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Show DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH w ."'v T li n crt ss iw As Hovmg Been Divinely Inspired - .t s PAGE 12 A EDITORIAL h SATURDAY, v v, a w MAY 10, i r ri w j t 1969 Vital To Rails' Next 100 Years Big Dreams One of the must encoui aging aspects of the Golden Spike is that it has been devoted not just to reflecting on lailroadings romantic part but to looking forward to the challenges of the future. In keeping with the 'Past Is Prologue theme of the ob- "The railroad (over this route) was built with handtools, sweat., faith and grit plus about $165 million." Centennial An End. ..And A Beginning servance, railroad spokesmen during the celebration have been predicting that the transportation changes of the past 300 yeais won't compaie to those of ihc next ccnlury. When most railroadcis talk that way, its usually about their industry's role as the majoi carrier of freight. Passenger service, which has been a losing proposition for railroads for decades, isn't always considered in looking ahead. But with bumber-to-bumptraffic in many cities, and By DOROTHY 0. REA Deseret News Staff Wiitcr y aft delajs becoming more frequent, there are those who think America is witnessing the beginning of a railioad renaissance in mass transit. San Francisco, for example, is building a tiansit system that will use computers to run commuter trains at 80 miles an hour just 90 seconds apart. The Pennsylvania. P.ailroad is testing trams that may zip from New York to Washington in a little more than two hours. tiair.s Even mote unusual plans are being explored that would shoot through tubes at speeds of 300 miles an hour oi mure, trains that would float on cushions of air, and even a system using a combination of air drive and gravity to swing passenger trains from city to city through tunnels diiven 3.000 feet below the earths sui face. Clearly, some railroaders are thinking big. They need to. 1975 the number of private aircraft is expected to nearly By double, and commercial air travel will triple. Automobile travel will be up 40 per cent. Nearly SO per cent of all commercial air flights are between cities less than 500 miles apart, a distance that is not really efficient for todays jetliners and even less so for the jumbo jets of tomorrow. Then there are the long delays at the airports, as well as getting to and from them. Flying time between New York and Washington, for example, is less than 50 minutes by jet, but it isnt unusual to spend 15 or 20 minutes on the ground awaiting takeoff and an equal amount of time circling the airpoit at the other end of the trip before the plane can land. On the ground, there are other transportation problems. Twenty years ago there were 31 million motor vehicles in America. Today there are 90 million. By 1975 the number is expected to be nearly 120 million. No wonder that John Volpe, new secretary of transporta-lio- n and the mail who directed interstate highway construction in the 1950s, is against building more and more interstate highways. In the 70s, he says, Americans will have to rely more on mass transportation. If America is to have a really well balanced transportation system in the years ahead, the nation's railroads will have to play a more important role in carrying people as well as freight. a net home-finance- S.L. d Must Economize that the special session of the Legislature has turned a deaf ear to Salt Lake Citys pleas for financial help, the City Commission has little choice except to exercise some Now rigorous g. Its hard to see how Ihe city can rescind the sewer service charge or the 2 per cent increase in the utility tax as it hoped to do if granted the t sales tax increase it sought. Moreover, since Salt Lake City doesnt levy a garbage collection tax as many other communities across the country do, !t should consider this as a possible means of meeting the additional costs imposed upon the city by the regular session of the Legislature. By fully funding the police pension fund for law enforcement officers of all cities, the lawmakers added 5350.000 a year to the citys costs. Another 535.000 annually was added when the Legislature authorized an additional city judge. As the City Commission looks for programs to slash or postpone, we suggest that police and fire protection aie particularly