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Show THE S A LINA SUN, S A LINA, UTAH : News Notes 1 Utah I I.. It a Privilege to Live in I. EPHRAIM Ephraim factory of the Rocky Mountain Packing corporation has just closed a two weeks run handling Ephraims pea crop. Approximately 40,000 cases of peas were canned and a record- run for a period was set when over 5000 cases cans each or over 120,-00- 0 of twenty-fou- r cans of peas, were packed between midnight and midnight. AMERICAN FALLS Millers 'in this section of the country and those in ad pacent states are watching the Powet county wheat crop. With much of the wheat off grade in the grain producing - sections throughout tli'o country, they ar6 anxious to obtain a product that will measure up to milling requirements. Inquiries received by Manager Harry Knott' of the Power County Farmers Warehouse company seem to shqw they are. particularly interested in Tower County Red, and the are that the farmers here will prob-ahiltie- s benefit in consequence. . PROVO AVith a record hay crop in prospect large, amounts of hay are likely to bf. crowded into market channels during the 1927 28 season, and are farmers in hky shipping-sectioncautioned by the United States department of agriculture to make sure of their market before adding, the of bailing and shippiug to poor qual'ty hay. MOSCOW Tests - on alfalfa conducted by G. R. McDole, agronomist of the Uaho eUens'cn division, shows that application of gypsum, preferably In the fall ct the y.ar, produces a yie'ld s averaging 50 per cent greater than yields on similar giound, and under ident'cal conditions. BRIGHAM CITY Recent surveys of the beet fields in the Brigham C'ty ard Gfrland sugar factory districts disclosed some very- interesting anc' encouraging facts concerning the outlook fer a bumpercrop. this fail. The curley leaf, caused by the white fly, lias done no appreciable damage, probably no mote than in years' before it was so severe and the farmers were not so faiuil.ar v. dh It. The white fly practically reined' the beet crop for two years past, bm. from present indications, is causing very little, if any. damage in the county. . FILER All is in readiness for the sixth annual ram sale of .tha Idaho Woolgrowers .association, which' will he held at the county fair grounds here next Wednesday. With studs, 700 yearling range rams, 425 ram lambs and some registered ewes, a total of 1100 in all, comprising consignments from all breeds practicable for Idaho conditions, livestock men are predicting-successful 'and well attended event. night and Saturday Sevier' valley was visited by a general rain, the largest since last March. The storm registered .4"0 of ah inch in the government rain gauge, according to S. R. Boswell, cooperative weather observer. Although some second crop hay was damaged, the storm has been of inestimable good to sugar beets, gardens, potatoes, pastures and the range. BOISE Irrigation needs of the Minidoka and Twin Falls canals will for the most part bo filled from the American Falls this year, insuring a large carry-ovefor next year, it was indicated in a report submitted by G. Clyde Baldwin, watermaster of Snake river, to the state department of reclamation. The upper Snake river, says Mr. Baldwin, is sure of a 100 per cent water supply this summer. MYTON Indications point to a fairly good crop of alfalfa seed in the basin .this year, as present weather conditions seem to be favorable for tlyj maturing of the seed. In the warehouse of the Uintah Basin Seed Growers' association plant, quite a volume of last years crop remains unsold. A portion of this belongs to growers who entered the seed pool organized lasc - IFTEEN hundred high school youngsters, heads up, shoulders back, feet clicking In rhythmic step. Halt! Fifteen hundred Instruments poised, fifteen hundred pairs of eyes trained on a single leader. The flourish of a baton and the biggest bund In the world burst Into music. When the echo of the last note of "El Capitan" had died out In the distance, Osbourne McConathy, the conductor and Americas foremost musical educator, turned from the vast field of bright-eyeboys and girls and voiced the verdict of the multitude that stood spellbound listening to the music: The Jazz age cant do anything to a notion that can muster youngsters like these. Their music will doom the flaming youth and will Into social fabric of America." the put strength This scene was enacted In the city park of Council Bluffs, Iowa, the last Saturday in May, when twenty-thre- e champion bands played ns a massed concert ensemble under the direction of each of the Judges to give a colorful finale to the National School Itand contest. There were bands there from as far east as New York, as far west as California, ns far north as Minnesota and ns far south ns Texas. Joliet was awarded the national championship by nosing out the Abrahntn Lincoln high school band of Council HI tiffs by a fraction of a point. The Modesto (Calif.) high school captured third place, and fourth place went to the Nicholas Senn high school of Chicago. The national championship for Class B bands, limited to schools having enrollments under four hundred, was awarded to the Princeton (Calif.) band. Second place In this class was won by the band from Vermillion, S. D. Ida Grove, la., was third, and Cleveland, Okla., fourth. In addition, honorable mention for fine performance even though they did not win a prize, was