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Show pfAi, IHE SLDtiAN BaimeWill Be a Hof High-Prii'c Hroblcni. Bust be .stopped BjBcononiics Believe Bization to Blame Many Evils. KfJI. WHITESIDE. Eto Tlic Tiilmne. Kir, Feb. 5. This "back Ekfenn is KrovrinK in Bfwould not Mirprisc mc nklli" into a concrete Hcd by the strongest- in-Kqnir.v. in-Kqnir.v. vrith the United Kb'nt dome H i" itf5 Eco it. I'lose students Rre cominn to believe i4 urbanization of the mgio blume for winy of Ksfuict the oouniry, t-ho K.ainontr tliem. Hence it B?tile sonic action winch Stop the flow into (he V it the other way. lhc at the main trouble has Btion of the farm and Kncmcut i ic country Kf lias been done in the K'to correct these evils, fn of the telephone, the i the phonograph luivo al free delivery has done ithe good work, and no th'er, but the cityward ffMnnv of Hie brightest, lountrvhavo this great consideration ana t tic Jrwill in good time be ft believes that ihe -on-filiation in great, cities jge part bv the lack of e'rcccnfb declared thai iice is the richest agri-t agri-t in the world is bc-jioa bc-jioa good roads so long, to agricultural popula-does popula-does not have to spend repairing vehicles and rv winter. 1 think it, ftbc attractiveness of liink it has caused the fmain on t lie soil more ier I'ountry. You do not Lmmv in nrh;in lumnhl- lion in France and England that you do in (his country." B. B. .Tones of Denver does not take imifh slock in the movement for uniform uni-form laws in all the states. "It is a difficult question for the laws which apply in one state to ahv.'-s fit the environments and conditions existing in a neighboring state," declares Mr. Jones. "?o long, as the sovereignty of each state exists the solution of tho problems of uniformity of slate laws seems In be for tho future. Especially is this true with regard lo the divorce laws. There are certain social conditions condi-tions in omo states which demand laws that are different from those governing govern-ing the people of another stale. ' Have Labor Problems. Colorado and the west have their own labor problems according to .lames S. Kiiwlins of Denver. ''What would the employer in the east think," said Mr. Jiawlins, "of a concern whose employees em-ployees shifted three limes a month? And yet this has been the labor condition con-dition which the contractors who are building the government's great; irriga-lion irriga-lion ditches of the west have to confront. con-front. The demand for labor is now so quick, with the amount of railroad construction con-struction and betterments in progress, that a great army of shiftless, restless, irresponsible men has come into existence, exist-ence, who go from place to place, riding without cost, and "working at each poiut generally oulv long enough to get the. wherewithal for a grand debauch. The federal eight-hour lav.- puts Vm-lc Sam lo a great disadvantage beside other employers in the trans-Missouri belt. Where men are employed in great camps awav from their homes and gardens gar-dens and the anniHenient of settled communities, com-munities, wiih nothing for them to do at the end of the eight hours but sit in the sun and wait for the next day's work to begin, they, become more than ever the prey of tho microbe of dissipation." dissi-pation." Covered With White Blanket. "The west at present is more com plctcly covered with snow than it has been in many years," said L. S. Wil Hums of Williams, Ariz. 'Tn traveling from Freano. Cal.. lo Washington, one litids a continuous field of snow, until Harpers Ferry is reached. In Fresno itself it-self the residents have been very much surprised by a visit of a .snowstorm this 3' ear. " Jt is the first time that the people in that city have seen lhc while flakes fall in twenty-six years. As for Phoenix, Ariz., the surprise is even greater. It. has never been known lo snow there. The oldest inhabitant, by whoso memory every resident swears, said that t.his'vear has brought, the first snowstorm to Phoenix." 2Tow This Is Sunday. "When Senator Bikini is at homo and under the eyes of the ronstitution he is a regular attendant at Sunday serv- re.-; a) the Prcsbvterian 'diundi. Xnth-I ing deters the rotund statesman from his devotional duties, not uvt politics. One Sunday morning the senator had hardlv finished his breakfast when a delegation of his political friends called to make pome n-nni of the director of the destiny of West Viiginia. Senator "Elkins didn't get mad. or at least he didn't show it. biM with his sweetest smile, said; ''Xow. boys, you know this is Sunday, and T always go Jo church. Of course I want lo hoar what .vou have lo f-ay, and am sure I will help you. but can't Vou conn1 around tomorrow? Xow that's good bova. " Vill Travel in Style. ITncIc Sam intends lo.scnd hi delegates dele-gates lo the next pan-American con fcrencp in siylf. Xot only is it ilanncd to send the' delegates in a war fhip. bui I understand that Secretary Mover will have the Atlantic cruiser squadion accompany them nominally on a cruiv. bui -calky" as an escort, and to do hpovial honor I" tli' conference. Tho feeling is strong here that former President Roosevelt and former' Senator Me ''rearv should bo appointed as two of the delegate and it if nosdible thev mav bn. The pan-American conference of "I OJ 0 will have many important Mib jret to disciiffc. the first of which n the prepurnHou for the celebration ot the opening of the Panama canal in IPI,".., Although I his4 is the project ol the .United States, it is to be an occasion occa-sion for mutual congratulation among ail lhc Xorth and Souh American conn trie, and it. is expected lo bn another mo-iua of linking the interests of the United States with all of Latin America. Opening Panama Canal. The opfnins of the Panama 'canal will, by the wav. be celebrated in great st vie by this country. At least throe world's fairs arc already projected to honor thft evflnt. one at 2sow Orleans one al San Francisco and one at Wash-i Wash-i lift on, There arc peculiar reasons whv each of these cities should rejoice :.l liio completion of tne big dilch and I Li v propose lo do it. |