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Show TIIE SMITHFIELD SENTINEL. SM1THFIELD. UTAH Ilvlw Wt'okly Xew Rome-Bcrli- n If Treasury Inconveniently close to election day have come piecemeal reports and offhand predictions concerning When the U. S. fiscal situation. President Roosevelt talks finance before congress on January 3, he may ask almost anything. But right now, as the President busies himself with budget planning, he can gotiations, October of 1938 will be be guided by facts and forecasts: remembered primarily as the month Factt: Despite upswinging busiwhen America first stood up and ness, the U. S. treasury deficit for barked at modern imperialism. the current fiscal year jumped above Within 24 hours two barks came one billion dollars October 20, leapfrom Washington. First was Presi-- 1 ing forward several million dollars a day. Gold reserves, mounting dent Roosevelts precedent-shatterin- g condemnation of nations employ- - since the European scare, hit Revised, the 1939 fiscal ing force (Japan), exile (Gefmany) 0, and repression (Italy) as instru- deficit prediction stands at second largest in New Deal ments of national policy. Next day, on the heels of Japans conquest of history. By next June 30, when the Hankow, the state department made public a protest to Tokyo against violation of Chinas "open door policy. This was but percussion in the new American overture of preparedness. Chiming in are plans to strengthen military and naval forces so that the Western hemisphere may work out its own interrelated salvation. To the north, at Kodiak, Alaska, the navy is quietly p re par- ing two bases accommodating at e least 200 patrol bombers. Thus, if Britain and France deny it, the U. S. admits Japan has become the Far Easts No. 1 power and bids fair to dominate the Pacific unless stopped. Although Generalissimo Chiang k will continue battling Japan in the hope his foe will eventually commit military and economic suicide, there is little likelihood that Chinas door will be reopened to Western nations unless Japan wants it. For a preview of SECRETARY MORGENTHAU things to come, democracies need Codait of all concerned . . . only look at Manchukuo where sev-en years of Japanese proprietorship fiscal year ends, the U. S. public has both closed and locked the door. debt will hit $40,000,000,000, compared with $16,800,000,000 in June, 1931. Forecast: pump-priThough ing will help business, the 1940 budget will be unabalanced. Only by continued spending can the administraHote the wind it blousing . . . tion hold a mass vote for the 1940 TIME CLOCK Film actors earnelection, thereby forestalling the ing up to $1,000 a week, and all normal swing to Republicanism. But extras, now punch time clocks it is far more painful to pay than each morning under new union merely file away the bill, and next contract with provision for overwinters congressmen will present time work. at least five new methods of making NOBODY A baby born to one John Public pay: sad-eyed of 200 Jewish refugees (1) A 10 per cent one shot for living in a ditch in the Czechoslovcome tax levy to garner $263,000,000 ak-German "no mans land needed for increased armament; (2) has been named Niemand, a processing tax to pay for. the meaning "nobody. agriculture departments proposed RANG WARFARE Japanese domestic dumping program for streets of troops patrolling newly removal of tax (3) crop surpluses; captured Canton, disperse terriexemption from future issues of fedfied Chinese by merely pointing eral, state and local bonds, also on their guns and shouting: Bang! official salaries; (4) extension of LANDLADY U. 8. Women hold social security to include farm la25 per cent of all U. S. jobs domestics, bank employees, borers, (apart from domestic service), are beneficiaries of 80 per cent of seamen, of income tax etc.; (5) lowering exemptions all life insurance, own 50 per cent under $1,000. of all corporate stock, operate 60 Coolest of all concerned with fiscal' per cent of savings accounts. affairs has been the man in direct HAIR RAISING Mrs. Dorothy charge, Secretary of the Treasury Kantack of Chicago has won a diHenry Morten thau Jr. Unworried vorce decree against the husband who protested against her by mounting gold reserves (We have plenty of storage