given by the Judges to the school bands of Quincy, 111.; Marlon, Ind.J Lockport, N. Y., and Flint, Mich. The several winners in the contest were awarded prize tablets by the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music, which also rewarded the director and members of4he first two winning bands In each class with stiver and bronze medals Joliet still retains the national respectively. trophy which must be won by the school three The successive times to be kept permanently. Judges In the contest. In addition to Mr. McCena-thy- , were Herbert Clarke, director of the Long Beach (Calif.) municipal band; Taylor Bransou, leader of the United States Marine band, Washington, D. C and Joseph E. Maddy, supervisor of music In the Ann Arbor (Mich.) public schools. school band contest The first really nation-wid- e was held in 1926 In Fostorla. Ohio, although previously there hnd been a number of sectional and rtifTlrt contests In various parts of the country. Thirteen bands, from ten different states, contested in this event. The contest at Council Bluffs bunds, this year brought together twenty-thre- e almost twice as many as the year before. To state and bring these bands together, twenty-sisectional band contests were held, each of which, in turn, had an average of twenty bands to vie for the state or sectional honors. It has been estimated that approximately $.100,000 was raised this year by high schools, parents, clubs, business croups and individual business men to send these bands to the section, state, and national eoutests, which have for their object the raising of the standard of music In the schools. Within the next decade, Mr. McConathy prophesies. music will be as much a part of the educational equipment of the high school boy and girl s reading, writing and arithmetic. They will be able to elect courses In Instruction on their chosen Instrument just as they elect to study Latin or Spanish, or choose between the liberal arts, a business or a technical course. And they will get the same credit for tnusic that they do for any other subject. "Because I am myself a musician, I thiuk of music first of ail as an expression of beauty," says d x this eminent educator. "But the high senool band is one of the strictest schools of discipline a boy or girl con go through. It teaches team work, for in assembly playing every man' has to do his own work and do It right. It curbs the ego, for the boy or girl who wants to be the whole show has little chance In a band. lie learns to know his place and fill it. It teaches the' lesson of service, for the band must be quick to respond to the need for music In any school activity. And, even l more so now that the bands are meeting for contests, it teaches good sportsmanship, Just ns does the football and baseball team. There was one little band at the Council Bluffs meet whose story tells vividly what band discipline does for boys and girls. It was a Class B band from the Princeton (Calif.) high school. Princeton is a town of four hundred Inhabitants. There are one hundred and three students In its high school. And 75 per cent of them are studying music. Six years ago, the band In this high school consisted of three boys who played a mouth organ, a trombone, a saxophone and a girl pianist. They all played by ear. Today they have a forty-seve- n piece band that has carried off the Northern California championship four times, won the championship three times, and this year took top honors as the best Class B band In America. But it was a long trip from California out to Iowa to the national meet. When Princeton was declared state winner over Areata high school. Its long-tim- e musical rival, this little band begnn scrambling around to get the money for the trip. They gave concerts. They appealed to the citizens of Princeton. But they could not quite top the rise. At the eleventh hour came the Areata high school. We will help you out, and Into the hnnds of the Princeton musicians they put their own d dollars. And the Princeton band came to the national contest That Is the kind of spirit you find In these boys and girls In the bunds. The boy who can square his shoulders and blow big, full notes on u trumpet or horn Is a healthy boy. He has got to be. No shallowchested, weakling can survive In these ick bands. And greatest contribution of nil, each player has found a threshold into the great realm of musical literature; he Is developing the cultural side of his life. He may forget the date of the discovery of the Pacific ocean; he may never be able to solve an algebra problem. But lie can never forget his music. That is the one thing he will carry with him Into the great world. Nor Is Mr. McConathy alone In his views on music in the schools. The other three judges In the contest were amazed at the splendid discipline and performance of these juvenile bands and at least one expressed himself ns of the opinion that there are not more than ten or a dozen professional hands in the United States who could measure up to the standards of these school bands. C. M. Tremaine, director of the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music, and secretary of the instrumental affairs committee of the Mucic Supervisors National conference, under the Joint auspices of which the state and national band contests are held, Is convinced not only of the value of the school band as a builder of character, but also feels that the bund boy