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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSVII.I.E. UTAn UTAH H What Will He Write? UTAHNS Pax moats of All! u week ege ordered hist week by the imlusuinl of Utah to be made ihe Utah Fuel company m faxoi of the ORDER AU. MATERIAL EARLY five minor children of .lame-- . Wilde, who ai hilled in a mine accident at United Action Urged to Overcome Oft t'lear Freeh, Nox ember 26 The payments are required to he emit mut'd Care-M- uch flclency In Open-To- p until a total of $5(NN ts reached Work Ahead. W, II. Scot i, aged t2, wa- shot and United the States fatally inturnd at a roomtii. house prepared by ment of Agriculture ) in Salt i ake ns the result o; an alWhile the expenditures during 1919 tercation with a man he had accused e for highways, according , of pax ing marked afienttons to ytrs. to estimates of the bureau, of public Scott Andrew llartivgie is under arroads of the United States depart- rest, t Imt god with the shooting ment of agriculture, win set a new gee j a grrsrdTTVe' ipTosiotr Tit' fite eltv "Ifr ord with a total of $133,000,000, thU fci'w ec Hetiih at Khhfleld, Harxex figure la small In comparison with Jensen was The hurtled seriously the computed available total for or $633,000, 000, the spending of which ground was frozen About two quarts of gasoline was put Into the trem h promises to be dependent chiefly on and the hoy tried to ignite it by cropthe quality of materials the present can lighted nmt lies into it facilities ping trails limited railway The port. polite are seeking Mike BuhaThe items entering into next year's rina, who disappeared from Murray xx n ! MOVEMENT TO SECURE SPECIAL SESSION OF LEGISLATURE TO ACT ON PROBLEM. - Members of the Utah Educational As Annual sociatlon, in Twenty-fourtConvention. Discuss Problems Confronting Teachers h , , hard-surfac- I - i 11-2- unfinished work, 1919 contracts, $16V 000.000; funds available from state and county taxes and federal aid, state and county, bond Issues not before avalinble, d unexpended balance and of state county bond issues pre viously available, $45,000,000 ; availablt from new bond Issues to be voted on in the fall of 1919 and spring of 1920 $273.-000,00- one-fift- h $50,-000,00- 0; one-thir- $100,000,000. Unless the available open-tocars, many of which normally lie idle in the late winter, are utilized in that slack season the work which cm he done will necessarily be curtailed for lack of materials. The total for 1920 is more than four times the amount that has been expended during any previous year for like purposes. There fore there must be a tremendous in crease not only In the material sup plies and shipping facilities, but also In the labor supply, and an enlargement of contractors organizations First Of all, according to Thomas FI yacDonald, chief of the bureau of pub lc roads, the attention of all state Inter county and city ests should be directed toward over coming this car shortage. It has been customary to wait until contractors organizations were ready to begin work before starting the ship ment'of material. Under these condi tions many thousands of open-tcars lie Idle during the latter part ol February, all of March, and the ear Her part of April. During the past cars thal spring the number of open-to- p were idle totaled more than 250,000, This, of course, was partly unavoidable, owing to the late date at which work got under way, following tht signing of the armistice. By award ing contracts as early as possible, contractors will be able to ascertain theli at different Tiaterial requirements In be so will and position to points, place orders dependent on rail transportation a considerable time In advance. While the placing of material lc storage, which may result from such a course. Involves some expense, it will oe small compared to the loss that will p road-buildin- g oj .esult If contractors are not in a posi- ploye of the Murray smeltei for thirteen years. It is feared In ids friends that lie may have wandered into the hills and died of exposure. l.ud week t lie Utah Idaho Sugar company paid out to farmers in the Spanish Fork vicinity S2S5.0O0 for su. gar beets delivered to the factory during November. To operators in the factory December 10, t lie company alio paid SA5 000 Preparations are being made for the twelfth annual Bound up uttd Housekeepers' conference of the Fruit Agricultural college. Meetings tills winter will he held at the luigait school February 2 to 7, ami at (Vtlar Pity, January 1!) to 24. Exclusive of orchard ami truck garden crops, of alfalfa seed and of forms of produce, the farms of Utah this year produced a total of $ IS, 117,000 worth of produce, accord ing to a bulletin of tire bureau of crop estimates Members of the office workers union have voted to withdraw from the Utah State Federation of I.nbor of Its Indorsement of ftie Bus' sinn federated soviet government at its recent annual