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Show CACHE AMERICAN. LOGAN. UTAH ar SEEN- -' HEARD round th National Capital .-- Ey CARTER TtSLDSaaaa land U dlvUI'-- inl national fanning i!un, agri- Umi-- l rlin-s (! 'kI:i!I.Hc cultural development lu recorded exception liUtnry. with the t U Interchtlng of of our IVparlnmd of Agriculture t ad ml (In Agricultural A IJn uiliilntriiiliin no end, though It biii Inio.st no publicity to received America. With Ihe exception of (he estate of (la Hlndenburg family. specificfrom (In law, ally exempted every fetiite larger limn 1 23 nmt be diJust 311 acre vided liiio units no larger than dial. All farms of that Hire, and down to 7 lietara ranging 24 Ids acres. a tua tar being nit under strict govern lia'iit s'lpervhion. The govermrent bureau In charge ss ti.it the faninT shall ilci hli-pant When the In any particular fleM. imp Is harvested, It ill reels him when nml where to eeml It to mar let, Eventually, though this has not arisen jet, the government will tie chle about farm tnaehlnerjr ote. Meanwhile the farmer pays the f n eminent 1 pel rent of the i able of the lam! ns determined by If there was a the government. mortgage on If, the mortgage Is tamed over to the cm eminent, the llentenhank being the agency In this ca-Then the farmer pays an 'Mill"! al 1 per rent on the value of the lainl, and aln the Interest on the mortgage. Ills advantage here, making up for the speelnl charge. Is that the Interest rate on the mortgage Is sharply redneed. are Holders of the mortgage compensated not by rash for their Iniext merit, hut h.v bonds, paying In gotnc lntaneea 3 per rent As and In some 4 per rent there are about eight and one half billion In mortgages, this Is a flnan-ria- l transaction of considerable It has not been commagnitude. pleted yet, as the plan Is Just being put Into operation. poa-ll-- ie , exj-er- -- I m.-u- hoc-tar- at-o- cres--nr- e a e. r May Not Sell Land Another Interesting feature of the plan Is' that no or.e may sell any land. In a way the farmers are chained to It they and their children furrier and ever. Nor shall any farm of 125 heotnrs or less he divided between the children. The farm goes by law to the youngest son. If there Is no son whatever, then the farm may not go to the son In law, for the daughters are specifically barred from the Inheritance of land. It passes to the nearest malP relative who hap pens not to he a farm owner. If a seventh rousln Is the nearest male relative hut he happens to already own a farm, then It passes to some even more remote male relative. The Men of the framers of the law In deciding that the farm shall pass to the youngest son. Instead of the oldest, ns has Hlwnys been the case In I.ritlsh estates, for Instance. was that the older sons had the most advantages, In being sent to college for professional training, or In being aldpd by their families In getting started In some other Held of endeavor. fio the land was reserved for the youngest son. Farms smaller than 7 heotnrs do not come within the requisitions of the law. Ineldentallv, there Is no doubt In governmental circles here based on their latest Information from Germany, that the laws are going Into effect, and that they will not only succeed In breaking tip the estates, but are certain to have a trial for a fair period of time. Information here also Is that nit-le- r Is only an Incident In this particular scheme. All the Information Is that It would have been put Into effect If Hitler had never come Into power. In fact. It was well under way, as the avowed policy of many leaders, before the Hitler ascendancy. Pepped by Sinclair Since talking with Upton Sinclair, Peal lieutenants are rather pepped up ahout the prospects of their eleven Democratic congressmen In California, and of some of the Democratic candidates In districts now held In California by Republicans. The Socialist novelist convinced them that he has no horns, but, far more Important, he convinced them by his adroit handling of questions that he Is really a masterful campaigner, and has an excellent chance to win. Which, of course. Is what they are Interested In at the moment, not what he will really do If elected governor of the Golden Gate state. That his election will he regarded as a mandate to go ahead with the New Deal In Washington Is rather generally accepted. Rut that his victory. If he wins, will In all probability pull through enough Democratic candidates for the house to Insure President Roosevelt the necessary votes to continue his program Is even more Important from a moral standpoint While not the most spectacular thing he