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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH ' Uncle Sant Needs Many New Buildings at that not only is the health of occube pants endangered, but the efficiency of President to workers Is being impaired; .The disappropriate sufficient pub- cussion was brought up by Secretary lic money that the governments agen- Mellon of the treasury, who stated' cies may be properly housed In Wash- that be wanted advice on bow .to' han, dle the situation, which up to that ington. The problems of housing the various time had him Btumped. One rented departments and bureaus of the gov- building under his department and ernment was discussed at a cabinet which houses a certain section of the meeting at the White House and It Income tax division Is in such need of was agreed by all present that between repair that the building has actually now and the time congress convenes a become unsafe, , consistent and economical construction Secretary Mellon was followed by program must be carefully prepared; other cabinet officers,, each with their It seemed to be the opinion of the gloomy accounts of housing conditions meeting that the building program of their respective departments. Each should not be confined to Washington, gave the opinion that the problem Is but should answer the needs of the becoming worse each year, and that federal government in Its operations already it had been found difficult to efficiently carry on the work of the throughout the entire country. The President and his advisers are government. In accord with the general idea prePostmaster General New, In describsented by the flue arts commission, ing the problems of his department, Is which calls for a centralization of known to have told the gathering that , government departments In the mall the demands for better housing faciliand south of Pennsylvania avenue, ties for post offices throughout the and It was Intimated after the cabinet United States are most extraordinary meeting that the program to be pre- and Insistent. It was pointed out that the normal pared very likely will include these Ideas. business of the department has InAccording to the views expressed creased more than 250 per cent The by a number of the cabinet officers buildings are still being used throughduring the discussion, the problems out the country which were either of housing have grown to embarraserected or rented for the use of the sing proportions. The condition of department as far back as fifty years some of the rented buildings is such agOk r, Congress will1 WASHINGTON. : Wedding in High life HE marriage of Miss Nancy twenty-year-ol- d the Hoyt, daughter of the late Henry M. Hoyt, solicitor general under , the Taft administration, to Lieut. F. Wlseman-Clarktwenty-threR. N., has been Indefinitely postponed. Ac1 cording to a statement issued by Mrs. Hoyt, the plans for the wedding were canceled because of the sudden and serious Illness of her daughter. It is Understood, however, that the engagement is broken. ' Lieutenant Wlseman-Clark- e and his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Wlseman-Clarke- , who arrived for the wedding, returned to England. The matrimonial troubles of Miss Hoyts sister, Mrs. Horace Wylie, who has been twice divorced and whose first husband, Philip Hlchborn, committed suicide, are rumored to be the real cause of the breaking off of the marriage. The facts. It Is said, were previously unknown to the young mans family, who were greatly shocked. Mrs. Hoyt was so seriously offended that she at once terminated the engagement. News of the canceling of the marriage shocked . Washington society. Dinners' and dances In honor of the e, Introduction by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN OW, after Memorial Day and before Independence Day, comes Flag Day. Our Soldier Dead! The Flag they died to uphold! The Declaration of Independence that gave us the Flag! The Banner of the United States of America Is the handsomest flag that flies. The proportions of the Flag are perfect- The design of the Flag is pleasing to the eye. The colors of the Flag form the most beautiful combination known to man. The significance of, the Flag even overmatches the beauty of the Flag. The Flag has ever led to victory. Following the Flag we have marched across the continent and have Increased the new constellation" to 48 stars. The Flag now floats over the wealthiest and most powerful nation of earth. The Banner is the oldest Flag, the handsomest Flag and the most Inspiring Flag that flies. What follows Is worthy of the Flag and of Flag Day. The Flag Goes By, was written by Henry Holcomb Bennett, author, artist, poet and patriot The Makers of the Flag" was delivered on Flag to Day. 1614, before the employees of the Department to of the