Show TIIE GARLAND 18th Legislature -- ' - Z? t$ t ' V J V- ' - V ' Mja&a64m Tbit unbiwd fatten’ arid look dr nrurb ut temteta mflncJiih v YA 'vatuwi " v'M i "i - -- i kt'lv 1 o V'SV Z'C 4 lf & " b&SuMtel Maul Varaw PMhui rtvar te ssa K fa srfcsr sauth uq How does It coine about that George a member of an agriculWashington tural family living In an agricultural state and concerned primarily with the occupation and use of land may be styled with absolute truth aa the best and the most fursighted business man of his time? It has been my fortune durlug the last three summers to search out the family history of Washington’s atltea AlherL BuslmelJL Ilart pro Harvard of history fessor emeritus Business In the Nation’s university who From William de Washington settled In the town of Washington In 1185 we of Durham Palatinate think we have a straight atraln of 25 behind our generations of Washingtons that can be subGeorge Washington and In that set of ancesstantiated tors father to son among men of vapowers ried talents and intellectual hne as yet failed to And a single In that line you find the scalawag You You find Judges lawyer strain find for the most part Inntlowners estates which holders of considerable successfully they- - adinlhistered Men Line of Successful line s There Is In the Washington and highly strong strain of practical It successful business men Otherwise would be Impossible to account for the renched manner In which Washington field as a out beyond his Immediate landowner to greater enterprises and he became the first how eventually tarnsportation man In the practical United States of course was a Washington That Is his prime business was to run landed estates It w’as a declining business when he took It up when by the death of his father and then of his two brothers he came Into inpossession of very large properties and cluding the Mount Vernon estate a number of adjacent plantations Alof land together he had 0110 acres pretty much In one body nlongzthe I’otomac Including Mount Vernon That land he carried on ns a busias you would do If ness enterprise a responyou were charged with such to make fiOOO acres of land sibility lie was the first pay If you could was Virginian to see that tobacco was worn played out because the land that the land would not Btnyxr out tobacco the pressure of continued So he turned to the culture of crops wheat He built a mill to utilize that He It to market wheat and he sent hod his own brand Accounts Faithfully Kept According to the customs of the time he put up a distillery In order to make of a part of his a different disposition to say Washington product That kinds of agrisought all the different on culture that could he maintained lie raised blooded stock Ms farm The king of Spain of a superior kind valuable s of very made him a present Jack and he raised mules and apparently raised them to advantage a wns Washington Furthermore natural nmmntnnt and the proof Is In his diaries and In Ills not mint hooks Almost the lnt thing that he put on paper was a little hit of hookkeeping He kept his records In a clear legible He kept them according to the hand customs of the times That Is he recorded whatever went on His diaries In four volumes have been published but they tell you nothing of what thought He put down Washington not wlint he thought but what he did who his visitors were If he went to That Is church or stayed at home he kept a record to which he could refer to show very nearly where he was every day and what he was do- -- V ” : r Man of Business ing and He was an analytic bookkeeper I suspect one of the first Id America Hence we find his accounts very careWe find an account fully subdivided for each plantation a general account how much he gained out of wheat how many tobacco from how much slaves he had what the expense had He bad that Inexbeen and so on love of figures that tinguishable ’s’ feets some men Even Gambling Lottes Listed loved to keep books Washington One of his biographers has calculated He lost 71 his lows In gaming In a year and he kept the ac peurds I - Washington Keen r JLfcS JyNy LrvA'' fcaniii lb th United State Kaatsrsd asactly as d Whinton r fnr Irj 11 in Want Ms m count and added It up But the biographer falls to notice that on the oth-er side of the page Washington put Ills winnings were down Ids winnings 70 pounds That la he was 5 pounds to the good because after all be had the fun of It and the fun must have been worth at least 10 pounds constantly Increased his Washington He was a scientific agriculboldinga turalist