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Show dt&L mm rtSkkhdiiiti j tUsCS. j' News Notes Its a Privilege to Live In UTAH Jtwel starred, tnfold Earth MORGAN Approximately 400 cars of green tomatoes were shipped from Utah this year, produce men say. PROVO Averages for growing smal fruits and berries are increased in Utah every year, to the chamber of commerce survey. SPANISH FORK Rebuilding of the state ioad in Spanish Fork canyon, at Cold Springs, has been completed, forming a dam which will back up the water of this spring, which, defying its name, Is warmer than the usual spring water. MT. PLEASANT The Gunnison Sugar company has paid nearly a half million dollars to beet growers in Sanpete and Sevier counties this fall. The October payment amounted to $350,000 and the November payment was $105,000. This amount has been paid to the growers and It is estimate that about $50,000 has been paid out for factory labor. PROVO Under the direction of Mark Anderson, the Provo chapter of the Izaak Walton league recently transferred 1000 mouth black bass fingerlings, three to five inches in length, from the experimental pond to Utah lake. Eight thousand fish still in the experimental pond remain to be transferred at a later date. OGDEN The aggregate net area of the 150 national forests of the United States is 159,750,520 acres, or nearly the size of Utah, Wyoming and Idaho, combined. The intermountain district, with its 26 national forests, has an area of 29,508,418 acres, and Is the largest of the nine dictricts in the United States, say a bulletin from district headquarters at Ogden. SALT LAKE Utah is ready to absorb its share of the proposed $50,000,000 increase in the federal road fund and has ample mileage now surveyed and definitely located to start construction immediately of highways should the Dowell bill, introduced in congress be passed. Henry H. Blood, chairman of the state road commission, Informed W. C. Markham, secretary of the National Association of Highways, in a telegram dispatched recently. P A N G U I T C H Exceptionally good fall weather has brought a relatively heavy flow of tourist travel to Utahs national parks, E. T. Scoyen, superintendent of Zion and Bryce canyon national parks, said recently upon hii arri"al In Salt Lake. Weather in both parks has been unusually warm and dry and five or six cars a day are traveling No snow or precipitathrough. tion of any kind has been recorded so far. 1 View of train wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad near Olney, Va., In which nine were killed and many Injured. 2 Scene In the house of representatives as the tirst regular session of the Seventy-firs- t congress opened. 8 Design, by Mrs. Laura O. Fraser, for the uiedal authorized by congrebs to commemorate the achievements of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Christmas holidays. While the reduction applies to only one year, there were indications that the President hopes It can he made permanent. senate, according to program, up the three year old controversy over tiie right of William S. Vare of Pennsylvania to a seat in that body. Efforts to delay the debate were defeated, and on Wednesday Mr. Vare himself, crippled by purtlul palalysls and watched over by his physician, appeared in the senate chamber and read a detailed denial of the charges of fraud and corruption In his campaign for nomination and election in 1920. Every one knew that Vare's appeal was hopeless, for a majority of the senators were hostile to his cause. The privileges and elections committee had decided In his favor the contest brought by VV. B. Wilson, the defeated Democratic candidate, hut a minority of that committee reported that alleged ballot box frauds and corruption made Vares election illegal. Radical Republican senators could vote for tlds report because it would accomplish the exclusion of Vare without seating a Democrat. THE Congress Hears Presidents Message and Gets Busy on Tax Reduction. By EDWARD W. PICKARD doing business again stand, the tirst regular session having opened Monday with perfunctory meetings of both houses. Nest day President Hoovers annual message was read In senate and house, being listened to with Intense Interest and praised by administration supporters and criticized by the opposition. The document was long and comprehensive, consisting of a matter of fact statement of what the administration has done and of what It hopes to do In the near future, followed by many recommendations to the legislative body. Concerning International matters the President expressed high for the success of the hopes naval conference In Loudon, and made the significant statement that if the movement for reduction of armument falls, the Culled States may find It necessary to spend