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Show T!E NEPHl. UTAH TIMES-NEW- BDOY-- GOOD & 6XDUTS ROADS (Conducted by National Council pt the Boy Scout at America. ) YALE MEN FORM SCOUT CLUB A group of Yale men, who are for- mer- scouts, have recently organized a scout club. Q. Barrett Itich, III, of Buffulo, is chairman of the executive committee, whose other members are W. I.eiuing Jelliffe of New York, II. Wilder Bentley of Sun Francisco and J nies H. Dixon, Jr., of Cleveland. The mnin purpose of this and other Kuc-- clubs is to provide a means of continuing interest in scouting among young men in colleges and unf versltles so that upon graduation tiiey may be still actively aftiliuted with the movement and ready to make fur- ther contribution of time 'and effort roily to it In whatever communities they find themselves. Such clubs will also serve a valuable purpose In conserving scout training already received and emphasizing those elements of character building nnd good citizenship, which are no les essential for young men than for boys. Lome XV. Barclay, director of the tiJi t ion a I education department, and a Yale man of '08, wus present at the organization of the club which Is similar to associations already formed In English universities, under the of Oxford and Cjuubrld;;e. ;rUfcV$ leail-ersL- 'p SCOUTS thnn that which covers the and earl, development of Upper Mississippi valley states covers the third quarter of the century. The Immigration Into lowa is typical of thnt infn nthvr states at about the same neriod. and from "Vandemark's paragraph A uerbert tiuick. adetiuately YCfr-Z"y. u describes the scenes of that time. Ue sb ays of that tremendous trek : Hers we went, oxen, cows, mules, horses, coaches, carriages; blue Jeans, corduroys; rags, tatters, silks, satiDS, caps, tall haia. poverty, riches; criminals es- fOR t.r r) .JM- Xf good Americans there Is n more period lu United State jT x f'fr 'X &l I I I f Jj i Vtf A " v 1 '' I S jTO. V 1 I I - &jJ , - f . Ik V 4 ' 1 - -- ; " t Z M . 2 Jf? f . .ys. jtwsf V4 I f T . S. , - v "SLfi ffS$t V -- '4 ; ? 4 a" Cf V jr ' ' t '' V , " 1 '? GOVERN THEIR CITY ' I ' '7 4? ' -- . x 4 ' 1 .3 J-- " A Wit 4i MAKE TESTS ON BATES ROAD Has 63 Different Sections and Represents That Many Kinds of Construction. Department (Prepared br the United State ol Agriculture. J Final series of tests on one of the largest and most comprehensive road experiments ever attempted began March 27. This roud, located at Bates, Illinois, was designed and constructed by the Illinois division ot highways under the direction of Clifford Older, chief highway engineer, with the bureau of public roads, United tJtates Department of Agriculture It Is two miles long and Includes 63 different sections representing as many different method and kinds of construction, having various thicknesses of concrete, cem?nt brick as well grout and asphult-iHIeas asphalt concretes and concrete with rolled stone bases. Since the completion of its construction in April, 1921, a corps of engineers hus been kept busy making observations for effect of temperature changes, e static and repeated loads uud conditions, thus collecting data which when analyzed will supplement the Information necessary for the rational design of roads. The road will now be subjected to the final test, that of very heavy truck trnfllc, for the application of which will be used a fleet of 10 motor trucks received by the state from the surplus of the War department. At first these trucks will be lightly loaded, bit ns the test progresses the load will be increased until a maximum W rear reached giving a 12,000-pounwheel load. The results will show definitely the types of pavements which can be expected to support d sub-grad- I from Justice; couples fleeing from the law; bearing southwest to the Overland Trail; politicians looking for places in which to win fame and fortune; adventurers on their way to everywhere. Abolitionists going to the Border War; innocent-lookin- g outfits; carrying fugitive slaves; and. most numer-- , ous of all. horaeseekers "hunting country" a nation on wheels, an empire In the commotion and pangs of birth. caping gold-seeke- There were ninny, very many. Interesting Incident that went to make np the history of these pioneer days In Iowa that are covered by Mr. Quick In "Vandemark's Folly.? but one of the most Interesting Is that dealing with the treat" ment of The local newspnxr. In an effort to secure un advantage for Its political clique bad In those early days referred to m m "H'OW" Vandpmnrlr urn m man " ' ..Iti v.ii a v i ii I lu I record." and In later days In refuting the statement he tells the story of the " us follows, in part : ' "claim-Jumpers.