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Show n THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, UTAH UTAH BRIEFS drilling for oil has bees 8L George resumed in this section. 8prlngvIIle Work Is to begin at nee on a water works system. Sunset Over 8000 acres of pees will he planted In Utah this season. Logan Two branches of air pupils have been formed by flier students. Falrvlew A poultry 'dub and ealf club of ten members each baa been formed. , A choral group has been BpringvIHe organized here, following the. successful presentation of an opera. Duchesne Uintah Basin Industrial conference will hold convention here ' August Hyrum Cattle are being examined by federal agent to eliminate tuber culpsis. American Fork Egg sales during 1030 are expected to bring $1,250,000 to this city. Castle Dale Emery county potato growers will join the state association of vegetable growers. . Midvale Salt Lake connty highways are to he equipped with new and powerful lights. Castle Gate John Phillips .fell from a bridge Into Price river with D -- wi 5a th 1 - v 1 -- ' Thomaa 1 1 lit I - i , t I 1 r lV hi ii ij ' n V'4. ' '' i' ' V tjt --i , , . - , , , ' V'" 'V ' "V L Jefferson Monticello As By ELMO SCOTT WATSON . N A recent letter to the Thomas rv." vf',1r ; 'hfrf V - straiteiuaxk Jet ;A.-- ferson Memorial foundation, Presl-- n dent H.Ter av approval to for the P,ana ft narking birthday of L r7l Jefferson, April 13, by proper celebration of the founding of religious It would freedom," saying that seem to me to be a fitting and Inspiring undertaking." Instead of appointing a special national committee to undertake the celebrntlon, the President stated: "It Is my thought that the bourd of governors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial foundation already comprises In Its membership men and women of outstanding leadership In all directions of national thought, and that It would be ' desirable that they should undertake to bring the occasion to the attention of the American people . and make such arrangements as- would give It ' j ff ' ' It Appears Today AcAj frmn Qwmr1$mJh mm oh fTer son: A TU Apod kef AmertcMnism , r Courtesy LUfk, tmwn&Co. Bust Of Thomas ; k !i f f ,, years-at-Willia- -- -- bn lig hi Tb cai tic eig coi tr thi Be tal be sh zmole a pipe tLat imcUa insulation? ; . . TLe poor ebap probably never beard of Sir Walter Raldgbs favorite smoking mixture. He doesnt know tberei a tobacco so mild and fragrant It gets tbe O. K. BUT wty burning - The furniture stores of their first annual style show Ut- - 25-2- An archery dab has beeu at the Jordan school for class of rights which could not be safely enjoyed ' In Its history. time first the society provided adequate protection. Alta A $3,000,000,00. bond election Therefore In forming a society and accepting a social compact, the first rights were to be re- In Salt Lakb will be necessary .to fiserved and to remain Inalienable; the others nance the Argents reservlor In the were to be portly given np in exchange for more Big Cottonwood canyon. road proRich . What true of Indlvldualswas Countys was Randolph true security. of states forming a union or confederation. Each gram has been mapped out and will Individual state remained sovereign and yielded lnclnde an expenditure of epproxl-maetel- y " $30,000. only part of certain rights in order to obtain mors from this JefThus boys BpringvIHe Thirty aggressors. security against foreign ferson first enunciated the principle of states' citys high school are busy with coops rights, but be considered the union of states of end brooders preparatory to the greater Importance than any single state. "The launching of chick projects. r Ilyrura Cache county poultry proVirginian had developed Into a true' American," writes Chlnard. Jefferson was thinking national- ducers will make a tour of poultry ly and not sectionally ; he wag ready for the great farms and hatcheries of 8alt Lake role he was about to assume." county. Further development of his political philosophy Murray Contractors bidding on a came during Ids stay n Europe which new paving extension will be requir"confirmed him In the opinion that there existed ed by mayor to agree to employ local of even tbe fussiest He doesn t know that true mildness neednt sacrifice bod, flavor and ?ltlck. He doesnt know be can smoke a pipe all pipe-sniff- er. - - -m ho; unless The hoard of governors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial foundation Includes former President Coolldge, Stuart 0. Glhboney, president of the foundation; Dr. George J. Ryan, president of the board of education of New York