Ligonier Banner., Volume 73, Number 36, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 September 1939 — Page 2
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SAD PLIGHT OF BUSINESS . There must be a deep conspiracy underway among all the statistical authorities of our fair land to make us believe that business is pretty good and that economically things are surprisingly satisfactory. These authorities—Chambers of Commerce, financial writers and Government reports, to name a few—must be wrong because we have it, on the authority of the chief gloom-dispenser of the Republican National Committee, that the poor old United States is in a terrible condition. According to the National Industrial Conference Board, which does research for many of the big corporations, there are 5,000,000 fewer people out of work today thanthere were in 1933, and in this connection it should be noted that approximately four million people have come to working age, so the employment figures would seem to be even better than that. . : But the chief mourner over the awful plight to which the New Deal has reduced the United States does not limit his woe to the unemployment figures, for he announced in the last column from his pen that “the income of millions of persons has been reduced substantially during the last six years through a deliberate cheap money policy, restricted profits and diminished interest rates.” And yet the obtuse statisticians tell us that in 1932 the per capita income was about $321 and for the last year it was $491. Allowing for the increase in population, this indicates an increase in national income under the New Deal of over 30 billion dollars. Now, as to that cheap money thought. It must be admitted that if your went out to buy gold you would have to pay more dollars for it than you would have had to pay for gold six years ago. But if you want to buy anything else you find that the dollar buys just about as much of any given product as it did then. If you wanted to buy pound sterling or guilders or francs, or any of the other standard currency, you would find that you got as many of them for your dollars as you ever did, and in most cases, this dollar that the propagandist is so disturbed about, is at a premium. What Is a Mere Fact to the G. O. P. “Farm prices,” says the Republican purveyor of grief, “are not much better than six years ago.” According to the Bureau of Economics of the Department of Agriculture (July 15, 1939), the prices on the seven leading farm products are higher now than they were in 1932 by from 32 to 73 per cent. Milk is 32 per cent higher than in 1932; beef cattle 47 per cent, hogs 48 per cent, potatoes 55 per cent, wheat 56 per cent, corn 60 per cent, cotton 73 per cent. : Statistics, of course, make dull reading. Fictional statistics have, however, within themselves elements of humor and imagination. So when. you read the story of the G. O. P. economist you learned that the New Deal had put business in a straitjacket and prevented it from functioning. The real humor of this is apparent when you look over the Dun and Bradstreet figures, which show more than $600,000,000 worth of building permits, as against $123,000,000 in 1933 ; bank clearings in 22 principal cities 32 billion dollars higher than in 1983 ; fewer than half as many busness failures, etc. Business must be pretty bad when Sear, Roebuck in July of this year sold $277,000,000 worth of goods, against $108,000,000 in 1933.
Something Is Always Around the Corner I don’t know what the Department of Commerce can be thinking of, in view of the Republican grief over our business condition, when it reports that retail business generally for the first six months of 1989 is a billion dollars ahead of what it was in the same period last year. ¢ Even the railroads must be in this conspiracy, because Standard Statistics Co. announces that “this will probably prove to be the best railroad year, with the exception of 1937, since 1911,” and the N. Y. Journal of Commerce states that “American big business rounded out an unparalleled 20.- year period of expansion in 1938 with greater resources than at any in previous history. Today there are 26 finan cial and commercial enterprises in the United States with assets of more than a billion dollars each compared with only six in 1919 and 20 in 1929.” I am afraid I have given my readers an overdose of figures, but I know of no other way of pointing out the fallacy that has been fed them. It goes without saying that a propagandist committed to the duy of proving that the New Deal has failed is forced to invent figures to back up that position. It would make no difference if our country were today in the midst of the hugest boom in its history, you could still be sure of learning from G. O. P. headquarters that ruin and chaos lay ahead and that only the election of a Republican President and Congress can save us. They told us that in 1932, in 1936, and in fact in every election for the past ten years. . During a Republican administration, with the country in the throes of a panic, prosperity is just around the corner. Under Democratic administration, with every business index pointing upward, these same prophets assure us that ruin is just around the corner. $ 8 8
