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Show FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1926 THE SUN, PRICE. UTAH EVERY FRIDAY. PAGE SIX ,, " ,iaat What Puzzled Polly LOST By RUBY DOUGLAS (Copyright.) PAULINE VEItLANE waa a librarian town. Nothing In the way of college physiognomy could thrill her. "Im all fed up on these college lads, she remarked one day to some girls who had dropped In to walk honia with her. "What have they done now, my dear!" asked one of the girls. "Nothing more than usual. As soon as they get, to be sophomores they begin to call be Polly, and It happened today that a new crop of them came In and "Sort o got your goat, Polly, lint that It!" flnlabed her friend. Polly laughed. "Thats as good a way to put It as any," It was not long before Polly was In her usual good humor and then on of the girls ventured: Many girls would glvo their fur coats to b In your position. Such an opportunity to moot all tbe nice college men. "They conld hare the Job if I didnt need the money," she confessed. "Just what do you like la tho man it" Tour personal baggage and effects ean be insured against losswithTourist Baggage Insurance through Equitable Real Estate and Investment Company Second Floor Silvagni Bide. PRICE, UTAH liner "Nothing young, anyway, declared Polly vehemently. "Going to ba an old mans darling "If anybodys, said Polly dryly. r Winter Demands They loft her at her gat and walked oa np tho street toward their various home As girls will, they decided to bare a little fun at her expense. A few days later a serious-voiceperson asked Mlsa Paulino Verlano, as he sat over some work at her desk In tho library, for a dictionary of obsolete and archaic words. She glanced up at him casually to see thst he was not a college student and gave him the titles of several such Sturdiness in leather and convolumes and said that ahe would got struction these two essentials as many as ho liked. embodied "One will do, for the preeent any us definitely in n one," he aald gloomily. or more styles score of a range Pauline was mildly Interested In what offered in mens footwear this he wanted with obsolete definitions season. Wearing appared, dry himself. so obsolete when he looked Ha had seated himself at a reference goods, furniture, household table and she placed the book before needs, groceries and hardware him. Ho thanked her without looking comprise only a part of onr imnp and although she conld not help mense stocks at three stores. contrasting his lack of gallantry with manners of tb college tho lads, she rather liked his matter-of-fac-t way of going about what ho wanted. Ho was wasting no time. Polly becam very busy and absorbed la other patrons and did not Carbon-EmerStores Co. y .give tho man another thought nntll, a have bean safeguarded by congress by requiring or two later, ho arrived again, day Investigations of economic and agricultural feasianHiawatha, Heiner and West bility, and In soma cases requiring stats co- gloomier than over and naked for Hiawatha. operation. This policy Is sound and public senti- other such volume together with ment will, I believe, support It GEORGE Mythology. IMcDBRMAID, We are now n new ora in tho history This time Polly witched him. Bure ef reclamation. entering Superintendent. Its present condition. Its difficuld pusties, necessities, and Ira promises have been opened enough I Ho was doing ap to congress nnd to tho publlo with all frank- sies. ness. It lias within tho province of tho congress "What ever can that old gloomy to determine an squltablo nnd economically sound d creature find In pussies!" she remarked to one of the girls as demoralised tho Federal Reclamation Servloe. they walked home together again. "It Co. Professor Chaddock points out that optimists puzzle me the psychology of snch a rely on science to offset the scarcity of land case. "At least Its a change from your and to take rare of growing numbers. But the benefits of mechanical invention In agriculture, Jazzy college lad. "And a pleasant one, agreed Polly. be holds, have resulted largely because there existed large areas of sparsely settled or unused Oh, dont mlaunderstand me, girl land which could be developed by extensive I quite like the old follow. There lfi methods, with low man power and the aid of something In his personality that apmachines. Ths situation U very different when peals to my sympathy. He seems old population has grown more dense and Intensive before his time. methods are necessary to produce a larger yield Indeed, Polly found the strange paper acre. It Is too much to expect science to tron of the library so Interesting that in every spare moment she found hermaintain the pace already set Doubtless Professor Chadwick speaks with self trying to help him with his pusMiners and Shippers of the authority. But what will be the effect of such a sies. Celebrated a in sat One afternoon rainy they gigantic project as the proposed utilization of the Polreference-roocorner of the after Colorado river! waa off duty and worked out toly one Is of nver the Colorado The great natural particularly difficult crossresources of the United States. It is 1,700 miles gether Mines at word problem. long, rises In Colorado, flows through Colorado, man took off his great hornThe SPRING CANYON, UTAH Utah, Arizona, forma for a considerable distance he had tumbled and rimmed 817 Newhouaa General glasses Offices, between California and Nevada and the border his hair about In his earnest thought Building. Arizona, and continues through Mexico, emptying over Salt Lake Oty, Utah the puzzle. Polly looked at him, Into the Gulf of California. The territory to curiously. which Its forces may be applied Includes an area "What Is the matter!" he