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Show THE WEEKLY KEFLEX, KAYSVILLE. UTAn amount of Baiuberge Owl company Mrs. I6ne Smith Stef-- f , awarded the culmination at salt Lake, recover $25,000 to f a suit brought In a calendar publication rt, mages for of the plaintiff, at-- ' 0f a photograph suit- .tire.l in a bathing With 160 men working night and construction work at day to rush the & Milling company's tfl Globe tlraln of the will completion riant at Ogden, As near future. in the Is anticipated It been finished. ,oon as the plant has 100 cars of handling be ctfpSble of grain dally. Enlisted men of the Utah National will be Guard, who on July 1, 1921, and of 22 age and 19 years between In that organizatone served year have selection as ion will be eligible for the United to admission applicants for at West academy States military J In the , - AID NATIONAL Secretary Meredith Favors Mors Liberal Financial in Western State 111 Speaking before highway representative fur western slate. Edwin T. secretary of agriculture, t.iied his belief that In the western states where large areas of government hinds are located the federal government should adopt a svstom of tin do tl more" liberal to tlie states than lx the ease in the rest of the Olint r ililnk we mint recognize the fact that the existence of tbom large areas f government lands places these states In a somewhat different sltua-tlofrom the remainder of the coun-tr,- " Mild Mr Meredith, "and that It would lie only equitable for the federal government to Increase Its percentage of cooperation over the I am nNo heartily In prevent basis favor of continuing the appropriation for the building of national forest mods These forests constitute a great natural resource, and their preservation and development Is n national responsibility which ought to be met In full measure. Mr. Meredith advocated active con- tlimatlon of present federal and state In connection with state road s stems with the systems of nd Joining states In order that the working out of an n lequate highway program for the whole United States may He proceed In an orderly manner. also advocated the continuance of work now going forward under the federal aid road net. "A 1921 Is the last year covered by he uld, "It would he highly 1110801, desirable, In my opinion, for congress to make another provision as promptly Me-edli- h. -- Point, N. Y. Arthur Bullock, aged 20, was severewhile working in the coal ly injured enmine at Grass Creek. He was he released when and gaged as driver, a trip the horse started too quickly aud one of the cars caught the young man and crushed him against the I 1 n wall. The 90.000 pounds signed to the forest of T. N. T. conservice and the has been loadroads bureau of public and cars box shipped to two ed Into on the "somewhere isolated an point old line of the Southern Pacific, between Ogden and Promontory. Senator William II. King, spending less than a day In Salt Lake while on his way from Washington, D. O., to the Democratic national convention, either lost his pocketbook containing $300 or some skillful thief stole the purse and its contents. Richfield's new $7800 motor fire Its worth on truck demonstrated June 25 In extinguishing ft fire, which, for a time, menaced the heart of the business district The aggregate loss from the blaze Is estimated at $15,000 to $20,000. argument alleged to have followed a card game between Andrew An Stcffas and Nick Yanos at Ogdon, resulted In a duet with knives between the two. Steffas received a number in the of dangerous knife wounds right arm. attempting to shoot cats with a rifle at Manti, Tom Parry, the ll- son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard was Pa try, accidentally shot in the abdomen with a bullet from a .38 wilibre rifle by his older brother. Ocar 'A. Kirkham, Salt Lake scout executive, has been selected to accomWhile ear-ol- d of boy pany America's delegation scouts to the International Boy Scout jamboree and competition to be held in London, July 25 to August 7. The Provo Commercial'club lias provided signs for tourists, to point the way to Raymond park on Temple hill, where campers will find ideal camping grounds, with all faculties furnished free. Two blocks of lower Main street, included in the county paving district will be paved from sidewalk to sidewalk. It has been decided by the city council and the property owners concerned. While walking along the right of way of the Bamberger road at Salt Lake, Miss Susan Wertheimer, aged 68, a deaf mute, was struck by a train and suffered a fractured leg. The canning of the Weber county pea crop will start during the week and the crop wUl surpass the output of last year, according to word from prominent canning people. It Is announced that out of the $700,000 appropriated by the government for survey work throughout the United States, $50,000 will be available for work in Utah. Work on the new mechanic arts shop at the Weber Normal college at Ogden is being rushed to