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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA, UTAH i MMsssm Jfe"? fPvmd7d$ 99 Had Come to the Crossroads 0 iiNewo Notes l ! a Privilege to Liv in lt Utah By A. W. PEACH (Copyright.! PROVO Since the blast furnace of the Columbia Steel plant at Ironton office win-- ( has been relined and new crushers in dow at the tail building beyond the, stalled at the iron mine, an additional square, w ith his thoughts ' on thej seventy-fivtons of iron a day are beproblem before him. He knew that ing produced, L. F. Rains, president he had come to the .crossroads, and of the company, said on his return the road that invited him was not the from the Pacific coast recently. Mr. road that he wanted to take. Rains visisted both the Torance plant In line with his gaze was the dark at Los Angeles and the plant at Pittshair and round cheek of the girl who burg Calif. He said he was pleased was worth far more than the meager with the condition of both. However, salary he had been able to pay her the increased production of the Utah from his lawyer's income. She had plant is the most important developbeen faithful to him; and a quiet ment of recent months, Mr. Rains said as increased production lowers the comradeship nad grown up between them until the thought of losing her cost of making a ton of pig iron. had become a constant worry to him. MYTON Under the supervision of He turned to the papers on his T. C. Guyn of Myton, resident enginr desk. The estate which had been eer of the Uintah irrigation project, in his care was to be settled. He water has been turned into all nearly had handled it so well that It had of the canals on the reservation which yielded $10,000 more than anyone are under governmental control. April ' would suspect. By omitting that ac15, the date set for the opening of the count from his papers, the $10,000 season, found everything in irrigation would be his, and no one in the world readiness for the season of 1928. The would ever lie the wiser. With that payroll of the project has been inmoney lie could end his present creased. struggle and make possible, To encourage VERNAL better perhaps a home, and in spite of himcare of fruit trees in Ashley valley, the and lie head at dark self glanced the Agriculture club of the Uintah watched the white, capable fingers high school, under the direction of H. over his letters. busy s M. Lundell, instructor, He withdrew from the papers In is in spraying demonstration front of him a set of three, and andgiving and for that purpose has folded the others into the envelope. takenpruning, over twelve orchards. Last year . His Then he sealed the envelope and pruned. This season the club is foresight- had made possible the thou- ' more than 1000 trees were sprayed sands. They would be his. and spraying trees for wool-le- y prunning Time to quit, Ruth. Suppose we aphis and green apple aphis. One go to dinner together," he' suggested. of orchards inspected, out of sixty the She looked up with a smile.. f.uoin. trees, fifty were found infected with over lashes laid the w.hich" eyes long their darkness. Just three more woolley aphis. LOGAN At a special meeting of . lines, she said, and Ill .be ready Outside the building they turned in directors of the Cache County Fair asthe direction of a favorite restaurant. sociation at the chamber of commerce recently the dates, for .the fall fair On the way he came to a mail box, and lie held the long envelope ready were moved up one week. The event to drop it. in. For a second he paused, will be held September 18, 19 and 20, then he dnopped. the letter in and The following new officers were elect- - . ed: George Dunbar, Logan, president; started quickly along. . T. Quayle, Logan, first. vice presJohn in table the shaded the quiet (Oyer M. Maughan, Welsville seccorner of the little restaurant he ident; ond vice president;. C. C. IJarris, Rich-- . V . faced her. Ruth, I sometimes wondePwhy you mond, third vice president ;.B. T. Logan, .treasurer, and M. Hovey, are willing to help me when you could . command better conditions and salary .Logan, secretary. . . VERNAL Report Ynade to the than I can give .you, he queried. Please Lions club by the state ioad commis- She lifted her direct gaze. like-I rl think sion of the work to be done on the dont . talk shop. you have a future before .you, and Gushe) Roosevelt road this summer, a federal aid .project, brought I want to be 4n it, she nnswered. , ' His The phrase ljurt as much favorable comment by members, . future. with the unanimous adoption of a reshe thought of what lay in the darkolution that Lion President James H. . ness of the mail box. The next day at his office. the bot Wallis be instructed to. convey to Hen- . commisH of chairman the Blood, ry tom fell out of the sky, for she sent club of the for siori, the appreciation him word that she would not be at the office. His. own sense of guilt its courteous treatment! SALT LAKE Heavy shipments of heavy upon him, he figured frantically Utah wool have started to move to the on. ways b"y which she might have discovered his act. But the day after eastern territory, according to rail-- . . road officials.