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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSVILLE, UTAH but declares will not allow desire for economy to in- TERFERE with efficiency. RAISE FUNDS FOR HIGHWAYS ' Dr. Langdon of the University of Pennsylvania .Announce Determination to be for All the People Desirous , of a "Good, Clean, Progressive Gov-emo- r Business Administration. Governor Simon Inducted office eraa Into Bamberger . governor of Utah at noon on Jan nary 1, to the presence of 6,000 people who filled the rotunda of the cap ttol and Jammed the galleries. Democratic leaders from all parts . of the state and members of the rank and file of the party together with a representation of Republicans and Progressives united In welcoming the incoming administration. - When Governor Baberger had delivered his Inaugural address, other took the oath ol State officers-elec- t the district judges then and office were sworn In. Governor and Mrs. ization shook hands with hunInformal reception follow- ing the Inaugural. In the corse of his Inaugural address, Governor Bamberger declared that economy will be our watchword yet we will not allow our desires for economy to interfere with efficiency, but will always strive for the further Improvement of the heritage of our .great state, the broadening of her influence, , the conserving of her energies, the development of her resources and the enhancing of her glory "Twenty years ago the first governor of this state was Inaugurated," said Governor Bamberger. "In that brief time what a remarkable develop ment has occurred; what beautiful cities have been built! What industries have been completed! Wlh&t reWhat sources have been developed! magnificent structures erected! What deserts have been reclaimed under the strenuous husbandry of our Industrious citizens! "This lying before ns, such ' short valley while ago but a- bare plain, with here and there a little stream of water, along whkh grew a few willows and rushes, and here and there a clump of sage brush, has indeed been made to blossom likethe rose' Thia is the and we can truly say, - -- place. "For the first time we are holding these inaugural ceremonies in a build- lug of our own, and such a building si twe can indeed be proud of. Set on this hill, overlooking this beautiful .city, with a background of the capped peaks of the Wasatch range, it commands a view not anywhere to be excelled. Built from Utah materials almost exclusively and designed by one of her citizens, it Is Indeed a monument to our thrift our enterprise and our resources. ' Great credit is due to our retiring governor, William Spry, who , has made Utah a most capable and energetic leader. - Not only has he been most zealous In advancing the opment of our state within itself, hut he has .also put Utah in an advanced place among the other states of the nation. 1 have endeavored to be a good citizen and to keep my oath of citizenship. I will likewise try to fulfill oath as governor, with the deep- est appreciation of the task which 1 am undertaking. U shall ever strive to be a governor of the state of Utah, not governor of any religious, social, racial or industrial faction, but governor of a united people, desirous of obtaining a good, clean, honest, progressive, business administration. my EXECUTIVE LOCKED OUT. Hunt of Arizona Refuses to Give Up Office. Phoenix," Ariz. Interest in the efforts of G. W. F. Hunt Democratic ilalmant to the office of governor of Arizona, to prevent occupancy of the office of Thomas E, Campbell, Repub- an, who waa formally inaugurated Monday, centers in the probable legal teps expected to follow. An armed deputy sheriff, acting, he ad, on the authority of Leroy Ladd, Hunts private secretary, prevented Campbell, from occupying the gov srnors office. A suggestion by Camp-adheren- that broken ts the doors be down provoked cheers from crowd, which witnessed tiebut Campbell counselled ihe - inau-Piratio- n, employment of orderly irowd dispersed means and the quietly. Legion of Honor Head a Private. Perpignan;-' France? German' GeP' jrd Amanrich, commander of the Le- -- PpBof Honor who had retlred from me service; has Joined the army aa a Private in an artillery regiment. Hundred Die In FUod. London hundred person ere drowned in Clermont, by a Cool which gashed away the main street and all houses In low lying places, says --O- Queens-Australi- I I a, Reuters dispatch from Brisbane. Moscow's Gates Are Closed. Berlin. The military commander Moscow the United State Department of Agriculture.) of a county Intending to raise funds for highway Improvement would do well to consider the advan- tages to them of the deferred serial People plan over the ordinary sinking-funbonds. Unplan of retiring long-terder the serial plan, a certain amount of bonds Is retired each- year and the bonds so retired cease to be an Interest charge on the community. Under the sinking-funplan none of tho bonds Is retlrable until the end of a definite period, ami the entire sum d - teresting light has been shed on this ancient civil , Governor Retirement Plan. clay tablets dug out of Babylonian ruins . An in , 3amberger Good Road Bonds on Deferred Museum is finding some remarkable documents on gait Lake City. dreds at an Important Saving Effected by Issuing haa closed that city to mgees, says the Overseas News ncL which adds that the city is sded People from Roumania, essa- - and southern Russii. of d the Mystic East NDOUBTEDLY the Sunierlan-Akk- a dlnn gentleman of 2500 R C. took down from the shelves of his library a copy of The Handy Letter Writer and sought the model upon which he might