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Show L The Herald-Journa- So! Pulling a Knife on Me, Huh? l Washington Published every week-da- y afternoon by the Cache Valley Newspaper Co., at 75 West Center Street, Logan, Utah. Telephone ail departments 50. The Herald-Journdelivered by carrier 45 cents per month, $5.00 per year. By mail, in Cache Valley, $1.00 per year, elsewhere $5 Oo per year. Entered as second-clas- s matter In the post office at Logan, Utah, under the at t of congress, March 3, 1879. Proclaim Liberty through all the Bell land--Libe- iovor to tax Those w1h BY DREW PEARSON and ALLEN ROBERT a rty are ifoverned least are governed best. THOMAS J KFKKKSON. -- Matthew 21:5. Deceivers are (lie most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations. Irahbe. Pass the Goldfish! hard-heade- d hard-head- We ed Marriage! Americans must like married life! A world survey on marriages reveals that America has the highest marriage rate of any of the white nations. Here are the figures for 1938, giving the number of marriages per thousand of population during the year: 10.0 United States 9.1 Germany 8.6 8.6 6.6 Italy England France This leadership in marriages continues in this country in spite of the batch "lor tax and wedding bonuses which European nations offer in efforts to coax their youngsters to marry and produce more children. Here in this countiy, officially we neither discourage nor encourage our young folks to marry. We just sav, If thats the way you feel, get married and God bless you. Whether you do marry or not is no ones business but your own. Arid still we lead in the march to the altar. The reason seems pretty apparent. In this country,, a young man can take over the responsibilities of a home and family with the reasonable belief that he wont be torn from his family at any time and shoved into a front line as cannon fodder. He can fed that when he has a son, the boy will be able to run and play, go to free schools without being given a uniform and drilled as a baby soldier. Because the average young Americans can look toward a happy, worthwhile married life without the shadow of fear hanging over it, they gladly and joyously get married without benefit of batchelor tax or wedding bonus. May they ever prosper! MASTER OF WORDS HORIZONTAL Compiler of a Answer to Previous Puzzle 1 e 10 11 famous English dictionary. To debate. Card game. 13 Ornamental pitcher. 14 Bone. 15 Hose cattle. Hell. 30 31 One who supporters. 18 19 20 21 23 27 29 While. Optical glass. Monkey. Haze. 42 British To clip. Columbia Fabaceous tree. Native of Hindustan. 32 Melody. 34 Line. 35 Those who 37 deny. Afternoon meal. 38 Exists. 39 Slave. 40 To line vessel. a 21 To cut grass. 22 Blackbird. 24 Neuter pronoun. 25 To deposit. 26 He was a -school also. 28 Genus of 12 To shed blood. (abbr.). 43 Noise. 44 Roof flnial. 48 Footlike part. 48 Indigo plant. 50 Business. 52 Genus of auks. 54 Fastidious. 55 Interior. 56 To fly. 57 He was a professional decides. 33 1 VERTICAL To seize. 2 Shaft parts. Grows old. 4 Color. 5 Crowds. 6 Smears. 7 To classify, 8 Sounds. 9 Dried grape. 18 Botany term. 17 Obliteration. 18 He was an by birth. 19 Falsehood. .3 He Would Deplore Garner holds his tongue, now about presidential prize; h GarFarley backer ner claims of 200 delegates lined up; Nazis s'net rating F.S. Colleges; Tampa rejects their proposition; how to stop smoking: Join the Supreme Court they wont let you. Inertia Here pooh-poo- On the grounds of Washiigton, cherry blossoms bid their season and the white dome of the eapi-to- l looks up to a sky whose blu- - spans a free land On the WASHINGTON-- A enst, but not yet touching the international domain, smoke clouds darken the horizon. Oil the west a cnrimi s mar is nol stopped by the wide expanse nf ocean. On this day, years ago, one nf lie foundeis of a The great republic was horn. present could ask no more than that the spirit of Thomas Jefferson live in the men who govern a country he helped to make free. Often them is the question of what some of lose mer, whose deeds mid dreams wrote Ihe history of a nation, would do in the complex win Id of the present Would the independent rnmd of Thomas Jefferson, who knew the value of liberty, not deplore the disinterest and lack of knowledge displayed by a pHrt of the American public eon-- i erning basic issues facing the government ? The demoer.u y of Jefferson was founded upon the i belief that a people hail the knowledge and the right In roll themselves by lepi eseul alive government . Were lie here to liew the Inp terim! enemies of tlie nation fault iiiiiiiInt one would l'i I Point. 35 Man's reading room. 36 To drink slowly. 39 Silica. 41 Strap to hold a dog. 43 Numbered cubes. 45 Throe. 47 Black haw. 49 Nothing. 50 Twitching. 51 Epoch. 