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Show j , THE PINGHAMNFS BINGHAM. UTAH - " ' Frank Craven i a MX ' ' f- C i Frank Craven is one of th few American actors who Is also a play writer. He Is now starring in "The First Year," one of his own comedies which had a run of two solid years in New York, and is now booked for a long run in Chicago, its appeal lies In its clean, wholesome humor. MiAK ."'POSSU31 HOASi OVK cold night Ornndpu Possum sat the stove warming ids f'l when little pnssy. h!3 grandson, opened j the oven door. 'Tut your feel in grandpa; I hey will get u toasty feei ng In a Jliry." lie said. Grandpa I'ossuin Jumped up. "CM " ll;nr door!., lie cried, in such ii fin voire tiiat his grandson looked In won-derment, for (irunt.'pu wan never cross lo liJ ut. "An open oven always me of something that happened to me when I was u voting fellow, and t never tl.lnlt about It without shud-dering." :randpu explained when Pussy closed the door. "Oh, tell nie nooni It grandpa I Was I: mi adventure'" asked Pussy. "Yes, I guess you would eall It that, hut I cull It u very narrow escape." , .. ay U.at liiaue hie H very "Then they opei.t j the ling. I was playing dead of eou'rse. all the lime n Tier lliey had me in Hie bag. so tliev look me St.; the ail and very naigl 'y tossed me int.i the oven and hanged the door. "Alter a while all was still and 1 begun to move about, and the lirsl th,ng I knew out I ml'ed on the lloor of Hie kitchen. I had managed l push open I lie oven door. "Luckily for me the window was o en and out 1 went and ran for home, hut I did not sleep a wink that night for thinking of how near I came to being roasted. "And Unit is the reason I can never see an oven door open without a shudder, and would rather warm my feet Home other way than by putting them In the oven." Little Tossy was wide-eye- d when Ids tirandpa linUhed the story. "I II never open an oven door again." he said. And Grandpa nodded and smiled as he lighted his pipe for a Kinoke to make him forget the terrible adventure of his younger days. ( by ilcClur Newnpttper tl) ndlcaU.) f& "Oh, Tell Me About It, Grandpa." said Oraiiflpn Possum. "I don't like to talk about It, but I will tell you, my son. If you will promise never to open an oven door again when I am around." Little Pussy promised to tie very careful about oven doors and Grandpa began bis story. "It was a bright, moonlight night," he si. Id, "and I bad run up to the farm to find something fr my supper, when all at once I neard noises that made me forget I was hungry, and I ran for the woods. I had hardly reached the foot of a big tree when behind me came men and dogs and the dogs were barking so they sent shivers along my spin ft, but I managed to get up in the tree and lav Hat on a big branch. "1 was all nicely flxed when, what did one of those men tin, but reach ..p with a long pole and knock me oiT, and somehow 1 fell into a bag which one ' man held Instead of landing on the ground among the dogs, us I thoughi I should. "They carried me off with men shouting and the dogs barking in the most nerve-rackin- g manner ami the next thing I kne I was in ii kitchen for there was a small hole In the bar through which I could see a little what was going on around me. "Pretty soon I heard one of the men say: 'Put blm In the oven; be will he si.fe there, and. anyway, he may as well get used to It because he will have to stay there ou'te a long time tomorrow.' And then they nil laughed i msnNppN Navy Now "The United States Fleet" , meeting nnnunlly for three months fcr drills, iDuneuvers und gunnery exer-cises. This winter the newly orgnnlzed fleet will meet In Panama bay for that purpose. Admiral II. P. Jones, U. S. N., now commanding the Atlantic fleet, becomes couunnnder In chief of the United States fleet D peace and war, whether the units of th fleets are In Juncture or apart I The particular advantages of the new organization are described by the navy as follows: It facilitates passing from peace to war conditions, saving time at the beginning of war, when time Is vital. It allows the various units to be trained In peace for war duties by Officers who are to command. It places the whole fleet under the command of the ofllcer who Is to com-mand In time of war and gives blm and the olllcers In conimnml of the major un!ts opportunity to gain neces-sary experience la command and In making plans to carry out their as-signed tasks. It creates nn organized fighting force which has only to be expanded In emergency to be rvidy for any campaign. tXTASIIINOiON. The Navy de-- " partment has announced a gen-ro- l order, approved by President Harding, putting lino effect a