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Show TIIE SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK. UTAH sricas Achievement Behind the Lines PROTECT ROADS OF COUNTRY! rp" Cov"n" T,fl,r OMliffl it Military Necessity to Hiflhw.y, in Reptr. kd lt h II Uni fi'iliTtil, fttufn mill Ih ol government to wit vii mir remarked k. Tener of iiij-n- - jt miiin)vHtitn( former governor, presl-Ji- it iif llm I'cniiiiiii'iit Highway iiir pornUmi of .N, w York, Uovernor Ten- r il. larml Unit It I n lullltnry I dty for the proper protrat tin rands. Wo inut tin road of tho country, mol take ,0n j j.urtlru ,J erected m, will about rlvt,;?1 rtgb0 ci b ir, k T r"t U, ever bald Wat held at week. It la alinotf cerfsii, represented p, 1 N staged at Feplsiuhvr 1 t gi, Tltonra Anders f In France, write u,.u i, of being the first l csplura a Uero , The iloxoldi r m f, Greatest Scheme of Communications Ever used in Warfare Is Rapidly Near to amlu-rlil- i Tl.t new Far, iM. lo b the purjHxu uf hdt.v resources or, IV, l. V r i ,.'aW "1 itil i J M lM.crtN.BasU,., i, social and Hir)ni, torlul tiny, died A.,w ,st I' Fall take. Ivan. ril dcldliiy. ino Completion v 1 ' . 'b J lM", Thlayof K. who o ... ' ttsvy, frSl) scalding oi, the I , s at nn Atlantic port, has publish.! two rtli'tc-- d to I'ravo for bin'll, ; .noea ts th Aral mithorin.it dvsrriptlon of what A large detachment have accomplished In Franc ..t . "1Tf,,n t e,., u w, i?I In month . Idler parii.'lpnUon American u fr..,,, Th following riuniiiuiika Itn-ar extract from lallltf lines of arllcrr In I rune have he, tlon;sameeverywhere rcconiii ruction Mini of the In and are due to Americans In France are rap nrr,. st.i cow It men enpahle Idly pushing to completion the than three I,...,,, , ,.f um nd, lbs same longest and In many respects ami tf William Richard n splendid the greatest scheme of rammunt-cation- s grocer and Idm Um:-- . ,( energy, th ever used In warfare. A hi sister. Mr. Ft.d I toV! ;.. steady progress In tiled at her trip over these Hues today Is a end d.ii ward the deeply Impressive 11. hard Allen Ke experience. . ( () view, the same op' Slue Sir, Newton I). linker, the Ue to trailer as tliulsiii tB!y, United States secretary of war, isuf k quick and successful take, died at hi Inspected them less than three working out of the wu 2 year of ac. Mr h.flSj, months ago, the work Is fairly to Fait Lake In K17 fr.-- ,. Nr inn a a whole. leaping forward! the very landscape changes Application of Seal Coat In Progress. Ini' the The condition of V.- -, At a iVr present overnight. "intermed! . the small hoy who w... tnetise After two solid weeks of travel, i,y Inrly wo must save Um foundations If Inspecting ate section loom Handley, when he th,. t,y e art to protect th commerce very main phnso and much of tho dctnll of this and vast . large In the general 111 apple or. lu.rd Industries of the country u hlrti are .I.'ii, t project, I return convinced that wlint the American plan- - It imrietl as Improved. Ii.,t..:;.y j, j, supplying the need of our men on the Americana have accomplished since their llrst demay or may not Jail. oitUe f ron it aa well tit the taxes of tachment of troopa landed In France 11 months X&M VLOA0 OfOifADF 2A AMD.CArt go will aland out In history as one of the Almost twice a the government and the nccHKit!cs of grow In lniortance SOLDr,?S JN 7TOT 7 mt.r.y Mr;Is n wnr goes on, deaths are shown by tv- - .'.1.7 r the as the men, women and children who are est achievements of the war. The hearing ofgreatof modern this where docks, denow every day vast work upon the whole war for. ns I have already Indicated, the further ships are of the Fait I .nke e!i) i'i ( keeping the a hinds going at home. program is supouring forth their cargoes of men and war may yet rob It health, lnt week. of the base velopment t "The federal government, the manu- premely Important. There Is no doubt In my ports I.r1 grant t materials, cars and machinery. This d. k of some of Its originally contemplated functions; numbered fifty, w bib- .I.a;!. tiaM facturer and the fanner for months mind that the extent of It, the meaning of It and Is finished. It supplements the old Frenchsystem dock the future possibilities of It should be made hut, however thut may he, It Is now one of the hilt twenty-six- . have been depending on Um clear system In the town, where still more highways to the public, both here nr ships main and In pillar of the structure. It comprises a wide the tronaportutlon of enormous n..