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Show PAGE TWO. T II 10 HERALD-JOURNA- LOGAN, L, TUE UTAH, SIDEGLANCES The IIERALD-JOURNA- ft D A Y, Price 5 cents a ropy. By wall, In Cache Valley, a year; outside Cache Valley, $5.00 a year. By carrier, 45 cents a mouth, $5.00 a year. Member United Press, American Wire, NEA Service, Western Features and The Scrlpps League of Newspapers. The matter at the postoffice at Logan, Utuh, under the Act of Congress March liberty Bell. s She Paddles Oar Education Today ItY KAY NELSON 3, 1879. will not assume financial responsibility for The Herald-Journany 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. Its atrocious how our young folks cant spell, express themselves clearly or even read well! Their manners are abominabld, und they are learning to refuse tackling any job that doesn't immediately capture their imagina- HK HAPPY f rci ucntly what appears at first unfamiliar, quaint, or even revolutionary notion turns out on closer inspection to lie merely the same old idea everybody had been accepting all along. Probably no one rule for attaining happiness has bobbed up under a greater variety of fancy labels than; Dont break your neck for nothing. This will doubtless be considered a pretty ruthless condensation, by adherents to the more complicated philosophies built on that basic idea, Dont break your neck, but any condensation is ruthless. It does not follovy that it is necessarily in error. Moderation in all things bobbed up several centuries after Confucius said it another way. The Stoics emphasized the wisdom of remaining free from passion. of Yogi might be said to have put similar notions to work in the gymnasium. The only trouble with recommending the easy life to the average man these days is that its a little like recommending rest and sunshine to a miner with l.r children. how ITS remarkable1 to he an Prac-titionee- rs has RAMON NOVARRO, retired moving picture actor, up Yogi, and says he believes he is now on the way to a state of mental and physical tranquility. The ideas of Yogi, according to Novarro, seem to boil down to the idea that we must take life as we find it; that we must not get angry, or excited. d Novarro, 33, has a swimming pool for a bath bedroom in his tub. It stands just outside his y home, just around the corner from his ultramodern music room, done in cherry red and deep cream. full-size- all-bl- four-stor- we must not get angry or excited. NOW, remember, a more generally acceptable rule for happiness these days would be: We must take life as we find it, after having made it what we would like to find. FICTION BECOMES TRUTH other scientific fictioneers have long standard plot in which an old man moves his mind into the body of a young one. The plot is often complicated by the fact that the young man was a criminal, and some of the criminal traits remain. Youve read the yarn a dozen times, in one form or another. Now doctors plan to take the cornea of the eye from a murderer, as soon as lie is executed, and place it in the blind eye of the Rev. U. E. Harding of Portland, Ore. A murderers eye that a minister may see! There is real life phantasy for you. If the rules of fiction were followed, it would follow that the eye would continue to see evil things to do. In truth, however, the eye will undoubtedly serve the Rev. Harding in continuing a life of good works. Just a few years ago such an operation would have been just a writers dream. A few years from now replacement of various wornout parts of the human body will be an operation as common as an appendix operation G. WELLS and H. toyed with one today. Former U. S. President Answer to Previous Puzzle HORIZONTAL 1 Only living of the Fleet of ships. 13 One who 12 lures. 14 Wings. 16 Beer. 17 Elaborate spectacle. 19 Relative. 20 Toward. 21 To comp? 23 No good. 24 Having no head hair. 25 Modern. 27 To deem. 29 Group of railway cars. SI Matgrass. 33 Passport was during the World War times. 44 He . 49 3.1410. 50 To make shaggy. 52 To 1 VERTICAL Nimbus. 2 Night before. 3 Railway. 4 Antelope. 5 6 Carpets. Weight allowance for waste. 7 To harken. in Belgium. an by profession 17 Measuring stick. 18 Light color. 21 Frankness. 15 He is 22 Sinews. 24 Robin. 26 To not depart. 28 Parent. 30 Exists. 32 Giver. 35 To fish. 36 Cats murmur. 38 Black tea. 41 Inferior in degree. 43 Inner sole. 45 Fairy. 