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Show Intermountain Briefly News for Buy Reader Told FUXM) WAT Fit RLULDLS. FEDERAL All) ON KOD. 31 CITIES CLAN WORK. T IEAt II L WOOI) KUSH. KK El 1 I). UT. Realizing the of providing eatly for tbelr winter fuel, many from this city may be seen corning down Box Elder canyon with huge load of BRIGHAM, nee-sai- l y wood. LOGAN, IT. The lulled Slates forest service will spend approximately $'19,000 In the construction of four miles of highway, from the fork In Ixigan canyon, toward Gar-duCity, according to word received from the district office OURAY, LT. Now that the receded rher has taken the water from the flats and the mosquito peats have been reduced thereby, the Indians are returning to the village here and are Inquiring when school will start agnin. The water wag halfway to the tops of their houses once this year. BRIGHAM CITY. Among the outstanding attractions of Box Elder county's ieach festival, to be held In this city on Sept. 0 and 10. will be the artistic display of the collection In the largest Box Elder country. county Is delighted to annoume for this that It has more years pageunt than In by gone days, due to the many young orchards coming Into production, the quality too will be the best gathered In years, coming ns It will from young Inter-mountai- n pipe-line- s s, I- Three hundred and ninety-onmarriage licenses have been issued by County Clerk Carl V, Mohr since January 1, compared with 308 for the same period In 1931. If the present rate keeps up Indications are that the C03 mark bung up last year will le surpassed, NAMPA, IDA. Added cheer and prospect of return of good times was signaled to farmers here when butterfat In whole milk advanced llic to 22 4 Hops likewise are creeping upward In price. Top hogs are $1.25 per hundred, next weight sows $2 85. f4, next $2.85 and heavy PLEASANT GROVE, CT. While hunting sage bens in Strawberry of Pleasant valley, I.eland Beers, tn the Grove, was accidentally shot a hunter in another foot hy right LOGAN, CT. e Sally Sez well-to-d- CT. trees. SPRINGVILLE, CT- .- Sprlngville Producers Cooperative association lias adopted the contract between the Salt Lake and Itah railway and the producers' committee regarding the construction of a new egg grudlng plant In Sprlngville to be bnilt by the railway company. LOGAN, I'T. Plans for the expenditure of approximately $137,500 In Cache county were laid before the Cache county commission by Preston Peterson, chairman of the The Utah state road commission. money will be spent In resurfacing the state highway to the north and south of Isignn, In building a new approach to Logan canyon from Isv gan, and In building the new road from the forks in Logan canyon toward Garden City. Wmk on the projeet will begin soon according to the announced plans. BALT LAKE CITY, CT. A total of $35,949,007.(18 was paid during the biennium of 1931 and 1932 Into the state treasury, according to the report of A. E. Christensen, tat treasurer. SALT LAKE CITY, CT. Thirty one cities In Utah have signified their desire to spend nearly $2,000,-00- 0 In the building of reservoirs and In order to the laying of If the water their systems. Improve money can be secured from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for the purpose of self liquidating, according to figures gathered by the state board of health. ROOSEVELT, CT. Louis Tap-pa33, employed by the Raven Gilsonlte mine 2 mill's north of Fort Injured Duchesne, was fatally while working in the bottom of the mine shaft when struck by falling rock. NEPIII, CT. Edwuril II. Wll llama, 41, of NephI, died of shock when his death by drowning appeared Imminent during a fishing accident at Burriston pond, eight miles north of Nephl. BOISE, IDA. Examiner J. P. McGrath at Washington recommended that the Interstate commerce commission order the O. S. - freight Tati'S on lump coal from mines In the Kemmerer group to Montpelier, Idaho, and from mines in the Rock Springs Kemmerer and Castle Gate district to other Idaho cities be low- ered. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Plans for the formation of a loeul potato mar. keting unit affiliated with the na-and vegetable exchange tlonat fruit ' were discussed when members of the New Sweden Potato Growers association held their meeting here. FRESTON, IDA. Plans are nearing completion for the dedication on September 5 and 6 of the monument at Battle Creek to be erected in commemoration of the Connor battle. This will le the sixteenth marker placed under the supervision of the Ctah Trails and Landmarks Bolshevism This la no time for era-tecringing. Looking out of my window, I see the shaft of the monument to Washington. I think of Valley Forge, and wonder how those who now lament and wring their hands would have enjoyed that winter. This blcentennlnL It is Is Washington time for a new reckoning, a new responsibility, a new courage. During the winter past many a good man, willing and able to work, has gone through a hell of unemployment and uncertainty. Remembering that, we may also find that some good, along with the evil, comes out of all depressions. 