“We await with bated breath the next few discussions in the series of Dr. Wm. S. Myers, professor of politics at Princeton. He instructs the Women’s National Republican Club and presents the record of the Republican party under Hoover as ‘one of which the Republicans can be proud and one on which the nation can depend with confidence.’ And theme the professor will develop is ‘How Hoover started us toward prosperity.” No one can honestly disagree with him when he says: ‘lf the Republican party is to be restored to power, it will not be by public revulsion to the New Deal alone” He states this must be accompanied by ‘two other forces.” The first of these,’ he explains, ‘will be the forward program which it preparing.’ “A questionaire circulated among Brockton high sechool students showed 705 votes for Thomas E. Dewey as against - 346 for Senator Lodge, 216 for Alf. M. Landon and 390 for ~all other Republicans. But surprisingly enough, 1,148 thought that President Roosevelt should have a third term - and 883 that he should not.”—Boston Herald (Rep.) kg : 82 8 8 ~ “The fact that Mr. Hoover is lending support to the ?‘Mey candidacy and that Republican’s in various states ‘are seriously discussing him as a.Republican party’s stand--ard bearer in 1940 is a pretty good indication of the paucity of Presidential timber in that party. If he should continue to grow in political stature, Dewey would be far better -d 10 years from now than he is ‘today.”—Beaumont
THE LIGONIER BANNER, LIGONIER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1939
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Republican won votes in 1938 by two ruses. To the WPA workers they gave promise of higher pay. To the business man they promised economy and lower taxes. In both respects the G.O.P. congressmen failed to deliver and voters who fell for this political chicanery are not going to be so easily trapped in 1940. Instead of higher wages, the WPA workers are getting ‘“enforced’” vacations because of Republican votes in Congress. The business man who voted fof lower taxes got fooled: The citizen who voted for less spending got fooled. The voter who cast his ballot for a balanced budget got fooled, because even the Democratic tax program wasn’t enough to match the Republican spending program. We don’t have to argue to prove these points. Just look at the record. The budget demand of President Roosevelt totaled $8,768,887,271. Congress appropriated $9,312,223,912 or $543, 336,641 more than the total budget estimated by the President to be sufficient for all needs and within means of the federal government.
If Congress appropriated more money than Roosevelt requested then why are WPA workers being dismissed? It was because reactionary Republicans—who had won seats in Congress by pledging to increase @WPA wages—did everything they could to hamstring Roosevelt. In almost every instance they cut the appropriations Roosevelt particularly requested, in spite of the faect that the President had shown conclusively that the full amounts were vitally needed. On the other hand, they dipped deeply into the pork barrel, providing handsome sums for their states and districts Pointing to the Roosevelt items they cut in the budget, they loudly acclaim that they saved the taxpayers money At the same time they whisper to constituents how they procured federal money for them. Roosevelt was stopped from getting sufficient money to keep WPA jobs for reliefers. In the 1939 ‘deficiency bill he asked $875,000,000—g0t $825,000,000; in the 1940 relief deficiency bill he requested $1,762,490,000—g0t $1,755,600,000. Congress slashed other deficiency bills proportionately. All in all the President asked for $3,676,376,376 for relief and only got $990,888,436 which was $2,775,487,940 less than he requested. Every WPA worker who lost his job should know this. It s not Roosevelt’s fault.
To those who contend that the jobless are too lazy to work, we submit this Associate Press dispatch: Cleveland, Aug. 16—Ten thousand men and women, some of whom waited more than 24 hours besieged the Cleveland stadium today to register for 600 city jobs. One man was injured in the crush. Throughout last night scores slept in chairs and cots set up on walks. ““Six hundred jobs! Ten thousand job seekers! We hope that every Congressman who voted the 30-day “vacations” for WPA workers so they could hunt jobs will read this item.
Rep. Forest A. Harness of Ko[komo, who represents the Fifth ’district in Congress, beat his }breast during the 1938 campaign and called federal spending “‘ruinous, vicious, extravagant, a creature of evil, and an abomination.” No adjdctive was tpoo strong to describe that hatred and reviled spending program—before election. It sounded good around the political campfires, and it fooled a lot of people. But now that Forest is in Congress, we find him fighting to get a million dollars for back annuities for the Miami Nation Indians who live in his district. He introduced a bill in Congress to give the tribe the right to go before the United States Court to Claim and push its fight for $1,000,000 in back annuities. He sent a speaker to the annual reunion of the tribe to tell 150 members of the tribe he thought he could get the money for them. Of course, all these people have votes 1 and Forest wants them in 1940. What's a million dollars of Unclg/l Sam’s money in his young lifé] Is Forest for economy? Ha! Ha!