is a better student than his unmusical schoolmate After listening to the performances of these Juvenile bands." said Mr. Tremaine, "1 am more than ever impressed with the importance of music in the lives of our young school people. It demonstrates team work, discipline and perseverance and gives evidence of what this playing in a baud does for the youth ns a builder of character In addition to Its cultural advantages. The spirit of playing in this national contest is just another proof that boy musicians are Just ns eager to win band laurels as the members of a football or basketball team are to win achievements In athletics for their schools and themselves. A school Is as proud of its bund when It wins Its state, section or national contest as when It takes home a trophy won on the gridiron or the baseball field. these-nationa- all-sta- hard-earne- short-brenflie- d jlJ2-2Al,Z2SFZ- . Music Is a healthful influence and parents now are learning that the band Is better than the gang for their youngsters. Music is a fine mental stimulant and in a survey recently made in one middle western school, It was found that children who studied music averaged considerably higher in all lines of school activities than those who did . not. Association with other young musicians is another great benefit for the boy or girl band member. No matter how much the child may put his heart Into practicing at home and playing for his own and others enjoyment, he Is missing a great deal if he does not learn to work with others in the production of great masterpieces. ' It Is absolutely essential for each member of the band to take his definite place in the group, to give others a chance, to come In at just the right beat, and to drop out at exactly the moment he is no longer needed. Temperament, sulks and overaggressiveness have no place in the band and the good director knows how to Inculcate these lessons along with the other instructions. Health might also be mentioned as one of the beneficial aspects of learning to play an Instrument, and becoming a member of the school band. Correct posture and breathing must be insisted upon. Physicians often will recommend a wind Instrument for the boy with the undeveloped chest Then, too, music steadies the nerves and has a relaxing effect on pupils who tend to be too high strung and undisciplined. Where a certain standard of scholarship considerably above the minimum for passing Is required for participation in the school band for representing the school in a contest like the one held in Council Bluffs, this stimulus Is often effective In bringing sagging grades up to the mark ns It does with the boy trying to make the football eleven or the baseball or track team." Mr. Tremaines views on public school music has the enthusiastic indorsement of the department of superintendence of the National Education association, made up of the representative heads of public school systems throughout the United States, which at its recent Dallas convention adopted this resolution: 1. That we favor the inclusion of music in the curriculum on an equality with the other basic subjects. We believe that with the growing com' plexity of civilization more attention must be given to the arts, and that music offers possibilities, ns yet but partially realized, for developing an appreciation of the finer things of life. We, therefore, recommend that all administrative offi- cers take step toward a more equitable adjustment of music In the educational program, involving: Time allotment; number and standard of teachers; equipment provided. 2. That we favor an Immediate extension of music study to all rural schools. In the belief, that no single development will so greatly increase tlie effectiveness of their work and so greatly lessen the extreme differences now existing between rural and urban education. We recommend as a guide the "Course of Study for Music In the Rural Schools" approved by the Music Supervisors National conference. "3. That we believe an adequate program of high school music instruction should include credit, equivalent to that gien to other basic subjects, for properly supervised music study carried on both in and out of the school; moreover, the recognition of music by the high schools as a subject bearing credit toward graduation should carry with It similar recognition of its value by colleges and other Institutions of higher education. We recommend further that the department of superintendence favor a study of present practices as to music credits. 4. That, recognizing the great Interest manifested at this meeting toward making music a more vital element in education, we recommend that this sutiject shall continue to receive the attention of the department of superintendence and he included in the discussion groups of Its annual program. a r rail. IDAHO FALLS Idaho Falls schools will open for the school year of 1927-2- 8 on Thursday, September 1, it was announced. Monday and Tuesday, August 29 and 30, will be taken up with the enrollment and classification of junior and senior high school pupils. Wednesday will be devoted to be pres- cut on Thursday, September 1. ' VERNAL The Vernal-Manil- a highe way wes unofficially openeJ to traffic Thursday by a caravan of six automobiles carrying a rarty of Union Pacific railway officials, escorted by a largo delegation of Green River, Wvo., and Daggut county, intercommunity excursion of business Utah, residents to