Eve was waen a lot of folks got nowhere getting a headache. Next month is when you pay 30 days rent tor 29 days. m w m The only two we know of who can live as cheaply as one are a dog and a flea. Q's and A s Q What is the significance of a red silk star on a postman's uniform? . A It indicates 15 years' service. Q Does the backbone; of a camel curve upward in the middle? mid-dle? A No, the hump ot a camel is chiefly fat which is stored there and then re-absorbed when needed need-ed for food. ' . Q What is the difference be tween slue and mucilage? - A Glue is a product of animals and mucilage a product of plants. Glue is a hard gelatin obtained ing away like thieves in the night It's not fun any more. In fact we don't know there's been a fire until we read it in the paperf. Maybe "fun" is not the right, word, but I do know that once upon a time, the fire bell was shared by us all. I remember the day the old Woolen Mills burned ThPt bell had hysterics, and to add to the' feellne of grave portent, por-tent, when the fire reached the boiler room, the heat set the great Woolen Mill whistle to moaning like some huge creature in torment. tor-ment. IH never forget it. And the curfew! You know, that bell ringing a warning to get off the streets and it definitely! did give that warning had a great psychological effect on us as youngsters. Many a night we broke up a rousing game of Flinch or Authors because it was time for the curfew. "You come - .i ,j .Tir.. 1 our mouicri wuuiu say, w uvic under 'the sun have you been? The curfew rang half an hour ago!" Yes, indeed, I for one would like very much to have our town bell back on a building, and not just hanging there either, but doing do-ing something as only a bell can. Bells are lovely things, but they are laraey disregarded in western America. It is too bad. Here In a mountain valley where ; .the echoes chase each other around the cliffs, they are particularly lovely. Let's have a bell, and let's have it rung, by hand, as it should be. A bell can speak for all. of us. Our bell used to toll for a disaster, disas-ter, and yell triumph. In victory, now we are civicallv dumb, so' to speak. Let's have a Sunday-go-to- meeting bell too even If I donH go to meeting. It is the Idea of the thing, and the downright beauty of it that interests me. If all the church houses in Provo had a bell, and rang them as they should be rung, what a love-, ly clamor it would make on Sunday Sun-day and Saturday and who knows, we might all be the better for it. So long, folks. arrival, a stipulation for all who wished to work was entered into, to wit: Capt John Sutter wanted to build a flour mill about six miles from his fort, and a saw mill about 45 miles away. He proposed pro-posed to hire all the brethren, about 40 in number, either by the job or by the month, to dig the mill races. They were to be paid 12 cents per yard dug, provisions provi-sions "found," the brethren to do their own cooking. The animals Mohandas K. Gandhi looked today to-day for a sign from Moslem Psk-istan Psk-istan to show whether his fast for peace must go on to his death or permanent impairment of his health. belonging to the brethren were to be herded with Sutter's, free of charge. These terms were agreed upon, and Sutter advanced one-half of the prospective cost in gentle work oxen. " by boiling to a jelly the skins, etc., of animals. Mucilage is a gelatinous substance produced in certain plants by the action of water on various celluloses. 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