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Show TIIE FAUIC TWO. HEIIALD-JOURNA- LOGAN, L, UTAH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1938. WHEN YOU WERE READING YOUR PAPER IN The Price cents a copy. By mall, In Cache $4.00 a year; outside Cache Valley, $5.00 By carrier, 45 cents a month, $5.00 a year. 6 The Liberty Bell. A STRANCe-LOOKlMGUV HAD TAPPED YOU ON THE SHOULDER A ND SAID Herald-Journ- AN ECONOMISTS ROLE DURING A DEPRESSION ASK a restaurant owner, storekeeper, or manufacturer general business conditions, and lie'll answer on the basis of his own trade or profession. If his receipts have been good, then business as a whole is good in his eyes, and he will not be overly concerned about talk of recession so long as his own particular business holds its pace. Gn the other hand, if his income has been dropping off, then business in general is in bad condition, and no talk of booming commerce elsewhere will convince him otherwise. pro-na- II V HA V NELSON who study world standpoint he economists who seek accurate insight into commerce a whole and try to explain why it gets better or worse. The complexity of the economic set-u- p of the nation is 11 illustrated in the great variety of factors which must consider in determining the condition of siness. For instance, one New York establishment specializing d forecasting business trends studies such factors as the ruber of checks cashed, the amount of commercial brok-gand bank loans; freight car loadings; the number of siness failures; prices of commodities, stocks, and ids; sales of farm, auto, steel, electric, coal, and petrol-- n products; foreign trade, and the unemployment situa-n- . sta-ticia- ns e, The condition of business in each of these divisions t be determined by complicated methods. Then, using averages as equaling 100, a comparative index of tent conditions may be determined. hese, checked agaiist corresponding figures a week month ago, year ago, and five years ago, show whetli- siness trends are upward or downward. iking the first week of 1938 as an example, this corn- indexes showed that, of the 15 factories studied, re slightly improved compared with the previous 'but that 11 of the 15 were in worse condition than same week of the previous year. country storekeeper, all of this may seem an complicated way of figuring out that the is in a slump. the other hand, it should bring home to him the at national and world business conditions in var-adand professions are so intricately interwoven iccess or failure ot one affects all the others. In- -, sales in his store depend on the properity of workers, professional people; and on the rise of stock and commodity prices, ly through the complicated calculations of econo-wi- ll the nation and its ever develop an o mic insight broad enough to permit constructive prevent future depressions. un-ssar- es farm-dustri- al law-make- rs ac-t- OW WOULD THE PEOPLE URE THE DEPRESSION? E United States is a democracy, and the people are supposed to run it, through their chosen representa--eBut just how directly the influence of the people is dt in Washington and the various state capitals is open debate. When crises arise, the president holds long and anxious onsultations with his official advisers; congress engages n wordy debates; industrialists, statisticians, college and other experts harangue congressional committees with their ideas for remedies. In such times, one wonders what the people think. What would the man on the street do if he suddenly were placed in power? What does he think the president ought to do, for instance to cure the recession? s. pro-esso- effort to prevent war la is wiisleu eneigy. "ai will aiways be because 01 me veiy nature ol man war is inevitable because pugnacity and conioaliv-nes- s are native elements oi human naLure. It is natural lor man to wane to ngni, and thus you u always have war. So why liy to stop it.'" That, in short, .is the essence of and aigument tnat u colleague advanced tne other day n, regards tne question oi wnctuci ui not war tan ever be outiaweu or abolished l hat is a veiy fatalistic and discoid aging outiooa on tne question mill mans day inventive said, and Wdh tms inventive Saul being in. u shaded into the war oi t lie seviral nations Wd'i one oojeinve m view- - to invent till most ma. miles ami ilienu-tal- s possible xo that tedow human beings tail ot' desuoytd e outcome is me only m m sUuclion tlie Ultimate e.v ilizalion. it '.ai tannot be "Any foolisu, TAX JOKERS Anyone who studies the proposed new tax bill carefully can find all sorts of little run mans jokers tucked away in its Intricate folds. For instance. Recommendation No. 69 of the Ways and Means aoohshes tlie tux on furs. The tax on the Metropolitan seals at Opera already has been abolished. So now Mrs. Astor and Mrs. Morgenthuu can wear their ermines to tile opera, belli completely free of taxes, while the kid who has saved up fifty cents lo buy a cirrus ticket must plunk out an added nickel as a tax to Uncle pie-se- BUT its not as simple as that to the men conditions from a national or rs, , tci.