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Show beret First Submarine BASIN RECORD to Round Cape of Good Hope —Briefly by William Bruckart Picking on barrage of accusa- small details with the numerous administrators, commissions, big dictators and small dictators, and &oup other governmental agencies. I hear the expression that the battle-with tions the Packers against of a large meat packing concerns, but the fight thus started ‘promises to transcend the charge of crookedness on the part of ten corporations cited. From the undercurrezt of information around Washinton, one can readily bélieve that Questions of policy may become the focai point of the the New Deal to have dealt them a hand with a ten-spot as the high their big packers effort guilty of at. manipulation are of prices or machinations competition in sections unfair to ive = cléAn charges hold the made by . -by members of as being “full of Communi8ts.” eral after fifteen years of main question ernment ought say, some to think It That have _.ences have ieaders to help. But arisen among and among the as to the way at the and things have Department fhese differences just law of districts run are not € For instance, een is a bill pending that proposes ‘to make the federal government OFFar-Reaching supervisor of the _ Propesal security changes, the exstock is far, reaching; of . that. there can be no doubt. But S iota It - Gifferences of :- and, generally business and mine, It is held by all of $8 a bonds all shares 7 - Prade commission. ~ the fact that administration - of this permitting in- on umerous other Deal. is an It these days to iron out even new job. than enough centration many contin- Population. to fil 1,333,000 one- of sheep herds in Africa is along the Mediterranean coastal zone from Gibraltar to Tunisia, and in South Africa. Every a business wards of 50,000,000 head of sheep, is the only country in North America that has taken to wool growing in what could be called a big way. “About four-fifths of the sheep in the United States graze in the mountains and on the plateaus and plains west of the Mississippi river. “As in the case of cotton, historians and naturalists have been stumped by the query, ‘when and where was wool first used?’ Sheep and wool are mentioned in the Bible and it.is known that the Rom. ans practiced sheep breeding. Some of their prize animals wore jackets to protect the fleece. “The growth of the wool try in the United States that policy was changed has been after Eng- -7,000,000 sheep settled States. United area of Owe Much to Sheep. “To sheep, many regions of the world owe at least partially their discovery and growth, for these animals often have been the companions of pioneers. . “While, in a few remote regions of the United States, homespun is worn, factories have almost entirely erased the home industry from this country. One of several hun- The same same breed country of may: ent qualities of wool. sheep in produce to commerce, Although the United States normally produces about onetenth of the world’s annual clip, it is only a little more wool than ‘ers tear the fleeces apart. assistant pro- China, England, portant for land for all and many less im- wool-producing countries additional raw material. Engis the leading importer of wool, most of the export wool from the leading wool-producing re- half of the wool required by Ameri- gions ean ers. British markets. Much of it_is reshipped to other countries. London cloth and American carpet manufacturmanufacturers call upon the wool growers of Australia, Argentina, Uruguay, South Africa, Readers of the globe is the largest world.” is shipped wool market to of the the car drove over a hill, writes _ Amos Burg during a journey through _ Oregon, we heard a melodious voice singing in a foreign tongue. It was a Basque herder seated on a rim, watching his flocks below. These are mystery men of the BOISE, IDA.—Since 1912, 217,range, courteous, agreeable but reti036 births have been recorded by the cent, fitting in perfectly with their bureau of vital statistics of Idaho, unattended solitude. according to Lewis Williams, comWhen we drove into the Basque missioner of public welfare. During town of Jordan Valley, another asthe same length of time deaths repect of these people was presented. eorded have totaled 87,640. The popIt was late Sunday. Dashing mountulation of the state at the present ed vaqueros, with fringed chaps and > time is about 445,000. The bureau tilting sombreros, caracoling up the was set up in 1912, street on spirited ponies, and strollBOISE, IDA.