Turn to Pennsylvania for an example of Republican economy. When campaigning for Governor, Arthur H. James said: “I pledge you to run the present state government through the wringer, squeezing out millions—which will be passed back to you in the form of tax reductions.”” James was then running for Governor and it was easy to make this promise. He was elected, and let us see how he’s doing. A Harrisburg, Pa., dispatch by the Associated Press is the best answer. It read: ‘‘Republican leaders of the Pennsylvania state legislature met here today to plan for a special session at which they expect
When Finding Tault ; éz Americans have always felt ~ LAWRENCE Whatever they-believe is not A-IAmORT\G Decorous, just or wise; W And I, for one, have done my share. = Of pointing out the way — ——— o~ T 0 others who appear to be . e g : g__ ' Inclined to go astray. - ~ Pp— s 5 'y ‘l‘ i ‘ d | This gentle art of finding fault 3 _~Z |L I l\“h (If “gentle” is the word) T ‘ Can easily become unfair, e Tvt ey Or vicious, or absurdl — e BE . Unless the critic is discreet w-JES RNy In voicing his complaint, | D L@?{ He finds himself beyond the bounds JWE| 2 v“"\{' i 1 Of reason and restraint. | T TR 3 i g 4 /‘\g /And so, I think we should adopt g\ | =~ a 7 30 &7 One simple guide and rule, h\\:\\« Y / VI ~ Before we label anyone ; é \; / A scoundrel or a fool— . S | Lasoesrl | When finding fault, we should includef#= yi,,tf‘ fi%;‘,s /4 A comprehensive plan . f , Zomm o) 120 1 For bettering the thing for which 2 G"’*‘*‘ L A Wecriticbeamanl Mo EREEEE . e ; LAY 2w Ve el - = o S R A B = =
to impose about $100,000,000 in new taxes. There’s the story of the great Republican program of ‘““tax reduction’ for Pennsylvania. It is positive proof that the G.O.P. has no more of a genuine program to put men back to work.
ROOSTERNS g Rk Ny é_ N / llHll'\\‘“‘ 72NN S {2 IsY -“.l\. 320 4 . . 7 QR By WALTER A. SHEAD " Republican leaders, and particularly those Republican congressmen from Indiana who betrayed the people in their hate for Franklin D. Roosevelt, are now offering every sort of alibi. They remind me of the young man in court on a charge of killing his father and mother who pled for leniency on the ground that he was an orphan.
* * * In spite of their efforts to scuttle the greatest humanitarian program ever enacted into law; in spite of their temporary victory in defeat of the lending bill and the Housing measure; in spite of the most withering and causcaustic criticism backed by no pro gram of their own, Franklin D, Roosevelt and the Democratic progrom has brought prosperity to a fear-stricken, weary people. : % * & : There may be a special session of the Congress. .The President may go before the people setting out the program he desires enacted and his reasons for it. He should demand that the Republican coalition or any responsible leader, if any, present an alternative plan. The Republicans have never had an alternative plan for anything. Their program has been to criticize, to stalemate, to defeat.
1 # * * | But opportudlity and hope has been given to two and a half million young people in the land through CCC and NYA; millions of bank depositors are free from worry and confident their money is safe in the banks of the nation: business is increasing, and profits are better, every large corporation listed shows huge gains over preceding years; more men are employed in private industry than ever in the history of the nation s building trades are enjoying the greatest activity since 1929; agriculture is on a paying basis once more; the tax base has been spread with emphasis on the ability to pay; the nation has been saved from revolution imminent in 1933; great public works, lasting monuments, have been erected; soil conservation and erosion control have been practiced.
* * * Millions have been given jobs, their homeg and farms saved; forty-five million workers are secure. in the knowledge they can provide for their families . even though privote jobs fail, through unemployment insurance; other millions deluded by fools, prqmises of Republican candidates are nevertheless drawing old age pension checks, blind pensions; mothers’ pensions; crippled children are being cured.
* % * And yet metropolitan papers parade three Republican leaders grinning in devilish glee because they had a part in attempting to repeal and defeat this great program for the madn of the people.
