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Show , 0 THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, UTAH THE RING ! I IMPROVED ROADS : v i - . ARMY MATERIAL FOR TWkMl Park-4-m ' Uv ROADS The gift of persuasion that tore the girl I ring. Ve can. h,v, U sixes and styles. DiaraonU for engagement fancy sioc Hr A. w and wedding bands. Our able prices ease the way. I , Worth of Machin Con t rucAvailable for try tion of Highway. Million of Dollar rco. BOYD PARK JEWELERS BOYD PARK. BLDG The signing by the president of a blij directing the secretary of war to transfer certain surplus urmy equlp-jnen-t to the United States department of agriculture, as well os allotting certain material to other branches of the got eminent, makes mailable for distribution to the states millions of dollar-' worth of ninchlnerj for use In highway construction. Since there Is now available from all sources federal, state, county, etc. more than SUinO.Ono.noo for road building. the states are anxious to secure K6 Radio Telephone The first experiment tance radio telephoning 1914, the attempt n- f - m- lUM STRICT , - - rftv i town brhe Deed If you n- brbti - ; - 'n many efforts in succev.m Ion of speech from V Paris and San Francisco KELP WANTED 'I in,. Mil J. !l t MsyuB , good oj otx meD over (1rfta(t." r. 4 "TO tuu ax officer n oommimi good In few week. Call or write Mole-'n.- !! lor Coil, O 8. Wet Temple st s CARRIED TOO HONESTY t LuJc FAR Trusted Clerk Rather Oveid.it, Lost the Confidence of Hu ln4 Employer. ' : t--w Cash registers became ir as a means of compellirg xX s . t 'V 1 Carrying Forward Nation Great Road Building Program, Support of Which I Urged by Secretary Meredith. thilr allotments of these army supplies becnuso of the great assistance they will he In expediting mad building. This material Is In addition to approximately 22,000 army motor vehicles which already hnv lacn allotted to the states through the fcderul department of agriculture In accord with previous legislation. As yet no definite estimate can he made as to the number of machines of different kinds which the secretary of vjar will designate to lie surplus and not required for military purposes, as provided In the act. Among the scores of Items listed In the law are: Iload By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN. rollers, sprinkling wagons, concrete ATIONAL highway I Fix mixers, derricks, complete I the name in your mind. Then t&ke a buckets, caterpillar outfits, look at the map. -- The two together drag-linand excavators, plows, an are Inspiration. You ee instantly cranes, dump wagons, hoisting engines, both need of the highway and the the stump pullers, wheelbarrows, blasting appropriateness of Its name. machines, corrugated metal culverts, This Is the Scenic West. It consurveying Instruments, drafting matwelve national parks. Severul tains chines, fabricated bridge materials, hundred thousand Americans from all gravity and power conveyors, and parts of the country are visiting these wagons. national park at this very moment. The distribution of this materlnl Elghty-flvper cent of them are will he made ly the United States deautomobiles. Many thouown their partment of agriculture, the work beother thouone more than visit will park; sands ing in the Immediate charge of the busands will visit Beveral parks; still other thousands reau of public roads. It will he alnalotted In the same ratio as funds would like to visit all of the parka These the are the playgrounds; people's granted to the states for federal aid tional parks of them Jmople should be able to get to any or all roads. be should twelve all So The hill also empowers the secre- easily In their own cars. National the roads connected by by good tary of war in his discretion to transhighway. fer to the United States department This Scenic West Is aUve this summer with visiof agriculture for use by the forestry service In the work of supervising the tors from every nook and cranny of the United States. It Is a summer paradise a land of high s national forests, any telephone mountains, great forests, cold rushing streams, no longer required for military clear lakes, wild flowers, camping grounds, and purposes. The federal government Is to lw re- trout; of everlasting snow on the peaks, bright imbursed b the states, a sum equal to skies, cool nights; of the primeval wilderness, of scenic roads and of good hotels. There are more 20 per cent of the value of the material less all freight rhnrgos Incurred In national park visitors this summer than there were summer Rocky Mountain delivering the property to them. The last summer and last 62.201 and Glacier Yellowstone 169.492 and had title to all vehicles and other equl;-meand Yosemlte Mount 55,232 Rainier and 18,05(1 remains vested in the state for circle. so on the and around Every year 58,862 No veuse in improving highways. numbers. In to there the go greater play