upward of $1,200, 000, (XW In navul construction in the next six years. He pact, gave praise to the Kellogg-Brlauand said he would submit to the senate later the amended world court reservations. He urged ratification of the French debt settlement In view of the uncertainty with respect to future revenue, the President recommended that the proposed 1 per cent cut In lmlivldual and corporation income taxes be limited to the present year. He urged early action on the tariff bill, again asking that the measure be devised to aid agriculture and Industries that have not been prosperous, and once more he advised that the flexible tariff provision be retained. Mr. Hoovers liking for commissions was evidenced In several recommendations. These included suggestions for a commission to study the problem of branch, group and chain banking, a commission to dispose of the Muscle Shoals controversy and a commission to study conditions in Haiti. The message advocated an Increase In appropriations for rivers and harbors Improvement from $50,000,000 to annually, at least half of which should be available for the Mississippi It also inland waterways system. asked bigger appropriation for construction of public buildings and for ocean mail contracts. Concerning the reorganization of government departments, the President said he bad come to the conclusion that the only way to avoid endless controversy was to delegate authority to the executive. When he reached the subject of prohibition and law enforcement the used decidedly vigorous President language. In dealing with the former he said that It la not to be expected that any criminal law will ever be fully enforced ao long as criminals exist, and of law enforcement and observance generally he said It Is the most serious Issue before our people. He scored the citizen who insists on selecting the particular laws which he will obey, branding him as the enemy of society. He made a number of recommendations for legislation to aid In enforcement of the prohibition law. CONGRESS Is d 0 President Hoover and Stimson, hacked by Great Britain, took cognizance of Chinus appeal and sent a note to Russia and China asking them to remember their obligations under the Kellogg pact and stop their warlike activities in Manchuria, they ran against an ugly suag. Maxim Lit vlnofT, acting Russian commissar of foreign affairs, replied with a brusque note virtually telling the Uutted States to mind its own business. He attempted to justify Moscows course In the Manchurian embroglio, and then emphasized that the United States government had appealed to Russia at a time w hen direct negotiations were beiug carried on with Manchuria. By strength of this circumstance, the American note to Russia was termed an unjustified attempt to influence the Chinese-Rus-slnnegotiations and consequently could not he considered as a friendly act. The commissar followed this with a public statement in the course of which he advised the United States and Great Britain to turn their minds toward activities In South America, warships in Chinese waters, and armies In colonial countries rntiier than attempt to obstruct the negotiations. Secretary Stimson In a statement to the press made a sharp rejoinder upholding the right of any nation to mobilize world public opinion against a threatened outbreak of war. The Nationalist of government China announced It would do all possible to effect a peaceable settlement with Russia of the controversy over the Chinese Eastern railway. WHEN n Russo-Chines- e NEARLY four hundred of the In business, finance and industry gathered in Washington Thursday at the Invitation of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States to take steps for the advancing of President Hoovers campaign of business progress. Mr. Hoover himself told them first of the progress made through t he series of conferences held previously, and Assistant Secretary Klein of the Commerce department addressed them on "the elements of strength and weakness In the present business situation. A general discussion followed, cul minuting In the organization of a permanent committee, which is to main tain an alert scrutiny over national WEDNESDAY the President ONsent to congress the budget for production, distribution and consumption, for the purpose of noting depresthe fiscal year 1031 culling for the sions in particular fields as they deOf this of $3,830,IXX,IXR). velop and of evolving a means of endsum about $719, 000, (XX) are for national defense activities, including the ing them before they become serious. ton in his survey Mr. Klein, although laying down of the three 10.000 saying that admittedly In some incruisers on which suspension of work was ordered by President Hoover Inst dustries the situation Is not as satisfactory