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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS. RANDOLPH, UTAH UTAH BUDGET South Bountiful has completed a modern amusement hall at a cost of approximately $8000. The State Automobile association is planning to erect signs marking' the route from Salt Lake to Zion canyon. Establishment of an experimental naval aviation base on the banks of the Great Salt Lake- is being discussed. , Tie state road commission has awarded a contract for the construction of the Lund and Cedar City highway, a federal-ai- d project' John Albert Peterson, 8 years of age, met death at Provo from injuries suffered when he was thrown from a truck wldch wasloadeif with trunks. Deaf and dumb for several ' years, Miss Annie Voss, aged 35, was Instantly killed at Morgan while crossing the main line of the Union Pacific railroad track. While working in a field near his home in Vineyard, Juistie G. Peterson, aged 21, suffered a stroke of and was found dead with his ' face burled in the said. While playing with a dynamite cap in a neighbors barn at Salt Lake, Orlando McKinney, aged 8, lost a portion of his right thumb and forfinger by the explosion of the cap. The convention of boys and girls clubs was held at the Agricultural college at Logan, April 20 to. 24, with nearly 100 seniors, representing every high school in Utah, in attendance: The governor will ask the county commissioners of Davis county to take steps looking to. the formation of an irrigation district of the entire couu-tnorth of the Bonneville district. Leon Kimball, aged 24, was shot and seriously wounded while escaping from the window of a private residence in - Salt Lake. Kimball claims he was intoxicated and got in the wrong house. Motion pictures of the- - climbing of Mt, Timpanogos will be taken this Film summer by the International service' company and will be shown in theatres throughou the United States. George W. Baney, one of the switchmen who walked out- of the yards at Ogden on April 8, has been arrested on a federal warrant charged with interfering with the movement of trains. . Delegates to the Republican state convention at 'Price will have a special train. The train will leave Salt Lake at 7 oclock the morning of May 3 and will arrive in Price at noon that day. Contracts for the construction of more than six miles of cement concrete road in Salt Lake county, at a total cost of $210,000, were warded last week by the board of county commissioners. Stimulate production and curtail expenditure, a motto suggested by the government, has been adopted by the Beehive girls of the Young Ladies Mutual Improvement association of the L. D. S. church. Tlie housing committee of the Ogden .charaer of commerce will take options on fifty lots in the city, with the view of encouraging the building ' of fifty houses to aid in solving the housing problem in that city. Teachers salaries in Utah, as compared with those in other states, are below the standard, according to a survey issued at a meeting of the emergency committee of the Salt Lake Teachers association. Eight delegates have been named by Governor Bamberger to attend the conference of the bureau of education . in Washington, May 19, 20 and 21, to discuss the emergency need of teachers all over the country. An ultimatum has been set forth by .he Salt Lake Teachers association that unless the salary of elementary teachers was placed at a $1800 maxi- -' mum at least 75 per cent of the local teachers would seek situations in other cities. has The state road commission voted to sustain its secretary, Ira R. Browning, state road engineer, in that, so far as the state machine shops are concerned, the machinists strike, begun eight months ago, is over. Schools of Garfield county will close with the end of the present week, according to advices reaching the state superintendent of public instruction. Those of Millard county closed last of funds week. The annual-shortagwas responsible in each case. The Utah-Idah- o Sugar company has concluded, according to an authentic report, that the sugar mill to be removed from Whitehall, Wash., will be set up on the Honey ville site and not boosplaced in Bear River City, as the ters from that town had hoped. From the estate of the late John R. Barnes of Kaysville, Davis county, the state has. received in inheritance taxes the sum of $13,017.05. This is among the largest inheritance taxes received from Utahns. The larger amounts come from outside the state. Unless proper representations are made at once to the proper officials at Washington, Utah may lose the agricultural experiment substation at Nephi, owing to the economy program bow being put into effect by congress. g tournament Ogdens first 'wilfbe held at Monroe park as soon as weather permits. About 150 boys have announced their intention of entering the tournament. Prizes will be offered for the most unique kite, for the kite that reaches the height of SOC.feet first and for the strongest OUdng kMe. - LABOR SHORTAGE NOW BEING FELT Keep Rainy-Da- y amf Plan no . IE OF " FACTORS (Prepared by the United States Depart-- 1 ; ment of Agriculture.) Do nothing today, which can be put off until tomorrow. That is an apparent perversion of the ancient and excellent proverb, and most people may be inclined to look upon it as pernicious but, properly Interpreted, it is a sound principle in farm- - management and one that a great many farmers will particularly need to apply in the face of the shortage of labor with which this years crops must be made. It applies to tasks that interfere with work in the fields at times when field work can be done.