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Show THE .MIUYALH MESSENGER, he occupied next Sunday at 11 a. m. by Major II. J. Berry of Salt llty. The pastor. In company with Rev. T. J. Tramel of Bingham, the A. J. lloniuer. Max Trawler and ltev. Zook of Turk City, ut the inIda son, Buster, and Gladys Itosse vitation of the board of home missions will attend a training school of speleft Tuesday oji a fishing trip lu Idaho. Gannet, where the doc- cial work for smull town churches and tor owns a large ranch, will be head- will be gone for three weeks. Tlie pulquarters for the fishermen. Mrs. lloa-ine- r, pit will be occupied each Sunday dur- SYSTEMATIZED EXPLOITATION who has been In Portland for ing the pastor's uhsence and the OF LINES BY MORGAN AND the past few weeks, will poln the liarty speakers announced each week In the ROCKEFELLER IS ALLEGED. ut Gannet and return with them to Messenger. Midvale. DIAMONDS HIDE IN AMERICA Sensational Statements Mada Before Mrs. and son of Brit- LUNDER1NG OF lr. two-wee- Hugh Blakley ish Columbia are visiting with Mrs. Blakley's parents, Mr. and Mrs. IV U Ham Hobbs. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Larsen spent Sunday and Monday In Toysan, visiting with friends. -- vies Hibbert Mr. of Anxano Is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. LeVoir Jensen. He Is Mrs. Jensens brother. The M. E. Sunday School picnic, held at Liberty Park, Wednesday, was well attended and all the picnickers had a good time. Miss Millie Mills is visiting her sister, Mrs. Peterson, of Green lUver, Wyoming. Heber Aylett came down from Brighton during the week, possibly for the purpose of getting thawed out a little. According to reports, the weather up yonder has been taking all kinds of cold streaks recently. k Last Tuesday afternoon the baseball team did all sorts of things to the Midvale clerks In a game played on the school grounds. Considerable excitement prevailed and when the dust had all settled and the sweat was wiped off it was found that the score stood 13 to 4, In favor of the Trackers.. Mrs. Fred Hyke leaves for Richfield this afternoon to visit relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Will Waters, Dr. J. 8. Alley and son. Jack, and Mr.' and Mrs. W. B. Jones returned from Idaho last Friday night. On the trip they covered 1038 miles and traveled over some of the roughest roads of the state in order to visit places of greatest scenic Interest. They report that they caught fish enough to eat, had an excellent time and dint receive a single puncture. Wednesday Miss Ilonore Stagg left for Bozeman, Mont, where she will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs Layering. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Greene entertained party Thursday, (t a family dinner commemorating the anniversary of their wedding day. What came as a surprise to his Midvale friends was the sudden departure of George Goets for Seattle last week. George recently went to the Salt Lake office of the U. 8. Smelling Company to clerk and all of a sudden, it seems, he decided to try It" on the coast. Mrs. Ellen Stokes has returned home after spending about six weeks In Montana and Idaho. In Dillon she was the guest of the Mrs. Dunsles and She reIn Idaho of her son, Arch. ports having a splendid time. Mr. and Mrs. George Wright anil children left for Coalville Wednesday, the locality chosen by the famous fisherman in which to hook the limit every day far a couple of weeks. They will make their headquarters at the Dem-min- g ranch, the home of Mrs. Wright's parents. Mutual Day at Saltalr was a big event and the presence of many Midvale people helped to make of it a success in every way. Mrs. Joe Joy entertained her bridge club Friday afternoon. Mrs. Ralph Thomas, who underwent an operation for appendicitis Blondny in a Salt Lake hospital, is reported to be doing nicely, and will be able to return home in the near future. The pulpit of the M. E. Church will rip-trac- Gems May One Day Be Mined on a Large 8cale in This Country, Say Geologists. Geologists, according to exchanges, believe that some day diamonds will be mined on a very large scale In the Inlted States. They are confident there are valuable diamond mines hidden under this country, because many loose diamonds have been found in various sections. There must be a parent lode, they.say, and this is believed to be in either the Rocky mountain