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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL Thursday, August 13, 1931 Intermountain News -Briefly Told by Busy Reader11 SCHOOL WILL OPEN DROUTH AID LOOMS FOREST FIBES RAGE AN UNCHANGED TAX AGED PEOPLE FETED " OGDEN, UT.-Ogden city's tax levy for 1931 will be 12 mills, the same as last year, a~cording to a resolution adopted by the city romD)Ission. · ST. GEORGE, UT.-One hundred and sixty-two St. George residents, 140 of whom were over 65 years of nge, and the other members of committees and drivers of cars, toured Zion park recently. AMERICAN FORK, UT.-Date ot the opening of the Utah state training school at Amet'lcan Fork will depend upon the time it takes to obtain and install miscellaneous equipment, purchase of which bas been approved by the board of trustees. The installation wlll probably require 30 days. SALT LAKE CITY, UT-Support of the Utah State Bankers' association at the Western Agricultural Economic conference August 17 was pledged by D. E. Davis, vice president of the association, in a letter to Goven'lor George H. Dern. Farmers, :financiers and railroad officials will meet in Salt Lake to discuSil emergency relief for farmers who .u, re in need of aid as the result of tbe summer's drouth. · BOISE, IDA.-Attorney General Fred J. Babcock has ruled that Ida~ lw Falls must pay the half-mill per kilowatt tax m:1 power produced in its plant under the law enacted by tbe specia I session of the last legislature. LOGAN, UT.-An Increase of .9 mill was made in the levy of Cache oounty for 1931 over last year, it is announced. BOISE, IDA.-Bids will be opened August 18 on grading and gravel surfacing :five miles of the Eagle Mer·edian highway in Ada county, and on surfacing with crushed rock 13.2 miles of the North and s·outh highway between Genesee and 'l'horn Creek in Nez Perce and La· tab counties. BOISE, IDA.-Forest :fires have destroyed timber on over 20,000 acres of wood land in Idaho this season. ROBERTS, IDA.-Glenn Frank Bywater, 25, Salt Lake, an employe of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, was killed near here when a shotgun he was removing from an automobile accidently exploded. SALINA, UT.-Carol Veda Nelson, 18-month-old daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. William Nelson of this city, died an hour after she had eaten rat poison which sb.e found in the home. FORT DUCHESNE, UT.-The attendance ~ the U. I. B. C. is estimated to have exceeded 30,000 ROCK SPRINGS, WYO.-While repairing a shotgun, Dick Lewis, 45 tailor at 645 Pilot Butte avenue, here, WM killed when a shell ; stuck in the barrel of the gun, ex· ploded. The discharge entered the right side of his head and killed bim almost instantly. OGDEN, UT.-According to an announcement made by officials of the Amalgama.ed Sugar company, the price of molasses to the farmer has been reduced from $15 a ton to $8. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-The state general fund will receive one quarter million dollars less during the current :fiscal year than last year. This became apparent when the state tax commission determined that the assessed valuation of taxable tangible property for this year will probably be in the neighborhood of $620,500,000. RICHFIELD, UT.-Only married men with families are to be hired in erecting the new armory at Ric"hfield. PROVO, UT.-Bacterial cancer, which affeets tomato plants, was checked considerably in Utah county this summer by the long bot and dry period. OGDEN, UT.---{lity engineer in his monthly report discloses that July's building permit total of $30,900 was double the total for July of 1930 and $10,000 in excess of the total for June of this year. BURLEY, IDA.-Grain harvest 1n the dry farming sections of CasIlia county is now in ful! swing, and in many districts fair crops are being reported. In others the long dry spell is showing its effects and some :fields have been found to be not heavy enough to harvest. RIVERTON, W Y 0. -GO('S-in· Lodgt;), 81'l-year-old chief medicine maker for the Arapahoe Indian tdbe and the last surviving Indian on the Wind reservation to take part in the Custer massacres of 1876, died here. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-Re~ipts at the state treasurer's offlee :from cigaret stamp taxes In July were $17,865.42. PRICE, UT.-'l'he Carbon fair board has delegated three members to attend celebrations throughout the state to line up attractions tor the fair here, September 12, 13, 14. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-An old muZ'".6le-loading cannon, believed to have been brought to Utah by the Mormon battalion of 1848, or United S-tate soldiers stationed here during the 50,s, has been given to the Deseret museum by Julian Bamberger, president ot the Bam· oerrer Electric. Railroad company. STAGE COACH TALES , By E. C. TAYLOR A President Takes a Tumble uwE DO not travel any more; we merely arrive." Maca1,lley wrote this In commenting on the passing of the old days, when a trip was an adventure, when one Jived every moment of his journey, whether It was a few hours' trip of a few miles, or a trek across the continent. One of the most romantic periods of the history of the United States was that between 1800 and the coming of the railroads prior to 1850. That was the day of