Iron County Record from Cedar City, Utah • Page 1

Iron County Record. I WITH WHICH IS CONSOLIDATED THE OBSERVER." I 5 VOLUMK XXIV. $2.00 PKR YKAR. KHAR CITY. UTAH, FRIDAY.

MAY 18, 1917. I CBNTf PF.R COM NUMBER tt. BIG PREPAREDNESS TRAIN AT LUND Exhibit Rigger and More Comprehensive This Year Than Ever lie fore. NEW AND INTERESTING FEATURES WERE ADDED tar of the Forestry Service and California Bean Car Hoth Interesting, but U. A.

C. Exhibit Most Helpful. The big Preparedness train was Lund as advertised last Tuesday, ami there was a large attendance of farmers and those of other occupation, from all parts of this county out to see the exhibition, which had beei; widely advertised. There were perhaps thirty to forty auto loads from, Cedar City, and a goodly number from Parowan, as well as a large attend, ance of the dry farmers from ah parts of the Escalante Valley. The windy, disagreeable weathe was the only drawback to the suce.ss of the occasion, and even this did not prevent the people from turning out and enjoying the exhibition, although it did interfere with the holding of open air meetings, which had been planned for.

The train was in charge of Industrial Agent Douglas White of the Salt Lake Route. IT. A. C. Has Exhibition.

New features of the exhibition this year were the car provided by th Forestry department of the Government, and a "Bean" car from California; but the largest and most helpful display, comprising some two or three cars, was that of the Utah Agricultural College, which were devoted to all phases of agriculture and live stock. The Poultry department was good and commanded the interest of nearly all visitors. The information given in relation to the use and conservation of water, in charge of Mr. Pax-man, was highly instructive, i The model farms, farm buildings, all bespoke the large amount of time and labor that had been expended on their portion of the exhibition, and were both entertaining and instructive. The cars were filled with cards and placards giving information of various kinds, to absorb all of which would require days of time and a number of tours through the train.

Forestry Department Has Good Car. The car supplied by the Forest rv division of the Government was very beautifully decorated with evergreens, furs, and other things sugegstive of the forest, and the aims, objects and methods of handling were lucidly x-plained by a representative of the di-vision. Miniture forests were shown in course of cultivation, and the methods of building roads and other fea tures were made clear. Sugar Company Sweetens Crowd. The Utah -Idaho Sugar Company had a car again this year, making an excellent exhibition of their various products, or the products of their sugar, and dispensing free sweets to tin-visitors to the train in the form of 9 candy nnd various sweetened id-bits.

The car was in charge of Mr. Cutler, a member of the company. California Bean Car is Great. An entire rar, hailing from the Cat ifornia end of the Salt Lake Route, and devoted exclusively to the bean industry, wil a revelation to mo of us from this part of the country, and was exceedingly Interesting, When it At comes right down to it, very few peo ple in this section "know beans." a There were hundredi of variteis on exhibition, from the small white navy I to the prodigious lima beau, and of 1 almost every conceivable color and texture. The vims under cultivation, and assailed by various insect pests, I together with complete showing of I these pests under glass in their var I Ural stares of evolution, were all ex I hiblted in most i omprehensive man DIREi TORE.

C. GRAHAM ARRRIVES IN CEDAR Fred Graham, director of the Southern Utah School of Music, arrived in Cedar Wednesday night with his oldest son, Fred, Jr. They made the trip from Salt Lake to Cedar by auto. Mr. Graham's special work at this time will be to hold interview-? and enroll students in the various, courses.

Beginning Saturday, and every afternoon from to o'clock, Mr. Graham will be at the Public School building, where he wil be glad to meet students and assign them time for lessons. The time for the opening of the school is not far distant and as many applications arc coming in from other towns, it is desired that the Cedar students be enrolled as soon as possible and their time allotted them, so as to accommodate the out-of-town pupils with the time convenient to them. Already about forty students from Cedar have applied for several of the courses. Mr.

Graham will visit them at once and assign them time of lessons. ner, and the car was bristling with printed information on the subject of beans. Fairbanks-Morse Again Has Car. The Fairbanks-Morse Company again had an interesting car devoted to a showing of their gasoline engines, electrical machinery, etc. A working demonstration was shown in 1 the car of a 10 h.

p. low grade fuel engine operating a pump, and their lighting plants in two sizes were also demonstrated in action. Hotels Were Crowded. The hotels at Lund were taxed to their utmost to supply lunch for all those desiring it, and fortunate it was that a good many of the visitors had anticipated thin condition and hud provided themeselves with lunch baskets. We presume that no one went hungry, for the stores were well supplied with eatables of various kinds, including fruits, and those who could not find accommodations elsewhere, procured rations from the stores.