or Appalachian range. Regular diamond chimneys, like those of South Africa, were found in Arkansas In 1900. They were filled with perimlodite, akin to the famous Kimberlite of South Africa. A farmer In Indiana, plowing a gravelly hillside, found the first diamond In America In 1837. More than 20 diamonds have been found In Indiana in the last 20 years, and one sold for 1.200. Other valuable diamonds hsve been found In Virginia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Georgia, Alalinma. Louisiana, Idaho, Texas, Montana, Arisona and California. A laborer working In an excavation In Manchester. Va., found a stone weighing 23$ karats In 1855. Numerous stones, weighing from three to 219a karats have been found In Wisconsin. Remarkable Chimpanzee Dies. there died a who had KHnt the eight years of his life defying all rules laid down for the well being of chiiiiimnsees. Ills name was Anti.ny, anil he was the only one of his trilie of minikeys who has ever managed to stand an English climate niuultlguted by artificial heat He came from the Congo In 1911, when he was very young and small. At that time he weighed 14 pounds, by Inst summer he was Just six times an heavy. During the whole period of his civilised life he was kept In a brick building facing southwest and unheated, and he alept In straw without blankets. Chocolates and sweets poison to ordinary chimp nxeeo were the special treats of Antony's dietary, and he had a less comprehensible fancy for beans. Manchester GuardA few weeks ngo chlm-pnnz- ian. House Committee by Attorney for' Brotherhood of the Railway Employees. Loading directly from from thq banking houses controlled directly by the Morgan and Rockefeller groups, Information whacb has come Into the possession of the railroad brotherhoods shows that there has p seeded a systematised plundering of virtually all of the public transpertuthm highways In the United States' the house inter-stat- e commerce committee was told by Glen E. Plumb of Chicago. Mr. Plumb, who apiieared In sup-H- rt Plumb plan for of the the reorganisation of the railroads, said the Information tended to show that the wrecking and looting of the New Haven, Chicago & Alton, Rock not Island and Frisco lines were sporadic examples of the highway robbery to which the American public hud been subjected ns to Its transportation highways. There was no connection between the presentation of the Plumb plan to congress and Inlmr disturbances and deniunds for higher wages, Iluuih said, replying to a question by Chairman The fact that both broke together," Piunih added, wns due to your Invitation to apiienr at this time. Otherwise, our plan would have been presented In the fall." Definite Information on which his charges were based, Mr. Plumb said, would be turned over to the committee, upon which It may ask for a full congressional Investigation." We believe such an Investigation, he continued, will reveal thnt there is not one railroad system dominating any part of the 254,000 inlles of railroads In the United States but has suffered and Is suffering, In a degree If not to the same extent, from carefully deliberated manipulations of the sort that have wrecked and ruined the railroads I have mentioned. It will reveal that these interests are again gathering their forces of private and secret control, and seek, after having gained from congress a sanction to rehabilitate their railroad properties at public expense, to begin again and fol its corrupt and wicked eyrie the systematized plundering and looting of the public and the public Interest In the nation's highways. In view of the gravity of this and In order thnt we may have the benefit of tlietr counsel on behalf nf the public hi presenting onr statement to congress and to the American people, the fourteen affiliated railway labor organizations are summoning to Washington a national conference on railroad control. Washington Wall street and Embroidery an Old Art. Embroidery la supposed to be one of the earliest domestic arts, for It Is argued that It must have been employed for decorative purposes very soon after sewing was Invented. This would place It long before the art of weaving was discovered and back In the days when the sklna of animals were the only material for clothing that existed. The earliest known specimens of embroidery, however, are some fragments discovered In Egypt, snd the earliest of these Is supposed