-itu- StoppeU, men We can assume loai tne end will be death oi tne worlds civilized nawuu a. in todays column 1 sluill attempt to analyze in all sorious-II- , ss the proMiilion ol wneiner e or me oi not couioauveiiess, and the Uishjsiuoii to fight, e is so great a pun oi Human tnat (leare aiming nations will never come. I snail uiiempi, to the best of my anility, to trim inn subjects finny and logically, leaving out, il iHisslblc, arm-wa- v ing, soap liox tactics. Sant 9 tie-s..- like these make doubly interesting a recent experiment in which a' Philadelphia newspaper undertook to find out what Mr. Average Man would do if he were president. Reporters interviewed scores of persons, of every profession and every economic level. Their replies were interesting and illuminating even more so, perhaps, because some 6f the suggestions appeared impracticable. One man, a minor C. I. 0. official, said he thought state lines ought to be wiped out to prevent destructive competition between various areas. A woman, a drug store clerk, said she would see to it that automobile financing charges w ere reduced. A paperhanger thought the cure for the slump would be to get John L. Lewis and William Green together and force them to make peace between the rival labor factions. One student said he would raise most of the import duties, if he were chief executive. Another said he believed the president "doesn't know a thing about the real economic problems, and should talk things over more with business men. A taxi driver said that if he were president he would make every employer guarantee a living for a certain g number of years for every worker displaced by machinery. A candy man said he would not allow any employer to fire an emploje unless his books showed without question that he was losing money. AUESTIONS " labor-savin- of these schemes would aid return to WHETHER any is not the question. What the survey shows is that nearly every citizen has ideas, and very definite ones, about what should be done. Whether our democracy functions properly depends on how .closely elected officials? listen to those ideas, how carefully they weed the good ones from the bad, and how tonscientioyusly they strive to translate the good ideas into workable legislation. the ventriloquist's dummy, has CHARLIE McCARTHY, voted the nations most popular radio entertainer,- , A dummy the best on the air doesnt that symbolize the industry? 9 9 THE IKE PRESIDENT On the night proponents of the bill launched to cloture movement break the southern filibuster. SenJur-ney ate Sergeant At Arms Cheslcy was instructed to summon Vice President Jack Garner forthwith to unravel a bitter tangle on procedure. Jurney tackled his job with The hour was late trepidation. and Garner, an early retircr, inti nscly dislikes being disturbed. But orders were orders, so Jurney gingerly picked up the telephone-Hiworst fears were realized. What?" roared the vice president; "you awakened me to go down there and straighten out an argument over some rules? Why. I never heard of such an outrage." "But, Mr. Vico President, timidly protested Jurney, "the senate is in an awful fix and you are badly needed." "You go back there," snapped Garner, "and tell them to rule on their own blankety-blanrules. Y ou tell them I was elected by the people of the United States and not by the senate. I don't have to rule on their rules. "If they want someone to do that at this hour of the night, tell them to get Key Pittman (presiHowdy, folks! Joe Bungstarter pro tern). He was elected bv says the greatest danger in talk- dent senate. the Let him rule. Good ing hack to your wife is that she night and don t you dare disturb might hear you. me any more." 9 9 9 9 9 9 University scientist now claims LL-TALE APPOINTMENT that, with a new stethoscope, he A great deal more hangs on can hear a worm inside a chestnut. It has long been our conten- the choice of Bob Jackson's successor head of the anti-trution that personal privacy is division as han merely filling that getting harder to obtain. then-abortiv- g institution of war is one tne oldest, most socially ot ad human institutions, eaiorts tor staoie peace are otten opposed, as 1 have beiore stated, on tne ground that man is by a nature a fighting animal and that tms phase