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Show PROVOi POST, THE Provos Popular Newspaper LAST YEARS FLOOD Published Tuesday and Friday Evenings by Phone 13 Entered at the Postoffice at Provo, Utah as Second-clas- s ; 125 West Center St. N. GUNNAR RASMUSON i 1; One Year Six Months ...I..'..'.. Cost the Government $4,000,000 to Pass Upon the Influx of Matter. Editor and Manager .Associate Editor 1 NEPHI C. HICKS $2.50 1.2 5 SUPPORT A HOME INDUSTRY BY SUBSCRIBING NOW With the passing of County Commissioner Jesse M. Harmon, it now becomes the duty of his associates on that board to appoint a successor, j The- law prescribes that the appointment shall be made within thirty days from the time the vacancy occurred, and that the person thus chosen shall be of the same political faith as that of the deceased member. While tlie two remaining members of the board will no doubt find it hard to fill the vacancy, theie are a number of men community who, by reason of theirvide experience in public affairs, might handle the work of the office with success. Among those already mentioned are Charles H. Ward, who served the county in this capacity some years ago witji satisfaction to his constituency; LeRoy Dixon, who retired from the office of Mayor on the first of the year, and whose wide experience in public af-- fairs is recognized as a valuable asset to the community ; W. O. Creer, a contractor and builder of wide xperience, and L. L. Bunnell, president of the Utah County Farm Bureau, whom the farm-- , ers of the county regard as capable of filling the place with satis-- . faction. There are no doubt others who might be mentioned, but there are few with wider experience particularly adapted to the demands of this office than that possessed by the men sug- in-ou- ' , gested. r f Never in the history of the county were greater problems up for consideration than at present. Consequently the responsibilities of the commissioners are proportionately great, and while it Will be impossible to satisfy everyone, the appointment should be made with ajview of giving to the people of Utah countythe best judgment obtainable based on practicability and experience. SOLDIERS AND CRIME It isva great satisfaction to be relieved of the impression, which somehow has gained a hold on the public mind, that an undue proportion of recent day crime is to be attributed to veterans of the World War, and that this depravity is to be charged to war experiences, We are much pleased that the boys who served abroad are cleared of this suspicion, and by no less an authority than John S. Kennedy, president of the State Commission of Pris-6n- s for New York State. Mr. Kennedy assures us that out of 1900 boys and young men under 30 years of age received at the Elmira Reformatory from the close of the war to last July, only 318, or 16 per cent are men. But war experiences were not responsible for the offenses of even these 318, for at least half of them had a previous criminal Further enlightenment is given by the state- men'J AYvaA.history. of Wiese S18 criminal war veterans, only 33 classed as normal. .Fifty per cent are classed as IT as who term reason are of those the latter meantt ;By segregable. by retarded mental condition are unfitted to cope with modern industrial and civil conditions and consequently require permanent and constant supervision. r" The observations in the State prisons are largely to the same effect as developed at the Elmira Reformatory. 'Fhe tvar did not make criminals of our boys. Men go out of the war, Mr. Kennedy says, what they brought to it. The hero found heroism ; the coward found cowardice. Except in rare instances, the war did not recreate men. It only made emphatic in them the tendencies that had been latent. N How Uncle Sam Spends Your Money in Conducting Your Business I The tide of immigration which was approaching its flood when the went into effect aliens into the 805, 28 brought United States in the fiscal year ended last June 30, according to the annual report of Secertary Davis of the Department of Labor. This number compared with 4 30,001 in the previous fiscal year and is more than twice the estimate of 50,000 which Mr. Davis makes for this fiscal year under the operation of the restriction act. of the aliens More than admitted last year were- Italians, the number being 222,260, as compared with 95,145 In the fiscal year of 1920. Numbered by race, apart from nationality, the report says, the Jews arriving numbered 119,036. Chinese admitted numbered 4017, an increase over the preceding year, but the admissions of Japanese de5 creased from 12,868 in 1920 to the in 1921. In Hawaii Japanese arrivals showed a slight increase, with a total of 359 9. It cost nearly $4,000,000 to pass upon and admit the immigrant tide for the last fiscal year, Mr. Davis says. To enforce the laws against alien anarchists cost an additional $590,000, while the deporation of undesirables added $127,000 to the total. The Bureau of Immigration, says the report, raises complaint as to smuggling and surreptitious entry of aliens. The seamen route is a favorite devjce. That is, they arrive as sailors and manage to disappear in the depths of the country. Many others arrive at Mexican ports and sneak across the border. Several hundred of these were arrested and deported during the year, as rigorous deportation to the country or origin has been thought the orily effective means of breaking up this practice. law one-four- th - 10,-67- KILLS HERSELF TO ESCAPE P00RH0USE i With her body literally loaded with pins, Mrs. Catherine Hirst, 5 4 years old, a patient in the City Home hospital at,Mayview, Pa., died after a futile operation. The woman admitted she had swallowed nearly nine ounces of pins. Mrs. Hirst was taken to the hospital November 2 5 in a critical con- were mystidition. The Ror physicians Illness After several day& ly of questioning the patient admitted that she had been