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Show BEAVER PRESS This Week Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers by ARTHUR NEW ATHLETIC STADIUM WOOLG ROWERS TO MEET BEVERLY MANY DEER SLAIN The first annual ten-dashort course in agriculture at the Utah State Agricultural college oined here with 65 farmers from 17 counties of the state in attendance. The course was conducted by the extension service. rAROWAN, UT. Power rates in Parowan will be reduced from 15 to SO per cent after Jan. 1, according to a decision reached by the city LOGAN, UT. y council. LOGAN, UT. More than 600 adults in Cache county are expected to participate in the adult education program according to announcement from school offices here. ELY, NE V. Further decrease in local unemployment was promised when advices from Washington that $45,000 had been set aside for construction of the proposed federal building in Ely, and $12,791 had been alloted by the office of national parks and monuments for work on the Lehman Cave site. BOISE, IDA. The 1934 convention of the Idaho Wool Growers' association will be held January 11. The meeting will precede by a few days the National Wool Growers' convention in Salt Lake, which starts January 15, so Idaho wool men may attend the Utah sessions. BOISE, IDA. Reports of the ed i ' j ' of 3038 deer (luring the hunting season this fall have been tabulated by the state game department, and the total was expected to pass considerably beyond 4000 when all reports are in. Two major deer bunt- - tilling Ing counties, Idaho and Clearwater, Lave not yet reported, as the season there continued until later than in southern Idaho counties. Virtually all the deer reported were from southern Idaho, with Boise county north of Boise city leading the present tabulation, with 1350 reported taken, Blaine came second in the list With 642 deer checked out OGDEN, UT. Speed has been shown in inauguration of federal forest and park road projects under the public works program, according to figures released by the district engineer for the bureau of public roads, with headquarters In A report shows that on November 25 there had been 127 road projects in Utah and Idaho begun under the public works administration fund. On these projects were employed 5338 men. Total cost of the work is estmated at $5,155,000. Divided as to states, it is shown that In Utah 70 projects were under construction, such work employing 2974 men, the total cost figured at $2,803, 000. In Idaho there were 57 projects, engaging 2304 men and estimated to cost $2,352,000. LOGAN, UT. The Cache county commission has been advised by County Attorney George D. Preston to accept 1933 taxes in conformity with the rules of the state tax commission penalties after November 80. This decision was made following a letter received by the county commission from the state tax commission opposing them in extending the time to pay taxes until December 20. SALT LAKE CITY, CT. The Oetolier census of the school population just completed by the sttjsje department of public instruction shows the total of persons in Utah between the ages of 6 and 18 years to be 149,008, Just 719 more than for last year, an Increase of slightly less than of one per cent. rOCATELLO, IDA. An athletle stadium with a seating capacity of 8,400, the largest in the state, to be built with CWA funds on property adjacent to the University of Idaho, southern branch, has been added to the Pocatello civil works program. ELY, NEV. Projects already approved under the C W A program In White Pine county, will give employment to 157 men for approxl mately 00 d4ys. In addition several project within the city of Ely are to e undertaken, and F. D. Depp, suite highway engineer, was asked to report on proposed work on the road over Schellbourne pass. OGDEN, UT. With Ideal weather conditions prevailing no difficulty Og-de- n. one-ha- lf Will be experienced in keeping men at work In the Richfield and Salina C C. camps throughout the winter, according to C. A. Metteson, of Richfield, supervisor of the Fish Lake national forest RICHFIELD, UT. L 1 t e s t o c k feed of all varieties in the Sevier river valley baa been harvested this fall in more than twice the quantity frown in any other season during the past Ave years. BOISE, IDA. Ada county, Idaho, with 145,124 bearing plum trees, was thirtieth in the nation In number of frees of bearing age in 1930, the cen-sh- a bureau reports. The county had 6000 trees not of bearing age and .harvested a crop of 256,070 bushels Talned at HILLS Well know is just what I read in the papers or who I talk to, or rather who I listen to. I am terrible gabby but when I got around somebody that I want to really get some Information out of, why I do by a great effort shut up. Here a few weeks ago, had all the all I fly Senators that were out here on all these highway robberies, these pyramiding of stock sales to the public, when the stock wasent worth as much as buggy whip. All over the Country Senate committees were finding out the same thing. They could stop In any town and unearth a financial scandal. And thats one of the things that is causing all the uneasiness In this Country. Its that the old middle class fellow knows there is something wrong when every financial big wig investigated has been found