convention. ? The people of Ogden have had much amusement during the past few days In watching ihe filming on the prim ipal leaf, streets of the eitv during the holiday rush of a picture for the Triple "K 1,000 company, tv local concern $2-which It took nearly all of the from his E. Leroy Hardy received it, so it fly tattler, to take up twehe checks in Ogden and fixe in Salt Lake, which lie back. C confessed to issuing and which proved tp be fictitious. Txx o Individual farm home In Millard county In eastern projects the summer of 1919 netted as many pupils in Millard county classes In agriculture a total of $1300 Hamilton Gardner, state commander of tlie American I.egion, lias announced u series of prizes to he given to legion poots throughout the state in a Offer Opportunity for Each of membership campaign. Within four hours after reporting Us to Write Therein a at the county hospiful at Salt Lake for treatment, Menchor Solon, a MexRecord Better Than ican laborer, died ofrtul)crcu!osis at the Preceding. that Institution cannew It is announced that six coming year lies spread ning factories are to he built in Utah the white plain that in time to handle the 1920 crop. The from the roadside to estimated cost of the factories is the distant where the $ LIFES CHAPTERS wheat -- e 7 i. A check for $100,000, proceeds of the latest sale of state road bonds, reached the office of Daniel O. Larson, state treasurer, last week. Thl makes a total of $1,300, 0nO already delivered l)f the $4,000,000 Auftbdrrzed by the 1919 legislature. As a result of repeated sessions of tat. the DH o( dentil o( the in her room at Park City, November gInootj onj compact the 5. Judge George W. ONeil ordered reafter every rain, will da mors of I.awreDce and Frank Buys, lease ,tml promoting good earth nmdf aa at,? other method. who have been held In connection with the case. qr31g 1 won't YEARS MERELY wheel-receivin- H-s- $ i , Par Most Boils Light Grader and One Drag Will Prove Most Beneficial. turning over a be sure new to lay a pound weight on enty-txv- y earth roads n THE forest gray squirrels are making tracks in the light snow. On this white sheet a little record may bf WTltten; not a full life story, but merely a brief chapter or two, like the chapters of squirrel .life that may be read by one who today ventures Into the white forest. It Is a great mystery that lies ahead, a treasure house of endless possibilities. The span of a mans life is short; shorter In absolute measurement than the spaa of a year. For each year, when October fades Into November, has wrought completeness. No human life can bring completeness. It cannot bring completeness of knowledge or completeness of happiness or completeness of good works. Tbe best man can do.Jn his poor, limited way. Is to glean as much wisdom and win as much happiness and do as much good as the number of his days per- When tbe human October fades it may thus be rich and peaceful and without the scars of stormy days or tbe blight of wasted days and without undue regret that what should have been seen and known and done has not been seen and known and done. mits. X A i d The new resolu don will be simply the same old re solve broken with such frequency. finite. But each succeeding year Is a new opixirtunlty. It offers the perfection of completeness, and by even n partial comprehension of Its fullness Little old last xvo may move toward fulfillment of the measure of our lives. is I am not afraid, said Thoreau, "that I shall exaggerate the value and good any, significance of life, hut that 1 shall not be ttp to the occasion which It Is. I shall be sorry to remember that I was long fully there, hut noticed nothing remarkable not so much as a prince In disguise ; (?) lived In the golden age a hired man ; visited Olympus even, and fell asleep after dinner, and did not hear the conversation of the gods." brightness. April will spreud hei feust of flowers, June will display hei who lovea only artificiality, green perfection of beauty. Angus! does not note the excellence will offer the ripening grains; October The year will of the world he has been set to rule, the laden orchards. proves himself unworthy of hts herit- take no heed of the crime that has age, and Is punished by bitter unrest. been done by ntun or of the vengeance His life lacks the boon of contentment that marched Inexorably. which Includes all boons. There are, or course, the few whose mental scope In the trenches of Gal POETS died Is too narrow for and France, watching Gods They do not even know that they nre sunrise or the wispy clhuds In the discontented and nmy enjoy life as the blue. British gentlemen caked with ox enjoys life. They are fortunate. the mud of Flanders w rote detailed reThe unfortunate man Is the one who ports of their observations of migrahas, even dimly, an understanding that tory birds and of the effect of drumthe World Is good and beautiful and fire on bird life. French students nnf that he