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Show THE HERALD JOURNAL, LOGAN, UTAH, PAGE TWO. The -- HERALD-JOURNA- l , 1934. PASSIVE Humor llowdy, Con Kress is the time to to the Congressional speeehes! subserilie Reeord. g I'ages of conue misstatements! A good definition used to be that "a Republican is an office holder that a Democrat screams at During the present session, the has been interesting to watch the diagnosticians getting FT definition will be reversed. work on President Roosevelts address to Congress, tryliberal or a ing to figure out whether in the main it was a conservative document. Even more interesting is the fact that there seems to be no unanimity of opinion on the issue. Some commentators find it one thing, some find it another, and some find it a affair. carefully balanced But while this discussion may be interesting, it is not ol any very great importance. Eor this distinction between .liberalism and conservatism seems to be one thing that the ordinary American has stopped caring about of late. middle-of-the-roa- d MATRIMONIAL one may guess, read Mr. THE ordinary American, speech without once stopping to figure out whether the gentleman in the White House was inchning to the left or to the right. This business of labels has become for the time being, at any rate unimportant. . After all, there is a pi etty general agreement in the land on the things which the administration ought to accomplish. want People want to see prosperity restored; that is, they to see stores and factories and railroads busy once more, they want to see the bread lines dwindling and the help wanted signs going up again. They warn to see a return of that era in which farmer and Warning man and business man and professional man could face both present and future with a decent sort of confidence. EXCHANGE Iaulies, have you an old hiishand that you would like to exchange for 111.0 a snappy model? We ha C a large stock of new husbands oil hand. Lor Inconsider stance moth-eate- , this smart, luxe model. swers to it, name of Alger, non. Has sparkl ing black eyes Ji, Aircooled ami a 1928 ilivver. leeth. Enormous pink ears with ventilation. $ cry modest and ruf fined. Will rot hark ai strangers, isend in your order '1 SACRIFICE OF POLITICS TO LASTING HONOR roadstei If good for trunipi! could be up. ONE standard, hut you under-- ' wouldnt stand it, any. way." a wonderful the most significant single thing about Mayor Our apartment hitsdate heating inaugural in New York was his blunt predic- plant in the basement so we ve heard. I he shall never tion: That brief remark, taken in conjunction with the new MOTOR HINTS mayors policies, contains a whole volume of commentary on If the universal joint of your car becomes stiff, a few municipal politics as it is practiced in America. The reasons for the new mayors pessimistic prediction trouble. treatments will remedy tile PROBABLY i About the only way to stop from botheiing you s to muiry a fat gill ami buy a seeds of a new collapse. Human values must be given a It wouldn't do nun h wider place in the general scheme of things. In so far as we Gabriel blow to lus eradican discover the causes of Ihe last collapse, we must light now, unless bo sure of a national hook cate them. But as for the labels that are attached to the acts of reNOW YOU TELL covery does the ordinary man actually care two hoots about them? It is very doubtful. Certainly, So long as we are moving toward recovery and trying to darling, I could avoid the mistakes of the past, it makes little difference to give you a clear, him whether our policies are liberal, conservative, a little of concise explanation of inflation both or neither. and the golds ultra-moder- up-t- i eiiiro-practi- c are simple. THE OLD Behind the Scenes in Nations Capital TIMER RECALLS- - i.oDNKY F!E YEARS AGO January 7, 1929 Jesse P. Rich was sworn in as city judge and George D. Preston as county attorney as the only two new members to take their place in (aihe V. W. minty s official family. Hall was .selected chairman of the county commission. Dr H. A. Adamson of Ru Dr. S. M Budge of Logan and Dr Chauncey Baird of Hyrum have been named county physicians. January 8, 1929 The Bott brothers ha'-purchased the monument works of P. O .Hansen on North Main street. . The third fire In the Newton chapel within a year resulted in razing of the building Tuesday morning with a loss of $5000. Contempt of court is charged by the Utah Power and Light company against Logan city in a complaint filed in First District court today. It alleges that Logan city disregarded a court order to