ot ms nature is unalterable. The tailure of peace movements in tne past fan oe cued in support of this view. BRIGHT MOMENTS l ne luct in.it comoalivtness is a constituent part ot human naIn Great Lites i will not deny i nrmiv ture believe that pugnacity is a native element or each human being s Lord Derby, the English statesI Jonn man of the 19th century, had a May quoie liiaKcup. American foremost philgood friend, a commoner, who had n osopher and psychologist on that married the daughter, of a duke. Derby, wishing to do very thing: something for the man, advised "Pugnacity and fear are nahe raising him to the peerage, and tive elements oi human nawas forthwith made a baron. A few ture. But pugnacity (disposimonths later, meeting the lady, tion to figuw piays a s.aad who had been rankled considerably, today, puil in generating wars ao since she hud lost precedence in mu mtizens OI one cuunuy the social scale because the daughnuie tnose of another nation ter of a duke ranked higher than oy instinct, m modern wais, a baroness, almost refused to take anger and hatred come alter his arm as they walked in to dinmo war has started; they are ner. "I hesitate to give you my etteets ot war, and the cuuse Lord Derby, 'said the lady, "I arm. it." oi have not seen you since you disseem we Mr. Dewey liy quoting "Hush," whispered to nave proved to a laige extern honored me. say a word me contention that wars are no. Lord Derby; "don't about It and no one will find us started because ot the human out." et for coinoat. 9 9 9 1 firmly believe that moduli war is but a social paiicm, mu a Edward VII, King of England, display oi the human element ci was attending a charity affair, and belomoaiiveiiess. War exists in the course of the afternoon, viscause, us iM'io.e iiitintuieu, it lias ited a refreshments stall, where in men socially reputable. War, he asked for a cup ot tea. The bevme past, has been giorums. uiory was priced high enough to erage soldiers been has and ioe to the cover charity, but the fair vendor, me national eimiu oi au uauuus to amuse the prince, drank and peoples, troiii the tune oi trying from the cup herself before handtne boitl to charioteers marauds it to him. "Now the cup is five xiulliuginians to the arrogant ing she said. l"he princu mesa rues to the knights oi uu guineas," counted out the money, unddie ages wun lieu, is so Ikiiu gravely back the tea and said: Will handed and armour so sniny to the heuriy me a clean cup?" stamen ol Ml t raneis Uraae lo you please give The ot Behind the Scenes in Washington -- ly , be driven down. Specifically, some well-know- me glory tne legions of Naisneon troops oi with Rodney Dutcher WASHINGTON-Joh- n L. Lewis has appeared as a possible barrier to the administration's loudly effort to knock down monopoly prices, simultaneously with a burst of confidence among crusaders who begin to believe some of those prices will of the New Dealers think the price of steel may drop within the next two months. The ammunition they have hurled at fixed, rigid and administered prices in the past few weeks has been aimed most of all at the steel industry. But stfel is equally important in the eyes of Mr. Lewis, who recently appeared at the White House with Tom Lamont, who is a partner of J. I. Morgan & Company, top banker for U. S. Steel. When Lewis made a collective bargaining agreement with U. S. Steel and steel companies all raised wages, up went the price of steel. If steel prices go down, Lewis has reason to fear, the steel companies will try to force down wages as well. Government economists and statisticians say steel prices were raised far higher in proportion, than steel wages, and that the latter should remain stationary if the former are reduced. The steel industry denies this. Already, according to confidential reports received in Washington, one independent steel company is selling to "good custom-eis- " at $10 a ton below the offi cial market price. Some of the steel eustomers on Council the Business which called on Roosevelt were heartily sympathetic with administration eflorts to drive down steel prices by noisy threats. Automobile companies have bought sparingly and Ford is reported prepanng to spend $10,000,000 on new blast furnaces. to In. inignoiis oi wai lo- going lo be satisfied except by ilic entire n.siory oi Inc war ? There are u Lugo number of world depicts the gioriiiealion and me lugii esteem m which war other channels in which the need for combat has been satisfied, has been heiu. othchannels noi .u and there ure Just an example of today. or explored into discovered ill japan is thoroughly reputable. yet which it could be led with oqu i! r.vciy young mans uu.U is iu in- satisfaction. come a soidier, and tne hignesl 9 9 9 THERE IS WAR AGAINST gioiy tnat can come onlo themm is lielu DISEASE, AGAINST io me tor his countiy POVERTY, Mrs. Roosevelt said at her pi ess 01 battle. V ustom and propugunu i conference that she opposed plans AGAINST INSECURITY, AND for a war referendum requirement. have built up that lecnng uu AGAINST INJ USTICE, , OE war, not the pugnai nni.