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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH no : ta BREAK LEVEES HUNDREDS OF HOMES BEING UNDATED IN PLACE CONSIDERED SECURE Natchez, Miss. Flood waters of the Mississippi river were pouring into Bouger swamp through four crevasses lu the lowef Concordia parish levees causing the backwater that already covered the territory to rise at almost an Inch an hour. Hundreds of persons who have clung to their homes as the Black river slotvly spread oat over Its basin were danger. Crashing through about twenty-twmiles below Vidalia at night, the river was roaring through a gap estimated to be 2vn) yard3 wide. The second creasse occurred about one and a quarter miles south of the Classcock slough. Waters rushed through the second crevasse between 4 and 5 o'clock Sunday morning and rapidly widened it to 120 yards. The other two crevasses, both estimated ICO feet in width, are In the levees at Bouger, eight or ten miles below Glasscock. o Rate War Declared on Pacific Lines San Francisco The Chronicle says an open rate war between shipping lines engaged in carrying canned goods and dried fruits from Pacific coast to European ports was forecast n here. The action of the Pacific conference, taken on March coast-Europea- UK ' the one hundred fifth anniversary of the birth of u remarkable Amer-lealie Is remarkuble In the sense thut Ails life story Is the paradox of a failure who suc 15, W. terms?" It is because Grants career was a dramatic ono and because his life story has In It so many dramatic elements thnt he Is such an Interesting figure. There Is the farm boy wiio become President" element and, despite the failures in bis career. It has, In Its general outlines, all the elements of the "success story" of which Americans seem to he particularly fond. As a military genius It is doubtful If he was the equal of half a dozen other generals In the Union and Confederate armies. But Grant, the soldier, was a picturesque character and It is easy to understand how the picture of this stocky, dark, taciturn man, chewing upon the Inevitable cigar, would appeal to the Imagination of a people so soon to become wedded to a gospel of efficiency and a tradition Intensified, albeit, by the movies of a strong, silent man" as an Ideal. Then there Is the mutter of epigrammatic utterance. We Americans are fond of laconic speech, of our great sayings by groat men, catch-wordslogans and the like. So why should we uot remember the man who said Let us have peace I" and whose brief "unconditional surrender" message to the general of an opposing army could by an Identity of Initials nuke It easy to read "U. S. Grant" as Ulysses Simpson Grant" or Tnroudltlonal Surrender Grant" or United States Grant" One other element Is the fart that the manner of his becoming President followed historic tradition so closely. The tradition was established when the new Republic made the victorious George Washington Its first President. The tradition was perpetuated after the war of 1812 in the gift of the Presidency to Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battte of New Orleans, and a little later to WUllnro Henry Harrison, the Old Tlppecunoe hero of another battle In that conflict. Zachary Taylor, the Old Rough and Reudy of Mexican war fame, was similarly rewarded by his country. So why should not the victorious general of the war between the states he elevated to the Presidency as soon as the opportunity . offered? Thnt question was answered In 1SG8 when General Grant became President Grant. Grant, the President, Is rather a dim, vague figure In our minds. It Is Grant, the soldier, who Is remembered, and for 300 years Guise two words have been synonymous. Ulysses Simpson Grant, was eighth In descent from Matthew Grant, who came to Massachusetts In 1030 and was surveyor of Connecticut for more than forty years. Although there Is no direct evidence of the fact, It Is not unlikely that Matthew Grant had a part In the Indian wnrs In New England and thus established the line of military Grants. At any rate the soldier strain cropped out early for Noah Grant. Ulysses and Solomon held British commisGrant, his sions during the Seven Tears or French and Indian war (1756-170and both were killed In the same campaign. Noah Grant, his grandfather. Joined a Connecticut company In the Continental army and perved throughout the Revolution from Bunker hill to Yorktown. Whether or not a Grant of Gils line served In the War of 1812 Is not recorded, but Ulysses S. Grunt, who served In the Mexican war and the Civil war, his son, Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, who served In the Indian campaigns. In the Rpunlsh-Amerlca- n war, snd In the Philippines, and his grandson, Capt. Ulysses Grant III, who perved bt the World war, were true to their soldier her- great-granduncl- ninety-- rate protection period on changes, has been rescinded as the first step in the conflict. Refusal of the Donaldson line and the Harrison direct line to increase their rates on canned goods and dried fruits, as agreed to by all other lines in the trade, it was said, precipitated the conference action. This action indicates that the other lines will meet the present rates of the two holdout lines. n. ceeded, not once, but many times. E. Woodward, author of George Washington: The linage and the Man," recently announced that he Is ut work on the reconstruction of another great American historical figure, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant., From