53 Gibbon. ht-hu- as inertai. Fur a demo- cracy is strong cully if its citizen exert ml interested intelligence in the affairs of state. Inertia of a people, not dictators over seas, is demis'racjs greatest enemy. Far too large is the iiuiiiIht of citizens who nre headline readers, bored hy detail that might require a little thought amt investigation. Years since the age of Jefferson have been spanned by miraculous inventions. Never have war mongers, nations desirous of our support as an allied power, armament manufactures, t h o se crafty of all crafty international politicians, had so many facilities at their disposal to ant in distributing propagarda to an unAnd the suspecting population. method employed is often that of an ardent peace lover who would condemn war by making a people believe their neighbor nation was a scoundrel. Such patriotism is more dangerous than the militant action of armies and is the main distributor of a delusion "my country is always right," a delusion that results in the insanity of armed conflict. In view of world confusion would not Jefferson contend that democracy, our democracy, can survive only if its citizens assume the responsibility of self government guided by knowledge? That is by knowledge of the principles and law upon which the nation was founded, of ever increasing internal problems, of foreign issues, and of those representatives of a peoples will who rule by consent of a majority. On the part of every citizen .this calls for study and an honest effort to maintain an open mind on controversial issues and thus perpetuate the tolerence that made free government our heritage. Jefferson could If Thomas speak would he not say that we, to be a savior of any part of the world, to be a savior of ourselves, have got to learn to think, that today we need to understand. We do not need to hate. We do not need to march in rumbers of ten thousand through the streets of New York in an anti-naprotest. If the rest of the world is made we need sanity, intelligent sanity. Fur could Jefferson view this world he would sec that, in this, the most enlightened age of are confronted history, peoples with a barbarism of ancient moil of a enhanced by the genius nuikes human intelligence that progress its god. Will Me, in this America have the di.siptiiied in telligeneo to keep this progress from beeomlng a Fraukinstein monster fathered liy mall's inventive mind? If we have, it will be through reason, insight, and understami-ng- , not by emotional conclusions leoeptarce of an idea because in the past it was a fax tired polity, or the selfrighteous attitude maintained by rationalization and hate. zi Navys New Battleships May Sacrifice Increased Gunpower to Obtain Higher Horsepower, Speed IiY BKI't'E tATTON Herald-Journ- Washington ('orresMiiident WASHINGTON, April 13. Those two 45,000-to- n battleships which the navy is asking Congress to build would b" the largest fighting ships ever built but they wouldn't necessarily outclass all other ship3 in sheer hitting power. The six battleships the navy now has under construction are of 35,000 tons; and the extra 10,000 tons on these two projected ones would be in the nature of an allowance which the navy could spend to buy one or more of half a dozen desired characteristics. It might, cf course, use that extra tonnage to equip the new vessels v.ith guns, which e and out-hwould any naval guns in existance. A few have alexperimental ready been built at the navy yard here, just in case. Or the extra tonnage might be used to give the ships heavier armor plate; standard thickness of the belt on the ships now being built is 16 inches. Much more likely than either of these, however, is added speed and greater cruising radius - - bigger in other and huskier engines, words, and larger fuel capacities. to inclined think that The navy is it needs these qualities more than it needs bigger guns or heavier out-rang- ships already in service tend to be more heavily armored than most foreign battleships. Speed was sacrificed to get that armor; allowance the extra 10,000-to- n might well be used to redress the balance. For another thing, American battleships have to be designed to fight at a long distance from their home bases; hence they need a greater cruising radius than battleships designed to fight in their home waters. The upshot, then, is fairly apt to be enormous vessels whose hitting power and ability to take punishment are not much greater than those of existing American ships, but which can travel much faster and can stay at sea lunger without coming in to refuel. it COTTON IS COSTLY If Uncle Sam goes through with d administrathe tion plan for exporting the cotton surplus, he will be a merchant stock who has a on his shelves and if he doesn't stands he a it at fair price peddle d loss. to take a pretty The government now has on its hands some 11,270.000 