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Show THE MURRAY EAGLE IlE. M.yjR. JA" Y .E'A'GLE C, B. A SHORT STORY By Murray Strange There lived next door to us in a very small town a family known as Tuttle. It was a strange mixture of inharmonious offspring and parentage. The father was certainly the most brutal, selfish and cruel man that I ever have met in real life. Even in fiction I have failed to encounter one who could surpass Tuttle in natural inhumanity and savage-nesMany times he whipped his children without being angry about anything in particular. I wondered sometimes if his cruelty had not the same reasons for being as the liquor habit has in other men. Because Tuttle never drank, I imagine he beat his children to escape from monotony for the same reason his neighbors got "lousy" drunk every Saturday night. Old Man Tuttle was a Associate Editor, J. B. Wallace Wallace, Editor 35 Issued Telephone Murray Every Thursday Entered as second class matter February 8, VJ27, at the Post Office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under Act of Mar. 3, 1879. OF SUBSCRIPTION Salt Lake County, Utah Advance TERMS In One Year Six $1.00 50 Months In Advance One Year In Elsewhere In The United States Advance - - THE MOTORISTS Thou May PRAYER avest life, and I pray no act of mine take away or mar that gift of thine. Shelter those, dear Lord, who bear me company, From the evils of fire and all calamity. Teach me to use my car for others' need, Nor miss through love of speed The beauties of thy world; that thus I may, With joy and courtesy go my way. PLANNED ECONOMY "Planned economy" is a phrase that drops gilbly from the lips of agitated orators who insist, perhaps not openly, that the American form of government isn't such a good one. Soviet Russia has "planned economy", telling every man how much he can raise, what he can sell it for, what he may earn, how long he may work, what he may eat, wear, and do. And the result? The Saturday Review, published in London, gives these figures on prevailing food prices in Russia: Bread, 40 cents a loaf; butter, $2, a pound; cigarettes, $1, a package of 20; coffee, $4, a pound; sugar, 35 cents a pound. Nice, isn't it? WHY The REPEAT A s. $2.00 "Grant me a steady hand and watchful eye, that no man shall be hurt when I pass by," starts The Motorist's Prayer. The prayer first appeared in the London Church Times. The Prayer is a reminder that good driving is a Christian obligation. It follows: Grant me a steady hand and watchful eye, That no man shall be hurt when I pass by. MISTAKE? recently promulgated theory that the surest road to prosperity lies in lower, not higher, commodity prices, is receiving an extraordinarily enthusiastic endorsement from many important quarters. Apparently experiments designed to futher "an economy of scarcity," and to artificially raise and stabilize the price level, have convinced unprejudiced experts that the nation needs something diametrically different. One doesn't have to he an economist to appreciate the fact that reasonable prices made possible by more efficient production and distribution methods, would do much to increase both purchasing power and employment. The great bulk of citizens live tip to their incomes almost 100 per cent. When prices arc high, they must retrench, and buy fewer and cheaper articles result, less employment. When prices are low, they buy more and better articles, running the gamut all the way ironi groceries to radios result, greater employment. Evcy factory in the land hums when the general price structure is low enough to permit the millions of citizens of average means to buy beyond the bare necessities of life. To achieve lower prices, government must refrain from passing laws and artificially inflate the costs of production or the costs of distribution and retailing, at the expense of the consumer. There is a definite movement on foot to penalize, through taxes and restrictive legislation, merchandising systems that have made it possible to narrow the spread of the cost of commodities between producer and consumer. It is apparent that such a movement, if successful, will raise prices or at least make lower prices impossible. We've tried artifiical inflation of commodity prices and it hasn't made a dent in solving the unemployment problem. Then why in the name of reason should more laws be passed to reduce purchasing power, to the inevitable detriment of employment? MEN AND MACHINES A common phrase these days is "technological unemployment." It usually is used by those who oppose modernization because of the mistaken belief that machines take work away from men. They seem to think that the installation of a machine which lets one man do the work of five means that the other four men join the bread-lines- . The trouble with such a belief is that it is based upon thoughts that go only half way. Actually, the machine, instead of throwing men out of work, has