NOTES. Close to fifty automobiles lined up about the streets of I.und made uite an impressive showing last Tuesday, giving an unwonted amount of life and animation to the town. A good many more of our Parowan friends were noticed at the demonstration train this year than last, probably due to the direct road which was recently completed between these two towns. There was a splendid attendance of the dry land farmers l'lum up and down the Escalante valley at the Preparedness train, and our only regret was that there was not some arrangements made for a get acquainted program of some kind. The people from the east and west ends of the county are, unfortunately, to a very great extent strangers to each Other, Principal Homer at the Preparedness train: "1 love my country, but I don't care to eat it." We all saw a good ileal to interest us at the train, but unfortunately a lot of us haven't been able to sec much since.

0 At lunch time the sheltered spots on the north sides of buildings were in great demand, but even at that (10 one could complain of a lack of grit in I.und. We appreciated the free sarapls i sweets distributed by the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, We are accustomed to paying handsomely for their commodities, and it was a very agreeable change. The Government division of forestry is doing more for the people of the United State- than the inaorit of us realize. It is a most valuable institution. MODERN WAR AND PROHIBITION Ily Miijor (General William Harding Carter, I'.

S. A. With the declaration of War With Germany and the enactment of the selective draft law, we have assumed obligations whose ultimate ends no man can foresee. Primarily we have now become responsible for the prop eration of hundreds of thousands of. young men for the stern duties and hardships of war, and, in the natural Older of things, they will constitute) the human element available for the' nation's defense for many years to come.

The nation owes it to the young men who are selected for military training and service that, from the very first they shall know that! the training will be caried on under circumstances above reproach. The development of minds and of bodies to meet the demands of military service in war requires not only the most modern hygienic surrounding but the absence of every form of personal disipation. Any one who sells or gives intoxicants or drugs of any kind to young men undergoing training for the nation's defense, not only commits a crime against the in-dividual but a treasonable act against the nation. The experience of European nations has made it clear that to maintain a modern army in the field there must be organized industry at home. Anything that militates against this by depriving the human element of its normal energy, working under war presure, must be combatted and it need be destroyed.

The public is far better advised to- day than ever before, concerning the effects of the habitual use of intoxi-' cants in producing criminal, insane and untrustworthy men and women and degenerate children. Prisons, asylums and public reformatories furnish continuous and abundant evidence along these lines. The increasing un-disclipine of Americans has been observed and noted by investigators and students for many years. This is evidenced by lack of reaped for par-i nts, for the aged) for the officers of the law and for the law itself. It has also been a uniform observation that these condition- become aggravated whenever and wherever intoxicating liquors are habitually used.

Confronted with these facts we are about to undertake the creation of large body of people, and to prenrc it for participation in the most gigantic struggle in the history of wars. When the army was reorganised in 1901, following the war with Spain, there was introduced in the Act, prohibitory legislation regarding the sale of wines and beers upon military reservations. There was much resentment on the part of the army at this discriminatory legislation, for while it introduced prohibition on reservation! it encouraged border line salons in surrounding territory. The aggravation was grave In states like Kan sas where prohibiton was a sham and public the laws being ignored In the most open and flagrant man-rfrr. STATE FAIR TO BE HELD THIS YEAR AS USUAL It ha- come to oui notice that there i- a rumor afloat that the Utah Stat" Fair will not hold an exosition this ir, This rumor has no foundation.

We are making greater plans this year than ever before for our Fair, which will be held Sept to Oct, inclusive, eight da I and eight night-. There appears to be more enthusiasm on the part of exhibitors and concessionaries than in previous and it is quite certain there will be a marked Increase in attendance at the Fair this year. Inasmuch as the pre I it I ti, country in an agricultural way are greater than ever before, it hooves every loyal, strong In, died, Utahn to pul ihoulder to the wheel In the course of time following the abolition of the sale of beei- and wines alcoholic liquors were previously barred on military reservations, the naval regulations banished intoxicatng drinks from war vessels. Modern battleships, destroyers and submarines had become too ted to Im entrusted in any part to minds beclouded with drink. Efficiency and safety of operation alike de manded the exclusion of liquors from war vessels and it is certain that if the restoration of the wine mess for the period of the war were put to vote naval officers it would be ov-erwhcmingly defeated.