—Farmers who have ing young ladies with a vivacity of | not signed the federal government natural charm and dress gave to this wheat reduction contracts will be frontier Oregon community a touch of given another opportunity to do so, the Spanish Pyrenees, Herschel Davidson, special agent for When the first Basque settler wanAda, Boise and Owyhee counties, dered into Jordan Valley more than | has announced. forty years ago and saw the endless ELY, NEV.—With an estimated sheep range he urged his brother in 20,000 tons of $20 gold ore developed far-away Spain to come. That was at the Willow Patch mine in the the beginning of the correspondence. Osceola district, a 40-ton amalgathat spotted the shelterless sage mating mill has been put into operaplains of southeastern Oregon with tion to handle the ore. Basque herders and their nomadic OGDEN, UT.—The ninth triennial flocks, convention of the Utah Association These cleanly, industrious and hosof the Deaf will convene at the state pitable people are gradually having school for the deaf at Ogden, May their language and customs modified 30 to June 2, inclusive,. by the young people attending school. BOISE, IDA—The supply of There are still many of the children, serum for tick bite cases has been however, who have never seen a exhausted, according to official retrain. They refer to a trip to Onports. taric as “going out to the railroad.” LOGAN, UT.—The farm housing After a Basque dinner the entire survey, 2 CWA completion. project, is nearing This project was con- ducted in three rural areas of Utah and was of the carried on bureau of under home direction économics cooperating with the bureau of agri| cultural engineering, department of agriculture and the state extension to determine the adequacy Lights of New York 3,1... stevenson. Ran into Billy Hill, author of “The Last Round Up,” the returns from which have made him quite comfortable and caused the matter of the next meal to be much less complicated than it was in the not remote past. The zomposer of the ditty which took the country by storm and which is still being sung here and there, though he studied violin at the New England Conservatory of Music and was to be come a member of the Boston Symphony orchestra, chose to roam instead. So hobo jungles knew him, he rode the blinds and played on steamers running between San Fraicisco and Honolulu. He has lived and worked with cowboys, and at one time was timekeeper of a borax mine in Death Valley. Coming East to look for the breaks, he became doorman in a Fifth avenue apartment house. : * * &: Six feet two inches .all, he made an imposing doorman. But he didn’t spend all his time at it. Fifth avenue doormen have other duties than merely opening and closing doors and: bowing tenants in and out of their cars and taxis. For instance, at three o’clock every morning, Hill had to mop up the lobby. It was while doing his mopping that he composed “They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree.” But the turn came. Now at thirty-four he is the band of Dedlette Lee, actress, the father of hus- Broadway an eleven months old daughter of whom he is extremely proud song second only to Ohio.” and in modern Mary * HEarl’s % author music of “Beautiful & When Hope Williams : little more than a half dozen years age turned her back on the foibles of those of the Social Register and went on the stage, there were liams With continued to go right ahead. Arthur Hopkins as: her !m- presario, she continued whisperings that it was merely a passing fad. But after her first nonchalant speech in “Paris Bound” in 1927, Miss Wil- “Holl- All I can say on that matter is that some have obtained licenses and are doing business as usual, others haven’t obtained license: and are doing business as usual except for a closer some and scrutiny have are of customers, fallen now by only the and. wayside memories, * & * For quite obvious reasons, names must be omitted in this yarn. It has to do with an artist of consider. able reputation and his wife who is extremely fond of birds. so many of his craft, been suffering from Like the artist a greatly has re. duced income—in fact the reduction reached a point where it could be reduced no farther. Then came a commission that drought. return enough fo pay all the bills. After the settlement had been made with $2 rejoicing, surplus. the artist He turned found that a over to his wife because she: insisted that she had to have a pair of silk stockings, back But with instead stockings, of she * 8 coming returned | with—a pair of love birds * Though the family already had one pair of love birds, the husband offered no objection. But the male of the original pair of love birds fell for the new female ir such a big way ready that to “his wife ‘there’s may his die. | give away So the new is now silk mate