| Show 9 It Is over 60 0 years year ears since Ince the th last shot hot was fired which prevented this great country of ours our dividing The Th men who fought In In the mighty conflict which held tir south In the Union are all old oId and not a few of them are ar feeble Who Vho would deny anyone an any one of them generous treatment by the country they kept united d and saved caved When you are ar 80 SO It If 1 you OU have not laid away a considerable sum the outlook will bo be dark unless some one on steps In to say You have given Sven the days day of your youth No Not No that you ou are ar old hero here Is I your com corn compensation compensation It lt It were ere within the power ot of News and Views View all the aged un unable able to do for themselves would be pen pensioned On July 3 i lf 1926 President Cool Cool IdSe idge signed the new pension bill which gives to the old veterans veteran who are totally helpless or blind O a month That Is la none too much consid consId- consIderIng considering ering the th hIgh cost of ot livIng Ev Every ry old soldier should be al- al allowed allowed al allowed lowed to close his eyes eye In soothed by the thought that a 0 great country has hu not lost Its sene en ot of gratitude What a consoling thought It would be b e to know that no old per per- per person son eon man or woman In all this went over the hill hili to th h poorhouse Over the hill to the th poorhouse poorhouse Is I over the crest to oblivion That should never be Indiana Indian stone atone theIr old people to death Some SOme- SOmetimes Sometimes Sometimes times stigma strikes with greater grenter force and leaves deeper bruises than stones Cut Dut with all our little America Is a wonderful coun coun- coun- coun country try tOP Last September Wlford Harris a fine tin ot of o American back from three years In South Africa I On his hIa IS way homo home he lie traveled tra through Europe closely observing cond I I felt relieved ho h said when I landed on the shores of ot the home homo homeland homeland land once one more In Kimber South Africa Africa people are aro on the edge of ot the tho direst poverty Not a afew afew afew few are almost starving star In In a city of sustained by diamond mining halt half the population population population lation Is made made made up of Kaffir boys They work for tor CO GO cents a day White men not skilled are un- un Unable un unable able atle to compete compel with the th black blackman blackman man man and so an untrained white more miserably than the slaves of ot old On On On the east coast of ot Africa the lower caste or coolies ot of o IndIa push h the th white whit man aside and a 11 problem which has brought race hatreds prevails In Europe Europ the struggle Is In in- in in tense What a relief relict to get back home where the worst Compares compare the best In ln the world o outside I blessed In this blessed land we some some- sometimes sometimes times complain Ot Of 0 cour course coure t It one were In Paradise there would be complaining But Dut any ony American who has hos tray trav traveled ded In foreign lands has come bad back with a 0 treat great love lovo for 01 Oh Old 1 Glory In every fold told of which lies opportunity nl Harris without at his r opportunity to door went out on the on the Ills lit at promontory where Ogden sun SO 8 in t beauty In Agu A t days He lie has 40 acres ot of o a 11 dry farm close to where the th golen spike w was a driven on May 10 HG 1 9 I Now anyone who ba hai ha haJ exp exp with with a dry farm arm knows that It principal asset Is la an opportunity to turn hard laborious work worl ante fields fields of ot grain train I No dry farm ever d developed any nn- anything any anything thing except weeds by simply look look-Ine tog Ing at It 11 lt Well ell someone had been doing that very cry thing thine for much of the acres was with Rus flue Russian sian elan thistle The Tue thistle was as proved a real pest until the rotary rod weeder was waa applied dry farm Now two men and six horses hones uproot twenty enty acres ot or the obnoxious weed In a 0 aday aday day daT And best of orall of all the th churning ot of the the- soil helps to prepare the land for the 8 seed eed which will wiil be b sown at the th end of at o this month When former Mayor Fell F ll first flut saw aw aw Promontory In the tho days das day of ot 89 69 h he must have said that this wilder wilder- wilderness wilderness nes ness Is good for tor nothing other than jack ak rabbits and coyotes coyote That It could produce 40 bushels of ot wheat to the acre as os one on tract of 40 acres did this summer could not have entered his mind Some Some Som day News and nd Views View will willa a k him the th question and record his bis answer Not n all the th dry land around Promontory produced so abundant abundant- abundantly l ly Iy Much Much ot of It did not yield over 10 bushels to the acre for the th 84 sea on n ln lo c e I 1 0 to o News and Views Continued l front nim rage lI One son Ion was wu unfavorable vora le for f or r dry farm farmIng farmIng- tog Ing Ther There are lire 10 20 dry farmers In to the tho district and now that they know how to lo successfully fight Russian thistle they are looking forward to ble crops Judge N J Harris has been ex with Burbank quality quality ity wheat which his hll son Ion Wilford sowed April H at on the Ille dry farm fl The seed though planted a month loo late matured and was waa cut on July 15 and sod a test made proved the grain to be a most desirable mill milt miltIng milling milling ing wheat Tho The first see seed cost tE SG a pound and was planted In North Dakota Washington and Or Oregon Tho The eam- eam sam sample plo pIe brought to Ogden Orden was grown In South Dakota with excellent and Judge Harris i Is encouraged to land believe he has haa n a wheat which Is drought resisting rapid tn to growth and adapted to dry farming arming In 1 Utah i If It the Judges Judge's hopes are aro I the farmers farmer will II profit much by his discovery and Utah will have added cause to regard Luther Bur Bur- Burl Burbank Bur bank bank as a be benefactor et of mankind e e l What a mighty nation this Is sending out In one year four tour and andi fourths i three fourths billion dollars ot of goods to the tho other nations of the I world and receiving back nearly ian an equal amount mount I Over nine billion dollars of com corn commerce merce with the peoples of or the tho world I If It the foreign trade ot of o this coun coun- country coun- coun country country try were to suddenly disappear it Il would be to the burning down of ot cities In Its disastrous ef- ef effects effects ef effects on the Industries of the Amer Amer- AmerIcan American American ican people During the last fiscal year the exports of ot farm machinery In- In Increased increased In Increased creased BO 60 per cent over the year before Other manufactured ex- ex exports exports ex exports ports also Increased America though paying high wages wage finds a way to 10 undersell In Inthe Inthe Inthe the marts of ot Europe Africa and Asia Alia It Is II a great Ireat tribute to the l of ot American n manhood August days dan In Ogden are per per- fact pcr-fact fact Now end and then a cloud ob ob tho the sun pun and a zephyr tans fans the tree a as on 01 yesterday f But then what would existence b be without Its lights lIht and an shadows What Is II that t old song It If a hur- hur hurricane hur hurricane cano r rise In the midday sky ky and the sun Is lost to view 1 Boy Bay aY When that thal occurs what are you you supposed supposed to dot do f 1 Why move steadily on oil without a 0 a tear or a frown and and- i Paddle raddle your own canoe Surel Sure |