completion and will be ready In time for the opening of the school. Utah county commissioners have awarded contracts for the paving of eight and f miles of cement road through the north end of Utah' -- one-hal- county. There are shoot one, razor mj?cr e&xs By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN l'lt migratory birds arc s.ifo The id V.tlS, federal migratory bird a designed to curry out provisions of a treaty between this countrv and Canada for the protection )of inigrv-,- i ,j lory birds, has been 'Told tional by the Supmne couit of the United States. This fakes us back to a blast ry March day In 1910 when a distinguished party of shooters was popping away merrily at the mallards and.bluebills In a marsh at Nevada, Mo. It really was a distinguished party. In it were Attorney General Frank McAllister of Missouri; J. It. Reynolds of Kansas City; U. S. Vilmoare. Kansas City, and M. S. Bodine and Clarence Brans of Paris, Mo. But congress had previously passed the federal migratory bird act, which among other tilings prohibits spring shooting of water fowl. Ilowr came It then, that the attorney general of the state of Missouri was In the party? The Missouri Well, he was from Missouri. folks have to be shown, you know. And Attor. ney GeneraJ McAllister and his friends had an Idea that the migratory bird act was unconstitutional. They liked to jslioot ducks spring, as well as fall and they proclaimed that the act Interfered with the sovereignty of the state of Missouri and with the property rights of the people of Missouri. So Attorney General McAllister of Missouri and his friends went hunting March 7, 1919. Moreover, they didnt care who knew It. Maybe they even tipped It off to the federal game wardens. Anyway, the federal game wardens put In an appearance and arrested the attorney general and his party. The party was arraigned at Clinton, Mo. McAllister took the case Into court, asking for an Injunction to restrain the federal game wardens from enforcing the law. Federal Judge A. S. Van Valkenburgh held the law constitutional and the state appealed to the United States Supreme court. To George Shlras in., and Elihu Root the owe gratitude. So do the millions of and fanners who, with the millions of gardeners be eaten up by would birds gone, Insectivorous their insect foes. George Shlras, a member of congress from Pennsylvania, began the fight away back Id 1904. Elihu Root possibly the most commanding Intellect In the country today 'cinched I coi.-im- i- bird-love- rs domestic science home -- v that breaks i,p (he pili (or (tie season "'Veil, four jears aCiei the pigeonholing of Shlras1 MU, John B ks Inti oducod In the house tlie same bill with slight modifications Nothing came of It. He inti educed it again In nnd again in 1911, while at the sumo time George p. McLemriTrtnTtrrrM a similar bill In the senate. In the spring o( pdj lommltitc healings on the hill were begun Roth these hills mint "in d inlgra(or game birds onl Now, thcio an onl about 50 game Mid- -, Mi. Pearson snd m.dnihelv, pulling Ids pipe, and (here are Jni Mr.iN of birds in North America. '1 litre are 51 waihhis alone In the eastern pan of the United Slate- - Therefore, the Audubon society urged that the bill, be changed to apph to all mlgraton Mtds, and thin change was adopted and put before longress. The bill became a law on March 4 1914; Taft signed It on the morning that he gave up his office as one of Ids last oflnial acts. Authority was given to the department of agriculture, then, to go ahead and make the rules governing the killing of birds. The department of agriculture did not know anything about birds, so they turned It ocr to a special branch of the department, the Biological survey. Three men of the Biological survey drew up a lot of regulations ami announced them to the states. Immediately there was a roar of objections from all over the country, and all of the states thought their rights had been Infringed. Then came a test case. Out fn Big Lake, Ark., a man killed a coot in violation of the regulations. He was arrested and the federal Judge for the Eastern district of Arkansas declared the federal migratory bird laws Illegal. The case, of course, then went to the Supreme court of the United States. The Supreme court was very hostile, and the case dragged along for several months. Finally, the Supreme court did a very unusual thing. It asked thp" department of agriculture to restate Its case, from which we under, stood that the court was a tie, and the case was referred back to the department of Justice. In the period of waiting which followed Elihu Root came to our assistance. This may be declared unconstitutional and everything lost, he said, but we may le able to beat It A treaty Is not subject to revision by the Supreme court, ao why not get these Ideas written lnto-treaty? Immediately the machinery was set !n motion which would turn the bill Into a treaty. After a great deal of trouble arrangements were finally concluded with Great Britain