1 am not a stranger to depressions. Economists tell ns that the panic of 1873 was the closest analogy which history furnishes to our present troubusiness bles. My father, a man and farmer in Missouri, was caught In that general disaster. I was Just thirteen years old. One day my father told me the whole story. John, he said, "everything I own has been swept away except the farm, which Is covered by a heavy mortI must gage." (We finally lost It.) try to make some money by traveling as a salesman. While I am away you must take care of the family and manage the farm." During the next three years my brother and I ran the farm. We plowed, sowed, and reaped. We took our produce to market. Those days were not so different from these for the farmer. I remember we had a field of timothy hay which was parcarload ticularly fine. I haled It up, of It. and sent It by rail to St. Ixiuls, hoping to receive a top price, but It did not bring enough to cover the freight charges. During those years my attendance at school was limited and I had to do the best 1 could to keep up with my classes by studying at night Those were certainly hard times. Yet "sweet are the uses of adversity," and It was the best thing that ever happened to me. It taught me more, gave me greater confidence and a keener sense of responsibility than anything else could have done. Unsuspected Powers. I cite my own experience merely to show how men and women actually gain a new strength and courage when thrown upon their own resources and responsibility In times of crisis. They find In themselves powers they never suspected. The life of a military man furnishes another example valuablj In times like the present In every army career there come occasional times of dullness. The officer, stationed at some remote army post, has his routine duties to perform. When thesj are completed he finds the temptation almost overwhelming to give over his leisure to cards, light reading, social evenings, It is the officer painless who who resists that temptation, spends hard hours each day studying the latest advances In artillery technic, lr transport. In tactics It ts this officer who receives recognition when the opportunity for active service comes. So It Is In business. In this time of extreme dullness, many have sunk back Into a kind of lethargy. But the wise business man, like the conscientious officer. Is using his present leisure to prepare for the battles to coma He is devising new economies of production and distribution. He is studying the problem of how his product may be varied or made more attractive. He Is getting ready to take advantage of the upturn when tt comes. He is not accepting gloomy defeatism. He Is thinking for himself. I have touched at some length on the depression because it has so glaringly shown us the folly of carelessly dele gating our thinking to others. It has also thrown a bright cold light on the Uaws in our political methods and on our crime problem. During the years of prosperity following the war an underworld of gangsters and racketeers unparalleled to any other civilized nation, grew up and flourished In our cities. The criminals who manned this underworld were of a new type. They were not the masked and shabby who filled the Jails in earlier years. They were expensively dressed ; they owned machine guns, cars, and speed boats; they had money In the bank. With this money they were able to establish a relation with corrupt officials and police which seemed to make them Immune from prosecution. C. 131 Bell Syndicate. TVNU Service. To Bo Concluded Next Week. those half-forgott- Heres a stirring call arms that summons the spirit of days of resolute marching men en Article I years ago an army of two million American gathering in France. They had left their families and businesses; they had traveled miles across submarine-infesteseas; and now they were ready to lay down their lives, if need be, for their country. Millions more, in America, were prepared to follow them and do likewise. Today the nation faces another crisis, in which the enemies allied against us are more insidious but not less and corruption, which the chosen dangerous. Pervasive officers of the law