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Show THE T5flQ LEGION MEMBERSHIP AMERICAN LEGION Copr tor Thli Department American Legion Supplied by th, Nwi WILLIAM of West Virginia, in a communication to Legion officials of Morgantown American endorsing Legion week there, said of the Legion: "I consider it the highest privilege accorded any young American to belong to the American Legion. It ! an honor to be eligible to membership in this organization of service men. I have never been able to understand why any young man who is entitled to membership is not an active member of gome post of the Legion. I am sure that there are many of us who are not eligible to membership who would esteem it a high honor to be a member of the Legion. The good you can do as an organization can hardly be estimated and it seems to me that every man owes it to himself and his comrades, and especially his disabled and mora unfortunate comrades, to plat himself in the best' possible position for service. But he cannot occupy that position unless and until he unites with 'his comrades In a strong virile organization dedicated to the noble purposes promulgated by the American Legion and for which It exists." , EX-GOVERNO- 8rvlos.) LEGION MEN HELP HOLD FRIENDSHIP In the work of the American Legion a very Important part Is played by Its members and posts and departments located In the possessions of the limited States and In foreign lands. These men and organizations act, In their constant contact with people of other nations, as unofficial representatives of the United States. They do much to promote and to cement the friendliest relations between the mother country and the country of their adoption. Particularly important work has been done In this direction by the department of Panama. To the men of this department it has been given to foster the most cordial relations with the peoples of Central America. One high Central American official has gone so far as to say that these men, cting unofficially, have done more for R GLASSCOCK, LEGION MEMBER, 71, MADE GOOD RECORD IK - William Byrne Boggs. friendly relations and real understanding between those countries and the United States than have all the official representatives of the government. The coinniandership of the department of Panama Is thus one of the most Important links in the chain of Legion officers. Thnt pest is now held by William Byrne Boggs. Boggs was born January 11, 1892, at Frametown in West Virginia. At the age of nineteen he enlisted in the Coast Artillery corps. Upon the declaration of war with Germany, he was commissioned and assigned to duty In the adjutant general's department as assistant adjutant general for the Panama canal department. He was discharged from service June 30, 1919. He was married to Miss Esther Bye of Minneapolis. Minn., on May 1. 1917. at Cristobal, Cunal Zone. They have two children, Duie, aged six years, and Carol, .aged five. The new commander has been ac tive In the work of the Legion In Panama since its organization. He la a member of Panama Canal post. No, 1. He was for three years a member of the post executive committee, two years a member of the department executive committee and one year an alternate national executive commit teeman. He is nt present employed as .assistant surveying officer in the executive department of the Panama canal. Robert Thomas Wilson, seventy-one- , member of Grand Forks post of the Legion, North Dakota, In addition to being one of the oldest active Legion members, has a service record which bears scrutiny. Mr. Wilson was sent' to France early In 1917 in charge of a shipload of horses bought by the allies and, though his passports did not permit him to remain in France, he was determined to see something of the war. After many narrow escapes from the French police he finally arrived at the front line and "got into it," being sworn into the service on the front line on July 2, 1917. Commissioned as a first lieutenant, he was assigned to duty with the Second pioneer engineers, with the duty of artillery observer. On several occasions Wilson acted as range finder for the One Hundred Fifty-firs- t field artillery, in which his two sons were serving. He did not know, or find out, that his sons were in service in his vicinity until after the war. He was wounded on several occasions, but at the present time Is hale and hearty for a man of his age, with no visible marks of the war except a missing forefinger which was torn away by an explosion of shrapnel. Colorado and Wyoming in Contest With Utah The department of Utah, American Legion, began recently a five months' membership campaign in competition with the departments of Colorado and Wyoming, ending on March 31, 1925, it was announced recently by J. C. Rebholz, chalrnis.n of the Utah department membership committee. The outcome will decide the Rocky Mountain membership championship, according to Mr. Rebholz. A feature of the campaign will be the awards to local posts of Utah and to the Individual member of any post with the highest enrollments to his credit before December 31, 1924. To the post with the highest membership standing In the department at the close of the campaign next March will be presented a sliver loving cup. The standing of the posts will be figured on the basis of the paid up membership