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Kc,Mk Monticello As It Appears Today By ELMO ECOTT WATSON recent letter to the Tliomaa Memorial foundation, Ireal-den- t Hoover Ida approval to plana for marking Hie birthday of -.April 13, by proper tele- )f, j, Jefferson, brailnn of the founding of rellgtoua I I freedom," saying that "It would seem to mo to lie n fitting and In- jk Win a aplrlng undertaking." Inaiead of appoliitlng a rjieelal nntlonul lo undertake the celebration, the iTesidctil atoled: It a my thought ihnt the board of k gmenmra of I he Thomna Jefferson Memorial foun- dnllon already comprise In lia nionilH-rshlnun and women of outstanding lealenhlp In all rtlrec-Ilon- a of nntlonal thought, and that It would lie deal ruble Hint they should umlertuke in bring the CN'iaalon to the attenllon of the American people arid make such arrangements as would ghe It significance." The board of governors of the Thomas J offer-soMemorial foundation Includes former !rotd-di-n- t (oolldge. Stuart O. Hlhlioney, president of the foundation; Ir. George J. Ityun, president of the board of edueallon of New York city, and lr. Edwin A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia. Whatever form the observance of the anniversary takes this year, s new biography which appeared recently should accentuate the Importance of the date In the minds of all Americans. For the title which Hr. Hilbert ('hlnnrd, professor of Freneh literature at Johns Hopkins university and recognised aa one of the lending authorities on this great statesman, chose for the tide of his new work, which Is published by Male, Frown and Company, Is Thomas Jefferson: the Apostle of Americanism." To the average citizen of the United State, familiar enough with the name and fame of Washington and Mneoln. Thomas Jefferson la something of a vague figure, lie knows of him as the author of the Declaration of Independence, as the third President of the United States, ns the mnn who added a vast territory to this nation In the Loulslnna Purchase and aa the mnn who Is responsible for the phrase "Jeffersonian dermuraejr" whatever that may mean being In our political vocabulary. Yet, as In the case of Benjamin Franklin, modem historical research Is bringing out more and more clearly the Importance of Thomas Jefferson In the founding and molding of onr nation and proving that he deserves a plnee farther np on the heights, at the pinnacle of which we have placed Washington and Mneoln In solitary grandeur, than we have hitherto given him. No one would deny Hint without a Washington and a Mneoln this nation undoubtedly could not be what It Is today. But It detracts nothing from their fame to place close to them a Franklin and a Jefferson; It Is a matter of simple justice such as Washington and Lincoln would be first to insist upon. Of the modem historical researchers who have labored to give Jefferson his rightful place In the hearts of his countrymen, few have been more Indefatigable than hns Doctor Chinnrd. He wns the first to attempt the formidable task of going through the tens of thousands of unpublished Jefferson manuscripts In the Library of Congress and by painstaking study of Jeffersons own words bring to light new facts and a new understanding of that versatile man. He has alrend.v written five books dealing with various phases of Jeffersons career, but this latest one Is the crowning effort of his work. The story of his research Is a romance In Itself. A part of It he tells In the Introduction to his book. Many days were spent In the rotunda of the manuscript division of the Library of Congress, turning the leaves of the two hundred and thirty volumes of the Jefferson papers," he writes. "Documents after documents threw a new light on the mind of the great American letters hastily written, rough drafts corrected and recorreeted, press copies blurred and hardly decipherable, yellowed scraps of paper crumbling to pieces but piously restored ; more letters In a regular, precise hnnd. the hand of a man who had been a surveyor and who drew rather than wrote." Except to the antiquarian, It would seem that such an experience would be far from a thrilling one a wearily monotonous Job as dry as the dust whlcii always rises up from papers long stored away. But, says Doctor Chlnard, Fifty years of the most eventful period of American history, told by the chief participants, rose from the old documents, and day by day was revealed morq figure of Jefferson the clearly the clean-cAnd out of these old papers there American. stalked not a great statesman, aloof and detached from the world of everyday affairs, but "First of all. the tall, lanky boy, born In a frame dwelling by the Rivanna not a farmer boy by any means, but the son of an ambitious, energetic and respected surveyor, a landowner and a colonel 1r the militia, and of a mother In whose Veins ran the best blood of Virginia. Then thtse same old papers spoke eloquently of The stern and pious education received in the family, the reading of the Bible and Shakespeare, the lessons of Reverend Maury, the son of a Huguenot who took the boy as a boarding studpnt, the years at William and Mary college in the brilliant, animated, but small capital of Virginia, the conversations with Mr. Small, Mr. Wythe and Governor Fauquier, the