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Show I: LEW FREE PRESS, LEW. UTAH 'And Departing, Leave Our Government -- r The Russians have ded, make their own weather. So P tlmistic are they that an artit f rain Institute has been started Moscow, and others are to f0, Russia Is largely dependent the crops grown on the farms, tJ scientists state that piesently tuJ will be able to plant out a ree-- J scheme of fine weather and oft j occurring at just the right ' Experiments made by nie-plases and powerful ground tr,7, mitting stations have shown much can be done in the way bringing down ralu by mean', m current. I 8 powerful has also been possible to break hailstorms by bombarding them , How It Operates Bruckart By William behind Ihem 6 Weather to Order, Plan of Russian Scient!j U OUR CURRENCY ; Is ample reason. In my fad to people generally figtreasury First, understand money. income of ures show on the basis little taxes that most of us have very to fails It that of it, so little, indeed, the because second, and register, connection processes of government in some-ha-t with money are, or appear to be, fkinnlicflred. THERE s t A" Ia high-tensio- n . of Money for circulation purposes, Constitucourse, bus Its base in the certain tion. That instrument reposed in this on the treasury obligations and connection, and the production distribution of money constitutes one of the two major Jobs of the treasury. In the management of the money, assisthowever, the treasury has the ance of the Federal Reserve board and lit i . mi ..i in m,iimyjy ,iiiir I . tt 1. .in 1 I74I-- 1 ' 5 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON T IS easy enough to account for the erection of jirivate memorials to private citizens In the form of markers over their graves and for the monuments and other Btatuea, memorials with which we honor our statesmen, military and naval leaders and other heroes. I5ut how shall we account for some of the strange memorials which, through the aj;es, have teen set up by human hands und which man continues to set up to a great variety of things, both animate and Inanimate. To give a complete catalogue of them would require no less pace than a hook, hut for nn Idea of their tarlety consider some or these: Perhaps as queer an usseinhlnge of monuments I can be found In any one place on earth Is to be seen In a cemetery at Mayneld. Ky., where burial plot contains life-sizstatues of the dead members of one family, dressed In the fashions of their times, and the figures of various animals, among theiu a deer, which were the pets of the various (fenerations of the family and were burled beside their masters. Ordinarily you wouldn't think thut cheese would be an appropriate object for a memorial, yet there Is one. It stands near the little city of Vlniouticrs In France on the farm of a certain Beau Moncel, where during the latter half of the Eighteenth century lived Marie Hare!, who Is credited with being the Inventor of cheese. Not only Is the fame of this (Norman milkmaid commemorated by this stone haft on the farm where she worked, but In Main Tlace In the city of Vlinontiers Itself is a tatue of her, back of which Is a stone showing the farmhouse on the Marcel farm where he was born In 1761, where she lived nntll her death In 1817 and where she made the new kind of cheese now famous the world over. These monuments were erected through the New York doctor, Joseph Knrlm. efforts of For many years he conducted a sanatorium In New York, where the only medicine he gave his patients for all kinds of stomach ailments was I'Usener beer and Caniemhert cheese. Hecause of his gratitude to the Inventor of the cheese With which he made so many people well and caved their lives, he made a romantic pilgrimage to Vlinoutlers a year or so ago, and the result was this most unusual of all monuments. It waa only a year or so ago that news dispatches carried the following story: San Jose, Calif. A movement Is In progress here to erect a monument to the memory of Louis Pelller, who, 75 years ago, started the prune Industry In America. Pelller came to California during the famous sold rush of 1849. Away from his sunny France, he missed the plums from his home locality near Bordeaux, and wrote back for seeds and cuttings, and searched the hills for roots of wild species on which his scions could be grafted So Interested did be become, he gave up his quest for gold and gave the world the prune, beginning what Is now a billion dollar Industry. From another part of the West at about the ame time came this news story: Fair Play, Colo. Prunes, a burro, will have monument. Shot last month when he became too feeble to eat after serving nearly every mine In the region of Fair Play, he will have a memorial of samples of ore taken from all the mines lnwtrlch ht worked. Up In Alaska several years ago a bronze plaque, bearing a has relief of a mule and a horse, was dedicated