build the Important communication he had-Ihand. To his wife he made little hen scratches and scrawls that great scholars tell us read : Beloved light of mines eyes: Thy extravagances are beyond all fe patience of man. Behold, thy slave Is returning without the shekels thou so brazenly hast demanded. Ever thy devoted husband. Or, to a slave overseer who, had wittingly or unwittingly done him In some household deal, he stylused In hot haste : It Is with sorrow that thy stupidity Is borne upon my consciousness. Thoa hast cheated me lit scales and tn pricer D thee, thou art not Worth three Jbekas week which Is probablywhat a slaves food cost then. This, according to May Bosnian writing in the New York Sun. She continues : At all h of tablet records eventy the dug up in Mesopotamia In recent years and cleaned and deciphered shows so many little familiar, Intimate touches and such an abundance of letter writing on all subjects under the sun that the possibility of the existence of epistolary guides then must be borne upon our conscious too. ness, An Interesting lot of deciphering of such tablets is being accomplished by Dr. Stephen Langdon, who came In September from Oxford, England, to be curator of the Babylonian division of the University of Pennsylvania museum In Philadelphia. He is a young man still, but he Is the only man living who has seen and handled all the thousands of tablets unearthed by University of Pennsylvania museum expeditions above the city of Nlp-pu-r, both those retained by the authorities at Constantinople and those sent to Philadelphia. There are only about 15 men In the world who can read Sumerian and Babylonian characters, and he la one of them. Thanks to the war, which has left Oxford a dull, jlead spot, America has secured him for one year He will decipher as many as possible of the thousands of tablets that have been cleaned ,at the University of Pennsylvania museum, will publish translations of all Important ones, now or later, and will classify and catalogue the collectloh, a stupendous task. In 2500 B, C. papyrus and paper for writing , were unknown. Men scratched with a pointed steel Instrument called a stylus on unbaked red day tablets of various sizes, mostly about the size, shape and thickness of a small book. They wrote on both sides, and then, if they were not through, continued on another tablet The analogy of these tablets to sheets of paper Is not hard to comprehend. Sometimes a tale stops In the middle and the next tablet on which It was continued Is never found, or 4s found years later. In the temples scribes were busy copying old pieces of literature to hand down to posterity, just as later monks spent their days" and their nights copying laboriously and preserving old The books for the archives of the monastery. work of the amanuenses was placed on shelves In a library neat little rows and piles of clay books. Meir digging 5,000 years later have found them, and other men have spent their lives In studying them, that they might tell us what the tablets say. The books cover a wide field and comprise odes, epics, religious hymns, dictionaries, scientific pamphlets. - The .old Babylonian and Sumerian temples were, also, great industrial, commercial, g centers, and they agricultural and documents of relating to these kept a vast number n t' raised bears Interest for the entire life of the bond. The county, therefore, pays interest on the money so borrowed and In addition sets aside each year as a sinking fund an amount , sufficient to retire all the bonds when they become due. The sinking fund Is deposited with banks and cams some interest. This interest ordinarily Is only three per cent, whereas the county has to pay five or six pet cent to Its bondholders. The serial plan Is a much cheaper method of raising money for road Improvement, even when the sinking fund earns In- erest as high as four per cent, and In the opinion of the road specialists of the department should be utilized whenever it Is possible to market serial bonds. In a study of the road bond Issues of several counties, J, E. Penny-backand M. O. Eldrldge of the division of fond economics, office of public roads and rural engineering, found that the serial plan, If It had been adopted by several counties, would have saved the taxpayers In one county $154,2(19, In another county $80,702, and In a third county $05,307 over the. other plan with a sinking fund bearing Interest at three per cent With a sinking fund earning four per cent, the saving would have run as high as $72,288 In one of these counties. These conclusions appear In the recently published Department Bulletin 893, Eco- - . er I- great-wealt- rator since the beginning of the European war, sltlon ts by no means primitive The date of this book is 2,300 B. Geography was taught, as were astronomy and history. In the collection Is the oldest history yet found, a tablet giving the list of Babylonian kings going back to the flood. The claim Is that It Is a record of 25,000 years; but this may be disputed, since the ninnes of the monarchs, which seem to be those of men who rgned successively, may be ot men who ruled simultaneously, In kingdoms that were adjacent A conservative estimate Is that ihis history covers 14,000 ears. There Is a book on botany, teaching the people how to raise the date palm, an Important crop of the times. Agricultural books abound, for the temple had a collegiate department. Just as hare Cornell and other American universities, where, scientific farming was taught The Babylonians, as is well known, were remarkable engineers and past masters In the field of irrigation. It Is