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Show THE PAYCONIAN, PAYSON, UTAH PRESIDENT WILSON xF LKZY.3 AT BOSTON DADDY3 EVENING a cr--M f EXPENSIVE OYSTER8. THE MESSAGE TO THE FEDERAL AID FOR ROAD WORK SCOUTS Surely the world has been afire. The big principles at stake have brought out the very best thought and most effective efforts of those who have been fighting for the principles of democracy and humanity, says Chief Scout Executive James E. West. Scouts certainly approached the Christmas season with joyous hearts. We must, however, bear In mind that the end Is not yet. ' New responsibilities face the civilized world. Our own country has been recognized afe the leader in the development of a new understanding among men. It will take months, and indeed years, to work out the new order of things. The need of men of character to meet the responsibilities which we will have, both here and abroad, makes more Important than ever before the scouting program. Our motto Is Be Prepared." Your scout leaders will tell you much about this In the weeks and months to come. Let you and I, one and all, as members of the world brotherhood of scouts, make a part of our daily endeavors a rededication of ourselves to the principles for which scouting stands. Let us make the scout oath and the scout law more vital In our daily lives and be prepared to do our share in 'meeting the responsibilities of' today and tomorrow. Joy, and then much joy.. Joy and then much joy. All, once more-agaiI say it joy and then much ' joy. Oleo said Well, Brother Oyster," Oyster, why all the excitement and the jov and the continued Joy and the joy which you say over again so many times?" Its good news which .1 have for . yon, said Brother Oyster. May we all listen to the good news? asked the other- - oysters, half' asleep in the oyster bed, but 'wide enough awake to hear Brother Oyster, They would hear nothing else Just then hut. Brother Oyster was quite, -- (Conducted by National Council of the Boy Scouts of America.) Small Amount Paid Out in 1918 Was Because of Steps Taken for Conservation. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Although 814,550,000 was available for expenditure on the post roads from the federal aid road act, only $425,445 President and Mrs. Wilson coming ashore from the cutter Ossipee which harbor. . - met the S. S. George Washington in ' . FUNERAL OF U. S. VICTIMS OF FRENCH TRAIN WRECK DELIVERED CHRI8TMAS BASKET8 was paid from federal, funds In the highway construction season of 1918 on all projects. The reason for this, according to the annual report of the secretary of agriculture, was the steps taken to conserve money, labor, transportation and materials In highway work during the war, and at the same time to facilitate really essential highway projects. In connection with the federal aid road work a letter was addressed to each state highway department asking that a program of federal aid construction be submitted at the earliest possible .date, in which would be included only those projects which the state highway departments considered vitally necessary to the transportation facilities of the country. Af the request of the capital Issues committee,, engineers of the department were made available for Inspecting and reporting upon proposed highway and irrigation and drainage bond issues. Inspections were made of 1S1 separate projects, involving total bond issues of $86,912,396. An arrangement was made with the fuel administration whereby highways of special importance should receive enough bituminous material to provide for maintenance, and where necessary to permit construction and reconstruction. From May 13, 1918, when the became actively effective, until the close of the fiscal year, 2,235 applications, calling for 75,000,000 gallons of bituminous material, were received from states, counties and municipalities. Of this amount approval was given and permits were Issued for 58,000,000 gallons. In order to the activities of various government agencies, so far as they relate to highways; better to conserve materials, transportation, money and labor; to eliminate delays and uncertainties, and to provide positive assistance in carrying on vitally effective highway work, the secretary requested each of the government departments and administrations inter- ade--qua- te cs ib 3 Funeral of the '-V 18 American soldiers who were killed in a recent train wreck near Nanoirs, France. GEORGE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL BUILDING DESIGN . quite different. Yes, said Oleo Oyster, Jet us hear the good news. Let us hear what yow . have to tell us. You be a and well be the readers. You dell us ' everything." . about newspaknow do What you pers? asked Brother Oyster.- -Just what you do, said Oleo Oyster, Well do I remember when : creature In a boat was reading and talking about the newspaper : which s had all the news. Ah yes, you do remember, of course, just, as I do,' said Brother news-pape- r a-- i . ; Oyster. Tell us of the joy," begged tire oth- V er oysters. Pray tel! us right away, urged Oleo Oyster. I will tell, you,- - said Brother " ' Oyster. . ; So he ... began. Mr. ' way, ladies and gentlemen, Treasurer, Mr. Secretary, Mr, Its tills , President, little children and cats and ' . dogs. . , But please. Brother Oyster, said ail the other oysters, there are no ladles and no gentlemen here. There-arno coats and no dogs, there are no. little children. And we have no president, no secretary and no treasurer." True, true; it Is too true, said . , Brother Oyster. What do you mean about it being; too true? asked Oleo Oyster. .How' can anything be too true? My dear Oleo," said Brother Oyster, I said that just as wise people wllf say when they hear something whichis true. True, too true, they will say, and then they will wag their head r r . , wisely. " 1 suppose," said Oleo, that they wag their heads when they say, .To true, because there Isnt much sense to It, and folks who wag their bends ' , , . e , - Scouts Found Plenty to Do During the Holiday Season. : GOOD 8COUT8 MADE INDIANS. At the official camp of the scouts In Delaware and Montgomery ' counties, Pennsylvania, the bunkhouse, holding eight boys, is planned similar to the witan, or big house," of the Unaml Indians, Who inhabited that section and which was used by the Indians for ceremonial purposes. The openings at the top are smoke holes, the fires being built on stone altars, even with the floor. This makes a good council fire and does not throw out the heat like the fireplace. At the close of the camp every year there is a ceremony held by a Indian, at which the boys who win honors at camp are Initiated as warriors into the Cnami tribe by the pld ceremony and with the Indian paraphernalia obtained from the tribe. This is the accepted design for the George Washington Memorial building, wbich it is proposed to erect m Wash Ington. Congress has given the land, the fine arts commission has approved the plans and the George Washington Memorial association, of which Mrs. Henry F. Dimock is president is raising the necessary funds. It will be a memorial not only to Washington, but also to the soldiers of 1776 and 1917. - BRUSSELS YOURS HERO OF GREAT WAR MONUMENT TO EDITH CAVELL Massa- ested to name a representative to are foolish. It seems to me.