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Show ) THE PAYSONIAN, UTAH BUDGET WHEN (Conducted by National Council Boy Scouts of America.) of" the SCOUT THEORY AS TO GUNS. The use of the rifle for boys in mass has been proven extremely dangerous as well as of little practical value. To adequately equip the large membership of the Boy Scouts of America would involve not only the expense of rifles, but cxpei.she equipment for the proper care and ure of the rifle. Moreover, it would involve a change of laws in most of the states of the Union. . Under these conditions the Boy Scouts of America have proceeded on i t e theory of doing the things which were most serviceable for the character development and citizenship training of the boy and of the greatest service to the state. The wisdom of this course in the last eight years from a purely military point of view is fully justified by the splendid support of General Pershing and other military and naval authorities, under whoyi over 100,000 former scouts and scout officials are now doing active military service. The Boy Scouts of America have at all times encouraged marksmanship and the use of firearms under proper supervision. Indeed, from the very start a merit badge for proficiency in marksmanship has been offered, stipulating, however, that all practice and the test for this merit badge must be on an approved rifle range under adequate supervision. This condition reveals the basis of concern on. the part of the Boy Scouts of America with reference to the use of firearms. It is realized that without proper safeguards the use of firearms by boys in their 'teens is dangerous, and the Boy Scouts of America exercise very strong leadership in avoiding the dangers involved. ' SCOUTS FIND BLACK WALNUT. The requirements for gunstocks and airplane propellers are larger than the unaided efforts of the walnut manufacturers of the country promise to supply. This is due entirely to Hie lack of walnut logs and not at all to lack of machinery for manufacture. The Boy Scouts of America are ensearch for gaged in a country-wid- e black walnut trees and are proving particularly effective in locating large, old trees, which abound in the longer settled parts of the country. For several years past the walnut industry has come to depend upon the middle West for its logs. The present need has brought into the market walnut trees which were not for sale a few years ago, and the scouts have been valuable In locating these. Reports of all trees over 12 inches In diameter are forwarded by scoutmasters to the forest service and are The forest service there tabulated. acknowledges receipt of the report and the war department brings the owner and the log buyer together. The scouts so far have reported enough black walnut to make 4,600 carloads, but the government needs far more than this. THE SCOUT LEADERS CHANCE. There Is an opportunity in this work of being a scoutmaster if one really wants an opportunity. The material Is given to the leader of a troop at a stage when It Is most pliable. You are perfectly competent to. become an expert and thereby hold the respect and the admiration of the boys now. Tut the American boy in his rightful place, which you can do because he floes love adventure, because he does have in his blood that which makes him Infinitely harder to handle and better when he Is finished than any other boy in the world. You are going to do a piece of work that this country needs more today than ever before that of making the American boy Into a real American man through making him do things Utah branch of the League to Enforce Peace has decided upon Monday, December 9, and Salt Lake for the holding of a state convention. William B. Fowles, 26 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Fowles of Hooper, has been killed in action in France, according to .the advices received by the parents from tile war department. Tlie first battalion, seventieth railway engineers, which was organized at Fort Douglas this summer, is soon to be moved from the local post, accordreceived from ing to information Washington. Stockgrowers of the intennountain region will obtain such financial aid from the government as they may need and the Salt Lake branch of the federal reserve bunk will receive applications for loans. Resolutions of Indorsement of the farm bureaus of Utah and of appreciation of the splendid work done b.v these organizations were adopted by the Utah state council of defense at its meeting last week. But two Salt Lake dairies are supplying milk which is below the standard set by the city