Observing the operations of the SO called anti-canteen lay, which stopped the sale of wine and beer at post exchanges or canteens, it was found for a time, that the offenses involving drunkenness increased at army posts located in territory where saloons were permitted to exist. This was credited to the fact that men went to considerable distances from barracks for liquor, and, not expecting to re peat the trip soon, indulged in toy much fof their own good. The Stu tistics for disciplinary action through a number of years seemed to establish that more than fifty per cent of the cases of desertion and absent without leave were due to drunkenness. While the current returns of the internal revenue bureau of the treasury make it appear that the income from the manufacture of beer and liquors I has steadily increased, there can be no question that the temperance and total abstinence campaigns of the past few years have brought about marked change in American lir It is no longer fashionable to serve wines and liquors in the lavish way which obtained in former years. That tern perance has won a lasting victory i attested by the large increase in territory covered by prohibition laws and in the drastic regulations govern Ing the employment of men in dangerous occupations, when individuals may be and often are responsible for the Jives of others If this appln ill tho operation of railroads and great industrial establishments, how much more should it aply in the cases of the officers and men called to the colors to Uphold the honor of the nation and to defend its material Of course it is absurd to inaugurate complete prohibition until, as a nation, we are prepared to abandon taxation of manufactured intoxicants.

After many years observation of the effects of drink upon our soldiers, it Is the unhesitating opinion of the writer that the proceed, "of govermental ixation of stills and breweries is, to say the 'east, no compensation for the misspent lives and stunted brains of 0 who are addicted to drunkenness. If it requires war time prohibition to insure an absolutely sober and di pendable army we should have it, anil kin- sonner the better. and make this a banner year in the production of food stutr. ami the needs of the nation. The Utah State Pail ll making an unusual effort to induce breeders of farm animals to exhibit In larger numbers than ever before: that far- in this dii tit may be encour- a red to raise none but th be I breeds and types Of animal-.

The State is bi enured vet i ii iperior I grains, age crops, fi ait and veg table suited I Much attention is being paid to the work on tin club to ill it the children in the work of food production and food conservation, Ki pectfully, Utah State 1 air Oi ial cm, HORACE; G. ENSIGN, Secretary, COMMENCEMENT AT B. A. ('. BIG SUCCESS The Commencement Exercises at the R.

A. ('. Inst week, beginning with the baccalaureate sermon In the tabernacle Friday night and ending with the Alumni banquet and ball on Saturday evening, were a complete success and went off without a hitch. In the baccalaureate sermon, Mr. H.

Roberta, the "silver tongued" orator, appeared to good advantage and fully sustained his reputation as a public speaker. The students of the graduating class received much inspiration from his talk, which cannot fail to have an effect upon their fu-devcloprnent and lives. The graduation exercises at the H. A. C.

auditorium Saturday morning were carried out substantially as advertised in the last issue of The Record. The graduates, whose names were published last week, received their diplomas with due gravity, and pleasure. And thus ends another most successful year at the local institution of higher learning. We all hope to see the graduates from the high school course back at the institution next year, pursuing the first year in college work. GOLDBTtUKE BECOMING ACTIVE, POPULOUS CAMP Salt Lake men who have just come out of Goldstrike are of the opinion that it is a matter of only a little time, patience and money, when it will develop into a producer of yellow metal of cnsiderablc importance in Utah's mining operations.

C. II. Griffin, a well known railroad man of Salt Lake und Robert Gorlinskt, engineer, have returned from a trip down into the southwestern corner of the tate, where the Searchlight group has just been surveyed for patent and work resumed. They noted considerable activity starting up at a number of properties, some improvements being made, and met several outfits going in, on their way out of camp. A strike on the Barber group is reported.

The Goldstrike Searchlight lies between the Hull Valley Gold, the old-original location and the Ronanzn. It consists of seven lode claims and one placer claim down on the Reaver I lam wash. The patent number is 6464. Five claims are surveyed for patent Four men are working on the proper ty. They are prospecting about with a view of starting permanent opera tions at the most likely site.

The Goldstrike-Virgiinia, of which Mr. Griffin Is president, will resume work in a short time. It followed an Ore boot from near the surface to the 166-foot level. Rich streaks were encountered in number of places There are four claims that were re cently surveyed for patent. The Goldstrike distiiict has three principal porphyry dykes cutting the formation! At the intersections with the vein system the values are found and the dykes are taken as the mineralising agencies.

