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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS. RANDOLPH. UTAH IMPROVED ROADS LARGER REVENUE FOR ROADS Tendency Toward Devoting Increased Portion of Motor Vehicles Tax -- ( to Highways. (Prepared by the United States Depart-- ment of Agriculture) For a number of years the general tendency toward devoting an ever Ine creasing portion of the revenues to road work under the control and direct supervision of the state highway departments has been very noticeable. Prior to 1912 onlv a e very small portion of the English Tough, Indians ' Tendes TRAVELS IN AFRICA EAST motor-vehicl- was devoted to this 76 per cent of the Aside From Learning the Dietary Habits of the Natives He biscovers Many New Herbs, Some of Which Cure Malaria. In 1920, purpose. revenOe, or $77,531,582,57, was applied to road work under the direct supervision of the state highway departments, and in addition $20,4G5,57S 04 was applied to road work by counties or other local supervision, bift with little or no direct supervision from the state highway departments. In most states the motor-vehicl-e revenues are devoted to maintenance and repair of the state roads or other These states improved highways. seem to have solved fairly well the difficult problem of securing funds for the maintenance of the more im- London. A remarkable East African journpy of exploration has Just been completed by the Rev. John Ros-coof Thetford, Norfolk, who describes his experiences to a London Daily Mad represents ti e. He has brought back curious knowledge and curious concrete things beyond even his own dreams. The things include fifty or so varieties of herbs some of which seemed to effect miraculous cures of malaria and even the worst diseases many native poisons, vast cases of fetiches, implements and instruments going back to 2000 B. C, and photographs portant roads under the innumerable of strange and grim ceretraffic requirements. As both tht monies some cannibalistic many traffic and the revenues increase with quite unknown hitherto. the number of cars, there apparently The knowledge of ritual and cusexists a possibility of so adjusting the tom Is a yet stranger store. Mr. Ros-coregistration rates as to keep pace with one of our greatest ethnologists, the maintenance charges. went out for the Royal society and A number of the states having In the expedition was most generously general but a small mileage of Imfinanced by Sir Peter McKie, to whom proved roads have recently adopted both science and humanity owe great the plan of capitalizing the motor gratitude. vehicle revenues and - devoting Tribes Who Live on Milk. these funds to road construction. The Mr. Roscoe, who Is In hts sixtieth states doing this are Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, Utah, year, traveled many thousand miles and Wyoming. In them bonds have In the Interior on foot and of all machine by bftycle, using native paths. been voted or issued for road construction, and the principal, in some He found tribes who lived wholly on instances also the interest, is to be milk ond nothing else whatever, unless a cow died, and after feeding on that paid entirely from the motor-vehicl-e a revenue. fast was Imposed. , At the beginning of 1921 thero were So vast are their cattle herds that still seveu states In which motor a klflg regarded 20,000 as a small trucks were registered at the same flock. Another tribe lived wholly on rate as passenger cars, but In recent bamboo tips and moles! In another years there has been a very decided the relatives always ate the dead, even it they died of smallpox; but tendency In most states to Increase the fees required for motor trucks these tolk, which Is hardly surprising, over and above those required for weie less healthy than the others, passenger cars. This Increase Is whose women are described as the usually based on the weight of the fattest things ever seen, while the truck and Its carrying capacity, Its men ate thin, very athletic and often horse-poweor a combination of these well over six feet In height One of factors. The most general practice the cannibals stated In evidence that seems to be toward definitely limiting Englishmen were very tough, but Inthe maximum total road weight of the dians nice and tender. vehicle and basing the registration fee l'he crown of the expedition was six weeks spent with the king of Bnn-yofHe has become a Christian and so felt it possible to give Mr. Roscoe all his fetiches, an entirely priceless collection, which throws quite new light on ceremonies going back to e -- e, 100-Fo- . N. Y. While 4 Middletown, 130-fof working at the top of a smokestack of the Public Serv- J ice corporation here, Theodore ii Hobush, an employee of the i Custodis Chimney company of i New York, was seized with cramps. He started descending ? a rope, but a short distance 