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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSVILLE. UTAH Educational Reforms Absorb Good arid Evil fiEQEL LOSSES Points of Predecessors. T E -- HEAVY IN FIGHT By DAVID KI.NLEY, President University of Illinois. DECREASE OR RIVE RER CENT SHOWN IN GOVERNMENT REPORT ISSUEO Upper Section of Town Is Damaged; $100,000 Done by Fire Cash Salsa FtaeSd at $9,549,000,000; Nat Profit' l Estimated at $2,440,000,000 Many Flee in Night Washington Groaa agricultural In- come abowed a decreaae of about I per cent for tbe crop year which ended June SO, aa compared with the preceding year, the department of agriculture announced, eatlmatlng the groaa Income at $12,080,000,000, compared with $12,(70,000,000. The decline waa attributed chiefly to the drop In cotton prlcea. Smaller income came from feed gralna, applea and potatoea alao, but It waa partially offaet by aome-whahigher returna from livestock, and livestock producta. Jn computing the groaa Income, caah aalea were placed at $9, $49,(100, 000 and the value of food and fuel conaumed on farma at $2,$S1, 000.000. Net Income, after deducting expenses, waa eatlmated by the department at $2 400.000,000, a decreaae of 20 per cent from the preceding year. Expenaea of production decreased only 2 per cent, while the groaa Income decreaaed about $ per cent. The caah Income from aalea waa oatimated aa followa: ; Dairy and poultry groducta, meat anlmala, $2,892,000,000; fruita and vegetablea, $1,511,000,000; gralna, $1,454,000,000, and cottonaeed, t, $3,754,-000,000- $1491,000,000. - - - - - - - - Pan American Labor Falla on Vote Waehlngton After houra of heated dlacuaalon, a reaolutlon of proteat to Prealdent Coolldge agalnat Amelacn marine, actlvitlea In Nicaragua, by the battle of marlnea and followera of General Sandlno at Ocotal, failed of definite action In the reaolutiona committee of the Fifth Labor congreaa. When the committee aeaaion broke up mem-heraald a compromise reaolutlon would be drafted and offered to the congreaa by a aubcommittee composed of Uarthew Woll, American delegate; d Pan-America- n Attire as Flames Spread Rapidly; Four Hotela, Rooming House Destroyed; Emergency Call Brings S. L. County Fire Equipment Balt Lake Thred hundred and fifty persona were rendered homeless anc damage of approximately $100,000 dons In a spectatcular firs which swept through s section of upper Bing bam early Friday morning. 'Through the combined efforts of the Salt Lake City, county, Bingham volunteer Are departments and the Utah Copper company., emergency equipment and the sourageous conduct of the volunteer firemen, entire Upper Bingham was saved from destruction. Two frame hotela and one rooming house were burned to tbe ground and two brick botela were completely gut ted. The blase originated in tbe rear of the Nick Pinos' grocery store at 4:20 o'clock and ate its way rapidly In both directions. , Albert Newman, drug clerk In the Diamond bar, qotlced tbe flames shooting from the grocery store and sounded the alarm. So rapidly did the fire spread that occupants of rooming houses and small canyon homes had no time to obtain their belongings. Many fled in their night clothing, only a few stopping long enough to grab a wrap to protect them from the chilly morning air. Five minutes after the alarm waa turned In the volunteer equipment No. 1 and No. 2 arrived on the scene, but even then the fire waa shooting from the Venice hotel on the right of the Pinos grocery. The flamca shot high In the air and lopped across the narrow street and ignited the Copper and Bingham hotela. Faced with the task of fighting the blaxe on both aides of the narrow, avenue, Acting Chief William Harris put In an emergency call for the Salt Lake county volunteer department. Before the county equipment after a record rug of twenty-fivminutes from Murray, arrived, the Bingham volunteers had successfully checked the blaxe on the west side of the street. The new concrete exchange building qf the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company, proved the obstacle that prevented Ibe spread of the flames down the canyon. The buildings, the belongings, the proprietor and the estimated damage follow: Copper hotel. P. II. Pltchoa, $8,000. Bingham hotel, Andrew Gramalakls, a tor-tuou- e Lula N. Morones, of Mexico; Andrea H. Moralea of Guatemala, and the Nicaraguan delegatee who offered the original document, Salomon de la Selva and Tranqulllo Saena. The Nicaraguans reaolutlon, which would have proteated the "presence and activities' of the marines In their country and any Interference on the part of the United States government In the affairs of tbe Nicaraguan people. waa being considered by the committee when the navy department received its Erst detailed report of the Ocotal battle from rear Admiral Selera, commanding naval detachments In Nicaragua. e $8,000. Modern hotel, O. 8. Underhill, $25,-00- 0. Venice hotel, Mrs. M. J. Contratto, Coolldge Told Farming Coats $15,000. Pinos