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Show May 13, 1927 . yt-- ' TIIE OGDEN POST Soil Erosion Must be is aear Outlook May 30 Date Chosen Old Ironsides Poem Written in 1 S57 hy Holmes, is Found Rriehter, Declares , Controlled to Prevent For Unveiling Mormon Battalion Monument Ama,Slated Chief Floods in the Future The greatest flood disaster this counIm oiling of the Mormon battalion try has ever known is bringing a real- monument on the Itah state capilol ization of the need for a well csiah- - grounds will ou ur Decoration day, it was announced by the monMay of. flood Prevention, ument commission Saturday. The proUnited Mates Departmentsays ul at the monument will follow the Agriculture in tailing attention to two gram arrival of the pioct'ssuin, which will imoortant f?itd!.a ,n control of the form at Eagle Hate at 2 p. m.. and of water-an- d reforestation march rapid run-othrough the business section of the reduction of soil erosion. The the and then to the scene of the city, of forests in this respect exercises. importance has long been emphasized, the dv- but until rec;nil7 very lit-Wesley E. 'King, of the tie will attention has act as murshal of commission, been to given the ef the will be held May feet of the continued destructive washday, and the procession will form board of directors is com- under his direction. From Eagle Gate of areas of large ing cultivated G. L. farm Decker, land and the folowi"5 the procession will march west to pasture lands. If atM. A. Browning, L. R. Main street, south to Fourth South tention were given to proper p Bigelow, I ,S- - tECt CDee roueh east. to Slatl street, und from Llc. unsuited .,ands to agricuUure Joseph! and I to maintaining good forest cover at I there north to the capitol grounds. IjTsl Ecclc' E t outlook for sugar the market with an increase in price bffJjLjuct, waa the prediction Anthony W. Ivans 5 Amalgamated Sugar company & !tan at their meeting Wed-He said that indi- frfjW jffied to an increase in the Tover last year. of directors were of E. S. Rolapp, I trAreiJnt E r ff 5 I Dc. ii ill a .. old nuslical il.v.'.nvi.ts at the ri.huti'.y o'1 Chita.o. the uni ei'Miy tu.Iay t h cd a iiitcd po i.i hy dli. r it i Wein! IL.nns. dealing with the l.gli! between ihe l'o!i .Dtiili.ui and Giiir.cie. Dr. ILiir.cs first pm m, (.ii the battle, "d'.il Dm hides," "Aye, Tear Her Tati'-'itii:ri,-a- ui.-p-i ; fa-mo- m ei Fiihign Dowi:," which ry ot;,e knew, was writl.ni in 183b. :.:.d which did much to save the boat fioin destruction. The one found todii) was written in 1S57, when Dr. llolna was a eelebiated teacher of medium at Uurvurd. The verse, penti il at 1'iostoii, describes the mo inenls when the Gucrriere's flag was shot away by the Amerieaii shin. It follows , - as when some swollen cloud state officials will lead the parade. A Next in line will Ik the members of I'rmlvh o'er the tangled trees! With side to side and spar to spar, Whoe smoking decks ure these? I know St. George's Mood-r- ed cross Thou mihtrcss of the seas But what is she whose streaming bars Roll out before the breeze? l schid vice-preside- nt 1 1 'ffolSceri 0 Lucky Graduates? ci-i.-- II. II. Rolapp, all Horace and Havemeyer, JsdtUk; Rirhsrds and ,al f York City. Sew ids Are Needed For Repairs to Church i of raising funds with the view to pay suf-Lta- iysSS A t the cost of making to the parish house and o, Joseph's church, a committee It is the desire d been sppointed. r committee the to raise the neces-Tfun- ds for the improvements be-- i ' M. Cushnahan P. Monsignor the last of May, upon a vaca-Jt- o Ireland. The members of the iBinittee are: David Hickey, Dan W. J. Permody, U. Don Maguire, and John A. Junk. . J. O'Connor, ft.-skwrasr- - s.'zsx Charles Ah, aTS is due to forest destruction or claims! that reforestation has no bearing! Next in line will be Marshal King upon flood prevention are both exag-- 1 and the Thirty-eight- h infantry tand, gerationa. Every acre of land in the I Mlowedby the Third battalion of the immense catchment basin of the Thirty-eight- h infantry, commanded by H. Band. Following that Mississippi system contributes, in one Ma-oform or another, at one time or anoth- - W,1J fmo detachments from the 115th er, to the flood problem. It is idle and th 222nd field artilleries, coin- to say the scores of millions of acres landed by Adjutant General W. G. of forest land within this basin have! Williams, after which will coine a bat-n- o relation to the flood problem. Theter artillery from the UniUtah 11. 