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Show PLEASANT GROVE REVIEW Our Government Sally Sez BENJAMIN TRANKLINt How It Operates By William Bruckart MARKET INFORMATION WjWlliY, III 35b . Mil V . -ft. li It W'rn'AMW I I I ' Sv lLf I -FranklinThe Scientist ... . N - ' .... - ki. A.vii!'S !i!f"'riTa FROrt THE PAINTING BY WEST Bust of Franklm In the Hall of Fame S 3 Benjamin Franklin; y KM ,;. r0MTHr MORAL BT N C WYETJjwS J i : ff1 iiiMI! By ELMO SCOTT WATSON A'MTTATfV 17 la tliA annl imKon tt Af tTia I blrtfr of the greatest A oier4;an Reg. . I Janiln Franklin. - Insc far as the mem ory of Inst year s bicentennial celebrations, cele-brations, honoring . the birth of George Washington, Is still fresh In the minds of most Americans, there may be those who read this article who will exclaim: "What! Benjamin Ben-jamin Franklin a greater American than George Washington?" Several years ago a historian an-Bwered an-Bwered that question in the affirmative and gave as his reasons the following: ; 1. The expression of Franklln's'grentness did not depend on events beyond his control. 2. lie would have been a gVeat manln any period of world's history. In' any land. 8. lie would have been among the great even If his endeavors had been confined to one only of sereval lines of activity In which his achievements achieve-ments were of the highest rank. ' 4. He would be a great'man If he were living today. - ' 5. Franklin was known throughout the world as a great man long before the Revolution, In which he played, a part as big as that of any other great man of the period. Washington's greatness began with the Revolution. 6. There Is no exact Standard by which human greatness can be measured or compared. But one criterion Is the opinion of citizens of other nations free from the prejudices, either for or against, held by the fellow-citizens of a great man. Outside the United States Franklin would be named more than any other American as the greatest American and as one of the few greatest men of all time. " And In comparing these two great" Americans what finer tribute could be paid to the greatness of Benjamin Franklin than was once paid by Washington himself? Writing from New York on-September-3, 37S9, to express his sympathy for an illness which had struck Franklin down, Washington said: "Would to God, my dear Sir, that I could congratulate you upon the removal re-moval of tliat excruciating pain, under which you labor, and that your existence might close with as, much ease to yourself as Its continuance has been beneficial to our country and useful to mankind; man-kind; or. If the united wishes of a free people, "Joined with the earnest prayers of every friend of science and humanity, could relieve the body : from pains or Infirmities ; that you ftuld claim an exemption on this score. But this cannot be, and you have within yourself the only resource to which we can confidently apply for relief, a philosophic mind. . , . If to be venerated for benevolence, If to be admired for talents. If tbe aslflemed r4or - p&trJoiJanwlttttiDa loved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived In vain." , But, dispensing with any Invidious comparison compari-son between- two great men, the listing of the following outstanding achievements of Benjamin Franklin should be ample proof of the Justness of characterizing hlm as "The Greatest American"; Ee discovered that lightning Is electricity ; proved It first by observation and logic, and sec-" sec-" ond by actual test with his kite; also Invented the lightning rod which Dr. Charles Steinmetx said Is still the best and most reliable protection we have against lightning. He was the first to discover that a current of electricity has a magnetic effect, L e. that It can magnetlae a piece of steel This Is the fundamental funda-mental principle on which the telegraph, the telephone tele-phone and the electric motor are based. ne gave tae world th best theory of electricity elec-tricity and modern science hs adopted his early conclusions. These were that electricity consists of -very mWDTe" particles, so SmaTriharthey"can pass between, the atoms or ordinary matter. They are now called electrons, and have made possible the radio. . He Invented the Franklin stove, the first successful suc-cessful wood-burning stove used In this country and lie Invented the Invaluable contrivance by which a fire consumes Us own. smoke.'and made the first smoke-consuming stove or furnace. He helped establish the first chartered fire In-ru In-ru ranee company In America, Among his