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Show THE GRANT8VILLE NEWS, GRANTSVILLE, UTAH. THE UTAH. BUDGET SECOND DRAFT Late fruit and vegetables are developing rather slowly In Utah, owing to the cool weutlier, but they are in good or excellent condition. At American Fork, on August 21, the large tithing barn was destroyed by Are. entailing a loss of $1,000. It is hot Known how the fire started. A COME JANUARY I MEN CALL FOR 700,000 MORE AN8WER8 QUESTION A8 TO ACTION ON PEACE NOTE. convention of club lend- state-wid-e if ers Is to be held in l'rovo, September 3, 4, 5 and 6, all the plnns for the meeting having been completed last week. Continued ill health caused Mrs. Mary Wilson to attempt suicide at Snlt Lake, taking a dose of poison, but slie was rushed to the hospital and her Troops to Cross the Sea in a Steady Stream, the Problem of Trancporta-tatio- n Having Been Solved, Equipment Being Only Problem. Washington. January 1 has been tentatively set for the second draft; the number of men to he culled will be approximately 750,000. This, It was learned In war department circles on August 21, Is answer to the question, Whut will President Wilson reply to the pope's iieuce proposals? Willi the allies striking ou every, front the United States through the officials charged with carrying on the war let drop sufficient hints Tuesday of preparations for the future to make it plain that there is little hope for peace In administration circles at this -- re- covery seems probable. The Flute irrigation project In Sevier county is to be completed, to a decision of the state land board. The enterprise will involve the expenditure of ulmut $250,000. A. H. Nless of Salt Luke was fatally injured when his automobile went embankment. The over a fifteen-foo- t lights of the machine went out on a sharp curve, cuusing the accident. George Iaurence' Morgan, the young farmer of Smithfleld who was found dead in his room in a Suit Lake hotel, died from apoplexy, und was not the victim of a gang of poisoners, as first reported.!. On August 21 the .treasury department authorised the Salt Lake assay office to pay 87 cents an ounce fur silver. This is the highest price paid by the government for silver metal since 1873. The Utah Cereal Food company at Ogden ia building six Immense elevators that will have a combined capacity of 300,000 bushels of gruln, it being expected they will be rendy by October 1. While bathing in the Jordan river near Salt Luke, Henry Oberg, aged 25, was drowned. Diving from a bridge, lie failed to return to the surface of the river. An undercurrent ia believed to have carried the body away. According to newspaper accounts received by Bcnjumin Goddard at the church bureau of information, more than a score of Mormon Muorl students from the agricultural school at Napier, New Zealand, are at the fighting front According to a resolution pnnsed by the Weber county board of sloners, property owners In Ogden will pay taxes this year under an creased tax levy, totalling 20.711 mills, this being .611 of a mill more than the levy of 1916. The state Industrial commission, acting in its capacity aa a board of .arbitration and conciliation, Inst week handed down an award of 35 cents a day Increase in the wages of Suit Lake machinists who were asking an advance in wages. Fanners of Utah county are being urged to sell horses direct to the ernment instead of to agents. The government will pay $100 to $250 per head for horses to be used in the cavalry, light and heavy artillery and other branches of the service. In one particular at lenat Piute county lends. every county in Utah. Last .week it sent in its certified lists to the exemption board and not an was claimed, nor was any notice of appeal given. The quota of the county was ten men, but the board certified twelve men. Reports of wanton killing of sage hens in certain portions of Summit county have been exaggerated, according to R. H. Siddoway, state fish and game commissioner. In no part of the county have game chickens been exterminated. While there have been instances of ruthless killing, game ia .still plentifnL According to reports from Alpine, prohibition got a poor start in that becoming section, "cider drunks prevalent since the state went dry. The additional information is offered that the cider drunk is more lasting than the beer drank, the victims remaining in an Intoxicated condition fdr days. The city officials of Bringliam City have finally secured a water supply for the waterworks system that will remove the water question from the calendar for many years to come. The d of city has just purchased the flow of Maple springs, located about three miles southeast of the town of Mantua. According to the weekly crop summary furnished by the weather bureau, a fair sired crop of tomatoes is assured. Potatoes nnd oilier vegetables are progressing satisfactorily. Beets are growing well. Corn la in good condition. A large portion of the grain crop has been harvested and threshing is In progress. The second crop of alfalfa has yielded well, except In smnll arena where injured by weevils or grasshoppers, according to a report furnished by J. Cecil Alter, meterologlst Pastures are reported jpoor In Emery county, and dry but holding out fairly well In Juab, Tooele and Boxelder counties, elsewhere they are excellent . - . time. Indications were