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Show THE LIVE NEPHI, UTAH. S, STOCK PROBLEMS SOLVED: UNDER CLAIMS WILSON GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION OF MARKETS People THE COUNCIL OF NATIONAL TIMES-NEW- s 5 t ' v v 3 iS3S.YVl.v? DEFENSE BIRTHDAY John D. Rockefeller celebrated his self-reproa- for laziness. Mr. Rockefeller takes a little olive oil each day, plays golf and refuses to worry. He need not worry about the high cost of living, certainly, for his income is believed to be more than one hundred millions. In the meantime to every American who burns a kerosene lamp or runs a "flivver" the name of John D. Rockefeller occurs with regularity. HOHENZOLLERN American Ranchman Pays Ransom to 's Bandit Kidnappers of Son. Rule of Mexico Not a Government. r 3Ji. One Step in 2aTL?3& the Marketing of Live Stock Cattle at the Stock Yards. (Prepared by the' United States Department of Agriculture.) markets of the United States are more completely organized, more efficiently conducted and better protected against loss to the producer than almost any other class of markets for, farm products. However, like all other large enterprises, the live g censtock markets and ters have created problems of supervision or regulation because of their which would have been impossible if left to the interested parties to work out. In other words, the government men have acted as umpires, and, as always happens, the game has been played more fairly and with less friction. One of the most important benefits from the supervision service, according to officials of the bureau of markets, is the confidence lacking for many years that has been estabdiextensive ramifications and their lished in the minds of producers and rect influence upon the affairs of ev- shippers of live stock. They say there ery producer and user of meats and is no question that the tendency the long list of animal among farmers and stockmen to InAs a consequence of these condi- crease their and feedtions and in view of the war needs ing operations is due in large part to for meat and other animal products, the knowledge that Uncle Sam is suthe government found it necessary, pervising the markets. about a year ago, to conserve the meat supply for the war period by exercisCARE ing the war power conferred upon the BETTER president by the food control act, and FLOCK OWNERS to place the markets under supervision. A proclamation to that effect was issued by the president June 18, 1918, which provided that Results Given of Demonstrations public stock yards and those handling Held in Missouri. or dealing in live stock in such yards should be required to operate under federal license on and after July 25, 1918. The administration of this serv Animals Given Highest-PriceFeed ice was placed under the secretary of on Returned Return Net Biggest buagriculture, who designated the Investment, Most Important reau of markets to enforce the reguPoint to Raiser. lations governing licenses. From Used. Industry Suggestions by the United States DepartBefore the formal issuan.ee of the (Prepared ment of Agriculture.) a tentative draft was sent regulations Seven farm sheep demonstrations to all interested parties with a request were in Missouri flock last held year Numerous confer owners for suggestions. with sheep speences were held with each branchof cialists of the United States department the Industry, including representatives of agriculture and the state agriculof the national and local live stock extural college the results of which, a As result changes. many practical and useful suggestions were received among other things, showed that it to give sheep proper care. and incorporated In the final draft of pays well In two of the demonstrations, where the regulations. were kept, one flock At that time the bureau of markets grade animals was represented In most of the large produced 108 per cent of lambs, which ewes had twin markets by its market re- means that some of the flock while the other produced lambs, and these repporting organizations, means resentatives were at once instructed only 59 per cent of lambs, which to perform additional duties as acting that a large number of the ewes did produce any or that the lambs market supervisors. As rapidly as not were too weak at birth to be saved. competent candidates could be found The wool from the first flock was sold they were appointed and assigned to at 66 cents a pound, while the wool k marduty in the various from the second flock brought 64 cents kets, extending from Boston to Porta pound. The cost of feed of the first to from Jacksonville and land, Ore., Los Angeles, including up to the pres- flock amounted to $7.05 for each anient time some thirty offices. One hun- mal, while the sheep of the second dred and twenty-on- e stock yards, 394 flock were fed at a cost of ?1.34 each. exclusive commission firms, 785 trad- The total cost, in the first flock as comers, 107 order buyers, 231 packer buy- amounted to $8.30 an animal, ers and 1,051 concerns doing two or pared to $2.57 for the second flock. more classes of business have been But the net profit a head the point which is most Important to all sheep licensed. raisers was $5.74 in the first flock as Many Improvements Made. At a number of stock yards addi- compared to $2.22 in the second Aock, tional facilities and Improved service and the net return on the investment have been installed through the activi- amounted to 21.77 per cent in the