board of health, according to the report issued for past month by tlie milk and dairy division of tlie city health department. Among tiie benefits that tlie Utah State Automobile association is striving to get for its membership is a reduction in tlie price ol gasoline. The claim is made that dealers are charging about 6 cents a gallon more than they should. Every boy and girl in tlie high school and the grammar grades is helping to harvest the sugar beet and potato crop at Spanish Fork. The schools closed October 14 to allow the students to help in the fields, because of the scarcity of labor. A small arsenal reposes in the office of the fish and game commissioner at the capitol. The munitions include fifty-twshotguns and twenty rifles. These weapons have been taken from foreigners in Utah, and will be auctioned off in tlie near future. ' Attempting to run an automobile load of liquor into Salt Lake, Joseph Sollis ran his car inter the ditch at North Sqlt Lake, and as a result he is in the county jail, qnd Ruth Quinn, who was riding with him, is in St. Marks hospital badly bruised. Stockmen of Huntsville loaded thirty-fiv- e carloads of sheep Sunday and shipped them to tlie winter range near Lehi. The animals have been ranging east of Huntsville during the summer and fall and this shipment marks tlie first of many to follow. Talk turkey Is going to mean real money this year, according to William M. Boyden, state food inspector. For, according to Mr. Boyden, the war, influenza, starvation in Texas and drought in Utah have caused the birds to soar unusually high on the local market. eleven graduate Four hundred nurses have registered with the Utah state board of examination and registration of hospital trained and graduate nurses, according to a report made by the board, which shows that seven hospital training schools have, been recognized by the board. In spite of the fact that deer throughout the state have been Increasing rapidly during the past few years, the present law prohibits tlie hunting of those animals until the fall of 1920. Reports from the southern portion of tlie state say that there are now more deer than have been seen in years. Financial success far beyond the hope of its promoters was realized in the day outing, staged Wednesday, August 14 of this year at under the auspices of the Lagoon, Utah 'chapter, National Fraternal Congress of America. Last week a check for $750 was turned over to tlie Y. M. DOINGS. A troop In Seminole, Fla., cleaned up the cemetery and helped to plant the school yard In grass. A lady in Portsmouth, N. H found he house In flames after leaving an electric flatiron. She signaled to 8 boy scout who was sailing on a raft some distance away. The scout knew it would be slow work getting the raft ashore, so he plunged Into the river and swam to the burning building. Coupling up the garden hose, he soon Lad the fire under control. pioneer, William Price Appleby, lawpony express rider an'1 early day yer, died at Salt Lake. October 25, at Mr. Appleby, tiie age of 80 years. who was a native of New Jersey, came to Utah at the age of 11 years, and lias resided here since. Extreme effort is being made by J Edward Taylor, head of the production department of tlie Utah food administration to provide cars for the the shipment of cattle and sheep from district near Thompsons, the stock-meof which have made an urgent anneal. n GOOD Diamonds You will And no better diamond than those we offer you. They are made right, look right and are sold right. Diamonds are becoming more valuable each year. Our prices are , modest ROADS ECONOMY IN GOOD HIGHWAYS Good Demonstration Made by Motor- truck Firm in At Its meeting in Chicago the United States Chamber of Commerce adopted a resolution that the government, through the president and the director general of railroads, be petitioned, among other things, to complete trunk highways for heavy traffic where they can be used in relieving railroad congestion. Note the phrase heavy traffic which calls, not merely for graded highway rights of way, hut fer hard surface, cement, asphalt or brick roadbeds capable of sustaining the heaviest trucks and dependable in all sorts of weather. The day is coming in fact, it is here when such highways are almost an absolute necessity. In some sections of the country, due to railroad inadequacy, to meet the traffic dey highways mands, paved are indispensable to commerce and community prosperity. So, while we are building roads let us build them, not for today, but for the days to come, says Atlanta Constitution. It will be cheaper in tlie long