to have been, made about the fifteenth RAILWAY ICE HOU6ES BURNED. century B. Ct Naturally materials of this kind disapiiear very rapidly, and Loss of (75,000 Suffered by Union DisIt Is only In a very dry climate like Pacific in Blazer-Twelf- th Egypt, with its sandy soil, that fabaster of Recent Date. rics suitable for embroidery could surOgden. That llie citizens of Ogden vive. should take immediate steps lo organize a vlgllnnte committee and work lo Undeveloped Country. Lake St. John, at the head of the the end of cclniilng lip the town of ilm aspicturesque Saguenay river, has been undesirables and firebugs was the brought to the notice of the Royal So- sertion of W. H. Wattis, president of ciety of Arts by Prof. J. C. McLennan the Utah Cost ruction niinimny. Tuesas one of the best undeveloped power day night during the fire that destroysources in North America. It has an ed five large Union laciflc railroad area of about 850 square miles, drains lee houses and the plant of tin Utah a basin of 30.000 square miles, and Is Ice anil Cold Storage miiiMiny, leased 815 feet above sea level. Three easily to the Pacific Fruit Express developed power sites are capable of Hits plant wns the main Icing station yielding a total of 1,000,000 horse In this section, mid Its destruction, inpower at tidewater, and many sites for volving nn liiinuHlIate loss of KT.'i.OiH), (locks and Industrial plants are avail- will also hniidienp shipping of fruit able on the river. from Utah. Tills fire, which is the twelfth in less than thirty days, is said by the to liny id officials to he of incendiary origin. The fire department fought the flames for ninety minutes before getting them under control. It was one of the largest fires In months. siiu-ntlo- AUTO PAINTING BY The Old Reliable-Fra- nk Hale-Pain- ter Expert Auto Repairing While in Salt Lake Visit Our Shop Truck and Body Building We Make New Machines Out of Wrecks Wheelwright and General Blacksmithing We Take the Squeak Out of the Wheel Machine Work and Acetylene Welding ELK CARRIAGE & AUTO WORKS JENSEN & FULLER 123 EAST FOURTH SOUTH Phone Wasatch 916 All Work Guaranteed RHDVALE, UTAH ALAS! FOR HUMAN FRAILTY GIRLS WHO USE CUSS WORDS City Editor Was First Victim of Hi Own Stern Warning Against the Booze." Singular Admission Said to Hava Bean Mad by th Member of a Graduating Clasa Youth's Wise Employment of Leisure Hour Means Everything In His After Life. 8 peaking of booze: A few years ago, when Colorado was at wet as the great Sahara is not the city editor of a Ieurer daily was having uo inconsiderable trouble In getting out a uews-IIthe day following each pay night Finally, In desperation, he Issued the following mimeographed letter for distribution to members ol beeu the fashion at aud schools to take a census of graduating classes to determine such vital facts as these: What Is your favorite flower? How tall are you? Do you smoke? Are you a prnhihitlouixt? At a glrlsseiulnary recent Inquiry was more sweeping. To the interrogation: Do you swear?" 200 of the 213 girls answered yes. Bnt admitting that they swear Is not proof that these feminine lips do utter oaths. So at least says the law In New York state, writes Griant" In the Philadelphia Press. Four or five people" must hear yon swear, not for a second or two, bnt that's the for about five minutes law In North Carolina. Down In Alabama they don't expect a man to swear from the honsetoira, but the law says that If three or four persons bear you Just once, goodnight ! In Tennessee It Is not necessary to repeat the offensive words when a culprit Is Indicted for swearing. I saw on the veranda of a country club seventeen women of whom twelve were drinking an Intoxicating liquor and seven were smoking cigarettes. But If that census at the girls seminary Is an index, more women swear than dally with John Barleycorn or Lady Nicotine. Query: Why do women Insist on being so much like men? If the young man could only Ifniilate very early In his life the fact that merely to live ami eat and drink and sleep, nnd then die. Is not enough, but that lie must rob himself of many of the pleasures usually taken up by young men if lie means to make Ills life of the highest possible use to the world, lie would set his foot on tlie something pathway to accomplish the staff: It has long Any member of this staff who Is found under the influence of liquor, or with any Indication of having