the stage coach. The notes of the coachman's horn, the stamping of four or six horses, and the rattling of the old Concord stages that filled the highways of America in those years are nearly forgotten. Few records have been kept of their era, although for decades the life of the young nation flowed through these great artel"ies of travel. The lords of that distant day were the drivers of the stage coaches. They were the boys' heroes, like aviators are today. '!'heir word was law, and they were looked up to and respected by the great and the lesser individuals who comprised the general public. Ot the tales that are left of these romantic figures the most amusing perhaps is the one of how they ventured to express their emphatic disap· proval of" a President of the United States. When Martin Van Buren was occupying the White House, he vetoed a bill appropriating funds for the improvement of the National road in Indiana. That great highway was the backbone of the nation between 1830 and 1848, when the railroads pushed westward over the Allegheny mountains. Everywhere along the road there was great indignation over Van Bur~n·s action. The stage drivers being sort of overlords of their community, and no doubt somewhat tired of the severe joltings they received when they drove their coaches at full speed over a rocky, rough and swampy highway, nursed their revenge. Their opportunity came when Van Buren was returning to Washington, D. C., from a trip up the Mississippi valley. The President rode in as much peace and state as the highway then provided, until he reached Plainfield, Ind. When his coach left Plainfield, it had an "accident," and the President of the United States was unceremoniously spilled out in the road wher~ the mud was deepest. The identify of the driver of his coach is cloaked in mystery. Every. one denied responsibili~ for what had happened, although it is probably they all laughed up their sleeves. Investigation showed that an axle had been sawed nearly in two, and it was brought out that the dr!Yer, when he reached a particularly muddy stretch of road, had not avoided any of the numerous bumps. The coach hit a big rock, and the axle broke. As it was going at good speed, the vehicle tnrned over, of course, and Mr. Van Buren was sent sprawling into the mud puddle. The President returned to the tavern at Plainfield, and after cleaning up, started off again and reached the nation's capital without further mis' hap. But he had been taught an object lesson on the Importance of keeping the country's greatest highway in repair. When the bill came to him again soon after his adventure, he promptly signed it. The position held by the drivers of the old stage coaches was like that of the captain ot a steamboat. Some ot the drivers stood on as lofty a plane as the commanders of great ocean liners of the present day. Their word was law while on the road. They came into constant to11ch with all the prominent political, social and commercial :figures of the country, and their attention and favor was eagerly sought. Although they were paid only a standard wage of $12 a month and their board and lodging, they took precedence over even their most distinguished passengers. In the eyes of small boys they were even above the President of the United States. They also thought well of themselves; as one driver remarked: "While 1 drive this coach I am the whole United States of America." ((C), OUTLET FOR WEALTH OF CENTRAL AFRICA It Is 75 years since David Livingstone completed the first journey made by a white man across Africa, and that journey had taken two years. Now, following broadly Livingstone's track from Angola to Mozambique, a very different transcontinental journey is being made. The first train to cross Africa from oc~an to ocean leaves Lobito now for Beira, a distance of 2,949 miles l by the route of the railway. The jo urney has been rendered possible by the completion of the western section of the route, that from Lobito bay by the Benguela railway and its continuation through the Belgian Congo to the Katanga copper· fieiQ:a field which extends into the adjacent regions of northern Rhodes)a. The change that has come over this land in a single generation is remarkable. As diamonds drew the railway from the cape to Kimberley, and as gold drew the railway on to the Rand, so copper has drawn the railway to the heart of South Central Africa. Katanga, but yesterday a thousand miles from anywhere, almost unknown t..- the white man, Is now the most highly developed province of the Belgian Congo. It bas a considerable white population; its mines have already exported copper to the value of £52,000,000; and In Elisabethville it has an attractive capital, which at the moment is indulging in its first international exhibition. Across the border, in I& northew Rhodesia, there is promise of an almost equal development. And whether in Portuguese, Belgian or British territory the great chan~e has been brought about mainly by British enterprise and with British capital. This is as it should be, for the opening up of the whole region originated with the British. I~ to the courage and persistence of one man in particular, Sir Robert Williams, this change Is due, then Livingstone was the true pioneer. It was Livingstone who first kept open the road to the