Show PERSONAL COMMENT ON SUBJECTS OF INTEREST there may be six six weeks more of winter as many believe on account of the ground hog having seen his shadow but buc that should not interfere with plans being completed looking toward the immediate starting of tho the road work vork within the county will rogers may be a comedian but more than that eliat he is one of the count rys greatest philosophers and still more he is a great philanthropist his name will be remembered and he will be talked about long after many of our statesmen and pros presidents have been all but forgotten hon benj D mock black our cepro centa renta tive in the legislature is anxious to have the people of the county write him giving their views on whether or not they favor the ceding of the strip south of the san juan river to the navajo reservation it would be as little as anyone can do who has the welfare of the state at heart to voice their views whether toy are personally interested in the matter or not we notice in a S state t ate news new 3 item that governor geo 11 II dern has invited horace M albright director of the national park sei service vice to be his guest on a trip to the natural bridges the coming summer the national park director has rever never visited these great est of the worlds natural wonders that it is no wonder that they have never come in for their share of park road and other improvement monies expended by the national park service congress is is a badly divided body on the question of drouth relief which makes the common folks wonder just how that body goes about it to determine the facts of the mattery matter I 1 would seem with all the th a facilities of the government t to 0 get a at t the fac facts ts promptly it should be very easy for congress to get together on such a grave matter it looks to us as though the selfish interests that have their representatives in that body are acting the part of a dog in tha manger but just what can tc be done about it is beyond us the red cross crosa lias has a job on hand to care for the drouth sufferers while congress wrangles about whether or not it is the duty of that body to help its suffering citizens about all the rest of tho the country can do in the matter is to dig in and dig quick so that they will feel that they have done their part in staving off starvation in the stricken districts it has been calletto called to our attention that trappers of the U S biological survey who have been scattering poison in dry valley have succeeded in killing off most of the good sheep nes that save the herders gerders so many st steps 0 Ps in handling the flocks according 10 0 the best of our information private trappers catch about three times as many predatory animals as do the government trappers and we have yet to hear where a private trapper has killed useful animals or stock while there have been several complaints about tho the way government trappers handle the poison it be well for our legislators to make checkup check up on ill just st what if any pool gool comes from tho the states appropriation to support the biological survey before making aro brother flier appropriation to support it the p present besent legislature has a big bie jol on its hands in the worl work of rc odo delling Hinc our state taxing system would it not be a good plan for that andy to pa pass pas s a resolution solution ic point going on record as being in opposition to the of the usual gist of freak find minor bills that aba t P c cow con before that body usina this session to get started out on a substantial stant laI basis without linvina the flie attention distracted by minor bills and resolutions |