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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH her thus. You dont know tow Tve missed you! "Its pleasant to be missed, said Hilda, and the music of her voice in his ears robbed the little bromidium . Where Money Was of Apparently the national park service was asleep at the switch, for the new yater power act .permits the filing of applications for power sites in the national parks. The power commission consists of the secretaries of war, interior and ' agriculture. Secretary. Payne protested to the President, holding that the granting of a national park power permit should be only by act of congress. Then came the pledge v by Senator Jones. The official statement of the na tionai park policy is fThat the national parks must be maintained In absolutely unimpaired form for the use of future generations, as well as those of your own time. The organic act creating the national park service specifies that the purpose of the national parks is "to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein. Applications for permits, however, have already been filed in Grand Canon, Yosemlte and Sequoia. Friends of the national parks have already begun the bombardment of congress, the women being especially active. A glance at the list of memorials, petitions, etc., shows protest from womens organizations from Rhode Island to California. . WASHINGTON. One of the first at this session of congress was a bill (S. 4554) to amend m act entitled An act to create a federal power commission; to provide for the improvement of navigation, the development of water power, the use of the public lands in relation thereto ; and to repeal section 18 of the river and harbor appropriation act approved August 8, 1917, and for other purposes, approved June 10, 1920; referred to the committee on commerce. This bill was introduced by Senator Jones of Washington, chairman of the committee on commerce, who pledged himself to this action to Secretary Payne of the Interior department before the President signed the water power act last June. To Group the Federal Government Jobs N to be considerable THERE appears movement to : . Resolved, That there be appointed a special .committee of the senate to be composed of 10 members, 6 to be chosen from the majority party and 4 from the minority party, to consider measures for the reorganization of the executive departments and the creation of a department of public works and a department of public welfare. Senator Jones of Washington submitted the following concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 32), which goes fully into details: Resolved by the senate (the house of representatives concurring), That a joint committee of the house and senate, to be composed of five members of the senate, to be appointed by the vice president, and five members of the house of representatives, to be appointed by the speaker thereof, be, and the same same is hereby, created and authorized and directed to investigate the various activities of the several departments and agencies of the government and submit reports to congress from time to time recommending the reorganization of the various departments and agencies and the plac- - ing under one department . or agency the various activities of the government relating to the same or correlated subject matter, with a view to doing away with duplication in government work and promoting efficiency and economy In the government service. The committee shall submit a final report to each house of congress on or before the first Monday of December, 1923, unless further time be given by a resolution of congress. Said committee or any subcommittee thereof is authorized to sit during the sessions of the senate and the house of representatives arid during any recess of the house of representatives or the senate or of congress; to employ experts, clerks, stenographers, and such other assistants as may be necessary, etc. The department of public works in the Knox resolution would be the re- organized Interior department. t Protection for Maternity and Infancy nette Rankin, National Consumers league; Miss Lena M. Phillips, National Federation of Professional and Business Women's clubs ; Mrs. Arthur C. Watkins, National Congress of - Mothers. Some of these organizations are very The General Federation of large. Womens Clubs is known to have a membership of about 2,500,000. That the women of the country want this bill passed Is .evident from the flood of petitions .presented to congress. In a single number of the Con. of eleven Representatives of women have created a Joint congressional committee to work in Washington for the passage of various