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Show STATE lire Macadam Is Regaining Favor With -- Modern Builders, Who Are Now Looking at Annual Cost. A few years ago road builders Joined in a universal requiem for the water-bounmacadam i road In New York state. It served Its purpose when vehicles" weto all horse drawn. It was acknowledged, but with the advent of motor vehicles .It was 'laid aside with the muzzle loaders, crinolines and other prides of depart-e- d days. But recently the macadam road has come hack again Into favor. This - Is because road of ficials are now Judging the cost of a road by its total annual expense, including maintenance and sinking fund. On this basis It has been discovered that a macadam roud is an old-fashion- d - '& V ? ? tl,i i va . r ' VMVWVWWX-Z- - JV'erCei vy Wv, V When the motorcycle he was nding collided with an automobile, Benj.uuia IL Newman, aged 27, was seriously injured at Ogden. During the past few weeks nearly 3,000 head of horses have been purchased in Ogden by. the United army commission. In the selective draft, three brothers in one Utah family were drawn. Tinware Ronald, Loran and Stanley Jarett, all of Nephi. . With appropriate ceremonies, t)i(, SSO.&OQ pumping plant project whb i, was recently completed at LewUton was opened last week. As the result of Injuries received in an automobile accident near Tenter-ville- , William Thad Horne, aged is, of Ogden, died last week. According- - to int-tl BfiouaeeWnt--- ; MaJ. W. G. Williams, extopt in a very few cases no further enlistments win be accepted for the Utah First light ar- Human nature becomes brutalized by conflict, but the men in the trenches, both friend and enemy, have their fun and comradeship and kindliness MOST ECONOMICAL OF ROADS AR has outwardly lost Its romance with Its color and pageantry. It is bloody, ugly and horrible. Yet romance is not still survives, radiant and glowingJLm the .heroic kchlevements of our soldiers and in the tender fancies of d'ad.It -- their hearts.". Thus writes Stephen Stapleton, an English-maltv the Contemporary Review. And he sets forth with vividness some manifestations of this romance-lit- tle twilight gentle touches of an otherwise ghastlypictures, existence: In the trenches one evening a battalion of the Leinster regiment held a kailee, or Irish singsong, at which there was a spirited rendering of the humorous old, ballad, Brian OLyna, simg to an Infectiously rollicking tune. The opening verse runs: Brian O'Lynn had no breeches to wear. So he bought a sheepskin to make him a pair. ny 8lde out and the klany side In. ralr, tls pleasant and cool, says Brian O'Lynn e swing of the tune took the fancy of the Germans iu their trenches, less than CO yards away. With a tillery. n, Lewis Shepard, aged 8, while playing around a steel elevator at Iw.w ville, fell into the elevator and sustained injuries which resulted In hK death. The tax levy for Murray for 1917 will be 7 mills, that of Midvale lo mills, Sandy 12 mills, and Bingham i mills, in' addition to the state and county levy. ' The canners will not pay to exceed $13 a ton to apricot growers of Weber county this year, it is announced, although they had agreed to pay $3T a ton before the season opened. TMe farmers of Payson, Salem and Benjamin are planning xit druiriage project embracing the' reclaiming of more than 10,000 acres of the best land In the south end of Utah county. Aecordlng to a decision of the Weber county .board of education, the county consolidated schools will begin the fill term October 1, or about one week later than the usual time for opening. NlckPappagianls, a Greek resident of Midvale, was run down by an automobile on the state road near Mid- ' Macadam Road in New York. economical one for certain classes of travel. This was the opinion expressed .at the recent meeting of the New York State association of County Highway . Superintendents by many of those present. Practically all the recent roads built ty these men have two courses oj "broken stone, and frequently It Is possible to build the roads with a lower course of cheap local stone, using the .more expensive stone from a distance for the upper course only. This the first cost without causing any reduction in the life and strength of the road. When they are finished they are sometimes treated at once with tar or asphalt, but usually this treatment Is deferred long enough for travel over the road to reveal any weak spots, so they can be repaired before the