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Show WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1922 Utah County Boy Scouts MT. TIMP ANOGOS--Th- e America Have Active Adams Tells What Kiwanis Means to Him WonderMountainbSjlS President-Elec- t Mt. "Timpanogos in the dying rays sun on a clear, cold winters afternoon, one is WHEN ' W 'J' j U r3jg j impressed both with the wonderful beauty of the scene and by the idea that probably long before the rising of the next near days sun the temperature the mountains top will have fallen far below the zero mark. The average temperature of a place decreases about one degree for every 300 feet of increase in elevation. Since Mt. Timpanogos rises some 7500 feet above Utah valley, the temperature at its summit is nearly always from 20 to 30 degrees colder than it is at its foot. Because of this fact snow falls on the peak, when it may be only raining here below; and snow lies on the mountain top long after it has disappeared Indeed 'in from the valley. places protected from the direct rays, snow bank lie until late in summer or even from one winter until the next, ter until the next. The average yearly temperature of Utah valley is in the neighborhood of 50 degrees and since the temperature decreases as we ascend the mountains, it will' be noticedthat at about an altitude of 10,000 feet the yearly mean will have become 32 degrees, or the temperature of freezing on the Fahrenheit scale. This means that this will mark the permanent snow line and we should expect to find glaciers or permanent fields of ice and snow above that level unless much of it is blown off or slides down into A Summer Scout Camp One year September last the Utah trict and troop committeemen, givCounty Council, Boy Scouts of Ameri- ing their best to build into our boyca, commenced active work in its hood character and loyal citizenship. In March, upon the conclusion of field. Its growth has been our training program, a Scout Leadso much so that it has re- er convention will be followed ceived the distinction of being rated with a Patrol Leaders held, in conference as fifth among the councils of the April. Twelfth Region. Field meets will be held in each A short Scoutmasters training district in the month of May, the course was conducted in the Alpine, Utah and Nebo districts last Feb- big meet will be held in Provo, June In May successful field 2nd, to decide the district championruary. , meets were held in each district, at ship in the various events, including which the scouts contested for first place in first aid, signaling, knot in this years contests fire by friction tying, water boiling and bugling. On and possibly wall scaling. June 3rd, a county field meet was In and August a big council held in Provo at which the successful camp July will be established accommocontestants of the district meets com- dating 150 scouts at a time, with peted for county championship in the cook, supervisor, and a faculty of the canyons. various events. instructors who will a scout This accounts for the presThree hundred scouts attended the training camp, whereconduct scout in ence on Timpanogos every of the litAmerican Fork and Provo canyon good standing may attend for eight is which tle the scout camps. glacier single and receive instruction in remnant of the days At a meeting held June 23rd, upon Scoutcraft, first hand in the great glaciers great that once ploughed their way recommendation of Regional Execudown many of the canyons of tive Charles N. Miller of Los Angeles, The officers of the this region. Wasatch and Juab counties were in- District Council are: JohnTimpanogos S. The reader, no doubt, is favited to in the organiza- president; Stephen L. Chipman,Smith, first miliar in a general way with tion of a District Council. Organiza- vice president; W. Lester Mangum. tion and election of officers followed vice president, Provo; A. L. Curtis the story of Lake Bonneville, immediately, and September 5th, the vice president, Payson; W. F. Shriv that great lake that once filled newly elected officers met and chris- er, vice president, Eureka; Clayton the valleys of western Utah and tened the new organizaiton The Jenkins, treasurer, Provo; James H svhose shore lines are still so Timpanogos District Council, approv- Gardner, Xehi, executive board mem- jlainly visible along our mouned a financial budget, following ber; James H. Walker, Pleasant tain sides. It must have been a difwhich a finacial drive was made for Grove, executive board members; J. ferent climate in Utah at the time of fuhds to defray Council, expenses. Wm. Knight, Provo, executive board that great lake, not the moderate and semi-ari- d An intensive training program for member; S. L. Mendenhall, . condition that we have a Scoutleaders has been