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Show SECTION TWO PAGE TWO PROVO JUTAHLlgA NOVEMBER 9, 1939 t CO OUT OUR WAY C7 YILLIAL1S '.A -Lftartr til-out h a.U ( Had" lae Hbarty BTtry jlftarnoon ExceptiBr Saturday) a.nd , Sunday Morning Fubliihad ir tha Herald Corporation, Boutli Tint Wat fctraat. Prove, Ctah. Entered a aecond elaaa matta at tha poatofflca ta Provo, Utah, under tba act ef March I. 1I7. Oilman. NIcol Ruthman, National Advtrtlilnf rapra-iantailvaa, rapra-iantailvaa, .Nt Torlc, 8aa FrancUco, Datrolt, Boaton, ! Anialaa, Chicago. Warn bar Unitad Praaa, N. E. A. erriea. Wattern Faaturaa. tha Scrippa Lgua of Newapmpera aad Audit Uttraa X ClrcuiaUon. Subacripilon tarma by carrlar la Utah county. It eanta tha month, fl t for alx montha tn advanca; .7t tha yaar. la advance: by mail In county. 1.00; ouuida county 5.TI tha yaar ta adranea. X0 Baraid will aot uiumi financial raaponalblllty for any arrora which my appaar la advertiaatnanu publiahed Ja Ita cohjrnna. In thoaa liutan eaa arhara tha papr la at fault. It will reprint that parrfot tha adrartiaamant a arhiafe tha typographical mlataka cccur. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse .you, and pray for them which despltefully use you, and persecute 'you, Matthew 5:44. It Is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is dangerous. Rojas. Democracy Becomes Part of School Curriculum The school system in this country-has gone a long way since the days of the rawboned, fossilized schoolmaster who ruled with a stern countenance anda hickory stick. Nowadays, Now-adays, the pupils have almost as muc hto say about the running run-ning of the class room as the teachers themselves in some T things, at least. , , - - For most normal small fry, school will never be quite as ' much fun as sandlot baseball or hop-scotch. But education in the lower grades is a lot easier to take these days than it was 30 or 40 years ago. More important, youngsters in -"public schools are getting a rough idea of what democracy - means. The word is beginning to mean more to them than just something they find in their history books. To find out how far democracy in education has gone, the Educational Policies Committee of the American Education Educa-tion Association is conducting a survey among public schools-in schools-in the United States. The results of this sludy will be used to advance still further the teaching of democracy in a prac- tical, comprehensible way, ; " . " " , . , : - " " : ' There was a time,not very long ago, when the schools' total contribution toward buildingr patriotic citizens was to teach youngsters the American creed, the "Star-Spangled Banner"and the Pledge to the Flag. If that didn't make good Americans out of them, it was generally conceded there wasn't much hope. Y 1 .It has been only with the introduction of streamlined educational edu-cational systems that children were given .a shot at this thing called democracy. They were premitted to organize clubs, elect their own officers, frame their own rules of conduct. Safety cadets were. elected and finally student councils were formed. These councils, when they are properly set up, give elementary, and high school . students about as .generous a " part in the management of the school as can be safely given without having the pupils vote themselves a permanent vaca- lion. : ... ...... The Education Association's committee, after it has completed com-pleted its research, will select a few representative schools and will experiment with even more progressive ideas in the matter of student democracy. ; 1 These youngsters, unlike their, forbears, aregoing to grow up with the idea that democracy means more than just casting a vote for president every four years. . They are getting get-ting so used to having a voice in the affairs about them that they won't be able to get rid of the habit when they become full-fledged citizens.