oiling is done. It is this development of efficient and economical methods of maintenance with the help of road oils which has led ta the macadam renaissance of water-bonn- d .In New York. It la one of many recent i Indications that where the work ot (maintenance is thoroughly done and cost records of It are properly kept important light Is thrown on the best types of construction to carry travel ot different classes and Intensities. -- re-dne- es -- -- -- -- PLAN FOR ROAD MANAGEMENT ' Essential to Successful Htghway ministration Outlined Briefly Cut Out Politics. TSummarlted briefly, Ad- the essentials to successful state highway administration, as demonstrated by the ex- bythe Itate highway . depart-men- t of all work on which state funds are expended; tc) adequate appropriations for continuous maintenance of ihighways under efficient super mslOTr from the dnythe hfghways are completed ; d) state supervision as to surveys, plans, and specifications of roads and 'bridges constructed Tinnier bond" Issues, and supervision of wwh other road and bridge work as requires considerable cash outlay and lhe exercise of. engineering skill and knowledge.- - Yearbook United. States Department of Agriculture. -- QUESTION OF BETTER ROADS Poor Policy for Farmer to Refute to Listen to Arguments for Improve- -' merit of Highways. It wouldn't do any ofjw any harm look thoroughly into the question r Don't be narrow better roads. of the question one side lough to take id refuse to listen to any facts or linions advanced on the other side, man told us the other day that he id been trying to talk to another an who had an entirely erroneous union In regard to the federal aid He literally wouldnt roposition. tohe said. His head-waRteit me, full of the wrong Idea that no sound To (cmed able to penetrate It. be to ten Is not necessarily and to refuse to listen is to fuse foHbe broad minded enough to ar both sides and form a real opln-Twentieth Century Farmer.. s- con-nce- d, u. Grading and Drainage. a hi ft if 'blHgrtbd" ertfttrin and mds ls grading'draining. The next step, in and the Is ;xt dragging, ost localities, as long as the cost of good grade of asphaltic road oil resins below 6 cents a gallon, will be Tit (Tfilet"' sfe-jr- l Increase of Trunk Roads. The aid now rendered by the fed-government to the states will reply Increase the proportion of good Is ink roads. This under way In many states. al al-a- topical application: With the woolly side out and Ihe skinny side tn Sure well wallop the Gerrys, said Brian OLynn." Hearty bursts of laughter and cheers arose from both trenches at the conclusion of the song. It seemed as If the combatants gladly availed themselves of this chance opportunity of becoming 'united again in the common brotherhood of man, even for but a fleeting moment, by the spirit of good humo and hilarity. A young English officer of a different battalion of the same Leinster regiment tells of a more curious Incident still, which likewise led to a brief cessation of hostilities. Two privates in his company had a quarrel In the trenches, and nothing would do them but to fight It out on No Mans Land. The Germans were most appreciative and Not only did they not molest accommodating. the pugilists, but they cheered them, and actually fired the contents of their rifles In the air by way of a salute. The European war was, In fact, suspended In that particular section of the lines while two Irishmen settled (heir own little dlf--. ferences by a contest of fists. Who will now say the Germans are not sportsmen?" was the comment of the young English dy vale, one day last week, sustaining a. fracture of both bones In the right leg. officer, ed perience of the various state high- way departments, are as follows: (a) toie elimination of, politics as a factor In state highway work; (b) jthe control tum, they loudly hummed the air of the end of each verse, all unknowing that the.Lelnsters, singing at the top of their voices, gave the words a There is, however, another, and perhaps a shrewder view of the episode. It was taken by a sergeant of the company, Yerra, come down out of that, ye pair of born fools4," he called out to the fighters. If ye had only a glimmer of sense,' yed see, so ye would, that tis playing the Gerrys' game ye are. Sure.