bales of cotton which it acquired on loans made to growers. It got 1,666,000 bales of this stock In 1934, 5,288,-00- 0 bales in 1937 and 4,314,000 bales last year. All in all, the loan armor. For one thing, American battle- - value of this huge stock is Under the administration proposal, an additional $15,000,000 Germany had waited for economic aid from England and would be paid to the farmers who floated loans on this cotton. That France they would have wailall would give the government title ed throughout eternity". to the lot, and it would start out To Thomas Jefferson all this in its international trading game ore with slightly more than $573,000,-00- 0 but would be a problem invested in its stock. thing he would be likely to object to would be a policy, an inertia on the part of citizens CANALS that would again result in the CONSFKTOrS The present Congress will hear placing of a wreath on the tomb a good deal about canals, before of the "Unknowing Soldier." Know ledge, sincerity, and tol- this session ends. At this writing erance may keep a ground strew n six major canal proposals are pendwith cherry blossoms and a white ing. dome against a l.y that hemls The one most likely to be apa Mile a free land, a land that proved. probably, is the administhe dreams and dis'ds ef men tration scheme to install a second set of locks at Panama. This would like Jefferson gave. recently-suggeste- good-size- 0. I SIDEGLANCES By George Clark -ocean also-ran- BARBS s. v are holding a series dinners to introduce presidential candidates. When the guests get tired of the speech, they pass the celery. Republicans of Washington Europe would be an ideal place for Daniel Boone. Every day it has new frontiers. No married men are wanted under the armys new expansion program. They use up their fighting energy at home. When the U. S. capitols lighting system failed, it was simply a case of the law of averages. Usually Washington has us in tlie A new watch just put on the market can be worn on the top, bottom or side of the wrist, ac- cording to the desire of the owner. Flexible bars at the end of the watch automatically adjust themselves to the contour of the wrist, making it possible to adposition just the watch to any on the wrist. By means of a numerals special process, gold are stamped on the face of the BRIGHT t i Then there is the proposal to dig a canal across Nicaragua, backed by Congressman Izac of California. This plan, which has been okayed by the army engineers but not by the administration, would give us a second canal and would cost probably a half billion or more. Congressman Izac remarks that it would double the effectiveness of the navy and remove the need for another fleet, and says it would also make freight movement between the west coast and the Mississippi valley much cheaper. John Rankin of Congressman Mississippi is in with a bill for a canal to connect the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers. This would provide a waterway from the Ohio valley to Mobile and according to Mr. Rankin would have a beneficial effect on southern freight rates. It has the okay of the army engineers. The remaining three plans look One very much like would connect Lake Erie and the somewhere canal river Ohio by a in the Youngstown district, and another would revive a Civil War era project by cutting a canal across the isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico. And, of course, there is the Fliroda ship canal. (Copyright, 1939, NEA Service, Inc) SCIENCE NEWS Keeping Up to Date inter-4sUm- t sabotage. (Copyright 1939 NEA Service Inc.) Mr. Jefferson, looking toward our foreign policy ami knowing history, would observe this world is still run on a basis of cause and effect. Europe on the brink of chaos has some pretty ilefi: ite for being there. Would reason investigation of f.uts give America reason to risk oblivion of her eizilization with that of Europe? show Would investig.M mu that another war would result in a peace that would be penned without prejudne. without the old hates of other uiirs and former wars, th.it it would not be a forerunrer of another slaughter period of youth? Would unbiased investigation show the onflmt would he one of 'ideologies or Hm old tight for Kuroptnn suptemov niiiiiu s o u n high by flaged ding Would investigation make iinT:ilistM Engl:. ml, whose is as dark and hlomt as past on an the glolM nation a donuHratu of champion princi1 or Hrituin Great a ples in her own greatness ami desire of xmer? W'mdd reveal invest g it ion that the only language the die tutors know is that of "toree because in Europe non other has ever been heeded Hitler this recently answered barge of l'h tmhcrl hit Im .s.Mn,; if cost about $227,000,000. The War Department stresses this as an important defense measure which would double the canals capacity