continue to fluctuate the flow of water in Logan river to suit the needs of the city 2,i SfMlrr heait-broke- nui-am- e hydro-electr- y, ic whlte-r.aire- the zany, but anon, after culling first place in the Ogden livestock the jackanapes a dozen show which opened this week. have built up the kind of system in our municipal times,youi'T do tnd him In the attick, L. W. Hu BUT , has been named which makes it very unlikely that any adminis- reading HuciJeberry Finn, and I secretary of .he local Kiwams the cluu to succeed Fred B. tration can do those very proper and necessary things and bad not the heart to chastise Parkinnoodlepate, for Lord! addle-pate- d win To succeed in America municipal politics, as a general thing, a mayor must consent to a certain amount of inefficiency, a certain amount of favoritism, and a certain amount of outright corruption in his government. The extent to which he puts up with those things varies from city to city, naturally ; but the man who, like LaGuardia, boldly proposes to abolish them entirely is a great rarity, and he takes it for granted at the start that he cannot be reelected. , have had a great deal of talk in the last year about a WE new deal, about a new spirit that is entering our con- duct of national affairs. Nowhere do we need such change any more than in our system of local government. We need not only politicians who are courageous enough to put principle above the success of their own careers; we need a public opinion that will support such men when they do appear, and give them the backing they must have. The piping times in which money was so plentiful that we could afford to support wasteful and grafting city governments have gone, now, and there is not much chance that they will return soon. It is up to us to cut our cloth to .suit our purse; to hunt for and supiiort politicians willing to take office with the prediction, I never shall be the Mayflies, the Caddis flies arc not social and not easily found Sometimes they come into our bouses at night attracted by the light and may be recognized as UTAH NATURELAND brown moth like insects with the hairy wings held rooflike over Caddis Hies; Caddis Worn a the A remarkable group of insects body when crawling. Caddis worms resemble snails in In our local rivers and ponds are having Caddis portable houses but un. the worms, or case worms rock (wrongly called rollers) like snails they build the "house' while which are the immature stages which is temporary the snail s house and is of the Caddis flies. grows a Once All fishermen know, and many peimanent. snail, always use, the caddis worms for bait a snail, but a caddis worm to after pulling the worm from its day will be a caddis fly portable house of sand grains These houses are of many shapes ano materials. Some species of caddis worms build cases the shape of a half walnut shell and about the size of a pea; others construct 4 sided tapering cases for CHEYENNE, Wyo. Cause of tiny sticks. And other kinds build no fuses but spin nets un any scarcities of alley cats east of the Rocky Mountains has been oer the rocks in the rapids and lie at the lower end of the net discovered here. to eat the insects, etc, brought Recently a huge shipment of embalmed alley cats addressed to into the net by the current. When the Leland Stanford worms in have be come full grown they fasten their California, passed university, through here cases firmly to a rock or on the Union Pacific Line. a spin shelter for themselves and go The embalmed cats, it was un- into a resting stage from which they rstood, are to be used for ex- no m vywkk tiita, Uuuaq yvruurntkl purposes. 1. UTAHS NATURELAND Scarcity of Alley Cats Caused by Shipment I would give all the monies of the Indies (did I possess them), to read again, for the first time, the glorious adventures of Tom Sawyer and his partner. Huckleberry son. C. R Spencer has been c'ected a member of the board of directors of the First National Jiank succeeding the late Andreas Peterson. Finn! TEN TEARS AGO to dinner right JunlOR, con-7, 1924 Articles of inJanuary this minute! Soup's on! corporation of the Logan Motor company have been filed with G. S Parkinson, Lyman L. Strong, DO YOU KNOW? Margaret Parkinson, Anna H. Sorenson and Gladyd Sorenson These Curious Things as incorporators. J ACK e January 9, 1924 President W. Henderson of the Brigham Young college has been granted sabbatical leave until May 15 to attend the University of California. TWENTY YEARS AGO January 6, 1914 The new Logan city administration has taken office with p. A. Thatcher as mayor and G. W. Lindquist and James