as of December 31, 1924, compared with the paid up membership at the close of the contest. At the state convention of the winning department a stand of Legion colors will be presented to the victor. The colors will be bought by a pooled fund from the three departments. Illiteracy in Alaska Proves Serious Problem 'Distinguished Service' for Ten Kansas Posts Illiteracy constitutes n grave problem In Alaska Hint will require serious con Idnrntion In the process of Its solution, declared II. L. Faulkner, authority on education, speaking before educators in the United States. Mr. Faulkner spoke under the ans- $lces of the American Legion, depart ment of Alaska, which Is sponsoring a campaign to reduce illiteracy in the territory. "Illiteracy Is a subject of particular irraveness In Alaska rt this time,'' said Mr. Faulkner, "for vHhln the past month from 800 to l.OoH Illiterate men and women in the First division alone were tuken to tlie polls on election day and voted as a machine. Th tr.e First division today Illiterates are fitting on grand and petit Juries and on city coun oils; helping to make and enforce, or preventing the making or enforcement f they cannot understand." las Ten posts of the Kansas department of the American Legion qualified for the "Citation for Distinguished Service," offered by National Commander James A. Drain to those posts which on December 1 had enrolled a membership for 1925 equal to their membership at the close of the books for the 1924 convention. The posts qualifying were: Tracy Blair post, Buffalo; Frederick Phillips post. Council Grove; Charles Ernest Scott post. Dodge City; Aaron A. Platner post, F.llis; Walters Charles Fredonla; post, Stephenson post, Greensburg ; Harvey-vlll- e post, Harveyvllle; Arthur N. Wear post, Horton; Earl W. Taylor post ; Seneca ; Thayer post, Thayer. May Hold Memorial for Late Samuel Gompers Memorial services for Samuel Oorop-e-- i, veteran president of the American Gave Job to Legion Man fjovernor Friend W, lilehnrdson of Federation of Labor, who died recently California thinks well of the advice of In San Antonio, hove been suggested as nalie asked the advlcj of a part of the program of the 1925 Leteglonnnlres. of the American convention tional a man fill to men In the Legion picking position of secretary to the Veterans' gion at Omaha. Frank Haucke, deWelfare commission and recently had partment commander of Kansas, prethis to say about the Legion's choice sented the suggestion to national of the Legion for approval. "1 gave the Job to a young man whom Mr. fSompers, sneaking of the AmeriI had never een In my life, but who can legion, once said: "That the tiad been recommended to me by th Legion and he has delivered the goods pleasant relatlos between the Ameriloo er cent. I think the boys are can Legion and the American Federarunning that department of the gov- tion of Labor be extended to every post ernment In good shape and without and local union of both organisations. Is my earnest and most sincere wish," partisanship." head-quorte- rs TIMES-NEW- NEPHI. UTAH S, mi the Jl HOW GREAT MEN MAKE LOVE AS REVEALED BY THEIR LOVE LETTERS By JOSEPH ($ br Whealer SIP. WALTER COWS THAT FRESHEN IN FALL PROFITABLE KAYE Syndicate. Ino.) SCOTT AND CHARLOTTE CARPENTER CHE Is not a beauty by any means. but her person and face are very engaging." This was how Scott, the Scotch novelist, described his sweetheart, Charlotte Carpenter. But despite his modesty on her behalf, Charlotte was a very fair girl and a bright person, a brunette with a mischievous eye. She was Scott's second love, his first sweetheart having Jilted the raw literary beginner in favor of a learned professor. Charlotte's real name was Char-pentland she was a French girl whose relatives resided In England. Her French splrltedness Is shown In this letter, to her fiance: "If I could only believe that my letter gave you half the pleasure you express, I should almost think, my dearest Scott, that I should get very fond of writing merely for the pleasure to Indulge you and that Is saying a great deal. I hope you are sensible of the compliment I pay you and don't expect I shall always be so pretty behaved. You may depend upon me, my dearest friend, for fixing as early a date for the wedding as I possibly can; and if It happens to be not quite as soon as you wish, you must not be angry with me. "It Is very unlucky you are such a bad housekeeper as I am no better. I shall try. I hope to have very soon the pleasure of seeing you and to tell you how much I love you ; but I wish the first fortnight was over. With all my love, and those sort of pretty CHARLOTTE. things, adieu. "P. S. Etudiez votre Francais. Remember you are to teach me Italian in return; but I shall be but a stupid scholar. Aimez Charlotte." er THE WEBSTERS npHERE was a delightful camarad- erle between Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Webster. Mrs. Webster had been Miss Grace Fletcher, the daughter of a minister of Hopkinton; the great American statesman had married when his future was already assured and thereafter they shared the fame that came to them. "My dear love " writes Webster from Washington, recounting his actions for the previous day, "Mrs. Brown gave her first party last night and having occasion to go to the President's I called on my return. It was