and halve the chance of the stopping of traffic by air raids or by dark. phrases? i is serious I American universities are still turning out fine young men and women, veil trained in the arts and sciences. Altho the newspaper stories will bear down heavily on college goldfish swallowers and college phonograph record eaters, the great majority of students are going about the serious business of an education as usual. It is unfortunate that the goldfish craze hit the campus just at the time educators are having a hard time convincing taxpayers that they should pony up more cash for institutions of higher learning. town and farm folks are Lots of the going to read about Johnny Frump of Oshkosh U. swallowing 87 live goldfish to get his name in the pajiers and about Willie Smudge of Peanut Brittle college chewing up a wax disk of The Dipsy Doodle so that his face will grace the newsreels. And these same folks are going to stop and reflect that they are going without many necessities in order to provide buildings and professors for Johnny and Willie. Then there is going to be a slump in university Like Salute Caesar Round is the siwcr to destroy. and shall deceive manv. - Merry-Go- - The Herald-Journfor will not assume financial responsibility any errors which may appear in advertisement published in it Columns. In those instances where the pacr is at fault, it will reprint that part of the advertisement iu which I lie typographical mistake occurs. Tlie Fascist Boys Como up I icrc ipiiok, (loaf blossoms" 1910. Young Fascists at Rome rare aims in salute to a da tator of another day, Julius Caesar. the last song sung by Ai.derson at lie lam olii Memmial Nobody Knows the Trouble I ve Seen" . . . Among the photographers taking picture nf tier during the recital was kindly Congressman Kent Keller, Illiwho routes trom Southern nois, not far .rnm Lineoln's home . . Brain Ti lister Rex Tugwell . is expeetii g a son and heir m August. Nazis In I'. S Schools comTile Dies mittee has a secret report on an incident at Tampa University, Florida, which may lead to a nationwide probe of Nazi penetration in American schools. John A. Sherman, presided of Tampa University, was visited by Baron Edgar Freiherr Spiegel von and zu Peckelsheim, German Consul General at New Orleans, and a Mr. Berger" of Tampa. The Baron explained that his governmei t wished to endow a chair for the teaching of German. All President Sherman had to do in return was to discharge the professor then teaching German and replace him with one selected by the Baron: also to use books to be supplied by the Hitler requested Mai tail I But today. Garner has shelved all retirement thoughts and is a redhot aspirant for the nomination. The Vice President is personally friendly to Jim Farley, Senator Bennett Clark and Paul McNutt, but doesnt think they can make the grade ; Farley because he is he a Catholic, Clark because opposed national deferse, and McNutt because Farley will fight him to the last ditch. Garner sees Secretary Hull as his only serious contender. Privately the two men are not over cordial. In the House of Representatives they didnt get along together, and the years since goverrment. have brought them no closer. President Sherman was nonBut Garner is rot against Hull plussed. But when he found his as vehemently as he opposes voice he gave the Nazi visitor a Hopkins or the other New Dealtongue-lashinvitriolic The ers. Next to himself, Hull is Baron became livid, finally inGarners first choice. terrupted: Note Farley partisans "Sir, I would have you underthe claims of Garner back- stand I an a Baron in my ers that he already has 200 dele- country that a..d I am not accustomed gates, declare he will be lucky to being talked to in this manif he comes to the convention ner. with 100. They point out that he "And Ill have you know, shot wont get a delegate above the bark Sherman, "that I am a Mason-Divo- n line, has no chance American, if that means in the Far West, and outside of to and Tampa Texas has little of anything will you, prospect have nothing to do University capturing any of the Southern with your outrageous proposibe tion, States, most of which will grabbed off by favorite sons. school "Well, your maybe Supreme Court Smoking retored the Baron, "but Justice William O. Douglas is wont," there are plenty of others that a chain cigarette smoker, and have." heels clicking his the first thing he learned about smartly, Then, himself out the Supreme Court was its un- with this be bowed cryptic remark: "In fact, written law against smoking. Mr. President, you would be The taboo operates both when amazed you knew how manv the Justices are on the bench Americar if schools we are helping ard in their private sessions. in this Any." Even when they lunch together II dp The Fatherland they do not smoke. This dates