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Show i Vance C. McCormick, who managed the presidents campaign for President Wilson had come to the capltol two hours before he took the oah, to clear up odds and ec s of the eexcutive business passed on to him by the expiring congress. Secretary Tumulty and most of the cabinet members had gathered in the room while the president worked. As Notable for Response to the DeCHIEF EXECUTIVE INDUCTED INhe took the oath, Mrs. Wilson stood TO OFFICE FOR SECOND TERM mand for Preparedness. near dressed in mourning behim, WITH DUE CEREMQNY. slacause of the recent death of her ter. A GREAT NAVY Facing, to use his own words, not AUTHORIZED Takes Oath at CapitoMn Presence of and purthe but thought retrospect Members of Cabinet, Public Inposed of the present and the immediauguration Being Held the ate future, President Woodrdw Wil- Provided Alee for Increase and ReorFollowing Day. son on March 5 subscribed in publlo ganization of Army Somo of the to the oath as his own successor.' Momentous Economic Statutes President Wilson took Washington. Not tlnce Abraham Lincoln kissed That Were Passed. the oath of office for his second term the Bible in subscribing totbe same t noon on March 4, in his room at solemn obligation has a president Washington, March 5. The Sixty-fourtthe capltol, the formal Inauguration into office under such congress, which hae passed into ceremonies being held on March 5. extreme tension in national affairs as the annals of things that were, will be Before a desk plied with executive Monday. long remembered as the congress business laid before him in the clos- prevailed President Wilson never looked bet- which ing hours of congress, and surround- ter than at the moment of his public nationalresponded to the demand for While ecopreparedness. ed by members of his official family, He seemed to have nomic statutes of Inauguration. moment and pith the president reaffirmed with uplift- shaken off the air of worry and' debeen Into written law bays of the the ed band and grave features bis promwhich has marked "Ubim dur- land, preparedness measures. Inspired ise to uphold the constitution in what- pression the last few momentous weeks. by the European war, oijt-toall other ever crisis map confront the nation in ing Ftom the moment that he entered the legislation. the momentous four years before it. open drawn by four beautiAlthough ample provision has been After he had repeated solemnly the ful carriage, to proceed to the made for fortifications, and thoroughbreds, authority oath taken first by Washington a cencapltol to subscribe to the oath, until baa been granted by congress to more tury and a Quarter ago he kissed the he returned to the White House, he than double the standing army of the was smiling. All along the route of country, the metamorphosis of the the parade he and Mrs. Wilson bowed United States from a commercial to to a crowd that acclaimed them and a fighting nation has been Wrought was plainly In sympathy with the by the naval increases authorized. doctrines for which be stands. The congress now expired has auMembers of the cabinet were on thorized naval armaments destined to band in the president's room when make Uncle Sam eventually the peer he reached there. All shook hands of any natfon on earth in sea power, with him and congratulated him on excepting, perhaps. Great Britain. In the two sessions comprising The the fact that the Wilson luck" once there have again had prevailed, and that whereas congress early in the day it had looked as If been authorized and appropriated for the entire program was to be spoiled no less than 118 war craft. Nor Is by rain, the skies had cleared and the this all. The first session adopted a sun was shining brightly. The presiprogram, the conof struction which should be underin as dent, gay spirits, accepted this taken prior to July 1, 1918. This proan omen for the future. At 11:60 the senate had assembled gram included (his allotment of lightand the members of the house en- ing ships : Ten battleships, six battle tered the chamber In a body, headed cruisers, ten scout cruisers, 50 torpedo-boa- t destroyers, nine fleet submarines, by Sergeant at Arms Gordon. Five minutes later Mrs. Wilson left the 58 Coast submarines, one experimental presidents office and was escorted to submarine (Neff system), three fuel the seats' reserved for her - in the ships, one repair ship, onq. transport,, one hospital ship, tyro destroyer tenpresidents gallery. At 12 oclock, when the senate was called to order, ders, one fleet submarine tender, two ammunition ships, two gunboats. every seat was filled and even standNaval Vessels Appropriated For. ing room had been exhausted. " By the act which adopted this buildapplause greeted the program congresa appropriated president as he entered the senate ing for four battleships, four battle cruisBible at the passage reading, The chamber at noon. ers, four scout cruisers, 20 destroyers, Vice President Marshall, entering