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Show PAGE SIX THE TIMES-NEW- NEPIII. UTAH S. Thursday. October 5, 1933 This Week Covered Bridge Era Passing h Stony yMAPS throughout the nation to tour the to All in Green ocountaln territory. With these Inspiration facts ii mind, road bultdt-rhave as Really Spiritual Life Arthur Brisbane serted thai In order to meei everwas said In my medimounting traffic conditions, main line will have to be re tations a few weeks ago of the art covered Diamond, 2,000 Carats bridges Requirements of Modern Transportation Doom Pictur- placed In the futile. Vei there will of living, of which so many people Sparks Flying b- a groat many on secondary and k.ow s little, a writer in the Indian-NMiH- s esque Old Structures So Long Landmarks in Most Worthy White Rat News comments, it la town roads which will continue to China Is So Far Vermont; Many Date From Revolution. support traffic and which will be pre the greatest of the arts, and also Jfseved aa long as possible. However of the most difficult. Strong clean, Adventurous young gentlemen no covered wooden bridges are pure, bPH.nlful and self denying 11. well In the foreground of the contact with earth. In a number of as win read with some excitement: now being built, there will come lng Is a supreme work of art and, at scenic Vermont are rugged of cases. It has been discovered, that "In upper waters of the Saobento beauty such, an Inspiration lo all who come, when these of structure day types tne covered bridges, which lead many disintegration has Ulver, Brazil, prospectors have to such will become extinct, as far as Ver and especially those who live within progressed found a collection of large dia roadways over turbulent streams and an extent that the bridges must be mont Is the sphere of Its Influence. Delight concerned. link the Green mountain past with renin it. These structures monds. Including one weighing as we may. and should. In a superb are, of modern Thousands transportation. course, very old and as time goes on carats, next to the biggest ever literary style. It Is after all. th? of motorists who have passed more no more of them will become Skyscraper Found to discovered." life and It may be superb, no Diamonds are something like througn the state will remember the unsound. bumble--th- at mutter exerts the Have It Disadvantages greater how human brains. This diamond, If of rumble from floor planks which The principal reason stressed for Influence. Is this also "the echoed Into the roofed spans, as they the replacing with fine quality, would be worth modern, rpen The aimless way In which sky gift ofs God"? Very obviously not whereas of inferior quality, piissed from sunshine Into elooin structures Is the guarding of traffic Such life Is the expression of charout then again Into the sunlight. sarety. The old bridges were built scrapers have been crowded together. acter, and character la the fruit ol good only to make diamond drills. not In New York, but In other These quaint structures often served during times when traffic was It might be worth only $1,000. only , light and The brain of Edison, creating as landmarks, some dating back to and slow In almost every Instanvr cities. Is causing much congestion Its cost of produe For In reason. that the of work for millions of men. Is worth days of the Revolutionary war. opinion they were constructed at In pain, sacrifice, sufPrevious to 1927 there were be to tne streams which right angles Flavel Shurtleff. secretary of the na tlon. measured many billions while millions of oth crossed, and bard they work. Is enormous fering er brains are not worth ten cents tween 500 and 000 bridges of the cov wun the result that dangerous, tlonal conference on city planning, and yet so Is the result charered type in Vermont. The flood of sharpangle turns existed at each the skyscraper la having the fight of acter ns great the dozen. to be worth all It costs. Also, this diamond emphasizes that rear, however, destroyed more end of the structures. Thla togetn Its life to Justify the enormous cost Perhaps there are few of us who with It half which than of taxthem. has burdened the importance of the right educa the Today there are er with the fact they were narrow have noi known people who llvtd tion and training. Left in the rough only 240 remaining Approximately and often made many payers for traffic facilities. nobly, seriously and yc Joyously, un the diamond would be only a cur fifty have been replaced with mod untlt to meet