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Show THE BUULBTIN' " " V0L' 39 BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, THURSDAY,' FEBRUARY 28, 1929 No. 9 I SCHOOL LOBBY IS CRITICIZED TWO SENATORS MAKE SEN-SATIONAL CHARGES ON FLOOR OF SENATE. (Salt Lake Telegram) Charges that a powerful school lobby is leading the state to ec-onomic ruin by attempts to esta-blish an "educational hierarchy" were made from the floor of the senate Thursday by Senators Burton W. Musser of Salt Lake county and Knox Patterson of Grand county. The two legisla-tors opened fire an the education lobbyists during debate on a proposed amendment to Senator Uav E. Dillman's bill to provide adequate educational opportuni-ties for employed children be. tween the ages of 16 and 18 and children under 16 who have not completed the eighth grade. The amendment, which would have reduced the compulsory educa-tion age from 18 to 16 and from 16 to 14 for eighth grade gradu-ates, was defeated and the bill passed by a vote of 14 to 3. Taking the floor to urge adop. tion of the amendment, Senator Musser declared that the state is already overeducated and that the school men are continu-ally reaching out for more des-potic powers over its citizens. CLAIMS OVER-EDUCATIO- N. To me, he said, it is ridiculous to give a school superintendent jurisdiction over young men and women of 17 and 18, some of whom are married. Our educa-tors would bankrupt the state to half educate a hordj of doctors and lawyers who are perfectly fitted to become good plumbers, .bricklayers and carpenters. In reply to Senator Herbert Maw's argument that compuls-ory school attendance is a safe-guard against lawlessness and immorality, Senator Musser re. torted that his observations of college society had led him to the conclusion that the morals of young people outside the schools are fully as good if not better than those who are in school. -- URGES LESS POWER. HERBERT HOOVER WILL ASCEND TO PRESI-DENCY MONDAY Herbert Hoover, United States President-elec- t, will achieve the highest honor that can come to a citizen of the United States when he takes the oath of office of the presidency on Monday. Calvin Coolidge will step out an da new era will reign for the net four years. The coming of Herbert Hoov er has predicated a wave of pros perity which is scheduled to have been unequaled in thesa United States. The safety of the future under the leadership of Hoover has been so much felt throughout the nation that the country i3 anious and ready to make for bigger and better business, greater and more economical production and a general higher standard of wages and living conditions for the working men. Those people who comprised the greatest number which ever, cast its vote for a president of the United States and whose ballots sent Governor Alfred E. Smith, the happy warrior, down to defeat, are fully expectant that their ideas concerning their choice will prove to be the great-est of the modern times. Herbert Hoover goes into the presidency with the long years of experience in diplomatic and covernment rolWs.il inha of command. Probably at no time I in the history of the nation has a president been possessed of J the qualifications such as Iler-- 1 bert Hoover has come into in his 1 varied public career. J On Monday when Hooved tak- - 1 es his oath of office .vlrich will I elevate him to the highest office I in the land the nation w ill once I more be on the mark to establish j bigger and better records in ev-- 1 ery way. BINGHAM PIONEER PASSES. Largely Attended Funeral Held Sunday. Adrian Lane (Ade)' Heaston, lifelong resident of Bingham Canyon, passed away last Thurs-day evening at his home 372 Main street. Funeral was held under the auspices of Bingham lodge No. 10 at their hall at 2 o'clock Sunday. Where hund-reds of friends and lodge mem-bers payed their tribute of re-spect to one who had contribut. ed much to the upbuilding of the west part of .Salt Lake county, and particularly the town of Bingham. The principal speakers of the Services were Secretary of State, Milton II. Welling and Dr. F. E. Straup. Each lauded the sturdy character of Mr. Heaston and felt honored at having been his friend. Mrs J. B. Myers rendered two beautiful solos. Other mu-sical numbers were furn'shed by Judge Kenner's Quartet. Intern-ment took place after the funer-al services at Salt Lake City cemetery. Active pall - bearers were C. E. Adderley; Ben S. Sel. man; George Breckon; VV. C. Simpson; D. T. Skala; C. L. Countryman. Honorary pall . bearers were Milton H. Welling; Dr. F. E. Straup; Judge Kenner; Wilson McCarthy ; Harry Brownlee ; Ro-- 1 bert Bee; Archie Stewart; Dr. Inglesby; II. C. Goodrich; Geo. Celventra; William Robbins; A. W. Taylor; Max Beaver; Bert Carver. Surviving Mr. Heaston are his wife. Gwendolyn Heaston; his mother Mrs. Sarah Heaston ; one daughter, Mrs. Mona Gwen-dolyn Clark ; one granddaughter, Clayton Clark; all of Bingham; Mrs. Surrilda Swan; three bro-thers,. W. J., of Weiser, Monta. na; Daniel W., of California, and Lon, of Helper, Utah. Mr. Heaston was a member of the Bingham lodge No. 10, I 0. 