a 80 Lord Is our refuge; a very present submarines, and one each of these moment In of trouble.H time later, was given an almost craft: Experimental submarine, fuel help Chief Justice White administered equally cordial reception. ship, hospital ship, ammunition Rev. Forest J. Prettyman, the sen- and gunboat During the second ship the oath and was the first to extend seshis congratulations. Wringing the ate chaplain, delivered the opening sion provision was made for three batpresidents hands, the chief Justice prayer. tleships, one battle cruiser, three scout looked fervently into his face for a Vice President Marshall was then cruisers, 15 destroyers, one destroyer moment and said brokenly: sworn in by President Pro Tem Sauls- - tender, one submarine tender and 18 Mr. President, I am very. very submarines. happy. If the Sixty-fift- h congress adopts the Members of the cabinet then crowdthree-yea- r program the remainder of ed up with expressions of regard. the unita for the reorganized battle Mr. Wilson received them with a fleet will be appropriated for next smile and then turned back to his year. Staggering sums have been redesk to complete his Interrupted task. quired to meet these demands, the na- not Marshall- - didval appropriation for the second sestake the oath on March 4. He was sion of the expired congress alone sworn in for his second term on n amounting to almost' a round March S at the special session of the dollars. new senate with the usual So great have been these expenditures that the ordinary sources of revInauguration ceremony. enue are not sufficient and a special Hundreds turned out to see the revenue measure had to be passed. ufTrage demonstration at the White Representative Kltchin, majority leadHouse,' but few had a peep at the er and chairman of the house ways much rarer scene. Passing the presmeans committee, a small-navand at room at the Just idents capltol man, in drafting the revenue measure noon a handful of sightseers found and pressing It to passage through the the door open and caught a glimpse house charged full responsibility for af the president hlnlself within. Then the measure to the advocates of prea saw and him rise greet large they , , had who paredness. featured man, distinguished a Increase of the Army. come down the corridor a few minutes Increases of the regular army and Its before and hesitated at the - entrance under the national dereorganizations tiki an utter stranger approaching fense act were less striking than the the presence of the. chief executive. naval Increases. But the regular army It- was the chief Justice, and the was Increased from an authorized little group of visitors were treated Chief Justice Whits peace strength of 100,000 to an authora to the spectacle of president taking ized peace strength of 216,000, capable his oath of office. bury of Delaware and delivered his of expansion In war time to 256,000. Accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and Inaugural address. After prolonged agitation for preparedVice President 'Marshall then ad- ness both on land and sea, the consenministered the oath to the senators-elec- t sus of the military experts was that the United States with Its enormousjength At 12:43 the-su- n broker through The of coast line must rely on Its fleet to clouds and-- at - Its. appearance the defend Its shores. crowd cheered wildly. The president In the discussions that preparedness took off his hat and waved it in re- agitation in congress provoked It was The crowd became impati- again and again demonstrated that the sponse. ent. One voice yelled out; Hurry temper of the American people is abup, Woodrow; why wait?" and a gen- solutely against a big standing army. eral laugh followed, in which the Former Secretary Garrison formulated and laldbeforecongresa with Presipresident Joined; At 12: 4S the president stepped to dent Wilsons approval a scheme for a the front of the Btand and Chief Jus- Continental army to be- recruited and tice White joined him. In a voice trained under the universal military plainly audible across the plaxa the training principle. Representative Hay chief executive repeated the words of of Virginia, then chairman of the powthe oath 'after the chief justice and at erful house1 military committee, optheir conclusion kissed the proffered posed the Continental army Idea and substituted for It In the national deBible with deep fervor. fense act, the federalization of the NaImmediately after the president fin- tional Guard. Mr. won President ished the oath. Vice President Mar--- s Wilson over to his Hayof way thinking the haltTushed" tip 'and 'shook hls hand Federalized National Guard became the vigorously. A roar went up from the second line of the land defenses and crowd, but subsided immediately, as Secretary Garrison resigned from the DIGS -- of ships to be leased to private Individuals In an effort to restore the American merchant marine. railroad The Adamson elght-hoo- r law was enacted on the eve of adjournment of the first session of the The enactment of last congress. a nation jthe measure prevented' wide railroad strike. It, however, has never become effective, . Between the time of its enactment and the time for the commencement of Its operation, January 1 last, the constitutionality of the measure was challenged by the railroads, and the whole matter Is now pending In the Supreme OF THE . been-inducte- court d p -- Sixty-fourt- h ? 