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Show THE I TIMES-NET- NEPHI. UTAH S. S 50Y-SCOUT- GOOD HIGHWAYS i HIGHWAY WORK FEDERAL-AI- D Texas Leads With 1,116.4 Mile Com pleted, and Minnesota Rank a twj Close Second. C Conducted United BtatM Department tPoaparod by th ot Agriculture) by Nation) Caaacta Hcouui ut Aourka-- t NATIONAL SCOUT COUStCIL Measuring the network of federal-ai- d highways spread over the country f years, during the pust five and the bureau of public roads, United States Department of Agriculture, places their total length, Januury 1 lost,. at 28,741.6 miles, and their cost at approximately $500,000,000. The figures represent 12,007 miles of complet ed roads over which traffic Is flowing today and 15,834 miles of ronds under construction and on that date estimated to be, as a whole, 70 per cent complete. In mileage of completed fedorul-alroods, Texas leads with a totul of miles. In addition, there were uuder construction In Texas on Janu ary 1 a total of 1.8S1.9 miles of federal-ol- d highways whose estimated total cost was nearly ?22,0OO,O00. Minnesota ranked second, with 1,000.0 miles, In the amount of completed federal-aihighways, the cost of the system being slightly over $10,000,000. Of that sumthe federal government puld $3,878,003. In Minnesota there were under construction the first of the yeur 701.2 miles of federal-olhighways, whose estimated cost was placed ut $10,055.-757- . Oilier states with comparatively lorge mileages of completed federal-aihighways on January 1 were : Illinois, 722.9 miles, costing $24,003, 058, of which $1121.404 was paid by the federal government; Nebraska, 682.7 miles, costing $3,627,707, ol which the federal government puld $1, 735,703; Wisconsin, 500.6 miles, cost tig $6,702,100; Arkansas, 438.2 miles ostlng $.1,148,080; Georgia, 633.4 idles, costing $11,017,390; Iowa, 422.4 miles, costing $7,069,081; North Caro Una. 419.71 miles, costing $5,641,733; Idaho, 40-.miles, costing $0,472,552 and Washington, 3549 miles, costing . The national council of la Boy Scouts of America held Its tweUln meeting at Ch!cag, Uardk 29 and 30. At this gatbering semhled the national leaders lug from all over the coantrjr t near the reports of the past year's work and formulate plans and noUdes fur the yeur to come. Every state l tbe Union was represented at tks nav semhlage which Is the big event of tbe year for the organization. The report of the chief scout execnJIvts was particularly Interesting in thai K summed up the outstanding event f the biggest year In the history f th nnaa-bemovement, biggest not only to "d but in remarkable pmgre National Scont ochlevement. Daniel Carter Iteard reKi"-oported for the National Cowl of which be Is chairman, tclltnir something of the heroic work dooo Other strlh-Ingby scout 8 in interesting reports were tboan of L U McDonald, director f Ihe department of camping, and Lars W. Barclay, director of the desnrtasent education, which Is sped neatly charges' with the development 4 hetpfat - between ) scooting latlonshlp churches aud schools, a rork arhhcsj has made great strides during the patnt year. Resolutions were adopted daring thai sessions conveying greetings ta of other nations and expressing preclatlon of tbe gene tlon of the American tgioa, Kolary. s Klwanla and other nalitmal In promoting aconttag. Resolutions of appretiatkm so passed in recognition of the did gratuitous service f $3,081,285. and caber volunteer leaders and of Ihe highway con faithful work done by the beads af Completed federal-aistructlon lu some of the Ititsfern am' deportments and tiers at the nationMiddle Western states where the char al council headqiiarfawf aTjiea Tort ' acter of roods was of high type and i '-iiiinililiir of eaagralaletters and tetegnwaa latlon and greeting were terereeo 1 V rom I'resldent Harding, froaa cantnef i I, lembers and from governors of a rrfTi2M4 : Ohio. !i.U.i. mmm $12,475.5t59 ; New Jersey. 78.3 miles. large numlr of states from notary and Kiwanis ctwb. th National CatboUc Welfare cotrarit. th Federal council of Cli arches ad other organizations. Tueae eaeaaages were read at the Twelfth Bhthdav leaner" at which Walter W. Baa Omaha was ' toastmaster and was furnished by M Koj Scant chestra of 3lc;vi one-hal- al i d w$ " : .