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Show UTAH SENATORS SCORE DEPARTMENTS' WASTE LAVISH EXPENDITURE OF TAXPAYERS' MONEY FOR INDIVIDUAL PROPAGANDA IS EXPOSED IN SENATE. 0 Scarcity of News Print Paper Largely Attributable to Waste of Hundreds Hun-dreds of Tons in Printing and Circulating Redundant Speeches, Etc. Economy Very Unpopular in Washington, Senators Say. (From the Congressional Record of February 5th.) Mr. SMOOT. Mr. President, in connection con-nection with tho use of paper I desiro to submit some figures this morning nnd I hope Senators will give attention. atten-tion. Day before yesterdny we opened the bids for tho purpose of furnishing furnish-ing tho paper that tho government of tho United States will want for the coming year. All tho bids that we could receive from all agents or manufacturers man-ufacturers amounted to 20. The prices bid arc generally out of all reason. I want the Senate to understand tho serious situation the government finds itself in today in relation to print paper and ull other classes of paper In order to impress upon tho Senate of the United States tho wicked Waste that has been going on in the past I have prepared a statement showing the addresses or speeches printed at the government printing office since July 1, 1910, charged by the public printer to departmental appropriations appropria-tions or other funds available therefor, there-for, not including those ordered by Congress or members of Congress. It Is Time to Call a Halt. This statement is but an indication of what has been going on. I expect in a couple of weeks to show the full picture to tho Senate of tho United States. I think tho time has arrived when every niember" of this body ought to insist upon a halt being called upon tho waste of paper by the Government of tho United States. For tho executivo printing office during tho period from July 1, 191C, to September 15, 1919, there have been copies of speeches printed to tho number of 1,103,802. The estimated estim-ated weight of those speeches is 75,-197 75,-197 pounds. Mr. THOMAS. Tho Senator menus avoirdupois weight? Mr. SMOOT. Yes. The total cost of merely printing those speeches was $13,705.72. In the Department of State the total numbor of copies of speeches printed was 29,100, their estimated es-timated weight was 1,513 pounds and the cost S527.02. In tho Treasury Department the totnl number of speeches printed was 25,OOG.O0O. Mr. NELSON. Of speeches? Mr. SMOOT. Of speeches. Mr. OVERMAN. Why is the Treasury Treas-ury Department printing speeches? Mr. SMOOT. I will cnll attention to that a little later, I will say to the Senator from North Carolina. Government Pays the Bills. The estimated weight of those speeches was 758,890 pounds nnd the totnl cost of the printing was $80,813. 09. Remember, tho cost of printing these speeches comes out of nn appropriation ap-propriation made to tho Department for Government printing. In the War Department there were a total number num-ber of 500 speeches printed; in the Post Office Department there wore 105,000 printed. Tho total number printed in the Agricultural Dopnrt-motn Dopnrt-motn was 144,000; in tho Department of Labor it was 123,000; in tho Pan American Union it was 5,000; in the United Stntcs Food Administration It was 307,000; In tho Railroad Administration Ad-ministration the total was 3,055,500 Mr. POMERENB. The total number num-ber of what? Mr. SMOOT. The totnl number of speeches thnt have been printed as public documents for distribution throughout tho United States. I have the number of tho jacket of each speech and tho number of copies cop-ies of each speech that yns printed. Mr. KING. Mr. Pres!;:. 'Jt, will my colleague yield? Mr. SMOOT. Yes. Mr. KING. Do I understand that tho departments after speeches have been delivered, themselves send out Bpcechs ? 