Show THE OGDEN over a state measure that in effect prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools When the outside world learned about it reporters and cameramen descended upon Dayton William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow were on hand to lend their respective talents to the opposing sides of the debate and the hippodromlng was on The whole fiasco contributed very materially to the entertainment of nations but when it was over Tennessee had lost caste among her sister states The impression had been created 'that a state which would shield its young from a very important branch of science must to put it kindly be behind the times Now it would be unfair if the people of otfyer states were to draw such an estimate of Tennessee simply because she was unfortunate enough to have two quirks in her laws? magnified by incidents for the nation to see Far from being a state Tennessee is rapidly becoming one of the most progressive in the Union It is for instance the laboratory in which the government's TVA project is taking shape miner iav UITASUSHCO PUBLISHING COMPANY A L OLASMANN Trank Francis EDITOR AND GENERAL MANAGER Astoclate Editor W L N Cox Associate General Manager AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER FnbUsbed Erery Evening and ttunasy Morning Witnout a Muzzle or a Club Entered at the postofllce at Ogden Utah aa aecond due matter according to Act of: Congress March 3 1878 United Press NBA Members of The Associated Press Service and A fi G Tfcs Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for credited to It or not republics tlon of all news dispatches otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news PRICES SUBSCRIPTION Carrier 7 to a Month By Mall — Must Be Paid tnr Advance— fl5c a Month 1700 a Year lr Utah Idaho a Mouth Nevada and Wyoming — All Other States By fl-O- PHONE 4511 FOR ALL DEPARTMENTS u The Platform Standard-Examiner- 's Modem City and County Building Council-ManagGovernment for Ogden Control ol a Pure Water Supply to Accommodate 150000 Persons Vigorous Campaign of City and County Koaw improvements Scenio Road to Aount Ogden and Road Prom Ogden Canyon to Weber Canyon Another North and ttouth Arterial Hlgnway An Improved -Highway to Oreat Balt Lake Establishment- of Rocky Mountain Air Base Near Ogden A A er “horee-and-bugg- y” a program that is fashioning a future AmerINSURGENTS WINNING ican design for living Tennesseans are cothe insurgents operating heartily in the great plan WITH the fall of Malaga Spain give further proof of being As other evidence that the state is at ' able to master the Loyalists abreast of the times are the least From now on the government defense new keeping that unite its formerly isohighways of Madrid may be expected to give more lated population its bustling enterprising signs of crumbling cities of Memphis Nashville Chattanooga The war in Spain-i- s thought to be nearand Knoxville and its lure for new indusing the end tries And though Tennessee has failed to set PEACE NOT IN SIGHT in its code a minimum age for brides school officials the between conference far the attendance is compulsory throughout the SO of General Motors corporation and the state and employment of children under id United the strike leaders representing in workshops factories or mines is illegal Automobile Workers of America has given Truly it would seem as absurd to judge but little promise of reaching an amicable Tennessee by such scattered incidents as understanding the child marriage and “Monkey Trial" as it The entire country would rejoice if the would be to assume that hexing is rampant warring forces could be brought to compro- in Pennsylvania or that the average Kenmise their differences permitting the worktuckian goes to the polls both to cast his ers to resume their tasks These big strikes ballot and riddle a few political adversaries are most disturbing to the whole industrial life of the nation JOHNSON BORAH - j j I VAND i SIDE GLANCES WWL iv -' 'QyQMcIntvra NEW YORK Feb 9— The success of Jack Dempsey In the role of a restaurateur is developing what diners out call Califlower Corners Jack occupies one And the other three are contiguous to site Still another his on a corner a block away is also in the hands of a ring hero Along the flood of hamburger Taj Mahals clustering about Dempsey’s came other champions figuratively to mop up some of the gastronomic gravy On the corner south Mickey Walker dispenses both food liquor and his autograph in the glow of glittering signs On one corner opposite Dempsey Tony Canzoneri has taken on a partnership in a place to be called Canzoneri's He like Dempsey will be the front man greeting customers and awing the ladies with his gargoyle face scarred by valiant fistic battles many And James Braddock the newest champion is to tie In with the one-stori- fighting ed BriHat-Savarl- with a ns gaudy temple where 1 he too will be high priest of the entrance ropes Then to 'complete the zone the glossy ‘Benny Leonard is angling for a site for a glittering bistro Berton Braley is the most prolific of the modern minnesingers And has been for 25 years One of his notable poetical achievements was to do a world series ball game play by play by verse telegraphed in the $ame manner as news reports He begins work In the morning bath having pad and pencil handy to jot down wandering lines that may swim into his ken His pockets are filled with scratch pqds on which he will dash off a metre or so wherever he may be I used