-- . A patriotic um the United States. u,b,jj constantly discharging American cargoes. A huge scatof n on scale, utl amounts of materials and variety huge ,h out8et enterprise, new ,0 at etn,e warehouse system at this point Is also near-In- g basic laiyt.in Tuesday evening for il ' supplies by facta. The French tered at various points over a lurge section of the motor trucks. had all their sources of The ronda fast are 1117 f pitrjM.se of organizing n completion; even now It Is able to take care supply country, Imt skilfully linked up hy rail, one wearing down and hundreds of miles near at hand, and the establishment of their lines of the great flood of supplies which Is for the Utah i.utmnnl guimi, u branch dovetailed Into another, and all combinconstantly of highway will bewnne wn L accordance with the governor's M pouring In. Co,npnrntlvely simple uMphu tin affair. The less the resurfacing of these ing for the quick handling of stores for an army matlon of with British, all their sources In the old port of this same const town the much roads Is farther July 8, of millions. away from the fighting areas and with encouraged so that the foundations Americans hnve Instulled motor The hart, of II. E. B. rr.-t- t t Xrl and An operation "orgnr.lzntlon chart, showing the activities may be saved. In road const ruction. I ,nPHrt entering ns an Important factor cold storage plants, a motor entered under the commanding gcnrrnl of this Ogden, containing fifty ton of hij. reception park, and the principal cost lain the foundations. I ,nto scheme, had a much more difficult task for quarters storing supplies for ordnance and n I,IaDn,nS nd perfecting their The top, or road aurfuce, graut Intermediate section, though not quite so buggy, harness and form ImplHnm Is I supply Service, aviation forces. These are more or less temnaturally the first to give way, break and formidable, perhaps, reminds one of a chart of was destroyed hy fire l:it week. Tl rea was the British problem, that finally porary quarters, and will he merged in the near origin of the Maze is unknown. Tie the Whitehall district of London. This commandwblcn I grind up and dhuippoar, leaving the confronted the Americans when they en future In the general scheme which Is now officer Is responsible primarily for the main loss Is estimated at . .o. being ing foundations exposed. the war was Immeasurably greater. Their completed In the oulsklrts of the town. reserve r ftianiy Th chairman of the for the American expeditionary n stores, "Foundations costing hundreds 0f "rmes a'ul ,helr wr materials had to be In addition to the new forces and the constant sending forward of their council of defense lm? Iacd nn Bppo! warehouses and millions of dollars now are In I brought docks, thousands of miles from their sources extensive railway yards (these latter .have a dully supplies; hut In addition to that he ha a to the farmers of the euttniv, eqsvisiif of being ruined forever, whendanger , b submarine campaign was upplg at Its they of nearly 2uo miles), work Is well adtrackage measure of responsibility for the organizathose living near the railroad trariA lurge I could be invert by proper of efficiency; the adoption of the reHurfadng, vanced on the new car assembly shop, where altion and control of great camps, schools, base to use every precaution to prated but this should bo done at once or else I 'uvoy system considerably reduced the capacity ready, when I saw It In Its tncompleted state, hospitals, rest areas, engineering and repair their grain stacks from lire. the costly foundations will have to be of dipping facilities, which, even In the most 20 odd freight cars a simps, the principal repository for "spare done all over again. In some states fnvor"ble circumstances, would have been day, of three different William Jainr MHoml.e. ng'dittf parts were being turned out and put Into immeof all machinery used In the nd localities there Is a disposition to ,na1iuate to the demands made upon totally army, raid storage Helj.er, hns heeu rcportc.l killed la them ; diate service. Another assembly plant