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Show fmm U3 1 XIX 3HGIIT AUTOS TAXED BY HOUSE Provides That Cars Using Roads of measure State for Profit Shall Pay for Privilege. 162rro riding for of automobile which oh highway in transporting freight was amended by the (jj passengers, and passed. As the last night jjmt all automobile agen- stands, gov jl asing the roads in the state 'of .tsh for the transportation of a cent ri3 pr n tax of roads ju ton mile on of a cent per ton mile ud dirt roads. They will also pay a mills per ai of two and one-ha-lf yiiecgtr per mile on hard surfaced cfA. and one mill on dirt roads, ie presents tiv McCullough of Salt 1 started the debate by delivering i broadside at senators, represents-yn- , highway officials and others, ad stated that no one had given the dl sufficient consideration and that m measure was a monument to incident methods of study. He cited gores obtained from the Salt Lake-gde- a Transportation company to that, if the bill passed, that j smpany would be forced to pay taxes aereased 280 per cent over those of ait year. Hamilton Gardner also abmitted similar figures. The attitude of the house, however, ns almost solidly against the McCullough motion to strike out the clause. Representative Wood-uf- f stopped the debate by moving is previous question to strike out the starting clause. He then suggested of a rent per ton i tax of nle for dirt roads. Keysor and Iowan both spoke for this suggestion, rilkWsUh and Kenney stkkingto Fowles, Crouch and Sansen urged a compromise at of a cent, and the matter stood there when the speaker stopped Emission by calling up the securities bill. Special order for 6 oclock. The securities bill was quickly disposed of by being passed and the debate upon the trucking measure was Senate bill No. triwf for-pro- two-thir- fit ds bard-surfac- ed one-four- th -- en-irti- one-eigh- th ihree-eighth- -- a. one-lour- th renewed. Funeral Services for James It. Proudfoot An effort to answer the question will be made at the City Hall next Tuesday evening. To sewer or not to sewer, that is the question. Whether it is best to make a sanitary, mode is ern, city, or adhere to the question for consideration. up-to-da- Let Every Property Owner . (This article is clipped frqm The Box Elder Journal, of Brigham City, and only five words are changed to make it fit Kaysville. Editor Reflex.) Public officials are supposed to represent the wishes of the people, and to give concrete expression to the composite thought of their constituents insofar as law gives rs Urges Early Seeding of Sugar one-eigh-th one-four- ds th Entered Against J. -- vh-el- s ' - Lajion . presents SNOW .WHITE An Operetta in 4 Acta at COMMUNITY HALL, LAYTON and Thursday, March CYildr9 Wednesday Genera! Ad miss Um: Adults 25c, JSc U 18-1- Iccrvfd Seats Scats on Sale at 1S Golden Rule Store begiuntag Saturday, March 14 4. w d. All-Sta- te Newell Sanders of KajsvilU, former Daris high school student and athlete and-a- t present star guard on the Utah Agricultural college basketball squad, has letn chosen by las Coates, a leading snort writer, on the mjthicsl albstate basketball team. Hod", as he is known by his friends ami associates, was a stellar athlete at the Davis high school. He was considered one of the best high school football players in the state and played a leading part in bringing the state high school basketball championship to Dans high in 1920. For two successive years hs was picked on the high school basketball team, and now is honored for the second time in succession by being chosen on the all state college team. No far aa is known this record has never been equalled by any other athlete in the state. Lea Coates, in part, says: Newell Sanders, who rated an all state guard position last season, is by a heavy majority. For who could reis an place aim? player over his last yearsimproved form and is seldom if ever deluded by shifting trend of play. He passes the hall excellently and gets rid of it like lightning. For intercepting plays and returning the hall up the court, Sanders is a wonderful workman. He seems to be able to do all things well, and looks good to finish well out in front in the scoring among the defensive players. all-sta- llAt and Vegetable association and the Growers Market company, held Monday, a move was startedfor the building of a farmers ristmnr warehouse and station at Bountiful for th e southern part of Davis county. This is one of a series to be built in Davis county as the shipping of fruit and vegetables propre-loadi- gresses. Simon lUniberger, Ray B. Needham and R. X. Wiisie of the Bamberger Railroad company offered to build a warehouse and loading station if a warhouse company could be formed. The committee, consisting of E. E. Smith, John 1L Barlow. E. L. Hanson, David F. Smith, Moses I. Holbrook, Nephi Hepworth and W. J. Thayne, will cooperate with the railroad officials in making further plans. H. Duncan, from the United States departrmfmt of agriculture, who was at the meeting, is having plans, specifications and costs sent from Wash-inton for the committee, and is negotiating to have the warehouse established as one of the government ther p. Governor Dcrn Sigrns Gasoline Tax Measure UP TOUTAIINS Plans for Building of Huge Dam in Echo Canyon Approved; Is Now Up to People. The Salt Lake basin reclamation project is on its way to success, la the estimation of Congressman Don B. Colton of Vernal, ardent worker for the bill in the past sessions of congress, who returned to his ttatha state Monday and who is at present looking after business interests .la Salt lake. The matter is now in tha hands of the Utahns themselves, Mr. Colton as hi, and the sooner the people of this state complete organisation which ran deal with the reclamation bureau of the department of agriculture the sooner the work on the projects will be started. Actual construction on the units of the project shouLt Ikstarted before fall, the congressman said. Dr. Klwood Mead, director of reclamation, has already gone nr record as favoring an early start a the Utah work, Mr. Colton added. 