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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLK PALE. UTAH Is Marriage - a I News Notes' jl It'm Success? Br RING LARDNER - m PriviUge to Liom in Utah To the Editor: One of the big N. Y. newspapers , VERNALr The Uintah basin have beeD running a serious of aradd to the wealth of west when I whether and on marriage ticles lately transportation comes to handle and versa every its a success or vice rare minerals found nowhere else that letters been printing day they the country. was sent In to them by husbands and , LEHI Sugar beet production wifes stateing their views on the case iTJtah for 1928 Is forecast at, 572,1 think to seems they and the editors iuub, aucurumg 10 ine report of d shou,d should be the peoPIe been United States department of agrld ought to know, but as far as I ture, reissued Tuesday by Frank 4 able to make out from their letters arews at tne tocai omce. the game will go Into extra Innings I BOUNTIFUL One, of the fine and they will finely half to call It off ored fruits that Is making Utah on accL of darkness. It lookj like mous In world markets is the Elbei a hung Jury peacn. ine states what the papers calls crop in 1927 wi and it should V. valued at 5673,000. Exports total and discussion The trouble wIJi the .793 carloads. HEBER CITY Utah's wheat crop why it ain't VhA to get us nowheres is on accL of the big majority of the izv was vaiuea at 5,792,000. Whit letters comclag from people that has wheat, 85 per cent of which was gro4 only been married one time. I got a on dry land farms, averaged 19 bushel friend of mine that Is now running to the acre. Spring wheat, 80 per eel his 5th relay and ought to know what grown on irrigated land, averaged he is talking about so the other night bushels to the acre. I asked him to give his frank opinion GUNNISON Damage possibly ml on the subject, thinking my host of ning into the thousands of dollars readers would be Interested and here though a accurate estimate is not vl is what he had to say in part. obtainable, was caused by a cloudburj "Four marriages out of five or In accompaniea Dy hail, which swe other words 80 per cent Is a howling over Gunnison Wednesday afternoo: success. The other 20 per cent is a ine neavy downpour lasted thre fiasco of the 1st water. I ani at preshours. ent in the midst of the last named, Fourteen feder; but as the successes Is more pleas-ant- Highway projects, costing a total to talk about than the busts, I approximately $1,500,000, are now u will start in on the former. der course of construction In Utah "The 1st gal I married was the is shown by a statement prepared I daughter of a wealthy real estate the offices of the state road commi man named Ella. The old man gave sion. Some of those projects are no her a check for $10,000 for a wedding nearing completion and the majoritf present and as we was waiting for of them will be finished before th the train to take us to the Falls, I close of the present year, it was sta got her to endorse the check on the ed. uuuiiiN ireaiction of a record! grounds that maybe we would run short on the trip and half to get some creaking onion crop for Utah is madf of the porters to cash the cheek. Well, by Frank Andrews, agricultural static we got to the Falls and set there looktician, in his August bulletin. Thi hr and bulletin says that indications August 1 ing at them for about finely 1 asked her how she liked It 1928, are for a probable onion crop foi and she said her ft hurt her in her Utah of 403,000 bushels in Aug., 1927 The acreage this year is estimated a going away shoes and besides If they was pleasure to be got out of stare-In- g 970, as compared with 900 last year j or the united State as a whole, thai all day at a bunch of running water wby not do it in comfort by total late crop of onions, Including the! going back to the hotel and go In the Utah crop, is forecast at 15,178,000, ax bathroom and turn on all the faucets. compared with 17,773,000 In 192 She said that as far as she was showing a considerable reduction. KANAE Ranges throughout south Niagara was a cheese. So I told her that of course they wasn't em Utah from Panguitch and Cedar! no sport in just setting there and City southward have received a re and much needed rain duringwas to fun real freshing the at but It, gapeing rent a empty bbl. somewheres and get the last few days and the skies are Inside It and leave the stopper out so still heavily overcast. This summer! as some air could get In and shoot has been one of the dryest for some the Falls. So she liked the Idear and time, and the ranges are burning up and in some places barren. The for we engaged a bbl. by the hr. and come to find out they wasn't room est and park officials in Zion National and the Kaibab National forest enough in it for the 2 of us to ride park ,A r J 1. r.,i yam uuve at once, so I said we would flip a ciuu uiauu sa.uyuu iauuiiui been especially alert and have, in the coin and if it come heads she was to case ot Zion Park, forbidden promiscugo 1st and I flipped a coin and sure ous smoking, allowing it only in cerIt come heads. enough tain areas, due to the extremely high "The next gnl I married was name Claire and she didn't have no dowry fire hazard. GUNNISON Sanpete county Is rebut she carried $5,000 accident insurance as she use to travel on the road ceiving a great deal of recognition for a vacuum cleaner. It wasn't only from the state on the highways about a wk. after the honeymoon througout the county. On the federal project for cement highway to be that she catched a cold, and it set- aid built in the northern part of the coun tled in a hollow tooth and for a couat tatrview, Mt. neasant ana ty, moaned she and and layed ple nights Spring City, A. G. Younj Construction finely she said she couldn't stand It company of Richfield was let the conno more so I lit up the lights and tract, being the lowest bidder. The began showing her some