seem powerless to suppress; the sinister growth of the underworld, whose tentacles reach out to touch us all; the extravagance of government; and the mysterious paralysis of our economic system these are the enemies which now confront us. They have been allowed to encroach upon us largely through our own carelessness and neglect of duty as citizens. In the battle against them the average citizen is at a disadvantage because he is unprepared; he is willing enough, but he is bewildered. He doesnt yet realize that he himself is primarily to blame, hence he is taking no serious part in the conflict. By average citizen I mean a great many men to whom we should look for lead- rOURTEEN d self-seeki- ably write that military axiom Into its hooks for the years to come. We have made two other military We began underestiblunders. by mating the strength of the enemy, and progressed from that to overestimating It The cry, We are Just turning was the equivathe corner, of 1929-30- , lent of We will have the boys out of the trenches by Christmas" of 1914-1And our This country Is going to the dogs, of 1932 is the equivalent of "The Central Powers are InvinciI have heard ble of March, 1918. leading men, given over to fear, prate of natlona failure, bankruptcy, and time-wastin- ever-increasi- ership, as well as the larger Dumber who possess no qimlitlcatlona for It. In fact, too often do citizens of all classes assume that politics, and crime, and even economics, are no business of theirs. It does not occur to them that they are, every one. Individually, responsible Why Is It that patriotism burns so brightly Id times of war, so dimly In times of peace? It Is Just as necessary Id meeting the complex obligations of peace, but these obligations do not stir the Imagination like the primitive emotions of war. The average citizen feels that, somehow, the problems of peace will be solved for him, and falls to realize the possibility that calamity may result from his own Indifference. Still Can Be Proud. We have as much reason now as we had fourteen years ago to feel proud of our country and to love it We believe, with some Justice, that It Is the greatest republic In the history of the world. Under no flag tn the world does a people enjoy more freedom or find greater happiness. We boast of public education, universal suffrage, liberty of speech and the press. We enjoy rights undreamed of tn ancient Greece and Rome. Yet even with the sounder principles upon which to huso the hope of permanence of our institutions, we too may some day go down, as did these older republics, unless we recognize and live up to our civic obligations, It cannot he too strongly Impressed upon every citizen In a democracy that It ts his duty to help actively help In the task of government. The other day 1 was talking to a substantial business man from New York. We were discussing an Issue of increased taxation then up before the house of representatives. By the way." I said, who Is the representative from u district?" He grinned sheepishly. y-- I dont know, be said. My friend pays a goodly share of taxes to support the government, and yet he doesn't know who votes for him on the tax question. He relies od "a substitute and doesn't even know who the substitute Is! This Is something of a retrogression from an earlier period. When our government was founded, our forefathers did not let unknowns represent thorn. They made It their business to know all about the character and achievements of the men they elected to public office. Then the outstanding men In th country took part In politics, and most of the high positions were held by them. Political leaders, then, were chosen by the voters. Now, through the apathy of the voters, they are often chosen by other politicians. Changing Social Life. This change Is partly due to our chnnglng social life. Many of us do not even know our next-dooneighbors. But It is a manifestation of a deeper and more sinister change the tendency of the average citizen to let somebody else do his thinking for him. That tendency threatens the very foundations of democracy. some one else do the thinking." That easy doctrine Is Injuring us not only In politics hut In other fields. Under it crime flourishes nnd business languishes. Some international hankers, since the war, have been careless in lending other peoples money on foreign securities. Others have been charged with something worse than carelessness. But the citizens who. against sound business principles, put up the money were not without hlnnie. In their eagerness for gain, they too often refused to think for themselves. They preferred to delegate that task to some one else. It was well known to all who read the newspapers that certain governments had already defaulted on debts to their own people. Greedy Investors did not balk because of that, but cheerfully put up billions to loan to states, municipalities, and Industries of those same governments. This Is not an essay on economics. 