3,500,000 Speeches Printed. Mr. SMOOT. They send out the speeches through the departments. In the United States Raijroad Adminis-, tration there were 3,500.500 speeches, printed. They were copies of speeches ' delivered at Altonn, Pa., and before different associations throughout the! United States. Tho money which was . appropriated for Government print-j ing In the departments was used for the printing and distribution of theso speeches throughout tho United States. When I give the summary of tho wholo number I am going to cnll attention at-tention to the weight of tho speeches nnd desire the Senate to know whnt it costs merely to send them thru the mails. Mr. KING. If my colleagues will pardon me, I desire to say that his discussion is very interesting. I should like to know Jiow tho departments depart-ments justify tho sending out of speeches at Government expense. Are those speeches delivered by Senators Sen-ators or Representatives or by officials of-ficials of the departments eulogizing eulogiz-ing the departments and praising themselves for their wonderful economics ec-onomics nnd great achievements? Mr. SMOOT. I will take up tho speeches sent out by tho Railroad Administration. Ad-ministration. The address at Altoonn Pa., was delivered by Hon. G. W. McAdoo on Sept. 12, 1928. Thero were 1,000,000 copies of'that address printed print-ed by the Railroad Administration and sent through tho mails. An address ad-dress entitled "A Life Sentence" was delivered by Rev. J. F. Wcinmnnn nnd there were 2,000,000 of them printed nnd sent by the Railroad Administration Administra-tion through the mails. There was nn i address before the Railroad Firo Protective Association by Chnrlcs N.j Rambo, of which 15,000 ropics wore printed. There wns an address delivered deliv-ered before the Now York Railroad Club by Frank McManamy, of which j 1500 copies Tvero printed. There was) an' address before, the Nationnl Safety ( Council nt tho Seventh Annunl Con-, gross nt St. Louis, Mo., by Hiram ,W. Belnnp, but there were only 5,000 1 printed. Theso aro the character of the speeches. ' Mr. SMITH of Georgia. Who paid for tho printing of these speeches? i Mr. SMOOT. The Government of, the United States pnid for thorn; the. Government .not only pnid for the printing but paid for all tho paper nnd paid for tho carrying of these speech- cs through the mails. , Mr. SMITH of Georgin. Senators themselves pay for the printing of extra copies of any speenhes delivered by them on the floor of tho Senate. Mr. SMOOT. Yes: and I am coinir to cnll nttention to thnt fact in my, next statement. When I cnll the at-' tcntion of tho Scnnte to tho fact that In this report nlone r , Senators Pay for Their Speeches j Mr. SMITH of Georgin. I desire, this to go into tho Record, because' the public generally is not aware of tho fact. When I say that wo ourselves our-selves pay for the printing of speeches speech-es delivered by us, mean each Senator Sen-ator bears the entire expense of paying pay-ing for Till extra nopics of his speerh-' es printed for distribution. Mr. SMOOT. Yes. Now, Mr. President, in connection with this subject I desire to ask unnn-' imous consent that the statotment from which I hnvo just quoted may go into the Record at this point, showing tho total of tho addresses delivered.' by whom delivered, tho dnto when they were delivered, the number of copies printed, the estimated weight of tho aggregate number of each ad-, dress printed, the totnl cost of their printing, the appropriation or fund to which such expenditure was charged, and to whom they were delivered. If there is no objection, I should like to have that go into the Record. ' The VICE PRESIDENT. In tho nb-senco nb-senco of objection, the matter referred to will be printed in tho Record. (Tho matter referred to comprises four pages of the Congressional Record Rec-ord nrranged in table form showing, addresses or speeches printed nt the' Government Printing Office from July I 1, 1910, to September 15, 1918, nnd chnrged by the Public Printer to Departmental De-partmental appropriations or funds availnblo therefor (not including! those ordered by Congress or Members Mem-bers of Congress) j Enormous Waste In Public Printing, Mr. Smoot. I now wish to present a summary of tho cost to tho Government Govern-ment of printing and mailing nddrcs-' ses and speeches printed at tho Government Gov-ernment Printing Office by order of tho oxecutivo departments and other independent establishments of tho Government and chnrged to Government Govern-ment appropriations from July 1, 1910 to September 15, 1919. These, figures aro based on statements from UTAH SENATORS SCORE DEPARTMENTS' WASTE (Continued from first pngc) the Public Printer, the superintend-, , ' cnt of documents, and the report of the commission on second-class mail matter. The total number Of speeches I printed during the period stated was 30,144,302. The expxonso involved in printing' nnd mailing these speeches was as' j follows; The total cost of printing V. was ?109,0GG.35; cost of penalty envelopes, en-velopes, $80,052.90; estimated cx- ! pense of addressing envelopes, $67,- 1 824; estimated mailing room expense $30,144; estimated Postal Service expense ex-pense for handling nnd transportation of 849,101 pounds of speeches, $93,-1 ' 433.55; cstimntcd Postal Service ox-J pensc for handling nnd transportation of 557,083 pounds" of envelopes, $58.