of my curios amount, J95.967.03, was 'within $21 of to take her mind off the tooth and cost of the construction the estimated St one them was a double bbl. shot as made state department enthe by gun and before I could say .lack low figure was second The gineers. bbls. both In went off right Robertson commade Sevier the Construction by her eye. The coroner said It was a at pany $97,651.17. accident. LEHI Sugar beets, grains and hay "No. 3 was name Eloise and I hadn't In some of Utah are suffering never heard the name before and kept from the parts excessively dry weather, ac forgetting It and calling her Ella and cording to the weekly crop report of Claire both of which had left me a J. Cecil Alter, government meteorolwidower, and she knew it and didn't issued Wednesday. The report ogist, like it very well but I couldn't seem follows: "The weather has continued to get out of the habit and every for scattered showers dry, excepting time I done it she would start a over the southern portion of the state. quarrel and it finely got. to be a Temperatures were also abnormally regular mania with her and she says high, conditions being rather unfavorthe next, time I called her out of her able for alfalfa seed, irrigated crops name she would croak herself. So I not abundantly supplied with water says don't dr. that Claire and next and the grazfng ranges gsnerally. thing I knew she had drank a pt. of Grain cutting is nearly finished and wood alcohol thinking It was carbolic spring grain threshing rapidly. acid and when I tried to get our Dr. SALT LAKE Registration of freshthe line was busy. Eloise left me a men students at the University of chest of silver that her uncle had Utah will take place Thursday, Sepgive her who was In the Jewellry bustember 27, and former students will iness and I sold It for $1,500. register Monday, October 1. Friday "I was married to the 4th. one and Saturday, September 28 and 29, name Kate in August and her fr.ther will be given over to special instrucgive us a house and lot. She had hay tion periods for the new students. All fever and a' red nose but I loved her freshmen will be required to attend. and they wasn't a day past when I Regular classroom Instruction will n didn't bring her a bouquet of some Tuesday, October 2. High school kind of flowers. One day the florist graduates who are entering the Undidn't have nothing In stock and I iversity for the first time should send was kind of scared to go home witha copy of their high school credits to out no bouquet so I stopped the Recorder's ofllce at least one by the side of the road and picked a nosemonth prior to registration. Last year gay of golden rods and and tossed 1181 freshmen, the largest number in It in her lap and the 3d explosion the history of the Institution, entered blowed her up. the University. It is estimated that "The lease said about the of first year stuthis fall enrollment present Incumbrants why so much the better. dents will be even larger. New classes I've done everything I could for her more faculty members, and other addbut they don't nothing satisfy her. ed facilities have been provided for To make a successful marriage' the large number of students expected. they's got to be a sense of humor on both PROVO H. V. Swenson, Utah counsides and in our case its all 1 sided. ty Inspector, has been fakSo all in all I claim agricultural they's 4 successes orchard ing 1 samples of pears and to every fliv and as soon as I can peaches for chemical analysis to deterpet rid of this one I'll marry 4 more mine whether or not they are within and stop on No. 0." the spray residue regulations. Many That Is what a bird told me that of the big orchards of the county are has had some experience and his beginning to pick for shipment. Some word should ought to carry welirht of the fruit will be loaded this week. I am not In a I'ersonally to The fruit Is better In size and freer position speak as my first wife Is still stickworms tian it has ing It out on acet of the kiddies hut from codling moth been for a number of years, according I suppose If you was to ask the both to Mr. Pwenson, and the fctower cf of us If marriage was a ouecess or the section sre looking forward to aft. failure, the answer wnU,) he a tie. excer''-""!'- ? gacd year. t by the Bell ; : er TRUCK LOAD OF HAPPINESS -- I':. .:. V.:.;::;.. (Copyright, v.v.v.vV w.n. t.) By ELMO SCOTT WATSON iONDAY, September 3, marks tlie forty- - sixth anniversary of a holiday which Is a red letter event on all American calendars. For that Is Labor day, the day which all workers, if they observe the tradition of Its founding, should make a "festival day with parades, speech-makin- g and Of picnics." course, the manner of our celebrating all of our holidays undergoes a change through the years, and this applies to Labor day, even though it is one of the "youngest," as well as to the others. But it is Interesting to note bow Labor day first came into being and how it was celebrated four decades ago. The history of Labor day, as told by a chronicler in the Herald-Tribun- e of New York, where It originated, is as follows : A little group cf workers In New York city heard the suggestion marking the birth of Labor day and creating a holiday which has encircled the globe. The idea originated May 8, 1882, at a session of the then newly formed Central Labor union of the metropolis. Its sponsor was P. J. who was one of the best known labor leaders of his day, for many years secretary of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and a vice president of the American Federation of Labor. McGu ire's thought was that one day in the year should be set aside as a general holiday for the men tnd women who toil. In Its Initial form the plan contemplated a Labor day, pure and simple, for observance by those who work with hands and muscle. The first celebration of the holiday took place In New York September 5, 1882. Since that modest beginning the world