beeu drinking during working hours, will ho: Fined for tne first misdemeanor; fusiiended for the second; fired unconditionally for the ihlnl." These mimeographed letters were placed on the copy boys desk with Instructions to distribute them ax soon as the staff appeared for work the next afternoon. Oil the following afternoon there was heurd a snort from the ofliie of the society editor, and a usually meek Utrle beauty came dashing out of her room, waving a piece of paper In her hand. Where's the dty editorT' she demanded. "I'll see why I have to he Insulted like tills." The assistant dty editor tried to calm her. But nothing would do but that she see the city editor himself. Well," said the A. C. E., It cant he done, lie was stewed and we hud to send him home. Needless to say, there was a new city editor the next afternoon, and the staff gloatingly drank Its way to the days of prohibition. Lorry A. Jacobs, OWED MUCH TO the Dallas Dlstch, In 1cp." red-hair- OPERA SUCCEEDS BULL FIGHT Famous Arana In Mexico City Will No Longer Be Scene of Brutal Slaughter. The Ten fro el Toro In Mexico City, once one of the most pretentious of hull fight arenas. Is now the home of grand opera as a result of President Carranzas decree that bull fights should cease. Interspersing grand oiiera, dancers and concert artists have appeared In the arena, and It Is stated that these various forms of amusement will he offered until some definite action Is taken as to the future of bull fighting. It was In this arena that what b aid to be one of the most remarkable spectacles In the history of the sport was staged. A bull, El Bonlto, known as one of the fiercest fighters, on being brought Into the arena charged and killed three horses and Injured as many men without being touched by the estoque of any matador. Ae the bull stood bellowing defiance and with no one apparently willing to attnek him, Miguel Ballo, a picador who was a spectator In one of the boxes, leaped unarmed Into the Inclosure. In his outstretched hand he carried two lumps of sugar, which he nonchalantly offered to the bull. The animal, suddenly ceased Its bellowing and In a few moments docilely licked the sugar from Balloa bn ml. The latter returned unharmed to Ills box amid the playdits of the spectators. Anglo-Iris- h Tunnel. Not only Is It thought that the tunnel between England and France will be constructed at nn remote date, but there Is also talk of a tunnel between England and Ireland. This would restore to a slight extent the geographical union that existed between the two countries In one geological age thousands snil thousands of years ago. Great Britain aud Ireland were then separated only by a great valley. It Is proposed to carry the tunnel from some point on the coast of Lancashire to the nearest point In Antrim or down on (he Irish coast, a submarine length of 24 inlles. One of the great benefits of the tunnel would he Ihnt It would shorten the transatlantic Journey by at least 48 hours. It would also help the Irish cattle trade and the shipping of perlshnblc goods, expcciul-l- y fixh. to Engllfth murkrtft. Estimates of the cost of the proisiscd tunnel vary from $33,000,000 to (SO, 000.000. He Had One Better. One of our honest old fanners rame home nml found a sewing-machin- e tnnn in the house demonstrating to the .women what fine work It would do. The agent asked the farmer to bring In a shingle, and said: I will show yon that the Wonder Worker machine will do heavy work, for I will stitch right across the tip of the shingle where it Is nt least of an Inch llilifc." Not interested, said the farmer. Over 'crost here 'bout three miles northeast n young man built a house last summer, and I'll lie darned if his wife didn't take her Mechanical Marvel sewin' iimclune and stitch on evry blame course of chipboards, from gable to eaves, clean down in tlie Subsidies Are Advocated. Oakland, Calif. Nationalized subsidies and Investments to make the ised-lin- n of the American merchant murine secure against cheap labor acre advocated liy Homer I. Ferguson, president of the chamber of commerce of tlie United Sluics and presidi nt of the Newport News Slilplmtld'iig company, in nil address at it luncheon here. The government must furnish cheap money to compete with cheap labor." Ferguson said. Isnv rate loans iniisi he made liy the government, through proper legislilt ion. to private individuals ddiis for