to have sold stock with no value behind It. But that Is not what I started in to say, it was that these Senators were out to my igloo, and I met em as old friends and we had I think a pleasant time. You know there Is really nothing more likable than a Senator when you really know him. We like to kid about but I him about like a Mother-in-latell you had there been no Mother-in-law- , we would have no wife, and no Seuator, no Government. Well then a few days later out to spend the day with me come Senator Bob LaFolette of Wisconsin, of the Wisconsin LaFolettes. Did you ever meet young Bob LaFolette? Well you have missed something. He Is bright, he la fair, he Is just. He dont exactly agree with all that Is going on on either side but he is not the condemning kind. He can disagree and still give the other fellow credit. Thats a rare trait in politics. During an hour of conversation I never heard him utter a word in condemnation of a single man (and I asked him about every prominent one I could think ot). I like to get one mans slant on another one. Bob might offer some slight criticism of a mans policies but he always said they were arrived at honestly and that personally he liked em. Its hard to follow in a noted fathers footsteps (especially when that father was 20 years ahead of his time) but this boy has done it You watch this kids smoke. Its blowing in the right direction. Well then again after the Senators I had a mighty interesting visitor. It was the Crown Prince of Germanys son, a grandson ot the Kaiser. He is the one that has been over here for a couple ol years worKing in nenry Fords factory. His name is Ferdinand, I suppose they call him Prince Ferdinand, but you better not do it to his face. He is a mighty likable young fellow, about 26 years old, the second son, but the oldest one married outside the thoroughbred pasture and now he is in the dog house as far as any succession is concerned, so this may be the boy that will succeed Hitler. But whats going to happen to Hitler? But this young fellow, you would like him. He is very plain and unassuming. He tells some interesting things about his early life in Germany. He was about eleven when it finished, goes every birthday to se his grandfather (as they all do) tht Kaiser, says the old fellow is very chipper, loves jokes, is not soured on the world, and take things very philosophically. He speaks perfect English, (as far as I could judge) said his family spoke more English at home than German. He speaks French, Italian, Russian, and Spanish also. Says his oldjr brother that married out of the pink is kinder high hat, but that the others are great. Says his Dad loved horses, riding and polo, and he wished he could bring him out to my place Can you imagine a fellow thats been strong German horses, locking i over a bunh of these little Pestle tails of mine? Jlc would say, nice colts, where is their mothers? This boy had Just been home and talked to Hit ler. He sure likes il over here, Is on his way to Mexico City. sure like it down there. Thats the greatest place in the world. He thinks Henry Ford Is a mighty fine man. We agreed on that too. I asked him what he thought of us recognizing Russia, he said Germany recognized em first. Fate Is a funny thing, alnt It. Fellow educated to be ruler of a great Country, then wind up working for Henry Ford. But he Is certainly not crying the blues. He Is the most cheerful, care free young fellow you ever met. Then here we all are bellowing because we have lost some money and dont get as much salary. 193! HtSntkl SymlutH, Int. I told him he would $162,028. BEAVER, UT. Road work is continuing in the county, regardless of the storm and cold weather. More msn are being employed each week. The city Is hiring a number of teams and men to repair bridges, joads etc, I used to those beeg Valuable Relic copy of Matthew Merlans "Icones Hlbllcae," published In Csrmany in 1623, contains moro than 200 line engravings on copper, made after the artist's own designs. A Washington. When the Eighteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution became a uiat-NeSource ter of history the of Revenue otner day- - 1 took 0( casion to look up some old records about the consump tion of liquor In the days gone by. One of the things I found was that 1014 was the record year and that In those twelve months our nation, then consisting of approximately 100,000,000, had disposed of almost 800,000,000 gallons of whlskys, wines and other liquors and beer, that slightly more than 8000,000 of the total was in whisky. From those statistics, I learned also that the federal government had obtained roughly $430,000,000 In taxes, and that the states, counties and municipalities had raised enough additional revenue from liquor and occupational taxes, such as licenses for saloons, to make the total tribute paid by liquor exceed $1,000,000,000. The taxes in effect were distributed and passed along until the consumers of these beverages paid them. There were strong anti-tafights launched In many places, but the taxes were and paid." duly "levied, collected Plenty of taxes are being levied these days, but collecting them is a different proposition, because most of our taxes are handled differently than liquor taxes. To get back to 1914, the consumption of liquors was