-therenothing theyd like better than to sojeUs all knocking blazes out of each other, But as regards the moral pointed bythe officer there must be, of course, many - sportsmen" among the millions of German soldiers; though the opinion widely prevailing In the British army is that they are often treacherous fighters. Indeed, to their dirty practices is mainly to be the bitter personal animosity that occasionally marks the relations between the combatants when "the fighting becomes most bloody and desperate,' and as happens at times In all wars ho, quarter Is given to those who allow -- - none. An Interchange of Christmas Presents. Amenities betweeu combatants' are very ancient. The Greeks and Trojans used to exchange pres- ents andcourtesIeslnthe Intervals of fighting.! and the early stages of this war seemed to afford a promise that they would be revived. The fraternizing of the British and Germans at their first Christmas under arms, io 1914, will, perhaps, always be accounted as the most curious episode of the war. The influence of the greatChristlan festival led to a7sspenslon of. hostilities along the lines, and the men on each side sVized the opportunity to satisfy their natural curiosity to see something more of each other than through the smoke of battle with deadly weapons in their hands and hatred In their eyes. Each side had taken prisoners; but prisoners are out of it," and therefore reduced to the level of noncombatants. The foeman in being appears In a very different light. He has the power to strike. You may have to kill him, or yow may byMrar So the British and Ihe Germans, - impelled in the main by a common feeling of inquisitiveness, met together between the lines on No Mans Land. There was some nmicable conversation where they could make themselves understood to each other, which happened when a German was found who could speak a little Euglish. Cigarettes and tunic buttons were freely exphanginl. But, for thp most' part, British and Germans stood with arms folded across their breasts and stared at each Other with m tttm . ir kind of d It never happened again. IIow could it possibly be repeated! The Introduction Into the conflict by the Germans In Jdgh .commnutL of the barbaric elements of frightfulness," hitherto confined to savage tribes at war; their use of such devilish inventions as poison gas and liquid flr; their belief only in brute strength and, as regards the common soldiers s the native lowness of morality, shown by so many, of them ; their io; ordinary humane instincts, into harden and embitter their tended evitably ries against them. Even so, British feeling is extraordinarily devoid of vindictiveness. The Germans, in the mass, are regarded as having been dehumanized and transformed into a process of ruthless destruction. In any east they are the enemy. As suclj, there Is a satisfaction nay, a positive delight in sweeping them out of existence. That Is war. But against the German soldier individually It may be said that, on the whole, there is no rancor. be-kill- ed " mrd-fasolT- , . indUVI apparent-13-Bfnsltlvene- ad-vers- a HEWS In fact, British soldiers have a curiously detached and generous way of regarding their countrys enemies. When the German soldier is taken prisoner or picked up wounded the British, soldier is disposed, as a hundred thousand instances show, to treat him as a pal, to divide his food and share his cigarettes with him as he passes to the base, a In the gladiatorial fights for the entertainment of the people in ancient Rome the defeated combatant was expected to expose his throat to the sword of the victor, and any shrinking -- on his part caused the arena to ring"" with the angry shouts of the thousands ofspectators, Receive the steel I" By all accounts,' the Germans have a dislike of the bayonet. They might well be paralyzed, Indeed, at( the affrighting spectacle of that thin line of cold steel wielded by a furious Irish- -' man ; but if the bayonet were In the hands of a soldier of apy of the other British nationalities history to the German that retoiled from its thrust would probably be Receive the steel!" ex--x pressed in the rudest and roughest native idiom. The way of the Irish at Ginchy wa different; and perhaps the trnunciatlon of their revenge was not the least magnificent act of a glorious - day, If we brained them on the spot who could blame us? Tls ourselves that would think it no sin if It was done by anyone else," said a private of the Dublin Fusiliers. Let me tell you, he went on, what happened to myself. As I raced across the open with my comrades. Jumping In and out of shell holes, and the bullets flying thick around us, laying many a fine boy low, I