grocery and rooming house, Nick Pinos, $10,000. Henry Wise building and rooming house, $15,000. Henry 3yiss horns, $4000. Greek coffee house and pool hall, Mike Machkrlkla. $9000. Chinese restsnrsnt, $4000. The firs Is believed to have been caused by an overheated coal stove. Rapid City, 8. DAFlgurea purporting to show that la costs the farmer much more to produce his crops than he gets from them were presented to President Coolldge la the course of two conversations held by him on the agriculture situation. The corn belt committee gave Mr. Coolldge a table of statiatlcs showing that It coats the farmer an average of about 79 per cent more to produce than he receives tor his products. At the end of the conference the committee's representatives declared the president expressed hlmaelf "very favorably toward their suggestion that a broader cooperative marketing system must be arranged. "Sound legislation" also waa auggcated as an aid for agriculture by Frederick Murphy, the publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune, who stayed at the summer White House for a night and who drove to the executive office with the president. Crystal tall Ce. Plant Wlpad Out Salt Lake Fire, aald to have tarted when a transformer blew out In tbs south end of the structure, completely wiped out the Hired-storplant of the Inland Crystal Salt company near Saltair at 7 o'clock Friday morning. Damage to the plant and the equipment was estimated at $500,000 by 1. A. Clayton. Jr., general manager of the company. G. M. Stratton, manager of the plant, first discovered the flames shooting from the south end of the giant structure and Immediately phoned the alarm to headquarters at Salt Lake. Work Predicts Continued Tariff Rates Recruiting help from families that live contiguous to the plant, men, woFort Collins, Colo. Predicting that men and children formed a bucket agitation against the present tariff squad and attempted to halt the blase. would receive scant attention In con- Their efforts proved futile and before greaa,' where tbs "great majority of the city equipment arrived the entire frame structure was ablsxe. both Republicans 'and Democrats The county fire department, which were protectionists. Dr. Hubert Work, adhad of an in Just completed placing the fire at the Interior, secretary dress here 'defended the protective Bingham under control, was called to tariff against the attacks of agricul- the scene, and both departments playturists. Dr. Work declared the articles ed water on the biasing structure, but the farmer produces for sale are pro- It had gained too much headway to tected by tbe tariff, while the neces- be Quenched. Three homes south of the plant were sities he buys from abroad are on thd free list. Declaring It Is as necessary damaged to the extent of $500 by the to promote a market aa to supply it. Intense heat. Mr. Clayton said that fifty men are Dr. Work said the "corporations of our country have more than fourteen mil- employed at the plant and they will be lions of shareholders whose savings put to work rebuilding the plant. The would be menaced by tbs removal of outlay was completely covered by Insurance, he stated. tariff." thirty-minut- e Hundred Airplanes Expected In Race New York-M- ajor John T. Fancher, commander of the Forty-flrdivision .air force, WashIngtonitlonal guard, expressed the opinion, that 100 air-- ' planet would participate in the race from New York to Spokane, beginning September 19. He aaid he basjd his estimate on the fact that there were entries and that already twenty-seveapplications were coming in fast. The race will be held under the auapirea of the National Aeronautical assocta-j lion. Commander Richard E. Byrd has said that he will act as an officiaL et -- -- 1 n ! i Lindbergh to Visit Cities by Railroad St. Louis Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh! natlonar air tour, which will carry hlm into every state la the union. in the Interest of aviation, will be augmented to Include trlpa by rail to a number of cities without landtqg field facilities. Earl C. Thompson, one of the flier's backers, has announced. "Lindbergh feels the greatest service he can render the cause of aviation," Thompson said, "la to visit cities which have no landing fields and urge that they take steps to afford them.1 in a large measure, dominates methods of teaching and We constantly delude ourselves with the thought FASHION improving our methods of teaching and our forma of organization by changing from old waja to some alleged new one. One reform which tine of the greatest of American educators made when ha became president of Harvard university was the introduction of the lecture aystem to replace the recitation system that had prevailed. That ystem had become dry, mechanical, a mere matter of memory and rote, lta evils were evident. We must have the inspiration and freshness of the expert teacher and investigator in lectures, became 'then the cry of reform. The advantages of the lecture eystem loomed