the requirements of "Skyscrapers have been generall aware of their own goodness. We accepted on this side of the Atlantic l.ave also known iosity. It must be cut and polished. ern structures during the last six modern travel people who were then comes its value. years. Pride Id these covered bridges has aa both necessary and desirable." selfish, flighty, without dignity, deMr. The writes In Vermont department of blub become deep rooted in the state, how So with human raw material. It Shurtleff Progress Mag azine. "Theoretically, the height of void of sny sense of responsibility needi the cutting of education, and ways, being aware not only of the ever. am when safety requirements for the outcome of their own Ufa or the polishing of experience. picturesque appeal of these ancient are fulfilled the are not re buildings Is Immaterial, except that the lives of others. The first class it Is What applies to diamonds and structures, but of the sentiment at- placed unless the spans It when creates deprecated expense connected height made up of serious artists In the difhuman beings applies to other sub tached to them, bas shaped a policy with necessary bulk In relatlqp to the traf or mainte- excessive ficult art of living. In the seconc repairs Dc A to stances. ton of Iron In the rough retain as many as practical from nance becomes capacity of the area. prohibitive or loca the botchers and there ar "Even In Texas, where land Is so class arc might be worth ten or fifteen dol. an engineering standpoint. However Hon or design cause traffic hazards of them. The most hopeless lars. The same ton of Iron, scienti- Increasing volumes of travel and which cannot be remedied. abundant and cheap that ten acres many folk are those who would and do di fically treated and made Into a ton mounting traffic speed have necessiAn Important move toward the are allotted to one steer for pastur vorce beauty and morality and hold of fine watch springs, would be tated the removal of some of these at least four cities boast borne preservation of the bridges was made age, that they are natural enemies. Such wortb several millio- - dollars. made which spans, especially those on main-linlines, are assumed sky by the Vermont legislative assembly misguided and misguiding souls know high way a this year, when a law was enacted to be the hallmark of metropolitan little or nothing of "the beauty of Itussla and Germany become distinction Houston's Almost all of the covered bridges whicr specified that the state might skyline in holiness " eludes five buildings of more than gradually more unfriendly, unpleas- - have exceptionally strong trusses, hut pay s the cost of mainteuul sparxs nying. itussia nas ex the floor systems are usually too nance on state aid roads. twenty stories In height, housing Poplar Lasted Long thousands of tenants on less ground pelled German newspaper corres weak for heavy motor trafllc. It has there Is distinctive Although at Water does not always causa de than would suffice Pndents, not liking what they been reported In state-widto one nourish surveys. tractiveness to the covered bridges. cay of wood, as Is shown by the fact wrlte- - Berlin protests to the Rus Often times new floor systems may traffic experts now declare that their steer elsewhere In the state." that a bell tower In Venice was built 8lan government. Before Russia be installed without are numbered. According to expendi- days on poplar piles In 900 A. D.. and actei. oermanyy Had arrested Rus ture, it has been found,great but the chief unofficial figures motor travel in VerAye, That's the Rub these piles needed only reenforclng 8lan correspondents covering the locations of serious disintegration mont this year has established a new "now much would you give for to be uspd when the tower was re arson much with trial, ueicnstag are at the ends of the structures. peak, and an Interest has hair like mine?" built a few years ago. Kansas City "ympatny tor the accused Commun where wood supports have been In been evinced increasing motor "How much did you give?" by vacationists Times. lsta- - Kussla aIs. has grave dis putes wun japan, and Germany with Mussolini, who is "showing great patience. life & s Roim-thin- 0Btr, 0 stt-per- Sixteenth Century Map of the Pacific. PreParl by National "ocl.tr, WnnhliiKton. u. C Oaocraphle WNU Bervlc. plored areas decorated by sea ser than 8,000 years ago pents, mermaids, wrecked ealleona II, who Is credited and chubby angel faces blowing the with making the first