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Show r- - every day furnished rooms are rented easily EVERY DAY PROPERTY IS SOLD THROUGH THE HELP OF. THE CLARIFIED., ADS,.. ; THROUGH CLASSIFIED ADS. VOLUME XLIV. LOGAN, CACHE COUNTY. UTAH. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 29. 1923. ' 1924 WILL REWARD THE FORESIGHTED STEIIETZ NUMBER 311. PROF. J. P. McMURRICH THE ELECTI- Il- Babson Points Out The Opportunities For Business Men , WELLESLEY HILLS, Muss., Dec. 28, 1923. Roger W. Babson, internationally known sta- tistician, reviewed developments during the past year and outlined the probable' trends for 1924 in a special statement issued today. A year ago, says Mr. Babson, business was 'still improving rapidly. Nearly everybody turned to the new calendar optimistically. The boom which started in the early fall of 1922 was well under way and carried on to March of. 1923. Then it collapsed! - Business fell off during the summer and this past .fall failed to come up to the expectations of those who looked for a continuation of tbe As a result, the business world is facing 1924 with a confused mind. It is safe to say that the majority of business men today are hoping for a boom year, but if they are strictly honest with themselves they must admit that they are not very confident of seeing these hopes realized. Many prominent men in industry have prophesied great prosperity. At the same time, the numerous blocs represented in the new Congress are evidence that certain sections of the country, at least, are not satisfied with things as they are. Many business men, if asked if they.are making money, will shake their beads in a disturbed way. Europe is still sick and we cannot expect to proceed regardless of tions across the Atlantic! Then there is the psychology of the Presidential year. Does it mean better business or worse business? Some people contend that things are alw ays.; Unsettled previous to a national election-Othepoint to' the fact that the administration will do all that it possibly can to help between nowr and next November. It has been proven statistically, to my satisfaction at least, that elections have very little effect on business one way or another, provided both sides nominate good candidates. The up-swin-g. rs Had a Wonderful Personality According To His Private Secretary Miss Cecile Rhein i evidence shows rather that busi- that are healthiest for the business has a decided effect upon ness world. the elections. Whenever we Excessive prosperity, .like have chosen a president during a period of business depression we have usually changed parties. If the election has fallen during a period of business prosperity we havp. usually kept the previous administration in office.' This time neither condition really exists. We are in a period between these ' tw o extremes. Three Kinds of Business It seems to me that the things to watch are in an entirely different direction. "Business activity may be divided into three zones or belts. (1) An Upper Zone, such as we were in during the war and postwar periods, when everybody is optimistic, excited and extravagant. (2) A IiOwer Zone, when the reverse is true, when many are discouraged, and when a readjustment such as we had in 1921 and 1922 .hutaking place. (3), A Middle Zone, when conditions .Vary frrtm only fair to what is called tjuite satisfactory business. This third Zone is what we have been traversing for the latter part of 1923 and is the one in v hich we are today. It is these periods between abnormal prosperity and depression, when things are neither very bad nor extremely active. - C" ' . , ther than honest effort, and upsets our sense of value and the true proportion of things. Again, the inevitable and ensuof depression is It discourages men and wrecks businesses that have been a lifetime in the building. Its costs are written not only in dollars but in hunger, in want, and in human suffering. In business, as in weather, moderate conditions are healthiest. Unfortunately, however, a large proportion of American business men are happy only during a period of boom. They are like the individual, who can be comfortable only when it is 80 degrees in the shade. Most of the time they are unhappy. It stands to reason that these business men, who insist that they must have rising commodity prices, and speculative profits in order to do business and make progress, cannot have this condition to help them much more than a quarter of the time. In this case, three quarters of their business lives are spent in ing period heart-breakin- g. fcom-muni- ty 'the Stein-metZ'jw- tie south of the corner of First South and Third West. The Third ward school was built just a short distance west of the present Ellis school building and the. Fourtli ward school on the court house property near the Harris block. , Those school houses were built by donations of labor, money materials from the people, .y ho were indeed community Following is a partial list, dated 1865, of some of the fibutions made for the construction of one of the school igs and shows how the people in those days had tocheme or to get public buildings of any kind : VJT4 Anderson, 4 toads of rock $16.00; Hans HanSen, dig-Vndatioiv, $6.25; Moses Peterson, digging foundation, gmg fou, reckY'pl'O: m Gillings, 9 bushels of wheat, $45.00; Godbe, a gore) door hinges, screws, turpentine and oil for' " ?wn$,' $12.30; Fred Hirst, an order on Godbe store, $9.80; j 5 bushels wheat, $25.00' and 200 adobes, $1.60; C. 2 books, 75c; George Foster, hauling sand, 2 bushel Robbins, wheat, $10.00 ; Thomas Davidson, 4 loads of reck. $16.00 and one pair of leather boots. $20.00; John Blanchard, 10 loads "Of rock, loads of rock, $40.00 and 630 adobes, $4.10; E. T. Benson, bushels wheat, $25.00 and 400 adobes, $16.00; David Reese,-. bushels wheat, $12.50; H. Jtonson, 11 $3.20; Jacob West, lbs. leather, bushels red wheat, $55.00, ax handle, $2.50, 6 $32.50, and labor, $5.00; Peter' Maughan, 5 bushels wheat, $23.00; Peter Affleck, $7.60; William Earl, 3 wooden buckets; Robert Camm, hauling adobes, $19.60& G. Ilymer, black board, Li bushel wheat, and shingling; A. HaVris, $29.80; IL W. Isaacson, $6.00; David Jenkins, $13.40; James Peterson. 