large. Its disadvantage! were unknown or passed over. Now the movement is reversed. This and other, educational reforms are, in one respect, like all reforms. We compare the evils of the existing system with the good of new ones.' So we swing over, abandoning the good of the ope, as well aa its evils, and taking on the evils of the other, as well as its good. We may gain little or nothing by swinging from recitation, question and answer, to class discussion, to class debates and other methods opposed to make the student dothe WorkAll of them 'are' but' devWa to attract the attention and arouse the interest of the student They-masucceed in getting him to go through the external motions of learning and of being interested in his studies, but may fail to bring him the rich reward that cornea from interest in the subject rather than in the method of approach to it -- . d - Each Generation Has Own Viewpoint of the Problem of Immortality By REV. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK, New York. Each generation approaches the problem of immortality in its own way. Aa far back aa we can look men have believed in immortality, but age after age has constructed its own special reason for doing so. What, then, is the particular approach which our generation makes to this question? Unless we understand that we cannot understand either our cur-lephilosophy or our current suicide. That our way of getting at the problem is different from our fathers approach is evident. Only a little while ago the major interest in immortality concerned reaching heaven and escaping hell. Then a great change came. It came in the generation just behind ns. Man got hia hand firmly on his new scientific control of natures forces and began making amazing changes here and now. The voices which most typically spoke for the generation just behindus were full of expectation, but not about a heaven. They had to earth the brought paradise of their desires. The Isles of the Blessed were no longer in the West, they were only few years ahead. In that chorus of optimisms, both poets and scientists, hymnologista and sociologists, joined. Even the churches' hymnals began to include more songs about the kingdom of heaven on earth than about the kingdom of heaven in a future paradise. nt law-abidi- ng post-morte- m mid-Victori- Decentralization of Industry Would Be of Grea Benefit' to the Nation By SAMUEL INSULL, Utilities Magnate. Our rapid industrial development has one decided disadvantage. It la the massing of our population in large centers, so that we are crowded in' some places and extremely rural in others. ( There ia no apparent reason why specialized manufacturing, for example, cannot be conducted aa economically in the country aa in the city. It would result in vastly improved conditions for workers, better atmosphere for children, better surroundings for family life in all respects, with consequently material effect upon the future manhood and womanhood of our population. There are 19,000,000 of electrical horse power established in the factories of tbe United States. This is a force equal to 290,000,000 human workmen. The amount of installed and available power per workman in the factories of the United Statea is ten times the amount per workman in France, and twenty times the amount per workman in Italy. This fact alone accounts for a large part of the differences between wages here and in Europe. It is a main factor in maintaining prod 'ctive supremacy. Forests Would Have Greatly Reduced Disaster From the Recent Floods By W. L HALL Prominent Forest Engineer. CONSTABULARY FORCE OF29 MEN SEVERELY REPULSE LIBERAL ARMY FORCES OF 200 If the Ozark country had been covered with heavy forests in good flood would have been less disastrous in that section the recent condition, g Forests greatly increase the capacity of the soil ; they also run-ofia This the surface in all kinds of country, but true retard particularly so in hill regions, such aa the Ozark? of Missouri and water-holdin- f. Arkansas. Much depends also on the condition of the forests. Forest with is not of much value. Forest with heavy leaf cover, cleau burned, ground which has accumulated cover, through years, undisturbed by fire, has the greatest retarding influence on water. Such forests in the Ozarks would have greatly retarded the heavy rains. The same is true for the headwaters of the Ohio and the other streams which recently have poured great quantities of water into the It is hardly to be believed such forests would have Miasissippi. entirely the flood, but reforestation would greatly help. prevented Day Coming When Church Unity Will Replace Church Controversy CHARLES H. BRENT, Buffalo, New York. Church unity ia no longer a distant vision,' but tn immediate and urgent necessity. The World Conference on Faith and Order to be held August 3 to 21, will bring together religious leaders from all the world. All Christian churches are looking forward to, this meeting with the greatest interest, as a step toward