not surprising that Doctor Langdon has found many records of this In the museums Babylonian collection. We learn, .again, of canals being dug,-anof a tablet tharchronlcles the opening of a great waterway, like the Panama canal the bration over It, the presence of the king, and the pride felt In the great skill of Its engineers. Further documents are reported Verifying previous assertions that the Babylonian woman received an education equal to mans, took her place with him in certain lines, and was compensated with the same wage as he. Books had no cases and when found are often crumbled, broken, cracked or so badly chipped that parts of the translation must be guessed at or omitted entirely Others, fortunately, are found a 1 when Dr. Arno Toebel left to Join his regiment at the German fronL The Eckley B. Coxe, Jr expeditions, which began operations In Egypt In 1889 and have carried them on through various n years since, even finding localities of the land where they can still operate this year, have sent back to the museum an Incalculable treasure-trove- , not only In tablets, but In all kinds ef articles dug up from the dirt layers of Biblical lands. and All this accumulation has not had deserved. Doctor Langdons labors will be bent nomic Surveys of County Highway ' Im- provement The following concrete .examples ire taken from this bulletin: In Dallas County, Ala the bonds amounted to $350,000, payable In 80 I years at five per cent Assuming the sinking fund to bear three per cent in--lt terest, as set forth In the chapter on - toward arranging the Babylonian exhibit The I Dallas county, the total financial bur collection is the largest In the world. No other den to the county for Interest and the museum haa such a quantity of aacred Sumerian I liquidation of the bonds during the period will be $745,70210. An documents, which make thia the most Important I Babylonian collection tn the world, even though I equal amount of bonds at the same rate of interest, If Issued under. the s,tt Is not so large aa that In the British museum. dam-1 deferred aerial bond method, with the much The war, which already has done bo re-- 1 first bonds payable six years from the us to bids rob this ef fair comparative age, cent achievement the ability to decipher these date of Issuance and an equal amount tablets which tell of the lives and histories of payable each year thereafter for 24 peoples who lived so many hundred years ago. years, would cost the county at the I Younger men, like Foebel, are at the front and end of 30 years $005,000, or a differ-ma- y 1 never come back; other Egypto-ence, aa compared with the sinking men. fund method, of $80,702. If four per are old loglsts I cent could be realized on the on to be men sinking will left Not enough young carry I fund Instead of three the - the work of cent, cuneiform per ancient the translating serial deferred the for plan scholars When away saving the pass present writings. still plan would the achievement jnay dlejwlth them and Sumerian-- 1 over Hie sinking-funAkkadian become again a dead language, for not be $47,216. . I Lauderdale county, Mississippi, enough young college men are proposing to take I which issued $500,000 of five and five up archeology. I an one-haper cent bonds, adopt There is today no endowed seat of Assyriology aerial-bondeferred ed the method, of The In any university. PennsylUniversity Intact. vania museum is exerting every effort to secure with the first payment coming It years Letters, on the other hand, were sent In ensuch an endowment, that other Intellect of so I from the flate of Issue and the last f When the also of tablet letter had clay. velopes, high an order as Doctor Langdons may be en--1 payment 5 years. If the county had basis been duly Inscribed and signed. It was rolled In couraged and helped to carry on a work similar issued the bonds on the the cost would have been $900,875, as a fine clay powder and slipped Into a hollow clay to his. with the cost of the basis pocket More clay dust was then shaken In, so Eckley B. Coxe, Jr died In Philadelphia In Sep- - comparedof $972132, or a difference that layers of powder were packed about the con- adopted tember last and left an endowment fund of $500,of tents of the pocket and the lettervcould not get $05107. 000 to carry on the work he has been equipping Even In the case of a small Issue rubbed or scratched. The clay opening was then expeditions to do In Egypt so many years. But the sealed and stamped with the sender ring. advantage of the serial plan Is one expedition can only scratch the surface of the I Illustrated In Dinwiddle CountyVir- waa added and a slave Afterward, the address myriad hills there and the countless buried and ginla. This county Issued $105,000 of dispatched with It Later, we know that Baby forgotten cities that lie beneath them. - Ionian payable In and Sumerian government supported reguOur only hope of getting the rest of the tablets five and six per rent bonds,are callable 30 bonds but the years, lar postal systems. It Is quite possible that that buried there, says Doctor Langdon, is to go back various Interests. " 20 that after 2300 In was C. B. Assuming in existence they years. regime to Nippur again and again, and dig for them. EnMillions of tablets have been found recording 25 years of end will at the retired be found are with letters seals, Many unbroken, dowments for these expeditions are another of the sales of cattle, slaves and staple' goods; marriage the sinking-funand these are marvellously preserved In their soft plan, with inter crying needs of scholars. The world at large will 0Q contracts and