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Show TIIE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, UTAH l Pontages, theater magnate, entering Jail ut Eos Angeles after his eonvietion of assaulting Eunice Pringle. young dancer. 2 Edouard Daladier, ltadical Socialist leader, who tried to form a French government and failed. 3 Daniel Carter Beard, national scout commissioner, and scouts from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, placing wreath on tomb of Theodore Itoosevelt on his birthday. j NEVIS REVIEW OF CMENTEVENTS group would like to I ave the bill entirely sidetracked In the regular session opening In December. However, President Hoover directly asked the senate to pass the bill within the next two weeks," aud though the leaders didnt think this possible, It seemed likely the special session would continue until the end of the month. Tremendous Fall in Prices of Stocks Checked by BuyJOSEPH ing by Bankers. By EDWARD By ELMO 8COTT WATSON Drawing by Ray Walters. T SEEMS that the A inertcan people are becoming for It Is I curious fact that more people than ever before, who have anything to leave after their deaths and any- one to whom to leave It, are making wills. Just .why this Is true Is not easy to determine. It may be due to the psychological factor Involved in the statement that A will Is the only permanent expres- sion of bimself that the average man leaves to posterity." Or It may be caused by the fact that the Increasing number of cases of litigation In our courts, resulting from persons dying Intestate, has impressed upon us the value of a will In guarding against sordid disputes which have wrecked the happiness of families, although It must be admitted that not even a will can always prevenl that Then again it may he due to the fact that hank era and lawyers are constantly urging their clients to Make a will. Do It now. Don't put It off, for 'tomorrow may never come." If. In urging upon ns the necessity for performing this Important task before we lay down our life's task, the bankers and lawyers needed a good object lesson, what better could be found than that offered In the fol lowing news stories which appeared in the eewspapers within recent months: Cedar Rapid, Iowa. Three hour after be bad driven to Luxerne to settle his mother's estate, and make ht own will, Patrick Farrell, flfty-nlnwealthy farmer of Btalratown, was found dead He had been In 111 health for aev eral months and hla friends are wondering whether he had a premonition of death which caused him to make bis will ao hurriedly. e. Harrison, Ark. On the way home with a printed form for his will, William Walden, seventy, was struck by a car driven by Ralph Taylor, a neighbor. He died a few hours later. Although a will Is nsually regarded ss one of the symbols of death, It often reflects some of the most Interesting facts of a man's life. In no other document which he writes Is there recorded so much which reveals bis true character. It may show hint St his best and at his worst. For the old saying that where there's a will, theres a way" can by the addition of a few words, be extended to cover the whole range of human psychology. "Where theres a will, there's a way to show the nobler qunlltles of man The mother of George M kind." Cohan, famous actor, who left him the bulk of her estate, wrote In her will: In making this bequest to my son, 1 desire to state that whatever property my beloved husband and I have bad. seised and possessed of, has come from the unselfish generosity of my beloved son, who has earned and enjoyed our everlasting grntltude and Grateful to U. S. A story of gratitude, as shown In a will. Is revealed In the following story: lovncaater, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs Dor-paSnider of Oakthorpe, near here, are thankful to the United State congress farm. for their little How the decision of disposing of thla Fairfield "ounv tract waa placed In tha hands of the government la an unusual atory, going back aeveral year When Wesley Jordan, the village blacksmith of oakthorpe died he left d tha moat axtiaori'nary will ever h re fil-- Fifteen years before the death of Edward Lanchester, his friend, Richard ONeill, fought with a hold-uman on top of a speeding freight train to save the hard earned When Lan money of Lanchester. Chester died he left his entire estate of $21,000 to ONeill and directed In his will that a five-yesearch be made for the beneficiary, whose where aboutg were unknown. Not so long ago there died a merchant whose belief In the observance of the Golden Rule was revealed In the terms of his will. Twenty pages In length. It con tnined legacies, some lurge anil some small, to every one' who had ever been polite to him or showed kindness to others In his presence. They Included bequests to a conductor who had paid an old ladys fare; to a clerk who carried home a sick dog; to a affection. policeman who helped a blind man across the street. Bellhops were re mendered for acts of courtesy ; stage comedians for having made people laugh, and editors and judges for hav cam Ing sponsored humanitarian palgns. Where theres a will, there's a way to reveal the depths of human meanness." Unfortunate, It la but true, and wills reveal more than one unlovely example of carrying matrl nionlal differences to the other side of the grave Some Interesting