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Show THE WEEKLY NEWS EXPRESS, LAYTON, UTAH Regard your good name as the richest Jewel you can possibly be possessed of for credit Is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but If you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. Battle of Flodden Field The battle of Flodden Field was foufht near the hamlet of Flodden in Northumberland, September 9, 1513, between the Scots and the English. The Scottish king, James IV, was defeated and slain by the Earl of Surrey. Ill no's Ancestors "My ancestors were great men," said 1U Ho, the sage of Chinatown. So were those of my neighbor, Hi Hat, who, even as a borrower, looks on me with disdain because his ancestors were rich enough to lend money to mine." Many Jailed for Debts In the 1820s, according to the re port of the Prison Discipline Sos of the ciety of Boston, New in England and the prisoners Middle States were in Jail for debt, the majority of them for sums unfive-sixth- der Censure Cannot Hurt Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false they cannot harm you, unless you are wanting in character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble. $20. Explain Earths Deep Valleys earth and small extra some territorial body," perhaps a star, explains the mysterious river valleys, cut thousands of feet deep in granite, far A collision between the Making Salt Salt springs and salt lakes are found all over the world, and much of the salt of commerce is made by boiling the brine until the water passes off as steam, leaving the solid salt In the pans. below the sea. Scncgambia Eagle Tailless The Bateleur eagle of Scncgambia has plenty of head feathers, but scarcely any tail The feathers of the shoulders" of the wings are white. A spray of white feathers show underneath. Historic nill Marked The ancient Gallows Hill by Inveraray Castle, Scotland, where the dukes once administered summary justice, is marked by a mound with a tree on it on a small golf course. . Animal Tails as Ornaments Tails of animals fur are the only ornaments worn by women of Kis-mKenya Colony, British East Africa, and these are regarded as u, the equivalent Millet Must" Crop In China The Chinese Emporer In 2700 B. C., Included millet as one of the five must" crops which he commanded to be sown each year in a public ceremony. of wedding rings. Chin-Non- Polo Brought From India The first definite rules for polo were formulated In 1877 when a few British officers adopted the game as they found it In India,, and brought Eskimos Get Lltllo Alcohol Eskimos are the only really dry" rate. There Is so little vegetation to be found .In the frozen wastes from which alcohol could be produced. It to England. ' Else of Hoop Skirts Women's hoops varied In size; Borne of the extreme skirts at one gteriod had a diameter of from 12 to feet 15 ' . As' (lumaa Ear Responds '.The human ear will respond to sound waves ranging from those about 33 feet long to .those about of an Inch in length. Where Abort Live Abort, wild tribesmen of Mongolian type, live in Abor hills bordering on Tibet and Assam, . one-thir- d Basilica Defined First Eruption of Mount Etna A public court or building with a portico, In architecture among the . The first recorded eruption of Mount Etna volcano' was In the l Romans and Greeks, is called ' silica. ' ' XUghth century B. C. ' Williamsburg, Va. Williamsburg, Va. was settled In 1832 and until 1699, was known as Ba- - Middle Plantation. Moss Agates' Moss s gates are found chiefly In Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Texas and Oregon. Cunning Outdoes Itself A certain way to be cheated Is to gancy oneself more running than others. Moorish Words la Spanish Spanish, although a Latin language, abounds in words of Moorish origin. ! . The Truth About By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ASSENGERSI The Railroads Love You. So reads the headline in a recent issue of a popular weekly magazine and the theme of the article thus titled is the present attitude of the railroads toward the citi-zeof these United States. Lower rates, faster schedules, luxurious streamlined coaches and sleeping cars, better trains, and cheaper meal in dining cars, special excursions all of these they are offering us now to halt the decline in passenger revenue. For they "have learned that competition, whether it comes from other railroads, from automobiles, airplanes or busses, is something to be dealt with by being nicer to the customer.". . In other words: the public be pleased! -- " How different is all this from their attitude half a century manded an