population assembled in the commu- nity hall and gave a Basque dance in our honor. The snapping fingers, gayety, merrymaking and frequent _ bursts of song that accompanied the dances flowed from the deep roots of their ancient heritage —National Geo- graphic Magazine. was Tifton, until so she mighty tal well, sales produce taining wonder of for Smith $15,000 divided worth of with the Detroit men, $7,500 for himself. he smiles, tofarm reNo held in the Service. county has a county recent- ed in every district of the county, election managers reported that one Voter was too lazy or too busy go to the polls in person and sent his vote tied to. the tail of his dog, but the vote was: not counted. Incidentally, the vote might have decided a tie which resulted in that | district. canyon, al- south of Goldfield, mplaints. But wisely she sis in fis frequent colds, his “fagzed out,” “on edge” condidot mn Vv iroubhe she herself had whip ped ee The Stis al NR one tracttocom: functioning. yon! Bonu box it- Try a ROCK SPRINGS, WYO.—A_ hu- ming in 1933 and nonfatal injury for each 17,720.tons taken from the .100 producing mines -of the state are recorded in the annual report of » Lyman H. Fearn, Rock Springs, state inspector of coal mines. AMERICAN FORK, UT.—The level of water in Utah Lake is re- RICHMOND, UT.—Richmond has definitely decided te continue the day, annual County Black Agent and R. White L. : *TUMS” Caer For Hard Coughs or Colds That Worry You — Creomulsion is made to. give supreme help for coughs or colds. It combines 7 helps in one—the best helps known to science. for quick relief, for safety. But more; careful starts. cough which people, It is more use it for every cough No .one knows and that where a may lead. No one can tell factor will do most. That depends on the type of cold. Creomulsion costs- a little more than lesser helps. But it means the utmost help. And it costs you nothing if it fails to bring the quick relief you gist guarantees safety’s sake, © seek. Your drugit. Use it for (adv.) Are You Nervous, Weak? ah $ nervous, Sammons of weakened eat tion. I was sleepless and had hardly strength enough to do my housework, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription built me Up, gave me stren | and me of that nervo run-down caraidon. I felt fine in aay way.’ New size, tablets 50 cts., liquid $1.00. Large size, tabs. or liquid, $1.35, “We Do Our Part.” OLD JUDGE AGE PENSION INFORMATION Send stamp. LEHMAN - ‘Humboldt, Kan. es ) ismore than — skin deep : ‘AdvaieRacise expert. G ee Ask the beauty oA TELD TEA—a cu cup — often or mote for your s and complexion than nears cosmetics. Expels poison- ous and « eventuall cause muddy, blotchy, eru skin, A week. of this interna Cpecaty treatment”? astonish you. Begin tonight, : = — ome stere) | recently. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.—In the process of formation is the Property Owners’ Tax league, intended as an adjunct of the Salt Lake real estate board. The league’s announced purpose will be to adjust “inequalities of tax burdens now placed on real property,” or, in other words, to lower real property taxes. big & oree TO: consid- man life for every 444,955 tons of coal produced in the state of Wyo- announeed me ave —at CG € ered aS carrying no metal values, have recently been found to carry high values in gold, neeor ding to assays. council, ly, when school trustees were elect- to and ¥ Scout workers will be held in Salt Lake April 5, D. E. Hammond, chief scout executive of the Salt Lake hose, candidate fer the laziest voter’s contest—if there be one. In the “big election” UT.—Heavy the level of one year ago. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.—The annual Utah state conference of Boy commission Ga.—Tift EPHRAIM, most continuous storms in the mountains east of here recently have brought both the snow depth and the water content well above average. aceording to measurements made at the Great Basin experiment station. _ PROVO, UT.—Postal revenues at the local post officesare showing a steady increase for 1934 over recent years. LA VERKIN, UT.—The 200 members of C C C camp PE-217 here not only are earning money, enjoying good food and living conditions, but are benefiting through courses of vocational education in many lines. TONOPAH, NEV.—tLarge quantities of black sand in upper Tule ported as 0.9 of a foot lower than home Ties Vote to Doe’ ¢ Tail, but It Isn’t Counted troiters to work his farm on a cooperative basis, neighbors scoffed at his plan. But it turned out What SHE TOLD WORN: OUT HUSBAND: to had Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong. No, micah Sold ent farm housing; to measure the by druggists in tablets or liquid.