'As the matter now stands there if a fund of approximately a million and a quarter dollars which is available for work in Utah as soon as lbs proper machinery, i the form of water users associations or districts, Several million dollar is organised. more will be needed to complete t he- wn rk, which will extend over a period' BOUNTIFUL, March a joint meeting of representatives of the Davis County Cooperative Fruit Without fear of opening an editorial gap for a wedge of successful contradiction, we ask this question: was there ever a genuine public improvement that even the biggest taxpayer would have torn down or done without after once installed? There may have been one, or there may have been more; but the instances are so rare as not to admit of weight in the premises. Probaly there has not been one in a thousand, or one in ten thousand. It is practically an invariable rule that those who first oppose public improvements are in the end their strongest defenders. There is a reason for this. The fact that people start opposition proves that they are fighters, that they have the power and ability to persuade. Every active aggressor is a potential defender. These are the men and women who should be won over and then to do battle for the defense after they are convinced to a change of attitude. We have but admiration, not censure, for those who show strength and activity in opposition. The unfortunate pa of it is after all, that apathy and disinterestedness in public matters is the worst kind of opposition. It matters not what the improvement may v the paring uf the main street, of the town, a ,public park -or playground, a new highway or street, a fire truck, or a new broom for the janitor at the town hall it is all the same. Once we get it or them we are a proud lot of folks ; happy in the thought that we are going forward, developing, creating pride in our community, fostering zeal and Was there ever a newly good-wi- ll fn our too much? Were propcost because it road torn up paved decreased values ever by improvements? Was ever erty a cow pasture? back into a public park turned In this age of the tourist, the traveler, this day of town and city advertising and competition, this day of modern convenience, cleanliness, sanitation, increasing traffic, growing population, any public improvement for which funds are honestly and economically expended or for which assessments are equalized and equitably distributed will bring commendation for ourselves and those who follow us irannrfflaK r-'-" fellow-citizenshi- te Davis Cooperatives Plan Loading Station backward. be-whe- g Weber Water UerS Elect Directors of several year and will take I many portions of the basin of Creak Salt lake. The plan to be followed is the three-wa- y system, under which a dam will te built in Echo canyon, a . canal across Kama flats to take the headwaters from the Weber and drop them into the Provo, and a dike acmes - where rierirbiywill reclaim several thousand ing acres of land. The most serious obstacle to getting the bill through congress wae reeducating the people to reclamation nd getting permission to organise associations in place of districts where necessary, Representative Colton said. Fast failures of reclamation projects made easterners skeptical and the Salt Lake project had to be put across upon ita business merits. Thin waa not difficult, even in the. face of opposition, the congressman stated, because the merit of the project waa so that aU but the most convinced that th were skeptical Utah unit was ideally located. Mr. Colton also mentioned the Oregon Trail matter, wherein certain legislators from the northwest attempted to have the Mormon trail eliminated from the historic overland trails and route some distance to the north substituted. This effort Is blocked for sometime, Mr. Colton said. The a Clearance of Representative Colton In the senate and house yesterday caused some members of the ' legislature to remember there legislation some place which ha a very direct bearing upon the Rockville bridge built over the Virgin river before the death of President Harding. This bridge waa built to connect Zion park with the Grand canyon and the Kaibab, eliminating a forty-mil- e swing through Hurrisubm-mie- nt -- self-evide- nt wa-som- n, 1 OiOOOHmMOMOmOdMiimHOHOHMMOM'SHlOlMlOMIfiMUtlMOMOOOMIOOOMOHIHMIl ii ii if if Watch this tenance of the present roads; $737,-50- 0 will go to the sinking fund and interest; administration of the commission will, get $60,000; administration of the secretary of state will get another $60,000; state highways which will not