Interior at Washington by the late Franklin to K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior and the Presi- to because he was born across to dential Impossibility the Canadian border. to President Hardings words are a part of his ad- to dress at the dedication of the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, June 14, to ... Star-Spangl- - brought relief to the old soldier In Wyoming. No one of these beneficent individuals you may happen to be, I give you greeting, Mr. Flag Maker. I was about to pass on, when the flag stopped me with these words: Yesterday the president spoke a word that made happier the future of 10,000,000 peons In Mexico; but that act looms nO larger on the flag than the struggle which the boy in Georgia is making to win the corn club prize this summer. Yesterday the congress spoke a word which will open the door of Alaska ; but a mother In Michigan worked from sunrise until far Into the night to give her boy an education. She, too, Is fe making the flag. J Yesterday we made a new law to prevent finan- to cial panics, and yesterday, maybe, a school teacher m In Ohio taught his first letters to a boy who will to one day write a song that will give cheer to the to millions of our race. We are all making the flag. fe ' But, I said impatiently, these people 'were ,i working! to only , 1922. j came a great shout from the flag: . Then ' to THE FLAG GOES BY of the flag. The work that we do Is the to I am not the flag; not at making Hats off! all. I am but its to : to shadow. Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, to I am whatever you make me; nothing more. to A flash of color beneath the sky ; to I am your belief In yourself, your dream of jto ' Hats off! what a people may become. to ' , The Flag Is passing by. a changing life, a life of moods 'and pas- Ml to I live heart-break' ' ' s of and tired muscles. j sions, to Blue and white and crimson It shines Sometimes I am strong with pride, when men to do an honest work, Over the ordered Jlnes. fitting the rails together truly. I to Sometimes I droop, Hats off! for then purpose has gone l to from me, and cynically I play the coward. The Colors before us fly ; j But more than the Flag Is passing by. to Sometimes I am loud, garish, and full of that to ego that blasts judgment. to and grtm and great, to But always I am all that you hope to be and to ; to save State the to and make the courage to try for. Fought to have am ' I song and fear, struggle and panic, and fe Weary marches and sinking ships; to ' i iheers of victory on dying lips; hope. ennobling to man and of of weakest and the am the of I work peace; Days years plenty days to the largest dream March of a strong lands swift Increase; of the most daring. to I am the Constitution and the courts, statutes j : Equal justice, right and law ; r 7 soldier and dreadnaught, to and the statute-makerStately honor and reverent awe ; Sign of a nation, great and strong, drayman and street sweep, cook, counselor and . To ward her people from foreign wrng; clerk. I am the battle of yesterday and the mistake' Pride and glory and honor all i ' Live In the Colors to stand or fall. . of tomorrow. . I am the mystery of the men who do without m w Hats off! knowing why. 1- am the clutch of an Idea and the reasoned Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, , purpose of resolution. And loyal hearts are beating high; I am no more than what you believe me to be jJ , and I am all that you believe that I can be. J , Hats off ! The Flag Is passing by. I am what you make me ; nothing more. x I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of 'Os MAKERS OF THE FLAG color, a symbol of yourself, the pictured suggestion nation. this .makes which of that big thing, My' This morning, as I passed Into the land office, 'the flag dropped me a most cordial salutation, and stars and my stripes are your dream and your la- bors. They are bright with cheer, brilliant with from its rippling folds I heard It say: Goo'i morncourage, firm with faith, because you have made ing, Mr. Flag Maker. them so out of your hearts ; for you are the mak-- . I beg your pardon, Old Glory, I said, arent ers of the flag, and it Is well that you glory in Unitam not the the president of you mistaken? I to the making.ed States, nor a member of congress, nor even a Bn general in the army. I am Only a government MEMORIAL KEY SCOTT FRANCIS ' clerk. My fellow Americans The shrines of American I greet you again, Mr. Flag Maker, replied the not only reflect the quality of Its gratl--1 man are the You know well. I patriotism you gay voice; straight-enlnand Inspiring. are but tude, hi the of swelter they who worked yesterday We are assembled today to rededicate one of these out the tangle of that farmers homestead sacred shrines. We are met to commemorate