as it might be," and nothing summer. An outlay of $.13,000,000 for the army and navy air services is is to he gained by gilding these less contemplated, and $30,000,000 is to be solid wheels in our business mechanism," went on to declare that agriculexpended on public buildings. ture. in a broad sense, Is sound, trails action on the portatlon active and efficient, mining SPEEDY $100,000,000 tax reduction and most major manufacturing activiIn the house, ties obtained was predominantly healthy, with a program the Joint resolution for the legislation sound fiscal and hanking system and available credit at reasonable rates. going through practically without opPrices are steady with a somewhat that the assumed was It position. downward trend, nnd inventories are senate also would adopt the resolution low and without Indication of any after some debate, and that the lation would be enacted before the serious congestion." T'INO VICTOR EMMANUEL and Queen Helena of Italy made history Thursday, when they paid their formal visit to Pope Pius. They were the first sovereigns of united Italy ever to enter the Vatican. Minister of Foreign Affairs Dino Grandl, Count de Veedd, Italian ambassador to the holy see and a great throng of cour- ' i post-seaso- oil. A great many today," he said "think the oil supplies inexhaustible. We pay too little attention to wasteful exploitation (apart from producing too much), forgetting that new fields In the States may still be discovered, but that they can never be created. Nature put them in limited number and it is almost childish to state that the more that are discovered the fewer are left to the fate of discovery." E. B. Reeser, president of the Institute, asserted that the American petroleum industry had succeeded In balancing demand and supply of crude oil supplies but that there was still an overproduction of gasoline. CEDAR DOSTMASTER GENERAL BROWNS unnual report revealed that the deficit in his department for the year ending June 30 was $35,461,176, or more than twice as big as the previous year. Among the factors responsible for this fact were the granting of $7,470,000 additional pay to postal workers and the payment of on ocean mail contracts; also the downward revision of postal rates during the Inst year reduced revenues about $21,528,000 below what they would have been. Mr. Browns report said that the department handled free of charge special privileged mall that otherwise would have paid In nearly ten millions of dollars. Representative tinkiiam prodded of the senate committee on lobbying so se- verely that it may inquire Into the activities and sources of revenue of a lot of lobbyists other than those whose concern is with the tariff, These may Include the league and other bodies that are supposed to influence the votes of congressmen in matters relating to prohibition. Chairman Caraway of the committee told Mr. Tinkiiam the Investigators would give him a public hearing. The Massachusetts representative 1ms Introduced a measure to require, under the threat of heavy penalties for violators, the registration of per- sons attempting to Influence legislation. Anti-saloo- n was ablaze and torenes and gaj with banners during a twenty fourcele- bration of the liberation of the second zone of occupation of the Rhineland, As the allied troops marched out, the German authorities marched In, the bands played and the people rejoiced hysterically. It has been announced that the last of the British oecupa tional troops will leuve the Rhineland on December 12. COBLENZ, , j j j i ' j GERMANY, 1929. Western Newspaper Union.! brtastl Countless mother, rapt and radiant Lull their Under hahe to resti Envisage they the Christ Child ins Each fair and jlowerhk fact aglow I es who smiling slumber t For th Holy lullabies tclio, Tifliost strains endure through the ages Tor the new, unsullied souls . lal Thus may ths Christmas Spirit liveJ As Tims Its endless sheaf unrolls had ever een.' greatest dinner they soup disappear? Bowls of steaming The waiters piled heir plates hot buns, turkey and cranberry jelly, and any) brown gravy, roast meats, Tills wa1 kind of vegetable desired. followed by courses of plum pudding, Ice cream.' mince pie, fruit cake and and Mints and nuts, apples nnd orange slipped climbed out of the baskets referfuture for Into grimy pockets slow to up. ence. Appetites began of overguilty before never Stomachs and inflation began to show detention such Expressions rotundity. isunie I wish , Gee, Im full and Golly, came with could eat some more," stuffed diners. al sincerity from the Miss Georgia arose anil said, Now, a moment I ivs if you "ill be quiet think that I uve a story to tell you. were here a year of ten you ihnps remember the r0 today ami will and hope It but' toll again I "ill