city, and Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia. Whatever form the observance of the anniversary takes this year, a new biography which appeared Recently should accentuate the ft the date in the mlnda of all Americans. For the title which 'Dr. Gilbert Chlnard, professor of French literature at Johns Hopkins university and recognized as one of the leading authorities on this great statesman,, chose for the title of his new work, which Is published by Llttler Brown ahdCompany7'la "Thomas Jefferson: the Apostle of Americanism." To the average citizen of the United States, familiar enough with the name and fame of Washington and Lincoln, Thomaa Jefferson la something of a vague figure. He knows of him as the author of ' the Declaration of Independence, aa the third President of the United States, aa the, man who added a vast territory to this nation In the Louisiana Purchase and as the man who Is responsible for the phrase "Jeffersonian democracy" whatever that may mean being In our political vocabulary. Yet, aa In the case of Benjamin Franklin, modern historical research Is bringing out more and mora clearly the Importance of Thomas Jefferson In the founding and molding of our nation and proving that he deserves a place farther up on the heights, at the pinnacle of which we have placed Washington and 'Lincoln In solitary grandeur, than we have hitherto given hftn. No one would dehy that without a Washington and a Lincoln this nation undoubtedly could not be what It Is today. But It detracts nothing from their fame to place close to them a Franklin and a Jefferson; It is a matter of simple Justice such as . Washington and Lincoln would be first-t- o Inslat upon. Of the modern historical researchers vyho have labored to give Jefferson hts rightful place Ip the hearts of his countrymen, few have been more ; Indefatigable than baa Doctor Chlnard. He was the first to attempt the formidable task of going through the tens of thousands of unpublished Jefferson manuscripts In the Library of Congress and by painstaking study of Jefferson's own words bring to light, new facts and a new understanding of that versatile man. lie has already written five books dealing with various phases of Jeffersons career, hut this latest one la the crowning effort of his work. The story of his research Is a romance in Itself. A part of It he tells In the Introduction to his book. Many days were apent in the rotunda of the manuscript division of the Library of Congress, turning the leaves of the two hundred and thirty volumes of the Jefferson papers," he writes. "Documetata after documents threw a new light on the mind of the great American letter! hastily written, rough drafts corrected andr recorrected, press copies blurred and hardly decipherable, yellowed scraps of paper crumbling to pieces but piously restored; more letters In a regular, precise hand, the hand of a man who had been a surveyor and who drew rather than . wrote." . Except to the antiquarian. It would seem that,such an experience would be far from aJhrilllng" one- -a wearily monotonous Job ss dry seethe dust which always rises up from papers long stored sway. ' But, says Doctor Chlnard, Fifty .years of the roost eventful period of American history, told by the chief participants, rose from the old documents, and day by day was revealed more clearly the .clean-cu- t figure of Jefferson the American." And out of these old papers there stalked not a great . statesman, aloof and detached from the world of everyday affairs, but "First of all. the tall, lanky boy, born In a frame dwelling by the Rlvanna not a farmer, boy by any means, .but. the, son of an ambitious, ener- getlc and respected surveyor, a landowner and a colonel. ln other- In whoseyelns raw the best blood of Virginia." Then those same old papers spoke eloquently of "The stem and pious education received In Jhe family, the reading of the Bible and Shakespeare,. ..the lessons. oLRaverend Maury;, the son. of a 'Huguenot who took. thy boy as a boarding student, and Mary college "In the' the brilliant, animated, but small capital of Virginia, the conversations with Mr. Small, Mr. Wythe and Governor Fauquier, the Appollo tavern, the ' first love affair, and the long roamings In the, hills surrounding Shadwell. "More years as a dent of the law and as a law practitioner, quickly followed by his marriage with a Virginia belle." -a and Tbomas'JefffcfOQhadsettIeddown, lia , Ogden ah staged on March Sandy organized , lHoudon re i-- i- fatal results.