- They arejearning not only the meaning of demacracy-but of Communism and Fascism as wrell and how totell all of them apart. . Flag-waving isn't enough,' and reciting the American's Creed doesn't necessarily' make a good citizen. But getting democracy mixed in with readiri', writin', and 'rithmetic will probably show results in' the future management of this country. " ( i O . f , TO A GOOD V MV T;;LJ; V. 13 U QOT TO 3iT POWM . I OVCALMGA'a I LIKE THIS WITH A SMALL V a: I I LOOP, AM' -JEST PUCK J ( 2. CZTTS UM- I AM POP6E AW POD6E V TKM V AM' PUCK YORE r jN-f ' 'm'V TROLJDLE; IS- J " ' V- M mwmWmm t. m. Ed o $N. . THS SEPAQATORi; M- j . ; : : : ! the U. S. Senators Fight For Political Ban On State Workers Daily Herald Washington Correspondent ' WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 A double-barreled blow at the spoils system aimed at using the influence in-fluence of federal spending to force all states under civil service is being prepared by Senators Mathew Neely of West Virginia and Carl Hatch of New Mexico. The famous Hatch" bill bars all federal employes form political activity. What these senators propose pro-pose is a companion piece which would extend that ban to all state employes also. : Ordinarily, the federal government govern-ment has no power whatever to control the political activities of state employes. But every state in the Union - is spending huge federal treasury," and the federal government can lay down they conditions-under ' which its monejTis spent. That fact gives Senators jtfeely and ,Hatcb the leverage they need. - ... ' Neely Strikes First , Blow - Senator Neely swung into ac-tiQn ac-tiQn firsts Last winter ; he introduced intro-duced a bill which would deny federal funds to any state which did not- have in operation a civil. service plan, currently approved by the United States Civil Service Commission. Just to make it airtight, air-tight, Senator Neely added a section sec-tion ; setting minimum standards that, such a statevplan must have. " It must, for instance, give merit system,- coverage to every state employe .not holding : an . elective office; it must bar all state em ployes from contributing to politi caL funds and from taking part .in political campaigns: and it must I provide stiff penalties for any poll r F.S. Mtraut BUT POiNTT THINK THAT LAWS ALOE ARE EMOUGH TO KEEP US OUT CP TROUBLE f - . ' 3 J tlcian who tries to force political action upon state employes or tries to collect money from ; them; and it must provide that no one may hold a non-elective state" job if .his wife, father, mother, brother, sister sis-ter or child is an active political worker.' .v J i ' The Neely .bill drew practically no attention although, if passed. it would upset just about every state political machine in the country. It was referred to the Senate Committee on Civil Service. Serv-ice. There it drew the spirited bp-position bp-position of Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia ; but on , the final , day,; of the spring session the bill was re ported out .and it is now on the Senate calendar, ready to come up for action. " Hatch Planned Different Approacli ', So little noise did the whole proceeding pro-ceeding make that . even Senator-Hatch Senator-Hatch hadn't heard about it; Meanwhile, he was . planning to da the same thing in a slightly dif ferent way. s . , . . -r The original draft of the existing exist-ing Hatch bill contained a section extending its coverage to all state employes in departments opera t ing wholly or. in part by federal money. (This, of course, would include all state highway depart- ments. y. which are JiorrSally the back6one of local machines.) Varii ous members of . the -Judiciary Committee, to .which . the bill was referred, doubted that this 'was constitutional, and the section was dropped. , r . This summer, however, several of these objectors told Senator Hatch that they had got over their doubts. Hatch went to At torney General ; Murphy, who told him he believed it would be per fectly possible to draft such a provision in a constitutional man ner. H atch then began to prepare such a bill for submission this winter; cxiir-z' May Back Neely Bill About this time' he discovered the Neely bill. He Is now study-i ing It, to seS whether it is pref-' erable to his own measure ; if . he figures that it is, he will support it instead of drafting a bill of his own. - - -t Either; way, some bill which woujd knock the spoils system out of state politics will come before the Senate this winter. What the bill's chance of pass age may be is an open question. It figures to draw a good deal of sup port from certain practical-mind ed senators who happen to, be on the outs with the governors of their states and who, as a result, might be glad to get a chance to cripple - the governors' machines. One somewhat cynical estimate is that it could probably get a score of votes in the Senate for that reason alone. ' . : ... On the other hand, of course. the state's rights cry is sure to be raised against it. In any case, however, the two senators are go ing to give it a good push. Since the Neely