that President through the state department, has beeu in touch with the enteuta governments und ilmt the basis ou which answer to the pope will he made has been decided upon. It at least lias been drafted In broad outline and only details remained to be Wilson', discussed. Transportation Problem 8olved. With an army of more limn 1,200,-00- 0 Copyright, assured, the 1117. Theae economic gains huve a potent relation to the social side of life. Shortening the period of work lengthens the period of development, and for all of the other activities that belong to the normal individual. in wages give the workers the means for taking advantage of tbe increased opportunities of the shorter of workday. Tbe workers of short hours Trade Union Success In Effort to Shorten the Hours of Labor By SAMUEL GOMPER8. Federation American Labor. Day brings to the workers the right to cheer LABOR confidence la the trade union movement There have been teats and crises that have proved Its fundamental principles ; there have been opportunities that have tested its practical efficiency. Through them all the trade union movement has made sure progress and gained in confident vision for the future. President Every national and international, every local union affiliated to the American Federation of Labor- has made definite progress in securing for its members greater advantages in those things which are fundamental of betterment in all relations of life. In some organizations the success has - been phenomenal. There has been great progress in ur eight-hou- short-hou- Organized Labor in Fight to Put End to and better wages become .very different citizens from those who are so exhausted by the daily grind that they have neither the time nor the energy for thought or aspiration. These gains mean better homes, better food, better clothing; time and opportunity for the cultivation of the best and the highest that ia possible in the life of man. Oregons Place of Honor. Oregon was the first state to declare Labor day a holiday. The law was passed in 1887. smoke, poisonings and poor ventilation, and that through typhoid fever and malaria alone $900,000,000 is annnally lost to this nation. Enough to equip the largest army and .navy In the world, and then have a balance sufficient to pay the tuition of every boy now In college. A system of national preparedness of that does not include recognition of Industrial Wastage one-thir- By FRANK L. MORRISON, American Federation Labor. Secretary IS Impossible to record fundamental the past year because of organized labor's agitation or to Individualize probable gains during the year to come. The best we can do is to observe tendencies. Prominent among these is the workers' seizure of the cry for preparedness to emphasize a danger in industry more dendly than battlefields. 0 Government statistics show that 0 men are annually killed and are annually Injured for a period of four weeks or over. It has been stated that every year there are over 8,000,000 cases of industrial illness, caused mainly by long hours, low wages, dust, bad air, fames, IT gains-durin- g 30,-00- 700,-00- I BUTTE COPPER MINES CLOSED. as Industry Comes to Complete Stop Result of Action of Radicals. Butte, Mont. Because of the strike of smelterinen at the Wnsliee works at MinAnaconda, the Anaconda Copper anannounced ing company on Friday Work! In of Its properties shutdown other Thank God for tha swing of It, Montana. All the mines of the comFor the clamoring, hammering ring of It, Passion of labor dally hurled pany will be dosed, together with the On .the mighty anvils of the world . . . smelters at Anaconda and Great Oh, what la so fierce as the flame of It, Falls. Other mines that depend upon And what Is so huge as the aim of It, Thundering on through dearth and doubt. these smelters also will be compelled Calling the plan of tha Maker out; to cease operations. Approximately Work, the Titan; Work, the friend, men will be directly affected. 15.000 Shaping the earth to a glorious end; The shutdown In Butte und AnaDraining the swamps and blasting tha hills, conda is due to the fact that the men Doing whatever the spirit wills. did not report for work at the Rending a continent apart smelter. Master heart tho of To answer the dream Thank God for a world where none may MAKING RICH PAY THE BILL. shirk. Thank God for tha splendor of work! Senate Adds $73,000,000 to Income Tax Angela Morgan. Revenue. Celebrated in All States. Many states have many legal holidays, but the first Monday in September Is Labor day In every atate. Only a few other holidays Christmas, Washington's birthday, the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving are so widely observed. liable to demand better conditions. These employers oppose restriction of Immigration because restriction will defeat their policy of having two or more men for every Job, Another tendency is the growing opposition to labor injunctions, which class labor power aa property. The congress of the United States has voiced this opposition In amendments to the antitrust laws. Judicial interpretations of the term property" in the fourteenth amendment to the federal constitution are losing their force. What was originally Intended to end slavery has been used to thwart the ennetment of social legislation, but courts have failed to check the swelling tide of democracy. The