people hicles and equipment. In serviceable in car travel Increases; the by Every year private condition, can he kold or the title were 1019 In there were and 1917 there 54,002 transferred to any one else. A provitraffic grows sion Inserted In the MU shortly liefore 07,721. Every year the Its final pnssnge provided that any larger. So heres the plnn: At this writing probably state highway department may arcircle from Denveraround the 4, half range for the use of this material by out a tentative official s an picking pathfinder any state agency or municipal corporaround he will has the he When route. completed a tion at fair rental. If It is to he used JHcTaT 'party XrOtfnJ the circle and this lenT an In constructing and maintaining public fix the official royte. Then everyThe rental must not he official party will highways. cotth ties, municipalities and states, body less than the cost of maintenance and organisations will get together and fix up repair of the vehicles and equipment he National highway. Possibly the federal government will also loin lu the DRIVERS CAN PREVENT WEAR The Rational highway project was in tourist travel bj the that Itl3, originated fear On Thing That Is Most Destructive I private motor first jissamed Impressive proporDistribute tions. The next summer a meeting was held In Driving In Track Traffic Evenly. Yellowstone National park and the National formed; tJus Driver can prevent wear to the snr of Cody. Wyo., a national park and good Holms faces of the roads and even Improve roads enthusiast who had put through the Yellowtheir conditions, if Instead of driving stone highway, was elected president, L. LrNew- In one track or on the edge of the ton of Wyoming secretary, snd Scott Leavitt of mad, they will drive rer the middle Montana" treasurer. Director Stephen TrMATher and other parts of the mart of the national park service was elected guide, when traffic permits. The one thing and friend of the association. The that Is fhtal above all things to rosd philosopher purpose of the organization Is to promote the consurfaces, whether dirt or paved, struction of at least ene good highway connecting driving In tracks, which subjects one these iwtive .natlonal parks In the Scenlc West, small pnrt of the road surface to all to Increase publicity and to encourage lnter-parthe traffic and damage that the whole tourist travel. A number of state branches have road accommodates. Traffic should le been formed. The war Interfered with the project. evenly distributed over the entire surNow the time Is ripe for active operations, face of the road, and a little thought June 1 the pathfinder left Washington on his fulness and care In this nvpect on the long Journey, lie Is A. L. Westgard. Ills official part of drivers will do nimh to add title Is route director or field representative or to the permanence and excellence of something of the kind of the American Automobile our roadway. association. lie has probably had a hand In laying out every one of the many'trsnsconttnentat wares. ' Benefit of Good Road. He admits having made 18 east and west transGood roads will enable the produccontinental trips and 80 between the Canadian line ers to hold their yield for a longer and Tncte Sams south boundary. The new sec- time, thus Insuring higher prices for rotary o the Interior.' John Barton Payne. Director them and lower and more uniform Mather and A. G. Batchelder, chairman of the price for the consumer, uiul will executive committee of the American Automobile serve to distribute railway traffic association, gave him an official start from the new more evently over the entire year. department of the Interior building. On this trip he Is also the personal represealatlve of Director Useful a a Weapon. Maithtw. A system of June 23 Mr. Westgard left Denver on his gxd road, built on a uniform plan of excellence by the trip, turning to the north and heading first state and (he nation. could be util- for ltixky Mountain National park, 75 miles north-ae- ti n powerful weapon In the ised of Denver. It will be a busy trip and jrlll tKrt.sanort.' with tru;g!e high prices. - i - nt y 4 T 4 M which $110,000 was expended last winter. Probably theres nothing finer of Its kind In the country. Yet Rocky Mountain makes a gap; you can get In by motor fin the east, south and west, but you cant get tlmiugh the park until the Fall River road across he continents! divide Is finished, possibly this fall. From Rooky Mountain Its easy traveling straight take the probably north to Cheyenne, Wyo., on the Lincoln highway. better pnrt of two Here you go northwest on the Yellowstone highmonths. In addition way via Casper. Thermopolls and Cdfiy to the east . to spying out the entrance of Yellowstone. land, he will take There are 300 miles of automobile highway In data for maps to be Yellowstone, with exits on all four sides of the used by the A. A. A. square. Mr. Westgard will go In