—Adv. potential demand for improved farm home facilities; to develop plans for Great Truth installation with standard specifica-|~ It’s better to be dressed up than tions adapted to needs of typical dressed down. sections and to determine the estimated cost; to investigate possible methods for financing farm home improvements. LOGAN, UT.—111 4-H Club Leaders of Utah attended the 15th annual training school held here a. few days Sir could have reproached him forens fits of temper—his “all ago. love birds—and artist staying another buy old the ©, Bell Syndicate.—WNU - When Howard A. Smith of Capac, Mich., invited 280 unemployed De- of pres- BOISH, IDA.—14 CWA projects are under way in Ada County. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.—A committee of 25 lawyers is considering changes in the state criminal code and will submit a proposed code name is no longer in the social reg| to the next session of the legislature. ister. . : BOISH, IDA.—A. special election * 8s 6 will be held April 6 to decide on Sticking to the stage for another proposed changes in the city governparagraph, there is Aurania Roument. verol who wrote “Growing Pains,” SALT LAKE CITY, UT.—The in which her daughter, Jean Rouerash of the United Airlines pasverol, has the principal juvenile senger plane killing 8 persons, has role. When Leona Hogarth finished caused Army air mail flyers to use playing the role of Mrs. Mcintyre, great care in making flights. Mrs, Rouverol took it over and thus BOISH, IDA.—The normal school is ‘playing mother to her own year for rural schools in Idaho was daughter, and that’s held to be a 1930-31. Federal aid will be grantprecedent to those well informed ed to schools which have run out of in theater ae ‘6 funds before completing work of a normal year, measured on the 1930An inquiry oe ie this desk 31 basis, after having levied the asking what has .become of the maximum under the law, it is respeakeasies now. that repeal has ported by school officials. been in effect for weeks ana weeks. | much NOT SO FOOLISH in day,” “Rebound” and “The Passing Present.” Then she deserted drama for musical comedy. But after a brief interlude, she returned, and was in the Guild production “Too True to. Be,Good,” by none other than George Bernard Shaw, along with Beatrice Lille. And now she’s the star of “All Good Americans,” possibly with no.regrets that her a sales In some From the washers it is conveyed to As ' service. The object of the survey was are covered with wire netting through which dust and other loose foreign matters falls while the sort- drying rooms and thence to carding .rooms, where it begins the not far whose workmen agency, governmental or private, that is radical. © by Western Newspaper Unioa, may too yarns Some sorting tables the radical side.. Business interests are not radical and they are not going to co-operate with any threatened, now, if it leans Discontented 100 wool-growing countries wool is washed before it is sheared from the sheep. Unwashed fleeces contain grease from the skins of the animals.. After. sorting, the wool is scoured by passing it through a series of vats of warm, soapy water. life of grows on a Shoes: shoulders and sides. “When a sheep is sheared the fleece holds together. The whole fleece then is tied and with other sort the wool. as made the thought opposed to the principles upon which the agency was found- its are differ- for ship- on fabrics fibers are parallel, while woolens are made of fibers crossed and mixed. Foreign matter that cannot be washed from the fleece is destroyed by chemicals, Burrs are removed by machinery. “Wool is constantly moving in The best wool from and — fessor of veterinary surgery and obstetrics at the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary school, and headaches are the result of colds usually caused by dehorning cows in cold weather. journey that ends in woolen cloth and other wool products. Worsted wool mills that employ 40,000 workers. “Wool greatly differs in quality. complete fleeces is placed And, it is well from the com- _ Philadelphia. cows are that way because they have headaches, according to Dr. dred modern American manufacturing companies normally operates 60 ment in bags containing to 500 pounds each. “At the factory expert go | | indus- phenomenal. “By 1810, just two centuries the first sheep arrived from eastern for al- Oft- country of Europe raises sheep, but in Norway, Sweden and Finland there are few flocks, scattered over wide areas. The United States, with up- I mission standpoint for it to watch out! Its present state of recrudescence, after a period when its ap‘propriations were cut to the bone “opposition that thus far has not