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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH (Editor's Note- - This is another in the "Stories of the States" series.) By EDWARD EMERINE WNU Features. Old Jim Bridger, at his lonely fort on Green river, talked to the leader of the strange band and learned these emigrants were headed for the Great American Des-ert beyond the mountains. He tried to dissuade the leader, a determined sort of man, and pessimistically remarked that he would give a thousand dollars if he ever saw an ear of corn grown in Salt Lake valley. The emigrants moved on, and a hundred years ago, on July 24, 1847, Brigham Young looked out across a seared and desolate land of sage-brush and alkali, and said: "This is the place!" One lone tree clung to life In the entire valley. Heat waves danced and hot breaths of air came up the canyon. If there were inward doubts among his followers, none Is record-ed. Obediently the band moved into the desert. Mormon Convert. Brigham Young was a native of i Vermont and of Revolutionary an-cestry. He had become a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, the Mormon church. When Joseph Smith, the founder, was killed at Nauvoo, 111., Brigham Young was chosen to take his place. fif I 111w 0 $T. GfOROt v"" J fj" Only pout t tm! Q. S cohmohto BBB1MBB( -- MMJ A O 7 r KJ A "We cannot eat gold and silver," warned Brigham Young, but many were lured by those and other met-als to explore the desert and moun-tains. Mineral resources of Utah are varied, including gold, silver, lead, iron, manganese, gypsum, oil, coal, copper, salt, zinc and many others. In southern Utah the climate is semi-tropica- l, but in the northern Rocks and hills and desert did not deter him. They were but the materials with which he would build. In this strange land he and other Mormons would be far removed from religious and political differences. Here they would have a land of their own. A dreamer was Brigham Young, but he was a doer as well. Perhaps his eyes saw more than the mirages on the desert that day. He might have envisioned the Territory of Des-ere- t, the beginning of an American epoch, the birth of a vast and pro-ductive region. The valleys and mountains that his people were to colonize later were before him, and there was a temple to be built, cities and towns to be laid out, in-dustries to be developed, canals and ditches to be dug, and water to be spread over the thirsty soil. Faith Saves Crops. The Mormon leader likened the group to a swarm of bees beginning a new hive. The Beehive became their symbol, and all men were workers. The hardships of crossing the plains and mountains were as nothing compared to conquering the desert. There were discouraging days when hunger stalked. Huge lo-custs came to eat their crops. "Have faith! Have faith! Pray!" And they had faith, and they prayed. Out of the skies swarmed seagulls thou-sands and thousands of them and they devoured the locusts! Brigham Young stated his wants and the group's needs, and builders set to work. The famed Mormon tabernacle was built without nails or steel. Monumental Effort. At the ground level of the Salt Lake Mormon temple are huge earth stones, each weighing three tons, and 50 in number. A mountain of granite 20 miles away furnished the material. Huge granite blocks were quarried in a canyon, slung with chains from heavy carts and drawn by oxen to the site. Over 40 years from the time Brigham Young des-ignated the temple site, the construc-tion was complete, the angel Moroni set in place and 75,000 people took part in the dedicatory services. But Brigham Young had been dead for many years. The climate of Utah is dry, stimulating and wholesome. The sky is so clear that no cloud specks it on 300 days a year. Lacking rain, the Mormons pio-neered irrigation in America, bringing water from the moan-tain- s to irrigate crops in the desert. Today, Utah's chief crop is sugar beets, but vegetables and fruits are grown in profusion. Other crops are wheat, oats, potatoes, hay, alfal-fa, corn, barley and rye. More than two million sheep, 100,-00- 0 dairy cattle and a half million beef cattle are grazed in Utah. Wool production amounts to 20 million pounds annually. Manufacturing in Utah began with the Mormon pioneers, who wove woolen clothing, mined coal, quar-ried rock, canned fruit and vegeta-bles, made sugar from beets, in-stalled grist mills, slaughtered cat-tle for meat, made butter and cheese, and utilized other raw prod-ucts at hand. The great copper mines came later, with smelting and refining of ores to follow. Bingham, Magna, Tooele, Garfield and Provo became mill towns. The Geneva steel plant at Provo is the largest in the West, with a mountain of ore close beside it. CHIEF EXECUTIVE . . . Herbert B. Maw, native of Ogden, is serving his second four-yea- r term as Utah's governor. A lawyer, teacher, and legislator, he has been prominent in Latter Day Saints church affairs. and eastern parts there are skiing and winter sports at high altitudes. Utah scenery will compare with any in the world. Here are mountains as grand as the Alps, sunsets that rival those of Italy and Greece. Marvelous canyons, mammoth stone bridges, weird rock formations and other master works of na-ture arc found throughout the state. The mountain lakes and streams provide