Appollo tavern, the first love affair, and the long roamings In the hills surrounding Shadwell. More years as a student of the 'tf.w and as a law practitioner, quickly foil awed by his marriage with a Virginia belle, Sxa- and Thomas Jefferson had settled down, a N A Jef-ferin- n lyrTTfT ' ". " ' , ai'H'ai - r.3L V- . .1 v1 Amtncsmtm Cmrtcsy LVk, JbwnaCa Jefferson 6 com-vndlt- on Mar h 23 21. Hondo Fandy An archery club hne heeu Jordan school for fTeaiilrH at lb the first Urn In It history. Alla A f.'l.'ssi.Ontt.OO. Imnd election will Is tiocenry lo In ball the Argent a reerv!nr la the and to rtmnn Innllenutde; the utlers were to be partly given up In exchange for more Big tvimnwood canyon. Rich Uountyn road protrue of individuals wns tr ie Randolph Security. Whst of states forming union or confederation. Each gram lias mapl out and will Individual stale remained sovereign and ylelik-Include nn extsndliure of approxonly part of certain rigid In order lo obtain more imately f.''al.taki. Security agatu-- t foreign aggressor. Thu JefHprlngv lib 1 hlrty lsys from thin ferson first enunciated It.e principle of states cliy'e high !mo are bn-- jr with coops la the rights, but he considered the union of stale of and brooders preparatory The launching of chick project. greater Important e than any single stale. Virginian had developed Into a true Amerlenn, Ilyrum taebe county poultry prowrites Chlnard. "Jefferson was thinking nationalducer will make a tour of poultry ly and not seclhdutlly; he was ready for the great farms and bntelierlea of Fait Lake role be was shout to assume. munly. Further development of Id political philosophy SI array Contra dor bidding on n came during hi lUejenr slay In Kuro;te which new paving extension will he requirconfirmed him In ihp opinion that there existed ed by mayor to agree to employ local In America the germ of something Infinitely then on the work. Pnrownn precious. If somewhat precarious, and he realized Flxty poultry enlhnslnsfs that his country had really heroine the hope of from northern Iron county met here the world." It offered a hope which could not he and anvpted consirucllon of new realized In France. England. Italy or Spain. In unit of Slate Poultry associaTraditions were too deeply tion. those countries rooted, prejudices of too long standing, class disPlain rpy Twelve elnsdflesllons tinctions too sharply defined, to leave room for of IloMoln cuttle will Ih on exhibit any hope of e'er seeing them cctahllshcd within at the annunl Black and White day. S reasonable time a tolerable form of governSlay . ment. On the contrary, unhampered hy such In Sugar House Taxable Talue hoary traditionalism and free to shape her desFait ronnty Increased In 1020 to tinies. America, provided she carefully avoided the extent of over three hundred the dangers under which Europe wn laboring, thousand dollar. could not only establish the best posnllde form of have Price County Commissioner government, but sot aa example to lie followed declared a tax levy of 2 mills for purby the rest of mankind." And Jefferson believed pose of financing a building program that only by avoiding any entanglement with for the school cll. trlet. European politics could America fulfill her desI Taper A pure bred Jersey cow, tiny, says Chlnard, who continues: owned by Parker Brothers, has comHaving removed all causes for foreign frictions pleted official production test and snd aggressions, America would be free to develop qualified for Register of Merit of the along her own tines, ghe was to remain for long American Jersey Cattle Club. years to come an agricultural nation: she would Gunnison Forrest Prlchetf, Iff, wns grow towards the West by attaching to herself new terrltoriea aa their population Increased. The awarded third prize by Utah Poultry federal government waa to retain a minimum of Producers association In n slate conpower and attributions.- It waa to be cnteftilly test and first prize In Snntpete eounty. and constantly watched for fear of concentrnt'ng . too much power In a few hands and in one ! Chesterfield The year old Federal legislation waa to ba kept down, for the Garden Club has a record f every more laws, the worse the reputdic. It metnlier his projeet, the finishing was deferable and necessary tc preserve the ms In principles embodied In the Constitution In so far erops Including sugar lieets, tomatos, as they expressed the permanent and Inalienable beans and egg plant. rights of the people and the states, hut each genn Brlglinm City The hoard of eration had a right to determine anew the details has granted permission to the of the legislation and how they chose to he governed. The different articles adopted In 17S7 wers Itrtghnm post of the American not to be considered as sacred as the Tables of the to level school grounds which Is i Law. they were the work of fallible and changing the spring community project of the human beings, and the essence of the Amcnccn government did not rest on a written document but Legion. on the dispositions of the individual citizens and WooJside Work will start Immedan enlightened public opinion. iately on twenty mile strip of road This being the case It became necessary to prepare each citizen for the part he wns railed upon from Woodstde to Green River. Work to play in