the assemblage fully much of a Washington party of last year. Mrs. Johnston was there and spoke of you with great kindness snd inquired for yon very particularly. . . . Many other ladies (and gentlemen too !) asked after your welfare with much apparent Interest and one of them pronounced you a favorite of the whole city." Two days later came another missive, containing another report and : "My dear love. . . I send you a little package In which, when you have taken all the wrappers off and opened It, you will find two little bits of articles designed as presents (they were diamond pins). One of them. If you will like, you will place In your own cap ; and the other In Col. Page's ruffle. Give him a box on the ear and If tell him to be a good boy. you do not fancy yours you can return It to me in the same little box and I will take It back again. . . . Now adieu, my love. ... "D. W." GARIBALDI AND ANITA of the most critical points INofONE his career love for his wife Anita was yet so predominant In bis heart and mind as to move GHrlbaldl to send this exquisite letter to her: "Your face, my little one, Is with me every hour, encouraging and solacing me when my heart elnks low with fears of what may be. I thought I had tested all the sweetness of love's cup when I first embraced my Anita, the mother of my children. In a silence that was nn ecstasy; but now I know that there are peaks higher than the Alps and that there Is a heaven higher and purer and sweeter than any I first explored In the ardot of my youth. "God keep yon, my darling, and restore me to yoor arms." Garibaldi, Italy's Idolized patriot, met his Anita when he was campaigning in South America and she was his Inseparable companion until her death. One of the most Important factors successful dairying, according to 0. A. Hutton, dairy specialist for the state agricultural extension service. University of Tennessee, is to have cows freshen in the falL Cows which freshen In the fall are most profitable because they produce their largest yield during the time when mtk and butterfat bring the highest prices. The average price of butterfat Is often from six to twelve cents per pound higher during the fall and winter than during the spring and summer. When fall fresh cows are turned on pasture in the spring they are stimulated to larger production, and therefore make larger yearly records than those which freshen In the spring and summer. On farms where cows are properly feeds and fed on good, home-groware comfortably housed, milk or cream Is produced about as cheaply In fall and winter as In spring and summer. Besides, the cows have to be fed in winter anyway whether they are fresh of "strippers." It is less expensive to care for milk or cream In winter where Ice la used, for less Ice Is needed. Milk or cream can be delivered In better condition and at less expense In fall and winter than in spring and summer, and, too, more time and labor are available In fill and winter to care for cows and calves, milk and cream. Another advantage Is that calves dropped In the fall are easiest to raise, less subject to calf disease, grow out best and develop Into the best In n cows. Soy Beans Rank High as Feed for Dairy Animals Soy beans make a valuable addition to the feeds suitable for dairy cows, finds C. H. Eckles, chief of the dairy division at the University of Minne- sota. Feeding trials conducted at the university farm last year showed ground soy beans to be equal to Unseed oil meal in feeding value. The ration, for cows milking up to 45 pounds dally, consisted of alfalfa hay, corn silage, ground corn, barley, oats and ground soy beans. Soy beans carry 33 per cent protein compared with 30 per cent in linseed ollmeal. Soy bean hay proved a close second to alfalfa. The ration, when soy bean huy was used, consisted of soy bean hay, silage, ground corn, barley and oats. The beans were cut when slightly more mature than usual for hny purWhile the beans make good poses. silage. Eckles thinks It better to make them Into hay. When used for silage. the general practice Is to mix one load of beans with two of corn. Soy bean hay Is very palatable and carries a high percentage of mineral matter; one pound having practically the same amount as Is fonnd In 100 pounds of corn. Although the hay may seem rather coarse, cows eat It with relish and the coarse stems are usually cleaned up. In chemical composition It ranks fully equal to alfalfa and car-lie-s digestible protein In quantities almost equal to wheat bran. Common Cause of Odors Found in Empty Cans Many creamery people are complaining of the large amount of cream that they have been forced to condemn on account nt objectionable Many gasoline or kerosene flavors. farmers, not realizing the Impossibility of removing gasoline odors from cans, have been in the habit of using empty cream cans to carry gasoline to tractors In the field, or to threshing outfits. Sometimes disinterested persons will appropriate empty cans left at the depot for transporting gasoline or kerosene, and Inter return them to the depot platform. In some Instances the shipper has used such cans, never knowing that they had been used for gasoline. As It Is almost impossible to go treat a can as to remove the odor or flavor, It Is much better to adopt a rule of never using cream cans for the handling