| Show THE OGDEN STAN DARD-E- X AMINER " SIDE GLANCES vAtAtion necessary to surface prevent the washing away of the siil and the silting of the streams PUBLISHING COMPANY ' manager andAssoclaf glasmanx Editor oT editor md Francis jOreenwaU £j£ J- - IN D E P EN D IJNT NEWSPAPER Morning Without uDliahed Every Cvemng arid Sunda Club Muzzla ftr United Press NXA Press Member' at The Associate AN Service knd ms Assocla'-e- d ABO Press is tx ilusively entitled to the uaejor or ail repumicatiorj otherwise credited nes d patcbes credited to " In this Daper and alo tha locainewa CALL 252 FOR A 4L DEPARTMENTS Examiner's Platfona The ' Liodern City and County Bunding new City iTsa School Accotnmodata Control ot a Pure Water upply to OjQ Persona County Eoad Lm proveVigorous Campaign ol City merits o Riifi trt Mount Odea and Boaa iron wu Can you to WeDer Can yon Another Nouh and South Arterial Highway breat Salt LaJta An improved Bisbway to AH out a Trahicoatlaental A Central Place On a A 130-a- nd 1 mnrr V'1 AND FORKSTER w HIS TASK rvGDEN a day thii week is to entertain F A Silcox chiel forester of the UnitedStates who is mak nsr a tour 01 ms uuinvow uirvvU main lie nas one pi i tan of the govofficial tasks ever given to ernment He must so organize and direct " V the activities of the forest service as be-tothis 4nart of America from vr krpn1 Gobi deser coming a That there is dangtr of our slipping back ward and eventually becoming a desert is forecast by Willicirj Philip Sims in the Washington News who tells what he saw He was in northern China at in China Tientsin at midday Outside a yellow fog drifted across the ci y and he had to turn on the lisht to see what he was doing The fog was a dust stonh blowing in from the Gobi desert hundreds of miles to the west Once the Gobi and all of China was fertile For centuries however no and attention was paid tc the forests and fields other than to get f rc m them the immediate crop The result hs s been erosion of the soil beyond hope of repair disastrous floods starvation and drouth Today the country mountains or treeless mud U plain The Chinese are never sure of a har vest" They can be more sure of absolutely devastating drouth The present summer in the United States comes uncomfortably close to that picture The dust storms have blotted out the sunl ght for hundreds and Some of the fields thousands of miles have been burnt to i crisp We have had no famines and scourges but 'we have had hn I tree-grow- n sun-baked areas We have neglected our ::ields and our forests Even if we regard tie disasters of 1934 as exceptional they furnish a warning They warn of what may result when soil erosion is unchecked when forests are wasted when the fertile soil i3 usee up grass taken away the water table permitted to fall The forest service is proceeding to guard against severe erosion in the west by pre g and denuded areas venting are being added- to the care of the chief forester and his lieu tenants in an effort to Dver wide devastating drouth over-grazul- - rJ PINIONS of THE (Nek York the THE HANDWRITING 1TTITH the riotous living of today and the and YV dissipation which is in evidence vdth the 'disregard for old rules of conduct drift-ii- g once thought to be essential are we into a state of 'complete moral break-- c own? Recently at an international oratorical dontest the" young man to whom was warded first place took as his subject "The Handwriting on the Wail" in which he saw in our modern America conditions similar tp the days of Belshazzar in Babylon The whisky-soake- d king in his drunken orgies ignored the warnings of the approaching Persian armies later to discover the Persians had entered the city when the nlysterious handwriting startled Belshazzar The orator then went on to declare that ignorance ve given us luxuries far beyond the wild est: dreams of Belshazzar But like him we are drunk gloriously inebriated but witji oir god Psyche — false knowledge — sup-p- i Bacchus" tnting their wine-go- d He raised the question if present day ' punWc rs rebellions earthquakes floods warnishing drouths and riots ings — twentieth century handwritings on the wall?" and if "some modern Daniel will come to explain these writings?" "are-moder- - f ' in JT RESS O GDEN 20 Years Ago From our Files m) note reference to "the old order of things under wnicn Engineers and firemen of S8 America progressed arid prospered for 150 years" with a kind of railroads who are seeking a pay oe mournful apprehension that it is ail to disappear to replaced increase and adjustment of their ooa new new wnat Knows heaven and h earth under which by a hour schedule are threat lorty-mna a working to here there and Amerii Probably may happen to strike same or ening a a Mormon emigrant pioneer