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Show THE TIMES-NEW- S, NEPHI, UTAH Work! A Song of Triumph Wort I Ttiank God for the might of It, The ardor, the urge, the delight of It-- Work that springe from the heart's deiire, Setting the soul and the brain on fire. Oh, what ia eo good as the heat of it, And what ia ao glad a the beat of it, And what is ao kind a the stern command Challenging brain and heart and hand? Work! Thank God for the pride of It, For the beautiful, conquering tide of it. Sweeping the life in ita furioua flood. Thrilling the arteriea, cleanaing the blood, Mattering itupor and dull deapair. Moving the dreamer to do and dare. Oh, what ia ao good a the urge of it, And what ia ao good as the aurge of it. And what ia so atrong a tha summons deep Rousing the torpid ioul from aleep? ' y i 1 Work I Thank God for the place of it, For the terrible, keen, awift race of itf Fiery ateeda in full control, Noitrila aquiver to greet the goal. Work, the power that drivea behind. Guiding the purpoies, taming the mind, Holding the runaway wiihea back. Reigning the will to one ateadying track, Speeding the energies faster, faster. Triumphing over disaster. Oh, what ia ao good aa the pain of it, And what ia ao great aa the gain of it, And what ia ao kind as the cruel goad Forcing us .on through the rugged road ? i 1 1923 Opening Evokes Admirvwiratibrv Policy of lete ConJervatlo for Our National Parks JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN IIP: nutlonul purks lust a good friend when Wurren O. Ilardlng died. Ills appreciation and approval of the national park movement were signally shown at tie 1923 opening of Yellowstone for its fifty-firyear by an official declaration of administration policy worthy of Its place as the first national park In all history and largest and most famous of all America's nineteen public playgrounds Bet apart by conpress fur the use of the adpeople forever. Thai official declaration of ministration policv was nothing less than absolute protection of the national park system against commercial Invasion and exploitation. Dr. John Wesley Hill, chancellor of Lincoln lie Memorial university, made the declaration, officially represented President Ilardlng and Secretary of the Interior Work at the Yellowstone opening. Ills statement was prepared, careful and emphatic. It contained the following: . to celebrate the "And we nre here today annual opening of Yellowstone park, the largest of our national parks, a wooded end most wilderness of three thousand three hundred square miles, containing Incomparable waterfalls, more geysers than are found In the rest of the world aH put together. Irrigated by rivers like miniature lakes, and beautified by lakes like Inland seas, carved by canyons of sublimity, decorated with colors defying the painter's art, punctured with Innumerable boiling springs whose Bteam mingles with fleecy clouds, stuccoed with vast areas of petrified forests, a sanctuary of safe retreat for feathered nongsters and wild beasts, a wonderland, playground, sanitarium and university all In one, where the eye fensts upon the riotous colors of flowers, ferns and rocks; the ear Is mirged with the symphony of melodious sounds; the mind Is sated with a thousand revelations of truth and beauty, and the Jaded body, weary wVh the trudge of thought and toll and travel, un girds for song and dance beneath the shadows of the everlasting hills. '"Yellowstone history Is replete with crises where the friends of the park and the park Idea bane had to fight with a heroism worthy Its explorers and discoverers to retain It Intact against the bold and presumptuous claims of the advocates of special privilege, determined to commercialize this land of wonder, to build railroads through It, tunnel Its mountains, dam Its lakes and streams, and secure stranglehold monopolies with jnall compensation to the government and total ioss to the people. "And regardless of ail facts and figures, appeals and threats, therefore, any plan, however meritorious oa Its face, for the commercial exploitation of parks must by the very nature of Its alms and purposes be immediately doomed to . fnfrure. "Oood projects, bad projpets. Indifferent projects, all mHsf face the snme fate, for It Is at last established policy of the government that our national parks must and shall forever be maintained In absolute, unimpaired form, not only for the present, but for nil time to come, a policy which has the unqualified support of President By . , . . i '(nil - i far-tame- Ilardlng. "This Is the fixed policy of the administration, and I can assure you it will not be modified. It will not be swerved a hair's breadth by any influence, financial, political or otherwise. "If right" are grnnted to one claimant, others tnnst follow, so a precedent must not be established. It would Inevitably ruin the entire notional park system." Doctor Hill might have been more definite In interest the matter of the attacks by commercial Iti It has upon Yellowstone. Since early required Increas'ng vigilance and aggidlve organized effort on the part of the vast a.my of ' national park enthusiasts to flereat these .it.