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Show J UTAH THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, Uncle Walfe Siort'xifT. THE Borah and Wslsh Foreign Relatione Before Plana Committee. Administration Said to Look Askance at Suggestions. 4 , SAW you coming UD nr 1 and standing at the IS? Mr. Iloneybug and Mr. PlavS?- Mrs. Jamesworthv J OIJ I 1 . J s n i con-eynn- ce j . I ! ' J j. f 1 I -- e, n I1' do 1 r ty tl ith Wends 0 Uotlling but tumble at home i Daxent laugh In the ln years, a you laughed 0Bt fo, thPre men. Theres the noth. ,n? In this fcou t0 ,flugh at," II now seems OHN J tb laughing er a national necessity promising the greatest results. "n hood could hear you, Washington. cnn-ad- 1 UT The proposal of agreement on the reduction of naval armament will he taken up by the foreign relations committee of the senate, when It will the t wo following resolutions T Borah directing the presSenator By ident to negotiate with Great Britain and Japan for ft .r0 per cent reduction of uaval appropriations by the three powers for five years. Ily Senator Walsh, of Montana, rr questing the president to name delegates to act with the league of nations commission on disarmament. From one administration source comes the opinion thnt the president sustains Secretary Duniels contention that the 'only sure method of promoting disarmament is through the league of nations and thnt Mr. Jft'Ilson regards the Borah resolution as a scheme of the Irrecondlables to discredit future processes of action. It Is beBARTON PATJNE -Jlieved that .the president favors the Walsh resolution, for he notified the NATIONAL Conference on Parks league he could not appoint members of the disarmament commission on the first In our history was nccount of lack of authority occasioncalled December 1 last for the ed by the failure of the United States second week In January. 1921, In to accept the covenant Des Moines. The suggestion came The Walsh resolution, however, from John Barton Payne, secrestands no show of receiving favorable tary of the Interior and ex officio action by the committee. Senator head of the national park service. Gov. W. L. Harding of Iowa IsBorah is confident that hts resolution sued the call. The conference will be rijorted favorably, although waa called because, as Secretary there Is a disposition on the part of some Republican senators to withPnyne says, "It seems a national hold notion on the measure until the necessity." It was called to meet In Des Moines Iowa has become a leader because Ilarding administration comes In and the new president enunciates hla for- among the states In park spirit and work. More than 8,000 Invitations have been sent out eign ptdlcy. to individuals and organizations known to be acRESERVE BANK NUMBERS GROW tively interested. And Governor Ilarding also announced that the attendance was not limited to persons specifically invited, for ever body InterAnnual Statement 8howa Increase of ested In the park movement would be welcome. Capital Paid In by Member. The conference will discuss matters of all kinds Washington. Holdings by federal to national, state and local parks. reserve bunks of paper secured by gov- pertaining President-elec- t Ilarding was In Denver March ernment war obligations declined front 10 last before the Chicago convention and long nearly $1,500,000, (XX) t the opening of said, among other things, In an address before the year to $1,111,000,000 on December the Mile clubt High 31, said the annual review by the fedI like the slogan See America First In these At the end of eral reserve board. of the motorcar we revise It and say days the year," It added, out of a total of Motor In America First. might This Is the sutomoblle bills age. AH America Is 2,710.1 millions of discounted motoring and leaving a goldabout 42 per cent wus composed of en trail behind. I want the golden trail In the. paper secured by United States war United States and the education and pride in the obligations, against 07 per cent of a country which attend. total of ,2,231.1 millions held on the We are no vast so varied, so physically beyond first Friday of the year. that It Is to think of America first compare, Increases In capitalisation of exlst-lo- g and know Americagood and do the practical first member banks and accessions of things which America first prosper new members wore responsible In part "I sjialj never be content until I can motor from for an Increase In the paid-icupital Washington to Denver In comfort, and from this of the federal, reserve banks during gateway motor safely and rejoicingly over a cirthe year from S7.4 to 88.9 millions. cuit of our national parks and know the InspiraThis corresponded to an lucrense of tion and rejoicings that ever must attend." pver Ut millions in capital and sup This Is the keynote of the Des Moines conferplus of member bunks. ence. But the slogan of the conference goes still farther and declares: WILL LEAD PARADE IN AUTO It should be made possible for a citizen of the United States to travel In his automobile from the Tradition to Give Way to Progreso In Atlantic to the Pacific and camp every night on public ground fitted up for his comfort national, Inaugural Parad. will Tradition glvo state, municipal and