- 1 1 "claim-Jumpers- The story grew out of my Joining the Settlers' club In 1830. The rage for land speculation was weeping over Iowa like a prairie fire, getting things ready for the great panic of 1807 that I nave rend of since, but of which I never heard until long after It was over. All 1 knew was that there was a greut fever for buying and ell tag land and laying out and booming town-sitethe slles, not the towns and that afterward limes were very hard. The simulators had bought up a good part of Monterey county by the end of ISTjO, and hud run the price up as high as three dollnrs and a half an acre. Tills made It hard for men who came In exa dollar and a pecting to get It and a number of settlers In the township, quarter, us they did all over the state, went on their land on the right to buy It when they could get relying the money what was culled the right. I could see tbejiouses of William Trickey, Khetiezer s and Absalom frost from my house; and I knew thut I'eter and Amos ItemlKdurfer and Flavins Itohn, Dunkards from Pennsylvania, hud located farther south. All these settlers were located south of Hell Slew, which was coming to be known now, and was afterward put down on the map, as "Vun.lemark's Folly Marsh." And now there came Into the county and state s a class of men called " who pushed In on the claims of the. first comers, oud stood ready to buy their new homes right out fn.m under them. It was pretty hard on us who hud pushed on ahead of the railways, snd soaked In the rain and frozen hi the blixxurds, and lived on moldy bacon and hulled corn, to lose our chance to get title to the lands we hud broken up uud built on. My lutid wss paid for. such as It was; but when the peIl who. like me, hud trailed out across the prairies with the lust year's rush, cume and asked me to Join the Setilers club to run these Intruders off, It appeared to me thut It was only a man's part In me to stand- to It and tuke hold and do. . . I did not look forward to all the doings of the Settlers' club, but I Joined It, and I hnve never been ashamed of It. even when MUill wan slniigwhungltig me about what we did. never knew, and I don't know now, Jtit what the Isw wus, but 1 thought then, and I think now. thut the HetHers' club hud the right of It. I thought so (he night w went over to run the off Absuloiti Frost's lutid, within a week, of my Joins fr Jun-ftlu- "Oreu the up. mid find out I" said a mun In Monterey Center crowd, who seemed to take ns a mutter, of coure. "Kick the door open, Dutchy!" As he siihl this he stepped aside, and pushed me up to the door. I gave It a push wi'h my knee, and the lender Jerked me aside. Just In time to let a charge of shot pass my head. "It's only a single barrel gun," suld he. "Grab oum-mun- d blm I" I was scared by the report of the gun, scared and mad. too, as I clinched with the fellow, and threw lilm; then I pitched blm out of the door, when f ha rest of them threw him down and began stripping him. At the same time, some one kindled n tire under a kettle filled with tnr, and in n few minutes, they were smearing him with It. This looked like going too far, to me, and I stepped buck I couldn't stand It to see the tar smeared over bis face, even If It did look like a map of the devil's wild land, ns he kicked and scrntcbed nnd tried to bite, swearing oil the time like a pirate. It seemed a degrading kind of thing to defile a-- human being In thai way. The leader cume up to me and suld. "Thut was good work. tMitchy. Lucky I was right uhout Its beain't It? Help get his team' ing a single-barrehitched up. We want to see blm well started." "All right. Mr. McUlll." 1 said; for that was his name, now flint told In all the history of fbe county. "Shut upT he said. "My name's Smith, yon lunkhead !" l, "claim-Jumper- - Ilk claim-Jumpe- r ing. It was over on Section Twenty-seven- , that the r had built a hut oliont where the schimlhouse now Is, with a stable In one end of It, and a den In which to live In the other. Me us a young luan, with no dependents, and we felt no compunctions of conscience, thut dink tilcht, when two wsgon louds of us, one of which rlnlm-Jtimpe- cume from the direction of Monterey Center, drove quh'tly up and knocked at l'.e 6wf. "Who's thereT lie said, with flJiyer in his olce. The nest and the Inst stop, was away down on two miles farther. I was feelSection Thirty-fiv- e because of the memory ing rather wamble-croppeof thut poor