-- e.vmcni AGAINST MYRIAD A "People can be persuaded to be witmn each individual citizen it OTHER IN swept into a vote for a war as well EVILS. SOCIAL anu war weie .snipped oi its gitny WHICH MULTITUDES OE PER- as a vote against war," she said. snown in Us uue light, u war SONS HAVE lOl'NP KELL OPsomeone "So can Congress," were discounted and spat uikjii, PORTUNITY K)Iv THE EXER-CISpointed out. tlien the ideals ot Japan s young OF THEIR COMBATIVE "Yes," Mrs. R agreed, "So c.m manhood would ihange. a war Congress." now. TENDENCIES. Right . war would satisfy the In her recent book called "This War is as inuth a social pat- against instincts of thousands, Troubled World," tile First Lady fighting tern as is the domestic slava.y and would affect the urged an international tribunal to which the ancients thought to Qe world certainly in a positive manner, undecide whether a nation was an an immutable tact "1 hey thought less all the fighters against war "aggressor," economic boycott such a nation, an internaslavery was natural, uutiiangeauic. turned columnists. against delo set slaves tree, some men havi enforce force to tional police tell, vvcuid do violent e to "uncisions of a central body, and The causes of modern wars are either complete government ownchangeable human nature. But the civilized nations ot today re- social, rather than psychological, ership of arms and munitions facthe absurdity ol open though psychological appeal is, tories or the strictest kind of govcognize highly important in working up a ernment supervision to prevent slavery. to the point where they arms exports. people I have already admitted that want to fight and in keeping them' 9 9 9 it. at Eiunomic a conditions are, There quite a discrepancy beeombaUveness is constituent part oi human nature, so, H that powerful among the social causes tween 37.000.000, the present numoe the case, 1 hud best explain of war The main point, however, ber of Social Security accounts, how war can be abolished it that is that whatever the sociological and 26,000,000, which was the oe the ease. causes, they are affairs of tradi- number of persons the experts But 1 have also said that tion, custom, and institutional orout would be covered by the manifestations of this naganization, and these factors be- figured the social security act's old age tive element of pugnacity arc long among the changeable mani- benefit system. festations of human nature, not subject to change because they are willing to Officials arc affected by custom and among the unchangeable elements admit that privately the advance computatradition. That is. the way tion was off by about 5.010,090 as Perhaps you cannot change which mankind manifests or a mutter of just plain bad guessto man's fight disposition to reveals this disposition or estimating. work of he is born element the with defight that is within him meanwhile the WPA work111 But coiuhutiv his rites being, pends upon custom and tradihave been taken in, which has ers chanltut the ran you change tion. In the past, this clement meant a couple of million or more nels into which this instict is has been mamtested in war, additional cards. And an astonled. beeuuMc war was an accented, ishingly large number of persons a reputable, and a glorified The time may be far off when have lost their cards, resulting in custom of society. Thus man's men will cease to fulfill their what appear to be numerous duplicombativeness bus been led need for combat by destroying cations of accounts into the channel of war. each other and when they will Copyright 1938. NEA Service, Inc, Dr. Dewey Quoting again: manifest it in common and comWar does not exist bccac ,o bined efforts against the forces man has combative instincts, Strikes Wife While Praying that are enemies of all men equallbut because social conditions rs. y- poverty, disease, insecurity, inFeb. 