to be on of a weekly gang of pool players that Included Braley and between shots he was usually wooing the muse When a poem is finished he keeps it going the rounds until sold Sometimes it has taken two years but in the end he usually gets his editor Then the top flight industrialist known in many magazine Shops under his pseudonym— who is a case He has been trying to land his jingles for more than ten years So far his only acceptance has 'been a Christmas roundelay printed in his own house ordesk gan Considered a are effusions about his pounder the gooiest'that go the rounds -- cer-taint- ly ed ! old j - - j ! - 1 i r”" jO PINIONS I k " of the TRESS ' J OX THE MARCH (Omaha World-HeralMany Nebraskans their hearts touched by the devastating flood Jhave thought not only of the destruction of the waters and the human moisture If misery left in their wake but of the wastage of only we say mother nature could have given us some of this prodigality of water Then we would not be suffering from two searing drouths we would not be so fearful of another dry year in the midwest Drouth and flood twin destroyers have been at work And while the 6udden violence of the flood' makes it more spectacularly terrifying we know Jthat the visitation of the waters in the Ohio and Mississippi valley has of woe than the visitahardly been more destructive or more productive ' tion of the drouth r Te drouth area is comparable to the flood area Reflect that from Kansas to the Canadian border from the Missouri to the Rockies was roughly the area of the drouth It requires tremendous courage to stand by and watch the rising water in one gulp cover one’s land and home Itseealso calls for fortitude of a most enduring nature to rise each day to again the searing sun look in vain to the sky for the promise of rain and go on that way week after week while the land parches and 'crackles the green shoots wither and dry up and the dust clouds darken ihe horizon The quality of courage under drouth is no les3 than that under flood and a common misfortune has linked the people of this Tegion with those of the flood district in a fellowship of adversity It has brought the nation we think to complete realization of the crossing that has been made from the era when prodigal use of natural resources' was the basis of opportunity With that crossing comes equal Realization that a better use of those resources is essential for expanding opportunity in the future Stuart Chase stated the problem In his dislife-givi- ng - patch the other day: Tf America is to continue to be our homeland we will have to stop outraging the balance of nature' and work with Her rather than against her This means bringing the forest back on the steep slopes grass on the less steep terracing contour plowing eliminating the plow altogether from many areas where the plow should never have gone It means controlling floods at the headwaters rather than trusting to levees lower down It means keeping artesian basins full halting the blight of pollution protecting wild life ' Failing this we face ever more harrowing batastrophes following the pattern of the floods and famine in China where the stripping of cover crops has reached its nadir ” That is the soil problem and along with it is the readjustment of i our whole life to a scheme of things in which there i3 no l&nd frontier new areas demanding conquest and offering rewards to the conquerors It is not a very far cry from this statement of fact to the new movement in labor circles in which the worker is advancing a claim to his job as a property right and insisting upon a greater say in management For yesterday if a man were dissatisfied with his job and the conditions of his employment he would leave it and without fear He could move on He could go to the west and homestead He could lounge into the adventure of a gold rush He could pull stakes and seek a new job in the expanding cities and towns of the frontier He can’t do it today He is fearful if he quits his job that he may not get another So he clings to what he has and tries to enforce better conditions tries to win Recognition of his claim to larger voice in industrial " policies It would seem that many factors in our previous growth have come to a climax all at once calling for the formulation of new policies It happened that! industrialization should reach its peak when exploitation of the land should reach its peak It happened that technological Improvement of factory methods should come at the same time It happened that other world conditions with depressing effects upon our trade should reach their climax too Along with these came the depression with its manifold humanitarian demands f quaint and venerable English book shop on the rue Gambon corner Smith's remains as it has for 30 years suggesting in the heart of Paree the ivied somnolence of a village shop in Surrey The clerks are elderly high nosed star hoarder types found in the Bloomsbury houses And they perpaying-guemit one to prowl — a gesture American book mongers have not acquired Upstairs is a tacky tea room with Cockney waitresses where one may — In France of all places — partake of the tastiest ice cream a possible exception is our own Schrafft's coffee flavor In the world Somerset Maugham and Frank Crowninshield always go to Smith's for tea and it was the locale for one of Leonard Merrick’s st d) Layer after layer It ain’t gonna snow no mo’ —oh yeah Aloysus the office boy dreamed last night it wa summer time and got up to cut the