swallowing pins, wrapping several at a time in a roll of paper to prevent them from sticking in her throat. She had begun the strange method of ending her life, she said, after being informed that as she was ill she would be taken to the City Home as a charity patient. An operation eventually was decided upon. The knife revealed that the hundreds of pins had punctured her stomach. Some pins were removed, but is was found that to hunt down and remove all of them ,I you havent learned that a dollar put away today is worth a would involve cutting the patients dollar and six cents a year from today, you are morally certain body into shreds. She died a short tQ end" yourj days in the poor house or as a, penniless dependent time after the operation. case was reported to Coroner upon somebody that doesnt want you around but has to keep you W.The as one of Suicide. At J. McGregor for fearj.be neighbors will talk. the county morgue the case was de. 7 clared to be the most remarkable of there. Mrs. Girls more' and more are exposing-theiears, but there is its kinda ever- recorded been had thrown widow, nothing to indicate they have missed rquch by keeping them cov- Hirst, own resources when her her up'on ered. husband died and had an almost irrational horrer of accepting charity. j ce ex-servi- 1 j j - r . ' Saturday Specials UNTIL NOON 4 1 lbs. Macaroni 1 bar Toilet Soap, 10c size Cream Separator Butter, lb. f Pot Roasts,! lb. lb Veal Roasts, any cut, Pork Roasts, any cut, lb REGULAR PRICES 5 50c 5c 25c 10c 18c 18c : j CANNED SALMON goods 10c McGowan's, small 17c McGowans, large Catsup, Pierces can Stringless Beans, can'. Prunes, qt, can Peaches, qt. can i . 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The' bureau of fisheries, in the Department of Commerce, is another. It had a modest beginning, and not so very long ago. Irior to '1871 there was no branch of the federal government especially charged with the consideration of fishery affairs. Several of the states had established fish commissions' and these state authorities, supported by private interests, began to agitate for a national bureau devoted to fishery interests. So it came about that by 1871 congress was ready to yield and begin to make appropriations. The first ode was for $5,000 and provided for a commissioner of fish and fisheries to prosecute investigations and inquiries with the view of ascertaining whether any and what diminution in the number of food fishes of the coast and in the Jakes of the United States has taken place ; and also whether any and what protective, prohibitory or precautionary measures should be adopted in the premises ; and shall report upon the same to congress. The commissioner was to draw no pay, for it was provided by congress in the same joint resolution that he should be a civil officer of the government, of proved scientific and practical acquaintance with the fishes of the coast, who should serve without additional compensation. The then assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, by name Spencer Fullerton Baird, was chosen as the best man for the Job, and .so he proved to be. He made the little acorn grow. He was Industrious and competent and knew how to get along with congress. He was diligent and he stood before kings. See what happened. Remember, he started out with $5,000 to cjUscover whether there had been any itujfhutlon of the supply ef fooa tisiies ,long the coasts' or in the lakes. neAvas at the, head of an InWorth the Price. dependent Investigation anil reported Jud Tunkins says ho never hesitates to cpngress. The thing was to lend an umbrella, because Its worth directly kept alive by annual appropriations the loss of the umbrella to get rid of as an independent Institution until a false friend. 1903, when It was incorporated Into the newly foipned Department of Commerce and Labor as the bureau bt ' 'i fisheries. By 1909 th$ annual appropriation had growrJo $80S,920, and the bureau had a permanenlj personnel of 325. At that time the! land owned and occupied by the bureau at its- fish cultural and biological stations had an aggregate area of over 12,000 arbs, with a vulue of $240,000. The improvements and equipment at these stations represented an investment of more than $1,000,000. Other property of the bureau at that1 time Included four seagoing steam and sail vessels, 20 steam launches and! 150 small sail, power and rowboats, wlilch with equipment had a value of $300,000. Its six cars were valued at $45,000. the total investment of the Indeed, fishery-servic- e In government property ran to about $1,585,000. That was back in 1909. Well, it hasnt stopped growing ; bigger and busier than ever, as the advertisements say. The appropriation by congress for the fiscal year 1919 was $1,183,140, and for 1921, $1,207,110. Besides what congress gave, the President allottee in 1918 and 1919, out of his private fund for" the national security and defense, $160,000. With the years of It growth and increasing funds the bureau had taken on many new functions and activities. Until recently the bureau was administering io the best of its ability the laws relating to the terrestrial and arboreal fur" bearers o Alaska, but the duty was incongruous to Its legitimate functions. Congress finally conceded that Che pursuit of foxes does not constitute a fishery. The cultivation of minks cannot be successfully conducted in. a fish hatchery. Apparently, as so many other establishments under the executive branch have, the fisheries service had become all cluttered, up with duties and jobs or equipped to handle. it is not fitted 1 All of which Is a long, long way from an Investigation of the possible diminution of food the coast. I dont preLend to say of the fisheries bureau thatj It has performed Inefficiently either Its proper work or the added activities that have been Imposed upon, It. For all I know It may be and. is a greit national blessing, and managed with maximum skill, intelligence and real economy. I hope ed b' cere-mone- I . j i ! ! COMBINATION iOFFER on I j Standard Electric Irons Boards and Ironing these pricercutting offered ironing board t The in Rid-Ji- d combinations! i the most convenient ironing board niade. All hinges are reinforced with metal so that It cannot n stands absolutely rigid Wabble, Higgle, Slip or Slide. 