plan for organization of the navy under one commander In chief. The fleet Is or-ganized under the title "The United BUttes Fleet," and Is divided Into four sections, the battle fleet, the scouting fleet, the control force and the fleet base 'orce. At present, when the fleets meet for Joint maneuvers, It has been necessary to deslgnai the commander In chief Of the Atlantic fleet as the ofllcer to as-sume command. The present po'lcy rails for the varlour units of the fleets RS. G. 7. IIAbf SICK FOR YEARS Wants Women to Know How She Was Made Well bjLydh L Pink barn's Vegetable Compound Lima, Ohio. -"- Indeed, your medicine !a all you Bay it is 1 I had very severe . . i troubles such as wo-- If xJI work. I was sick for slrv J several years, and r I ? from reading your I 5 5& ads. 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(lofinf Kyt Co, ft'" CTtie Friendlu Path Bu IDALTER L IJ J ROBINSON j j! could see evidence of the use men have made of "brains, organization nnd intelligence," and he would doubt-less be hopeful of greater particularly in marketing, in order that farmers might get more for their products, though consumers would pay less. , In home, business and Industry, Is the one word to keep In mind. It means not only nil easier path to success, but a surer mud to joy. $ by the Wheeler Syndicate, tno.) T EARN to The lenders In everything of who tire getting abend are not doing so by their own Ktuhhorness. They have come to recognize that tlie greatest amount of good can only be accomplished by persuading others in-to following them along the logical putbwav, rather than In trying to fores' them like cattle being driven into their pen. There Is nothing new In Wise men have lecognl.ed Its linpi and recommended it toothers for eges. Put for the ot men. the pyramids would never have been built and without the of u woman, Columbus would not lime started on bis memorable trip. One hundred years ago John Skin-ner, editor of the "American Farmer." in discussing the future of farming, t rged In order that Ihe Industry might succeed and assure agriculturists more pleasure In I fe. He said: "Farming In the future will no longer be a matter of brute force. It will he a business for brains, orgunl-xulo- n and Intelligence." If he could return In thin world now and see the wonderful progress n agriculture since he last looked upon cur wavln.a grnln fields and cool ineud-w- s of hemp and com. he would un-derstand more cleaily than he did a 'ntury ago that was the way to win. tin rvery hand he Oil Results Under New Leasing law SUBSTANTIAL bep'nning of the c of vast mineral wealth, heretofore locked up In the public domain of the various wester?. Stutes, but now liberated under the general leasing law, was recorded by Dr. II. Foster I5aln. director of the bu reau of mines. In his annual report iibmltted to the secretary of the In-terior. Oil Is the foremost product of those lands so far, but Doctor Bain said ti nt when coal resources of the Kast start to give out, the government-owne- d Coal fields In the western states would bo of prime Importance. In the fiscal year ended last June there were produced from government lands other thrn Indian bunls IS.C'O-1X- 2 barrels of o'l. of which the fe lcral government received as royalty ",01(5,-85- 2 barrels, worth S4.7C8.397. not In-cluding bonuses. I In addition, at tlie end of the year , $14,000 a month was being received by the government from natural gas leases on public lends In Wyoming. In the Itocicy mountain field alone, there were tm government land KW It wells, of which 2(57 were In the Salt Creek (Wyo.) field. A hundred ether wells were being drilled. Under the terms of the development there bail been issued 202 nit and gis leases In foiir states and 7.727 pros-pectin- g permits, on each of which drilling la required, hi 13 states and Alaska. The largest number of wells belonging to the government Is in (he Salt Creek field, where tlie g iv eminent btdtls title to nearly all the 'and. Such an Immense miinunt of crude petroleum was produced that the capacity of the wells was far greater tin n the pipe Iti.e facilities to trans-port It. In Montana, also, development pro-ceeded rapidly nnd at the end of the fiscal year there were .17 producing wells In the Cat Creek field anil nine drilling on government land m the newly discovered and promising Sun- - burst-Kevi- n field. These developments are exclusive to activity In naval petroleum reserves. Final adjudication was reached In out-standing contests on such nil lauds, liases were granted and drlU'jog ar-ranged. NO DEAD LEVEL IN MATURE Gardener Seemingly Made Point in Dis-cussion With the Soap Box Cage. The