215 feet of lumber; Adam Kent, 43.24 bushels of wheat, $216.52; Heze-- kiah Thatcher, $336.20. The school teachers in the FiiSt ward school were John Cham-- . bers, C. O, Card, Harriet Preston, Charles G. Davis, Phoebe Davis and Ida lone Cook: Mr. C. O. Catd also taught in the Sec- ondward school. For years Mr. William IL Apperly taught in. the Third Ward school, Moses Thatcher, Lottie and Bell Ben son, & W. Penrose, now in the presidency of the L. D. S. Church, and Joseph E. Hyde were some of the teachers in the Fourth ward school. Miss Louisa Ballif and Harriet Preston conducted private schools for a number of years. The fees for the public srtide..weie $3 on for a term for each student. . Sonic of the early school books were Wilsons readers. Ray's arithmetics, Websters Blue Back spellers, and Monteiths geographies. A school district was created and the first school election was held in August J.872 and the following were elected as the school trustres: Charles 0. Card, Alvin Crockett and Robert Davidson. These trustees also had supervision over the Logan High School or seminary held in the Lindquist Hall now occupied by Mrs. Mattie B. Hansen on the corner of First East and Second North. From this seminary the Brigham Young College was , ' v- 63 2-,- , very hot weather, saps our itality, inflates our currency, and drives prices out of all proportions to true values.' Such a period .encourages speculation ra- 62 f ' Being secretary to the late Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a rich experience in the winsome human dinracteristics of this eminent .electrical Nothing engineer. more dearly, meals the sorrow caused by his death than the sensibility with which his sere-- ; tary, Miss Cecile A. Rhein, recalls the office life of Dr. Steinmetz' over a period of five years. The first few weeks of that period were, for her, like an adwaiting for this particular busi- venture of discovery. She had ness season in which they are been assigned temporarily to the ready to operate. They are not Consulting Engineer Departcontented with business when it ment, but without the remotest is in the Central Zane and are idea that she was to work directextremeljunhappy during a de- ly forl)r. Steinmetz. pression. My confusion, she says, at The entire business seeing his nameplate on the ofwould be much bette fice can hardly be imagined. off if w e. complained of exce? owever, I determined to do my sive booms as we complain of best forw hat I thought would severe depressions and if we be only' a week or two. I did not welcomed the moderate condi- see the doctor for several weeks, tions, which are neither so very and had never seen him at all bad nor yet extremely good, as before this time; and what was the proper business weather. told me of his greatness filled me We ought to have more of this with equanimity. When Dr. Steinmetz finally sort of condition ban any other, and the wise business man Hid came to the office, Miss w'ill set his "plans to operate un- Rhein discovered that fall her fears were needless. As she puts der these circumstances. atmosphere instantly 1923 CENTRAL ZONE YEAR it, and from that time cleared; The facts indicate that we she awaited his arrival each day shall have such a year during with ekuanimity. 1924, even though some of it Her first work for Dr. may bebelow average, rather done (urini i he inter: than above. 1906 and the early val in which he was absent from part of 1907 satf-- a boom and in- the office. The work was brought flation. The panic of the latter to her by Dr. Steinmetzs adoptyear took us down into a period ed son. J. IveRoy Hayden, writdepression lasting thru the ear- ten, taken home and brought ly part of 1908. Apart from a back again to be mailed or corportion of the years 1909 and rected . The most formidable 1910, we then enjoyed fairly piece of w'ork at this period, as as the first which she pergood business along this Central Zone until 1914. formed for the doctor, was the . A depression in 1914 laid revision of one of his textbooks, the foundation for a fairly Transient Phenomena. This on pane trnl (Continued on Pane Nine) (Coutinupd evolved. ' . " ' ( ESTABLISHMENT OF BRIGHAM YOUNG COLLEGE . In the year 1873 Charles O. Card, Robert Davidson, and Airin' Crockett wen! the trustees of the Iogan school district and the IiOgan seminary or high school came under their jurisdiction. For some tinfe Professor diaries Davis, who was a well educated man and a good disciplinarian was principal of the school. As his ideas were atheistic he was released and Mr. James Z. Stewart was secured to act as principal of the school. The Logan Seminary or High School was held in what was known as the Old Lindquist Hall, situated at the corner of First East and Second North streets. The building is at present omi H V (By Law of Evolution CanNot BeRepealed ' , Says Scientist (By Science Service) CINCINNATI, Dec. 28 "Evolution can not be killed by ledeclared gislative enactment. the retiring president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Prof. J. Playfair McMurrich of the University of Toronto in a notable address which opened the program of the seven day meeting of the .association here toProfessor McMurrich night. reviewed the progress in scientific thought iu the 75 years since the association was founded and stated that the doctrine of evolution was the guiding clue through