other statements of his It Is evident thut he Is upproachlug his subject from the successful failure" angle. Grauts cureer was one of the most dramatic In our history," he says. At the age of thirty-eigh- t he was an obscure and beaten man, sitting silently around the stov In a country store. Ills opportunities were all apparently behind him. lie bad left the army under the charge of drunkenness and had found himself unable to make a living In business. Who would huve dreamed, at the beginning of the Civil war, thnt this seedy, discouraged failure was to become the great leader of the Union armlet and to be President for two and guaranteeing shippers a day k dipn us. GteAvriz; v vv . Chicago Reports Meat on Decline Chicago Prices cn all grades of meat ranged from 10 to 20 per cent lower during the past month, as compared with prices a year ago, said a monthly review of the meat and livestock market, Issued by the Institute of American Meat Packers', 't here waa a slight improvement In the foreign demand for lard and a better relationship between costs of materials and . Ituge and carried on the tradition of military service by successive generations of Grunts. After the (evolution Noah Grant emigrated to Pennsylvania and In 1799 he continued westward to Ohio. General Grant has recorded In his hauling trip, the man who later became the, memoirs that "Noah Grant was not greatest military figure of the worid, and Presl-- current product values than during the thrifty In the n tbe United WnT of States, wag dressed In a very previous month. laying up stores on earth" and financial Pork prices at reverses as well ns the death of hat, a Patched bbiuse and wholesale are on his wife In 1S05 a lower level," said panta shoved In the topB of the boot coat, had that n much wear. Not tl,e ! Uf Jesse Grant, the father of to make a living the report. Fresh pork loins are about e future President, was at rarmlng and wood being able next tried hls 20 per cent lower and fresh skinned a home by Judge Grant cutting, given nana in an endeavor to sell real estate u of Ohio and he and uol-eremained with Tod until he rents In t. LoiIIb. This venture was no more shoulders about 18 per cent lower than was old enough-fleurn a trade and strike out successful than the previous one. Prom St. Louis a year ago. Bacon I3 17 and IS per for himself. he moved to Galena,' 111., where he became a clerk cent cheaper. These reductions Averin a leather and hardware store owned At Ravenna, Ohio, Jesse Grant by hie age roughly from 3 to 6 cents a pound. established a father. tannery and later moved to Point Pleasant. Cler-nioThus a failure as a farmer and a business man county, Ohio. There, on April 22, 1S22, a was added to hls record. Flames Halt Rescue of Miners on was born alid given the name of IHram Tlie opening guns of the Civil war W. Va. The fate of seveFairmont, him brought Liysses. Grant was appointed to West Point In out of ltia obscurity, but again he seemed destined nty-six miners entombed in the lfsiU and It was at that time that IHram to failure. He offered hls services to the governmine for twenty-fou- r hours necarne Ulysses Simpson." In the course Ulysses" was undetermined as rescue crews of makment, hls West but, despite hls Point and the training ing appointment, Congressman Hamer of Ohio worked frantically to extinguish a fire Mexican war record, no one In was obliged to give the full name authority paid of his protege. much attention to him. Finally Governor Yates of in the blast-tortunnels. All rescue . Knowing, thnt the boy's name was Ulysses and work was while mining Illinois Offered him suspended the t Twenty-firsof the colonelcy his mother's maiden name was Simpson, at a regiment of Illinois Infantry, and on June experts fought the flames. The venture he wrote it down known dead Ulysses Simpson numbered 15, 1861, he assumed command of that fifteen, regiment. Grant. And po It remained through the remainder and rescue leadors feared that when From then on his rise was rapid until the end of Grants life. While his career at the they conquered the blaze and reached came at Appomattox, and, as the successful genmilitary academy ennnot be called a failure, at least It eral In one of the greatest confilcls the world has the trapped men, they, too, will be was fur from u success. The fact that his classever known, he reached one of hls greatest added to the list of fatalities. Nine mates distorted Ulysses" Into Useless'' has some injured men were in hospitals here, triumphs. p gnlflcanee. Except for his suierior horsemanone In a critical condition. Officials If the was a great success. Grant, soldier, ship, and proficiency In mathematics, he was never of the New England Transportation was the Grant, a politician, equally failure. great squarely at either end of the class, front nor rear Ills two terms as President proved that. Although company, owner of the slope, said thnt Mediocrity Is perhaps the most fitting characterizathere was much that was commendable In hls fire had been burning in the workings tion of Grant, the West Pointer. Ills class stand record as the Chief Executive, In the memory of since Sunday night. They said no Ing was so low that he served his fourth as year most Americans this Is overshadowed by the rescue men would go into the mine a privnte and at the age of twenty-on- e until Monday night, w hen an effort was he was scandals, resulting from misplaced confidence la graduated with a ranking of 21 In a class of 39. his