1 LOS ANGELES, and forces have led, almost M. RigRH, seeking a dijustice. But the difficulties in the Myrtle forced, these Instincts" into way are found in the persistent t vorce from her Blacksmith husband this channel." of certain social customs Eddie P. Higgs, arud that he struck If man possesses the disposition and not In acquired the unchaiigeability of her with a baseball bat while she to fight, how is that disposition the demand for combat. whs ktuehng in prayer. ixaivr to tne Advi-Aor- ony - TOPS and nearly all the queens, including Victoria, have been German princesses. The duke is a second cousin of the Kaiser, spent part of his boyhood with relatives in Germany, has distinct sympathies, selected Germany as the first countiy to visit after his honeymoon. Also the nazis are in need of international friends, and Edward still has a large bloc of fritnds in England might even increase German Sympathy in the USA. AH this may never happen, but it is being talked about. So don't be too surprised if Edward, the boy who already has broken the biggest news story in 'the world, breaks another with the return to the throne of the nazis of the dynasty which Germany loaned to Britain. Is War Natural? post-offi- e G a year. Member United Press. American Wire, NEA Service, Western Features and The Scripps League of Newspapers. matter at the Entered as second-clas- s at Logan, Utah, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. trow page one) (Continued SUPPOSE Valley, will not assume finunoial responsibility for any errors which may appear in advertisements published in its columns. In these instances where the paper is at fault, it will reprint that part of the advertisement in which the typographical mistake occurs. The MERRY-GO-ROUN- D HERALD-JOURNA- L afternoon by the Published every week-da- y Cache Valley Newspaper Co., 75 West Center Street, Logan, Utah. Telephone 50. Protilaim Liberty Thru All the Land." 1928 E ScKe Humor -TE- st important post. The appointment will be the f as to G whether the president really intends to push a g crusading drive; and 2 g whether Attorney General Homer Cummings continues to loll comfortably in his cabinet seat or gets out. Cummings is exerting undercover pressure to place a man of his selection in the job. Cold to the tip-of- ( ACTION reading a newspaper on a streetcar, signal carefully before turning a page, so that tne person reading jour paer over your shoulder wiU know what you are going to do. When 9 9 9 can remember when he judged the beer by the quality of home-mad- e river bed effect in the bottom of the bottle. An is a man who old-tim- 9 9 trust-bustin- easy-goin- quite st ly , left-win- Cummings to scram. The left wingers' candidate is James L. Fly, TVA general counsel who won the recent smashing victory for TVA before the three judge court in Chattanooga. Forty years old, and from Texas, Fly is one of the ablest and hardest hitting attor--ney- s in the government service. His appointment to Jacksons shoes would serve notice that Roosevelt really means a crackdown on monopoly. It would also be "handwriting on the wall" for placid Homer Cummings. S 9 9 .MAIL BAG L. J. B., Atlantic City According to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Percy Crosby, cartoonist, of "Skippy," owes $43,313.26 on his 1933 income tax. Crosby is one ot the organizers of personal cited during holding companies the senate tax evasion inquiry last year. Recently he attracted public attention by inserting two double advertisements in page New' York newspapers inferring that President Roosevelt was a snake. . . . G. H. S. Bowling Green, Ky. The salary of the French ambassador to the United States is one million francs a year At present rates of exchange, this amounts to $33,300. . . . . A. J. S., Springfield, Ohio There was no senator or representative from Idaho who declined to receive mileage allowance for F. O. D., the extra session Calif. Chief Justice Yreka, Hughes is a member of the Wellesley Class of 1920 only in an honorary capacity. Wellesley is exclusively a womans college. The class of 1920, of which Hughes daughter Catharine is a member elected him to honorary membership. 9 9 9 SAYS WHICH Big political question mark in the minds of Tennesseans is whether Senator George (Mar-- , ble") Berry is going to run for this year. A fi lend put the matter square- ly up to him. Berry pondered weightily for a few minutes, then replied: "Well, it's this way: I've received many letters from pcopl in fact from all in Tennessee, over the country, urging me tj run. They say I'm needed in the senate. On the other hand, my union men (Berry is president of the pressmen) want me to get out of politics and devote my fu1! time to our organization. And a lot of newspaper publishers have, asked me to do the same thing. "But." insisted the friend, "are . you or are you not going to be . ' a candidate?" "The situation," said Berry se- -. verely, "is just as I have explained it to you. I have nothing more to say. (Copyright, 193S, by United Feature Syndicate, . Inc.) MODERN. 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