46 Rubber trees 47 To endure. 48 Aflli mative vote. 49 Game played on horseback. indorsement. 50 Street. 34 Flightless bird 53 Johnnycake. 51 Jewel. 8 Measure. 55 Dogma. 36 House cat. 9 Go on (music) 53 House canary 57 Thing. 37 Pound. 54 Half an em. 10 Large deer. 58 Malefactor. 39 Hastened. 56 Musical note. 40 You and me. 59 He was U. S. 11 Shower. food 41 Mister. in 12 He was head 58 Fourth note 1917-1in scale. of relief 42 Either. 9. J X-Repor- 2 6. 19 3 8. MERRY-GO-ROUNter (Continued D from page one) ant effect upon the New York gubernatorial situation, for at one time Lehman was ready to run for in order to head off a Roosevelt candidate (Bob Jack-son- ). Now, however, he has made to his friends that he does Polideal fences that have re- itnotclear want to run, though the U. S. quired only an occasional touch senatorship when there is a vaof patching in the last six years is another thing. are going to have to be com- cancyWith Wugnrr not at all anxious pletely reposted and restrung this to lie Governor of New York, year. Solicitor General Jackson again are western senators up Many and the ume be- looms as a definite possibility. for fore primary elections is not too DIPLOMACY awfully long. Wise-crac- k The terms of Senators McAdoo going the rounds of of California, Steiwer of Oregon, diplomatic circles following RooseBone of Washington, Pope of Ida- velt's blessing of the ho and Thomas of Utah are nearagreement: "If Secing an end, and must be renewed retary Hull goes away on another by the voters this year or else. vacation, the career boys will perhas already suade the president to OK Japans Senator Steiwer himself the from race, conquest of China. removed so his place is open tor allcomers to try for. FRAN KED REPUBLICAN I have known, some slightly, An Republican cocksome quite well, all the senators tail impromptu party was being held the other mentioned except Steiwer, and so am intensely interested in the day in the apartment of Richard Sanger, wealthy young volunteer elections this year worker for the Republican NaWith the lean and hawklike tional Committee. The gathering McAdoo my acquaintance was so was jubilant. It toasted the fact sketchy as to be almost non- that Horace general counexistent. Nobody could even mis- sel of the Russell, Federal Home Loan place McAdoo or fad to recognize Bank had been found Board, him, but I seriously doubt that franking 9,600 letters which should he would remember representing have carried postage. myself as one of a group in a Waltman, newly appointrather heated court case some edFrank mogul for the Repubyears ago. It doesn't matter any- licanpublicity National exulted way, except for story purposes. that this was Committee, one of the best McAdoo, born in 1863, was truly smears New the Deal for against a political accident in California, some time and a step toward a m which he had been a resident Republican congressional victory tor only a short time. It will be next November. if he is reelected.surprising But Republican glee has now I came iiuo contact with Senturned to sickening disillusion-meri- t. ator Elbert Thomas of Utuh only Fur Horace Russell, it uriefly, too, but long enough to has discovered, was a admire the intense earnestness Republican holdover from the of the man and his scholarly, Hoover Administration. mind. Among many An Atlanta lawyer, Russell was attainments to numerous to to the legal staff of list. Senator Thomas was a mis- appoin.ed Home Loan Bank Board by its the for Utah's dominant first sionary the late Franklin church, the Mormon church, in Fort, chairman, an Irom for when u many years Japan New Jersey und secretary of the young man. He is author of u Republican Nutoinal Committee. book in Japanese, No Later Russell was "Sukui promoted to Michi. counsel. My trail crossed that of Sen- general Came the Roosevelt administraator Homer T. Bone of Washingthe system was exton when he was the crusading tion, andto when include the Home Owncouncil for the Port ot Tacoma, panded ers' Loan Corporation, Russell was a staunch battler for public own- continued counsel of as ership in power. Six years in both agencies. general Washington, D. C., have not ell rated among quenched his ardor, .altho now his HOLC executives, bothhigh Democrats chief battle is the fight for peace and and was Republicans, being On his record, Homer Bone should mentioned for appointment to