space) he new upswing coiffure. predicts improved business conditions will cut relief rolls and help the budget, which observers now People think will run to $8,000,000,000. Only British royalty symbolically cor- Morgenthau fear has centered responds to the U. S. flag. Since around the British pound sterling, the Czech crisis proved Great Brit- whose declining tendencies have adains empire is becoming vastly in- verse effects on U. S. commodity dependent, a little flag waving is en- prices and export trade. tirely proper. First, King George and Queen Elizabeth announced a F1lite House WHOS Axis May Crumble Germany Is Given Colonies NEWS IJy JoMpli W. La Hint Foreign At best, Germany, Italy and are unnatural bedfellows with nothing in common except totalitarianism and a grudge against the world. Flushed by her imperialistic victory at Munich, there is every reason to think Germany might abandon Italian and Japanese alliances if they stood in the way of her march to world power. First step in this direction has been taken by Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler in presenting African colonial Ja-pa- PICTURES That Everyone Who Takes Aspirin Should Study II itarte baaca la layer Tabtat la water la dhlotegrela la 2 eecaadi toady to "go to work" rapidly Drop n $3,984,-000,00- long-rang- This Quick Dissolving Property $f Genuine Bayer Aspirin Kai-she- Explains Fast Relief sulTcr with headaches or the of rheumatism or neuritis, pains keep the above picture about genuine Bayer Aspirin in your mind. Pjqwinlly if quick relief is what If you you want. For the way a Bayer Tablet works in the glass is the way it works when you take it It starts to dissolve alhence is ready to most at once take hold" of the rheumatic pain or headache with astonishing speed. Relief often comes in a few minutes. Always ask for BAYER Aspirin' never ask for aspirin alone. GERMANY IN AFRICA Of onetime German pouessiont (Amen in block ) Franca holdt mandates for Togoland (1) and the Cameroon (2); Great Britain hat minor interest in both. Ilritih South Africa (5) holdt mandate for Southwest Africa (3). and Britain a mandate for Tanganyika (4). Angola (6) it held by Portugal. Trend demands to Great Britain and What Hitler wants and France. probably will get is return of Togoland, Cameroons, Southwest Africa and Tanganyika, held under League of Nations mandate by Britain and France since the Versailles treaty. If they pay this price for peace, Britain and France will also agree to German arms equality. British-Frenc- h gain through such a transacJponuTAnixrs tion would be German friendship a ruu. dozen ase and an understanding that Italy had better confine her imperialism to the French Slanguage Mediterranean area on pain of comoppoThe French language surpasses bined all other languages in slang vo- sition. Moreover, II Duce would be forced to withdraw from Spain. cabulary, says Collier's. Next Der Fuehrer may turn his eyes to Japan, which now controls e German islands forfeited after the World war. Since Hitlers aggressive imperialism makes one Rallaf for Candltlona Dua ta STugglala Bawala conquest merely an appetizer for the next, moreover since Germany looks angrily at any nation which controls large territories and resources, Japan may find her Chinese conquest threatened. H mat driKkMd. Mm tee ta ta Nor do observers overlook the nluillht purehee breach chance of a German-Italia- n iver Hungary's Czechoslovakian SWSYS CHH QUICK RELIEF claims, now handed to the Rome-Berli- n axis for settlement. Musso-iin- i, FOR ACID INDIGESTION Hungary's friend, wants dissolved, moreover wants Hungary to get the common border with Poland which she desires. But Socrates and the lleremfter Plato ascribes to Socrates a very Hitler, temporarily angry with Hundefinite view as to future retribugary and anxious to preserve a path tion. In truth, said Socrates, if o the east through Czechoslovakia, I did not expect to find in another .rill fight partition. life gods at once good and wise, and men better than those of this life, it Transportation would be foolish of me not to be U. S. arguing before disturbed by the approach of death. .resident railroads, Roosevelt's But I know that I look to finding ommittee, have claimed a 15 per myself among just men. I do not ;ent