- Jefferson significance."".' y ' ev esi five-ye- Thomas Jefferson Rembrandt portrait ty . . fvah ising young man, a talented lawyer, a respectable landowner, an omnlrorous reader who culled from hundreds of authors moral maxims, bits of poetry, historical, legal and philosophical disquisitions and copied them In a neat hand In his commonplace boobs." It la all of this and much more which this new biography of Jefferson reveals. But most Important la the development of the thesla that Thomas 'Jefferson was "the apostle of Americanism"- and that he was the only original political thinker that this nation has produced. The conventional view of the origin of Jeffersona political theories Is that they were French, because of hla residence In France at one time and because, as secretary of state. Vice President and President, he viewed with sympathetic Interest the. French revplt against monarchy and the French struggle townrd liberty Just as he sympathized with all struggles for liberty. Doctor Chlnards book shows that Jefferson's principles were fixed long before the outbreak of the French Revolution and that although, he undoubtedly drew some of his Idens from French sources, much of his political theory goes back to British political philosophers, notably the English Locke and the Scotch Karnes. Even this does not Invalidate Jefferson's claim to having been an original thinker and a great polltjcal aa Doctor Mnard philosopher In his own right, ts' to prove. T 'brings forth Innumerable-documenThe development of that philosophy had Its beginning Jn the reading which the young Vlr-- I glnlan had done during the first 30 years of his life, during which time, according to Doctor Chlnard, "he never censed, unknowingly as It were, to prepare himself for the great part he was to play." .Then, says the biographer In the Introduction to hla book; When the fell came he wae ready. The Ideas expressed In the Declaration of Independence were common property, but their felicitous wordlnc wee not due to a sudden and fevrrlrh Inspiration. The jrounr Virginian expressed only the definite conclusions he had alowly reached in reading the and tha old lawyer. The prlnclplee there proclaimed were not abstract and a priori they were distinctly the principles that had directed his Saxon forefathers In their 'settlement" of England. They were the legitimate Inheritance of their , descendants and continuatora who had brought over wtth them to America the right of. their anc store to settle In sparsely Inhabited land, there to live freely and happil under Institutions chosen by themselves. . . ..This was thetrue background of the Declaration of Independence, the background of Jeffersonian 'democracy - curious. Justification of the pioneer spirit by a student of history who cared little for abstract reasoning and philosophical constructions. Thus far tha national consciousness of Thomaa Jefferson had been somewhat haiy. Dorn In Virginia and Intensely devoted lo the Old Dominion, he had never left his native habitat until he was sent aa a delegate to congress. There only did he realise the divergences of the different colonies and the Imperious necessity for them to organise their life and to agree to aomo sort of a permanent compact. No- dealings with foreign nations could be .transacted. -- no - efficient measures-- of protection against the common foe could be devised, unless the several states wire held together by some sort of a common bond and had achieved some sort of While the Articles of Confederation were unity being discussed, ho pustled over the essences and . meaning of Ihose natural rights' so often mentioned In the different committees on which he eat The great obstacle to such an Isolation was foreign commerce, for Jefferson clearly understood that economic and commercial bonds or dependence and- - powauld . neceari)yjiUU- - pplitloui-bonds litical dependence. America waa to live In her own world, to pay her debta as soon as possible, to become Industrially Independent of Europe, to manufacture at homo enough for her own consumption and no mora." She waa also to seise every opportunity t eliminate dangerous neighbors,, not that aha rvally coveted anr territorjr .or colony held by foreign powers, not that ehe needed new land for a surplus of population; but shs eould not keep out of European politics if Enrope remained at her doora and used her colonies as a."fuicrum for her j Intrigues." la an unpublished (1(cument which Doctor Chlnard discovered In the Library of Congress, Jefferson had set down the result of those meditations. First, he est eld. sited a disiinctlon be- . hit-torla- na prln-clple- a; . -- ... Jwecn..lhefimduLu.u-iliilui-iil-xUlu- ln dividual a-. can exercise wttU'h-ti- tc by himself and auother words, be hasnt met Sir Walter Raleigh. Some day