exam pies of these come from England where lawmakers are seeking to make vindictive will making Illegal Not long ago a wealthy commercial magnate, after deliberately leading hla wife to believe herself bis sole legatee, left her one shilling, and be queathed $3KMXX) to others. Including a servant she disliked. Another mun left all his money to his wife, hut on condition that she should forfeit 1,000 every time she appeared In pub lie wliout a veil, while on remarriage she was to forfeit all. A Nottingham man who two years ago bequeathed a halfpenny to each of his family Just missed the record In testamentary meanness, which be longs to the testator who left his wife a farthing, with Instructions that the coin should he forwarded to her In an unstamped envelope. Then there was William Dnrley ot Herts. England, who never forgave his wife for having once taken some In money from his trousers pocket his will he cut her off with a shilling for picking my pocket of fin guineas." When Charles Inrker of England died the principal bequest In Ills will was To Elisabeth Barker the sum of .rHi whom, through my foolish fondness. I made my wife, without regard to fain lly, fame or fortune; and who. In re turn, has not spared, most unjustly, to accuse me of every crime regarding human nature save highway rohlary But England Is not the only place where spite has been shown. There was the citizen of Bos ton who left his wife penniless tin less she married ngnin within five years." because he wanted somebody post-morte- He left hts small farm to th- here United States government because he fell he owed his greatest debt of gtat Itude o his government for the prlv liege of life, liberty, property and pur suit of happiness The will authorlxed the Unned States Treasury department to use the property as It deemed best There was a widespread feeling in the county that the farm should go to hla Mrs Sntder. and her husband wltn whom Jotdan hnd lived Congressman MeH O Underwood of the Eleventh distilct took the matter up and Introduced a Joint resolution declining the gift. It was adopted at the last svsslm of congr-B- S half-siste- W. PICKARD of prices regardless UTTER collapsevalues made the first three days of the week the wildest the stock exchanges of ti.e country ever had experienced. Paper protits of many billions were wiped out and else to find out how hard It was to many thousands of amateur speculive with her. Contrast with that the lators who hud been reveling In easy meekness of the Englishman who left money" for months were eliminated all his estate to his wife trusting, completely. The professional bears yea, I may say. as I think assuring grimly hammered uw.iy and the hysmyself that stie will marry no man, terical public dumped their securities for fear to meet with so evil a hus- in such a Hood that on Tuesday the Con band as I have been to her. total of shares sold on the New York trust also the consideration shown by Exchange was more Hum twenty-siGouverneur Morris, the New York million. statesman, who left his wife a fortune By Wednesday prhes had readied and further provided that In case ol so low a level that the big bankers, her remarriage, the income should be insurance companies and individual doubled Quite different was the at- capitalists begun buying heavily, and titude of John Conkling of Southold. the Immediate result was a recovery Long Island, toward his wife. Ahagail, and steadying of the market. This to whom tie bequeathed the use of buying wus given the appearance of my lands and meadows and benevolent e, to a certain extent, but a sufficiency of firewood and the lib the fact remains that the market did erty of dwelling In which of my not receive- such support until stocks houses site pleaseth to live during her had become a profitable Investment. widowhood and no longer" That wus President Hoover, and after him many years ago. If John were living lulius B. Klein, assistant secretary of now he might not find It so easy to commerce, gave out statements Insisttake out his spite on Ahagail, for dur-Ining that the prosperity and the Inthe Inst year the New York legls dustries of the country were unaffected lature, recognizing the evil which by the stock collapse and still absomen may do In ttie wills they leave lutely sound. Business men generally behind them, enacted further limitadid not bemoan the great readjusttions than those already existing upon ment In the stock markets. For a long a testators right to disinherit. time they have been suffering because Where theres a will theres a so niuny citizens have been using their way to display many oddities of money in speculation Instead of In the temperament and reveal queer quirks purcliuse of commodities. When Edward In the human inlnd The working staffs of the exchange K. Chapman, a Civil war veteran who and brokers olllces were so exhausted of ihut became Christmas Tree King a short session of the exchanges Maine, died, he left $1.XXI In trust to was held Thursday and they were the Portland Y M C. A., the Income closed up on Friday and Saturday to from which Is to fie spent to Interest give the traders and clerks a chance young men In checkers, buy new to recuperate. The securities markets boards and men and also to keep the abroad adopted the same measure. It hoards and came clean and sanl wus generally felt that the crisis