1 post-offic- - - Vice-preside- half-billio- y ' - -- - the. president-stepped- the platform and' raised aloft hand,. and began his inaugural dress. ad- in Dam Chamber. The--- - bodies-- - et - F.-- K.- O. jf -- senators-eTectthe- Sixty-fourt- n With an area of 84,693.6 square miles and an estimated population of 137,655, Utah has but 3,446.52 miles of railroads, including all side tracks ind switches. d Vhe first carload of pigs to be distributed among the boys and girls clubs of Utah for the state-wid- e contest for better pigs arrived at Ogtire-bre- last week. den " r" But per cent of the entire acrestate Is classified as In the of the age Seventy-eigcolumn. per taxpaying and cent is classified as 22 - ht non-taxpayi- e. Government experts have figured that there is iron ore enough in Iron county, if smelted, to relay every mile of railroad In the United States and to rebuild every steel structure in ti BUILDING OF ROAD culverts It Not Constructed of Good U.. They Will H,v, Be Rlb Very Few Ycr, If tho culverts are not built material they will have to' be IT? in a few years, whatever of the roads they are madethe to Defective culverts vitiate one elementary principles or htgwv nomlcs, and the Interests of til payers inquire that the annual cL every part of the roads bum use be reduced to the lowest figure consistent with lfestly, it would be worse th?uLl to build culverts of boards t care of roads that have cost huodJL or thousands of dollars the railed It would be none the less foolish, f country. The financial statement of the postal savings bank in Salt Lake for the month of February shows deposits to amount of $112,082, as against $70,258 during the corresponding month of one year ago. With the coming of spring there is prospect that the Mountain Lake Fish Canning company will commence operations building a dish canning plant on the shore of Utah lake near Pleasant Grove. carBetween fifty and seventy-fiv- e loads of the finest and fattest stock in the intermountain country will be exhibited at the stock show to be held at the Salt Lake Union stockyards April 4, 5 and 6. Salt Lakq county, the fifth smallest county In the state, has the largest number of Julies of railroad, with a total of 631.09 miles. San Juan county, the largest county, is many miles from the nearest railroad. In San Juan county thousands of acres Qf dry farm land will be thrown open tar public entry In the near future, but it is declared that the land is located so far from a railroad that few care to enter on the land. Ernest D. R. Thompson, register of the United States land office In Salt Lake during the terms of President Harrison, McKinley and Roosevelt, died suddenly At his home at Salt Lake, March 2, from heart trouble. For the purpose of cultivating approximately 1600 acres of sugar beet fields in Sanpete county for the Peoples Sugar company a new colony of Japanese will be established in Utah shortly after the' frost leaves the ground. There are several cases of measles In Eureka, and the city physician has ordered that all children in the grade schools that, have not been exposed to the disease before be kept from at tending school until the epidemic has Culvert Built of Concrete. worse, to waste money In work of this sort with the nse of bad material In building a culvert the road builder must observe three fundT amental requirements : LThe first requirement Is that the culvert must be so placed that it will drain across the road, and under the road, of course, all the water that Is delivered to it by the side .ditch along the road. If this be not done, the earth along the road and about the end of the culvert will be wet and soggy the most of the year and the culvert opening will require almost constant repairs. Repairing a highway culvert Is relatively more expensive than similar work In a tows because of the waste of time of the workmen lu going to and from the point at which the work must be dona In placing the culvert care must also be taken that It will not be choked by brush and leaves, hnd this dot? must be discharged by the road super visor, and will be, If he is worth his J salt piping-Th- e -- a-w- rit lr the-Uta- la to live up to em. Reports received from branch associations of the Weber county farm bureau throughout the county Indicate a 100 per clnt stand in the demand of growers for $12 per ton for tomatoes and $45 and$50 per ton for peas dur-ln- g the coming season, according to oficers of the bureau. According to government officials, there Is coal enough in Carbon and Emery counties alone to last the present population 