0. F., the Fraternal Order of Engles and the Kiwanis Club of Bingham, Incidents in the life of Mr. Heaston. Perhaps the most outstand-ing characteristic of Mr. Heas-ton was love of rugged nature, born at Fort Herriman, March 19, 1873, he came to Bingham Canyon with his parents, W. D. and Sarah McNew Heaston, when only six months old and spent his entire life here. As soon as he was larga enough to dip sand from the creek he engaged, with his father and brother in panning gold from Bingham creek. Through this means he earned sufficient mo-ney to buy his first pair of boots. Mr. Heaston was a great lover of the wild life of the forest, of which he made a great f:tudy. On one occasion he brought a carload of elk from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to Dry Canyon (this being the first elk brought to Utah), where he built a fence eight feet high around an eighty acre tract of land, where the elk-wer-e impounded. The Heaston game preserve which embraces the entire Eastern and Southern slopes ofWest-mountain- , stands as a monument of Ade Heaston. Mr. Heaston developed the water of Dry Canyon which now supplies the Town of Bingham Canyon, he was also active in civic affairs, being one of those who procured the incorporation of the town of Bingham. . He helped to organize, and was the first Chief of the Volunteer Firei Department here. He was De- - I puty County Sheriff for two terms and Deputy Game Warden for four years, during this time he rendered valuable service to that Department in propagating game and fowl. Since retiring from that office Mr. Heaston established a fox farm on the location in Dry Can. yon formerly used for the elk. MASONS CELEBRATE Canyon lodge No. 13, F. &. A. M., celebrated its 22nd annivers-ary Tuesday night, with a din-ner party. Among the forty Masons present were: M. W. Grand Master A. E. Smith. M. VV. Sam Henry Goodwin, Grand Secretary, and R. VV. Judge Mc-Cre- a, all of Salt Lake City. Sev. en Past Masters of Canyon lodge were also present: William Cole,! John Robertson, Thomas Porter, Carl Meyers, Louis Buckman, Arthur Tremelling and William Trevarthen. Dinner was served by the la-dies of the Eastern Star. Short talks were, made by William Cole, toastmaster, and Afre.l An-derson, Worshipful Mas'xr.a er which Judge McCrea spoke on the lives of George Wnshir-g-ton and Abraham Lincoln, the former having been Master of a lodge. Grand Masr.-..-Srr.'t-and Grand Secretary Goodwin talked of the early days in Utah, the former having first visited Bingham Canyon in 18D9. Past Master John Robertson rave a short resume of the chartering of Canyon lodge in 1907 and of the steady growth of both the Lodge and the town in the past twenty.two years. CLEAN SCHOOL CON-TES- T By II. R. Atkin. The Jordan Schpol District is conducting a clean school con-test. The winner of first place will be awarded a prize of $50.00 cash besides the distinction of being considered the cleanest school in the district. A number of lesser prizes will also be awarded to schools making praiseworthy contributions to this important educational un-dertaking. Parents, your children and their teachers would like to make a creditable showing in this contest. It can be done if parents, children, and teachers enthusiastically work together to make the schools of Bingham as clean in every respect as is humanly possible. There are a number of object-ives to be attained. I. CLEAN CHILDREN. Cleanliness is next to Godli-ness and with the parems and teachers working harmoniously and energetically together, the oodies ot the children of Bmg. ham can be made a fit habitation ofr a God. What must be done? The bodies of the children them-selves must be kept clean. A bath at least twice per w-e-should become habitual. The face and hands should be wash-ed often enough to be kept per-fectly clean - certainly not less than two or three times per day. The hair should be kept well combed. Wouldn't it be a splen-did thing if every child could have a five or, ten cent comb in his or her pocket and develop the habit of using it often. The clothing, too, must be kept clean. Expensive clothing is un. necessary.. Silks, satins, etc, are in fact; not particularly de-sirable for school purposes. But on matter how