- tev Mw mi 'k rs life-savhi- ly d ago wireless leleKraph; (Pmlm wm relutJvely In Its Infancy. Ten If years heoce the latest development of this oew science wirelevs te- leDhny may have made It Doa sible for the business man sitting In his office In London to ring up his el;;bbr In New York or ChiThis Is a development quite cago. La within the bounds of achievement 1 Technically, it Is a much simpler matter than that of telephoning from England to America by inencs of an uudersea cable. I believe I am right In stating that the greatdistance through which ordest under-wate- r inary telephony has been conducted to date Is not more than 2M miles, and that this has only been 'accomplished experinMnTuIl.v by employing apparatus such as H(Uld' not In Its present form be put Into general use for commercial purthat one of the outcomes of this Inposes. The longest telephone cable vention will be the employment of 'ctualty operating today Is about 100 smaller powers than have hitherto miles in extent. As a matter of fact been considered necessary for coveryet ordinary cable telephony has nt Holing certain distunces. taken place between England and It la still a little premature to talk land, although these two countries have such intimate commercial rela- of the day when everyone will postions that there can be no question sess his Individual wireless telephone, particularly one of the portable variabout the demand. cable ety, which may be curried about and The trouble In under-waie- r used at will; but 1 am not going to telephony lies ln,..the very pronounced distortion which takes place after the suggest that It will never be possible "be circuits electrical waves, which are the equiv- for a large number-oalent of the vocal sounds, have passed used within the same area. This does not. mean thut there Is not few miles through t"he cable. Even miles between Eng- already a valuuble Held of practicable In the twenty-odland and Fratif-- e It has been found usefulness for the wireless telephone. necessary to place on the ocean bed The field Is greuter than Is generally special appliances for overcoming this realized today, and I regret to say distortion. These appliances Hdd con- that Its application to Industrial needs siderably to the expense and upkeep is taking place more rapidly in other countries than in this one. In Holef the circuit. Now, It is a curious fact that, al- land, for Instance", the Amsterdam stock exchange circulates by wireless though pa rtectrlcal oscillation procable be- telephone at frequent Intervals daily jected through an under-secomes rapidly Jistorted. un electrical the latest financial Information, and wave radiated across the ether by a this Is received simultaneously In modern wireless apparatus retains Its nearly 200 banks In Holland by means of by the Maroriginal characteristics however great coniapparatus constructed I am Informed that the distance over which It may travel the company. has arrangement given great satisIn wireless telephony we convert faction a considerable Impetus to and Into human of speech the modulations of the elec- business. equivalent modulation YVhut Holland can do can be done trical waves, and radiate them through the ether until they strike the aerial equally well In this and other counwires of a receiving apparatus. There tries, and the Information radiated need not be confined to financial matthey are reconverted Into sound waves such as can be recognized by the hu- ters. Ail that Is needed is a fair opman ear. As the ether Is so elnsi li- portunity for demonstrating the posas to allow these electrical waves to sibilities and for conducting a similar maintain their original form, the ques- servlca. A few weeks ago ftsvrcsentutfves of tion of reception Is little more than that of magnifying the Incoming sig- the Times newspaper talked by wireless telephony between Soutliwold in nals. has already taken Suffolk and Zitndvoort In Holland. Un Wireless siee-occasion they conversed freely place across the North Atlantic ocean, that but the apparatns employed was of for t0 minutes from the respective an experimental, rather than a com- wireless telephone stations, and hope mercial