'of Utah for at least 1,000 years, yet these two counties, with an area of over six thousand square miles, have but a trifle over 250 miles of railroads. According to official figures, Kane county has more than a billion and a half feet of timber ready to be cut. WRITERS BEHIND THE TIMES Complaint Made That They Hiv Taken No Cognizance of Change Occurring in Dialects. When Joseph Vance, of whom De Morgan wrote a book, was a boy In Loudon, the local dialect was like this: Hes for to fight Mr. Gunn beyont the Plnnerforty works, and you better look sharp If you want for td ln -- . see anythink. Vance went away To South Amer-leand returned after many years to find the Jargon altered to this pata tern: It (the noise) was a countryYet, to Judge by American comic papers"" and the gentlemen of the stage, our dialects are as immutable as. the stars. They change no more than the faces of great, cliffs. Why would it not be a good idea to appoint a committee to wait on editors of humorous periodicals and the writers of plays and point out to them politely that they speak the language of people long In their graves and superseded? Toledo Blade. cold-cas- ceJ J situation, with more than 3,000,000,000 feet of Urn- make two trips valued at over $80,000,0(10. h' .iEnueskcqJujLheQulhrnlpp.lachlan wst Permanent .road building look ajtn money, and It Is well to h side of the proposition, sow. ; the beneficial effects upon the and educational standards of the munlty are not always susceptible" exact calculation, but they are to come; and since a permanent costs money, we must know there be a profit from somewhere to the cost Something for nothing never "yet "been found." co Profits from a permanent road o to the farmer in the reduction ar,lIroad that !l.to.ta not W to handle It. Duchesne " county Is in a similar .111 - CaZght LliMilaoLlDgdea. laundry where he was employed as a washerrWaldo Drabey "was whirled through the air, his clothes torn from his body, and Injured so badly that he was removed to the hospital, where he Is now in a serious condition, j Two million dollars per day was what the bank clearings of Salt Lake aggregated during the twenty-twbusiness days of the month of February, as compared with $1,456,000 In February of last year, an increase of more than $500,000 per day over "the 6ame period la 1916. o ' In Improved Reed. Put F.rmtr tlon Where H Can Go to Market Every Day In Year. butl e P. 0. Employee Steals $10,000. Bred weTtran hour railroad law, a child labor law, a Billing M on t. M.-the ...Billings postoffice, measure to forbid the immigration of Babcock, chief electrician and . JL, E. employee Read, a surveyor, were found In an has admitted, postoffice inspectors an- illiterate aliens, a rural Credits bill, a air intake chamber of the Elephant nounce, that he stole a mall package vocational educational bill and an act Botte dam near here Monday. They containing $10,000 in- - currency con- reorganizing the government of Porto were suffocated. signed to a local bank. Rico and extending citizenship to the Islanders. Potato Shortage In England. Charged With Desecrating Flag. The ship purchase bill established Boston. Herman von Hagen, charg- a government shipping board to suLondon. Captain Bathurst, the food controllers spokesman in the house ed with desecrating the American pervise shipping matters generally. It f commons, predicted In reply to flag, was held in $600 bail. It Is al- appropriated $50,000,000 to be obquestions, that everyone would have leged he used a small flag to wipe tained from the sale of Panama canal go without potatoes in the late greas spots from the work bench bonds for the purchase or construction where he was employed. ring and early summer. 8uffocated Engle,-N,-- Fol-lett- e, , inter-mountai- 2. The second and very Important curequirement in the building of a lvert Is that Its ends must be protected by some kind of a wall or facing car rled down to a flnp foundation. If this be done. It will be found that the subsided. ' of the culvert will not be under end After discussion lasting lover two be cut by the water and will not the hours, which at times was decidedly It, heated, the Salt Lake Federation of broken, frost will not Injure earth Labor refused to pass a resolution surrounding or superincumbentditch In Into the protesting against the death sentence will not slide down and, with the ' the of front opening, passed on Thomas Mooney in San of keeping the work Franclsco.and calling for a nation- farther necessary culvert will the feeding ditches clear, wide strike. be able to take care of all the water As a means of collecting $1,123,623.78 alongside the road. alleged to be due from Samuel and A1 3. The third requirement if that the vln Untermyef of New York, Samuel most be made so strong that Newhouse has instituted proceedings culvert become broken and so tight not will at Salt Lake to attach stock of the It can will not leak. These ends that it o Newhouse Realty company, which he culvert the be reached by