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Show BUUtl CAW11 25 COUKlLK HYKUM. UTAH t South Cache Courier LA FOLLEHE REAL Published Evers Friday at Hyrum U tah. J. i. PEOPLE'S WAH EN. Publisher. ffUB STATE imSASSBCIAnd Review of Urah Industries past year or two. The investigations into the Teapot Dme and other oil steals of the Harding administration and still more recent ones into the prices of sugar and gasoline were largely set on foot and directed by him. He led the fight defeating the $300,000,000 proposed exemption of foreign trade corporations in the 1921 tax bill, and he halted the move of the Harding administration for legislation to pay $300,000,000 of the gov ernments money to the railroads before the railroads had paid what they owed the government on account of valuable new equipment bought for them by the government during war-- , time operation. LaFoIlette is emphatically a peoples man. He has been proof against any temptation to be anything else. He has put aside the allurements which ease and privilege have offered, and has borne inevitable abuse and misunderstanding in order that the cause of human freedom might be Has Been Staunch and Valiant Defender of Public Interests. By ALBERT O. BARTON Author of "LaFollettes Winning of Wisconsin." LaFoIlette took his seat in the senate in January, 1900. lie has three in each instance times been by overwhelming vote of the people of Wisconsin. He had been in his seat but a few weeks when he made one of the longest and most notable speeches of the session on ithe Hepburn railroad rate bill, which revealed him as one of the authorities' on the subject, and foreshadowed the leading part he has taken in railroad legislation since. In that and the sessions following he took an active part In legislation on the great problems relating to tariff, finance, transportation and conservation, with an eye single to the public interest as opposed to special privilege legislation. True Friend of Soldiers. It was on the outbreak of the World war that LaFoIlette proved himself of the mold of heroes who can remain true to their ideals in hours of supreme trial. He opposed the precipitate entrance of the United States into the war, which was demanded by the the .munition makers and profiteers. He foresaw that this war, like most wars of history, would lead to the setting back of the wheels of progress, the losing of the ground gained for popular government, the probable loss of thousands of lives and millions of dollars in property, the abrogation of freedom of speech and press, the imposition of crushing burdens of taxation, and an era of hatred, violence and intolerance, with dictatorships and intensified national jealousies. Against all this he counseled moderation. He believed congress should have the power to declare war and that it was the duty of its members to vote their honest convictions for or against it. As the leader of the group that dared to stand out against immediate participation, he (had to bear the brunt of a storm of abuse, vilification and misunderstanding such as seldom has descended upon the head of a public servant. Son Goes to War. With war declared, however, he urged its effective prosecution and sent his son into the service. He opposed the declaration o war, the draft act and the espionage law, inveighed against the censorships and arbitrary arrests, but held that a law once made must be obeyed until 'repealed. LaFoIlette favored every bill to better the condition of the soldiers and sailors. He secured an appropriation of $2,000,000 for the benefit of soldiers and thfdr dependents during the Mexican troubles. He voted 'to increase the pay of soldiers sent abroad; favored every appropriation bill to support the army and navy. He fought the hardest fight of liis life to make war profits bear a reasonable proportion of war taxes, and it was largely through his efforts that taxes on the poor mans table tea, coffee, cocoa and sugar were defeated. Activity Increases. LaFoIlette never was more active in the senate than he has been in the d, Smithfield Chamber merce organized. of Com Contract let at Logan for Presbyterian church to cost $30,000. State gas tax yields $60,000 for August, a gain of 8,000 over July. Eureka 2,000 tons dump ore from ' Humbugs workings shipped to smelter. being Richfield Machinery installed in Sevier Valley Coal Company mines, for extensive operations. Eureka D. & R. G. railroad re- opened around tunnel near Tintic, recently destroyed by fire. Vernal Construction begun on $45,000 steel bridge across Uintah river north of Fort Duchesne. Gordon Creek Sixty teams and men at work grading railroad that will add five producing coal mines for next year. Brigham City Federal bureau of roads approves two bridges, across Bear River and Malad river, on Bear river highway which is now under construction. Salt Lake Machine shop and round house improvements provide for working force of 5,000 men on D. & R. G. railroad, with monthly payroll of $300,000. Salt Lake Contract let for 11 mile federal aid road between Echo secand Emery, Another tion in Echo canyon is to be surveyed this fall for 1925 building. 