-277.87, $58.-277.87, or a total of $442,798.73. for the departments of the cmfmfmf j . Mr. President, it seems to me thnt the next time wc make appropriations i for printing for the departments of the Government we ought to know where the money is going nnd we nffi, i ought to stop all such expenditures of t -' money as this. , Mailing Also Contrary to Law. I was going to call attention to a particular matter, that was in violation viola-tion of the law, but perhaps that ,' would not be a proper thing to do. I wish to say, however, that I have a copy of a speech delivered by a certain cer-tain reverend gentleman and sent 5 broadcast throughout the country, on j ' the face of which there is printed a j statement thnt it was for distribution "among the United States army of railroad men, with the compliments" ij of a certain official of the Government n of the United States. There is no law I which allows a thing like that to go ! through the mail free; but I wish to say to you, Mr. President, that the departments of this Government now . - do notr care very much about what the laws are; they arc guided by their , -wishes and what they desire to do. ; Mr. President, how many of these very same speeches to which I have called attention have been printed by order of Senators or Representatives j for political purposes or for distribu- 3 tion for any other purpose I am going i to find out within the next three weeks and I nm going to put the figures into the Record. When this information is placed before Congress, I think that ! cvdry Senntor will agree that the ex- penditurc is not only an abuse of tho I expenditure of the people's taxes, but ' is, I was going to say, a wicked prac- I tice which ought to cease, not only on M the part of the Senators and Repre- t'l scntatives, but which must cease on the part of the departments, j Mr. STERLING. Mr. President, I will the Senator permit o question? Mr. SMOOT. Certainly. Mr. STERLING. I did not understand under-stand to whnt speeches the Senator referred to ns having been printed. Does he menn the speeches of Senators Sena-tors nnd Representatives? Mr. SMOOT. No, not the speeches of Senntors at nil. I am referring . merely to speeches thnt hevo been or-q or-q dered printed by the departments of I, our Government for distribution thru- i out the United States. So fnr as con- I cems speeches thnt hnve been deliver ed outside of Congress on the order of Senators and Representatives and printed ns public documents for the purpose of distribution thruout tho country, I nm going to let the Senate know how mnny speeches have been printed and distributed. , Mr. STERLING. They are gen erally paid for, are they not? Mr. SMOOT. They are paid for, but I am only going to do this in connection con-nection with n statement showing the amount of paper that is being used for these purposes. Mr. NELSON. Mr. President, AS'ill the Senntor yield? Mr. SMOOT. Yes. Mr. NELSON. Arc all these speeches speech-es sent out by the departments the speeches of Senators and Representatives, Represent-atives, or nre they speeches of other parties. Mr. SMOOT. They are the speeches of other parties. For instance, in-stance, tnke the executive department; depart-ment; I find nn address that was delivered de-livered before the Press Club of New ' York by the President on Juno 30, 191C, an address to the Associated Advertising Culbs, an address at Detroit, De-troit, Mich. These figures also include addresses to Congress; but I have been stnting the number printed for distribution and paid for out of tho funds appropriated by Congress. Mr, OVERMAN. Mr. President, were nny of these addresses in connection con-nection with the Liberty Loans? Mr. SMOOT. Yes; a great many