asked, larger than many nations.' Four important probend smiling. cheerfully lems present themselves In connection with the "Its you looked so old and you of river. the They comprise the development when you tint came In here gloomy prevention of floods, utilization of the waters for some weeks United Fuel Go. and now ago of electric energy; Irrigation purposes, production the "Do Its puzzles suppose you and water for domestic use for southwestern me!" he have rejuvenated municipal liles. On the Colorado river basin more that on with a her still naked, beaming than n million dollars has been expended In Its obsolete. bnt was that smile anything Ion "Largest Producers of Domestic the various departments of the Invest Igut by "It Is something," said Polly. And Coal In Utah." government No less than 55 measures have been Introduced In congress providing for various for some reason or other, she blushed. tho Famous Producing "There Is a wonderful flush of youth phases of Its development It has been under conIf yon sideration by practically every congress for tbe on your own face Just now, dont mind my telling yon," he said. last sL: decades. Polly seemed not to mind for she let Among the proposals for the rivers develophim walk home with her through the of an Immense dam at ment le the construction twilight that evening. Boulder canyon. Thla project la of such magniAnd then It all came out He waa tude, as to challenge the countrys ablest en- not yet thirty and he was a college gineers. The proposed Boulder dam will be the student He had remarked to one of largest engineering structure of Its kind ever hla colleagues that he quite liked attempted, the maximum development being the girl librarian. 8he had promptly little planned to raise the water surface 005 feet The told him that If ho expected to be noreservoir formed will be 120 miles long. Tbe ticed at all be mnat not bo known as total cost Is estimated at 1200.000,000. a college atudent nor mnat ho seem Another phase If tbe development la the com- callow In any way. pact that has been formulated between the had Tho girls, with his states of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, conceived tbe Idea of bis coming beand California, intended to regulate, control, and fore ABERDEEN COAL Pollys notice In the gnla of an protect tbe rights of the several states, Includ- antique person. ing Arlxona, to the distribution and use of the And thereby bad bang the tala waters of the Colorado river and Ita tributaries nighest efficiency. Government "Youre sure, Polly dear," he said equivalent t104 lb. Unequalled for for domestic and agricultural purposes. This had tbe all after her to explanations tores. Wlfl net sbrk. The beet part has not yet been approved by Arlxona, al- been made, "that you wUl like me for steaming and heating qualities. though the leglslaturea of the other atatea have old!" as well young . ratlDed It-INDEPENDENT COAL ft nodded. Polly The foregoing of course merely scratches ths COKE COMPANY "And yon do not mind the subtersurface of the subject. Thera are to resort to to to had you I get marketing by farmers ; our forestry problem; tbe fuge Mines at Kenilworth. Utah. Genmo! Alls fair, you know, in eral Offices Walker Bank Building development of waterways, tho conservation of notlr love." natural resource of various kinds all questions SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Polly admitted that It was. bearing directly or indirectly upon our future mo when will Its and "And food marry yon population aupply. It looks as If the coming generations, whatever we do In an en- when I got about a year older!" ho Flapperitis may be a disease, as deavor to take Time by the forelock, will have I laughed. slated by a physician, but it never their own troubles, And Folly aald yea keeps the patient at home. Sturdy Footwear d By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN .mINCE 1800 a "riotous century" ot mmmflmm growth has doubled the population ot the world. Thla population la If now about 1,700,000,000. The atatle If II U mW tldana figure that at the prevent rate of lncreaae thla number will double again In sixty years. And thla would mean a world population of 5,000,000,000 at the end of the century. Would thla mean a crowded world ao crowded that the atruggle for existence would bring about condltluna which the present generation cannot even Imagine! Probably It would. Anyway, the atatlatlcluna now seem to believe that the rate of Increase la declining and breathe a great sigh of relief over the finding. American statisticians are busy over the future of the nation In relutlou to population and food. So are the scientists. So la the federal government So are various citizens. The press devotes much spuce to It, as any large newspaper dally makes proof. For 70 years before the Civil war the population of .the United States Increuaed 3.' er cent each decade. At any rate 2000 A. D. would see a population of 2, fH 1.1,000,000 people. The rate of Increase, however, has fortunately declined to 15 er cent during the decade. As It la now, we have about 115,000,000 people. At the same time we Imjiort almost as much food as we export And our standard of living la the highest In the world. Questions Intriguing the scientists, agricultural experts and statisticians Include these: llow large a population can we uctunlly maintain upon our own laud resources! lluw large should our population become! If we become crowded to the extreme limit, will life be worth living! Experts of the United States Department of Agriculture have recently announced thnt production In continental United Stutes could be developed so as to malntnln about people but under conditions ubout Ilka these: Standards of