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Show - V3"' PROVO (UTAH) -DAILY HERALD,-'MONDAY;. MAY -22,. '1939 PAGEFOUR Daily (rn . mm aTvsrr Afternoon Excepting 'Saturday) u"; and Sunday Morning- , . Published by ths Herald Corporation, to Boutn first West Street, Provo. Utah. Entered as second ls-matter at the postofflcs in Provo, Dtab, under lb act of March. 3.'. 187. Oilman, NleoJ & Ruthman, National Advertising? representatives,, New York, 8an Francisco, Detroit, Boston, Ls Angeles, Chicago. Member United Press. N. E. A. Service, Western Features and' the Scripps Leagns of Newspapers. Subscription 'terms by carrier in Utah county, 60- cents the month, $3.00 tor six months, in ad ranee; $5.75 the rear In advance; by mail in county. Sfc.0; outside county 15.75 the year in advance. . Liberty tliroash sH ths. IjukT Ths Liberty The Herald will not assume financial responsibility tor any errors which may appear In advertisements published - In Its columns. col-umns. In those instances where the paper is at fault. It will reprint that part of the advertisement in which th typograpb leal mistake occurs. . And the king said to him, How that thou say toothing but the truth II Chronicles 18:15. One of the subiimest things in the world is truth Bulwer. In Spite of1 Everything, We Forge Forward Whatever else you choose to say about this country, sve certainly can take it. There is tremendous strength- latent behind a system which can move forward, even slowly and cumbrously, in the face of war fears, in the face of a nation-wide coal strike, in the face of an unpredictable tax system and a Congress that talks economy and then bursts the dam of budget Jimits set by ah executive they have condemned as money-reckless. When, in spite of all these things, the national economy moves creakingly forward, you know that underneath there is strength. Given any sort of a chance it will rise to the - surface somehow. 1 JU 1 March, announced the. Alexander Hamilton institute, is ' the fifth consecutive month in which the national income was . larger than in the corresponding period of a year ago. The national income for the first quarter of 1939 is estimated at $14,332,000,000 as compared with $12,883,000,000 last year-In year-In short, we are doing better than last year. But not - enough better, considering what a poor year 1938" was. Profits are up. The National City Bank of New York presents figures to indicate that 305 leading industrial corporations cor-porations made net profits of $206,000,000 in the first quarter quar-ter of this year. That is more than double the profit retorted re-torted in the same period of last year. A IXC JCki obllivc in j . me uui up;aii nai luaiiuii 10 less acute, for the moment at least- Wheat prices have risen somewhat on drouth reports. The motor and construction industries are holding up well. Traffic should sput, now that the mines have resumed working and re-stocking of exhausted ex-hausted coal-bins begins. Employment is gaining slightly, , not enough, but some, and relief rolls have been slightly pared. The stage is set for a considerable revival of business - this summer. The bigger units of business, realizing that they must function whether conditions exactly please them or not, have succeeded in making money in the first quarter. It can be done- It is being done. What the country needs right now is : forget Europe and its war talk, forget politics and partisanship, forget griping, and saw wood! . New Minority Problem When Hitler seized Czechoslovakia it was freely predicted pre-dicted that he was letting himself in for a new racial minority problem. For within the "German" racial area he then incorporated in-corporated millions of non-German Czechs with a national life and culture that never can become German. Those problems are already coming to the surface. The clamps of German ways of living and working, of Berlin decrees de-crees governing prices, wages, hours, and the status of Jews are being closed on the Czechs. The Czechs are i i no position to resist forcibly. But the trade union movement has been driven into unity since i March 15 by hints that high production, faster work will be demanded by the Germans in order to speed up the export trade which Hitler has said Germany must have or die. It will remain to be seen just how far Hitler will be successful suc-cessful in dealing with an antagonistic and sullenly-hostile racial minority, the problem which has been the ruin of so many central European governments- Immediate prospects are none too rosy. But Hitler can expect little sympathy. After all, he asked for it. ci Pardon Us 7 V AT 1 1 -iiihL- many times