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Show THE IIElt PAGE TWO. - The ci U ( 01 i. m r 1 mol cd ulm tllll A wa: mil ilia inn don fif.i tile out old K hlio C mil mol are hot, T T Herald-ournal?5""..?l2!?- ALD-JOURNA- A I i FRIDAY, FEBRUARY LOGAN, UTAH, L, W - nHerniiim hy llu Iaii.e Vol1uhlished every week-daley Newspaper Co. at 75 West t'eiil.i Hiiii, I.opm, Utah. Telephone all departments Ml. delivered hy turner 45 tents pel The Herald-Journmonth, $5 00 pier year. By mail, In Cut he Valley, $4 Do per year, elsewhere $5 00 per year. mutter In the post offiee at LoEntered as second-clas- s gan, Utah, under the lot of congress, Man h 3. I89 Iroc laicil Liberty through all ttie land" l.didly Bill i 17, 1939. Look at These Figures Gives Picture of What WPA Has Donei Jy y Cost of Projects 11 TREND OF UNEMPLOYMENT MILLIONS cad Toward 11 11 1C AND RELIEF ir r ( Seven Million BRUCE BY llerald-lmirn- will not assume finam ial responsibility for The Herald-JournIts any errors which may appear in advertisements published In recolumns. In those Instances vliero the paper Is at lanll, it will print that part nf the advertisenienl in which the tj pognipliical mistake oeeurs. ("ATTON ashington al ( orretqionclent WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.- - Uncle Pam's WPA job stands out as one of the biggest undertakings the government ever shouldered. From its beginning in down to the first of January, 1939, the WI'A has cost a grand imd-I!i3- The power to tax is the powei to ." t total Of Those who are governed least are onverneil best. THOMAS .JEFFERSON. viinp po l destiny. $6,851,545,463. this, cities, counties and of $1,03 1, Mb, 000. 'The balance was contributed from the federal treasury, nrd includes approxinot) spent on the mately National Youth Administration a which, while not technically branch of WPA, is supported from WPA funds. Wages accounted for $5,103,402,-0oAdministration expense came to 231,313,000. The balance of $1,517,800,163 went for materials and equipment, one billion of which came from localities. So much for the cost. What d d the country get out of it? FLUCTUATING Shnkospcaie. incomplete! f'Jirnolt-- unduplicoted totul id fnrriilie',, single persons froin relict roll employed on Civil Works and Works Program pro'cts, by months stales made a duect contribution And Jesus answering said unto them, 'I lie children of this world marry, and are given in marriage. I.uke 20:21. $ Hanging and of STATlSTiCSj 0 v-l- ( fort T for W The Kec aga we Bou plai pap wa) T fast out milt ft CELERRITOMANIA It THERE isnt any mu word, d' oiir.se, hut it might oe 'Phis to describe a new low in celebrity-huntinmania has now' iteen placed on a professional basis. Celebrity Service, recently organized in New York City, panders to the strange desire of jieopie to hobnob with the prominent. For it ju ice, this strange service will send daily bulletins, on the comings and goings of the at Doakes Thus the diner-ou- t great and restaurant may he assured that somewhere in the same restaurant will he dining Kola it 'la.vFror perhaps even Charlie McCarthy. He may even sec them - in the flesh, or in Charlies case, in the wood. it would If this were prompted by holiest euiiu.