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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH The High Uintah Primitive Area SEEN and HEAR around the The Japanese family system, described by Mrs. Hugh Fraser, Pierre Loti and other European- - visitors to days, is gradJapan In the pre-wa- r ually disintegrating, according to the Tokyo correspondent of the Observer of London, who explains: This system, which still possesses a good deal of vitality, especially In the country districts, presupposes an attitude toward life utterly different from that of European or American Individualism. It Invests the head of the family with great power over the destinies and property of Its members, and at the same time Imposes on him a strong sense of responsibility. It Is a frequent observation that the strongly developed sense of family NATIONAL CAPITAL . By Carter Field CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON FAMOUS While congress is off the administrations hands, the courts are 'still on the job, and the bombardment of New Dpal policies along the constitutional front may be expected to continue. In this connection, AAA officials are confident that, ' with the new amend-.ment- s just passed by congress, the processing taxes will be upheld. They think the objections which lower courts have found to the old processing taxes, and which lawyers generally believe will be .fouhd by the Supreme court, have been avoided. intends to do every. Hence thing possible to produce a court test of the new processing taxes Just as speedily as possible. AAA officials say privately that they have alreu'dy picked the case on which to make the battle It is that of the Hoosac Mills. Washington lawyers who, no mutter what their specialty, always figure that they are experts on what the Supreme court may do, and who certainly are more interested in the court than in what might he called the chores of the "profession, are divided as to what will be the outcome. Three possibilities," they admit, are . open. The first is for the high court business put the .to .throw window, holding that the assessment of such excise taxes is beyond" the power of congress, in that these taxes-arfor a particular purpose and trot for the general need of the government, and that thay are not intended to produce revenue, but to .achieve a . desired price levfl. In this case the AAA would have nowhere to .turn, but there Is. little doubt what the administration would do. It would continue t(r p;fy farm "ask. .benefits, and in January-i- t would congress to levy special, taxes- to "provide the additional revenue needed. . Or the court might, as AAA officials .believe it will, uphold the whole business, which' would settle the question, for the time being probab.ly until after the next election, anyhow. storming as few candidates have ever done. He is going up and down the country, making speeches every time lie gets a chance giving out more or less sensational Interviews In between, and generally attracting all the attention he can get. While Vandenberg has been most cautious in the senate, and is not only declining to go places and make speeches, but is refusing even to give He has recently refused Interviews. to repeat his often expressed views on a certain subject for a an opportunity which few magazine senators would decline, and which would not decline If he were not rigidly holding himself to a cautious line of procedure. Washington. well-know- n e Another Possibility The . Bq.t theffe is another possibility. high court. my decide that the proc- essing "taxes as fixed in. the law are all right, but that the formula for changing them as hgrieultiiral prices approach parity is an unconstitutional delegation of power. Most lawyers agre& that the injection. of this .formula for changing the taxes as the prices of products change was a grave" mistake by tliose " desiring to avoid having the court throw the taxes out. For they contend that beyond any doubt the inclu-- ' sion of this .formula proves that the taxes are not in fac't excise taxes, Gets What He Wanted levied for revenue; that it proves Very few times iu history has a object of the taxes is to bring President obtained a greater measure .better prices for the farmer. of what he wanted from his second Now everybody knows that this was congress than has President Roosevelt, the real obje.ct. There is no question lie actually suffered no important reabout .that. The only question is verses except a few having fundawhether congress has the right to levy mentally, nothing to do with his proInternal taxes for such a purpose. gram and policies. No one questions that the tariff Critics point to the World court Vote. duties . are levied . with this end In President since Wilson has been Every mind. It has .been a protective tariff, World court, and every one for the a