local parks. Washington. "I have observed that from time to tjine, says wheu next 4, to March, progress way barren O. Harding, a the new presi- Secretary Payne In his letter of suggestion to Govdent of the United States, heads the ernor Ilarding, "suggestions are made for the creinaugural parade up Pennsylvania ation of national parks out of scenic areas that avenue. Announcement was made for definite reasons should be taken up by the Senator Harding had de- states themselves, and there are undoubtedly many that Friday cided to use an automobile for hU ride parks suggested to the state park authorities that from the capltoWo the White House should be taken up by counties and municipalities. Recently there has been a widespread desire on Instead of a carriage, the type of used by every president, with the part of state park authorities to confer among the exception of Andrew Jackson, themselves and with the national park service, not alone on this question but regarding the possibilsince the Inauguration of Thomas ity of securing uniform state park legislation throughout the country and the discussion of purk problems in general. v Coal Oil Johnny Die. The requests for such a conference, have, beSUude, - known Omaha. John so Insistent that it now sems a national come widely in the east half a century ago promising the greatest results to the necessity, to as Coal Oil Johnny," reputed then and the states they- - represent." havespenr" a comfortable fortune participants Payne suggested Des Moines as a Secretary when oil was discovered on his Pennfor the conference because of the meeting place De-t sylvania land, died of pneumonia results in the field of state park extraordinary ember 3t at Fort Crook, Neb., where and creation development achieved by the state he was station agent for the Burlingof Iowa under Its public park act," from which ton railroad. the delegates can learn much. Governor Harding's Invitation to the conference Air Passenger Fatally Injured. contains the following: Ontario, Cal. Miss Esther Gamble, with the Honorable John Barton 20, of Ontario, was fatally Injured of the Interior, and in recognition secretary 'ayne, when an airplane In which she was of the Importance of the public park movement passenger fell into un orange grove throughout the United States, the governor of uear here. She died while being car- bwa has the honor to InTlte you to a national ried to a hospital. Nearly every bone conference on parks, to be held In Des Moines, In her hotly w as broken. Inclusive, 1921. A program will January be presented of addresses and discussions by emiTragedy Closes New Year Party. nent leaders upon the necessity of the establishNew York. Julian Dick, 34, New ment and maintenance of national, state and local York cotton broker, was accidentally parks; upon legislation, administration and use of iJiot and. serious! w oumbHl hyJSeorge parks harmonizing and B. Brooks, son of the late Belvidere upon all allied subjects." Brooks of New York, at the close of a The truth of the situation Is that what may be' New Years party at' Mr. locks home. called the national' park movement" Tias grown so big that It roust be organized, regulated and Threo Confess Many Holdups. standardized. That Is what Is to be read between men here armsted Three York. The nation- New thr lines of Secretary Payne's Isletter. Sunone of said the livest movement confessed, police wide national park Saturday success Its Inof and Its of a causes to operation plan today. national systematic day, an out created enthusiasm successfully creasing. Influence have by which they carried even robberi.es In New York City dur- throughout the country Tor parks 'of all kind--- , national, stnte and local. ing the past three months. . more than a score of .There areToX-exampl" Dynamite Find Disastrous. national park projects. Washington has three. Uniootown, Pa. Frank Ieloue, a Including the Yakima valley. Iowa and Wisconsin stable boss, found a stick of dynamite afk ,the establishment of Mississippi Valley Naand put 't In his hip pocket. Later, tional park. Indiana. IlHno's 'and Michigan want while wcrklng in the stable, be was the dunes at the bend of Lake n naticral pnrk-4kicked by a mule. The stable also Michigan. Kentucky proposes that congress pur- was blown to pieces. . 1 difference P,lel w o . Jame r t h v, ujj Honeybng Is a good tory-telleand h telling us a buliy and fo, a brief season we forgotjam, the burden laid upon ns, which are greater than we can bear. If you could ten a story as well as Honeybug does, Id flu the ancestral hails with silvery laughter but yon never try to sny anything amusing, Mrs. Jamesworthy. Yon do tell stories, but they are of a gloomy and tragic character. jomr&Axrcirn&ris Last night, when I came home, pm told a dramatic story to the effect that chase Mammoth cave and Its enviyou had callers till afternoon, and hadnt a chance to cook anything for rons, and so on. Are these properly name, and so I had to eat canned salmoa and soda crackers, and wash theta tional park or state down with water, and I Insist that park projects? when a husband comes home from hi It Is the same arduous labors In the clanging mart, thing with state so empty that his watch chain makes a park projects