first ties of the market supervisors, nccord-n- flock as compared to 1.23 per cent in New the second flock. to government officials. scales, pens and sorting alleys have been built, better feed has been fur SCIENTIFIC FEEDING IS BEST nlslied, dirty pens have been cleaned, additional yard men have been em- Waste Saved 'by Carefully Studying ployed, arrangements for loudlng, unComposition of Feeds and Their Digestibility. loading and moving stock through the yards have been amplified, a closer check on weights of feed has been (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) made, more prompt service on termiTo supply food In the right propornal railroads has been furnished, and tion to meet the various requirements numerous other features of stock-yarof the animal, without a waste of food Bervlce have been Improved. At one important market the time nutrients, constitutes scientific feed required to move stock trains from ing. It is by carefully studying th the end of the terminal to the unloadcomposition of feeding stuffs, the pro ing chutes, which formerly was from portion in which they are digested by four to twenty-fou- r hours, has been different animals and under different reduced to a period of from forty-fiv-e conditions, and the requirement of minutes to two hours. The officials of animals for the various food nutrients the live stock exchange at that mar- when at rest, at work, giving milk, ket say they had tried for 25 yenrs producing wool, mutton, beef, pork, to secure relief from terminal delays etc., that the principles of feeding hut without result At another mar- have been worked out. In applying ket the baskets formerly used for these principles In practice the cost measuring corn were discarded and a and special adaptations of different new set of standard bushel baskets feeding stuffs must, of course, be put In their place. Feed charges hare taken Into account. been reduced In some cases on suggestion of the local market supervisors. Live-stoc- k meat-packin- AT THE BAR SHEEP PAYS live-stoc- k d live-stoc- k ' It looks as if William Hohenzol-ler- n would be tried in the fall, at a place to be selected. It is reported that Great Britain will furnish the presiding judge in John Andrew Hamilton, Lord Sumner, and that Sir Gordon Stewart, solicitor general of Great Britain, will lead the prosecution. German counsel for the defendant will be assisted by British lawyers, if they live-stoc- wish aid. There will be five judges representing Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy and Japan. It is believed that Edward Douglass White, chief Justice of the United States Supreme court, whose portrait is given herewith, will represent America. The Germans will charge that the trial Is framed in advance; ttmt in the nature of the case the allies could not permit any other verdict than thut of "guilty." We need no court finding on that point. What the allies do want to bring out Is the whole of the evidence relating, first, to those fateful days when Germany cast the die for war, and, second, to the actual conduct of the war, especially the responsibility for the policy of f rightfulness and the more flagrant violations of The Hague conventions. SWIMMING CHAMPION IN POLITICS g d Duke Kahannmoku, world's aquatic champ, has dived into the pool of politics over on his native shores of Hawaii and Is rapidly converting his famous "crawl" into the stroke of statesmanship. The duke shied his bath robe Into the ring ns candidate for supervisor in Honolulu. When he confided Ms ambition to fellow Republicans on the Island they paid: "Fine! Poland has a pianist for premier. Why not a swimmer for a city father!" Immediately oil the ukuleles startcandied strumming, and the dates found themselves with a lot of figurative knots tied Id their shirts In this splashing campaign for office. Kahannmoku hung up records as a campaign speaker with as much ease as he did in aquntlc competitions. All the swimmers were for him as a matter of course and nearly every one in Honolulu swims. In addition, the duke is the Idol of all the hula and sallies for the chamnear hula girls, and they, too, danced out on dry-lan- d Supervisors as Umpires. Besides the direct purpose for which the supervision service was established It has been utilized In other Important matters. The department representatives were In a position to be of assistance to the representatives of the fowl and railroad administrations, exchanges, packers and stock pion. "It looked like a swim-awafor the duke when I left Honolulu,' said a yards during the critical days of the hrewd political dopester upon bis recent arrival In San Francisco from the period of Stabilised hog prices which this country has recently passed "lands. Kahnnamoku holds several championship records. He Is the fastest sprint through. In this situation, as in many swimmer In the world. Twice he ha toured the United States as a participant la other matters. It was found that a swimming events, and he represented Hawaii at the Olympic games at Stock neutral official representing no private or class Interest could aid with a deifcolm In 1V10. gree of satisfaction to all concerned g y BALTIMORE MAN TELLS HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE OF CONDITIONS IN MEXICO. BOYD PARK FOUNDED 1002 MAKERS OF JEWELRY eigthtieth birthday the other day at his Pocantlco Hills estate and then went to Seal Harbor, Me. Replying to the felicitations of his guests on his "I long