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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH !YlI Fmv FMSd Would Bury W. G. on Old Indian Mound There wffl be a to Warren G. Harding. That seems to be assured, though so far the gen-eridea has got no- farther than suggestions of various kinds. One interesting suggestion has been the subject of much discussion in Marlon, O., the dead presidents home town. It Is this: Adjoining the Marlon cemetery, in the receiving vault of which temporarily rests the late presidents body, is an ancient Indian burial ground, the last resting place of their chiefs. This burial mound is famous in North Central Ohio, both for its historic Interest and for Its beauty. The site Is a commanding one and is partly - WASHINGTON. al proval of this project, with offers of on' every hand, from th e friends and neighbors of the dead president; to whom he was alold-tim- ways W. G. Within stones throw of the receiving vault Is the grave of his mother. A massive marker at the head of bears these words: PHOEBE E. ' DICKERSON,. Wife of George T. Harding, " , 18431910. Beside her rests the late presidents sister, Mary Clarissa. She was born three years after Warren and died in 1913. Her death, like his, was sudden. She was a teacher in the blind asylum at Columbus. Her own vision was defective, but her mind wooded. This tract Is owned by E. B. Dur-free- , totally good, and she was highly reone of Marlons rich men. He garded as a teacher. This Harding has owned It for years and has stead- lot contains no other graves. A huge fastly refused to part with any portion elm tree one of the most notable of it. Edward K. Uhler, another of specimens In these parts shelters It. the little citys wealthy citizens, is the Within view is a large and pretenoriginator of a plan to set aside two tious shaft which marks the resting acres of the mound to be consecrated place of Idrs. Hardings father, Amos as a Harding burial and memorial H. Kling and her mother, plot. There is said to be extensive ap Louisa M. Bouton Kling the-grav- , (1833-1893- ), (1835-1893- ). Army Air Service to Ask for $25,000,000 approved by for submission to fall call for an appropriation of $25,000, 000 for the army air service next year. Based on a report made by the war plans section after weeks of Investigation, this appropriation is the miml-mufigure If the air force is to be maintained efficiently on Its present "small and Inadequate status, air ESTIMATES Evokes lpOpenin Aiminhtnation of J v Gjiwervatioa Complete for Our National Parks By JOHN DICKINSON Policy m officials say. SHERMAN HE national parks lost a good friend when Warren G. Harding died. His appreciation and approval of the national park movement were signally shown at the for 1923 opening of Yellowstone Its fifty-firyear by an official A national organization of defense, about declaration of administration pol4,000,000 strong, was quickly effected. The Smith icy worthy of Its place as the first , bill was killed In the house, after It had passed national park In all history and the senate. The Jones-Esd- h bill exempting national parks, present and future, from the jurislargest and most famous of all America's nineteen public playdiction of the water power commission was Introduced and forced forward. The water power Ingrounds set apart by congress for the use of the adterests were powerful enough, however, to force . people forever. That official declaration of a compromise amendment which exempted only ministration policv was nothing less than absolute bill the existing national parks. The Jones-Esc- h protection of the national park system against was passed by the Sixty-sixt- h commercial Invasion and exploitation. congress. Dr. John Wesley Hill, chancellor of Lincoln In December of 1920 Senator) Walsh of Montana Memorial university, made the declaration. He championed a bill to dam Yellowstone lake for an irrigation scheme In Montana. A long and officially represented President Harding and Secbattle followed. In June of 1921 Secretary of the Interior Work at the Yellowstone retary of the Interior Fall reported on the bill opening. His statement was prepared, careful and emphatic. It contained the following: and straddled on the question of protection, holdto celebrate the And we are here today President Harding, in announcing this admi ing that power and Irrigation development in the national parks should be only on specific authorannual opening of Yellowstone park, the largest istratlon policy, was not anticipating a popular i d of our national parks, a wooded mand so much as answering it. The truth Is th ization of congress, the works to be constructed and most the American people have within the last thr and controlled by the federal government. Therewilderness of three thousand three hundred square upon Senator Walsh proposed a new bill providing, years adopted our nineteen national parks as miles, containing incomparable waterfalls, more that the United States reclamation service