ory, on each ami again i tell it again (hristmas for years to come. when my Up until two years ago g ltlier died, I had never known any-linhut a happy Christmas. But it v. as not so with my fatliei. He as ften cold and hungry and Santa laus brought him no presents. Ha ever remembered bis father and liis .other was very poor; and when she ied daddy had no home and no lends to help him. He found a place of an ild sleep in the hack shed areliouse and a kind old man gie a quilt and a blanket that wwa la VvaMiir th 1 tiers accompanied the rulers to the Vatican City, all being In closed automobiles and escorted by cyclist police. Hundieds of thousands of persons gathered in the streets to witness the procession, and on buildings along the way the Italian and papal colors were displayed. High officials of the Vatican City met the king and queen at the Arch of Charlemagne, the papal gendarmes presented arms and their band played the royal march. After a lot more stately ceremonial the visitors entered the throne room alone, the pope met them and raised them up as they bent to kiss his hand; then the door closed and the three conversed alone for a time. The royal pair as they left carried precious religions gifts bestowed by the pontiff. After calling on Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary of state, and receiving holy water from Cardinal Merry del Val, they worshiped in St. Peter's and returned to their palace. biggest oil magnates ALL ofSirourHenri Deterding of IIol- laud, managing director of the Royal Dutcli Shell companies, were In Chi- cago last week attending the annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute. The fact that Harry F. Sinclair Is still popular among oil men was demonstrated by his as a director of the Institute. Edward L. Doheny was retired at his own request. Deterding addressed to the convention a plea for conservation of T tdM, ' j CITY A representative delegation from Iron county waited on the state road commission recently and reached an agreement for putting up $10, COO local funds to match forest highway funds in improvements on the Cedar Breaks road. About $7,000 additional will be placed to the disposal of the state road commission for other work during the coming season. County Commissioner H. L. Adams, Lyman Sevy and Evan Williams, headed the delegation. PROVO Approximately-- 1000 large mouth black bass fingerlings from three to five inches In length were transferred from the experimental pond of the Provo chapter of the Izaak Walton league to Utah lake by members of the chapter, recently. More than 8000 of the fish are still in the pond and will be transferred at a later date, while the original fish first planted will be left, according to Mark Anderson, director and sponsor of the project. LAYTON A coming slump In egg laying of early hatched pullets can be detected by watchlng the amount of feed consumed, warns the poultry department at Cornell university. A flock rf 1000 Leghorn pullets laying 50 per cent must eat from 24 to 25 pounds of grain and mash daily. A decline of only two pounds of feed from the necessary amount that should be eaten of 100 birds is enough to cause a falling off of egg production. VERNAL Trappers In the Uintah mountains and on the desert are reporting good catches of coyCoyotes otes, bobcat and are numerous this winter, both In deserts and on the slopes of the mountains, with pelts prime and bringing from $10 to $20 each. All the trappers in Utah and Colorado cast aside the bounty offers of the states, because if bounties are taken the pelts go to the states. This state of affairs would entail loss to the trappers who accept bounties, as the awards do not measure up to the prices received WiuiAM LGastoit HE big bouse on the hill was full of Christmas. In every room festoons of greenery, poinsettlas and holly wreaths vied with candles, bells and tinsel to make more radiant the festive scene and increase the Christmas spirit. There were two great cedar trees In the hall, one on either side of the mantel, and both were decorated and overburdened with a harvest of Christmas cheer. The last one of fifty expected boys had just arrived fifty boys whose ages ranged from nine to thirteen years. They scarcely looked the scions of wealth and ease. The tragedy of struggle was deeply graven on every countenance and greatly over-age- d their appearance. They were n clothed In a nondescript array of which each article of garments, had been divorced from a former suit and handed down from a former owner. Patches, tatters and rags covered faded, oversized, buttonless shirts and constituted their full dress for the occasion. They were from the back streets and alleys and from bedrooms la woodsheds, warehouses and basements. They were happy today. Each