-.it-t not be so bad. But it is usually merely for the sake of bragging later that I went to dinner with Rob Tayvunt to see a show tolor, or Charlie McCarthy and g. gether. A howling success is predicted for Celebrity Service, for one sure formula for wealth is Find something the saps want, and give F to em at pi good price. o 0UM kan TYPOGRAPHICAL TRAGEDY lover of the printed word must stand with William Goudy today as lie gazes at the tragic ruins of a converted water mill at EVERY Marlboro-on-the-Hudso- jrow Q trtU n. The mill was Goudys workshop, .and when it roared up in a midnight fire, ashes, blackened timbers, fused masses of metal were all that remained of the original de-s:g- matrices and other paraphernalia relating to tlu 107 type faces designed by Frederick Goudy. No man who reads hooks or any other matter today is without a debt to Goudy, an master craftsman. But Frederick well-printe- d artist and a Goudy has, in spite of everyth inp, a satisfaction that is given to only a few men. He knows that not fire, not death itself, can wijie out the beauty lie created and gave to the world. HATFIELDS AND McCOYS rIE Hatfields and McCoys are at it again. No news in The Hatfields and McCoys have been at it for 10 years, making history, hospital cases and the raw material for folk songs. CtU its different today. Yesterday's Ilatfield-McCofeuds made the West Virginia and Kentucky hills ring with rifle fire. Todays shooting was done with a ball at a basket in the high school gymnasium at Matewan, W. Va. Nine Hatfields were on one team, six McCoys on the other. Eight foals were called on the McCovs before i e evening was over, and six on the Hatfields. Hut the Hatfields won, 17-Process of civilization in miniature: tlu Hatfields and McCoys have learned to say it with baskets instead of bullets. y 5. SLEUTH FROM FICTION HORIZONTAL 1, 8 Detective hero from fiction. 13 Opera melody 14 Possessive pronoun. 16 Fence bar. 17 To let fall. Answer to Previous Puzzle 17 He has remarkable . powei s of 18 Religious homage. 19 Fui y. 21 He is the hero of a of tales, 18 Chaining. 23 Golf device. 20 Plural 25 To lubricate. pronoun. 27 Sea eagle. 22 Type 28 Gave food to. standards. 29 To abate. 23 "000 pounds. 31 To put on. 24 English coin. 32 Wound. 42 He is a most VERTICAL 25 Poem. 33 Nominal 26 To suffice. imaginary 2 Concords, sleuth. value. 27 Ever. 3 Cupid. 36 Cautious. 28 Enemy. 44 Mouth part. 4 To tear 37 Upon. 29 Coffin stand. 45 Officers" stitches. 39 Dandy. 30 Stripped. assistants. 5 Note in scale. 40 33 Constant Vulgar fellow. 47 12 oclock 6 Point of under 42 Feather. companion. a. m. 43 Falsehood. 34 Plant shoot. jaw. 49 Dined. 44 Diving bird. 35 Secreted. 7 Relatives. 50 Musical note. 46 To surfeit. 36 Pussy. 9 Measure. 51 Explosive. 46 Indian. 37 Whirlwind. 10 To loiter. 49 Preposition. 38 Five plus five. 53 Still. 1 1 Tone E. 52 Within. 54, 55 He was 39 Fish organ. 12 To evade. 53 Out of the created by 40 Keels over. 15 Hair fillet. 41 Exists. way. don't Washington lUtl.VV i Merry-go-Roun- . fr d ROBERT I'lcARSON Or; in. hi pemdrafi in of (Irani inS. esdoniziitinn t to ires pi m far I Aranha urge) Arneriean emigraunemploytion as better cure ment; sulphur fir of rooter probed as a monopoly; U. ,S. let Trench buy new pbms lawause army bad i veil faster ones. WASHINGTON Despite the cnmniiil.ige of high finuue pl.u'ed aroiin.l the talks of Koieign Minister Aranha, real question at issue is German penetiatnm of Brazil. It is not merely a question of trolt, it Is llu fait that Go many follows up liude with mui poh-tlured bom ts, that mui four-u- u y iers (using, incidentally, motors! are now flying uni omfortably rinse to tlu Panama I'ana! All this lias U. S. affinals very definitely worried. tine important question Aranha has put to Roosevelt is the difficulty of keeping Germans ut of Brazil when Brazil is virtually empty and a Inn Americans do nothing to fill it up. Only 2,(K0 Anns nans live in Brazil, chiefly repre entatni.s of Standard Oil, Electric Bond General Electric, and Sliro, etc. public utilities are unpopular in any c untry, especially when they lire toieign. Also these 2,0(0 Americans add to their unpopularity by sitting in their cav n clubs, meeting only other Amending. So Aranha prop aes that the United States send colonists to Brazil. This would combat German Influence, help reduce