accomplished by the people in about nineteen wet states. We have started the new era (which repeal of the Eighteenth amendment must be held to represent) with twenty-four states In which liquor sale Is legal. The federal tax rate is roughly the same as It was twenty years ago, although It has been higher In the meantime due to war levies. The rate of $1.10 a gallon on "hard" liquor will be the rate operative until congress acts; the tux of $5 a barrel on beer that was levied when the product was legalized early this year compares with $0 per barrel In 1914, and there Is about the same x three-point-tw- relation to other taxes of twenty years ago. So the federal government and the states, counties and municipalities are going to start with a new source of revenue to relieve other tax sources that are heavily burdened. Which Is the point to which so much attention has been directed in urging repeal. It Is a matter of governmental policy, of course, as to where funds will be raised by taxes to defray costs of government. By advocating repeal, those who supported that course have In effect argued for transfer of taxes only from one base to another. But there Is a lesson in it, as I see the thing. This transfer of tax has been from levies on productive enterprise and commerce and industry that may be called a necessity back to an item of use in life largely of the character of a luxury. The same is true of the taxes on tobacco. Tobacco taxes consistently have yielded about $.'t(X),000,-00- 0 annually, and yet constant smokers, of which your correspondent happens to be one, have objected little. The answer seems to lie In the fact that so little Is taken from one person at one time. Since repeal had the support of such a vast portion of the nation's population, one can hardly arrive at any other conclusion than that this method of taxation has their approval. The circumstance has given rise to some conjecture, also, as to whether sales taxes generally might not serve better than such things as Income and property taxes under which human backs are bending. Now that repeal has been accomplished and, the states and local communities can deter-Importa- mine their own Question, co"" with the " d"il,inf liquor traf fic after a lapse since 1019, two other questions are agitating everyone wh. is Interested In sotind government. Each of them Is national in Its scope, but one of them Is wholly local in Its application. I refer to the problem of the tax or revising rates by congress, and the settlement of what are distinctly local Issues relating to whether there will be sale of liquor and how those shall be handled. In other words, It Is the old, old question of local option. As soon as the congress gets back Washington after January 1, legislation will be submitted by the administration to effect permanent control of liquor traffic and lay such taxes as the legislators think proper to assess against liquor. This problem sounds simple, but It Is far from It There Is obviously a proper tax base that will yield the maximum of revenue and at the same time be low enough to discourage bootlegging activities which necessarily must have a big margin of profit There is at this time considerable support for the Idea that the present tax rate of $1.10 per gallon will remain unchanged for six months or so. The Idea behind this is that a tax rate go low will make whisky cheap and bootleggers cannot compete. If they are once driven out, this school of thought contends, they will have great difficulty in getting started again. I have been unable to obtain any ac curate measurement of the strength behind this movement but there is no soubt that It is finding favor. In Bootleg Crime, Much Alive. A Trial Honeymoon. to As the local option problem, Washington observers are able only to guess that there will be many heated fights In numerous communities throughout the country. People always have fought over the prohibition question since it has been an issue, and they will argue about it now in many areas that otherwise are noted for their peaceful atmosphere where politics are taken usually In smaller doses. There seems to be assurance here of a continuing problem resulting from one community being wet and Its neighbor being dry, or vice versa. Such a condition is conducive to enforcement difficulties, and there are obvious enmities as a consequence. So, from the Washington viewpoint, it appears there are troubles Just beginning for a good many communities; they will continue for a long time, and so far as present prospects Indicate the future, It will require much more experience and much more wisdom than we now have to bring about a permanent solution of the local option probnext-doo- r lem. as a crop season for quite some distance 'off, the Department of culture has begun agreements seeking Acreage with the cotton farmers respecting the reduction of acreage. Secretary Wallace said he hoped to restrict cotton acreage In 1934 to 25,000,000 acres. That Is about 35 per cent below the average acreage of years 1928 to 1932, Inclusive, and the agriculture adjustment administrative considers It will be a reduction of suhVient size to maintain prices on a higher level than the average for the last four years. In addition, the farmers who withhold land from production will be paid