looked around upon the resplendent astonishment luxury with It was all unreal and new to them. Down from the mantel behind trees came candy and nuts, and It was all for them. There was a pair of warm mittens for each boy, a cap and a pair of shoes with warm wool stockings for each one. Santa Claus distributed fifty new, crisp bills, one to each boy and everybody was happy happy for once. A long table stretched through the dining room and the library, white covered and weighted down with a dinner that looked like the flare of heaven to the hungry boys. There were twenty-fiv- e chairs on each side of the table and one placed at the head to be occupied by the young hostess. The young hostess was Miss Georgia Cadwell, eighteen years of age. She was the daughter of the late George Cadwell and possessed to full measure his generous spirit and keen alertness. Her father was born on Christmas and two years ago he had died on Christmas. One year ago she and of those "ho knew him never heard his name because he was generally called the alley kid. The alley kid knew that there was a Christmas for most boys and girls, hut he had never had one. The day he was ten years old "as Christmas. It was a cold day and daddy hud no presents and no breakfast. Every thing in the garbaga cans was frozen. He wandered about In tbe cold and watched the happy crowds go by, but they brought nothing for him. He was cold and hungry; sometimes tears came Into his eyes, hut he hruhed them away lest somebody should see them. In the afternoon a little girl cama down the street, carrying a basket of little boxes filled with candy and nuts for poor children In that section of the city. She saw him and gave him long-wor- pop-eye- d He Was Generally two-doll- They Fell Upon the Greatest Dinner They Had Ever Seen. her mother had given a dinner like this to the same number of homeless Ferhaps ten of those present today had been present a year ago. Dinner was announced. A scramble for the chairs followed. Not schooled In the ways of polite society or held in check by super 'manners, each boy secured a chair and but for the clanging of a hell the grabbing would have started. .Miss Georg'a asked the boys to stand up for a moment behind their chairs. When order was restored, she bowed her head and in a clear ringiug voice, said: Pear Jesus, Thou wert once & boy, So come today and with us share This feast of Christmas cheer and Joy; And we shall more enjoy the fare. Then the boys fell Into their chairs and abmu the same time fell upon the Called the Kid." boys. ; Alley a box of candy. Childlike, she asked him wlmt he got for Christinas. I didn't get nothin, replied tha shivering boy, I never had no Christmas. Did you have a Christmas dinner? asked the little girl. I aint had nothin today. You can come to my house tfliil my mamma will give you some dinner, nnd suiting action to the invitation, she pulled at ids arm and George followed her rather reluctantly into a hotter part of the city and into a big warm home. George was soon eating the first Christmas dinner lie had ever had The little girls papa talked kindly to George and that night he was given a bath, a new lot of clothes, nnd for the first time since he could reinember he slept in a dean, warm bed. The rest of the story is soon told. George never went hack to the old alley to live or sleep. That little girl was my mamma, ner papa gave George a chance to work nnd let him go to school. He grew to be a fine boy. He was taught to tell the truth, to be honest and industrious. He became a smart business man. On Christmas day when he was twenty-on- e years old there was a big wedding in the home where he had had his first Christmas dinner and he was married to the little ghd He worked hard and was honest nnd every Christmas he and my mamma used to carry a basket of food and nice things to tha poor people in the part of the city where daddy used to live. Daddy worked until he get to he president of the big hank where he first began to work. Before he died he told me this story and said he wanted mamma and me to help poor hoys who had no homes to have a good Christmas. So daddy was born on Christmas, found his first friend on Christmas, ate his first good dinner on Christmas, was married on Christmas and died on Christmas. When he had money of his own he made a happy Christinas for as many as he could. With each returning Christmas mamma and F will do what we can to carry out daddys plan to make a haiT py Christmas for homeless hoys. want you boys to grow up to be hon- est men, to be successful in business and in turn to make a happy Christmas for other poor boys. If nothing barrens, there will be another dinner here next Christmas, nnd all of you are welcome to come agaiu. (, 1929, Western Newspaper Union.1 |