11-mi- le Bank deposits of show considerable $68,840,710.12 gain over second quarter of 1923. Bank clearings for May, June, July and August are $6,000,000 above record for same months in 1923. Salt Lake , Mirror Lake will probably be terminus of Provo river road, now under construction by forest service. It will have four trail branches, all reaching above 12,000 feet elevation. Provo The slow uphill climb to pre-wa- health protection, repre-sente- d in a telephone instrument, costs but a few cents a day. i In the dead of night you may discover your home on fire. You must call for help quickly. A telephone summons brings the department on the run. Thats protection. Police can be called quickly and quietly if you have a telephone. Thats protection, too. And suppose the baby suddenly falls ill. A doctor is needed NOW. Th. telephone saves priceless minutes. Thats the best protection of all. LA FOLLETTE FAMILY As the LaFoIlette family were among the founders of the Republican party in Wisconsin, so were the ancestors of the future senator and Presidential candidate intimately associated with the family of Abraham Lincoln, the first President elected by the new party of freedom in 1SG0. At the time of Abraham Lincolns birth in Hardin county, Kentucky, in 1809, Jesse LaFoIlette, the grandfather of Senator LaFoIlette, was living in the same county and was a near neighbor of the Lincolns. Living with Jesse LaFoIlette at the time was his father, Joseph LaFoIlette, one of the original American LaFollettes and a soldier of the Revolution, who was to attain the age of a century and who died in Indiana in 1S34. The LaFoIlette family moved from Hardin county, Kentucky, in 1828 to Indiana. As a boy Abe Lincoln was a frequent visitor at the Jesse LaFoIlette home, and in this connection an incident is cited in one of the biographies of Lincoln to illustrate his retentive memory. When he was President he was visited by a delegation from his native county of Hardin. Among the old neighbors about whom he inquired was Uncle As a boy I often Jesse LaFoIlette. played in his barn. said the great emancipator, and remember it well, although I was then very young. Bell System On Policy On System Universal Service And All Directed Toward Better Service Making Writers Efficient scheme of work for writing Short stories is given by Max Bonter in Fiction Writers on Fiction Writthe short story analysis coming, A Think how much safer your wife feels when there is a telephone x in the house while you are away. piled by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, from answers to a questionnaire he sent more than 100 authors concernThe ing their creative methods. scheme is: 1. Be sure an Idea is worth developing, from a human interest standpoint. 2. Develop the climax first. 3. Start off the characters like a bunch of obstacle racers and bring them to the climax as quickly, but as logically, as possible. 4. Write tersely at first, expanding where advisable rather than write voluminously and chop out. 5. Write nothing that wont at least put a grain of weight into the final wallop. The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co v Hyrum Produce Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Grains Potatoes, Feeds, Flour and Mill Products. r prosperity, not the Hectic inflation standards of war times, is constant in our country, and is spreading to The movement is on te Europe. stay. The ideal pavement must set quickly, both for primary construction and for repair, so that a highway on which the public has learned to depend is at all times available. months of government operation of our railroads eost the taxpayers during war-tima little less than 12,000,000,000 in addition to the highest freight and passengers rates they ever paid. Twenty-tw- 'C'IRE, burglary and LINCOLN NEIGHBOR money-lender- s, Ogden National forests of Utah took in $219,226.83 during fiscal year ending June 30th. Eighty-fiv- e per cent is from grazing fees. Price Irrigation of 20,000 acres in Duchesne county planned through filing on three water sources tributary to land. Protection! 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