shall I adjure, thee to me in the name of the Lord? If We Laugh for OUT OUR WAY m WAIT, PAW-YOU CANT BUY ES.'Jj'' iBLOW-jOUT PATCHES 1M : .1- - W, ni A ( ' 5 1 "THEREr-THATS A DRUG 1 T- x V 3W. . STORE , AM' PRUG STORES Lmm n. i llljh I ' ; ONLV SELL. MEDICINES yfflfflMlII , 7 mzk- 1 ; V- and : owes j I P !' f : " V T. M. WCC. U. S. T. Off . Food Stamp Program Will Stick If Plan Steps Up Retail Sales BY BRUCE CATTON Provo Herald Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON. May 22 It will be six months or threabouts before the Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture knows whether the food distribution dis-tribution stamp idea, now being tried out in Rochester, N. Y., is really coming up to expectations. And even then, the way the reliefers relief-ers use the stamps to buy food won't be the determining factor. In the long run, this plan will stand or .fall by the degree to which it boosts retail food sales to non-relief people. Since non-relief people won't be getting any of the orange and blue stamps, the plan doesn't directly di-rectly affect them at all. Indirectly, Indirect-ly, however, Agriculture Department Depart-ment economists hope that it will affect them very much. Will Prices Do A Drop? In effect, the stamp scheme adds 50 per cent to the weekly food-tuying power of the reliet clients. In Rochester, Where 20,000 families are getting some form of relief, an extremely rough esti-1 mate has it that the grocers will sell something like $15,000 worth of food a week beyond what they have been selling. As the demand rises, the grocers gro-cers will naturally handle a greater great-er volume of the various foodstuffs food-stuffs officially designated as "surplus"; hence, they will be able to reduce their margins and cut prices. As they do this, non-relief non-relief buying of these commodities can be expected to increase. That, at any rate, is the theory. If it doesn't work out that way if, by next fall, it is found that a While I - T" sss , u the stamp scheme has been very nice for the relief clients and the grocers, but no good to anybody else -then the plan will, in all probability, b abandoned as a failure. As the department sees it, the only way in which buying food for relief people at retail prices can be justified is through a narrowed nar-rowed price margin which will lead to lower retail price levels and wider consumption by the general public. There is already some reason to hope that it may work ou that way. , Dr. F. V. Waugh, head of the Division of Marketing Research in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, was in Rochester when the stamp plan officially got un- der way there. He talked with many grocers, among them the head ot thelarges.t -roechaUi in the city. This man' said "Ma, chain had already begun a pricer cutting experiment in one of the "surplus'' commodities. Corn Meal Experiment According to this grocer, the chain had been carrying corn meal at a 100 per cent mark-up; in other words, the retail price was double the wholesale price In ordinary times, that was a fair enough spread; corn meal moves rather slowly and requires a substantial marp-up to make it profitable to handle. But since corn meal is one of the eight commodities on which the Rochester reliefers must spend their blue stamps, it is likely to move a good deal faster now. So the chain has cut the retail price one-third, and Is waiting to see what happens. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics Eco-nomics is making elaborate plans to check up on , the results of the Rochester experiment. For one thing, it will collect complete figures fig-ures on the shipment into Rochester Ro-chester by train and truck of the foodstuffs involved. For another, it will pick a few "sample" stores in different parts of the city and make a week-by-week study of their sales records to show which "surplus" commodities commo-dities are actually being bought. To compare with these figures, statistics will be obtained, running run-ning a couple of years back, to show how those commodities move ordinarily.. Plan's Spread Expected Meanwhile, the department is gathering data on other cities where the experimnt may be started. Use of the stamps is to get under way in Dayton, O., probably pro-bably within a fortnight; beyon'd that, no city has been definitely selected, although 35 or 40 are under consideration. . The foodstuffs officially designated desig-nated as "surplus" will undoubtedly undoubt-edly be changed from time to time. At present the list includes butter, eggs, dry beans, dried prunes, oranges, grapefruit, flour (both white and whole wheat) corn meal. Later on the list