Vernal in the first men from southern Wyoming CALDWELL In order to protect the prune growers of Idal o, members of the Southern Idaho Pr- ne Growers association met here and adop'ed a auto-'mobil- - resolution asking tha 3taie depaument of agriculture to publish a lit of the licensed prune shippers of tfio state. an BOISE Information conce-ninore discovery of important e on property of the Castle Creek Mining g tt and Milling company of Owyhee county has bem received at 'he office of the Idaho Mining association heie, Secretary Ravenel MacBetl; said Tuesday. SALT LAKE Utah ranks fourth In automobile travel to Yellowstone park since the opening of the 1927 season, according to a report received at the Union Pacific system offices Saturday. Montana leads all the other states. California raftks second,- with Idaho third and Wyoming fifth. X5fie AMERICAN IJlG10N- - Department Supplied by tb American Legion New Service.) (Copy for Thl ARIZONA WORKSHOP FOR DISABLED MEN workshop has been opened by Legion and Legion Auxiliary-iTucson, Ariz., where disabled men who flock to the health-givin- g climate of Arizona can earn living expenses. In the workshop the veterans make 'novelties from desert cactus, leather articles, copper, furniture and other products. The articles are made to be sold throughout the United States through the units of the Auxiliary. The place was inspect- ed recently by Mrs. Adalin Wright Macauley, national president of the Auxiliary. Mrs. Macauley said the - disabled veteran problem In Arizona has been growing more serious every year since the war because of the Increasing' number who go there- - hoping to be cured of tuberculosis. It Is estimated that more than 18, OCX) are now in the state, a large percentage of them being disabled. There are 4,451 conipen-- ' sation cases on file In the regional office of the U. S. Veterans bureau in Ihoenix and 2,754 of them are active cases. Many of the disabled have, taken their families with them to Arizona and are unable to get work. The situation in Arizona was declared at the last meeting 'of the Na tioual Executive committee of the Legion to be a national one, and not to- - be met by the Legion of Arizona, and $2,000, all that was then- available, wa4 voted to be turned over to the Legion in enter- of that state gency 'cases of relief. The Auxiliary-alsplanned to assist by establishing a clearing house for Information at. National Headquarters in Indianapolis, where local units in the various states could be kept informed of veterans and their families from those units towns or communities. Upon the recovery of heal.th, the Auxiliary unit would be Informed and work obtained for the- - veteran as soon as he returned home, . The Legion and Auxiliary In Arizona have, been working with limited means to care for the heavy influx of almost helpless veterans. The establishment of the workshop is expected-tbe' a big step' in solving the problem. The shop was made possible through the efforts of Mrs. John C. Greenway, widow of Gpn. .John C. Green way, outstanding Arizona. World .war soldier. . A substantial building was'obtained .In., the central part of Tucson and equipped with the- - necessary' tools and machines. Disabled men are given employment for as many hours a day as their condition will permit them to work, and the wives of those not able to work are given employment. The cactus canes are the most popular product,, so far. that has been turned out by the Arizona Hut," as the shop is called. They are made from Cholia . cactus, which grows on the desert, and are tipped with horn .from an Arizona steer. The canes are handed with Arizona copper. Cactus lamps, book ends, rocking horses, hat racks,' traps made of copper, picture frames and rugs are among the other products. Tlie Auxiliary has shown in the effi- -' cient handling of Poppy day work that It is capable of the management of the selling end of the business od a targe scale. It is estimated that more than $1,000,000 was realized last Poppy day, which means that more than 9.000,000 poppies were made the preceding year by disabled veterans who received one cent each for them. In this work the Legion Auxiliary provides the finances for the materials jut of the proceeds of the Poppy sale, and tlie money left over after buying the materials and paying the disabled the cent each for making them, is used in welfare work. A ice head-.quarte- to-ai- 4 Panama Post Erects Hut for Use of Boy Scouts A letter has been received by Panama Post No. 1, the American Legion, from Capt. John Downes, U. S. N president of the Canal Zone council of the Boy Scouts of America, thanking the post for constructing a hut for the use of the scouts of the Canal Zone. It was a wonderful Idea and splen accomplished," the letter reads, and will be of the greatest help towards- inculcating in the boys of this vicinity the true ideals of Americanism and (Iidl.v Pennsy. Post Wins Cup in Membership Contest The Luther Steel Clark Post No. 521 of the American Legion of Cherry 1'ree. Pa., has won tlie state cup awarded by the state commander of Pennsylvania for having the largest increase in membership on a percentage basis in the state in 1927. Tlie post had a membership of 15 In 1920 and by Inly 1. 1027, had 57. There are onlj 12 men in the town. The post recently built a Legion home out f two passenger cars donated h.v the Vew York Central railroad on ground wne' by the railroad eotupunj. -- i |