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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH r News Notes ;; fi a Bonner Mary Graham croyptr tppe twtfi Privilege to Ltvo in Utah rfCTTrvm HF)f Utah silver-leastocks, notwithstanding preholiday conditions, manifested strength during Wednesdays sessions of the Salt Lake Stock Other parts of and Mining Exchange. the market developed an easier tone, particularly medium priced issues. Bingham Metals led speculatives with Lading in nearly 20,000 shares and an on the to 11 advance from 9 strength of the gold discovery in the Bingham property. Alta issues were BINGHAM LOST STOCKING Oil, dear, oh, dear, oh, derr said whatever will I do, Ive lost Maggie, my stocking and I'm getting dressed to go to the party. It's one of my best stockings, too. Pear me, where can it be? Where could that stocking go? She looked and she looked and she looked, She pulled out her bureau drawers, fv . ' firm and buoyant. OGDEN National forests will soon contribute $46,624 to the Utah school and road funds, according to ,an announcement made by E. C. Shepherd, supervisor of the Wasatch National This amount, he forest, Wednesday. said, represents 25 per. cent of the receipts of national forest timber sales and grazing fees during the fiscal year, and is $8000 more than the amount contributed to Utah In 1926. PARK CITY The output of Utah mines grew from 8000 tons in 1870 to 4,434,000tons in 1926. OGDEN Edward R. Lovewell, geol- ogist of New York City, is sanguine of re-w- m-- c - V-- -y v. ' V t . ' vw. ' " ' w, -- JllP 4tv JB A tMGKJoirArjbr crzxazhs from WDllMW J('KMIN n 1Ioiihniiii," by Ornlil V. JoIiunoh, four tcy Minton llnlch unit ('01111111119 4 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HE announcement of the purpose of Hie Democratic party this year to revive the annual Jackson day dinner after a lapse of some seven its political years Iris, whatever significance may be, more Ilian passing interest for all Americans, For It recalls once more an American hero of long ago whose name has become associated not only with certain political symbols, but in a broader sense with something fundamental In the government of ttiis Republic. His name and fame fir. also recalled in a book, Andrew Jackson An Epic in Home.pun. by Gerald W. Johnson, recently published by Minton, Haleb and company of New York, which reviewers are Including among the outstanding biographies of the year. Jackson day Is January 8. the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans. Not only is this engagement unique In history, in that it was fought after peace bad been declared between the two nations concerned In It, but It Is important in American history for at least two reasons. One of them, us set forth by the new Jaekson biographer, declares that in winning this battle Old Hickory" saved the self respe t of the country. lie elaborates on that theme us follows: After three years of calamity and disgrace, here at last was victory with honor. An American force had met a larger British force and had b'aten It fairly and squarely. Every nation has some had generals, who will lose It an army or a campaign now Bnd then. But as the War of 1812 dragged to Its dismal end. Americans were apparently faied with the Intensely humiliating necessity of having to admit that their generals were all bad Indeed, could beat a horde of naked savages, and even a mixed force of British and Indians: hut he was the best we had to offer on January 7, 1815. It was not proved that there lived a single American officer who could stand up against a British regular officer commanding regular troops But January 8 proved that one man could stand up. Andrew Jackson craved no favors Andrew- - Jackson could face the troops that broke more, he could give them odds of two Napoleon to one and beat them. To a country that had almost completely lost faith In Itself, to a country that had almost learned to cringe, this news came like a reprieve to a man upon the gallows. It was literallv erased with Joy, and In Its delirium It flung the name of Andrew Jackson ngnlnt the stars More than that, tills same country did not forget its hero a few years later when a President was to be elected und so tiie second reason for the Importance of the Battle of New Orleans Is that It put Andrew Jackson In the White House. The significance of that is summed up in a recent editorial in the New York World as follows: Andrew Jackson was a victorious general and a man of honor, but his chief contributions to his country rest on neither of these fact He will be remembered partly because one of his first presidential nets was to free the country from the tyranny of bureaucracy and to establish deWhen he entered the White House, he mocracy. found the wovernnient dominated by r bureaucracy of constantly Increasing numbers and expanding It was his task to set things right Bepowers. he showed succeeding a soldier and ing generations of Amerhans ihe only method of He so fired doing job holders He