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Show t ti THE PAYSONIAN, PAY,SON, UTAH. MARCH 3, 1922. Pith; News Notes From All Partt of Min SLASH FOB RAILROADERS BIG SHIP UTAH Price. Contract has been let for the FEDERAL LABOR BOARD CUTS COMPENSATION OF FIREMEN f construction of ten and miles AND OILER8 OF COUNTRY of highway between Price and Castle Cate. RECEIVER DESIRES TO COMPLETE BILL IS PRESENTED IN BOTH RAILWAY LINE INTO UINTA HOU8E AND SENATE WITH BA81N, UTAH; ASK8 LOAN CHIEFS ENDORSEMENT . Salt Lake. Building permits in Salt Ten Thousand Men Will Be Affected By Wage Reduction Which Will Lake show Increase oft 16 per cent for . Take Effect on March First, January, 1922, over January, 1921, It la Announced Ogden showing an increase of 3 per Fifty Billion Tons of Bituminous Coal President 8ubmits Special Messagj Will Bo Brought Forth By Urging Favorable Action Upon Completion of Proposed Measure To Promote Trade Road Building With Foreign Counties one-hal- cent Brigham City. The Box Elder county commissioners will receive bids for complete construction of two span, steel bridges over a canal about 15 to 18 miles northwest of Brigham City. 80-fo- ot Delta. The town of Delta, at an enthusiastic meeting, passed resolutions offering a site for the erection of a steel plant at Delta, and a committee of business men was ofipointed to make presentation of the offer. s ' Salt Lake. R. A. McNally, of the firm of Rand, McNally & Co., makers of maps on a recent visit to Salt Lake, said that he was always glad to return to Salt Lake. He spoke of the beauties of the near-b- y canyons and of the wonders in the way of scenic beauty In Utah. All that Utah lacks is advertising and then more advertising," Mr. McNally said, and then auto tourists wjll come in large numbers to view for themselves the scenic attractions which the state has to offer. Salt Lake City The contention that educational expenditures in Utah are increasing at a tremendous rate y - yearly is made in a letter now being sent to farm bureau organizations throughout the state by the tax com- mittee of the Utah State Farm bureau, reporting results obtained to date in the form of impressions on the suggestion that this annual outlay be materially reduced. Brigham City. The danger from a washout of die dam at the reservoir In Devil's Gate valley, 12 miles east of Brigham City, Is stirring the city council and the board of governors of the Boxelder Commercial club to action. Secy. W. V. Call has been Instructed to have the committte on public safety with the city manager to secure some action that will safeguard Brigham City against possible floods. The absence of retrenchment in educational expenditures during 1921 did not conform to the general policy adopted in practically all other public departments of the state. There was an expectation of retrenchment in 1921, and yet revenues for district 'schools and high schools increased from in 1920 to $9,103,200 in 1921, and increase of $536,469, and this in face of the fact that the assessed valuation of taxable property in the state decreased $29,495,498. Taxes for other purposes show a decrease all along the line in 1921. Distribution to cities and towns shows a decrease of $150,270; to county general fund, $55,134 ; to road fund, $362,454; to state general fund, $208,399. now are we to account for this general and substantial retrenchment in all these other directions with an increase for district schools and high schools which almost overcomes the entire saving effected by all of these decreases? The total expenditure for schools In the forty districts of the state (including cities) for the year 1919 was $6,100,415.37; for the year 1920 it was $8,566,731, or an increase of more than two and a quarter million dollars. ' . r SIDY Salt Lake. N. J. Nelson, 33, of 1589 South Ninth East, during his delirium, left his bed in a Salt Lake hospital and fell from the window onto the pavement three stories below. A fran- tic nurse hurriedly summoned assistance and her patient was packed back to bed, where his pneumonia rapidly left him. Other than suffering some bruises and scratches from the fall he was quite recovered, and was released from the hospital in a weeks time. Richfield. Sheriff Angus Fillmore county arrested Charles Chick Weatherbee, wanted at Salt Lake in connection with the Faus murder case, at Monroe, ten miles south of this city, and We.itherbee is now held in the county jail, awaiting advices from the Salt Lake sheriff. of Sevier Chicago. Another pay slash, this time hitting 10,000 railroad firemen and oilers, was made by the United States railroad labor board Thursday when It announced rules effective March 1, eliminating extra pay until after the tenth hour and setting up a split trick of eight hours within n spread of twelve without any overtime pay. Following several other decisions virtually restoring the ten-hoday for railroad workers, the board Thursday authorized the roads to pay only pro rata wages after the regular eight hours which the board retained In principle as constituting a days work. Time and one half will