has been plants, nil and petrol depots, forestry work and hnttle In France. He enlisted April delay work until after the war on the I bere were no large modern ports on the coast constructed at a different point to handle control of n good-sizef Franc! nor wn there anything like lnhor army, which in- 20 of this Utfory that men and materials are year and win among fi cars, which are transported here from cludes many thousands of negroes, Chinamen more needed In the war work. This Is railway facilities to accommodate the vastsuffldqjit and men who el. ctd to tak national stream army America knocked down" that is, in sections, In Uerinan prisoners of war. mistake which should be corrected. of men and materials which must flow a course at the I'ni'er-li- f vocational steadily order to economize shipping space. At this A round of this Without the highways the business of In, with constantly Increasing volume, front plant field of operations Is of Iloulder. huge the these steel cars are now being assembled at the both Instructive and Inspiring. At one the country would be crippled. The dote when the first detachment of United States the rate of a complete train a day, and plans are point 1 Fiwretary Arch M. Thurman of went through an enormous locomotive roads must be preserved both for war soldiers landed on French soil. mwke will assembling state council of defense rapidly culminating for a large extension of the and repair works (housed In a At the same time one must realize purposes and for the safeguarding of y great modern that, from work. Here, too, tour of all the county raunell In t tal huge camp has been built for our Industries, upon which our coun- the moment war was declared, America now nearing building built itself completion), for the negro to aid In their more perfect organ.. stevedores, also a remount camp and the Americans, under French was rapidly resolving Into a huge try's revenues depend. Makeshift engine of war. two big rest cutups, each supervision, hy a tlon for efficiency. Air. Thurman 18 for providing will crumble In a few months With raw materials, Industries, coal and tutunlsh firm; many huge oil and petrol supply ., thousands of American soldiers, who march railways, endeavor to stimulate Interest la greaand will have to be done all over all put quickly under n l0,nn0-b(hospital and a number of other ter government control and' thence from the boats to he sifted and production along nil line. again. If properly surfaced now, bun-dm- ls ench day becoming more centralized for the sole highly Important branches of a central rearranged for dispatch to the various training camps organize- of millions of dollars will be purpose of multiplying the output of war farther for the destruction of ante Orders "e f ,hp mi1 luicklume i Inland. Not far from here work on a new 20,(KKi-be- d requiresc saved." f (;;nS,m,,7 smion t bn 11 500 gallons of Intoxicant ments, the pressure toward France Increased with Wf 8Ur,,ly' At hoapltnl Is forging ahead, and 80 days from I houii I went over J. point Judge h,v Issued week last startling rnpfility; Indeed, It was measured only great railway yards to see the now It will be virtually completed. This Is curt the BOOST FOR GOOD ROADS IDEA by the utmost limit ot available shipping space. "tn,CU,re wnreliouses Brawn of the Third district center largest hospital yet constructed. It Is cone n o,m,t I That situation has Uu huM to Is The continued right up to the pres- Salt to take. liquor hold supplies for .... posed entirely of small, light, airy and ent a.d ,Wl11 co,t,nu no matter how 80 right lot confiscated hy the Hi' the Hlghway Magazine Does It by Asklnn I ,,n attractive great structures, divided Je7r?gcnthmi!l.,nrm4n,f0r Into dyS: tot small squares output of new ships may be, for a considerable since the jiraliihitloti law- went Four Question countless laid out on a great, open stretch of sand sur- Delivery Fadl-itle- s all on the same jirndlglous scale. other feutuies effect. time to come. rounded by pine trees, and altogether Increased. promises To take care of this steadily mmmm to be an Ideal institution of Its kind. growing volume Fire of unknown origin destroyed MH'rvliDK It n". watch-inT" "? Four questions which every Ameri- of men, horses, guns, foods and supplies, to retheir