Is failing to reap the richness scholars, bearded and dirty, made that Is rightly his.careful notes of the flora of the The coming year Is Indeed a great Meuse and the Somme. WhoThese men visited Olympus and did mystery, full of possibilities. ever has not watched and studied the not fall asleep while the gods conversed. Neither did they permit the roar of mans fury to drown out the divine voices. So It must be a good year that Is aheud. There can be no bad years. are us of many years are measured by God and forth opportunities The not by the evil that men do. I With resolution years as $ and as probablywillwear as a as new one. ( ONE - DOW coming year many of us is It the unuttered hop that tomorrow, J. Joy That All Can Have. The of living Is best found In Joy next weeK.nextmonth.the next the real success of life. Take away In Its priv- success year may be as today and theres no Joy In life to ileges and opportunities, only far one alive to opportunities and responmore abundant sibilities. No live man Is satisfied with We ere told that the first day mere existence, for he wants to conof the NewYeerls an appropriate tribute something to the worlds progtime to form good resolution. ress, the worlds good. And It is In such But the New Year is tomorrow, contribution that real Joy Is found, the and there is better time" for satisfaction that comes from"full realisuch a tasK. and that time is to- zation that one has done what be is day. For "now is the accepted could in the year given him. So this the Joy this Journal wishes every readtime." Buhep H. C PotUt. er may have the coming year; and will have if they fully appreciate that the new year Is theirs, to make it truly a happy new year, passing years may begin today; It is never, too late. Whoever has long Day Means Much toJUT. watched and loved the years will Years New suggest Intimate personal know that to his knowledge, however nelf. of views The annual crop of good adwill be added. He will ripe, much vance a step nearer to the goal of con- resolutions shows how near most tentment, and In so advancing will In- people are to becoming radically betcrease his human usefulness, tils help- ter. The day also bring a sense of th inexhaustible resources of life. It is fulness. tbe door Into a wonderful future, uew new discoveries, new Inventions, year dawns on an earth red achievements, of social jostles and privblood, an earth torn with ilege and Joy for the masses of men. strife. It will be for most of a X THE the people of the earth a year of sorrow and of sacrifice. But for all this it will not be a bad year. Not half of civilized mankind but all mankind that has not forgotten the meaning of civilization has .been unselfishly, heroically engaged in the needful work of ridding the world of a noxious parasitic growth, tb poisonous fungus of militarism. For those who gave themselves to this essenttal work it will be a good year. For all who are suffering that the years to come may be Jepplcr and healthier the year will be x V.A WW aments in the Will Appeal to Legislature. One (f the eninlelc steps to assure the state's relent nai of a qualified teaching personnel xxas taken at tin department mrriinh of the superintendents and school hoards xxiien, after a heated discussion of Ihe present age scale ot teachers, several tentative teachers' sulniy stheduleH were considered, with tin final result that a committee was appointed to (lrnvv tip fin tliet Kihcdtilcs to lie submitted to tiie stau legislature for consideration Supl Homy Ietei'son recommended that the minimum wage for a qualified teacher tie $1000. At present, tt was pointed out, teachers of theta holding "emergency limn et tlficHteH," are being pu'd "nearly any lldng from $5ot) up." Coincident with the movement for higher wages, G N. Child, slate superintendent of public Instruction, announced, following a meeting with members of the legislative committee of which lie Is the chalrmun, that a pel it ion for u special session of the legislature laid just been framed, and would he submitted to Gov. Simon Bamberger. Every effort will bu to to effect sjmtsly conhear brought sideration of the teachers plea, It Is said. Education. Compulsory Another stop toward an end 'which is destined to mean much to the state, it Is said, was taken when the leading educirtors of I lie state met with the most influential business men of the larger cities In Utah to discuss a statewide campaign. The campaign outlined Is to acquaint the residents throughout the state of the fact that Utah recently enacted school legislation which has caused oil the educators of America, us well a s' the educators of the rest of the world, to look lu this direction. The legislation Is ill e connection with toe compulsory education for all children ur. cr lti years. The school-me- n of the staff are anxious for the of the civic workers and business men In the plan to bring aUnrt an appreciation for the legislation and a living