4? down the attack made his arms ' t inefleotive. Twisting his legs about the T Army Souvenir Three sons of a Civil War veteran manifested their pride In their father's reeord by presenting hint and his regiment, at Its reunion In Madison, Wis., with a handsome enlarged copy of th Grand Army badge worn by these old volunteers. Except for the flag, w hlch is silk, the badge is made entirely of heavy sheet metal, gilded and enameled in suitable colors. The embossing was done by beating and hammerx ing with tools of various shape slid with increasing He attempted to use his teeth to check liis swift descent but became exhausted and fell 30 feet. Hobush was stunued, but no After a bones were broken. brief rest he again ascended the Chimney and 40 minutes later was working as though nothing had happened rope lie speed toward the ground. - h 4: , Gets $33 Back Lost a Year. Catasaqua, Pa. About a year ago Charles Hotclv. a ' machinist of this place, lost a purse containing $33, and although he advertised the fact extensively no responses weie received. He gave up hope of ever recovering the money and was happily surprised one day recently when he received an anonymous letter inclosing $35, which, the (v riter explained, represented the cash lie had found and used in an Mr. emergency, plus $2 for interest. Hotch has no clue to the conscience-strickefinder of the mouey. n ever-growi- r, o. 2000 B.C.. Home Building Is Increasing Movement all Over the Country mental processes of the owner. To him particularly might be applied the Is Rapidly Attaining Large words of Theodore Roosevelt, who The habit of saving money the will also brightens the energies. If you would be sure that you are beginning right, begin to save. Much has been said and written about the housing shortage in this country and the menace which has thus been fostered. Many evils both economic and social are resulting from the overcrowded conditions, particularly in the larger cities of the country. Many people are compelled to find existence in quarters which represent a step backward In their standard of living. This is contrary to the fundamentals of human nature, for mankind has always Insisted upon progressing toward better living standards. Nation of Contented People. Present conditions therefore are continually encouraging unrest. In the congested districts of the large Ameri-lea- n cities these conditions are also to the spread of disease. conducive It Is said that tuberculosis is making rapid inroads among those who live In these quarters. The present and homeowning movement, therefore, represents many important phases. The development of thrift practices is not the least of the benefit which is sure to result. A nation of home owners Is a nation of happy hearts and contented minds. People who work and save and live In homes of their own constitute a solid rock upon which the structure of any nation may stand with security. They are practicing, thrift of the most substantial kind. They are presenting to their children a most tangible and beautiful lesson on the sound benefits of thrift practice. Every encouragement should be given to the development of the present homo ownership and movement. Its , continued progress will mean much toward fostering of a better national life. said: Proportions. while It stiffens INDICATES HABITS OF TGH Many Evils Both Economic and Social Are Resulting From the Over- crowded Conditions, Particularly In Larger Cities. t Washington It is a matter of Importance that the scope of operations In this country Is attaining large proportions. Statistics show a steady gain In this department of the building Industry and Indications Are at present that, as the spring and summer advance, there will be still greater activities of this nature. Effects of Home Ownerehip. Home ownership not only encourages saving, but it has a pronounced stabilizing effect on the character, habits and home-bulld-l- Golfer Harding Pays His Quarter home-buildin- Hauling a Large Load of Farm Produce In Open-To- p Truck, Covered With Canvas. on the capacity of the truck. Some few states have adopted a scale of fees, which In actual practice serves to make the operation of very heavy motor cars are taxed as personal property in addition to the required registration fees. In Alabama, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Vermont, the registration fees . are In lieu of all personal prbjferty taxes. OLD METHODS ARE DISLIKED Ng Longer Produce Results Equal the Demands of Transports-- i tlon on Highways. ta experts are endeavor Inf to impress the public with the fact that the old methods of building roads no longer produce results equal to tho demands for highway transportation. If the highways are to be developed to their capacity there must be better and better highways. Road-buildin- g Aid In Highway Research. Engineering departments of