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Show pge six 1 THE BOX El. PER NEWS JOITRNAt Neuifi'curnal A T II E Semi-Weekl- ELDER (Established 18) and N E W S ( Inc. News-Journa- WILLIAM M Editor (leneral Manager Published eveiy Tuesday and Friday afternoon at Brigham City. Utah, and entered as Second Class Matter at the post office in Brigham City, Utah, in January, 1909, under the act of March LONC'i, & TJK79 Subscription Rales: Anywhere in Box Elder County $9 00 a year. $2.00 for eight months, $1 00 fot tour months: ouestde Box Elder County, $1 (X) a Subscriptions must be paid in advance, at office of publication or by mail. Ptihhcation office. 41 South Main Street NATIONAL iMsasfc" V ? c(if&iLaJb, ago,-somethin- n,.iuls AiJiain llmpi iv ei Miki Rossi, a n . c.j, (,m a fn I t speak, r the felleu and the weal.; not They are slaves who will choose Hatred, setting and ahnse Rather than in silence s,,llld' 1 """ ,h ,rM,h ,h,v think; They are h' be in the light vvilh two or llnee. s But you know, by the time Pete got to be 30 or 35 years old he was starting to get a reputation as a homespun philosopher. Every community has a homespun philosopher or two, and usually a man has to Something Should Be Done start and work at it pretty hard until his Somehow the death of a child is a differ- hairs gray or gone before he can get the ent thing. It brings a sorrow all its own. It reputation for being one. But Pete, without may be because a grown person is either a even trying for it, beat all their time and loved one, a friend, an acquaintance or a was a homespun philosopher while his hair stranger. But a child, especially a little child, was still black and heavy as a plum thicket. is a stranger to no one. Everybody loves a baby. Pete wasnt economical with words, but A baby drowned in an irrigation ditch the other day. It wasnt the first such death in every so often hed save a few. Some people are that way with money. They arent misour town. There have been a n or so children drown in irrigation main lines in erly, because they always spend more than they have, but now and then, or in a few Brigham City in the past few years. And to most of us every childs death ways in particular, theyre so saving and must bring a vague sense of civic guilt, or thrifty youd think they had the first nickel accident. they ever earned. responsibility for the tragic should be Something done, we say. With the aid of a federal work agency, a Pete, of a Saturday evening, could squat few years was done in part down on his heels alongside where the boys of the town. But the job wasnt finished. were playing horseshoe in the vacant lot The irrigation mains, the ditches where betweens Dads hardware store and Zeke water runs constantly or nearly constantly, Ernsts Furniture and Undertaking, and could be and in places have been changed to hed talk w'ith everybody who came along, covered concrete pipe, with covered concrete as windy as a March morning. Rut now and boxes at the gates, and lids on the boxes that then, about something that everyone else would have to pick up a straw and chew on can, if necessary, be padlocked. The job is expensive-- , atid yet the cost is and argue about pro and con for quite a not prohibitive. It costs money to keep this while and then not be sure, Pete would have town the ideal place to live which it is. And his mind made up in half a dozen words. its going to cost more to make it better and always better. Everybody back home belonged to one poRight now materials and labor are not litical party or another. I always used to available. But the day is coming when a think it would be nice if all the Democrats e project of planted and irrigated belonged to the Congregational church and parkways, concrete ctirbs and gutters, and all the Republicans belonged to the Methounderground main irrigation ditches must be dist church. That way we wouldnt have to pushed through. There will be opposition to concede that they were all right in some resuch a program, but the most convincing spects and not all right in other respects. answer to such opposition is: Find the prop- But they didnt. erty owner whose frontage now has parkway, curb and gutter, who feels it isnt And it was just as clear and definite to worth what it cost him. everybody in town which political party a And the most important part of this profamily belonged to as it was which church gram is the system of underground irriga- they belonged to. There wasnt any fence be- tion mains. Surely no one can doubt this. tween for anybody to straddle. But if someone does, let him talk with the mother of a child which has drowned. But even though everybody in town belonged to one party 100 percent, and was 100 percent for that party and every candidate Problems Of Little Main in that party, nobody seemed to leave it Little Main is the alley block there in an election year. Instead, everybody west of Main street, winding north and had to say over and over again that his parall south, between Forrest street and First ty was all right, and the other was to south street. It has its problems, and, as in- wrong. And everybody felt called upon dicated by the official notice in this august corner at least one voter of the opposite pojournals initial columns Tuesday, isnt litical faith daily, and launch an argument above giving the city fathers a little bother with him in an effort to show him the truth and the light. now and then. This is more or less a personal, a family afBut Pete never got in on these political