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Show TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1922 TH E PROVO POST THE PROVO POST -- A LONE EXCEPTION 8 BURGLARS DISLIKE u Provos Popular Newspaper Published Tuesday and Friday Evenings by OF CASUALTIES Somebody always offering to make you rich. THE WORLD WAR Thats a fact, said the credulous POLLY citizen. THE POST PUBLISHING COMPANY But di I a man ever attempt to 8 make 125 W eflt Center St. Phone 13 jyou take cold cash without hav-- i Figures Show That Suicides The man of the house stood in the ing a String tied to his offer? Matter. Entered at the Post office at Provo, Utah, as Second-clas- s American Soldiers Average Two doorway and regarded, with disapOqly once, but after his keeper Every Day proval, a small gray parrot in a large had called me aside and explained in window. brass the front I the cage situation back. and handed .Editor it NEPHI C. HICKS. Manager The worst casualties suffered by It isnt ours, said the lady of Birmingham AgeHerald. American soldiers during the World Mrs. Jones, next the house, hastily. war are just beginning to show Subscription Rates (In Advance): door.j asked me to look after contrast troops themselves. .$2.50 for a week while she is away Polly By on a One 'Year HKjIH-PRICEA AFFAIR are lucky on wounded battlefields the 125 visit. Six ' Months ... increased with the compared greatly a said . the Im sorry its week, 75 Foil owing the marriage ceremony Three Months man jof the house. Of all things I the bridegroom Called the minister casualties of today, according to C. dislikje a parrot the most. If it aside and inquired the price of the J. Harris, an official of the American Legions national headquarters in doesnt swear and disgrace us before service . COPIES 1838 POSTS SWO RN, CIRCULATION, in charge of Indianapolis, the neighbors, Ill be thankful. Well, feaid the minister, "you The parrot maintained a discreet may pay mje whatever its worth to claims against the government. There is an average of two exOPPOSE RECLAMATION silence, and the man of the house sat you. suicides a day, Mr. Harris desoldier down to his evening meal . Be reasonable, the groaned I the Warrens had a burg- groom my bride inherits 1,000,000 clares, following, a study of reports. ' The proposal made in congress to reclaim great areas in the lar thehear said the lady. on her 21st birthday. Kansas City These men, Mr. Harris finds, almost other without exception, were in the battle west and southwest has aroused the opposition of the leaders in Lost all their night, silverware and jewel- Star. lines in France. These soldiers, the federal govry. !Mrs. Warren was still shaky the agrarian movement. The proposal was for the legion official contends, were diswhen1 me Did she told acres it. about you ernment to loan $250, C 00,000 for the irrigation of 3,000,000 charged by army doctors as normal, came close in the state of Washington and for the advance of further sums, in? the front door when vou Every man approves the strict en- - Since the war, however, these men, I did, was the reply, but I sup- forcem ent of all !laws that dont af- - struggling for a living, have undertotalling perhaps mor than $1,000,000,000, for the drainage of feet him. gone mental anguish that their war . "southern swamp lands r pose the back door is unlocked. racked nerves could not withstand. of house the wasnt sure, lady Up to the present, the opening up of agricultural lands has so The There are two ways in which the man to of house the the repaired been regarded as a sound economic principle. It was the motive the kitchen. At that instant legion hopes to minister to these a tall, mental cases and to prevent their inbehind the reclamation policy of the government by which mil- rough-lookin- g man, with a pistol in crease, Mr. Harris points out. The lions of acres have been irrigated in the west nd brought under his hand, was entering. Langly bill, now law, provides comman of The at the the house, cultivation. It was ,thg reason for the policy of the government for the construction of new meekly elevated his hands and as expressed in the homestead laws, by which states were carved mand, hospitals. The larger portion of this marched back to the dining room to money is to be spent in creating faout of he wilderness hnd commonwealths developed. join the lady of the house, who sat cilities for treating the neuropsyin the s mute horror. Now' the principle agrarians. They motionless being opposed by mental patients. The chiatrics, -the intruder said of Now, areas cultivated briskly, take theLposition that instead of increasing the is also to legion preparing petition and out your jewelry cool the douhtry, the government should apply itself to increase pro- bring congress to liberalize the present At that moment, from the gloom Sweet bill. This bill now makes it duction pn the lands ncjw under cultivation. Formerly,, they aiv of the front window, came a voice impossible for an exsoldier to obtaip loud and