for Canada and the treaty was drawn up. But a treaty Is a dead letter unless congress by law states what department shall enforce It that la every treaty requires an enabling act. Twenf"down (o' Washington and spent six weeks there trying to arouse Interest In the enabling act for our treaty. The treaty was ratified by congress on September 29, 1916, and a year or so later the enabling act was passed. Then the .government, remembering the tremendous amount of abuse heaped upon them after the drafting of the first set of regulations, decided to have a committee to find out what the people wanted, and they appointed 'a national committee of first a dozen men and later about 20. Soon after this In Missouri some men went hunting and violated the regulations and were arrested. The case waa referred to the Supreme court, and on this case the present decision Is based, bolding legal the enabling act and thus protecting the treaty," This very wise decision makes quite clear the position of state rights when It comes to birds. i supervisors of the .victory,.-.-- , l projects work T. Gilbert Pearson, secretary and executive ofInf In connection with the schools ot ficer of the National Association of Audubon soUtah this year. has also a big share In the victory, Beaver suffered a fire loss of $150,-th- e cieties, who citizen and thoroughly familiar wideawake a Is greatest in its history.when with the situation. Let him tell the itory of the tbe Beaver woolen and flour mills long, hard fight Says Mr. Pearson: were destroyed. means who roan of "George Shlras HI. was a J. A. Shaw, a rancher 67 years old, In works. In looking over good was Interested living at Kelton, was gored by a furof to the In reference protection the situation ious bull. He was injured seriously In birds, he discovered that the states all had differthe abdomen. In which migratory game birds could The shortage of dwelling houses In ent seasons be shot and that what the situation really amountBrigham City is being relieved a little ed to was. that game birds could be shot In difby the erection of a number of new ferent parts of the country all through the year. buildings. He decided that the only way to remedy this stato exIt is reported that the consolidation of affairs, which would In time result in the un-- . f the Fish Lake an I the Fillmore matter to was the put birds, of game tinction forests In southern Utah has been ap- der government control and thus do away with of the proved. the constant and everlasting wrangling In for bill a congress Introduced he . At.tbe last meeting of the board of .stales. So wascr- governors of the Boxelder Commercial the protection of migratory blrdft. It club the committee a committee and put la a pigeonhole, recently appointed ferred to was the last of It. to work out the' matter of haring the and that law in -- "Before this time 'the only protection LLmmond cane! extended to Brigham which Audubon law, the ty reported that progress was In the States wjw force being but about In all we succeeded In getting enacted 4 not the did prohibit In a statement states. This, however, made at the state eicht of birds. In 1910 we brought about th P on, Nick Oblizalo, convicted with selling of.tbe sale of aigrettes. feve Mastich for the murder laws worked niceof Marko prohibition -In theory, the state gameon as on the afternoon of August 3, paper that each shown and U could be Placed the blame on Maslieh and said ly shooting chosen Its season and have state could he himself was not even ont be no dying present blJi; r?1 hen Laus was killed and robbed of a still there would not work so well. did they In practice hm of gold. thirty-si- x FOREST ROADS a - are mating and If you nwth la the spring they J.--.- ' t -' J' . 1 a It says: "The state, as we have .fntimated.' founds Its claim of exclusive authority upon an assertion of ' title to migratory birds, an assertion- - that is embodied In statute. No doubt it Is true that-abetween a state and its Inhabitants the state may' regulate the tilling ft nd sale of such bfrd'hut does not follow that Its authority Is exclusive of paramount powers. To put the claim of the state Upon title is to leas upon a slender reed. Wild birds are not In the possession of any one;. and s tr The possession U the beginning of ownership. xrhoie foundation of the state's rights Is the presence within their jurisdiction of birds that yesterday bad not arrived, tomorrow may be In miles away. If another state and In a week we are to be accurate we cannot ret the case of a ,! 