- It does not mean procrastination. It means getting the indirectly productive work done in advance, if possible, but if it cant be done in advance put it off till the rush work in the fields is out of the way. It is one of the important factors, say specialists of the United States department of agriculture, in full utilization of farm labor. Great Need Thit Year. And full utilization is likely to be more Important this year than it has ever been before. Reports coming to the department of agriculture from all sections of the country are to the effect that farm laborers and tenants are caught by the lure of high wages and are leaving the farms for the cities. A great many farmers, apparently, will be forced to carry on their operations this year with less help than they have ever had before. Unless such labor as is left on the farm Is utilized to the best possible advantage, there is danger of a serious curtailment of production. specialists say, however, that a great deal can be accomplished toward helping production by getting the most out of the labor available. They lay down a few simple rules that they believe will help toward attaining this result. The best farmer, they say,' Is the one who gets the other work out of the way and keeps the teams moving whenever the land is In condition for field work. The amount of products that a farmer can grow depends on getting the field work done when the weather will permit it Nothing except necessary work like feeding and milking should be permitted to take , zzsft&ezr Jczzoac nt jum y, HE PHILIPPINE islands had schools when the Americans took possession. But during the three centuries of Span-- isb rule education bad never been universal and free. Spains policy of colonization there, as in the Americas, was that the colonies should be exploited for her benefit. The United States reversed this policy and - immediately began the work of uplifting the Filipinos. The first step taken by America on her occupation of the Philippines was the establishment of public schools. With what enthusiasm the Filipinos greeted this policy of the new regime may be deduced from the fact that the schools of the islands have always been overcrowded. Today the Philip5,000 pine government supports schools, with a teaching force of about The number of pupils is esti12,000. mated at 675,000. The medium of instruction is the English language. The financial support comes from the Filipino people in the form of taxes and donations. Teachers Mostly Filipinos. The teachers in the primary schools, as well as in the intermediate and secondary schools, are today almost all Filipinos. The number of Filipino supervising teachers increased from 200 in 1915 to 294 In 1918. There are 41 American supervising teachers; Of the teaching force in the secondary schools 44 per cent are Filipinos.. The majority of the industrial supervisors are also Filipinos. There are six Filipino superintendents of schools, and both the assistant director of education and the undersecretary of public Instruction are Filipinos. About 50 per cent of the instructors and professors In the University of the Philip' pines are Filipinos. Philippine school activities are economic, industrial, physical and social in scope. In the words of Dr. W. W. Marquardt, who has just retired as director of education in the islands, No one of these branches Is neglected or at the expense of others. The system of instruction is patterned after that of America, but .adaptation to local conditions has led to the development of special features. For example, home gardens are required to be planted by pupils under the supervision of teachers. There are also poultry-raisinclubs and pigraising clubs. The pupils keep record-book- s showing the cost of operation and the net profits from their farming enterprises. In this way the schools are kept in touch with the home. Industrial Instruction. Industrial instruction receives special attention. The following figures give an idea of the value of the com mercfal output of the public schools for the school yenr l917-l- : Embroideries. $12,500 ; lace, $9,000; crochet, - . . g -- S e $4,500; sewing, $28,000; cooking, $3.1 500; basketry, $33,000; hats, $1,500; products of loom weaving. $3,500; bamboo-ratta- n furniture, $3,000. Most of the schools have domestic science courses, cooking, home man- agement, sewing and embroidery being the principal subjects taught. Physical training Is also playing a very material part in the curriculum of the schools. Group games, calisthenics and competitive athletics are regular features of the school work. Modern games such as baseball, in- - Western Spirit in China kite-flyin- j He had been pretty well all over the world, said the professor, and when I asked him what country had impressed him most, he said at once, China. And when I asked him what in China had impressed him most, he said at once, the West China Union university. The professors remarks were made to the Daily News, London, and he followed them up with a delightful story of the way In which .