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Show i Fri3t ft OetoEer 15, 1937 THE SUGAR HOUSE BULLETIN THE SUGARHOUSE BULLETIN A WEEKLY PUBLICATION Printed at 2041 South 11th East Sugarbeuae, Utah luued every Friday pi m. Bualneaa Office and Plant at 2044 South 11th Eaat Advertising Rates on Application C. CONNIFF, Publisher WILL OPEN HOUSING PROJECT IN SUBURB ' Operation Will Be Studied by Government Experts. a Salt Lake City, Utah Phone copy for news Items and events of Interest to The Bulletin or Commercial Printing Company Hyland 364. Copy for news items, social and sport activities, must be in the office not later than noon Wednesday, for publication in the following issue of The Bulletin." 03 - COMPARATIVE TAX LEVIES 'In the current issue of the Utah Taxpayer just off the press is presented the comparative levies of all the 243 taxing units of the state, cities, towns, counties and school districts. Thfe levies Por 1936 are also shown, and in addition, the amount of increase or decrease from last years are indicated. This is a most valuable compilation and is the only place where such complete information is published, the issue will be of general interest to taxpayers and officials alike. The tabulation of levy changes show that 20 of the 26 counties increased their levies. These increases are due largely, it is pointed out, to the fact that the counties have been brought in to the social security picture to cooperate with the $7,000,000 The new responsibility bjennial appropriation for this purpose. now assumed by the taxpayers, accounts for the levy increases. The levies of cities and towns show little change for of the 179 taxing units, but 44 made increases, while 115 remained the same as last year and 20 decreased their levies. Despite the increase in tax collections, 21 of the 40 school districts made due largely to debt service charges arising from building programs. But one district lowered its levy while the other 18 made no change. shows that levies are largely of local oriThe "Taxpayer in The median cities and towns is shown to be 37 mills. gin. levy Of this amount all but the 5.63 mill levy made for state school purposes, is for strictly local uses, viz., for city; school and county governments. "Then it states that virtually all money derived from the state school levy is distributed to the respective school districts where it is budgeted and spent. Editorially the "Taxpayer! points out the need for organized taxpayer participation in the, affairs of government. The heading 'Participation' or Confiscation forcibly calls attention to the growing levies which even now have reached the point of confiscation in some 12 communities where the total burden is between 50 and 60 mills. levy-increas- a charlatan in Lyons, France, threatened to resurrect the dead in a local cemetery unless he Was paid a sum-o- f money. The About ! 1635, man, one Mantaecini, says Collier's Weekly, so convinced the people that he could and would do it that debtors, beneficiaries of wills, widows and widowers who had remarried and others who wished the dead to stay dead quickly raised the money and rushed him from the Onee the Largest Hotel When the Continental hotel was erected at Philadelphia in 1860 it was the largest hotel in this country. The front of the building was six stories high and the back part was eight stories. It was one of the first hotels in the country to install passenger elevators and the management built the first hotel fire tower for the protection of its pa- trons. new Telephone Directory Washington. The government is prepared to open Greenbelt, its super suburban town at Berwyn, Md.( and to study its operation to determine policies for similar projects which soon will open within a few months at Milwaukee and Cleveland. The new farm security administration, falling heir to the $14,227,000 apartment and group house community on rolling, wooded terrain near Washington, promptly found itself involved in experimental nonprofit operation of a model little business district. All three of the housing developments were begun by the Resettlement administration, target for much Deal criticism. Recently the FSA replaced Resettlement and assumed the duty of administering the ne.w farm tenancy loan program. A lease had been Signed by Resettlement with the Consumer Distribution corporation. To operate all of Greenbelt'a commercial establishments, including a moving picture theater, when the develop-min-t receives its first tenants in a few weeks. The corporation was formed by Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant, to encourage department stores. Herbert Evans, vice president, and Percy Brown, secretary-treasureannounced after conferring with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace on details of the program that "we are ready to begin as soon as Greenbelt opens." They explained that the organization had been drafted" to undertake the operation of the Greenbelt establishments until committee! at the settlement