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Show S c f " S. - 1 c' v - L- C-- I (St er SATURDAY, AUGUST MIDVALE, UTAH. 16, 1919. VOL. V. .NO? 46. $2.00 PER YEAR Is to make the common work of the the work tlmt most men and women must ilih-b- oth profitable and Mrorld pleasant. The motto of the College Is, Lalsir Is Life." ' For the first time in (several years, .Slid vale looked like a deserted village last Monday afternoon.. U. S. Welfare Day at Sultair literally cleaned up the towns population, figuratively speaking, and made Main street look as lonesome as a newly married man Mien his wifes away. And that is Just exactly us it should have been on Unit particular day. It .proved that Midvale people can play aa hard as tliey can work, und tlmt they have something on their minds, ut least besides golems and the grumps. Although the first special street car for .the occasion was scheduled to leave Midvale ut 12:45 p. in., people Iwgan to bent It In the direction of I he beach as early as nine In the nuiming, und every car regular which loft from tlmt time until the specials began to arrive was filled to und then some. The Welfure cianmittee gave away nine thousand street car tickets, so it Is easy to figure how crowded Midvale and Sandy care were. In fact, Welfure Day must have netted the street ciir company enough shiners to pay for tho building of tliut wuiting room for which we huve been waiting In a sort of halfhearted exjtectancy for several years past. Notwithstanding the fact that many journeyed to the bench in autos, about i wo thousand Saltnir tickets were also given by the cmnmittee. So there's not lo yonder why the old town looked like a doughnut minus the dough, last Monday afternoon. As lute ns ten p. in., a local picture show magnate was caught scanning the horixon, in the hope that some wayfarer or other might be approaching Hie box offbwjthirvInrkeiiSiig distance. But nothing was doing. And the big feed! Gildner and six trusty assistants were the busiest waiters in all the world, for three solid hours. Yep. for three 'hours they didnt have time for anything but wait. And at times the big rush got them so confounded flustrated tlmt they couldnt tell a gypsy fortune teller from a home-tow- n chicken. Itenlly! So they fed everybody hi sight, Irrespective of his voting precinct and condition of servitude. And heres what everybody gut wlio hud the strength and uppetlte enough to carry them away: Reef sandwiches, cheese sandwiches, pickles dill and Delinonico isitnto chips,' graites, peaches, three n kinils of that good cake, a vurleties of wafers and und 'a great big Jiunk of Ice cream. Some feed, 'eh Ko? The committee figured on feeding three thousand hungry picknickers all they could hold. So they purchased enough for about flye thousand average ' ehters. Hut even at that, the cafeteria bellowed out ut six o'clock and some there were who went without. But nobody is kicking; for It Jhst simply couldn't )s helped. Of course, there were all sorts of mitraptions to' contrive the downfall of the iNicket .Ismk. And no doubt, many were the empty wallets at the close of day. ' The kids were in their glory all the time, and some of the old Isiys received liours of pleasure In Hie simple process of casting tlieir weather eyes in the realm of the Funny, ain't it, how certain n bathing suits things, like of the feminine gender, can simply hypnotise a feller into a . state of rlmtsodleal rapture? And then, there was that aeries of Japanese pool and isiker stuff that really made gatubol-er- s of us all without our knowing it But mnins the word on that cus Brother Beacon and Sister Serious Imili walked away with whole armfulls of winnings. You know, mums the lmif-doze- Indy-Ange- sand-wullo- half-grow- word. of course, we all got soused on SETH E. NORDBERG HOME. Seth E. Nordberg of West Jordan returned from France, Tuesday, August 12, having been away from the home fire exactly twenty months. Seth Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. K. H. Nord-her- g of West Jordan And was a member of Wagon Company 801.' Following are some of his personal views of military life as told by himself: "Yes, 1 am safe and Sound, hack home again, after a hard, straining military, life of twenty months. My humble home, my parents, my townspeople never looked so good to me ns tliey do now. My lesson of tlie experience of being a participant In tlie service of Tncle Sain during this war is great; tlie essence of it will never be spoken or written, because I have no language that can explain it and no lien to depict it Our cnnip life Is and is outlined and strictly 4'hecked off ns a checkerboard, with rules and regulations. If you should hupiien to step outside of these marked rules, well, a dose of military sulphur anil fire explodes all over you. Our trip across the ocean could not have been better, going over. Our souls were all