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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-17
MAKE THE DRINKER BUILD GOOD
ROADS.

An excellent law was enacted by the
latest session of the Utah legislature,
on the subject of good roads. A plan
was adopted which, in the course of
time. will establish excellent highways
in every county of the state. All will
be good roads, and each will remain as
a monument to the legislators who
provided for their making and their
keeping.
But there is one trouble with the
scheme. It win take so long to get
the perfected results of that planning.
The roads viii be builded-in time. But
the good people of Utah who helped
elect the Legislators who framed and
enacted that law will grow old and
deed their farms TO their children, and
make permanent place in the chimney
corner before the perfection of the sys-
TEN will be realized-because of the
lack of ready cash.
Why not take portion Of the money
derived from saloon licenses, and APP
ply it to the immediate construction Of
roads? Why not divert a half Of that
/ fund from and after next January to
! the betteTment of the roads throughout
! the state under the very same plan
which has been adopted and which will
only be made the more effective by
this provision?
] We think people of Utah generally
! recognize the fact that beverages will
| be sold. There will hardly be RESPONSE
/ BILE contradiction of the statement that
! the traffic cannot be abolished-here or
| elsewhere. Not until that time when
human nature has been changed; not
until that time when we good people
/ get all the rest of humanity-if they
! cannot be as good as we are-tO be as
good as they can, will the buying and
/ selling of liquor cease. These are facts
of which the prudent should take
! cognizance.
For the present, the people take a
portion of their license money and use
/ it for the support of the schools. A
portion Of it goes to the payment of the
police force, and the rest of the neces-
sary expenditures of city administra-
ton. A fairer and a juster distribu-
ton would be to give to each county in
the state, proportioned to its popula-
ton a distributive share Of the money
derived from licenses granted for the
sale Of malt and spirituous liquors.
It would give immediate vitality to
that good roads legislation which re-
/ fleets so much upon the honor of the
. last legislature. And it would in ten
/ years time have the roads of the state
in a condition which they cannot hope
TO have under present laws during the
life Of the present generation.
Make the drinkers build the roads.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-17

the omniscient CLAWS, IT don't think he
is fit to hold Office"
Now, there is remarkable man. He
sees his own value, even if it is hidden
from every one else. He stands ready
and willing to admit that if he were
authorized and empowered to choose
the public officials they would all be
entirely satisfactory-to him. And yet
he has been lifted no higher in life than
the desk of a third-rate clerkship.
People who are carefully reading the
proceedings of the commission for the
trial" Of Secretary Ballinger sincerely
hope that, when Congress shall have
concluded its Investigations. il will
strap Mr.. CLAWS to the pedestrian"
statue of Washington, out there in
front of the capitol, and let him stay
there till Washington walks away. The
man is getting both tiresome and nau-
seating.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-17
EVERYBODY GOING FORWARD.

Here is a copy of the Farmers Union
Sun, an agricultural paper from Co.
lumbia, South Carolina and it reveals
a spirit of progress on the part of the
famous old southern state which will
hardly be exceeded by the papers of
the energetic and enterprising west.
For example, there is a series of con-
trasted pictures. showing the former
method Of buying all needed hay from
the west" and the present system OF
South Carolina farmers raising hay of
their oWn-and some to sell The Sun
is filled with stirring arguments for the
betterment of farm conditions in that
section of the Union; suggestions for
improvement in every avenue of farm
life, and an insistent claim that South
Carolina is a good place for farmers
to make their homes.
Here is an Oklahoma City paper re-
citing the details of meeting called
to consider the proposition of raising
a bonus fund TO secure the location Of
a big packing plant. One of the speak
ers said:
A booster is a fellow who does all the
good he can for all the people he can
as long as he can. And leaves the rest
to God.
And then he subscribed ten thousand
dollars. And in twenty minutes the
solid men of Oklahoma City had raised
a bonus of three hundred thousand dol
| lars. And they secured the plant.
1t is much the same everywhere. The
country is taking advantage of it's op-
portunities. Natural resources are
being developed-and used for the bet.
terment of the race. Valleys are being
filled with homes. The desert is yield
| ing to the invasion of the pillow and the
| hoe. Roads are better, bridges are
! solder, scholars learn more, and rich
men make a better use of their money
The world is going forward every
where. No wonder the people of Utah
are determined TO keep pace with the
| progress Of the nation. And no wonder
/ the people of the rest of the country
are learning the advantages of Utah
advantages that they have been over
looking in the past.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-17
WASN'T THERE SOMETHING
GOOD?