fair, among us who front on the west side of Main street and back on Little Main. But arguments. Pete was a sort of black sheep personal or impersonal, we still have trouble both parties had at the top of the list of thea ones they wanted to save. But Pete was with our trash. It would be fine for all of us to put our hard one to argue with. garbage in garbage cans. As a matter of "A good man is a man who aint never fact. I believe most of us with d wet garbage do. But heretofore, most or me, Pete would say. A man me is bad. I vote for d all of us Little Mainers have disposed of our who's waste paper, packing and packaging mate- the good men, thats all. I supose it would be classified rial dry And there wasnt much you could say by burning it, either in incineragarbage g or the Versailles treaty tors or in neat little piles. about Well, such disposal of waste paper on Lit- or high or low tariffs that would add anytle Main and South Little Main has cost the thing to that. That was all Pete had to say city some $150 this week in fire runs, and about politics, and that was all he wanted the owners or tenants along the way up- to know. wards of $1,000. Thats expensive. The Little man Mainers agree with the city fathers that So before Pete had been a votin-ag- e n elections, folks bemore than a something ought to be done about it. But simply placing the wastepaper in a gan noising about it. "You know that Pete, carton and setting it outside the back door theyd say, hes sort of a homespun for the trash haulers to pick up probably isnt going to work out. It might in normal times, but right now theres too much of a among us Little Mainers and the official demand for cardboard cartons. People will go city. We'll work it out in time. Just watch down the alley, dump the papers out of the us i cardboard boxes, and go off with the boxes, while the paper is gone with the wind that The key to eery man is his thought. sweeps down Little Main. and defying though he look, he has Sturdy Our timid suggestion that a few large, a helm which he obeys, which is the idea safe incinerators placed strategically up and after which all his facts are classified. down Little Main might offer a safe and Emerson. satisfactory method of disposing of the trash has met with no favorable response. It is thought, and thought alone, that diAbsolutely none! vides right from wrong: it is thought, and The suggestion weve liked best so far thought only, that elevates or degrades huhas been submitted unofficially by one of man deed- - and desires. George Moore. the eouncihnen. A few garbage and trash d of a gem or even a flower, we If, disposal stations should be built up and down Little Main, with one section for vvaste-paie- r could cart the gift of a lovely thought into and dry garbage and another sec- the heart of a friend, that would be givingas tion for wet garbage. These could be the angels gie. George Macdonald. and fireproof and blowpmof, and should enable Little Main to lift her head Language is the armory of the human and acquire a degree of sectional pride and mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conpractically become a boulevard. But as I said, this is a personal matter quests Coleridge. half-doze- ,ii smniKElh tlui ins his -- - CDITORIA- L- fear Mi I. Y ni have a pond ilvic M. s one quested! cent before silk and nylon when he went about the but (held tell. Pray stockings vanished. of desired "props lob uno pki' These are findings of make- to go locating with 19th century cloth- Wrote you lor those with thee Max Jr. up stylist Factor, es for "The Great John L.," "The proverbial Hollywood Bing Crosby production for Or for some dim postdity? Was l! with truth, or light am1 blonde Ls coming into her own United Artists. an y Factor said, aftci again," in unearthing Lies He succeeded you piaisen the niiliivr having been eclipsed for the a assortment of strange Your wile wore? And when you past five years by the raven disthat had completely w ent tresses of such beauties a appeared from the market with,y0 ,,pp dlP y)an about the lent Hedy Lamarr. "Lana Turner, Betty Grable,, thi steady changes in fashion You couldn't pay. was veiMty . . . Veronica Lake. Alice Faye (1.re5Su Employed to stall ,hree? i,3 17", l P fs" Evelyn Keyes, Betty Hutton You did write honestly, and Virginia Bruce have all rnf 'f' a!!, f tchefllm blKraPh,y sooth; been actively instrumental in Y!'lodI Thls, ,hon. i know! A , J)h,n reviving blonde popularity. Lamber's of lce truth Blondes Turned Brunettes This popularity is in strong iToothpieks Here Smart ooxes vvtIt? detach. ui i,ieie utter contrast to the Hollywood cus aso ruber collars t0 write for bread, nou puui than aeo'ae years wJn . beau- - land cuff holders JwL thp huItPr dealers! the trunks of antique hinnT. and historical costume compan- anlP Hours !),! to off dip their hair in rushing P BASS ROCKS, Mass. (UP) brunette dye vats and prac-jonccogsidered were very Advertising for a maid, Mis. on ei smart to have dangling from LVon' Bay ard added politely: wa cb chains. "Any hours that please 'i . : Lambert says Uncle Freds hired man Pete wasnt exactly what youd call a brilliant man. When he came to town on Saturday afternoon, the lirst place he headed for wasnt the library, lie read the funnies in the daily paper Uncle red took, and hed look at the cattle markets in the Drovers Telegram and take a stubby pencil and figure out how much hed have made if hed only had the money to buy those calves last spring and feed them. But generally he didnt waste