- One carload was shipshe appeared, the same winsome, comforting presence thaf had come to ped to Boston recently 'and five cars were moved over the Denver & Rio mean so much to him. On that day he received his second Grande Western for St. Louis and shock. On that day iritp his office Boston shortly after. Shearing has ' came the. McLean, head begun in practically all the early wool sections of announced was the it state, of the great investment .firm of the by James A. Hooper, secretary of the north of the state. . Utah State Woolgrowers association. Ellis, I happen to know of the fine Approximately 90,000 pounds of the way you handled the Dartmore estate. Jericho wool hhs been sheared and It was a clean ten or twelve thousand more than 800,000 pounds are yet to above what was normally expected. be taken off the sheeps backs he said. Weve decided to make you our legal PROVO to members of . agent here and the retainer will be the Utah According fair board, a new county acwill course Of you satisfactory. will be erected at the fair building cept? to accommodate livestock on When the whirling room had set- grounds exhibition. Work will begin immeditled Ellis came to with a gasp. He A number of other improve--menhad not sent the money, and yet the ately. were decided upon by the board, gruff Scotchman had referred to IL He looked in the direction of Ruih, including the leveling of the race track for an athletic field. to find her dark head turned in his HEBER Measurements of the direction. snow of Provo river show the at head I couldnt help hearing, Bartin. that it is fully up to normal, and of What a glorious opportunity! she splendid water content. looked Bartoneyesei.lis through his with som-- ; e -- &- hand-to-mout- h Smith-Hughe- . , Car-do- & 1 -- ten-mil- JOZtt5 1C. PQZtlC By ELMO SCOTT WATSON IIB present session of congress hns seen the Introduction of on almost unpuralleled number of resolutions and bills appropriating money for the erection of monuments, memorials and markers In vurlous parts . of the country, and the Americans who are to be thus honored, If the bills pass, range all the way from ITesldeuts, Revolutionary war heroes, and Civil war lenders down to vice and other comparatively 'wwdi i,residents obscure Individuals. (gaBy I One of the most Interesting (Jgr morials thus proposed Is the plan for- a Plaza of Presidents In Nashville, Tenn., since this one project will honor the memory of three Presidents. One of the three Is so well known and Is so often Included In the list of truly great Presidents that It would seem Impossible to add anything to his fame with Another memorial. Hut the other two, neither of whom Is nearly so well known as the first, have certain claims to Importance In our history which should make their names better known to all Americans. Under the terms of a bill offered by Representative Byrns of Tennessee, the federal government will be asked to contribute $300,000 toward the establlshemut of this "Plaza of Presidents In Nashville on which statues of Andrew Jack-son- , James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson will be placed. The state of Tennessee would donate $30,000 to the plan nnd the use of the whole fund In building the memorial would be supervised by the secretary of war and the governor of Tennessee. As stated above, It would seem almost Impossible to odd anything to the fume of Andrew Jackson, for this picturesque figure has so Impressed Itself upon the consciousness of the .American people that the mere mention of the name Old Hickory brings to our minds as a picture as do the names definite and clear-cu- t of the Father of His Country" and the Oreat His name and his part In AmerEmancipator. ican idstory have been perpetuated In a dozen different ways., There Is scarcely a state In the Union that does not have a town, city or county named Jackson; the famous (and much criticized. from, an artistic viewpoint) rocking horse" statue of him In Lafayette square, overlooking the White. House, Is one of the best known landmarks In the national capital ; the anniversary of his famous battle with the British Is a red letter day on the calendar of thousands of Americans and Jacksonian democracy" Is the fundamental principle of the political faith of one of the two great political parties In this country. His home, the Hermitage, near Nashville, Is more than just a state landmark it Is a national shrine, second only to Mount Vernon In historic Interest, to which thousands pay a visit of homage each year. And only the other day, the name of Andrew Jackson, dead these 73 years, was heard again throughout the land when, before a group gath ered iu Statuary hall In the Capitol In Wash Ington. Andrew Jackson IV, descendant of Old Hickory's adopted son. pulled a cord