One of the Salt Lake school princi-
pals, in the course Of a brief talk TO
her teachers, after the pupils had gone
one day, expressed the hope that they
would try to get something good out OF
every meeting they attended-there or
elsewhere.
There is always something that Will
help you, if you look for it, said the
principal.
And isn't that the truth? -.-
So many of us go through life deter
mined TO find the imperfeetion, the
flaw in the sapphire, the rift in the
lutte, that we miss all the beauties.
To SO many people the beauty and
the excellence doesn't afford any in
terest. The search for something 10
criticlse. the scrutiny for weak place,
the hunt for a chance to condemn
these are the ruling passions.
And they are a mistake. Always and
ever they are a mistake. Let US start
with the admission that not many
things in the world are perfect-includ-
INK lilt NIlNlG WIZ iOptNo ava aAAARNA+~~
lions, Let us. however, get the health
ful and happy point of view which
gives assurance that there is something
good in it, whatever the affair or the
person or the condition may be. There
is something good, and it is better foI
the world if we find that good, and re-
member it.
Byron forever silenced the Scotch re
viewers when he told them they had
Just enough of learning to misquote
It was a rebuke the shallow critic ever
deserves.
You may find something TO criticise
in every sermon. But you can FIND
plenty that will help you, if you look
for that. You can find some imperfec-
ton in every store you pass, and in
every home you visit, and in every per
sonality you number among your as
sociates. But you can find something
maybe much-that is good and whole
some and inspiring in every one OF
them if you look for that
Look for the things that will hell
YOU. 1t is a blessed rule, for-oh. the
world has so much more Of good thar
Of bad.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-17
SMOKE DRY CIGARS.

The cigar drummer asked the lady
keeper of the news stand for a dry
cigar. and she looked at him with re-
buke in her eyes. She couldn't supply
him. All her cigars were moist. They
.'squashed' under pressure of the fin
ger. There was a wet sponge in a per-
forated metal vessel in the cigar case;
and it enectually prevented any
''ripening." All that she explained, and
then, having some natural curiosity
and more leisure. she asked the sales
man why he preferred a dry cigar.
Because that is the proper way to
smoke them" he replied. "A very bad
cigar can be smoked if it is fresh and
moisture in the case makes them all
fresh no matter how old they are.
But a dry cigar must be good, or the
smoker can detect the lack of quality.
inferior tobacco in a moist cigar is
saved by the good tobacco wrapped up
with it, But bad tobacco in a dry cigar
is always offensive. And there is no
smoke in the world so good as that of
a first-rate dry cigar"
And when the girl asked him if a
dry cigar didn't burn too fast, he told
her No" He reminded her that a
moist cigar has TO be pulled on" all
the time, or it viii go out. But a dry
cigar keeps its fire, and the smoker
has plenty Of time TO enjoy it-and
doesn't have TO work Ike a slave tC
keep it alive.
So that it was five minutes after he
left before the girl recollected that she
hadn't sold him a thing.
General Grant used to dry out his
cigars, preferring them when they haC
been seasoned for a year without {
suggestion of moisture. Other gentle.
men of cultivated taste are said to re-
gard moisture in the cigar case as q
confession of inferior quality in thu
goods-and the consequent necessity OF
obscuring offenses by the necessity fol
furious smoking.
Maybe the cigar drummer knew
Anyway. it is interesting TO note tina
he didn't take any of his own medicine
He didn't smoke the cigars he had solo
TO the girl.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-17

any grown man, able to make his way
in the world, should know how to
guide, direct and control boy without
beating him. 1t would seem that a
teacher whose life is devoted to the
ruling of juveniles should find some
way along the path of intelligence,
some method chosen from mentality;
with which to get the boy into the
straight and narrow path and keep
him there.
We are going to lay down no rules
in the matter, for good boys don't seem
to be hurt with whipping, and bad boys
don't seem to be helped by it. That is
about all the rule that seven thousand
centuries Of boy culture have evolved.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-17
HE BELIEVES IN WHIPPING.