may be varied to take care of local, seasonal surpluses. Bureau officials are confident that retail grocers will do their best to make the plan work by cutting retail prices whenever increased in-creased demand makes a cut -justified. For a long time the grocer has' felt that, the relief system didn't give him a fair, break. OFFERED SCHOLARSHIP Theral Black of Ferron, senior student at Brigham Young university, uni-versity, has been offered a scholarship schol-arship to Louisiana State university univer-sity at Baton Rouge, according to Professor John C Swenson, head of the B. Y. U. department of sociology. Mr. "Black will be graduate June 7 with a degree of bachelor of science. . His major subject at the Provo university- is sociology and he plans; to continue studies on" this subject at the lioul8laid'? institution. Bj WILLIAMS - FORUM n Agin 'Em 16 Could Handle Power Business Here Editor Herald: The white-collared agriculturist, who signed his name as Ben Farmer, is either awfully ignorant or else a newcomer in this community, com-munity, for he seems to never have heard of the fact that Provo is the divisional headquarters for all of eastern, central, and southern south-ern Utah for the power company, covering an area of 10,000 square miles. In fact, I understaud that about 16 persons could easily handle the strictly Provo light and nower business; so that the bal ance of the 125 employes work and spend their money here because be-cause Provo is the headquarters of ail this surrounding territory. This forum writer sheds crocodile croco-dile tej J)ecauA9 iS9me of the stock of the power company is owned outside the state but thinks nothing of the fact that all the bonds of the municipal plant would be owned outside the state. And yet this "farmer" don't think anything any-thing of paying that eastern bond syndicate 4X, interest on bonds, when city bonds are now selling for . two per cent. He thinks its perfectly all right to -soak the people of Provo $65,000 to hand over . to an eastern contracting corporation for merely drawing a few blue-prints and doing the necessary Work in merely supervising super-vising the building' of a power plant and distribution system. He thinks it a OK to wipe out an existing business that is spending spend-ing $200,000 a year in our city, and . send out of the state to this Nuveen Ulen bond syndicate approximately ap-proximately $1,000,000 of the people's peo-ple's hard earned money. But that isn't all. They tell me that this eastern capitalist will have the say as to who operates a city plant, just as they are dictating dic-tating to the mayor now as to when he shall call an election on these matters. If the mayor can't make a move now without calling up this Chicago syndicate every few days, won't it continue to have a "strangle hold" on the people of Provo until the last dime is paid on the power plant bonds? A PROVO FARMER Shot Her Mother on Mother's Day c:.m-f.v.-. K Charged? with murder Is 34 earioJ4' Mrs. Violet, Meeker, . above.:, of1 Bucyrus, - mother ox uvo cnnunso, woo auuukicu Mother's Day slaying of her. k.UoIt' in ' "areumentover'moiiey." - : I j. ; , - - , - - . v. - s ' V S'N " ' L'V, , ' s 5 ' f , , : miss Nb7.' History Twenty-five Years Ago Today " Front the Files of -The Provo ' Ilerald, May . 22, 1914. Arranffementa-for city-wide ob servance, of Memorial day -were completed at a meeting in the city commission room. . Flag-raising ceremonies and ai brief program were scheduled at North pariq after which' services were set at the cemetery. City Attorney Ja-cob Ja-cob Coleman was to give the open- in address and Alfred Saxey. of Ogden, the oration. The ble baseball game of the season, Spanish Fork vs. Provo at North park, was to be heralded with a parade from the Knight bank corner to the park. The city had provided seats for more than 200 persons. A "The Sun Dance," Indian opera, joint production in authorship and composition of Mrs. K. t. tson nin and Prof. W. F. Hanson, was scheduled to be staged here May 22 and 23 under the direction of Prof. A. C. Lund. The Provo General hospital had just installed the latest X-Ray machine. Cranium Crackers CAN YOU MAKE THE NEWS COMPLETE? Here's your weekly news quiz. This time all the questions are of the multiple choice variety. If you're keeping up with this newspaper, news-paper, you1 should be able to choose correctly in each case. 1. Arrested in Tennessee, Robert Rob-ert M. Burgunder, Jr., was charged charg-ed with killing two automobile salesmen in (Hamilton, Bermuda; Reno, Nv.; Phoneix, Ariz.; Seattle, Se-attle, Wash.) 2. Deliverer of a radio peace talk which drew criticism abroad was (Alfred E. Smith, the Duke of Windsor, Winston Churchill, Aanastasio Somoza. ) 3. Latest major Chinese city to become target for Japanese air raids is (Chungking, Nanking, Hongkong, Pekin.) 