- For my part, this quotation is apt in conmnection with these recorded enemies o the welfare of the people: ¢I would rather be a fox and steal fat geese than a miserly millionaire and prey upon the misfortunes of my fellows. I would rather be. a peddler of hot peanuts than - vote for a law that gives to bond grabbers and boodlers privilege to despoil the pantries of the poor. I would rather play a cornstalk fiddle while picaninnies dance than be an unscrupulous politician and build a widows’ sighs and orphans’ tears a flimsy bubble of fame to be blown down th narrow beach of Time and Eternity’s shoreless sea. ** * : And yet these Republican leaders with their momentary flimsy bubble of fame, grin for all to see, in voting to cut WPA salaries; to kick women and dependent men off WPA jobs. They voted to loot the pantries of the poor and to keep them in filthy slums by defeating the Housing bill. S * @ Republican members of the Indiana Delegation will find that they have preyed once too often upon the misfortunes of their fellows; that the human equation in the nation today is more powerful than the dollar mark. * * * They will find that in spite of ~ their pretly promises and - double-talk upon which they rode into office, they face a day of reckoning when Indiana ~ taxpayers come to pay the additional relief costs which these Republicans have saddled upon them by their votes to slash federal relief expenditures through the Works Progress Administration.
~ This Week’s Best Stories and Witticisms
Your money or your life. Quick! What’s the matter? Why the puzzled look on your face? Man, ’lm thinkin’ the matter over, : X X x I'll never propose to a girl again as long as I live! Ah, ho—jilted, eh? No. accepted! i X x* 3 : How is your mother-in-law these days? ' Oh, meddling.
X XX However did your girl friend get so conceited? It’s all done with mirrors. X x x My son, promise to give up woman, liquor and all your bad habits, and ‘I will give you fifty thousand. : Now what would I do with fifty thousand dollars and no bhad habits. x = % Bill’s not as big a fool as he was. ' Has he reformed? No. He’s reduced.
2 X X Do you carry any burglar insurance on your house? Sure. 1 always keep a goodlooking cook so that I'll be sure to have g policeman around somewhere. : xX X ‘ Making love is like making pie. All you need is a lot of crust and some applesauce. % or % He went six years to grammar school Then left by strong request. And all declared he was a fool—- - A simp by every test, But now he rolls in luxuries And doesn’t lack a thing | He writes the words for melodies ~ That simpler fatheads sing.
: o WHAT YOU FOLKS TALKED ABOUT YEARS AGO e
' 10 Years Ago . Born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Biddle a son, Thomas Adrian. Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Shobe and son Ira attended the State Fair at Indianapolis. Sammy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Odell Oldfather was taken to a Goshen specialist to have an infected ear treated. Captain and Mrs. H. J. Towerton and two daughters who had spent the summer here returned to their home in Edmonton, Canada. ~ Mrs. George W. Brown and granddaughter left for Boston. Glen Engle, of Ann Arbor spent Labor Day with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. JWerten Engle. Mrs. Fred Weeks, Mrs. John Skeels, Mrs. Milton Loeser and Mrs. Lawrence Haines gave a one o’clock luncheon at Hotel Ligonier. Marvin Austin of Chicago who had been visiting his uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Xilmer returned home.
. 20 Years Ago Mayor and Mrs. Sol Henoch spent the week end in Laporte visiting Mr. Henoch’s parents. Mrs. C. G. Keehn presented her pupils in a musical recital at the Presbyterian church. Mrs. P. J. Carney took her little son James to South Bend for a tonsil and adenoid operation. From Berlin came the report that restrictions were removed from the use of certain textile goods. Hostelrieg were permitted the use of linen napkins instead of coarse paper. P. A. Joray was quite ill at his home suffering from liver trouble. , ; Mrs. Clara Yoder and son Frederick were leaving for their home in Toledo.
Our NEeicußors' ViEws
Behind The Eight-Ball Benito. Mussolini is behind the eight-ball, and don’t think he isn’t. Whatever else should happen in the event of a general war, Italy would be the second if not the first supposedly powerful nation to be wrecked. And by wrecked, we mean wrecked. The best way for French and British troops to penetrate Germany is via mnorthern Italy and what used to be Austria. ‘Benito Mussolini knows that. He knows that his country, his regime, and he himself stand to be blown into eternal smithereens if he ranges himself alongside the Nazis.
Furthermore, Benito Mussolini knows that even in the remote possibility that Italy and Germany could smash France and England into abject submission, the Nazis would take the lion’s share of spoils and leave 111 Duce crouching in quest of crumbs. |
Yet Benito Mussolini has been Hitler’s friend, Hitler’'s ally, Hitler’s fellow protagonist of NaziFascism. How would Mussolini fare in the event of Anglo-French triumph over the Nazis? Not much better. Truly, Benito Mussolini is behind the eight-ball.—Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.