-A? door ball, basketball, tennis, ana football' are played by the school children.' Military drill is a prescribed course In the high schools. There are 27 vocational schools in the Philippines, giving practical' agricultural courses and turning out intelligent farmers. There are also Insular schools. These are: The Philippine Normal school, the Philippine School of Arts and Trades, the Philippine Nautical school, 'the Philippine School of Commerce, the Central Luzon Agricultural school, and the School for the Deaf and the Blind. Coeducation Flourishing. During the Spanish regime coeducation was a thing totally unknown in the Philippines. The system was to have schools for boys and schools for girls exclusively. The convents under the supervision of the sisters were mostly the places where the girls were taught. The boys were in the religious schools under the management of the friars. Now, however, everything is changed, uo far as the public schools are concerned. The proportion of girls to boys in the public schools has increased' very rapidly. During the last five years the attendance of boys in the Intermediate schools increased 82 per cent, while the attendance of girls increased 222 per cent. In the high schools the attendance of boys increased 250 per cent and the attendance of girls 267 per cent. The increase of women enrolled in the various branches of the University of the Philippines is also marked. In 1910 the number was 91 ; in 1918 it was 555. Proud of Their Schools. If there is anything of which the Filipinos may justly be proud, it is their school system. This system. has been the object of study by the other 8 countries of the Orient. During approximately a dozen Chinese commissions and several Japanese and Korean commissions visited the islands to make a study of the school In tlie same year also, the system. governments of Guam, of the Straits Settlements and of the Penang, started employing Filipino teachers to give instruction in Industrial work and :n Other countries from which English. requests for Information have gme include : ' Burma. Hawaii, Chosen, ' Ceylon, Cuba, French Porto Rico, Hayti, Australia, Federated Malay States, Papua, Java, S u matra, Formosa , Newfoundland. Chile, New Zealand, and Fiji. In the words of Dr. Marquardt: The hiring of the Filipino teachers In foreign lands and the visits of these commissions indicate the position which the Philippine educational system holds in the Fnr East. The budget. for 1919 increased the appropriation for Philippine public schools by $1,200,009. In addition to the regular appropriation, the Philippine legislature December 5, 1918. voted $15,000,000 to be used in placing free elementary schools within the reach of every child of school age in , - ' 1917-191- : Indo-Chin- a, Chinese eminences showed their appreciation of this blossom of Western enterprise, the university of which the professor happens to be the president Some dozen years ago he was miles down fleeing for his the Yangtze to save his head. He was a foreign devil, and no university had been started. Seven or eight years later, the military governor of Szechuan sent him a beautifully Inscribed statement of his opinion of the university, and a gift of $3,000. The professor was on his way home life-1,50- . 'i. ; Work. Leave no rainy-da- y work, another rule says, to be done when it is not raining, for profits are limited by the amount of outdoor work that gets Rainy-dadone. work is necessary work and If it Is not done on rainy days It will have to be done later on fair days and will Interfere with field work. It includes things that can be done under shelter, such as shelling seed corn, mending the harness, and repairing tools. Jot down in a note book, the specialists advise, the things that will need attention the next rainy day. This wilj enable you to plan your .work quickly when you get up some morning and find the, rain pouring down. Do first the Jobs that are in danger of getting In the way of the next dry ' weather work. Put in long days in rush seasons with the assurance that you can ease down on rainy days or when the rash is over. And then comes that first rule, Do nothing today which can as well be put off till tomorrow. There are a great many things that cannot be put off till tomorrow. If sowing oats is delayed until the warm, dry days of late spring, there will be a cullight harvest. If the corn is tivated even for one week after It is old enough to cultivate, the fields will If be weedy and the crops poor. dairy cows are neglected, . there will soon be no milk. This class of tasks, therefore, demands Immediate attention. Put off the other things to more or less remote tomorrow when the rush work is out of the way. Back to Old Proverb. Then, when the rush work Is over revert to the proverb in Its original form, Put off nothing until tomorrow which can be done today. This applies to work that may be done any time within a wide latitude, but the time comes when It cannot be put off any longer and it may stop Fhe rush work.' Seed corn, for example, may be tested and shelled any time after it Is thoroughly cured, but . if the work Is neglected until the fields are ready to plant, then that most profitable work in the cornfield may be delayed. That is a fair illustration of work. It takes more planning, more thinking, and more force of character to do this work, in seasons when there is ne rush work than it does to concentrate on rush work. Only by using his head can the farmer handle the work in advance, but he must apply the rale methodically and unfailingly if be is to get ahead very fast in spite of shortage