Show Franic Francis FrancisA A Japanese mother was on the street treet with her hr of offspring spring Hold Hold- hold hold- ing Holding to her hands hand were little gIrls not old enough for tor school and In the th Inthe baby buggy were two chil chil- dren children Going by were two American families a child each Writing on Imperial nome Proto Prof Martin P Nilsson In a book just published attributes the decline o of the tb empire to the 11 ie tories ilc-tories tories which brought to Italy OrIental slaves slave while hile the Ho- Ho Ro Ro mans spread to the lands land o of theIr conquests from Scotland to Meso Meso- Mesopotamia The Th blood was diluted There hybridization was cross breeding and tion and Roman Homan manhood was dis- dis dissolved dis dissolved solved In a solution so weal as a to disappear Professor sees America goIng th tha th same way Rome Home was war destroyed by the th melting pot melted all too rapidly In America as In Rome nome the superIor families are ar failing falling to reproduce Compare the aristocratic families lies to the family of ot the Japan Japan- Japanese ese eec Pearl Is quoted as saying that hi studies studie Indicate the natural fertility o of a II race rate declines from obscure but wholly natural causes While the birth rate among those of ot the purer American Is declining the foreign element ls Is Increasing The changes chanres which arc are taking place are arc ar shown b by what hat has hap hap- happened happened happened In New England I The New Englander had distInct characteristics After Arter the th opening ot of the middle west he spread out outto outto outto to the newly opened country Strangers came In ann ana now New England Is 13 no flO longer Yankee That I Is the drift today of ot the entire United St States te S S S j The Pioneer power station was wasa wasa II a Raked naked bull on on a spot a few years ago aio Yesterday as a News and Views saw It the place was ten acres ot of o lawn and flower ers and shrubbery clothing the power station Graveled driveways tidy by- by byways by byways ways cosy homes neatly kept store storo rooms orderly arrangement of oC everything Tho Interior ot of o t the e big power station was sac as as spotlessly clean as the th kitchen of ot a careful house house- housekeeper housekeeper keeper house I The beautifying of ot the has been a hobby of Supt J M Jones who has been with the company IS 18 years He lie ha has the best of operation co-operation co from the five fhe fir families Including his own occupying company cot cot- cottages cottages cot cottages One On end of the tho grounds Is 15 given over to garden truck where there Is a I community Interest In the green vegetables which are arc pro pro- produced produced pro produced abundantly It would be b worth erth your while to get a glimpse of this modern Industrial plant In the old days places where men worked for tor corporations were left leet as barren and uninviting as neglect could make them The InterIor ot of o buildings were dingy and the th surroundings were made up of o sunk Junk plies piles Heads of corporations have die dis- discovered dis discovered covered there Is something In hay hay- havIng haying hav having ing contented and to- to today today to today day they are lire encouraging a wholesome environment for tor or theIr employee News and Views was as shown the big generators capable ot of producIng producing producing ing kilowatts kilowatt but now with low water developing only kilowatts Only 43 42 second feet ot of water was going through the turbines on Tuesday with a 0 pres pros pressure pressure sure of ot HO pounds From the top o of the hill bill back backof backo of o the power station a pipe line linea linea II a mile Ion lone ions I comes come down whIch has hns walls of steel of a II maxImum or of an Inch In thickness to resIst the great errors errors This was one of the errors In cor constructIon When the unit was built the station should have been erected nearer the mouth of the canyon and the water ateI brought down In a vertical drop which I would have hav required not more than thon feet of heavy hellY steel pl pipe e At At t the the power station the same mistake was wax made Mod Mod- Modern Modera Modern ern era engineering Is avoiding many manyo o of those errors Between the dam In the can can- canyon canyon can canyon yon and the tho th Pioneer power eta sta- station sta station tion there ther Is a of ot feet teet Where here the great wheels olve end there Is In a I whirr of ot machines It t C Jacobs Is hi the maintenance engineer Twelve men are employed In Inand Inand and around the plant and ond they make up a happy group o of wage age earners Some of them have hav prospere prospered One has hns purchased out of o hIs savings 70 shares hares of ot stock stork of Utah Ulah Power Light company which Continued 1 on loe Lage Three News and Views I Continued I tage e One has hils a market morlet value of ot II a ashare alire Bas sh share e Tho Thu men are allowed to bu buy on the tho basis ot of 5 S a n share down with 5 a month Installments If they quit before e completing tho transaction they they are are refunded nil all which has been paid in plus In- In in interest terest at 6 S per pr cent rho Tho toek itself yields 7 per cent This is another form of corpor corpor- corp corporation or- or I atlon interest in workingmen Many of the tha big companies en- en encourage encourage en encourage courage their men to buy their stock and open ojen the tho way to the acquiring of ot the tho same Millions of oC dollars in United States Steel Is neld by the steel b It allows the tho worker to participate participate pate pote In the profits of ot his Ills toll toil and ond gives him a II sense of ot ownership which helps lighten the daily tn taik k Many Improvements have conic come into the electric power service since April 1896 1836 In when the first whee wheel turned In tho plant of ot the loneer Power company All the original machinery has disappeared except a 0 water water which carries this plate Sutter Creek Amador County California This Is a reminder that 30 years ago ngo water power had its Us highest development on the tho Pacific coast and tho the Risdon Iron Works and Union Iron Works were tho the lead lend lendInS leadIng leading ing InS manufacturers of water power machinery It was a development of ot the theold theold theold old placer I INow Now all aIl the tho machines come from the cast east In fact tact even en the tho equipment such as ns porcelain discs which could be made In Inthe Inthe Inthe the west must be shipped across the continent You have havo seen those long strings of ot on the tow tow- towers tow towers ers erg Each one ono of ot the large largo discs cost and generally there thero lire arc five In III a string They rhey are placed on the wires to prevent short circuiting of ot the high voltage power lines Ono One reason that tho the west wert has not kept pace with wiLls the cast east In growth of ot population Is the con con- con constant slant stant draining Imposed by the sending east elst for tor manufactured electrical and other goods Some day the tho west will do more of ot Its own work and then will willbo willbe willbo bo be more prosperous It it could produce electrical machinery and autos it would plug up one ono of ot the Iho big drains on Its resources At the power station was a a large box of ot sawdust which hi to the tho sun sur- surprise sur surprise prise price of ot News New's and Views was re- re re referred d to as a part lart ot of the fire tI fighting equipment It was as a puzzle to know how ow sawdust could other than add fuel to the flames Where here there thero are great surging currents current ot of o electricity II a a stream ot of water wilIer from I a a hose Iff is a dan dan- dangerous dan dangerous rous thing as It Itis is a conductor ot of electricity To a bushel of ot sawdust we mix a pound of ot common house house- sold soda sodo said Superintendent Jones Ill give you a demonstration Going to a vacant space beyond the buildings the superintendent Ignited an oil cloth on which when in Iii full blaze the tho sawdust was sprinkled id d Almost Instantly the blaze blazo was put out It was a II remarkable demonstration which Nephi Hen olds olds who Is on tho pipe line nn and andis andis 1 I Is one oC o the he company's most moet re- re re reliable liable men enjoyed quite quito as much muchas muchas muchas as did News and Views But Dut tho the big surprise tor for News and Views was want the statement that operating between the tho power plant ot at Grace Grae Idaho and the tho main six miles west of ot Salt Lake I Is a telephone without me- me metallic me metallic circuit which News will tell tIll about tomorrow |