by the Ladles of the GoldPien North, an anxlllnry of the Alaska-Yukooneers, to perpetuate the memory of the faithful pack animals, both mules and horses, who lost their lives on the White I'ass trail during the Klondike gold rush days. With Gov. George A. Tarks of Alaska and George l!la-k- . member of the Canadian parliament from Yukon territory, r Inofficiating, the dedication took place famous the Horse above Iead point spiration "Here lived und gave her service to mankind Segis I'ietertje Prospect, world's champion milk cow. Born 1013, died 10-- 5. Twice she registered production records that set her fame above all dairy cattle of any ngp. In each of two years she exceeded 10..7K) quarts of milk. 1,400 pounds of butter, yielding for the two a total of 33,922 quarts of milk, 2,S0.".1S pounds of butter. Sired by a king and of purest llolstein strain, she herself bore sons and daughters of champion achievement. Finest type of the noble, patient animal that is most justly named 'The Foster Mother of the Human Race,' her queenly worth deserved the gratitude In which this tribute Is erected by her owner. Carnation Milk Farms, e UNSWWW" I 192.8." s bas-reli- n m-a- gulch. If you want to see how other members of the equine world have been honored, go down to Lexington, Ky., and drive out along the Winchester pike until you come to Hamburg Place, the farm of J. K, Madden. Nestling In a little grove of trees on this farm Is what Is thought to be the only cemetery for horse celebrities In the world. Dominating the grassy plot of ground of less than nn ncre nud enclosed by a etone wall stands a statue of a horse. Upon the foundation on which the statue stands Is this "Nancy Hanks 2:04." For this Is Inscription, the last resting plf.re of the world champion trotter from 1SH2 to ISM. lr.cn more traditional than love of man for N fat' In Salt Lake City, Utah, stands a lofty granite column, on top of which Is a large granite ball upon which two bronze birds, covered with gold leaf are gently alighting. On the four sides of the base are bronze tablets, three bearing scenes of pioneer days in the Salt Lake valley. One shows the beginning of agriculture In the arid West a pioneer and his family and a yoke of oxen at work reclaiming the desert soil. The second shows the wheat fields overrun by crickets. The pioneer man sits with bowed head, on his face a look of helplessness and grief. But the pioneer woman Is lifting up her face to the skies as she sees a miracle about to take place. Winging over the mountains into the valley come a great flock of gulls. The third bronze shows the harvest days. The gulls have devoured the crickets, the crops are saved and the pioneers In the wilderness will have bread. On the fourth tablet are these words: "Sea Gull Monument. F.rected in grateful remembrance of the mercy of God to the Mormon pioneers." Thus this monument is an everlasting story In stone ' of one of the most beautiful and dramatic Incidents In American history the story of how the gulls saved the wheat fields of Utah bas-reli- "1. .. K" erected to the memory of thousands of carrier pigeons killed during the World war which was unveiled In Brussels, Belgium, by the Duke of Brabant, son of the King of the Belgians. 2. Monument over the grave of George W. Pike near Douglas, Wyo. 3. A burial plot in a cemetery at Mayfield, e statues of the dead In Ky., containing the fashions of their times and figures of animals which were pets of various generations of the family and which were buried beside their masters. 1. Monument life-siz- 4. Monument erected in B:rlin, Germany, In appreciation of the invaluable services which the horse gave to the German army during the World war. Monument tD Camembert cheese city of Vimoutiers in the Camembert of Normandy, France. 5. the hzt district erected to Segis Pietcrtje Proscow, niar pect, world's record Seattle, Wash. 6. Monument his horse is his love for his dog. So it Is not surprising that in iirijnis parts of the world may be found monuments to "man's best friend." Visitors to Newstead abbey In Nottingham, Holland, are certain to be shown Lord Pyror.'s monument to his dog Boatswain. Boatswain was a Newfoundland of affectionate disposition whose death left the great poet Inconsolable. The do was buried not M feet from the corner of the abbey where he used to sit on sunny days and where his master used to romp with him. His grave Is marked by a sh.'ift of brick and marble surmounted by an urn. The pedestal Is a series of stops. On u tablet are Inscribed the words: "Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without Insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of num. without his vices. This praise, which would he unmeaning flattery If Inscribed over human ashes, is but a Just tribute to the memory of Boatswain, A Dog." It Is not especially unusual, perhaps, for man to erect monuments to his two best friends, the