may have hem harsh and merciless, but he satisfied a great need When h was through, the country was restored to Its origfnal plan, ard the bureaucra v was art pplcannt memorv difficult for rs to realize the height But if It to which the of Jackson rest a century ago, or even If we are not especially Impressed by Jackson's connection with the origin of certain political traditions In tills country, we cannot fail to be Interested In the sto-- y of Ms Atl iiEcairM In Hnr-rlso- hard-boile- hero-worshi- d, gZKzXaz yjAci&oir QL&ijimg t&jwttrnr all the while career. For an amazing career was that of this hero ot what the new biographer happily culls an epic in homespun." Both North Carolina and South Carolina claim him as their own. since t he rude log cabin in which he was born stood near the line between 'tin two colonies and there lias long been a dispute ns to whether it stood on tiie North or South Carolina side of that boundary , This dispute was revived only last November when news dispatches carried the story about tiie finding In an old trunk In an attic in Craddock, Vn of a letter, signed by Jackson in 1820, in which lie declared deliniely that he was .horn iu South Carolina. Tennessee, too, calls him her own, since it was she who tent him forth to Hie wars in which he won glory, who gave him to tiie nation as Its President and who, today preserves his home, tiie llerniitage near Nashville, ns her dearest shrine. Louisiana also has a claim on him and the celebration of his greatest triumph on Its anniversary , which is a legal holiday in that state. Is one of her most cherished traditions. But because Andrew Jackson was what lie was and did what he did he belongs to nil Americans, and for that reason January 8 Is more t lain, a date to be observed by one state or by one political party. It should be a red letter date oil I lie calendars of nil citizens of the United States. Familiar ns are most of us with tiie school boob Is yet much for us facts of Jacksons career, t to team about Jackson, the man, in the light of new interpretations of his career. In tiie first chapter of Johnsons biography, which tells How Mr. Jackson, Contrary to All Known Rules. Persists in Living," such an interpretation is offered in these words: The man Is a popular hero In the strictest sense of the vvo-- d He Is the hero of the people, not of the Intelligentsia. The people still delight In the legends of his prowess, of his lurid language, of hts Imperious and dictatorial temper. The tale of hts usurpations does not appal them, but delights them, for Americans have always loved a reallv masterful man If Jacksons spiritual heir should appear now, there is every to believe America of the Twentieth century would hail him 8S rapturously and follow him As blindly as It hailed and followed the hero of a hundred year ago. Therefore, he remains a significant figure His faults stand out wlth startling vividness. His errors are plain to the purblind. His weaknesses are obvious, his follies patent, his egreglousness But the man will not collapse. Hts Inescapable fame is siil dear to the hearts of the people, therefore, the piudent man will search dlllgentlv for some residuum after the faults, errors and follies have keen taken Into account. For If another appenrs with such qualities, even handicaps as gigantic as those under which Jackson labored can not prevent his sweep to power And the wise men of that day will be those who recognize him early and align themselves with him not against hint. It Is this that gives him a severely practical significant e In the century that has succeeded his own. But to the Impractical Idealist, to the dilettante, to the curious seeker after the bizarre, the quaint, the colorful, Jackson mnkis as powerful an appeal as to the student of public affalts. For he was above all else vivid He was a great actor and on the national scene he st iged the most gorgeous, colorful Rtid romantic show In American history . , . When he fitsi came to Washington cer tain senators were Informed by alarmed friends that he had sworn to tut off their ears He left the city pensively regretting his failure to ei'her shoot Henry Clav or to hang John C. Calhoun Yet during his tenure of power he committed neither nomiclde nor mayhim. Americans have never known how to resist a man who eould talk like a pirn and act hike a 1iesby tertan ana jacsson could do both to a not anv of his successors perfection approarhrd by until the days of Theodors Roosevelt, And he had one great advantage over Roosevelt namely, a record. Before he came to the Residency Jackson had both hupgred and shot men, and In-r- e , ren-so- he was in the White House it wa uncertain when he might carry out He was a canny .some of his threats-literally. man, and it is possible that there never was a moment when he actually would have hanged Calhoun; bu there were several moments when the country believed that if the President could but lay hands on the vice president, the latters days would be numbered Yet the