grass He was out brushing the snow away to dig dandelions and tried to trim around the edges They smiled when he sat down (the striker) but they made him stand up — sit-do- By playing Banner the Star Spangled ' Ho hum the snow ( Jl inch precipitation last night) is just to settle the dust (not Sol’s bills) Maximum temperature on Monday was 25 degrees with 15 degrees minimum last night ’ At seven o'clock p m (pretty morning with the sun shining on Ben Lomond) the mercury said 15 again and barometric pressure up to 3020 A year ago (if you care) the mer- cury said 37 degrees maximum and minimum was 7 degrees a Skies were clear br-r-- rr canticles AU book shops should have the feeling that nothing matters very much save the books That is the feeling at Smith’s and it's why perhaps it has survived At times I think they shouldn’t let me out alone Today they sent me oyer to Third avenue to pick up a paring knife to supplant the one I used to jimmy open an old desk drawer I came back with not only it but a bean Stringer grape fruit corer pea huller and slaw cutter What caused a certain lady to cry: “What no meat axe?” (Copyright 1937 McNaught Syndicate Inc) BUCK WHITE r DAY DETAILS ARRANGED RICHMOND Feb- 0— Plans for twenty-secon- d annual two-da- y the of for the first night your play?" Black and White celebration to be “PitifuL” held in the spring already are be: ing made Committees to handle the various events will be named To at a meeting to be held sometime later this month N F Bullen general chairman said the date for the meeting will be determined by weather condiPITTSBURGH Pa Feb 9— (AP) tions Likewise the date for the — Constable Daniel Ryan wants to celebration will be announced later Breeders of dairy cattle throughpay for a quart of milk he snatched and he’s willing to top the out the state are urged to make plans for entering their animals in price regular An automobile caught fire Ryan the exhibition grabbed a bottle of milk from the arms of a small boy and exIt Is estimated that in cities having a population of 2500 there are tinguished the blaze more than 180000 miles of streets The boy ran P S fHow full was the theatre - Steals Milk Douse Car Blaze 13-ce- nt Wv four-corner- ed two-fist- - Fdir 1 Enough Feb 9 — A letter from an Indiana woman " protests that the generosity and personal sacrifice of the river-tow- n people in bousing and feeding the unfortunate washouts of the Ohio river flood have been insufficiently recognized It seems to me that this phase of the disaster was pretty well covered but perhaps it wasn’t If not it should be reported that the spirit of' the people was very noble The women of the local Red Cross chapters just ordinary women of the Hind whom the census takers put down as housewife turned to and cooked and served meals by hand to anyone who crawled off a log and about the only credential that a human being needed was an appetite of which there was no lack They would rig up board tables on carpenters' horses In the basement of the courthouse if it were high and dry or in the Sunday school room of the church and start patting out as soon as the refugees hit town KIND OF SHAKEDOWN' In some places the washouts were quartered In empty store buildings or courtrooms but more were taken into private homes and given some kind of shakedown and it just seemed to be taken for granted that anyone who had a dry house would shelter as many people as it was possible to crowd in The doctors too sailed In and worked around the clock for there were many bad colds and quite a lot of pneumonia and there was a personal touch in all the 'relief work which showed the human race at its best It was interesting to observe this indiscriminate kindness and zeal to relieve want and suffering because in other times many of these people had shown themselves capable of the most malignant cussedness toward their fellow men CHICAGO raw-bone- 22-year-- By George Clark BEATITUDE OF CHRIST TOPIC II7ITH Borah of Idaho and Johnson of California united in a resolve to defeat BY FREAK HAPPENINGS I of the nation President Roosevelt’s' demand for changes The sudden passing of Dave THE wondering' attention some weeks ago recenters upon Tennessee The ob- in the personnel of the suprepie court a Freedman celebrated of the most moved the ' d powerful opposition is promised which ghost writers Also a top rung gag jects of interest this time are a should cause the senate and house to pro- and script writer From his anonmountain lad and his he made several notable ceed with due 'deliberation in the attempt to ymity ‘golden-haire- d child bride bow takers famous and added to the celebrity- of many more He Though the girl’s parents and her brawny upset the relations between the executive was a writer of marked talents in husband can see nothing strangeTabout the and judicial branches of government the new field of radio as well as romance theirs being a region in which girls If President Roosevelt is to have his way for prints I think he scaled a philosophic peak in his first short marry young ministers arid social workers and transform the supreme court then the story in which be had a character from afar are castigating it as a crime court will become a political football and say “What is love?