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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK, UTAH Gains of World War Trifling, but Losses Almost FIRES C0IUI1 Incalculable TO El SHE ; ; By DAVID STARR JORDAN, Famous Educator. question is going the rounds of the press: What has gained from the World war? Financially it has made some GENERAL MANAGER 8TAGE SET ONCE AGAIN FOR N& NATIONAL rich, but at the expense of all the rest of us. The finanAIR TRANSPORT MAKES GOTIATIONS; BOARD DIRECTcial gains of the nation are trivial as ED TO FUNCTION STATEMENT compared with its prodigious Josses. Among these is the blanket mortgage of 15 to 20 per cent levied nnequally on all its property and all its industries. Still more unequal Sine Beginning Of 192S There Hat Minister Of Labor And Premier Bald- has been the levy of blood. Been Renaissance of Flying Here; win Agree To Meet In Conference; The graves real chill is feeling life was wasted. The death of More Than 200,000 Pasaengers Will Send Letters Of Thanks some 30,000,000 of people of our own race, by shot, shell and sword ; by To Forslgn Nations Carried Last Year smothering, starvation and poisoning, has left no real nor permanent good result, unless it be the puncture of the fatal balloon of London. The stage has again been the Chicago. The United States now exposure of the folly of military security and the downfall of a pasteleada the world in aviation, accord- set for negotiations for a settlement board Caesar. ing to Col. Paul Henderson, general of the coal dispute. As Rudyard Kipling in a lucid interval has said, Triumph and deBy a card vote of 428,000 to 360,000, manager of the National Air Transthe miners delegate conference Wed- feat are of the same port. In the words nature, and must be treated alike. nesday authorized Its executive board of The unequivocal statement is based to Aristide We were beaten all The trifling gains Briand, together. endeavor to reopen the negotiations on a nation-widsurvey of the Aero- with the owners and the government, here and there are of less the evils each day brought forth. than weight nautical Chamber of Commerce, find- with the proviso that the settlement There is a very old proverb, War creates more rascals than it kills. And ings of which were announced by Col. must be national. dollar of the $300,000,000,000 of war debt must sometime be made and goverHenderson, The conference also decided to send every nor of the organization. The study the hard labor of men and women. and by good American to of thanks the letters shows that in the last year, five and trade unions which gave Above all other good resolutions of the time is this: It must not other foreign million miles were flown, and to the British more than 200,000 passengers were assistance a resolution miners, happen again ! I believe that it will not, for in history every great colprotesting adopted and excess in of air carried, express a recent message sent by Pre- lective wrong has died in the moment of its triumph. When men see it 112 tons was transported by the 200 against mier Baldwin to the United States nakedly for what it is, every legalized wrong faces its doom. commercial operators reporting to the which, the resolution asserted, "afchamber. fords further evidence that the governEpitomizing the situation In which ment has definitely decided to assist Big by Recreation in aviation found itself at the beginning the mine owners to defeat the miners ' of 1925, the survey says: It was by starvation." secreby a few influential officers The minister of labor and the of the army and navy. It was ignored tary for mines are returning from the By ERNEST THOMPSON SETON, Woodcraft League of America. in so far as practical action was concountry and the prime minister has in was sented by leaders public life; it promised to come here from his counI realize that manhood and scholarship is the ultimate end of educaregarded askance by business. try seat In Worcester If his presence tion. But now, in 1928, it Is Keeping this in sight the most important thing in America toOther members of the required. may be stated that much of the former cabinet are within call. day is not whether we are' going to have a Republican or Democratic orreserve In the high commands of the not whether we belong to the League of Nations, but is ganization, army and navy have disappeared, pos- Postmaster To Discuss Air Mail Plana the character been and itive definite attention has building of our young men and women. There are four Postmaster General Washington. given by the administration and Con- New Is soon to follow In the footsteps active agencies in the building of character today church, home, school gress; and finally, with the entrance of Secretary Hoover and hit the ciN and playground. The church lost its power over our affairs generally of responsible men and substantial ronella