friends, which marred Ills eight years in the to be made to reach the trapped men. His Interest In horses, both as a boy In Ohio White House. But through It all Grant, the man, and ns a cadet at West Point, had Debate Opens on Trade Union into crystallized with reputation unsullied. From this emerged a desire to obtain a commission In Loudon On the anniversary of last the cavalry failure went lie to the second great triumph of upon graduation. Instead he was appointed a hls life hls trip around the world during which year's general strike and with the second lieutenant In the Fourth echoes of the great May day demonIf this he was honored by other nations as few men was not Grant's first "failure," It Infantry of labor sounding In Its strations was at least hls before or since have been honored. first frustration, which Is so the house of commons will begin ears, the same nearly He returned to this country In 1S80 to find hls the debate on thing. He was ordered to Jefferson barracks In the most Important bill name proposed as a candidate for the Republican Missouri and while there hla dissatisfaction submitted to parliament since the war. with nomination for President and lie was not an army life beennte so pronounced thnt he deterBy this bill the government contemunwilling candidate. During the exciting days of plates making a general strike forever mined to resign and peek a In professorship the Republican convention the greatness of Grant, mathematics In some college. He Impossible, and at the same time applied for an the man, and the weakness of Grant, the poliappointment as assistant professor of nmOie-matlc- s hopes to cut the teeth of the trade untician, flashed forth again. There was a deadat West Point, but again he was frustrated. ion powers. The bill had Its genesis lock with neither Grant, Blaine, .Sherman nor In the wave of There was no such position open then. Before one Indignation which Garfield able to muster enough votes to get the swept the country a occurred, the Mexican war broke out and Grant year ago and Then Sherman nomination. the supporters pro- broke the general strike. Doubtless was a soldier on active Instead of academic posed to throw their strength to Grant If he the government counted on the service. And this .voting lieutenant, "fed surge up" on would agree to make Sherman a member of hla of that wave to life and carry the present bill, garrison seeking an escape, was the man cabinet. This was Grants reply, It was my bur apparently, in making the bill draswho a few years later wup to become commander Intention, If nominated and elected, to appoint tic as It has at the behest of of the greatest army ever assembled on AmerexJohn Sherman secretary of the treasury. Now- you tremists, the ministers failed party ican soil and the first American officer to be to take Not to be i into consideration the may he certain that I shall not. stir It would given the rank of general after that grade was United the I consent I rase hi the whole labor States of would ITesldent created by act of congress I world, and the that a bargain should be made." So James A. parliamentary contest over the measDuring the Mexican war Grant was promoted became the nominee nnd President ure promises to be such as has not Garfield to first lieutenant for gallantry at the battle of He was destined to know one more failure and convulsed the political Mollno del Itey and hrevetted captain for hls conatmosphere of on more triumph before the end of hls career. Great Britain for a docade. But If the duct at Chnpultepec. In 1853 he was commisHe- became a partner in a business firm which strom was unforeseen when the bill sioned a captain, hut by this time he was confulled and he was left almost penniless. The was dratted. vinced that he could not support hls family on a came to hls rescue and congress, by o country captains pay. special enactment In 1834, placed him on the American 1926 Cargoes Greater So In 1S34, much to the consternation of hls retired list of the array, as general with full pay family and hls friends, he resigned fforo the array. Washington American portB a position lie had resigned to become President In the words of one biographer; 20 per cent greater cargoes In thereto by enterprising editors, he set handled Urged 192G than in the The next year of Grant lit were any-thlpreceding year, when about the tAsk of writing hls memoirs, the sale but roy and atlfsctory. Having a wife the previous high record was set, the take would care of hls family. of which he hoped and child to support, It was necessary to get to work a quickly aa possible after quitting the With the phadow of death hovering over him ha shipping board announoed. The total volume of water-born- e army. HI fnther-ln-laforeign comhelped him out by putpersisted In his work and finished It a few days merce in of this country lAst. ting him on a small farm he owned In Missouri. ports before end died the came, lie 1S85. 