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When governors meet, high talk of State's Rights is inevitable. Much such talk was heard last week in Salt Lake City where 23 Governors and seven Governors' proxies were assembled for what has become an annual meeting. State's Rights in public domain, in prison-made labor, in Prohibition enforcement were the themes. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York, who always tries to have something new and notable to say, shifted the talk to Federal Responsibility?made a speech to the effect that the U. S. must some day soon provide unemployment insurance for its citizens...
Reed Smoot, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, in Salt Lake City last week to be married (see p. 61), commented on the Governor's discussion: "The sales tax is inevitable. It's one of the fairest forms of taxation we have available...
...Recent surveys suggest that in Salt Lake City $1 will buy more than in any other U. S. city of equal or greater size...
After Senator Smoot had left town, his friends heard reports that he, a. widower of a year, a great-grandfather, No. 3 man in the Mormon Church, was to be married again in Salt Lake City, spend his honeymoon in Honolulu. Questioned in Chicago about the report Senator Smoot declared...
Roman Candles. Cardboard tubes are packed in alternate layers with slow-burning powder, quick-burning powder and pressed discs of quick-burning chemicals containing a coloring salt. When lighted the slow-burning powder spews, finally reaches the disc. When this takes fire it ignites the quick-burning powder which makes a mild explosion, expels the flaming disc...