Investment In Amcrican-umdgoods to for- sills." lo curry Aii.erlciiii-iiuul- e As the agent slammed Its machine eign ports." Into his light truck and chugged away, the farmer turned to his wife nnd Ought To. said: "Well, Rita, I sewed tint agent "From the way that Von ninden-bur- g np nil right, didnt IT Now let's have and the Hohenxollern boys and upper." Bangor News. the rest of the crowd are offering to take the Kaisers pluce " Indian Village Unearthed. Tear A hurled Indian village site, beIt looks like they have ell made np lieved to have been occupied 50il year their ntlnds they will have to hung ego, wns discovered by M. A. Cramer Auburn city forester, tn digging nfter a woodchuck In the town of Cuto. Ae It Sound. county, New York. The site Cayuga Things seem to be In a pronounced contained skeletons and many hone snarl. hellpved of Iroqnois origin. Where?" Journal. Nyack Evening convention." "At that Czecho-Slova- k o EARLY BUILDING FOR SUCCESS col-leg- worth wliile. There Is no linrin In billiards nr pool or tn dancing, banehull or or any one of the scores of card-playin- different diversions and recreations nien to young men. The natural Inclination usually Is to dcvoie a large isirt of the leisure hours of young manhood to such pleasures. But the youth who Is really earnest In his ambition tn do something worth while will ills, ctpline himself to resist such temptations during his early, formative years, for the whole fate of a mun Is largely determined liy how he utilizes Ids phis-ti- c years. He may he restricted by circumstances, by environment, by family ties In his selection of his dally work, but every young man, particularly nowadays, has many hours that he can call his own, and It Is how he chooses to use these hours that counts most and tells most. Forbes Magazine. SOMETHING MORE THAN PLAY Crippled Soldier Pleasantly Surprised at Reault of Work at Which He STEREOSCOPE Amused Himeelf. How a ring got a wounded soldier How Commanders During the Great a new occuiiatlnn In life is told by of War Get Information the federal hoard for vocational eduVital Importance. cation, which Is helping the handimen of the army, navy and macapped stereoscope The rine corps get hack Into tlie in the an Important part played world. world war. It supplied an angle to A veteran of Bellean wood called photographs, snapped from airplanes, thnt could not be obtained from the nnp.on the board. His left leg gone, lie Plica red listless and without hoie. ordinary camera lens. Before Its use He sat talking to llie adviser, now and the pictures all seemed flat, bnt the then slowly turning a ring on his thus and added height, stereoscope finger. The adviser, to get the man's steep slopes, that apjicnred In picasked to see the ring. confidence, In sliowu were tures like flat ground, The Ilian suddenly became animated. their true characteristics, and the I made he said. Hammered fives of men who would have to cover It out of that, silver and engraved myself, saved. the ground In attack were those figures on the outside. Nothing The airplane camera looks directly but some playing of mine, he added. down on the spot to he photographed, The looked at the ring, noted advloer d man a making a picture as the and said: engraving, would see It. A stereoscopic camera, How would you like to learn enIn which the lensca are two and Inches aiwirt, would not graving?" Doing thlsr said the soldier, fineffect. Phothe stereoscopic produce Ids ring. Say, tills ain't work gering to decided take picture! tographers It's Just play." Just 100 yards apart to give a view, Leta bnve a try at It," replied the as a giant with eyes 100 yards sport, adviser. would see It. These pictures were The federal board sent the man to put on cardboard, and viewed through learn engraving, and In a few months the stereoscope. At first a cottage he qualified for a good Job In a Jewlooked like a tower, a bucket like a store. elry The etc. a canyon, well, a trench like officers soon lenmed to translate these Chinese College Girls. eccentricities, and the problem was Tlie most picturesque school In Xsn-kln- g the Just solved. True pictures, giving Is Gilding college, a recently exact Information desired, were then obtained by the airplane photogra- oieneii Institution, operated by five boards, presided over by a faculty of phers. eight nnd Including 18 girls. As this Is only the second year of operation, Biblera. The