--ai During the winter ami iiih thei ntu Smith bill ere- atxth congress nearly passed Irrigation reservoir In the ating a commercial for the benefit of Yellowstone of corner outhweet Idaho. And It did pass the water power bill " public ranting to a commission powf waters. Including those of the national parks and liionumefifa, for water fower. Vf v' --- k" -- Work I Thank God for the swing of it. For the clamoring, hammering ring of j f t A national organization of defense, about strong, was quickly effected. The Smith bill was killed In the house, after it had passed the senate. The Jones-Escbill exempting national parks, present and future, from the Jurisdiction of the water power commission was Introduced and forced forward. The water power Interests were powerful enough, however, to force a compromise amendment which exempted only the existing national parks. The Jones-Esebill was passed by the Sixty-sixtcongress. In December of 1920 Senator Walsh of Montana championed a bill to dam Yellowstone lake for an Irrigation scheme In Montana. A long and battle followed. In June of 1921 Secretary of the Interior Fall reported on the bill and straddled on the question of protection, holding that power and Irrigation development in the national parks should be only "on specific authorization of congress, the works to be constructed and controlled by the federal government.' Thereupon Senator Walsh proposed a new bill providing that the United States reclamation service should build and operate the Yellowstone lake dam. The defenders of the pnrk proved that the dam could be built to greater advantage outside the park. In 1922 the upholders of the parks won a victory by electing Scott Leavltt in Montana to congress over Jerome Locke, originator of the dam project. h The final result of the fight was that the congress adjourned March 4, 1923, leaving the Walsh dam In the committee's pigeonholes. Efforts to revive It are expected In the Sixty-eight- h congress. Lurlng these three years another victory of great Importance along the same line was the National smothering In committee of the park bill, personally drafted and sponsored by Secretary Fall. This bill created a national park In the Mescnlero Indian reservation In New Mexico out of several Insignificant spots widely separated, plus an Irrigation and power reservoir ninety miles away. It would have Introduced both water power and Irrigation Into the national park protest against system. There was a nation-wid- e this bill, in which New Mexico Itself took an active part. The bill Is too dead,' It la believed, to be resuscitated. A third victory called nation-wid- e attention to another danger that threatened and still threatens the national parks. The victory was the defeat of the Slemp bill creating the Appalachian National park out of a Virginia mountain top. It was opposed on the ground that the area was below the proper national park quality. It waa favored by Secretary Fall, who In his report to the public lands comndttee said that his policy recreational park was to substitute a wide-ope- n system of many small playgrounds for our national park system. The late Frnnklln K. Lane, as secretary of the Interior In 1918, nailed down this plank In the national park platform; 4,(XK),000 h h h hard-foug- Sixty-sevent- All-Ye- hlt-tor- lc In studying nw park projects yon should t And "sooner? of supreme and dlptlnctlv or soma natural faatur ao extraordinary or quality unlqvia a to t of national and Importance , . . Tha national park ayatom as now constituted ahnuld not be lowered In standard, dignity and of areas which expres preatlae by the Inclusion t In laa than the terms the particular claaa or kind of exhibit which they represent. President HaMlng wag the first president to announce publicly a general administration policy of absolute conservation for the national parka system and for all of Its units, lioth Itoosevelt and Taft were good friends of the national parka, but preservation against coinmerclul Invsslon was not a question In thrfr days. President Wilson. rst term, signed the Hetch Hetchy bill mm "wig can Francisco tne water supply reservoir In Yosemlte which has Just been completed ; Its secret water power puriose was not then genPresident Wilson, however, erally understood. stood by the national parks loyalty and powerfully In the fight to exempt them from the Jurisdiction of the water power commission. sk Int-ro- fila-hea- nt .ytre,iSVi06o - 111 S President Harding, In announcing tills administration policy, was not anticipating a popular demand so much as answering It. The truth Is that the American people huve within the last three years Adopted our nineteen national parks as a part of their conception of the greatness of their nation. "Hands off!" applies to the national parks as well as to Old (ilory. Tuey are eager to defend them and to keep them Invlclate. And they have developed organized strength through the affiliation of a dozen or so nation-wid- e organizations to see that congress shall legislate wisely concerning the national parks. The announcement of the conservation policy was received with nation-wid- e delight. The national park enthusiasts hoped that the conservation policy would be broadened to uphold Secretary Lane's Important plank. Yellowstone also gets Into the limelight this season because President Harding paid It a s' visit on his way to Alaska. The President's party went In and out through the north entrance and did about 10 miles of motoring In seeing various points of Interest. On the Continental Divide they drove through snowbanks. The President went yachting, on Yellowstone lake He saw many wild animals and fed gingerbread and molasses to a black bear and her cub. He saw the Painted Terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs. Old Faithful geyser spouted l.'iO feet Into the air every sixty-fiv- e minutes for him as It doea for every