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Show EMKRY miTNTV PROGRESS. CASTI.E DALE. 1TTAH I With The Utah Legislature iw, By J7 & ELMO SCOTT WATSON NLY about once In the pictures Courtesy conception of Senator Beveridge, however, Lincoln under- took to present, not Beveridge's Linproverbial "blue moon" but Lincoln . . . What Is coln, is there published a more, Beveridge did what he started Imso is which book out to do." portant as to justify us How does it happen then that the In regarding its appearance as "news." In order real Lincoln has at last been revealed to deserve attention as by a biographer? Perhaps the answer a news event, it usually can be found in a statement by Mr Rowers in which he commented upon has to reveal some hitherto unknown facts about a subject the fact that Beveridge does justice which Is of considerable Interest to to the true greatness of Stephen A. a large number of people. In some Douglas as It has never been done He writes' cases a new biography will measure by historian before. a was "There a com it is but to psychological probably that standard, op paratively rare occurrence for any reason for the Beveridge understand Ing of Douglas for there are some thing, both new and of vital Impor tance, to be discovered about a man striking resemblances In both the gifts and cjreers of the two men. great enough to answer the quallfica Hon of "considerable interest to a Both were orators, fighters, possessed large number of people." In America of dash and a certain masterfulness about the only men of whom this of manner; both won renown early: both were chairmen of the senate would be true would be Washington committee on territories and helped and Lincoln. There have been so many books mold legislation that made states: written about Abraham Lincoln the both Incurred the enmity of powerful In number runs into the hundreds and elements In their own party." the whole field of Lincolnlana has the same way It may be said that been so thoroughly combed that it Beveridge had an understanding of Lincoln because both were skillfiwl does not seem possible to discover anything new about him. Nor Is It politicians who became statesmen In the truest sense of the word and in likely that a new Lincoln book woul.l his own disappointment in the arena ordinarily excite more than casual Interest and discussion. However of politics, Beveridge could nppreel ate the disappointment which came within recent months there has ap peared a new work on Lincoln which to Lincoln early In his political ca has been "news," in that news stories reer. So it seems entirely plausible that when "a statesman looks at Lin have been written about it. This ad ditlon to the store of knowledge about coin," especially at the period in Lin the Great Emancipator is the two coin's life when the evolution of the was volume work written by the late politician into the statesman Albert J. r.everldge, former CniteC taking place, as It was In the period States senator from Indiana, undet which Beveridge covers in his two volumes, there should result an ade the title of "Abraham Lincoln, and published by the Houghton quate understanding of the forces which were shaping his life and which Mifflin company. It Is a striking fact about this were to make him the great man that "Lincoln" that the literary critics he was. have been unanimous In pronouncing The story of how this latest Lin coin biographer set about and accomIt the most Important study of Lin coin that has yet been written and plished his task is in Itself a romantic one newspaper devoted no less than one. Several years ago Beveridge a full page to a review of it by a noted principally as a brilliant orator man of national prominence. He whs and one of the outstanding person Claude O. Bowers, "keynoter," at the alities in the United States senate Democratic national convention, af amazed the literary world with his "Life of John Marshall.'' Houston, last year, a friend of and himself a biographer and It was hailed by scholars not as onl historian of renown. In his review one of the finest biographies that ha he said: "It seems Incredible that we eve been written hy an American have had to wait for almost seventy but as a noteworthy contribution to years for a biography of Lincoln deal American history because Beveridge Ing adequately with the first fifty had made a sweeping and magnificent years of his life. The monumental Interpretation of the early days of biography of Nicolay and Hay was the republic through the life of the written with frank partisanship and. great chief Justice. When In worse still, under the critical eye of Beveridge suffered his final disap Uobert Todd Lincoln, who. until the polntment In politics and saw that h end of his long life, appeared more had missed a promised greatness in this field of activity, he again