not for a revenue tariff, and purely Coolidge and Hoover failed 'Harding, good many years. In fact, the Repubwith it. Due to' a to. get anywhere to win elections right along licans used of combination racial groups opposing on that plea, and even when the Demoadherence to the court, States United tariff on came into power the crats .and to widespread and firmly frozen Issue, back in Clevelands timethere senators was no actual scuttling o the protec- - isolationist . sentiment, many do not dare to vote for It. simply .tivq idea. It was just modified. Critics also point to the St. LawMore than that, in recent 'years .there lias been a formula for changing rence seaway treaty, which Mr. Roose-vel- t strongly favors, and which does these import taxes so as to equalize, the difference in cost 'of production impinge slightly on his program and policies in that there Is a power here and abroad. ' The chief difference, the lawyers But the power, angle had nothing to t there has never been any do with the defeat of that treaty, nor say, ' question of the power of congress un- the attitude in the senate that made it der the Constitution to levy tariffs for futile to attempt to bring it- up wgain. It is purely the seaway angle that oppurposes of protection as .well as revenue, but there is grave doubt as to erates, against ratification. Opposiwhether congress has the right to tion comes solidly from the Atlevy excise taxes for any. other than lantic coast, and Gulf states, whose revenue purposes. . ports would be hurt by the diversion traffic to that route. There of deep-se- a Ways of Candidates Is nothing partisan about.it. . Once q man starts thinking he may Some critics also point' to the votes become President of the United States, on the death sentence of the utility-holdin. something very curious happens Jo 'his company bill. This is not to mental process. be discounted, orthe President staked It is proverbial that this applies to his whole fight on the death .sentence his own estimates of his chances for clause and so did the utilities in their 'success.' Especially after he is nnrri-- " tremendous letter and telegram inated. Men who traveled on the train with James M. Cox in 1920 know that ' Cox thought he had an excellent Where Fight Centered The most Interesting point hese, chance, right up to the last,- though the Harding landslide was overwhelmhowever, is that the utilities did not ing. But he was not alone in this. "dare attempt to draw their battle line Many others on that Cox train thought more to their own advantage. If they d so too, including some pretty had dared make a flat fight to elim-inat- e newspaper men. Perhaps th"e any possibility of the holding answer to this sort of thing is that companies being forced out of exist-- ; people meeting a celebrity of any sort, en'ce, for example, that might have and certainly a man who just may be- meant something. The whole fight come President, do not rack their between senate and house, and bebrains to say disagreeable things. They tween the President and the. house, like to say things that the man will was over whether a flat day for execuremember pleasantly. tion, should be named, or whether, disBut this Is not all the picture of cretion to commute the sentence might what happens to a potential candi- be vested in a commission a commisdate a man who thinks the lightning sion named by the President. may strike him. The remainder of the measure la Consider the way two men who dedrastic, but the utilities, though desire the Republican nomination are go- nouncing it, did not make a real fight ing about it. To wit, Senator Yanden-ber- g Plenty- - of lists of the legislation of Michigan, and Colonel Knox 'passed at the Roosevelt command arc of the Chicago Daily News. being printed. There is no point tc Knox, who figured second only to repeating them here. The point is Borah in the recent poll taken by Robnowhere did he fall to get pretty nearly ert H. Lucas among Republican local what he wanted. leaders all over the country, is barn Copyright. WNU Servlc. the-onl- - writing-ca- mpaign. hard-boile- s Burled Where were First Girl your vacation? Second Girl (listlessly) land. you on No mans KG mm Double Action Double Tested Manufactured by baking powder Specialists who make nothing but making powder under supervision of expert chemists. Then Take Borah On the other hand, Senator Borah, who probably lias been talked about for President longer than- - any living man, and gotten less close to the nomination at .convention time than anybody who ever aspired if the roll calls of the conventions are accepted as decisive on this acts just as though he w.ere not interested. Bight after his he boom started proceeded to present cast votes and make- - speeches which were calculated to alienate the conservative wing of the party. And" this came at ji