Elmer Z. Brown, United States COM
missioner of education, believes that
boy pupils should be whipped when
they need it," And maybe he is right
The troublesome part Of the problem
IS to know when they need it. How
ever, the commissioner is wise enough
to confess ignorance on this very es-
sential point; for he says:
There are cases, undoubtedly, where
a loving sort of whipping has shunted
a boy off the downward track, but it
is pretty hard to tell in any given case
whether il viii have that effect or not,
and there are so many evils attending
that form of punishment that il seems
to be slowly dying out in this country.
Life is the strangest thing in the
world, and a boy is the strangest thing
in life. They develop the most impos-
sible results. Lads of ignorant parent
age come up through destructive en-
of themselves. Boys with every facili-
~ for fine achievement kill their
friends in summer roof gardens. and go
to the insane asylum for life. Some
boys that are not whipped in school
make very good teachers when they
grow up; and boys that felt the sting
of every CAD in seven sorts of tree burn
their books and run a speskeasy in a
prohibition town. You never can tell.
1t seems, as a fair proposition, that
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-03-03
CANADIAN ROAD
TO CROSS Line
GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC IN LEAGUE
WITH GREAT NORTHERN TO BUILD
v TO SHERWOOD, N. b. %

4, Sherwood, N. D., FEB. 4s.-Word
has been received here that. the gov
ernment of Saskatchewan Has guar
anteed the bonds Of a railway line to
be built by the Grand Trunk Pacific
from Regina, Sask., to Sherwood.
The road, as shown on the map
runs between Arcola and the 500 line
from Regina to the Estevan branch of
the Canadian Pacific crossing it near
Hirsch, east of Estevan, and continu-
ing in southeasterly direction
ty, are bringing all possible influence
national boundary to Sherwood.
Citizens of Souris, Bottineau coun-
ty, are bringin gall possible influence
to bear to secure the line.
It is reported in Canada that the
Great Northern and Grand Trunk Pa
'cific are working hand in hand to es-
tablish direct connection between the
twin cities and Regina, Edmonton and
Prince Rupert, on the Pacific coast.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-03-03
CONTROVERSY IS
FINALLY SETTLED
San FRANCISCO IS SELECTED AS SCENE
FOR THE JEFFRlES- JOHNSON
FIGHT.

San Francisco, Feb. 28.-The 49,
round championship battle on July 4
between James J. Jeffries and Jack
Johnson, for purse of $1O1,000, will
be fought in San Francisco. This an
was made following con-
ference between Tex Rickard, Eddie
Graney, Supervisor John L. Herget,
Sam Fitzpatrick and Jim Griffin.
The license to hold the fight will be
granted to a new organization called
the Broadway A. c., of which Sam
is the matchmaker and
1t is said that the hackers
of the club are Jack Gleason, J. w.
Coffroth and Tex Rickard, with Eddie
Graney having a slice because Of his
political pull, but it is also stated that
the police authorities headed by John
l.. Herget young MitchelD, have
compelled the promoters to take care
Of Fitzpatrick.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-03-03
new EQUIPMENT
FOR HILL Lines
RAILROADS BEGIN TO GET ROLLING
STOCK ORDl FOR l9lO---
COST $l3,500,00O.

Minneapolis, Feb. 25.-The Great
Northern and Northern Pacific roads
will receive during 1910 new equip
ment which will aggregate $780,
900 in cost. The placing of orders for
the greater portion Of it was an
nounced in October and November
last year and the first of the new roll
ing stock is arriving in Minneapolis.
The Great Northern purchases
comprise IA diners, 30 sleepers, 21
compartment, 10 parlor cars, 67
coaches, 10 combination mail and ex.
press cars and 40 locomotives for the
passenger service. For the freight
service the road will receive 1000
steel ore care, 1000 box cars, 500
gondolas and IS large type Mailet To-
comotives
The Northern Pacific will receive
81 passenger locomotives, 1872 passen-
ger cars, As freight locomotives, rs
switch engines, 1000 box cars, 200 re-
frigerator cars, $50 fiat cars, 800 steel
gondolas and 400 convertible Condo
la cars. The roads are building some
OF the new equipment in their own
shops, but most of it is being made
by eastern construction companies.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-03-03
SNOW SLIDES TAKE
THE LIVES OF FOUR
AVALANCHES SWEEP OVER The HOMES
OF PROSPElT0RS AND HALT
MONTANA RAlLROADlNC.

