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Show Friday, January 31. THE OGDEN POST 2 W. P. EPPERSON, Editor Member Utah State Press Association Published each Friday by The Ogden Post Printing and Iublishing 417 Eccles building. matter OcEntered as second-clas- s tober 17, 1D27, at the post office at Ogden, Utah, under the Act of March An invitation has been received by the Ogden chapter of the Reserve Officers' association of the United States from the Salt Lake chapter to attend a dinner and lecture tonight com-pan- y, 7 o'clock in the Newhouse HoteL Colonel Hazard, officer in charge of at 3. 1879. Subscription Price; 2.00 EDITORIAL Special Session of the Legislature At noon last Monday the Utah legislature was called together in extraordinary special session. The reason for reconvening the legislature at this time is to consider the matter of reproperty for taxation. tion. It is very probable that the legislature will approve the work of its committee, and frame a series of amendments along the lines set forth in the report. So far as taxation is concerned, the only matter which the legislature ran consider is these proThe matter of posed amendments. reclassification depends solely on the adoption of the amendments which will govern the action of the legislature which will convene in 1931. If the kgislgtpre. promptly adopts the report of the committee, the session will be short, but, unfortunately, an effort will be made by favored individuals and corporations to throw up a smoke screen which will not only cloud the issue, but defeat the entire measure. Utah is a haven of those who are reaping great profits by escaping taxation, and this is true to the extent that taxable property is in little or no demand in this state, especially in the country and small cities and towns. This is a strong statement, but one has but to look about in their own home town to prove it If this were not true, our untaxed wealth would make Utah a prosperous state, and money and people would be coming in instead of going g" out. The message of Governor George II. Dern to the Utah legislature is worthy of highest commendation. The express purpose of calling this session is for consideration of the reports and findings of the Utah Tax commission and the report of the Legislative Tax committee. In his message the governor points out in no uncertain language that this is to be the principal work of the session and gives to the legislature the fullest freedom in carrying out this work. The governor insists that the work be carried forward without political corporation, or personal consideration, and points to the fact that the commission and committee have labored for almost a year in preparing their reports. In his message the governor has risen above party politics and appeals to the legislature to consider the question of taxation solely for the good of the people and the best interests of the state. Governor Dern has taken high ground in this matter of tax revision, and if the legislature will but proceed in the same spirit it will have per-- . formed a great service to the state. Reactionary legislation has done much to impede the growth and prosperity of Utah ana a continuance will continue to retard the growth of the sthte. The World Grows Smaller More than 29,450,000 telephones, 85 per cent of all the instruments in the world, are now connected for international communication. This network serves a population estimated at over 350,000,000. It is doubtful if any mechanical ' agency can do more to assure world understanding and preserve world peace. By merely lifting a receiver a person can speak to almost any other person in the civilized world at a reasonable cost The telephone is really making the world kin. Transatlantic telephony is a- new thing. What its ultimate results will be cannot be forecast - indt3 Money To Loan Shorten, assistant secreUtah Canners' associathe of tary on tion, who arrived home Tuesday from the National Canners' convention in Chicago, says that the general sentiment at the meeting attended by 5000 persons, was that 1980 would be a good canning year, provided that canners did not overpack and force prices down. WATCHES DIAMONDS, REVOLVERS GUNS RIFLES KODAKS ETC. Unde Sams Loan Office 278 25th St. Ogden Utah By ELMO SCOTT WATSON OUUTE13N states in the Union and some thirty cities have Lincoln memorials of one eort or an-- o t he r. Kentucky, which gave him birth, hai one of the most Imposing the 'magnificent temple at Ilodgen-villwhere Is enshrined the rude log cabin In which he was born on February 12, 1809. Illinois, which first sent him Into public life and gave him to the nation as Its President at one of the most critical periods in its history, has a score or more reminders of his grentness. But It is a curious fact thnt the state in which he lived during fourteen of