4. Mediator who worked desperately des-perately to effect agreement between be-tween both parties in U. S. coal troubles was (Francis Haas, Harry Har-ry Hopkins, William Green, John Steelman.) 5. Johnstown, Kentucky Derby winner, is owned by (William Woodward, Mrs. Payne Whitney, Col. Bradley, Alfred Vanderbilt.) AnnwerH oa Page' Eight -v SERIAL STORY 'MRS. The characters and situations In this story are wholly fictional. Yesterday i Dr. Petersow reveals he wants Alaa la 8t. Los Is but Farrell tells kiss that Alaa belongs be-longs la Snataer. CHAPTER IV 'LAirs life and his future are here, in Sumner," Dr. Farrell Far-rell continued. "Here among the people who' know him arid love him like they knew and loved his father before him. He's more than an ordinary physician iie's friend and adviser, a comforter of the old, an inspiration to the young. He's .just what his father wanted him to be -a country doctor." "I know, Dr. Farrell," Dr. Peterson Peter-son countered. "Alan's a remarkably remark-ably physician a country doctor if you will but he has what only a few of the real country doctors have -youth. He's a young man with the ethics, the ideals, even the mannerisms of the best of the old country doctors. But he has what they did not have, knowledge knowl-edge of modern medical science. He has ability, unusual for such a young man. "His love of medicine, inherited from his father and nurtured under your own careful guidance, gave him the driving force to lead his classes in school. But Alan wasn't seeking honors, he was first because he knew more about the subject than any of his fellows. fel-lows. He had to know everything he could learn in school, became be-came " "Because he owed it to the people who would one day be his patients," Dr Farrell supplied. "You're quite right, Dr. Farrell. Thafs why the school needs him. He'll not only bolster the staff as professor of-'"obstetrics, lie'U be constantly on hand to guide and inspire students, to help sift the good from those who will never make it. That sympathetic under standing which has Deen so- valuable to him in private practice prac-tice will be of : added worth in molding the life' of not only one 'country doctor but hundreds of them. . " "You admit r the importance of the country" doctor. You - admit, that schools, are turning but too few men 'of that caliber. With Alan, our school will produce more. Isn't that worth consider- "You. argue .convincingly, Dr. Peterson. But 'the decision must rest with : Alanvv l want him to stay, where; "I!ro afraid of what school: tutiL' routine might- do to hirn. 'Without daUy personal con ', f - '; ; '-.f. V' if O k il tsL. Z-t J""T""" i i ii I L - i Here's the English equivalent of under circus tents. At a receni mimary specutcje at ruiwuuiw these children seized vantage points at the very feet of the guard? ian British marines. ' !3 SCIENCE j The most minute temperature changes, to as little as one-millionth one-millionth of a, degree, which result re-sult when 'acids are formed in water by the decomposition of proteins, can be measured by a newly devised process. The changes are measured by determining deter-mining the amount oVelectrical energy required to heat plain water placed in another vessel to the same degree as that of vthe water being tested. An electrical-r !y operated stylus records the changes and marks them upon a greatly magnified chart, from which comparisons are made. DOC BY TOM tacts he might lose sight of his goal. Oh yes, I've seen it happen before, and. so have you. Think back a few years. Just recall a few of the ideals you carried into your first office at the school. "You've been inspiration to many a student, arid, your guidance guid-ance has been responsible for innumerable in-numerable successful medical careers. ca-reers. . . . But are you as interested in-terested in each individual student now as you were ten years ago? You have too many other interests, inter-ests, and whether you want them or not, they're taking your time away, from the work you set out to' do. That's why you want Alan to share that work. Here Alan's work is his and his alone. If he lives he can pass it on to his son, i even as his father willed it to him. "And there's another factor Emily. In St. Louis, would she become the dominant personality? Alan is very much in love with her, lets her have her own way as much as he? can. She's been a spoiled chikL : If she stays here apd finds herself, she will share in aH her husband's success. In