Butte, Mont, Feb. 26.-The Chicago
Milwaukee & Puget Sound railroad =
tied up In western Montana, by the
worst snowslides in the history q
railroading In this state, q stretch q
60 miles of track being practically
buried under large masses of snow
which slid off the mountain sides yGs-
terday as the result of q sudden.
thaw.
Four deaths resulted near Adatr-
Charles Nelson's body is believed -
be buried under 800 feet of snow and
rock. Shores, prospector. his
brother and his wife, were buried IN
the cabin by a slide. Section Foreman
Peters was injured and six men were
buried, but were rescued.
Removal of the mass of snow r
generally followed by the movement
of tons higher up the mountain si1a-
Mining companies In Burke ca1yoor
Idaho, yesterday afternoon loaned the.
Northern Pacific 700 men to shovel
snow. -"..
The Great Northern is in didlcultT
in northern Montana, no trains havI
ing been moved for 36 hours up to
noon today.
There are IL feet Of snow on the
level in the mountain districts e
western Montana and the Occur d.Ap
enes, four feet having fallen IN -
hours, ending at o'clock Wedne8-
day night. The snow turned to rain
yesterday.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-03-03
G. N. TRAIN NO. S
IN SERIOUS WRECK
SIX PEOPLE WERE INJURED, ONLY 0llE
OF WHOM WAS A PASSENGER.
DEATH NEAR TO MANY

Fergus, Falls. Minn., Feb. 28.-TratA
No. running from st. Paul to Wi1is-,
ton, was derailed this morning ut .,
point four miles northwest of Ferg1D
Falls. A broken rail threw every
coach of the train except the rear
sleeper, from tho track, while the s1-
gine which was the first to go oil, vA0
thrown down an embankment, being,
turned completely around and laid On,
its side. Only one passenger was hurt
but several members of the train
crew and railway postal service 70
ceived very severe injuries. Only
one of the injured Charles Bohall, of
st. Paul, sustained fatal hurts.
Bohall was sleeping in the front end
of the mail car and when the engine
was overturned, the end of tho car
was knocked out, the sleeping man re-
ceiving several fierce blows. His in
juries were about the back and hips
and may be internal. He is now in
the Fergus Falls hospital.
The others injured are:
Roy Ellingwood, mail clerk, st.
Paul, bruised about head and should
ers.
Frank Ed Reed, mail clerk, st. Paul,
bruised about head.
William Scott, engineer. bruised
about head and cut about the body.
John J. Pogreda, fireman, st. Paul,
scalded and crushed. Also badly
frozen while pinned under engine IN
cold water. -
Mrs. Leidal, Palermo, N. D., bruised
about the body. She was the only
passenger hurt.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-03-03
Lose Both Children

The sad news of the death of Oscar
Hanson's two children in Latfmer,
Iowa, reached the city a few days ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hanson left here last
winter to spend the winter in visiting
their relatives in Iowa. On February
26 they buried their little baby boy
and two weeks previous they had
buried an older son. Mr.. and MHs-
Hanson have the sympathy of their
host Of friends in this city.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-03-03
SAYS BILL HITS AT
|.Hol AIR" STOCKS
TOWNSEND DEFENDS ADMINISTRATION
MEASURE MAKING RAILROAD Sc,
CURlTlES OF VALUE.

