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Show . S .. ' a . V 4 ' . t v&- THE WEEKLY NEWS LAYTON. - orchuod First Government Land Gloucester county, says the Phil, Early Strike ia AmericaAmer-ca- . The first recorded strike In took place In 1741, when New TheV F.W, Returns io Its Birthplace WATSON . bhdc Y. re W. the to F. oi tbe gding members THIS year of the.fr organization to hold their 37th In cae you. dont know .what V. F. W. etarids lor, naen of its Veterans Foreign Wars, an organization of in soil under waters the or foreign who have fought on foreign officials would indignantly deny Stars and Stripes. Though its of former fighting with ether body any basisfof comparison any as the. American apW. V. generally regarded F, men, the fey ELMO SCOTT national-,ericampmtpt- . ex-servi- ce massed along flag decked Sixteenth street to cheer the twelve companies of doughboys and two troops of lorsemen and then followed them to the railway station. There, while waiting for the train to pull out, soma of the soldiers donned their overcoats and Denverites stilt smile at the recollection. Many of them had furnished, thqlr own equipment afld there was every old-tim- proximation of a F.rcnch Foroign Legion association, t Tor Its membership Incladot e VW eol-4- rful characters whe hav-- carried the merlxjan flag to the far coroners of the earth, soldiers of for tone wHo put on Uncle Sam's khnkl uniform, to seek; further adventure'. In distant places, men Whe dlstln- gulshed thrm&ekfs In battle wad .'then came back te civilian life to risehigh In state find national coun- - 'i, n entered the ar lh commdnd of a regiment knd'emerged In command of a brigade; . Te him bad coma the Idea e.f banding together men who had campaigned together on foreign eoll urider the 8ta,rs and jBtrlpea; whe enjoyed la common back-- , ground of. friendship, privation Ha and mutual understanding. eaw In the formation of such a body the possibilities for' social and patrlotlo benefits not only ' te members bpt. also te the- country et large. Here would be a body ef reasoned veteran's whose fighting qualities . might provide 0 bulwark for national defense ; a e source of leadership and In times of peace. General Hal's had no way of knowing, on December 12, 1800, that among the men who gathered at bis call,, one was destined to become United States kenntor ' f rqm Colo- -' rndo ; another, the mayor of Denver) two, colonels In, the World warf a dozen or more, lend-- ' era In business and Industry. .Nor did the men,, exchanging hnftd clsspa with their former battle chief, gense any ' history' Jn tbe Ing, who-hn- i V Spanlsh-Amerlea- w X ..... r ;, wqr the K T Sv three-time- thousand t ' 'VX'y ri's y4 rt s'ii' ' vf "'A .$v jl ' 41 v 1 t v;., Li if - -- - 4 s 4 L'lHa-ry- a - i aA N "J? f al . u ells. So when the V, F.W. goes back to Its "Mrthplnce" and holds Its annual convention In Denver, Colo., on September 13 to 10 of this year It will reenll again the Interesting story of the founding of that organization 37 years ago, . It was a cold winter, night In 1800 when some GO men entered a' basement door of Colorado's new state house. They were young men, lenn and hard, all of them bearing the mark of tropical suns ; . some Of them Jaundiced, by fever or pale from the ravages of dyseutery. But they all hRd a bond in common. 'They bad faced death and disease together. They had known the humid heat of the Philippine jungles. They could Imitate the sound of 'a Whizzing Malay krlss Or the whine of a Mauser bullet Once Inside the building they headed for a door oa ' which appeared the legend :. "State Board of Capitol Managers.. The new Capitol building of a atate which was Itself only twenty-threyears old Was not completed at the time. Much of the Interior remained to be findome, flow a ished; the landmark In the West, hnd not yet been planued. The board of cnpltol managers waa boused In quarters Which boasted only one desk with e I '' VS - ''wf ' r' , ) s gold-leafe- v your left Is France, acrosi th'a . . wa-te- r. Now-crossin- . h mU-lon- d i - r t-- . - t body. How V. F. W, Was Named. Meantime, and during successive years, various pther foreign service groups sprang Into existence. They were culled Veteru'ns of Foreign Service,. "The Philippine.' War VetAmerican Veterans of. the erans, riilllpitlnes and China. At Deliver, for a third. time, a