was tary." over and that the confidence of the William Kreter of New York, an public was restored, and those who Irishman and a devoted fisherman, had any money left began picking out played a hit of a oke on his fellow bargains In stocks. countrymen In his will He left $3tK) to his friend. Charles Wldstler. to v I rilEAT prices having tallen too he spent on a fishing trip afler my V V low, according to Chairman Eegge him for $fxi the also death, and gave i the federal farm hoard, who said expenses of carrying his ashes out to his was due to the fact that a lurge sea after his body hnd been cremated. Tn the New York Times he left a fund part of the years supply wus being nurketed too rapidly ; the ooard came of $2(X to he utilized to Americanize io the rescue with a statement that the Irish. In particular those of Amer ttX),xX).(HX1 were immediately avail lean birth." to farmers able to stabilize prices. ot San two. John Quinn, seventy The hoard set the minimum prices on Francisco, veteran street car conduc tor, left a $fifi,(XX) estate Hnd provided which loans will he (arrled until the end of ttie marketing season. The In his will that his debtors need remoney will he lent to when' 7N per cent of their debts to only pay qualified as borrowers under the tils estate uct. Lnder the plan J. J Holloway ot St. Clalrsvllle. Capper-Volsteatnmmnccd, the farmer can get more Ohio, left a 64 word will In which he 'Inin !XI per cent of the value of Ills bequeathed his $1.0iX).0fi0 estate to wheat without sellng It. Much of the his wife John Payne of Australia left a for- money avntlnhle already has been tune of over $2.rgKi.(XXt and requested loaned The Farmeis' National Grutn corHint nls magnificent home he destroyed by fire as soon as practicable. poration, organized under the auspices Twenty two persons gathered at the of the form hoard, came Into legal grave of William P Herrnmn of existence with the tiling of Its papers Paterson. Pa. to receive bequests of Incorporation In Wilmington Del. ranging from $.ifXl to $2,000 Ills will It started functioning at once, with The launchspecified that his heirs should be at headquarters in Chicago. his mausoleum on the first Decoration ing of this corporation, which is exdav after Ids death to receive the pected to i olve the wheat problem of the Central states, ts considered the It rained hard that dnj but money most Impoi tarit step yet taken by the all were there they farm ixuiid In carrying out President Hoover's farm relief policies aj set i Pol tics Beyond Grave forth in the agricultural marseting Darling Gardiner, although a South act. TIip concern Is expected to give erner. was a Republican and carried the farmeis control of their markethis political fanaticism beyond the ing and also to stabilize gruln prices grave He left $4.ixxi to ids two at a high level. brothers and Hvo nephews provided none of them has ever been known of the old guard Republicans as a Pernor rat. or suspected of voting SOME the 'enitte. led oy Reed of for or sutporting the nominees of and Edge f New JerPennsylvania ' in ease all of them were that party sey, have given up hope that a tariff Democrats nr had ever leaned toward hill acceptable to the Republican mathat side of the fence. Gardiner directjority aud the administration can be ed that his money should be used to pnss"d by the special session and want endow a Republican newspaper. to bring shout adjournment by thrj middle of November. Probably this' one-thir- d head of the manufacturers and veteran of many a political and tariff fignt, was before the senate lobby investigating committee for three days, and proved to be the most entertaining witness the senators had yet heard. He undertook to justify In every way his efforts to keep the tariff high, was apparently frank and open In his statements, and quite unconcerned whether or not the committee classed him as a lobbyist. More than that, lie delighted his unofficial hearers by his spirited uttacks on what lie classed as the backward" states and their representatives in congress, asserting that they should talk pretty darn small" on policies affecting the states that form the tax reservoir of the country" Pennsylvania, for instance. Pressed to name the "backward" states, Grundy declared to Senator V. E. Borah that ttie latters presence in the senate is proof enough for Grundy of Idahos backwardness. Similarly, he bluntly told Senator T. H. Caraway that any state which, like Arkansas, showed such little Interest in a sen atorlal election that only 30, (XX) votes were cast must be backward. Grundy listed as "backward" states Arizona, South Dakota, Mississippi. Arkansas, Idaho, Montana and Georgia, and he didnt think much of Wisconsin and North Dakota. The senators from all of these states, he thought, shouldnt put up any roars." IIow would you silence Senator Borah and myself? asked Senator Walsh. "I should think your Intelligence would suggest silence on such matters, retorted Grundy to the delight of the hearing room crowd, which roared with laughter. Senator Bingham of Connecticut, whose employment of C. L. Eyanson to aid him In tariff hill work was severely criticized by the lobby committee, started a bitter debate In the senate by declaring ttie committee was jiacked against the administration and that Its members were playing politics. R. GRUNDY, of South ministers