maps, winas, began to fade from use. Mercator'e Great Work. outlined estates along the Nile Gerhard Kremer, known by his river. What would he think today If he walked Into an automobile Lraunized name of Mercator. was service station, railway station, among the first to break with the tourist bureau, or airplane office old traditions. Famous mathematl- and could take his pick of maps clan and cartographer of Flanders that would show him the best route he drew a world chart in inrat on the "Mercator Proiwtlon " which to almost anywhere in the world? Probably the greatest spurt In the gava navigators a new and safer Industry has been made system for Dlottlne their rnur.w By this nrolectlon lines nf inn. In the last. few centuries, but In the great museums of the world there tude and longitude are mathemat- are many maps and charts that Ically spaced and drawn at right were crude but helpful forerunners angles to each other. On this grid sailors have merely to rule a of the efficient work of cartogstraight line as their course and raphers today. At Grove City. Pa., dwelt a white Most famous of all early maps are sail to port. Because the earth Is name unknown, entitled to rat, this does not round, shortthose of the atlas or "Geography" of give the est route between two noints. hut your resPect. This rat, still allv Claudius Ptolemy, an e wa3 put iuto a rattlesnake's cage work dating from about 150 A. I). It does show the rlitht "bearimr " imeui oi urove time his in Mercator to to helped Though lost the world of learn"J clianee mnn making mm an .- -t ieu iuo rauie ing through the Dark ages, PtoleNo an a.nroo snakes my's books were later rediscovered. Into a nrlpnrc kJ Immediately, the rat attacked and One of the oldest manuscript copies Instrument m.E,in troved a eroup of seven small was found at Mount Athos, and a ground were coming Into use, and def I rl i ueii as iue Dig rai lauicBuanca. SlOWlV r n. thAV naw tha . ... , W fcV ' J reproduction made In 1867 Is on uesuaaes auvancea, me rat, biting In the Library of Congress at ooeraDhle surveva " , i auu K'u,mB' l,ew al ulera ana .ln son. RnmoM mrri Washington, D. C. Six of his eight onMercator's "" 'u,auuou8 n traAa. retreated, ine hi fnthpr'a vpi, books consists of tablets of latitude Ju- and longitude for about 8,000 places. Rumold died his brother-in-law- , docus Hondius, took it over. The It will probably die of snake bite In his remaining books Ptolemy disIlondius earth map of 1595, now In but what a glorious death. cusses the stars, mathematical probdown inside Alexander, lems of geography, the length of the British museum, traces Sir Fran the wall of a jumping besieged city ahead cis Drake's course around the days, the sun's course, and differof his men and fighting for life, world. ences In time at different places. Dutch map publishers led the alone, did no more than that white With his books are maps of 20 In the Seventeenth century rat. world countries and one map of the world. In his colossal task Ptolemy and the French In the Eighteenth. a reiter commission gives you used all geographic lore that had ac- A French scientist rolled a carriage concerning the Yellow Riv. cumulated to his time. Though crude wheel across the northern French figures er flood. Fifty thousand Chinese and full of mistakes, it was the plains to measure a degree arc of were drowned. A million are starv the meridian. In time came D'An-vlllgreatest step ever made In presentConditions were made worse ing. a new of China map Issuing ing world geography In scientific by brigands and soldiers breaking1 drawn the In 1718. Jesuits by form. dikes in their fighting. A plague of Ills maps show how traders and Other map makers arose in Ger heat, rats and locusts has added to adventurers had pushed the rim of many, England, Austria and Swlta the evil and parents eagerly try to erland. the known world as far north as away children hoping that give No Is so well as country surveyed the Shetlands and given size and some one will feed them. Great no maps anywhere Britain; shape to the British Isles. More of are All of that the western world comparable, for information and the Nile was shown and part of Aftakes of calmly and coldly. China is with those of scale, range ord its rica below the equator. The Indian too far away. nance survey. ocean got a new and more accurate Early American Maps, mapping, based, no doubt, on notes This ought to interest young men, Before the Revolution such maps brought by silk traders from the Helen Godehart, a