much time in intellectual pursuits. vear win llalv Fi.m )i,. Luwil Rus-el- l Tliey are slaves By ERNEST FOSTER United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UP) More than 60 per cent of the film capitals lovelies are now doing chemical somethings to their hair, with most of the chemistry accounted for by rinses that accentuate natural color touts. ot And about 45 per cent gentlemen used to wear when Hollywood's actresses use leg they went without their coats. makeup regularly, in contract Lamberts office was conto a little more than five pei verted into an old curiosity T11E BOX ELDER JOURNAL Established 1909) Published by The Box Elder J arm's Hollywood Film Shop- - Newspaper H O X o !si aves Successor to ill) W EVENING. HOW! . BETTER RUBBER , in your RECAPS i n -- e is irreplaceable E? be found anywhere today. mi an nunnp in on' heavily insured.had AbeenLos gather-- j let alone the right type of elas-intrast to an approximate 50 per goles jeweler of the pieces as a1 tic to provide a substitute. cent usage at an average cost ho"bbymany 'the" years and Lambert was worried until through of $7 an ounce before the war. was led persuaded to lend them one day his wanderings "Extra girls are now able to for the him to a counter full of ladies' picture. afford better and more costly But They have been made, perfume and more of it," Fac- that Lambert soon discovered garters. there isnt a sleeve band'10 serve as the sleeve bands tor explained. "They use nearly three ounces a year now on the average, compared with less than two in times past." Hollywoods women are now rats. wearing switches, falls, to a much great ,and er extent than has been evident1 An-lt- cost nf o tier quality SYNTHETIC HI HUES ranielback in your recapped tires! That means that Now you can get hi it addition to expert workmanship and best factory-bp- , equipment, we can now supply best available material-loyour recap-- ! Not rationed! BRIGHAM TIRE SHOP ' curl-bun- s anywhere since the 1890s. Pan-cake makeup, the only major! cosmetic innovation to make an appearance during the same half century, now dominates, filmdoms facial beautifying schemes. "The feminine fad for wildly patterened beauty which started in Hollywood five or six months Factor ago, said he was happy to report, "died before It was well born. 1 fLmC-OiM'- U N M m Your Home... And Youre Proud Of It! patches, TIN . city-wid- one-ha- lf ed double-crosse- double-crosse- trust-bustin- half-doze- in.-tea- fly-pro- of ssp ffT HOLLYWOOD Solid (UP) gold toothpicks were not an unusual request for Ned Lam- bert, studio wardrobe supervisor, but he had quite a time locating the simple sleeve bands j OLDSTER SAYS MOST REPS. TAG ALONG SPRING F 'ELD, James M. Graham. III. 92, nr icN (UP) said to be the oldest hving former in the Unite. Congressman States ,is still an active civic lcade- - here, an attorney and, in private, a "thinker." Graham was elected Demo-- j era tic representative from Illi-- I nois in 1909 when Taft was e President and remained in until 1915. "About of the House members are intelligent, patri otic men," he says in expresson Congress. ing his views s "The other just tag along under their guidance." He says Ins days as a legislator were happy ones ard that his associations with former House Speaker Champ Clark, of Missouri Florello LaGuardta, low mayor of New York, and President Woodrow Wilson were "very pleasant." "Wilson was a most wonder-fiman," says Graham. "He one-thir- so lea ke d ihe Qt d Nl Itlet two-third- d anticipate what you were going to say almost before you could yourself knew it. "It s absolutely marvelous. says Graham, "the way the war is being conducted by the United States. "I am amazed because, as a lide, republics were not made for war. Our government was maae to take the greatest possible care of the individual Graham was born in Ireland and came to this country when he was 16 He studied law in a law office and was admitted to the bar. In 1885 he was appointed to serve on the Nat. anal Uniform Laws committee, a position he held for 20 yn,ls In 1935 Graham received a personal letter from the Pope appointing him a Knight of St. Gregory, an honor only a few Americans possess White-hairebut erect and agile, he says h.s age i!PCts him in only one way. "When you get as old e, I am, names begin to ehioc ' 0u. Sometimes I cant thinK of men's names I have known for ji ars." Graham .s president of he Civic Lincoln Memorial Dardens association and a board member of the Lincoln lib. ary and Sangamon County Building and Loan association He also rr.ainmns a law office wmch He has seven he visits daily. children, all living excepi one son; 11 graiideh'.dren. au( 15 i en. great-grardchild- LV '77" hir oil SI But Can He Find It? ter Qt Brigham City is a city of beautiful homes. Some new and elaborate, some older and modest, but set In beautiful awns and gardens peacefully located the valley of th Wasatches they are homes in which tht pride. P But your home is not complete, your part of the town s reputation for hospitality is not being filled jf your home is not properly and numbered. dearly It is your ob- ligation under the city ordinances to havt home numbered correctly, but more than that it is your and should be a point of pride with vou to have an arid icss and house number that will make it possible for people easilv to find your home. HELP MAKE BRIGHAM C 1TY A CITY SEE THAT YOUR 10ME CLEARLY! - 1 Fvl IS , ORDERLY M'MBERED Sli rut Ur er; SI AD HOSPITABLE CORRECTLY AND I Brigham City. Utah i It |