at the east and Also he will arrange go out at the north. From Gardner he will head for the coming of (he north for Glacier In the northwest corner of Monofficial party. With tana, up against the Canadian line. him are Mrs. WestAnd so It goes all around the 4,000-mllcircle gard and their son easy traveling here, hard going there and every James and Mr. Leanow and then a gap. Theres one of these gaps vitt. In Mount Rainier and another In Crater Lake The date of the tlmt Is, Mr. Westgard can drive Into both, but start of the official can't drive through until projected roads are built. party from Deuver He will be lucky If he gets Into Lassen Volcanic has been tentatively at all. Congress established tbls park In 1916, set for August 25. but with Its usual hapzard national park policy has This party will also no money for It yet. .The roads Into appropriated turn to the north in the other three California parks are excellent order to get through and more are being built the northern parks From California the Santa Fe trail will take before the mow flies. the pathfinder back to Denver, via Zion, Grand At Its start It will Canon and Mesa Verde. be made up Director Mather of the national park service something like this: President olin s and the Is an enthusiast. He gets a salary of $4,500 a of secretary and treasurer e National and has already spent more than $100,000 associayear Highway tion; Director Mather of the national park on the parks out of his own pocket. And one of service and other his particular national- park enthusiasms Is this representatives of the federal government ; Mr. Westgard, who will he "director-general- " National highway. Last summer he of the trip, and other of did over 4,000 miles of pathflndlng In his own car. representatives the A. A. A.; official In his 1119 report he has considerable to say on representative of Colorado. Mjonilng. Montana mid other stajes; members of the question of lnter-partourist travel by autovarious associations and organizations Interested mobile. Here are some of the things he says: In the project, a The prospects for the establishment of the Nastenographer, photographer and descri pt ve writer, and surh others as the committional highway as a great system of tee In charge may think desirable. Interstate routes in the West have grown brighter The official party will probably make a regular almost daily since the opening of the past touring season. There Is now a wide demand for the triumphal progress around the circle. There is much Interest all along the line. Meetings will be highway, where prior to this year Its importance held at the principal places visited. Local enthuwas seen by relatively few communities, most of siasts are exjeced to Join tne party at many which were on dfrect routes .to the national parks, and had unusual opportunities to observe Its places to the extent of testing the hotel capacity. Denver Is the natural starting place for both growing volume of motor travel. the pathfinder and the official party. Here Is the Many of the sections of any Interpark highway system are. of course, so situated as to naturally lay of the land: The Lincoln highway hits the R ock los a "bun d red mResnorthbf Denver The require nos;ecTaIdesIgnntIonrandlnlmch cases the roads are either being repaired or plans for Pikes Peak route lands fifty miles south of Denver. hundred miles south their Improvement are under way. On the other The Santa Fe trail runs of Denver. From each of tbese transcontinental hand, in several states there are numerous routes that might be selected as sections of the system, highways, which carry the bulk of the national f 4t to Denver; Then. to choose one or two- - routes parks tonrtsr traffic, Tsr s for special attention If the funds available are starting from Denver to the north the motorist arrives In succession at Rocky Mountain, not to be spread thinly and Ineffectively over all such roads. Colorado; Yellowstone, Wyoming; Glacier. Mon"I should point out again the fact that some tana; Mount Rainier, Washington; Crater Lake, Lassen Volcanic. Yosemlte. General Oregon linksof any complete system oXLlgh-- , Grant and Sequoia. California ; Zion, Utah ; Grand wavs may have to be constructed by the federal Canon, Arizona; Mesa Verde, Colorado. government without state In cerSome day there will be other national parks In tain states through which the highway would run this circle. Washington offers the Mount Baker most of the land belongs to the federal govern.and Yakima projects. Utah wants another nament. In such cases, particularly where the road tional park In the Bryce Canon region, a little would be used principally by motorists en route north of Zion. The National Park of the Cliff to1 the national parks from all parts o the United Cities Is a New Mexico project of long standing States, it Would seem that the federal government and much merit. Mount Evans, to the south