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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH SOVIET 511 News Notesin It's a Privilege to If Cantonese Capture Shanghai Salt Lake Poison and automobiles are to be used In a campaign about to be launched by poultrymen ot' Draper,. Salt Lake county, ior tho purpose of exterminating rats and mice Riot- which have been playing havoc among the feathered residents of that vicinity. An expert from the United States biological survey is to assist in the work, it Is announced by the county ing Will Follow, Is Claim Made farm bureau. Seattle, Wash. A picture of soviet, Russia playing a leading role In the Chinese civil war drama was drawn here by Lieutenant Commander J. B. Timberlake, U. S. N., upon his return to the United States after two years In command of the Isabel, flagship of the Yaugtzeriver patrol. "I have seen Russian aviators over Hankow and Russian officers in Chi nese uniforms on the Btreets," he said. 1 have seen posters showing a Chinese being waited upon at the table by a Nordic blonde servant. . It is no secret that the United States is regarded as an imperialistic government by the Chinese agitators. I have heard the drone of Russian aii planes flying low over the city of Hankow to drop bundles of antiforeign propaganda. At tho recent Hankow disturbances I supervised the embarkAmerican women ation of seventy-livand children on a boat loaned us by the British. If the Cantonese troops ever capture Shanghai, it is my opinion that a reproduction of the Hankow riots will be seen there. Lieutenant Commander Timberlake, e whose home Is In Raleigh, N. C., will await orders here. Churches Back Coolidge Call New York The Federal 'Council of Churches in America has cabled to tho churches of Great Britain, France and Japan a statement indorsing President Coolidges message regarding further limitation of naval armament and announcing that the congress of this country as a unit will stand resolutely Tho statement behind the president. will by disseminated among the churches of Great Britain by tho Christian conference of politics, .economics &nd citizenship, familiarly all known as embracing Copec, Protestant churches there. In Francs distribution will bo made by the Federation of Evanglical Churches, and In Japan by the National Christian council, embracing twenty GRAND HALL IS IN HEIGHT By EDWARD JOIfNRTOX IlERK IS A DIFFERENCE, most peoplo will toll you. In the creating of an Idea! In the mind and actually achieving that Ideal. When this hitter LaGcsItiit actually comes to pass there la causa to stress It to hold It up, as It weie, to the clear light of day that people may know of It. Few persons took with any considerable seriousness the announced objectives of the Famous Playera-LasUCorporation when It was formed, less than twenty years ago. It had secured the rights to present certain celebrated players of ths legitimate stage In a series of motion pictures, and the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, too, was looked upon as undertaking a somewhat ambitious program for those times In moving picturedom. So, when these two leaders In their held Joined Corforces under the title Famous Tlayers-Laskporation and there subsequently arose from that unto" hn Paramount Pictures, there wore querulously miuded persons who were moved to observe. "They have promulgated some colorful plans and enunciated some Idealistic notions, hu- tToday, with the passing , of years, Adolph Zukor, who founded Famous Players, may well n murmur: But me no huts " There Is ample In his achievements. Go, If the reader will, to the corner of New Yorks Forty-thirstreet and Seventh avenue where It effects a Juncture with Broadway and pare at the physical manifestation of what one may term Zukorlsm. For there, rising hundrtds of feet skywards, Blands an edifice which represents An Ideal. Imagination, It may be said, built that Btony edifice which towers with all the majesty and all the radiated power which Is today the physical realization of the potentiality of that Idea and Ideal held by Adolph Zukor some twenty years ago. y Jusll-Jkcatio- Time passed, and with It accomplishments, since a partnership had been arranged by Mr. Zukor and a friend wh'cli to sucly cess. But the spirit of enterprise burned steadily In the mind of this Imaginative man, and in 1303 the possibilities of the penny-arcadamusement enterprise appealed so to him that he formed a partnership with Mitchell Mark. Gradually the chain of thei.e places grew, tirst In one city, then in others. And then one day, visiting Pittsburgh, Mr. Zukor went Into a motion