character, and therefore de- that we may be permitted shortly to experiments between velopment Is necessary before one can show that our Zanclvoort have u very record transatlnntlc cimvereallon as Soutliwold and practical! e application, suit that by cmiTMT"lal,.r',ft"lhl'' speech linking up this wlrelesa circuit with To conduot uninterrupted ver sea distance similar to tlrnt be- the telephoneIt wires at the English and tween Nuidon and New Vrk will re- iJuu-- In ends may be poKslbJe for anyone possessing k telephone quire, at any rate with our to up the exchange In experience, considerable power at apparatus ask ring for the wireless route Until a few London, the transmitting end. g apenk to a weeks ago I might have been tempted to Amsterdam, and In subscriber In Amsterdam. t electrical lie at this power t estimate thi rase the telephonic message from equivalent of over l.'sW horsepower, but the experiments which I have been ljnc1n to Soutliwold would be lelayed by wireless across the engaged upon recently on my yacht, automatically sea. reconverted to land wire North me to lend modify lay Elettrn. the Zandvoort and Ant estimate. Hitherto, as everyone con- metmege between and received la Amsterdam Mrrdain, we have Is aware, wireless nected with In the same way as a always found It necessary to keep exactly cull over the ordinary cirIn reserve on commercial wireless circuits a l.'irg amount of electrics! en- cuit. The Anglo-Iltiliwireless telephone ergy fr" 'he tiirjose of hrei.klng on a wne length through tcrresirlal electrical disturb- circuit f very sharp fening. ances. The sources of thtve diwlurb which permit nnces are not always clear, but they n tul causes no disturbance to the wireare such that at Intervals during the less circuits employed by the Military, and ulr services. It woul.l. In day, and notnhly In the summer naval be possible to multiply these months, they set up In the wireless fact, r receiving apparatus such n din of routes snil hae quite a nuiuU-- of mennlnclcss noles that It Is difficult wireless circuits to the continent to rend the systematically transinltted working In colhilrtiratlon with ihe laud lines. signal. While tl.e experiments at Kouth-nulThis apparatus, which .int been are uho:u to demonstrate id,. ievrlofied ''X engineers of my coinr "is to sift Iiiiliiediiilr pruetlriibillly of wircles .any. makes It possible the wised wireless and mn wireless f.,l trunk routes, whether , they te aui overland or overseas, a series of Itnpulwe so that we obtain on our tomatic rei orders, or In the telephone teents in another purl ct ihis country nut by has demonstrated that It Is now receivers only the signals sent . 1m I think speak l.y Mlreless In one unr- the distant wlrelesa stallon-KX' f J ' pwEy set t- - d a h cvrre-ccpoiidln- short-dlstnnc- e -- n-- e-- e f d I d fW"rnfinifVllatJJL''n'"T'',. "Hl science. (tfiilnr direction. This remove the objectlon that conversa having revenled to tjumunlty anotner tions can he overheard bytit08e for wonder of nature, will have forged e whom they are not Intendc tlw?reby a fresh llflk In the touch-df Uttemutloaal fellow The only commerclul use jor which sired clialo w lreless telephony has ay llir been ship. In this country ( lg tnflt "The night of December 7. V33.V establishing a eoinniunk-utlM,tween the I5ur lightship In the lrh eillUjnel says Kayinotxi xaies in me and the unices of the 11 rsev docKX New Vrk Tiroes' "Current History, aud hurlMir board ,n UvVpooi. lie marked a new era in amateur wire terconimunication IS Jited almost less work, for on that and succeeding every hour of the day wlj, tlllll ul nights .more than a vcore of American pa rat us t,y men who have no 1(e. und Canadian amateur operators first cnii iruin,ng. anu wnuoui any Inter reallr.ed tlvelr ambition of "getting ference with the wireless ,. across" the Atlantic. Though the luw ducted at the mouth of the jjereey by limits amateurs to comparatively me aeaiorni eiuiion ueioujjj Short wave lengths, some of their mesj0 British j)ost otlic-e-. It li ui,HU,j to sages during tbut Historic test covered think that this Is (lie 'only place 3000 .miles oceun and were accuwhere a useful service n be per- - rately recorded at an amateur receivformed