rejoicing galleries had more serious If perhaps no better, reasons for their plaudits than simply the entertainment purveyed to them by Andrew Jackson. He did throw down the brs that hedged them from effective participation In the conduct of their own government. He did destroy a sinister alliance between politics and finance hr was swiftly reducing them to economic serfdom He did shatter the Nullification movement thereby postponing for twenty years the day when half a million of them had to die for the preservation of the Union. All these works were Impermanent, no doubt, but they were effective for the time and the place. He richly earned the loyally . that common men gave him. . Jackson, as a small bov, comes reeling into American history with a sabre cut on his head and as the years gather upon him they gleam wih steel and blood. It was a roaring career, resounding to the roars of cheering multitudes of musketry of artillery. It was a theatrical career In the style of Gallic romance, astonishingly Ilk- - th career that Rostand imagined fir Cvrano de Bergerac He was a great duelist a great soldier and a great lover He was fierv. quixotic, honest He was curiously roninnt'c and Inand loyal. cessantly dramatized himself and his surroundings, e often to the exquisite embarrassment of more thrillingly .... pro-sal- Utah, he at the Trout creek ranger statit n, miles north of Verna!. SALT LAKE There has been an average of 1500 pounds of mail handl d daily a Airport poatoffice January 1, this year. Airmail mileage credited to Salt Lake, in and out, for the year so far aggregates more than 2,000,009 twenty-seve- n . . men. So we see Andiew Jackson lo th yierxpoctlv e of a hundred years, cutting and slashing his way to power, a raucous fellow, an explosive hravv-handefellow, but withal a man who had a code and lived up to It. He hated and loved end swore with a magnificence bevord all American exneri nce But he did not cringe, he did not fawn, he did not carry water on both shoulders When he lost and he lost heavily, and irequemb he paid without whimpering. He loved a woman and Inst her, and of all his innumerabe wounds hdt nurt J d - in of e . worst and longest. , Against admiration, respect and p'ty one mu' pile up mountains or crimelf they are to lnpire ,no afTection. Affection to- - Andrew Jackson is impossible to avoid if one knows his story; for lot his enemies sav what they wilt, here was one American who carried himself with an air. unlettered, uncouth, unskilled In the graces of polite society, but none the less a chevalier lie is almost the only man who has figured in Amur can public life of whom It is imaginvole hut ne might have quit the earthly stage with the theatrical grace of Cyrano's closing l'nesWhen I enter God's house my salutation shall sweep the blue threshold with something free from creases, free from stains, which I shall carry In spite of all of you my olnme !" Although this biographer writes of events anj personages of a handrail jears ago, in the tight of present political and economic conditions iu the nation, the career of Andrew Jackson, as he suggests, has a "severely practical significance" today. If we believe that history repeats itself and that great events occur in cycles, as some believe they do, then it may he no idle prophecy that if Jacksons spiritual heir should appear now, there Is every reason to believe America of the Twentieth century would hail him as rapturously and follow him as blindly as it hailed and followed the hero of a hundred years ago. Is there somewhere In the United States, still in obscurity perhaps but no greater obscurity than that which once veiled Andrew Jackson a hero of the people, not of the intelligentsia, whom the United States will semi to tiie White House because Americans have always loved a really masterful man"? Who knows hut that tiie United States in this year 1!28 is on the eve of as great a change ns It was in 1S28 when the frontier democracy pat one of its own kind In the White House arc! that another type of democracy map arise to give us a new conception of a governuvtnf for the people by the people and of the peop'e. prospects said in an address before the Ogden Rotary club at the luncheon held in Hotel Bigelow. Mr. lovewell said he considers that Utah will be an oil state ranking with California, Oklahoma and Texas in time. He told of a survey he made in the Uintah basin, where he regards prospects for oil location good. OGDEN District Engineer B. J. Finch of the United States bureau of public roads, speaking at the Exchange club in the Hotel Bigelow, explained the road building program in Utah. He said that the highway from Brigham City to Mantua may be rebuilt the coming season and that negotiations are under way for the rebuilding of the highway between Evanston and Echo to eliminate all heavy grades. WASHINGTON Exports of merchandise from Utah were valued at $113,328 during the second quarter of corresponding period of 1926, an increase of $273,063, according to figures