measures, bill among them the Sheppard-Towne- r to provide protection for maternity and Infancy. Among' tlie members of the committee are Miss Ethel Smith, tfiiion Trade Womens National league ; Mrs. Kate Trenholme Abrams and Miss Lida Hafford, General Federation of Womens Clubs; Mrs., Ellis Yost, Womens Christian- - Temperance union ; Miss Louise Stanley. American Home Economics association; Miss Mary OToole, District of Columbia Woman Suffrage association ; Mrs. Maud Wood Park, chairman National League of Women Voters; Miss Jean " gressional Record are these petitions: Fruit Hill Womens club. New Providence, R. I.; Ragozza club of Rock' residents of Washington ford, 111.; county, Pa.; Womans' Club of Dover, N. H. ; Womans Club of New London, N.' H. ; Womens City club ol Calais, Me.; P. E. O. society, Dorcas society and Monday club of Dicfclnson, N. Dak. ; Economics club of Ryder, N. Dak.; Mrs. J. A. McConnell of Crockett, Texas, chairman County League of Women Voters ; Dane County (WIs.) League of Women Voters; Womans Literary union, Portland, Me.; Strea-to- r (111.) federation of Parent and Teachers clubs; Womans Club of York,' Pa. ; Texas Federation of , ; ' Sure; Why Spoil a Perfectly Good Lake? DAKOTA evidently knows a SOUTH thing when she sees it and wants to keep it, especially if Uncle - - Sam is willing to pay the bills. Anyway, Representative Sterling of that state presented a resolution of the leg islature of South Dakota in favor of the enactment of legislation relating to appropriations to reimburse owners of land flooded by government artesian wells, which was referred to the committee on public lands, as follows : . Be it resolved by the house of representatives of the State of South Dakota (the senate concurring) Whereas the congress of the United States in years past has appropriated money for the sinking of four wells on the shores of Lake Andes, in the County of Charles Mix, State of South Dakota, for the purpose and object of keeping said lake filled with water to at least its normal depth, which result has been fully and successfully realized, to the great pleasure, satisfaction and enjoyment of the general public, and all persons Interested, with the exception of certain landowners, whose lands abutting the shores of said lake have become Hooded and covered with water; and 1M1, by MeClur . Whereas the owners of said flooded lands have instituted proceedings with a view of inducing congress to, appropriate money for the draining of said lake to such an extent as to reclaim their flooded lands, which if done will, to a very great extent, destroy the beauty and benefits of said lake : Therefore be it Resolved by the legislature of the State of South Dakota, That the congress of the United States and our senators and representatives in congress be, and hereby are, memorialized and petitioned to appropriate a reasonable amount of money to indemnify and reimburse the owners of said flooded lands, and that no action be taken or money appropriated for the draining or lowering of said lake. Newspaper Syndicate.) There Professor : Latham goes ' girl again with the Prescottand Ruth Cole drew her companions attention to the. occupants of a low hung, maroon roadster, one of whom raised his hat as they sped by. The woman with Miss Cole nodded pleasantly. She was a slim, graceful person, not at all showing her thirty-fou- r years, nor exhibiting In her attractive face any of the ravages which might possibly be expected after twelve years spent instructing giggling, irresponsive girls in the intricacies of Greek accents and declen1 - . sions. He's rushing her for fair, rambled on Miss Cole, and who can blame him if he believes in that old adage, Dont marry for money, hut go where money is I Her money must look pretty good to anybody struggling along nowadays on the salary of a professor in a woman's college. But what she sees in him is what gets ' me! Hilda French turned her head away to hide an annoying but uncontrollable flush. Hes very interesting to talk to, she returned quite steadHy. Well, you ought to know, --considering hes the head of your department, and Ruth dismissed ' the subject for something more' vital to her own interests, . But Hilda's thoughts did not change their channel, even though she managed very creditable replies to the others inconsequentremarks. And she wasn't woqderlng what Celia Prescott saw in John Latham. What did John Latham see in Celia? It must be something visible to no other man, for after six seasons as a bud, Celia still bloomed unplucked from the family tree, although three younger sisters had blossomed and gone their way to adorn homes of their opn. The truth of the matter was that John