has taken Labor day to its heart as one of the moat important holidays on the calendar. The voice of McGuire has been lfard round the world, and by all classes of the population. Labor's holiday has become an international institution tor millionaires and work-'er- s alike a festival of relaxation and recuperation for all strata of the social structure. No holiday of the year has greater popularity. , A basic reason for the vogue of Labor day is to be found In the wisdom shown by its originator in choosing the date for the celebration. McGuire's choice was the first Monday in September as a strategic date midway between the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving day. His feeling that this was the most suitable day of the entire year for a new holiday found ready echo in the minds of workers, offering a respite from toil after the blistering weather of July and August. Everybody waa ready for a rest at this particular season, and there was piompt response to the suggestion of double holiday over Sunday and Monday. In recent years there has been a pronounced tendency toward a triple holiday, causing the rest period from Friday evening to Tuesday morning No otjier holiday of the year offers similar advantage year in and year out. After the New York celebration of 1882 the popu larity of Labor dav grew with increasing swiftness until it "had extended to practically every state !n the Union. It now covers the Island possession of Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Formal action toward nationalizing the hollda was taken by the predecessor of the American Federation of Labor at Its annual convention in Chicago In October, 1884. The body was known n the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada, then four years of age and strikingly small In comparison with the mighty federation of today. At the Chi cago convention, for example, there were but twen-ty-sidelegates, representing a constituency of nineteen International unions, local bodies and central labor unions. The annual report of the financial officer placed the year's expenditures at $53.20, with a treasury balance of 1188.04 at the end of period. This offers strange contrast with the recent report of the federation, showing a year's receipts of $518,451 and a balance of more than x tht-flsc- $210,000. At the Chicago convention the dalegates adopted a resolution intended to give Labor day observance The resolution stipulated national Importance. that the first Monday In September should be set apart as "a laborers' national holiday." and recommended its observance "by all wage workers, of sex, calling or nationality." Popular response for spontaneous, but untiring on the part of organized effort and labor were required for the procurement of legal sanction for the suspension of work. Congress and state legislative bodies received vigorous and Insistent requests for the enactment of federal and state laws recognizing the day as a legal holiday. Ten years elapsed before the passage of a congressional act establishing the first Monday In September as a leal holiday for the District of irre-specti- X0000KXXX000000000000 THE THINKER Back of the beating hammer By which the steel Is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the Thought, The Thought that is ever master Of iron and steam and steel, That rises above disaster And tramples it under heel! The drudga may fret and tinker Or labor with dusty blows, But back of him stands the Thinker, man who knows; The clear-eye- d For into each plow and saber, Each piece and part and whole, Must go the Brains of Labor, Which t'ves the work a Soul! Back of the motors humming. Back of the belts that sing. Back of the hammers drumming, Back of the cranes that swing. There is the eye which scans them Watching through stress and strain, There is the Mind which plans them Back of the brawn, the Brain! Might of the roaring boiler, Force of the engine's thrust. Strength of the sweating toiler, Greatly in those we trust. But back of them stands the Schemer, The Thinker who drives things through; Back of the Job the Dreamer Who's making the dream come true! Bertoti Braley. Columbia and the territories. Oregon has anticipated the federal law by legislative act passed In 1893. Other states fell In line one by one, until the day now ranks as a. legal holiday throughout the United States. In most states the status is established through statutory provision. In Wisconsin and Wyoming the observance comes through proclamation by the governors. In the Philippines the celebration takes place on May 1, In accordance with European custom. The May day celebrations in Continental Europe owe their origin to American initiative. This foreign adoption of the McGuire Idea came about In connection with the eight-hou- r movement inaugurated by the American Federation ef Labor in 1889. The same year brought a meeting of the International Labor Congress In Paris. To this meeting a letter was addressed by Samuel Gompers, president of the American body, urging that the international organization should with the eight-homovement by making a declaration of sympathy. In his letter Gompers appealed for demonstrations in all European countries to be conducted on May 1 of the following year. The congress complied and started the machinery for widespread continental demonstrations on May 1 ur 1890. In this way it came about that the Gompers suggestion was the instrument which created May as the Labor day of Europe. The start, made In caught the fancy of European workers and day became the recognized time for demon strations all over the continent. In one respect there has been an Important difference between the observance of Labor day tn the United States and the practice of European workers .with reference to the first of May. The American holiday is of recreational character, while European workers have tended to exaggerate the demonstrational system as a means of