of them were in connection with the Liberty Loans. Mr. OVERMAN. And tho sale of Vt i war savings and thrift stamps? LkJ Mr. SMOOT. No. I will say that the paper used in """f-i printing and mniling speeches is ns f follows: y 1,451,784 Pounds of Paper, ' ' ' The total weight of speeches was 894,101 pounds, of 447 tons of whito print paper. The total weight of pnper and envelopes en-velopes was 1.451,781 pounds. That is only n small part of what is going to be fchown later in the distribution dis-tribution of mnny of these speeches that hnve been made public documents both in tho House or in tho Senate, and then printed and sent broadcast by those who are interested in them; I and it is a practice that I think ought ? to cease. Mr. SHEPPARD. Mr. President, let mo ask tho Senntor a question be-1 foro he takes his scat. What has become be-come of tho bill reforming the wholo printing situation which the Senator introduced some few years ngo which was pending before Congress" i Mr. SMOOT. The history of the bill amending the printing laws I suppose sup-pose the Senator well knows up to. this session of Congress. The bill has always been held up in the Senate of the United Stntcs with tho exception excep-tion of once, when we pnsscd the bill nnd it then failed in the House. , Mr. SHEPPARD. Hns it been reintroduced re-introduced in this Congress? I Retrenchment Legislation Opposed Mr. SMOOT. A bill wns introduced intro-duced in the House nt this session of Congress nnd ha3 passed the House but it docs not go nearly as far a3 the original bill went, becnuso of the opposition thnt was manifested to it, nnd I might just ns well be plain and say by the Public Printer and those, associated with him in tho Government Govern-ment Printing Office. That bill is now before the Printing Committee of the Scnntc, and I hope thnt when conditions condi-tions allow the bill can be reported to the Senate nnd some favorable ac-, tlon be taken upon it. i Mr. SHEPPARD. I trust that will be done, nnd that the bill will be so amended that it will leach the abuses presented by the Senator. j Mr. POMERENE. Mr. President,! has been discussing to some extent the question of the supply of ncws-( print paper only incidentally, how-over. how-over. I Mr. SMOOT. Yes. Small Newspapers Suffer. i Mr. POMERENE. I may say that in the last two or three weeks I have ' had n great many communications from the publishers of the smaller papers pa-pers in Ohio nnd elsewhere. They complain very bitterly because they are not able to get the necessary print ' paper to issue their publications. It scemfc that the supply is being large-. ly absorbed by the metropolitan jour-' nals and magazines. I have been seeking" seek-ing" n method of getting more relief if possible. I know that the Senator from Utah has given a great deal of attention to this subject, and I desire to ask him whether he has any suggestions sug-gestions to make as to a method j whereby these smaller publications can get their necessary supply of paper? pa-per? i Mr. SMOOT. I will say to the Sen-, ntor thnt to-day many of the small papers in this country are compelled to pay 9 cents a pound for ordinary white print paper 9 cents a pound ' and that is not all: thoy can scasce-ly scasce-ly get enough of tho paper to issue their publications. I have had, from different parts of tho country, letters nnd complnintB just the Bamo as the Sonator has. There is no doubt but thnt tho situation is such that not enough paper is manufactured to' meet the demand. Not a day passes I but that I sign two or three ordeis I for purchasing paper in the open mar-'ket mar-'ket in quantities of a few hundred pounds, or nny quantity, just so tnnt wo can get it; nnd if some morning Congress wnkes up to find that there is no Congressional Record, it will be because of the fact that it is im-! im-! posible to find the paper in the United Stntcs on which to print it. ' I Mr. POMERENE. Mr. President, I received the other day a communication communica-tion indicating thnt the per capita con-I con-I sumption of paper in the United I States had very materially increased. It is now 39 pounds. Mr. SMOOT. I will say to the Sen-i Sen-i ntor that the consumption of nil kinds of paper in the United Stales has in-i in-i creased one-third. , I Mr. POMERENE. Whnt suggestion sugges-tion