There Is In existence an between correspondence teresting and a man named Washington whom he imported from England We to be the manager of bis estate have letter from Bloxham telling what ha thought oiGeorga Washington and almost on the same day a tetter from Washington what telling he thought of Bloxham not very comon either side but they plimentary each other and came to understand Bloxham lived and died In Washington’! service Imported the best agriWashington cultural Implements he could hear of with Arthur He was In correspondence a great reformer In Young In England such mutters He Introduced seeds he planted cuttlpgs he raised trees and He was a creative farmer At shrubs least he made a living out of the farm than and left It much more valuable he found It Found Joy as Surveyor was a surveyor Again Washington lie began — everybody by profession knows It — nt sixteen years of age In the employ of bis neighbor and lifelong friend Lord Fairfax to go out and make surveys We have copies of We have the original those surveys he made aud the original drawings Only a day or two before he plats died he was out surveying a bit of He loved to handle the surproperty veying Instruments He loved the exactness of the science t FIRST INAUGURATION GARLAND UTAH r of the State of Utah 1 QUICK QUIPS — Special Session 1930 - - Lr-- i - TIMES Session of the Utsh The Special is working Industriously Legislature at the mammoth task of preparing amendments to the Utah Mate constiof the tution for the consideration voter Utah Divergent views and conflicting suggestions and plans occur In Increasingly large numbers as actual work of amendment building proceeds of the state The mining Intcresta over the multiple for are concerned mining taxation a Ren G II Ityan from Eureka mining engineer has urged that the legislature wait and approach the question from an entirely new angle Mr Rvun maintains that the mine multiple basis is hut a guess at the best He thinks that an equitable and out scientific system can be worked time la secured If additional claims there Is no Sen ratterson necessity for any delay He wants the question settled at once and would prefer having the multiple three placed In the state constitution This Is the figure in the statute at present of a and means that the valuation mine for taxation purposes is equal to three times the net proceeds for preceding year The senate In discussing S J R No 2 has struck out the portion which wonld put the money from the come taxes Into the district school fond The senate has added pumping and power equipment used In irrigating to the list of tax exemptions the The sennte has also broadened to Include certain scope of exemptions property owned by widows of disabled veteran soldiers It Is evident that the senate will Just make further efforts to specify where the income tax money will be placed Rena tor Tarratt has a plan which would create a new fund to receive this money and have the same expended as the legislature would direct The senate has passed S J R No 8 which creates the centralized tax body The Renate has considered a number 2 of plans to amend S J It No which provides for the classification and certain of property exemptions disposition of moneys raised from come taxes disThe house of representatives carded II J It No 3 which wus the mate to S J R No 3 and took np the senate resolution when It was passed by the senate Any change In the present use of gasoline taxes was opposed by Chair man Blood of the state road commls slon at a committee hearing on revenue and taxation Mr Blood stated that the needs of highway construction were close upon the trail of Incoming taxes placed at the disposal of the the road department Blood Informed recommittee that the state would aid ceive $505000 additional federal funds for the next three years nwl that the state puts up $140 000 to receive He thought that If the the $505000 state Increased the gasoline tax and distributes the receipts In other ways than at present It will mean eventual need for road bond Issues Mr Blood also stated that extent he Improvements In Utah highways was bringing In bring a situation tinder which the present revenue would be required for upkeep alone Provision for the collecting of tax from Individuals and loudness concerns Is made In promised amendment of Section 3 Article XIII of the which Is now’ under conconstitution sideration at the session among Its other taxation shifting problems the taxes The means of offsetting of thoo subject to Income tnx when It is effective is biking a dial