1). T. V. unit, and plans for preventing a recurrence of a versY flood of this magnitude must, as one var'ous patriotic and historical so-their essential factors, include the cietiesreforestation of the headwaters of the At the monument President Charles W. Nibley will offer the invocation. Mississippi and its tributaries. "Failure to hold the absorptive sur-- 1 This will be followed by selections by face soil of fields and pastures Ith Thirty-eight- h infantry bund, un- against the denudation of erosion,1 der the direction of Warrant Officer say II. H. Bennett, of the bureau of Leopold Yost. Wesley King will inSoils, "has contributed to a much troduce the speakers, and Ii. II. llob-ertmore rapid removal of the water that president of the commission, will falls upon these Eroded lands. The deliver an address prior to the unmellow top soil that is gone was far veiling. Following the uddress by a fanfare, by more retentive of moisture than the .President ...Huberts, , of the governor s sa comparatively impervious subsoil that I sheet erosion has left behind. Mr.,utbF a l,attory of,111 Hath Held Bennett believes this wastage of the frtillery, and music by the military soil has as much to do with the con- - ban.d. W1.,11, announce the unveiling, 11 done by two great- stantly increasing floods as all other whub "Habers of the factors. He says that many streams, frndt,hl,dren a generation ago, are now V110"- - ne dc8cLnda"t of LapUm Brown, of the Pueblo detach- clogged with soil debris, lie gives as examples of such clogged rivers the ment, and the other to be determined Coldwater and Tallahatchie of north- later. Governor l)ern will then deliver an ern Mississippi, "Failure to build terraces on sloping address and the services will be confields generally and to plant grass and cluded with music by the band and trees on the steeper lands highly the reading of a poem by Mrs. May T. Davis of tne commission.. susceptible to rain wash, says Mr. Belle Paul St. George Cooke of RichBennett, "accounts for much of the excess of water now sweeping down mond; Ya., a grandson of General the Mississippi If this kind of soil Phillip St. George Cooke, has written old he he and his r of well her iron Who Will Be The giant ryIK ing off t lit fight-da- y is mimitfs. flock in our window is It i.s dm to stop sometime on Sunday. ribs are knit, Wlin the thunders strive to quell The bellowing throats, the blazing lips That peak'd the Armadas knell! The ini.tt was cleared; a wreath of Whm-- e rent they the named of tlu two LUCKY GRADUATES stars to each of whom we will present a beautiful Rose o'er the crimson swell, nd its haughty peak, 1 fViSn humid come to will point out fell! IJUUIVA East Canyon Reservoir Is Now About Filled WATCH nationally famous for itd accuracy and dependability. - Games Open ro Davis County League played on the of the last Saturday day tting The Layton-Itttfiel- d irii County league. games, at CTearfield, being jtpoiwd on account of rain. The two games that were played defeat-- I tie both shut outs, Syracuse Only two games were Farmington by the overwhelming 22 to 0; Kaysville defeating ntervOle 4 to 0. The batteries for m of dee, were: games mmse-Farmingi- ' Taylor and Miller Cook and Hansen for Farm-jtofor n; UR. FARMER! Carry Canvas We for Dams s, Street 334 Twenty-fourt- h Ogden, Utah that hopes enormous scale is WS is little likehhood that a e to participate floods will be controlled. Practically nothing is being done about this phase command f General rnk-'o- n itfL" of flood prevention. There are no hillside terraces north of the Arkansas moua marth river." Eighteen fnches of top soil has been removed from the youthful I tfl fields in some parts of northeastern1 Kansas. The entire top soil is gone Art for Army Training Camp from hundreds of thousands of acres in western Virginia, western Pennsylvania, eastern Kentucky and south eastern Ohio. From these lands rain water courses much faster to the Mississippi than formerly. Terraces and grass woodlots, forests, and other F. C. Van Burcn, director of the Weber gymnasium, has been appoint ed representative for the 1 927 citizens military training camp, which will be held at Fort Douglas June 16 to July 16. Application blanks and other inand crops formation regarding the camp can be will vastly improve the flood situa- secured from Mr. Van Buren at the tion; not only will they slow up the Weber gymnasium. run-oof water, but they will save the most valuable part of the soil and the possibilities of restoring some of will reduce the clogging of streams the bottom lands to their original conwhich cuts down their carrying capa- - dition as carriers of flood waters and city, and adds to the flood danger. I producers of forests and game. In continuing his statement on the forests as a flood factor, Mr. Sherman said: "Although excessive precipitation in the main basin of the Mississippi is a major cause of the present flood, many of its tributaries have contributed their own floods. Extensive deforestation on the head waters of innumerable feeder streams is partly responsible for rapid melting of of snow and for the rapid run-osnow water and rainfall. Deforesta tion, accompanied by repeated fires, has likewise encouraged erosion of the soil. These effects are practically pro. soil-bindi- Dr. F. J. Drake Veterinary Surgeon , in Contagious ud Infectious Diseases of Specializing All Animals. 