get federal aid will receive $200,000, leaving $285,000 to be used in the construction of the federal aid e basis. roads on the space Next Week! three-to-cn- We agree with John W. Davis plea for closer touch" with the old world. Only lets be sure that the touch" isnt too onesided. Layton Auto Coi What wise man said, It is easy to be nice to some other mans wife. Little Difference. Cop:' This man is a lawyer by day and a burglar at night, yer honor. Justice: Which was he arrested ' e OGDEN, March 11. Directors of the Weber River Water Users' as' sociation were elected at a meeting in the federal building Monday. They were James Johansen and Thomas Hardy, Morgan countv; John G. M. Barnes and James H. Cook, Davis cane. , county; R. R. Fletcher and Levi Fear-soand cost the The $4000 bridge Summit county, and John Maw, John T. Bybee, M. D. Harris, George money was furnished by the governA. Fuller and T. R. Jones of Weber. ment with the understanding that tfaar state of Utah would build a road of Approximately twenty-fiv- e irrigation about eight miles from Rockville were eompahies represented. A. F. Bigelow and Frank Francis south to the main road. Since tho of Ogden and Lloyd Garrison, state legislature has never placed this upon the state system it has tien engineer, explained the. Salt Lake impossible highway this and necessary do to project. Pleasure was expressed at legislation now in committee. the progress of work on the Echo Certain interested people took addam. Governor Dern was commended for vantage of Mr. Coltons presence at the appointment of Mr. Bigelow and the capitol to remind the committee1 Mr. Barnes as members of the water holding the bill that Utah stilt hiui storage commission, in a resolution a debt of tacit agreement to pay the drawn by the organization. It also government. paed another resolution asking that Mr. Colton, while at the state houso the senate pass house bill 97, and par- Jresterday, made short addresses In senate chamber and tho ticularly section 32, pertaining to adchamber of the house. judication of water rights. counties is $373,459.49, making a total amount of $1,883,059. Of this amount, $540,559 will be used in main- for. U Newell Sanders Named BASIN PROJECT . on Team s, Governor Georg II. Dern yesterday signed the gasoline tax bill, raising the tax to 34 centa pet gallon and adding $300,000 to the state road fund each year. This additional amount will be used, for the most part, in matching federal aid money, $3 federal money and $1 state money, for the construction of a complete system of state highways. These roads, as already announced, h will include stretches irf Echo canyon and below Echo canyon, from Price to the Colorado line; a stretch of road in Sah Juan county, some roads in Washing ton county, some in Tooele county, and sections here and there in' other parts .of the state. The estimated tax. based upon the expected sale of 30,000,000 gallons of gasoline daring the period from April 1, 1925, to April 1, 1926, is $375,000. The motor vehicle tax. based on a 10 7 per cent increase over 1924. is $534 600. The amount to be asked from ii Association Parent-Teache- rs them authority to act. When, however, these same officials desire to provide for a much needed public improvement there is a corresponding obligation on the part of the people as a whole to iend their sanction and support to the movement. Usually the cry is higher taxes. On its fact this is a very legitimate objection; but no bempaning of higher taxation or increased assessments is entirely supported by the soundest logic unless it is shown that the benefits to be derived will not equal or even approximate the immediate damage done or the financial expenditure involved. Often more taxes or higher taxes means economy itself. No matter how Few communities are well planned, there, always Is at least one outstanding And needed development in the offing. There is always something yet to be done. And among the most important is a sewer system for Kaysville. The longer a needed improvement is put off or its program retarded the less value comes from it in point of time-yeaand the more expensive it beor value-yearcomes to carry out. This paper stands for progress. It would not deserve to exist or thrive in this community if it stood otherwise. If it fails, it wants to go down advocating an Improvement that inevitably would arise and bloom over the ashes of defeat. It would prefer to die boosting than live sliding over-develope- ed two-thir- Present Public Improvements Representative Woodruff spoke sevHe times for a compromise. its ted that the measure was experi-nentand. should not be made so Bergeson stringent aa to work real hardship Beets tpon any clast of carriers. Woodruff finally asked that the senate bill be Recent rumors of ' discouragement changed to make the tax on freight cent and an undercurrent of dissatisfacon roads one-ha-lf rather than a cent, and that the tax tion among beetgrowers in the interas mountain region, arising from a drop a dirt roads be cut to Both of these in sugar prices, and further irritated suggested previously. were voted down and the house finall- by the fact that the 1924 season was and unsuccessful because of the drought, y agreed upon cents and the bill was sent to prompted Ephraim Bergeson, presithe senate for its approval to the dent of the