should part of their conception of the greatness of the geysers than are found in the resf of the world all nation. "Hands off! applies to the nation build and operate the Yellowstone lake dam. The put together, irrigated by rivers like miniature defenders of the park proved that the dam could parks as well as to Old Glory. They are eag lakes, and beautified by lakes like Inland seas, to defend them and to keep them Inviolate. Ai be built to greater advantage outside the park. carved by canyons of sublimity, decorated with In 1922 the upholders of the parks won a victory colors defying, the painters art, punctured with they have developed organized strength throu; the affiliation of a dozen or so nation-wid- e Innumerable boiling springs whose steam mingles orga by electing Scott Leavitt In Montana to congress izatlons to see that congress shall legislate wise over Jerome Locke, originator of the dam project. with fleecy clouds, stuccoed with vast areas of The final result of the fight was that the concerning the national parks. The announc petrified forests, a sanctuary of "sale retreat for ment of the conservation policy was received wi feathered songsters and wild beasts, a wondercongress adjourned March 4, 1923, leavnation-wid- e land, playground, sanitarium and university all delight. The national park enthui ing the Walsh dam In the committees pigeonholes. asts hoped that the conservation policy would h In one, where the eye feasts upon the riotous Efforts to revive It are expected In the broadened to uphold Secretary Lanes lmporta: colors of flowers, ferns and rocks; the ear Is congress. plank. surged with the symphony of melodious sounds; During these three yeans another victory of Yellowstone also gets Into the limelight th the mind Is sated with a thousand revelations of great Importance along the same line was the season because President Harding paid it a tw truth find beauty, and the jaded body, wdary wPh National smothering In committee of the the trudge of thought and toil and travel, unglrds days visit on his way to Alaska. The President park bill, personally drafted and sponsored by for song and dance beneath the shadows of the party went In and out through the north entran Secretary Fall. This bill created a national park and did about 150 miles of motoring In seell In the Mescalero Indian reservation In New Mexeverlasting hills. various points of interest. On the Continent ico out of several insignificant spots widely Yellowstone history Is replete with crises Divide they drove through snowbanks. The Pre 'where the friends of the park and the park Idea arated, plus an Irrigation and power reservoir bave had to fight with a heroism worthy Its exldent went yachting on Yellowstone lake u ninety miles away. It would have introduced both He saw many wild animals and f dammed. water power and Irrigation Into the national park plorers and discoverers to retain It Intact against the bold and presumptuous claims of the advoprotest against gingerbread and molasses to a black bear and h system. There was a nation-wid- e cub. He saw the Painted Terraces of Mammoi cates of special privilege, determined to commerthis bill, In which New Mexico itself took an Hot Springs. Old Faithful geyser spouted 1! cialize this land of wonder, to build railroads active part. The" bill Is too dead. It Is believed, feet into the air every sixty-fiv- e minutes f to be resuscitated. through It, tunnel Its mountains, dam Its lakes as it does for every visitor. The photograp him nation-wide and streams, and secure stranglehold monopolies to called attention A third victory ' with ifnall compensation to the government and reproduced herewith shows the President ar another danger that threatened and still threatMrs. Harding, under escort of Superintendent He total joss to the people. ens the national parks. The victory was the deace M. Albright, viewing from Artist Point tl And regardless of all facts Rnd figures, appeals feat of the Slemp bill creating the Appalachian Grand Canyon of the, Yellowstone and the Lowi and threats, therefore, any plan, however meriNational park out of a Virginia mountain top. It The President was visibly Impressed I Falls. torious oa Its face, for the commercial exploitawas opposed on the ground that the area was the sight one of, the grandest and most beai tion of parks must by the very nature of Its below the proper national park quality. It was tiful in the world. aims and purposes be Immediately doomed to favored by Secretary Fall, who In his report to 0 years were r Just sixty-thre- e fa sure. the public lands committee said that his policy Good projects, bad projects. Indifferent projrecreational park qulred to put Yellowstone on the map ; the Amei was to substitute a wide-ope- n can people simply wouldnt believe there was at ects, alf must face the same fate, for It Is at last system of many small playgrounds for our hissuch place.- The Lewis and Clark expedition established policy of the government that our toric national park system. 