of the Oregon trail felt the way about the coming of the Pacific railroads And they hadn't Le Grand Young of Salt Lake a notion of the half of what it meant They couldn't foresee the delivered the Pioneer day address seekor tha gold guess that day of transcontinental air transport er's' Eldorado would become a paradise for tourists and movie this morning at Liberty park In Ogden and a symphony orchestra queens Even now there are people who suspect there is nothing the played matter with the farmer save that the old order of hoe and scythe Charlie A Rentros Tulsa Okla and flail has been replaced by the new order of the wrestler has challenged Mike Yotractor stacker combine the thresher and the hay So too do we find now and then and ancient of days who kel and Jack Harbertson remains unreconciled ko the automobile If' he could have his Only one arrest for drunkenness way the hellish contra ution would be abolished and the "old horse and buggy order restc red with its comparatively simple serene had been made at noon today and tmnurried are Misses Vera Frey and Katherine Whether we like it or not the old order changeth Bold brainy daringinventive masterful aggressive imaginative mn are con- Falck entertained about 40 persons tinually introducing newness into the current of events which in at a party the end vastly changes the course of life Save for 4 stubborn backward looking few we accept these changes and! call them The shipping world is awaiting It is only niien change affects long standing social the opening on August 15 of the progress economic or political justom that resistance rises up n its hind Panama canaL legs and emits loud and discordant yelps of pain Thomas Jefferson recognized this disposition to political inertia when he drafted Horrocks Brothers have purchased for the colonists their reason for seeking abolition of an old order store property at 2427 Washington of things and the substitution of a new "All experience" he said avenue "hath shewn that mlnkind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the Shriners on August 5 will hold forms to which they are accustomed" an outing at the Hermitage ComIf there Is any lesson in history it is the lesson that this dis- mitteemen Include S W Badcon position to drift leads! finally to some intolerable situation when A R Heywood W E Sanderson change becomes Imperative Frequently that change is accom- P F Kirkendall F E Nichols- W A R Mclntlre' B plished in violence disorder and bloodshed It is to the glory of G the founding fathers that after they had accomplished such a G Dalrymple Blackman W E Day T H change they devised for their successors the beginning of a Carr R S Joyce C F Jennings method under which similar changes might in the future be made L R Reynolds and Abe in an orderly peaceable and socially undlsturbing manner With universal adult suffrage added to a flexibly constitutional we may If we choose make government as completely Austria's note to Servia over the subservient to human 'welfare as we desire it to be assassination of Archduke Francis It is the shame of the present generation of adults that it Ferdinand may mean war especially has given too little thought to the art of living together If one-ha- lf If other nations with Servia the brain power which has been expended upon tracing the The stock marketstand broke badly beascent from amoeba tdman had been expended upon the problems cause of the unrest cf man's political economic and social relationships we should never have reached thjit paradox of poverty and plenty presented MUD CUSHION HELrS by the depression course not has of been unold The SYRACUSE N Y — (UP) — A political order completely p to cushion the amendments federal Twenty-twconstitution prevented Cushing from changing and thousands piled upon thousands or statutes testify To a rec- - having a bad crushing The cushion offnition of the need for chancre and the effort muddllric for the was made of mud several feet deep most part to effect it Brains have enabled man td peer into Cushing whose first name is Walter the phenomena of nature and to translate from them its won- feu 30 feet from the top of an derful code of physical law They have gene farther and given electric pole where he was fixing a him the most astounding mastery over those laws But when line Janded on his head and asbrains are introduced mto government apostles of the 'old order" tonished fellow workers when he got raise their hands in pipus horror and complain that the country's up spat out a mouthful of mud and cone icr walked calmly away unhurt "We er -- feelf-bind- er ' -- - ! gov-vem- ent I ! j "" '" - —J j " -- " "" '' —— """" aiww If By ARTHUR BRISBANE (Copyright 1931 King Features : Syndicate Inc) FOREST