of Washington and various other persons have been loudly blaming President Hoover for the liquor and vice conditions prevalent In the national capital and demanding that h clean up thnt city. The Washington Times has been publishing articles exposing the liquor traffic there and Its city editor, being called before the grand Jury, gave a list of sixty speakeasies nnd bootlegThree Times reporters who gers. were supposed to have purchased liquor at these places In the course of their Investigations were summoned by the grand jury and refused to give thnt body the names and addresses of those from whom they had bought the drinks, declaring this would make them dry snoopers anu cause them to lost their positions. Judge Peyton Gordon thereupon sentenced the reporters to Jail for forty-fivdays for contempt of court SENATOR BLEASE e ITS legislative elections the province of Ontario, Can. piled up a huge majority In favor of the Conservatives and of the policy of government controlled liquor sales for I render Howard which they stood. Fergusons government won 93 of the 112 seats In the legislature. Ferguson himself doubled Ills mnjorlty of the last election; W. E. N. Sinclair, Liberal and moderate dry leader, barely escaped defeut by a govern-mui- t candidate, and John G. Lethbridge, bone dry Progressive leader, was beaten In the ordinarily dry rid Ing of Middlesex West which he has ('presented for ten years. IN DALADIER, the radical who was Invited to form a new go eminent for France, could not persuade the Socialists to par tlclpate, and therefore he was forced EDOUARD to give up the task. Then Etienne Clemente!, president of the senate finance committee, tried and failed, and the difficult Job was undertaken by Andre Tardieu. forces were CHINESE government forward in a wide rapidly Honan province and engaging In heavy fighting with the rebel troops which were said to be retreating. Gen. Cliiang himself, president of the republic, went to the front to lead the attack. The civil war conditions in the Yangtse valley were considered so serious In Washington that six United States destroyers were ordered from Manila to Chinese wateis to protect American lives and interests. area In Kai-she- k American Officers and were members of the expeditionary force at Archangel in 1918 and 1919 and perished there are on their way back to Michigan, their home state. The bodies, retrieved by the graves commission, wore com eyed on board the Soviet steamer, Lieutenant Schmidt to Havre, France, whence tiny were to be brought to the United States by an Sixty-tw- o of American battleship. the dead have been Identified. All were members of the Detroit Three Hundred and Thirty-nintInfantry. EIGIITY-SI- who ITALIAN Fascism celebrated Its with much eclat, nnd needless to say Premier Mussolini was the central figure of the affair. In an address to CO, (XX) Black Shirts In Itmne the Duee reviewed the progress Italy had made under his rule and gave It his full approval. He told h!s followers the country was armed In heart and hand and ready for peace and for anything else; and he again warned the rest of the world to keep hands off. on Lake Michigan cost lives. The liner Wisconsin from Chicago foundered In a storm off Racine and fifteen persons, among them Capt. Douglas H. Mor- TRAGEDIES of rison, drowned despite the heroic ef- forts of life guard crews. Sixty others were saved. Later In the week the steamship Senator and the ore boat Marquette collided north of Milwaukee. the former going down with a dozen persons, nnd the Marquette barely reaching port. FOREMOST in the weeks death list of Theodore E. Burton, United States senator from Ohio, who passed away In Washington after n months illness at the age of seventy-seve- n years. He had served a total of forty-fou- r After years In congress. many terms In the house lie was sent to the senate. Later he returned to the house, and finally went buck to the senate. He was one of the leaders of the Republican party. Funeral services for Senator Burton were held In the senate chamber in the presence of President Hoover and other high officials and ten senators accompanied the body to Cleveland. Other notables claimed by death were Rev. ' E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana leugue; Sir Graham Balfour, British author and blogrupher of Stevenson; Prince Bernhard von Buelovv, former chancellor of Germany; Rev. John Roach Straton, fundamentalist Baptist preacher of New York, nnd Edwin B. Parker, arbiter of international World war claims. Anti-Salo- thejury In Washington found B. Fall, former secretary of the Interior, guilty of accepting a bribe from Edward Doheny for a naval reserve oil lease. It was announced that the oil magnate hi self would be put on trial early In January. The verdict was a most painful surprise to Mr. Fall and his relatives and friends. It made him liable to a maximum sen tence of three years in prison and a fine of $300, (XX), hut the Jury recommended mercy and It was not believed the aged and infirm man would be sent to prison. Out in Los Angeles another Jury brought in a verdict of guilty against Alexander Puntages, theater magnate, who was accused of assaulting Eunice Pringle, a young dancer. It recommended that he be sentenced to the penitentiary hut asked that the court extend leniency. 3. 1921. Westers NwDDr UziiaeJ WHEN f |