U. S. l... employ mint, create a vast market in Brazil lor U S. in lustry. Eve ry American colonist in Brazil, In points out, Mould keep one American back home onpl yed in making machines y and supplies for use in Brazil. Tho ,e who have talked with Aranha think ibis might be one solution to U S .unemployment, that it would tic far better to finance U. S colonists in budding IHTmanenl bonu s rather than c list, ml ly to clump money into tlu bottomless hole or 5 1'A relief. (. AUNEirs II U BEK Probably it is port anidcnt, but mu of the Ki Ket s of John Nance Garner tor the presidency in lain is about to he investigated by the no npoly committee. It is tin "lexis Gulf Sulphur company, whose front man, Roy Miller of Coipus UhtisU, toi med club the iirsl and is the vue preslast vue most ident's eon.astent and reals rooter. Garner he describes as "a libel. il without a tinge cr taint of r Ulu'iilim.'' and the ideal n. m to ho pie, dent of the United (iurner-fnr-piesule- n Pratt-Whitne- S. AI.I.EN his term. Today, justice department i lei ks type m re than 5,01X1 . Repre lent itive letters monthly Rul Bloom of New York, who is 69 and lo ks 55, sleeps on boards covered onlv by a thin matting-- . AIRPLANE SECRETS Now that the new Army Lockheed has crashed at MiLehcil Field and its existence is a mailer of ree rd, more of the hit Is regarding the squabble over Keene h airplane purchases can he , disc losed. "1 he new Lockheed was the rea- son the Firm ll were permitted to inspect and consider pin chase of the Douglas which clashed at Los Angeles with a Frenchman ahcmid. The army knew that the new Douglas, although a g od plane, would not be used by iL There were some other interesting facts regaidmg the French plane ileal whnh have noi vet leaked out. One was that the Douglas plant lould not complete the French erder before July 1, and the army, although willing to allow the French to buy these planes, was not willing to have the Douglas plane nmnufuctuie them after July I. The army figured that by July 1. Douglas Would be busy nianufa luring the new U S planes to be appropriated for hy c ongiess. S. ARMY TREASURY Thia was where Secretary of the Treasury M. rgenthau stepped in. His procurement division is Id charge of government pure hases, and both Roosevelt and Morgen-thabelieving it absolutely essential for Franco to have planes, ushed treasury agents lo sec- what llicv Could do to help the Flench. Intrusion of the treasury made the army see red. Army brass-hat- s then leaked the story to the senate. Later, irate isolationist sena'ors hai aligned llieir colleagues cm the fact th it only the iicciilent of a crash ill L s Angeles let the nation know that France was buying these planes. This, however, was not true. - to the best approximately official 6.780.000 persons held WPA jobs at one time or another. Nobody knows for sure, but WPA authorities estimaic that perhaps 600.000 of these stayed on the job from the stint; the rest came and went as pnv.ite employment fluctuated The level of WPA employment h.i.s swung up and down. W'hen the program began in August, there were 252,000 workeis. 1935, By the end of November WPA had 2,445,954 people on its rolls. Low point came in September, 1937, with 1,451,112 workers on the rolls, and the high was reached in October, 1938, when counting some 90,0u0 workers who were paid out of WPA funds but were employed on other federal projects it touched 3.337,578. During its lifetime WPA has put through at least 250,000 projects. At any given time there are usually about 40,000 projects tinder way. What do these projects include? What has this army of workers turned out in the way of finished process of making a tabulation The figures are nut complete, and the best ttiis write.