fellow with the far In his eyes but I went all the same. MetSIII pounded on the door. "Com cut," be shouted. "You've got compuny!" There wus a scrambling and hustling around In tlie shanty, snd low talking, and some one asked who wus there; to which McGIII replied for llietn to come out and see. Pretty soon, a little doddering figure of a mun came to the door, pull- lug on his breeches with trembling hands as be stepped, barefooted, on the dure ground which came right up to I lie door-silt- . ."Whut's wanted, gentlemen 7" he qmtvetvd. "1 cnin't ask you to come In Jlst jit. Whut's wonted?" He hud not snld two words when I knew him for Old Man Fewkes, whom I hnd IiiM Seen back on the road west of I lyersvllle. on his way to "Negoshn." Where w as Ms Fewkes. and where were Celebrate Fourth and Kurajuh liowluh? And where, imiMt emphatically, where was Kowenu? I Mepped forward at Mctiill's side. Surely. I thought, they were not going to tar and feather these harmless, wnlfs of the frontier; and even as I thought It. I saw the glimmer . Ing of the fire they were kindling under the , "We want you, you Infernal !" nld MHJIII. "We'll show you that you can't steal the land from us settlers, you set of snenksl Take off your clothes, and we'll give m s coat Hint will make you look more like burjuird than jou do now." rlnim-Jiitnpe- hard-workin- r "There's some of 'em'runnin away!" yelled one "Catch 'era !" of the crowd. There wqs a flight through the grass from the tmek of the slmntir. a rush of pursuit, some feeble yells Jerked Into hits by rough handling, and presently. Celebrate and Surujnh were drugged Into the circle of light. Just as poor Ma Fewkes, with her drawn almost together came forward and tried to tear from her poor old husband s ami the hand of an old neighbor of mine whose name I won't mention even at this late shoulder-blade- s duy. . . , "Suy," said a man who bud all the time sat In one of the wagons, holding the horses. "Tou'd better leave out the stripping, boys !" They began dragging the boys and the old man toward the and McCill, with his hat drawn down over his eyes, went to the slimy mass und dipped Into it a wooden pnddle with which they had been stirring It. Taking as much on it as it would curry, he made as If to smear It over the old man's bend and heard. I could not stand this the poor harmless old coot ! and I run up and struck McUiira arm. "What In hell," he yelled, for some of the tar went on him, "do you mean 1" "Don't tur und feather 'em," I begged. "I know these folks. - They are a poor wandering family, without money enough t,o buy land away from any tur-kettl- e, Boy Scouts of Twin Falls, Idaho, recently assumed municipal duties for an entire day as a part of the Boy Scout Week celebration. Scout Mayor Joe Deiss is shown with the key of authority which was presented to him by Mayor Mc Roberts. lauiioving INTERESTED IN SCOUTING At Its recent meeting In Chicago, the Ntitinnul Council of the Boy Scouts of America expressed by resolution its appreciation of the fine spirit of the American Legion in supporting scouting. Almost at the same time appeared an editorial in the American Legion Councillor, published in Toledo, under the caption "An Opportunity for Service," urging local legionnaires to Interest themselves In scout work and a Section ot Bate Road. heavy traffic, as we!) as those which will not satisfy the requirements of such traffic- - conditions as might be expected duilng the next 10 or 20 years. The careful observation of the various sections In the absence of traffic which has formed the first part of the Investigation, it Is expected, will enable the engineers to uscertuln tbe structural weaknesses which cause such failures us muy tuke place In the trnfllc tests. After the experiment has been completed, this road with Its broken sec tions replaced will form a part of Illinois federal aid project No. 13 from Springneld, Illinois, to St. Louis, Missouri. - The test wlil be carried on under the direction of Clifford Older, with II. F. Clemmer in direct charge of the experimental work and K. It. Benedict In charge of the trucks and maintenance. The bureau of public roads will be represented by A. T. Uold-bec- k and C. A. Hogciitcgler. especially to serve as scoutmasters. "Truined by his army days to caring for himself in the greut outdoors, schooled In discipline and with proven patriotism he is eminently fined to handle growing boys," comments the writer. "He comes to them clothed with the hero's mantle with which youthful mules still Invest the warrior. who They knjw he Is a real