of would be under the obligation of ' Denver. Is likely to re adied Moantstn.' cost of Suth' sections of the Triterparkdefraying the system. Lake Tahoe wants to Join the system. A Save the Last spring, long before his noinatlon at ChiRedwoods League has been organized to promote cago, Senator Harding was In Denver aniLln an a Redwoods Natlonnf part' tn California. address at a Mile High club luncheon, io w hich thls - he said In There arw pathfindcr : part trip cad be made and all twerv national parks like the slogan See America First , We visited. Indeed. Mr. Westgard say he has been to link our national parks with the ought best of over 00 per cent of the route already. These motor highways. I shall never be content until roads are all three kinds good, bad and lndlffer-en- u 1 can motor from this beckoning gateway to And There are gaps, aome of which are In ious America,-a- s portrayed In her national glor,mrks. the process of being filled. over a circuit of our national parks. are so y, For an example of good roads, take 23 miles of so vast, varied, so physically beyond compare, that the Big Thompson Canon highway on the way from It Is good to think of America first and know Deuver to Estes park, the east entrance to Rocky America first and do the practical which Mountain Natloual part. It a famous road on things prosper America first, Psrk-to-par- k - Park-to-Iar- k 000-mII- e k k I lc k k Park-to-Par- -- cut-of- less-use- d park-to-par- -- k -- k l k .g XJ&A..S V. ; e imp-plie- path-findli- v' w Park-to-Pnr- k f5arlt-To-l'ar- 'ftk 1 ,V e Tark-to-Par- . S jt e setm-pubt- clerk concerned, but a nm has accepted them as a m tU,r coursa That they still Lave their cv In the original ense, how v.r, aj demonstrated recently by one t rnpover a grocer who was telling hw story over the counter the othei ;0 a belated customer. Last summer, the grocer vaM, my family was living down ut tie l.eaeb and I used to leave earlv n nrder to get down there for a late ' nm r. had a clerk that I trusted t lock op Nntuand put the money In the rally the cash register wo d dm In the morning what he had rnng up For a few days I thougl t it He was a good clerk working fine. and thought be was honest. Thea when I got to thinking about It deFor ten cided he was too honest. days that register and the cash agreed to a penny. - Now thats better than I could make it do myself. It aint nai ll park-to-par- a'ia. every 1 Park-to-Par- k pile-driv- er clam-she- money. tr V & I among employees hand! i g There was a time when r ' tlon was taken as im afiw nt t park-to-par- roads-nw-ove- r -- L llvh I tural. I decided to try a little Just before I left I rang up $2.75 on tbe register and put nothing in tbe till. Next morning the cash and the register agreed as usual. That was enough for me. Any man wholi so honest be will make up mistake ont of his pocket must have plenty , of money to do it with. No, be isnt working for me now. New York Evening Sun. Then scheme. Sharing Your Books. nl The world U full of shut-infoe there are those who are starving 4 books and papers, but how mr.ny s. tbea us make any effort to search out? clever article on books which I lately read annoyed roe by explainof bob ing how stupid is the custom mor rowing books, and bow vastly own to man each desirable It Is for bis own. 1 decided that the writer was a rich man (although my better writer judgment should tell me that decided I and seldom are rich), that be was missing a lot of too borrow things If he neither lends nor Wat Is book books. I believe that a shirt to Is there tne pleasantest thing It produces such a bond of eyropthJ It !f It Is enjoyed by a friend, and worts provides it once something while to talk about And people do return books, eP name dally If you put your remeroW and please return Inside E where your books are visiting. Herald. Wlster Haines In Christian A 1 Birds That Burrow. Persona are not accustomed to thlaj of birds as burrowing animals, but puffin answers to that description, is a .chqnk y little fowl, less ,haJl foot high, with a large and PwertJ beak, for a home it scratches moc in the ground- - sometimes as four feet deep. To capture a P one must go digging- - It Is bird Job anL Inasmuch and claws fiercely, one is suffer In the process. Thus th jsthe rure has maintained Its numbers many a lonely rockery, where been species of wild fowl have Off fend If exterminated. Your BIrthstone. were bora In January, yon torn Insists that your birthstoo the garnet, and you may also wer jarinth. Here are the blrthton j he other months: February, blood1 methyst; March, the erne tbe ; diamond May. the Ipril, ruby, June, the agate; July, the gust, the sardonyx; September, 0 Kpphlre; October, the opal I the her, the topaz; December, e4se. --- - A Self Starter. Mrs. HI ram Often IVbat leave jronr last place? .Tb. Cook are, maam. Old In made me Pave. 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