said to myself; Thls is going to be a fight to the last gasp for thoaeof ms that get to theGennans.' As I came near the trenches I picked a man out for myself. Straight in front of me he was, leaning out of the trench, and he with a rifle fir , s months. The last We heard of Carson he was prodding the government like the very devil to put venom Into their blows at ye, and more power to his elbow while hes at that work, say we. As for' home rule, we mean to have it, and well get It, please God, when ye're licked f Put that in yer pipes and smoke it! The two names for the Germans in use among the Irish troops are Gerrys" and a corruption of the French Allemand for German) Alleymans." Brief informal truces are not Infrequently come to between the opposing forces at particular sections of th lines, so that one or other, or both, may bring in, after a raid, their wounded and their sialn. Onb of the most uplifting stories I have heard was told me by a captain of the Royal Irish Fusiliers. Out there in front of the trench held by his company lay a figure in khaki writhing in pain and walling for help. Will no one come to me?" he cried, in a voice broken with anguish. He Md been disabled In the course of a raid on the German trenches made the night before by a battalion which was relieved in the morning. These appeals of his were like stabs to the compassionate hearts of the Irish Fusiliers. Several of them told the captain they could stand it no longer and must go out to the wounded man. If they were shot in the attempt, what matter! It happened that a little dog was then1 making himself quite at home in both the British and German trenches at this part of the line. He was a neutral; he todk no sides; he regularly crossed from one to the other and found in both friends to give him food and a kind word with n pat on the head. The happy thought came to the The annual camp fire of the Indian war veterans of Utah county will be held In the big grove at Salem this year on August 21. A special program of events is being prepared for the occasion. A successful and Instructive pilgrimage to the Uintah basin has just been completed by about fifty business men of Salt Lake City, In urder to Inspect and become better acquainted with the towns and farms of that section. Richard Shivers, aged W, is in a serious condition In an Ogden hospital as the result of the overturning of au automobile, his head being crushed under the weight of the machine. A companion was slightly in- jured. Robert Wilson, aged 13.' uho fell down a shaft while. walking along a tunnel in a Deep Creek mine in company with his cousin, fracturing his skull, died m a Salt Lake hospital, in spite of everything that could be done by the best surgeons. I ast week city attorneys from different parts of the state met with Dan B. Shields, state attorney general, at the eapitol, to frame a model prohibition ordinance, whch it is planned to recommend for passage In every city and town of the state. -- When the National Food Conservation commission placed the average Utah family at six, they reckoned tain to make a messengeruf thedog. Sohe somewhat lowr'accordins to the state wrotejMay we take our wounded man in?" tied womans conservation. committee, the note to the dogs tail, and sent him to the which. In sending out cards, found German trenches. The message wasjn English. j that it required asifwewere rabbits.- fort he captatn'dld not know German, and had to go around. I made for him with my bayonet ready, detrust to the chance of the enemy being able to Four hundred acres of beets In the termined to give him what he deserved, when read It, Delta district have been thinned by what do you think? didn't he notice me and In a short time the dog returned with thean-ewe- r. hoys. The crop would have been a what I was up to ! Dropping his rifle, he raised It was in English, and It ran: Yes; you ead loss unless the boys had perhimself up in the trench and stretched out his vvork can have five minutes." So the captaiiand a formed that service, . The good means hands toward me. What could youdo lnthatent-trwdthafretch'afi- d broneht th done by these young volunteers Tease bat whaFT did? Sure, you wouldnt have the poor fellow back to our lines. a saving to the country of 1,200,000 heart to strike him down, even If he were to kill Then, standing on the top of the parapet, the pounds of sugar. you. captain took off his hat and called out: Give the It is announced that land owners on I caught