a In Idaho, or perhaps you found the mistake IR that historic victory in arms, when the young Republic Indian contract in Oklahoma, or helped to clear was first asserting its national rights against an that patent for the hopeful Inventor in New !fork, armed foe. And we are met to commemorate a or pushed the opening of that new ditch lr Color more in safe Illinois mine that made very unique achievement In the literature of na-- 1 or orado, matter; whichever Star-Spangl- . , ' ; steel-tippe- Sea-figh- ts land-fight- . . , s, , , : - tlonal inspiration. Here the patriotic sons of the early Republic crushed one of the most ambitious Invasions ever aimed against our nation. Here, during the rage of combat, was born the swelling ' anthem of American patriotism. It Is wholly fitting that Flag Day should be chosen for this commemoration and rededlcatlon, because our hymn of patriotism Is an apostrophe to the flag we love. ,Yea, It Is apostrophe and Invocation as well, bom of a patriotic and poetic soul in the travail of a sublimely heroic night . 1 . I j , - . I g , i ' If ' ' one, forgetting the music, . that will ponder poem of battle and victory and thanksgiving, I think he will comprehend the elements that have made It great great as a song of patriotism and exaltation, great merely a'g a piece of poetical portraiture. The first stanza tells the anxiety with which, after the bombardment had ceased, the author peered through the mists of dawn and asked the one question whose answer would tell ' the fateful story : t . can you sea, by the dawns early light, What so proudly we haild at the twilights last gleaming, . . .? In the second stanza he glimpses the banner, and bursts Into song of rejoicing. The third stanza Is a defiance of the oppressor ; and then, In the fourth and last stanza, we find the note of thanks-givinthe prayer that the victory may be justl- fled In the conduct of a race of fre&nen: . . . g, o, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their lovd home and the wars desolation. That was the poets prayer. We may fairly claim, in pride for the deeds of our father-!- , our sons, our brothers, the prayer has been granted. The faith has been kept. It Is the hope of every American heart today that it will continue to be kept. The Intervening century has brought our country power and high place) It has cast upon us heavy burdens of re-sponslblllty, making us share the difficult problems of a world In the turmoil of a new time. We need all the Inspiration and faith which fired his glow No generation of men ing soul of patriotism. has ever come into the world to find Its path smoothed, or to find Its problems solved for it In advance. Solution Is the fit price we pay for our great Inheritance of liberty and opportunity. The outstanding and the reassuring thought of today Is the supreme exaltation of Key, In the' hour of great trial, to reveal the soul of a pa-t- o triot, in the night of surpassing anxiety and votlon to country. No concern for self narrowed his thought . No glorification of the Individual marred his Vision, N pursuit of fame set his soul ablaze. No per- sonal advantage hindered his pen His country and his concern for Its safety were combined in his thought; the nation was the o great, uplifting and exalting love. In this passioned, anxious, exalting and ex-t- o ultlng love of country, transcending all else. Key reached the sublime heights, and wrote the poetic revelation of an American soul aflame. An American citizenship of the high and simple faith of Francis Scott Key, aflame for defense.' and no less devoted In meeting the problems of peace, will add to the luster of the banner he so proudly acclaimed. Every glittering star Is fixed procession Is the more lmpres- every worth-whil- e slve for Its bearing, every passion for country Is On ships of mercy or refined by Its unfolding. vessels of war, In the armed camp or at the inem J rials Of peace. In rejoicing, procession or flyl, from the staff over the simple temples of the schooling youth of America everywhere It pleases the eye, and reassures the heart and stirs the soul, until we sing In all confidence with the poet ' patriot 1m-t- , , ! , - , . Banner In triumph shall wvi Oer the land of the tree and the home of tl- - - b wa The Star-Spangl- Is Postponed bridal party had been given every evening for a week, the concluding festivity being the dinner-danc- e given by Senator and Mrs, James W. Wadsworth, Jr, whose daughter, Evelyn, was to have been one of Miss Hoyts bridesmaids. Elinor Hoyt, it will 'be remembered, first married Philip Hlchborn, son of the late Admiral Hlchborn, leaving him and their Infant son nearly fifteen years ago to elope with Horace Wylie, a man nearly twenty years her senior, married and the father of four children. V, Within a year