increased employment. That is proved by facts. Ruring the three decades ended in 1N, the United States went through the most rapid development in its history in the application and invention of machines. And what was' the result?. The number of persons employed rose 88 per cent while the population increased only f2 per cent mechanization increased 331 per cent and production rose 216 per cent. The linotype machine was one that let a single man do the work of about five. It was introduced in the early 18 Vs. Yet in IKX' there were only 50.1X0 employed in the "printing and publishing business as against I50.0U) in That I50.0H) does not include the thousands which , got new jobs to ink. and machines needed by the stimulated printing business. The real result of this marvelous invention has iM t.nlv increased employment but better education. Costs dropped so tli.it now even body can afford to buy printed matter. And illiteracy dropped 10.7 kt cent of the population in to 4 3 per cent in I'A30. Nearly the same things are true of other inventions. There have been periods of adjustment when employment in a single industry was temporarily reduced. Hut. in short, the maelnne instead of gobbling up jobs, ogre-like- , has raised our standard of living until it now is the highest in the world, and has provided millions of new jobs. 1(. supply-paper- cobbler. His son, Tom, was the older boy and heir. He is the only one I remember distinctly. I never think of Tom as part of my environment of that time, but as something apart; one who moved in the regions of his own thought, for he was different from the other boys of his own age and al ways seemed to me to be a little above the close atmosphere of family and town. I felt that Tom was not like his brothers and was so unlike his father in all ways that I often wondered if they really were father and son. Tom, being the oldest of seven children received most of the abuse and Living with the Tuttles at this time was one, "Fuzzy" by name, painter by trade. It was his 4904 zi Lni BEER PARLOR South State St. LICENSED BEER DEALER - FISHER'S - BLATZ - BECKER'S BEERS ON COME IN WIIEKi: HEKK TAP is srwvrn t?tr.nr cus- steak for the table that seldom smelled meat of any kind. Quite often he would buy some vanilla extract at the same time for his own use. If he was painting a vacant building he usually came back in the evening and consumed the extract in company with many cigarettes. This liquor was exceedingly potent and often brought him troubled sleep sooner than it was anticipated. Sometimes his cigarettes at this point became dangerous, but because people knew his strange ways and had an eye on him he had not as yet been burned severely. I mention "Fuzzy" because he played a part in the little drama I remember so well. Besides desiring to torture,1 Tuttle also liked to take apart and put together an old Hudson1 car. This craze took possession of him every Sunday. He would raise it with a block and tackle and hide himself in grease and mechanisms underneath. He would undo the motor one time and put it together another, although between times the car never left the garage. One day Tom escaped with me to the river a mile away for a swim. He was silent as usual but I could tell he had something on his mind. After a brisk struggle with the current of the stream we lay under a maple on the grassy bank. "It's good to get out like this," he said. There would be more words, so waited while he looked with a set countenance at the wilderness across the river. "I'd hke to stay here." Tom said. "I don't want to go home. Someday 1"11 never go home. You know, one of these times I'm going to see that dad never gets away from that damn car. I can fix things so he'll die there. I can't bear life with him. I hated Tuttle as did everyone else, it seemed, and I suspected Tom did also, but never dreamed I would hear those words. I said nothing and we went home, but I knew that something must happen. Feople hke Tom hate useless I talk also. As he told me later. Tom ar ranged things so that when he would have to help his father fix the ear. he could release the weight of the heavy car and by the slow action of the block and tackle trap the man where hi would be crushed slowly. Lite cnc Sunday afternoon it all happened. Tom worked his plan as he had contemplated it. Old man Tuttle found himself tunned snugly under his car and he began to moan for help but his cries were smothered and no one but Tom heard them. The boy could not leave as he has planned. The groans of his father held him. lie could not say whi ther he enjoyed the sound or was seized by fear or regret. I know I came outside and smelled the pungent smoke and saw wild (lames somewhere in the vicinity of our back yard. The fire had apparently started in the old shed of a nearby building, which stands nearly in the center of the mass of wooden outbuildings in this block at the end of which was Tuttles