Is saying, by a long shot, one of the points that Impressed Democratic and New Deal politicians the most here was the very subtle nature of his appeal to the conservative Californians. He has not only an appeal to the have nots, they discovered, but to the "Mm. Not to the "haves who New at 11 acrnmutatlnc money If njune la these doja but to the 'hait' who are living on Inconit from Invested money. This U Ihe very type, eiqeela'!y because many retired business (lien amt Ollier living on their Interest and dividend have gone to Culirornla, (hat the conservative Iteputillciiiia have been counting on . And by tbe enme lo bent token, that tbe New Dealer feared would defeat blm. and o drag down many Democratic congrestmen to Mm-lal- r defeat Now they are not binge eeldotn are In Ibis Is a case where It I I certain. politic, and pretty bard to figure tbe average conservative voter' mental processes. An Average Case For lust mice, tale John FttiUH, a )ear with an Income of from Investment, living In Fun no, or any one of the many email town aurroumllt'g l.o AnAt heart be If Intensely geles, conservative. He la strong for property rigid. He I bitterly against action which any governmental might result In decreasing bia Income, taxing more heavily the corporation paying It, and ao forth. So It might be reasoned at first blush, that lie would be desier.itely opposed to Upton Slndulr or anyone llle him. Rut John Smith Is also a heavy He Is not taxpayer In California. only paying high taxe at present to help eupiuirt a million anil a quarter of unemployed In California, but he aims the state di ht being Increased for that aame purpose, which men n that he and his children will have to go on paying for this support of the Idle for year to Iter-nur- TEAR CAS DOESNT BOTHER PARK BEARS See Undersea Life at Record Depths ical society, Is a steel hull 4'4 feet In diameter, with a shell 1' Inchea to Science. tltli I. It Is too small to permit the erect to stand two explorers Washington. Throngs of tourist Despite their close quarter, they lined the cliff along St. (Purge' were able to take photographs, and j harbor, Dr, William operate searchlight and motion Urmi", Iteehe and title Barton, Intrepid picture cameras. Also Inside the Ueep-acdivers, steamed out to aea. bathv sphere was appurutut for there to climb Into their steel hall, purifying the air. the bath) sphere, and he lowered to bile one of the objects of the , record depth lu the Atlantic off expeillilon was to go down a Nonsuch Island, according lo the It wa not solely record depth National Geographic aoilely, spun-o- that Doctor Beebe sought. Before, of the expedition. between. r:d alnee the two record Already the holders of the record dives, he and his aid have made sea life at dep sea dive. Doctor Iteehe and Ills utnny dive to companion. In their first attempt, various depth. During one dive took the Iiiithysptu re to 2.310 feet. with only helmet. In oi ly 40 feet Their prior record was 2.2')0 feet of water. Doctor Beetle had Just In this dive Doctor lteele report- - shot a sharp nosed puffer when a ed by telephone that he saw score shark snooped down on the . of fish new to aclcm-eHe dictated stunned tUh. Doctor Beebe fought to his secretary above, thousands of off the shark with the Iron handle words of description about little of a net he held In his hand, and a world a known denizen of obtained Ids specimen. laiter, the atrnnge a Mars. Barton, with the suine day. he was Interrupted In his Id of a special, light, observation by sharia, barracuda took motion pictures of weird crea- and a green mora.v eel, hut none atture that floated and swam by the tacked him. On t!ie-- shallow dives thick quartz e.vea of the bathyhe collected excellent specimens of sphere. beautifully and weirdly colored After an hour at the record depth, r Beebe reportduring which ed the searchlight showed ninny new College Professors Lead forms of life while other creatures Others in Foiling Death could be observed owing to lights New York. Hostlers and stable oron their bodies, the they carried hands have a higher death rate than der to haul up was given. any other gainfully employed mules between the nges of fifteen to sixty-fouDepths Rich In Fish Llfs. according to a study conductUpon emerging Doctor Beebe aid: "1 have never seen ao much ed by the National Tuberculosis aswith the material lu my life, and new ma- sociation In terial, too. Much of It Is entirely United States census bureau. The hostlers and stablemen gronp different from that which we observed during previous dives. It Is had a death rate of 30.22 per 1,000. the silliest thing