the be almost unanimously. Court of of the District Appeals Senator James Pinckney Pope of Columbia. of Idaho (the Pinckney is for an ancestor who signed the DeclarREFORMED SPENDER ation of Independence) is the first of Vice President GarIdaho senator ever to crowd Bor- nerFriends twitting him about the ah for place in the national lime fact are that he was not always ihe light. He is an intense, enthusiasd crusader against tic Idahoan and should win government spending that he now hands down. rofesses to be. There was a time within the ! SCIENCE NEWS in memory of almost everyone 1: congress-wh- en Cactus Jack A new system of marking money authored three bills to dig into the indefinitely has been announced. public till to the tune of $2,500,000, When dipped in a new solution one of the biggest pork raids in and dried with a' hot iron no the annals of congress. mark is lett upon the money. Jack's, spending spree occurred However, the impregated portion in 1931, when he was Speaker of of the bill, which may be only a the House of Representatives and strip along the edge gives off a Herbert Hoover sat in the White brilliant glow when a bank teller House. holds the money under the inThe latter was adamantly visible rays of an ultra-viollamp against government bulb. spending to combat the depression. g But Garner, Democratic The English public is being leader on Capitol Hill and a strong treated to a new type of eyeglass presidential candidate, was red hot which fits under a gas mask. for it. As speaker he couldn't inConventional glasses do not per- troduce the legislation himself, so mit donning a gas mask, simply the late Heniy Rainey of Illinois because the rigid frames do not offered the bills for him. fit close enough to the head and became They known hspromptly Garners pork barmight permit a slight leak when rel trio, and provided for the a mask is put on. The new glassconstruction of hundreds of es, however, have elastic tape court houses, post offices, frames, which fit hightly over the highway, side of the face. They are ulso river, harbor and flood control projects, easily adjusted. plus Chamber-lain-Mussoli- tions and interest. IIOWTO tL Glances At Our World $4.00 second-clas- R By George Clark y Entered as ? L Published every week-daalteration liy the Ouche Valley Newspaper Co., 75 Went Center Street, Logan, Utah. Telephone 50. Proclaim Liberty Thru All the Land." A Thats really the case of our young students today, because they are being sMiiled so liy "progressive education, says Oorothy Thompson, wife of Sineluir Iwwis und famous writer. She grabs a cudgel to wield stinging blows on some of the practices of our progressive schools which, according to her, are spodiog our children. And inasmuch as we presented some of the progressive education viewpoints in the column yesterday, as proposed by Miss Elsie Clapp of Teachers College, Columbia, we consider it a propos to present Miss Thompsons viewpoints today, and then let you choose which form of education best- - the like traditional you .school or the progressive school. Miss Clapp's main contentions were, by way of slight review: The child should la educated according to Ilia own interests amt iiiiagiiiation. Education should not Is a process of merely filling each iille iHittle with reams and reams of knowledge. In fiu-t- , very little "information should lie stuffed into the student uiiIchh he cun use it in his life today. Miss Clapp maintained .hat the child should be allowed to choose his own interests, and develop in his own way. The school must arrange to begin the education with his own interest; not to force upon him things he is not interested in, but rather go down to the child and build around his own chosen interests. "It is stupid and wrong not to let the child cherish and direct his own interests. And I am glad that schools today dare to let children be their natural selves, let them do the fine and right things they like to do and to follow their nutural bents. Thus she con- Will somclxxh; tm the top iloor ask Mrs. McCoy when shes fjointf lo pay this cleaners bill? Behind the Scenes in Our Cache of Humor Washington Howdy, folks! learned pajchul- WASHINGTON-T- he wage-hou- r ogid ttiij it is iniMHsilile to tell more obviously hill issue, than when a nmn is intoxicated. Nonsense! Its when he feds ever, has become a sectionai-po-hticfootball in a