Larson as commissioners. Officers named, together with their salaries, are as follows: City marshal, N G Peterson, $12iH), city attorney, A. A. Law, $6K); justice of the peace, T. G Lowe, $3"0; city engineer, Roy Bullen, $100tr policemen, Job Larsen and William Batt, $900; street supervisor, James Sorenson, $1000; city physician, E. S Budge, $350; fire chief Fred G. Smith, $800; sexton, Moses Olson, $720; building inspector, T. G. Lowe, $180; pound-keepK M Lewis, $2t)0 TIIRTY YEARS AGO The oldest library in the world has been unearthed at Nippur m Some of the books Babylon. simply clay tablets -- date from 3GK) B C., meaning thnt the library is almost 5000 years old. MUNICH Chancellor Hitler can t go anywhere any more without being recognized. Sometimes he would prefer not to be. Recently, accompamed by Chief of Staff Roehm, the Chancellor attended a concert at the Odeon here. The two arrived unheralded, presented two tickets and took seats in the front row. Down the aisle trundled two ushers, struggling with a pair of sumptuous armcvairs, which they placed in solitary state at the very frort of the houxo, and offered to Hitler and his companion The Chancellor pulled his ticket stub from his pocket and glanced at it. and friendles A town becomes a city when its population reaches 2500. This standard is set by the census bureau of the United States. Peter the Great built the first Russian navy on an inland lake from it could not emerge, amusing himself and experimentHe later built other fleets, ing and when he died had 50 huge ships the first in Russia. y $10 a Week Clerk Once OSHKOSH, YVis. (IT) Carl movie magnate, who tes tified in a New York suit recently that his salary of $156,000 a year was inadequate," is remembered by many friends as a $40 a week clothing store clerk. Lae-mml- er 6. 1904 G. W. Hitler Unable to Have Privacy in Theater . i niv must le!" I. . (..unci when Mimeoiie sugg ed lie wasnt strong enough lo 1 did a lot ot bust the door. bending to touch niv toes and just to make It interesting, I pithed up lialidsful of pecans Toi?50tfGO( elciy time." The hardy vice pnzidcut sl.pl mi the hare giound until, he says, his hips began to hurt him. Then Mrs Garner fashioned him a WEDNESDAY SPECIAL De Luxe feather matress. pHl'BBY Ogden Mills, founci Treasury secretary and a leading Republican presidential Top Dressing any CAR possibility for 1936, isnt picking his cabinet just yet. Asked when the G. O. P. really would open fire on the Roosevelt administration. he replied: You cant shoot when juu'te under a wet blanket. Returning Republican members of Congress feel the same way. Few arrived before the morning the session opened. Not even Senator Dave Reed of Pennsylvania, who will be the most effective attacker in any offensive. Y'ou will hear plenty fiom Reed this session. He's worrying about renomination and and Ills speeches will be made with an eye on Pennsylvania politics. Governor Gifford Pincliot will oppose Reed in the primaries, and the dope is that National Committeeman Joe Guffey is aiming to be the Democratic senatorial nominee. GARNER, the vice, presi- - 'T'HE kickback racket Regular $1.00 Job' i j Using Firestone High Test Top Dressing. Will not Sure protection against a leaky top. Keeps moisture out of top joints preventing squeaks. Remember, Wednesday only. Call 868. Free Car Pick-uand Delivery. Uide, crack or chip. p Service Stores, Inc. GRAND THEATRE is one - . .NOW PLAYING , i i SCIENCE NEWS Keeping Up To Date i, The French aviator, Colonel in an article in the Revu" dcs V.vants, suggests that in the next great war, generals may be brought from the rear to the thief: of the fight. The suggestion is much discussed in military cir- Feature A Bij? Special n Her heart was like a secret city but his flaming love laid siege to it and captured her forevermore in the greatest love story since 7th Heaven!" You may think it even greater! SALES TAX FAILS TO CURE ILLS Chia-varn- cles. It is that the commanders in battle in the future will direct their troop movements from the air. Instead of giving orders by telephone from the rear, the commanding officer will be circling where he can get a complete view of the field of action, and will transmit his orders by radio to the men below. As proof of Lindquist that was named chairman of the Yity is board at a reorganization meiting during the lust ne uvers, took this week. January Greatest benefit to the small producers was foreseen by I. H Barkdoll, general manager ot the Old Dominion Copper company, one of the most famous in the southwest. "Miners may go right to work," he was quoted