- One cannot imagine an oyster wagging It serve on a council to deal with highhead and saying such foolish things. the of the period way projects during Oleo hastened to say That is war. As a resulf, the United States it isnt foolish to say such things. but highways council, consisting of a representative from the department of wagging the head Is very, very foolish. agriculture, the war department, the Of course it is a waste of time to say too true. when true will do railroad administration, the war indus' v. : tries board and the fuel administration itself. said. itself. It was formed in June. During the first might get lonely by four months of its existence the coun-- , Brother Oyster. ' ' Cil passed upon about 5,000 applicaYes, agreed the little oysters,. It tions, involving nearly 4,000,000 bar- might.' ' And besides we are . wasting rels of cement, 3,250,000 tons of stone, Brother Oysters time. We might 1,140,000 tons of gravel, 1,207,000 tons the joyful news. of sand, over 77,000,000 brick and said 'all Yes, tell it to us, nearly 20,000,000 pounds of steel, and 140,000,000 gallons of bituminous maOnce more I' will begin,-saiterials,'. Brother Oyster, and this time I will not tell of the audience I might have ail audience of ladles and gentlemen, BEST CROWN FOR EARTH ROAD children and cats and dogs but I will 'Machine With Suitable Power and talk to the audience I actually have. Fellow Oysters: It is cold, thi Operator Will Do Work of Many winter. What Is more It is freezing Men With 8hovels. cold. And what Is still more the river : The earth road can best be crowned bed in which we are living has frozen and etched with a road machine and very solid. That is, the river'; ha not with picks and shovels, scoops frozen over, oh so strongly, and so se-; rely. and plows. One road machine with Fellow This, may not b Oysters, a suitable power and operator will news to. you.. But I shall go further, do the work of many men with picks in my speech than this. 1 will tell and shovels and do it better. Fellow Oysters, that great good you. If the road Is composed of fine day will come 4 of this frozen, river.'- -' or soil it will sometimes pay to reI have heard that we are. so hard surface it with top soil from an ad- to get that We will he Very, very ex-jacent field, which has sand or gravel pensive, and that they wont bother mixed with it to get many of us. .They will find we cost too thuch and so we wont go up GROWING RADISH AND CARROT to the land and .then go on peoples plates, and then go Into people' ; Seed May Be 8own Together Rad- mouths. We wont go Great, great, great. Beishes Ready to Full Long on a plate, all the oysters shouted for Carrots Corns Up. ' ' with glee. Radish and carrot seed may be sown Wash or Wear Gloves? together. The radishes will be ready Little Bernice was getting ready to for pulling long before they become for a' walk with her grandmother troublesome to the carrots, and the go and being asked If her hand were radishes break through the crust, be: dean she said; 7 v ing robust plants, breaking the .way Not very. Shall I wash them or for the more delicate plants of the put on my gloves? carrots. U , I hero who salutes above photograph la Jan lad of thlr--' Kortnlk. a Ckecho-Slova- k teen, who has to bio cred't four years in battle, where he fought alongside of the men, two nlcka on u.s gun for two ' dead Germans, and a badge of honor for tha capture of a cannon. He is here to be educated under the direction ef a professor of the University of Chicago, and In a military "training school. Jon saw much fighting, been on five fronts, the Rushaving The city of Brussels has erected tbls monument to the memory uf Miss Turkish, Hungarian, Italian and sian, Germans murdered. the nurse whom Edith Cavell, the English Austrian. He tramped Siberia from Klee to Vladivostok with the Czech-SU- e ' army. Fiction's Fascinations. The View. Is "Truth in than fiction." be trouble to seems stranger He There V: Traeters in Palestine, Yes, said Miss Cayenne. But it Oiina just now. locomotives and tractor plows have She Oh, did you hear- - the crash in is not only scarcer, but often leas enbeen introduced in Palestine. tertaining. klteher, tool i i j Executive James E. West as follows: I. have a very keen appreciation of the wonderful work that has been done by the Boy Scouts of America. this means that the greatest country-wide distribution of printed matter ever undertaken ' involved the put-- ' ting out of 15,000,000 copies of the president's Flag day address and millions of other loyal pamphlets. in ulf-B- anti-Germa- George Creel, chairman of the committee on public information, Washington, D. C., has written Chief Scout Road : SCOUTS PROUD OF THEIR WORK. CREEL PRAI8E8 BOY 8C0UT8. Good - Mah-plushn- a, . a chusetts. full-blood- The Boy Scouts of America have-gooreason to feel proud of the patriotic and helpful service they have rendered to the government in all of its wartime activities during the year. Never before in the history of the Bcout movement have organized boys been able to demonstrate so thoroughly their helpfulness. The fourth Liberty loan has left behind it a broader and a. more comprehensive vision of what scouting in Its truest sense means to the growing boys of the community and to the nation at large. . Their, efforts In gardening activities, as messengers of the. president in the n distribution of propaganda, as helpers to the Red Cross, as locators of black walnut, as gatherers of peach stones, as sellers of Thrift and War Savings stamps and Liberty bonds have demonstrated to the world at large the value of organized boyhood. Building . The battle-scarre- d .von In Mm 1 |