greater unity. The Lausanne inference is the most representative religious assembly that has been held since the division of the church, centuries. ago., The spirit of all our preparatory meetings has been one of harmony and frankness. I believe the era of church controversy is over. We are living in an, era of church, ' ' operation." . - fts a PriviUg - fo lio, J fo Utah ! OGDEN President James h of the Ogden chamber of reiterated the decision of th chamber to seek an equal freight on grain through the Ogden gatewj! Bombing Planes Rsportad Great Aid to 8an Francisco, aa will obtain under In Delivering Severs Beating the proposed reduction over th- - Well. to Thoir Foss This statement Qogerson cut-ofu given at a luncheon of shippers held In the chamber of commerce Manugua, Nicaragua United 8tatea LOGAN Farm families from marines and Nicaraguan constabulary part of Utah continued to every airly severely repulsed General 8andlno, re- throughout the entire day in Logla calcitrant Liberal, who attacked Oco- for the seventh annual Farmers ental Saturday afternoon and again Sun- campment, which opened on the day. of the Utah Agricultural colleg The rebel losses were more, than and will, continue under the direuloa fifty killed and many wounded. One of the Utah Extension Service for four marine was killed and one wounded. days. The rebels were bombed by planes BRIGHAM CITY Utah pioneers of sent from Managua, and apparently Boxelder county will be honor gUeu they did considerable execution. of the Daughters of the Pioneers at a Themarlnes.numberlngjhirly-nlne- , were under 'command of Hajor Hat- program, banquet,' picture show and auto drive Saturday, July 23 field, while the constabulary waa unhas been arranged for the der Lieutenant Grover Darnell. veterans, each camp taking iare of Ocotal, a small town about 110 miles their pioneers. The festival ia for all north of Managua, was attacked by who came to Utah from July 24. 187. General Sandlno, former liberal, who to May 10, 1869, inclusive. continues to oppose peace settleMYTON Uintah Products company, ment In Nicaragua. ' Two scout planes returned here which was organised in Roosevelt a from Ocotal and reported to General few months ago, has rented in Vernal old meat plant building, and exFeland, .commander of the American the to open the same August 1. They pects forces, that the marines and constato and ship all kinds of plan bulary were defending the town farmers buy C. E. Johnson and produce. against Sandlno and 200 men. Sterling Collett are managers, and Johnson of Roosendt is Utahs Exports are Valued $153,480 Mayor Clair president of the company. ine com-mer- f. cam-pu- s Trans-portatlo- n te - New York and Texas Washington were preeminent among the statea of the union In furnishing commodities 1927. Commerce department figures for export during the first quarter of placed the countrys total merchandise export for the quarter at $1,175, 020409. compared with $1,098,839443 during the corresponding period of 1926, and credited New York with furnishing $193,190,065 and Texas Utah's share was $153,480; Idaho. $559,924; Wyoming, $1,096,345, and Nevada, $75,775. California, placed third, accounted for 81.244,751, while Michigan, fourth, shipped goods worth $80,696,172. Pennsylvania was fifth, with $77,073,735 and New Jersey sixth with $62,492,286. During the t quarter, onehalf of the states increased their exports as compared with last year. - $J72,-035,78- forty-eigh- Geneva By reason of Japanese mediation a ray of light which may show the way to an eventual accord penetrated the tripartite naval conference. Japan and Great Britain reached as between themselves a provisional agreement on a total tonnage of cyuls-er- s and destroyers of about 500.000 for the United States and Britain, which will serve as a basis for discussion. Viscount Ishii officially communicated to Hugh S. Gibson, head of the American delegation, all the details of the Japanese conversations with the British. which were carried on with the knowledge of the Americans and In keeping with Mr. Gibson's suggestion that If the Japanese and British could bring together their widely divergent positions there would be a better chance for all three powers reaching an understanding, since the Americans occupy a place between the two Japanese and British extremes. Farm Rtsearch Fund Is Needed Increased spproprla- Washington tlons for agricultural research and extension work In whatever farm relief program la finally adopted waa urged tn a statement by Charles J. Brand, secretary of the National Fertiliser association . He declared that the government's annual budget provides only 10 cents per man, woman and child in the country for this phase of farm development, whereas "promotion of marine transportation" gets 54 cents and "national defense" $4.65. At the present rate of teaching farmers the new, practices, he said it would take from twenty-fivto fifty years "to get where we might well be In five to ten years with recouse to well grounded