life, Mr. Rockefeller said: hope you will all live to be not only eighty years old, but ninety or one hundred, for I have Just begun to live." Mr. Rockefeller has an ambition to live to be one hundred years of age and then really begin living. Certain men who lived to reach the century mark in good condition mentally and physically have held that they had to live till ninety to realize that the world was beautiful. Certainly after eighty a man should be entitled to rest and take things easy, without WILLIAM with us by mail. Send us an order. mmmmmmm ;:W:W::;yf::f:r:':- stock-growin- g EIGHTIETH WAS DECEIVED - Representative William J. Graham of Illinois, whose portrait is given herewith, is chairman of the house committee investigating war department expenditures. He made an interesting report the other day. Seven men formed a "secret government of the United States," determined all the war legislation "weeks and even months" before war was declared against Germany, he charged, after reading into the record a digest of the minutes of the council of national defense. The seven men were named by Mr. Graham as Hollis Godfrey, Howard E. Coffin, Bernard M. Baruch, Samuel Gompers, Franklin H. Martin, Julius Rosen wald, and Daniel Willard, members of the advisory commission of the council. Mr. Graham asserted the council assumed such broad powers that Major General Goethals, former chief of the purchase, storage, and traffic division of the war department, defied It ; cabinet members protested against its activities, and Elbert H. Gary, president of the United States Steel corporation, accused it of operating in "flagrant violation of law." "Behind closed doors, weeks and even months before war was declared," he said, "these seven men designed practically every war measure which congress subsequently enacted. They devised the entire system of purchasing war supplies, planned a press censorship, designed a system of food control and selected Herbert Hoover as its director, and even determined on the daylight saving scheme." ROCKEFELLER'S It's perfectly safe to do business Carranza's rule of Washington. Mexico is "not a government, but a band of outlaws, both technically and practically," and "today it is utterly impossible, an enemy of its own people first and America second," William Gates of Baltimore, an archaeologist, told the house rules committee Monday in its hearing on the Gould resolution proposing a congressional inquiry into Mexican affairs. Although asserting that President Wilson was misled in making his decision to recognize Carranza, believing the Mexican to be a "people's champion," Mr. Gates declared in favor of leaving the solution of the Mexican problem with the president. The president, he said, had not been fully informed of conditions in the southern republic. Mr. Gates said his opinions were based on a first-han- d study of Mexican conditions for about a year, beginning in July, 1917, during which time he visited parts of the country not usually seen by a traveler, including the states of Yucatan, Vera Cruz, For I'uebla, Morales and Oaxaca. twenty years, he explained, he had been building up a library of Mexican antiquities and literature, and ills trip was to obtain more material and to "find out what was going on behind the veil of our censorship and the Carranza censorship." Carranza's control includes the main ports and the railroads, with adjoining territory for a mile on either side the transportation lines, Mr. Gates asserted. This control, he said, was that "of a body of soldiers who are ready to shoot at a moment's notice in a country where nobody else has any guns." Maintaining that a general political revolution is on in Mexico, Mr. Gates bandits are the declared the "country people, who, when the come in to make a raid, take up their guns and become bandits in the eyes of the government." Acting upon the advice of the Mexican government, John West Thompson, an American ranchman living near Mexico City, has paid the 1500 pesos ransom demanded by bandits for the son, the state release of his department was advised. as FOUR ON DESERT NEAR DEATH Wander to Exhaustion After Their Auto Plunges Through Bridge. Greenriver, Utah Suffering intensely from their injuries, exposure and lack of nourishment, E. Harris, his wife, their child and the grandmother were Monday brought to Greenriver ufter they had been subjected for hours to the desert heat after their automobile crashed through a broken bridge fifteen miles east of here. They were all severely injured with the exception of the child. The man was found unconscious by the roadside by a party of motorists who had left Greenriver early in the morning. Harris was taken to Greenriver, where he was revived and told the story of the accident. Three automobile loads of searchers left for the scene and after six hours' hunt found Mrs. Harris wandering in the desert about six miles from the main road. She was stumbling helplessly about, her tongue swollen from the lack of water and her face and hands covered with dirt and blood. The child was found crying under a railroad bridge, hungry and thirsty, but not Injured. The grandmother was found over a mile away from the child and mother, lying in a tin culvert In a dying condition. She had felt her weakness and had crawled Into the shelter to die. Both women were barefoot and had been stumbling over the scorching desert for hours. Their faces, hair, arms and shoulders were masses of blood jnil