pay cut is the only solution to fear to die because I am confident heir problem. Labor, which threat-n- s that something still remains after to strike if the pay cut is enthis life, and that, according to the forced, says better management old belief, the good will be treated vill do the trick. Without waiting better than the bad. g for commission to German-Franco-Briti- O0TOF SORTS? one-tim- self-pityi- fnt Czech-islovak- ia m When its investigations first opened, the Dies congressional comconfined mittee on most of its probing to Fascism and Naziism. Neither of these isms has much support among - U. S. politicians. But with election time approaching and its witnesses becoming influenced by political fever, it was natural that the probe should turn to a more popular ism communism. First came the charge that Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was impeachable for failing to support aggressive deportation proceedings against communistic Harry Bridges. Madam Perkins replied that she was awaiting court decision on a test case, that proceedings could move no faster than fact-findi- the Cockroach Old-Tim- er The lowly cockroach has existed to its present form a long time. There are four different types of cockroach the Croton bug, first ' found in New York; the proper cock-- I roach of the East; the American cockroach, ' which probably came from tropical America, and the Australian cockroach, which la much like the large, reddish-brow- n Amer-- , lean cockroach except that it is a trifle smaller. There are said to be 223 fossil species of the pest. , . g Ingredients In Three of the main ingredients in the process are iron ere, limestone, and eoke. The fourth is frequently forgotten. It Is air. Yet to make a ton of iron it la necessary to use about 3.700 pounds of ere, 700 pounds of stone, 1,000 iron-maki- I , I I pounds of eoke. and 7.000 pounds of air. The products of the reac-hon are roughly 2,000 pounds ofj iron, 900 pounds of slag, 230 pounds of dust, end 0,850 pounds of blest i furnace gas. fact-findin- eport, railroad management has aken the matter into its own hands n three fronts SarAwett Before the interstate ommerce commission have stockholders of two huge 'ines, Chicago & North Western, and Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific. Their plan: Physical consoli-latio- n of the two roads, immediate-- y effecting operating economies of tlO.OOO.OOO a year and hastening lormal recovery of the two roads Southwest An I. C. C. examiner las recommended reorganization of he Missouri Pacific line with sharp eduction in its fixed interest debt. lso recommended is consolidation f owned properties being operated is the Missouri Pacific system, rail-oathe Missouri-IUinoi- s ap-ear- d. Mo-'ril- c Mobile & Ohio line. Chief opponent s Burlington railroad, which owns 7.7 per cent of G. M. & N. stock. Chief significance of mergers and organizations is (1) that railroads vill become economically sound; i2) labor will suffer through debased employment, though wage evels probably will not be cut; (3 scores of small communities, originally built to follow the railroad's ne of expansion, will find them--elvisolated without rail service. defense - CLEAN .The Kemmerer Coal Co. KEMMEKClt, Knotted inseparably in recent have been Japans conquest of bins and- 'world democracy'. at. empts to strengthen their military-conom- ic positions against Germnn-.talo-Ja- p aggression. Though Eng-an- d and the U. S. have been rub-sin- g noses in their trade pact ne- - Ask your dealer for Brilliant WYOMING sit-dow- n fun-lovi- Placed before the I. C. C. s a plan for merging the Gulf, & Northern railroad with the South es HIGH QUALITY the courts themselves. Next the committee asked why Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan had taken a passive interest in the 1936 strikes, only to learn that Governor GREAT BRITAINS MARINA Murphy had commented that someIt Aa being exiled for usurpation? times events make laws malleable. President Roosevelt, hopping mad state visit to Canada and probably by this time, jumped in to charge to the U. S. Latest news is that the the Dies committee is providing a duke of Kent popular, forum for politicians with electiobecomes governor general of Aus- n-year axes to grind. Though retralia