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Whose check would you cash that of a man whose honesty you knew through years of association, or a i j 4 " j. r ar j I If you had an important executive position to, fill, would you give it to the man who h;d demonstrated his ability to make good or to the bpy just out of college? r Experimenting is costly the SAFE choice; y the tried and true is always - Utahs two famous'fuels, Castle Gate and Clear Creek, Have proved their worth in more than 25 years as the leading coals of Utah and they are TOO MILD FOR THAT. Henpeck I am thinking of taking a cottage hereabouts. Farmer But dont you think the climate would disagree with your wife? Mr. Henpeck It Disagree! wouldnt dare. flsh-ialon- To Clean Leather Bags. Brown leather bags nyiy be cleaned by rubbing on a thick lather of pure white soap. Apply it with a sponge, rub hard, let It remain on a few mincloth utes, then wipe dry. with and polish with vaseline; rub this in with bare hands; rub very hard; dont use too much, and wipe off well. r gaining in popularity every year. ASK YOUR DEALER g Utah Fuel Col it Gloom In the Land of Sunlight. Japanese young man, solicits personal twenty-seveaged a modest, but from marriage proposal nevertheless courageous, female of sound morality, highly disciplined, and desirably one who has suffered deeply in life. Communicate to Obscurity. enre of Japan Tokyo. From the Japan TimesTimes, and Mall. Tokyo. xx. HAPHAZARD EXTENSION Unusual Values stranger? 0 square miles greater than that of, France of pre-wtimes, and as the rainfall over the greater portion of the State is in excess of 20 inches, and the climate comparable with that of the European country, there seems to be n,o reason why the population of this state should not increase to 40,000,000. Its population is now approaching 5,000,000, and has more than doubled in the past 30 years. As manufacturing and commerce are rapidly developing, it is not unlikely that by 1950 the population will be 10,000,000. Mr. Copyright, Western Newspaper Union ! flr-nn-el Spare Ribs, lb Ham Roasts, lb Lain Roasts, lb Loin (''bops, lb Phone 534 The Empire of Texas OOc Try our Fresh, Pure Jersey Cow Milk, Qt We are handling some good, fresh cream also. Banka and Financial Syten." etc Contributor Pont. cal and Economic Article to Leading Periodicals and a Writer of Recognized Authority on the National Government's Business Methods. Author Thirty days should elapse between the granting of a marriage license and the performing of the wedding ceremony! During this period the names of the contracting parties should be published at least once a week in the newspapers! These notices should be required by the State and paid for by the State. That a law requiring the fulfill-- ! ment of such conditions should be enacted at once is the earnest conviction of Alfred J. Talley, judge of the General Sessions, New York, based on his experience in Criminal Court. I do not say that such legislation would be a panacea for all domestic ills, or that it would wipe clean thq divorce dockets, or that it would per- form miracles with human nature, he explained, but I am convinced that this is the one measure the State coulci take which would be an intelligent preventative for hasty and and the sufferings marriages ' they bring. So far as the State is concerned, remarriage is the most important encan two human beings lationship ter upon. It is scandalous and uncivilized that a step upgi which the welfare of the nation-- andlfuture genundertaken erations rests, may with no more restriction or effort than one encounters ordering a meal or buying atheater ticket. Our laws, or lack of laws, make it possible for a man and a woman to meet at a party, become infatuated, go to the city hall, get a liy cense at one window and have a performed at another all in one day. That no barrier is imposed which demands the consideration they lack is preposterous. The custom of pubblishing the banns, required by some churches, is on years and centuries of based experience and a thorough understanding of human weakness. Hasty, annulment cashes and many consequences resulting from misrepresentation could b prevented in a large measure if time were required between the getting of the license and the performance of the ceremony. I grant, people may fall in love at sight, and that the emotion of love may be kindled in some persons more quickly than in others, but if the emotion is genuine, it will last 30 days. If not, it is not a firm foundation for a home. There is little that can be done legally to regulate peoples affections, once they are married. The time for legislation is before the marriage ceremony is performed. j - j 1 By EDWARD G. LOWRY -- sub-normaa- na ' Judge Suggests a Simple Which to Prevent in Way Them. New York - A GOOD MAN NEEDED - Aliens. restriction Subscription Hates (In Advance): Three Months - Where Your Taxes Go OF IMMIGRATION THE POST PUBLISHING COMPANY HASTY MARRIAGES Miners and Shippers of Castle Gate and Clear Creek Coals is. cite it here only as an example of a branch cf governmental activity that has grown up haphazard from a small beginning to be a great, costly, enterprise that by Its own confession Is overlaid with duties, functions and activities, unrelated to Often wonder why a speaker who Its legitimate and essential business and of all the care, propagation says he has a message td convey, study manner of food fish. doesnt convey it and then sit down. 1 Matrimonial n, ! far-spreadi- ; i Try a Post Want Ad! It Pays! |