as saving with reference to tile possible opening of many small mines Our Supreme White Goods Whether this idea will be fulfilled remains a question to Ari- Event is now Koitijf on! zonians because of the failure of the silver pi ice to follow Die boost the full way president's it also was pointed out that the STOMACH PAINS SO BAD new mark of 64 4 cents even- if rea hed for the total produi tion I COULD HARDLY WORK would be lower than the peak of Says C. S Gross: "After taking 1925. Dr. Emils Adla Tablets the pains Comment, however, was almost are gone and I eat anything. Try universally optimistic ever future Adla treatment on money ba..it possibilities. guarantee. City Drug Co. Adv. - unearthed by Senator CopeSenate chamber a day or two be- lands Committee on Crime Prefore Congress opened. His kejs vention. Its the term used in wouldn't fit. After 10 minutes those labor unions which demand on a members wages bea cut-iof fiddling, cussing and summoning, he learned the lock3 had been fore they let him take a job. changed during the summer. (Copyright, 1934, KEA Service, Inc.) V. Beau Brummel, the master dandy of the 19th century, was one of the most striking characters of his time. It was he who made uniform dress for men the custom, and our modern dress coat dates from him. Many interesting events are written concerning this man First, it might be interesting to know that he was born of poor parents, but his faultless manners and his great personality, not to mention his wit, gained him many friends. His modes of dress were copied by the lords of the land At the height of his career his populanty was such that he could commend almost anything he desired. He once ordered a dueness to leave a bullroom backward because her back offended him! At the theater, when he wished to .speak to a lord or lady, he simply beckoned and they came to him. An admirer om e asked him what he used to keep his boots in sui h ex ellent condition Brum-mreplied, Well, you know, for blacking I never use anything but the froth of champagne" Brummels popul waned as his ego inercaoed. irity and he died m an insane asylum, poverty-stricke- n nmun.i; Lorrotidit A beautiful V'ASIIINGTON child of surpassing brilliance, cut off in the bloom of youth, after beginnings of rare promise, n will be mourned by a father on Jan. 1 C. The neighbors Cam d it an ugly brat and a genual Rut not Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, parent of the I Mil amendment, upon whose grave he now tembily will toss posies. For 13 years, on suecisive anniver-'aiie- s of prohibition's birth, he rose in the Senate to pav fond tribute to his offspring. Repeal will not deter him fiom liis annual speech. ft was a success, he says. Best enforced law-- we ever had. Originally, to Sheppard, prohibition was the greatest event He hasnt since the Nativity. changed his views. In 1930: Our country is now the light of the earth by virtue of its moral and economic suprem-cfor which prohibition is largely responsible. d In 1931, the amiable, little senator was estimating repeal would take a hundred years. Last year he was saying that repeal would "begin the moral dismemberment of Amerita, and as Texas prepared to ratify he made 40 speeches against it. the Today, leaning against wailing wall, he hopes for a national The modern girl cant show He aims to give New York a clean and efficient adminismuch for her money in the way tration. He is going to reduce the number of city employes of clothes, says a Logan fashion expert. But she shows quite a lot by approximately 10,000. He is going to cut salaries, abolish useless boards and of modern girl. commissioners, consolidate city departments, end the reign HOMER BREWS DIARY of graft in the letting of contracts and the buying of supplies, remove politics from the poiice department. Betimes where Little plant He is going, in short, to do those simple things which Homer, beinghome, late for dinner, I The Cache January 9, 1929 obviously and indisputably are proper for a mayor to do. mighty wroth and fain to larrup county Holstein dairy herd won we remarkable A (TP) was made here recently when a man was operated upon for kidney trouble. Doctors found that three pearls had grown to the size of pinheads and caused the trouble. The pearls, it is said, were formea by means of the same chemical reactions as those pioduced by oysters. move. hi boot-leg- PARIS Indication also has it that the Magma corporation, with production centered at Superior, Anz., while contemplating some increase of activity soon, has not been influenced the president's by the is very much