fine fishing and the forests abound in game bear, elk, antelope, grouse, deer, prairie chickens and others. Utah, once a formidable desert now teems with populous cities and thriving villages. Once parched and burned ground has been changed to green fields, gardens and orchards. Paved highways, airlines and sev-eral transcontinental railroads pro-vide transportation. What wonders a hundred years have wrought! This year every city and hamlet in Utah is preparing a celebration. They will celebrate the centennial of the arrival of Mormon pioneers. Less than 75 per cent of the people are now Mormons, but all will join in that celebration regardless of creed. The building of Utah was the open-ing of the West. It was an epoch in American history. MORMON SHRINE . . . Notable among Salt Lake City's attractions is the Mormon temple. Last of the Latter Day Saints temples in L'tah to be completed, the Salt Lake City edifice was begun in 1853 and not completed until 1803. The temple is built of granite, many of the larger blocks being carted by ox-tea- before a railroad was built in 1873. Seen in silhouette to the left is the famous Mormon tabernacle, noted for its acoustics and organ. jrahiJB8 iMliA Experts Needed to Set Impartial Budget Figure By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. As the wrangle over the budget, ta::es and national debt continues, .m nirt be due to any Haukhage widely heralded "swing the axe," or "econ-omy drives" which congress often promises and seldom delivers. If the budget is proportionally smaller next year, It will be because figures prepared by the Bureau of the Bud-get will have been checked by con-gressional fiscal experts who get their jobs on merit and who are obli-gated to no political party. These men now are being selected by a professional personnel expert loaned from the business world. At this writing the house and sen-ate are struggling to find a compro-mise cut in the budget. Until they determine the size of the budget, they cant be sure of what they ought to do about taxes or reduc-ing the national debt. If it weren't" that the budget were compiled by one party and authorized by another, we wouldn't have as much wran-gling. Now there Is nothing wrong with having plenty of de-bate on a subject like this, pro-vided one or both sides are vot-ing on the basis of actual facts which are set forth by a disin-terested authority whom the public will accept. Such an au-thority will be provided, we hope, by the staff of fiscal ex-perts next year. Without such experts what hap-pens? The house goes on record as to the budget cut it thinks it wants to make. The appropriations com-mittee cuts down the various items. A bill is submitted again to the house and the fight begins, each con-gressman attempting to restore as much of the appropriation for his pet projects as possible. Log-rollin- g gets under way and the total is raised. The same thing happens in the senate where an individual senator's demands are accorded even more weight. Eventually the ante is raised a little more. And if it doesn't get back up to the President's original $37,500,000,000 estimate (which may have been too high itself) there will be a supplemental bill passed later which will absorb any extra dollars that are lying around. When Senator Taft was asked by Democratic Senator McMahon (who was attacking the Republican cut) if Taft wanted the senate to pass on the question "without having much information as to what we are doing," Taft frankly replied: "We can only make an Intel-ligent guess. We have no infor-mation before us as to the par-ticular items of the $37,500,000,-00- 0 budget, in justification of the figure fixed by the budget (bu-reau) ... we only know what is requested." That is the keynote: "We only know what is requested." Why should the opposition party take on faith the administration's figure We have two parties to check on each other. Taft admits the Re-publicans haven't the facts now but he adds that in "ordinary" years "we will have a staff working dur-ing the recess" supposedly com-posed of these neutral experts who now are being hired "which can give us more intelligent informal than we now have." There's the hope. Music Basis for World Understanding Few Russians heard the early state department broadcasts, inaug-urated last month, and those who did were critical of the musical se-lections, objecting to "hillbilly" tunes like "Turkey In the Straw." They complained too about Bing Crosby's singing of Stephen Foster ditties. This is only one instance where music has segued into world news since H war. I remember visiting f the Opera House in Nuernberg when German musicians were first per-mitted to assemble there. The house had four walls intact and part of the roof, but only part of It. The rest as covered with canvas which kept out most of the falling snow but didn't keep out the cold. No protense was made of heating the auditorium, and the place was freezing cold. Yet it was packed. The program however could not be completed. This was not due to the fact that the audience walked out they stood or sat with the snow seeping in on them. The musicians' fingers sim-pl- y got too cold to function. That was a year ago last November. Today with the cooperation of the American military government, or-chestras have sprung up in every