next year. To Kent that no such reprimand eras calling and his wife, beauteous former when the LaFollette Princess Marina of Greece, Austra- forthcoming civil liberties committee held its lia will mean virtual exile from observers impartial their favorite diversion, London hearings, agreed the Dies committee might night life. Though English papers have done a less impassionate job discreetly failed to mention it, part in 1937 or 1939. of the U. S. press called Kent and his wife victims of royal jealousy. The claim: That slim, elegant Marina is usurping Queen Elizabeths ' rightful place as ruler of British fashion. At Australia's lonely CanSEN. WILLIAM E, BORAH-e' U. 8. 0 berra, where Kent will receive intervention to force jusa year, not a single night club tice for Jews In Great Britains will help break the tedium of this ,.- Palestine problem: "We cannot British Siberia, retain the respect of Eu-.- .. rope and our own self respect by directing nations how they Miscellany , shall carry out their treaties At Anaheim, Calif.,' iqilei of sur' and obligations, and do nothe Ganges were plus ing but direct. dumped when federal diversion HARRY HOPKINS en WPAs recfunds ran out, leaving the We have made mis ord: price unsupported. takes. But our greatest misAt Prestonburg, Ky., take has not been in doing too Fleming Tackett married much but in doing too little. Rosie Columbus. 'Quotes9.-.n $50,-00- -- ... third-grad- HOTELS - B.u, II!, HOTEL PLANDOMR. 4th So. a Suit St. BLK THIS Wha la SALT NliViBt Emm, la ewlHeillEr kalrl RENO. HOTEL GOLDEN THE WILSON HOTEL tha tart of tha aitj Bain Tit E. ta4 Sa. St. T. CEOKUI HOTEL, R.l. i -- lT But M BmUi Street Til With CootobiAi Bepatahl WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON a' few years ago, NEW YORK. writer had the job of getting up an amateur entertainment. Robert Sherwood was just an added starter, but he Bob Sherwood, ran away with II.. - - 2? PHOTOGRAPHY Steals Show inches tall, of e dimensions and has a trick of undulating both his chest and his Adam's apple at the same time, when he sings. To hear him sing, Comes When the undulating Bob - Bob - Bobbin, through a full octave, and flapping his long arms, is rare entertainment. He could have filled the theaters that way if he hadnt become a playwright. With all his gift for foolery, of a Ms is the weltschmen shy, sensitive, thoughtful man, and his are the peculiarly civilised qualities which enabled Mm to portray Abe Lincoln in Illinois with insight and fidelity wMch have brought the heartiest critical salvo of years and many cries of the great American drama at last. Some of the reviewers see here a thrilling in the play witMn a play skilled and timely dramatisation of Lfoeolns timeless utterance at just this moment of national wavering and Mr. Sherwood may be a man of PHOTO-KRAF- T ECONOMY FILM SERVICE Asy loll Dtvt loped with - 2St Quality Print Extra Print coin film and Wrap cartfnlh PHOTO-KRAFT lox 749 Salt Lake City, Utah SCHRAMM-JOHNSON DRUGS lath-lik- destiny. He would dismiss all that with a slight thoracic undulation and perhaps a modest quip. He is the least pontifical of men, as he proved in the when he was a drum-majwar. Unable to make the grade in our army, he joined the Canadian Black Watch. They put him in kilts, gave him a shako and a huge baton and enjoyed him tremendously as he quickly mastered the necessary g stunts. twirling and But they also used him in plenty of fighting, in several hot engagements. The trouble was that the trenches were only six feet deep and he was a constant lure to enemy sharpshooters. He was gassed and sent to the hospital for a long stretch about two feet beyond the end of the cot. He read a great deal, and decided to be an author. with Demobilized, he connected ' Vanity Fair as dramatic critic, did! a two weeks turn as a reporter in Boston, joined the staff of Life and later became its editor. He was born in New Rochelle, in 1896, and left Harvard to get into the war TMs is Ms eleventh play, not Tom Buggies Sur counting prise, which he wrote at the age of eight. His fame as playwright began with The Road to Rome, wMch he wrote in 1927, just to lift a couple of ...... FARMS AND ACREAGE nmwater, too urea ecad ton, a(Jt in Gian Kivar water Btioaeej Add me dietrlet cantaloup