by wireless teleplo-- l y. ing stathm In Scotland. I need hardly dwell un Toward the end of 1D21 a photo he growth of wireless telephony In connection graph of President Ilunling was with aerial communlcuti ns. I be- - Hashed acres the Atlantic ocean from lleve I am right In stati: hat every Annapolis to Paris in --"0 minutes. This British machine regular be feat was achieved with an ingenious flying l ween Lorn, .n mil the Invented by Eduuard lielin. nt incut has rjrp:irutu been fitted by the Mar 'lite picture, of course, wus not tmns- -ni company with the wireless teleplj lie. and we mltted in tnuterlal form, but was Iranshave numerous Instance impulses, where these lated into instruments tune contr uted to the wliic-were recorded on the distant sufety of the services, M id performed apparatus. The Work done ulong this other valuable funtIon-j- J line open up a new field. Wllhln we slmll probably be trans, We have also demon-it- l rated to une few years of the railways the is xmlullitle uf milting Important news pictures over wireless Nlcphonic disiances, a .d Ihen how easy It uulcatbais us great will be even to '; checks and Im an auxiliary to the ordi .try 'ejtjphone rn lines, and It may he portant papers through the ether! In bow n signature aent by this method inent control has been etneved from fact, been recognized as legal railway operations, som will ha already progress The possibility of crimin France. be made along the Hue Uidicated by us. inal detection Is also- Intervfting In this connection. A criminal's likeness I have sugi;iNted th has can lie sent broadcast to any part ot the day s not urrtveci tor tne called country within the space of a few wireless set. ihe u sillvcntfpocketof the minutes. wireless receivers has ecu so great I) It Is gratifying to know that Amerincreased in recent i tliiit it is ica has taken the lead In the developIKissllile even now to i ,ir S.1CSS Krtahle ment of radio telegraphy. There was apparatus capable of si tali ii'iving frcna sta l.uns ni m bun recently opened nt IUtcky I'olnt, I ong Island, a powerful radio station dedreds of mile l.liint. tiut t lit. Is quite a dllTerent matter "fr signed to make New York the focul in transmitting communicasignals. For wlreleMs transmissions it point of "hl pow tion throughout the world. la still necessary to raise a wire a erful the aerials of which transmitter, considerable height u transtime the are supported by net less than seventy-twmltter, and If serloii! distances iiave stHl towers, and jrend to be covered It Is it H. c?cessury to over a space of tea square miles, have a source of power this country to communi(renter than can be nt present con- - wilt enable f six lti nations slmnl with cate b carried venbntly an Individual, Hesliles this we have sevtnneotisly. How near we hnve the eral other f mnntlnnllc station and Ideal of a portable runsmltter was one c tatlon. demonstrated by tin Mnronl coinUnltel States hns a.a the few incinun Although pany when the Lotl- lead In the development and don fire brigade on lucled wireless taken the "f nictl telegraphy, Engtelephonic communl ilinns be; ween application are one of their tenders Fiance. land tJemiany and I eiith n 1'utney the value ft mesne no and their hcad'i'iarter ny rtver'lng 4 nl Sout hwiirk. a distance i'f some Englsml seven or eight this klti't of coiiimunlnitlon, started to carry out an miles. In this case tlx wire wss l,n already aerial smbltlous plan which will give her hung from the brnn lies of n stunt tree near the rcmilsi' mi "All Ited Chain" of wireless sta , and the up the world. Japan reparatus employed stored In a tions throttgho'H the erection of a smiill space st the completed cently Ic of the vehicle. which places her transmitter One thing is certait e of (Hiwerful tom b with point the far ills in direct wireless telephony wl not sliilid still, United States, tlermiiiiy's the as I.Ike the r lioiry teU tant ihotie. It Is j.nvei'I'il Naiieti station represents the Ing through a perlml v if Ito ks In li e art mid keeps mImiii'-rial eneoilliigi'tueni. Is diinI iucm wun ine In cotistani s.iivHthi for Its her int entirely ujN.n activities of America France these who are eniii 1 in r lis develop pri'vlclecl