In the world to at- Garage workers had only 0.05. Operatempt to describe In a few words, tives In harness and saddle facbut we saw more fish and larger tories had a death rate of 30.55. Laborers In fish than during any other dive. Aviators had 28.73. Every dive convinces me of the fu- chemical and similar factories had tility of trying to get the true Idea 5.13, while lawyers and Judges had of deep sea life through nets. Many a rate of 79, physicians and surdeep-secreatures are such rapid geons 10.09, clergymen 10.33 and colswimmers that they can easily get lege presidents and professors 2.C9. away from nets. One of the most The average death rate of all occuamazing finds of the day was a pations was 8.70 per thousand. fish which I observed at the 2,500-foo-t level, 'e observed schools of rare Inmpanyctus, silver MORE RIBBONS hatchet fish, and t! Uganda of tiny nr ( IIKKIK Ml IIOLAU squhl. During the dive five photographs were taken with supersensitive plates. The lutest dive, nf approximately the same spot as the former record dive, was to 8,023 feet The bathysphere remained at that level for only five minutes sufficient time, however, to make possible Interestwhich ing scientific observations were dictated by telephone to a stenographer on the barge from which the heavy ball was lowered. Doctor Beebe reported that the pressure at the maximum depth was more than 1,3'K) pounds to the square Inch, but the bathysphere, used successfully on many previous deep-sedives, showed no leak-ugIt took 2 hours and 40 minutes to make the dive, 2 hours and 41 minutes of which were spent In descending and ascending. Some Fish Carry Lights. As In the former dive, fish and other forms of undersea life, some recognized on the previous dive, and others that were new even to Doctor Beebe and Mr. Barton, flashed Into their vision as they peered through the bathysphere windows. In this dark region, nature has provided many of its creaWatch hair ribbons ! Even the old tures with lights which glitter er girls are wearing them, and with around their bodies. Whether these flattering results. It Is quite a fad lights are for Illumination or for to tie a wee ribbon about one's the purpose of finding food or at- muchly curled and waved tresses, tracting mates, Is a problem which as one lounges about the home Doctor Beebe hopes to solve during In becoming negligee also on the his diving expeditions. beach for convenience. Growing At 2,750 feet. Doctor Beebe girls, of the age of the little miss glimpsed "an amazingly large fish pictured, or thereabouts, are most which was about 20 feet long. He prettily berlbboned these days. The said this Is probably the largest livdainty party frock of sprigged oring thing ever seen In the deep sea. gandie which this charming maiden The movements of the huge mass Is wearing, Is set off to perfection of flesh, he reported, could be folwith a girdle tie of pastel ribbon lowed In the blackness by the lu- which Is generously bowed and minescence of the thousands of streamered at the front. Little small creatures It disturbed. Fishes bows of ribbon on the puffed and other creatures in the zone near sleeves, too! The styling of this the depth, the naturalist party dress Is so winsome, the believes, are larger, more numerthought occurs that It would be an ous, and more brightly Illuminated, excellent model to copy In wool than In the shallower regions. challls for fall or In one of those The bathysphere, which bears very attractive washable rayon the name of the National Geographic prints which are so practical for society and the New York Zoolog children's wear. Obicrver Study Fish New half-mile- r olo-erv-e e h. r, come. What will be his reaction to Sinme put clair's proo8itlon : "L these people to work, producing necessities which they can use and trade with each other. They will not conqiete with any existing business. On the contrary, they will and thus aave be the state from bankruptcy. They are no good to business now, for they have no money to buy anything except that which you give them. It la a question. Cntll Sinclair arrived In Washington, most people were figuring the conservative vote would all be against Sinclair. Now they are not so sure. Old timers here remember a In Maryland Just before prohibition. The liquor Interests made a deal with the drya whereby the Maryland legislature ratified the eighteenth amendment, and the dry let up so as to permit liquor sales In Irlnce George's county. The liquor boys of that day were looking for an Immediate advantage and not worrying about the future. There may or may not be a parallel. Exchange Naval Views