of labor. Rainy-Da- y , Farm Laborers and Tenants Are Caught by Lure of High Wages and Are Leaving Farma for Cities Some Simple Rules. i work, they say, d and brush plow, ROSPORTANt wet-lan- when there. In work In the fields that work Is can be done. By wet-lan-d meant such things as cutting weeds In the fence rows, repairing the fences, repairing buitdlngs and a great many other necessary thlngs-but things that can be done Just as well when the ground Is too, wet te Wet-La- nd Jobs Out of Way of Rush Work w the Fields. nen from the fields and it should be planned where possible to get these things done and stiff keep the horses working ten hours a day. y, , nt : the Philippine islands. The expenditure of these funds covers a period extending till the year 1923; so that by that time there will be teachers, buildings, books and equipment for all the children of school age desirous of havIt is being elementary education. lieved that the increase In the appropriation will double the number ol pupils In the schools and will increase the salaries of municipal teachers at least 30 per cent.' How the effects of this measure would be, is as yet unknown. Certainly It makes education' universal and free in the fullest sense. By virtue of the Jones law the bureau of tribes was created. Its object is to foster In a rapid and thorough manner the material, moral, economic, social and political development of the people of the islands who are The first step taken in pursuance of this policy was the establishment and, extension of public schools in all the territory. There is today an average daily attendance of 16,114 pupils among the ' $ Mountain people. In the province and in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, where the mountain peoples are, there are 318 Filipino teachers. In the department of Mindanao and Snlu there are 783. The money expended In those regions comes from the resources of tlie the government from Philippine pockets of the 10,000,000 Christian The Christian population Filipinos.' with is approaching the the kindliest of spirit. The response to that approach is splendidly cordial. English the Language. The national university of the Islands is called the University of the Philippines. It is financed by the state. It gives courses in arts, education, medicine and surgery, pharmacy, agriculture, veterinary science, forestry. engineering, law, commerce and The number of students is music. about 3,100. It has graduated about 1.500 since its establishment in 1907. The medium of instruction Is English ; the curriculum is patterned after that of the American universities; and the text books used are English. Many of Its graduates are at present occupyIf the indoor tasks are not done on indoor days, they will have to be done ing responsible positions in the governon outdoor days but the outd oor tasks cant bo dons on indoor down. ment, from the legislature days. Many more are in the universities of America pursuing advanced studies, tomed to purchase supplies at retail either as government stndents ' or FARMER IS ENTERING and market his products on a wholethrough their own efforts. The system of education to existence sale basis. Organization will enable him FIELD OF MARKETING to. purchase supplies at wholesale and In the Philippines is bound to stay. The English language will soon be retain for himself some of the commissions of the middleman. More direct the official language of the islands. It and is now the common medium of com- Opportunity Offered to State marketing also Is expected to reduce munication among the islanders who paid by consumers. prices Federal Agencies. still speak the!: dialects. It is fast supplanting the Spanish 88 the national language. Business between the Supplies at Recentral government and most of the Practice of tail and, Selling Products on Is aland municipalities provinces Wholesale Basie Is Gradually ready conducted In English. By legislative provision, English will be the Being Reversed. language used in the courts from Groom the cow twice dally, before . 1920 on. Farmers organizations, as well ; as milking. the regular dealers, need e e ; e. and here state market Information, Is a The via Peking. In the Chinese capital he and federal poor roof under which sky agencies have a wide field to store farm had an Interview with the president of for service because machinery. is acthe fanner the Chinese republic, then Yuan Shih tively entering the field of marketing. Remove the manure from barn twice Kal, who also gave him a declaration There are in this country today more of approval and $4,000 as a persons than 15,000 farmers business organi- daily where animals are kept op all gift to the university. day. zations, with a membership of approx. buimately 2,000,000, according to the He Missed His Pot Keep the long hairs on the udder - of States dereau United markets, Employer Dont you take off you back so they vtll aot carry partment of agriculture. Almost all clipped hat when you ask for a Job? are at local dirt so easily. of these organizations Demobilized Poilu Excuse me, I'm markets, but their extension in greatso used to my helmet that I feel bareSuccess lies not In the number of er numbers to the terminal and disdarned this headed with piece of felt, a matter of cows that a man keeps, hot rather the la centers only tributing on. Paris Le Pays de France. tllie. The farmer has been accus kind of cmvs lie, keeps. ' . . . , A |