town in the American zone and a large part of the broadcast pro-grams are musical. Reeducating the German in the field of music will be a less Herculean task than It is in oth-er fields, for music has always been part of the home training of the German child not merely something for which the music teacher was alone responsible. I remember a German home I used to visit before World War I in which the short period after the evening meal and the time the youngest went to bed and the eldest went to his other studies was largely a musical hour. The most interest-ed and active member of the group was the father. Here In America we leave too much of the child's musical training to the schools. As the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly, who is vis-iting this country, remarked: "Our ears must be trained to per-ceive the simpler musical phenom-ena before being able to follow the more complicated forms, and it is obviously the duty of public schools to give this first training to every-body." Germany of course has another great advantage that America lacks. Goebbels has been removed. Amer-ica's musical dictator has not. His organization has a standing reso-lution which reads: "The federation urges its locals to use their political and economic strength to combat the encroachment of high school bands and orchestras." The dictator I refer to Is, of course, one I'etrillu of the Amer-ican Federation of Musicians; the resolution is from their con-stitution which in conferring au-thority on him uses phrases like this: "It shall be his duty and prerogative to make decisions in cases where in his opinion an emergency exists; to issue ex-ecutive orders which shall be conclusive and binding upon all members etc." Such a resolution and such abso-lute authority runs directly counter to the advice of Kodaly and to the thinking of anyone interested in the cultural development of America or in democracy itself for that matter. This is one of the many facets of our musical life which touch poli-tics as music touches many of the nation's other activities, past and present For example, during the war cynicism was expressed in songs like "Lillie Belle" with its "Jingle, Jangle-Oh- , Ain't You Glad You're Single." There were songs created out of a higher emotional level, too, like "God Bless Amer-ica", "There'll Always Be an Eng-land"; "The White Cliffs of Dover," and what was perhaps an escape-son- g from all the sordidness of war, "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning." No, the Russians didn't like the hillbilly American music. And I doubt if the average American could absorb much of the somber and mournful Russian folk dirges al-though they contain beauty enough to the ear accustomed to hearing 'hem and the mind trained to them. That must be remembered in con-sidering all cultural relationships to world peace. We must be informed not only about the world as a whole, but specifically about each other. Mature interpersonal understanding implies a knowledge of each other's environment and also the habits, tastes and thinking produced by that environment. Music is a part of everyone's life; an expression as well as an impression. We cannot live peacefully with each other in our homes or on the globe without the establishment of understanding intercommunication. Music, under-stood, will be part of that necessary intercommunication. Fortunes Are "LET me ' ,r J out your trusty dijB party and watch the M 'round! 'B: You can choos- - fr,,m arocB nating card-rearin- method!? ings need never lie stwmMR. ther proof of your '. crowd amused with other 3 Our Weekly New snapcr fl teaches you to toll ortuBBi stars, tea leaves, crystal bufl niul dice Send ecu- -, CWf Tell Your Fortune Wmu!B Servli H r. si Print name, address, booklet WHEN CONSTIPATION mtinMM punk as the dickens, kings;: wk upset, sour taste, gassy fM take Dr. Caldwell's famousH to quickly pull the trigger jfl oards" and help you feel bJH chipper again. DR. CALDWELL'S is the wotvlJH na laxative contained in goodsH Pepsin to make it so easj totH MANY DOCTORS use pepsin tions in prescriptions to ca.:- -JB cine more palatable and ."tfl take. 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Frisco-Oaklan- d , BE Employs Staffl The San Francisco-Oj-bridge has 264 emplovB large number being req'iB span, owing to its eight-s-- J and heavy traffic, ma.U own police force and ment. The staff also incluJ chanics whose sole duty A ice disabled cars, whichaS a day. Hiabliahts of New York: The Main Stem's mazda Inferno Bulbs wink and blazes with beauty. fireflies. The blink like a million electrobatic signery jigs, wiggles, flips handsprings and blows smoke rings. Rainbow-dippe- d hues gleam and glitter and coat the atmosphere of colors. Broad-wa- y with a fairyland wears its electric jewelry like a crown while it celebrate, the night-ly carnival. The exciting pyrotechnics of sounds along Times Square. Loud-speake-outside music shops the Shouts of latest jive jamboree. headlines newsboys roman-candlin- g mingle with the honking of horns and the shrieks of motorists when tem-pers explode In the traffic maze. The firecracker gab of sidewalk ven-dors and flea-circ- barkers rocket-ing their shrill shills. The bonfire of noise reaches its blazing peak at midnight when you can converse only by climbing to the