America ‘““Mobilizes” Her 30,000,00 While 10,000,000 soldiers of Europe jockey nervously for position, awaiting the signal tha! will set them to killing one another, a tremendous ‘mobiliza-
tion”’ is also going on in America. It is the annual “mobilization’’ of 30,000,000 school children, ready to return to the classroom. of these, more than 20,000,000 are in the elementary grades, 6,500,000 will go to high schools. Students in the higher grades of ‘education make up the rest. More than a million teachers are preparing to take up the work of teaching them. Above eight billions have been invested in plant, and close to two billions will go during the coming year to the carrying on of the work. This is a tremendoug effort, probably not matched in any other country or in any other time. On it we pin our faith.. - It is “mass eduecation”, in a sense. For we in the TUnited Stat have always staked everything on belief in the paople as a whole,. We have asked with Lincoln, “Why should there not be a patient confidenc? in the ultimate justice of the peopls? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?” ; We believe there is none. And because we rely thus on the will of the people, we have gone to great paing to try to make sure that it shall be an informed and an intelligent will. Where else in the world {s there a fundamental charter for a great area that. has in it words like thess, contained in the Ordinance of 1787 which set up the Northwest Ter| knowledge being necessary to
- In the absence of Dale Woodruff on his vacation Kent Jackson was helping at the postoffice.
30 Years Ago Schloss Bros. had a front page display ad showing marvelous switches, puffs, rolls, etc. On the editorial page was a poem by Bret Harte entitled, “I Was With Grant.” ~ Miss Bernice Herald entertainLed a party of young ladies to a hayrack party. The Misses Madge and Marie Scott entertained a party of ladies at the Scott cottage, Natti Crow Beach.
Mrs. Jesse Biddle was recovering from a major operation performed by Dr. Fred Clapp asgisted by Dr. W. A. Shobe and Dr. Frank Black. Miss Rosalie Wilkinson had returned _ from Fort Wayne where she visited relatives. The Misses Mayme and Hattie Loeser, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Harris of Chicago, Dan Michaels of Milwaukee, Louis Hyman of Wabash and Harry Selig were at the Wawasee Inn to spend Sunday. Miss Effie Kinnison came from New York City to visit her parents, Mayor and Mrs. James Kinnison.
40 Years Ago Miss Clara MecNutt returned from g visit at Atlanta, Ind. Mrs. Abe Mier returned from Milwaukee, Wis., and was here to meet her husband who had just returned from Europe. Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Williams had guests in their home, the Misses Ethel and Mabel Botkin of Portland. 3 i
New officers elected at ‘the Round Table Club which met
good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall be forever enrouraged.”' - On the ground we have taken our.stand, and on that ground we stand today a sour 30,000,000 children and young men and women prepare to return to school. On those whose school days are past, however, devolves a responsibility. We have been. in our day, the beneficiaries of this broad educational program. And on every one of ug rests ‘‘the moral obligation to be intelligent”. In the United States it is not only necessary that the leaders think. It is necessary that all shall think.
We have the duty to think, and not merely to be swayed at will by every seductive voice that comes out of a radio receiver, or the first flannel-mouthed orator who stands up on his hind legs to address a mass meeting. In certain countries they have introduced a new idea: they say “we think with our blood.” That of course, is exactly the way a tiger thinks. It is’ not thinking, but feeling, and usually on the lowest plane of feeling, at that.
We who were school children yvesterday must think straight if we are to protect those who are school children today and those who will be school children tomorrow—XKendallville News-Sun.