'if ' s ' v. ifo,S xcjrzt the state upon higher ground than that the treaty deals with creatures that for the moment are within the slate borders, that It must be parried out by officer of the United Stales within the same territory and that but for the treaty the Mate would be free to regulate this subject Itself. With the federal migratory bird law In operation and Cauadu holding up her end as she lathe birds have a chance. As soon as Mexico Is brought to time and made to behave decently, the same kind of treaty will be arranged with her. Then the birds will be protected all along the line of migration. It Is the opinion of most duck shooters that llie good effect of the federal migratory bird law Is already very much lu evidence. The birds now nest In many of their old nestiug places in the United States, Instead of going clear to northern Canada. I.lkq all wild life they are quick to sense their protection and to take advantage of It. In consequence the hunter, from his viewpoint, Is pleased with the working of the law because It gives him more ducks to shoot tu the fall. The Judgment of the hunter Is confirmed by that of th biologist The United States Biological survey is engaged In a study of the conditions at the larger breeding places In various parts of the country. A 1920 report on Waterfowl !u an Illustrated bulletin of 77- pages Nebraska by Harry C. Oberholser says on this point lu part: In Its natural state that Is, unaffected by the presence of man the sand hill region of Nebraska Is an Ideal breeding place for waterfowl. It Is, Indeed, one of the very best of the remaining breeding grounds. The great number of marshy lakes, with their abundant supply of and breeding places provide advantages which ltwou!dbe difficult to surpn ss. It Is the universal testimony of residents and of sportsmen that the myriads of ducks which In former times frequented the sand hill region, particularly during spring and fall, have been greatly reduced. This diminution is due lu part to spring shooting, but also to a number of other causes. Including the slaughter of ducks in great numbers both south and north of Nebraska. The migration flights here, however, are still large and show that there remains a good supply of waterfowl, which with proper protection and reasonable regulation of shooting will continue indefinitely to furnish excellent sport. The breeding waterfowl of the sand hills also hare suffered from hunters, particularly In spring. On many of the lakes there are club bouses owned by sportsmen from cities outside of the county, who were long In the habit of shooting here regularly In spring. Since the enactment of the federal ttatuteof 1913, known ss the federal migratory bird lax, there has been comparatively little spring shootthe law seems tu ing in the sand hill, regiom-fo- r have been very well observed. Th all the localities that the writer visited he wade careful inquiries regarding the effect that the stopping of srring shooting has had ou the numbers of waterfowl, particularly ducks. It I very gratlfjlng to note that after the federal law went Into effect docks began steadily to Increase In Nebraska, particularly in the lakes of eastern Cherry county, those about the headwaters or the North Loup rher, and at the Cody Lake. A one resident it, a oon ax tlie ditck find out that Ihey will not be dsturbed In spring they come bark la Increasing1 large number food,-shelte- r, exise Improved Highway In Qolorado. m possible for the continuation of the work under the present system by 0 an appropriation of at least $100, for each of the four fiscal years beginning with 1922. (XX),-00- MAINTENANCE COST OF ROADS Ultimate Economy of Concrete Road Depends on the 8mall Amount Needed to Keep It Up. The cost of a road Involves not only first cost but the cost of keeping It In continuously unable condition. If this were not so, the cheaply built gravel road would be entirely suitable for our main traveted thoroughfares. The ultimate economy of the concrete road depends upon the extremely small amount of money required to keep it In excellent condition. The only maintenance needed on a well built concrete road Is that necessary to keep filled with tar the Joints snd the cracks that may develop. The 11)19 report of the stale commissioner of highways of New York gives the average cost of maintenance for the three years 1915, 1910, and 1917 as follows: Macadam, $976.00 per mile per year for the maintenance of 2,406 miles; -- gravel, $824.00 per mile per year for the maintenance of 178 miles; s $124.00 per mile . concrete, maintenance of 204 the fer per year miles. first-clas- ROADS AS COMMUNITY ASSET The Bsttsr They Are the More Likely They Are to Prove an Investment to Farmers. The better the roads are. the more likely they are to prove an Investment and consequently stand as a community asset. Without road that can be used, regardless of weather and season, we might as well be living along the trails that our forefathers used when beasts of burden were literally inch and marketing meant almost nothing. BULLETIN IS OF IMPORTANCE Useful - Contribution From United States Department of Agrlcul- turs on Weather. A r The highway weather bulletin la an Important and useful contribution from the United States department of agriculture, made doubly se by recognition of the fact that the state of the roads Is more Important than the weather, snd that you neednt worry about the veather If the roads are paved. . |