Utah beetgrowers state association and president of the Utah changes. State Farm bureau, to study the situation with a view of making recomJildgment mendations to the farmers regarding years planting. Other problems C. Weaver this also are referred to In the recomwhich follow: The rase of H. J. Kniffling of Salt mendations, view of In the fact that some of lake City vs. C. J. Weaver of Lay-to- n the beetgrowers have asked me if adwas tried before Judge Kimball ditional payments will be made by hi the district court of Farmington the sugar companies for 1924 beets, I Monday and Tuesday of this week, have taken occasion to thoroughly inthe jury rendering a judgment in am preparand matter that vestigate favor of the plaintiff. a reaed to unquestionably, that, say It was brought out in the case that sonable will be made to all payment n May 15, 1924, Mr. Kniffling accom1924 growers on the next subsequent panied by a man and woman, was payment date, April 15, and this driving a Ford automobile south on statement might, he .further fubitan-tiate- d the state highway north of Layton by reason of the fact that the and were run into by an automobile taken an Evidence sugar market has recently driven by Mr. Weaver. is most encourwhich turn, upward showed that Mr. Weaver was driving on the wrong side of the road and aging. As to the general outlook for this collided with the other car when two beet crop, the heavy snowball were off the cement. Both years the last few days hss greatly during cars were badly damaged and the belief that the seamy strengthened lady received several cuts and bruises, son of 1925 is going to be an excepwhile the men escaped with only minor one. Prospcts for amgood tionally bruses. water have seldom Wen The cotrplint charged Mr. Weaver ple irrigating what I know of the from and, Wt'er, with neghtnre and Mr. Kniffling a splendid seed of the condition soil, brought suit for 11,000 damages or bed can W secured. $00 and a new ear, claiming he was I do not, therefore, hesitate to recinjured and unal le to work for some ommend that the Wetgrowers plant a time. the coming seasubstantial After listening to the evidence and son, believingacreage final net rethe that receiving instruction from the court, sults will W good. the jury retired and about an hour There is another , thing that I and b hslf if ter petit-re- d with a judgment against MrTVavc r, order beets means increased tonnage. ing him to pay 2400 to Mr. Kniffling and the costa of court. CARD OF THANKS ' To all those friends and neighbors Force of Ilebit. When-eso generoulsy assisted os during r who lly fiance is so romantic. he speaks to me he always says: the illness and on the death of our husband and father, we wish to exFair lady." thanks. Your tenProbably from force of habit. lie tend our heartfelt der sympathy and helpfullness has bsed to be a street car conductor. done much to sustain us in this our France Seeks to Rale Abandoned hour of bereavement. MRS. JAMES R. PROUDFOOT, tiff Zone. Headline. FRANKLIN W. PROUDFOOT. Ah, the authentic Riff in the loot. al old-tim- te Be NUMBER UTAH. THURSDAY. MARCH 12, 1125 Shall Kaysville Have Sewer System ? The funeral service of James R. Proudfoot, the pioneer barber and mail carrier of Kaysville, who died at hia home in this city on Wednesday afternoon, March 4, was held at the Kaysville tabernacle Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The service was under the direction of Bishop Frank Hyde, bishop of Kaysville ward, and was opened by the choir singing I Know That My Redeemer Liveth," which was followed by Elder John G. M. Barnes, who offered the opening prayer. The speakers were Elder Bruce Major, Elder James H. Sheffield, Jr. Elder Charles A. Smurthwaite and President Henry H. Blood. Elder Major spoke of the conversations he had had with the deceased and quoted his favorite scripture concerning immortality of the soul; Elder Smurthwaite told of his long acquaintance and President Blood reviewed the long yean of service the deceased had rendered to the United States mail service and the public and paid a beautiful tribute to hia kindness of heart, fidelity to duty, honesty and strict integrity. The benediction was pronounced by Elder John W. Gailev. The musical numbers were rendered by the Thornley orchestra, consisting of Mrs. J. W. Thornley at the piano, Mias Doris, violin, and Miss Melba, cello the selection rendered was 0, Mn. Earl Hood of the My Father. Caledonian club of Salt Lake City rendered aa a solo "Face to Face. William Cook of Salt Lake City and Mrs. Earl Hood sang Who Are Those , Arrayed In White." The floral offerings were profuse and were carried by ten young boya. A feature of the service was a Woodmen of the World drill team from the Ogden Woodmen lodge. There was also a service at the grave conducted by the council commander of the Ogden lodge. This service waa at the request of the deceased, who was a member of Abe Lincoln post, Woodmen of the World, of Kaysville. Interment was in Kaysville cemetery, where the grave was dedicated by Elder James Criddle. The funeral waa one of the large funerals which has been held in the Kaysville tabernacle and was a mark of respect to, the memory of the deceased and sympathy to the bereaved wife end eon. eral hard-surfac- LAYTON AND FARMINGTON. 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