be will Lets hope its soon. f How to Take Cart of (WaNa 4) Don't ue t sharp ... -- gov-orne- self-Intere- hls-publ- Hsr80 d. at te jmore Jthan-an- y. t ber-m- aa of his generation to formulate the creed of Americanism. The was accused of being denationalized stands as the most Integrally and truly American among his contemporaries. And that is why the . birthday ojLThomas.jef- re Person shoul(TTiaVe-moSignificance for Amerl. . cans than lt( now has and why his county-memight 'well Took with favor npon a movement already under way for celebrating April 13 as a holiday along with February 12 and February 22. The American pantheon, dedicated tm the man whose leadership made It possible "for the American nation to be and to the man who saved that nation should haye pin fir ths mnn'WhdmadrAmcrleans conscious of their Ub- ertles In and their duties to that nation. o n na-tlon- al Your1 Pipe knife to drta out the cti boa. You may cut through the cake nd chip tbe wood. A lot of lode "wood spots' sake sway from the sweetness of pipe. Uses dull knife or reamer. Send for our free booklet, "How to Take Care of Your Pipe." Brown a W iiliamtoo Tobscco Corporation, XactmUe, Kentucky, Dept. 98. Sir Walter Raleigh tri-cou- 1 Plain City Twelve classifications of Ilolsteln cattle will he on exhibit at the annual Black and White day, Smoking Tobacco May 6. Sugar Ilouse Taxable values in Salt Lake county Increased In 1929 to the extent of over three hundred thousand dollars. member finishing his project- - the crops Including sugar beets, tomatos, , beans and egg plant Brigham City The board of education has granted permission to the Brigha- m- post of the.- - American Legion to level school grounds which la the spring community project of the Legion. Woodslde Work, will start Immediately on twenty mile strip of road from Woodslde to Green lUvcr. Work will he under federal aid plan. Cctlar City Movement is on foot to determine feasibility of road connect Ing with scenic loop to Zion National Park, up Kolob canyon and south to La Verkin canyon. Murray The Granite school district has been granted permission to petition for an increase of 1 mill In the tax levy for 1930-3school year. Santa Clara Orchard heaters arrived here and at Toquerville and be used for the Hurricane, to first time In this district Mantl Bids will he asked fay the improvement of the Gunnison-Mant- l highway. Estimated cost $80,000 and work to finished by fall. Airport An example of air will be given by a group of navy pursuit planes on April. 27. . St George Street lighting dltsrlc: has been created In business section. Estimated cost of installation, $3,350, to be borne by district and maintenance coot by city. Gunnison the school board Is offering a $IQ prive to each school In the district which will be given to the class putting over the best and! torlnra program. Pleasant Grove Work' Is progressing rapidly on new public park, as many of the important permanent completed this year as possible. of et M 1 PJ w a a tl 8 c u a r ForGalledHorses Hanfords Balsam of aelfarlail to the teat A1 daalm beak Myrrh nhaf yeer H Mt mlW. SY'uovyi CmojVs Dont let cough and colds wear down and your strength vitality. - Boscheei Syrup soothes instantly ends coughs quickly. Re- lief GUARANTEED. Boschee's Syrup Atoll ! druggists 1 'V:v (V rs . to-b- e- City water system Is be--' consisting of 13 miles of pipe line, carrying water to nearly the" city. Salt Lake 700th Anniversary of L. D. S. Church (. boginning' on-- April 6 will bo featured by Illumination of L. D. S. Temple with 'a lighting unit of 52.000 candle power. Ferron Emory Connty commissioners and state road commlslonera have signed agreement whereby ,thcTsnIlt oh cost of constructing a e dngway on highway near 'beta Estimated cost Is $20,000. 50-5- 3 U st a 4-- n P Ci m fi for the school district Draper A pure bred Jersey cow, owned by Parker Brothers, has com' plfted official production test and qualified for Register' of Merit of the American Jersey Cattle Clnb. Gunnison Forrest Prichett, 16, was swarded third prize by Utah Poultry Producers association In a state con test and first prize in Santpete connty. Chesterfield The year old Garden Clnb has a record of every every-home-l- it o y Price Connty Commissioners .have declared a tax levy of 2 mills for purpose of financing a building program Msplcton in sc fo in S . Ing Inrt.alled. w r Parowan Sixty poultry enthusiasts from northern Iron connty met here construction of new a unit of State Poultry associa- manu-neuve- S. j men on the work. tion. tei ec ar In America the germ of something Infinitely precious. If somewhat precarious, and