IS Is n goodly number. Last year attainhaving The Czecho-Slovakthere were hardly enough girls to go ed nntional Independence, attain also around. Tlie college Is housed for In Bible the of the privilege reading In a charming old gang the present Bithe national tongue, so the British or otfielul residence belonging ble society is planning to print Czech gwnn" tn tlie entitle of I.! Ilung ('hung, nml each. cents 50 Bibles purchasable for once occupied hy one of Ids relatives. Austrians and Italians have long For Chinese women to come into such s Blhlers. called the nn Inheritance, even hy renting It, la In was first The Czech Bible printed enough lo make anyone enthusiastic. 1475, but when the Czechs ennie under two years of college work sie Austria the printing and rending of Only nt present, lint a years work Is done wns own Inncmige the Bible In their milled over nutuinn, so that it forbidden. Copies of the Czech Bible being will soon tax the eight ' teacher fa were printed In other Innds nnd smugtlie work to class the hlah np keep discovered. If gled In, but were burned stMidnrd Unit bns been decided nwui, Religious persecution, dating back to Uhrixtiiin Herald. the lime of John Uuss, the Bohemian comreformer of the fifteenth century, Rigorous Mourning. bined with pollticul persecution to ficrtiiiiny's week of mourning over make the Czech Bible rare, hut all the more highly valued. Although, In mod- the harshness of onr pence terms was em days, the Austrian government rigorously observed nit,'' said Major Frederick Ialmer, the famous war corpermitted the circulation of the Czech Bible In the army, It continued respondent. "There's n sinrv about the week of to prohibit the circulation among tin' A Reriinese from Berlin. mourning home. Czechs at assistant theater manager said to llie work-a-du- y one-eye- three-quarte- Czecho-Slovak- Americans Eat Little Mutton. In GrPiit Britain about 22 per cent of nil meat consiinied is mutton. In France It Is nbont 11 per cent. In Canada It Is not quite 7. and In the United States is only about 3 ',4 per cent. Last year (1918) the coiiMimp-lioof dressed meat (lard excluded) In the United States averaged l."i(i Hiniids per person, of which only 5 were mutton and lum'.i. Tlie British, tlie Ciiiiadiuns, nnd the French nil similnr types of people iiiii having habits of life similar to Americans use less meat llii:n Americans do. but h much larger pnqioriloii (Mines from sheep. The United Stales gets its meat principally from outlie and hogs. Fork consumption is iilmut 14 times, and beef consumption .".I mill 13 times, as great us our use of mutton and latnli. These arc the annual averages for last year. manager: Is onr tin week of Iiigotniisiy, boss "('lose d'ovn Mii.in-uiiig- the , sir, going to observe boss? rigorously, is that tin- - tlie tilcnT aid it. ('lose down nothing:' said tlie 'We'll put nil the cli n'ils girl boss. III black silk slocking.'" To Keep Cartaway Dry. invented a boats which, when lid iusted. liners both hunt nil-rower so cniiijih'l: !y Unit waves and rain .vlll roll off ii a water rails c!V a duck's Tim suit, which include back. a hcndpiccc. is made full at its jnucrnie with tin1 rubberized eov.-rs.ivs (be Monthly, so llu-- t the Popular oni'M.inu may try in pndd'c wllh in of rln- - our wliile sttring in the with tin- - iiiii spread out liehiicl him. His ctln r oar makes a hncklu lie for Bag Changes Into a Float cover. the of relief Tor the Invention A British extenaeronauts making vnynges over No Problem at All. sive stretches of water consists of u A small hoy was sent to the Incut In the more or less circular gas hug for an entity bottle, nml center of which Is stretched n floor" drug store hi turn the assistant of heavy fabric. Ordinarily, the raft after waiting nnd said: Mn Well, little spotted dethe in the Is carried liy airship man. what can I do for you?" flated state; hilt In llie event of acci(Hi. I want an empty medicine botdent it can be Inflated In a few min tlie boy replied. tle." raft. serviceable most u form ntes to "1 can't let you lime one without en h Tlie Img Is really u series of bugs. snnxMliliig In It, said the nsslliiut. a air liilliitcd through separate being To which the little hopeful shyly anvalve. Simple oar locks mid u pair of 1 swered: suppose It Is merely red oars ore provided for propulsion tape, so shove us a cork In." I .mil siorm 1. i Iim com r" for , -i-u |