moment when he was being considered as an excellent connecting link to weld together the two wings ' of. the party. is that . Perhaps the explanation Borah has been talked about for President so long that he no longer takes it seriously, save in a complimentary way. Nobody knows the answer to" that. People do know that he is tremendously interested in the talk. That story is true about his putting the slip of paper with Borah for President, which a colleague put on his desk as a joke into, a drawer, and .then taking it out and looking at it half a dozen times within an hour. And it wasnt to figure out w'hose handwriting it was, either. His face, according to those who watched 'him, showed distinct sab isfaetion. But it was tfot long afterward that he lnsurged all over the lot, casting ballots and making remarks calculated 'to cause .cold chills down N.ew York and New England and Nqw Jersey . spines. have got to Maybe he thinks they be for him, and he wants the wild boys too so his election will be unanimous, He resaid a cynical commentator. called the story of Hoovers asking a. prominent North Carolina Republican, after the 192S election, if he would not have carried the Tar Heel tate even without the 'religious issue. tem and a rapidly growing population have brought to Japan. But the family system Is being sapped by many and various forces, the Influence of Christian teachings, the infiltration of western moving pictures, which may be seen In every Japanese small town; translations from the literature of the West, the steady drift away from patriarchal farming and handicrafts to large and commercial enterprises, to mention only a few of the more obvious." The Choice of Millions POWDER dan-denbe- the-AA- e obligation and responsibility Is a Family System Is Cracking palliative of the unemployment in Japan, Says Observer great which a modernized Industrial sys- Same Price Today as 44 Years Aco 25 ounces for 250 This is one of a series of articles to appear in this newspaper, sponsored by the Salt Lake Advertising Club, associated civic clubs of southern and central Utah, and chambers of commerce ; part of a program to point out Utah's resources so that local people will Know Utah Better". .By Af AMOS JENKINS Only a few years ago Secretary of War George II. Dern, then governor of Utah, headed an exploring party through the Ilaydes canyon trail out of the canyon of the north fork ot the Duchesne river into the lofty, unknown region east of the junction of the Wasatch range with the Uintah mountains; Last year in late July,, Mirror lake, now' gateway to this region, resembled Liberty park on a holiday. In the meantime, by presidential proclamation,. the area, beyond th-- last cow or sheep trail, has forever been set apart as The High Uintah Primitive Area, early domain of the kind in the state. . Every year the trails penetrate deeper and deeper Into this region. the" forest service a decade ago built a forest developTo begin ment road to tap the ripe lodge pole pine that blankets the mountains. Later recreation funds, a new appropriation for the forest service, became available and the road was made a high gear automobile high- way to the lakes at the head of the Provo river. Finally came the New Deal and with it the big and beautiful CCC camp on the Soapstone, were established on both sides . upper Provo. From this camp of the Bald mountain pass. New switch backs were made to lift the ' highway around the shoulder of Bald mountain. The road offers now only a wonderful trip of a few hours from Salt Lake to Mirror Lake, to the Duchesne river. tributary ' The CCC boys also dug foot paths and built camp sites on trails . leading into the wilderness from Mirror lake. The trail, first blazed by the Salt Lake council of Boy Scouts from Mirror Lake to the Grand-dadd- y 'lake group, was Improved and graded. The Boy Scout council acquired a3 a permanent summer home another lake two miles up the Bald mountain morain from Mirror lake, now known as Scout lake.. From Kamas the highway to Mirror lake proceeds up Beaver creek, a Weber tributary, then over the Shingle creek divide and onto the" north ; fork of the Provo near the junction of the fork with the main river.. Crossing the north fork bridge, the highway soon meets the main stream of the upper Provo, with its alternate rapids, falls and deep gorges, and proceeds on an easy grade to near Lake Tryol. From this lake with long, easy switch backs, the highway climbs to the Bald mountain pass. Here; If ever, comes the feeling that one is residing on top of the world for the world appears far below. At the summit on the divide between the Provo and Duchesne which Is also the Great Basin divide, a trail is rftarked which leads to the forest fire look-ou- t station On top of the Bald mountain. From thi3 station on a lear day most of the Wasatch range