trade union movement Is conscious of the part it has played in the tendencies above referred to and this consciousness will he an inspiration to greater effort during the coming year. this frightful and preventable wastage la the preparedness urged by big business. A morality that Ignores these facts and condemns war is baaed on meaningless phrases. Another present-datendency is the acceptance of organized labor's position on immigration restriction. During the pnst year the acid test of experience has verified the claim of trade unions that American institutions cannot assimilate, nor American living standards resist, tbe flood tides of Induced Immigration that has been the policy of captains of Industry. Another clement among employers Every day is labor's day. Every maw who talk of the scarcity of labor does worth while Is a laborer. so to entice a sufficient number of Idle workers to their factory gates as a Universal labor Is the lever of meunce to those employed and who are y devot- France rather than attempting to Increase the number under arms. The principal problems are being Work met with much success, it wus Thank God for tha might of it, Tha ardor, tha urea, tha delight of It definitely learned, with so much Work that springs from tha heart's deilrt, success, in fact, tliut after a certain Betting tha soul and tha brain on fire. period, the length of which must reOh, what Is so good as tha heat of It, main a secret, there will be u conAnd what is so glad as the beat of it. stant and uninterrupted flow of AmercomAnd what la so kind as tha item mand ican troops und supplies over seas. Challenging brain and heart and handf Equipment problems have taken on another aspect, however. The army Work! Thank God for the pride of it. experienced difficulty in outfitting For the beautiful, conquering tide of it. even the natlonul guard when it was Sweeping the life In Its furious flood. drafted into federal service and tha Thrilling the arteries, cleansing the blood. coming in of the draft forces will Mastering stupor and dull despair. drain the Inst uniform and rifle. InMoving tha dreamer to do and dare. Oh, what is so good as the urgs of It. deed, the prospect today was that And what is so glad as tha surge of It, will not be sufficient materials there And what is eo strong aa the summons October 3, when the last inon hand deep T crement of the conscripted force is to Rousing the torpid soul from sleep be brought to the colors, properly to Work! outfit and equip them. Many men Thank God for tha pace of It, atmay be forced to drill In civiliansevFor the terrible, keen swift race of it; for uniforms makeshift or tire, Fiery steeds in full control, Nostrils aquiver to greet tha goal. eral mouths. behind. Work, the power that drives Guiding the purposes, taming the mind. Holding the runaway wishes back. Reining the will to ona steady track, Speeding the energies faster, faster. Triumphing over disaster. Oh, what is so good as tha pain of it. And what is so great as the gain of It, And what is so kind as the cruel goad. Forcing us on through the rugged road? se- day or the shortcuring the eight-hoer workday. The meaning of the victories can be interpreted only in the light of full understanding of the r day. The meaning of the shorter workday is something more than an economic demand. It la a demand for opportunity for rest, recuperation and development ; things which make life more than mechanical , drudgery. The workers whose whole periods are short are essentially different from those who are so worn by toll that they have neither energy nor mind for other things in life. They become more energetic, more resourceful workers with keener mentality and greater producing power. It inevitably follows r workers are the that the beat paid workers. With every reduction In hours there is always a corresponding increase in wages. Wherever demands for the shorter workday and higher wages have been presented and urged by organised workers during the Inst year they have met with success. A Song of Triumph goveruincis ing its entire attention to transporting the men ulreudy enrolled or drafted to million Washington. Seventy-thre- e dollars more was Inld upon wealth on Wednesday. By u vote of 35 to 31, the senate imadopted the Lcnroot amendments, inditaxes upon much higher posing vidual Incomes than the senate finance committee had planned. senAn hour earlier seventy-fou- r ators, opposed by no dissenting voice, had accepted the radical Gerry amendments. These taxed incomes of more than half a million dollars 35 per of a cent; more than million, 45 per cent, and more than a million 00 per cent. The final addimillions to the tion of seventy-thre- e war revenue bill was a combination of the Lenroot and Gerry amendments. three-quarte- rs Young Ford Passes Draft Test Detroit, Mich. Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford, the multimillionaire manufacturer, was examined by a local draft board Friday and it wus announced passed the physical test. Ford claimed exemption on Industrial grounds. Blames England for War. Vice Chancellor nclf-fericAinestcrdum. before the main debate during committee of the Gerinun reichstag, the real reason why Great Britain h, s:l entered the war was the fact that Ger- many's trade would, in 1917, presumably have reached the level of the trade of Great Britain. |