visitor. The photograph reproduced herewith shows the President and Mrs. Harding, under escort of Superintendent Horace M. Albright, viewing frojn Artist Point the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and the Ixwer Falls. The President was visibly Impressed by the sight one of the grandest and most beautiful In the world. Just sixty-threyears 1S07-- 1 870 were required to pnt Yellowstone on the mnp; the American people simply wouldn't believe there was any such place. The Lewis and Clark expedition of 1S04-0passed close by It, but the Indians never mentioned It, considering It the abode of "Evil Splrlte," who punished all talk about them. John Colter, a member of the party who went back to trap beaver, discovered It In W7. Upon his return to SI. Iuls In 1510 the people dubbed It "Colter's Hell- - and langhed him and'tils tale out of court. James Hrldger rediscovered It about 1K2S and the. public said "Just another of Jim Urldger'a blg yarns.'" The gold prospectors of 1802 described It and were set down as liars. It took the Washburn Longford exped.ilon of 1870 to make the people believe In Its wonders. The members of that expedition were for the and making their fortunes. Corscenic point nelius Hedges rebuked them and profiosed the national park plan the first In all history. The park was established by act of congress In PS7;i anil Yellowstone celebrated Its last fall. Yellowstone contains 3ttH square miles s.jn In Wyoming. 19S In Montana snd .Kl in tdnho Pig as It Is. the plan Is to enlarge ft by the addl tlon of many square miles to the onh the Ja,. eon Hole which rrmialns Jncksott Ink. and the Tel n mountains and is a natutal part Die park. i Passion of labor daily hurled On the mighty anvils of the world. Oh, what is ao fierce aa the flame of it, And what ia ao huge aa the aim of it. Thundering on through dearth and doubt. Calling the plan of the Maker outj Work, the Titan; Work, the friend, Shaping the earth to a glorioua end the Draining the swamps and bleating ' hills, Doing whatever the spirit wills. Rending a continent apart To answer the dream of the Master heart. Thank God for a world where none may shirk, Thank God for the splendor cf work. Angela Morgan in Pennaylvania Grit. i In LABOR'S AIMS WELL STATED two-day- e g Objects of the American Federation Set Forth in No Un- ment certain' Way. FIRST, SHORTER WORK governmental affairs to the end that the wage earners may themselves decide whether or not they shall be deployed aa pawns In the volcanoes of war. We want the right of free assemblage, free speech and a free press. We want the right to organize, unit and federate that we may meet tin employers of labor on equal terms In the establishment of wage, regulation of hours and condition of employ- DAY Movement Constructive Rebellion Against Unfair and Unscientific Economic Theories, and A p. peals to All Wage Earners. Probably the Ideas and alms of the American Federation of Labor were never more ably presented than In the following brief statement taken from the columns of a contemporary devoted to the cause: The American Federation of Labor, the most Influential and successful organization of wage earners ever In existence, has long stood committed to the shorter work day and a specified rest day each week. For more than three decades It has been organizing discontent and constructive rebellion against unfair and unscientific economic theories, and as a result over 2,.000 wage earners are enrolled for this cause. Wherever yon find efforts pnt forth to aid the cause of greater freedom and humanity there you will also find the highest paid organized wage enrn-er- s giving their active support. The greatest social reforms that have been accomplished had their Inception and Inspirations In the unions of labor. We want to be equal sharers In the good things which .n unseen hand has distributed over Ibis fair lam of ours. We want to raise Ihe standard of ivlng wiwre all men have epial s by lulMir to the storehouses of eslth. We wnnt the lime to Improve our ilnds aed trie lucrease our Influence ae-'es- We want real equity before the law for' our organizations and the wage earners as Individuals. ' We want to do the world's work, but we Insist that the distribution of the results of our efforts shall be equitable, and we shall Insistently besiege our opponents until we wring from them our rights. We want time to live, time for and time to contemplate the glorious works of creation, and time to adore the great Creator. Our opponents, In their endeavors to stay the progress toward a brighter day for the wage earners, assert that the organized workers do not represent the vast majority of the tollers, htit we answer that our federation does represent the best Interests of all wsge earner, as do likewise the religious .Institutions represent religious thought, even thoujh their communicants comprise but a fraction of the population. Workers Unite. rule It Is the factory workers who are most ready for association or for any sort of collective action, but Italy Is peculiar In this reIn the Italian Federation of spect. Workers, a Roman Catholic organization which before the war numbered 100,wio members and now numbers over 1,000.0110, 80 per cent of the members are agricultural workers, and In Ihe other great confederation, the General Confederation of Labor, they amount to 40 per cent of the whole, while Industrial workers are only 43 per cent. Agricultural As a general Boston's Distinction, Is the largest fltlilng port the United 8tatea fiostnn in |