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Show THE Thursday, May 23. 1933 This Week Arthur by Bkisbanb To 54 Countries Remember Wilson's Trips The Positron Arrives Europe's Plan for Us President Roosevelt asks fifty four countries to keep their armlet at home, and preserve peace oa which depend "happiness, prosper ity, the very lives of the men, wo men and children who Inhabit t lie whole world." The President puts the airplane first among attacking weapons thai "fixed fortifications" can uo longer resist, and expects all nations "wholly to eliminate from possession and use weapons which make possible successful attack." Mont important Is the President's suggestion that "al! the nations enter into a solemn, definite pact of This message, in plain English no mysterious "code," was sent broadcast to the nations of the world. Including Soviet Russia. And that, according to Senator Borah, is an official recognition of Russia. If so, it puts an end to a ridiculous situation, bad for London, much pleased, hears that President Roosevelt will go to England to attend the economic parley "making a record crossing on the United States cruiser Indianapolis." The President announces that be has "no present Intention" of attending the conference. Perhaps he remembers what happened after President Wilson made such a trip, visiting en famllle at Buckingham Palace, and getting his portrait substituted for Garibaldi's in many Italian homes. That Buckingham lodging and cost this Garibaldi substitution country many billions of dollars, to say nothing of the depression. There was recently a conference in Washington concerning billions that Europe owes us. Mussolini did not come; the President of France did not come; the King of England did not come. They sent somebody, although they owe us, is there any particulai reason why President Roosevelt should go? He has work to do here, and is employed by the people to do it here. On the Mayflower, while Calvin oolidSe wa9 President, somebody brought up George Harvey's that the United States sug-pstio- n Ctnauld send delegates to London to discuss the debts. President Cool-ldgquietly remarked: "They hired the money here, didn't they? Why can't they discuss it here?" That New England gentleman would not have made any "record trip" to Europe on a cruiser, or anything else, while President e Science concentrates on its newest pet, the "positron," thus named because it is a free, "positive electron," one of the inconceivably small things of which light, life, electricity and all matter are formed. When you meet a "positron" it goes right through you and continues on. The study of the "positron" may tell more about Dr. Millikan's "cosmic rays," and enlighten us also on the "galactic rays" that come from somewhere out in the Milky Way. A strange, sibilant static in your radio may mean galactic mes sengers, possessing a wave, a frequency of twenty million cycles a second. Where we mortals stand, some things, like suns in space that are one million million times as big as this earth, and other things like the atom, of which you could have a million In the corner of your eye without knowing It, are too big or too small. However, Providence knows what is best for us. 146-met- The present hope of Europe, next to skipping the debts, lies in a proposed agreement by this, some. times silly nation, to suspend our tariff protection to aid foreign workers and manufacturers at the expense of our own. If making shoes under condi tions with which we cannot com pete, could drive the remaining workers out of American shoe fac tories; if England could take over all our textile industries, Japan our rubber goods and electric bulb busi ness, that would make foreigners temporarily, contented. It would not, however, do much to help the twelve to fifteen mii lion Idle men now walking the streets of the United States. Czecho-Slo-vaki- Auburn, New York, tells women who teach in public schools that if . they marry during the school year their contracts will be cancelled. Married teachers with husbands "gainfully employed" are asked to resign. Somebody should take that nil ing to the Supreme Court. The country needs as many intelligent children as possible and forbidding women teachers to marry is to in. trfere with the supply of intellig. sr jit children. Sir Francis Goodenough, wise Englishman, predicts that when prosperity conies back, it will rise to a height "never before enjoyed by the human race." (&.19J3, bf King reaturci Syndicate, Inc.) NEFIII. UTAH TIMES-NEW- S. PAGE THREE A Lost Soldier of a JLo st G ause Sally Scz Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers TRICKS HAI L SALT FI NDS LOW DAIRY PROFITS GROW POISON' DKIVK BF.filN'S BABY AID f SOI DIFICS MKKT IN JI NK FARMINGTOV, XT. A drive to with grain poUon ground sulrr-llii being launched In thU district. BOISE, IDA. Idaho w.m first. and Montana third in a Utah coutet of of the Amerlcuu announced from Legion it tin national headquarter at Indlanpo-lis- , Indiana. SALT LAKE CITY, I'T. Inflection forces of the Utah industrial commission will be reduced to one coal mine and one metal mine inspector after July , advance BOISE, IDA. Sixty-ondetachmeuts of regular army officers and troops have been ordered to Idaho and Utah from Baltimore to direct building of camps for occupation by the emergency conservation corpy. Each detachment comprises one officer, four sergeants and 21 enlisted men. On arrival in Idaho each unit will lie Joined by 25 members of the conservation corps to form a unit to build a camp. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The International Trapshooting association announces that final arrangements have been made to hold Its annual state shoot over the traps of the Salt Iike Municipal Gun club June 2, 3 and 4. The shoot will be held under the auspices of the Southern Utah Trapshooting association of Ephraim. TWIN FALLS. IDA. Hauling of rock salt about 400 miles from Redmond, Utah, to the Twin Falls district, and some of it about 500 miles farther on into central Oregon, Is being done by trucks. SALT LAKE CITY. UT. About eleven thousand applications for crop production loans have been filed in the Salt Lake regional office by farmers in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada and western Colorado. It is expected that approximately $1,200,000 will be loaned, which Is nearly $800,000 less than was loaned last year In the same territory. OGDEN, UT Curtailment of financial assistance to parents unable to bear the medical cost of bringing children into the world looms as a result of the heavy drain on the county fund for this purpose. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Tax valuations in Salt Lake county have triangle nicmU'i-shithifie department ht--- Qv-j- ft C2 KMf-ji - I -- MWWWi f f Creole," rourteay Charles) Scrlbner'a Sons.) "" f J- K IgTf J V1 "as3 panic-stricke- n text-book- myth-make- myth-make- Anglo-- "S - , ,; - : T I V , xcm - Villere Beaureqard early In the war. More than one historian lias pointed out how Davis suffered from the delusion that he was a great military strategist and he would brook no interference with his strategy of waging a defensive war and trying to defend every part of the empire of the South. In contrast to this attitude was Beauregard's desire for a concentration of the Confederate forces in the vitally important places and the waging of a smashing offensive war which would decide the issue as quickly as possible. One of the most interesting "ifs" of the Civil war is what might have happened if this Creole, reared in the Napoleonic tradition, had been given a free hand from the outset. There is no doubt that he had in him the makings of a great soldier but he seems always to have just missed success whether because of his own shortcomings or because of circumstances over which he had no control, it is difficult to say. Beauregard was born on a plantation in Louisiana just 115 years ago May 2S, 1818 when that state was still more French than American. From the first he had a passion for guns, for horses, for everything military. So when he was sent to school In New York, conducted by of Nathe brothers, Peugnet, two poleon, and listened to their tales of the great campaigns in which they had fought under the Little Corporal, this passion was only intensified. The natural result was an appointment to the United States Military academy at West Point In 1834. One of his instructors there was a Kentuckian named Robert Anderson. A little over a quarter of a century later the former student was to order his soldiers to open fire on the fort defended by the former instructor but- he was not present when the fort was surrendered. "It would be an unhonorable thing," he declared, "to be present at the humiliation of his friend." In 1S38 Beauregard was graduated from West Point, second in a class of 45. One of his classAnd 23 mates was named Irvin McDowell. years later Irvin McDowell and Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard were to be commanders of the opposing forces when Bull Run creek In Virginia received Its bloody baptism. After graduation Beauregard, a lieutenant In the engineers corps, first helped In the construction of Fort Adams In Rhode Island. Then he was sent to take charge of an engineering project at Barataria bay. So he came back to his own Creole country. There he met and fell In love with the lovely Laure Villere arid when they were married two of the most distingushed families In Louisiana were united. Then came the Mexican war and during that conflict he was twice brevetted for gallant and meritorious service, first as a captain, for his gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco, and again as a major for bravery in the battle of Chaultepec. He returned to New Orleans as a local hero and was presented with a golden sword. But the years which followed were dull and uneventful ones and Beauregard was rapidly slipping into obscurity. Then by pulling certain wires he succeeded In getting himself appointed as commandant at West Point. This was two days after Lincoln's election In 1S00 and when it seemed certain that Louisiana would secede from the Union. On his way to New York Beauregard stopped off in Washington to explain to his superior officers that should Louisiana withdraw from the Union he must follow his state. The result was that he was superintendent at West Point for only five days, when he was ordered back to Louisiana, thus establishing a record for briefness in the time which any officer held that post. Louisiana seceded and Beauregard, the engineer, who had prepared and presented a comprehensive program for the defense of the Mississippi river passage was called to Montgomery for a special meeting with Provisional President Jefferson Davis. "He kissed his wife good by ' ' Is : ;; J J i ''''',t.7:V lZ' fp"" Z ' ' fe , JF i. " , - J m Jr Vlf ifK . X N .y,, ' 1 SiiSh ,'tJ" is f Vk I Pa-clf- lc i ' W ?M"fV? - , StfK ' ' S, S, Tr " VsK t - L WATSON iTZtZs. ' f, ORDERED the firing on Fort Sum- I ter and thus furnished the spark g Ij which set off the mighty conflagra- -ML Hon of the greatest civil war In hisM tory. But this "kindliest military in history, conducted engagement MV) with the utmost good nature, almost (HZ. j tenderness, on both sides a pleas- which gave no ant curtain-raise- r hint of the grimness to follow" was hailed as a great victory and he became the Idol of a new nation, the Confederate States of America. The Confederate congress, in behalf of the new nation, voted him a resolution of thanks. The general assembly of South Carolina, the scene of his great "victory," did the same. Citizens of his native New Orleans raised funds to buy a golden sword for him. His admirers in Montgomery, Ala., the Confederate capital, decided to buy him a new horse and present it to him upon his next visit there, ne received more than 230 letters of congratulation and the manuscripts of five poems written to him. Then he was ordered to Richmond to confer with President Jefferson Davis and his progress north was a triumphal procession with cheering crowds and blaring bands at every railroad Junction. Wherever he appeared, the crowds demanded a speech. Arriving in Richmond, he "was bustled and shoved and kissed and had to stand with a scarlet, embarrassed face while a spindly maiden of forty, to whom forty made no difference, snipped a button from his coat." Three months later two uniformed mobs fought a battle near Manassas or Bull Run in The uniformed mob which had Virginia. marched south, many of them carrying lengths of rope "to lead a Rebel prisoner back to Washington," went back toward that city in a rout almost unparalleled in history. The uniformed mob which had marched north, each man confident of his ability to "whip five Yankees before breakfast," experienced unexpected difficulties in whipping two. But theirs was the victory, anyway, and after that another extravaganza of hero worship. In the South they began naming children after him. There was talk of making him President of the Confederates States of America. He had to keep an extra supply of coat buttons in his tent they snipped them off so fast. t As you haye probably already guessed, the object of all this frenzy was Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, a general in the Confederate army In 1861. "But," you say, "If he was such a great hero then, why do we hear so little of him now?" To find the answer to that question, turn to a new biography which has just been published by Charles Scribner's Sons. It Is "Beauregard, the Great Creole," written by Hamilton Basso, who has set about the task of rescuing from ob scurity the man once hailed as "one of the greatest military figures in history." In the prologue to his biography, Mr. Basso s we came says: "Occasionally, In the across his name. But it is only rarely, and then with a scant line or two they are done with him "lie has fallen Into obscurity, even In the South where once he was loved and honored as much as Lee. And so, In writing of him, It has Interested me to seek an explanation of his neg lect and effacement. The fault, I believe, and the blame (if there is any blame) Is that of the all the traditionalists and the Happy Galahnds of the Picturesque." Mr. Basso then points out that In 18G5 when the Civil war ended, a ruined, a defeated people returned to the dally routine of peace-tim- e life, a changed life In which "they had no pres ent and, so far as they could see, no future. All that was left inviolate was the past." And the prostrate South clung desperately to Its memories of the beauty, the chivalry and the romance that had been In the past. 'In the years that followed, myths and legends began to spring up to form the parts of ttle "plantation or Southern tradition" and a part of that tradition was that of the Civil war gen were eral. "Here, fortunately, the not called upon to exercise their creative ineenuity to any great extent. Xheir hero was already made. His name was Robert Edward Lee. Lee, then, became the legendary hero. He was the model the others must measure up to, A few Southern generals, notably Stonewall Jackson, Albert Sidney Johnston, and Jeb Stuart, bore many points of resemblance to Lee. The tradition, therefore, could Incorporate them into its dogma." But Beauregard could not be so included. For one thing, he and Lee were totally unlike in every respect. Then, too, Beauregard was a Frenchman and the tradition Is essentially Add to this the bitter antagonism that sprang up between President Jefferson zr. Xj4k, i The Great Creole Saxon. - kap , ZA By ELMO SCOTT IIP- s :' 5:. JS Davis and Beauregard far-flun- g Beauregard after Shiloh and said he would be gone a fortnight. He was gone four years." During those four years he rose to the height of his military ambition and sank to the depths. Within a short time after Manassas he was definitely "in bad" with Davis and the secretary of war, Benjamin. He was sent to the Department of the West as second in command to Albert Sidney Johnston. At the Battle of Shilolt or Pittsburg Landing a bullet struck down Johnston and the command devolved upon Beauregard. But with certain victory in sight, when he could have annihilated Grant's army, he ordered the fighting stopped. He retreated to Corinth leaving Grant In possession. After Shiloh the whisperings against Beauregard began. There began to be doubts as to the