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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH 44444AA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHa WWWW WW WWW WW WW WWWW ww e Sksrt Sldft lmmvs t IS It a a Privilege to Live in LIKE WAR FRONT A 000,000 By U. S. Experts; Cas- ualty List Shows Ten Are Dead - i wers Seed-Gro- -- $5,000,00.0. Refugees from villages surrounding the arsenals are gathered in towns outside the area of destruction, where they are being cared for by the Red Cross, Salvation Army and other relief organizations. At Morristown fourteen persons still are in hospitals and between four hundred and five hundred refugees are being sheltered. Another large contingent of those driven from their homes by the explosions is at New Foundland. Most of the injured marines were removed to the Brooklyn naval hospital, among them Captain O. C. Dowling, commanding officer of the naval depot. Captain Dowling was blinded while fighting the fire the first explosion. An operation was performed in an effort to save his sight. , folio-- wing g Not Disturbed Washington, D. C. Information collected from the wesby Washington on the owe phase of politics that is most acute, is to the effect that the administration and the regular Republican party has no occasion for grave apprehension. These reports say that the backers of the Haugen farm relief bill are, as a whole, in a state of innow; and decision about what that as to some of the most important individuals in the group, they are in i state of .outright dissent from all suggestions for continuing the, fight. Meantime, the other farm leaders, who have always favored the perfec-tion of cooperative marketing as the best form of farm relief, are taking energetic steps to strengthen existing.. associations, organize new ones, and bring all into unity. This work is being stimulated from Washington, where a new division of cooperative marketing has been set up in the department of agriculture.- In a wider sense, the crystalized policy of the administration is to assume that all the debate about other forms of farm rePef is over and done. I f Logan. Reports of production rec- ords for June have been made by three of the four cow testing associae tions in Cache. Valley. In the to-d- - n G. O. P. and between the two of us we got the girl Into a taxi. By the time I had deposited her at Queen Anne's mansions, where she was staying with her father nnd mother, she had tearfully explained to me that they had Just arrived from New York, that every woman in New York was wearing that kind of dress, that she never dreamed that such a would happen, and that she would never get over iL" Ten years, Including war years, passed. Mr. Kennedy again passed under Admiralty arch Into St. James park. Everywhere one looked, dotted about the lawns, were girls, not In gowns with transparent sleeves, but In gowns with no sleeves at all ; In gowns that did not come one Inch below tire knee; In owns devoid of necks and only very transparently supplied with backs. Ten years before, one lone girl clad after a fashion, which now would be regarded as almost Quakerish In Its modesty, had created something bordering on a panic In this place; women openly dubbed her a hussy; men and boys openly followed her, and passers by had wondered what the world was coming to. And this was what the world was coming to bare arms, bare knees, bare necks, and, yes, bare backs, too. And yet I could not help but note how unconcerned everybody seemed about It. It seemed to me that the air was cleaner and purer than It had been ten years before, as If an unholy pressure had been relieved, and Impudent shorn of Its Imaginary power. Legs were everywhere, arms were everywhere, and yet the men and boys passing back and forth were going about their daily walk and conversation just as If nothing were happening. Just as if the world around them were not coining to anything out of the ordinary, after all. A great artist once told me an Interesting story. We were talking about womens dress, and how entirely It was a matter of the point of view, lie recalled one day when be was a young art student that a curious thing happened at the life class he was attending. The model was a young girl of refinement and beauty of form, and the class was drawing her undraped figure. She was a good model, nnd had been sitting motionless for half an hour, when, suddenly glancing .upwards, she saw the face of a man peering at her through the window of the skylight. She had been posing for half an hour before a class of fifty men. yet when she saw this face at the skylight, with an outraged cry, she threw a wrapper around her