clear: Hold up gue, it' was necessary to open up newer lands. Agriculture was that was treatment for war injur-government hands! But the burglar did then in a! primitive stage. Lands were robbed of their fertility and your ies which show up more than two to over not wait comply. Knocking after taking out his crops the farmer added nothing to the soil. three chairs and years after discharge from service. nearly upsetting the The legion contends that it might j Agricultural economy was unknown. man of the house, whose hands vre easily be five years after discharge But inow, it is argiied, scientific agriculture has been estab- still outstretched toward the ceilt before physical and mental effects of he rushed down the hall to the lished at least in principle. Its economies have been mastered and ing, his service injuries would appear. door rear. kitchen heard the Place your orit is merely a question of applying them. These economies are slam andThey Hr, Harris further charges that a rattle of descending f , as steel such in other industries, the United States Veterans Bureau, ders now be the samej as those prevailing steps on the porch stairway. : in charge of the treatment and is the came A from or chuckle the loud principle fore the stock Basically, lumbering. making, transportation, of the worlds war diswindow, where Polly, apparentis that it isl uneconomic tb create new agencies of production un front depleted. abled, is in error concerning the ly much elated, was- dancing solemntil those that exist have been brought up to normal efficiency. ly of sufthe All the lovely on gravity forth her and back perch. Wheat lands in the United States are now producing less than ferers. A recent bureau report shows That blessed parrot! said the new styles that the bureaus total capacity for fourteen bushels to the acre on the average. Instead of opening ladyof the house. a t e d in of treatment cases I wonder, said the man of the up new lands to increase production, the agrarians would im- house, our fall catais .G099 beds. Mrs. Jones would prove the present methods of cultivation and fertilizing, so as to sell her. whether Mr, Harris says he has reports was marvelThat logue. raise the average yield per acre to .double what it is now. Such ously appropriate.remark from legion liaison representatives You cant tell me SHERWOODS JAZZ in each of the bureaus fourteen rein the methods of cultivation would cost only a frac- hereafter that parrots havent intelimprovement gional districts to show that in four tion of whlat would be required to reclaim the arid lands of the ligence. I am of the fourteen districts alone there to While BANDITS deeply grateful west and the swamp lands of the southwest. T are 24,506 mental aes on record. house of the said the lady Polly, The opposition to what is known as the Smith-McNar- y bill, think I can explain her remark. When These four districts include West TUESDAY AND of arid and swamp lands, comes Mrs. Jones brought her in here this Virginia, District of Columbia, Virproviding or the reclamation ginia, Tennessee. North Carolina. THE BIG DEPA Till: NT STORE Whether this opposition will be ef- afternoon we got to talking about a from the west and mid-wes- t. South Carolina. Maryland, Florida. I and remember We had movie seen, fective or pot,- it is bound to create nationwide discussion. SatSATURDAY Georgia, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas. telling how thrilled I was when the DE , Missouri, Washington, Oregon and urday Globe. Hold said: up your highwayman beOf Idaho. the dumber 2119 are Chicken and Trout Dinners, hands! Apparently Polly was iming treated in government hospitals PROVES JUSTICE OF INHERITANCE TAX pressed, too, and has been rehearsing and 99 6 in contract institutions. Boating, Fishing, Bathing. the remark in secret. The Veterans Bureau reports hut tion of the public in its efforts prop- to induce him to submit to an Im a parrot fan from now on, 4628 William Rockefellers will, disposing of an estate which would said the man service men in the entire Unit- erly to protect shell .and treatment. I conof the house. CABINS FOR RENT cases Mr. Harris and. for shock treatment ed - sider them States carecn aYiic-Va undergoing take a man 7700 years fo amass of $100 week, indispensable. absolutely 'T lie crawfish is the sftouid Te t li o friendsto and relajlves mental lisoiler4 in govtrnment animal of if. salary to - tVo on, nnd VianitLng: s.i-iiiul Vic iix tVio form ' " KKniiiK tnK; huv $. fuly imr MtiiuOons. an " X ? V k a wLoJt la! ' ii (i)i i n,ti , 1)111 U only A quick a ml report tofrom of vx. fiOO million CLollur eto- The whiofo of flitfumuuiUy. i i ' ' u klllK o how-, ot d mental lirtiuSUtir'IllVlTCTCTYnTTTT''' tatesfare is ours of vet. The s Hi i fhe incident proves the justice of inheritance taxes. The fed- njly reform running him; you never can tell. fci nil 18 .Vi.ii i", uu amna,iiaiii 5? i3 -- D , ex-soldi- er , USANCE $17,-0.00,0- 00 and be at VMM PARK - neuro-psychiatr- ic