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Show Friday, December THE BULLETIN S, 1987 THE SUGARHOUSE BULLETIN A WEEKLY PUBLICATION Printed at 2044 South 11th Eaat Sugarhouse, Utah Issued every Friday pi m. Suatneaa Office and Plant at 2044 South 11th Eaat Advertising Rates on Application O. C. CONNIFF, Publisher 1 Rivers are the property Phone copy for news items and eventa 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." Continued steady Minneapolis. rise in home rentals and clothing prices during the third quarter of 1937, together with a slight drop in sverage monthly wages earned, has erased most of the gains scored during the first half of this year in the buying power of the average American family, according to a study made by Northwestern National Life Insurance company. Living quarters for which the family paid $24 monthly in 1933 cost $33.33 for- September, 1937, on the basis of national averages, compared with $30.91 in January, 1937, and $32.58 at June levels. A further rise of at least 15 per cent is de- -' dared necessary by realtors and building contractors, according to the report, before new construction at present high costs is Justified. Clothing prices have advanced only 18 per cent from 1933 levels, but have scored almost half of this rise since September, 1938, thus rising almost as much in the past twelve months as in the preceding three g years. Clothing for which a family budgeted $20 in 1933 cost $21.78 for the same articles in September, 1930, $21.88 in January, 1937, and $23.22 in September. Gasoline for the family car touched the highest consumer price since 1930, in August, reaching a national average price of 20.21 cents per gallon. Wholesale food prices soared Into new high ground late in September, but sharp drops in meats and cereal products in the first three weeks of October, and smaller recessions. in other products, more than wiped out the increase. September average retail food prices were only nominally above those of January; food for which the wageearning family budgeted $30 per month in 1933 cost $38.22 at January, 1937, prices, $39.00 in June, and $38.76 in September; thus food is the only item in the family budget to show any recession from midsummer levels. - COMMENTS balance; in economic relations balance, not Force or Authority, governs economic relations. The fundamental truth about the modern economic system is that its parts must work together like the parts of a machine. Every organization of interdependent parts, from a ball team to a locomotive, an automobile, or a watch, is dependent upon between its parts; without this, a system no longer' exists, and only chaos results. t Since all groups of the system are interdependent, it follows that each has as real a concern in the prosperity of the others as in its own. It cannot sell its own product, or maintain its own unless the buing power of the others is as stable as employment, its own. It cannot raise its own compensation at the expense o other groups without losing more by unemployment than it can gain by the normal increase of its own pay. This is economic law abundantly demonstrated.. v r HERE IS GOOD NEWS! FREDOVA DANCE STUDIOS t VJ I t South lllh East Phone Hy. 2377 ARE FORMING NEW CLASSES Our Schools arc growing with Leaps and Rounds. There fore we are planning our IJABY CLASSES and PRIMARY PS cn Tuesday beginning at 10 a. m. All other classes Cl will be given Saturday from 9 a. ni. to 1 p. m. Individual Attention is given to Every Child. Our Studios arc noted for lovely associations and a whole-- , some social atmosphere where children are TAUGHT how to Dance You Will Be Thrilled With Miss Vernons Method cf Instruction. MARVELOUS RATES! REGISTER NOW! 2040 wage-earnin- Part of Eight Skeletons Found in Indian Grave Discovery of Sandusky, Ohio. powdery, brittle fragments of human bones in a shallow grave on nearby Kelleys island in Lake Erie has produced a mystery. The bones apparently were those of Iroquois Indians who died two or three centuries ago. Part of eight skeletons have been removed from the excavation. Dr. Wilton M. Krog-maprofessor jof anthropology at Western Reserve university, said the grave contained the bodies of an unborh baby, a child about a year old, a boy of twelve, a youth of eighteen,, a woman and tiiree men. Telephone linemen accidentally turned up a skull. Hasty excavations revealed the skeletons had lain untouched for years while plows furrowed the ground over and around them. Nearby stands a great stone house, once inhabited by the settler for whom the island was named, now the summer home of the Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Mich. Parts of the skeletons had been collected for Dr. Krogman by Sister Marie Lambert. From them he attempted to piece together the story of the Indiana. He explained that the Indians might have been members of a family, buried together. n, H Girls Learning to Talk at Connecticut College New London, Conn. Connecticut college students were literally talking to themselves recently aa result of an effort of the faculty to stimulate good habits in everyday speech. Installed at the college was a recording machine into which each freshman was required to read a test selection containing all the sounds in the English language, and then to speak informally. Discs recorded the voice and showed the imperfections of speech. The discs later were studied by students and instructors in private conference. Faults of voice and diction were noted,, as ..well as special abilities. Where remedial work seemed necessary, the student was advised to take a special course in speech. If the record indicated an aptitude of the student for dramatic interpretation or for public speaking, she was Informed as to the best opportunities available at college for the development of' her' talent. . Priest Finishes Years Study of Easter Island ' 1V4 MILLION FORMS of the states in which they are located. Buying Power of Average Family Falls Slightly. Salt Lake City, Utah LIFE ON EARTH IN Rivera Belong to States Whery They. Ary