emphasizing their organized demands and grievances. The result of the early demonstrations was to Invite governmental opposition, with frequent clashes between the workers and the police or military forces. In latter years, however, the May day observance has been given more largely to cessation of work, parades, meetings and commemorative exerclsfs devoid of violence or disturbance Europe has been slower than the United States In granting legal status as a holiday to the day selected by labor as the time for annual celebration The countries which have recognized the first of May as a legal holiday are Austria, CzechoSouth slovakia, Esthonia, Finland and Madeira. American nations 'ecognizing the date are Colomtn genbia, Ecuador and Uruguay. Latin America eral follows the European custom of celebrating a in Hayti legal holiday May day, and the day is and Panama. round the has idea McGuire spread That the world is shown by the circumstance that many British colonies and possessions have their own Labor days. Canada celebrates the first Monday in September, In keeping with the United States Newfoundland observes September t. custom. Queensland and Western Australia follow the Eu- r ropean practice and observe the first of May. "Eight-Houday" Is observed on April 11 In Victoria, Australia; on October ( In New South Wales, and on 1890, May October 14 In South Australia. The basic idea in all these countries is that which was voiced by P. J. McGuire In 1882. Mention of the .difference between the observance of Labor day in this country and in Europe, where it was the occasion for demonstrations to "emphasize their organized demands and grievances," recalls the fact that there was a time In the early history of Labor day in this country when the greatest concern of American working-mawas for the "right of labor." That concern was expressed In an editorial uttered by the late Samuel Gompers In the first Lnbor day editorial which he wrote after congress had made It a legal holiday. The editorial, which appeared In Hie American Federationist for September, 1S!)4, follows : In the cycle of time we are again on the dawn of our most Important national holiday Labor day. Most Important, since it for the first time in the history of the world devotes a day to the recognition of the fact that the wage earners must hereafter be regarded as the Important factor in the economy of life. In this day when so many look upon the dark side of the progress of the labor movement and predict worse things in store for the laborer, It Is not amiss to direct attention to the fact that the life of the human family Is one vast struggle, and that though the progress is not as swift as we, as well as our Impatient brothers and sisters of labor, would like it to be, yet the fact that in our decade we can see the rights of labor more clearly defined, the vantage ground obtained, and obtaining a clearer insight into the existing wrongs, the more intelligent perception and determination to achieve labor's rights. The past year has witnessed several contests, some of them defeats, but though defeated in the immediate object sought, they have awakened a new conscience in the American people, and will contribute more to the thorough organization of the wage workers "f our country than hundreds of meetings, speeches or pamphlets. The great con. quering armies in the history of the world have had their reverses, and the labor movement ennnot expect to be an exception to that rule. Each defeat acts as a trenchant warning to the toilers of America that error must be avoided, that intelligence must pravail, and that no success can come to them unless It is through their own efforts anrt their own organization, and by their persistency manifested. Pessimism results in Indifference, lethargy and impotency and this in turn simply permits the and trusts and the entire capitalist class to filch from the toiler rights which have ben dearly bought. The organizations of labor must be thorough and complete and above all must be permanen Those organizations which arise like a flash in the pan only go to show how arduous is the struggle before the toiler. In order to overcome the antagonism of the classes of our country. Today more than ever the toilers recognize how essentially thty are thrown upon their own that they have few if any outside tnelr own ranks who sympathize with them In their efforts for the emancipation of mankind. Toilers, organize. Let us carry on the good work and In a few more revolutions of the earth' upon lt axis we shall have a, better world a better mankind. Waiting will not accomplish it; deferring till another time will not secure it. Now is the time for the workers of America to come to the standard of their unions and to organize as thoroughly, completely and compactly as is possible. Let each worker bear In mind the words of Longfellow: In the world's broad field of battle. In the bivouac of life. Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife! n wealth-produci- There is one significant statement in that 'editorial by the "Grand Old Man of American Labor." I"or when Samuel Gompers uttered the words "intelligence must prevail" he was giving it ihe keynote of what was destined to prove its soundest and most successful policy. In the years which have followed since that editorial was written, however, the spirit of American labor, as exemplified In Labor day, has changed. It Is still steadfast for the "right of labor," but It Is also conscious of the responsibility of labor as well. Today the American laborer Is the most prosperous of any In the world and that Is because he has brought fo his task an Intelligent conception of both its rights and it obligations, a consciousness of the dignity of his job, no matter what It may be so long as he does it well, and as a thinker, as well as a doer, be is the backbone of the American nation today. salt lake con-sern- 1 1 bs-gi- Syndicate. Ine.l |