many Inventions should- ba ln- V inimi jjHilpfflWM'L xibwiiih ' r J Franklin s Printing Press could be converted Into a stepladder, an artificial artifi-cial arm for taking books down from, high shelves In a library,-a one-arm chair that could be used like a desk or table for writing, the pulse glass, an lectric jack for turning a roast of meat over the fire, the laundry mangle, a copying press for. taking copies of letters or other writing, and double spectacles near and farsight glasses. , - Although not the discoverer, he was the first to demonstrate the production of cold by evaporation, evap-oration, a fact up to that time unknown to science. He .was the originator of the modern science of the firt of ventilation. He was the first to discover the poisonous quality which repeated respirations Impart to the air In a room. lie was the first to call attention to the folly of excluding fresh air . from hospitals and sick rooms. He pointed out the advantage, later adopted throughout the universe, of building ships with water-tight compartments, taking the hint from the Chinese. He was the first to discover that the temperature temper-ature of the Gulf stream Is higher than that of the surrounding water, and the first to have the Gulf stream charted. He was the first to discover th,at northwest storms come out of the southwest, in other Poor Richard I7t AN V -" FcttheYurofChrift 1 7 3 5? Being the Firft after LEAP YEAR. - hi mAtS Iht C4tlm yim Ev the Attaint of tk flm Crmkt By tX Latin QurcK, Hf O nt T 91I By tU Computation of r 5741 By K Xnn Qironology . jiij J3y h Jf KitoMt. J404 Wbtrtin u tort ami Th Luration, Ectipfes, Judzrnent of tU WcatScr, Sprwg Tkifl, Plel Motion U kkoiimI Afjtfflj, Son and Moon't Rifirg and Stt Length of Diy. Tin of HijKWlUr, ?, Cooru, and okCrrkt TJagr. Fitted to the Latitude of Forty Deret nj McndUn of FieHM Weft from Z, Ut mty rttliw( fcnblt Enor. Ctnn ll h ad. pw Plata; run from NrfH&uii Sm. By R1CHJRD SAUNDERShHoTa. eluded a three-wheel clock, a library chair that 1 Usved 200 yean ago. PHILADELPHIA! titi and (old Vy . FRdXXLlH, at (K Kw Pnming 0STewtk KatWt Titla paga af ttia alaaaaac which Fraaklia words, that storms travel In an opposite direction direc-tion to the winds. His Investigations concerning the weather resulted in the estnblishnient of our United States weather" bureau of which he is today to-day acknowledged to be. the father. He conceived 'and organized the Junto, the forerunner of all Rotary, Kiwanis," Lions and ClvJtan clubs of .ioday, The Junto developed Into the American Philosophical society, America's Amer-ica's first organization of scientists, in which he took great interest and pride and of which he Is Justly acknowledged to be the founder. - He conceived the Idea and established In Philadelphia Phil-adelphia the first successful circulating library, the mother of all our free circulating libraries of today. He founded the University of Pennsylvania and originated the elective system of college studies and also the so-calle'il "group system, adopted later by many of America's leading universities. uni-versities. He was the first writer on education to recommend the teaching of modern lanugages such as French and German, in preference to the exclusive study of Latin and Greek. lie was the first American educator to appreciate the importance im-portance of advanced teaching of history, political polit-ical economy, and the science of government, also of" technical. training iiragricnltnre and In the arts and sciences. He was likewise the first to prescribe athletics as an adjunct to college education. . - - He Introduced the following useful plants or grains Into America: Scotch kale, the kohlrabi,-Chinese kohlrabi,-Chinese rhubarb and Swiss barley. He promoted pro-moted .silk culture In Pennsylvania. lie Introduced Intro-duced the'yellow willow into America for basket making. He taught the farmers of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania to plaster their land. He introduced broom corn into Pennsylvania from Virginia. ... He was probably the first -American to direct di-rect attention In a published writing to the value of education In. agricultural science; and probably the first also to suggest the Insurance of crops against storms plant diseases and Insect pests. He was the first American -economist. He whs the first president of the Society for Political Inquiries of Philadelphia, the first society In the United States' interested In promoting the study of political, economy. He started the first thrift campaign. His