queer game sophisticated, and cant pronounce it. individual where players keep popping from one side to the othMany a father wouldn't know er, explaining that they don't like he owned a car if it weren't for the size or shape of the ball. the bills son runs at the service Chairman Mary Norton of the station. house labor committee went to the White House the other day and thereafter informed her com1 OKY IDA mittee that President Roosevelt insisted he must have some kind bill. Ivory Ida says of course sho of a wage-hocan keep a seeri'e, hut the trouble Thereupon the committee apIs, the people she tells it too, proved a bill which would set a minimum wage of 26 cents an cant. V hour (exempting agricultural lacluded. Noted writer states that chil- bor) and a maximum work week And what does Miss Thompson dren aren't so mannerly as they of 44 hours, the minimum wage sa about this business of letting used to be. He's right, too. A to be increased to 40 cents within the child follow his own interests, child nowadays will steal the three years and the maximum letting him unfold in his own de- bottle opener right off his fa- hours to be cut to 40 within two years. velopment without the school dic- ther's watch chain! Thus was achieved a measure tating courses or discipline? She says just this: for today: The less which won the support of PresThought "Unless I read the signs of the a man the more he wants ident Bill Green of the A. F. of L. times incorrectly, there is brewing to tell knows, and even that of numerous northit. In this country a parents revolt ern Republicans who previously r proagainst the way that their chilIvory Ida went to a spiritual- had opposed other wage-houdren are being spoiled in many of istic seance last night, and after' posals. adthe progressive schools. of the Original proposals the table was turned over twice I hear it on ail sides. Parthe medium told her it was the ministration had left ample room ents complain that their childifferentials between wage spirit of her Unde Ezra that for dren are, first of all, terribly But Ivory Ida said northern and southern areas. The caused it. Norton bill establishes a unmannerly. If they have been she wasn't surprised. Uncle Ezra trained in any sort of decent never did have good table man- flat minimum wage for north and use of the English language south alike. ners. at home, it is ruined by a very President Green and the A. F. few weeks in school They of L. leaders previously had opcomplain that their children posed any differentials and rt had DEFINITION cannot read, write a legible been supposed that his was bewith insult an is Rcpiirlce hand or spell. cause they desired no minimum a dress suit on. "E urthemiore, the children show wage legislation at all, since any a complete disinclination to tackle proposal for a national minimum streeta stole man kind of New York work which does not any was sure to imeet solid southern Immediately capture their imagin- car to give his sweetie a ride. opposition. But the new bill also ations and inemiL They have That's nothing. In the old days meets A. F. of L. demands for ennever been forced to do anything men used to steal whole street- forcement of its provisions by the they didnt want to do in school, car systems to give their sweet- department of Justice and since rather being allowed to follow ies a diamond necklace. the measure was written to meet their own fancies and flights of Green A. F. of L. specifications. durimaginations and interests, which Overheard at a movie house could hardly object to it even if In most cases, are not very definhe so desired. ing an intense love scene: itely formed at such a young age. have beNorthern "Why is it, Henry, that you The idea that there is any satis- never make love to me like that? gun to line Republicans up behind the Notion "do faction to lie found in doing even you bill because it replied Henry, "Say, eliminates the a dull task methodically and well know what salary that guy gets north-sout- h wage differential. They seems completely for doing that? believe it's good election campaign Just the other day, at my material, in view of the southward a luncheon table, the thirteen-year-ol- d declares that doctor local A migration of factories ,o take adhis in talks sleep of who a friend assured husband daughter of cheaper labor, and that me brightly, that she just couldn't may