has gone through experiences which thrill their Juvenile souls to contemone." plate and he starts with great adWe Jlnt thought we'd kind o' settle down," suld vantage over bis less fortunate conOld Man Fewkes whimperingly; "and I've got the temporary who bus missed the great money promised me to buy this land. So It's all experience. With these qualifications and these advantages the legionnaire right und straight !" RCACS PAY DIVIDENDS The silly old leutherheud didn't know he was who pusses up the cbance to enter this Doing anything against public sentiment; and told fascinating work Is doing his city an the very thing that made a case against him. I Injustice and himself an injury." A wagon with a loud of 3,000 nave found out since who the man was that pounds required an average promised htm the money and wus going to tuk LARGEST BOYS' CAMP IN WORLD draft of 108 pouuds ou a gravel the laud, but thut was Just one circumstance I., road in dry condition, In a rethe land crar.e. and the man himself was woundej cent test at the Mlssour. College The boy scout camp In the Interat Fort lionelsiHi, and died In hospital so I won') state park of New York and New of Agriculture. The same loud tell his name. The silnt Is, that the old man bat Jersey Is the largest boy ramp la on a dry cluy road required a turned the Jury against me Just as I had Bnishe--I the world, both numerically aod geodraft of 321 pounds. This show the great variation In the work my plea. graphically. Lust summer a total of "You have got the money promised you, have 0.OH3 scouts enjoyed the benefits of done In hauling and lu the size of load a team can handle, suy you?" rceiited MeOUI. ,"Orub him, boys I" the camp, some for one or two weeks, J. C Wooley, chairman of the others for the entire season of nine agricultural engineering departweeks. The dally attendance aver- I clinched with our man, and getting a rolling ment, which conducted this test. over a thousand. The camp pro hlplock on hlin, I whirled blm over my head, as aged The gravel roads prove their vides skilled suiiervlKlon. henlthful I hud done with so mnny wrestling opponents, and value even more completely un letting him go In mill titr. he went head over and Inspirational environment, sanider spring conditions. This load t tary fucllltles. adequate safeguards, heels, and struck ten feel awny on the ground. on the same rouds after a heavy t Then 1 turned oil McHIII, and with the flat of my arrangements for observing religious ruin required a draft of JHO hand, I slapped him over against the shanty, with requirements according to the faith ivel, and 372 t pounds on t lie his ears ringing. They were coming at me In bd of each boy, scout Instruction and pounds ou the clay. This Is only outdoor activities, nil merged In a undecided way; for my onset had been both Slid one of tin many advantages ofpositive program of character tulJJ-Ing- , den and unexected ; when I saw Itehecca run fered by roads. Amerand 1i In K from the citizenship training rear with a shotgun In her hand which she had picked up as It leaned against r icanization. wugon wheel where one of our crowd had lefi It CIVIC feuRVICE IN GARY Unnecessary Practice. "SI und hack 1" she screamed. "Stand buck, f Oiling a concrete road or any propI'll blow somebody's bead offl" Among the various good turns of erly surfaced highway Is not only a 1 heard a chuckling In ugh from a man sltttii the past year done by scouts of (Jury, nulMi;,e to the public, but Is a lament In one of the wagons, and a word or two fron able ste of a natural resource, says him thai sounded like, T.innI girl!" Our little Ind., are the following: 11. II. '"rnuklin, who claims that the "Distributed posters for the Salvamob fell bnck, the mini I hnd thrown limping, r from the oiling frstcm, a and I'Uk McCill rubbing the side of tils hem I. tion Army." Is as no lortgi-- net "Served for Near messengers days, experimental now It In was the east, snd The dawn broadening j essary rid should be abandoned. was getting almost light enough so Hint faces Kast Belief." e. "City Clean-tiCampaign, Scout might he reeogiii7.ed; and one or two of the Tr-r- s Vacant Ixits, etv." te Control Traffic. crowd began to retreat toward the wagons. Towe erected In the middle of "Memorial flowers "I'll see to It," suld I, "that these people will streets highways for the control leave this land, snd give up their settleiuent on for graves, placed American fliig each grave. Participated In service of tmflii were first operated lu pari It." at the graves. Is 1810. he-ma- n bold-ove- r p I'a-rad- fd |