be paid after ten hours. In the case 'of the split trick straight time will be paid for the first ten hours work, whether included in the twelve-hou- r spread or not, and time and one-hawill be given thereafter. Formally the firemen and oilers, all of whom work around railroad shops, were paid time and one-haafter eight hours. Sundays and holidays will be paid for at the pro rata, a minimum of three hours or less. Monthly rated employes wages are to be adjusted to elimate the old time and one-hal- f provisions. Ten rules regarding discipline, grievances, discrimination against committeemen and similar matters were remanded to the employes and the roads for further negotiation. The board's new rules supplant the national agreement made during federal control, which has been in effect since January 16,' 1920. lf lf FEDERAL COURTS HAVE BUSY TIME ID LIKE To DANCE RECORDS SIR, ThouSan FraneiseO Has Twenty-fou- r sand Cases on Docket Which Havo Swamped Courts; Help Being Called er JuNGLElbWN JAZZ -- latest -- ppacbcallv EVERYONE THAT'S BEEN today has. IN bought one t , j n , 1 J J TARDIEU COMPLAINS UNITTHAT JUDGES ORGANIZE BARGAIN DAY8 ED STATES IS MORE EXACTING TO HELP CLEAR CALENDARS IN DEMAND8 THAN ENGLAND OF LIQUOR CASES- 1 San Fransico. If anyone doubts that the Volstead act is being enforced in San Fransico, despite the fact that he can probably get a drink almost anywhere without much trouble, let him look at the calendars of the federal courts of this district, where 2400 prohibition cases are waiting trial and more piling up dally. The courts are so congested that many offenders have been arrested as ROYALTY SEE WEDDING OF MARY five and six times without having yet been brotoght to trial on the first Throngs Cheer As Bridal Party Pass charge. From Palace to Church If all the defendants whose cases are London. Princess Mary, only daugh- now pending demand jury trials, the ter of King George and Queen Mary, calenders of the courts probably will was married Tuesday to Viscount be cleared about the time the Liberty Lascelles, with all the pomp and dig- bond Issues mature, somewhere way nity befitting a royal wedding. ' in the 1940's. The ceremony began in Westminister up cases In numerous judges have held abbey at 11 :30 o clock and soon thereto in moving the bargain days, help after the coyple were pronounced man and wife, while the chimes at West- business. They have left off light all minister rang out the happy mes-sab- e those offenders whej were on the docand vast crowds gave tumulous ket and who changed their pleas from not guilty to guilty, thus eliminatgreetings. The scene of the ceremony within ing the Jury trial. the historic walls of the abbey was Federal judges are not very pleased one of impressive grandeur, with the with the state of the affairs, according king and queen and the entire royal to rumor. Before Mr. Volstead made household participating and with all the federal the country wet, unlawfully ranks represented in the brilliant ascourts were dignified places, where semblage, while outside the abbey of law worthy of high legal points enthusiastic was popular homage minds were involved. given the bridal pair. Now, however, the judges complain, TREATY FAVORABLY REPORTED moBt of their time is taken up with bootleg cases, and the federal courts Along With Naval Limitation' and are nothing more nor less than police Submarine Facta, It la Passed On. courts, after a fashion, with the same Washington -- Finally effecting a shyster lawyers practicing in them as compromise reservation program, the practice In the police courts. foreign relations committee cleared The federal judges, in most cases, the way Saturday for transfer of the would like to have the Volstead act arms conference treaty debate to the amended so as to turn over the run open senate. of prohibition cases to the United The four-powPacific treaty, which States commissioners' courts for sethas proved the most troublesome of tlement the arms conference agreements In Many a lawyer who used to strugcommittee discussions, was ordered gle along with hardly enough pracfavorably reported with a blanket res- tice to make a living, and not enough ervation drawn by committee mem- brains to help it, is now a bootlegbers after consultation with President gers lawyer, obtaining excellent fees Harding. . from defending bootleggers whenever Only the general far eastern and arrested. It is estimated that the numChinese tariff pacts now remain on ber of lawyers practicing criminal law the committee calendar, and senate has jumped 200 per cent since the counleaders hope to bring the whole group try was legislated dry. of treaties into the senate proper adon i The latest wrinkle of the prohibition so that debate on them can begin as enforcement Is to Invoke agents soon as the vofe is reached on the abatement proceedings, formerly separate treaty relating to Yap. , used In red light cases, against property owners.' Prohibition agents, when Loan Soon Subscribed they find evidence of bootlegging, will New Tork The 75,000,000 guilder formally serve notice on the property loan negotiated by The Netherlands owners that If they continue to rent government with a group of Americnn to lawbreakers proceedings will be inbankers was' offered at public sale stituted to close their porperty for Moifday and the entire amount was one year, according to the abatement subscribed within half an hour. law. iHtt l- bThe very . . f AW, WHATS THE USE SEE SOME NEW TO PAY AMERICA . 