il-lu- neuro-psychiatr- str ic Taylor Bros. Co. LADIES post-bellii- y c ARTMENT on m I 1 I -- - Ui-o- 1 , ! i" eral and state governments wiil collect from the Rockefeller estate sixty millions of dollars to be used for public purposes. A fairer law would tjake more. It is a question whether any good comes IN from wealth handed down to the third generation For what a millionaire does for the public he is well, paid, if not overpaid, during his life ;ime. It is a question how. much further the obligation extends;. Cappers Weekly. , If utihaui "nr; 150 YEARS WORLD WILL BE CROWDED The world will have to hang out Books op etiquet seem painfully silent concerning a graceful the standing room only sign in anIt will have as other 150 years. way to scratch a chigger bite in public" as it can support. inhabitants many rt This was the statement of A. N. Most of the persons who keep on expecting the worst fail ut- Farmer, educator, in an address delivered in Chicago discussing the terly to grasp the significance of the present $10,000,000 home for motherless and fatherless children planned by the Perhaps, after all, it is just as well that the fathers of this Brotherhoodof American Yeomen. My estimate, continued Mr. Farrepublio didijt live, to learn all their noble ideas were mer. is a matter of simple arithmetic. The fertile lands ot the globe to 23,000,000 square miles, It wont help much to cancel Europes debts unless we cancel amjount the steppes to 14,0 0 0,0 0 0, and the Europes grudges along with it. And that is another thing money deserts to 1,000.000. cant do, Fixing 2 7 persons to the square mile for fertile lands, ten for steppes and one for deserts as the greatest population the earth can nourish, the conclusion is reached that when LEARNIN TO WORK the number .of inhabitants totals about 6.000,000,000 our planet will By ALF OSMOND be peopled to its full capacity. If the rate of increase shown by I ain agin the sportin game as you will understand. recent census statistics should be T dont believe in bein tame and holdin up yer hand agin uniformly maintained the globe will as many people as it can suphave the ways of. pavin fun that sportin fans devise, but after about the year 2072. port ail is said and done, it fills me with surprise to find how point Mr. Farmer made was The, that education today has the greatmany boys and men air learnin how to shirk and seem to be est problem in history in keeping the hasers-bee- n of pitchin into work. I think there orto be abreast of growing population. a club that teaches men to sweat for, honest clothes and deHe declared education must becent and I have to - Q i dont believe a grub things they get. tithin' part of what some people say that life of hand and hea'd and heart is learnin how to play. I do believe, I must believe that workin is a tool that helps a man to learn to come more and more specialized as the years go by, as in a more densely crowded world success, except in rare instances, may be expected to crown the labors only of the weave the web of life. Of course, a mule can learn to do a lot of work some fellers learn to do, but still I think a skulkin shirk and this is mighty true is just about the meanest man that ever breathed a breath. If life is nothin but a span and death is only death, I think that works the greatest-gift that ever come to earth. The man who learns to idig and shift is noble in his birth. j CANDY AND STAGES OF LOVE The candy man is the first one to know whether Air. Newlyweds affec- tions are beginning to cool off. Long before his wife expects it, he is aware of it and convinced. That is because of the candy Mr. Newlywed SE3K buys her. No longer does he come into the store asking for the very best candy" and wonder for half an hour whether she will like it in a ribboned or plain container. He ' walks in and asks for a pound of May be had by phoning us at chocolates any kind! That is the O first signal. Grow When, several months later, he We have moved our office from Columbia Theater building codes in and says, She wants a box of assorted chocolates. it shows that to our plant Corner First South and Second West Street. things are in a bad way. He is mere- This move will make it possible for us to devote more time in ly repeating her order and has long raising flowers, and still give our patrons an unexcelled since ceased to buy her any candy of service. his own accord. New York News. Flowers for all Eight r j Shop Labhrers Occasions--- Where the Flowers Phone Us Your Orders Provo Greenhouse -- Shopmen Carmen Machinists Phone EIGHT O Where the Flowers Grow Corner First South and Second West j That marriage is likely to he the biggest success when the man in the j case realizes that it means grocery. electric Light, water. gas, butcher, clothing and doctoif bills and regular house rent to be paid, and that while love mav he the greatest thing in the woTld. a creditor always wants cash instead of affection. I Utah Apply: E. J. HALL, General Foreman Utah Railway Shops, ProW 1 |