eyes. When the tele-- ihreshlng outfit and two Mack In this same Is artll-lorsection an Immense new Koiter can Is requested to put to himself are solve the modest existing facilities into a perr!nl'T,J"Kl? (a,Ul ,hey "re nevr !ng In a traw on the farm of William storked enmp all ready for the several brigades of Brain suggested by the Dixie Highway, the manent line of communications hundred of miles no sho,,l"'K. excitement; Just near Brigham Pity. artillery which were expected when I was there, In length, adequate to care for an good roads publication of the D!xl t0 t,m lcstl.ms put. There nearby was saved. The fire Is thought army of the it and, like the hospital enterprise, It Is in strong future numbering millions, at the same time meetengin Highway association. i '''."'here nn air of suppressed energy hands and promises well. In Includes a rather to have originated either fromnear than exuberance or "bustle" large rethe Do yon ever atop to consider that ing all the transport requirements of the civic fire weed a or mount camp, In which were several thousand from Sparks every bale of cotton the farmer can population scattered over the great stretch of horses at the time of my visit. The work in tills farm yard. France through which these lines extended that add to hla wagonload makea his atsection, which Is typical of that at nil the other profA total of 142 men who have was the which task confronted the first detachits that much greater! to I base ports visited, Is being vigorously and Intained the age of 21 years since ment of American engineers who landed here 11 And that every pound of merchanon telligently directed. 5 registered In Salt Lake lty executives are Strong June in months ago. dise which can be added to the truck-loa- d e twenty-ninand the spirit of the workers Is excellent charge, August 24. One hundred and But with nil their dlffcultles the Americans Imd makes truck haulage thut much the h.v throughout. the enrolled Everywhere Americans ore realof these were on substantial advantage over the British, or more reasonable? ' c izing that they have "caught up with themfour local draft board and 18 in She n rm v bakeries In strength And that every foot of good road even tho French. They were able to profit by .1,0 .1 selves," and now that they can visualize the cons int transient registration place for over which these wagons and trucks the three years' war experience of these two na"" pletion of what a few months ago looked so much I'n'; city recorder's office at the city travel Increases the nations delivery tions and shape the details of a considerable part like an impossible undertaking they are buoyed of their main program in accordance with the full county building. facilities? up, happy and Inspired by tlielr success; at they And that every Inch of bad road of development of the British and French wnr maIt Is reported that in the vats have conquered obstacles and overcome conditions have nor were Mountain slow to Dell sheep chinery. avail 40,000 They themselves road makes hauling which only great ability and Indomitable . . a hi spirit that much more expensive ; makes the of this advantage, and the marvellous progress dipped so far this year without could possibly surmount. tick "" rmy .MO it, 1. Tills activity against farmer's profit thut much less than It they have made is due In no small measure to tho ii,,,. Imp. One realizes, after Inspecting the character am ,0 Secretary quickness with which they adapted and Incorshould be? satisfactorily. proceeding nni extent of the work at the several base porated into their own scheme certain features of of I he livetof to.' nut.'k ports Thomas Redmond ,h (c which the Americans have taken over, that here 27,!ll,77' I"'o- - hoard i nenj organization which the British and French had unim is a matter of t,o Width of Earth Roads. says, and the work lies the of their strength future scheme evolved a of ln,loPtnnee to pushed because the dipping w'Uto through he whole allied cause operlong period of actual warfare. pKh,,st The width of the earth roud will deations. Those port schemes are great affairs The cordial way In which the British and French fP0,D evory Point of closes view the rest ,, Sept ember 30. .h pend on the traffic. As a rule. 25 or hut today; they are so worked