convention wus irf ff s a . a I RICE MEANS. when Elected commandcr-in-ffhle- ! tha Veterans of Foreign Service and tha Army of. the Philippines merged to become the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Denver in 1913.. He served aa a colonel in 'the" World war and waa later United States senator Irom Fn4 - r v s-- . Alva Adams, named In honor of the held In 1913. nefe s consolidation governor of the atate, had been But six days As the men strolled late this w all the time that the First ColoPoom they were greeted by Ben rado Volunteers had In which to Btapleton with the slow bashful drill as unit before their colonel, grin that has since become familiar Irving Hale, led them on the march to hundreds of thousands of down Sixteenth street to the Union men all over the United station to entrain for service in the Cts tee. In later years he would be- Philippines, come known as the No doubt that historic march will mayor of the city of Denver but at be recalled when the V. F. W.V that time he waa known as a for- hosts march through Denvers mer quartermaster sergeant of the streets at the encampment this fall tint Colorado Volunteers. Another On that day, May 17, 1896, business taaa who greeted them waa Gen. was suspended for ths day while Irving Hale, an electrical engineer Denver turned out to speed Its soly profession and a soldier by train- - diers on their way. Thousands Kng In. built noar Denver. : thrice-electe- d Cornel Fartiily in Africa Of the two 'wild species of tba camel family found in South Africa, the Guanaco Is the larger, and both tb'e llama and alpaca are domesticated varieties of these' creatures. The alpaca Is' not employed as a beast of burden.. It was produced y using the domesticated llama In artificial breeding with reference to its Improvement In the coat of wool. was effected, and Rice W. Means of Denver named comtuander-ln-chleUnder his leadership, a referendum vote by the membership was taken, and he Issued General Order No. 10 which designated the merger as: "Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. This title was ratified at the Pittsburgh encampment of 1914 ; and the eligibility clause remains today essentially as agreed upon in Denver 35 years age. From that time, Veterans of Foreign Wars grew with amazing speed. The founders, recognizing that age of ths membership would f. a i i ai CHty Incomparable GlanCi There. Is no natural phenomenon any wherfe. td compare to the Glint? Causeway,, on the northern coast of Ireland, with Its piled masses of hexagonal'rocks, a ' gigantic and fantastic honeycomb la stone. It la one of the wonders of the world. No highway by the sea- surpasses la grandeur the coast road which leads ' to It. - Durazzo I Aacieftt fort Durazzo; a port of the youthful kingdom of Albania, was founded as Eoldamnus at the end of the Seventh century B. C. Quarrels over Its ownership led to the rciopofv-- ' neslan war of 431 B. 6. It changed hands many times until Albania was ' created la 1913. .A fcteben Mifldea A kitchen midden Is a heap - 'of a prehistoric rubbish left by e trivance like a human being; Newton' D. Baker, secretary 'of war is the "big" warj tells graduating students of the Massachusetts Instltute'.for Technology It Is'their duty to "carry science Into politics." Scientists, Mr. Baker thought, must seek .for "the golutjon of world problems when the great Interna-- , fhmal crisis pomes, as.lt sorely. will .: . cotne. .' . , . . if yog cook on a a coal, wood, ..oil, gasoline or kerosene stove either at home. tr- in a summer sufficient "great crisis soems to b here bow, .with ninny countries wnnjlag to fight each other,, different rlnssna already fighting each oilier, and tn this richest' country' In 'the world ten million huma-f- l beings living practically on charity. If that. Is rmt a real, crisis,-few- . 'vnuM cure to see one. A , - cottarge; . ; t ' . . . (where you use electric service) . 7 OU dan bid goodby to , forever fuss and muss of cooking .by old . fashioned methods by using. new, . modern, inexpensive, . Automatic Electrfc Roaster. a George iVninni Shiiw, not yet eighty, says, l must give, up public speaking, I am toe old.'