made public by the department of commerce. is re- PRICE Heavy production ported from the coal mines iu Carbon county. An average of 900 tons daily has been taken out of the Utah Fuel company mine at Clear Creek. Spring Canyon reports 24,250 tons mined between December 1 and 15. Hiawatha mined and snipped 54,500 tons during the last half month. Weber county commisOGDEN sioners voted to appropriate $15,500 toward the expenses of conducting the Ogden livestock show, January 7 to 12. Of this amount, $500 must go to building up the seed show department of the annual exhibition and $250 for the poultry show. The three exh bits will be staged at the same time in the Ogden coliseum. . OGDEN The Utah Canners association voted to hold the annual convention at the Hotel Bigelow here on canners March 2 and 3. Thirty-fivwere present, representing all factories. Tom Leslie presided in the absence of John L. Pierce of Brigham, who is ill. The canners voted to subscribe the state quota for the observance of national canned foods week. VERNAL- - Glen A. Lambert, forest ranger, has returned from a trip over the Vernal district of tiie Ashley national forest, and reports heavy storms throughout the area during the past ten days. Twenty inches of snow wa measured at the Adams saw mill on Dry Fork mountain, forty miles northwest of Vernal, and eighteen inches rd. It was hard on Maggies allowance to have to offer so many rewards lint iVry c c she pulled out things from her shelves. She looked under chairs, under the bed, behind chairs, behind the bed She looked every where, and she kept calling out to everyone in the bouse : Please look for my stocking. Can anyone find m.v stocking? Then she began calling out: I'll give a penny to anyone who finds my stocking." Quite often Maggie did offer a reward like that, for she thought it made ople look for her things a little harder, and she was apt to lose lier things. Not for long, of course, but she had put them somewhere else than she remembered. For instance if she said to herself: Now Ill remember and put my piece of candy to eat after lunch on the niantlepiece Instead of on tiie sideboard for Ill be going into the living room right after dinner then she would be sure to be looking for it on the sideboard and would he saying: But Pm sure it must be on the sideboard for I thought it would be so much better to have it in the room where I was finishing my dinner." , Su Maggie offered a penny reward for the stocking. Every one began to hunt once more. It was true they did hunt for her a tilings more when she offered a AiiSrrva W 1 d I j Sli was Indeed fortunate, and the slocking was so glad to go to the party and not to lie, limp and useless, buck of the washstnnd. it was so true, the stocking kept thinking, how little it could do unless It was worn. i . Too Busy Sonny, you tell the wash lady that Pin going to help her today, a Indy in Cottonwood Falls said to her youngster. After a few minutes the young man returned with the report that "she suid would you please make It some other time because hes awful huy Wichita with the big wash today. Eagle, Old-roy- Must Wait announced at the dinner table that bis class at school was to have a clean up contest. A clean-ucontest! exclaimed his And yet yon come to tiie ta- mother. ble with tlue hand?" I know, mother, but the contest doesnt start until next week." A b v p They Donft Visitor But how do yon know it was a stork and not an angel that brought your little sister? Johnny Well, I heard daddy com plaining about the size of the bill and angels dont have bills, do they? miles. BRIGHAM CITY Brigham City's budget for 1928, with a total of $124 028.09, was fixed by the City council at its meeting held this week from the general taxes a total of $44,500 is expected, while $45,890 is expected from the municipal electric plant; $19,000 from water system; $2494 09 from ir--I rigation; $3350 from licenses, $5000 from the city court, $2500 from the cemetery; $294 from parking district, and $1000 from miscellaneous. PLEASANT GROVE One hundred thousand fleeces, weighing approximately 900,000 pounds, which comprise the famous Jericho wool pool, were purchased by C. I. Tuttle and J. O. Loughlm of Salt Lake, representatives of Draper & Co. of Boston. A flat price of 35 cents per pound was paid for the wool, with a 1 per cent discount for tags. A cash advance of $1.00 per fleece was made. John and George Cook of Fountain Green represented the pool as selling agents. PRICE Hearing on the injunction Issued by Judge George Christensen of Carbon county to restrain the stat" road commission and contractors from proceeding with the construction of the federal aid highway project in Price canyon will be held at Price, December 29, it was announced Thursday at the offices of the state road commission. II. S. Kerr, chief engin ?er of ihe mad commission, and W Hal Farr, deputy attorney general, will appear for the state at the hear-.ng-, and Mr. Ker expressed confl-'oncthe difficulty coul-- He straight out , I d |