up to the laws, which will prove that Utah educationally Is holding to Its scheme "to lead Ihe world lu educa ex , YEARS completeness Is but a twelvemonth. Our human lncotn- pleteness covers many twelvemonths. How fortunate that each dawning year means a new opportunity to live and learn. Again and again we may take the up the thread and advance-towarWe may study goal of apprehension. Gods works and year by year come nearer to an appreciation of them. We can never fully appreciate them, for r tot minds are finite, and they are In- - sl. ( lie-cau- se I'er-shin- g promote good -- vnr-iou- s tion to go ahead with the work because of lack of materials. In view of the experience of 1919 and the greatly In. crerr-eprogram for next year. It seems probable, according to the bureau of public roads, that contracts which are not awarded during the winter months will have little opportunity for being supplied with materl Is $3.X)000. Utah has been asked to name twenwhich require transportation. ty five delegates to the national foreign trade convention to be held in CEMENT RAIL FOR HIGHWAYS San Francisco May"12. 13, 14 and 15. While at work in the beet fields of Invention of Texas Man Relates Mon Ids brother, near Logan, Nepld C. Walilstrom was stricken and was dead Particularly to Safety Road Making Means. before assistance pottlil be rendered. A moving picture machine is being The Scientific American, In Ulustrat installed in the Central Sevier high ing and jjesenbing a cement rail foi school auditorium for the use of the highways and roads, the Invention ol students of the Richfield fc bools. J. F. ORourke of El Paso, Tex., says: As guest of the American This invention relates generally tc of Utah, Gen. John J. department roads and highways for vehicular traffwill pay a twelve-hou- r visit to ic, and more particularly to safety Salt Lake 16. January mad making means In the form ol IawrenceD. Srnythe, formerly of which spaced parallel rails, may bt the loss of ills left suffered Ogden, leg In a railway accident at Turlac, California. License plates have been Issued by Secretary of State Harden Itennlon this year for 84,750 automobiles In Utah. Interest on the states indebtedness, which aggregates $6,010,000, amounts to $129,950 for six months. Utah must raise by taxation in the coming year $2,000,000 to meet the current expenses. An extensive highway building proA Perspective View of the Roadway. gram In Weber county for next year quickly constructed of plastic mate Is announced. rtal, which may be molded or laid Federal aid Is expected for the proIn sections. The roadway consists posed highway between Spanish Fork spaced parallel side tracks and and Payson. central track of which the central Utah's average yield per acre of track has a plane surface t nd the side this year was 150 bushels tracks longitudinal deg Utah farmers havesown winter pressions. this- - fall on 163,000 acres. d M 'i'IU xx S'- - tin ijHri'Hijft 0 tb- - h4i .niiliix nl mi im tense mi salary. It Is piiiinllx ns iignicti ihut ii'iiiliiTs me iciiixing lull a moio pittame, m i mu luiiNuii vx it salancs ictcixcd b.x hhmii-Ihiol oiliei pnli"-siiui- s Bl iilH II loll I till ( ill loll llllS ilonl.x Imthiih a ilt'iniM ml ic tiling. Mint ll Inis iiiii grnxx n in istm i nl !r projuiltn's commnn ami "am iquitics" xxas tln fnimdilt loll nil XXllilll tile slipCl isms nl t In x at Ions isliicatinnal licpart meats ilisi usM'il iniiiist (linages and liu-p- t good year. February will bring its crystal ' I J If you leave it to e hooiboy, New Years day is what comes be j fore he has to go ; back to school x S' x xx v ( Part-Tim- e part-tim- lion. That the enactment of recent Utah legislation providing that the school system exercise a j?ulling hand over all under IS years has met a situation In Utah, which was growing dangerous, was the consensus of opinion at the juvenile court meeting. For a Closer Relationship. It was here brought out that, in Utah, there Is not a sufficiently dose relation between 'school principal and pupils, after school is out," to do the pupil much character good. What was suggested was that the state provide from $25,000 to $30,000 each summer to enable the direction of the school to he extended through the summer vacation season, that school principals he given authority over the youths aud girls in their idle season, organize idkes, supervise organized social activities, and so forth. The teachers flayed the moving picture craze," Joyriding and other, adolescent amusements which they bj- gued would he particularly limited by the' enforcement of the curfew law. The new motto of the educator of the state will have to do with character formation of the pupils under their care. Plans have been formulated to cheek up on the childrens civic iHide, what they do on holidays, their vocational work, whether or not they will join gnrden clubs, etc.. If they are not working, and their methods of pa ng leisure hours. h |