the formative years of hie life for a long tlma did not have a single memorial erected in honor of Abraham Lincoln. That state is Indiuna, to which he came at the age of seven. It was In Indinna that he got most of bis little schooling; it was there that he earned his first dollar; it was there that he first met with the neighboring youth s In e country store, first read the newspnpers and got In touch wtih the outside world, first began to discuss politics, first took part la public debates aud first reud law. The soil of the lloosler state was particularly dear to him because it holds the body of the mother who bore him and that of hie only sister who was married, lived and died there. The only exception to the statement that Indiana was strangely laggard In honoring a mun whom she could properly claim as one of her greatest sons Is the fact thnt more than fifty years ago, after vandul hands had cut to pieces the first marker erected by In Spencer county over the grave of Nancy Ilanka Lincoln, another and more imposing marker was erected there by Clement Sludclmker of Smith Bend. So it is especially appropriate that his daughter, Mrs. Anno Stnde-hnkCarlisle, should he the president of the Indiana Lincoln Union, which is now engaged In the work of raising a fund of more than a million dollars to erect on Indiana soil a national slirlno to commemorate the lives of Lincoln and his mother. Three yenrs ago, on Mother's day, the execntlre committee of the union held memorial services at the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln and pledged itself to the patriotic task. On that occasion, an aviator zooming low over the grave and cabin site, dropped this message: SILVER... APEX RADIOS All of the leaders. cross-road- cltl-se- ns TO TIIR MAXES OF NANCY MARKS MXCOLN Ths men and women of today are here beside your trave. Among the ruardlng trees, to make their vow, your name Shall never die. And to their praise, add our tribute, from the sky. We are the ertlflcere of the past, whose handicraft lias gained the pralae of men. With stone and day. With brush and pen. we wrought, to leave expressions of the truth we found. But you Tou dared to take living child, a plastic Infant mind, to mold Into a aoul of love, an Instrument divine. Your genlue tsed an art that oura waa mean To you then. Master Artist, we send our word of praise. Through devious paths that masked the way. You led with kindly hand, a child Into the light of truth. And made an honest man. A he-sid- e. The memorial will include the spot where the Lincoln cabin stood and the grave where his mother lies buried. It is Intended that It shall In all reflects typify the pioneer days when Lincoln was a youth. The plans of Frederick Law Olmstead. landscape architect of Brookline, Mass., which have been adopted, include the complete restoration of the area with appropriate markers, a magnificent memorial hull and the pioneer atmosphere of native trees and shrubbery, with a small body of water and a clearing. The iro;H)sed national memorial will link the three states of Kentucky, In . C. W. IVERSON Exide and Willard e, er The Governors Message STATS OF UTAH Marias Weldberg. plaintiff, vs. Giutav r Weldbeig. defendant. The Bute ef Utah to said Defendant Tee are hereby summoned to appear wit& twenty day after eerviee of this aummoZ upon yoe. if served within the Counts u which this action is brought; otherwise with! in thirty days after eerviee; and defend above entitled action; nod ia case of rnZ to do, judgment will be failure gainst yea according to the' demand oftta complaint which has been filed with tZ Clerk ef said court This action is brought to dissolve the bout George so-call- ed . COUNTY, Shorten Predicts 1930 Good Year for Canners Aside from real and personal property, taxes in Utah are derived from excise and special taxes, but there is intangible a vast amount of wealth that is escaping taxation the through constitutional exeption or tax unworkable provisions of the laws. During the last nine months of 1929 a tax commission and an adhave visory legislative committee, been investigating and studying the tax laws of Utah, and have prepared a report of their findings. This report and the wessage of Governor Dern have been presented to the legislature and forms the basis for legislative action. In this matter of legislation, Utah has taken advanced ground. In the past, tax commissions have been appointed and recommendations have been made to the legislature, but the findings being the work of the commission exclusively have been turned down by the legislature. On this occasion the report will have the approval, not only of the commission, but the committee appointed from both the house and senate of the legislature. Those who have followed the work of the tax commission and the 'legislative committee, know that the