1804-0- 6 national parks must and shall forever be mainpassed close by it, but the Indians nev The late Franklin K. Lane, as secretary of the mentioned It, considering it the abode of E tained In absolute, unimpaired form, not only for interior in 1918, nailed down this plank In the the present, but for all time to come, a policy Spirits, who punished all talk about them. Jo! national park platform: which has the unqualified support of President Colter, a member of the party who went ba In studying new park projects you should seek to trap beaver, discovered It in 1807. Upon h Harding. to find "scenery of supreme and distinctive quality This Is the fixed policy of the administration, return to St. Louis In 1810 the people dubbed or some natural feature so extraordinary or unique . and I can assure you It will not be modified. It "Colters Hell and laughed him and his tale oi to be of national Interest and Importance . . ." . as will not be swerved a hairs breadth by any lnflu-- . The national park system as now constituted of court James Brldger rediscovered it aboi should not be lowered In standdrd, dignity and i ence. financial, political or otherwise. Just another of Jl 1828 and the public said prestige by the Inclusion of areas which express The gold prospectors If rights are granted to one claimant, others " In yarns. big Brldgers terms less the than the highest class particular - must follow, so a precedent must not be estab1862 described it and were set down as liars, or kind of exhibit which they represent lished. It would Inevitably ruin the entire national expedition of 1870 took the Wasbbum-Langfor- d President Harding was the first president to anmake the people believe in Its wonders. The mei park system. nounce publicly a general administration policy Doctor Hill might have been more definite In bers of that expedition were for tl of absolute conservation for the national parks the matter of the attacks by commercial Interests scenic points and making their fortunes. Cc of Its for and all units. Since early In 1920 It has system Yellowstone. Bqth Roosevelt nelius Hedges rebuked them and proposed tl t upon and Taft were good friends of the national parks, national park plan the first in all history. Tl required Increasing vigilance and aggressive orbut preservation against commercial Invasion was ganized effort on the part of the vast army of park was established by act of congress In 18 not a question In tbefr days. President Wilson, national park enthusiasts to defeat these attacks. and Yellowstone celebrated Its "last fall. During the winter and spring of 1920 the Sixty-sixt- h . in his first term, signed the Hetch Hetchy bill giving San Francisco the water supply reservoir Yellowstone contains 3,848 square miles 3. i: congress nearly passed the Smith bill creIn Yosemlte which has Just been completed; its in Wyoming. 198 In Montana and 36 In Idah ating a commercial Irrigation reservoir In the secret water power purpose was not then gensouthwest comer of Yellowstone for the benefit of Big as It Is, the plan Is to enlarge It by the adc erally understood. President Wilson, however, tlon of many square miles to the south the Jar Idaho. And It did pass the water power bill stood by the national, parks loyally and powerfully power to lease public son Hole country, which contains Jackson , la) granting to a commission the In the fight to exempt them from the jurisdiction national parks and and the Teton mountains, and la a natural part waters, Including those of of the water power commission. the park. monuments, for water power. st hard-foug- f ... Sixty-sevent- h Sixty-eight- All-Ye- 1807-187- - seml-centen- Furthermore, the report shows that an equal amount must be provided the following year If the present force Is to be kept from retrograding. Of the amount sought for the next fiscal year $15,000,000 will be spent for new equipment and the remainder for general operating expenses. If this amount, practically double the funds available this year, Is made available, congress will be told, It will be possible to bring the present force up to a high standard of efficiency and will pave the way for the eventual building up of an adequate peace time force. Similar annual appropriations of $25,000,000, it Is estimated, will in a reasonable length of time Increase the present small force to the strength that aviation experts believe will be sufficient to guarantee supremacy In the air so far as the defense of the country Is concerned. The Increase sought this year is Imperative on account of the equipment situation, which is - becoming acute. Owing to rapid deterioration of plane in service and the unavoidable number of crashes, the constant replacement program must go on uninterrupted. For four years the government ha been using for the most part war equipment, new construction being confined largely to development of types. Commercial aviation in the country, largely dependent on army and navy aviation, has