Blev low, Green Ilm. Utah. 1Q,00 stick-tossin- i mortgages, as he put it. In 1922, he married Miss Mary Brandon, the actress. He has an apartment in Sutton place, New York, and a modest estate in Surrey, England, where he has been helping Alexander Korda produce films. e a at the Metroplitan comes along slowly, and we arent yet quite musically self - sustaining. MetTaheta For the opening of its new seaSinger From son, the Met anPotato Patch nounced 14 new There is one American singers. contralto, 11 Germans, Austrians, Italians and Swedes and two new American male singers, John Carter and Leonard Warren. Over in our Rockland eounty, N.-- Y., we have been quite excited over a popular local farmer, as one of the parocMal sheets had it, making the grade at the Metropolitan. He is the Mr. Carter, who has been growing beans and potatoes, singing at Ms work, near New City. Mr. Carter, born in New York city, studied engineering at New York university. The depression turned him to vaqdeville and later to Ms joint cultivation of voice and garden truek. He and Mr. Warren were winners in the Bletropolitans audition of last March. Mr. Warren, also 26, was born in the Bronx, son of a Russian-bor- n fur dealer. He felt constraint in turning his big voice loose in town, hut let it run in the Woods, with his father on trips. That wafi how he first knew he had a. voice; He studied' at' Columbia university' and night school. h. OFFICE EQUIPMENT MEW AND USED deeke and clurira typewriter, addina terli'e, aafn. B. L. DESK EE. Ml g. State. Belt ATHLETIC GOODS GREAT WEBTERN ATHLETIC Bata, Glare, Bee, belle, Vollrball. Athletic elm, etc. IDAHO SCHOOL SUPPLY CO rme, leflkitlk, L'Til gelt l.tq ICE CREAM FREEZERS SODA FOUNTAINS ICE CREAM CO US. TER FREEZERS and lee Cream eabiaete-B- ar Fixture, Stool, Carbonmtaii, Sue. Alee raeeaditlened eqeipmeat -- tmea Table CO. 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When in Salt Lake City Stay in an Apartment Hotel ENJOY THE HOSPITALITY AND CONVENIENCE OF BELVEDERE APARTMENT HOTEL 29 South Slot Street CALVIN JACK, Mgr. a Week No. 1144 SALT UMt How Flowers Are Pollinated Flowers are pollinated not only by I Insects, wind, water and man, uyi Colliers Weekly, but alio by bird and such as hummers, honey-eate- n sun birds, and by mammals inch bats, and by climbing manopi-- I ala such as the money mouse of Western Australia. Apple Tree Heavy Drinker avAccording to an authority, sn erage apple tees will absorb from U to 20 tons of water a year. Actual experiments have shown that 40 apof ple trees will take up 760 torn s water annually, or about 7 of rainfall. sen-inche- Caesar sad Lincoln Greatet m Perhaps the greatest of all of politic, world terbuilder, in the was Julius Caesar; and perhaps tha purest was Abraham Lincoln. A Little Bird Told Me Uttn TMs mild expression, betray wont bird told me, for I my Informer, is not a literal qu tation, but is undoubtedly borrow from Ecclesiastes 10:29: "Cur not the king, no, not in thy thought-ancurse not the rich in thy bedr chamber: for a bird of the ai shall cany the voice, and that whies hath wings shall tell the matter. d Supplies Town's N An anagram supplies the name the historic Texas town of Gdua. according to research conductedserf-fehistorians of the National Park the anar Component letters in the from taken gram were Mexicos favorite herd, Hidg Prior to its rechristeninjr, the town was known as the Presidio Bahia del Espiritri .Sdnto. , Anagram - e. "j big-nort- fur-buyi- ng ' Meaning of Right, Left' b used when The right wing, nection with politics, is the now the Expert Shoots ative element, or, aa in The best and most effective shoot- sometimes tha monarchist slenw ing form requires little movement in a political party, lcgislatn" of the hands and arms, once the gun . The left wing has been put on the shoulder and parliament of the mots radical elemcn up the comb is against the cheek. From a political party qr legislature. that point on, the direction of the muzzle is changed by moving the Many Languages entire upper part of the shooters Two hundred and twenty- the gun remaining in the same body, are spoken in India, relative position with respect to the guages of dialects. live cheek and shoulder. News FOaturoo. I Cooeofldntad ' Service. AVNU . |