run, and vastly more satisfactory from the word go. s The saving, and the time economy, in hard surface roads were clearly demonstrated by a 'Northern' motortruck firm in a practical test completed some time ago tlie regal wrap pictured. It covers Its when a consignment of heavy merwearer from neck to shoe top, looks chandise was moved overland from warm and is' warm, and it is really a Detroit, Mich., to Toledo, O. The total pay load carried by a splendid achievement ")f the cloth manfour-to- n tractor truck and two trailufacturer and the designer. One wonders where all the pelts ers was 12 tons, says Automobile The come from that go to make up everTopics in discussing the trip. present furs. It seems as if many load was distributed as follows: Two five-to- n species of animals must become ex- tons on the truck, six tons on a trailer and four tons on a three-to- n tinct before long. In the meantime trailer. The trip was made in are showing their ability to take the place of skins and may grad- eight and a half hours over 48 miles ually replace them; at any rate they of cement and asphalt and 12 miles of are already joining forces in making dirt road. Almost exactly1 as much was required to travel over the wraps that are everything we could dirt road as over the cement, because wish for. cross-countr- dollars-and-eent- A splendid fabric appears at its best tn the rich and stately wrap which is shown in the picture above. The design reveals an understanding by its creator of the fitness of, fur fabrics to the making of ample and 'luxurious garments. This one is a longhand beautiful draped cape to which sleeves c is an have been added. The Imitation of broad tail and it is finished with a marten collar and cuffs. Each serves to set off the other; the fur and the fur fabric are rivals in . . beauty. This is one of several very handsome wraps in which furs have been made up with fur fabrics with an effectiveness not equaled- - In the past. Among them there are long coats, in which very wide borders of genuine fur form half the length of the skirt portion and collar and cuffs are very large. A variety of plushes which Is the other name for fur fabrics made up with a variety of furs, have result ed in some entirely new and very 14-somcoats, but nothing finer ' in de- sigh has been offered this season than fur-fabri- e fur-fabri- t-- A Slip-Ov- Blouse. blouse is of white pretty slip-ovdotted Swiss with deep circular yoke of white organdie, to which the dotted Swiss blouse and sleeves are attached. The organdie yoke is rounded out at the throat and finished only by a corded piping. Cuffs are of organdie and the long sleeves o,f dotted Siyiss. Swiss and organdie are joined throughout the blouse with lines of hemstitching. A er r-- . Winter Hats More Colorful i BOYD PARK Practical Test founded ieee Quite Recently. MAKERS MO MAIN STRICT of jewelry CITY SAIT LAKE BARGAINS IN USED CARS Oldsmobiles, gplendirf used Guaranteed first class to $800. lernia if wanted by running condition-ea- sy right parties. Write for detailed lm and descrip tion, Used Car Dept.. Randall-Dod- d Auto Co., Salt Lake City 50 EXPERT KODAK Finishing professional photographers do your 144 South Main Salt Lake City Have r.i..ki ig'SHiPLERS Cameras Films Supplies If you want big wages learn barer trade- Many small toWns need barbers; good opportunities open for men over draft age. Barbers in army have Get prepared good as officers commissi' in few weeks. Call or write. Moler Barber Lake City. Salt West S. St., 43 Temple College, UCID UfASTrn I tl ntLr lRn GLOOMY OLD FRONT PARLOR Furnishings Served to Remind Beholders of Particularly Solemn Mortuary Chapels. The mansard sheltered the accumulations of two or more Garland housetastes. It was a holds of debauch of black walnut and haircloth in a twilight of heavy lambrequins and large figured wall paper. Never In all my twenty-tw- o years had I beheld so tables gathered under many marble-toa single roof. There were three In the parlor alone. One bore a Rogers group Coming to the Parson, It was called; another a stereoscope with views of the Yosemlte and the centennial of 1870; the third served as pedestal for a case of pallid wax flowers. On the walls hung oils of mountain scenery which It would have crazed a geologist to classify. The sitting room across the wide hall was even worse. It was bullied by the ugly bulk of a secretary with vicious rams heads carved on Its lower doors. Second In massive gloom was a black marble mantleplece crowned by a black marble clock with a limping tick and an asthmatic chime. Tables filled the spaces