astir and tuned In the highest pitch of fighting. We all felt like masters or victors of the situation. No fear whatever was visible among the boys, neither of submarines nr of liondis from the air. Finally, our enemy got It where the ehlcken got tlie ax. And now pence is progressing rapidly, and when It Is once sealed with the Orest Seul of .the World. I liojm it will stay sealed forever. For lienee is heaven anil war is hell." one-side- ...... - Ireland Still Medieval.. , In Ireland we are stili medieval, and think that how to live Is more Important tliuu how to get a living. When I wus a young man If I announced tliut I Intended next morning nt break of day to start on some enterprise of uuiuseiiient, or it might be of high duty, the whole family Would get up to see ine off; hut If It were, on some matter of mere commercial gain, I would breakfast In the cure of the servants. It was thus through the whole of Irish life, John Butler Yeats.' tickle-toe- d CARRANZA IS WARNED THAT MURDERS AND OUTRAGES OF AMERICANS MUST CEASE. Communication Couchod in Strongest Language Used in Any From Thie Government 8ince Vera Crus Occupation. Washington. a Aisne-Murn- Meuse-Argofin- MI-lii- el e, e, IndU-atio- e e s y, nl WARFIELD HAS RAIL PLAN. A et . Hens, Listento This Wish. Hurry, who was not especially fond of eggs, Was persuaded to eat them with 'toast for brenkfust. It happened that he and his mother took dinner with grandma on the farm that day and again eggs were served. On their way home they stopped nt Aunt Mary's and were urged to remain for supper, which they did. Aunt Mary also laid fried eggs on the bill of fare. Harry accepted one with a sigh, but said In sn aside to his mother: "Oh, dear, I wish hens would luy something besides eggs." The Needed Lubrication. A fervent, but unlettered, preacher among the mountain whites of Hie Carolines was exhorting his flock to come forward and take advantage of the means of grace. "It sir pride thats keeping yon set-ti- n in yore seats, he cried. Come to the altar and get down on your benders, and If they air too stiff with pride, lie em. He 'em, as It says in the Scriptur with He of Patinos." New York Evening Post President Carranza lud tlie Mexican government bus lieeii wurned that Amerii-aumust be pro- tected in future. .Tlie firat definite move toward the In policy in long exjiected change dealing with Mexico was disclosed on Thursday. Carranza hua been wanted that If the murder und outrages of Americana continue, the United States uiuy In- - forced to adopt a radical chuuge lu its isillcy with regard to Mexico." Willi Ihe announcement at the state di'iuirtuieiit, however, caine no authoritative of how fur the Amcr-ien- u government is preparing to go to enforce wliut lucks only the diplomatic tcchniciilillcs of an iililinutuin. The government announced Its action by publishing an of notes with Mexico City, uud prefaced its official statement with the explanation that tlie diplomatic representations referred to hud lieeii taken lu view of the long series of murders and outrages of American citizens in Mexico, culminating In the murder of Peter Catron In Sun Luis Putosl lost month, and the penietrulioa n oilier ucts In diaregnnl of American lives and property." The communication to Mexico is couched in prolmhly the strongest language used lu any from this government since the exchanges preceding the t Vera fruzVccftpatloii. All official Washington began ut once looking behind the officlul texi seeking some reason for an imiicmliug change of imliry, for which there lias been demand In ami out of congress. Pressure from foreign goverumcuis which is and pressure In preparing nil investigation of flic whole Mexican situation were unuing LETS GO TO SANDY those most coumiouly (IIhciishciI. Outwardly there was no reason remost the popular Lets go to Sandy used to be one. of except the long and growing marks in the southern part of Salt Lake county. When Saturday list of outrages on American.:. who came found, and the chon s were all done, the fellow night Truth About Cat's Eyes. like having a hot time in tie old town, tonight just naturcat can see better In the dusk felt acted accordingly. That was than can a human being because the ally thought of Sandy and then was 'er old when ultra-violthe up for fair when the town whoopin' Mingo cat's eyes are sensitive to . rays. Its pupils are capable of great- was running full blast, so to speak, and when lager beer gushed er expansion than those of man's or forth from four and eight and sixteen gallon kegs (you remember) , of almost any other animal, thus adjust like that Necbo stuff tries to gush at the present time. Of mitting more light. The eat uses Its course, changes have come in flocks to all things since those days, whiskers for feelers In the dark. Its and in many respects progress has sorta turned things upside Is a great help to It down, Bo It gets ulong belter In the dark including the foul's and the eights and the sixteens of ye than. most animals. The belief that It olden years. But, progress or no progress, there is not one of for miles around can see. by night with the same de- the old boys or the old girls ol' the middle-age- rs gree of clearness as by day Is, how- who cannot remember having spent many a happy hour in Sandy. ever erroneous. . , And, which is still more to the point, it can still be done and is ' for fair. But there's tills much About it : Money was never cast Upon more fruitful waters. 