consumption prevailing In prewar Germany ; reclamation of land to the limit through drainage and reclamation; decrease In number of certain food animals and Increased use of pasture for crops; reduction of exports of foodstuffs; Increased yield to the acre by Intensive cultivation to approximately that la Germany, Belgium and France. These conditions are made to apply to population of 800.000.000. IIow far would they apply to a population of 200,000,000! No one apparently can say. But see how these conditions would work la comparison with our present ways of public-aplrltc- d 1010-102- 0 agrl-cultur- al 300,-000,0(- Ufo. In prewar Germany the averago annual par capita consumption of meat war too pounds; ours Is 170 pounds. Land reclamation and Irrigation have already done wonders. Yet government Irrigation projects undertaken at an Immense cost have bean practically a failure- - And Just now there is a popular outcry against wholesale draining of swamp lands on the ground that they are needed to preserve our game birds and waterfowl and fish from extinction. Kill off tbe cattle and raise crops on the land they nsel Even now the live stock men are complaining bitterly I Grazing owners la national forests are appealing to congress against forest service. Reduction of agricultural exports I Right now tbe farmer Is wrestling with might, and mala with tbe problem of his surplus and ids troublsa are already a matter for national concern. Increased yield through Intensive cultivation I It la trua that Eurojtenns la places do raise an average of 31 bushels of wheat to the acre while our average la but 14. But there It takes 878 men to grow the wheat that 100 men grow here. Tbs of oar fnture population depends largely upon tbs product per man. We do not want to put the women and children of the family to work la the fields. Malthas achieved fame long ago by Ms warning to the world that population waa Increasing faster than the means of subsistence. But Modbus' world had none of the modern Improvements. Ths Nineteenth century, through these modern Improvements, saw a phenomenal growth In population while at the same time standards of living were rising. Production kept ahead of This was largely because of consumption. modern facilities for the migration of Individuals and for the exchange of goods. For example, 80,000,000 Immigrants, mainly from Europe, have entered America since 1820l Again, owing to modern transportation the world Is now more of an entltlty than were the American colonies In the Revolution. In the United States, where we have no tariff barriers and our rullrouds practically make nil sections of the country one, the doctrine of Multlius hardly seems to apply. Yet the conditions both at home and abroad are rupldly changing In Important aspects The desirable free land of the world Is rapidly becoming exhausted. Ours la practically gone. Many European countries are not well-bein- g In food. In America, professor of points out Robert E. Chaddock, statistics In Columbia university and president of the American Statistical society, less thun half of onr land area 'can be used for crops, because of climatic and topographic conditions And on this he adds that the best grades of arable land are already in use. Additional areas can be utilized only at greatly increased prices We have reached a stage In our agricultural development of rapidly Increasing costs This Is In great contrast to the era of free land" and rapidly expanding extensive agriculture. Many things are technically possible which are economically Impossible on account of prohibitive costs The experts who estimated that we could malntnln 300,000,000 under specified conditions admitted thnt this would Involve a severe reduction In general standard of living because of the heavy costs of utilization." "Without Question, says Dr. Hubert Work, secretary of the Interior, "we will need, years hence, ell the weter that can be stored and all the Irrigable, productive land In the West to feed our people." And here are other points that the secretary has to say In his annual report for 1925 all having a direct bearing on our future! Ths Bureau of Reclamation waa the only one of the II bureaus la tho Department of tho Interior which oeemed hopeless two yeara ago. An expenditure of approzlmately IfOO.OOO.SOS for reclamation projeota had bssn mads by ths Federal government during tho previous II years requiring an additional 110,000,000 to complete thorn. Tho raclamatlon fund, originally Intended to revolve or bo funded In 10 years, had not revolved la 10 years Although tho fund wao supplemented by a lump appropriation of 110,000,000 In 1001, repayment to tho government was only per coat committee reported after 10 yeara. A had and boon canals dams constructed oa that some projects for tbe Irrigation of lands having tnadeqnate water aupply and wore either not capable of development or had toll Inherently too poor to support a family. Tbs commutes estlmatsd confronted a tbst on this account ths government definite loss ef 11,001,140 end n probable additional loss of 10.010,000 of Its capital Investment Whether the Ives to tho government Is IIO.OOO.OUO or double that Is not of materiel eoaoera when balanced against the continuance ef n mistaken fact-findi- policy. ng reclamaThe obligation of the government In session of tion was further Increased at tbe last appropriations for four now congress by Initial and aztsnslono of three enislraclamatlon projects will nltlmataly entail an exing nrojoots which lO.OOt.OOt These penditure of an additional further expenditures out of tho reclamation fund Bui-finch- es cross-wor- crosa-wor- Spring Canyon Coal m Spring Canyon Coal States KING BLACK HAWK HIAWATHA and PANTHER COALS |