top of your voice. The metropolis Is a jagged carpet of stone and steel from atop the Empire State edifice. Skyscraper peaks provide exclamation points for the poetry of the sprawling city's landscape. Winds sprint over build-ings humming their natural lulla-bies. Ribbons of traffic below move with paralytic Indecision, and hu-mans are slow-motio- n dots along the streets. Distance transforms the turbulent roar of city life into whis-pered music. St. Patrick's Cathedral occu-pies the throne of architectural majesty. Its spires resemble hands in prayer. Pigeons frolic on its manicured lawns and peck crumbs. Sunlight sprays the im-pressive interior with a lovely glow. Only the ripple of mur-mured prayers disturbs its hushed beauty. The cathedral is not Just a place of worship it stands as an Imposing monu-ment to dignity and peace. When dusk settles over the town, a haphazard rash of lights zig-za- g across the 59th St. skyline. The buildings are sprinkled with lumi-nous confetti. This crazy pattern of magic lanterns inspires the imagi-nation and defies the vocabulary. It etches a portrait that always will be displayed in memory's gallery of compelling views castles-in-the-ai- r that have come down to earth. Central Park unveils its most ex-citing scenic magic at midnight. The string of streetlamps along its lanes adorns its dark beauty like a fabulous necklace. Skeletons of trees stripped of their leaves cast eerie shadows. Silence stands guard over the mysteries lurking in the darkness. Crisp winds roam through the park and juggle dead leaves as they continue their endless flight into nowhere. The proud loveliness of La Liberty warmed by the soft fin-gers of sunshine. Breezes whisk broom the folds of her flowing gown. The foghorns of passing ships offer their deep-throate- d salutes. America's most eloquent symbol an old and always stir-ring sight. And when its mas-sive torch is ignited the Lady of Freedom becomes a visual hymn. The waterfront is alive with activ-ity. Grimy merchant ships wave white smoke handkerchiefs as they leave on their trans-Atlanti- c errands. Skiffs curtsy in the breeze. Ferries slowly shuttle to and fro like me-chanical icebergs. An army of tugs patiently nudges a huge liner into port. The long arms of docks reach out to grasp cargoes being unload-ed. Baby waves bruise themselves as they crash against the centipede legs of piers. George Washington bridge spans the Hudson with a cobweb of steel. Cars whiz across the fingers of the headlights poking holes in the sur-rounding darkness. On both sides the bridge is flanked by round-shouldere- d hills. And when it is splashed with moonlight this engineering marvel becomes a scenic miracle. Vth Avcnoo's fabulous shop win-dows. This is where imagination has a field day, and the resulting pro-ductions provide a holiday for the orbs. Goods are showcased with all the color and pomp of a coronation. Stroll along the spacious boulevard and you'll be gifted with a moving picture of a little perfumed world wrapped in silks and sables. Wall Street during the early ayem hours has its visual delights. Dark-ened skyscrapers whitewashed with moonlight stand like frozen ghosts. Grotesque shadows are scribbled across the streets. The narrow can-yons are packed with roaring winds that provide the background music for a rhapsody of serenity. If you listen intently you can hear the foot-(to- p of a policeman blocks away. An occasional light in a building makes it appear like a one-eye- d monster Salt Lake and Flats Lure Tourists, Industries, Racers There is no need to sink a shaft to find salt in Utah. It is mined on top of the ground where it lies many feet deep on the shores of Great Salt lake and in famous Bonneville salt Cats. Naturally the state is a large producer of both common salt and sodium products. People who go to the beaches of Great Salt Lake find that they float like a cork in the water because of j ita saline content, which ranges from 22 to 27 per cent. The lake is 4.200 feet above sea level and has no known outlet, except evaporation. It is 80 miles long and from 20 to 32 miles wide. Great Salt Lake has several fine beaches. Because d its salinity no fish live in the lake, but a small bnne-shrimp- , no larger than a man's fin-gernail, exists in great numbers in it. West of the lake are the Bonne-ville salt flats where thousands of acres of white salt stretch on either side of the paved highway which crosses the area. The fiats are so level that many automobile speed records have been made on them. Ab Jenkins, former mayor of Salt Lake City and famed race driver, prefers the flats to all other courses, claim-ing the salt keeps rubber tires cool-er than a dirt or board track. The flats also are notable for their mirages. BARBS . . . by Baukhage "Fancy meeting 50 mink coats in four minutes," said a surprised French visitor to New York. Fancy paying for them! Why can't we get up a exchange agreement whereby all Russians with bourgeois leanings could be traded for all Americans Wi'h Communist tendencies? An Illinois cat added an ailing new shoat to its litter. But she'll never teach it to purr. Despite the long German occupa-tion of their home island, the Jersey cows were never cowed by the Nazis and are still supreme, says the Brit-ish. 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