- - can offer is a set of estimates which he worked out after extended with the WIA xtuiislu ul division la the second place, you can't reduie the results of the white collar projects to black and white n W HEREIN SOME STATISTICS If. God public Approximately have been erected. buildings 2400 are some them Among 1100 570 schools, gymnasiums, 70 hospitals, 70 jails, stadiums, 10 from 800 to 9Kl courthouses. 110 firehouses, ail plane hangars and 80 armories. In addition, improvements or repairs were made on 39.0O0 other public buildings, and 38,000 acres of ground around public buildirgs were landscaped The WI'A men built some bridges and 400,000 culverts. 10,000 miles of country mails and 7600 miles of cily highways -not counting 1600 miles of roads products? H hard a It question. In the in parks and cemeteries first place, WPA Is now in the built 9160 miles of sidewalks They and 1 - 0 paths ditches ar of roadside miles of irrigation lan.L parks They laid dug, and improvements vuri miles 28,000 end loOil out loo airports, and made improvements oil 100 old ones. They built 1000 alliletic fields, 700 playgrounds, 400- swimming pools, 120 50011 oiir.setennis courts, golf upwards of 800 lioisesiioe louit.s, 60 skating links and some two dozen ski jumps Thi v pit up 12i outdoor tliea-tc- i. and so n.oid Glebs They bud 4s.hi mile, of water mams, aqueducts. disinflation lines and the like and built 9u0 stoiage tanks, reservoirs and cisterrs. They erected 400 sewage plants and 300 pumping stations and a million sanitary toilets In a mosquito control campaign they dug 9 100 miles of ditches and drained acres. MILKS AMI on Wer mt1 miles of existing iral They dug 320 tunnels (,f 0 sort and nnot her, built 'ki mii of fencing and erected ' fi hatelieiies They put up umr monuments and historic lii uki 12 of mi planted upwards 400 ' MX) trees on acres 14,Ki0 lit various reforest ition "0r made liMl miles of tii.n ks it the forests and laid out 22 In nul of forest and fire trails. In addition to these new jobc they made repairs and improve, meats on existing assets While they were building those 24e schools, for instance, t hi y r. paired 17,000 old schools Whit they were laying out those 7e new playgrounds, they were mi provii g KiHiu old ones. XI ILLS But all of this is an One hundred and forty new picture of the actua docks and pieis were built, and physical results of the WIA pi miles of breakwaters and gram from its beginning eight jetties Dams other than power or storage dams to tnc number NEXT: WIA mistake's and of 30.000 weie hm! t as pait of a study of the things the WIA pro flood control program Ninety gram lias taught its directors. in I 400,-Oii- admitted!-incomplet- f -- Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri knew all about it before the crash, naving been tipped off BARBS by the angry war department. Who but tipped him off is not General Franco 11 is reported hue are two Secretary of War Woodring of Kansas dis- learning Italian and German. On the comwhen that ( 2 likes Morgenlhau peace theory intensely; Kansas, the home state of Wood-rin- et. hi 11 want to know how to say is very el e to Missouri, the "Get out"? home state of Senator Clark. That Chamberlain v umbrella ABSENTEE STENOG not shed water but it has may Fat, blustery Representative Wilcertainly done well as a peg for By William THIS CURIOUS WORLD Ferguson kne-wn- IIS) SOUT g liam A. 1'ittenger, Minnesota Republican. employs only one assistant in his office, but the government issues two cheeks every payday for his elerk hire. The second cheek is made out to a woman who has never even been in ashington. mui h less worked legiiliuly in Uitlenger's office. She is Sarah C. 1milson, operator of a private employment agency for women in Duluth, Minn. House disbursing records show that Uncle Sam pays Miss