of gasoline or kerosene. Calf Worth Keeping "No calf should be kept fo use later as a milk cow unless It comes from a pure-bresire and a dam," say Iowa dairy experts. "Then, If It Is worth keeping. It Is worm keeping well." They recommend that a calf stay with Its dam the first two days after birth. Then it should be taught to drink from a bucket that Is clein and frequently scalded. From six to twelve pounds of whole milk dally should be fed for three weeks Stones in Odd Places Stones are now and again met with and then change made gradually to klm milk and a little grain. when sawing up trunks of teak, rosewood and certain other trees. These masses are embedded toward the cenCows Relish Sweet Clover ter of the stem, and It lias sometimes Dairy cows relish and thrive on been thought that they got Into their sweet clover. For Instance, Hire- Urn position when the tree was young, and cows may be maintained on one arre as time went on having become In of this kind of pasture without addiclosed by the growing wood. Of tional feed, except during the latter course, such things do happen In the portion of the grazing season Then, life of trees, for not only stones, but when the pasture has been eaten close pieces of Iron and other metals have to the ground, hny should supplement been found. The stones under consid the diminishing clover. Ordinarily, the eration, however, are produced by the spring seeding of sweet clover has tree Itself and are closely similar In yielded stifTlclent growth to be grsred their formation to pearls. These veg- by the time the old pasture evidences etable pearls are almost entirely car- failure. bonate of lime. Scientific American. d - "UTAH PLAN" 15 LEGION PROPOSAL Department Commander Booth Sees Great Possibilities for Future With Assistance of American i News Notes From All Parts of UTAH Spanlali Fork Contract for the building: of a $200,000 pea cannery at Spanish Fork by the Utah Packing "What is the most constructive, corporation has been let to the Lynch-Canno- n worthwhile, concrete project that the Construction company of Salt American Legion and the American Lake City, and work has begun on tha Legion Auxiliary can undertake for actual construction. The new industhis community for this year?" trial plant will be built at the. top of This question will be asked by ev- the hill just south of the Spanish ery post and auxiliary unit in Utah Fork river at the intersection of tha during the ten days between February present state highway and the old 12 and 22 as a result of tl;e adoption cutoff road to Payson. of a community betterment program Monticello. The water shortage at at a recent meeting of the department Blanding has become so critical that executive committee. The Legion recognizes the need of citizens have been compelled to melt snow for family use as well as o tooperative civic betterment programs their cattle and horses. All reserit was announced, and the Americanvoirs are frozen. ism committee of the organization has Ogden Leonard G. Carlstedt, 80 prepared a plan to be known as the "Utah Plan" for the purpose of co- years of age, killed himself here when operating with the citizens and or he was placed under arrest by Ogden program police officers at the request of tha ganizations in a state-wid- e of community service. They will ask chief of police in Los Angeles, whosa for suggestions covering their com telegram said Carlstedt was a bank swindler. niunity programs for the ensuing year. Provo Plans for the erection of a "It is our hope that the posts of this state will take up and carry permanent structure to relieve overthrough to a successful conclusion at crowded conditions at the state mental least one worthwhile project each year hospital will be considered by John or one which may be undertaken for E. H olden, state auditor, and John a period of years," it was stated by T. Walker, state treasurer, members of the state insanity board. D. Martin, chairman of the Ameri canism committee. Salt Lake J. C. Henager, Salt Lake, was unanimously reelected pres-leLegion in Earnest of the Utah State Beekeepers' as"The American Legion is in earnest in this proposition and the 1925 sociation at the annual meeting held D. H. Hillman, Salt Lake, annual convention of the organization, here. which meets this year in Brigham state apiarist, was reelected and F. B. Terriberry, Salt City, will be asked to authorize an was reelected secretary. Lake, nual trophies and awards to posts with outstanding records for com Vernal Cooperative agreements munity service," Mr. Martin declared, for construction of two federal aid John E. roads in the Uintah Basin has been Department Commander Booth of the Legion and Mrs. C. J approved by the state road commission. One of the proposed project M. Trotman, department auxiliary would be the construction of ten miles president, are very enthusiastic over of gravel surface road from Myton, to the possibilities of such a plan worked Uintah county line at a cost of $91,-60- 0. on a state-wid- e scale. They call at Duchesne county would pay $24,-90- 0 tention to the value to the state in and the government $66,000. The having seventy-fiv- e legion posts and other agreement proposes the building thirty or more Auxiliary units work- of 9.8 miles of gravel surface road be ing to give worthwhile, concrete