of the for Rome plan attention legislators taxes Is equitable offsetting of tlie-to the according necessary vitally views of some of the legislators The senate and house seem to have definitely abandoned th“ proposed revision of nrtiele 13 of the constitution ns proposed by the legislative committee That revision would have oKiied up the subject of rate limitations and creating of equalization an end ivmnt fund for schools which me not now opened In the two luiric amendments of the revision committee Wlilie fixing of the mine multiple was not placed befote the session the subject Is by the two amendments ou the floor anyway Is The time of the Special Session over hnlf consumed and tlip time reof maining the program to lie amendments constitutional is the for the tux commbslon and for lion a bill to continue the work of the tax revision commission and Its the amindments ndvisory committee to the building code and provision for completing tbe work on the State Cap-ltol grounds was The honk of the automobile when a dele- heard In the legislature gntlon of automobile dealers railed to disiuss a propsal to segregate the tax of on cars so as to aid In tht? handling the auto business he It’s all up with is down quitter when 5 Q Selling Ice at a profit of 100 per cent la certainly a cold snap Women are fond of bargains yet a cheap mAif la never popular with the fair sex A man doesn’t enjoy getting laughed at by a crowd unless be Is getting paid for It When one runs away from a one usually encounters something worse just around the thing corner TUCKED IN NUTSHELLS The human mind Is readily Infuriated by phrasea— Gerald Gould REFLECTIONS BREVITIES don’t much brilliant man but We Frighten the to tell able mind vanity got to be be’a In a thaL In playing cards for money 1 good deal depends on a good a child and then expoct It truth— If yon are unreason- deaL If the world and doesn't much appeal to Blacksmiths doing its triumphs one be can be unselfish a thousand kinds drunkenness very few of which at all interesting to spectators Is no month of the year ex eept perhaps Februaryr In which It la so difficult to be a hero as January— Robert Lynd Anybody little while can lead John my a All He Knew “Are the fish biting?’ “I don’t know" replied the weary ’if they are they’re biting angler each other" the problem them A husband she reached wasn’t lucky A man la said to have aa complex It means that be Inflate ble veins a When feriority fuses to the but beat hls wife because for a cigarette Just f S'J tba of tbo 6ral Spirit of Washington Worthy of Emulation Even though we may find It necessary In certain particulars to modify the advice which Washington gave Ills — country a century and a half apn as he himself would modify It doubtless were he here today facing the world WashIn — the of Is as it Is there spirit ington as a citizen and patriot nothing that we could wish to alter On the contrary we could ask nothing better for America than a revival There was a noble of that spirit and a generous breadth of selflessness vision In hls attitude toward his public duties which must remain through all thft years the high Ideal for AmerHe saw America as icanism bigger and finer than an opportunity for material success he mw It a great exas a spiritual adventure periment In human relations and In the of human valueR It wTas development his appreciation of this phase of American possibility which Inspired hls — devotion Post and Chicago pride customary ta think i But aa soMmt or ststesmaa ala a aim of Lusiost a sterner aad transportation anfinaar Ha mi aur Aral adlUamalra promoter It I only ha n W!t Marazhm An spp"al to Congrhss for amend- U S Revised ment of Section 5210 so as to authorize the state statutes to Impose a just and equitable tax ou national banks wns made In the form of a memorial Introduced by Thomas II Burton of Nephl The memorial was prepared by Dr Hirvey h and member of the Utah tax expert Board of Equalization The auto question wav not acted upand cars will probably not be seie arated from other proiert In the final outcome on Inre- telephone operator may not get right number for a cranky men she has hls nnmber all right The reason we don’t hear so much happy marriages la because they get the newspaper advertising of the don’t Walter Wlnchell says that In some (well Broadway Joints eggs cost $250 n order That’s even better than the old shell gam a Tbe parents used to Instead of sending their money daughters to the seashore to get tanned they did It for them In tho save woodshed What He Oo C’l of At