fine, big, good of our country as existed were Far East. drawn mostly by those European looking girl, seventeen years old Road Maps for Crusaders. powers who had colonies here. won the American farm girl cham To meet the needs of the CruAmong such were the early Spanish pionship at Pomona, California saders, flocking down the highways maps of Blorida, the Southwest, and milking cows, husking corn, churn of Europe and into Asia Minor, California ; also Lewis Evans ing and raking. She ought to marthere developed a sort of pictorial of the Middle British Coloniesmap in ry the chamPIon yunS American road map. A good example In the America." imblished in PhlladelDhla alnKer 01 aD0Ut thirty, whoever He .. ,. i mn i.uo auu British museum is a copy of a draw- in 1755 coam meu ioecome me uiay ing by a St. Albans monk, Matthew What has been called the most plon motber- Paris. Its crude pictures show the Important map in United States his- Unfortunately, that champion towns along the routefrom London tory is that drawn by Dr. John thinker will probably man? to Jerusalem. The "map" of Pal- Mitchell, showing the French and yunS some whisp of a girl that could not estine also shows the sea, with ships British dominions in North Amer- - milK a guinea-pig- , much less a big carrying crowds of people. lea. After Oornwallis yielded at cow' but can Paint the human face China, Persia, Egypt, all had Torktown and British diplomats met Prelu'y- - An bo it goes, their part In early map science; the Americans at Paris to frame and the Arabs undoubtedly bor- the treaties of 1782-8H. G. Wells, who has mapped out this map was rowed from Ptolemy. Yet It was used. Of It John Adams wrote: "We world's history for 150 years ahead, the Arabs who, when Christian had before us a variety of doesn't think much of today's his- learning lagged In the Eighth and maps; but It was the Mitchell map tory, and calls Hitler's movement Ninth centuries, made the most Im- upon which was marked out the "a rebellion of the clumsy lout portant geographic advances. whole boundary lines of the United against civilization, against Printing, which, like the compass, States." thought, sanity and books probably came to Europe from the Wells doesn't think much of con During the first half of the Six- East, had the same galvanic effect teenth century such Spanish explor- - ditions in Italy or Russia either, on map making as on other arts. ers as Cabeza de Vaca, Coronado wnere dictators hold the stage and Ptolemy's "Geography," now trans- De Soto, and others had made crude Power. He even worries a little lated, became so popular that It maps of their routes; so had the aD0Ut England, saying was to go through more than fifty French voyagiDg the Great Lakes Luncheon parties for literary editions. Columbus used It; de- and canoeing down the meD may 8ive Place to lynching Mississippi. spite Its errors, or thanks to them, William Clark, of the Lewis and Parue3 netore my time is out." He ne accidentally round the New Clark expedition. In 1804-6- . made a spoke at a literary luncheon party. world, which discovery ultimately map showing their route to Oretron No one woud lynch Well3, he is set all civilization to revising its and the north boundary of Louis- too interesting. maps. iana, then in the upper Mississippi For decades after the voyages of Basin. Ladies of the "Exposition of Wo Later came Zebulon Pike, Columbus, Europe seethed with the Santa Fe traders and the beav- men's Art and Industries" abandon new excitement and ideas. When er trappers from St. Louis Bonne- - ed politics for a minute to discuss Charles V received letters from vllle, Walker, Fremont, and others "beautifying the male," and decid Cortez describing the splendors of all shown on Frank Bond's "Routes ed to recommend "the legitimate Montezuma's court, with Its golden of the Principal Explorers," pub- - use " cosmetics by men." Will dishes as big as carriage wheels, lished by the United States land of- - they a!so advise all Spain was agitated. When news nee In 1907. corsets for the fat and high heels broke that PIzarro had caught an After the Civil war. maDDini of lor tne short? Inca king and held him for ran- the United States, particularly of Men, ugly enough, and foolish som of a roomful of gold, equal the great West, began In earnest, enough now without assistance to $15,000,000, excitement was al- directed by the newly created Unit- from these good ladies, can beau most unendurable. 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