ser- tween Myton and Antelope. Of tha vice to their respective communities total estimated expenditure of $81,-60the government would pay $59,-20- 0 for the next fifty years. and the Duchesne county $22,300. The adoption of the Utah Flan came as a result of the attempt of Ogden. Traffic signals at the indepartment officers to put into prac- tersection of Washington avenue at tical operation the resolution of the Twentyfourth and Twentyfifth streets national convention in San Francisco have proven so successful that they urging posts to undertake an Ameri- also will be installed at Twenty-thircanism program of concrete value street and Twenty-sixt- h street, Chief in other words do away with abstract of Police Curtis L. Allison stated. The street theory and do something which would signal lights at Twenty-fourt- h and Twenty-fiftstreet have been improve their communities. In presenting this plan for the con- operated by traffic officers in booths sideration of the citizens the Legion but when the two additional ones are installed, they will all be operated recognizes that most communities are from a central point from one switch. "clubbed to death" with various orThree Mexicans from the state priganizations each seeking to launch or Under son were taken east by D. H. Mccomplete some pet scheme. the Utah Plan it is not the intention cormick, United States immigration of the local post to inaugurate a pro- inspector for Utah, for deportation s undesirable aliens. They were C. gram which they will selfishly call P. 19, and A. Marcial, 17; Lopez, their own. They want to undertake 17. Eight other convicts a program upon which all organiza- Aguilar, from other states in this territory tions can agree and will all work to were also included. complete. They hope to launch a Provo. Sixteen head of elk will program for the town which will be of sufficient magnitude that all clubs, be shipped from the Jackson Hole churches and citizens will unite in wild game sanctuary to the corral at Springville, where they will be cared their efforts to assure success. be Wherever practical the organization for until spring, when they will Timpan-ogoback Mt. taken hills of to the of community councils will be urged. These councils are to be composed of the mayor of the city and repreBrigham City. A new born baby sentatives of every organisation po- girl, cold in death, was found wraplitical, religious, civic and fraternal. ped in a towel alongside the Oregon Its purpose will be to decide upon Short Line tracks, about four miles the program to be adopted, and mem- north of this city. The infant was M. D. bers of the council will in turn urge picked up by Section Foreman ami his men as they were Murphy its adoption by their respective orpassing over the rails on their way ganizations. to work. A civic league within the Utah deProvo. Among the early improvepartment Americanism committee lias ments to be 'made in the city will be been set up and it is engaged in comthe installation of 1000 feet of twenty-ipiling information which will aid com- nch cast iron pipe to replace the munities in planning and developing line in the northeast old wood-stavcivic projects. The civic will section of the city, according to Combe able to give information on pracmissioner George Billings. The Comtically every activity known or to fur mission placed the order for the pipe, nish data which will enable them to which will carry the main pressure find the proper authority on the parinto the city. ticular project in question. Salt Lake City. Pedro Cano, senMany Legion posts of the itate have to be executed at the stale tenced already completed or arc startinij n January 30 for the murder of work on many worthy projects and pris June St. Clair at Park City shortly of after among the more commendable midnight on March 15, 1923, these include: the work of posts and has failed to obtain clemency from auxiliary units in the Carbon county the r.tate board of pardons. Cano's mine disaster; the playground pro petition to have his sentence comjects of I'rovo and Spanish Fork; the muted to life imprisonment was unanCedar City annual Rodeo which bring imously denied by the board after it several thousand visitors to the city, had considered the case in executive the memorial built by the Vernal aux session. Salt Lake City. The 1927 national iliary unit; J,ot;an post's public skat ing nnK and manv others. Lndrr the convention of the American Rational Utah Plan legion officers hope !o have Livestock association will be held in a!! Lake, according to an announce,"ot at work and in cooperation Salt ment made by John M. Macfarlane, with all citirns. president of the Utah Horse and CatA referendum ballot has been pretle Growers' association, wh returnpared by the Annricanim committee ed from the tiational convention at for the use of citizens in submitting N. M. President MacAlbuquerque, uirrstions to the Legion and local farlane said that while no vote was officers are vrging that every one intaken on the 1927 meeting, delegates terested in the development of the voting to hold the 192G convention at town take advantage of the opporPhoenix, Aril., expressed themselves tunity to develop a to operative civic unanimous in favor of this city for the 1927 convention. program Legion Cooperation nt vice-preside- 0, d h s. e ) |