turned prone to concealment than to revela-atlonThe Herndon biography was to writing and determined to take up unquestionably the most starkly honagain the thread of the American est hut Its very honesty damned it In story. Interpreting a later phase of the eyes of those who preferred to it than the Marshall phase In terms of the career of a man greater even deify rather thnn to explain Its subject. By that time we had entered than Marshall Abraham Lincoln. period, fol upon the (rf that ambitious project and what lowed with a flood of biographies It Involved. Rowers says; written In the spirit of extravagant Needless to say, Mr. Beveridge d:o praise, and the result has been that not approach his colossal task In the the Lincoln who lived before the de spirit of an Iconoclast; nor In that of worshiper, willing to prostitut bate has been comparatively unknown ah.sblind art as a biographer to the preseruntil now." vation of a myth We have heard him say that he would hardly have had t So we have had the great number to undertake the task at all of books on Lincoln written hy every had he had the slightest conception ot and of person by biographers type the superficiality with which the field professional historians, by teachers had been searh"d before It was a tremendous task It meant and preachers, by lawyers, by poets weary months with musty manuscript;-searchinand by novelists. And. as one re the Ions deserted avenues viewer has pointed out "Hitherto that promised the possibility of new Lincoln on new book been has every liKht, examininK thousands of old let ; III IStfl-lS.rS,- Rev-eridg- e e . myth-makin- g Adopted Elephants fact In the ele It is a pliant camps of India that a calf, when left an orphan for any reason, is looked after hy the herd and. If h suckling, is taken over hy a fosier mother. This has happened again and again and on one occasion In our ex pcrience at a teakwood logging camp a calf that lost lis mother at tl stage when It was being weaned was taken over by a tusker of uncertain well-know- n The eighteenth session of the Utah Legislature was launched the past week with a pace that promises unusually good results In a session of law maker. A resolution passed the senate askreing for a memorial to Congress questing an adequate tariff on sugar to relieve the beet growers from their present precarious situation. and much Considerable Interest discission featured the presentation of the message of Gov. Dern to the legislature. Republicans were placed as chairmen of the committees and also the important boards are to be guided by the majority party. Among the bills of special Interest were the following: One seeking the repeal of the Indeterminate sentence lf.v, and one providing for the sterilization of criminals convicted of the raie of a child under the age of 13 years. The indeterminate sentence repeal and the sterilization hills were introduced by Senator W. D. Candland, and both would become effective uiion approval. The Boulder Dam problem occupied the forefront of the legislature and it's fornm. Karly action is to be taken by the Utah body on this important interstate problem. There has been considerable agitation in favor of the repeal of the indeterminate sentence law and the increase in crime augmented that agitation. convicts are Many contend former largely responsible for the crime situation In the country and they believe that the removal of the powers of the board of pardons would do much towards clearing up the crime difficul- temper, to be brought up hy him. He allowed it to be suckled by a female until weaned, and so strong did his affection for the calf become that ho refused to work except with the calf at heel -- Mn.l. A. W. Smith, in Atlantic Monthly. Dried Human Heads Grcwsome little dried up human' heads are appearing in London. These heads have long been treasured as spoils of battle by certain South American tribes, and contracted by a ters, turning the Innumerable pages of old, yellowing newspapers and trailing over the continent on many a fruitless, as well as fruitful. Journey. Scarcely had he begun, when he was appalled at the discovery of how Inadequately the work had been done before. Myth after myth faded out before his searchlight. Thus, quite early, he said to the writer that If he vere asked to speak on Lincoln have hurried over this period partly In forma because the only tion on it is contained in the legislative reports which are included in several huge volumes, printed in small type and having no Index. What Bev eridge did was to go to Springfield, volumes dig out these and with the aid of a magnifying glass go over them all. The result was, instead of a few hasty para graphs such as other biographers have written about Lincoln the legislator, Beveridge's study devotes 137 pages to this period which had a vital importance