gardener was trimming the front hedge and the soup box sage puused to converse with his acquaint-ance wielding the shears. The orator Boon had bis favorite theme wing. The gardener was something of a phi-losopher himself and ventured to put a question. "Then you think humanity should be kept trimmed to a dead level like this tedger "t'ut It that way If you wish," sold the orator. Tlie gardener pointed to the sldo of the yard. "Ah, but I trimmed that hedge only Inst week. Now look at It. So far as Vie can see every branch bud the same opportunity. Yet Bmne are higher than the rest. You can't kpep 'em down, friend, yon can't keep 'ejn down." Chicago Dally News, . I THE RIGHT THING I ; at the RIGHT TIME By MARY MARSHALL DUFFEE TELKUKAM ETIQUIJT Lot no act b don at Marcui Aurellus. baphatard. A TL'LKUUAPHED message Is more formal uud more courteous than a telephoned one. For Ii. stance, on the occasion of any Joyous occasion u birth In a friend's family, the announcement of an engagement, a wedding, or a birthday anniversary It Is always courteous to telegraph your congratulations, whereas you would telephone your message only where you were extremely well acquainted. The telegram Is regarded as a eifect- - ly proper meui.s of conveying con- - dolence following the ileal h In the family of a friend or acquaintance. And. of course, six h a message of sym-pathy should never be conveyed by a telephone message. When geii'llni such telegrams it is best to Indicate that you wish to have them delivered by messenger rather than by tele-phon- Mo usual Is It for u j In sending busl-nes- s telegiams to bear in mind Unit we have a ten-wor- d limit for tlie min-imum fee tl at we are prone lo attempt to force social telegrams Into this ien word limit, or else we pad ih.mi out so t lint we will make use of nil the words to which we are entitled. Often your meSMige Is best expressed In only two or three winds. Sometimes (hp single word "Cong:situtathns" N i; that Is required. Then It would lie de-- Idedly In bad Judgment fo use more. Needless to say. we dispense hUi formal Introductions nnd conclusions even In the social telegram. Thus we do not begin with "My dear." or "Dear," nor tin we use such expres. shins as "sincere ly" or "truly yoiirV even when sei ding a formal message. Always remember that there Is nothing private about a telegram and that no message should be sent over the wire thai you are not willing fo Imve by others limn the one tor whom It Is Intruded.- I'snu'Iy n tele, tram Is urgent In Its nature and mem-her- s of a family would open one 'vlnvi addressed to nn absent member. Sim-fi-rly a teleirrrm sent lo a person's business address nnd received during his absence would he opened by tho one who rece'ved It. 192'. ty XlrClur V,v-p-.- rr Svnr1rt Wanted: Nov Bade Judicial Organization training was one of the several sug-gestions advanced by Mr. Dnugherty. The recently enacted leg'slailon pro-viding ndd'tional Judges should help the situath n he said, but probably will not entirely remedy It. 'The failure of local self government In parts of tie i mm try." the report said, "results In the Insistence of the clth.ens In those co uiuuu'.t'es that the fedeiitl government perform that function In which the lm al govern-ment has failed, and frequently In matters v. here there Is concurrent Jurisdiction I etwecn the state and fed-en- d government It la difficult to et:ib-rd- , n r 'cy us to the extent to which tie fode:al government vbouhl take Jurisdiction. "Th's is peculiarly trre of offenses arising under the fedeial reserve mt. ti t iiaici tlc net. the VoNtead art ai d the jM's'id fiai''s art. There has b't-- nn effort mi the part of the division dur'nu this t!eal year to have the Fn!ted States ntfori eya and ti e state pri wcntlfg attorney meet ftoiu t'ine t t ine for the purpose of ti"n. r.vhU'iK e of the benefits of thes' mcctlt.gs Is ovens l!eluil''U." A NKW basic judicial or'iilfi"" to meet the augmented woik which has resulted fiom "toe evir-.o- - creasing complexl'y of government." was suggested by Attorney (bnenil Dnugl erty In in annual report on the Operations of the DeparTment of .Ins tlce. Noting that 00.722 criminal cases were begun hi the last fiscal year, the rejMirt declared the point was being approached vtieie a revumping of the machinery used In this work Is Inevl table." , ' Adoption of some method by which the government could le'aln attorneys who I nve special knou ledge of govern-ment matters In addition to Ical j "What5 in a Name?" I L j tmmmm p-- jj obout your name; it's history; "" S m I MILDRED meaning; whence it waj derived; lignifr p I MARSHALL cance. your uc anj jewej most charming