trail to White Pine camp to 800 Into years ago; the home, I am sorry to say, has slowly lost ground as air the place discuss air mall service with the prestransport, capital of aviation in commerce and industry far as a adto determining power is concerned, within the last fifty years. ident The postmaster general, is now very generally, recognized. vance of laying bia suggestions before The school has greatly increased its power the last 100 years, largely There has been, undoubtedly, a re- the president, will not discuss the because we have much better schools now. The school is naissance of flying. very near the plans the department has In mind for front in the formation is of not but the at The greatest front. character, turning over the transcontinental air Reserve System Brings 8avlngs mall service to private contractors, influence is play recreation. For the most part character is formed before the boy is ten years Washington. Use of the reserve but to that problem the department system by government chiefs in set- has been giving considerable attention old. It is a common saying, let us have a boy until he is ten and we ting aside certain amounts of the an- and hopes to so perfect Its arrange- dont care who has him after that. A nation that does not send its nual appropriations for unforseen ex- ments that It can go to congress next penses has incidentally resulted in a winter and get the necessary authori- kiddies to work is wise. A school has a youngster four or five hours a day, new means of government saving, the ty and the necessary appropriations. nine months in the year, but play has him each and every day of the treasury now having reserved bal- If and when the transcontinental route ances of (291,824,651 for the last two Is turned over to private contractors, year, and it is here that his character is formed.years it was revealed by Director Lord congress probably will have to adof the budget lu his annual report. Ihe vance money to pay the contractors of World on Conreserves were oidered to be set aside until such time as the revenues makes was That service In the 1922 and in the first three first of Human years (221,140,137 In unexpended bal- the policy followed with the contract ances from these funds were added to routes put into operation last spring. the surplus fund of the treasury. The By WILLIAM LOWE BRYAN, President University of Indiana. success of this procedure, Mr Lord Typhoon Catches U. S. Ship said, in preventing deficiencies in apPeking. Naval radio messages reMans difficulties will be very nearly solved when the race applies it propriations and in saving public port the United States gunboat Ashe- self to the conquest of human nature with the scientific zeal for the truth funds has firmly embedded it in our ville helpless In the severest typhoon which has won such great victories over nature in recent decades. or national budget system. There is now In several years near the Nankan, Men have succeeded with nature where they have failed with human general acceptance of the principle Namkee islands of Formosa. that the minimum amount of money to Irving II. Mayfield sent an nature. We thought at the close of the World war that we had fought bo expended in any fiscal year is not S. O. S. to the President Hayes, rethe last But since that time we have had war continuously and war. In was of necessity the amount appropriated the wind porting an were out twice amount anchors all as men the are under arms in Europe today ns in 1914. small smallest but the harbor, by congress, many upon which the business of the gov- and orders were given for engines full For this there is ample reason. When we deal with questions of ernment can be effectively administer- ahead in an effort to hold. The naval ed under the program outlined by con- transport Henderson radioed that it is pure science and mechanics, we utilize the past to the greatest extent its gress," making for the Namkee Islands, lessons and its failures. whereupon the President UayeS conBut in the field of polities and international relations we are ditinued to Hong Kong. Monday afterRadio Compass Test Arranged vided into two warring camps. In one are those who stand by all old noon the Asheville's radio suddenly Washington. Radio compass sta- was silenced. Since then the Asiatic things, rejecting all things new. In the other are rnnged those who detions along the Atlantic coast from flagship or legation wireless has been spise and trample on all the past has taught us, caring only for what is Boston to Norfolk probably will be unable to hear it. altogether new. Neither is right. It is only through a fusion of the old opened to serve naval and other airand the new that we can conquer ourselves, thereby attaining a condition craft traveling the coastal airways Farm Finance Plan In Dark within the next month, due to the unin which an