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Show m THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH m ported li i in to make himself a king In fact If not In name. Men like Aaron Burr considered liitn a fool for giving tip the llnd WashPresidency, ington felt It his duty, he would undoubtedly have taken a third term. But BILLS INTRODUCED AND ACTED he saw no such duty und UPON BY THE LAW MAKERS set the precedent which AT THE STATE CAPITOL has prevailed to this day. The picture of Washington crossing the DelaIN THE SENATE ware Is from the moving Hills Introduced Janice Merepicture, S. B. 56, West dith." Could 'Washington at stats himself see It, he would prison. S. It. 57. ODonnell 515,000 for an laugh and he seldom did agricultural experiment station in the basin. more than smile. For liintah S. It. 5i). Dixon New covknew his ering erection of schoolprovisions Washington buildings. S. H. tiO, and canoe Stable More liberal reway about In provisions in water conserbattenu and river craft demption vation district law. S. H. tit, llirschi of nil kinds, just as he Permitting sate did on horseback and on depository board to accept bonds or collateral security personal for defoot through the forest posits. S. It .05, Dixon and anywhere the emer- Providing for the release from state mental hospital ol Voluntary patients. S. It. titi, Jenson Clarifying law as to tiling of eertificatea for nomination for election, S. 15. 67. Jenson Adoption proceeding in ease parent lias given release to child before a notary. S. It. OS, Jenson Making release of attachments applicable to garnishments. F jihal-Salar- S. B. 69, mEetto Daddy 'dorft for&etmy VfrityeytT Slip you! nhl Give Hit young si rat IhU YvNolesom.loni lasting sweet - for pleasure cd Jenson liaising - foe smoking Work tor ll Grant-Greele- y eighty-seve- recollection of his countrymen an almost forgotten spot which should he a Washington shrine by paying an unadvertised visit last summer to the birthplace of the Father of His Country. George Washington was horn February 11, 1732, on Pope's Creek Farm, Westmoreland county, Virginia. The place is on the west bank of the Potomac river, 07 miles from Washington by automobile and about 75 by boat. Alongside the road is a small tablet with the inscription, "This Is Wakefield. George Washington, however, never That name was knew the place as Wakefield. William the farm Washington, Augustine given by his nephew. road conThe visitor turns In on a well-kestructed by the federal government. After a mile or two he comes out Into a little clearing on a knoll among the pines. At the center of the knoll. Inside a high Iron fence rises a granite shaft George Washingtons hearing the inscription, There is no date. This monument Birthplace. is 35 feet high, of the same pattern as the Washington monument at the capital and was erected by the federal government in 1806. At the same time the federal government constructed an Iron boat landing on Bridges creek, a mile away, aild so restricted its use that boats refused to land; It is now In ruins. Popes creek winds about the edge of the clearing and gives Its name to the approximately thousand acres comprising what always has been known as the Washington farm. Popes creek took its name from Col. Nathaniel Pope, from whom John Washington, the immigrant, bought this farm about 1052 and whose daughter,' Anne Pope, he married. It is now a prosperous farm in the possession of the I.atane brothers (pronounced who apparently have come to it through inheritance. The house in which Washington was born was burned so long ago that the date has been forgot-un- . In 1813 George Washington Parke Custis marked the spot with a big boulder of Potomac Milestone. Visitors chipped much of the stone away and during the Civil war the last fragment of it was carried off. This stone was inscribed v i:h the date of Washington's birth and t he names of his parents. John Washington of Northamptonshire, England, came to the northern neck" of Virginia as this region is known, in 1657 and bought his farm of Colonel Pope. He left it to his son Lawrence Captain" Lawrence Washington- - and he to his son, Augustine, the father of Georg? Washington. Augustine was horn on the old home place in liP4. and In 1715 took as his wife Jane Butler, a daughter of Caleb Butler, a neighbor. From this union sprang four children but only two, Augustine and Lawrence, outlived childhood. Ou the in 17:.! the death of Jane widower married Mary Bali of Lancaster The Ball homestead, called Epping Forest. N still standing.' The children resulting from th: marriage were: George, Samuel, John A 'lg'iine, Charles, Elizabeth and Mildred. The last vum'd died in Infancy. When Augustine, the fat' or of George, died in 1743, lie left the home place i n pope's creek to his son Augustine. To h's second son Lawrence he bequeathed Mount Vernon. He bequeathed to George, when he should come of age, the farm on the Rappahannock opposite Lat-a-noy- ), Butler-Wasliingto- n Fredericksburg. The farm on which George Washington was born passed on the death of Georges brother, Augustine, to the latter's son, William Augustine Washington, and next to his son, George Corbin S. B. 74. Lewis Providing that proceeds from fines and forfeitures following arrests and convictions by agents of the state road commission shall be covered into the state road funds. S. B. 77, Warnlek Administration of gasoline