interview. Vanderago when an arrogant railroad bilt that he was busy but king spoke for all of them and the replied was insistent. reporter Uttered the phrase which has Well, replied the railroad been inseparably linked with his president, sit down a.t the other family name ever since. The public be damned!" he end of the can until I have snorted scornfully but, contrary finished dinner and I will talk to popular belief, it was not old with you." But," insisted Dresser, it is Cornelius (Commodore") Vanderbilt who said that. The. man getting late and I will not reach who did say It was his son, Wil- the office in time. The public" At this point Vanderbilt interliam IT. Vanderbilt, and the pubhim. The public be rupted of its prejudice lic, because You get out of here!" damned! Wall men Street of and against So Dresser "got out" and the great wealth, never forgot that it had once been damned by a next morning Vanderbilts retort was heralded far Vanderbilt. Since old Commodore" Van- and wide through the columns of derbilt was much more famous the Chicago newspapers. than his son, William,, it is only Two Reporters. The true story of this incident contains some of the elements of the second and third versions quoted above. It is true . that Clarence P. Dresser was present at the interview when Vanderbilt made his historic reply but he was not the reporter who asked the question which provoked it. That reporter was John Dickinson Sherman, who at the time of his death in 1926 was - feature writer for Western Newspaper Union and who once told the writer of this article the complete story of that famous inter. ns . -- :ui meat C4 Ur vaS) 1&- view. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT He Never Said "The Public Be Damned I" Even Though Many American! Believe He Did. ' ' . natural, perhaps, that the phrase should have been tacked upon him and perpetuated in the long list of our popular beliefs which are wrong." That historic phrase ' was uttered in an interview with newspaper men in October, 1882. And Just as (here has been confusion, as to the identity of the Vanderbilt who uttered it, so has there been confusion and controversy over the circumstances under which it was said. No less than three versions of the story, all agreeing in some details but differing in others, have, been told and retold many times. To give the. true version, based upon authoritative sources and contemporary evidence, is. the purpose of this article. Three Versions. As for the contradictory accounts of this incident which have been published, one of them says that it took place at an important meeting of railroad men in St. Louis at which William H. Vanderbilt, then president of the New York Central, was the leading figure. When the conference broke up, a crowd of newspaper reporters forced their way into the room and demanded to know what had been done, Vanderbilt, acting as spokesman for the railway men,' answered that nothing was yet to be given out. A reporter, whose identity is not established in this version, tried to force the :railway magnate to issue some statement. .Mr. Vanderbilt, the public wants to know and is entitled to know," he said, whereupon Vanderbilt replied wrathfully, "O, the public be damned I" Another version places the scene in the Grand Facific hotel in Chicago. The Pennsylvania railroad had recently put on a fast, deluxe train between Chicago and the East. It was the first of its kind and created something of a sensation. Clarence e P. Dresser, a reporter (so this account identifies him), learned that William H. Vanderbilt was stopping at the Grand Pacific and called upon him there. Dresser asked what the New York Central was going to do to meet this new competition of the Pennsylvania. Vanderbilt replied that he did not know that his company was going to do anything. "But wont the public demand it? asked Dresser. "0, the public be damnedl" was the reply. Still a third version of the yarn has the same reporter but the circumstances under which he obtained his interview are different. It says that while Vanderbilt was eating dinner in his private car, which had been sidetracked in the Michigan Central yards in Chicago, Dresser forced his way into the car and de . ' modern Electric Range appeals id llie woman vli6 likes to Invite friends into Iter . . In 1882 Sherman was Hyde for. the Chicago Tribune and his friend, Clarence P. Dresser, was Hyde Park correspondent for the City Press, an organization which supplied routine news to most of the Chicago newspapers. Learning that Vanderbilt was en route to Chicago in a speejal train these two enterprising reporters on