St. Louis" "But, Doctor, Alan's success is guaranteed. He'll make ten times as much in St. Louis as he ever will' in Sumner " "You can't measure success in paychecks-7-not in this business." "But the world does. And so does Emily. She's not to be Diamea. jniy aauenter or a wealthy father, she hasn't had much insight into life outside the social circle, ay uie way. nereifipirU she is." S. "TY7HAT big operations have you two been performing?" Emily asked laughingly, as she and Mrs.. Peterson entered. fTo tell the truth," Dr. Peterson answered, "we've been working on Alan. I want to make him a professor, but Dr. Farrell wants to keep him here in Sumner:" "You want Alan to come back to the school? Back to St Louis?" Emily's voice quavered; her throat was tight. After all, dreams shouldn't come true so abruptly. "Oh,-, that-would be wonderful!" "I Thbpe Alan will think so. By Jove, look at the time. Well have to hurry , to make our train. .111 write Alan about the idea, and I'm counting on you' to help me sell it to him, Emily." "Emily's on your side, all right, Doct6r,'r Farrell said, as "he put on his coat. "I'll drive you and Mrs Peterson to the station. Emily- don't . worry about ' Alan. ' He's probably stayingjall night" '"I won't worry.' about him. 'Qyou think ryouTl ' keep; that eight-pound: boy ' around, do youfJohn?"' - ' ' i.iiVSifiVx.. the American youngstera who slidt Doctors, Ladies Meet Wednesday Dr. Lloyd N. Farnery district state board of health director, will show two pictures. "Safe Home a Delivery" and "Post Partum' Hemorrhage" at the meeting, of the Utah State Medical society Wednesday at 8 p. m. at the Utah State hospital. The ladies auxiliary will meet at the home of Mrs. Don C. Merrill, Mer-rill, 15 East Eighth North-'Officers of the state auxiliary wilf be guests. At conclusion of the meetings meet-ings the doctors will join their wives in a buffet luncheon at the Merrill home. During 1938, 68 per cent of the 42,200,000 registered cars in the, world, were registered, in the" United States, giving uo a '.total of 29;4Q,00 motor" vehicles. HORNER COPYRIGHT. 1M9. NEARER VICE. INC. "I sure will, Doc." Jorm'CarrolTs face shone in the early dawn vrjth the light of proud faiiihoed. "He's a fine little fellow. And. the wife's all right too. -We cjant ever repay you Doc. Com in' out in this , blizzard last night." ' "Nothing, John. TThat. breakfast r. you justv gave jne will sctfefor ' thehUzzard. And dont forgetme - if you butcher again. That country sausage was fine. - ; ' "Mrs. Carroll will be all right, I'm sure. Have your sisler-in- ; law call me tonight and again tomorrow to-morrow morning. HI be out .tomorrow, .to-morrow, late, if the roads arc open." The cry of the newborn baby came faintly to him as he walked from the house to his .car. Dawii, and another life and an- other day were beginning. He turned intp the highway and sent his car hurrying along the snow-sheathed road. He t was, tired terribly tired-buti bappy. Always, after every birtlv he experienced ex-perienced this same thrill " of achievement. When Farrellcalled it "working with Ood,":'Alan laughed, but .the. old niarr was right. There was a responsibility, he was sure, entrusted- to him' to aid in this beginning oflife.'. z He worked with the Author of. Life then, but when life- noarcd its end, he was on the other, side, fighting, fighting to-keep alive the spark. It was inexplicable, but satisfying. ' jrpHE blizzr-d was over, but deep i A snow t .red the highway and He was alrendy at the new flit . at Price's. A he slowed down 'to make the turn . he thHight. he could make out tracks leaduu to the edge of tlae deep embankment "If those are my tracks, , 1 5 wur luckier -than imagined." AU.n whistled as he considered tho danger he had escaped unhceae 2. But were those ; his tracks.? :j;H-'-" For an instant Ciere'i fiasne-i back into his mind the niemor. of glaring headlights speeding toward to-ward him, of his turning sharps to avoid them. Maybe that car '. . He jammed his brakes, skidricvl to a stop, and jumped fromffr-car, fromffr-car, leaving his inotor.runniug.'t the edge of the deep embankment he stared down, gasped, and "ransr tered a fervent "2y jGody,' yi? Belohim Was the cara blaC-k coupe, upright on its wheels ajaiu, but Alan ; could re scrjrs" to; th snow where it had turned vcr at least; .once.-'... .- :J-J1'XJ V -Clambering through the j drifts, he pushed his way .to U Wttered , car. Snow ' covered the .windshield and windows; he.- jerked : a door . open, - then stood, transfixed ; in amazement, as the body of a. man slippedfrom te ; seat into . the snow at Alan's feet - . VCTo mZH Ccatlauedr - i St k s" |