tax under budget. S. B. 78. Peters Old age anunilles for college professors. S. B. 79. Jenson Amending state securities commission law. S. B. 80, Lewis Traffic regulations on highways. GZ'JYZ&IC TiSHZinPTtUT S. B. 8. Lewis Regulation of motor Jb-icCollection. i56usj-- HxrtraU vehicles. S. B. 82. Lewis Taxing automobile gency found him. Any man who successfully car- corporations. S. B. 84, Finlinson ried a fight to the American Indian In his own for drainage districts.Refunding bonds S. B. 85. Funk wilds had to know his business. So Washington Repealing departwould be as amused as astonished at the boatload ment of finance andon purchase law. Action Bills here pictured. However, it is on Improvement on H. B. 23, Hickman Certification of the famous painting In the Boston museum by teachers. Favorably reported. S. H. Thomas Sully (1783-1872which it much re gages. 34, Jenson Release of mortFavorably. S. senibles. II. 18. Robinson Kindergartens. clause stricken, While the picture may be laughed at, the cross- Enacting S. B. 23, Candland Piute project. ing Itself on that Christmas night of 1776 must Tassed, ayes 19; absent 1. H. C. M. 6, Whittaker be reckoned as a vital factor In the outcome of the Pittman hill. Advanced to third reading; ayes 20. Revolution. Before that crossing the cause of S. J. II. 3, Winder Child labor the Colonists seemed hopeless. Wasldngton was amendment. Killed; nays 19; execused their one hope. And Cornwallis had just chased S. H, 57, O'Donnell Uintah basin Washington clear across New Jersey and driven experiment stations. Public Institu-tionhim to the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware, H. J. R. 2, Gardner Rejecting child leaving Rail with 1,550 Hessians at Trenton to labor amendment. Received from gobble him up as soon as the river should freeze bouse, and passed under suspension of rules; ayes, 18; nays. 2. over or boats be secured. Congress was ineffiH. R. 43. Gardner corcient. Jealousies had created dissensions among porations. Transferred Reinstating from state and affairs to judiciary. the officers. The Colonial forces were melting municipal B. 1, Candlanu and puraway by desertion. No less than 2,700 of the chase. Advanced fromFinance second New Jersey people had turned Tories to save their calendar; ayes. 19; absent, 1. reading h. B. 2. Candland Board of examnecks and estates and had applied to Rail for iners. Killed by adoption of adverse Cornwallis was so sure of committee report. "protection papers. S. B. 16, Candland State auditor, immediate victory that he had arranged for passtee report. age home that he might carry the news in perKilled by adoption of adverse commlt-S- . B. 34. Jenson son. In Trenton the Hessian hirelings were celePassMortgages. ed: ayes 18, nays 2. brating by a glorious drunk. So it was that fateS. B. 55, DixonHeal estate ful Christmas night. ment. Commerce and industries.departBehold the transformation by noon of the next IN THE HOUSE day Washington In possession of Trenton; Rail Bills Introduced and bis surviving Hessians prisoners! And when H. B. 59, Goggin Making It unlawful to use containers having mark of marched his captured Hessians Washington person, firm or corporation. through the streets of Philadelphia all the world another Referred to committee on manufacturmarveled at the Fabius of America and the ing and commerce. II. B. 61, Fowles Making November Colonies passed from despair to Jubilation. II, or Armistice day, a legal holiday. President Washington was inaugurated April Referred to committee on manufactur30, 1789, In "Federal hall, Wall street, New York. ing and commerce. H. B. 62. Fowles Requiring school December 6, 1790, the seat of government was teachers to be citizens of the U. S. moved to Philadelphia. During the next ten years Referred to committee on education. H. B. 63. Stone Relating to the payWashington came into being as the federal capiment of taxes. Referred to committee tal and in October of 1800 John Marshall, secre- on revenue and taxatiorr. H. B. 55, Beal Providing for the tary of state, Oliver Wolcott, secretary of the consolidation of two or more county treasury, Samuel Dexter, secretary of war and irhool districts of the first class Into Benjamin Stoddert, secretary of the navy brave one county school district. Referred in cocked hats, powdered wigs, broadcloth coats to committee on education. II. B. Hickman Creating a state and small-clotharrived and took possession of hoard of66,park commissioners. Referthe little brick offices clustered about the White red to committee on university and Agricultural college. House. President John Adams and his family II. B. 50. Stone An act amending arrived in November. Thereupon the Sixth con- the law relating to exemption from of property moving in Intertaxation gress assembled in the one little wing of the Capi- state commerce asseswhich been has tol that was ready for it. sed in another state for the current The government of the United States of Ameriyear. Referred to committe on revenue nnd taxation. ca was at home In Its own capital at last. NeverH. B. 51, Dyreng An act relating theless, the new capital was a good deal of a joke. to witnesses for defense In criminal New York, Philadelphia and other cities called it cases. Referred to committee on Judithe national banning, a ricketty infant unable ciary. II. B. 52, Sharp An act making apto go alone. That there was anything at all re- propriations