and Uintah mountain system may be seen. The road then quickly drops down to the shores of Mirror lake, almost a summer town now. Thi3 lake at the feet of the Bald mountain occupies the same relative position as Jenneys lake under the Grand Tetons. The mountain is reflected under the crystal water. Eastward for over 25 miles the giant peaks of the Uintahs mark the northern boundary of the primitive area. Geologists say that the entire region was once much higher, possibly thousands of feet higher " than' the loftiest, peak. Erosion that has carved out the Uintah basin . has left the peaks. . Precipitation is greatest at the west end where the mountains have the first chance to condense moisture from westerly winds. .From Ihis end water erosion has .been a little greater through, the ages and this probably accounts for in elevation of over 1,500 feet between the Bald mountain, a western towner of the area, and Gilbert peak, northeastern corner which i3 13,422 feet above sea level. Reid peak, Hayden peak, witji its pass to the Weber river, Mt. Agassiz, La Mott peak and. lofty Tokewahna are the land marks . on the north of this primitive area of about 225 square" miles. Those who-havsoared over the region in planes report that the lake basins" ot the northeast corner under Gilbert peak, Red Castle and Mt. Wilson are much larger than the Granddaddy group. Farther sduth on the east side, probably 50 small tributaries toI.nke fork of the Duchesne as well as streams that flow to the Uintah river,-havtheir noses in mountain lake groups, large and small. The western and southern boundaries of the area are Known to many who go beyond the automobile highway. The north fork of the Duchesne Is roughly the western boundary. The Brown Duck lakes are in the middle of the southern boundary. For many years fishermen, start-- " , ing Rom the end of the road at lake, buchesne county, have . packed to the Brown Duck lakes. A forest highway Is now approaching year by year, from the trans continental highway at Evanston, Wyoming, "eventually to arrive at Mirror lake, giving, a .entrance to Salt Lake Citythrough the tops of the American Alps. Last year the first appropriation was' made for a cooperative pro ject of the forest service and the bureau of fisheries and survey begun to determine the life adapted to these high lakes and the kind of game Also it is proposed to join . fish that will naturally increase in them. the barren lakes to those w.ith outlets and eventually to stock the lake groups ot the entire area. Some trout fry wereTfftked in last .year. This year large appropriations seem certain for development of the recreational use of the forest. The program of trail building and sur-- , vey and. of fish and game culture will no doubt.be greatly enlarged. Don't be surprised, said one government official, if landing fields are built In the Ottoson basin, on the Dead Horse pass and, Andersons Then as the trails push farther into the primitive area, Salt pass' Lake fishermen may angle for the big fellows that made their first journey to the high lake3 by airplane. There are now no trails "to hundreds of the lakes and over most of the vast region no human foot has ever pressed the mountain loam. Forest rangers have followed the tributaries of every stream and mapped Jhe location of lake groups and estimated the timber stands. . This primitive ffrea will eventually have, at least two gateways from the Utah side. In addition to the Mirror lake entrancq, there is little doubt that a highway will be built from Moon lake to thq Brown puck lakes in the middle of the southern boundary. The road to Moon lake. Is now being improved as it must be used in construction of the mil- lion dollar dam and canal system, now under way. The route from Moon lake to the primitive area would be rather easy in comparison with the road built to surmount the Bfjld mountain pass. This would give Uintah basin counties, particularly Duchesne, now known by the rather desolate stretches of the transcontinental highway, a chance to show the world the matchless grandeur and the recreational facilities of the high Uintahs. You can also buy II can for XO IS ounct can for Xf IO ounce Always Dependable Highest Quality IS GREAT, AND HOW sub-camp- s v k . YIPPETY-YA- Y WHADAYA SAY? e e Mr. Reader: Do your part to advertise Utah . Please send this article t. some friend or relative or business associate out of the State. . INCE you taste Grape-Nut- s Flakes, youll cheer too! Youll love the flavor of these crisp, sweet flakes and find them nourishing. One dishful, with milk or cream, contains more varied nourishment than many a hearty meal. Try it your grocer has it I Product of General Foods. tiie MIEWIHKDIUSIE DU A Distinctive Residence An Abode. ..renowned Throughout the West . BOISE, IDA. 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