Lathams head was temporarily turned. When a man gets to be forty unmarried, almost any young thing not too homely, possessing clothes which in themselves are a lure, and every kind of device for making the time pass pleasantly, such as automobiles, speed boats, wonderful summer and winter homes, can get in her work without any help from Cupid. Hilda, watching the affair not disinterestedly, was convinced Celia would succeed. And when one memorable afternoon she handed in her resignation as instructor in Greek and it was received with Just the amount of pollto regret that might be expected, she felt . sure Celia bad succeeded. So Hilda quietly arranged her things in exquisite order for her successor, locked her door for the last time, gave the key to the janitor and went to ' the reorganize the executive department. Senator Knox of Pennsylvania introduced the ' following resolution for Senator McCormick of Illinois (absent in Europe) (fi commonplaceness. In fact, I came to er well, that for is, after you went, I found that a skillful coiner of translated Greek phrases, the man was bungling dread- By H. LOUIS RAYBOLD National Parks and Water Power Act its ' fully. But, Yes? encouraged Hilda, smiling ever so gently into his eyes. Oh, my dear! cried the man, suddenly casting to the winds the Sapphic love lore he had rehearsed and was trying in vain to recall. Longingly he held out his arms, the woman came, and the desperate moment was over. Then, a little later: I haven't much to offer you, dear. This summer begins my sabbatical year, for which I had been saving. . I Vvant to place its disposal in your hands. Shall we stay home and take a little house somenot where, or spend our honeymoon very lavishly, Im afraid In Greece? "Greece ! Hilda half closed her eyes. She was seeing it all the sky-1)- 1 ue waters, the yellow-gol- d sand, broken columns on grassy hillsides, white sails winding in and out the network of islands Greece! Wonderful she whispered. And how soon could you leave here? he asked eagerly. , My lease funs out next month, she said. Aghast, the man looked at her. Your lease? Why, yes, she said simply. Then, with true womans intuition about the man she loved, she divined his You know Cfelia Prescott thoughts. and I are cousins, and recently we botli inherited some money from an uncle out West. I gave up teaching and came here. At the time it meant a great, great deal to me. Now well, it sinks into Insignificance beside the gift of your love! - T IpssaassssaBaaaEaMBB Improved Ijtoacb IMMENSE SUM FOR HIGHWAYS . During Year 191 Over $400,000,000 Was Expended Rural High- -' , ways and Bridges.' fr During the calendar year 1919, 40 Union expended over $400,000,000 on their rural roads and bridges, the bureau of public roads of the United States Department of Agriculture recently announced. This total is made up of the actual cash, expenditures for such Items as labor, materials, supervision and administration, amounting to $389,455,931, and convict labor and statute labor, the value of which, not definitely known, Is estimated at about $132,000,000. So far as possible, all expenditures on city streets within Incorporated towns states of the y 1 . The straightforwardness and wife-to-b- e, REWARDS NOT ALL EQUAL Evidently Some People Place a Higher Valuation on Their Uvea Than Do Others. A week or two ago a tourist scrambling on the cliffs at Lulworth on the A little girl was sent to fetch some milk from a neighbor. She took with ,, her two cans. On arriving home she was crying and bespattered with mud. Mother saw at once that her darting bad had a fall and asked if rite had lost ail the mltk. , No, mother, not a drop. And how did my clever little dnr- ling manage that? mother asked. . I knew I was going to fall, mother, so I stood the cans down. London Answers. ' ,.1. X .... sim- plicity of her words carried conviction. Tenderly John Latham kissed his thanking his guardian angel he had sought her out before he ' knew. Dorsetshire (England) coast, slipped and fell, and though not Injured, was landed In such a position that he could neither get up nor down, says a correspondent. ' There he clung in great danger until the coast guards arrived. In order to rescue him a man had to be let down at the end of strong ropes, which were fixed to bars driven into the ground. It was a difficult and dangerous job, but at last they got the man up in safety. He thanked them, and handed them $L As one of the rescuers said dryly: Probably he knew best the value of The case brings to mind his life. another mentioned in a lecture given toy Dr. Atkin Swan. In a recent Alpine expedition his guide was able to reslive cue three climbers who were In danWell, John