garage. The fire was growing with tin- - wind in the directum uf Mr. Tuttle. who was wtd increasing intensity throwing M Fparks high in the air. Tom thought sometimes it came too siowiy and aam that it was Mrs. J. D. Bowers, Reporter PHONE HOLLADAY will conduct exercises next Sunday Evening in a specially arranged parents program at 6:30 p.m. All to be are urged friends and M I A. classes 53-- W waicukc waiter and his ter, Lillian left Wednesday S Mrs, Clement Walter anH . of rm. Tlpnvpr.j PnlnroH,-npv wv.wuuu, travel by way of Caspi er, ft"will yo- ming. if - 2' I Mrs. Jenice Farley was guest Mr. and Mrs. Powell will meeting he hosts FririavRalph it n speaker at sacrament Mrs. Farley v Nirtt riTr ;VL" l? HUa- last Sunday evening. e on evitable. There was nothing he chose for her subject, 'Happiness. Russell lane. the could do to alter it. Suddenly was Olvmniis Spuintr ri,.v. Relief Society officers will hold oily substance of the garage was the last Theology lesson of the Mrs. GeorTe't;oxeJTm Tom and flames the feeding uaJ afternoon in a earrfpn inside trying desperately to save season Tuesday, at 2 p.m. his father. LeMr. and Mrs. Tom's life got into a different A special unit of American never he in Mr and Mrs. Nephi but services after memorial this, hold Walter rhythm gion believed the story they told him Holladay cemetery next Satur- will leave June 5 for atead dehis saved 10 a.m. It is nhnnt hnw he had Visit With rplativoo day, May 30th at j t uaJ father's life; how they found Tom sired by the cemetery committee m and near Seattle. and old man Tuttle near aeam in that Holladay people try to visit a potato patch and how the ex their plots at the announced hour triage is ai,a" perience had maae oia man iui- and participate in the Legion pronicely after a severe cold tie like other men. gram. I haven't seen "Fuzzy" lor lone time. Directors of Holladay Public Holladay Betterment League outlined program OHUUUIH.C mai mev 7in their presented ",u'"'j "w i hovn Ko ,1150. for a Fourth of July celebration Irv-n- g of tilated room for the sum reading to the assembled patrons Jr. preceding the promotion mer months and they invite in exercises of the Ninth grade. By creased patronage. the motion of Bishop Ryberg the Holladay Flower Club met at plan of the league was accepted and chairmen of standing com- the new colonial home of L H mittees were sustained. W. D. Brockbank last Monday even'inj is presdent of the league Plans for a Rose show are under Pack to Americans well all IS for 7T chairman. and general wcijr. which at Id mind . fiSS the Ideals keep Its conception prompted the observance of Memorial day. To emphasis this spirit In the many proclamations ot state governors and city mayors, the Memorial day committee of the Memorial F.xtension commission has In three trenchant 'sentences set forth the main pur-- t ses of tills solemn and hallowed occasion: To visit not only the memoriuls and final resting places of national heroes hut of their own departed relatives and friends. To take measures and memorialize permanently local historic sites and the graves of local celebrities In order that their memory may be kept forever green. To pay homage to the heroes of peace scientists, educators, philanthropists, statesmen. Industrial pioneersas well as the war heroes. Let us seek to strengthen the spiritual observance of our memorial to those who have fought the good fight, have finished the course and kept the faith. Mr. and Mrs. Howard anH f, Mrs. W. E. Hall formerly Mrs. Marie Walter Steffenson, has re- ily have returned from a ten ri turned from Bolder Colorado, for motor trip to Seattle and other ponus oi wmeresi m the North, a short visit with her parents. west. Mr. Glenn Walter, geologist for Ladies of the Afternoon luTexas Motor Oil Company, at ncheon club will entertain their Hobbs, New Mexico, has returned to his work after visiting with his cnuaren ai i.iDerty Park Wed parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence nesday, june o. Walter, the past nine days. An atternoon literarv di.H Prof. Southwick and his Ladies sponsored py r.w.A. has been or mm. voices ganized with twentv-fou- r Chorus of twenty-thre- e will be guest artists at M.I.A. bers. Nellie McKinney is director at the present time. The Huh conjoint meeting June 7th at 6:30 meets each Monday at 2 p.m. New are music of lovers All good p.m. memDers win oe welcome. It is invited to be present. the purpose of the club to meet John S. and Esther Fullmer socially once each month when Bowers' families met at the home nusbands will be guests. of John D. Bowers last (Saturday Ladies Literary club was guest evening in a family reunion. Outdoor games were enjoyed from 6 at K.S.L. Monday evening at until 8:00 o'clock, when a banquet which time Mildred Bowers eave was served to a party of thrty-si- x a taiK on writing t or The Ra. persons. After dinner a song dio." fest was enjoyed. A brief bioMrs. Caroline