the life of the country The great moss will be under federal nbl plan. of the American people had a cool common isen-e- " Cedar City Movement Is on foot to and a certain degree of Instruction which fitted nil of them to do certain things, hut not everything. determine feasibility of road connectA farmer could not overnight and by virtue of the ing with scenic loop to Zon Nat'onal popular choice become qualified to Judge of flue Park, up Kolob canyon and south to to aettle legal points, complicated economic problems or to conduct difficult diplomatic negotiations La Verkin canyon. with foreign courts. Ail this required more than Murray The Granite school district has been granted permission to ordinary common sense and ordinary education: the country needed lender and experts to lie carepetition for an increase of 1 mill lu fully trained In special institutions in a national university or, If this proved Impossible, n siate the tax levy for 1930 31 school year. universities. As to the great mass of the common Santa Clara Orchard heaters arpeople, they could be trusted to Judge of the facts rived here and at Toquerville and and to sit on a Jury; they were also good judges be Hurricane, to for the of men and properly could choose between candidates for the different offices. A free press would first time In this district. keep them Informed of the conduct of the men thus Mantl Bids will lee nsked the selected; primary and secondary schools would help Improvement of the Gunnison-Mnnt-for l in the diffusion of knowledge, and enlightened would prevent them at any time from makhighway. Estimntd cost $SO,000 and work to finished by full. ing grievous mistakes. Such was the political philosophy of Thomas Airport An example of air Jefferson and hla stating of Its principles ami Ills will be given by a group of exposition of them during his public career Is navy pursu't planes on April 27. St. George Street lighting ditsrlet ample justification for conferring upon him the title of "Apostle ' of Americanism. For. ns has boon created In business section. Chlnard sums It up, Whatever may lie the shortEstimated cost of installation. $3,333, to ho home hy district and maintencomings of tills political philosophy. It was distinctly an American doctrine; one cannot imagine ance cost by city. It to have originated In any European Gunnison the school board Is ofcountry, for what would have been a Utopian and chimerfering a $10 prize to each school In ical dream In the Old world was within the the district which will he given to reach of man in America. Whether It corresponds the class pul ting over the best audi' to present conditions Is still another question; torium program. It is nevertheless true that by emphasizing the Pleasant Grove Work Is progressuniqueness of America and the political superb ing rapidly on new public park, as ority of his native land for more than fifty years, many of the important permanent ImThomas Jefferson did more than any other man provements to be completed this year of his generation to formulate the creed of Ameras possible. icanism. The man who was accused of being Mrpleton City water system Is bedenationalized stands as the most integrally and ing consisting of 13 miles of truly American among his contemporaries. pipe line, carrying water to nearly And that is why the birthday of Thomas Jefevery home in the city. ferson should have more significance for AmeriSalt I.ake 100th Anniversary of L. cans than it now hns and why his countrymen D. S. Church ( lx, ginning on April C might well look with favor upon a movement alwill he featured hy Illumination of L. ready under way for celebrating April 13 as a naI. S. Teiim'o with a lighting unit of tional holiday along with February 12 and Feb52.0i k) candle power. ruary 22. The American pantheon, dedicated to Emery County commissionthe man whose leadership made it possible for the American nation to be and to the man who ers and slate road commisioners have saved that nation, should have a place for the j signed agreement whereby they split on cost of constructing a half-mil- e man who made Americans conscious of thnir libdugnay on highway near hero erties in and their duties to that nation. Estimated cost is $20, WO. could not t safely enjoyed unless armlet y provided adequate protection. Therefore la foindnc a society and accepting a social compact. I hr first right acre lo I data of rigid p U-- Is-e- n ut h . uhffmoti: 7JWAWW Bust of Thomas 7 I lo Ibis eli.v. Uaslte Imle Emery ronnty polaln growers will Join lb elate association rtf vegetable grow era. laike county highMidvale-fa- !t wjtb net and way s sre lo Is eqnlp-llgtite. powerful Ihllllps fell IV lie lisle--Johfrom a bridge Into Price river with final rvwnlis. linden The furniture sioras of Utah singxl ilielr first annual style hovr ajmm a Thomas Jefferson . Bmmbrandt rvao portrait ty (sing young man, a talented lawyer, a res;ectable landowner, an omnivorous reader who culled from hundreds of authors moral maxims, bits of poetry, historical, legal and philosophical disquisitions and copied them la a neat hand In his commonplace books." It Is all of this and much more which this new biography of Jefferson reveals. But most Important Is the development of the thesis that Thomas Jefferson was the apostle of