investigations have been thorough and the picture the report presents is the true conditions which exist in Utah. To correct these conditions, the constitution must be amended by submitting a series of amendments for the people of Utah to vote on next November at the general elec- IN TBff DISTRICT COURT OF WPBEl the organized reserves, ninth corps area, will give an illustrated battle talk of the battle of St. MichieL of matrimony now end heretofore exhtiZ parties hereto. According to Captain D. E. Rhivers, between the SAMUEL & BLACKHAM. a over local the of chapter, president Plaintiff! Attorn dozen officers have expressed their 1tJF- - - atidrem. Ml Eeeles building, Ogd desire to attend the dinner. All offiPublication January I, 10. 17. 24, H, cers who intend to be present are 1 communicate with to Captain urged Rhivers. Telephone 170. per Year. Telephone 365 classifying Summons Reserve Officers to Hear Lecture in Salt Lake City Tonight I The Ogden Post ljftfi our Hai diana and UlInoli.!n the perpetuation of Lincoln's life and labors preparatory to his great destiny. It also honors the memory of the pioneer mother who gave him to the world. The atory of that pioneer mother la one of the most appealing in all AmerA backwoods madonican history. na, Dr. William EL Barton calls her and In hla book, The Women Lincoln Loved, published by an Indiana pubof Inlishing company, this graphic word dianapolis, he gives and her her death. In of life, picture the state to which la given the privilege of caring for her grave: Southern Indiana waa then a wild region, and the Battlements hack of the Ohio river were few and sparse. There were at flret no regular church eervlcee, no physicians, no schools. Perhaps Thomae Lincoln did not regret the absence of schools so much aa Nancy did. Thera is no reason to beliavo that he opposed such education ae hla children were able to secure, but apparently the mother was more Intent on the securing of an ad ucatlen for her children than waa the father. Abraham and Sarah had attended school portions of two terma tn Kentucky. They had learned to spell and had begun to read. But there were no schools In their neighborhood In Indiana during Naneya lifetime. If Abraham and Sarah learned anything more, they learned It from Nancy, or from Dennla Hanks, whom the Sparrows had sent to school In the old Bap on Nolln, and who tlat meetlng-houa- a claimed, with ions apparent region, to havo grounded Abraham Lincoln In tho elements of hla education. Thero were very tew hooka in the home of Thomae Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, and the same condition prevailed In all other homes in the neighborhood. Tor two years Nancy Hanka Lincoln dwelt In Indiana, and saw some approach to comfort in tho conditions of her home. Gradually the cleared area of land and "deadening around the cabin widened, and tha acreage of corn Increased. The stock of poultry and of bacon grew, and tha "pinching times, while not pushed far hack Into tho woods, wort not at tha door aa they were at the beginning. Conditions appeared to promise a reasonably comfortabls futurs for tha family. Abraham Lincoln was old enough now to look with more possibility of appreciation on thle mother of his, and to estimate somewhat her qualities. She waa now approaching tha age of She was above medium thirty-fivheight and had a slight stoop as though predisposed to consumption. She weighed about a hundred and thirty pounds. Her complexion was dark, and her face waa thin and sallow. Her forehead waa Snueually high, and all her relatives commented on this feature of her appearance as belonging to and exhibiting her Intellectual nature. She was usually cheerful, but her face In repose was sad. At times aha displayed a marked tendency to mirth, but she had moods of melancholy. Abraham had a hoys limitation of Judgment: perhape he did not appreciate these qualities so fully In hla youth as ho did latsr, but ws have no reason to suppose Mist hs waa wholly blind to them. 8he was a good mother to him, and ha knew It She waa ambitious for him, and desired that ht should have ths opportunities which both shs and her husband had missed. Ths autumn of 1111 brought to southern Indiana a terrible sickness, afflicting both man and beast Tha cattle were first to suffer from It contracting the diseaae from eating the foliage of snake-roand aa It waa found to have been their milk that carried the Illness to their human owners. It was called "tho A number of tho people tn the neighborhood where the Lincoln lived contracted tho disease and died. Levi and Nancy Hall died, and so did Thomas and Betsy Sparrow. Two uncles and aunts, one couple being her foster parents, were swept away as with a flood. Then Nancy herself contracted the disease. There waa no physician within 35 miles. Ws hare the testimony of a neighbor who was an that Abraham