unclaimed by haircloth sofas and chairs, and a whatnot bestrode q corner. I was now prepared to find The Maldens Prayer, and I did, poor maiden, neatly done In best female academy style. . There was also a bronze plaque of ton Crossing the Delaware. It was a bad crossing. None of the pictures were Inspiring, but one at least was appropriate. It portrayed the youthful Victoria In her nightie receiving the news that she was now queen of Great Britain, defender of the faith and high sponsor for art Womans Home Companion. p Partners In Joys and Sorrows. . writer says in the American Magazine: It is a good phrase we have for describing women, partners of our joys and sorrows. I know not how it may be with other men, bnt It Is thus with me: in the regular routine of. Ilf A Highway in Ohio. there was no foundation to the ro.id and both the trailer and trucks sank. Three fourths of a gallon of oil and 22 gallons of gasoline were used on the trip," The real pith of the argument lies In the fact that almost as much time and, of course, more oil and gas was consumed in traveling 12 miles of dirt road as was required to make e the 48 miles over the Improved hard-surfac- highway. And again: Consider the differ value of the respective types of road to the abutting property and to the county and the state containing them. ence C. A. Mothers, wives and sisters of soldiers in France may have tlieir pictures taken without expense, if they will notify Mrs. Sherman Armstrong, chairman of the Utah Mothers kodak committee. It is planned to send kodak photographs of familiar home scenes to tlie Utah boys now serving in France. W. F. Jensen, commissioner of comand P. J. Moran, mercial economy, well. state director of the Unitod States service, will he the deledeSCOUTS OWN FLYING BOAT. gates from the Utah council of fense to Washington, for a con.erence When a boatload of survivors from November 11 and 12, at which every the torpedoed steamship Carolina state council is to be represented by landed at an Atlantic port, scouts an equal number of delegates. Senator States United promptly organized for a search for Former others. Thomas Kearns,, who died October 18, This scout council already had a 1918, left no will. Statement to this motorboat with a speed of 35 miles effect is included in the application per hour and a power flying nade by tlie widow', Mrs. Jennie J. boat. In addition to these they se- Kearns, for letters of administration. cured a tub whose crew agreed to reIn the fourth Liberty loan Salt Lake main on duty as long as needed. subscribed $11,115,150, the subscribThe organization was advised by ers numbering 50,140. Tlie quota of naval headquarters not to go to sea, subscribers was 31,200 and the amount so the motorboat and the flying boat This is more than was $10,212 700. were used not far from shore. $900 000 above the allotment. BOY SCOUT FUR MEETS FABRIC tl-- e o PAYSON, UTAH For some reason the millinery of; midwinter is more colorful and somewhat more elaborate than that which ushered in the fall season, although; the simply trimmed hat cannot he outclassed. But variety is the spice of millinery as well as of life, and some of the latest arrivals in the assemblies of midwinter hats are far front simple. The hat at the center of the picture is an instance of this new departure. In the face of a vogue for sedate colors and meager trimmings, its designer has chosen to be audacious and has vindicated her choice by making a beautiful hat. It is a picturesque model with a wide brim, faced with d crepe and edged with a double frill of velvet in time cool brown called elephant. The brim is wider at the left side than elsewhere and has as many graceful turns and curves as the edge of a flower petal. A whole company of small curling ostrich heads which is the millinery name for little plumes finds a resting place on it and they are of the same shade of brown. The crown is rather high and lifts at the left with a band of tucked belting ribbon about it in r ' rose color. Just to show that quite aiot'bf trimming can be used successfully, rather large brown beads are set at wide Intervals about the upper edge of the ribbon, and even the lovely little ostrich plumes are not left alone In their glory brown Japanese aigrettes spring up among them. Another lovely midwinter hat, at the right of the picture, brings visions of theater parties weddings and 'all sorts of bright assemblies. It is of taupe velvet faced with silk in three rose-colore- pale rose, blue and lavender, in hands inside a border of taupe on the underbrim. It Is one .of the few hats that have