Mr. Wylie and Mrs. Hlchborn returned and left together a few months later, Mr. Wylie In the interval having adjusted his business affairs and settled nearly all his property on his wife About a year later Philip Hlchborn shot himself. Shortly afterward Mrs. Wylie divorced her husband, who married Mrs, Hlchborn with the least possible delay. For the last few years Mrs. Wylls has devoted herself to writing and has become widely known as a poet. Recently it was reported that she was about to marry William Rose Benet, who denied It . , Vacation Season Brings Forest Fires --w- ECENT forest fires In Mary-lan- d, hasty automoblllsts travel through the Virginia, Pennsylvania forest this summer, leaving and New Jersey several of rags, cigar and cigarette stubs and them near Washington, and burning matches in their wake? Will campers again build fires without reters have taught the people of this gard to common sense rules of safety? section the lesson which the forest Will hunters and fishermen forget that service has long been endeavoring to nnless they exercise reason in preImpress upon the people of the coun- venting fires they will no longer have ! try as a whole. game to hunt and streams to whip? ' One of these fires raged over an area Will farmers who desire to clean up S of 16 square miles within an alarming- wood lot or field by burning the underbrush and slash fall to use care? ly short distance of the nations capiAnd there are some who will delibtal city, and caused a large loss of property In houses, bams, etc. In ad- erately set fire to the woods because dition to the loss in timber. of a fallacious belief that by so doing During the coming summer there Insect pests can be destroyed, or that will be approximately 34,000 of these better grazing lands can be obtained. forest fires, If the annual average of These are the principal classes of ofthe last six years is maintained. Last fenders who are doing their bit to retimber supyear 38,400 such fires were reported to duce the the federal authorities. ply of the United States. These are The lesson to be learned Is not alone the classes of people to whom the of the great loss which they cause, but United States government wants to lessons. that almost all of them could be pre- teach Timber-growin- g Is recognised as one vented. Fully 80 per cent are the result of carelessness or Ignorance, or of the really great questions that conboth. Natural causes are responsible front the American people. If fires for only about could bo kept out of much of the counWill we this year have learned our trys forest lands, the government ex' lesson of care? asks Col. W. B. perts say, nature would take care ley, chief of the forest service, or will largely of the reforestratloa problem. some of them close to other large cen- one-tent- Why Gen. Dawes Said H 1 and Maria! USED to be a clerk In one of the government departments during the, In a manner of speaking, late war. One day a desk was deposited In the hall outj side hlg door. He needed a desk. Just i that sort of a desk. Shall I make out a requisition for It, sir? be asked the head clerk. ' The head clerk Is an in government circles. He recalled to his subordinates mind the Incident of the mule which was shot and which, upon Inquiry, proved to be the wrong mule. Whereupon 48 letters were written and the time of many men In war time was taken up In putting the record months after he had made the requhti-tlo- n the reply came back: The aqpwer Is No. He didnt care by that time, for ho was about ready to go out of the government service. But he bad learned : his lesson. Nowadays the man who pays him his weekly wage looks upon him with awe and approbation. He is the of the staff. When he is told to get something, or do something, he does not ask for. permission. He first goes and gets. He then tells the world that hes got It. Half tlje time the world says It Is all right. The other half of the time he Is forced to pay a straight. price. HE . . old-tim- er ' - s ; '' But the point Is that In almost 100 put in your requisition." a per cent of cases I get what I go after, So the clerk who needed a desk took said he. Whereas in the strictly conthe desk and put in his requisition. ventional way I might average a bad ' Time went on: He used the desk until No doubt there ts a moral which It became warped and scratched. H forgot about the requisition, the head proves that he Is entirely wrong. But nobody doubts that the story la clerk forgot about It, every one forgot about It except that department of true, except that It may exaggerate a government which answers to the mills trifle In stating the haste with which of the soils, that grind slowly, but the No was returned to th desk Nineteen requisition. the; grind exceeding fine. First take the desk, said he. Then one-thir- |