. Thnt surprises you from a CHf and an Irishman. At eighty many men hnve been' vigorous in thought anil body; for liwtnnre, io l.oo. Vou Moltke, GlfitHtone, MtuhelangOto Not one of t(iose, ' however, suffered from handicaps flint have aged George Bernnril $1iuw- ; prematurely he Is a vegetarian and a teetotaler. It cooks by frying, baking, boiling, . pass artillery reviewing stands In Denver best September. In addition will be an aerial demonstration td surpass anything ever aeen at such an event. President Roosevelt, recently Invited by Colo, radoa. Governor Ed. C. Johnson, Denver's mayor, Benjamin F. Staple, ton, and the Encampment Corpora-- , tlons chairman, William E. Gunther, will, In all probability, be present te address those at the 1936 encanip-men- t of Veterans of Foreign Wart. For the third time; durlhg the week of September James E. Van Zandt will preside as of Veterans of Foreign Wars. lie will receive accolade from his comrades (with bonus money In their pockets) as the man who, moretlutn any other one Individual, la responsible for passage of the Adjusted Compensation set, considered the crowning achieve ment In V. F. W. history. 8 Wmut Nwier 13-1- ' 'costs, are ' extremely cut off current when the proper temperature is reached, so more than half the cooking is done on stored . heat. In addition, you can also save , by taking advantage of Extra Electricity, at Operation fortune. that Frahce Half-Pric- devalue thh franc any fur-the- r. It has already been 'reduced by 80 pw cent., as though our dollar bad been knocked down to twenty e. Irlnio Minister ltlum knows that doeq trot pay Jo scar cnpltdl out Its wits, something 'that our Washington minds have RtlU learn. The French workmen have their fortyhflur week and strikes rfre about owt ' ' Returning to the real American Interest, the flf Joe Louts, young gentlemen ;Uul 6ld will observe that.it is most important in undertakings 'not to be afraid worn out or cowardly. that Louis had encountered Fighters saw before, t orn au Invincible conqueror of mea." dejt . a g, Automatic features make it possible to go away and leave it to cook an entire meal without thought or atsafeLy tention. It can also be used to keep food hot for hours as it h perfectly in- -, sulated. In fact, the same insulation that keeps the heat in, keeps heat out, so it. can be used to keep things cold, too. Log-land'- s M. Aurlol announces stow-.in- like any electric range. roasting Yet it can be used anywhere that elec- - , tricity is available as it is light enough' for a boy to carry. Plug it into any elec- trie outlet as you would a toaster. Wash It as you would a dish. - -V Members of the First Colorado Infaqtry, U. 5. V croaalng the Bridge of Spain and eriterlng Manila as the ' . vanguard of the invading America army qji August 13, 1898. . gath- - hands." - ' .In spite of weok snd belated backdown pitifully oh sane-tloti- s, (hie. tn London's .feuir ef Mussolini s air fleet; fmekdpwa nv cowardice hy Lloyd . . . Colorado. George, Britain, for g ' . pur-- , poses, win nulntnlh a great fleet In given .point, single fUe, within hnif the Mediterranean. . Mussolini will an .hour,- - It will require about six welcome sm-hconvenient air ahd of columns hours for squads,' hands, subinnrice targets near home as a drum corps, infantry,' cavalry and sort of British hostage to to the Vs chairs. werq field - fuce-sncln- fair-size- d ' Slave on Plantatioa The number of slaves on a plants-- : tlon before the Civil war Varied according to the wealth of the owner . and the size of the plantation. 1. 1854 Martin W. Phillips wrote (la reference to South' Carolina) : "yv now have In this estate 1,1G3 acres of land; on .the place, 66 negroes, 20 work horses gr mules, and 8 yoke of choice oxen. We plant 270 dr 280 ucres In cotton and 125 acres In corn. We send .to the field 84 negroes. We have one carpenter and one woman who cooks for th ' Y the ' plenty of room for a when extra . - Forty-Secon- d blgh-wlt- fur-llne- d On d John 8.. Stewart Camp No. 1, NaColor Guard before headquarters of the. First Colorado Infantry, tional Society, Army of thd PhilipS. U. VH in the Filiplrto capital, showing' pines,' was formed thnt night. The . the bullet-tor- nat Manila, following the battle colors. The P. II. then pro Dennjss, Dick Horner, E. k. unit was flamed td honor of the fend R. M. Adam, Mead young .Pueblo (Colo.) officer, senior captain of Company A,- First Colotyle 'of coat, from 'yellow oilskin ' ths larger population eentera ther rado lnfantir, who was killed In a sllckerr to of are from two, to half a dozen