inexpensive the clothing is it can be kept clean, and cleanliness in clothing is the important thing. The clothing should, also, be put on the chil-- j dren neatly and tidily. The teeth should also be kept clean. Every child should own his own tooth brush and use it at least three times per day. A suitable tooth brush can be pur-chased for twenty or twenty-fiv- e cents and ordinary hand soap makes a splendid tooth paste. Parents, here is a splendid op. portunity for you and the teach-ers of your children to clinch some important health habits and at the same time to help them make a good showing in this clean school contest. II. CLEAN AND ATTRACTIVE SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND GROUNDSi We shall be obliged to look to the engineer and teachers, pri-marily for the accomplishment of this objective. III. ADEQUATE RESPECT AND CARE FOR SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND SCHOOL PROPERTY. In this connection we are par-ticularly anxious to create and maintain in the lives of the child-dre- n a feeling of resentment towards themselves or anyone eise wno in any way mars or de-faces school property. Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing for example if we could pass over the coming summer without having a single window broken in any of the school buidlings? Parents, these are real worth" while educational objectives, I am sure you will agree. With parents and teachers working wholeheartedly and enthusiasti-cally together, wonders can be accomplished. Let's all get be-hind our children and help them to make a creditable showing, VISIT ANY LIVE TOWN And you will find that the merchants of the town are good advertisers. Not one of them, but every merchant of any con. sequence in the town is an ad-vertiser. As a result of the combined advertising, the many good, well written advertisements filled with prices and good sales argu-ment, there is attracted to the town, a regular host of buyers who spend their money for the merchandise the merchants of the community have to sell. A survey of the town will show that the advertising is not left to one or two merchants to bear the burden of the sales promo-tion, while a large number of free riders sit back and attempt to reap the reward of their fel. low's enterprise. Every one advertises. ' Anv community that has a group of good, live , merchants ,vho advertise with well written ads and back them up with Uhe merchandise and modem mer-chandising methods is going to grow and prosper and business will continue to get better and better. . Judicious, liberal advertising is the purest insurance against slow business and town retro-gression. BINGHAM HIGH WINS CHAMPIONSHIP The basketball championship of the Jordan Division comes to the Bingham High School for the time this year. When Murray went down to defeat last Thursday night at the hands of the Cyprus quint, Bingham's closest rival was eliminated from the running and although there is yet one game to be played by the local boys, the result of it cr.nnot effect the championship of the division. The wonderful record made in this sport by the Bingham High is nothing short of phenomenal. Commencing the season with al-most an entirely new bunch of unseasoned players. Coach Tom-my McMullen soon had the team going at a fast pace and dashed into the winning at the start of the season. Only twice during the season have the locals boys met defeat and these defeats wore by hairbreadth margins. Bingham will go down to the tournament and fight for the championship of the s'tati with the determination to also bring that honor to Bingham this year. No town has had, or will ever have, a more loyal bunch of fans to support their team than has Bingham. Already many hav purchased reserve seat season tickets to the tournament. BILLS, BILLS! In these legislativo days we hear nothing but bills. There have been Burton bills, Fry bills.i House bills, Senate bills and other bills by Mr. Burton. There are butcher bills, gas bills, elec-tric light bills, little bills, big bills, the Government is going to make smaller bills, and soon the birds and young people will be billing never mind about the coos. You have your bills, wifey has more bills, and the kids have shoe bills. Then there are lip-stick bills, powder puff bills, so-da bills, ice cream bill.-?