Reading naval powers have been for Borne time conducting Informal exchanges of views preparatory to the gemra! naval conference expected to be held next year In view of the approaching expiration of the London naval treaty supplementary to the Washington treaty. The London treaty expires December 31, 11)30, and It Is planned that tha whole subject of naval limitation will be reconsidered with the hope of working out a new agreement which will replace the naval limitation program adopted In Washington In 1931 and supplemented by the crul-e- r agreement at London In 1930. The diverging views of Great Rrltaln and the United States over gun culibers Involve the historic conflict between them over capital ships. Great Rritaln, with numerous bases scattered about the world, has less need of long cruising radius and therefore her policy has favored smaller fighting ships. The United States on the contrary, having few bases, has always taken Into consideration the possibility of having to cruise Its fleet over long distances and has therefore favored larger craft, both In This battleships and In cruisers. conflict became so acute at the Geneva conference In 1927 that It broke up with Great Rritaln holding out for light cruisers and the United States Insisting on heavier auxiliary craft This difference was somewhat reconciled later at the 1930 naval conference with the United States accepting more light craft than many American naval officers had favored. Britains Idea d half-mil- e Yellowstone Bark, Wyo. Ona of the most difficult problem confronting Yellowstone park rangers I to d. scorer a method hy which tha over friendly Maik bear can ha discouraged and driven away without permanent Injury to tha bear. The disappearance of hams and from canqicrs' larders, bruin' midnight forays Into the pantry and kitchen of ranger stations and government mess houses all that petty banditry make the black hear real problem, and the rangers are determined to do something about the matter. Bark Ranger Gus Wylia and Frank Chihli thought they had found the solution In Ihe use of tear gaa. Three black bears, ranging In age from Iwo to five years, wrre selected as subjects for the experi- ba-c- n ment. The first hear was fired npoo at distance of 23 feet. The tiny gun alnunt leaped from W)lle'i ham. The gas sprayed the head and one shk-- oi the hear, hut only star tied him hy the loud report, snd he loped slowly away. Bear numlmr two received the full charge In the fai-at a distance of 10 feet Al the detonation of the 12 gauge shell the hear Jumped, ran a short distance, and then quite unronccrnedly returned to the meat scraps be had been eating. mother was Finally a five yenr-olapproached. Meat scraps enticed her within 5 feet from the spot where Wylie stood with the tear-ga- s gun. Childs stood by with a camera to photograph the results. The bear sniffed at her lunch and tooled up Inquiringly at Wylie. Boom! went the tear-gagun while the camera clicked. But the boar did not go; she simply flinched, glanced back at her cuhg, and then settled down to enjoy the meat scraps. "Those bears certainly can take commented Wylie. "And to It, think we had first planned to try It on a grizzly I s h 82,-0- 000-to- h b l-- By Bob SUtma fticholi Editor, KrU .till Slrr.n fc. of tlve poorest gun In Ihe for the beginner In to use la the close shoot lug full choke gun. lu fact, for upland work the close bored gun Is a poor gun for anyone to use. except In open plain country where bird frequently rise at 20 to 30 yards. In which rne you've got to have a gun that will reach out ami get them. The ehuko In a shotgun barrel means the degree lo whlili It Imre constricted at the muzzle. The shot chargo traveling through a I barn-full choke suddenly It queered together Just reaches the muzzle. Tbe effect I to hang to cause the shot pelh-tIn a closer together, which pattern of small diameter and maximum density. The construction, or choke, I In the first two or three Inches at the muzzle. For thl notion never try to make a short barrel hy sawing off three or four Inches at the muzzle!. You will ruin the gun. Then-afteyour gun will throw a wide, uneven pattern that can't he relied on. A good gunsmith can frequently turn out a good Job of this kind providing the too thin Rietnl In the barrel Is at the point where It Is sawed off. His trick will te to start hack ahout an Inrh or two from where he sawed the barrel, and then bore the barrel out slightly from there down toward the breech. This method Is called recess choking, or "Jug choking. t The results are apt to he of a gamble. Only the good wing shot Is capable