such Mnrlqffiha Valley engagement 'with all the unite. Hundred' ef individual things to be taken flTdng Filipino Insurrectos, March 28, 1899. on troilcnl Jun- - posts, are larger than tha original campaign In The memory of Captain Stewart group which gathered to form th ,eI. . was still fresh In the minds of his of the Philippines, with John it But Army It Denver smiled had tlen', comrades when they assembled Stewart solreason 8, to' camp- Its rallying, point, Itb be of good prond eight montha after, hla death to diers Th total membership grown Colorado-was For the later,'. First forqi their society, it continues to from a group acarcely-.la'rgethan the first organization of volunbe a fresh and verdant memory It) a to. constltuta npughr to on respecta 16 land at Manila teers, July 193(1 It Is more than thnt John and the. troops which hoisted the bl guard mount now aggregates-oveS. Stewart Post No. 1, Veterans of 250,000 nnd Is drawn from Amerlcnn flag' above the captured Foreign Wars of the United States veterans of mors than &Q United on 13 wereforts' Spanish August has become. a tradition' known to headed .States military .campaigns on forColorado Morethe First by every city, town and hamlet In the over Its eign soil, dating from the Mexl-pa- n commanding officer, Irving nation where a V. F. V. post exists, war 1847 and including th who Manila ns a' Hale, w'ht' Woifld'waf. Colorados First. colonel,' entne bock as . ' ' From a body of purely local sigIt was singularly appropriate generql because of his . brilliant lh on the attack thnt could iiaVe pushed a nificance that thut the Veterans of Foreign Wars lenderjshjp ' . . ." ,'cTu'te. ' . should have originated In Denver , , and have been started by former The next yenr after fhnt firpt winmembers of the First Colorado Vo- ter meeting of the Philippine vetlunteers. For the First Colorado has erans In the' Colorado capital, GenIn several .other' re- eral Ilnle again Issued an assembly been "first 24 Just spects. days after President call. This tlme-l- t wna designated as McKinley hnd Issued hi? call for the First AnnAnl' Reunion pf' the 123,000 Volunteers to tight In the Army of the Millliqilnes, . nml lh- war with Spnln, the state of Colo- eluded veterans from virtually evrado hnd recruited Its full quota ery state from .tvhlch (roops find of , 1,080 officers and men twelve been sent to the Philippine inland companies of Infantry, and two This encampment lasted three days troops of cavalry and there were and a national orgnnlzntlon wus perstill scores of enthusiastic young fected.' Major 'General- Francis V.' fellows who wanted to go a.nd were Greene of New Tork was 'elected on recommendisappointed because they bad been commandpr-ln-chlef- , left behind. dation by General Ilale that man In less than a months time Camp from the morn populous enstern.ceo-.tef- s be chosen head of the Infant -- Prisoner of Chilloa Francois de Bonnevard, forty, tbe prisoner of Chlllon, who was to be made famous by Byron's poetic lafld Table, was freed from s dungeon in Ion castle, on Lake there later.. On Chlllon old erosplngs Geneva, Switzerland, In 1636, after passea ge r i having been Imprisoned for six watched eagerly years by his political rival, the for t b . first duke of Savoy. Legend has It that he was Imprisoned for beating his land. and landing wife. She eventually was thrown are as exciting Into the Rhone, sewn n a sack, for . ss b trip by rail from Chicago Infidelity. to Lake Forest, or from Wall street 'street-- by sub, Meaning of Shop Right .. to 'before In are You Europe way. "Shop. right is the right to use starthave realize that' you kn Invention; which Is automaticalyou owner has ofthe departed. The pootry of travel ly created on behalf ed with fast ?hlps on the. ocean of the Shop, when the Invention is and automobiles Ihsfead of camels developed In such shop by an em-' on tire desert, ployee, who uses the time of the shop for producing the Such shop' rights tre No matter how often yen' cross, invention. North the or. nonasslgnable and apply 'alone, to this Atlantic ocean, American continent, the crossing is inventions pertaining to the .emalways different and Interesting. ployers' business: The ocean, like the wide plains, Is ' Blffck Beauty , ., forever changing.. horn-Iwas 'Eng. looked Sewell Alma waves Two days ago the most wrote the 1830. In She Last for