easily ruin his wifes nerves vantage it will help them attract labor suplearn Latin.' She also said a little Yeah, especially if he doesn't port which has been veering toruefully that she never had. learn- speak distinctly. ward Democratic members. ed to spell, but that she the Norton bid is thought Conversely1, 'after all, spelling didn't matter anathema to southern Democrats muv'h. She was so anxious to exYE DIARY who insist there must in congress press her ideas, she said, that she be room for differentials if there didn't have time to stop and think wearie, is to be a wage-hou- r Kurile home, mighty law. But how to spell the words. and to reclining on the daven- it was the opposition of the vast "This, of course, is perfectly port, with a mjxterie story, and bulk of southern Democratic conridiculous. She is an excepdo light a rigarro, which be my gressmen which last December litand settle killed a bill which carried provitionally clever and gifted grejt'. extravagance, Lord! tle girl, with a high intelliback to enjoy myself, but sions for discretionary exceptions. gence quotient. She can, therethe cigar doth burn down one The bill passed by the senate unfore learn any language. But doth n side, and the mt.er letf last year calls for a she is going to find it extremeout, do fall curl and the sniffing board on which the shuth would to cent herdifficult 5 on ly these expulsive discipline a pox be represented and which would self to the boring process of be empowered to set differentials. cigarroes! learning grammer, because the Hence if the Norton bill passes progressive school she attends match? Gotta the house, southern members are isn't making her do anything likely to prefer the senate vershe doesn't want to. sion. SET I B KESEKA E "She told me she wanted to be The Norton bill would give suIt is common sense to recoga journalist, and I assured her to tile department of laof nize the risks pervision in that case she very firmly that bor, empowering it to impose the would have to learn to spell, trivial and fortifiey against those risks,'' secretary of acts provisions on industries it as that small equipment seemed to Henry A. Wallace, combe. She could hardly expect an Agriculture, announcer in a recent found to be in interstate to ag- merce and directing it to investieditor or proof-readto do it for radio broadcast. "Applied principle gate and report violations to the her, und, besides, where are we riculture, the insuranceto set a Justice department for prosecuif they now permits farmersto draw up going to find upon tion. joint wheat reserve too, share Sally's casualness! Administration and C. I. O. when they suffer crop losses, re"In the course of the last two gardless of whether those losses forces will battle on the house wind, floor for an initial miniyears I have had an opportunity to ale caused by drought, flood, interview a considerable number hull, insects, lightning or plant mum and for prosecution through some other instrument than the disease," Wallace stid of young women for stenographic justice department on the ground or secretarial positions. All of that southern U. S. district atthem have had high school train- Some day the parents are going can't be depended on to ing, and most of them a year or so o rise up nnd demand that the torneys such a law. enforce of college. The percentage of in our schools spend less teachers is extremely high. And of their time getting Teachers HIGHER WAGES hey are not stupid, by nature. credits in the technique of The progressive schools have spoil- College u Utah's farm wages of employees and learn more subject, leaching ed them' who get their board as well as a about the subject they teach. First of all, one notices the sercash payment averaged higher last "Our teachers know how to ious lack of vocabulary. And slopmonth than in any other state in teach history, according to the py expression means sloppy thinkthe union, a bureau of agricultural most approved methods, hut economics report issued recently ing, and sloppy thinking on the they are without a passionate said. The state was fourth high part of people who are encouraged interest in history. Many of to think themselves educated bodin the actual cash payment to could them transmit much es ill for the future of our democfarm help, the report siud. Farm more to their students if they racy. workers in Utah get $10.50 