sight of his eyes, and there was such Germans three hearty cheers, boys." The re- the Utah lake have decided to fight a frightened and pleading look in them that I sponse was most enthusiastic. With the cheers the farmers of Salt Lake county, and at once lowered my rifle and took him by the were mingled such cries as :Sure, the Gerrys unless water conditions in the lake hand, saying, Youre my prisoner are not all bad chaps, after all," and May the region are remedied, without delay, I dont suppose he understood a word of what heavens be the bed of those of them we may siuts will be filed against the Salt I said; but he clung to me, crying, Kameradi kill. More than hat, the incident brought tears Lake county canal companies and Kamerad! I was. more glad than ever that I to manja mans eyeson the Irish- side ; and,-i- t heavy damages for the loss of crops a qneer hadn't on the German side, too. be, may Certainly, an- will be asked. - thing to say, maybe, of a man who acted like swering cheers came from their trenches- .- -It may be found necessary ln adthat ; but, all Ihe same, he looked a decent boy. have had from a French officer, who was dition to dismissing classes in tlie I every bit of him. wounded In a cavalry charge in the war an higher grades of the public schools of I suppose the truth of it is this: We soldiers account of a pathetic Incidentearly which took place SVeber county to obtain harvest hands, on both sides have to go through such terrible close to where he lay. Among his in Companions in to close business establishments affliction were two who were far gone on the experiences that thfre- is no accounting for how in reached, when' Is the crisis. Ogden we may behave. We mlght.be devils all out In of death. One was a private In the Uhlans way order that the bumper crops in the aftd the morning and saints no less in the evening." the other a private in the Royal Irish or vicinity of Ogden may be harvested The Irishman got, with a painful effort,Dragoons. Trench Repartee and Trench Favorites. for future use. from an inside pocket of his tunic a rosary of beadswMcb. packed away i The relations betwtxm the trenches Include ve ea m pa Ijh - --asain-s t h&il-cruri SrattnrhT'Tl To TfTTIfen" he commenced The I'1 predatory animals will be waged to mutter tit himself the invocations to the vi it, as may be supposed, in snch circumstances commisBlessed Utah by the state livestock Is Invariably Ironic and sarcastic. My examples irgin. of which the rosary is composed, sion ami the federal government, the are Irish, for the roasein that I have had most to Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord Is with S'W livestock, raisers of the state bedo with Irish syldlers, but they may.be taken as thee; Messed art thou among women, aml blessed" ing requested by the state livestotk is the fruit of thy womb, .Teus." fairly representative of the taunts and pieasam commission to rqport on the nun.ler of tries which are often bandied across No Man's The German, lying huddled close by animals hilled on 'their pmjerty by Land. with the uneasy movements of aman weakstirred cyotes, wolves, bears and cats. from The Germans, holding part of tbeir fine in Bel- pain and loss of blood on hearing the murmur of Two jronylct vAIarjrin, wF:lrr,! ?d dm--. 1 n' T -ierkws, - winv Vcape-- i fro1 theslght o hi'c fenow' convict Carcamp in ITice canyon. in distress seemed to recall to his mind ,time times and different circumstances family other bon county, enjoyed but a shortfollowprayers the of captured being liberty, at home somewhere In Bavaria, and Sunday eveSalt Lake. Both men were ning devotions in church--f- or he. made. In his ing day in xerrtng terms far burglary. own tongue, the response to the Invocation Holy Alary, Siother of God. pray for us sinners now at During a severe thunderstorm which was accompanied the hour of our death. Amen by an unusual and lightning, the amount of thunder So the voices Intermingled In address and at Kaysville Blood C. home Ernest of prayer the wrapt ejaculations of the Irishman the deep guttural of the German getting weak- was struck by lightning. No one the er and' weaker,1 in the process of dissolution, until injured by the bolt, although was rooms carpet in one of the they were hushed on earth forever more. burned and a table ov erturned. - Jng-away-at-- -- " us- 1 - lhafilood-ot-htm-nnmy-sonhrt- 1 - .ven..JiUcmipt-at-v-exehange-of-rejvarte- o e. -- -- - U- -J thebeads.-ki,te:fiAiid!i-'t)- f s " f |