4 day of reel wholesome pleasure Is worth a whole dang year, of worry, Oldest Living Thing. uud everybody In Midvale who got the The oldeet living thing In the world has Baltalr at spirit of Welfure Day Is to be the famous cypress doubled his efficiency without doubt In thought the churchyard of the village of connected to everylKHly So It's hats off Santa Marla del Tale,. a few miles with the grand event In an ofAclal from Mexico city. Experts have estiway. mated Its age as between live and six thousand years. It Is said to have MRS. MARIA HAROCASTLE been a stripling two hundred years old PASSES AWAY when Cheops built the great pyramid. Mrs. Maria Hnrdcnstle, tho wife of Exchange. Joseph. Hnrdcnstle, of Sandy, died at Exactly. ilie U 1). 8. hospital,. Wcnesday night an Youngly Did you ever notice that August 13, after having undergone one the matrimonial process is like making oHrntion. Besides her liuslinnd, of a call? Yon go to adore, you ring the daughter, Mrs. Chnries rorguson Mhlvule and I Ihirdcnstle at Sandy, bell and yon give your name to the tli.-emaid. survive her. The body Is nt vent, eviabh' Synlrus Ye. and Alien youre taken A. Jenkins undertaking funeral. In. Philadelphia North American. tlie for arrangements licnding Neckbo and The Agricultural College of Logan, Utah, la sowing the seeds of sr.ccees in LEO J. BIRD BREEZES IN the world's greatest Industry thats why we place the following college .To say that Leo Ipl breesed Into comment In tlie industrial column. town from France, Monday, August The General Catalog, 10180, of the 11, Is not only tu say tliut be has reAgricultural College of Utah la off the turned to the home hearth but Is to press and Is a celar and concise exposition of courses offered nt the pop- express precisely the manner, mode or of his happy come-bacFor ular Institution. To the average tnan, method the policy of the big school, aa ex- Leo was some breeze before he left for the frtyit, und now well, hes a pressed In the new catalog, will, with' regular cyclone of vim, vigor and viout doubt, lie of special Interest: "Tlie Agricultural College of Utah tality. When we have a really big liroiMNdtion to place before the puliUc, provides, In accordance with the spirit of the law under which It was organ- we're going in bund it over to Leo uud iinve him hand It to you. But that's ised, a lllieral, thoro, qnd practical education. The two extremes in edu- straying from the story. cation, empiricism and the purely theo- : Do J. Blnl enlisted Seplciuiier IS, retical, are avoided; for the practical 017, and returned with a discharge is lmsed upon and wilted with, the taper tucked in his inside pocket of tliomly scientific. In addition to the which lie run rightfully feel proud. As of the Fourth Auiiiinnltlon practical work of the different courses, a member students are given tlioro training In Motor- - Battalion, lie served on four Yesle, St. the sciences, mathematics, history, fronts, the ' and having earnEnglish, art, modern languages, and other related subjects. The object Is ed mid received four stars and a world to foster all tliat makes for right liv- of useful experience. He was In Gering, good eitixeiuJilp uml high effi- many nine months, where, Incidentally, he obtained a fine specimen of the ciency. Under this general policy, Ihe spec- paper clothing of which we all have ial purpose of the Agricultural College heard. Leo didnt say so, hut the of Utah is to lie of sen-icIn the up- specimen which lie has looks ns If it have been a portion of the belt building of the State and the great might West to which It belongs. Tlie In- portion of a lurtys Sunday dress. Anystruction In agriculture and agricul- way ,lts tlie thing we raid it was u tural engineering, therefore, deals with specimen of ini per clothing. Ills many friends are heartily pleasIhe special problems relating to the conquest of the great areas of unoc- ed to welcome him home. cupied lands, the proper use of the water supply, and the kinds of crop UNEXPECTED ILLNE88 PROVES or live stock which in Utah may be FATAL made most profitable; instruction in mechanic arts points out the most While John 11. Wutson was enjoying promising trades and teaches them so ns to meet the needs of the State ; In- a dip In the lake last Monday afterstruct Ion In commerce relates to the noon, lie was