herself with a tiuinl-elocnt. ,f el'iclept radl" "tiili.ins for wornlIn --H years the li nil per wide Merimi i ne acinic n otninlitit'Miioii. IM le vachnit ether with hu- - nsvliut rctdll"i,lH I I" direct loiieli oirginx e mutt spee4-- convey hv .llict wve. with Airerlcn tbrotih the Use of Whls)ered cctncersul a with Itlenils newlv erected station. In lands as remote Austrnlla will j w yrmnptvi i , -- ' aunc-tlone- cHv' NEED NO GRUB OR TEWT ; go-e- c o 110-foot A y Sroe, Scouts William Johrmna of Wnsh.. and Wray rartosi of KsaaV fHilnt. Idaho, who recent gold medals from the Natfaaiat Osnrl of Honor for their hewnc atrveee h a saving the Uvea of three axaaea tn-elai'- d drowning lHt summer, aavcataa with the trwt tprkae offen-- J hi the life saving denartnwaai aC th Auicrl'uii Hed Yas "for eaeeaali aeea-boiiore- tuerllortiaiM 44 Vcnk, 347.9 miles, Uer cent During tbe ecuutlog the city audlloriuai al Imiv iwsiuts roused (tie bMarrst of araage tutors by building a wilhoul. nsilM, silica ataa enough to bear tbe anrigM at aa a or More Feet Shade Trees r'ltaa-ante- r Roads siake Would Apart to Travel ii SO 0r. pn-lie- s cui-J- j Our hihwH)s would be much mors attractive it lined with sluice trees. 'lbvse trees .. '.lid he set Tsj or mote ilai..ar' feet uiJiut and would do little i either to Hie aijo.uioK c. - tj roij.lAnv. They would rmke the roud pi. asiurci to tibvel ovir ami aitw U Uve l i l. lug activity, were la axis same lime. a D0ING3 OF SCOUT ! I ' ! mm-meni- Hit dlflTereat gneaaa mi haws. insl rating a 4ini ithdille. HIGHWAYS MORE ATTRACTIVE, &et Wka.S In ; . la savtwg BRIDGE WITHOUT BUILD coin-plete- i atiai reialerlng first aid o the oniaaieo In j ihe year ISCl." tiota ticeu scouts stiwe they years old. lloth are Bogles n4 ha qniiUfleil as American Bed savers. North Carolina, 507 miles, V4 per cent complete; North Dakota, 810.2 ndle. 80 per cent complete; ; Ohio 2S.2 miles, 91 ler ceut UklaUoma, 30H.2 iiilles, 64 per CteJit complete; l'enusj I vulilu, 248.0 miles, IM er cent complete; Mouth Carolina, 410.7 luiles, .'9 ier cent com7cl plete; South Dukota. 088.7 miles,449.1 per cent cvmplcjte. Tennessee, i, wiles, 40 icr ceot comp-eteipjl.U utiles, 5a pur cent complete, and wiles, 75 srr ceut Vlscoiisiu, V-..vtnplcte. b-- nl"i SCOUTS GET RED CROSS MEDAt lr New Jn-m- - ; . - I Roaci. Hard-Surface- Massachusetts, 120.5 miles, costing $1.391,0.16. ' and Mary $3,752.2;J3. land. 137.8 miles, Projects uuder construction and the degree of their completion January In other states wee as follows: Cnllforuia, 382.9 miles, 55 per cent complete ; Georgia, 492.9 miles, 65 per cent complete; Iowa, 098.7 miles, 80 per cent ccanplete; Kansas, 41.8 miles, H54Ji iR per cent complete; miles, 82 per cent complete; Mlnuesota. 7U1 miles, 65 per (relit complete; Mississippi, 404.3 mile, 04 js-- r vent com 70 el plele; ' Missouri, 535.1 miles, cent complete: M.iiitiinu. 412.8 miles, 77 per cent complete. Nebraska, 914.1 cent complete; New Mei-icmiles. l .Vil.9 miles, 54 per ceot complete; trnrr-tpticln- lt,t Stretch of ccs.tlng $3.4 12.224 d ofti-nn- gcouts of New Tort Oty wm bc" able soon to go on a week's bltae with- out the trccuble of carrying grab or ' Bhelter tents. This Is the plan of ChW ' Gordon, and it Is now aetag actively carried out by two mnwatra of Trsns h are haitdiag aad' 208, Bron. marking White Car Trail. Thia k trail being laid nut at the fCabwahheenmps. encircling tle ounry them. Its total length set he than forty level miles, that is, adles a measured on a nut. The tts ao4 will probably maVe ttua sua-r- a 2." to 50 per cent more. To the whole trail will require a hik mt nva and a half days. In provitfmg few accommodations at night, tt is Oerf Gordon's plan to establish a serhs of Interval o I ha five camps al one-daway. wr it-- sppr-iiiclie- - r- radio-telegraph- 1 rgant-zntlon- ...... 1 ! . .n ( t hsriM - K celvlng ii course f Instrurtkae ha Atna aid from the I'nlted Klutn kmnm at mines, safely rewoe car Ma. It. a charge of II. K. lalllsea Vmilr Ju safety ollicl.it. I'lah. iroops weeeaemat btaa luriiiii iinnlc ersnry week riaa who tK Che oata. Cliarles I!. o lid h made him a regular Tc ni rftaX The tlocernor aniHHinced his ht imImO to camp with the bwya if iwkitiiei'. |