agreements ; divorce decrees ; wills ; four per cent, on at fund est can We aurmlse reason the sinking only powdered pads. lose if archeological excavations and research receipts for Innumerable things from jewelry and would cost be $218,031, total a man the sealed state. sealed for their Perhaps kept have to be abandoned. womans dresses to human chattels. There are had the If most whereas to of letters the he had adopted they Important copies There Is no doubt that the general public apprethe timekeepers' slips of the temple workers, and would be cost method transacof the serial records and write. copies Duplicate found has ciates the work done by museums and by scholars. bookkeeping accounts. Doctor Langdon or a difference of $16,93L tions have been unearthed, sometimes miles apart; To Biblical students alone there is lnexhanstlble $201,100, that one big banking house did business In the could same have and the held, practice rationally, pleasure and satisfaction to be derived from facts city of Babylon for 600 years. of letters. found been unearthed of Biblical and have tablets REMOVE STUMPS FROM FIELD peoples. the of -.- .The great bulk Some of these letters may never have been tn of Nippur now archancient Is temple There the of complete agreement among on the site delivered, thanks to an inefficient postal service Hammurabi la that same Amraphel They Take Up Valuable Room and. This temple was both a religious that eologists Babylonia. some more la particular locality i or, and thia, la Genesis" 14:1, A "contemporary "of Abraham. Make Work More Difficult for center and a college designed primarily for the the breaking out of frequent revolutions "of plausible, of textbooks the but range From chronological Inferences It follows that Both Man and Animal. education of priests, could have conceivably crippled the Babylonian Abraham may well have attended school at the unearthed there shows that Instruction began at a post offices and left many letters forever undethrough elementary temple In Nlppnr; nay, that he studied these very primary stage and continued If yon have stumps In your fields livered. college the to books that are now In the University of Pennsylregulation and grammar grades that you have been plowing around and to Indubitably the oldest undelivered letter in the vania museum, ne may have read there the ad- - for years, course, as Babylonians" conceived It, hdetermine to get them out 'world Is la- the Baby Ionian collection f the U&t not count of tbe'creation-Wh- y classesr Tfid textbooks of 'ihway:thlA::Wtoteir;:They'mkko: verslty of Pennsylvanla museanults. date wouldtail, of . intellectuality Indeed, the resemblances It harder for man and animal working be 2200 B. C and Doctor Langdon opened and home of again us bring to today Let me take out and touch one of those tab-- 1 ln tbe eeldf an(i take up valuable of these people I of week read it only last lets, said a . religious man recently ln the Uni-- 1 room. the unchangeableness of the great antiquity una some from or master to his is to slave It called. so 1 believe ln civilization, verslty of Pennsylvania museum. or employee. Obviously, It Is only one of found repeatbeen have derling must have heart the hand that Abraham books of my exercise Work for Hired Man, Boys several letters, since it refers to previous correcollections. They were held or all them of 5,000 other any ago I In. and years nearly this fhan who Is worth anyThe hired edly. la spondence and Jo a previous transaction overT school slates, but like .present-dathing prefers to work where the busiwhich the writer is perturbed. Its archaic marked on them with ness Is well planned and definitely clay and the little fellow Greek Meets. Greek. mistake blotted is dictatorial, overbearing and peevish, a stylo, and when he made a Some Scots were enjoying the fun of the fair. worked out. and rants of some unsatisfactory flour deal that It out with his thumb. the underling has undertaken. One wonders Seeing an old fiddler In the street, a few of them textbook Methods In Disrepute. The quality and range of the over to him, and one, handing him went I became flour of that whatever Books on mathematics abound; they Slipshod, haphazard, general farmasked him to play the Battle of Stirling Brig. Other tablets now being catalogued have pictaugh? the multlpli'V tion table up to 2,400 and is la disrepute and the day cf sciing The old fiddler took the money and went rasping tures on them. One, a hunting scene, reminds financial transactimes a number. In their entific and specialized effert tax same as the before. The audience getting one of the prehistoric cave drawings found in away to do stupendous calculations come to tions Sumerians had stay. of over the fs founC a tired There France. of to went another battle this, scene, very has Just spokesman again In their heads. Doctor Langdon J to fiddler him and said much rare of no broken but In the and man, III, the thats used study Interesting. mo a comprehensive volume Spending t230,CC:,crj. The Cuming of Doctor Langdon to the Universi"I ken, replied the 'Battle of Stirling Brig, books one dealing law- - and among the grammar 43 states are now rp; The museum old use of the Is timely and forthe fiddler, thats the skirmish before the batwith ty of Pennsylvania particularly and completely a year ci good rc xfij. 5280,000,000 cutunate. no The at division tla. the has had prepoBabylonian A race that has arrived proposition. war-ridde- pre-Blbtlc- al -- . the-attent- lon 1 30-ye- ar . well-know- n, 1 d lf d stock-raisin- d pre-BIbllc- theo-Wglc- show-a-hig- order al af - -- y an two-penc- e, S) - |