a maximum of $18 per acre In benefit payments by the Department of Agriculture. This money will come from the processing tax, just as was done in the 1933 crop reduction program. Mere announcement that the program of restricted production Is to continue through 1934 would seem to be proof that the parity plan for payments and the federal control over Such, production has been successful. however, Is not the case. Moreover, I believe Secretary Wallace does not feel that the 1933 program has proved more than a demonstration of the procedure of how to do the Job. These farm aid programs obviously take time. One year cannot possibly serve as a measurement. As the program goes on, however, and as marketing conditions adjust themselves to the new setup, the success or failure of the plan will become evident. I cannot say that I have found a single unbiased judge who will risk a guess that the cotton adjustment proor the wheat gram, or the corn-hoprogram has been either a success or a failure. Their candid opinions warrant me In writing only that there must be more time elapse before anyone can say definitely that the schemes should be continued or should be withdrawn. Although 1934 cotton Is farm-allotme- One reason why there ought not be snap judgment taken is because no one has had a chance to arrive at a fair test No Snap of the effect of the Judgment processing taxes. We cannot fail to recognize that distribution of $100,000,000 among the growers of a certain crop affords that much return to them, money to spend. On the other hand, the processing tax is being paid by nearly everyone who buys cotton textiles, and the effect eventually will be felt. What l lie extent will be. I can discern no way of forecasting. Sullire it to say that a fraction of a cent per yard may be the cause of a change in the volume of sales of a given cloth. But such a change ordinarily will take place only under normal competitive conditions. We have not bad such conditions since the agricultural adjustment administration began to operate. So it is my conclusion, since the country has embarked upon the policy, hasty Judgment ought to be avoided and the re urn of delicate balances in the economic structure nwirfted before the allotment plans have been wholly discarded or completely adopted. Speaker Ralney, the white-haireleader of the house of representatives, is on record with a declaration that the forthcoming session of congress will be rather mild. The veteran legislator maintains there Is not going to be an unusual roaring. He believes congress will enact the newest Ideas of the administration Into law and go borne unless some one offers better plans. The speaker, of course, be Ing a stalwart follower of President Roosevelt, thinks there are no better plans than those Mr. Roosevelt will d propose. But a few Inquiries has convinced me the speaker lias not taken note of the things going on around him. He did a fairly good Job at controlling the house last spring and summer, but much water has gone over the dam since that time and It Is made to appear that Mr. Ralney has overlooked It. I personally distinguished predict a hot a long night . BRISBANE Pacific Coast Sunset. 10,000 Planes for England. National Topics Interpreter by William Bruckart SCHOOL CENSUS GAINS Sally Sez have heard two rather and powerful Individuals time In the old town and for the next session. 1IJI. WMtari Nwpapr I nlon. Some things you cannot describe though you see them clearly. Nobody has really described Niagara, the Pacific Ocean, a volcano in eruption, or the wonderful look that a new child brings into this world from the eternity that lies behind us. It is not possible to describe the sunset seen from this coast looking across the Pacific to the northwest. But for the benefit of those that haven't seen it, you can attempt to describe it, as prairie dogs chatter about an express that has gone by. The sun has been down tor some time, blue black darkness spreads over from the. East There is an evening star hanging high up, in the sky, of such extreme metallic, silver brightness, that it seems to stare at and reproach you. Your impulse is to say, "I haven't done anything, don't look go hard." There is intensity in the line that spreads low across the horizon that you never saw elsewhere. Nothing was ever like that savage dark red, fighting against approaching blackness. The smooth Pacific ocean spreads out, a dark, oily purple. Soon the sun will be rising on its other shore, seven thousand miles away. The sky, without a cloud, shows every shade of blue, the long mountain range to the east changing from gray and green to black. A small lighthouse at the foot of this hill has begun its night's work, sweeping a moving beam across the water. There is not a sound, as the earth turns on Its axis, 1,000 miles an hour, and flies through space around the sun, and with the sun, at fantastic speed. wonderful machine Is this universe, and an interesting corner of it is this Pacific Coast of California. Come out and see it. A England, at last, is fully awake to the importance of air fighting. When will this country wake up? After our first major bombardment, perhaps? The British warn Germany against repeating the mistake made when Germany started building surface ships The In competition with