can take them over. "We are performing merely a public service," Evans explained. We are glad to help. But I doubt that we will continue for the full ten yeara because the resident committees should be able to be in full swing long before then." low-re- anti-Ne- ten-ye- nt w ar r, Town Women Officials Say Men Loafed on Job The women are Friendly, in the driver's seat in this little town of 175 because "the men didnt do anything but play checkers and gossip. It was this alleged lack that permitted the women to take over the town government. The mayor, council, recorder, all the towns officers are women. The women were swept into office by a vote a victory that would not have been possible without support from the men, because there are as many men as women in the town. The only office still held by a man is that of town marshal, and the women expect to take over that position within a short time, because Marshal J. Mack Doty is W. Va. eighty-fou- r years old. But there is at least one man who is decidedly in favor of the change. He is K. D. Doak, operator of the town's gasoline station and restaurant. This ought to put Friendly on the map, he said. It's the first time in West Virginias history that all women have been elected." good-natur- ed Map 50 Years of Ocean Weather to Guide Planes (xJHJL yoiVL amsL (Bsl 3i&jbuL? : Ordering a telephone now will place your name in the next directory. Enjoy its convenience for a few cents a day. One call in an emergency may be worth many times its cost If you already have service and plan to move or desire to change your present listing please let us know now. For advertising, additional listings (other members of your household, etc.) just call our business office. New Orleans. Use of weather observations made by ship captains during the last half century to determine the safest air lanes for regular transoceanic flights is foreseen by W. F. McDonald, chief of the United States weather bureau here. Composite maps showing the weather tendencies at any point in the seven seas would be used by pilots to chart their routes, McDonald said. From nearly 6,000,000 observations turned into the weather bureau at Washington, he has worked out charts, maps and other data to show the general weather tendencies all over the world. Expedition Fails to Find Seal Breeding Grounds San Diego, Calif. The age-ol- d mystery of the location of the breeding grounds of the female elephant seal today still is as much of an enigma as the fabled graveyard of the elephants. A thorough search of the Guadalupe and Sedros islands, off the coast of Mexico, by an expedition in charge of Capt. G. Allan Hancock, millionaire patron of the sciences, and a group of San Diego zoo officials, failed to reveal a trace of the orceding ground. . long-soug- ht Religious Bees Keep Members in Church North Manchester, Ind. Ears of the Methodist church congre- CALL US TODAY WASATCH 3841 "53 fHtvJI gation here were left buzzing as the result of the antics of a swarm of religious bees that crowded around the church entrance and threatened to disrupt services. Pnul Hathaway, town marshal, freed the imprisoned parishioners by spraying tim bees with gasoline and settii.g lire to the swarm. Silversmith Paul Revere Artisan of High Renown 4 Although' examples of silver made Paul Rewt arMng the first sought after by collectors, his activities in the American Revolution and his versatility in other fields have somewhat overhadowed his achievements as silversmith. Much picturesque information was gathered about Patriot Paul following Longfellows stirring recital of his midnight ride. In addition to. his craft 4s silversmith, he was one of our first engravers of copperplate prints and almost the first American industrialist in the production of copper and brass, says the American Collector. Born in Boston, 1735, during his eighty-thre- e years of life, his natural facility was so marked that Revere, the silversmith, was sometimes subordinated to his other' accomplishments. Yet had he done nothing else but cleve to the trade learned from his Huguenot father, he would still be one, of the most important American workers in r. In 1751, the same year that Chippendale published his book of furniture designs, the elder. Revere died and Paul, a journeyman at nineteen, took over the management of this shop. From then until about 1800, when he largely forsook silvermaking for his copper manufacturing enterprises, Paul Revere was an active and prolific silversmith. From 1774 to 1780 he played his part in the Revolution by acting as courier for Massachusetts, printing paper money for the Continental congress, repairing spiked cannon abandoned by the British and serving as lieutenant colonel of an artillery regiment. Then he returned to his original, occupation, expanding it' to include operation of what he termed a hardware shop." In it he sold everything from gold jewelry to spectacles and shoe buckles and, of course, table silver and candle- sticks. Much of this stock in trade