bill has already been reported out of committee it will at least come to a vote. Waiting List At S. F. Play School SPANISH FORK Thirty-two mothers of - children in the play school of Spanish Fork assembled at four o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Junior high school audi torium . to hear a talk by Field Supervisor Jena V. Holland, coun ty .supervisor, Mrs. Iretta B, Mason Ma-son and City Supervisor 'Mrs. Dale B. Evans. Because the en rollment of children has been greater than could be taken care of this phase of the project was discussed. It was decided that the 42 children already ; enrolled should be kept but that a waiting list should likewise be kept and as soon as a vacancy occurs, the waiting list children will be select ed to take their places as register ed on the waiting list. The five year old children on the waiting list to be given preference, over younger children. . SCIENCE NEWS There are 13,000,000 persons 1 Jln the United States who have i'speech disorders-of-some kind on : another, according to Dr James . Greene, director of ah eastern clinic. Largest single group of sufferers is made up of persons who stutter, numbering more .than ,1,000,000. Many stutterers r are cured by getting at the psy-4 psy-4 chic cause of their speech hesi-.tancy, hesi-.tancy, Dr. Greene revealed. . . r. The stratosphere, usually ..thought of as frigid cold, : contains con-tains two .warm temperature belts, one of them as high as the boUing. point of water, believes Dr. Fred .Whipple, r Harvard astronomer as-tronomer His v observations are based on a special instrument he developed for measuring the reactions re-actions of flaming meteors in the sky. Here are Dr. Whipple's conclusions: At 20 miles above the earth's surface ihe temper-.ature temper-.ature is 55 degrees 0 centigrade. From there - to - a distance S8 miles above the earth's surface the temperature rises to a point 100 degrees centigrade. It drops again to 90 degrees below 0 centigrade in a zone 50 miles away then rises to 20 degrees centigrade (about room temper-, ature) at a height of 70 milea above the earth's crust. t Twenty-five Ycaro Aco Today Froi ,e 11.:? 01 Hie itovo November 0, 19li m th . Herald, After 'sheriff's officers had rounded up nine men a3 suspect3, Virginia Markham, .20-year-old Spanish Fork girl, admitted that a story she told about being attacked at-tacked by two men, .then , bound to a tree, as ust a vtrumpea up story. ' sne toia uepuiy snerui Clark that the whole story wa3 nothing but a creation of her brain. ' " Chief Deputy David H, Madsen of the state fish and game department, de-partment, left for Fish lake where he planned to take from two to three million Eastern Brook trout spawn for transplanting to the Springville and Panguitch hatch eries, to be transferred to Straw berry valley strtams. . Provo hierh school footballers defeated Carbon, 14-7 in an event ful game played at Price. Provo's lineup as as follows : Capt. Bo shard, qb; Riley, Ih; Culbertson, rh: Eggrertseni fb; Bullock, c; Hawkins, lg; Fleming, rg; : Alex ander, It: Baird, rt; Henrie, le; Hoover, re. : The B. Y. U. lyceum course for the season opened, with Alton Packard, s cartoonist, entertaining in College hall. . Final Rehearsal Set for Play Final rehearsals will be held Thursday for the first dramatic production of Brigham Ypung uni versity .high school "New Fires,' which will be presented Friday afternoon and evening in College hall.: A cast of fifteen students will take part in the play which is directed by Morris If. Clinker nstructor in speech.' Members of , the production staff are: Beth Evans, er-'stant director; Beth Clayson, student assistant; as-sistant; Paul Smith, dramatic! manager; Lois Woo If, Polly Tay- or, properties; Ralph Unerman: stage manager;--Beverley- Jensen, costume. LECTURES AT VERNAL. Dr.' Wesley P. Lloyd, professor of philosophy of "education .. and Dean of Men at Brigham Young university will give a lecture on "Developing a Love for Learning" in the Vernal high school auditorium auditor-ium Friday, morning. ; 4 Professor Lloyd's lecture will be, a highlight of American Education Week which is featured throughout through-out the nation from November 6 to 10. . He will discuss the subject of education in its formal and informal in-formal aspects. New Name O. K. wywMwwM.Ml.pimi..vJ....... nnrrQii ir -; njuuTwruajn tTr.r.'?cc;"fi:l n a Ilcllyv.-ocd extra fcr.3vercl jcars, Deris Davenport, ttcve, char.