horse and the dog. but it is unusual for him to erect a monument to a cow. For that reason the statue of Segis I'ietertje Prospect, a HoNteln cow, which stands over her grave on the banks of the SnotjualmSe river near Seattle, Wash., Is unique among memorials. The reason for this honor Is explained by the inscription on the bronze tablet at the base of the statue. It roads as follows: In 1818. This brief catalogue of unusual monuments would not be complete without reference to unusual memorials to two men not great men, perhaps, and certainly not especially good men In fact, to two pretty bad men, Judged by most human standards. Carved, on an Alaskan cliff Is a huge human skull which recalls the fame of "Soapy" Smith, gambler, gunflghter and general "had man" of the Klondike gold days, who died as he had lived by the gun. So today nn ironic skull on a jagged mountainside Is Smith's salute to latter-dapilgrims Journeying north by the inside water route to Alaska. The skull 2." feet high by 9 feet wide, with missing teeth and leering smile, was carved by order of the "Arctic Brotherhood" as a warning to other bad men. Some day when you're motoring through Douglas. Wyo., pay a visit to the little cemetery on the hill east of that city and take a look at a large granite gravestone upon which Is engraved tiiis unusual pp'taph : CKOBGK W. P1KK Underneath this stone in eternal rest Sleeps the wildest one of the wayward west, lie was u gambler ntid sport and cowboy too And be led the pace in an outlaw crew, lie was sure on the trigger and staid to" the end But he never was known to quit on a friend In the relations of death all mankind Is alike But In life there was only one Ceorge V. Pike Perhaps it's just as well that "there was onlv one George W. lUe" for Malcolm Campbell n famous old time sheriff of Wyoming. Is authority for the statement that Pike's "remarkable re.' d for extended over a period of lo years during which time there were few terms of court that he was not down for nt two least counts . . . but he was never convicted of a crime In his life."! I nloti ) li l U, :,in o-- horse-stealin- .i r tge - vuiinoa f(. .x. iritnnord n p nta, t.i .i We stations and every effort is ma&i in fall to hall the distr; cause pre where it will do the least dam. :vei The vibrations set up ny the it mouthed cannon frequently lirLc down the hail and prevent it f ij 0 Aim thji g paper, a paper that is hardly possible of being counterfeited. Piles upon piles of bills, ones, twos, fives, tens, twenties and up to $100,000 are the result. They are stored in vaults, every bill numbered and every one accounted for. They are kept there for "ageing." One might say for curing, so they will last longer when they are put Into circulation. To the uninitiated, this process may seem unnecessary. To the government, however. It means saving money for the taxpayers. The cost of circulation, that is, the expense of printing the money and keeping It In circulation, runs Into millions each year as you may realize when you know that s a bill costs about of a cent to manufacture, and there are hundreds of millions of them put out every year. An idea of this cost is provided also from knowledge that the average r and the bill Is fit for circulation only about ten months. So it behooves the treasury to have very "good" money, as well as sound money, and Its experts are constantly studying scientific subjects to find ways to prolong the life of the bill. Numerous kinds of paper have been tried, and countless "treatments" have been given the bills In the experimentation by the experts to find means of making the life of a bill last longer. The maximum, however, seems to be about ten months for ihe hills that are In constant use like the ones and fives. The bill still has superstition attaching to It, so It does not wear out so soon. Attention might be invited In this connection to the effect of modern business developments on currency Take the gasoline filling station, for example. The attendants have grease on their hands, not from choice of course, but that grease Is not con duclve to longer life for the bill you hand him to pay for your gas. The currency distribution after the bills are aged. Eachbegins "bill hears Its Individual number. Each bill has to he signed by the secretary of the treasury and the treasurer the United States. Each one Is of registered by the register of the treasury Then an armored car. a regular steel safe In Itself, backs up to a guarded door for a load of money. tt, 13J. Wat.ro N.ir.p.p., UnU)I1 one-dolla- . P!rit "y n to well over $1,000.000, 000 in value. That gold is the basis of our currency; that Is why we are said to be Theoretically, on the gold standard. every dollar In paper currency that is outstanding or "in circulation" may he converted into gold at the demand of the holder of that currency. Theoretically, also, the gold standard keeps the dollar at the