Saturday night, October 7; persuaded the crew of a freight train to let them ride on it to Michigan City, Ind. When the Vanderbilt special arrived the next day and stopped at Michigan City for a few minutes to change engines, they went aboard. After the train was well on its way, they succeeded in getting into Vanderbilts private car where he sat alone after his Sunday dinner. Explaining the reason for their intrusion, they asked permission to ride with him to Chicago and ask him somq questions. He agreed to this and the interview began. It led finally to this question which was put to Park correspondent Sherman: your limited express trains pay or do you run them him by Do . He ' . SKp knows tkat it is as far ad- - vanccd over I. pld-faskio'n- cooking methods cd ns tke electric' lamp, asmpdred.willi tke nil i '.. . . . . Electric. Cpoklng is . ' Modern as ' s ' t Asr tfwifouseuue Wfio . as ... for the accommodation of the public?" Accommodation of the public? The public be damnedl" We run' replied Vanderbilt. . omoriow. , . , Coo&i Efeciricatfyf Your Dealer or Utah Fewer & Light Co, See ELECTRICITY is the BIGGEST BARGAIN in the Home V ly Margaret . Sullavao : . . " Cheese Souffle 2 tablespoonfuls flour, Vi teaspoonful salt, , : ' . cupful milk, ' ' ' ' .3 eggs. teaspoonful paprika, 2 tablespoonfuls butter, .cupful grated cheese. 1 cupful corn (optional), , Mix flour with' salt and raprika and add to butter,, which has been " melted. Beat until mature ia smooth. Add milk and grated ' cheese. Heat to .boiling poir.t, then cool slightly. Beat eggs separately adding yolk's to mixture first, then the whites, which must be beaten very stiff. (If com is used, mix in before adding egg whites. (Pour' aL into a baking dish and place it in pan of hot water. Bake scant ' hour in a moderate t era and serve immediately. ' When com is used, the following ' sauce may be .served with the souffle: Two slices onion cooked in two tablespoonfuls butter until brown. Repnove from fire and after' mixing two. tablespoonfuls flour With teaspoonful sail and same, of .pepper, add to butter and onion and stir until smooth. Last, add one cupful tomatoei which have been strained. Stir ui. til it comes to a boil and then serve immediately on souffle. - . '' . . . ! n - . THE EMPIRE STATE EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE Th New York Central "Flyer Which Made Railroad History . at the Turn of the Century, .. say what was credited to lufrt important particular. Instead of giving Vanderbilts famous reply verbatim, the story in that paper quoted him as saying Accommodation of the public! :Non-sens-el They do not pay either. We have tried again and again, tq get the different roads to give them up; but they will run them, and, of course, as long as they run them, we must do the same. But if this editor, sensing-thdynamite in the railroad kings answer, was trying to protect him from the consequences of his intemperate words, he failed. Other Chicago papers, using the City Press (Dressers) account of the interview, had not been so charitable. Typical of their handling of the story was Victor Law-soChicago Daily News which displayed the story prominently on page one under the headline: is beyond all question; his own. pointed denial to the contrary .' notwithstanding. There, were two reporters present at the interview; both report it substantially alike and their notes agree almost exactly. The- fact is, Mr.' Vanderbilt is in the' habit of re- interviews before they in print and it is very appear evident that he had better insist upon such' a. privilege in the future although it was not accorded him in this instance." A day or two later the Chicago Times printed in ' its Gotham Gossip" dispatches from .New York the following: In regard to Vanderbilts extraordinary damnation of the public in Chicago but one opinion prevails in Wall Street., Everyone firmly believes that he did Mr.. W. H. VANDERBILT use the words attributed to him and every one declares him to be The MagiSate Talks Plainly a crazy loon for having done so.. Everyone knows,' he said in He Deprecates the Nickel Plate" his letter. of denial, that I never -- Railroads Are Not Run for Use such language as attributed the Dear Public ' to me by the reporter. But ask And Dressers version of the any of his friends and they will famous question and answer was tell you at once: Why, its W. H. . all overi. " this: ' Four Fafal Words Does your limited express ' pay?" Newspaper paragraphers made about the four fatal' wisecracks We not of bit a it. No, only run it because we are forced words" and editorial denunciato do so by the action