enduring peace will be possible. New York No offical confirmation expectedly rapid work of the dirigible was forthcoming In Wall Street WedLos Angeles In calibrating these stato reports that bankers and tions in order to determine the factor nesday InstituMust of President Cooltdge's offi- Republics of members of error for each radio compass cen- cial would soon confer on a family Effective tions ter. The Los Angeles is scheduled to plan that would afford agricultural leave her Lakehurst, N. J. hangar relief to the farmers through a Monday morning, weather permitting, credit fund. President By JACOB G. SCUURMAN, Ambassador to Germany. for a trip down the coast as tar as summer camp In the at his the Toyner's Hill, N. C., radio station. through his apokesmau, Republics everywhere must make their representative institutions She. will circle each radio compass sta- made It known that he bad no knowon the way down, simple and effective in order to ward off the danger of dictatorships. tion on the coast ledge of any reported conference, checking up a visual compass bear- which has stirred up great interest In The problem of republics is to mnke representative institutions so simings with the radio compass bearings financial circles. ple and effective in executing the popular will that the body of people as she has previously done with all the will have neither the occasion nor the temptation to resort to irresponsiUlIsland shore. stations on the Long Quibble Delays French Debt similar a make will ble dictatorship. the ship timately Washington. Were It not for the check on all of the Atlantic coast staThe recrudescence of these outworn agencies of government is merely gravity of the Bctual situation, Involvtions, when they will be available to ing the last chance of French finan- a period. Since the Roman empire, passing phenomenon of the post-wfurnish directions for aircraft under cial side of this the the cntRh, safety nations have always turned toward dictators in times of distress. At the low visibility conditions as they now point at which the debt problem has guide ships at sea approaching or time it must he admitted that the will of the people is not necessame finally struck would seem ridiculous. leaving the coaBt. France has, through her representasarily and adequately expressed through parliaments or representative made a definite promise to pay tives, as they are organized at present. Bad Fire Reported In Payette Forest a aum which averages (100,000,000 Rut the American people stand squarely opposed to state socialism Boise. Boise national forest offi- a year, and we have accepted the prostill more opposed, if that be possible, to communism, being conand SatThe modalities. Its all with notified were here indirectly posal cials basis of our action, however, was af- vinced that the community of fire in the urday that a pnierty always results in community of national forest in the Garden val- firmed to be the examination and esNot but individuals have been the creations of governments poverty. ley section of Valley county has been timate of the French capacity to pay. human progress. placed under control. A report also But the French capacity to pay pawus received that a new fire in the tently depends upon the actual and Deadwood river section of the Payette prospective French Income from all Must Be forest is threatening to spreud into the sources. Among these sources are Love Needs Outlet, Boise national forest. The slide gulch certainly a considerable Item. France Directed fire in the Boise forest was reported Is entitled to half, which in theory at extinguished. least will amount to (coo.ooo.ooo anREV. FRANK DURWALD Detroit THIS 1 war-glor- y, e I vice-preside- one-ha- lf Part Played the Formation of Character unde- r-rated r, Enduring Peace quest Dependent Nature Com-piand- 160-mll- e Make Their Today (100,-000,00- i; 0 ar 3000-acr- e Pay-ett- e but It and Controlled - By Peking Awaits Definite Word Peking. Confirmation of the capture of Nankow puss, key position of Kuominchung (national tinny) In the mountains north and west of Peking, by the allied armies of Marshals Wu . si III n. pel Fu and Cluing Tso-Llnmains lacking owing to Interrupted communication between the front uml the capital. Both warring factions c'nlm victory In Saturday's battle and tie disposition In Peking, only twenty, six tulles away, is to await definite word. Civil Servlet Roll Reduced Washington, The government's civil service roll, which Jumped from 538,057 In 1916 to a peak of 917.760 on the duy the urmlMlce was signed on November 11, 1918, Is continuing Its gradual reclusion Inward the prewar levil. In Ihe last flsc.il year the net reduction amounted to 4013, leavlnu 56 0,705 persons on the roll June 30 of these, P0,!t7 were men nnd 79.758 v.iimcii. The number employed In Ihe District of Columbia Included 35,805 men and 25,006 