to be doubted if the mass of people care hearty. greatly how all this is accomplished. , If you have been drinking That certain reforms must come with this revival is taken you should wake up feeling the must not it with darn lucky. carry largely for granted. Revival AND Human Kidney Grew Pearls CRESS rome. deAn- NOTES ON OKI hi NO you have lean drinking Seotch, you should wake up fes I ing tight. If ypu have been drinking ale, wake feeling you should up UNITED PHOENIX, Anz, Jan. 9 Despite the fact that most of the southwests major copper mims carry good values in silver, executives of the copper industry generally seem unwilling to forsee any change of their production as schedules or likely to follow from the presidents silver program. n Officials of half a dozen companies have rushed into print with statements asserting that no "immediate changes are contemplated as a result of the silver purchase move. Included are the officers of two of the three largest silver producers of the state, the Copper Queen branch of the Phelps Dodge corporation at Bisbee, and United Verde Fxtension company at Je- statistics! Mirth-provokin- LET THINGS BE DONE, WHO CARES HOW! OVER folks! V in HOUSTON, Tex. the free art class at the Museum, of Fine arts have offered theiP sketches and paintings for sale in order to raise funds and prevent their studies from ending a month or so early next spring Money has run low and unless funds are raised for their instructor and their supplies the class will have to close early, sponsors said. (tfi-Chil- dren SILVER BOOM In session. Now is United Press, NEA Service, Western an(j The Scripps League of Newspapera Art Work to Aid School COPPER MINERS eicKe Published every weekday afternoon by the Cache Valley Newspaper Co, at 75 West Center eireet, Logan, Utah. Telephone BO. Price 6 cents a copy. By mail, In Cache Valley, 2 50 a year; outside Cache Valley, $5.00 a year. By carrier, 40 cents a month, $3.80 a year. matter at the postoffice Entered as second-clas- s at Logan, Utah, under the act of congress, March , Liberty thru dl the land - 1879. The LibMember erty Ball. 9. THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE Our L TUESDAY, JANUARY this suggestion it General Weygand French army the precaution ma- of flying for several hours over the terrain in order to inform himself of the operations This Colonel Chiavarm points out, proved the practicability of the suggestion. Cow Changed Jurjs Vote BY UNITED PRESS CHICAGO The sales tax, claimed bv some to he the panacea revenue ills, of all government has supplied only a fraction of the revenues of most states which have adopted it, according to a survey made for the American Legislators Association by Joseph G. Riddle. In half of the states with general sales taxes, the returns have been under $250,000 monthly each - one sixth, or less, of the total taxes levied in each of those states for state purposes. A few states, however, have found the sales tax a lucrative source of income. California real- izes about $4,000,000 per month from a 2 '4 per cent tax. Illinois gathers $2,000,000 monthly with rn r 2 per cent rate "uch state not common, according to Riddle! Theie are six states which col- lect e quarter or more of their state revenue from the sales tax: these are California, Illinois, In-- 1 duina, South Danota, Washington and West Virginia. The last three named include in their gross in-- 1 come tax laws many different s of tax which other states collect under different statutes Vxest Virginia, for instance, taxes the gross income of public service corporations as part of the sales tax. The South Dakota gross income tax levies taxes on salaries and wages in excess of a given ex ' PA i ; 'EY ' FLINT, Mich (I Pi Rather than face the prospect of trying to round up their cows for milking after dark, a jury changed its vote and permitted a verdict of acquittal in the case of a woman charged with slaying her two chiluren, former Coroner C. H ONeill said today. O'Neill said the jury reported a vote of 11 to 1 for a guilty verdict. Eleven jurors, anxious to finish the day's chores on their farms before dark, agreed finally to vote with amount the "hold-out- " who was will.r.g to In five states. Riddle reports, stay n'l night to prove his point, xhe receipts from general sales accord i n e to th story told to taxes were less than 5 per cent j of the total state tax revenues, i C ! 'll ') i ifSSfi ol Also Comedy Deals Attends a Party Krazy Cat Cartoon a ai A5Vuy and UliulZtL Paramount News TOMORROW SHADOWS OF SING SlNGi I ..n an ntai i Ctwi, With Mary Brian and Brace rK4 -c- |