Located COSTS RISE, WAGES DROP, SURVEY SHOWS Vatican City. Father Sebastian Englert has completed a fourteen-mont- h investigation of Easter island, where he compiled a mass of material on life, customs and traditions of the people, the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith learned from Pucon, Chile. He was entrusted with the study by the University of Chile. Father Englert arrived at Pucon with the manuscript for a dictionary of Spanish and the language of the island, known also as Rapanui, and has material for a grammar. Easter island lies about 250 miles west of Chile. It has a population The Riddle of the Pacof k,iu0. island is often ific,1 " i.s called, is nearer solution after Father Englert long investigation. a The limited jurisdiction of the federal government over navigable streams is merely incidental to its constitutional power to regulate and improve navigation for interstate and foreign commerce. When a river forms the boundary between two states the title of each state is presumed to extend to the middle of the main channel, provided there is no legal arrangement to the contrary. Sometimes two states agree, for police purposes, to exercise concurrent Jurisdiction over a river which forms the boundary between them. The Ohio, Chattahoochee and Potomac rivers are notable exceptions to the general rule. Kentucky and West Virginia have absolute jurisdiction over the entire Ohio river along their shores as far aa the mark on the Ohio, Indiana and Illinois banks. If a person commits a crime on that river near the Illinois, Indiana or Ohio ahore he is amenable to the laws of Kentucky or West Virginia. This boundary line has been judicially recognized many times by. the Supreme court cf the United States and the Supreme courts of the states involved. The Northwest territory, from which Illinois, , Indiana and Ohio were carved, was ceded to the federal government in 1784 by the commonwealth of Virginia. The resolution of cession retained title and jurisdiction over the Ohio river to the mark on the northern bank, and these rights were transmitted to Kentucky and West Virginia when they were later formed from Virginian territory. low-wat- er low-wat-er Donner Lake Named for Parly of 46 Emigrants Lying high near the summit of the Sierras in California is Donner emilake, named for an grant party headed by George Donner, which suffered privation and even death in its attempt to cross the mountains toward the Pacific in the fall and winter of 1846. Donnera party, formed in July, consisted of 87 persons 36 men, 21 women, and 30 children. Their wagon train was delayed by hardships encountered in crossing the Nevada desert. It was not until late October that it began the ascent of the Sierras. Early snows impeded its progress. The way was blocked completely when the party reached the shores cf the lake which now bears its name. Through the long winter the emigrants fought starvation and disease, many perishing before help reached them in the spring. A monument on the shores of Donner lake is dedicated to the memory of those who suffered and died on its shores. ill-fat- A Mile The measurement to which ; we usually refer by this name is what can be more particularly called the statute mile. It equals eight each of 220 yards, or 5,280 feet in all. There is another mile the geographical or nautical This mile is of a degree of latitude, or 6,085 feet. The word comes to us from the Latin word "mille, meaning a thousand, says London Answers Magazine. The Roman mile was 1,000 paces. They measured a pace aa the distance between the points where the same heel came down in making a stride. The Roman pace which we should regard as two paces was reckoned at about five feet. This made the Roman mile 5,000 feet noticeably shorter than the mile measurement we use today. furlongs Figure Is Conservative With Animals Leading. New York. More than 1,500,000 anidifferent species of plants and mals exist throughout the worulac-cordin-g to a treatise written by Theodosius Dobzhansky, professor of genetics at the California Institute of Technology. .The total figure was described as in his a "conservative estimate Diversity, entitled Organic study, Univerpublished by the Columbia numerous species With Press. sity reported from near and far places every year, the number is expected to soar at a rapid pace, believes Professor Dobzhansky. At present there are 822,765 known species of animals, 133,000 species of flowering plants and upward of 100,000 specie of lower plants. Number Almost Endless. Professor Dobzhansky termed the number of distinct kinds of species of organisms as "seemingly endless, pointing out that within a species including the case of man no uniformity prevails. He said the study of organic diversity had its roots in antiquity and that pursuit of its problems seemingly of in a irresistible aesthetic appeal for the way measure paved large the science of biology. He described the biological classification of organisms as simultanee system of pigeonously a holes devised for the pragmatic purpose of recording observations in a convenient manner and an acknowledgment of the fact of organic discontinuity. Cats are used as an example to illustrate this point Any two cats are individually distinguishable, and the same probably holds for any two lions. And yet no living individual has ever been seen about which there could be a doubt as to whether it belongs to the species-clustof cats or to of lions. The the species-clusttwo clusters are discrete because of the absence of intermediates, and therefore one may safely affirm that any cat is different from any lion ar,d that cats as a group are distinct from lions as a group. Names Not Individual Any difficulty which may arise tn defining the species Felis domestics (cats) and Felis leo (lions), respectively, is due not to the artificiality of these species themselves, but to the fact that in common as well as in scientific parlance the words cat and lion frequently refer neither to individual animals nor to all the existing individuals of these