The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-07
May Head the Universal Peace
Commission if He So
Desires.
PRESIDENT TAFT WILL
MAKE APPOINTMENT
1t Is Up to Former President
to Say if He viii Tn
dertake Work.
BY RALPH NJ. WUITESIDE.
y Leased Wire TO The Tribune.

BY Leased Wire TO The Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Aug 6.-If Former
President Roosevelt will head the Uni
versal Peace commission soon to be ap.
pointed by President Taft. Former Sen
ator McCreary of Kentucky will be an-
other member as well as Representative
Bartholdt of Missouri. The commission
Will consist of five members. | have
heard no report as TO who are likely
TO be the other members, bat if these
three gentlemen are not named it will
be because they do not care TO under
take the work. The expediency of
utilizing existing international agencies
for limiting the armaments of the ma
ticns and of making the combined ma
vIes of the world force for the prescr-
vatlon of worldwide peace is the priu-
clpal object of the commission. Power
to consider the report upon any other
means which might diminish expendi-
lures for military purposes and lessen
the commission. 1t must report within
two years.
Fishing on Pacific Coast.
"Speaking of fishing along the Pa
cihc coast Albert S Kent of Oak
land. Cal. said the other day, 'ono of
the best fish in the Pacific is the yel
loYtail, which is edible and palatable.
In mornings casting in the Catalina
harbor, Avalon. have taken three
four or five, averaging twenty five and
thirty pounds, In the clear. transpar
eDt waters of that region the angler
may watch his quarry strike the drift
ing bait, live sardlne, and then listen
rapturously to the whizzing of his reel
Tor several hundred yards of line. And
by the time his finny meteor has be
come exhausted by his efforts the ex
pcrienced eastern coast angler believes
him TO be cousin german to the more
sober. .hued bluefish of the Atlantic.
The fish of the Pacific ocean,,
continued Mr.. Kent. twill not compare
edlbly with those Of the Atlantic, with
one exception-the sanddab, which is
more like the English sole than any
fash IN American waters. 1t is small,
from SIX to twelve inches in length, and
lies on the sea bottom, 500 to 1000 feet
deep. To catch it requires a heavy
llne, weighted with five-pound sinker,
and with No. 10 to No. 81 minnow
hooks, baited with cut sardines The
line Is on large wooden reel or wind
lass clamped TO the gunwale of the
fishing skiff, and is allowed to run out
until bottom is touched. The market
fisherman Immediately reels in. and
often on every hook Will be found
sanddab. \ few hours fishing will
If the atmospheric and tidal conditions
are favorable, half fill the boat. and
n ready market for the catch is found
in Los Angeles and Pasadena -
Prohibition an Old Party.
The person who would say that the
Prohi bition party has done nothing to
entitlc 1T TO a place in history is far
astray, according to James Montgomery
tion party has lived longer than did
the Liberal, the Free Soil, the Know
Nothing, the Grcenback, and the Popu
list parties taken together. and they
were the best known and most powerful
of all our minor political organizations.
For twice as many years as passed he
tween the birth and the death Of the
Wing party, which sent William Henry
Harrison and Zachary Taylor TO the
White House, and which had Webster,
Clay. Fillmore. Everett, Bell and Crit.
tenden for leaders. it has been with MS.
1t has participated in twice as many
presidential campaig as the Federalist
organization, the party Of Washington,
Adams, John jay. Charles Cotesworth
Piuckney and Rufus King. OF all the
parties which have figured in Amer
can politics, the Democratic and Re
publican organizations alone have lived
longer than the Prohibition party. Pro
hibitioD, Notwithstanding its apparent
sctbacks. will yet triumph. and the
liquor business Will be wiped out in the
United States. The fact that the party
has existed as long as 1t has is con
elusive proof that il is destined to live
on to n successful end.
Is Chiidren's City,
"This is. beyond doubt, a children )
city, was the remark OF G.. a. Moore
of Louisville. 81 think ] never saw so
many children TO the square yard rs |
have seen in my rides around Washing
ton. The parks are full of them, and
the sidewalks and lawns in the resident
districts are fairly alive with Gne look
ing Youngsters. Perhaps you people IN
Washington have grown so accustomed
10 your parks and breathing spots that
YOU do not realize the advantages you
possess. Almost all cities now have big
park systems, but many of Them be
came cities before they began to
take thought of such things. Consc-
qucntly. TO reach park YOU must
travel miles on car. Here. 1T seems,