334 Twenty-fourt- h Street Ogden, Utah e836 Res. Phone 1075M (raved; soil-buildi- ng ng ff Fishermen! fod I delay! Have your repaired and re-wou- nd once for the 15th of June. e trade rods with yQU, sell you a new one. Fine Stock of low and dium priced rods. j Macks Barber Shop pkone978-- J 1666 Wash.!! Baseball Season Opens I have a complete hne of Baseball Supplies. SEE US FIRST IT WILL PAY! in hilly and mountainous cutover lands is not where country extensively reclaimed for agriculture, and where repeated fires nave progressively denuded the soil. "In making comprehensive plans it will be necessary, in my opinion, to consider forests as affecting run-of- f, snow melting, surface erosion, channel cutting and silting. Extensive reforestation in the long run by retardwill supplement the ing the run-of- f, artificial engineering work. Every dollar expended in reforesting denuded land will return with interest through the sale of forest products and water power and stimulation of will come industry. Flood preventionactual cost. without a as "In at least one region the present flood has raised the question whether the reclamation of bottom lands has not gone too far. Efforts are now under way for a bond issue to purchase bottom, lands along the Illinois river, tributary of the Mississippi, in order that the overflow lands may be restored to their original function. Conservation agencies point out that value this land has a great additional breedfor timber growing and game flood coning, which, with reduced offset the to tend trol costs, would value. of loss agricultural recThe particular flood prevention o the of department y ommendations up briei-Agriculture may be summed reducon The general as follows: run-oof soil erosion to prevent rapid of and the clogging largely increased eforts byand nd federal government conowners for cooperative forest for increased programs trol: largely public forests on tributary both by the federal and ments; a much Urger land tree planting on denuded and other of f Jewel; radium dial. are a few of thd many f llare Bl'LOVA Wslcbes now I are indeed, the these flegent WatcIlCS eitll- er Ud prises or as gifts. Lon display In our windowaj If you have not yet seen the lll(! CLOCK in our windows be sure to do so today! Smalley Brothers THE TIME DEN 332 Brunswicks Prismatones The deep bass and high notes brought out as you never heard them before. Priced as low as 125 00 Twenty-fift- h Real Opportunity for Live-Wir- e Girls to Make Good Money. VALUABLE PRIZES and GOOD PAY Earn Your Vacation Money Now! Apply in Person to Convenient Terms Jones Music Co. Orpheum Theatre Bldg. Hroom Hotel lildg. Street WANTED 100 GIRLS Chamber of Commerce Saturday Between 10 and 12 A. M. Fifth Floor, Kiesel Avenue John H. Bott & Sons ff Dont l a.1 the reservoir is 150 feet. stopuS the;e Earl Read Co. Lucky, bat-naviga- Van lilirpn W. Ycsti relay the gauge registered 136 feet of water in the F.ast Canyon reservoir of the Davis and Welter Counties Cunal company. It is prob able that a portion of the water now coming into the reservoir is now he ing allowed to pass through the dam and thenee down East Canyon creek. This proceedure will regulate the flow of flood water in the Iatst Creek and Weber valleys in Morgan county and protect the creek and river bunks front washing, which they would were the flow not controlled. The capacity of Brigham and Ogden Utah nounced Manufacturers of and dealers in Marble and Granite Monuments and Headstones of highest quality. Oldest Memorial in the West and Washington Ave. and Irgeat Dealers 17th Strrrt Phone 671-- W Ogden's Oldest Auto Painter Popular Prices Plus by-prod- Genuine Dupont Duco Applied For safetys sake there should be a telephone in every home. The McLaughlin Way It is a sleepless guardian ready to summon aid at the first sign of danger. Sure Keeps Our Paint Shop Busy-C- ome and See for Yourself. There is protection as well as convenience and pleasure in a tele phone. ff 8"a; And the cost is only e few P: c:- 23rd at Washington Avenue - cents a day. 14 Years in the Auto Painting Business in Ogden hteaaf fest faiMownerertbrough state andfederaj aid, to plant trees on and a la"daJ along water courses; The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company p wile '2Z3ZZ Read and Use The Posts Classified Ads. Want Ads Are Bargain Ads! |