lyric uround the inline; everyone la fainlllitr with his "1idy Clare." If Clara would have the fullest bene-fits fmui the name she bears, she must wear her talismanic Jewel, the car-r.ella- This warm-colore- d stone the contrast to the miner chill, haughty beauty associated with 'he name. A carnelbin gives courage to its wearer and Is especially fo he de-sired by one who uses her voice as sii gcr or public speaker, us It Insures strength of the vocal organs. Further-more it protects Its wearer from In-jury, though to dream of It slgnllles misfortune. Tuesday is Clara's lucky tlay. nnd five her fortunate num-ber. t by th Whwi'r Rvit'llrat, IntJ i CLAIiA CLAKA. It may be readily surnrsed anyone familiar with l.atln Is thrived from Ihe adjective meaning bright, clear, or fanunis. As a musical mid eer-- t liariaing feminine name It has kept Its sign Ilea me, though the steps of Its history are many and de i bnis. ' Tiie llotiiaim useti the name ClalUn as a masculine n.-n-ie and its vogue preud In lairope. St. Clarus Is revered as the first I'.isli.rp of o'antes In llril-- ! tanv In A. D.. ''M0, Another Clarus. a I ntive of I'.ochestcr. was a berni;i near Kouen who was murdered at the insti-gation of a wicked woman who had ainly paid her addresses to him. The i name was then changed to Clair and. combined with a "Saint." named 'wo of the most noted families in the ais-lor-of (ileal I'.ritain. besides ihe vari-ous "de St. Clairs" of France. In r.i'ilaln, It was speedily contracted to S.iv lair, and subsequently as 'nre. named the County Clare of Ireland, n tract "f land presented by lahvurii I ns a wedding present to the son of the famous lied de CI ire. Spanish lere lia II that the rst Clara known to his!"iy was the daugh-ter "f Clmileiiiau'i:e. but the real origin sceais t have been In Italy wlieie Ihe lli't Chlara. a the llat'uns call her. wiis a ilevnied disciple of M. Fiatieis and tiie'er I '.N diic'iiua established an order f women follow ins h! rule and Clara. The French call tin- - nntoe CI. .Ire. 'flu I'.retoii form SMeara ninl I'intu have corn raeled it to l.aia Clara and Its deriv at e a t'eeo a favor'te witii tin Is w ie.-- e 1.1 lovely maid- - Who have hoi in- - 'lie .nine are lo'aiost loo ij.iiiiei mis a.nl q.nsMe lo penult I he sclci thai ol kw lti;;;.Moii has peihaps wr.nett '.lie Criminal Neg.igence. Mrs. Newlvwcd Oh. I dropped a fi rk that iiwiius mother's eoininj here. Mellon Seen as Dr. Jckyl and Mr. Hyde .Mwlywed P.utte.1 fingers ! OT WO Impressions of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon were given in pooches In the I ouse the other day. Uepr"sei.tutlve Ficnr (Hep.. V:s.). re-newed his nttneks upon Mr. Mellon, !!s annual report as "n of the nicest slunnrfiil cond-itions e'er disclosed In the treasury tnvlng nicblnery." Iteprestttitlve Fess (l!rp., Oh'n), recently elected to the senate, asserted that Serre'Ty Melpin's admlnlstn'.tlon of the Ttn"ry department has proved "the mnst brilliant since the days of Alexander Hamilton." Representative. Frear demanded an investigation of charges made by l.im In a series of tellers to tin; secretary. lie repeated charges that upwards t $2.0(K),0(K).0H In corporation i.eeii-mulnle-surpltiKC-- i are rscnplng p nal tics and 'Individual surtaxes, thai tin ull company controlled by .Secretary Mellon started "the wild melon curii;.,; nine," that the tax administration o' the Internal rc.vcmio i!Ii'"e Is under the control of a amall group f wh"-- activities have become a public sc:m-dsi- t, tbut the Aluminum Company of iMCdofl, Staadard fctcel cuuipuuy and other corporations litive been fa vored. llepreM illative Fess reviewed ihe progress of goverfne tai lii aai-'n,- ' un-der Secretary Mi lion. He said: "Fnder Mr. Melon's i:ri-Ci- t , i nat io-- i l.as balanced Its I ud-- t I. ie dia ed ilM phlilic debt by owr S.'.'J 11.-- 2.J V ."", hiKineeil its loan i, '.tiawed out i'-- l fnven credits, re'case'l its ns-et- s for hid'i-tr- y, baiihlii:: ca-- cr. low-ere-rales i f inlcre-- t an I rediseiuinn. revixi l business, Imliished uni n i ; ; incut, and brought the governlm t credit hack to p:ir. Tii'.l ai bleveiaehl will challenge tlie recoi'd for nil equal pct'Ioi'Uianco In U.e Llatcry sf Auauco " Frequently Happen3. P.rlgjs "Wasn't It a case of love at first siL'litV" (iriggs "Yes. and a case of divorce at first si ght." iW Ohvcs Derived From Spumaids. j The "SI -- sloll," , 111- ot in- liinsl popll j Jar i a 1'iei ie- - ol the ; I. i'm ma oi es is said to In- - a d reel de- -t etnl.i 111 ol I rees w hieh il w.,s the eiislioii of he eal'h Si i. uish pr e- - o p'.itil at t er lid . j sloli. 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