picture for the first time in hla life. It wae one owned by Harry Davis in what was known among Pittsburghers as Diamond Alley. Or.e may trace lightly the events which carried this resourceful man from that day to the one when, as motion picture sh irt-'esubjects developed, Adolph Zukor was fired w th another idea, lie foresaw the possibility of longer and more pretentious films; features, no les3, were dancing In the mlndB eyes of his bialn. moved-g-radual- e d The Realizing of Ideals And yet that edifice can perform no greater If It Is o stand In eloquent muteness as signifying the heights to which earnest producers are ultimately to ascend artistically. For that seems now to be a worthy objective, perhaps the worthiest objective, since a man is generally known by his achievements. Today. wlth science and Invention carrying the world forward more rapidly and to attainments hitherto only dreamed, Is the day of Service. To better each day's task In the effort bf tomorrow ought to be the creed of every forward man, and virtually Is. Adolph Zukor no doubt appreciates this fact; he scarcely could be the man he is if he were not conscious of It. So is it pertinent, and permissible as well, to Indulge in ths surmise that his pictures will prow steadily finer; that the presentation of piogranis In the notion picture theatres will by degrees achieve loftior standards, carrying with them the Improved tastes of the people who, under auch stimulation, must become spiritually and c dturally better citizens In all that the word lmpll-'S- . The story of Adolph Zukor Is one ot almost fantastic character. Born of humble parents la IUcse, Hungary, he camo to this country in 1SSJ. Whether he had 40 In his possession when ha walked ashore from the ship or only 2i, Ur. service Spain Presents New, Fast Ships New York Ttie Alphonso XIII, liner of the Royal Spanish Mail Line and said to be for her size the most exspensively and most elaborately equipped ship in the world, arrived from Spain on her maiden voyage to this port. Being too large for the companys pier in the East river, 6he d ,cked at the pier of the Navigaa-ionGenerale Italians in the North river. Among the passengers was Count de Guelle, grandee of Spain and director of the Royal Spanish Mail Line, who said that the line will establish a five and a half day service between New York and Vigo. Spain, to be opened in 1928. The Alphonso XIII and the Cristobal Colon of the same line will maintain a service every e Zukor himself does not remember, but It was an amount approximating one or the other. What was of pressing imp irtance, however, was to liud work to do. He entered the fur business as a cutter of various skins Filming Great Dramas It was In 1911, and almost IS the twlnkl ng of an eye came word that Sarah Bernhardt was prepared to accept aa engagement to appear In a filmed version of Queen Elizabeth. The sum ot 135.000 was stipulated as the amount to be put Into the production, In return for which Mr. Zukor and his partner were to be given the American and Canadian rights to the picture. The contract was signed on payment of half the amount named, and the remainder was pad over when the picture was begun. It proved an instantaueotis success. Mr. Zukor then turned to James K. Hackett, suggesting that this then famous actor appear in a film verstou of The Prisoner of Zenda. No longer was there any vestige of doubt concerning the practieable-nes- s of the Zukor Ideas and Ideals. Novel after novel was adapted for filming, completed and shown. And then something else happened Chancing to see the picture Jesse L. Lasky bad made in California of "The Squaw Man. Mr. Zukor was Impressed sufficiently to wire h.s congratulations to the producer. Not long afterward the two men combined their enterprises- and the upward march went on. The career of Jesse L. Lasky, first of the Famous Playets-LaskCorporation, has high lights in plenty which followed, one might observe, some shadows that went before. He was born In Fan Francisco and educated lu the grammar schools of that city. Following his high school giaduntlon, Mr. Lasky became a reporter on a San Francisco newspaper where he was occupied when the first Alaskan gold rush occurred. Enthused by the possibilities, Mr. Lasky joined the northward bound pilgrims and was one of the first of the one hundred men to reach Nome. But he found no fortune; and returning to his home city he became a piutuMional musician eventu Vice-Preside- ally sailing westward to Honolulu, wnere he took the leadership of the Royal Hawaiian Band of Honolulu. But pie motion picture had already begun to attract