greatness of the hero of Sumter and the victor of Manassas. But he did score a victory of sorts in his skillful evacution of Corinth when Halleck might have crushed him. Despite this fact, he was relieved of his command and succeeded by Gen. Braxton Bragg, one of Davis' "pets." The illness which had troubled him since the beginning of the war made a long leave of absence necessary and after he had somewhat regained his health he was placed in command at Charleston again. There he successfully resisted a Federal attack aimed at this "breeding place of secession." In 1804 he was serving under Lee In resisting the sledge hammer strokes At Petersburg he of Grant around Richmond. beat off an attack which saved Richmond for nine more months. A year later, after Lee had surrendered, there was a dramatic meeting between Davis and Beauregard. Davis was pleading for a continuance of the war. But Beauregard and Gen. Joseph Johnston told him plainly that it was no use to struggle longer against the inevitable. So Johnston surrendered to Sherman and the war was over. With only $1.15 in his pocket Beauregard started back to Louisiana. In New Orleans he found himself still a hero to his people. But in the years that followed the even In Louisiana, faded. There was the matter of the Louisiana lottery, the gambling scheme which was so bitterly assailed as a menace to the morals and character of the nation. Its directors needed the association of some man whose greatness of name would lend character and dignity to the lottery and certify to the fairness of the drawings. Finally they got such names, two of them. One was Gen. Jubal A. Early and the other was Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. "The South was astonished, a little shocked . . . and made apologies for her distinguished sons. . . . But though it apologized for hiiu and tried to forget his association with the octopus, it never really forgave him. It was not the thing for a Civil war general to do." Came the 1800s. The Civil war was becoming a dim memory. Most of the great figures in It were dead. Only a few lingered on, among them the Great Creole. In his seventy-fiftyear the old illness assailed him. "He felt as if knives were sticking In his throat; he could feel the pulse of fever behind his eyes. Sometimes, In the evening, his officers would come to his quarters to cheer him up. The fire leaped and roared, and those who liked whisky had a nip or two, and Stuart sang in his great booming voice. . . . Perhaps, as he went up the stairs, the echo of Stuart's song went softly Into his darkened room, perhaps the dark was poignant with the ghosts of men In weathered gray. And perhaps as he fell asleep, there was the past again, and the days of golden glory, when his name was a banner In the Southern sun. Or perhaps there was nothing . . . only qt;it and the ceasing of his heart and the peaceful coming of the end." hero-worshi- h ( by Western Newspaper Union.) drolled more than 20 million do- llars compared with last year. AMERICAN FORK, UT. Work of building the first Utah camp of A trnc support' moat Important thin 4 To acrobats who stunt upon tho swinr, Support holpa out in all that pooplo 60, Hurra Industry nooda strong supporting! too. LETS PATRONIZE ROME INDU8TRT Well preserved plant fossils, ear liest forms of life discovered In America, have been found in th Colorado canyon. ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR APEX AM INTERMOUNTAIN COLD CREAM PRODUCT Utah High School of Beauty Culture lit Flaar OKI lldj.. M late CMy, UU Tkt flinty Crttiri Praftsswa Kim m Dipmsiii aaa Mawaaaat ttl cm an Ian mfnsiaa Hal all tar Uu rati al ran tan. IIS aar anata Mir lar tat casaiati civil al til auaiai. amstliata aar aara Mla iaa laara alaa rtnaa ar wrtti lar lar citilicaa. Rill h cawM. ADDRESS 5Q-RA- . 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Others monument on the site of the old Main Springs 1.00 low on work. other Proportionate pricea Palmyra fort. THE TIME SHOP POCATELLO, IDA. A new road 49 W. So. Temple St. Salt Lake City to Malad by way of Downey is beMail Orders Our Specialty ing considered by the state officials. BOISE, IDA. Members of the conservation corps coming to Idaho will be permitted to fish here on purchase of a $2 resident license. Upward of 25.000 men will probably EVERYTHING FOR THE come from other parts of the counto be near stationed the best try fishing places in the state. The List game department, as a protective measure, has decided to deputize all CO. H. BINTZ officers of the camps to assist in enSalt Lake City, Utah forcing the fish and game laws. Many Women Doctors SALT LAKE CITY, UT. PasOf the 42,000 doctors in Engsage of the public works bill by Conare women. gress will assure the expenditure of land, 2,000 fifederal of $5,500,000 $7.500,000 rJer week will be paid nances and $2,000,000 of state funds, for the construction of public roads should use Intermountain mads in Utah, beginning July 1. and the Similar to above. Send Goods" employment of about ten thousand your story in prono or vemo to In termountain Products Column. P. O. men a month, according to GoverBox 1555. Salt Lake City. If your nor Henry H. Blood. story appears in this column you r-$3- .00 POCATELLO. IDA. Except for ceivo check a few bad siots, Idaho highways are reported to be In very good con Week No. 3321 W.N.U. Salt Lake Clir dition. BEET SUGAR but-terf- at 19-3- 2, Climate Controlled Gasoline FIREWORKS oS July 4th Write for Price W. ff |