— A cigar The It burns the quicker It’s against ' society and blaming the state for when the party in power is defeated those brighter ashes What is marriage? The ash who resent the action taken will seek to tray” But Freedman who came permitting such alliances up from the Ghetto did not care Before the whole affair dies down the na- undo what has been done In that way the much for personal acclaim He did tion may receive another unfortunate im-- j court will cease to be a thing apart- from not mind letting others "lake credit he could never his but for artistry reflect will which ion Tennessee the Another and state of of the prejudices politics press conceal his contempt for them He —because the notorious “Monkey Trial” go with the heated debates of partisans made a fortune in bis brief whirl One 'also gave it something of a black eye peculiar feature of the president’s lived like a Rajah and died broke Most people still remember the circumassault on the court is that Brandeis who About the only familiar jspot left shopping stances of that affair In July 1925 a test! is” the oldest member has been consistently along ofthe porticoed the rue de Rivoli restretch case was to be' fought at Dayton Tenn for the Roosevelt policies turning travelers say is Smith's DON’T JUDGE TENNESSEE TUESDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 9 1937 STANDXRD-EXAMINE- R " 4 1 i! ij v-iS- Or k ‘ “Ye business colleges have always tried to discourage the collegiate attitude I3aghyr BEHIND THE SCENES IN WASHINGTON Standard-Examin- er By RODNEY DUTCIIER Washington Correspondent Southern Indiana around Evans- f Feb 8— It WASHINGTON conwhich nation this that velops stitutionally has only 96 senators while recently had 97 and that custoall other states had their mary two senators apiece Minnesota was having three The three were Henrik Shipstead Guy V Howard— the obscure Republican who served a term in November and December no other Minnesotan because to run for the brief vathought cancy — and Elmer Benson" whose term as senator technically expired when he was elected governor on November 3 but who kept of right on fulfilling the duties that Office until Senator Lundeen took it over on Jan 4 The terrible truth emerges in a resolution by Senator ‘Lew Schwel-lenbac- h of Washington which proto pay salaries of Benson and poses his staff for that period— the explanation being that “Whereas the then senator from Minnesota Elmer A Benson and his entire staff continued in true public faith but at their own expense without any compensation whatsoever to main offices in both Washington and Minnesota and to perform the full service and functions of the office and duties of United States senade-- two-mon- th was the point of Infection I may migrate to hell some day ville Ku KIux Klan which was of the to But I will never return Fascism at Its worst and there are You” And after this outburst of poesy people engaged in the roost trying Buchanan added: “From that day to this I have been the relentless enemy of flood water anywhere and everywhere and If I can contribute by my voice or by my vote or by my work to the prevention of floods throughout this Union I shall make that contribution more cheerfully than I ever made any contribution in my life" AU of which speaks well for chances of big fat flood relief con’ trol appropriations (Copyright Inc)- 1937 NEA Service ' M Horses Are Used In Coyote Hunts Idaho Feb 9— (AP) — on- - horseback has become a major winter sport in this southeastern Idaho locality— and stockmen are cheering it on Normally too fleet of foot to be chased by horsemen coyotes are tor from'Nov4 1936 until Jan 4 slowed down and winded by their 1937—" flight through deep snow Many LIFE OF IIILEY exciting hunts have been held and It appears that while Senator within the last three weeks 50 Howard and his family were draw- coyotes have been killed One hunting all the pay and doing none er bagged five : in one day of the work Senator Benson and his staff were doing vice versa Both bad offices' with their name plates on the door Entitled to bestow four secretarial jobs for 60 days Howard kept them carefully in the family and drew Treasury checks totaling $368686 DENVER F?b 9 — (AP) Although a few letters and reof the Union Pacific Two cars came his way quests for favors there wasn't much he could do streamlined train City of Denver about them as a Republican with were derailed at' Orchard by a no shred of influence broken “axle today W H Guild He announced he wax “flat broke executive assistant here said Guild said nobody was Injured with an apple in one hand arid he got his pay check But he en- “although a few passengers were joyed himself hugely patronized shaken up a little” the free Senator barber shop collected free government publications drank free Senator sparkling water made long distance calls to Minnesota through the capitol switchboard and otherwise participated in senatorial privileges He gloated over the fact that he could return here whenever he liked and sit in the Senate as an and suggested that his new prestige might enable him to “wiggle a job on WPA when I get home” Of coursd he never sat on a committee deliberated on a bill or sat in what would have been his seat had congress been in session Benson asked Schwellenbach to introduce the compensation bul but it’s doubtful whether the Senate will recognize Benson’s last 60 days of service You probably would have a hard time figuring just how valuable to the nation Benson and his staff really were ii those two month TOUGH EXPERIENCE ’ ARCO Coyote-huntin- g Accident Derails City of Denver" ex-sena- tor CONGRESSMAN JAMES BUCHANAN of Texas who remained in the House so long that he became chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee is sometimes considered a prosaic old gentleman who thinks only in long dull columns of figures and dollar marks But “Buck" got to talking about the flood the other day assuring his colleagues that he “did not have sense enough to make a good farmer but did have sense enough to make a good congressmen” ' Once he had hold of 3500 acres of Brazos river bottom land and put everything he had into it until he had 2500 acres of “land well watered well 'equipped with houses well tenanted and well stocked Then came the floods and after a while “all the houses had gone down the river as well as the mules I had and my hogs and cattle and crops with my tenants left starving on the bank” “I got myself a plank and I got some charcoal" he related “I nailed that plank at the high water mark and here is what I wrote on that plank It expressed the way I' felt then and the way I feel now: “Farewell to the Brazos bottom 2 bid you a long adieu relief work day and night for about a week who formerly had stayed up nights scheming ways to gang up on their neighbors socially and economically and stewing in the smelly juice of hatred Jesus Wise In Ways of Men Pastor In Says ' Sermon ' ' “What did -- Jesus mean when hr spoke the first beatitude: “Bless- ed are the poor In spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven?”’ said Rev Philip K Swartz of the First Congregational church in his ser- mon 'Sunday “There are some things which we may be sure He did not mean He was not advising his followers to ignore oppres- sion and injustice to accept with dumb resignation the Injuries Inflicted on personality by abject poverty He was not praising that poverty of spirit which cringes lr the face of danger and aggres-sio- n He was not praising Ignorance and stupidity Borne have said that He did these things but Ills whole character His whole teaching shows plainly He did not “Perhaps Jesus meant to emphasize the Importance of humility It is told of the philosopher Socrates that he was puzzled by the saying of the Delphic oracle that he was the wisest man in Athens At last he saw what it meant Athens was full of ignorant men who thought they were wise So crates alone realized somewhat how little he knew It Is only those who realize their own Ignorance who add to mans store of wisdom It is the same In the moral realm i o J The pharisee In the parable thanked God he was as other men he thought morally perfect Paul would write T have not yet attained but I press on Most slg- nifleant of all Jesus himself said ‘Why caliest thou me good? There is none good save one even God “Yet this interpretation attractive and true and Christlike thougl it Is is probably not correct In - ’ the first place it Is the third beatitude ‘Blessed are the meek which In -is the beatitude of humility the second place It does not square with Lukes version There It reads bluntly ’Blessed are ye poor and a little later Is the warning ’Woe unto you rich for you have received your consolation “Jesus was wise In the ways of men lie knew what bulked so large In the minds of most of them And so he started right there facing them at the outset with the challenge of his Insight- I ’Blessed are the poor In spirit to theirs la the kingdom of heaven”"? j FORCED INTO IT Of course the Klan was a racket and some people were more or less forced into it because life got pretty lonesome for those who didn't be- house and farm are his own problong But hatred and bad sports- lem manship were the keynote of the HIS LITTLE WORRY trace of Klan and there wasn’t no community effort Thera human kindness or mercy any- here Hisisfurniture falls apart the where in the whole career of the comes walls his his off plaster movement house or garage or barn may be It developed into a great system left slaunchwise partly on the lot of snooping espionage anonymous next-dooand all this Is his little threats and nfght-ridln- g always worry The militia the coast guards with the odds shamefully against and the visiting firemen and pothe victim and it would be comfort lice will be gone and the commun- to put it down to ignorance but Ity will he back on the old basis ’ J for the fact that Indiana1 makes Some (pretty terrible slums have“r quite an important business of been washed out and this would be squirting education over the young a break for the country If there It finally flopped when the leaders were any assurance that the reof a movement which claimed to construction would not' merely rerevere and protect American wom- place the slums with the salvage anhood were convicted of gang-rap- e of hovels that were unfit for huof a young woman who was then man habitation in the first place left to die and the head man was sent to prison for life j Tiger cubs train their eyes and' No doubt about it some of the paws by playing with their mothers’ people who gave the most tails service in the flood relief helping anyone who came along with a tender altruism consistent with the teachings of Jesus Christ were Klucks in the old days And now that the water has fallen and the dramatic phase has passed the worst of the trouble starts although probably It will receive little national notice A flood when it is a flood Is something to see for it is exciting and In a sense clean When the water goes down however It leaves slime and horrible objects on the beach A man can fall in the water get wet and dry out without loss of dignity but there is something humiliating about much and every man’s little r y self-sacrifici- j ng |