for the support of the state, 1925 to 1927. Referred to comsembling a capital was largely due to the activimittee on appropriations. ties of President Washington, to whom congress H. B. 53. Judiciary Committee An act relating to building and loan ashad delegated the task of selecting and developsociations; substituted for H. B. 8. ing the site. The act of 1790 was passed when Referred to committee on judiciary. H. It. 71. Hart man Relating to jurtlie new nations treasury was empty and it had isdiction of towns over water sources. no credit; therefore there was no appropriation. Referred to committee on corporations. A list of ttie H. B. 72, McCullough Relating to counterfeit presentments of the rights of the defendant In criminGeorge Wasldngton portraits, replicas, copies, al action. Referred to committee on statues, busts, medallions, etc. would fill several Judiciary. 15. H. 73, Opensliaw of these columns. Every now and then a new Relating to war veterans. Referred to comone or one stored away and forgotten comes to Civil mittee on appropriations. 11. R. 74, N. J. Hansen light. The portrait reproduced is the Authorizing t lie of the state prison to a painting by Gilbert Stuart in the Henry C. Frick new removal to site. Referred committee on collection. Last year what appears to he a reppenitentiaryon and prison. Rills and Resolutions Action lica of tills portrait on a circular Iron panel was H. 15. 29. Welsh Tor budpurchased by a New York collector at a price get in cities of first Providing and second class. said to he $100,000. Passed. H. 15. 25. committee on livestock Last year Walter L. Khrick of New York exhibto assessment of transient Relating in Art ited the Chicago institute one of the four livestock. Recommitted to committee. 15. S. 11, Canoland- - Forwarding neLansdowne portraits painted by Stuart of Washpaper. Passed. gotiable 5iK),tMH) school children, with ington. Thereupon 11. J. R. 3. Hunt Asking congress to act favorably upon proposed measures help from their elders, bought the picture by penfor suitable recognition of services ny contributions for $75,000. of Lieutenant Russel L. Maughan. Tak-61- ) The bust here pictured has had a most amazfrom talile and passed. H. 15. 16. Hickman. Placing library ing history. It is said to he and probably is under control of board of eduthe bust made in 1S.J2 by Iierre Jean David. This funds cation. Mill withdrawn. Substitutes lie t to introduce... bust was presented to he United States by France. H. C. M. 5, Whittaker Asking conFire destroyed the Congressional library in 1851. gress to Increase the duties on potThe bust was supposed to he burned. In New ash. Defeated; 40 nays, II yeas, 4 absent. York, not long ago, Mitchell Kennerley. president II. R 24, Welsh. Providing for noun-t- v of the Anderson Galleries, announced that lie hud budgets passed, 42 yeas, 9 nays, 4 just sold the missing bust for $10,000 to Henry absent. S. 15. 8, Candland. Relating to asE. Huntington, retired railroad man and art colsessment of blank stock. Favorably on banking. committee to lector. by According Kennerley the bust was reported rescued from a junk jurd. ), n half-brothe- the theaters. Apparently Washington's birthday, February 22, 1797, was lie first to tie publicly celebrated on a large scale with ceremonies. It was so celebrated at Philadelphia with much ceremony. The ships in the harbor were decorated. The church hells rang peals every half hour. sixty-fift- h I day-tiin- e The diplomatic corps, members of congress and citizens called at ids house to offer congratulations. In the evening a hall was given in his honor in .the amphitheater. The building was lloored for The President and dancing and gaily decorated. ids wife, upon entering, were conducted to n elevated platform, on which was a sofa and a canopy. There were at least 500 ladies present and a larger number of gentlemen. The President did not use the sofa much, but moved about, conversThe President and Mrs. ing with the company. were in very-gooWasldngton," wrote an spirits and, 1 am persuaded, have not spent so agreeable an evening for a long time. Every countenance bespoke pleasure and approbation; even Democrats forgot for a moment their enmity, and seemed to Join heartily in the festivity. No wonder the Wasldngtons were in good spirits." Washingtons second term as President was almos at an end and they were looking forward to a resumption of their old happy life at their far from the madding beloved Mount Vernon, crowd and free from the cares of state. Washington, of course, could have had a third term for the asking. Every statesman In Europe ex- s, d . Slim Slablelgh was the tightest fisted man In a New England towit none of whose Inhabitants was known as a spendthrift One dark night hn was held up by a bandit who demanded : Hand over yer cash or you get drilled I I only got a dime,' faltered Slim. "Well, thats better than nothin. Fork It over." Slim hesitated a moment and then asked : you change for half a dollar? American Legion Weekly. ASPIRIN DEMAND BAYER Take Tablets Without Fear If Yen See the Safety "Bayer Croaa. Warning I Unless you see the name Bayer on package or on tablets yon are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for 23 years. Say "Bayer" when you buy Aspirin. Imitations may provefdangeroua. Adv. From Bad to Woree "Your handwriting is very bad. Indeed," said a man to a young college friend who was more addicted