leading colleges and universities In this coun actry are aiding national bodies and in the work upoa tively national program of highway re search. Money for is Announced Good Roads. Washington that the various states have $622,000,000 for the building of roads not, however, for the payment of exorbitant yrodta to unscrupulous contractors. It In home-buildi- ( In Colorado, New York, and Oregon, In addition to the registration fees, a state tax on gasoline or Qtlier products used for (he propulsion of motor vehicles Is also levied. In some states President Harding, the 'other day was eager for a game of golf, but It was too late to motor to any of the suburban dubs around Washington. He was reminded that fol 25 cents he could play on the near municipal links, and the ldta appealed (o him. He Is seen here paying his ground fee to the keeper . of the public course. Typhus Sweeps Soviet Russia. York. More than 8,000,000 cases of typhus have been reported la soviet Russia, with a mortality as high as 50 per cent In some communities, said a report by Dr. Henry Plots of this city, head of a Jewish medical unit operating in Poland, just made public by the American Jewish relief committee. PRETTY GIRL IS THIEF Men pinched my cheeks and called m sweetie and invited me out to lunch so much that my father made me leave New - 17-year- Miss Pleads Guilty to Robbery. Used Betrayed by Married Man Who Her aa Bait to Secure Vic-tito Rob. New York. The most beautiful and Innocent looking girl that the police remember ever having arrested Is weeping for her mother in the Tombs. She is Katherine Zoeblein, seventeen. She pleads guilty to the charge against her. The charge Is robbery, and It Is the second offense. She was arrested when lier whereabouts was disclosed by the married man who used her as a bait to secure victims to rob. She suit believes in him. I did not want to do wrong, she So she cast her prettiest glances at Samuel Darwo, and he followed her into" a doorway. Then he was robbed of his jewelry and money $6, Her sweetheart, Michael 1. Egle, was taken by the police. 4e told on her and they found her, nd now Tombs for her She Is weeping In mother. When I was fourteen, she said, I went to a theater me afternoon with a man much older than myself. He coaxed me away from school to the movies. He persuaded me to stay out until it was ten o'clock at night and I was afraid to go home. Dally, hundreds of machines travel eastward, westward, on that broad scenic road, Wilshlre boulevard, says a writer In the Los Angeles Times. Seldom are the occupants of automobiles in mood serious enough to turn Into the quiet lane situated at the eastern utrance to the Soldiers home near Sawtelle. This lane is shaded and valanced by pepper trees, which like a beneshed their red berry-bloodiction upon the bier which dally passes beneath them. t Six thousand times a caisson, to the accompanying soft music of a soldiers requiem, has carried a soldier to his last resting place. , They ride through an aisle of trees wrapped la the flag of the Union for which, they fought; and, passing beneath the arch are silently saluted by the white marble hand marking each grave with name, company, rank and age. As the body la lowered Into mother earth, the alienee Is rent by saluting tana held in comrades hands, enfeebled by the encroaching years. Then comes taps In the high, clear notes of The bugle, high and clear as when the bugler fought in the Battle of the Wilderness. I seemed to hear, when I looked around upon these thousands of soldiers graves, the tramp of marching The call feet The to arms. Then the flag, silhouetted clear against the vivid blue sky, rose and softly fell In the breeze, as though to say: They abide with me. The soldiers of the battles of Antle-tam- , of Shiloh, of Harpers Ferry; with Grant at Vicksburg; with Sheridan In the Shenandoah valley; the Army, of the Potomac,-- and of that great battle of Gettysburg (the turn-,in- g point of the war,) share their bivouacs with riders of the frontier during Indian days and veterans of the Spanish war, they all lie, facing the east, upon that beautiful slope, waitTheir ing the final call to arms. funerals are unassuming; their tributes pitifully few. -- g ' trucks impracticable. Unique Grand Rope Slide ot t He also organized a pageant of Cannibals Tell English Explorer some 4,000 years of ceremonial, sdeh of Their Preference in Choice a thing as no man ever saw before. Thousands of natives themselves of Food , sort came to see it a of grand finale to ages of accumulated superstitionr Since the king is also high priest and the great repository of tradition, he could give away the inmost mysteries and did: How to bring rain is a miracle that Mr. Roscoe achieved In a forest holy of holies and received native thanks; how to promote all sorts of prosperity especially plenty of salt and how to exorcise