maxims of "Poor Richard" did more to encourage thrift and Industry in the Colonies than any other one thing and they were circulated all over the world. They have been, more often translated and printed than any other work of an American author. He .was the first to propose daylight saving." He devised a reformed alphabet which was based on simplified or phonetic spelling. ne devised the first scheme for uniting the Colonies, more than 20 years before the Revolution, Revolu-tion, and his plan of confederation was finally adopted in all Its essential feature and binds our' Union together today. He organized our postal. service and was our first postmaster generaL He helped Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence. He was our greatest diplomat and secured for us the aid of France Jn thj Revolution and millions mil-lions in money without which our Independence at that time cpuld not have been established. He edited .the best newspaper and the most successful hewsTrepeT1iTTBe Colonies. He was the- first to attempt to .Illustrate the news in an American newspaper, and also the first to pub-lish- questions and answers' In a newspaper. He Is said to have drawn the first newspaper cartoon, car-toon, the picture of a snake cut In sections to represent the Colonies before th0 Revolution. ' He was "the first to turn -to great account the engine of advertising, now an indispensable element ele-ment in modern 'business." "He established In 1732 the Philadelphia Zel-tung, Zel-tung, the first American newspaper to be printed in a foreign language. ne was a master propagandist America's first He constantly Issued pamphlets, or wrote newspaper articles, to promote the Interests of his city, or his country, or the good of mankind. His methods were always the same in promting a cause: To develop Informed public opinion on the question he first wrote something for publication pub-lication that would attract public attention. ur an tne patnots. Franklin was the pnly oi to sign all five of the Wat state naVrsWi 1 Declaration of -InilopomlenirtSaT.t-, Amity and Commerce with France, the Treaty of Alliance with France, the Treaty of Peace with tEnsIandand-the-lrnKstitntion of tho-Ueited states. . . He was "the originator of the Idea of a League of-Nations. He sucsted "a united party of virtue, anenraTTof.arorgnlzaTlon which would consider world matters from the view-point view-point of all nations." lie was the first advocate in Ihe Cnlted States of a- policy of "legal condemnation con-demnation and "punishment of a nation which commits aggressive warfare." (C bj Wwtern Xwppr Caioa.) fX A nation that Is as great as ours In volume of things produced, pro-duced, there must In the natural course be an enormonus consumption consump-tion at home of commodities and merchandise produced here. It Is essential, therefore, that the producer pro-ducer of agricultural commodities, the processor of those commodities and the distributor of them, all must be up-to-the-minute 'on market data. The same is true If It be a package of pins, a gusher of oil, a manufacturer manufac-turer of automobiles, and on through the list. So there Is the need for domestic facts and figures. The bureau of foreign and domestic domes-tic commerce Is Just as thorough In its study of the domestic markets as it was shown heretofore to be in the assembly of Information from the foreign field. Possibly the gathering gath-ering of information at home is a little more simple than It Is abroad,' but that is more apparent than real ; it only seems more simple because be-cause we are more familiar with the practices of commerce and Industry here than, say in France or Japan. Throughout the United States, in all of the principal cities, the de partment maintains branch offices. Stationed there are men highly BT, 7, ,i Z Lproblem In certain areas. A flock trained for their particular work. fv Knn . , . skimniilk a week When the milk Is In the territory: in which Akron, Ohio, Is located, we find men. who have intimate knowledge of the tire industry. Along the seacoast there will be men of shipping experience as well as. men with knowledge of whatever Industries make up the principal businesses of the area. In the vast farming areas of the Middle Mid-dle West, there areTuen with Intimate Inti-mate acquaintance with markets for agricultural staples, and, so on. These men are reporting constantly con-stantly to the home office in Washington, Wash-ington, and they are thus serving as advisers to the nation as a whole since it Is calculated with some