building alleges is fraudulently held by the masonry, concrete or of good be DUntermyers. t material to be used must On the ground that the court is etermined by the relative cost of m without jurisdiction or authority to several materials at the locaw grant the relief prayed, the federal where the culvert is to be built aw court at Salt Lake has denied the. pe- by. the distance from the top or tition of several Utah coal companies culvert to the surface of the road. for of mandate agalnst'thw D. rest of the repu& R. G., the O. S. L. and h HAULING- tations are made; all they need to de REDUCE EXPENSE OF Fuel company- Hdy with a Utbf flghtifig"another Tidy and both was took off to the Stytion. Other Notablq Acts. All American dialects have Although preparedness was changed in 50 years as that pf London of legislation, the did, congress found time also to enact a with the possible exception of the to.the..frontof. eshitretr fils ,. nt rural-credi- ts tbree-year-bulldi- There are seven counties la Utah which have no railroad service Rich, San Juan, Washington, Wayne, Kane, Uintah and Garfield. Nut .brown from seven months of border service, members of the second squadron of Utah cavalry returned to Salt Lake on March 2. Millers of Salt Lake and the country pay just 69 cents more per bushel for wheat now than they did one year ago. , Supplemental railroad legislation, proposed by President Wilson In his annual message last December, failed of enactment This legislation would have provided for the prevention of strikes by compulsory legislation. It was heartily opposed by all of the bodies of organized labor which had railpreviously sought the eight-hou- r road law. Child Labor and Immigration. The child labor law barred from Interstate commerce all products of children 'Under' sixteen years of age in mines cr of children under fourteen in factories. The passage of the Immigration bill with Its literacy test was accomplished Wilsons second veto. The literacy feature .bad been a subject of controversy between the executive and legislative branches of the government for the past twenty years. Presidents Taft and Cleveland both vetoed Immigration measures because they carried the literacy feature, which all three presidents thought was not a proper measure of thefitness of aliens for admission to the United States. The federal farm-loa- n act, commonly called the bill, created 12 federal land banks with $750,000 capital each. The bill provides. whereby loans may be made to fanners for productive purposes 'associatthrough national farm-loa- n ions. It will meet more particularly the needs of agriculturists In the West and South. Under the vocational educational act the federal government on a gradually Increasing scale covers every state appropriation dollar for dollar for secondary school Instruction In agriculture and the mechanical and Industrial arts. On the eve of adjournment congress e passed the appropriation bill, with an amendment making bone dry all states having prohibitory laws. This measure was introduced Id the senate by Senator Reed of Missouri. Its unexpected enactment had the effect of absolutely prohibiting the shipment In Interstate commerce of Intoxicants Into states or territories which forbid the manufacture or sale of liquor. It also closes ths malls to all liquor advertising, inclodlng newspaper advertising. Neither can letters soliciting llqnor orders be carried in the malls. Sixteen Senators Retire. Sixteen senators have now discarded their togas and. prefixed their .titles with ex. This disturbance of per sonnel reduces but does not upset the Democratic control of the upper house. The Democratic majority of 16 is cut to 12, leaving out of consideration such senators and senators-elec- t as La Hiram Johnson, Poindexter and Norris, officially classed as Republicans but not always voting according to classification. Among the nationally known senators now retired to private life are Clarence D. Clark of Wyoming, who has served in the senate continuously since January 23, 1895; Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota, one of the original Progressives ; Luke Lea of Tennessee, now only thirty-seve- n years old, known as the Baby Senator; James E. Martine of New Jersey, who acquired fame early In his senatdrlal career by his stanch defense of applejack as a beverage and John W. Kern of Indiana, who has been Democratic leader of the senate. Needing no Introduction among the new senators are Hiram Johnson of Callfornia. Frank B. Kellogg, trust buster, of Minnesota, and Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania. Unlike the over-Preside- IIEl'lS STATE UTAH " be caa haul to instead of having load-he- r to haul one JRoadaj naved nPasted. Countrynrp a w good Intentions, dui with lumps of sod, stone, m , Qaj rubbish, Good Only in Pedifl Too many sires are bette pedigree. A good grade, la a poor purebred. Hen Outdoor In Winter. The hen can spend little of !d. ter la th.e.opeDir icsurT- erly constructed housd |