out us to lie and other officials received the Ameriset iIowd as n 1 0 imm mtr,r8 transport 80 feet from ditch to ditch Is ,,"y Eider Joshua H. 1nul. in the callable of almost unlimited expansion. This is sufficient them every possible kind of aid , f Wlll,'h Americans have riJhf if the road is properly crowned. Or- cans and gave one era nnele at Salt Lake, Sunday ntternoo highly Important, for the war developments of and advice is of the many bright chapters a .'ear's such ,,le Is If reeord a the n.onume r dinarily the past two months have clearly only ditches needed are In this story of achievement. righteous warfare, pointed the tlielr wonderful nl.llitv "' "nd justified those made with the road declared the United Stales is engar way toward greater unity of effort by the allies machiue, This was the only substantial advantage the which in. thin,," from premises Mil! which ore wide and shallow. and greater mobility of action by the - , j hy numerous quotations French, 1..- Americans had. Their handicaps were multifold, rn,Brfc denouncing P British and American fighting forces. The meantime "r. Scriptures, tentheir task colossal. How splendidly they attacked ' When Highways Are Wet fists who quote Isolated senieiices edency is toward a pooling both of effort and their and one after another problems When the roads are wet and conquered to me never a complete subject of holy tl.s. the supplies, n, natural outcome of centralization heavy of the obstacles which confronted them France stands the farmer can haul but and under a In Justification of tlielr nttlimlo. England and he single command. This may easily reof about this American the load to town that he could haul out In clear perspective as one passes along tlielr Short solve the American base ports In France i work Into Consolidation of the Oregon 1 If the enemy, failing in hla Lru,!ce great lines of communication today. Sixty days If a first-rat- e food were available. main reserve centers, from which their channels 0 bpBr. Lake Salt to deliver a Line rullrond and tlie more will see the greater part of the whole vast knockout blow ,effort of distribution will radiate n under directly to railheads for purjioses of operating' scheme in full operation. Even now the comlull on all parts of the front. Instead Big Cost of Poor Roads. of mainly rullrond administration, federal Is " Th to of the all demands pleted system ,he equnl part Mlan of United States office of public through the Intermediate and advance an a cenof II. V. Blatt. vice P labor with made and and materials availupon It, concentrated peace offensive 7 !t roads estimates the national excess ters, which are now being constructed. These r s,Pfror(s to a appointment dent and general mnnnger of the then surely a clear know 8 he wl"' bill for hauling because of poor roads able In fairly equable proportions, as they are latter, In that event, would be utilized in coner road at Balt Lake, bs general . now, the actual construction work is going ahead tent of the American edw of nection with the great and t 1200,000,000 annually. ?B,ure nn g more rapidly than ever. of the two lines, is announce ager centers through which, for a long time totraining thAmerlcanp,anB, ' ot come " an What the American forces In France hnve acThe state bunrd of equnllsntf0 the American array of 2,000,000 or more In standing of the underlying under Ualng Convict Labor. tn th the nnt,on Inwhole Is meet almost thus Incredible. this week to conslde r For must far complished distance w making, pass. Military roads are being built ta and hoara On " Of county stance, out of the waste lands adjacent to an old As at the base ports, so I found quest of the Sanpete Ohio by the aid of convict labor. conditions all hearts of tho h., v French port they have constructed a splendid Hue commissioners to be reconvened along the hundreds of miles of the American nn traitors and pacifists . or 8llpnce b equalization body. The request P amm,g and all j on account of complaints of some i erty holders In regarding reassess1" I. JJon7"T1,n -- s a Is si-ir- iv Irt - ff ,reI W-t- .. s, all-ste- d fae-tor- sur-faci- sta-tion- Sr IT one-stor- - "itVI. g y ' is SkT I" ,z - satlr " 'T tnnCTrae- ; ;- 'umst TT one-eigh- th f-- ro. o'hKX ij '""I l'"J ever-growin- . war-wenr- - Bd |