shoulders. Jumped from the platform, and withdrew in tears to her dressing room. half-falnt-ln- g . thg hocus-pocu- s Now the artist has always been regarded as a man of looser morals than the man who follows other callings. It Is an absurd as necessarily sumption, of course, but it arises from the fact that the average human being, dragooned Into a respect for the mysteries of womenll dress cannot conceive of anyone, who does not give a rap for It, as anything but Immoral. Artists are not less moral than other men, but have, on the contrary, gained a certain measure of freedom from that Incubus of 'mystery which makes for, as nature Intended It to make for, the excitation of desire. And the average human mind resents the acquisition of this freedom. A hundred years ago the womanly woman had perhaps reached her most womanly expression. The women of Jane Austens day were almost completely preoccupied with questions of sex. They had It for their every thought. They sewed a little, cooked, and played the harpsichord, but when they did these things, It was always with some very gallant gentleman In view. And as to the very gallant gentlemen, they were so gallant that a chance view of my ladys ankle was sufficient to put them Into a cold sweat. I begin to see this younger generation today as some holy thing. With unerring, If unconscious wisdom, the modern woman Is doing the first things first, she is getting rid of the mystery of the flesh. And the man who twenty years ago was fired by the suggestion of mystery of the clothed form finds himself unmoved in the presence of so much nakedness, because It Is unashamed. "The lack of morality Is not In the nakedness but In tbe shame, and the shame grows less day by day. The question of sex Is really occupying thought far less today than at any time In history. And so when a prince of the church declares, as be did recently, that he Is shocked at the unparalleled depravity of womans dress, and declares that he Is 'at a loss to explain the universal decadence which has swept the world, the womau of today is apt to answer him shortly enough. No transitional period Is desirable for Its own sake, and as far as the relation of the sexes Is concerned, we are passing through a period of transition, a period In which license Is, more ofte en. than not. mistaken for liberty, and Ideas vanish In a peal of laughter. And the laughter Is the most wholesome thing about It. The surest way for the world to rid Itself of the hocus-pocu- s of sex Is to laugh at It. A lady with a lamp shall stand In the great history of the land. Well, the lady has come, nnd she Is standing. And her skirts are short, and her arms are hare. As to her back, I cannot see it, for her face -' towards me; but on her, face, upturned to t';. light of her lamp, is shining the glory of .: nr old-tim- era." A 71,-00- 0, Dover, N. J. Seven bodies were discovered Sunday in the area devastated by the explosion of the naval ammunition depot at Lake Denmark. The bodies were not brought out of the guarded area due to the continuing danger from bursting shells. In addition to- - the seven bodies three other persons are known to be dead and upward of twenty are missing. Damage to the naval arsenal and adjoining Picatinny arsenal on the army reservation was estimated by army and naval officers at approximately 1100,000,000. Stores of munitions at the naval depot were valued at $87,000,000 and Secretary of War Davis, after an inspection of the army reservation, said that a conservative estimate of the damage . there was Regular t Salt Lake City. The 1926 sugar beet acreage In Utah is about the same as last year, but in Idaho there is a reduction of approximately 10,000 acres, it is noted "in the sugar beet forecast issued recently by Frank Andrews, Utah statistician with the department of agriculture. The Utah acreage this year is calculated at acres, the area harvested last fall. Idahos 1926 crop will eome from 29,- 000 acres, whereas the 1925 acreage was 88,000 acres. Salt Lake City. Plans to do betterment work amounting to about $5000 to cover the expense of the work was received and the work will begin at once. It Is planned to widen the road in Boxelder canyon. The accounting department also received a check for $2565"fr6m Boxelder county to cover its portion of the cost of constructing the bridge on the project. Myton. The annual meeting of ths stockholders of the Uintah Basin association of Myton will be held Tuesday, July IS at 2 p. m. The election of officers and other business of importaince will come up. Over 100 seed growers are members of this organization, and for the year 1925 about 2,000,000 pounds of seed was handled