Latham did find time in ger of their lives. They rewarded between his pursuit of the heiress to him with two francs (nominally 40 wonder where and on what Hilda cents!) T conclude, here is a very . went to live. different incident. A farmers laborShe had said she wasnt accepting er in Yorkshire pulled his employers another position, and her salary had little boy out of a pond Into which he hardly been enough to enable her 'to had fallen. The fanner found that save sufficient to retire on. the lad was anxious to emigrate; so With her departure the man, for paid his fare to Australia and gave some reason, felt a strange sense of him $500 capital. Now for the seloss. And as time went on, he realyears later the quel. Twenty-tw- o ized slowly . but surely that Hilda farmer, now a very old man, received French had been his compensation word that his former protege had died for his work yes, just, that. Always, unmarried, and left him a sum of over beneath the fret of examinations to $40,000. be corrected, of marks to be computed, of students who blundered calMaxim Was Buiy in War. lously through the beauties of ills beFrom Hudson Maxim the naval conloved 'Greek, had been the restfulness board received in the war a of her serene, dependable personality. sulting of inventions and series improvements What a fool he had been Blind to her which proved valuable, says the New .wonderfulness when he saw her every York Evening Post. One of these had (lay, and only awakened to it when he to do with a new method of making no longer knew where to find her. For gun tubes by utilizing great hydraulic he had let her go without ascertaining pressure and thus permitting the man- he her address. Finally approached ufacture of a gun in one piece. Ruth Cole, between whom and himself - Another was an invention for mountwaged a perpetual war of ing large guns on railroad cars and languages versus the classics.' Miss securing the cars in concrete emplaceCole gave the iniormation. ments. In - the last two years the About that time Celia, inheriting army has been devoting considerable with her sister a portion of a legacy attention to mounting big guns In this from some eccentric unle out West manner. who had made a sudden fortune from Mr. Maxim also evolved an Illumian abandoned mine, had devoted a nating flare which was adopted by the part of it to the purchase of first edi- navy, a sea sled to. serve as a floating tions in which the dear professor must platform for a depth bomb gun and a machine gun mount which could be help her. The following evening a middle-age- d raised, lowered and operated with safeman, a bit stooposhouidered yet ty by a gunner In a trench. with' undaunted dignity, stood perSatisfaction in Accomplishment. plexed at the entrance of the Beile-terr- e apartments, those Theres a satisfaction In doing what albeit conservative, dwellings on others . find hard to do. The secret the w.ody turn of the Lakeview drive. lies' in the mind. Some1 folks get rich John Latham, turning his back on by- doing what la their recognized wealth, was socking love, expecting to rights. Others get rich by bringing find It Inhabiting a humble, something new to the attention of men abode. and showing them how the new thing Ushered presently by a will bless the race. This creates deuniformed maid into a room mand and causes riches to flow to him whose very atmosphere breatlie'd who controls it. But this new thing tasteful luxury, Latham brightly solv- must come from - your mind. Think ed the problem. Hilda French was and do and the world will take not taking care of some apartment in the of you. Cease thinking and you put owners absence. Ah that was it, un- up the sign of limitation and failure. doubtedly ! Lesson From John Bunyan. As Hilda entered in a clinging, The shepherds led the pilgrims to trailing gown which set off her slender figure so that she reminded, him Mount Charity, where they showed of some precious Greek vase, Latham them a mail that had a bundle of cloth forgot completely his surmises as to lying before him, out of which he cut why she was there forgot almost why garments for the poor, yet Ids bundle or roll of cloth was never the less. he was there himself forgot everyThis, said the shepherds, is to show thing but theloveliness of her. Hilda! he cried, Impulsively, as you that he who has a heart to give tc wher-wi- ih they shook hands, for never before, the poor shall never want l,ai. Buuvnn. John except to himself, had lie addressed Building an Highway. and cities and all items of sinking-fun- d payments or the redemption and interest payments on road and bridge bonds hare been excluded. The road and bridge expenditures for 1919 show an increase of approximately S3 8 per cent over those of 1918 and 70 per cent over those of 1914. More striking, however, is the increase in the proportion of the total funds supervised by the several state highway departments. In 1918 the expenditures by or under the supervision of the state highway departments amounted to $117,285,288, while the local road funds, over which they exercised no control whatever, amounted to $168,812,925. In 1919, however, the state highway departments supervised the , expenditure of $200,292,694 as against the total of $189,163,237 expended by the local .road and bridge authorities. . 