-d her n2.ir.3 to Deris Tcrc! i, en 1cir".. n wti,9 ...n d " 1 zx . si ,:..rr- 1 rcl2 epp-ctite Gary C-.;.r. George Nuttall returned from Nephi where he was figuring on a job of plumbing. ' . Elder Archibald Pulham left for a mission to the Southern states. .-. ' "Mr. and Mrs. John Mendenhall of Springville were shopping in Provo Saturday." ; : Finland's Vonten (C V7, '!"--- I . 1 1 . Important In the defense plans of little Finland in the event w comes is the- Lotta Svard League, a women's voluntary service, j s tured here in formation drill. Comprising- more th;in 100.000 mem)' the league is trained for "home front" war duties. ir Grand Uiaw Daughters of Pioneers .l "' Receive Ons-Cooni Uz UnuzQ Utah County Made Vegetable Area Utah county is one of five counties in Utah having been designated des-ignated as part of the national commerpial vegetable , area in which vegetable acreage allotments allot-ments wilt be made under the J940 Agricultural Conservation program, pro-gram, -announces Joseph Skeen, Logan, memoer. of the state AAA committee. . Other commercial vegetable counties are Box Elder, Davis, Salt. Lake, Utah and Weber. A one-room log house built during dur-ing the early l&60's has been given the Grandview camp of Daughters of Utah Pioneers, reports Mrs. Nettle Brown, captain. The hoiise, , reported to be one of the oldest in Utah, will be moved from its present site, about one half mile northwest of the Provo river bridge, to the Grand-view Grand-view ward ' grounds, Mrs. Lucy Clyde and Mrs. Mary Bernardie are in charge of a committee to make arrangements. ' A social is planned for the Grandview ward chapel, Nov. . 15 at 8 p, m., to raise funds to move the building and prepare a cennnf base for the structure. The lojr house was built b; George Brown. Later it was th Stephen Jones home. CharlRe Gutt rich of Grandview offered tit structure to the Daughters t Utah Pioneers! TWO. THANKSGIVINGS IDAHO FALLS, "Ida.; Nov. f -(ti.r.) Mayor Chase Clark of ld;ih Falls said today the city woul celebrate two Thanskgivingfj, v Nov. 30 and Nov. 23, "because v have enough blessings for a two day obesrvanco " 1 SERIAL STORY MUR DEfl I D MUS IC: BY NARD JONES .COPYRIGHT. B3a NCA BIRVICC. INC. CAST OP CirAUACTEnS DfYRNA DOMB RT-kf relnn Vlf of the acnaatlonal winjc band leader. ROBERT TAIT hfro. New-paper New-paper photographer deterflre. AMM; LKSTi;iU-Myr clos-et clos-et friend. DANSIE FEELKY oncer aa-larued aa-larued to Invaatlgate Laddea Oombey'a nrder. , - ' ' '.- .Yesterdays Feeley aad Tait are unable to , Identify the attacker, bat the taxi driver remembera a cat xaeowlnar aa he fell. Talt re- onila the Iiombey ob( incctM, "The Cat'e Meow." CHAPTER XVIII JEITIIEII Tait norFeeIey saw any humor in the fact that they were quite as much in. the . dark as the unfortunate taxi driver. Certain that the wounded man could enlighten them no further fur-ther they left the General Hospital a disconsolate pair if ever there was one. v - .. On the steps of the hospital Feeley looked at Bob Talt. "I know a good beer tavern near here." ' .-, v. "Lead ma to it," said Tait wear- 'iiy.A':r;'. -'r : Within the next five minute3 they were seated in a back booth of beer parlor, a stein before each of them and a . heaping bowl of popcorn between the steins. "Suppose," "Sup-pose," said Dannie Feeley, "that you start talking. You hire a taxi to akeT you on a foolhardy trip into in-to the Millbay district. The driver gets knifed .and thinks he heard a cat meowing. And you ask me if I ever heard of the cat's meow?" "I mean the song," grinned Tait. "I told you about that song. If you paid any attention to swing music you'd know that song. The one that Lud Dombey was supposed to have written and didn't." Feeley nodded. "The one that was written by George Weeks. I remember."- - "Yeatv. So there's the chance that the guy who wanted to cut me up was pur erratic friend, the unknown musician." Tait took a drag at his beer, leaned forward and went on excitedly. "Look, Dannie. Put yourself in his place. Suppose you'd been a third-rate musician all your life, living from hand tc mouth " "I wish," said Feeley in a tired voice, "I was." . t4ALL ri;;ht, Jet's dream it, then. xx- You are. All your life you've figured you are as good as some of the 5 guys . in the big dough. And maybe you really are, the fcrr-'vs b-5-?. v.