of which there is no clanking sound when It flaps against end. Illinois, for exhis spine, he should have a arm Tic. ample, has Just tuals, something he can consume with through a pleasure and pride. The fact that you se m and had an Invasion of callers Is a cheap comexcuse. GXArfD CMOZfXiAZTDirAZZ&fcK mission a scenic surMy sainted mother never would vey of the state, have permitted any callers to Interfere and that body says with her management of the It finds much state park material and much that d tracts for state parks. citlzena She realized that her old maa is mere properly local. A scenic have assisted the board in the purchase by' over kept the shebang going, and that be survey of all the states, made by the General Federation of Wom$100,000. A score or more of areas are under 'conshould haye the right of wav, If any ens Clubs, Shows areas suitable for national, State sideration. It Is the hope of the board to have at old hens happened to be ln the hon and local parka. least one park In each of the 09 counties of the when grub time approached, my mode The conference will wrestle with this embarrassstate. Popular opinion is strong for the law er would request them, firmly but rement of riches. It is hoped and expected that Grand View, pictured herewith, Is a scene In spectfully, to chase themsehes, and if out of Its deliberations will come a classification one of the prospective parka It gives a hint of they didnt like It they could lump It and standardisation of park areas and a draft of Mr. Harlans fairy lands, with which the Hawk-ey- e When my father came home from his a standard slate pork law, which can be amended state Is abundantly blessed. This delightful work, the hay was always ln the by the several states to suit local conditions. scenic area is near Decorah, Winneshiek county. manger for him, and he never had to When Senator Ilarding declared, All America is The deliberations and action of this first nation- wait five minutes for a meal motoring and leaving a golden trail behind, he al conference on parks should Interest the whole The day before yesterday, when I said something, as the tongue of the day has It It is expected that both Secretary Payne came staggering home, faint and country. The official national parks attendance figures for and Diiector Mather of the national park service weary from my herculean efforts to 1920 give a hint of this motor travel. In 1916 there will attend. No program has been announced at make both ends meet, you told me awere 850,097 visitors to the national parks and this writing, but the call is broad enough to In- nother story. It was to the effect that probably a large majority of them went by railclude all Phases of the park movement, of which you had been downtown sizing up road. In 1920 there were 919,504 visitors, and r the Just are attractifeatures national following park shipment of new spring hats. more, than C5 per cent of them were traveling in and : public attention foundry, ng at the millinery their own cars. In 1917 private cars were recordAssaults of commercial Interests on the nntlonal yon were so Interested you forgot the ed to the number of 54,092; last season, 128,074. act and neces- lapse of time, and didnt get parks under the new water-powe-r These cars bore the license plates of every state sity of amendment to exempt national parks. The time to cook anything. But you fla'h in the Union. Grand Canon scene pictured herewith Is at the a winning smile at me, 3d said R All conference roads lead to Des Moines because west end of the national park, where there are wouldnt take you ten minutes to van It Is the capital of a state that has the real ome park magnificent waterfalls. Application for power per- up a can of beans, and there was spirit and Is doing things the right way. The and yot Semit has been filed here, bb In Yosemite and cold coffee left from breakfast, o general assembly created a state herring quoia. had plenty of smoked board of conservation. The Thirty-eigh- t assembly Irrigation reservoir right of way bill, already hand. endowed this board with $100,000 a year and otherforth by senate, covering Falls River basin In passed Doubtless I should have hurstthl ewise empowered it. The members of this board, Yellowstone National park, and the entering wedge into boisterous laughter over who serve without pay, are: Dr. L. H. lammel, for many other Irrigation projects In this and ntertaining anecdo.e, Ames, chairman; Joseph Kelso, Bellevue; Jobu of hum other parks. Diversion of water as proposed would didnt F. Ford, Fort Dodge, and Edgar It. Ilarlau, Des appeal to try sense spoil the Yellowstone falls, the crowning glory of I was so busy that day I hado Moines, secretary. and taws Yellowstone gorge. to eat anything at noon, The Iowa state park law is a working InstruReadjustment of national park appropriations. way home I was hoping you ment. The state board of conservation, with the Rosky Mountain National park, with have a porterhouse steak abou Example: written consent of the executive council, has the oi 240,966 visitor last summer, had $40,000; Yellowinches thick, and a raft power to establish public parks In all suitable with 79,777, had $278,000; Yosemite, with slab of stone, a tatoes, and