23, The July Here Grant plowed and harrowed, fed and curried hla exceeded 112,900,000 cargo tons. horsca; built, with hls own bauds, a log house for magnificent tomb In Riverside park. New York' year The export total was 68,100,000 tons, hla family: cut down treoa, and converted them la more than the last resting place of Ulysses city, or 34.7 into cordwood, and then hauled It to the nearest cent greater than In 1925, Simpson Grant general nnd President. It la a most of per village where he tramped around the town huntthe Increase consisting of coal national of American who shrine, symbolical ing up customers. genius shipments resulting from the British usually purchased on credit which proved eternal. Upon these wood- for succeeding through failure. strike. More than Df i ct Ever-ettsvil- n . - evn w 44.800.000 Imported, an Increase of tons were par cent le Privilege to Liv in Utah Awve IN- - Concordia Parish and Parts of Several Others in Louisiana Covered By ELMO SCOTT WATSON A PRIL 27 of this year murks News f Notes It Milford Southern Utah beekeeper should harvest a good honey crop this ear, said D. H. Hillman,, state apiarist, Saturday, upon his return from a :our through Washington, Iron, Beaver ind Millard counties. In the extreme touthern end of the state roses, peas ind other flowers are blooming, but the alfalfa is not developing as fast as It should. Bees are entering the spring in good condition and with a food supply of wild flowers, which now appears probable, the surplus honey production should be large. Junction A few cases of bog cholera have developed in Circleville, apparently traceable to the Importation of a purebred male that was Infected. Dr. Swalberg, veterinarian, of Gunnison, and County Agent Morgan P. McKay spent Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in examining, quarantining and vaccinating exposed animals and they think they hade the disease checked. Pleasant Grove With conditions favorable for the 1927 fruit harvest and :he market outlook good, growers will be helping tlieir cause greatly by conducting an extensive early spraying, program and taking every precaution to assure a clean crop, In the opinioa of F. D. Atwood, secretary-treasure- r and general manager of .the Pleasant Grove Cooperative Marketing associar tion. Inasmuch as Utah orchards remote from the principal markets of the country growers In this-statmust offset the distance handicap with quality, he says. "The more attention given to spraying early in the season, and the more thorough the attack on Insects at this time, the less will be needed for heavy spraying later in the season, when the fruit is partially grown, explains Mr. Atwood. are-rathe- One of the Industries which attracting the attention of several farmers in the basin this year, while considering the subject of diversified endeavor, Is the raising of poultry. Several are engaging in the turkey Industry, while others are trying out the production of chickens, especially the large varieties, for market purposes. Bingham Rapidly metling snow in the mountains has caused anxiety over flood dangers here, especially in Markham gulch. Nine men fcere kept busy Tuesday night keeping the flume of the old Chicago mine open. William. Robbins, city watermaster, has borrowed men from the Utah Copper mine to aid In patrolling danger spots. The last bad flood in Markham gulch, was in 1923, when several buildings, were swept from their foundations. Myton is $50,000 will Approximately by the United States bureau of public roads on the south wing of the Timpanogos loop, according to Supervisor E. C. Shepherd of the Wasatch national forest, with headquarters in Salt Lake City. Mont.icello Construction work on a federal-aiproject of 6.40 miles, from Monticello to the top of Peter's hill, started recently. The contract calls for the completion of the project days. L. Clark, superintendent la charge of the construction crew, arrived in town the latter part of last week with a fleet of trucks and established camp at the J. W. Palmer farm,, two miles north of town. Provo bo expended d warm weather-.-Myton Continued for the past few days Is bringing forth-vegetatio- very rapidly In this part ot the basin. The alfalfa fields are beginning to show up In good shape. The farmers are busy plowing their fields, sowing wheat, oats and other grain, and some have planted early potatoes They are also preparing the soil for the planting of corn. Salt Lake There are 6480 mors grazing permittees on national forests In Utah than any other state in Livestock valued at $10,000,-00use national forest ranges. Salina Agreement that the state will furnish $5000, to be matched by. $5000 furnished by Sevier county, a temporary road through Salina. canyon, was reached Thursday afternoon at a conference between-Sevieand county commissioners state, federal and forest officials. Nothing was said about the establishment of a permanent road through the can yon, which would cost about $500,000 Salt Lake Each acre of the 9,000, 000 acres of mountain Ir.nd in Utah, furnished water for producing approximately $2.50 worth of crops. Last year these watersheds furnished water the-Unio- for crops valued at $23,000,000. Cedar City Salt Lake and Utah scenery are advertised by a booklet published by the Automobile Club of Souther California. The book Is an attractive compilation of strip maps showing the road from Salt Lake to Los Angeles, with side trips to Zion National park, Bryce, the Grand Canyon National park. Cedar Breaks and the Kaibab forest Salt Lake In reeponse to a letter the Secretary wrote to Will Hays with reference to participation In American Forest Week by moving' picture concerns, the Secretary of Picture Producers and Distributors Association came to Washington, end attended a conference In the Secretary's office. The result is that of our new film, "The Forest end (Valor," will be distributed and after American Forest. which both-befor- Week from Cleveland, Cincinnati. Indianapolis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Seattle-anSalt Lake City. e ' |