was undoubtedly the product of his own skill and that of his workmen. by, t ail-ve- NewVork of Lights by LL. STEVENSON Now Brooklyn has another girl poet. It seems only like yesterday that little Nathalia Crane, who began writing at the age of nine, astonished experts with her book of verses about the janitors boy and others. Miss Crane is grown up now but in her place comes Miss Katharine Carossa. Miss Carossa will not be fourteen for 12 days yet. But her second book of poems is just off the press. The book, Crystal Arabesques, contains 70 poems. The imagery, smoothness and wording suggest maturity. Nevertheless Miss Carossa suggests Miss Crane. Shes considerably darker and a little taller than Nathalia was back in those days when I went over to Brooklyn to interview her. But shes also shy, reserved and attractive. She started writing whei she was in the fourth grade. A poem of hers so impressed a teacher that he encouraged her to continue. Now shes in her fourth term of the Brooklyn Girls high school. Shes usually first in all her studies. But she doesnt engage in athletics. She prefers to go home and write. On her mother's side, Miss Carossa is Russian and on her fathers, Spanish. Her father is a court interpreter and holds a Ph. D. degree from the University of Geneva. His library consists of 16,000 volumes. Miss Carossa spends much time, among her father's books. When she isn't doing that and when she isnt writing, she is at her piano. For years, she has practiced three hours a day. Her favorite composers are Brahms, Beethoven and Chopin, and one of her poems is entitled "Chopin Valse." In fact, her love of music is such that it has placed her in something of a dilemma. At the moment, she cannot decide whether he will go to college and continue with her writing or to the Juillard school and perfect herself in music. However, at fourteen, even though she has written two books, there seems to be time for her to make up her mind. Visual Demands 0 There must be image on each 1st FIXATION malcular eye. 2nd Imafp must FOCUS be weU defined. fairly grd FUSION There should be a single mental Impression. The conscious 4th COMFORT attention most ho free to concern lta self with meaning; and Interpretation. i Dr. W. H. Landmesser OPTOMETRIST Member of Cllnle Foundation 1090 East 21st South SUGARHOUSE Fredova Dance Studio 2040 8 South 11th East Hyland 2377 Casses Every Saturday Register to 12:30 P. M. TAP - BALLET - TOE 9 A. M. ACROBATICS Circular sent on Request FREDA W. VERNON Principal , A PIANIST WANTED . Elephants' Legs Strong; Are Set Perpendicularly As to the elephants agility, it is pertinent to read the Interesting statement of Zoologist Ernest Pro theroe, F. Z. S., concerning the elephants legs: In order to support the enormous vfeight which rests upon thept the legs are very stout and are set per pendicularly, without that bend in the hinder leg which is found in most animals. This pillarlike struc-- . ture is of infinite use when the animal climbs or descends steep acclivities, which it can perform with marvelous ease. Considering its bulk, the elephant is remarkably active; it can lie down and regain its feet as easily as a dog; it can stand upon its hind feet alone, or erect itself upon its forefeet; and it can even stand upon its head. It cannot trot or gallop, but nevertheless can move along at eight miles an hour if needed A ditch seven feet wide would prove a complete bar, as the animals maximum stride is only six and a half feet,' and it cannot jump an inch. The statement about the elephants pace is probably an understatement, for hunters would have no need to fear an animal whose speed was limited to eight miles an hour. Zoologist G. M. Vevers, superintendent of the London zoo, says: Both species of elephants are fast movers over a short distance, and a speed of fifteen miles an hour is not uncommonly kept up for a quarter of a mile or so, but whereas the African can keep up a speed of ten miles an hour for aeveral hours on end, the Indian, being shorter in the leg and more cumbersome, cannot maintain a speed of more than six or seven miles an hour." ... Rivers Flowing North The United States Geological Survey bureau says that the Red river of the North, which forms the boundary between Minnesota and North Dakota, flows north for part of its course; the Monongahela flows north from West Virginia to Pennsylvania, where it joins with the Allegheny to form the Ohio river; the Niagara river, connecting Lake Erie and Lake Ontario; the Tennessee river, where it crosses the west end of the state of Tennessee; the Snake river, where it forms the boundary between Oregon and Idaho; John Day, Deschutes and Willamette rivers, tributaries of the Columbia river in Oregon; the Missouri river in the vicinity of Helena, Mont., and a part of the course of the Salmon river in Idaho, all flow north. Others having courses between north and northwest include the San Joaquin and Efel rivers in California, Kootenai river in Idaho, Mouse river in North