taken seriously 111 and undcvchqied resources and the present died nt a Salt Luke hospital, conditions of the State, and ihiy. August 13. The deceased was SO of age and wus well and fnvor--l- a Investigates the principles anil meth- V-irMidvale. He l survived commeretvl ods to be applied in the growth of Utah; Instruction In home by Ills wife, three sons, Iloy Watson economics teaches the women right if Midvale, Ollle Watson of lnrk City living and economic Independence from and Frank Watson of Urie, Wyoming, the iHiliit of view of prevailing Utah and one daughter, Mrs. Storier of Rlg-hIdaho. Funeral services will lie conditions. The dominating spirit of the policy held in the L. D. S. ward chapel, Sim of the Agricultural College of Utuh day nt 12 o'clock. -- still being done, though the methods of procedure are somewhat different and the stamp of Mr. Reformer has come to stick a sort of hifalutinness upon the pastime of pa and the rest of the family. When the Mingo moved to Murray, it looked like a big black cloud had fallen kerplunk on the old town, and that what would h be left of it within two or three years would be blown the first time the weather man decided to send an extra heavy souwester. But several Sandyites couldnt see it that way, and from the very minute that hot slag ceased to run down the dump, the said citizens started to fortify the town against what looked like a sure smash. The Wilsons and the Cushings and the Kuhres and the Vincents and the Trips and the Parrys and others took off their coats and said to one another, Let er come ; they meant the wind that was going to blow Sandy away, of course, and from that very minute Sandy started to grow bigger and bigger, instead of doing the stunt of putting its tail between its legs and bounding away as was so often predicted that it would do. And, lo and behold, the people for miles around are again saying Lets go to Sandy. And all you have to do to find out WHY they are saying it is to take a trip up there yourself. What Sandy is not trying to do is not worth trying, and what Sandy is actually accomplishing is indeed worth taking a look at. Right this way, ladies and gentlemen. Mayor Wilson is at your disposal, and will certainly prove to you that Sandy is firmly on the map. But what we started to say, when old man Reverie grabbed us by the grav matter, was this: The firemen of the state are going to hold their annual tournament in Sandy this month. And it goes without saying that the firemens next tournament is going to be the biggest ever. Three days are going to be used up in this particular tourng ament, and everything from interesting and instructive to throwing confetti to the breezes is going to be transacted. Topics of interest and instruction to firemen, as well as to folks who have houses that are likely to take fire, are going to be riiacmmpH by men whose business it is to be able to discuss them intelligently. And theres going to be singing and instrumental selections, dancing, all kinds of athletic sports, in which contests will be held, attractions furnished by professional attractors and, in fact, all kinds of things are going to happen to make one feel like the Germans had been licked again and that the period of reconstruction was on in dead earnest. The dates are August 19, 20 and 21. Lets all arrange our family, our financial and our affinity affairs accordingly. Lets go to Sandy. sky-hig- speech-makin- Six Per Cent Guaranteed On Capital Invested. ' Washington. A plan devised by S. Davies Warfield of Baltimore, under which the government ill the reorgnn-izutloof milmurts, would provide a minimum return of 6 per cent on Invested cupllnl with division of all surplus over rlmt amount among employees, the public and the earning road, was outlined Thursday to the public Interstate commerce committee. Lullier M. Walter of Chicago, general counsel for the National Association of Owners of llnilrotid Securities, which simnsors Ihe plan, discussed Its various points with the committee r at a session, and declared it .could be pul into effect at once, nr certainly with the return of the mads to private control at the cud of the year. The right of lalior to share In the profits of the roads wna laid down by Mr, Walter hs one of the fundamentals of the plan. u five-hou- Wilson to Meet Pact Committee. Washington. President Wilsons offer to talk over the peace treaty, with the senate foreign relations committee finally was accepted Thursday. At the suggestion of Republican members and by a virtually unanimous vote the committee decided to Inform the President It would be glad to meet him at his convenience to go over disputed points in tlie treaty and the league of nations covenant Unionists Enter Politics. Collins, Colo. A workers' nonpartisan league, which will enter the political field In Colorado next year was organized here Thursday by fifty-eigdelegates