Garberville For Lunch. For about 600 or 800 miles |west of Chicago the United States is a grayish white, with a black stripe down the middle. From there on to Colifornia it si black with a white stripe, or sometimes an orange one. lowans like to drive with one wheel across the stripe. After considering the situation, a humane highway ‘department painted two stripes on lowa pavements. Highway motality in lowa has decreased materially. Yellowstone park is full of bears. The bears are wild. Tourists from Chicago would run screaming for the guards if they saw one walking across the lawns at Brookfield. In- Yellowstone they send little Willie up to feed the bear while papa takes a picture. Every now and then a bear ignores the cookie and eats a piece of Willie. : So far as living accommodations are concerned, the park.is the greatest clip joint west of Broadway. Cabins with 1890 conveniences cost twice what the same accommodations cost along highways leading into the park. A single company has a monopoly inside the park, with rates fixed on a so-called public utility basis. Harold Ickes, the old monopoly baiter, might ask his friend, Thurman Arnold, to look into the monopoly in his own park. . - Sk }; The forest rangers inside the park, who have nothing to do with ‘where you eat or lay your head, do - magnificent’ job of shepherding millions of city folk through tho whids. . = .
with Mrs. S. T. Eldred were: President, Miss Alice Wood; vicepresident, Mrs. W. A. Shobe; secretary, Miss Lena Wolfe; treasurer, Mrs. Charles Hoagland; leader, Miss Minnie Flinn. Russia “‘was the subject for study for that year. L George Sack was in Constantine, Mich., to play in the band 'there.
Dr. and Mrs. A. Gants and son. Dr. Samuel Gants were called to Kenton, Ohio, owing to the death of a granddaughter. Miss Edna Purdy had accepted the position of second grade teacher in the Ligonier schools. Mrs. Sol Mier had arrived in New York City from a trip abroad.
50 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. James MecDonald had guests intheir home, Mrs. Allen Cook of Elkhart and Mrs. Charles Earl of Detroit. Joseph Hess, sr., returned from a trip to Germany. : Mrs. Hess of Pennsylvania visited Dr. and Mr€*W. H. Franks. Burglars had = entered the Vernier’s jewelry store and the Selig meat market. Miss Van Prickett and Miss ‘Georgia Hathaway of Ligonier and Miss Emma Perry of Benton visitde in Leesburg. ! Mrs. I. E. Knisely of Toledo was vigiting her daughter Mrs. F. W. Zimmerman and family. E. E. Reed, Ligonier druggist, had an oil painting of his own workmanship, on exhibition in the window of the R. D. Kerr furniture store.
The beneficent effect of the fwater works were most apparent in ‘the parts of town where the Jawns had been ‘“liberally wet down occasionally during the late 'heated term.”
- The modern tourist cabin is a detachable kitchenette apartment, complete with bath, central heating, electric kitchen, and attached garage. - The better ones are cheaper and more satisfactory than all but the best hotels. But wire ahead for reesrvations or you end up in the hotel. In Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, and other western states tourists must line up at “ports of welcome’ near the border for an official welcome. They are a nuisance. Filling stations put out just as good highway information, and without waiting. It takes a dreamer not -an accountant, to believe in Grand Coulee dam. The dream is of a country more fruitful than we know today. Every ome in Spokane believes in it, in a day when most other cities are struggling to hold on to what they have. .
; Your baggage is given a more thorough frisking at the bor‘ders of California than at those of Canada. The state agricultural department conducts the search, ostensibly to keep out in‘sect pests, and incidentally, of course, to keep out Oregon apples and Arizona grapefruit. Having inflicted Dr. Townsend, Aimee Semple McPherson, Thirty Dollars Every Thursday, and Tom Mooney on the rest of the country, California might be a little more complaisant over a few fruit flies.
The insect barricade is not fully effective. Some of them are found functioning as desk clerks in California hotels. The architects and Uncle Joan McLaren, San Francisco’s nonagenarian park superintendeat, have made the exteriors of the fair on Treasure Island one of the loveliest scenes imaginable. The art exhibit matches, if it does not outmatch, what Chicago had at the Art Institute in 1933. The other exhibits are negligible. No World of Tommorrow, however, could compare with the two ‘magnificent bridges. ~ The main trouble with the exposition is tearing yourself away from the restaurants of San Francisco long enough to visit it. Beautiful Lake Tahoe is about as primeval as Lake Geneva. Whatever sort of a prophet Joseph Smith may have been, Brigham Young was one of the great Dbuilders of America. He gave Salt Lake City 200 foot streets.
In the matter of passing and dimming lights, truck drivers as a class assay about four times as many gentlemen as do drivers of passenger cars, Another comparison of the professional with the amateur. : Any one who drives 7,000 miles in three weeks and calls it a vacation is a darned fool. If you don’t believe us, ask his wife.— Chicago Tribune.
Is Henry just as staunch a democrat as ever? - Sure. Every time his kids get - 'animal crackers, he makes them throw away all the elephants. e