Paul.sc n at the rate of $3.5iKj a year for doing this. Remainder of Pittengcr's $5.0) clerk hire allotment gi es to Virginia Haire, also of Duluth, who really earns her share. cCopynght, 1939, by United Fealme Syndicate, Inc.) AWER1CA, COTTON PLANTS DO fsJOT jokes. WINTCR-KIL- up after an machine sounds like a WPA project. Sweeping probable No hat "How CONTINUE TO GROW THEV REACH THE UNTIL. enterprising law school yet added a course on Judge' to Lend Money lo FfiZUT TZEZZS Dixis Davis, his testimony almost complete in the Hines case, is now probably in the mood for night club bookings. (Copyright 1939 NEA Service Inc NOW TO GUT I1IM HACK IN Till! HOTTIJ! OF SITTE a Sea feathers, found in offshore waters from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Carolm.it. actually nre animals L, BUT g TO AN OBSERVER. ON THE MOON), THE EARTH WOtJLO NEVER SET, BUT WOULD RELAAAINJ ALWAVS IN ABOUT THE SAME PLAiCE IN THE SKY. Garner-for-Presule- Diu-moe- EARWIGS are of inte rest to AURISTS Stales. Reason the monopoly committee is m stig ding Mr Miller's company is the Oblige that it opeiales one of the tightest ninnopt lies In American industry. So perfect is the nrmpoly that it has been able to keep the price of natuial sulphur at SIX a ton over since 1926 Considering the price jumps of other industrial commodities, this is no mean achievement. Chief job of Roy Miller on of Texas Gulf is to sell Texans the idea that the comimny is a loon! cntei prise. Actually, however. it - clutched tight in. the arms of Wall Street On its board of ehcectois are George latency f Unhurt (In other "Sing Sing" S and Lauiont Thomas Whitney! of the J. P. Morgan firm Chief owner of the Texas Gulf is the Gulf Oil Cotporuion, which in turn, is owned bv the Mellons, despite Roy Miller's pi clients to the ENTOMOLOGISTS HAIR DRESSERS ANSWER: Entomologists. The earwig is a harmless beetle like insect, once supposed to ciecp into the human car. iifisr Presents You Cant Take It With You ontrarv -m- ei:i;v-4.o-koi XII Commissioner Ibnicld W Smith 14 hours to 132 and woik continues a d ly He is frequently at his desk unlit midnight and has had only one vacation of less than twi weeks since his appointment in I 26 . . Wnshing'on newsmen are wondering if there was anything pi rsomd in a notice they received announcing the opening of an "Institute lor Alcoholics" near the citv, , . The lulitii.ilum.il Ladies tl turn'll! Wnker-Union, which bolted tlu t"U) list fill ,iftcr its pi in foe peace wilh the API, w is Hjicted, his published a book on its harmony effuit Wlun Edmund Randolph of irguna was appointed the first general of the United auoir.cy ' tea. he had to pay his mvn i rent. bu Ins own !a,v books and at ,o till- logs fol lus otlue In pi ice. With no himli bu lei k s . . i hue, i he I ll no wnlUn molds Vmkci; AND NOW FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT USAC LITTLE THEATRE lf i s According estimate, 1934 six-ye- HGUKES Why do you spe near-grea- t. 1 1933 Above graph shows comparative trends of unemployment, relief, and WPA over period. I.ow level of relief compared to unemployment in 1933 was result of general inadequacy ot elief at the time. Sharp restriction of WPA in summer of 1937 and transfer of many unemploi jbrs from direct relief lolls to Social Security Btuid's public assistance program accounts for loti elief level in latter oart of 1937, early 1938. That riot 011 4 now cl MOSS 1 1 play-th- al TnasterpicwP that Pulitzer Winner bv wisot-niflx- A I IT and GEORG U S. KAUFMAN FLOYD T. MORGAN, Director 1 oll.llACT!-;i;s- . SUMMERY. NKW KlTKCTS M-A- USAC Auditorium, February t SM' t lv. f r Children Feb. 21 ailing Season Mai met I it la I 25 UUTAIN- - -- 8:20 T. M. Mat iic. .il 22-23-- at 1). nr ni. 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