Dakota, Kentucky and Licking rivers in Kenriver tucky and the in Virginia and West Virginia. New-Kanaw- ha 1 Coldest Spot on Earth The coldest spot on earth is not at either pole, says John Theaman in Globe magazine. It's a town in Siberia known as Werchojansk ; here the temperature often falls as low as 80 below zero, and has gone as low as 95.6. The natives of this town live in crude wooden huts, with windows of thin ice cemented in place by pouring on water which freezes quickly around the edges. Walking in such cold air causes the breath to freeze, falling to the ground in a white powder. there was recorded in this space a piece about a black and white warbler that A short time ago mothered an orphan starling in Robert J. Weeks back yard in Old Greenwich. Writes Albert Stoll, Jr., conservation editor of the Detroit boy, this FLEETWOOD BICYCLE HAS EVERYTHING! News: So far as I know, this is very unusual. I do know that in Michigan, the cowbird frequently lays its eggs in the nest of the chipping sparrow and although the bird and eggs are about half the size of the chipping sparrow, the latter will incubate the eggs and raise the mixed brood of cowbirds and sparrows to maturity. This is not at all unusual. The only experience I have had along this line was at one time when I had an injured yellow-bille- d cuckoo in a cage in which I placed a fledgling martin that had fallen out of its nest. The cuckoo did attempt to feed the martin but without any degree of success." 0 0 0 Speaking of birds, as I was shavI heard a bird singing over in Central park. Maybe AuiaTumrvstivictToiBi. it was a wild canary or possibly a been It's so song sparrow. long since I've heard a bird sing that I Broadway and 2nd East couldnt make an identification. But be that as it may, that song of a little wild creature in the midst of intensely urban settings so thrilled me that I stood there motionless Gion, Aoi, Ancient Fetes while the lather caked on my face. Traced to Early Century Tonight I'm going to a band conTwo of the most picturesque festi-- 1 cert right over there where that vals held in are those known bird proclaimed its joy at being as the Gion Japan and Aoi, says a noted1 alive. authority. The Gion festival (Gion Matsuri) dates back to 876 A. D., Then there was that sunset the when the head priest of the shrine other evening. The western sky formed a procession with decorated seemed a mottled mass of deep cars as a means of seeking the reds. Across it scuttled clouds of the gods against a pestiseemingly in a great hurry. Be- lence raging in the city. The fete hind the tower of the Roerick mu- officially lasts for seven days. seum, they massed in such formaA special feature of the fete is tion that they looked like palm trees the fitting out of expensive cars to' on a coral island. I wish I could take part in the procession. These put that scene on paper. But some are of two kinds, the yama and the j way or other, it just wont go into hoko. The yama is carried on the mere words. shoulders of a number of men byj BU Syndicate. WNU Strvlca. means of long poles and contains decorated figures. The hoko is a Rieh in Minerals Cemetery kind of ornamental tower placed on Joplin, Mo. The Oronogo Ceme- four massive wooden wheels and tery association has decided to perusu- is There decorated. beautifully mit a mining company to continue ally a mast, 120 to 130 feet high, in ' digging for lead and zinc on its the center of the tower. Originally grounds. Mining engineers said that there were 68 of these cars, but the the cemetery was underlaid with a number has been reduced to 28. rich vein of ore. The chief festival of the is known as the Aoi (hollyhock) festival, it having become the custom to offer hollyhocks Humming Bird Halts to the gods on this day. The origin Tunnel Construction of the festival is traced back to the Sixth century. Los Angeles. The little Dutch The festival is in imitation of the boy who saved Holland from sea inundation by sticking his finger imperial procession which formerly in a leak in the dike has been used to pay homage at the shrine. matched here by a humming bird Early in the morning imperial meswhich has delayed the construcsengers and their suite, in full court tion of an essential tunnel in the costume, assemble at the old imnew metropolitan water district perial palace and start in procession for the shrine, accompanied by poproject. e lice officers on horseback, The humming jsird built its nest of (kebiishi), gendarmerie pages, hal-- : a guy rope used in ,on the knot herd bearers, an imperial chariot, Jhe tunnel construction and startdrawn by oxen,- etc. At the shrine ed in to raise a family of humthe priests perform a ceremony on mers. Work was ordered delayed the arrival of the procession, and a on that part of the project until similar service is performed at the mother humming bird had Kamigamo shrine before a return hatched her brood. is made to the palace, ing this morning, ; pro-tecti- on i ; 0) j Shimo-gamo-jins- old-tim- - . . ... 0) |