1 did not foreI am not an economist. see the depression, nor do I know when It Is going to end, though past experience teaches me the upturn Is bound to come, perhaps slowly, perhaps suddenly when we least expect !L No matter how sure yon are of victory, never fall to make full provision for a reverse." This rule Is axiomatic with every capable military leader, but It was Ignored by most of our business lead era during the boom years. Few made plans for anything except triumphant advance from one objective to another. Many burned their bridges behind them. Then the advance was halted and the recession began. It cannot be said that they were to blame for that recession, for apparently our puny human minds have not yet solved the riddle of the business cycle. They were to blame for having made no plans to keep the retreat from turn lng Into a rout Business might profit r plug-uglie- s IT' d Association With Sage Not Thats a grand One-Side- d Honor Shaw story. The one relating to his trip to Russia. Strolling along the banks of the Volga, he encountered a beautiful girl playing In the sand. He stopped to chat with the child, who immediately took a liking to the bearded sage. They walked along the river for a while, her hand In his, Shaw, enjoying the trivialities of which they talked. Finally the little one informed the Shavian body that it was time for her to go home. "Good-by- , my dear," he said, and when mother asks you where you have been, tell her you have been walking along the Volga with George Bernard Shaw. The great name was absolutely unknown to the child, but she recognized Awvrth while th,nt kn la country or Metropolis N. man can do thin," 11 U any town'. "Support PATRONIZE HOME HEWLETTS Franklin the First Benjamin Franklin was the fint man to discharge an explosive 10 cated at a distance, by an electric current sent over a wire. ASK Lulled Into Complacency by Prosperity, Our Citizen Passively Accepted Thl Poisonous Growth With Small Concern. YOUR DRUGGIST APEX AN INTERMOUNTAIN Natures TOH w PRODUCT Steam Roller Hurricanes are They derive their force from the energy of sunlight absorbed by the surface waters of the ocean tad then transferred to the air in the form of heat and water vapor. steam-power- THIS WEEKS PRIZE If bur Do you Intermount&in-Mad- STORY GoodaT e you do. then you have your "ihoild With united effort tut to the wheel. hard boosting the wheels of industry viA tart and continue to run. Employuoat will be furnished to hundreds of diKoir aged men. Peace and plenty w?U rein supreme in once destitute homes. Everneet yone wfll have u chance to buy aitiei ef life. Borne industry will mitt our problems. Let us look or the brand- If K' Intermountain-Made-loj buy. MRS. D. W. LARSEN, Letu, Utsk STUDY AT HOME University Instruction by Mail Enroll Anytime. Profitbi, Intemth Minimum Cost Writ for Home Study Bulletin Tda, EXTENSION DIVISION UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Salt Lake City. Utah A great man, said Hi Ho, th causes hu sage of Chinatown, remembered long after be to name his teachings are forgotten. Washington Star. Courts will always have their courtiers and democracies their demagogues but even so democracy Amen is better than monarchy. can Magazine. NEW WO MOTOR OIL Sold with a Money Back Guarantee inacc- Claiming that they are use urate, boxer declines to reao acales of boxing commission,to hw a sport story. He wanted his own weight, so to speak, . and Fireside. Are You Planning to Fa!! College This Write to WESTMINSTER COLLEGE Salt Lake City, Utah for catalogue and 3 yea 2 years college and ichool all standard Sra(, hu;u. ra.0lie snli Large city campus, dormitor , ings, including Experience gymnasium. Christian environment, anda work years high school . . years credit. room&t board, for $340 a year SmjjSrm the courtesy In the words of her strange friend and was not to be outdone. Her pleasant smile and bow acquired a quaint gravity. She replied : And when you go home and they ask you where you have been tell them that you were walking along the Volga with Katherlna Ivanovna Fyodoro-vltch.- " New York Morning Telegraph. k,ckbo IND18Tjt .00 EKrSsg Inurmounl.i" bm Similar ,, In-your tory in pros .ufnn p. 0. termountain Product C UlT if joat Bog 1545, Salt Ukt thi tory uppeart tn rerulumn jou will ceive check fur , so. j: ithould Good TXT V TT Call T JWa |