in this plant. William Gentry of Ioka. is president and William Zowe is secretary. Salt Lake City. Ranges in Utah have for the most part declined In condition since June 1 and lack of moisture and stock. water Is reaching a serious stage In places, It Is indicated in the July range and livestock condition report of G. A. Scott, regional1, livestock statistician with the depart ment of agriculture. The condition of ranges Is given-i-n this repoVt as 93 per cent normal, compared with 99 per cent June 1 and 96 per cent July 1 of last year, and 72 per cent the Same date two yeafa ago. Salt Lake City. The revised estimate of commercial onion acreage in Utah is given as 800 acres, compared with 500 acres in 1925, in the truck crop news bulletin of the department of agriculture. Yields were exceptionally high for onions in 1925 and the carlot movement amounted to 5C9 cars. It is expected that between 700 and 800 cars will be needed to move the Utah onion crop this season. Damage Done By Blast Put At $10V HALLER JAKLON skirts are no longer news. And SHORT apparel, wlmt tliere Is of It, Isnt half of heated conversation that it was a few years ago. ' Of course, now and then yon reud a news that next season's skirts are to be shorter or perhaps you mny encounter a wheezy old Joke Involving some peculiarity of womans dress, but. In general, critical comment on feminine attire occupies less and less space In our news columns. Of fashions and modes- we have aplenty, and the space devoted to style Information steadily increases, for as a nation we have become dress conscious. Short skirts are no longer news merely because news Is supposed to concern Itself with the unusual. And short skirts are no longer unusual. Today long skirts are almost ns rnre us the bustle. ou see short skirts everywhere shorter than they ever were and the world goes along unshocked and, for all that has been promised and threatened, seemingly unharmed. Womens clothes are lighter now than they ever have been, with the exception of the period directly following the French revolution, when ,the girls of Marseilles wore simple tunics modeled after the fashion of the ancient Greeks, The clothes of Miss 1920 weigh sixteen ouhOeS. To " list them here would add scarcely one line. And It seems that America by no means Is unique In this matter of dress. France, England Germany, In fact, most of the civilized world has declared for the new freedom In dress, and is getting awny with It. In Paris the skirts are so short that an American woman who had lived there for several years found upon returning to our shores that it would be necessary to remodel her clothes. In Berlin and London It Is the same. Tbe lower picture above shows a group of Berlin mannequin, with their numbers waiting to be called. From the standpoint of health todays fashions have the endorsement of physicians, except where fashion demands dieting and In order to attain that slimness which Americans ' have come to recognize as beauty. Medical science many years ago warned the ladles that If they persisted In encasing themselves In long, tight-fittincorsets they were likely to injure themselves permanently. They laughed at this advice at first, but gradually they loosened the Then the World war came, and the strings. younger generation, finding It could play better without hnrness, discarded the corset entirely. Some of the abbreviated dresses of today would have caused a panic In the streets of twenty years ago. Does that mean that women have heroine depraved? Is It Immoral to wear skirts that reach only to the knee? "No daughter of mine will make such a spectacle of herself I" said parents with Nineteenth century standards of modes and manners. Now these same parents sit In the gallery a little puzzled and bewildered, patiently watching, secretly relieved that womens attractiveness, fnr from being Impaired, has been greatly enhanced by her new liberation. One observer argues that the idea of Immorality Is closely allied to the Iden of shame; and that, having got rid of a good deal of shame, we have attained to a higher degree of moral health than prevailed In Jane Austens day when woman had only one preoccupation sex. This Is the opinion of Ilugh A. Studdert Kennedy, former London correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, nnd brother of the Rev. G. A. Studdert Kennedy. Writing in the Forum, Mr. Kennedy recalls a June day In London twelve years ago. Passing under the Admiralty arch, he was shocked to behold a woman obviously of grace and refinement, beautifully gowned In the mode of the day, save for the outrageous fact, that the sleeves of her dress were completely transparent