Show BROTHER DOUGLASS BLUNDERS As a general thing the appointments of the national government are wise and right But a mistake certainly was made in the sending of W B Douglass Doulass into the western country to survey the field whose harvest is prehistoric ruins and whose decorations are natural natura bridges Douglass has the Impression that tha everything of archaeological value found In Utah should be carried by him to the Smithsonian Institution a at Washington He regards the activity of Professor Protessor Cummings and others o othe of the University of ot Utah though with authority from the department as an intrusion And he fills his report to th the government with petty and frivolous statements that are not borne out iy the facts nor warranted by the best In Interests Interests teres of historical research The recent trip of Professor Cum Cummings Cummings Cummings and his party into southern Utah their discovery of the new nat natural natural natural ural bridge their acquiring of further information info matlon relative to ancient villages village in the neighborhood of Navajo moun mountain mountain tain fain and their better acquaintance with the whole prehistoric field are o othe of the greatest interest to the nation am and to the world Because the University of Utah has taken an active interest in inthis Inthis Inthis this research for years past entirely ac accounts accounts accounts counts for tor the discoveries that have been made The state and the uni university university should have the credit of th the i discoveries And the material found In Inthe Inthe Inthe the forgotten abodes of ancient cliff cUff dwellers should be bo preserved in the mu museum museum seum scum of ot the University of Utah That Tha ThaIs ThatIs Is certain Mr Douglass has done the cause o of scientific research no good by his hick bick his ill III temper and his assumption tion of authority he does not possess pO less Here Is a work In which the govern government government ment mont and the state cooperate can But Bu Buno no good effuse can be served by men o or methods of the Douglass variety |