in shaping the character and later career of Lincoln. Another instance lies in the statement that he wrote and rewrote the chapters of his hooks, not once, nor twice, but many times. One of them was rewritten 15 times before he was satisfied with it ! "At this point the pen of the writer stopped, leaving the chapter In Its first draft." Such is the statement made at the end of the chapter on "The Oreat Debate" In the second volume of Beveridge's Lincoln. "At Mr. Beveridge's elbow were the volumes of the Debates and Schurz's autobiography, open at the pages whence he had taken the last quota lions or references. On the table, near his hand, were the heaps of notes prepared for the chapter, extracts from letters, newspapers, proceedings of conventions and legislatures, and photostats of the more Important manuscripts he had found in puhlic and private collection." For Death had stayed the hand of the great blog rapher of a great man. In April, 11)27 Albert J. Beveridge died suddenly in the prime of his life with his story half told. Barton, another noted Lin coin biogrnph ", has well said of Beveridge's "Lincoln" "It ends like Schu hert's Cnllnished Symphony." "This is one of the greatest tragedies In literary history," says Rowers, wlwy pays this final tribute to Beveridge: "However, we may rejoice In the realization that he has done for the first fifty years (of Lincoln's life) that which has never been done before, and no other could do so well lie has raised In his Marshall and Lincoln a monument to himself which will out itist marble and before which future aeiierafiotis will pay homage to his genius as an interpreter of the Amer d dust-covere- d ACTION ON MEASURES Memorial-- , lizing congress to provide an emergency tariff on sugar. Passed as amended under suspension of rules and cent to house. II. B. No. 1, Burton Appropriates $50,000 to pay expenses of present legislature. Signed by President Gardner in presence of the senate. S. B. No. 4, Maw Providing for the settling of general property taxes on automollles before a license may be obtained from the office of the secretary of state. Withdrawn by the author with the consent of the senate. S. B. No. 1, Candland repeal of indeterminate lf tax-fre- s e spirit." RED-HEADE- special process of their own Invention till they are doll like in size These heads are much valued by col lectors of queer relics in London, but an expert says that there are a number of fakes going about. It ap pears that medical students at Quito have discovered the drying process and are now helping themselves to heads which have not fallen In battle, Rewards Offered by the Indian gov ernment for snake killing resulted In 57,000 snakes being killed last year. S. B. No. 7, Young An act to consent to the acquisition of private lands and the use of state lands by the United States for the establishment of the Bear river migratory bird refuge. Revision and enrolling. S. B. No. 8. Parratt An act attending section 4553, compiled laws of Utah 1917, doing away with certain exofficio members of the state textbook commission, naming a new exofficio member and reducing the number of commis-ioner- s. Revision and enrolling. ... -- 1 Utah i cuKAiM-Rari- ger J the Manti Nation to the Mammoth cently and reports 01, W JT 1 T ranger twenty. of snow, with a water "1 w mcnes. HEBER The "lion's .v. ffiiums at the recent Utah Zfj tain seed show, in certify ...Tl classes, went to the Wasatch Seed Growers' association .,! jnination of a long prograa' 6 improvement ELSINORE- -A Carlo went out recently destiny Lorn the poultry yards in the iumuc ttHU IBIS CltV Tti comprised more than 4000 bitT was shipped in a special poultrt t VTAIll ni Vs neePmen of the tt9 Mile and Green River districts Myton have been forced m i,J! ing their flocks with corn been. veather. Conservation r!r.ce the numb?r of sheep PROVO The annual tt1 In TTtA Poultry and Pabbit show will be et 164 West Center street in this January zi to ZG, according to oS vi iub ciaa uounty Poultry tJ 1,'tan county lahhit Breeders' ciations. T. H. Horay of Salt will judge the show. CASTLE DALE Engineer M Erickscn and a crew of surveyorJ a?am doing the preliminary work for the Salica canyon h A rnnrtinn ., rt tYin i.imuiiie, ine Hi started last cusoieer, summer, will no be sonr-tiuntmfoH lieieo. unic-Fhappens to change the pesent gram. EPH RAI M Manti National Pi A oolgrowevs' association it offitP on record for an "open" game U Utah to permit the killing of K".le and female, and of elk when are damaging the range. The lut'on to that effect has been sod trd to the Utah Woolgrowerj' o 1 ican ing. Providing for sentence law. With the enactment of the Candland bill repealing the indeterminate Reported back by committee on revissentence law, the sentences of the per- ion and enrolling and referred to jud. sons convicted