defl tion constitutes about 90 per cent of our production of all commodities commodi-ties put together, Besides the "field offices," as1 they are called," there are the various divisions di-visions in the headquarters here with specific Jobs to do. One of them, for example, has been engaged en-gaged over a period of several years attempting to find out why some grocery stores - prosper and why others alongside will fail An other crew has. been studying the reasons for demand in one "section for certain types of merchandise while another community a few hun dred miles away wants something of a different type. The bureau's domestic division has men who are actually serving retail businesses of the country In exactly the same way as a physician physi-cian treats a patient. They point out, how to avoid wasting dollars instead in-stead of .wasting health ; they suggest sug-gest ways to attract customers to Increase trade instead of building up bodily resistance to disease, as the doctor would tell his patient. Statistics constitute an Important adjunct of this service, as well as that supplied by the foreign service, and In this the bureau of thr census cen-sus plays its role in behalf of business. busi-ness. I used to think- before I knew better that all the bureau" "of Tfio census did was to count the noses-of noses-of the nation, but that Is only a minor part of its work. It does that Job every ten years, and it is an immense task, but ail of the other time it Is engaged in finding out how many washing machines were produced last year, how many pairs of shoes were manufactured in the first three months of this year, etc. It always has been a matter of Interest In-terest to me to iftserve those cen sus statisticians "in action." They will examine a tabulation several feet square, spend hours ddlny so. From these figures they make others. oth-ers. Here is one result of constant calculation cal-culation and one that illustrates bet-erthaffnythatCTmer bet-erthaffnythatCTmer tonind "af the moment:. In the census office is a giant electric clocklike machine. It has several hands moving in clock manner, around the perimeter, and .every time this "clock" ticks, It records the birth of an American citizen. In something of the same manner, a death is registered. Of course, that machine does not registereaths or births; it merely" registers ngures on these vital statistics sta-tistics 'that represent the average number of births, that have been shown to occur through tabulation of statistics. One may say that has nothing to do with business, but that Is an incorrect in-correct assumption. How, for Instance, In-stance, would manufacturers of boys clothes be able to plan their uction program forlen ver hence, say. 4f thev could not fiomr USE SURPLUS FEED IS EXPERT'S ADVICE Skimmilk Saves on the Pro tein Supplements. By A. R. Winter, Poultryroan, Colleg of Agriculture, University of Illl-doI. Illl-doI. WNU Servlca, The present plentiful supplies of feed can be used up profitably by chickens If they are properly fed. Right now, there are few better ways for farmers to Improve their Income on this feed than to use It for chickens. ' At current egg prices It takes only about ten eggs to pay for the 25 pounds of feed eaten daily by 100 hens. Consequently, anything better bet-ter than 10 per ; cent production means extra cash income from the grain that goes to poultry. One farm adviser reports a farmer farm-er who is making a gross Income of $30 a week on the sale of eggs from his 500-bIrd flock. . It is fairly safe to assume that the weekly feed cost on this flock Is not more than $8.75, allowing 25 pounds of feed daily for each 100 hens. The farm poultry flock also can provide a profitable outlet for some of the surplus milk which Is a 'used as the chief source of protein in the ration. There Is no particular value In the fat content of milk for poultry, so the dajlry farmer can separate his cream, and sell it more profitably profit-ably than he can feed it to chickens. chick-ens. On the)ther-hand, the surplus skimmilk should make it possible to "save on the common protein supplements, sup-plements, which are generally the most expensive part of the poultry ration. A good mash mixture tause with skimmilk can be made from 200 nitehes3 that our national consumpH-Pownds - ground yellow corn, 100 pounds ground wheat, 100 pounds ground oats, 20 pounds meat scrap, 8 pounds, steamed bonemeal, 4 pounds ground Jimestone and 4 pounds salt, with milk to drink Instead In-stead of water. Valuable Formula for Homemade Laying MasK The old ration consisting of 100 pounds each of ground corn, ground oats, bran, middlings " and meat scraps is still a useful formula for a home-made laying mash. The addition ad-dition of 2" per cent ground limestone, lime-stone, 2 per cent bonemeal and 1 per cent fine table salt makes the ration better, as the minerals help In the production of strong shells. When home-grown wheat is available avail-able It pays to substitute 200 pounds ground wheat for the 100 pounds of bran and 100 pounds of middlingaJn ,t he above ration. 