England. Kaiser and his great admiral decided to upset that "Brittannia Rules the Waves" song. And soon there was no Kaiser, and the German "grand fleet" was lying on the bottom at Scapa Flow. warns Germany, Now England "Don't try to do in the air, against us, what you tried to do on the water." And England means it, and acts as the thorough British do, when they France has an air mean anything. fleet of more than 4,000 ships. England demands a fighting air fleet of ten thousand planes of all classes, from the swiftest pursuit planes, to the heaviest bombing planes, and air transport ships, to carry soldiers. And furthermore, the British government suggests, urgently, that important British cities supply their own air defense, the swift combat flyers to drive off any invasion. Prohibition, mother of bootlegging, and the world's highest crime wave, 13 officially dead. Bootlegging and crime, unfortunately, are not dead, and there Is no certainty that crime's annual cost to this country of thirteen thousand million dollars will not go on. All depends on good judgment in liquor taxation, and on police, judicial and general official integrity and energy. If liquors are taxed too highly, Europe and Canada sending in whisky, free of home taxation, will offer to crime all the bootleg profit it needs. And If distribution 13 hampered, in the prohibition spirit, speakeasies will continue to flourish. It has been wisely said that if you hamper decent drinking in decent places, there will be indecent drinking, in indecent places. Fifi Dorsay, and Maurice Hill, perhaps you know who they are, the writer does not know, were married "ns a climax to the first trial honeymoon on record." It was not actually the first "trial honeymoon" on record, the first one was the Adam and Eve trial, in the Garden of Eden. That did not work out well, but you can blame nobody but the snake. Adam and Eve did not choose each other. No honeymoon or marriage "experiment" can be expected to work out well, for it always indicates doubt in one or both and that is enough to spoil the experiment at the Btart. The least a brtde can expect is that her husband shall believe her to be the only woman on earth, as Eve was. It is not yet realized that flying is inexpensive. While saving precious time, il costs no more for gas or oil than auioinoliillng. Ren Smith of New York, after having made a few more millions in Wall Street, wisely selects gold mines for his business. He selects the right kind of gold mine, not the kind offered you by mall as "the opportunity of your life." Mr. Smith, stopping here, on the Hearst ranch landlngg field on his way via San Francisco and Seattle to British Columbia, where he has a nice mine, urged: "Come on, you will be up there in Dine hours, and I will jhow you, on the Fraser River, absolutely the most beautiful country in the world." (.19)3. by King Futures Srndicatt, Int.) It make no difference where we ream. Nor where our Journey ends. We boar in mind and cherish moat, The memories of our friends, j Let's help our friends By PATRONIZING HOME INDUSTKT Roman Soldiers' Helmet The helmet of the ordinary Roman soldier at the time of Christ was a plain, undecorated skull cap,, s usually of leather, strengthened bands of iron, with a neck guard. Later the cap was made of bronze. THIS WEEK'S PRIZE STORY The Intermountain Dollar, When spent In a Foreign Land, Buys very little that's worth while. Only things that sound so grand. When your Dollar's spent on produce, Of the Intermountain West, Ton know that it haa done its part And bought the very best. It It keeps our And helps keeps our And makes neighbors working our schools to run, lands producing our factories bum. And when we have Depression runnins Intermountain Produce will lead The Big Parade, And we ail can share the bounties. Of this West that we have made. MRS. E. L. BRAITHWA1TE, Idaho Falls, Idaho, AT 400 Utah Oil Refining Service Stations in Utah and Idaho Cats Best In the pioneer days, cats were as important to settlers as were cook stoves. To this day they are considered the best vermin exterminators in the world; all scientific inventions YOUR DRUGGIST FOB ASK APEX COUGH SYRUP HOSE DROPS AN INTERMOUNTAIN PRODUCT Maya Civilization The Maya civilization lasted at least 2,300 years, there being that much difference between the building of the earliest and latest temples. Utah High School of Bsauty Culture 121 So. Main St., Salt Lake City Til Bsautj Cu'turl Ftifessioi Knows io Depresskta Ton can now learn a profession that will make yon independent for the rest of your days. IIS per month only for the complete course of six months. Phone or write for cur calalogue. Mail in eoutxm. 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If your story appears In this eolamu roe will re ceive check for $3.00 Week Ne, 135 W.N.U. 8lt Lake City The Submarine A submarine 13 defined as a ves-- cl capable of being submerged and propelled under water, and essentially armed with torpedoes which can be fired while submerged, aim being taken by means of a periscope, which alone is visible to the urface craft being attacked. Slow Growth for Long Life Rapid growth and longevity are Incompatible ami the best chances of an abnormally long life belong to the animal that has grown slowly and attained a late maturity. |