of crime would be fix- iciary committee. ed definitely by the courts. S. B. No. 2, Candland Providing for Senate Bill No. 3, introduced by the asexulization of criminals convictSenator Hollingsworth, provides for ed of rape on girls under the age of 13. the guardianship of incompetent vet- Reported back by the committee on reerans and the minor children of men- vision and enrolling and referred to tally incompetent or deceased veter- judiciary committee. ans. This bill is being introduced in S. B. No. 3, Hollingsworth Relating forty-twlegislatures of the T'nited to guardianship of incompetent vetstates in an effort to obtain uniform erans and of the minor children of legislation. mentally Incompetent or deceased vetA bill introduced by Sen. Maw, pro- erans. Reported back by revision and vides for payment of the property enrolling committee and referred to taxes on automobiles before the own- judiciary committee. er niay obtain a license from the secretary of state. IN TIIE HOUSE . An unusual method of giving relief to farmers in irrigation districts Bills Introduced Is proposed in a bill sponsored in the II. B. No. It, Burton Making It unhouse by Rep. Burton. The bill prolawful for motor vehicles to pass any vides that tlie land owners in irrigaschool conveyance while it is tion districts or the holders of mort- public on highway. Judiciary comstanding gages on land in such districts may mittee. pay delinquent drainage taxes and eqH. B. No. 12. Laviue Amending law ualized drainage district assessments with bonds, notes, warrants or matur- on tax levies in county school districts, providing for petition to state boards ed interest coupons of the district. The act would compel county treas- of equalization and education for inurers to accept such bonds, notes, crease. Revenue and taxation commit- warrants or interest coupons at their tee. II. B. No. 11. Burton Providing for face value. Bonds of many of the irrigation districts however, can oe posting, instead of publication, of ordinances in third class cities. Printing purchased at less than par value. Another bill introduced by Burton Committee. would exempt fuels used in operation II. B. No. 14. Badger Providing that' of farm machinery and farm vehicles only ears of rabbits are necessary as from payment of the three and one-ha- proof in bounty claims for predatory cent state gasoline tax. Permits animals. Livestock committee. e for purchases would he issued II. B. No. 15, Badger Exempting by county clerks. trailers of half ton or less capacity Burton also introduced a hill pro- from license fee. Public utilities comthat annual financial state- mittee. viding ments of comities shall contain a II. B. No. 10, Burton Providing that showing of the aggregate expenditurall duties heretofore conferred on dises from each fund and an ilemteed statement of the expenditures would trict attorney be given county athave to he kept on file in the audi- torney. Judiciary committee. II. B. No. 17, Bennett Providing tor's office. This bill would limit the public in learning to whom the tax each county of state shall be entitled to services of one deputy money Is being paid. gati:e warA resolution offered by YV. D. Ham- den. Fish and game committee. mond in the house prnixv-eII. B. No. 18, Badger Reimburseto use the money derived from the state land ment of Millard county to extend of rentals and Investments for diburso-uien- t $3,044.44 in payment of drainage in such maimer as the legisla- claims. Appropriations committee. ture shall provide. At present the II. B. No. 1!), Bennett state constitution provides that the appraisal of state lands. Relating to money received from the state laud RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED endowments shall le disbursed according to the school population of II. J. R. No. 1, Burton the several districts. Amending constitution to extend term of of county Rennet, Dagget, propo.--e- d a constitutional amendment to restrict the attorneys from two to four years. II. J. R. No. 2 Amending constituproperty exempt from taxation. He would have the Legislature submit to tion to provide mileage pay for legisthe vote of the people the question of lators. H. J. R. No. 3, Hammond Amendinserting in the constitution a provision interpreting section 3 of art- ing constitution to give legislative pow-e- r icle 13 of the constitution. In this proto determine method of distributing vision he would specify that nothing school fund. in this section should he interpreted H. J. U. No. 4, Bennett Amending to allow the escape from taxation of constitution to provide for taxation of lauds or other property acquired by otherwise exempt public lands obtain-e- d purchase, foreclosure through lu'e by foreclosure and operated for state or its political subdivisions, pubgain. lic libraries, regligious demunimttinus or