Department agents have back many years and is in de- ob1Justice amed copies of a secret menio-r- a ference to Justice McReynolds, dum, recently sent out by the who has a physical abhorrence "Unior of Germans Abroad" to of tobacco. Gernu students of after Justice known Once, shortly Nazi that Roberts joined the Court, hc- - lit reads as follows:sentiments, up his pipe at a private session. "Lcok for opportunities in hisNothing was said, but the icy tory and social science classes to glare of disapproval caused him give reports in which you can to put the pipe quickly back in shew that is done to Ameriharm his pocket. n ca feeling. . . . Chief Justice Hughes smoked Takeby in all clubs and part in life but moderately private student publications and to gave it up when appointed assemblies. Take every opporthe Court. Justice Reed appretunity to serve the Fatherland or ciates an occasional cigar well. . . If does not cigarette hut refrains in the present itself,opportunity a situation Court building. Like rd get into create Supreme it at the most Douglas, Justice Black is a heavy point. smoker, but abides by the ban strategic The University of CaliNto while with his colleagues. fornia at Los Angeles recently Fnder The Dome dismissed a faculty member in its Twice in a single week Cordell German Department for covert Hull has given a witty response Nazi in conference. . . After (Ooj activity. press plight, 1939, by United FeatHull's recent vacation, Sumter ure Syndicate, Inc.) Wells, Under Secretary of State, is taking his turn at resting. He The U. S. aircraft carriers nre: daily bends his tall frame to dig Lexington, Saratoga, Ranger, York-towin the rose gardens of his Maryand Langley. land estate. . . Some Britishers in Washington are worrying tha the King and Queen might get stranded ill the United States by outbreak of war in Europe. They . ..fto-- re think it would be unsafe to send them back across the high seas in wartime. . . For years, Ambashas sador Lopez of Colombia collected stamps, but now he is ! The flood of new discouraged. over all the from world issues has taken the joy out of it. . . It was Jay Jeiome Williams who MOMENTS General John Burgoyne, the English soldier who is famed for his campaigns in America as well as elsewhere on the globe, lived the last years of his life at Bolton. quite comfortably During the latter years he entered politics and represented Preston for several terms. During the election of 1784 a patty of his political opponents while sitting in a tap room one afternoon proposed ft joke on the old general. A woolen manufacturer, named James Elton, pulled out a valuable watch and handed It to Burgoyne's servant, asking bun to carry It borne to the gen decided change has come over Vice President Garner recently. He still fraternizes in the cloakrooms and invites crories to his ornate office to "strike a blow which means three for liberty fingers neat. But no longer is he garrulous about the New Deal and New Dealers. Particularly has he become silent about what he said tp Roosevelt or to certain Cabinet members at White House sessions. There was a time when the little Texan talked freely about these tilts, but no more. Now he keeps a close check on. his tongue regarding inside affairs. Cause of the remarkable transformation is presidencies. Garner now is taking himself seriously as a 1940 possibility. The development is recent, but definite. As late as last December, when he returned to Washington, Jack told intimates that the last thing in his mind was remaining in public life after his term expired. He pointed out that in 1941 he would be 72 years old, would have spent 40 years in office, winch was enough for "one lifetime". His only desire, he declared. was to retire to Ins t lvalue ranch ami spend his 'remaining days in peace. ills only ambition. Garner explained, was to have a voice ill next Deinocralie choosing the ticket. That, he said, was why he permitted his name to be used as a candidate. He wanted to sew up as many delegates as possible so he would be able to block a New Dealer us the nominee in pooh-poo- h organ-izalion- s, n, 2di3 ?I SAVING in Great Lives eral, and to ask the old man If he could tell the lime of day with it. Burgoyne was unable to see the point of the j ike, so he placed the watch and a brare of pistols on a tray, and hail his servant precede him into the inn, where he asked every man In turn If the watch belonged to him. Seeing the firearms, everyone denied ownership of tiie watch. Finally l.urgvone said, ' riiuce the watch belongs to imne of you gentl 'men. it rema ns my property," and turning to tus servant lie slid. "Take tins watih and fob in menu ory of the Kwan inn at B dUm." . cst tny riRE INSURANCE helps my piotitsi ' ASK I H.A. A L H- - PHDKRSEN &CO. B. JOHNSON, Manager 32 West 1st North, ! O' n |