poor places to economize. With crime rates going up all over the country, the city should improve its law enforcement even if it means cutting back elsewhere. Nor should theie be any raid on the capital improvements fund. The money for next years capital improvements already has been largely committed. Moreover, once the city stops setting aside sufficient funds for capital improvements, it finds itself with deteriorating public facilities and no money for replacing them. In the past when enough citizens objected that proposed budgets were too high, local officials managed to cut them. Economizing, difficult as it is, can be done because it must be half-ecn- May 10th. 1889, "We need not lead deeply into the luMu-lof the United States to become aware of the great nd vhal role which the railroads hate played in the opening up and devel oping of this great nation. mMm, frontier moved weslwaid it was the railroads that bore die great tide of Americans to areas of new opportunities and new hope. As our Once arrived, the pettier wax aided by the laiiioad in many ways. One example of this Pfl 1809, If TcJ1 & Rail Rosa from the Atlantic to the Pacific The late Pte.sident John F. Kennedy thus described the importance of the advent oi the railroad as he looked back to tlie joining of the tails at Utah's Piomontoiy Summit, May 10, 1869. That memoiable day when East met West hei aided the end of the pioneer era for Utah. Broken wheels, wagon d stallments, and special redjeed group rates were given to colonists who traveled and settled together. Through these methods, cific helped settlers succeed and manufacturing pursuits the future of the West and business for the railroad. Southern Pain agricultural which assured transportation iail-roa- lonely maike's. The population explosion in the West brought early concepts of "tourism. People wanted to see what lay beyond the mountain, and the railroads were anxious to show them. On May 10, 1869, all the celebration did not center at Promontory Summit. Jubilant Utahns crowded into the Mormon Tabernacle to pray, sing and oe thankful for the coming of the railroad. to George Kraus in HIGH . . The railroad (Southern Pacific) also sought to build the West into a tourist attraction. It founded the now famous Sunset Magazine to further encourage tourism and settlement. According ROAD TO PROMONTORY, A committee on resolutions proposed: "Whereas the last tail is now laid on the iron road which bridges from ocean to ocean ibis vast land of libeity and prog-iesRESOLVED That the people of the great pioneeis of the Rocky Utah Mountains receive with acclamation the glad news of the completion of the mighty woik to winch, as a people, they have contributed their part; and with the great circle of States and Territories now rejoicing in union over the event, do thank God for its accomplishment . . The people of Utah Territory had long dreamed of the coming of the railroad. The first pioneers had mapped a route along Platte River Valley and the 40th parallel as they moved westward. Their route was the same one followed by fur traders, trappers and later the Overland Stage and Pony s: "To attract the monied tounst, it built the most famous of luxury resort hotels which was the Del Monte near Montciery, California bringing new amenities to fledgling western cities. The railroad even successfully lobbied through Congress a bill that transformed Yosemite Valley, then in danger of being flooded as a reservoir, into a national park, thus saving it for future generations. Utah gratefully watched as Union Pacific unfolded for visiting millions of people the wonders of tlie parks of Southern Utah. hand-in-han- d Expiess. The railroad was built with handtools, sweat, faith and grit plus about $165 million. Today, the project would cost billions. The vast resources of Utah and her westein neighbors, untouched through the ages, made their entrance into the world's economy when Pres. Leland Stanford of Central Pacific Railroad drove the last spike to signal the nation by telegraph that tlie railroad was completed. ON THE ARRIVAL OF TRAINS FROM THE EAST. THROUGH TO SAN FRANCISCO tb rangers cf fcs Sea! Travelers for Pleasure, Health or Business onr la lees taaa Four Days. avsida; Will find TU flocky KounUim Hnnlthy nd Plwmit. Trip LUXURIOUS CARS of the transconti- nental tailroad, silver mines