been allowed to blow off steam. "hus, in many quarters of Wash-{agton and from many business leaders who have come to Wash- {ngton its Discontented Cows Headache Sufferers also of effect of fending off some of the fire that the commission naturally must expect from the school of ed. ~ been set up. The same is true repecting ‘the attitude of business women There natives “The world’s sheep population is more than 500,000,000—a quarter as great as the human population, The annual world clip of wool is more: e ber of mischievous complaints, because competitors won’t attempt so freely to gain an advantage by Smearing the reputation of another business when their own part in it is disclosed. My conviction is that adoption of a rule of that kind may have the _ but those. opposed to them are none the less opposed because they made _less- neise {n the last few. months. - They. will join in any. movement that ~ promises to overturn the program _ of business’ dictatorship _ that has of the New Indians. Sheep of fording full publicity for anyone to examine the case. It is an action that probably will reduce the num- leaders in dictating business policies and practices is well known, and of citing however, _ dividuals to conduct their own business without having to bow and scrape before a bureaucrat in Washington. . The activities of some of the NRA phases availability and hereafter, the commission will issue their citations and will tell why the action was taken, thus af- ington, causes concern among that -school- of thought which clings to “men the entimes, complaints were made by competitors just to gain the advantage of that stigma. Last month, - sphasé of business, like so many ~ others, would be centered’ in Washthe idea of a policy down ma on the particular business. Federal and in- ues the bulletin. “Sheep-raising is pretty well confined to the temperate zones. Sheep do not like very cold countries, nor do they thrive well in the tropics except at high altitudes. leged violation of fair practice rules and offering no statement except the charges. The result was a stig- of Its scope cuts course whether on the the the com- on the dog.” The stake is too high. Through some eight or ten years past, the commission has followed a ors’. of the, trading exchanges or ross. ‘the counters of brokers. The perations would’ be directed from ots“Washington ” ‘through to present be land, there were trading marts is no place to “try it . grazing over the . This. Neg eatin. -would attempt to t e sales Siberians would of the islands of the seas,” hear comment, however, to the -effect that the commission must watch its step in selection of personnel in connection wtih stock exchange supervision. That job will be highly technical, and the danger that has been pointed out is that untrained theorists may be appointed to do much of the work. It is hardly necessary to say that most theorists enjoy trying out their ideas at other people’s expense, and surely administration of the country’s observers. to be a- perfectly normal -and natural line of cleavage. roi I Theorists be traced. back to one’s basic belief govyour Washington, No Job for opinion are sharp, speaking, they may as to the extent the federal ernment should go in managing which to be partially wrong after the commission starts on Wallace and the professors on whom e watched in Each group probably will be found con- that Secretary he hag leaned so heavily may soon find a swirling storm around their heads, which, once started, surely will go beyond just that phase of _ the President’s New Ra a program. period * Consequently, it possible the funds for corporate financing and, consequently, restricts business development. The information available to me seems to indicate there is some truth in these claims, but there is also some truth in the assertion that restrictions were necessary In order to protect investors from unScrupulous individuals who issue. and sell fake stocks and bonds, | of Agriculture, _eealed any longer. ‘ appears the ton trucks. Australia, although a comparative youngster in the wool industry, is the world’s leading — wool producer. India and China are ideas. There was doubt, and still is _ the. outstanding sheep countries of doubt, as to the efficiency of such Asia. Argentina and Uruguay have legislation. There were claims, and. the heaviest sheep population in still are claims, that passage of the “South America. The greatest: con- the farm been and hands a weapon which it would use in carrying out many radical differ- members eongress from agricultural production ish plan because wool is one of the world’s basic commodities,” says @ bulletin from the National Geographic society. “A