has the Senator to make for relief? , 'Senator Smoot Suggests Remedy. ! Mr. SMOOT. If we could only mnkc the people of the United States bc-! bc-! licvo that propaganda is not necessary necess-ary to be carried on on pending leg-, leg-, islation that would save thousands of tons of paper. There is not a question now before Congress but that a prop-( prop-( agandn upon it is started in some part !of the country, and Congress nnd tho , country nre flooded with literature, (and this practice requires hundreds , of thousands of tons of paper. I will I say to tho Senate that there has been , n propaganda on the leasing bill. That j is a bill that is in conference, and since it has been before Congress I 'think I have received 91G telegrams I in regard to it. Those 940 telegrams are similar and most of them nre1 word for word alike, and therefore it took 910 telegrams to parties sending I the telegrams not only containing tho words that were in the telegrams' i sent to me but nsking them to send the telegrams. If we could only im- press upon the Americnn people that it is perfectly useless, a perfect waste of money, wc would do n good service for the people. , Mr. POMERENE. Let mo be a little lit-tle more specific, if I can. I nm seek-I seek-I ing information. What can wo do to i relieve these small publishers? Mr. GRONNA. Mr. President, if , the Senator will permit me. I think it is only fair to say thnt an embargo was plnced upon paper by tho Canad-t Canad-t inn authorities. The matter was taken tak-en up with the Department of State, nnd, ns I understand, tho department ( has adjusted tho matter so that wo nro getting our share of the Canadian paper. Mr. POMERENE. Then it is the Senator's view that the supply will improve from this time on? Mr. GRONNA. It1 will. Mr. POMERENE. And at a better rate? I Mr. GRONNA. I nm not advised ns to thnt. I know thnt tho Depart-, ment of Stnto has taken up tho matter and ndjustcd it. ' Canada Has Embargo On Pulp. Mr. SMOOT. I knew thnt tho State Department had taken the question up, but I had not heard whether it hnd been fully adjusted or not, butl I do know that nn embargo wnsj placed on the exportation of pulp from Canada, nnd therefore we were, compelled to mnkc paper from whnt-j ever pulp wc could produce in this1 country, nnd of course, tho supply of paper that was on hand wns drawn upon every dny until it got to a very dangerous point. Mr. President, hns not Canada prevented pre-vented the shipment of wood from tho Crown Innds, where our paper mnkers hnve gone and leased the Crown lands for tho purpose of getting wood, nnd hns not the shipment of wood been stopped ? Mr. SMOOT. That wns done four or five years ago, and I do not think the restrictions hnve been removed. If they hnve, I have not heard of it. Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. President The VICE PRESIDENT. Docs the Senntor from Utah yield to tho Senator Sen-ator from Illinois'? Mr. SMOOT. Yes. I yield to tho Senntor. Need for Reform in Gov't Dept's. Mr. SHERMAN. Does not the Senntor Sen-ntor know thnt there is just ns much need of n reform in the Government as there is in these privntc ngcncles. Mr. SMOOT. There is no question nbout it, nnd that is what I hnve said. Mr. SHERMAN. Is it not also a fact, if the truth wcro known, thnt nearly every Govt, department is en-! gaged in n crusade for tho purpose of , magnifying its own importance, nnd demanding additional powers and appropriations? ap-propriations? Some of them arc com- ing to me nnd denouncing Congress! for its parsimony in dealing with the particular department in question. Mr. SMOOT. Wo get letters, most of them anonymous, however, from nearly every one of the departments, criticising bitterly any Senntor who dnrcs stand upon tho floor of the Scnnte nnd question any appropriation appropria-tion that is asked for by the departments depart-ments of our Government. Mr. SHERMAN. Connected with this subject of print-parer supply, the best place for the reform to begin is in the deficiency npproprintion bills, ns well as other appropriation bills, and not furnish to the departments the necessary money or the credit which is always implied in a deficiency deficien-cy bill. These deficiency bills nro growing to nn nlnrming extent, and it is time for the Senate to apply tho hatchet. Economy