MADE TO ORDER COAST TO COAST $10 WHY JERUSALEM FELL PRAYING FOR RAIN - sen From somewhere in the Pacific President Roosevelt sends an order that fifteen millions be milset aside now seventy-fiv- e lions in all spent on a "made to order" forest stretching across ! NEW YORK — Max Baer is entire- this country through the heart of the drouth area from the Ca- nadian border to the Texas pan handle Planned as an expert ment to counteract the drouth by encouraging rainfall the new forest will be 1000 miles long 100 miles wide 100000 square miles or forest surface do-si-- do cays The idea is not new Russia has done it on a bigger" scale The Massachusetts Institute of technology thinks it has found a way to get rid of fog terror of sea captains and fliers A chemical spray aimed at a rolling fog bank caused the fog to disappear and rail on the ground in raindrops Whether it can be done on a scale big enough to deal with wide areas that interest fliers remains to be seen Henry Ford ahd his son Edsel plan experimentally to build a engine for use on streamline trains with which W A Harriman and other railroad men are experimenting The engine will probably be of the Diesel type although Mr Ford does not say so Such an engine could cross the continent without stopping for fuel drawing light equipment at 150 miles an hour or faster ana carry passengers from ocean to ocean for $10 at a profit That eventually will be done and airships will carry passengers for less The new German Zeppelin will have Diesel engines with heavy oil er Diesel-power- ed i for fuel Ford by the way expects the automobile to improve more in the next ten years than itfhas done in the last thirty years That would mean considerable improvement and consist chiefly perhaps in improved low fuel consumption It should not mean greater speed for highways for speeds now obtainable should be forbidden by law Henry Ford saysti Americanism the pioneer spirit that isn't afraid to tackle anything will save this nation from its economic and social afflictions" Perhaps Henry Ford who lives some distance from the fringe of American foolishness gives his fellow citizens credit for too much- of the old "American spirit" When you read that three million children are deprived of schooling in the United States that this country spends for "luxuries" twice as "much as it spends on education you think that possibly something has happened to that "pioneer spirit" The Talmud says "Jerusalem was destroyed because the schools were neglected" Bolshevik officials loyal to the Russian "There is - no God" theory complain of devout peasants marching in a religious procession erecting an altar in a parched rye field kneeling while a priest prays for rain Stalin who is "deep" might say "Don't interfere let them pray for rain If as is probable rain does not come that will strengthen our side of the religious question" Besides the priests of the Russian-Greek church sometimes lack the absolute faith that moves mountains and brings "Old-fashion- ed : - down rain - "That's the trouble with these American plan places you alwavs have to rush back for lunch J The Inside of Washington Even Beer Ought To Be Was the Alphabetician's Face Says It Is Peace With Tammany No the Guard Isn't Down What Red? It presidential candidates at election By RODNEY DUTCIIER Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON July 24 — Promoters of what Harry Hopkins and Secretary Ickes call "lousy" projects might as well save train fare and lobbying fees The low-co- st housing schemes turned down successively by the RFC and by PWA and its housing division won't look a bit better to the Federal' housing administration which is permitted to insure loans for housing projects up to $10000000 About 500 real estate promotion projects have been rejected here in the last year in the belief that the promoters simply had a lot of land they couldn't give away and were trying to unload it on the government in one way or another at fancy prices It seems the RFC had a crew of bright young lawyers appraisers and finance experts who took demoniacal glee in protecting the public interest So the "lousy stuff" didn't' get any of RFC'a loans for projects Camp PWA and found the same promoters camping on its doorstep But it was just too bad because a corps of those RFC boys had been moved into the PWA setup and knew all about their proposals You've probably guessed the rest of this story The promoters are preparing a last desperate assault on the new housing program And facing them will be that same grim group of experts — now transferred to FHA Standard-Examin- er self-liquidati- ng WATCH THE PERCENTAGE When you buy a bottle of beer your government doesn't want you to be fooled as to the alcoholic