of the tion of his statement became so Pennsylvania railroad. It widespread that the Cincinnati doesnt pay expenses. We would Gazette finally declared: abandon it if it was not for our ' It. is Surprising, to say the competitor keeping its train least, that the sayings erf aman ,on.? like Vanderbilt should so disturb But dont you run it for the the world in general and country editors in particular.. His Chicago public benefit? The public be d- -d! interview amounts to nothing at What does the public care for the railroads' except to get as much out of them for as small a consideration as possible. I dont take any, stock in this silly nonsense about working for anybodys good but- our own, because we are not. When a. move, we do it be--, cause it is our interest to do so, not because we expect to do somebody else' some good. Of course, we like to do everything possible for the benefit of humanity- in general, but when we ,do we. first see that we are benefiting ourselves.' Railroads are not run on sentiment, but on business princi-pie- s and to pay, and I dont rhean to- be egotistic when I say that the roads which I have had anything to do with have W. H. VANDERBILT generally paid pretty well"-- ' The, Railroad' President Who Uttered Vanderbilts. Denial. the "Four Fatal Words," When a report of the interview was telegraphed to New York, the New York Times printed ijt all, and 'the public 'is giving both and editorially recommended to Mr. Vanderbilt and his silly talk the people that they go to Vand- 'altogether top much prominence. erbilts-house and tack placards If he were- a great railway man--ageor a great financier, or.if he on it bearing the words: Damn understood the first principles of the public. Realizing the blunder that he had made, Vanderbilt .the Science of transportation,-somresorted to the expedient .since 'weight might be attached used by so many public men to to his utterances. But he is save face when there is an un- nothing of the kind. From a tiller ox the Soil, and. a favorable Reaction to one of Very common He declared, that he taller at that,. he sprang at one had been, misquoted by the re- pound to the top round of wealth. porters. I have frequently- been But in point of experience in interviewed, by the New York ways of trade and commerce, press and everyohe know? 1 never and m the elements ofgreatness, use the language or expressions he Stopped short off in the of progress, attributed to me '.'by the rephilanthropy, porters,. he said, in formal state- generosity, liberality and brothment disavowing the words at- erly love., Thef public condemn nun for doing and saying out-tributed to him. Even fflough he did disavow jh things when he can not domg and saying them. He using the language or expressions" attributed to him, there is knows no better . . available other evidence' of his X-ekJaer the Tribune car- contemptuous attitude toward.the news story: rSignficant . w. H. Vanderbilt and public. The Chicago Times, inparty restead of using .Dresser's report, turned from their Western sent one of its own reporters to yesterday afternoon and put trip up interview the railroad king '.at at the Grand Pacific hotel where his hotel "the next day, and in they remained overnight. Mr. Vanderbilt refused to be its report he is quoted as saying .d 8 Sain, as his Railroads are not run for the experience public benefit but to pay. Inci- in this respect when he passed dentally, we may benefit human- through here on his Western trip ity, but the aim is to earn divi- seemed to have taught him the lesson that speech is silver but dends. silence is golden! But the News, while printing That was more than 50 this demal on page one, said ediyears ago, Mr. Vanderbilt rises to the but to this day mention of torially; name Vanderbilt brings to explain and deny the interview with him published in the Chicago averaSe Ameri-n- n 0Ur fatal wrds" which kh,e papers a few days ago. It is not once uttered strange that he should be disThe be damnedl The gusted even with himself when he public public it seems, like the elephant, never read his profane, egotistical remarks on paper. But that Le did forgets! vising hijs : one-quart- . er Copyright. WNU Service ns . . Honesty Froven Mistress Your mastexs drawer ' has been rifled. Servant I didnt do it. None of my keys fit.it, Moustiquc. . . What is Ends There heredity?" Something every man believes in until his son begins to a fool" act like Magazine. Tit-Bi- ts Blase First Schoolgirl Just fancy, f shall be fifteen tomorrow 1 Pretty ' grim, isnt it? Second Schoolgirl Oh! tny dear. 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