The formation is pronounced ideal for ore deposition by many practical mining men and engineers. Herald Republican. SOI THERN UTAH MAN WINS BIG SCHOLARSHIP Word wai received here last night thai 'he W'illard Dawson Thompson memorial scholarships for 1918 have been awarded. Six Of these scholar hip- are awarded each I to Utah studenti and provide annual stipend of $00. The awards made by President Ifenjamin ide Wheeler at the Greek I lies the University Of California at Boi Following an the Utah dents who were In winning the icholai shipi i I twin 'i: Baldwell, Salt Lake City; Thomas Wilford Dalquii t.

Salt Lake lltj Harold Go Salt Lake Citj Wilford Hawkins Hurd, Salt Lata Cityj Irvine Quai i St. tii oi el-, i iah. Bait Lake Tribune. IRK ON TRAM I 10 BEGIN SOON I BagsMtl to He Here in Tew Days 0 Survey and Stake Off the Grovjssi, NO TROUBLE ABOUT THE FINANCING OF PROJECT Director J. A.

Rasmussen Here Again, pBfll and Given luteal People Last Op. BH portunit to Take Ron us Stock. BH Director A. Raamuaaen of the pflpj Hon County Coal Company arrived in BH Cedar City again yesterday, and says BflH that everything is going along swim- pflflj mingly with the projected develop- incuts of the COjU properties on the flflflj fan- of the mountain adjacent tq Ce- pflpj dar City. Two or three companies' fB are submitting bids for the suplying flflflj and erection of the tram, and the pflpj company's engineer, Professor Wil- flpfl liam Peterson, will be here in a few flflflj days to-run the final survey and stake flflflj off the ground.

ine stock ot the company is meet- ing with a ready sale in the northern pflflj pait of the state, and there is no BflflJ longer any possible doubt about the flflflj success ot the undertaking. The flflflj stock sold there has been taken BBBJ straight at par value, practically with no solicitation, and the bonus feature pflflj of one share with each four purchased BH from an al'ottmcnt of 100,000 shares set aside for this purpose. pflflj Mr. Rasmussen states that while he has some applications for the stock, he is anrious to place a little more, flflflj as a guarantee of good feeling ami BpJ operation on the part of the poo flflflj pie of the to be most benefited flflflj and to whom they will look very flflflj largely for their sale of coal. At tin- fl same time he says that he is not go- flflflj ing to use undue ersuasion, as there pflflj are plenty of takers for the stock Lflflj elsewhere, and the project is c.o, 1.

1. flflflj ahead regardless Of the amount of pflpj stock sold locally. pflflj It strikes us that it would be very flflfl short sighted and unpatriotic for lo- flflflj cal people to turn a deaf ear to this pflfl proposition which will mean so much pflfl lo them. And knowing them as we pflflj do, we feel safe in saying that such- pflflj will not be the flflflj The enterrise will mean employ- fl Bunt of a lot more men here, and pflflj the attracting here of the i yes of capital for the development of a lot Of our latent resource and opportu- flH nities, aside from the advantage and convenience of having an abundant supply of good coal always on hand fl right here at our doors flflflj Late McComieil is (irandpa. flj Last Wednesday morning at an pJH early hour, Lafe McConnell received fB a telephone communication from I LVJ Verkih conveying the important in- fM formation that be had becon "grand-daddy." A nine and half pound boy had just arrived at tin home of his son Junior and wift The strange part of the BJ is that the communication tended to BflflJ make Lafe feel youngei than flBfll which ha- for him the name of fl being the younge I grandpa In town.

BBBl yesterday afternoon the mothoi emfl in taking drink i water, strangled, Wt bursting a blood vessel in her lut Bfll or throat, ami came near bleeding to BBBJ death. Il a- until In bad lap SBsTJ into unconsciousness that r- Wilkin fl able top the hemorrhi BflflJ lie doctor now think the path BBBJ ii out of danger, but for a while it BBBJ edingly anxiou tnd BBBJ Mi McConnell's parent, and other BBB1 relatives HBJ Wo received pi flflflj coming from Lund today if the pflflj robbery of the itori of ilarrj Doo BBBJ which BflBJ night. Our Informant so SaiH iderable cash be BJaSl nierchandi iken, Wi failed 99 to learn whether or not the post offl PBBJ located In the store, wai Intel Sf? I', i id with. Ipl i.