Mr. Laskys attention, and in HU 4, he formed the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company. Almost at once did the picturizations of well lupwn plays command public and expert mlenst, among them The Rose of the Rancho, The Girl of the Golden West, The Warrens of Virginia, and of course the picture that caught the fancy uf Adolph Zukor, The Squaw Man. When the combination of Adolph Zukors Famous Players with the Lasky Feature Play orgaui zation took place Mr. Lasky First Vue President, a post he has bi.iie occupied his activities are those of production director Westerner Plays Big Part Sidney R. Kent, general man.ig"r of Famous Players, stands as an example of success acUieied through hard work. lie is Western boy'; and no sooner had his grammar school course been completed than he was confronted with the nec of making the Intimate acquaintance of work. His family lived In Lincoln, Aebiuska, where ior three successive years the youthful Kent helped to stoke three boilers of a. greenhouse from 8 o'clock every night until 6 the, next morning The writer worked as a with Sidney Kent, several years later. In Milwaukee. It was that experience that makes It possible to a- - fellow-stevedor- record the sort of man S dui.v Kent Is though the occurrence was of twenty years ago The picture now Is clear in ths minds eye The chief job in hand at the time s unloading cement and lime from down In tho holds of large lake freighters. Kent could always be counted on to lift or carry more than his share of tb load, and do it with a smile. Out in Wyoming. Kents willingness to earr more than his share of ibe load made him Super intendent of a coal mine employiug 500 men But mining, though Interesting, did not tmoue Kent with the urge to continue at It for the remainder ot bis life. For. in 1912. he was attracted to a position ou the Pacific Coast with the American Druggists' Syndicate. Ju three mouths Kent had been made assistant and throughout the remaining three and a half years of bis association with that concern Kent was put In personal charge of the entire business as assistant to the President. It was by the merest chance that he found hla way into the movies, through the suggestion of a friend. "Fool that I was. observed Kent, I didnt know the first thing about the game; I just blundered Into It." Yet there Is a query attache to Kents query: Why, then, didnt he blunder out?" The concluding and conclusive answer would appear to be that finally he had found h square hole Into which his squareness i nt perfectly fitted. On January 8, 1921, Adolph Zukor finding the position ot General Manager open cast bis observing eyes In just one dire lion; to the place where Sidney Kent stooV sales-manage- u 1 Utah I U. S. NAVAL MAN TELLS OF SEEING RUSSIAN PLANES HOVERING OVER HANKOW Live twenty days hereafter. Poison baits are to be laid as one means of killing off the rodents, while another method will consist of attaching a hose to the exhaust pipe of an auto and placing the other end in a rat hole. The motor will then be started and the deadly gas forced into the underground retreats of the animals. Greenhouse planting of Draper tomato seed, in preparation for the coming season, will start at Draper soon, according to S. J. Miehelson, manager of the Draper Canneries company. Mr. Michelsen states that the tomato seed planted will be of an early variety, suitable for canning purposes. One hundred acres of tomatoes have been contracted by the Draper Company for the coming season at $11 a ton, an increase of $1 over last years contract price. entomologists ami Logan Forty-eigh- t plant pathologists from eleven western states and from governmental bureaus at Washington assembled at the Utah experiment s.tation for the purpose of cooidinating research work along the lines of controlling insect pests and plant diseases. The conference started at 10 oclock Thursday morning. Myton At a recent meeting of the Myton alfalfa Beed pool, which was organized by N. L. Peterson, the members decided to make arrangements, to finance the claims against each individual crop and bulk the entire pool. The seed will then be placed on the market. N. L. Peterson Is retained aa salesman of the pool. ' Monticcllo The fleet cf trucks of the Moab Garage company is being kept busy hauling steel culverts and bridge material from Thompsons preparatory to starting work on federal project This project consists of 7.1 miles and extends north from Monticella to the top of Peters hill. . It Is understood that work will start as coon as frost Is out of the ground. Provo Utah county farmers and business men will get