a spent their vacations studying I also observe from sad ' the month and hoard; on average of subject, rather than taking that many young Moplo canThe national aver$2 05 a day a Teachers College course on not read; also memory training is how to belter their technique. ages are $23 86 and $1.20. Monthly 1 am bad. to of farm workers in the take such a wages noticeably "But they have glad that the training I had forced me to course, because without the cred- state who do not get board ns memorize masses of poetry and its, they cant exert promotion. well as pay averaged $55 75 a literature. And since they are one of (he month; d a day as , $2 60 "Yes, I foresee a parents revolt worst paid classes in nnr society with $3t M or $163 u day And u lot of teachers will join it. promotion mutters to them. for the national average. ! I I ni lor outright grants to states for unemployment relief, plus authority to the RFC! to make practically un kind of loan it saw fit. Garner even proposed limiting a marine quarantine station m u,( Virgin Islands, where no selm. ship passenger has been quaian. tined for years. $100,000,000 HOOYER VETO The embattled GOP denoun. the proposals with everything "No one will deny, he thunder- V Acuity tf . about it. Garner did not plead in vain The Democratic House and Republican Senate passed one of his bills, but Hoover promptly vetoed it with an indignant message. In reply Garner gave Hoover a terrific lacing for leading the country to "economic destruction " Meanwhile Garner redoubled his efforts to pass his other two biil.x, put one through the house hut sow the GOP command kill it in Ihu senate. hi the f; (fce var rewell it apprei )pive acc J An inti B ranged Be whic Bid. Re I All wa gleventh ft the Sinted. d Note-Russ- FAREWELL PARTY Senator David l. Walsh of Spent Massachusetts gave a dinner parisiti ty the other day for Senutor Frederick Van Nuys of Indiana, which an Mr. Van Nuys, who faces an unpromid two battle this ising uphill ,ient th fall, saw as an opportunity to g will make political capital back home So he suggested to a friendly newsman that he interview Walsh Idle' about the dinner and telegraph a story back to Indiana. The reporter looked up Walsh, Hold! got the names of the guests, then Belleti inquired disarmingly, "Senator, just what is the purpose of your Monday rrs. CaJ party? "Oh, no special purpose," chatted Walsh. "You see, Fred is leav- If Th romfie ing the senate ani I though it Tea v would be nice to have a for him and his friends MERRY-GO-ROUN- I et big-sca- le D At least one member of the super-charge- sen- ate listened with d eves to eulogies of the late Joe Robinson: it was Joe's successor in the seat as majority leader Alben Barkley of . . . Kentucky. Paraguay has sent her hero of the Chaco War to be Minister to U. S Jose Estigarri-bia- . tear-fille- , 1938, by United (Copyright, Feature Syndicate, ' Inc.) It Happened One Day When Worker Lost Job top-run- WABASH, Ind. i.P Jones Wees ner was the first Wabash citizen to apply for Indiana state unemployment compensation. He was the first to receive, also the first to lose it. Weesner was laid off at the Wabash cabinet The company. next morning he applied for unemployment benefit payments. His application was approved the same day. The same night, however, he was called back to work. bi ?0 sel TIIU NATIONS CAPITAL ve I rt ( 1 P . . ( 1 r, five-ma- wheat-growin- st w V g proof-reader- exer-lenc- i je "that there are people in his 5 partme country who are destitute, who ,ue 4'. arge o 1X13 likely to or who are now suffering for want of food and clothing. . . M Rerentl Can any of you gentlemen go b.nk VYilha to your districts Hon admitting these t facts and say that there is no phased a way by which the federal governjry and ment can grant them relief? . , . eri Of tt Te economic effects of this pro- H In the gram, gentlemen, would be won- wnere tr derful. There can be no doubt ft- sev ed, Y y I m their arsenal. Representative Wi). ranking party member H In hnt of the Ways and Means Commit, gott anc tee, characterized them as a $. it- will bf raid on the federal S'lth war 500,000,000 5' the t treasury." But Garner was undis)iirld ' p. Sto before the committee Testifying he ardently defended the legisu'. cted w tion us necessary to save million, ion proj' Irom restitution. was lie Hawley, b T ti f. e ' I- .:. , . i IhrMUHKI |