been checked materially. It Is conservatively estimated that within two years there will be less than 300 available combat planesln the army service. At present only about 450 airplays are available for combat use, with almost a negll- gible number under construction. Compared to the 220 squadrons with 2,000 machines that France soon will be able to mobilize and the home defense force of 52 squadrons called for in the new program under way In England, making a total of 74 squadrons, the present force in the American army is woefully inadequate, In the opinion of aviation heads. Plan to Lighten the Presidents Burden are threefold of the subjects receiving ONE attention of members congress who returned for the Harding funeral approximately 40 senators and 110 representatives was the urgency of legislative action to lighten the burdens of the presidency that contributed to his death. Three concrete plans were suggested. e One was laid before President by Walter F. Brown, close friend of the late executive, and framer of the departmental reorganization plan laid before congress. He proposed the creation of assistant to the President to relieve him of grinding details. Senator Edge (Rep., N. J.), suggested that more work be put upon the vice president. He would vest him with authority to administer the budget, which was recently added to the presidents duties. Mlchener (Rep., Representative Mich.), a member of the house judiciary committee that would have to pass on this matter, declared the presidency should be limited to one term so there will be no need for so much time being devoted to political matters such as go along with plans to seek As Mr. Brown sees U, the functions Coo-lidg- of the president social, political and governmental. The assistant could take over many of the details connected with the latter, such as the signing of papers, dictating replies to letters and meeting many of the congressmen calling with patronage and other complaints. Under the present system, Mr. Brown said, the president has a scant two hours daily to devote to the task of being the nations chief, so that election to this place virtually mean signing a mans death warrant. The proposed assistant would be appointed by the president and subject to him In all matters delegated to his care. Under the plan Senator Edge advances a simple amendment could be written to existing law transferring budget administration to the vice president With all due regard and reverence of the office of vice president, he continued, it has today less constitutional responsibility than any other high office of the government or any member of congress. If through legis- lation the vice president was made the financial officer of the government, to him the budget bureau and department heads and even cabinet officers would come to discuss the financial affairs of the government. America Leads : World in Radio Field Ingenuity, tor AMERICAN capacity domains with has confidence supreme placed this country far beyond all others In another scientific field . radio. There are now 566 broadcasting stations in the United States, in addition to seven In the outlying possessions. This is many times more than in all the rest of the world together. For Instance, England has six ; France, five; Germany, one; Belgium, , one ; Czecho-Slovaki- a, one ; China, one, with a few others scattered in other countries. Canada, with 30 broadcasting Nations and several amateur broadcasters, far surpasses the mother country. Her progress in this line, however, is probably due to the influence of this country, particularly from the many stations along the bor- der. The reason weve got ahead so fast In this country is because we're willing to experiment, and , to try things out, and then correct our mls-akafterward," W. D. Terrell, chief adlo Inspector of the Department of ommerce, said: We went right ahead, and then our methods as we found our ui mistakes. When we. found that there was confusion on account of so many broadcasting on the same wave lengths, we got together and adopted regulations that removed the trouble. An Englishman who came over here not long ago to examine our method of handling radio communication told me he thought our system was all wrong. Yet look at the difference. We have nearly 600 broadcasting stations, giving satisfactory service. ' They have six. They wanted to perfect their system before going ahead. We went ahead first, and improved our system as we discovered the best ways to accomplish what we were after. One hindrance to development In foreign countries, Terrell said, are the rigid laws for radio. In England, radio broadcasting Is practically a monopoly. The six stations there are organized in one corporation, and fees are charged for service, just as for telephone service here. It Is puily a commercial proposition. In Germany It Is ?he same. It may come to a commercial basis here some day," Terrell said, but right now everybody Is satisfied with the present svstem." v . |