research and carefully planned and effectively conducted demonstrations and teaching. profit-makin- By BISHOP j News Notes! g e Hailstorm Damage Believed $500,000 Greeley. Colo. A terrific hailstorm, seven to fourteen miles In width, extending from the region north of Nunn. Colo., southeast past Kersey, resulted in damage estimated from one to one and f million dollars. Pellets piled three inches deop over an area from 150 to 200 square miles In northern Weld county. Damage to the wheat crop alone, much of which ,wlll be ready to harvest soon. Is estimated at a half million dollars. The towns of Nunn. Eaton. Anult and Pierce were struck by the storm, which was of thirty minutes duration. Each town reported substantial losses from damaged rooms and broken windows. An Eaton factory reported that one-hal- ' Twisters Kill Nine in Sweep Kansas .City Nina persons were killed and many more Injured down upon eastern Kansas. Thousands of dollarsjlamage to property and growing crops was left In the wake of the twisters. South Park. Kan., a suburb of Kansas City with a population of approximately 800. felt the full effects of. the storm that struck sundown. Four were killed there and more than a score Injured. Twenty-fiv- e residences .were leveled and a hundreds othera were as the twKer mowed a path damaged 600 feet wide. Two Countries Reach Total Tonnage Just-bef- ore -- MT. PLEASANT Several Suffolk sheep, mostly rams, have been shipped from England to Utah and Canada, and will be used to mate with range ewes, according to word received from the Suffolk Sheep society of Ipswich, England.' The animals, many of them prize winners in England, are consigned to E. Patrick, who has sheep ranches In Utah and eastern Canada The mixture of this breed is expected to do much to Improve the meat producing qualities of the western Rheep. One of the rams to be shipped to Utah was fhe champion ram at the Suffolk county show. SALT LAKE In Utah and southern Idaho the annual per capita kilowatt hour consumption Is approximately 1875, compared with an average of 621 for the United States as a whole. PARK CITY Since 1868 the metal mines of Utah have produced about two billion dollars of wealth. In that time 86 companies In fifteen districts have paid a total of $300,000,001) in dividends. VERNAL Special trips have been arranged for outside visitors to the Uintah basin Industrial convention to be given during the convention to see some of the more interesting parts of the Uintah basin, with transportation furnished without expense and with guides to lead the way and answer Basin residents are wequestions. lcome to accompany the caravans. SALT LAKE According to the last census of the department of agriculture, Utah stands at the top of all the states In the percentage of farms using electric power. OGDEN Announcement of rules for the fourth annual Utah intermountain egg laying contest has been made by Byron Adler, station poultryman at the Utah Agricultural collage, and superintendent of the contest. Tbe fourth annual contest opens November 1, 1927, and close October 23, 1928. PROVO Twenty-threbarrels' In one day! That waa the record picking for the Jamea. H. (Hark strawberry farm on Provo bench for the year 1927. Five and f tons of strawberries in one day. It took a squad of ninety-sevegirls to accomplish this feat, which la a new mark In strawberry history, by a large margin, for Utah. PARK CITY Taking all the mineral producta from Utah In 1926, they have a value of approximately This makes Utah the greatest mineral state hi the west MT. PLEASANT The first carload of Uva poultry, about 4000, spring chickens from north Sanpete county, left Mt. Pleasant tor Oakland, Cal. 'A. W. Willard sen, vice prealdent of . e one-hal- n $119.-270,00- the Utah Poultry Producer Cooperative Marketing association, has been In Mt Pleasant this week assisting local poultrymen with the ahlpment. MORGAN Work has been speeded up the last ten days to prepare the local canning factory for one of the biggest campaigns yet contemplated. Owing to the fact that It la not necessary to operate the other big plant at Smlthfleld, the entire interests of the company are this year centered at Morgan. Superintendent W. R. Eddington announce that the machinery has been placed in excellent order and the entire first floor will thl year be operated by new dosing machines leased by th Americas Cap company to the local factory. run-Bin- g PROVO A decided Increase In planted acreage and crop production for 1927 over 1926, ia Indicated In the July Utah crop report. JsauedT??- (lay by Erahk' Andrews, agricultural statistician for Utah. Acreage planted to spring wheat this year totals 152. 000 compared with 149.000 for last year. The production forecast for 1927 2.- Is 3479,009 bushels compared with 129.000 bushels last year. Spring wheat has been planted on 90.000 acres this year compared with SS.000 -- In 1926. 2.376.000 The production In 1926 was bushels and ths forecast for thia year is 2.437,000 bushels. |