charitable institutions which ACTION ON MEASURES nay be used for commercial pupa-o-- : or S. C. R. No. 2. Ryan private gain. Any proper y so used is Memorializing to be subject to assessment at the full congress to pase Coltoti-Oddibill which would allow $3,500,000 cash value. annually lor road construction. Passed. ties. he would decline. "I do not know Just now what I think of Lincoln." As he proceeded, the task grew in magnitude until, at times, he felt so that he half utterly discouraged wished to abandon It. Instead of having before bim the not too laborious mission of a new Interpretation, he found himself confronted with the necessity of subjecting himself to the hardships of pioneering for facts and he grimly buckled down to his Job. One day he half seriously told Justice Holmes, a neighbor at Beverly farms, that should he hear of the finding in the woods of a haggard old man, dead from exhaustion, he would know that it was a friend of his who had been foolish enough to attempt a Life of Lincoln." One instance of the painstaking la bor which Beveridge gave to his monumental task is that wherein he obtained his Information about Lin i coin's career as a member of the uois legislature. Other biographer first-han- Bills Introduced In the Senate S. B. Xo. 5, Candland Amending the state industrial act so a to reduce the number of the industrial commission from three to one after April 1, 1931, and amending the state insurance fund act. Revision and enrolling. S. B. No. 6, Candland Providing for the organization and maintenance of junior colleges. Revision and enroll- a News Now !i LEGISLATIVE WORK SnOP S. C. R. No. 1, Welling ttuAAUA j ' D GIRL PUT ON PEDESTAL Scientists have discovered all kinds of odd facts about humanity. For Instance, an expert recently staled that ho had never seen a lunatic! Now comes tiie even more peculiar disclosure that girls may be but brunettes are, as a rule, kroek kneed. These facts are based on data supplied by a certain bald-heade- bow-legge- j artists' cluh which ms been collecting statistics respecting its models. Another interesting point Is that red !i::hcil women suffer leas from se- rious diser-e- ors. 'I s than t'Hr darker tut- his is due to the fact that their skin throws off poison more rapidly than a dark person's. Also, red hair, which a generation B was Jeered nf, ts ,,. nowadays it ,muld 1)e The r,(. girl has proved that she Is not but, as a rule, much better balanced mentally than a bunetta, "red f:s alt LAKE liarnyara jquaj c enckles and general atmosphere anatsd from the spacious roomai 39 AVest Broadway last Monday fj mornipj until 10 o'clock at nighta thnn 1000 birds of almost every color and type vied for honors in fortieth annual slfow of the Poultry association. OGB EN The tenth annual 0; lives'ock show, held January 5 to w ?3 a great success, officials, jti visitor and exhibitors declared, ranked anions the greatest b country. Attendance this year larger than ever V with over 20,000 person? m throug'h the gntes in six days. one-fourt- SALT LAKE California proda 203.000 Dounds of the 617,000 poJ of cheese marketed at San Franc! in December. Wisconsin shinning 153.000 counts of ehees: s"rm!kd i.o unset i.oitnds. Utah furnished 3"0 Wdurinsr the month, frantically M went from this region to San Ini co or Los Angeles in December. RICHFIELD Low hid for the rt to tilare th5 crave! surface; f ttie state's 1 i;ic iu too univu Carmcl highway irM the Zion-Mt- . fritted bv A. (3. Young and compl when ,e ptfirtri It was revealed attheofl bids were opene-r M, otato rnnd commission W. I'rder 'the hid of this concert surfta total cost of the gravel ,f .t, - hp JG7.rM.05. wnirt Air Tha storm vniw Califcrt eerily came up from only T'toS Iravine r.j r snow in Its wake, but the i 1- i ' wotrtr. tni.no 1" forceti nrPKRtire s whrre there r,m-tt- , f wave " - ' to reacn umn. threetet which - . and there ,twnrd in theUU Cecil At atnre. according to J. rated little change IBM- In on feed for market cent corn belt states was 3 per at rne rattle on i i" . . January..ui. u - . fopd in last year Pf: If 0u v , first or tins yeu' ' head compared with 27,000 cornm ' and 40.000 in 1927. b' r port released Tuesday of trie ,nrews, iucu. .toHctirbn flirricUltiire States department of troll.ng tiear r" ttie control wo. ... . gratory bird rem there wpr considered rJ rc. States tives of the ..United til1" m 1 trie survey and )n " " 4 the bureau ot P'"! f . s- recently. The t.h" " wns... cped by L. M. s""1 bureau during the past - -- .,tntl a KANTI-S- toc . . Tiprpmher k. new ' Will"-- ' c...suecp on me ..,.rl.i.'. fhn:t PeI!C a suffered from weather, said the monthly sued by Fran st,tes the United pup gi BlUliMU Kl" partmcnt 01 agm-"..-.j of hay and feed ently suilicieni ic needs, but anxiety " . t, eomo stockmen who a through last will apply - -- - frJ H ft |