the recent gathering the following London story was told: A wounded man was being carland on the hack ried across Rifle and of a persplrlhg comrades machine gun fire waa heavy “’Ere" suddenly exclaimed the wounded man “w hat abuht turnin' rahnd an' walkin' for a spell? You’re gettln' backwards The Only Original V but I'm getting all tb C “What are the seven wonders of the the blinkin’ bullets” world ?" My wlfe’a first husband was one Too Good to Bo True and If doesn’t matter about (he others Dumber— Well here we are! And Into sink Insignificance"— They a single tool we haven't forgotten Florida Times Union come to thi Householder— You’ve Is not prodded A lazy man by bis wrong address though— Madrid Buea Humor consrience It's lazy tfto Eeiier to Beer "Here comes Mrs Gabble Nora had better tell her I’m out" “Won’t the still small voice of conscience you?" reproach “Yes but I'd rather listen to the still small voice than to hers” — Stray Stories In come Wfr&hinftoa rfceivini Ih plaudit m crowd after tho tnaufuration Pmident of tho United State of good title for a night' club romance would be: “Nights and Dese” A It for Sousa The ministry demands a man who can hoe hls own garden— Rev John Slier the world has no excuse for not knowing what the other half cynics are those of mature Is doing nowadays They are sitting Moat Rev Dr Joseph R Blxoo of In a taxicab waiting for a green light years— Washington —Will Rogers Manx Herring in Danger The government of tlie Isle of Mun fears that the fumoua Manx herring The tecent deIs doomed to oblivion cision of a large curing station to move from the Island to the Shetland Is the Iasi blow Islands apparently The Manx herring Industry has been declining since enrly In the Nineteenth when at least 8(HtO of the century were engaged In the In Islanders dustry The present number Is very small One way to solvs need cars Is to use advertiser things believe band— Philip I RANDOM THOUGHTS 4 Headline In an ad ahrieka: “Easy to Mako $50 a Day I" It’s easy for tbe If you're aucker enough to SAYINGS of a habit of beat of tbe tvousers are “ a muddle have tbe of of Public speakers seldom disagree or very violently with their hearers they wouldn't have tny hearers TIMELY My plea Is to take drams out of the hands of the police reporter and give Men have made Polit hack to the poet— Channlng —Lady Heath lock In for don’t note! want gueate whose luggage la limited to tbe In tbe knees of their bags old man who can hopeThat's fully look forward te spring worth looking forward to nappy the There are thlnga sentenced make light moment re one 0f 30 000000 wotWhcn yo ers you don’t feel so much Ilka you Two wrongs do not make a right or were helping to"run the country do nine tailor a movie usher— Frank you? Sullivan When a man finds he can be happy It Is amazing how nice people are quite often entirely in hls own society to you when they know you are go- he has solved one of the great probing away— Michael Arlen of life He doesn’t lems require “people Variety Is more than the space of life It Is one of the essentials of the A man who alwayi says yea when diet of living— Otto II Kahn be wants to say no and then falls to keep bis promise la glad when pesAll public officials will bear watchpeople find out ha la unreliable tering ing and I apeak aa an elected public and let him alone Ruth PratL official myself— Mrs There who get longer Men arson no things Queer that mankind can reconcile Itself to all forms of nature except mankind nnii "I IN Thank yoo for the immediate and tremendous response to our challenge on the introduction of Conoco Motor Oil Thank you many thousands ol Regular Customers as well as the many thousahds of new users who have flocked to Red Triangle stations until it has kept all of us on the jump to drain and refill crank cases with this remarkable motor lubricant Because of unprecedented demands for Conoco Germ Processed Motor Oil it has been difficult for our refineries to keep all our stations adequately supplied but now stocks tfe moving faster and you can depend on quick and efficient service at any station displaying the Conoco Red Triangle Av THANK YOU THE NAME OF CONOCO' ehIInd tbo oil world last November with tbe w revolutionary seated Motor OiL Definitely the firat fundamentally better oil of the century this oil ie 'now emaehing all (ties reo rda No reasonable person will use eny other oil once be hss heard the story of this new oil end its “JVsrfreir Le tricity” We invite you to stop st tbe Sign ol tbe Reid Triangle foe your first crankcase full Conoco |