attending the annual convention of the Colorado State Federation of Labor. Flirt Russian Operations Costly. British expenditures for London. the imval and military operations In Russia from tlie dulc of the armistice until the end of July amounted to $350,000,000, according to an official "white paper" issued here Thursday. Californians Have Their Beer. The clt.v of IOS Anm Angeles. uboiit Ilk) licenses for issued hns geles the sale of 2.73 lnvr mid many former bar raonia have revived for the lime serving crowds at nil hours. The plan of distributing funds under, special and federal school appropriations has been aiiqoiinced by O. N. CbUd, state superintendent of publlb Instruction. All tqteclul activities under ths funds provided must le recommended by tbs supervisor of each particular line of activity before appropriations will be made by the state board of education. More than 3000 coyotes have been destroyed by state hunters and government men auriug the present year, and the total number of various predatory animals killed reuebes 5208, according to Ihe unnnul nqiort of the United States biological survey, cooperating with the Utah Htute livestock board. The government expended $45,002.72 during the present yeur to rid the state of the pests. Nellie Folkmuu filed a petition lu the probate division of the district court at Ogden, asking for letters of administration in the matter of the estate of Joseph M. Folkman, deceased. d The petition states the estate Is at $0500 and consists of property In Weber county. The widow and eight children are the heirs. Follunun was killed by an interurbun train at Harris vllle on July 19. Owners of salt grass Hreus have been warned by Harold It. llugan, state crop inspector, not to cut their crop until after October 1. Many states have been quarantined against the alfalfa weevil and the product muy not be licensed for use in packing shipments until the frost has killed the insects. With the arrest of Nick Oblizulo la Ely, Nsvh and Steve Melicli In Butte, both of Salt it Is thought by Sheriff John S. Coricss that the two men resiNinsIble for the death of Mar-k- o Laus, whose body was found In a gulley ut tlie mouth of Parleys canyon on August 8, may be In custody. Grain In the lnlivnt valley Is ripening tfrt weeks in advance ud the usiihI time nml harvesting is in progress. The crop Is turning out lo be somewhat better Ilian at first expected. Some of the new land will yield from twenty to thirty bustiels isr acre. Tlie city council of Richfield bus e entered into a contract with the Power company to Install uu electric street lighting system, with ornamental Iron poles und 400 candle power lamps. For the present the lighting will be confined to Main street. Application for a charter lu the American legion and approval of a constitution anil for the proposed Lelii post of tlie organization were effected at a meeting of returned service men held at the Lehl Commercial club hist week. President Lee B. Taylor of the Utah county farm bureau reHirtcd that he had met with the state board of equalization in regard 'to luxes on farm lands In this county and that a raise of 30 per cent will be made in the taxes of- the farmers. Ernest Morteuson, 15 years of age, of Thatcher, Idaho, who was visiting relatives in Ogden this week, was drowned in the Weber river when he took crumps in the middle of tho stream nud sank before aid could he secured. One of the most distinctive nud ideally finished buildings on Ihe Utah Agricultural college campus, the Agricultural Engineering building, I s' nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy during the coining school year. In common with other parts of ths state. Rich county has suffered from the scarcity of water and the crops will amount to about 00 per cent of the normal. Bear river Is extremely low, but the mountain streams are holding up fairly well. Appointment of W. Karl Hopkins of Lehl to the position of superintendent of the Ogden city schools marks the fourth selection, of Lehl men within a month to enviable positions In ths educational field. Ogden demanded an Improvement lu the telephone service of the city at a meeting recently held at which were present officials of the telephone company, the city commissioners and several merchants of this city. Building activity In Salt Lake shows a post-wa- r stimulation revealed In an Increase of 274 per cent over the activities of July, 1018L Tlie county farm bureau executive committee hns just finished a survey of the crop situation in Sanpete county and makes the following report on acreage and crop percentages: Irrigated grains. 30,000 acres, 00 jwr cent; unirrigated grains, 15,000 acres, 43 per cci.t; ulfnlfa, 23.000 acres, 37 per cent; wild bay, 13.800 acres, 50 per cent; sugar beets, 5200 acres. 77 per rent; potatoes, 700 acres, 56 per cent; pens. BOO seres, 50 per cent vul-ue- Tell-urid- by-la- - |