species, but to certain modal points toward which these species gravitate. The modal points are statistical abstractions having no existence apart from the mind of the observer. The species FeluT domestics and Felis leo are evidently independent of any abstract modal points which we may contrive to make. No matter how great may be the difficulties encountered in finding the modal 'cats' and lions, the discreteness of species as naturally existing units is not thereby impaired. man-mad- er er th Australia Arms Center Under New Empire Plan Canberra, Australia. As a result at the imperial conference in London, preparations are under way here for making Australia the center of the munitions supply for empire bases in the Far East and in the Pacific. The plan is expected to strengthen not only Australias defensive position but also the effective action of the British fleet throughout the Pa- of decisions Poor Eye Never Earned Good Wages e . . There must be a malcular Image on each eye. 2nd FOCUS Imagp must be fairly well defined. 3rd FUSION There should be single mental Impression. lat FIXATION 4th The conscious must be free to attention with self Its concern meaning and Interpretation. COMFORT Dr. W. H. Landmesser OPTOMETRIST Momber of Clinic Foundation 1090 East 21st South SUGARHOUSE Harbor Seal Best Known of All Marine Mammals One of the best known and most frequently seen of all marine mammals is the harbor seal. This is so because it has the widest geographic range of any seal. It is found in the Pacific from the coast of Japan north of Siberia, and south along the American coast to Lower California, writes Colin Campbell Danborn in Field Museum News. In the Atlantic it occurs from about New York to Greenland, and from Spain, through the British Isles, to the Scandinavian peninsula. A coast inhabiting species, it lives in fords and near rocky points, islets and sand bars. Often it enters the larger rivers and bays. Its appearanco in these latter places,, frequently as much ah a hundred miles from the sea, accounts for its having been It was denamed harbor seal. scribed and pictured by writers and artists as early as the middle of the Sixteenth century. The harbor seal is the smallest member of the family Phocidae, which comprises the true or earless seals. In these, the hind flippers form functionally part of the tail, and are useless for progression on land. Harbor seals never exceed six feet in length. Large ones weigh between eighty and one hundred They do r.ot gather in pounds. such large herds as other species seldom are more than twenty-fiv- e found together. They are also less migratory, usually living in the same place throughout the year if weather and food conditions permit. A few come south along the New England coast each winter. The coats of harbor seals are extremely varied in color. The fur of or some is uniformly yellowish-gra- y dark gray; others have the yellowish coat with irregular dark spots, or the dark coat with yellowish spots. Lord Mayorship In England The lord mayorship in England was created in 1183, and many of the privileges and prerogatives of the office date from the Middle ages. The Cinderella ' coach in which the mayor rides through the streets when inaugurated is itself a heritage of former times. Built in 1757, it is adorned with cupids, dragons, flow- -, ers, and civic emblems, while the head of Father Thames graces it. Its painted panels are insured for $50,000. cific. San Marino Legend says San Marino, on the eastern shore of upper Italy, was founded in the Fourth century by St. Marinus of Dalmatia. Its total area is 33 square miles. Its known history begins in 885 A. D. By the Tenth century San Marino had launched its republic. The Monte-feltrfamily and the papacy protected it. Once it was captured by Caesar Borgia, but soon regained freedom. Napoleon recognized its independence. Garibaldi great Ital-lia-n patriot, fled to San Marino on his first retreat and there disbanded his army. o - The tentative program provides for steady increase of armaments and munition supplies in Australia to meet the local New Zealand and Eastern requirements generally. Bombs, light armament guns, small naval craft, and eventually a flying force would be produced in tiie Commonwealth defense establishments or else by private industries here. During the last two years much progress has been made toward this end by development of munition supply factories. .. . "Baby-Adopti- on Night Is Purely Ham Affair Yellowstone, Largest Park Largest park in the United States It exceeds in size is Yellowstone. the state of Delaware, is mostly in Wyoming, but extends into Montana and Idaho. Its creation as a park, at the suggestion of a Montana businessman, Cornelius Hedges, in 1870, was the start of our national parks system. Almost beyond belief are its natural wonders, and indeed early explorers who reported boiling springs, geysers, were called A movie house, London, Ont. seeking some new method of attracting customers, announced that it would hold a baby adoption night. Immediately it was swamped with protests, and the police investigat- iTRIPLE SAFE YIRES ed. Then the manager produced the baby that was to be offered for adoption. It was a four-month-o- ld pig. liars. Cow Is Hoisted Out; Much Water to Grow Sugar As about 4,000 tons of water are required to grow one ton of sugar, some of the cane' fields in the less rainy sections of the Hawaiian is- lands are obliged to maintain extensive and costly irrigation systems, says Collier's Weekly. One of these sugar-can- e plantations uses, throughout the summer, about half as much water as is consumed, during the same period, in the city of Philadelphia. Found Far From Well Frederick, Okla. An automoservice company here had its most novel experience that bile of getting a cow out of a well. Mechanics, using the automobile wrecker, pulled the cow out of the well with a chain hoist. When the cow reached the top of the well for no apparent reason to her rescuers she fell dead. ?iire$totit .AUTO , supply I SERVICE Broadway and 2nd East STORES , |