-hr.t they .ere. Then ycu vilc a son, and you're sure it's pretty good. But the song pub lishers don't think so. They never heard of you, anyhow, and what jobs have you had and with what orchestra? But you have faith in this song it's called 'The Cat'r: Meow and you know how Lud-den Lud-den Dombey is the king oi swin. And this ij a swing song. Tt ready. It's a thing from the bowels of Africa. It's Beethoven and Irving and sormthing from the drums of the jungle. You know it is, because be-cause you know music and you've got the feel. But you're stuck because, somehow, some way, you didn't get the breaks. You begin to realize that the authors of the Declaration of Independence were nice guys all right.' but they weren't quite right when they said that all men were created free and equal. You begin to tumble to the fact that something can happen between the time you were created cre-ated free .and equal and the time when you start to earn the daily bread. But that's all right. You're a good sport. You see that a guy named Ludden Dombey has got some breaks along with hit hard work. So you take your song to him, and you ask him to put it over for you." "I'm following you," said Dan nie Feeley. "And I'll buy another beer." ' Tait nodded. "Okay. ... Well -you've taken your song to Lud Dombey and he sees something in it. It's decided that you ought to let him plug it under his own name. Maybe he decides that, or maybe you do. Anyhow, that's the way .it's done. And the agreement he makes is all right with you. Then, under Ludden Dombey's guidance, the song becomes one of the greatest contemporary hit smashes. And then . . ." Tait paused a moment. "Then Dombey doesn't pay" "I'd be sore," said Feeley. "Nat urally." "Not only that. Dannie. The song would come to be the one thing in your life. You'd think of nothing else. You'd see Dombey rising on that song. You'd hear it a dozen times a day. You'd want to .scream out, 'I wrote that I wrote it, I wrote it!' But you don't. Because you've an agreement with Dombey, and you think probably he'll pay out in the end and maybe may-be he's getting more out of the song than you would with your name of well, George K. Weeks." TpAIT stopped long enough to let the waiter set down two fresh steins on the table. "Little by little, you get a little screwy on the subject of that song. Maybe you get a little hungry, too, and a little tired of spending your nights la Hop joints. you v.p cjxd choot Luidca Dasubey UccU after you've raised thr price -of a ticket to the Golden Bowl of the Pocific-Plaza." Feeley nodded. "I 'get it. That sets me ofr. I -hear that a guy named Robert Tait has b t ;i elected manager of Dombry' band. And I still haven't got my money and by this time I'd lik' a little recognition, too. So I inveigle in-veigle you down to the Millbay district and make some parses nt you with a knife. And while I'm doing It I make a noise like a cat's meow because that's the name at the song I got on my addled bean." "That's it! That's what I mean." Feeley grunted. "It sounds like something Leonard Macy would figure out with the help of thr.t alienist. Doctor Darryl MatlLsc." "Just the same it's a theory." "Sure. And here's another onr. Harris Rogers wanted to get even with you for doing him out of a soft 'Job with plenty of ' money and he figures to throw you off by making a noise like a cat. And the reason h does It i just because he thinks you'll cor k up a fancy idea like the one vouv been retailing to me." "I I agree with you, Dannie. That's another possibility, ;mj probably it's a better one ti.cn mine. But what about that per fume?" 1 Feeley sighed. "You wouM bring that up. Are you sure yea smelled that stuff outside t! Claremont Apartments where Anne Lester. and Myrna Dombey roomed together?" "If you'd seen the blond, D:n-nie, D:n-nie, you'd remember it perfectly. It was in the entrance of V .0 Claremont and it came from tho blond. It isn't the . :ind of perfume per-fume that Myrna would cho- ." pEELEY regarded the your r man oddly. "I f;ee. Then we've got to consider the os Ability ta; t the person who antrd to 1,1 : ycu to death was the blond." "We have." ' And that she also was the r U l who knocked Dombey off." "Yes." Feeley thook his head. "I've I ! Mike Dunphy making the rou :j of the names wc got from D ii-bey's ii-bey's papers. But there ws nothing noth-ing doing. At least half cf th- r.i were blond.-;, too." Tait glanced toward the w i dow. The first s. breaks cf d v:i wtro breaking into Che i:l!-r.'. t beer tavern. "What do you tay v.- go back down to the Millbay :'.., trict and have a look at that f -tory building now?" "Therc're two thinn I'd rst: r do." said Feeley. "O: i; il . , and the other is drink a third f ; of beer. But when I S' e 1. J duty s |