which unveiled a statue of his famous namesake. It was Tennessee's gift to the federal government of the likeness of one of her two greatest sons nnd this gift was accepted on behalf of the whole nation by President Coolidge. The career of James K. Folk, a man vastly different from Andrew Jackson, Is nevertheless an Interesting one. Like Jackson, he was a Tennesseean from North Carolina. Folk was fcoru In Mecklenburg county, N. C., In 1795. No II n, didate fot' vice president, was nominated as the first dark. horse nominee for the Presidency. In an exciting campaign In which the annexation of Texas and the dispute over Oregon (with the or Fight being . first faint cries of raised) Polk defeated Clay and took office with the promise that he would not seek nor accept the office again one of the two Presidents who made that promise and kept his word. Although Polk was almost unknown when he went Into the White House, he soon showed that he was In some sort a man of Iron. He wanted California for the United' States and laid his plans to get it. Despite the popular clamor about Oregon, Polk, had no Intention of embroiling the country In a war with two countries, for he saw that war with Mexico was Inevitable. .While many, historians have declared that the and have wai; with Mexico wms unjustifiable severely criticized Folk for the role he' played In that affair, others have Justified his course on the grounds of the "mnnifest destiny of this nation. At any rate, history has written down James K. Polk as the President under whose administration more square miles were added to the territory of the L'uited States than any other executive except Jgffersob by his purchase of Louisiana. It was Folk who gave to the United States California and the great Southwest by conquest and the Oregon country by compro54-4- 0 his youth as had . In terms of formal schooling he was a much letter educated man, having been graduated from the University of North Carolina. A man of considerable ability, he rose rapidly In the political world. He wns a member of the house of repre: sentatlves for 14 years and served as speaker" In the house from 1835 to 1839. It Is Interesting to note that he was the only speaker of the house of representatives who ever became President Following his service In congress he was elected governor of Tennessee, an office which he held for one term f two years. Considering the Importance of the events during Ids administration as President and the part which he had In shaping those events, It Is all the more remnrkahle that he was the first dark horse candidate and that his becoming President was more or less of an accident A brief review of the political history preceding his election Is necessary to give a proper perspective on these facts. When Andrew Jackson wn.-rready to lay down the reigns of power which he had held for eight years, he decided that Martin Van Buren of New York, who had helped manage his second campaign nnd who was later his secretary of state, should be his successor. Although the Whigs, under the leadership of Gen. William Henry Harrison, had put up a valiant fight In the campaign of 1830, Van Barer wns elected and the Jacksonian Democracy was destined to rule for four years more In the White House. But the campaign of 1840 was h different matter. With their shouts of Tippecanoe nnd Tyler, Too," the Whigs swung Into their famous Log Cabin and Hard Cider" cam palgn with an enthusiasm that had rarely before been displayed. And the popular appeal of this military hero, something of the same sort of appeal that had helped elect Jackson, enabled Harrison to defeat the ' Little Magician," Van Buren, and put the Whigs In power for the firs' time In history. Then Harrison died, soon after tnklng office nnd John Tyler, the vice president who had been elected ns a Whig but who soon proved that lit was not a Whig In principle became FresidenL As the campaign of 1S44 np proached. It was apparent that Tyler would not be the Whig candidate but that that mantle . would fall upon Henry Clay, Jackson's old enemy who had cast envious eyes at the White House since 1S24. Van Buren was the logical Demo crntlc candidate but his opposition to the nnnexn tion of Texas, which shared with the dispute over the Oregon boundary the honors for being the lending political questions of the day, wn destined to lose the nomination for him. When the Democratic convention met In Baltl more It was apparent that Van Buren would have a majority of the delegates. And then the second morning of the meeting the celebrated s rule was passed. After majority what seemed a hopeless deadlock between Van Buren nnd Lewis Cass, Van Burens name was Then followed the first convention withdrawn. stampede In American history and James K. Folk of Tennessee, who had been a prominent cbd such hardships had attended characterized the early life of Old Hickory. two-third- 1 mise. The third President who will be honored. If the Plaza of Presidents" project goes