women. ADAMS, Properly REPORTS GENERALLY LEND COURAGEMENT; TRENCH WORK NEEDED EN- Half A Million Dollars Has Been Spent Fighting Fires Outside The National Flrests; 100,000 Aeree Burned Over Missoula, Mont. Favorable weather In most of the fores areas of the Washington-Montana-Idah- o district re- sulted In marked advances in checking the flames which have been eating through valuable timber for several weeks, according to reports to forestry I Salt Lake City. An Increase ot 19 per cent In wool consumed lb the first six months of 1926 over the amount consumed in the aame months In 1923 is reported by the department of commerce. In commenting upon this announcement, F. R. Marshall, secretary of the National Woolgrowers association, stated that the figures were of especial Interest on account of the numerous articles recently appearing in the press In reference to the serious decline in wool consumption and the rate of increase In the use of substitutes for wool. Brigham City. Sportsmen of the state who make a practice of hunting In the marshes west of Brigham City headquarters. each year will find the ducks and wild The most menacing fire now burn- birds in excellent condition at the ing is on the Clearwater forest, where opening of the hunting season this fall each gust of wind scatters the flames by reason of the care and attention and starts innumerable spot fires. that has been given bird life In this Four of the largest fires on the section during the summer by Deputy Kaniksu reserve now are under con- Game Commlsioner James S. Hull and trol, but it will require an additional his associates. hundred miles of trench to hold the Beaver. Harvesting is In full swing flames on that forest. and threshing will begin within the Crews on the Pend Oreille reserve next few days. Some of the fields reported good progress, although, as of grain are reported to be an averIn the Kaniksu, much trench work is age crop, while others are not yieldneeded. Fires on the Flathead were ing heavy. In eome Instances the held with the exception of the con- grain has been threshed out by hailflagration at Woodward Lake. Sever- storms. al of the fires in the Flathead are reBrigham City. Brigham Citys ported to be dying out. One new crop is good this year, on on the Kootenai and three fire the and willpeach be on the market quite early. Coeur d'Alene forests were reported. Growers will begin to pick In real earnest in a week from now, and the New Yorkers Storm Tossed peak of the harvesting will be reached New York. A sudden and furious before the end of the month. thunder storm demoralized New York Myton. Storms every day for a Thursday, flooding streets and sub- week culminated In one of the worst ways, crippling transportation, telestorms ever experienced in this localphone and light service. Lightning ity Wednesday. Rain came down in killed a boy in New Jersey and caused sheets and hail was deposited in some sixteen fires in the metropolitan area. places three inches deep. The hail Stanley Carpenter, 15, was the victim covered an area of about five miles of the storm as he crossed an open long and a mile wile. While confield at Hightstown, N. J., with two siderable damage is noted it Is thought younger brothers. The brothers were that the seed was not seriously hurt, shocked by the lightning, but unhurt. none of It being ripe, and, as the plant A hundred women and children imwas wet from previous rains, it was Cenprisoned in a flooded tunnel in not easily damaged. tral park were rescued by firemen. In Salt Lake City. Data on the forthe municipal ferry ' house at St. in the intermountaln George thousands of commuters stood estry industry Utah and sates, Idaho, are contained transankel deep In water, waiting for in the annual forestry almanac of the on to homes. Transit their portation Staten island was paralyzed for thirty-- American Tree association, recently El-be- minutes. Floods also caused short circuits that blocked the subway system at three points. five Diamonds Will Yield To Radium New York. All you need to turn a (100 yellow diamond into what appears to be a (700 blue diamond is some (S000 worth of raidum, according to Dr. C. Everett Field, director of the Radium institute of New York who made public Wednesday the results of several yeats experiments. Whether or not the blue stones would stay blue, or shift back to the cheap" color, later, I)r. Field did not pretend to know. "No one knows vet, he said, because our experiments have not lasted long enough". Five Entombed Miners Rescued Salem, Ky. All five miners who wpre imprisoned by a 'cavein at the Hudson mine last Thursday were brought to the surface alive Thursday morning. Randolphe Cobb was the first man to reach the top of the shaft. Cobb said to the crowd which awaited nnxiously: Hello, there boys. I ni not Blck." The miners were greeted with cheers when they