content Which seems to make a lot of difference to some people Brewers who label their product with such a device as "Does not contain more than 6 per cent of alcohol by volume" with the 6 per cent in numerals— whereas the beer contains less than 4 per cent — have been warned by the Food and Drug Administration which bans false or misleading labels Food and drugs has: also taken action against brewers who describe alcoholic content as say "12 proof" with "proof" in tiny type holding that few purchasers know the percentage of alcohol by volume is only half the degrees proof WHAT'S IN A NAME? International Harvester sendlabor-savin- g to harvesters ing One of these days the threat that Russia fearing the noise might the new deal will need a new alphafrighten the superstitious peas- bet to describe its new agencies will ants engaged a priest to give the have to" be taken seriously About machine his benediction and ex- one more' congress and Roosevelt work- will be plain its peaceful useful calling for the Chinese to the peasants ings which has something like alphabet "But" the harvester officials 10000 characters add "wrhen the machine starteU Other initialed titles will be popup with its clanging and whir- ping up this summer as a "result of ring the priest was first over recent laws and executive orders but the fence and most badly fright- already the new ones include the ened" FHA FSLIC—Federal Savings and Loan Insurance corporation under Praying for rain sometimes FHA FESC— Federal and produces unexpected results In Securities CommissionExchange Africa after a long drouth a Commission distinguished witch doctor well NLRB Communications — National "Relations Labor incantations paid performed his RailNational NRAB— and Board accompanied by dancing ana Board Adjustment way howling Immediately the rain It gets to be more fun as com- fell and it fell so hard and SO long that it was necessary to geH binations appear which can be pn the ablest witch doctors for miles nounced as one word Take "FSLIC" around to make it stop raining Wfor instance already known as Supreme Power above must be "fslick" or "slick" And it Wouldn't amused at our feeble attempt! quite do to tell you about that to direct Its will agency which had to change its :: name Because its original initials Some thinkers asked the gov- -j formed themselves into a word that ernment to let the NRA die out you would not want to see in a in June 1935 when the law ex- - family newspaper pires Others would have it made stronger and prolonged TWIN BEDS AT LEAST forever Nobody really knows When Roosevelt and Jim Farley whether it has helped or delayed forced "Pete" Dooling in as chief of prosperity's return or what would Tammany the significance was that have happened without it The they almost certainly nailed down wisest thing was said by a cerYork state for the next presitain gentleman who in the midst New election dential of all these troubles has manfirst time in decades th the For aged to make twenty or thirty White House and Tammany Hall be millions for himself: "President political bedfellows (Well it's Roosevelt found himself in a come case of twin beds anyway) Clevea spot where the only thing to do land and Wilson had to bear up was for the country to buy its under Tammany's hatred and fre way out and so it bought its way the New York machine has FCC--Fed-er- al f - i : out" And it is still buying ly too unpredictable for an estimate on the permanency of his popularity after six weeks of championship But so far he has kept on the tight rope without a wobble The fact he rescued prize fighting on its deathbed gives him face with fight fans Broadway sees th fine Italian hand of Jack Dempsey in the post-battrestraint of the new champion It is not believed he thought up going straight from the arena to his hotel But had he celebrated the defeat of a tremendously brave pugilist in night club monkey-shine- s it would have hurt him Baer's sophomoric affection and admiration for Dempsey also show his qualities are not altogether that of the killer He is childish In Jhis adoration Already he is imitating walk His show-o- ff Dempsey's propensities- - are a part of his natural exuberance Broadway is one place that likes them ' Like or dislike him" he Is a natural for the headlines In a distraught world he flames the imagination The chief complaint that he is a clumsy dockwalloper and could not stand up under a scien tific boxer is beside the point Just now the public' is interested! only irt watching him "go to town le It will "be a long time before 1000-horsepow- ' HOPEFUL AMERICANS A LTHOUGH 507 have died from the heat wave and hundreds' of thousands of acres of farm lands have been turned to dust at- a time when crops should