through, is one who has suffered much injustice from history. Andrew Johnson, who rose to the White House from the obscurity of a tailor's shop In eastern Tennessee, was, like Jackson and Folk, born In North Carolina. Of him It hns been said, "His early poverty was deeper than. Lincoln's, his family as obscure. Ids educational opportunities far less. ' He was in boyhood a white slave, and his master advertised for him when he ran away as though he were a negro. He learned to read and write after his marriage; a few.years later was the one man in congress speaking intelligently and forcefully on a constructive policy He wns a tailor and us he he had espoused. worked he was read to by a youth he had employed for the purpose. During the Civil war, at the request of President Lincoln, he gave up his seat in the senate to become military governor of Tennessee and in ISG4 he was chosen as the vice presidential running mate for Lincoln In an effort to hold the border states. He became President upon Lin coins assassination nnd when he tried to carry out the reconstruction policies which Lincoln had intended to follow, lie was bitterly assailed by the radicals who were determined to grind the defeated South into the dust in punishment for its secession. Johnsons determination to follow the generous policy which Lincoln had planned brought down upon him an avalanche of hatred which is difficult for present-da- y Americans to understand, and an impeachment trial at which, happily for the country, he was acquitted. Modern historical research hns done much to revise Hie once popular estimate of this most maligned President" and If. ns one recent biographer hns said, "He was the most courageous nnd consistent statesman of his day. No American ever more richly deserved what he wns given, the flag as a winding sheet and a copy of the (.'(institution as a pillow, then no one of the three Presidents whose memory will be honored in the proposed Plaza of Presidents is more worthy of that honor than Andrew Johnson. ... e - gray-heade- d - ts said eagerly. But something In her eyes a look beyond his analysis struck through him a sense of great hurt of love In agony. He sprang to his feet with a single cry, "Ruth! She came to him with a rush, hiding her face against his coat, while his arms pressed her closer. "Ruth you know! Her head moved on his shoulder. His heart sank from light down into shadows that no human plummet can ever sound; but the chili that went over him brought the dead calm of despair. Tell me. You saved me, but how? he begged. You forgot that I had seen the papers, she said, and then breathlessly she - told him how she had withdrawn her own small fortune left her by her father and how making use of her experience In his office she had seen to it that the udminis- trntors of the estate had the money. Her absence had been on the errand, Her work had brought McLean. Across (he square the sunset thrust against its farewell glow. He shivered a bit. "You saved me and here in the desk is the money I planned to steal," tie said with the iron in his voice nnd soul. And now I must lose you. I suppose, hut God knows She lifted a shadowed hut tender But I I dont want fuce to him. to he to be lost ! At the words he caught her again to him, and with her he knew that, cleansed and strengthened, hie feet were to tread the old. old road of toil and sacrifice over which love with love hns gone and will go, if not to gold nnd glory, to contentment and pence. COALVILLE Progress in March on the various features of the work on the construction of the Echo dam and the building of the new railroad and highway grades around the reservoir was handicapped considerably by bad weather conditions, according to the report of Construction Engineer F. E. Smith. VERNAL Sheep shearing at the Watson, Bonanza, Jensen and Rangely shearing plants began Thursday of last week under favorable weather conditions. Each plant employs twenty-five shearers. All these plants are machine operated and the shearers handle from 150 to 200 sheep daily. In Uintah county aproximately 125,000 sheep will be sheared, and the total for the Uintah basin will be double that number. COALVILLE Closing up the first years business with a net profit of$550, the Coalville Poultry Products. company starts the coming year with construction of an additional 100- of K .Wh,te Leghorn baby chicks, planning on moving into winter lay-- , ing quarters in the fall with approximately 3000 laying hens and pullets. . I 4f RICHFIELD Indications point to a larger water supply on the upper Sevier river this year than in 1927, according to data compiled by Brice McBride, water commissioner on the Sevier system and submitted to George M. Bacon, state engineer. Mr. McBride also calls attention to the fact that last fall was one the wettest since records of precipitation have been kept in Utah and that the frulk of the water in the snow on the watersheds' will not soak into the ground as it did a year ago. . |