same value year In and year out. but there Is one school of thought In the country who prefer to measure the value of the dollar on the basis of prices of wheat and corn and cotton and other commodities. All of the paper currency In circulation is produced actually printed In one great establishment in Washington, a plant known as the bureau of It prints engraving and printing. your postage stamps, too, but money-makinIs its main Job. The coins that you have were produced under the direction of the treasury, also, but in the United States mints. They "strike off" the coins from gold or silver or nickel or copper which Is acquired and tested for them by the assay offices, tested closely that each bit of metal will be of exactly the same purity, or fineness, as It Is called. Whether In the mints or in the printing bureau, almost inconceivable scrutiny Is exercised, the most rigid management observed, and that Is obviously necessary for If money could be made by' everybody, it would not be worth anything to anybody. The bureau of engraving and printing keeps Its great presses In operation constantly, using a distinctive two-third- . great the Federal Reserve banks. Creation of this auxiliary agency did not come about until recent years some 13 years matters ago and Its part in money to its may be described as incidental main purpose of aiding business. The need for money and the case of handling It. however, always have seemed to me to be the paramount reasons for Its existence, notwithstanding what the law says about it. In the big underground vaults of the treasury in Washington, in equally great vaults of several of the Federal Reserve banks In cities like New York and elsewhere and In the vaults of the assay offices, which operate with the United States mints, there Is a vast store of gold bullion. It amounts 4 i0 nt "seat - MercoIizedVVai, Keeps Skin Youra jock and use j directed, fine particle Gt an oucoe off until all defect such as t, akin peel poU. tan and (recklea diaappear. bi.in is thea look MVou face yeara younrtr. and velvety. Your Tft Wax brines out the bidden beauty oi yonr skia. ott,-dissolved rmov wrinkles use one ounce l;owdcri hasel At (irus lf witch in pint tilj; j - Mrrv Young men to quaSfjw " in radio DOBitiona BerB?J " WANTED broadcasting, commeJS literature. K irn free modern equipment, Wester Electrical Collet j, 133 Regent St. typi : ffhe Sunshi All Winter Long fj18 AT the Foremost Desert ' marvelous climate warm starlit invigorristh clear dry nights days gorgeous moumjlleti air splendid roads the idea I winter hnM scenes finest hotels e Writ Cr A Chtftay of the West PALM SPIIINC f's California jtsey World Circumnavigation jfe f No one has ever one around B e' circuw'f g world at its 'J.l.tMHl-niilence at the equator. Magellan 6;.jher a greater distance ns he had to at far south to round Cape Horn ' Cape of Good Hone and return n of the equator to his start in; p!ifer! The Graf Zeppelin followed aknt5 a zi.ag course over part of its ro f na 8 Ryrd usually is said to have fl I l around the pole rather than arn' the earth. These records are 11 c' five. As matters now stand Posts!1" Gutty have the record for the dire bination of the greatest distance the st.orrest time. ped T'tl-- COLDS Bd. HER"' ,HUNG OH "Bohr Of di'j End ColdstoQuickC TIE tff was an easy victim colds and hung on so long until she susgesied the. of NR tablets. He seldom catches colds winch When he does thev are quickly broken up.afs correcUsafe, dependable, Nature's Remedy strengthens and reguist fig bowel action as no other laxative can &Hf.e away poisonous wastes which make you tible to colds, dizzy spells, headaches, mhe ousness. Works I he pleasantly, too. No griping. Try a box 2oc at your druggist's. Qickrelieffora,lnl,t heartburn. TUmb K tion. In" fee -j- Treasure Trove pw. Some sixty gold and silver m ish coins of more than a century ma were dug up at Biddeford, Maine.i(g Ralph Labbe and Ovila Bouthot. 1ueJ two men were engaged in transpl:'rsti Ing flowers when they came UFftur what they at first thought to be of iron covered with rust and fcpse earth. Some of the coins were taiftie; to a Riddeford bank and while W o. officials have not determined tffr,f actual value, It is believed that Identified as a Spanish dollar of If he Is worth about $75. Sp- - fen five-doll- two-doll- High Brow Billy, age five, spent the suniit with his older brothers in a minor uom aim u'"ft "jg g. sports. Returning his first day at, kindergarten th,,J,e,j said: "Too much baby play to suit me." Ibh grown-u- p t(1 Turn About' Fair Ply 1 "So you broke your ongnpe1"! with Dorothy? Why was tbntf I "Well, I was only doing to th J Pfliremonr trhnt tf 1M tn mp." Humor (Madrid). A very youne man Is apt to j heart and his head simultanei !. -1 Z ' AT THE FIRST J?U' N SNtf so c ii JttHH Mistol NIGHT MO MORNING a.. .. iM r x fl Essence of fa ON VOUR HANDKERCHp.r W.N.U.,3alt Lake City, No |