dirt. Both had sustained sprains to their arms and shoulders and were In n pitiable condition. SALT '166 MAIN STREET LAKE CITY Seek to Retain Old Friends. The years have taught some sweet, some bitter lessons none wiser than this: to spend in all things else, but of old friends to be most miserly. Lowell. Typewriters All makes Rented, Repaired, Sold. to $100. Write for prices-$7.Utah Office and School Supply 32 W. 2nd South, Salt Lake City. Utah SO WHY SOCKS HAVE "CLOCKS They Were Originally Made, It la As. serted, to Hold the Seams In Hosiery. It is surprising how much of the past still remains, more especially In regard to the clothes we wear. On the backs of most gloves will be found three thin strips. These marks correspond to the pieces between the fingers. In earlier times gloves were not made so neatly as they are today, and the stitching of the fingers was carried down part of the way on to the back of the glove, braid being used to conceal the seams. To a practically similar reason does the clock on a sock owe Its origin, says London Answers. In the days when stockings were made of cloth the seams occurred where the clocks are now displayed, the decoration being utilized to hide the seams. The little bow which will invariably be found in the leather band Inside a man's hat is a survival of the time when a hat was made by taking a piece of leather, bolng two holes through It and drawing It together with a piece of string. Handkerchiefs were not always square. At one time they were shaped to the user's fancy. It charged that Ihis irregularity displeased Marie Antoinette, who suggested one winter evening at Versailles that a uniform shape would be an indication of good taste. The result was a decree by Louis XVI, issued in the early days of 1785, enacting that all pocket handkerchiefs should have edges henceforward. en right-angle- IN HEART OF MOORISH CITIES Houses to Which Few Visitors Penetrate Are Frequently Luxurious in Their Appointments. Through the narrow lanes of Moorish cities the water carrier, who has s filled his at the nearest fountain, plies his trade from house to house. The town of Morocco does not extend open, smiling arms to the stranger. The houses present cold, forbidThe winding, irregular ding fronts. streets twist and turn In a bewildering fashion, and the low arches, often linking house with house, convert the streets into a series of semiopen courtyards, still more confusing to the uninitiated. But if one Is privileged to enter through the massive gates formidably with heavy Iron bands and heavily bolted, one may step Into courtyards Inlaid with mosaics and ornamented with laced arabesques, surrounded with arched passageways, richly carved and covered with luxuriant hangings; into a melancholy garden flagged with ancient white stones, where a marble fountain pluys softly and great orange trees are outlined voluptuously against the white walls and the unclouded sky. Who knows how many wistful harem ladies have languished there, what fantastic tragedies have been spun on curiously fatalistic silken threads? From "Through the Outes of the Mnghrcb," by Klsle V. Well, in Asia Magazine. goat-skin- high-walle- Human Frailties. Our struct v both external and Internal, Is full of imperfection ; yet there of Is nothlr in nature but what Is tinguished service cross awards announced Monday. Sergeant Krnest A. Smith (deceased), Waterloo, lown ; Pharmacist's Mate Vincent A. Nolan, 742 1i)lst avenue. Seattle. Wash., and Private Mulidel Olson, Grand Forks, N. I). use, not even inutility Itself. There Is nothing in this universe which has not some proper place It It, Our being is cemented with certain mean qualities; ambition, jealousy, envy, revenge, superstition, despair, have so natural a lodgment In us that the Image of them is discerned In the brute beasts; nay cruelty Itself, a vice so much out of nature; for even In the midst of compassion we feel within us an unaccountable hitter-swee- t n of pleasure In seeing another suffer; and even children ara sensible of It. Montaigne. Hale Joins Class of Students. New Yorfl. Among the soldier pupils at Camp I)ix army college, which Weeds give way before sheep. opened Monday, was Major General H. The fruit and track farmer can well C. Hale, commander of the canton-meti- t, who will take the course In moafford to have a span of horses to sell tor mechanics. each year. Women Caught in Gambling Raid. Raise two or more colts every year Mlneohi, N. Y. Nearly forty handand help supply the farms of thle somely gowned women rushed n teams. with country from a residence In Cedar-burs- t, near here, enrly Sunday, followWhere pigs hove access to good pasa raid on the house, where gaming ture most any grain or mill feed can bling is said to have been In progress be need through the summer months. Aretio Night. Viewed solely as a matter of optics, the Arctic night Is aa dark as any night Explorers In high latitudes say,, however, that there are many alleviations of the obscurity. The stars flash, keenly, the moon comes along In a regular succession of phases, the snow surface relieves the gloom under conditions of the utmost absence of light, and the aurora borealls li the finest kind of lllumlnant. Explorers all agree that their men pass the winter night without much difficulty If only taar art means of amusement. Live Stock Service Crosses Awarded. The following officers Washington. and men were named In the list of dis- Notes pnnlc-strlcke- tltil-latlo- |