1-- Becoming Increasingly Important Be. - cause of Largo Amount of Travel During Winter. Snow removal from highways is becoming ' increasingly Important because of the large amount of travel by ' motortrucks 'and automobiles. Several states have made appropriations for removal of snow from the main highways but in other states there has beeh no appropriation of funds for this purpose. Vast quantities of commodities must be hanied over the high ways next winter because of the lack of sufficient railway cars to move them, and state money, rather than local funds ought to be used to keep truck highways open. CONCENTRATION lacks MISDIRECTED Im afraid that boy of ours concentration. Oh, he has concentration enough, only Instead of uslhg It on the work he has to do he concentrates upon how to escape doing it" . . Meai, like men, Are forbidden to ihlrk, ' And bring grief now and then . By refusing to work. Economy. dear. Ive jnst been thinking that if we coaid afford to buy car that thousand-dolla- r He Yes? She Wouldnt It be Just splendid to one wo get that saw in the window? Cartoons Magazine. She George, Favored 8on of tho Highway. - REMOVING SNOW FROM ROADS : ! FOREWARNED. . First Tramp Dusty Duggins is do luckiest guy on de road. Second Tramp Ows dat? .First Tramp HeS a somnambulist, an does all his walkin in his sleep. Dat leaves 'im all day to loaf aroun an 'rest In. Tht Reason. There is a fellow Just got out of the dentists chair who has his nerve with him. "Did he stand the operation so well?"- - J V. . '' He wouldnt let the dentist taka the nerve out Reversing. An actress in preparing herself for the stage reverses all the usual rules . of art. . How so? She paints first and draws afterward. ... ... , . Y ' IMPROVED ROADS WOULD AID . Many Counties Rich In Agricultural ... Possibilities Arc Burdened With Poor Roads. The Provocation. v.-- -' hear they muzzled the speaker . at that meeting. I - But not before there bad been Fluctuations in market prices may have several explanations. They fre- some biting remarks. quently take place in regions where the local production does not equal the annual consumption. There are counties rich In agricultural possibilities, burdened with bad roads, where the annual Incoming shipments of - . - foodstuffs exceed the outgoing shipments in the ratio of four to one. Many such counties with improved roads could not only become but could ship products to other markets. TREES DO NOT INJURE ROADS Instead of Taking All Out It Would Bo Bettor to Thin Out to 50 or 75 Feet ' SCARED STIFF The Cur I thought Pug Dog tails Curled? . The Pug They do, but I saw a Spook last night, and it frightened me so the curl came out , ! Why cut down nil trees along the . Hard Hit highway being graded? We recently His brains in a whirl. saw two or three dozen large maples His years they are twenty: along a road taken out entirely. If f The cause Is a girl, aa be much better and would look Thats trouble usable if the row had been thinned to 50 or even 75 feet If the road Not 8o Now. were well made the trees would not Do you believe in an elastic cur' Injure it at all. Lets have some shade rency? to on our new roads. LeRoy Cady, asI want mine. Mastic enough sociate horticulturist. University Farm, stretch from one pay day to another, St Paul. anyway. . ' ' Plant Some Trees. you live on the south side of the road, plant some shade trees to shel- If In a, few years He lives on the farm where those big elms shade the . ' road. " ter the hot traveler. people will say: . The Feline Accompaniment Do you have a kitty in your poker J game? Not in Crimson Gulch, answered Three-FingSam. ' What we have is somethin' Id be more willin to de-- . n and tempera- scribe as a mental Bob cat full-grow- Determine Profits. Farmers profits are determined by . Hidden. the difference between production and . Whats that you say? I dont like for my wife to see me transportation costs and the selling ' prices. Production mnst cease when smoking. . 1 the transportation costs wipe Out tha suppose thats why you are difference. throwing out a smoke screen,. |