appeared. The dense throng on the mine property pressed forward and it was necessary to detail national guardsmen to restrain the crowds. Many Hurt Whan Oil Bolis Over fancy, Kan. Several persons were injured and a small panic started at 8:30 o'clock here Thursday night when the burning oil tank at the Pruirle Oil & Gas company's farm near here boiled over, sending burning oil several hundred feet In the air. The 35,000barrel tank, which was struck by lightning and set afire early Thursday morning, had attracted nearly 2000 persona to the scene. Cars were parked near by, the curious spectators flocked Into the farm and efforts of employees to keep them back were futile. Navy Aviation Students Ready Washington.' Two hundred and seventy-twensigns who took the two f months special aviation and course at annapolls, the navy department announced Thursday, will be distributed among various ships of the fleet about August 15th. This represents half of the class that graduated from the Academy In June, the others having taken the course last summer. one-hul- Proposed Plane Routs To Canada Young people must have an outlet for their love, but it can be diSt. I'tiiil. Minn. The proposed pasrected and controlled. Even body loves something and some one. Men senger and freight airplane roii e rise ami fad in the tilings they love to do nnd not in the things they have from Detroit to St. 1'uul will he extended to Fargo, N. I), nnd Winnipeg, to do. Man., umler plans made at n confer-cneThe most important time in the day for young people is the hours of officials Interested In the Ford after the evening meal. Wli.it th. v do with their time then is important. reliability airplane tour. The conferIf they go around to parties or dames, they are not ehnping their course ence decided to start the new air service next spring. Pilots of the plancn for the future. On the other luml, if they cultivate friendships and the tom participating In the reliability d society of people, they are doing something distinctly turn'd up ilo'lr machines early Wed-t- o sda y morning for the tu p to Des Love should lr put under control. worth while M'dm s e noble-minde- t It's a Privilege to Utah Cool-idg- e a, f News Notes Live in published. This almanac is published in the Interest of the lumber conservation movement and contains similar data from every state. Vernal. Lieutenant J. H. Peters of San Francisco, representing the U. S. Geodetic survey, was in Vernal this week to set up a magnetic compass at the courthouse grounds. These are established in north and south parallel locations of the air mail -oute and eventually in every county seat, said Mr. Peters. The lieutenant is working between Utah and California. Salt Lake City. If a motor truck gives you a dust barrage on the highway between here and the Uintah basin, grin and bear it that is, if you are a loyal citizen of Salt Lake. You can afford to. That motor truck nnd between nineteen others operating here and the basin are adding more than a half million dollars a year to the prosperity of Salt Lake. Salt Lake City. With the object In view of compiling accurate data for the manufacturers of the state, the industrial department of the chamber ot commerce Is conducting two surveys, one of whjeh Is to ascertain what products manufactured here may be profitably exported and the other to determine to what extent Utah coal mines may hope to compete with those of the middle west. Beaver. More rain has fullen since the first of August than during all the previous months of the year. Monday's of an Inch rainfall reached with a little less the pending day. A total for the nine days In August amount to 1.6 of an Inch. Haying is being hampered by daily storms. Prospects for a third cutting of hay ure good in the rainy belt. s Washington. The condition of the Utah apple crop on August 1, 1926, Indicated a production of 932,000 bushels, subject of course to weather and other Influences between now and harvest, according to the bureau of agricultural economics, division of crop and livestock estimates of the United States department ot agriculture. Brigham City. Utah's fruit crop, with the exception of apples, will be considerably larger than the crop of 1925, according to the report issued Wednesday by Frank Andrews, federal agricultural statistician. The peach crop this year is estimated at 702,000 bushels, as comfiured against 110,000 bushels Inst year. Suit Luke City. Establishment of a new intermountaln boo culture ste tlon nmy come to Utah, according a letter received by I). II. Hillman, state apiarist, from James I. aplenlturlst of the United Flutes department of agriculture. Ogden. A road crew was engaged Wednesday In removing tons of rock and debris washed on the main Salt highway at tlu font of Wilcox hill Tuesday night us a n salt cf u cloudburst In Funnlngtou cn-llam-Metot- i, l.alie-Ogde- 1 )n. |