15 MINUTES ELAPSE ThATS A good ONE Too GOT ANY MORE-- WELL -- HERE RE FEW MORE-JUS- T CAME IN YESTER- DAY I Washington, The Denver ft Salt Lake Railroad company applied Mont day to the Interstate commerce commission fet a government loan of with which to construct a tunnel six miles long on a portion of the road about 170 miles west of Denver. The receivers of the Denver ft Salt Lake railroad. In arguing for grant of the loan, declared the proposed tunnel would eliminate grave and serious difficulties which they now have to face In operating the railroad, which climbs to 11,600 feet above sea level. The tunnel would allohv them to reduce the highest elevation on the rail road to 9J)0 feet, and would eliminate twenty-sevemiles of 4 per cent grade over which their locomotives now have to climb In winter with rotary snowplows In front every day to maintain operations. If the money Is granted, the added, the line can be comple ted to its projected terminus at Salt Lake City, and a coal field estimated to contain 50,000,000,000 tons of bitumin. ous coal can be adequately served. The receivers estimated that the lower operating charges and the Increased efficiency attained by a long tunnel at the summit would result Immediately in an Increase of 200 per cent in the traffic. Also a very large area of Colorado now without railroad service, and much of It government land, the application said, would be made ava'lublo A Debt Will Be Paid In Full If Time Is Only Given; Common People, It Is Declared, Want Consideration In Time of Stress Paris. France wants to and will pay her debts to the United States. We ask only that we be given proper time. Under the Versailles treaty, France is Germanys creditor to the extent of $17,000,000,000, which represents about half the damages she suffered. France lias expected America to give effectivo help in collecting this sum, which is vastly more than the $3,000,000,000 she owes America. This help has failed us. I have never blamed Americas policy, but unquestionably its result has been to encourage Germany not to pay. Since the arms conference, we have paid out 80,000,000,000 francs advance on reparations and in pensions. During the same period Germany has been forced to pay but 9,000,000.000 gold marks, of which Belgium got 2,500,000,000, and France should have received 62 per cent of the remainder. But the occupation expenses had to be reduced. In such circumstances when debts are mentioned we do not say we will not pay that is Loucheurs phrase but we say we will pay, but are In a delicate situation, which warrants giving us some consideration. Who will say we are wrong? Let me recall here that It was I who negotiated the debts contracted by France in America from 1917 to 1919. When the money was lent no date for repayment was fixed, because it was recognized the future could not be known with cerainty. However, everybody at that time said that, and believed, Germany, w'hen conquered, would be obliged to pay. But the contrary 1b the case. Germany has paid hardly anything yeL and at such a moment the American congress votes a law fixing the dates and conditions for final payment. England has been less exacting. Such, at any rate, has been the common mans Impression In France, lie has said, It was not necessary. She has never said We will not pay. lie has said We have not been helped to collect what is due us, but they hasten to demand that which we owe. That is my countrys true sentiment, and you Americans must understand it as it is, for there is nothing which threatens your interests or your sentiments. With our 330,000,000 francs debt, with 80,000,000,000 already spent In Germanys place leaving 50,000,000,-00remaining to be spent in the same direction we are entitled to be treated with a certain consideration by our friends. This consideration is all that we ask and all that we will take. 0 for settlement Washington. A ship subsidy estl-- i mated at approximately $32,000,000 anj nually, to be provided for principally! by the diverson of 10 per cent of thq nations customs receipts, would be paid to the owners of American ships engaged In foreign trade under a btl Introduced Tuesday In the senate and house. The measure incorporates a subsidy plan proposed by the shipping board and indorsed by President Harding in a message read to a Joint ses-sio-n. Introduced in the senate by Chairman Jones of the commerce committee . and In the house by Chairman Greene of the merchunt marine committee, the bill set forth that the purpose of the direct subsidy provision is to aid the development and maintenance of the American merchant marine, to promote the growth of the foreign commerce of the United States and to contribute to the national defense. Other