evil. By his knowledge of local language and earlier visits Mr. Roscoe who was all alone,' penetrated many present beliefs and customs that have balked our rulers and our missionaries. For example, in one tribe girls are betiothed at birth and married at twelve or fourteen. If "they are unfaithful before marriage they are Ailed. In the next tribe girls may do as they will until after marriage. Many most elaborate laws of marriage, of morality, of divorce and of land tenure have been revealed in the course of the journey. The discoveries include valuable commercial news, including an unknown graphite mine of high quality. Mr. Roscoe says he has material for five years work at six hours, a day. t!t Drops 30 Feet After - motor-vehicl- registration I I Enlarged Copy of G. A. R. Badgt Mat) by Sons of Civil War Veteran ang Presented to Him and His Comrades The unusual souvehlr represents about 00 hours work and was presented by the regiment to the Wisconsin Hl torlcal society, in whose rooms It ll on display. Popular Mechanics Mag azlne. Columbias N Chevaliers ByT.CHASBAUGH A wreath Columbia weavea today. Beneath her flag of etara A wreath of rosea and of spray Per those who fought her ware; They sleep on many a field of fame And round tho doer of Heme, All wearers of a deathless name, Beneath the starry dome. No challenge from their biveuao comes No buglet stir the air, No pickets shout, no roll of drums For all is silent there. of Freedoms land The mother-heaReveres the deeds of all, And softly from Columbias hand Kind Natures treasures fall. rt In endless line they take their rest Who taw the foe advance. On Round Tops crest, fields of Frame; Their deeds are blazed on Historys scroll, f And crowned by Victory; . Their name are writ on Glorys rolL For all the world to see. And the THE UTTLE BRONZE BUTTON Vsterana of the Armies of the Have Right to Be Proud of 60 Glorious Emblem. flre-swe- pt Their comradee at Attention stand The world is too much with us, To hear the last tattoo,' therefore It Is well that we pause a With silent tongue ana lifted hqnd, moment and let memory stir the pulse In Khaki and in Blue; With thoughts of things that have Some camp in many a distant clime, been. After these many years only Those men of iron will, a handful of actual participants In But thro the corridors of Time, the struggle of the 60s are left. The Tho dead, theyre marching still, little bronze button of the G. A. R. la less frequently noted on our streets. O Mother land, how sleep our brave The men who wear it are old and Who' hath In battle striven! their graves Columbia waves above n The Flag she set-iheaven; She leaves them, neath her tributes sweet, In God, the Father's, keeping, Nor trumpets blare, nor tramp of feet Are heard where they are sleeping. the work." May Smell but Not Taste. 'Souisville, Ky. Jury service in prohibition cases bus .cst Its popularity, . because' instead of tasting, liquor to see If Its the real stuff, they now are merely permitted to have a smeH. Judge Evans held Jurors were not expert Judges of liquors. Witch Doctors Steal Body. Johannesburg. Two native witch doctors have just been sentenced to prison for 18 months each after they pleaded guilty to a charge of-- stealing the body of a European woman from For three months I 'was Just like a grave on the Swaziland border to a prisoner. Then I got out and went make charms. home and told my mother all that had Find Tooth of Wild Horse. happened. Los Angeles, Cal. A tooth of a wild So now they say this is my second offense." horse, measuring four Inches long, one And then she told of other trials and a half Inches thick and having he that beset a pretty girl. eight rings. Indicating the animals pleads, "but I was hungry and la the latest discovery of excfc I that been have no told I had age, we always was hungry- - too, and was pretty. 1 once run aa elevator. ton la the lime pits at Torrenca, ooney. 111. WMtan Nmpijtr Uatoe ) Worthy of Their Fathers. feeble, but not the less proud of their ' A new attaches te significance Idecoratlon the, emblem of their Le Memorial day Before the greet ,wat Iglon of Honor. . The men who wear it .be nation knew, that Its men were jwere not cowards nor slackers. heroes half a century ago. Now II Dearer to them than the rlaht to live, knows that Its men can be heroes Id W the rlaht to die In their country's tlie present prosaic day. cause. All Memorial day Is particularly their day; the day we are In duty bound to remember their service in the nations extremity. Wq owe them a debt of honor and gratitude doubly insistent because of our more vivid real! cation of the perils of war and the sacrifl cs they made to preserve the Union Inviolate. 4 Memorial day la the day te re. member to remember the men who gave their lives for their country and to recall that wa' were pledged te turn these sacrifices to good account |