Neff has as her graphical sketch of his parents was given by John D., the eldest house guest for the following two son of the family. Dr. David An- months her two daughters Mrs. drew, a nephew of Mrs. Esther Isabel Tanner and Miss Ernestine Bowers was a special guest. Six Neff of Niagara Falls, New York Inscription on World War were represented. Two Miss Ernestine is a student of families Memorial at Indianapolis other families live in southern costume designing at Pratt In above the first California. stitute. THE Inscription enrninee fstcnr Vprmnnt street Is: "To commemorate the " valor and sacrifice of the land, sea and air forces of the United States and all who rendered faithful and loyal service at home and overseas In the World war; to Inculcate a true understanding and appreciation of the privileges of American citizenship; to Inspire patriotism and respect for the laws to the end that peace may prevail, Justice be administered, public order maintained and liberty perpetuated." Above the entrance to the main memorial hall on the same side: "To vindicate the principles of peace and Justice throughout the world." Above the columns facing Meridian street: "To promote order and Justice" On the main frieze on the Pennsylvania street Bide: "To perpetuate peace and liberty." On. two ornamental panels between the first floor entrance doors on the north side: "U. S. Indiana." Helow the columns on both the east and west sides: "To commemorate the valor and sacrlflre of all who served." The words "Indiana World War Memorial" appear above the first floor entrance on the east and west elevations. The dates "1914 101S" aie on the ornnmental panels over the entrance doors on the east and west. Sunday Is Bargain Day distance Long are rates reduced all day Sunday on most station-to-statio- n and person-to-perso- n calls W tjJ y (JtrvX ' " Whose Voice Would You Like to Hear? CAHOON-MAXFIEL- IRRIGATION COMPANY D Notice of Delinquent Assessment Principal Flace of business, Murray City, Utah NOTICE: of There are delinquent upon the following stock, amount assessment levied March 16, 1936 the oset amounts several pposite the names of the respective stockholders as follows: Cert No. Shares Amount .87 Nephi Christensen 1316 2'i Albert Davies .17 1364 Albert E. Smith .09 1376 4 1.05 Henry Anderson and wife 3 1383 Newell McMillan 10.50 due 1343 38 5.85 due Agnes J. Tripp 1291 19 Jos. W. Tripp 525 7 15 John Berger 937 21 ',4 Maie Berger 1390-415.95 50 1.05 Henry Blanke 3 1165 Edward Ottley 332 51 94 Fred Stauflcr 22 91 34 7.E7 Watts Eugene 528 22 ii '- Lift High the Torch 1296-129- 1 1 1 And in accordance with the law so many shares, each partr.e sucn s,ock as may be necessary will be sold at the office of secretary, who is located in the Lyon Bldg., Suite 4. Murray. It on the 1st day of June, 1936, at hour of 10 a.m. of said day. to pay delinquent assessments the c thereon, together with cost advertising and expense of sale. II. T. MATTHEWS. Secretary Publication May 7, 14, 21, 28. i J a. STOP! - LOOK! - LISTEN! .... be pos- sibility of being crushed and cremated. Poor Tom was thinking that if he let things be. the ae ridental fire would do awav with the old man and he would not have to run away. Everything would work out to his advantage He waittd for the flames now. which were becoming great masses of terrible fire. It tore fit and advanced in the dry HAPPENINGS The Purpose of Memorial Day whacks. tom when on a job in a certain locality to board with a family close to his work. He was friendly but lonely. Many times I saw him bringing home a few pounds of m HOLL AMY y. sometimes shared a younger brother's punishment. Tom was always the one seized upon first when the old man was irked or moody. The thick, black shoe leather in a long strip would be fetched and the dead silence of the neighborhood was stabbed with pitiful shrieks and firm doubtless worried with the i is) InvL'A rd him sw iftly to feel the seemed He like doom. started heat now and the sweatsick with n his face He became stood by indecision. His past life side and the future he could "ee by the light of the raging conflames He did not hear the atfusion of the citizens in their progress of the tempt to stop thethreatened their fire that now proprietor lorries. The pool-roohobbled out of hibernation, gazed down the alley and groaned. My on God. the whole dirty towns that fire" Tom seemed to feel what he had done had all gone into the past, that even what was was altaking place before himit .was inthat ready in the past, j;rr TOM TUTTLE I Aa Dili Hrlklng memorial Mir. trayg the constancy of the men who died for GoJ ami Country, no we tmwt curry on the tusk they left be hind-- thf prmervmion of a cation frre and Independent. It i iir duty and our privilege (0 hold h'.-the torch of American liberty nd preserve our principle!, i n, fought for them, rray (5od we mav cot fall. h tt tI r.KT T11M 15EST FRANK NELSON BARBER SHOP |