very flourished in the midst of much more numerous small ones. At the left a brown beaver hat with a crushed collar of velvet about the crown has only a fancy pompon of uncurled ostrich for ornament. There Is a furore for heaver hats and therefore it is sure of as much consideration as Its more trimmed rivals. In LOADS AT END OF GOOD ROAD colors, wide-brimm- Feel New Shoes Rule Soon. The government ban on fancy shoes, which will limit the styles and delightful tints of miladys footgear, will begin to make Itself felt in a short time. Cutting of the new shoes, according to classification, height and style, is said to have begun in factories throughout the country. Retailers and wholesalers are given until June 1 to dispose of tlieir present stock of shoes at the present prices. After that time shoe dealers will carry only the regulation grades of .shoes, ranging in price from $3 to $12, all of which will bear the government stamp, classifying them In the three grades, as follows: Class A, from $9 to $12; class B, from $6 to $8.50 ; class C, from $3 to $5.50. Fur and Beads. An astonishing Parisian turban, de signed by Lucie Hailiar, has a crown of kolinsky fur, while the rest is muds up of gold beads twinkling through thin folds of crepe In sett brown, to mato red, and white. V Double Amount of Team Power Required to Haul Wagons Over Unimproved Country Highway. To see what happens at the end of the good road, a public road specialist of the department of agriculture recently had observations made in different sections of the country. Observers noted many country-boun- d teamsters who drove two loaded wagons, hitched one behind the other, to the end of the good r6ad, where they left one wagon by the roadside to be returned for later while all the power of their teams was devoted to hauling a single wagon over the unimproved highway. Farmers bound for market frequently were seen to haul, wood and similar products to the beginning of the good road, there dumping them and returning for a second load. When this arrived, the two loads were consolidated and easily hauled by a single team the remaining distance to market over the improved road. Price of Good Roads. If a carpet will protect a floor then a blanket on a road, If maintained, Is conservation: Many an old macadam road can be saved if taken In time. Perpetual maintenance is the price of good roads. Crooked Road Is Dangerous. With - modern means of traffif a crooked- road is a dangerous road, therefore, every road builder should endeavor to straighten his gutters. Besides, crooked gutters have a bad when nothing much is happening, when the days go by one after the other filled with their monotonous rounds of duties, I can, if necessary, exist for long periods without the company jaf women. In such days and weeks they are sometimes, to be sure, a pleasing distraction ; but they are not food and drink and shelter. I can. If need be, survive. But let success break through the monotony of 4he dally grind; and I must have a woman to share it; half its sweetness is lost otherwise. And n failure without their chatter and unquenchable optimism Is utterly Intolerable. I say I know not how It may be with other men, bnt It Is thus with me. God-give- All Sailora Superstitious. sailors are superstitious, but none Is so completely under this Influence as the old deep-se- a fisherman. He puts the deepest faith in signs' and omens of all kinds. Nothing would induce a skipper of the old school to sail on Friday. One Intrepid unbeliever who dared to leave the docks at Grimsby, England, on a Good Friday was hooted through' the look gates by the scandalized populace. In spite of thus challenging the fates, however, ho returned safely with ship and crew. All - Superstitions of Seamen. ill at sea, his most critical time Is when land is first sighted. If he survive an hour after the sighting of land he will recover. On some trawlers whistling Is forbidden It scares away the fish. Other skippers believe that to wash your face In the middle of a trip will break a spell of calm weather. If a man Is Tracing Use of Lightship. The first lightship, the Nore, waa established in England in 1732,. at the mouth of the , Thames. The first in this country was stationed in 1820 in Chesapeake bay, off Willoughhy Spit. Sandy Hook, now Ambrose, light vessel was established In 1823. A light vessel was placed. off Cape Hatteras In 1824 and was driven ashore in 1827, and a ship was not established again In this dangerous position until 1897, after unsuccessful attempts had been made to build a lighthouse on Diamond ShoaL . ' |