launched con- ville, executive board member;Spring but time of greater rainfall now, P. P. sisting of eight sessions of two hours Thomas, Spanish Fork, executive and probably cooler climate which each, held in Lehi, American Fork, board member; Flint Dixon, Payson greatly reduced the evaporation from Pleasant Grove, Provo, Springville, executive board member; A. C. Bur- the region. in those days Timpano-gos- s Spanish Fork, Payson and Eureka, ton, Eureka, executive board mem- Probably was execuhead , Fred Johnson always wreathed in ber; Eureka, clouds and the upper 4000 feet of its Troop committee conferences have tive board member, great bulk lay under a heavy mantle been held in Alpine and Nebo. of perpetual snow. A drive is being made to increase Lylng and Perjury. the evidence goes to show that our scout membership to 1200 from Is which A lie Is a statement thought thisAllsnow 900. gathered from year to year about to be false by the person who utters until it had so increased in depth There are 350 prominent men of It, and Is Intended to deceive; while that communities flowage took place and great the various earnestly is a false statement made un- glaciers wrere formed to push their perjury scoutmastas scout in work engaged oath. der irresistible way down the canyons dis of courts honor, ers, examiners, pheno-mone- l; out-of-doo- By of Kiwanis in Provo, I shall assume my task trembling in the consciousness of the responsibility it involves. The position is one of that 'is true; but it is one thathonor, calls for hard work, consistent and continuous I shall be d guided by the and excellent records of Past Presidents T. F. Pierpont and Alex high-minde- . j under-privilege- until near the very base of the mountains. Timpanogos was uplifted to its present magnificent height by some great force located within the bowels of the earth, but all the beautiful detail of form has been by external weathering produced agents and glaciers are not the least among these. Few people, who have not climbed this great mountain, can form a correct conception of the veritable Jack and the Beanstalk land that lies up near the mountain top on its eastern side. After climbing the first 3000 feet of steep trail, one emerges into a group of great amphitheatres which are nearly level floored and literally carpeted in the summer with some of the most glorIn these great ious wild flowers. ponds and cirques beautiful placid streams that charming rippling and invite the thread the meadows and visitor to loiter on their banks watdrink deep of their crystal cold ers are These great amphitheatres bounded by almost vertical walls that rise hundreds of feet above their floors. In the Ice Age they were the of the snow, great gathering grounds the fields where it was accumulated became too great and so began to accumulate in distinct ridges along the canyon sides. At Aspen Grove, where the prospective mountaineer generally camps before ascending the upper mountain, the lateral moraines of rock waste lie at various levels, the highest being fully 500 feet above the canyon bottom. This figure represof ents approximately thb thicknessnow the ice where the camp site stands. Where the ice front stopped and melted entirely away there was a waste left across great heap of rock the canyon as a terminal morain. Visitors to Timpanogos before the finished by the present fine road wasUtah combined efforts of county and the Provo Kiwanis club, will remember the three fearfully steep hills and was compressed into solid ice. In face the form and the very existence of these circular valleys was produced and determined by the ac-of tion of the ice through hundreds years. When the ice began to flow out of the valley heads that existed previous to the Ice Age, it left an opening around the sides of the gul- i ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES are a boon to the busy housekeeper yet how many homes fully equipped with these convenient, la devices? bor-savi- ng Just the thing for Christmas, youl agree, and youre right! 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Its immediate national task, now undertaken by nearlyfeone thousand clubs and 75,000 members, is to promote a better citizenry for the future by sponsoring a square deal for the d child, the citizen of co-oper- Her Most A ppreciated ADAMS, of KnVanis Moved by the unsought honor that is coming to me in the presidency rs. semi-monthl- y. WALTER President-Elec- t Into the fissure thus formed ly. water from melting snows penetrated the rocks wetting and even saturating of the mountain side. Down at the bottom of the fissure all the crevices and openings in the rocks would likely be filled with water. At night the rapid radiation from the thin air would permit the water to freeze and