provisions of the bill would authorize the creation of a construction loan fund, to be administered by the shipping board and derived from the sale of Its vessels in addition to operating revenues ; require that not mofre than 50 per cent of the number of aliens admissible to this country In any one year be transported In foreign bottoms. Authorize the payment of an adtjb . tlonal montli's pay annually to officers and men of the merchant marine who shall enlist In the merchant marine naval reserve, which the bill would establish as a component part of any reserve force of the United State navy. By amendment of section 5 of the merchant marine act of 1920 the shipping board would be authorized and directed to sell Its ships us scion as practicable and consistent with good business methods'll) citizens of the v United States. . The base subsidy rate provided for all vessels, either sailing or of 1500 gross tons or noire, regardless of speed,: is one-ha- lf of 1 per cent per gross . ship ton per hulidred nautical All power driven vessels" between that tonnage and 1500 tons gross would receive the rate applying to the latter displacement. For vessels capable at a speed of thirteen knots or more additional allowances would s be provided ranging from cents for vessels of 1 cent to 2 with a speed of twenty-thre- e knots or more. The shipping bonrd would be authorized to Increase these rates up .to -double their amount whenever it shall determine that the base rate is Insufficient to induce the operation of lines and mainwhere the establishment tenance of service is considered necessary to promote the nation's welfare. Similarly It would be permitted to reduce the buse rate under special dr cumstances where It was considered. I ' desirable. Trade between the United States and the Phllllpplues and the Virgin islands Is defined for the purposes of the bill as foreign trade. The definition. ot : such trade excludes that off th&'urent well as trade between portg.' Lakes in the United States and porta Iff' for.,' 4 eign countries where the distance be-- , tween the vessels last port of call In the one and the vessels first port ol call In the other Is less than 150 ' ' miles. The bill provides that where net Income derived by an owner from vessels receiving the subsidy exceeds 10 per cent in any fiscal year, 50 per cent iff such excess shall be paid to the shipping board to be placed In the merchant manne'fund from which the subsidy wmuld be paid, although It li stipulated that this shall not exceed the total amount of compensation re ceived under the proposed law. "i Red Cross 8pends Millions The American, lted Washington Cross spent $9,782,000 last year In assisting disabled world war veterans, John Barton Iayne, national chairman of that organization, has announced. The principal service rendered was In putting the disabled in effective rain tion with the proper government agency in order to help them obta!.i that which they are entitled to from the federal government. SMOOT CHARGE8 ARE SUSTAINED Senate Report Shows Concerns Forced Premium In Order to Get Lolan Washington. Charges of Senator Smoot (Itep.) Utah, and other senators that borrowers from Joint stock lahd banks In some cases had been charged Illegal premiums, were declared sustained in a report made to the senate by Chairman Lobdell of the federal farm loan board. In reply to a resolution of inquiry l, adopted by the senate, Chairman in a letter discussing reports of illegnl charges being Imposed upon borrowers, said : That such charges have been made we know beyond question. Individual cases have been called to our attention and Investigation has developed others. Considering the number (of official loans) involved and the opportunity for extortions, we believe they have been surprisingly few. Chairman 'Lobdell added that the bonrd, when it learned that borrowers were required to subscribe for the stock of two Joint stock bunks at a premium in order to secure loans, had issued un order stopping the practice and requiring the banks to take up the stock and to repay premium plus interest. Lob-del- Clash Over Land Bill Boise. President Warren G. Harding wsb asked, through the medium of Idaho's congressional delegation, to veto house bill No. 77, by a massed assembly of 500 representative business men, stockmen, sheepmen and farmers, held In the house of representatives at the slatehouse a few days ago. This action was taken after the friends and the enemies of the measure were heard In dehate that lasted six hours, during which the lie was directly passed; charges were made that the biTl constiAt Odds tutes a land steal. and a demand was It Is difficult to get self confidence made for the resignation of Hugh and an empty purse to travel together. Sproat as president of the Iduho Wool, Boston Transcript. growers' association. miles-traveled.- two-tenth- 0 And He Looked Like Such a Good Prospect Too HOUR. HALF ELAPSES WELL, WEVE PLANED ALL ThE DANCE RECORDS IN THE STORE. NOW THEN RE. ALL DANDIES ME, IT5 -BE- LIEVE HARD TO . GUESS. ILL HAVE To BRING MY WIFE INTO . L, HELP ME DECIDE I I - |