be returning a harvest the people of "the middle steles are not hopelessly given over to despair They find something for which to the editors in the heat be thankful One-ozone where the sun has burned the crops and caused deaths quoting from Thomas Pame's "The Crisis" in which that famous American said "These are times that try men's souls" says: "There are crises no less terrible than those of war calling for as much of courage and indomitable resolution as the battlefield The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot shrink and cower before their menace The ' brave man fights on and figWng wins through to victory It is some such crisis we of the Missouri valley face in these trying days of drouth and searing heat Day after day eager eyes haye scanned in Vain the brazen skies in search of the rescuing cloud Day after dav anguished eyes have looked on helplessly while green fields were turning to brcwn while the fruits of our labors were literally burning up Not for the first time has such an affliction been visited upon our prairie land It came in the time of the pioneers TUESDAY EVENING JULY 24 1934 By George Clark anybody knows about the plan's success The president and those hufeast that 2473 after will have disappearhim around years "today will not ed the bte forest relative same position and before Itsee manity is still in the amounts ai Belshazzar Babylon armies are re- men mav have learned totomuch nro- rain duce when necessary It Is placed bv hosts of giant intellects who step an cost interesting experiment e millions of by step have pushed back the surrounding ing onlya seventy-fivmere nothing in these and whose inventions dollars b irriers of OLD ORDER World-Telegra- ODAY " "" time- - Few here are so rash as to predict a thorough cleanup of Tammany But this administration wants Tarn many's face washed at least The latest "new Tammany" should be able to solidify Democracy again in New York" City even though It hears from Roosevelt that the days of its biggest graft are over (Copyright 1934 NEA Service Inc) JONAS LIE Few artists have a childhood cultural background such as Jonas Lie president of the National Academy of Design And few artists' mature work reflects childhood memories as poignantly So talented by heredity and environment was Jonas Lie that he might have been I master of any of the arts Indeed his first passion was music' Today critics speak of his arrestingly individual canvasses as transcribed j music Seven of his forebears were nationally famous in the varied arts He was bornsin Norway in 1880 of a Norwegian father and an American mother His was a beautiful childhood But when he was twelve years old his father died and he was transplanted to America via Paris ' where he spent a year with an uncle In Parlshis daily association with such men as Ibsen Bporsonv Sinding George Brandes Greig continued the influence of his Norway life These contacts made" a great impression upon his precocious mind In America life took oh a far different- - aspect4 H became the (support of a mother and two sisters and for nine years he worked in a cotton factory at Plalnfield ' N J or Felix Adler encouraged him to become a painter and he attended night classes at' the National Aca-dm- y of Design Later he studied at the Art Students league and was showing pictures before h was 20 He has returned to Paris and Nor-wa- y - - j many timesJonas Lie is eiiile under the billing Jay Gould He sported the gayest beach robes aid bathing getups and was usually sirroundd by a bevy of beauties Gould's career as a promising young lawyer in Muskegon Mich was diverted by a stage struck siege that brought him to New York He wai married and later separated from tle attractive heiress also stag stjar Lorraine Manville whose leading man he was in a long Broadway nn I walked slowly past that queer ng of architesture the ing old brown brick Wendell man- slpn on the avenue late last night The four storied gloom was relieved oriily by a dull blob of light from a third floor window Two or threa floppy shutters squeaked in the sway night breezes A prowling cat minced along a high wall in the Had somebody suddenly touched me and given a shrill histle I could have Just like that become the' standing broad jump clampion Its strange occupants faimily feuds and miserly mysteries silrpass anything ever thought up bjf the spookiest of the thrill writers And is the town's ugilest eye fl: fast-deca- y- sdre From a parent's magazine "The average boy turns smart alec at the X arte of 10" Westchester's most beautiful mowas know the year grand- That toring boulevard Bronx River Parkways-- ma gave me a memorable thimble suggesting a transplanted "Absotivel" turn of the Bois toward St loud-- alack for