Americanism" and that he was the only original political thinker that this nation has produced. The conventional view of the origin of Jefferson's political theories Is that they were French, because of Ids residence In France at one time and because, as secretary of state. Vice President and President, he viewed with sympathetic Interest the French revolt against monarchy and the French struggle toward liberty Just as be sympathized with all struggles for liberty. Doctor Cldnards hook shows that Jeffersons principles were fixed long before the outbreak of the French Revolution and that, although be undoubtedly drew some of his Ideas from Freneh sources, much of his polltlral theory goes back to British polltlcnl philosophers, notably the English Locke and the Scotch Karnes. Even this does not Invalidate Jefferson's claim to having been an original thinker and a great political philosopher In his own right, as Doctor Chlnard brings forth Innumerable documents to prove. The development of that philosophy had Its ben ginning In the reading which the young had done during the first 30 years of his life, during which time, according to Doctor Chinnrd, "he never ceased, unknowingly ns It were, to prepare himself for the great part he was to play. Then, says the biographer In the Introduction to his book : When the rail came he was ready. The Ideas expressed In the Declaration of Independence were common property, but their felicitous wording was not due to a sudden and' feverish Inspiration. The young Virginian expressed only the definite conclusions he had slowly reached In rending the historians and the old lawyers. The principles there proclaimed were not sbstract and a priori principles; they were distinctly the principles that bad directed his Saxon forefathers in their "settlement" of England. They were the legitimate Inheritance of their descendants and continnators who had brought over with them to America the right of their ancestors to settle in sparsely inhabited land, there to live freely and happily under Institutions chosen by themselves. . This was the true background of the Declaration of Independence, the of Jeffersonian background democracy a curious justification of the pioneer spirit by a student of history who eared little for abstract reasoning and philosophical constructions. Thus far the national consciousness of Thomas Jefferson had been somewhat hazy. Born In Virginia and intensely devoted to the Old Dominion, he had never left his native habitat until he wan sent as a delegate to congress. There only did he realize the divergences of the different colonics and the imperious necessity for them to organize their life and to agree to some sort of a permanent compact. No dealings with foreign nations could be transacted, no efficient measures of protection against the common foe could be devised, unless the several states were held together by some sort of a common bond and had achieved some sort of unity While the Articles of Confederation were and being discussed, he puzzled over the essences menmeaning of those "natural rights" so often tioned in the different committees on which he sat. The great obstacle to such an isolation was foreign commerce, for Jefferson clearly understood that economic and commercial bonds or dependence would necessarily entail political bonds and political dependence. America was to live In her own world, to pay her debts as soon as possible, to become Industrially Independent of Europe, to manufacture at home enough for her own consumption She was also to seize every opand no more. portunity to eliminate dangerous neighbors, not that sire really coveted any territory or colony held by foreign powers, not that she needed new land fora surplus of population; but she could not keep out of European politics if Europe remained at her doors and used her colonies as a "fulcrum for her . . intrigues." In an unpublished document which Doctor Ghinard discovered in the Library of Congress, Jefferson had set down the result of those meditations. Firs!, he rici a distinction bewhich the tween the f.pv'.!:ni oral natural ulel another individual c.ii! evcivl-by .Vlr-glnta- . o hlm-ml- 17 iroola a pipe llut imcT! burning insulation? . , .The poor clup protuU never bear! of Sir favorite s moling mix Walter ture. I Ie doesn't know tbere'e a tobacco so mill and fragrant it gets tbe O. K. of even tbc fussiest He doesn't know that true niilJncsi neeJn't sacrifice body, flavor and lick." He doeio't know be can smoke a pipe s3 BUT Rab-igV- s pipe-snifT- er. day long without getting himself or anybody else aQ hot anJ bothered. In other words, be hasn't met Sir Walter Raleigh. Some day he will. Let's hope it's soon. How so Take Care of Your Pipe tfirt Nfc 4) Dont uc slurp koif to etna uithteoiboa. Yoa surest throvcb ihecsSs A tad dup lb wood. k ori.nl wood ipoa uWswiy from ciuswcctimsof pip- - Im dull luule m inncl. Send far our fnt booklet, How to Tsk Cart of Your Pipr. Browa V illumtoo Tobacco Corporsooa, latfcviU, SUatucky, Dept. 91 Sir "Walter Raleigh Smoking Tobacco ForGalledHorses Hanfords Balsam of Myrrh Aldnltnirt febt ifcfiied t rtf4 brat KmIi if Mt wtai yr yfr - edu-rnilo- !s-gi- S Vu'oborw ass GoaqVs and cola' wear down your strength and vitality. 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