children...' land, like playthings as its animal an mind with famous ocean its' novql the changed night Beau"Black and rolled the waves tjp principal- character, a shrieking wind. The.eteward said; ty, While a virtually helpless In"We shall have to fasten tb'e arm valid, and for it received only' '$100 a fraction of the royalties that chairs tomorrow, but the heavy ? should have been hers from the ship paid no attention to tha waves. of copies, sold. . ' Tbe ocean changed Its Blind again . and calmed down. . . . Ha Two Pair of Horn X chouslnghq is a small East InA speedometer telling how fast dian antqlope, about two feet high, the hlp. moves IS Operated by below the- keel that distinguished from all Other .living mecbanlRm records the speed of the rushing ruminants 'by having two pairs of water. Burning oil produces steam; lorns. - It lives singly or In pairs In steant power IS converted Into elec, thinly forested or bushy hills, altrie power, and thnt drives (he. ways In the vicinity of water. The ship.' The captain' always knows horns are. borne only by the males. how deep the ocena la bcrienth.hlra; an electric contrivance- sepds Where Silica-sound wave down through tlie WaSilica, the dufct of which ts fer to the bottom, which sepds back, deadly Industrial hazard, is not ojily an echo. used In many, manufacturing proc' ' . ' esses, but Is widely distributed Knowing the speed at which soifnd travel through water, It 'is tbroughqut nature. Silica Is Tound 11 grassed easy to calculate the depth'. The Tn sand, rocks, nearly tundiliie does It for you. It Is, s' and even in- certain- parts ef anl- feehle sound one hundred and sixty thousand vibrations to the second. No. human enr could' pick It ' .tip; but the machine rpcords tt.' thousand vibrations per Tweifty-fivsepond Is the tlrult of your ear, and tlrot is ot had for a primitive conlanding . - GEN. IRVING HALE ' First commander of Stewart post, feenver, 'and later' commander-ln-chie- f ef the national organization' now ktiown as the Vetetans-oFor ign Wars. This picture was taken in the Philippines while General Hale was colonel of the First. Colorado Infantry, U. S. V. Later be was advanced to brigadier-generfor his services at the Battle 6f Manila and was twice cited .for gallantry in action during the Philippine campaign. are rassengeffc : J V .of-Co- -- - making. j . '. U' of-tlr- (She-yon- ') the United 8tete boaete at least one V. F, W. post. In many ef fj fluid-onc- S2f a.dded V. F. Today, practically-evercommunity in - . ? 's eligibility was short time, 'the World 'i - , ergaft-lzatlon- - J1 " t'c' t, 100-acr- e .this .week;. existence restricted to- the nilllpprne campaign and "Boxer rebellion, enlarged Its scope to Include all those who bad participated la anjr American hostilities on alien qolL Thus, soldiers, marines and sallort'wbo Uncle Sam In Mexico la n South American Imbroglios, China seas and at points where . "the marines have the situation-wel- t In hand" were eligible. Within a 13 a.-s' - fSi il j ' put n end to the eVenfuplly adelphia Bulletin, claims the honbr of containing the first tracr of 'laiJi purchased by 'the federal . govern-menthe plantation 'at Billlngsport, bought by urder Continental congress on Jqiy 1776, and deeded tolhe Thirteen United Colonies by Benjamin Weatherby and his mother the next day. An Immense redoubt and fort planned by General Kosciusko for" the defense of Philadelphia, vm built there, over a thousand yrork-me- n under the direction t John Bull being engaged la Its eon. structlon. ' After the Battle Brandywine, however, It 'fell 'und. fended for lack of a garrison, York bakers quit work as s protest against a municipal ordinance regThe ulating the price of bread. for higher earliest known strike wages took place In 17S6, when the Philadelphia printers ceased work . Land ITo! as s means of enforcing their deTbe Changing Ocean mand for a minimum weekly wage ' . and Speed, , of $6. The first organized strike in Safety America took place in 1799, when Science for Mut4i the shoemakers, belonging to the OaRoard Steamship Normandie. Society of Journeymen York and the Federal Tour night from New Cordwainers, were compelled to lay .ship Is at SouthThe down their tools in order to aid the ampton. an Isle of Wight- la bootmakers who were seeking on your right, Increase In wages. Your Dealer or UTAH POWER & See LIGHT CO. . ' |