meeting of all the world’s wool growers would reveal a motley gathering of all creeds and colors from Icelanders to South Africans, from Canadians to Argentines, from truth in securities act—was expected by many to place in the commission’s to the packer contro- - Department of Agriculture because of the sad plight of the industry it supposed five-year industri- wool major industries encouraged by government. “It is natural that the wool and downs. I believe that, in most instances, business has looked upon the commission with more or less favor respectively as it has pursued an economic policy of reasonableness or radicalism. Passage of the law that required registration of all security tssues with the commission before they were offered for sale—the so-called _ versy will bring the larger question fo a head. There was a plain disposition on the part of most persons to withhold criticism of the Department of Agriculture all, through, the early months of President Roosevelt’s administration. Whether one agreed with the New Deal program or was definitely opposed to it, the dispo* gition was to avoid attacks on the was plan re- manufacture will be among the four an administration mission distinctly has had its ups prethe is alization it Is proposal, the Fed-. commission will de Trade Through far the gov- go. cently announced it will since Turkey’s placed in the position of virtual su- | dustry is included in the new Turk- comparative of how Washington.—Under ‘pervisor of all transactions in the issue and sale of securities, whether they be stoeks or bonds, notes or any other form of corporate indebtedness, The circumstance has directed considerable attention lately to the relationship between that tederal agency and business interesix, as well as the treatment business may expect from the commission as now made up. congress quietude in this direction, will cipitate a political fight. over of course, after becoming the first subthat of S. S. Winchester Castle, M. A, Emmerson, Sheep-Raising Pretty Well Spread Over Globe. ¢€ pass, Security Sales the is a fact that the packers have been : dragged into court before on similar .. charges, and it is also admitted that there are some officials in the Department of Agriculture who are so radical as to be desirous of seeing private business destroyed. With these facts in mind, it is well to recall also that in the last several months there has been smoldering sentiment that the federal ~gevernment is going too, far in di-reeting the affairs of private individuals. A good many observers here. believe that the charges now renewed against the meat packers, ¢ ; Officials of the department that was described e Supervise the of that if When the legislation for control of the security exchanges passes, as, packers some here rially less, of records because were it appears it reaches the stage where it has idle hands, the chances of a frontal attack on his program seem mate- the country, solely because some officials of the Department of Agriculture made the charges. It is likewise hats, ‘Further, to drive out certain Wool Still Ranks as Major Industry the President succeeds in his plan to get congress out of town before people want their national government to manage business affairs. it is unfair, of course, to hold that ten The Italian submarine Toti shown lying at anchor in Cape Town harbor, marine to round the Cape of Good Hope. Its huge size favorably contrasts with bility that the Department of Agriculture may have “the goods” on the meat packers, If that be the case, it is obvious that opponents of the New Deal will have to loox elsewhere for a peg on which to hang niihistration New Déal policies. Fundamentally, these questions ‘involve determination of how far the the | ecard. In reporting that circumStance, however, it seems to me one should call attention to the posst- versy. While the packers may fold ‘up their tents, admit some of the charges and not fight back any further, the situation is fraught with possibilities of politics that lead di“rectly to an attack on Roosevelt ad- combined | the meat packers may result in an alignment of those forces who find current contro- told for Busy NO TICK BITE SERUM DEAF MEET IN MAY _ SURVEY FARM HOMES IDAHO HAS 445,000 PEOPLE FARMERS HAVE CHANCE National Topics Interpreted - Washington.—The department of Agriculture has laid down another BASQUE HERDERS LEND CHARM TO © ~ OREGON RANGES Intermountain News A eat ~* ‘Lanaties Drink PIMPLES HEALED — Skin made clearer,smoother, finer,the easy Resinol way. For free ae of Ointment and Soap wri shana Irige 62, Baltou om dairy Wrigley ‘has announced. The affair will conducted in May this year. he WNU—W 10—34 _ * |