be. realized that his country had really become the hope of' Jhe.world.L.U offered aJiope.ahlch could not be realized In rnnee. England, Italy 0 Spain. . In those countries "Traditions were too deeply rooted, prejudices of too long standing, class distinctions too sharply defined, to leave room for within any hope of ever seeing them established ' a reasonable time a tolerable form of government On the contrary, . unhampered by such .hoary traditionalism and free to shape her destinies,- America, provided she carefully avoided the dangers under which Europe" was laboring, could not only establish the best possible form of government, but set an example to be followed by the rest of mankind." And Jefferson believed that only by avoiding any entanglement with European politics conld America fulfill her destiny,-says Chlnard, who continues; Having removed all causes for foreign frictions and aggression!, America would be free to develop along her own lines. 8he was to remain for long years to come an agricultural nation; aha would grow towards the West by attaching to herself new territories aa their population Increased. The federal government was to retain a minimum of power and. attributions. It was to bo carefully and constantly watched tor fear of concentrating too much power In a few hand and in one place. Federal legislation waa to bo kept down, for the more laws, the worse the republic. It waa desirable and necessary to preserve the main principles embodied In the Constitution In ao far aa they expressed the permanent arid Inalienable rights of the people and the states, but each generation had a right to determine anew the details of the legislation and how they chose to bo The different articles adopted In 1787 were not to bo considered aa sacred as the Tables of the Law, they were the work of fallible and changing human beings, and the essence of the American government did not feet on a written document but on the dispositions of the Individual cltlsens and an enlightened publlh opinion. This being tha caao It became necesaary to prepare each cltlsen for the part ho was called upon to play In tha life of the country. The great mass of the American people had a "cool common sense" and a certain degree of Instruction which fitted all of them to do certain" things, but not everything. A farmer eould not overnight and by virtue of the popular choice become qualified to Judge of fine legal points, to settle complicated economic problems or to conduct difficult diplomatic negotiations with forolgn courts. All this required mora than ordinary common sense and ordinary education: the country needed leader and experts to bo carefully trained In special Institutions In a national university or, if this proved Impossible, In state universities. Aa to tho great mass of tha common people, they could be trusted to Judge of tho' facts and to alt on a Jury; they were also good Judges of men and properly could choose between candidates for the different offices. A free press would keep them Informed of the conduct of the men thus selected; primary and aecondary schools would help In the diffusion of knowledge, and enlightened would prevent them at any time from making grlevoua mistakes. Such was the political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson and hts stating of its principles and his exposition, of them during career Is ample 'Justification for conferring upon him the title of Apostle of Americanism." For, as Chlnard sums It up. "Whatever may he the shortcomings of this political philosophy. 'it was disAmerican doctrine; one ennnot Imagine tinctly It to have originated In any European country, for what would have been a Utopian and chimerical dream In the Old world was within the reach of pinn In America. Whether It corresponds to present conditions Is still another question; It Is nevertheless true that by emphasizing the uniqueness of America and the political superiority of his native land for more than fifty years, man-wh- da long without getting bimself or anybody else all bot and bothered. In other in tri SSTTrok-- iNli d"it- vv, .ijni u. ibrnotL. About ten years 8go I got so weak and rundown that l felt miserable all over. One day don t my husband said, 'Why B. you take Lydia When Vegetable Compound V I Wt bottles I had taken two on. My Ip J better so I kept cLaughter was born when I n1. been married twelve ywrf Even my doctor arid, K wonderful stuff. You may want publish this letter for I rius how all the world to know medicine has helped tne. "" 8 M ts. Horten Jone, JN. Street, Union City, 1 : 'NUiKlII ' S.lllllllllltlfl half-mil- I"1930, W. N. U, Salt Lak City, No. |