Unpopular in Washington I know thnt the most unpopular thing in Wnshington is to curtail np-j proprintions. They cnll me up at night, out of my slumbers to tell mo the error of my wnys on opposing np-' propriutions, nnd the more I nm called up the more I nm convinced thnt there i is need for n couritcrcrusndo by Congress Con-gress against these extravagant appropriations. ap-propriations. Mr. KING. Mr. President, will my colleague yield? Mr. SMOOT. Yes, I yield. Mr. King. I think that if tho Senator Sen-ator is merely called up from his slumbers, ho escapes very well. Many Senntors who hnve been opposing these npproprintions nro denounced by' propagandists in their own communities communi-ties and threntcned with politicnl annihilation; an-nihilation; but I want to sny to the Senntor that in my opinion a bill ought to be passed creating a censorship censor-ship over publications by the executive execu-tive departments. I do not mcun by thnt that they should determine just , exactly what should be said, but there ought to be some restriction as to the character and quality of the publications. pub-lications. Nine-tenths of the publications publi-cations of the departments arc not worth the paper they arc printed on. i They nre n disgrace to the country. Another thing thnt ought to bo done by statute is to impose a penalty upon up-on executive officers who carry on a propaganda. For instance, Mr. Clax-ton Clax-ton has written letters to educators throughout the United Stntcs pleading plead-ing for a certain Americanization bill nnd urging thnt they support the bill to create a department of education. .That would magnify Mr. Claxton; nnd I would increase the powers of the bureau bu-reau with which he is connected, nnd transform it, indeed into a department, depart-ment, nnd so Mr. Cluxton nnd lie is merely a type of hundreds of others I in the departments spends hundreds I nnd thousands of dollars of the people's peo-ple's money in carrying on an extensive exten-sive propaganda throughout tho United States in order to secure legislation leg-islation to build up his department. Samples Alone Fill Two 'Rooms. Mr. SMOOT. Mr. President, I want to say in conclusion thnt the Joint Committee on Printing now have power, pow-er, under the law that was passed in the deficiency bill last year, to regulate regu-late the printing of certain publications publica-tions issued by the departments. When we begnn to consider what publications pub-lications should be discontinued, first we collected samples of all that were being issued. We could not show them in one room. Just the sample copies of what was issued we could not show in one room, and we hnd to get another anoth-er room to put the samples in; and then we spent weeks nnd weeks in trying to eliminate what wo thought could bo eliminated without interfering interfer-ing at all with the departments, and we did eliminate hundreds of them. I hnd passed over my desk n morning morn-ing or two ago, sent out hy n department depart-ment copies of letters to be sent throughout tho iountry congratulating congratulat-ing the present Secretary of tho Treasury on his appointment. I do not think this is necessary, Mr. President. Pres-ident. The American peoplo know ho hns been appointed, and I do not see why any of the departments of tho Government ought to reprint a letter of another person extending congratulations congrat-ulations to tho 'Secretary upon his (Continued on Pnge seven.) HUH SME NEWS One farmer iienf Deltn figures that his. farm Is bringing him In each year nt least .$!J7G per aere. The bank deposits at Delta In 1017 totaled $110,000. In 10&, the bank deposits were SHSO.OOO. The ban put on public difliecs by thu board of health at Ogden, Fobru- nry 2, becnusu of the health conril jjJlons has been raised. - Several applications listed for the purchase of coal lands In Thistle, Indicate In-dicate a large, new and hitherto unknown un-known coal region In Utah. After this winter the l.ehl cnnnlng factory will be a coutlensary, If a do-.clslon do-.clslon of the stockholders of the establishment es-tablishment reached at a recent meeting meet-ing Is carried out. The parents of n 14-year-old boy residing re-siding near Ogden have been sentenced sentenc-ed to pay a fine of 510 In the Juvenile court for permitting the boy