of doing good work with the full choke gun. The small dlumeter slmt pattern It throws takes close export holding. And In thicket and brush shooting such a gun Is a pestera-tlon- . You can't let your game get too far away or you lose sight of It, and If you shoot at close range you mince the bird and ruin It for the table. Copt. Ed C. Crossman, the rllle expert, tells the amusing story of the man who went Into for a the hardware store and "close shooting Naturally gun. the clerk sold Iiltn a full choke gun. Several days later the Irate customer barged Into the store and demanded bis money back either Hint or another gun. Tills ain't a close shooting gun, he complained. "I shoot at rabbits at 20 yards and she blows hint to pieces. She's a fur shooting gun! The full choke gun Is a very special weapon. Its use Is Justified only In a few kinds of field sport. And under no circumstances Is the full choke the right gun for anyone but an expert shot Bass shooting on ducks usually calls for all the range one can get out of his gun, and It Is here that nothing but the full choke should be considered. But such shooting is not for the novlee. In faet I do not believe there Is more than one shot In a hundred who Is capable of knowing how to lend fast flying ducks at 50 to CO yards, and even he will have to do a lot of guess work. For the speed of high flying ducks varies. On a calm still day it Is one speed. On a windy day with the birds traveling against the wind. It Is another. And when they are coming down-winplus their normal fast flying speed, then Its decidedly something else again. Flying or running game must always be led" In order to score hits. Tills Is, youve got to shoot ahead of IL Why this Is so will be explained In a later article. The best gun for practically all upland shooting Is the one with barrel bored Improved cylinder. If a double-barre- l gun, make the first barrel Improved cylinder and the second modified choke. The gun should be light enough to handle fast, from six to six and a half pounds, for the faster your gun hnndlps the better you will shoot It Without hurry or .confused haste, one should be able to let off Ills first shot within half a second after the butt touches the shoulder. When you take longer time yonr muscles begin to "freeze Into rigidity the result, you slow up or stop your swing. With a fast handling gun you do not need the longer range of the full choke gun. Your Improved cylinder will do the work, and It will teach you to shoot a shotgun the way such a gun should be shot fast and instinctively. ONE 1 e r nt soim-wha- n Blessed Events in Sheep Flock Stir Up Argument Great Falls, Mont. The problem of birth control Is worrying the United States customs officials here. The officials wish they could establish some sort of control over the Llessed events of sheep, or at least could settle this question: "If a Canadian firm brings sheep Into Montana for pasturage, intending to return them to Canada, snd If those same sheep have lambs while temporarily on this side of the line, are the lambs American sheep or Canadian sheep? The question has been posed as a result of activities of Mormons of the Latter Day Saints church at Cardston, Alberta. Last November, due to a pasturage shortage In Canada, the Mormons herded a large flock of sheep across the line near Browning, fed and fattened them. That was permissible tinder United States customs laws, which required the posting of bond. Everything would have been fine, but a large number of ewes saw fit to yield lambs. Whereupon, Canadian customs officials claimed they were Canadian lambs and not subject to duty. W. H. Bartley, collector of customs here. Isn't sure but that America should get some revenue from these blessed events, and has submitted the question to Washington. Long Line of Firsts Is Tallied by Infant Bryan, Texas. Its John Sidney Borlskie the First at the Frank For these reasons: John Sidney Is the first child of his parents, the first grandchild of both his paternal and maternal grandparents, the first of Fritz Brandies, who has 16 grandchildren, and the first child born In the recently reopened Bryan hospital. d Fitch Mother of 15 Bahies A Idaho Falls, Idaho. fitch, small animal, recently delivered 13 at one time. The number was twice the customary quota for the animal and all the youngsters were larger than normal. Putting Uncle Sams Brands on Drouth Cattle h SHOOT They Certainly Can Take It, Says Ranger. Recently Great Britain, having a preponderance of gun battleships, suggested that In revision of the naval limitation treaty this be made Hie maximum caliber for the