saying 1934 tries to bring a blush to selfish driv- (Coyprlght cate McNaught SyndlInc) ers with signs "Don't be one of these" — arrowing to a big fai porker THE more or less incogPercy Crosby nito often comes up from' his Virginia estate to loaf about the sand lots of his native Brooklyn The young ball players there furnish him With ED BISHOP much material During the summer a hundred and one games are in constant activity across the bridge For fishermen and others who are In the see-saof such youthful annoyed by 'mosquitoes black flies spirits there is a fountain of un- aid other Insects a new liquid prep conscious humor some of which Is often imprisoned in the fSkippy" aration is available that is said to cartoons keep these pests at a distance ""This solution i pleasant to use- and will Now" and then motoring pff Long Island's beaten paths one comes nH stain or irritate the skin upon a queer little straggle of houses If you know of some novel idea and a general store a hamlet tryto be a begin worked help spread adtually ing vainly village They e news by- sending full details languor ' in serene decline very lonely stifled by old attitudes old td Ed Bishop care of this news habits Dusty and untouched by paper Further lnrormauon on any progress they seem Indifferent to idba published here will be-- grven to all efforts of cultivation Although any one enclosing a self addressed ' they have been rooted there for stamped envelope (Los Angeles Times Syndicate) years Idea Hunter w " i WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN ART new- myre ' - f My vote for Long Island's Spotless in 'the Arctic regions conversa Town goes to Jackson Heights I tion has been carried on over water discovered it but recently although by! persons separated by a distance ' it's a short spin across the bridge of 6696 feet and well established The splc hedged walks spreading trees and profusion of shrubbery make it a MOBILGAS veritable suburban greenery It does not appear peopled by the enormously rich or the dreadfully poor Instead by the Grade A of that Lead With Tetra-ethdesignation sociologists call middle class The children with faces always ashine have big yards at every corner on which to play Too there are adult sketches at- - easels Young marrieds who stroll hand ln Sunday Monday Tuesday A hand Romping weU mannered V £ dogs window love birds And an GASOLINE yl 2iy2c 'A K -- extravagant aroma of flowers One of the reigning beaux of the beaches this summer was Clarence Gould long a Winter garden Juv- - STAR OIL CO 31st St and Washington Ave - serious thinker a man of broad culture who brings to modern art the equilibrium of the philosopher His vision igoes beyond the mere surface He is peculiarly sensitive to nature and seasonal changes Although his cerastillaty is shown in everything from the figure to trees his landscapes and seascapes ar his- finest expression He is a master of composition and design and says that ha developed a sense of balance In the cotton factory Light is his metier and he is a master of color Among his popular paintings are his Panama canal pictures Of his choicest works are "Fishing Boats in Harbor" "Path of Gold" "New York Harbor and Bridge" "'Morning on the River" "Western Slope in Winter" "Lifting Fog" He ia represented in r the leading galleries abroad and at home He is a member' of the Municipal Art Commission of New York in which city he resides -- - l t :''''' f j£iUA l v (t ''ft -- — ma m ' na ii fry i A- :'- 'J-'-m-'- - - V f : CCC Camp Boy Gets Plenty of Excitement GRAND COULEE Wash — (UP) Amenwic an eastern youth working at a CCC camp near herej —N complained about the lack of ex-- 1 citement at his forest camp Two days later he was in a hospital with a fractured skull as ai result of too j much excitement While dipping a bucket of water from a spring near the camp he came face to face with a big brown beaf Apparently losing his sense of direction in his mad scramble to get away Amenwic fell over a cliff and rolled 150 feet down a steep hill Placed in an ambulance he was being rushed to a Spokane hospital when a deer sprang in front of the speeding car The Impact killed the quently been accused of knifing Democratic animal and disabled the car 40-fo- ot -- my mmm miMfi When It's lummer time in Colorado It's time to get aboard Leaves Ogden every night at B:05 Salt Lake City at 10:55 ten minutes every afternoon atffthe Hanging Bridge The sun is merciful to Colorado but trafvel comfort la a certainty in 'dlnera and loungf observation cars which are the standard equipment Dining car service Includes table d'hote and a la carte meals at reasonable prices C F Moulton deneral Agent 130 2ith St Phone 1138 -- air-cool- ed THRU THE ROCKIES jS'OT AROUND THCM |