- , school bills (I hope the comp. don't run out of l's), and taken all together with a lot more, we have a he-lu-lot of bills. After all, the only bills that concern any of us is "my" bills. (Hitch Bull-i-tins- ). Mr. and Mrs. George Robbe entertained at ad inner party onday evening. Places were marked for Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Austin, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Buchman and Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Steier. After dinner Bridge was enjoyed. "The strongest lobby in this and past legislatures," Senator Patterson said, "comes from the educational group. We ' should curtail rather than expand their powers, and I, for one, am will-ing to surrender this state's high educational standing if we must go down to economic ruin to remain in the race." Senator D. W. Parratt, one of the chief supporters of the meas-ure, declared that the compuls-ory idea had been exaggerated and that the bill was drawn for the purpose of meeting the edu. cational needs of the underprivi-lcge- d' children. v A STEP FORWARD IN EDUCATION Few question that education I is one of the most important ' factors in the progress of the nation. In about a century and a half this country has grown I from a group of colonies to occu-- I py the foremost position among the powers of the world. Of course, this phenomenal growth can be attributed in part to the abundant supply of natural re-sources, but the greater part of the credit should be given to an enlightened citizenry, who, giv. en the opportunity of an educa-tion, grasped it, and U3ed know-ledge thus obtained to an ad-vantage in the industrial and ahead of the public schools, if one is to compare their relative importance by the amount of money expended. The nation's yearly bill for tobacco, soft drinks, candy, chewing gum, jewelry, theatres, perfumes, cos. metics and things of similar na-ture is estimated at $6,239,860,-00- 0 ; for tobacco alone being $2,. 078,110,000. From which it might be deduced that it costs almost as much to smoke as it does to provide an education for the nation's youth. The question arises: What are the returns upon money in-vested in education? A recent study by Everett W. Lord is ty-- 1 scientiiic iiems. 1 The creation and maintenance I of this opportunity for all to ob-- tain an education, in other a words the public schools and I colleges have been expensive to I some extent. As the population 1 has increased, the nation grown, I there has been a corresponding I increase in the attendance in the schools, and thus a demand for J more facilities and a larger ex- - I penditure of money for them I each year. Yet, the general impression is I that this expenditure is much I larger than is actually the case. I The cost of education in compar- - ! ison with the yearly income of the nation or with certain other 1 national expenditures is small. I For instance, as given in the I Research Bulletin of the Nation. I' al Education Association, the t yearly income of all the people I of the United States added to-- get her in 1926 the latest avail- - I tble figures amounted to $84,- - I 1 en fff nOA Tn iha eniTIP vpar pical. lhe schooling and earn-ing of 7,400 people in all walks of life were examined. The aver, age earnings of the college train-ed group was $3,400 higher than those of high school training, while the high school graduates earned $1,100 more than those of elementary school training. All known studies of this nature indicate that persons with the larger amounts of schooling on the average earn substantially larger incomes. A realization of the large re-turns on money invested and a glance at the cost of public edu-cation in comparison to other national expenditures, make it evident that education is not over.valuated in the country. In fact, the danger lies in the other direction. Has its great import-ance been fully realized? Have adequate agencies been provided to cope with the problems aris-ing and to insure the most re-turns for the sums expended? Tina olilpnfinn fupn rrivmi enffi I there was expended $2,255,251,. 327 for public schools, (tax sup-ported) of elementary, second-ary 1 and collegiate grades. In other words, only 2.68 per cent of the national income goes to the support of schools. More was spent on life insur-- ance premiums in 1926 than for public schools, the former amounting to $2.624,000,000 ; out of every $100 income $3.12 is paid for life insurance and $2.68 for public schools. In other ( fields the difference is even more marked. In 1927 the na tion's bill for the construction of buildings was $6,787,000,000. or nearly three times that of public education in 1926. Perhaps it is more important to have the means of conveyance than it is I to be educated. At least, in 1927 I the amount expended on passen- - I ger automobiles, excluding mo- - I tor trucks, was approximately $11,955,907,443 in comparison ?0 the $2,255,251,327 for public Schools. Luxuries, too, are far J I cient national recognition? Educational organizations