of Virginia City and neighboring Nevada areas spilled their i iches near and far. Rich coal beds found along the route of the Union Pacific Railroad flexed their muscles to provide fuel for young western industry. Great tres toppled from the Sierra Nevada to the Wasatch and Uintah Mountains as lumber moved to market. The farmer and lancher had an unlimited market for his BATING HOUSES & umo pacikio 'em-- ; . itt,A)i. iitLVIi, PULLMflUS PALACE SLEEPING CABS IllS WITH AM, THKOI'I.II PAHUKM.Ut I IIAIM--. SILVER AND OTHER MINERS! GOLD, your Fortum in Kaorailu, wyomtrir Anroiu, Wa.hmrton, the time Culorado. Mo in H PEN corns AND TIGKFTS THROUGH MU FOR HELENA. FOR VIRGINIA ALL AT SALE AT .MAD CITY, Dakota or Caluoroia. Mamoo, Id do. Nevada Utah. Oraaon. Pop Una. Ma COMMECTIOWS piodtu 1. Blit tlie most inipoitant lesource, hi ought West by tlie lailroad, was people No sooner was the last spike in place inan railioads staited a haid sell campaign to bung people and new- industry to the Wesi. CITY, UK SALT CITY AND PRINCIPAL RAILROAD ARIZONA. OFFICES! Be Sure they Re&d via Platte Valley or Omaha - Ceniptins California became a boom state. Gold and silver formed the lure to Nevada. Utah looked gratefully to the arrival of hordes of Latter-da- y Saints coming in by rail instead of in wagon trains or with handcarts. As Southern Pacific hisloiians land-seeke- In great promotion activity, thp not only atti acted the colonists but went tu woik to find maikets for their goods. Transcontinental freight rates vveie established at levels low enough so farmers and manufactuiers could compete directly with producers much closer to Eastern grates, and bleached animal skulls marked the trail of the Mormon Pioneers as they had come since 1847 to find refuge in the mountains of their Promised Land. With tlie completion was the ticket, a method by which the fare paid would be applied on tlie land. Railway purchase of railway-owneland was sold at $1 to $10 an acre by in- Oflire 72 I Stile St., opposite ( ity Hall tud Court llmoe Square, Cliimgo. I. NICHOU. Ttck.t itl. CHARLES (5. I. GILMAN, l J011X P. HART. 1 Thp. lit, it U m a lieon. J.m Bl'DD, i iiU uma TV. SNYDER, mwHiii, Ia U. "No sooner was tbs last spike in place than railroads started a hard sell campaign to bring people and new industry to the West." lepoiied, On a proud day in the early 1920s the railroad arrived in Cedar City, connecting all of Southern Utah to the main lines of the nation. Daily, during summer months, tourists streamed into tlie new Union Pacific Depot and its proud partner, the new El Escalante Hotel. Buses took passengers into the wonderlands of Cedar Breaks, Bryce Canyon, Zion National Park, and Grand Canyon. Roads replaced cow trails, and Utah realized a bright new source of income. Following the Driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Summit, May 10, 1839, Utah started binding its cities and hamlets together with scores of branch lines. Foreline to be known as most was the Utah Central. Brigham Young, disappointed when tlie Central Pacific and Union Pacific both bypassed Salt Lake City by going north of Great Salt Lake, organized the new link be- tween Ogden and Salt Lake City. The Utah Central was built and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. Brigham Young was president of ilia newly organized railroad. His son, Joseph A. Young, was superintendent. There was still to he another spike ceremony in Utah. On Jan. 10, 1870, eight months after the wedding of tlie rails at Promontory Summit, Brigham Young drove an iron spike in Salt Lake City to connect his city with Ogden and with the nation and the world. done. "I Finding A Place In The World Of Bafflement Love You, Mother' How many times m life one iicais "If I had only told niv mother how much loved and appi related her while she was lteie And yet. too often the veais llv away and that dear nother is laid to lost bv iluhliou or a husband who mav have flipped up along the way i riling her those sweet words she longs to hcai For certainly, of ad the gifts that can be bi stowed upon mothers this Mothers Has the gicatcst ate love and It has been said that men need to feel they ate loved; women need to be told. Pci Imps mothers need both. Thomas Moore paid a touching tiibute to his mother in a poem titled To Mv Mother:" Though wooed by Battei mg friends. And fed with fame if fame it be). This heait. my own dear mother, bends. With love's true instinct, back to thee' ro lime onT hefoir Mothers Hay. Mothers, bit's-- , hern Tn Tael, it was tiro long"" of a Philadelphia Mniistei. Anna Jarvis, to nay tnlote n hoi u n rnothn that led to the national obseivaice oi Motnei's iw first unclaimed in 1911. Since mothers an a institution. Mothers Day is merely a rcmindc to sa, m ease it's slipped your mind Ibis year: "I love you. mother.' 