to sport than study. You really ought to learn to write better. Yes, returned the young man j t ail very well for you to tell me that, but If I were to write better, people would he finding out 7 how I spell. I"'1 JJ Permanent roads are a good investment not an expense s. - . O-c- in bought by John F. Wilson of Anne Arundel county, Maryland, who gave the farm to his son, John E. Wilson, who had married Betty Wasldngton, granddaughter of William Augustine Washington. In this way the birthplace of George Washington came back to the Washington blood. Among the was children of Mrs. Betty Wasliington-WilsoI.atane Wilson. In 1735, when George was three years old, his father removed to the Ferry farm in Stafford county, across the Rappahannock river from Fredericksburg perhaps it was the burning of the "Wakefield house that caused the removal. George Washington lived as boy and man on the Stafford county place until he took over Mount Vernon, which had been bequeathed him by his Lawrence. How does it come that February 22 is now celebrated as Washingtons birthday? In this way: In 1582 Ugo Buoncoinpagno, known to fame as Pope Gregory XIII, took the Julian calendar In hand for doctoring. Caesars calendar was then ten days behind the sun. Part of the world adopted the Gregorian calendar and the rest stuck to the Julian calendar. It was not until 1752 that Britain made the change. The English Colonies in America of course followed suit. George Washington was then twenty years of age and already a prominent figure. He had been commanded by Governor Dlnwiddie of Virginia to go to the Ohio valley and order the French pioneers to leave. Being young, George quite naturally wanted to be older and promptly added 11 days to his age, fixing his birthday as February 22. The British parliament later passed an act prescribing that all births and deaths prior to September 2, 1752, should be dated according to the Julian calendur. Nevertheless, George Washingtons birthday is February 22. George gave evidence early in life of being a real The celebrations of Washingtons birthday began immediately after the Revolution. The first celebration appears to have been In the form of a ball given by ids neighbors and friends at Alexandria, a few miles from Mount Vernon. The principal cities of the Colonies quickly established similar social gatherings. This birthday ball was always held at the seat of government while Washington was President and he and his wife attended. February 22 was also a gala night at lilt I-- sue. SZASZ'. SSVTZlAVED It then passed out of the WashingWashington. ton family. In 1846 the Washington farm was drags, Change for the Beet $5,-0- these facts: Plans for the celebration in 1932 of the anniversary of the birth of George Washington are taking shape under the direction of the Sulgrave institution, with headquarters in New York. The Colonial Dames of America have raised a fund of $100,000 for the endowment of Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral home of the Washingtons in England, given to the United States by the English people. Mrs. Victoria Woodhull Martin of Norton Park, Worcestershire, England, has given an ancient English manor house to be used as a hotel for American visitors to Sulgrave Manor; she is the Mrs. Victoria Wood-huwho ran for President in the campaign of 1872 and is the wealthy widow, now of John Bidulph Martin, an English hanker. The American Bar association visited Sulgrave Manor last summer as the guest of the Sulgrave Institution of Great Britain and deposited in the museum a number of historical relics of President Coolidge recalled to the Importance. afW or when Um fl yourself ies additional lit civil cases from $3.0 to $50. jurors S. B. 70, Jenson Providing for an alternate juror in protracted trials on felony charges. S. II. 71, Jenson (Providing that a judgment shall be deemed entered when signed by the judge and filed with the clerk. S. B. 72. Jenson Providing that parties to an action may lie called on to admit any specific fact for the purpose of tlie proceeding. S. B. 73, Jenson liaising from esto $20,000 the amount of an tate to which a surviving husband or wife succeeds when tlieie is no Is- drawing a package la ycmr pocket When Why America Must Have More Paved Highways Almost every section ol the United States is con fronted by a traffic prob lem. Month by month this problem is becoming more and more serious. Hundreds of cars pass a given point every hour on many of our state and county roads. Down town city streets are Jammed with traffic. Think, too, how narrow many of our roads are, end how comparatively lew paved highways there are in proportion to the Readily Increasing number of cart. If the motor vehicle Is to continue giving the economic service ol which it is capable, we must have more Concrete highways end widen those near large centers ol population. Every citizen should discum highway needs of hia community with his local authorities. Your highway officials will do their part ii given your support. Why postpone meeting this pressing need? An early start means early relieL PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION 111 West Washington street CHICAGO of National Organization to Imprmm and Exland tha Vut of Control Offices In 29 Cities well-know- L. D. S. Business College school or crricieNcy All commercial branches. Catalog free. 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