together- February 12 in a social and business meus The object of the gatherprogram. ing is to unite met chants, bankers and farmers snore closely iu the production and sale of farm and manufactured products. The days program will begin with a meeting at 10 : 30 a. m., in the Bonneville ward social hall, and a banquet at 12:30, folloived by an automobile excursion to points of Interest in the county. Ogdon Horses in Utah are decreasing at the rate of 2000 a year, according to statistics compiled by the United States department of agriculture and announced on Monday by George in A. Scott, livestock statistician Utah. According to the report, the number of horses on ranges and farms in Utah on 1, 192-7- , was 104,-00or 2000 less than at the same time last year. Officials of the de partment of agriculture state that horse breeding may be a profitable business in five years. 7-- - 0, y Baldwin Works Profit $5,883,906 Sales of the Baldwin works in 1926 aggregated with a manufacturing $17,891,G6S, Other income, profit of- $3,811,253. including that from the Standard Steel works, a subsidiary, amounted to making a gross profit for the year of $7.66S,914. The net profit, after deduction of expenses and taxes, was $5,883,906. This was shown by the annual report made public recently. The report said the works had operated at approximately 40 per cent throughout the year, and that it was expected to operate during 1927 on a 50 per cent capacity basis. Philadelphia Locomotive - Boulder Dam Goes to New Congress IVashingtom Leading advocates of the Boulder dam bill a teach end of the capitol admitted that the bill is doomed and cannot become a law March 4. Senator Hiram Johnson issued a prepared statement saying: bill has been held The Swing-Johnsoup so long by the house rules committee that I am exceedingly doubtful If it can be passed through the various parliamentary stages at this session of congress." Representative Smith of Idaho, chairman of the house irrigation committee and foremobt house advocate of the bill, offered In the house lobby to "bet a hundred dollars, the Boulder dam bill Is reported by the rules committee before this time Asked if he would bet next week. the same or any amount that the blU would become a law this session. Sipith replied, I would not make that kind of a bet. bo-fo- n Calexico Center of Earth Shocks Calexico, Calif. Damage caused by a scries of severe earthquakes which rocked cities in the Imperial valley, centered here and was confined to buildings which had been rartly wrecked by the major disturbance of January 1, a survey completed disclosed. Tho quakes, the first of which was felt at 12:53 a. in. shook down cornices and loose bricks from a number of condemned buildings. El Centro and Brawley, where the tremors were said to have been the m$st 6ee re, reported no damage dons. contest on Myton A the part of the citizens of Mountain Home, Boneta and Talmadge has been brought to a close. When the count was made it was found that Mountain Home was in the lead with a total of 1100 and Boneta and Talmadge had more than 700 each. Boneta and Talmadge entertained Mountain Home at a supper and dance. The purpose of the diive was to remove the rabbits, which were becoming a pest to a great extent. rabbit-killin- g Salt Lake That the attractions of Salt Lake City have gained a worldwide interest was shown by a communication received here by Eli F. Taylor, register of the local U. S. land office. The letter is from Zuiich, Switzerland, and asks that pictures of of Interest in and about "Great Salt Lake be sent so that they may be used in a Swiss illustrated magasub-juee- zine. Myton As tabulated by the U. S. weather station at Vernal, conducted by A. Theodore Johnson, tho report Is as follows: From January 20 to 31 January 20, 13 below zero; January 21, 10 below; January 22, 15 below; January 24, 5 below; January 25, 5 below; January 26, 1 above; January 27, 1 above; January 28, 2 below; January 29, 6 below; January 30, 8 below; January 31. 6 below. For several days also during the first of the month It hoiered below the zero mark. Vernal Utah heaviest bodies of timber are in the Uintah range, where there Is estimated to be three billion board feet of mature timber; on the Aquaris plateau of the Powell forest, southern Utah, Is a stand of a billion and a quarter feet; and on the water-eneof the Sevier river a quarter cf a billion feet. Dalton The Utah state road comthe mission Wednesday approved contracts for the construction of the Coal Pit and Huber Wash bridges and the Dalton wash box culvert, on the Dalton to Rockville road In Washington county. d |