expanding pry out blocks of rock. These would fall forward or be pulled out by the moving ice and becoming incorporated into the body of the glacier, be carried away to lower levels. Slow as this process seems to be it was undoubtedly the way in which all the mountain mass which once filled the amphitheatres has been removed. By this method the V shaped gul- lies that existed when the climate was more uniform were converted into the great circular areas which, because of their characteristic form have frequently been denominated Sometimes adfying pan Valleys. to such were enlarged jacent cirques an extent that they were nearly or quite joined and all the sadles which crest appear along Timpanogoss such pluckwhere mark the places ing had nearly removed the separating ridge. To the observer, standing on the serrate highest peak the peculiar these ridges that separateso much cirques as the resembles nothing board on the pieces of dough left after a series of biscuits have been cut out and removed. All the waterfalls that add so much to the beauty of the climb up Mt. Timpanogos were probably formed by a very similar process of freezing and plucking in the bottoms of crossed their giant crevasses that streams as they cascaded from the down the steeper amphitheaters slopes to lower levels. This process developed a series of cliffs and ledges over which the streams leap today in ribbons of feathery foam. Farther down the eastern canyons the broken ice was frozen together again and flowed on more quietly, but growing thinner and thinner as the warmth of the lower altitudes wasted Its substance. The load of rock waste which had been picked up or had fallen from the cliffs finally tomorrow. To attain these ends we seek two things, first, to bring such men as are worthy into the organization, two from every calling, vocation or profession; and, second, to devise ways and means through the organization itself or by cooperation with other organizations to secure the ends sought. In education and morality we support the schools and churches. that almost prohibited teams from reaching Aspen Grove. These hills marked the ice front at various stages. The lower one, below Stewarts Flat, was formed first and the others at those places where the ice paused for a time when the warmer climate of recent time hesitated foi awhile in its counter attacks after the marvelous drives made b Boreas in the Ice Age. Throughout the trip from Wildwood to Aspen Grove and up the mountain to its summit and then down tho American Fork side to Elat and Mutual DeU, Community one is never out of sight of many wonderful glacial features, and to one who knows their meaning the trip becomes doubly interesting and peculiar profitable by observing their forms and by reflecting on the great climate which have come changes ofvicissitudes of time to this with the marvelous old mountain. FRED BUSS, Professor Geology B. Y. U. WINTER - v i A Vr Kill" ti hi In charities we seek to bring about cooperation and centralization of these activities. In commercial and industrial promotion we sustain and work through the Chamber of Commerce. In any political function we ask common ground upon which to support all government whether municipal, state or national, in any action for the welfare that avoids partizan character. In all social and civic betterment movements we hope to lead or to honorably and worthily follow. Speaking fit a more personal tone I am pleased to offer these few observations as fitting the Christmas holi- day: Kiwanis bids us emulate Him who is the Light of the world. As the blessed Christmas season once again approaches we sense the touch of some hidden hand laid softly upon the soul, and as our spirit quickens io its subtle contact we are thrilled with the sublime feeling that the very heavens are drawing nearer to the earth. How is it that this season of dethe name lightful festivals, staged in consciousof Ihrist, arouses us to the re of two ness, hnt v, o mortals worlds, of the spiritual n. loss than the mat' i nil? Great is that man. who stands sq his eye: Two high worlds are eaptmred, of Time He sees these little days ty Whirled into a drama, vast, sublime. Earth has a meaning fine and far When lighted by a mystic star. In the name of an organization of such men more than sixty in number now in Provo may I add this Christmas benediction: Glory to God in the Highest; On Earth Peace, ; Good Will to Man. TOPS For snug comfort for smartness of appearance our Winter Tops stand unique in the motor car field. Our new inclosures are the result of extensive experi-enc- e in the manufacturing game In addition to the many refinements we have developed a ventilating feature which we know will be appreciated. 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