future Instead of the limit agreed upon at the Washington conference. On the American side It wag felt that this would reduce the size of battleships below the requirements of sound naval policy. The United States lias always Insisted upon the 35,000 ton limit for capital ships. The view Is that a ship proportioned to guns Is "too small to live," as they say In the navy. However, In the Interest of reaching a preliminary agreement, the United States ts now suggesting that It would be willing to meet Great Britain halfway and accept guns, which would mean perhaps battleships of possibly tons Instead of the 35, gun fighters now permitted. The California and the Tennessee, A federal worker with a brush and paint Is putting a few daubs on Bossie's coat to show that she lias Leeo which have guns, are rated purchased hy Uncle Sam. Other cattle bought In the drouth area In Kansas are near-bwaiting to b at about 33,000 tons. checked off and marked. WNU Cwarriaht h now xfe , Weirn NfcTrjaTer Union. Airway of Storks Has Been Accurately Traced Migration of 6torks has been studied for years by Germany, Denmark and other European countries and the "airway of the storks has now been traced. Thousands of storks have been marked and a record kept of their coming and Of the 800 ringed storks going. which left Denmark last August reports of nearly 400 have been received. Leaving Denmark, the storks fly to Germany. Then they make their way to Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, and across the Bosphorus to Asia Minor, but It Is not yet known whether they fly to Egypt through Palestine or across In Egypt they the Mediterranean. travel down the Nile, past the Great Lakes, eventually reaching Natal Vlta Hudson Rivsr I7rr1 their chief city at the crossroads Natlnrtftl ClonprucVe on. U C.-- UNU ftpivu. ARCHEOLOGISTS New tunnel and well llle enclosure ten feet under ground which U something of mystery. Who dug It and for what purpose it was used. Is a problem historians are attempting to solve. New York, the Empire state, from colonial times has been a state of startling discoveries and marvelous development More than 11 year before Plymouth Rock and less than three years after Jamestown, a sword girt figure In steel corselet and plumed helmet stood proudly defiant before a band of hostile Indian. The cene was the shore of a lake In a mountain bordered valley, the time the morning of July 30, 1009. As the redskin warriors rush toward him with bloodcurdling war cries, the Intrepid adventurer Is unNot until the savages perturbed. approach within bowshot does he move. Then he raises bit arquebus and fires. Three of the four slugs find their mark. Two chiefs fall dead and one of their braves clutched at a mortal wound. Samuel de Clmmplnln, the great French explorer, to win the favor of the Huron of the St. Lawrence country, thus brought war Into that delectable land which we now call the state of New York. The Immediate result of that ehot on the shores of Lake Champlain was victory. Though the martial had for generations Iroquois schooled themselves to face death In every form tlint savage cunning and barbaric cruelty could Invent, still, for the moment, they could not stand np against this new, strange weapon that spoke with the voice of thunder and flashed with the tongue of lightning. Shot Gave Regions to the English. Who can measure the full consequences of that shotl The enmity toward the French It engendered In the breasts of the Iroquois forever sealed that land to French colonization and made the Iroquois lifelong allies of the English, who were soon to arrive. It made northeastern New York the Belgium of the colonial wars, with the fertile Champlain valley as the Immediate objective, but with all America as the ultimate prize. It raised Crown Point and Ylcouderoga, and led Wolfe and Montcalm the one to victory and the other to defeat, hut both to death to that fateful field on the Plains of Abraham before Quebec. That shot. Indeed, led to the lowering of the flag of France from the parapets of New France and to the hoisting of the Union Jack of Britain over the latitudes above the St. Lawrence. One well might believe New York would speak French today Instead of English ; that there would be no United States, If Champlain had come first to the forest at the foot of the Adirondack with peace Instead of war. Statistics seldom sparkle, but once In a while some of them tell so eloquent a story that they are Their measure actually dramatic. of New Yorks place In our countrys economic situation discloses that the state, with only of the nations land and only of Its