from the wrists to the shoulders. Soon a crowd started to follow her. Some youths began to Jostle her, anu before I knew v hat I was doing I hnd pushed my , uy through the crowd, enlisted the services of u policeman, Utah I ARSENAL GROUNDS DISCLOSE SMOULDERING INFERNO OF WRECKAGE By PROEHL Newo Notes Ward association 490 cows were on test with 20 dry. The Central Cache association reported there wrere 578 cows on test and 44 not milking, while the Hyrum Paradise association had 372 cows on test and 27 dry. Salt Lake. Coming at a time when parched crops thirsted for moisture, a vigorous shower, believed to have been general in its scope, followed closely upon the heels of local storms that were accompanied by considerable damage. Value accruing from the storm, however, more than offset the damage that had been wrought. Whefever rain fell, farmers rejoiced, excepting those whose hay was not In stack. Salt Lake Photographs eight feet high-aeight feet wide of some of the waterpower sites of Utah, made by a camera that weighs thirty tons, may be on exhibition soon at the stats capitol and the Salt Lake chamber of commerce, according to Rolf R. Woolley of the water division of the United States geological survey. Mr. Woolley ie now negotiating for the negatives from the department at Vets Parade In Protest To U. S. nd Paris. War veterans propelling themselves in Invalid chairs, the blind with hands on the shoulders of their wives and children for guidance, and others with the wounds of battle showing plainly, led the protest parade of 12,000 men Sunday against the Washington d.ebt settlement. The procession moved up the Champs Elysees around the Arc de Trlomphe and down the Avenue Diena. A wreath was deposited at the Alan Seegar mounment erected in the Place des Etats Unis and another at the equestrian statue of George Washington, inscriher, Tc Here, also, Washington, with hope. was placed a stone plaque expressing the wish that the debt settlement be revised. Thous ands stood bareheaded along the line of march and the procession moving at the rate of 200 a minute took exactly an hour to pass the Washington statue, after which it disbanded. Washington. Garfield. A cloufiburat at the summit of the Oquirrh range west of this town shortly before midnight Wednesday night caused a torrent to rush down gullies on the hillsides and over the state highway leading from Salt Lake to Tooele county and the west A short distance from the end of the Franco-America- n Troops To Portray Battle of Spokani Washington. The war department has approved a request from William S. Lewis of Spokane for participation by troops and army bands In the exer cises to be held in Spokane July 29 in commemoration of the battle ol Spokane. The commanding general ol the Ninth corps area, San Francisco, has been Instructed to "take such ac tion as may be practicable In ar ranging the armys representation In the commemoration. Probe Of Recent Mergers Sought Washington. A request by twenty three senators for a federal trade Investigation of the Important corporation mergers of the pasl four years was made public by hte Peoples Reconstruction league. The request asked that the investigation be undertaken at the earliest possible date. The letter said that the Walsh resolution directing the commission to make such an investigation had failed of enactment in the press ol legislation at the close of congress. corn-emissio- ' pavement at the Salt the covered line mud pavement county to a depth of eighteen Inches or more. It was mixed with boulders said to be as large as two feet In diameter and became Impassable for automobiles. Pleasure seekers who had come from Tooele to S<air were held up here, and some cars that attempted to get through the mud were stuck. Kaysvllle. Kaysville and the country to the south and east were visited by another flood Thursday evening, the first time In the history of the community that two floods have been suffered within three days. The storm which caused the flood broke In Bairs canyon, southeast of Kaysvllle, about 7:30 oclock and reached its crest at the mouth of the canyon an hour later. Ogden. Northern Utah was drenched Thursday night with a rain calculated to benefit argiculture Reports reaching Ogden were that the rain extended into adjoining counties and was heavy enough to do great good to the parched crop lands. It is believed that the rain was responsible for a landslide in Ogden canyon a short distance west of the Hermitage park - nnd immediately west of the place of the immense slide last year. Dirt covered about twelve feet of the paved highway, but utom biles were eble to pass Lake-Tooel- j j j j e immea-sureabl- |