1. Another good,, laying mash consists con-sists of 150 pounds cornraeal, . 100 pounds ground oats, 100 pounds bran, 100 pounds middlings, 50 poun'd meat scraps, 50 pounds alfalfa al-falfa leaf meal, 15 pounds bone-meal bone-meal and 5 pounds fine table salt,, In that ration the cornraeal can be reduced to 100 pounds. Indiana Farmer's Guide. m me territory they rach? That example may not be -tire best, but it -wtit serve to show to whaf"exTenl these statistics may be used. It serves to indicate likewise that the domestic staff of the bureau. nfJ or eign and domestic commerce digs around In the most unexpected places for material with which to fill this - new style Pandora's box, into which we will next examine. C 1M1. Wrtara Newspaper Uatoa, Substitute for Sunshine The reason poultry experts often eeoramend cod liver oil as a substitute sub-stitute for sunshine Is because It Is rich In vitamin D, a growth and vigor factor with great tonic properties. prop-erties. This Is explained by the fact that the codfish from .which it Is obtained lives In northern jseas where the sun shines for long periods. It obtains . Its food from micro-organisms and plants that absorb ab-sorb ultra-violet rays of the sun and the fish stores up the vitamins in Its vital organs, principally the liver. No other fish is able, to store equal quantities, it is said. Cod liver oil fed to breeding hens Increases In-creases fertility and hatchabllity. When fed to- yearn and quicker growth results. Profitable Broilers If broilers and pullets are to be raised at a cost that will yield a profit Important factors will have to be carefully weighed by the producer. pro-ducer. These are, the quality and efficiency of the brooding equipment, equip-ment, the feed used, and the sanitation. sani-tation. Quality of chicks comes first because nothing gives a poorer start toward low production costs than cheap chicks from untested stock. Brooding equipment Is next In line and quality and efficiency rather than low price should govern one's choice. " - - - Sun Good Disinfectant The sun Is a wonderful dlslu- on a certain increaseTn population fuint The windowsof ihe po try house should be so arranged that -the sun will see all the Hoot artng the day. ; Windows should come to within two feet of floor and extend to the same distance dis-tance rom peak arge enough Jo contain about one-third front of bouse. If there Is, a curtain before the roosting quarters. It should b lifted during the day and the sun allowed to penetrate, every nook and corner of the roosting pen. Let'! drink ome itron ir.ter, Jast choose yourt, for 1 tout u tt. one rood them " th" NEW.0"4 M T""a ) With an eye to succen, ni nod hi SALLY WISHES TO THANK LOl 1-AlKUP.a ijx BEHALF OF IN MOUNTAIN INDUSTRIES FOR T$ Axvxnu . IX HELP tt Library Arrangement Books were not always atoj vertically. The Romans kent scrolls on shelver or in boxes, ligious books, too bulky, were sidewise. But with smaller bof better bindings, and the practiel putting titles on the backs we our vertical habit of storiagr ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR AN INTERMOUNTAIN PR0DUCB No Mistaking This Frequently ther-sign-Jplea suffices to keep peofle from en ing one s lawn, but a certain burbanite didn't find it so. Fin, he had to put up the noi "Please keep off the grass. me? Yes, you." Boston Ti script. THIS WEEK'S FREE ST0 t . . . -oi. .f. Bui af value; occasionally, howerer, w nd that can ot launiuiij ana Th beat resolution for this year I resolve to bay Intermountiti mutt s 11 ... .hi. v.r for ntbt: iw " --- - , service, for value, and (or B ranuij Inirf I r MRS. A. B. BTEELl Salt Lab Citr, Riches rnere is a greater uuusj earth, than, riches. With it, f vnnt man k rich, the rich mat poor. Beggars may possess it : ... n Knno-Vit. hv kinea. greatest thing in all the worli love. unaries naimau. JOSEPH WM. TAYLOR, If BUi'j Leadng luwui . Funerals on Time Payment Pi ttstlttni fait Lakt City, ltd Ttw ! 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