Washington, Feb. 25.-"The specula'
tors and men who want to make real
money Of mere wind and water are
the only people objecting to the pro-
visions of the administration bill max.
ing railroad securities a value"
This was the statement today Of
Representative Charles Townsend, of
Michigan, author of the administration
railroad measure which bears his
name. He was discussing a charge
that in the bill there was "joker"
which would enable the big railways
to float their stocks and bonds, and
yet prevent the little roads from do
ing likewise.
IF there is Joker there" he con-
tinued I don't know it, and you will
have to convince me Of its presence.
The proposition narrows itself down
finally to this:
"You either want to regulate rail-
roads or you do not.
If you regulate them, the first
thing you do is to make the paper
they issue represent some tangible
value, so that investors may know
what they are buying.
IF you don't regulate, why let the
roads continue as they have in the
>past, issuing just as many millions
worth of stock based on hot air and
prospects as they can sell. II l had
money to invest today do you think
I would buy railroad paper? I would
not. I would be all at sea as to the
value Of the paper offered by the Va
rious roads. and being in doubt about
it, would buy something else.
"Of course, the fellows who have
made their living BY promoting imas-
mary roads tpd BY selling watered
stock do not like the provision Of my
bill, and 81 order to discredit It and
perhaps secure its defeat or amend.
ment, are crying out that there is Z
Joker es~.
II maintain that not one single legi-
innate railroad enterprise win be
either crippled or hampered. The bin
may, however, prevent some Of the
wildcat, shoe-string railroad schemes
from materializing, and we hope it
will. It is for that very purpose that
the bill is drawn"
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-03-03

congratulation. You are right in get
ting together for counsel and to plan
for your common future. It is the
method of all successful business to-
day. There never was time when
a man was less able to live to him
self than now; and there is no man
to whom the necessity and value of
cooperative effort should be more ap-
parent than to the farmer.
You have a state of great possibil-
tiles. Last year you were second
only to Minnesota in the production
of wheat, and came within a little
over three million bushels of over
taking her, Your soil and climate
are suited to every kind of agricul-
tural product grown In the temper
ate zone. You have taken your front
rank among the states of the union
after but few years of existence as
a state Less than a generation covers
the growth of this great common
wealth whose possibilities are even
yet but half understood.
For what you have done is only a
beginning. You are now entering
upon the second period of develop
ment that marks the time Of high
est prosperity. The soil has been
broken to use, markets have been es-
tablished. all the machinery for the
industrial and social organization Of
your people has been installed, and
the next 10 or 20 years should SEQ
great changes and rapid progress. II
you look at the statistics Of growth
Of tie rider states TO .ke east, in pop
ulation. wealth, production and value
of farm property within the last 20
years, you can, by applying the same
ratio t oyour present condition. COM
pute the good fortune that awaits you.
North Dakota is going to pay great
profit to every man who has a stake
there.
TO make sure Of this you have to
do Just what this occasion calls for.
You must "get together" A stout
Continued on page three
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-03-03
Sen. McCUMBER'S
= BILL FINDS FAVOR
SENATOR DIVERSION OF WlLlIST0N UR.
CES PASSAGE OF BILL EXTEND
ING time OF PAYMENT.

Washington, Feb. 28-W. B. Over.
son, of Williston, is in Washington
urging the enactment of the bill intro
duced last week by Senator McCum.
Der, postponing the time Of paying for
water rights on the Willfston irrig6
ton projects. He has placed the prop
osition before the secretary of the in.
terror and finds that the officials Of
that department are not disposed to
place any obstacles in the way of the
passage of the McCumber bill.
"The settlers on the Williston pro
iect. and also the lower Yellowstone
Aad Buford!Trenton projects in North
Dakota and Montana, have been m
able to develop their holdings sum
ciently to produce paying crops, and
we would like to have the payments
for the water rights postponed for
a couple of years, in order that they
NAV get on their feet" said Mr.. Over
son tonight.
"senator McCumber's bill is hop
in the right direction. 1t provides
that the first payment in construction
shall not be made until 1912, when
f. will be 81 an acre in addition to q
maintenance charge of 81 an acre for
that year. In succeeding years, the
settlers under the terms of this bill
will be required to pay $3.50 an acre
construction and maintenance charges
"Just at present the interior depart
ment is anxious to have the money
expended on all projects come back
into the treasury as fast as possible,
hut the passage of bill authorizing
the issue Of $so,ooo,ooo reclamation
certificates will so ease up the situa'
/on as to permit the postponement
NJ the date of the first payment on
nany of the irrigation projects"