the flood of new knowledge, the stimulating idea without which much of scientific progress would nevei have been conceived. Doubts of its validity could only be based on ignorance or prejudice, he said. Professor McMurrich continued: In, the popular mind the doctrine of evolution is so completely involved in Darwins exposition of it, that it; has come to be regarded ak the; product of his brain. Consequently any acknowledgment that some of Darwins' views may require modification is assumed to imply that the foundations of Evolution are shaken. It seems trite to repeat once more the true relation of Darwins theory tq the doctrine of evolution, but -- JOEL-R1CKS- ) II It might help the reader to better understand the narratives of the early pioneers, if we noted some of the conditions as they were at the time. The riv- - er had, for generations been the abode of numerous colonies of beaver, whose dams were found at intervals, in all of the river chanels, until the entire space betw een the Logan bench, and the Providence bench to the South was filled with little streams of water trying to force their way through the willows and drift wood which blocked their way. AH of that space at that time w'as covered with a dense growth of willows, so thick that one could hardly work his way through them. On the higher ground between the little streams were groves of cottonwood. This was true of all of thd island district from near the mouth of the canyon down nearly to the junction with the Blacksmiths Fork. All of the bench land east of the Oregon Short Line depot was covered with a dense growth of sage brush, with some grass in the small open spaces. In the lower valley to the West wild grass' was abundent. When the pioneers came in, their first thought was to find a spot of ground, moist enough to .grow a crop Without iniga-.tipn- .i or jvhere water could be secured With little work.--' This is why!some located on the Providence creek, and others went on to Summit creek, (Smith-field- ). All of their camps were located along the brew of the hill from the Deseret mill to Bordens factory, where they would be convenient to water , (Continued on Pass Eight) (Continued on page ten) 61 Wjth the' growing school population it was not long until the ward school buildings were not adequate so a lond issue for $23,000.00 was passed and part of the present Woodruff school building, the Card school now used as a meeting house for the Twelfth Ward, the Ellis school, and the Webster school building now a part of the Tenth ward meeting house, were constructed. The Woodruff being a central school was to take care of any overflow of the schools in other parts of the city. At this time Miss Ida lone Cook who was an able educator, was the superintendent of the schools and the following were the teachers employed: W. G. Reese, W. S. Langton, W1 G. Raymond, T. IL Merrill, J. H. Squires, Miss Bessie Morehead, Miss Rhoda Bowen, Miss Frances Maughan, Miss Mary A. Thain, Miss Armenia Parry, Miss V. Dobbs, Miss, May Richman, and Miss Francis Wood. The trustees were S. A. Ijangton, William Edwards, Richard Yebtes, Andreas Peterson,' and Christian Larson. as Personal Reipiniscences of Its First Settlers Forgotten Scenes And Incidents Recalled By Words of Those Who - Took Part In Them 7 I pied by Mrs. Edward Hansen as an apartment house. Whpu Mr. James Z. Stewart took charge of the school in 1873 it was quite large as now students had come from Salt Lake County, Box Elder County and as far south as Iron county and from south- em Idaho. The enrollment was between eighty and one hundred students. The students were not graded as they are now but their grade was referred to according to the reader the student was using, the third, fourth, or fifth leader grade, and in the school they were the third, fourth, and fifth grade. There were some advanced students who did not take leading so there were special classes in Algebra, Geometry, Ti igonometry, Philosophy, Chemistry and Civil Government. The&e subjects were all taught by one teacher at a salary of $116.90 per month during the sohool season. The one teacher had at no time less than eighty students. Many of these students later in life occupied prominent and responsible positions in the countv, state and nation. In 1873 Mr. J. Z. Stewart was called to fill a mission for the L. I). S. Church in Mexico and President Brigham Young int Miss Ida lone Cook tp Logan to take charge of the Logan Seminary or High School with the riew of establishing a school to.be known as Young College. "Miss Cook taught in the s&me building as Mr. James Z. Stewart did, namely the old Lindquist , ( v f -- m Hall. , On July 21, 1877, President Brigham Young deeded to a board of trustees, consisting of Brigham Young Jr., as president, M. D. Hammond, treasurer, and Ida lone Cook, secretary, a tract of land to be usJd for the support of an institution of learning. The tract of land consisted of 9,642.07 acres including practically all of the land in the present College ward precinct, and part of West Millville and Providence and some of Wei Is vi lie. The institution was to be known as the Brigham Young College. The parties named in the deed met August 7, 1877 and accepted the trust and organized as a board. The deed of trust provided who the beneficiaries of the College should be arid that students who took a full course should be taught, if their physical ability permitted, some branch of mechanics. Further that all students should be instructed in " the common branches, together with such other branches as are taught in the institutions of learning. Also the Old and New , " Testaments, Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants should lie standard text books in the College. 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