perhaps places and to Improve them and make them ac68.906, lmd $306,000 ; Mount Rainier, with 56,491, as an epilogue. cessible fromjlu public highways. The board has pie had $40,000; Glider, with 22,449, had $95,000. Thus D4 The day before that power to purchase or condemn lands for both park Rocky Mountain, with 13,343 tnore visitors than the home ns hollow as a bass dnnt and highway purposes. other four parks combined, had an appropriation my teeth te Secretary Harlan, who Is curator of the state of $40,000 as against $713,000, vjth an offset of fairly gnashing related a humorous yon ger, historical department, delivered an eloquent adabout $250,000 In revenues produced. On the basis the effect that your club Udn dress July 24, 1919, before the Des Moines R of the 1922 fiscal year estimates the discrimination on time tbatafteraoon. and Jnrlans. The ststejias puhUshed it with the title, - against Rocky Mountain wilt be still home until late, lows Law, Policy and Proceedings Upon a Sysnext summer, as It will have but $150,000 as get to get along with a PIckep ,,,u;-- , tem of Public State Parks and Reservations." against $1,615,337. Colorado will turn over to the If I would be patient a.Je , In Iowa, says Mr. Harlan, It is but a short national park service next season the Fall River make to nA spin from prairie lands to fairy lands." He goes road over the Continental divide, through the you said, would boll an egg (r u spicy, yon on to enumerate some of the beauty bread Rocky Mountain National park. It has been unspots and and there was cold corn der construction by the state daring the Inst places of historic and scientific Interest in a coun. cupboard. seven years at a cost of approximately $162,000. try of farming land worth up to $500 an acre. - Mrs. jaroe'1' stories, Such But," he says, you cannot go swimming, boate It is the crowning touch of a automobile may seem highly o0 ing, fishing, camping nor play ball, unless in cities, s a. .. highway circuit from Denver, which cent bystander, and without trespassing." After sketching the situadeclare to be the most magnificently scenic on a gre they would make Lon tion from the viewpoints of both recreatlonlst and pnct lt earth. Its Importance to the tourist and the naIn and printed up jjj rf owner, he pays in part: tional park cannot be overestimated. The oldest trosf something w Is there part of the Fall River road (shown herewith) is sense of humor, or I Recognizing these conflicting truths, respecting in deplorable condition. It Is unthinkable that It these inharmonious interests, the state set out to of the stories. should noT be put In shape early next season. And end open, acquire and preserve some of these areas. over them as I Due compensation shall be made to private ownthe cost of reconstruction will have to come oat gurgle r hugs yarns. ers. Appropriate provision will be made that the of the Rocky Mountain National park appropriathealthful may resort to the open air with ion. , safety, . . His Statu. The public campaign L of Jhe, Agricultural departs without contempt of fellow citizens and with full merit and the forest service to wrest control of Areas unique for scenery will be acone Why, he Is the national parks from the Interior department quired. Those embracing objects and materials kings." . useful or and their exploitation of ly IS Interesting In scientific study win fa. forests cre-sl1 what PVai" servedT- Grounds will be bought whereon occurred Exactly for lumbering and grazing as recreational L words. Hes a copP6 important scenes in early and recent social competitors of the national parks. works prehistoric Federal support of the National lst; where lie the ashes of wir great, where hafty that spent3 eralT 'these' CelterPrtntinff tlgfiway, an automobile circuit of 5,000 miles confacts should stand. Shore lines of lakes and rivform letter Pr A j3te new the necting principal national parks. ers; reservoirs; steeps and slopes deforested In State parks and local parks of all kinds, from cuts paper fed fj' g(fotnir!'a New York to California, offer a early clays will be mured. Some will be replant-- . proper size, uses d multitude of L In tlu'e with, useful nd attractive trees. Small desired when Important topics, especially If considroadside areas on streams. In shade, will be providered In the spirit of the Iowa plan. changes the nan,ps ed where families touring may camp overnight and each letter produced In Just three rectories we have discovered th rise in the morning without passing cars having land, marched across It and made It ours. The du-t filled with their bed and breakfast All this! old days hare gone. The time has come wheu in time to come, is the states objective." we imj- -t gire thought to the in wh ch we ways rbotrman 1iunmel, wbo is a member of the facenn get from1 it the mo- -t gori. One of there ways ulty of town S ine college, re;ortsJiiar In the two U ,ho C,V,10T1 n, dc reh p'ncnt of n nation-wid- e years of the bcvrvls ex steme It hn re m d ' r, s fln-ish- ed non-politic- zmarm,. Public-spirite- Thirty-sevent- h hut-some- h d more-marke- hsy. aas.e 213-mil- globe-trotter- at'mahirahnmajc 'seif-respec- t. Abe-nation- ed al life-wher- e rark-to-rar- k Inter-cstingan- t sre't.o if; 1 - , ' r 1 |