and ether groups that have made an extensive study of these questi-ons state that there is a great need for some central force to supervise educational activities; that this need could best be met through a national Department of Education with a secretary in the President's cabinet. Legisla-tion providing for such a depart-ment has been pending for some time in Congress in the form of the Curtis . Reed bill. It is evi-dent that there is an increasing demand throughout the country for the enactment of the meas-ure as the significance of its provisions are realized. Yet, the bill remains peculiarly dormant in Congress. Its passage would mean another step forward for education in this country. You can hasten the taking of this step by writing to your Con-gressman, urging a Department of Education as provided for in the Curtis - Reed bill SO THE PEOPLE MAY KNOW g This newspaper is definitely standing on its feet. It is 1 NOT subsidized, sponsored, dictated to, or responsible to 5 any individual, corporation, ni mber of corporation or to 1 g any one other than the dictates of the conscience of Its' 8 S Editor. S Furthermore it is not a charitable organization that " k has its hand out asking for anything for nothing. 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We do business on i 5 an upright, legitimate scale, and we do not propose to lower ' $ our standards of "service and quality at a fair value," as ! long as we have the intestinal fortitude to be men among u men, and a newspaper among newspapers. 5 PRESIDENT SIGNS HOSPITAL BILL Last Saturday, President Coolidge affixed his signature to a bill which previously had pass, ed both houses of Congress, granting 50,000 acres of public lands each, to the states of Ari-zona and Utah, for the purpose of supplying funds to establish and maintain hospitals for dis-abled miners. ! At present there is about S90,- -, 000 to the credit of such a fund in this state, but only the inter-est on this money can be used. The money will be derived from the sale of the land now appro, priated will, it is thought, be suf-ficient to care for the disabled miners, of which there is at present about 140 within the state. Much credit for the undertak-ing should be given to Congress-man Coulton and O. F. McShano of the Industrial Commission. Commissioner McShane compiled ,he data on the situation and Congressman Colton worked ar-dently for the passage of the bill. HOQVmi REVIEWS BOY .Sc6u i S ',,4., ;.k.i. .;, )i,M',.. 1 1 J ' rrtl 4,.',. t Prtt;o.uc-al- et Mi'rlMtrl Hoover l?'.ewe4l Boy Mad titrl ttooatu i.l l.nho Okeechobee reslua lout wvk during Mm i tnr ( (he Florida Urerrelndeo. .4 fev dnye prerloo !, Ho. and Cilrl grout ef Miami tvre enlertniaed by the Hrea!dea.t-vle.- .t kid Mn, Hoover en the. ;na- - .u croaada of the J. C. Penary fj.tnle at Miami. Mr. rVam-T-. at .tliow home Kr. Uoover ana area a Kmmt twr tha pnt tour werka. I active aaaiMrtee- - at the acoat aad 4.11 cluh u'ru,lMiia4'aoto by ' ' Mittoil lUraUl Studio, . b ., ' ! HUDSON TO SPEND $1,000,000 IN NEWSPAPERS IN MARCH AND APRIL. ESSEX CHALLENGE WEEK TO FEATURE CAMPAIGN. The Hudson Motor Car Com. pany, manufacturers of Hudson and Essex cars, will spend one million dollars in newspaper ad-vertising during the months of March and April, it is announced by Courtney Johnson, general sales manager of the company. Hudson, largest manufacturer of six cylinder cars in 1928, is experiencing the greatest year in its history and this extensive campaign, the largest ever un-dertaken by the company, is de-signed to bring about even great, er success to a sensationally, successful line. The feaure of the campaign will be a national "Essex Chal-lenge Week" which commences March 4th. During the week Essex cars will undertake every kind of test to prove theiv right to the militant "Challenger" slo-gan, says the announcement. j AH Publicity Laws Are . Being Atacked I The last bill to strike at the publication laws was introduced by Representative Austin P. Mil-ler a few days ago. He is a mem-ber of the Granite school board. His bill would repeal the law which provides for the publica-tion of the delinquent tax list. The two Burton bills to elimin-ate the detailed publication of county and school reports, pass-ed the house and are now in the senate for consideration. The bill introduced to repeal the law providing for the publication of city ordinances was killed in the house a few days ago. The Fry bill which provides for the publi-cation ot monthly reports of all tax expending bodies, county, schools, cities, towns, etc., giving the taxpayers the information as to what becomes of the tax dolltr, has been introduced in the house. |