and his sister were faithful ;n waiting on their mother, and doing what they could for her. "She struggled on. says this neighbor "a pond Christian Human, and died Bobbs-Merri- ot milk-sickne- eye-witne- 2586 Washington Ave. should be your crowning beauty. But it must be carefully tended and arranged. We do Duart permanent waving, and all the other beauty needs that the modern woman requires. Phone 179 Expert Attendants. Low Market & Groceteria Prices. The White Way Beauty Parlor. ll e. Batteries 183-- 5 aftar aha was taken sick. Tha mother .knew that she was going to die. She was vary weak, and tha children leaned over her while she gave her lest messages. Placing her feeble hand on Abea head, she told him to be kind and good to his father and aieter. To both she said Be good to one another, expressing a hope that they might Uve, as they had been taught by her, to lovo their kindred and worship God. Thus, at the age on October 5, 1111, died of thirty-fivthis madonna of the backwoods, the mother of Abraham Lincoln. on tha seventh day at Cub and Carry Prices COMMERCIAL FEED YARDS Doctor Barton then tells how Abra ham assisted his tether In sawing out the planks from which he made the coffin, how they burled her on the hill s beside her and how no funeral sermon was preached over her grave nntil months later, when Rev. David Elkina came that way and conducted services. First there was an opening hymn with David Elklni lining out, two lines at a time, then a simple and heart-fel- t eulogy of the dead and a stern admonition to the living and finally a closing hymn with It rose the courage and faith of those who sang. That Produce Grand Champions foster-parent- Then came tha word of bleating, and Thomae Lincoln took the hands of hla two weeping children and led them back to his desolate home. The feet of millions of pilgrims have walked and will walk that path. They will stand within the granite temple that now enshrlnea the log walla within which, at Ilodgenvllle, the maternal pain of Nancy Hanks gave to the world her son Abraham; and they will trend revently through tho leafy allies of tho State park at Oentryvllle, where a massive granite atone now mnrke the pot which Ahrahnm Lincoln In his boyhood watered with his tears. Hs loved hie mother while she lived, and he loved her memory afterward. It was a pathetle memory, and had In it elements concerning which he was properly reticent; hut ae to hla inheritance through her of the qualities which he deemed to bo some of tho heat within him. he spoke with deep feeling. "God bless my mother. All that I am or hope to bo I owo to her. Although In this utterance, her eon spoke of the mental traits he thought himself to have Inherited from her, rather than her direct Influence over him, it was of her mind and character he poke when he said that however unpromising her early surroundings might have bean "she was highly Intellectual by nature, had a strong memory, accurate judgment, and was cool and heroic. To him, ae he looked hack upon It from the standpoint of later experience. It seemed her life had been a tragedy. But we are not sure that he so regarded It She had ead experiences, and times of depression, but sho had llvsd and learnsd and loved. Shs had known ths Joys of wlfshood and motherhood. Sho had never suffered hunger or neglect Always thers wsrs those who cared for her and for whom she cared. To her tt may not have seemed that here fend been a sad life; and she left that which perms-neatbrightened the life of humanity. Though the world hag acclaimed Abraham Lincoln aa one of the greatest men who ever llTed, they were simple people, this mother and this son. So the simplicity of his charv acter Is stressed by the architect, Thomas Hlbben of Indianapolis, In hti design for the main building of the proposed Lincoln memorial for Cash and Carry People. 2446 Washington Ave. e, ' Largest Capacity in the West! 8000 Cattle 50000 Sheep. 1 HE Grand Champion and Reserve Champion loads of fat cattle and the Grand Champion and Reserve Champion loads of commercial fed fat lambs on exhibit at the Ogden Show, os well as other individual prize entries, were finished in our yards. A steady, consistent growth of Ogdens Foremost Commercial Feed Yards linked with the loyal sup- il port and confidence of the Intermountain Livestock Producers, is promoting the development and production of livestock not only suitable to meet the demand of an exacting livestock market but to have received the highest recognition of livestock judges at the recent Ogden Livestock Show. Stock fed here tops the market. What can be done for others can be done for you! GIVE US A TRIAL! STOCKGROWERS INCORPORATED ly II. A. McDougal, Manager Phone 4192 T. J. Upton. tm Sec.-Trea- s. P. O. Box 913 OGDEN, UTAH Si Street A Cosh and Carry Market Phone 541 LSrcouraKBarmmcaui Twenty-fourt- h |