1 . . . i apptc-ciatio- t uai-Hiour- n. Wlien my gieat giandlather. fiedi from Wales, set up Ins farm in the Wisconsin vvilde, ness 122 veais ago. most of wnat he had lie had built himself, and all that lie and lus fanuK possessed he could undo! stand. So (i)iild 1 undei sI.um! the pi imipic of the wood Move. You iould call m e p r e t t v savvy about the idea behind lie well pulley, the horse collar and tlie Mr. Jones egg beater. I dig the tallow dip, the kerosene lamp, the Moline Patent Moldboard Plow and perhaps even the hay loader, though I'm not so suie 1 i about that. i fall oil m-- .t aoout vliero fell oh one and a quailrr The trouble is, Gicat-Giandp- a retimes ago Maybe tie ..is .i tlmllmg tide belwea liany and the rone1 Li' docked Gieat-Giandp- ual ttain. cool ,d the 43 It knocked minutes. ' :ipi JENKIN LLOYD JONES Tins didn't mraii of cuiu-e- , tt.it man was master of his pin. slid woild With the exception of smallpox, lie hadn't learned to iniitiol any mfe tiuus diseases He still dug Ins pi n y uphill from Ins well He iould only wiing Ins hands while beelles ,ue lus uops. 11 lnsi his bearings and broke his slujis on But, auuoundod by disaster as he was, he had faith that it was all the will of God. look at us. We live in a woild Today of wonders that would have staggered the imagination of a Sinbad. Yet most of us understand it only a little better than do Aus-t- t alian bushmeu and Dyak There has lecently been publisned an elencyclopedia of techementary nology, tailed "The Way Things Work. After some evenings of hard study with it I now understand the doorbell. I am belitginning to swagger around the house a tle because I have discovered tlie principle of the Yale lock, the gas meter, the bimetal thermostat, and the difference between blowers and compressors. Beyond kincergarten the teal trouble Marts In the field of Polaroid photography, color TV. cyclotrons, nuclear leactors and toijehtonp dialing moM of us would gaze at vviih tlie lomwehen-.101tb- - detailed riiagtanis of ntangutanv Yet. fortunately. Ihou sands of our fello.v citizens tlmik these lee's. things about it. Im sute he could hav come clos- er to loigmg a drive rod or machining a steam r; Under than I could. It seems lid i d to believe, but only the average intelligent man completely undei stood his mechanical environment. v he sale to say that good mechanics like James Watt. Richard Arkwrignt and Eli Whitney would be able to grasp immediately the principles of any machine then existing. In the late 18th century, brilliant men like Antoine Lavoisier. Joseph Priestley and Benjamin Franklin knew practically all the sc ience theie was. In me ( i'k. Li.it at Ai 'run at .X tady , the ew Yoik t rn dl the 17 miles in a Hp wrote home to Warns i tneir day- -. It would head-hunter- e aie pretty simple. t That may be wnat saves most of us. We have our little fields of competence and expertise. Whether we are house painters, subway motormen, dentists or professors of Sanskrit we can do some things better than most other people can, and we get paid for it. This feeds our egos. We dont mind the smnk ot the auto mechanic when we essay an idiotic diagnosis of a wheezing car. There ate snmp things we know that be doesnt. But lias the wuiid gradually become an (or the man who has no excruciating place expertise? Today the mechanical cotton picker is e an awesome thing and tree with gigantic machines is coming in. So, suppose you drift to HarL-or San Francisco. The number of things you can't understand multiplies. You have no area of excellence. Society wants nothing that you can do. You have no protection for your rgn. This may be the dilfeieuec. Our dtudg-itu- r amestois. however ignorant, had their pndr because they li;d then usefulness. Bit' tlm man I1' mg m a world o! balllement who has no place may be at wits end. And bpyond the end of wits is Iht Lot en. big-scal- i , |