north, and it was the 1 reading of entries tn Livingstone's journal that guided Williams, as he has himself said, to his discovery of the immense mineral wealth along the Congo-Zambezi divide. Williams was an early associate of Cecil Rhodes and an ardent believer in the Cape-to-Cairo railway scheme. But neither he nor Rhodes was fool· ish enough to suppose that a railway from the Cape to Cairo was an economic proposition in itself. The Cape-to-Cairo line was meant as a backbone from which ribs woulrt extend on either side. Two years before his death Rhodes wrote, "The junctions to the east and west coasts, which will occur in the future, will be outlets for the traffic obtained along the route of the line as it passes through the center of Africa." That was written In 1900, the year in which Williams got his first mineral concession in Katanga. Today two great ''junction" lines are complete and, as Rhodes foresaw, they are taking to the markets of the world "the traffic obtained along the route of the (main Cape-to-Cairo) line." They are also opening up lands rich In agricultural and mineral possibilities.-London Times. Electric Eye Aids Blind "Electric eyes now are being used to "see" for blind persons in guiding them about their homes hy giving them a sense of direction as they move about. The electric eye, or protoelectric cell, is made \lP like a flashlight with a small buzzer connected to its battery, according to Popular Mechanics Magazine. Convenient electric lights are then placed about passages and hallways, particularly at turns. The blind person turns the electric eye about much as a person having his sight would direct a flashlight. When the device points to a light source, contact is made and the buzzer sounds. As long as the buzzer is sounding the blind user knows he Is on the right path. No Date He-I say lt with flowers but I grow them myself. She-You do look rather seedy. • Turks Shaken In Their Veneration for Koran Termites cause $1,000,000 worth of damage in Illinois every year, accordklg to a bulletin of the American Institute of Architects. • • • They are second cousins of the ant family, and formerly lived almost entirely In the woods • • • destruction of the forests is driving them to the cities, where they get into fireproof steel and masonry vaults and destroy valuable papers. , . • The wood sills of buildings are their favorite dish, and after they have held a few banquets in a sill nothing is left but a shell. . . It may collapse, carrying the house with it. Hours of Slumber Most medical authorities think thb same amount of undisturbed sleep during the day gives th~> same benefit as sleep at night. 'l'hey say that it doe<~ not make :my difference when you sleep, so long as you get the required amount and so arrange your program of living that yow: get amfficient outdoor exercise. Be.,~on Arabi<', being a sacred language, the ecclesiastics have cried out against their holy book, the Koran, appearing in any other tongue. But the Turkish government has In Spite of this allowed the publication of three separate translations, Fourteen thousand copies have been sold. Turks, who formerly heard the sounding Arable of the Koran without understanding anything of its meaning, imagined it charged with tremendous and mystic meanings. That Impression melts away when the Koran is read In the verna.c ular. It is sometimes enough to place a Koran and a Testament in the hands of a Turkish reader and leave him to draw his own conclusions. It is said that Kemal Pasha in disgust threw the book across the room into a corner. Yet In the Sudan the primary textbook in all the government schools Is the Koran, and Islam Is gaining ground constantly in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. - Sunday School Times. of Ho•pitalicy HOTEL Newhouse SAL'I LAKE CITY, UTAH One of Salt Lake City's finest hotels, where guests find every comfort-with a warm hospitality. Garage in connection. Cafe and cafeteria. 400 Rooms. Each with Bath $2.00 to $4.00 'W. E. SUlTON, Mannger Gave Sound Reason for Multiplicity of Wives Maurice Hindus, tbe Russian authority, was talking about his experiences in Russia. "In Russia the unrestricted divorce law Is abused," he said. "Its abusers oon't think so, though." "I lunched one day in Moscow with a commissar who had already had 14 wives, and he was only twentynine years old. "qe said It was tr his wives that he owed his success, so naturally the more wives the merrier. He said without his wives• counsel and support he'd sti11 have bee, 11 s'lOemaker's apprentice. "Then he wound up with an epigram. " ~The born leaders of men,' he said, 'are women.' " Her Handicap The Golfer-They're all afraid to play me. What do you think my handicap is? The Giri-Oh, I don't know. It may be your face.-Rehoboth Sunday Herald. Sometime• Seema So "The lawyers mal{e some glowing pleas for these prisoners." ''To hear the orationL anyone of them has led a better life than I have," commented the weary court clerk. If you have to take a plll after the meal, wh:v eat the meal? 'rben you don't need to take the pill. Everybody eats too much. A girl should see to it that her line The Blame of small talk doesn't dwindle too "Poets are born and not ma((e." small. "Yes, blame it on the parents! 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