to piny truunt from school. Many features of the Utah state educational ed-ucational campaign will be added with the postponed opening of the campaign, cam-paign, March 21, according to plans announced last week. Heaver furs valued at !?10:i8, most of which were confiscated by It. II. Slddoway, state fish and game commissioner, com-missioner, and sent to the St. Louis market, were sold for that price. Seventy per cent of the 110,!)i:t.8(l in the state treasury to the credit of the state high school fund was last week apportioned among I he school districts of Utah having high schools. More than seventy members of the Salt Lake Commercial club, with their wives, will form the first spring trade excursion to Idaho, starting from Salt Lake April 11 and returning In ten days. Plans for the entertainment of eighty members of 'the Cleveland ' board of trade who will visit Salt Lake and boost for Cleveland products pro-ducts March 3 and -1, nr6 being completed. com-pleted. Hlackleg, a contagious live stock disease, has been discovered in a herd of beef cattle belonging to Kills Peterson, Pet-erson, who operates a farm near Utah lake. One animal Is dead as a result of the contagion. There lias been expended on post . roads in Utah thus far 51,000,000. The construction of these roads Is on a "fifty-fifty" basis with the government, govern-ment, anil there Is due from the government gov-ernment about 5100,000. Postmasters of Salt Lake, Ogden, "Logan and Provo may obtain dies for stamping mall with "Zlon National Turk" by making application to the fourth assistant postmaster general, It has been announced. Scenic Utah, and Salt Lake's opportunity op-portunity as "the center of scenic America" will be the principal themes for celebration at the annual dinner of the Commercial club, which will be held at the club February 24. Sevier county fair this year will la-held la-held In lUchfleld, September 10, 17 and 18. The Sanpete fair will be held the following week, September 22, and 24. The exhibits from these fairs will bo shown nt the state fair. "Never In the history of the state linve there been so many deer as this winter," reports Parley P. Pascnll. siiiiervlsor of nrodutory animals, fol lowing an extended trip over the east and southern part of the state. Confronted In every city he visited by police clrculnrs charging him with .complicity In the theft of an automobile automo-bile In St. Joseph, Mo., in May, last year, C. L. Clurk, 20 years of age, surrendered sur-rendered at Salt Lake last week. Six months in the county Jail was the sentence given Duwey Conley, recently re-cently convicted by a federal Jury at Salt Lake of possessing and using counterfeit revenue strip stamps on bottles containing "fake" whisky. Protestant ministers of Utah met In Solt Lake, February 10, to formulate a program for the Interchurch move-nient move-nient In Utah and to receive the report of the world-wide survey undertaken In connection with tho movement. Special Inducements will be offered young men employees of many Salt Lake firms who Join the national guard of Utnh In the way of full pay and credits for time off while doing military duty with their organizations. The state securities commission has decided to combat mall ordor dealings in stock. Tho process Is being adopted adopt-ed by stock companies which do not care to como Into the stato and meet tho approval of the securities commission commis-sion before attempting to market their stock in Utah. Tho Uintah county board of education educa-tion has adopted a salary schedule whereby a teacher with two years' normal training will receive n mln-lmum mln-lmum salary of ?1000 the first year in school, increasing by WO .for each year's experience ns a teacher after ' the first two years, when 5100 a year Increase Is nllowed. With a pistol beside It tho body of Scott Snow, ago 27, was found on the bank of tho Provo river near Provo. He was last seen alive when ho was noticed going toward the river bridge. It Is concluded by officers that he committed suicide. Coal lands agsrogntlng a purchase prleo of approximately $100,000 have been applied for through tho United States genoral land office nt Salt Lake, within tho past three weeks, because be-cause of tho anticipation that President Presi-dent Wilson will sign the new leasing bill. |