population, contributes of Its bank clearings; earns one third of Its taxable Inof Its come; possesses hank deposits; produces of Its manufactures. In scores of other ways they add to this brilliant record of human achievement. hoever wanders from the overpowering roar of the mighty, manmade canyons of Manhattan, up the Hudson and through the Mohawk valley to Ruffalo, and thence to the Inspiring thunders of the waters of Niagara, noting as he goes the mighty artery of commerce and Industry that ties them together, discovers that within ten miles of this lane In America 80 per cent of the states population work like beavers that once roamed where they live, to serve varied needs of the nation. What the Erie Canal Meant. New York people have ever been ready to capitalize every advantage of geography. They built h one-tent- h h d between New England and the colonlea farther south. Presently foreign chipping cams In Increasing volume, and counting house nourished. Then the trade of the Missis-alpvalley grew consequential and the acveral states began to battle for 1L Even George Washington lent his prestige to the endeavor to hold It for Virginia. But De Witt Clinton outwitted them alL Never had old Cato cried out more earnestly or more persistDclenda est Carthago, ently, than De Witt Clinton urged that fThe Erie Canal mast be built I It was a momentous undertaking In those days to raise $50,000,000 for a waterway. "Clintons Ditch" won, and presently the lion's share of the Mississippi valley trade was moving through the Mohawk country and down the Hudson, because It could float to the sea on lake and canal and river,' while other states labored and tugged over the mountain In Conestoga wagons, rallroaJ Inclines, and the like. Erie canal. Gone la the glory-o- f The elite, w ho once traveled through the state atop Its leisurely moving barges, now roll at high speed In modern motor ears on superhighways, rush along on world famed express trains, or fly like birds along the sky paths, seldom giving It either glance or thought. Never has a state possessed a clearer title to Its sobriquet than the land of the nudson, the Mohawk, and the enesee holds to its name of Empire state. Measured by the hosts of Its people, by the magnitude of Its wealth, by the extent of Its Industry, by the splendor and variety of Its scenery, or by the magnificence of Its program for the public weal. New York , lnsplrlngly lives up to that title. an Empire. Really With more than twelve and a half million people, It Is Indeed aa empire, outranking Canada by a margin of two million and coming close to doubling Austria. It bas re two people for every one on the continent of Australia and three for every two In the Union of South Africa. With $37,000,000,000 of wealth. It stands ahead of half of the nations of the earth. Even the whole United States, as recently as 1870 could not match that figure. Most assuredly In the variety and splendor of Its scenery It Is an emAfter rambling throughout pire. the entire state gridironing Long Island; checkerboarding Westchester county; zigzagging up the Hudson and down the Champlain country; crisscrossing the Adlrondaka and Catskills; skirting the SL Lawrence and Lakes Ontario and Erie; peeping into every corner of the Niagara front; exploring the Genesee area; threading In and out among the Interior lakes, from little Conesus to big Cayuga, and from beautiful Skaueateles to gorgeous Otsego; reveling In the many beauties of the valleys of the Mohawk, the Chemung, the Susquehanna, and the Delaware, one thinks he knows something of Empire state scenery, and Is ready to say of It, as Wallace Nutting says of the Hudson, that here we find civilization set In beauty. The magnificence of Its park system, the perfection of Its parkways and boulevards, the fine qnallty of Its schools, the care It gives Its dependent population, and the plans It projects for the future, all stamp It as Imperial alike In understanding, vision, and purpose. There Is no finer chapter In the history of any state than that which deals with the deep concern New York shows In the conservation of Its scenic, historic, and recreational resources. From Lake Champlain to Niagara falls, from the western end of Chautauqua county, on Lake Erie, to the eastern tip of Suffolk, at Montauk Point, New York has set np a series of CO parks of varying type and area, to provide recreation centers, to save scenic regions, and to safeguard historic shrines, and Is developing them In a manner that no great community has evet surpassed and few have equaled. act-boar- have flaring-muzzle- From Weit Point d em-ti- |