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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03
THE FOREST FIRES.

Death and destruction followed in the wake of
the forest fires which have burned over vast areas in
the northwest At times during the past month
sections of the wooded mountains more than fifty
miles in length have been seething mass of
flame Mans best efforts to check the onrushing
flames have been most futile. Hundreds of settlers
and men in the employ of the forest service of the
government have persisted, towns and settlements
have med the flames, and timber of incalculable
value has been destroyed. Indeed the situation
last week grew to be such menace to human life
that efforts to check the flames were more or less
abandoned in an effort to save human life. 1t was
terrible situation land what was the cause2
Perhaps some careless campers built fire in
the forests cooked their meal and went away, leav-
ing the dying embers to be famed into flames by
a rising wind. Perhaps some smoker carelessly
tossed lighted match into a small bed of leaves.
Perhaps spark from passing locomotive started
fire. Or it may be that different fires were started
in different places Carelessness surely is at the
bottom of the whole sad affair. A fire in forest
is about easily controlled as a fire in a powder
house About all human beings can do is to make
a rush for safety. The flying embers may drop
miles ahead of the principal fire and, starting
smaller fires, hem in territory from which escape
is impossible.
The dispatches said the fight made by the forest
department in the Missoula district alone, which
comprises Montana, northern Idaho and Wyoming,
cost $1,000 a day, and that this expenditure would
leave deficit of $135,O0O in the appropriation of
the last Congress for fighting forest fires. That
the efforts to check the flames we're without appre-
ciabe effect is indicated by the fact that rain has
long been looked upon as the only solution of the
perplexing problem. Despite the most heroic eff
forts, the fires burned themselves out or were
checked by merciful shift of the wind currents.
The experience in the northwest once more en-
phasizes the fact that the one way to fight forest
fires the one way to conserve the forests is to pre-
vent fires from starting. How this is to be accom-
plished it is impossible to say, but logging COM
panes, railroads. settlers and campers will have to
join hands with the government forest department
in enforcing the most stringent regulations If, as
has been suggested the conservation of the natural
resources of the nation is movement to perpetuate
the dominant political party in power, there must
be some more efficient conservation than that
shown in the northwest or there will not be enough
natural resources in the form of timber land to
warrant the perpetuation of the department of
forestry
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03
TO INSPECT FLYING MACHINES.

Since it was proved practical for men to navi
gate the air in machines heavier than air. and the
principle Of the aeroplane established no less
than forty lives have been lost in the art, the
science, the business the sport, whichever flying
may be. Nobody knows how many men have lost
their lives in improvised flying machines since the
world began. But forty have fallen to the ground
in three years, and most of these accidents were
due to some defect in the propelling device
Since this number of fatalities may be consid-
cred large or small by different persons, owing to
the point of view, it is not necessary to call it
appalling, nor to term it merely what should be
expected in the development of aviation. Although
the list of fatalitiese has not resulted in any hys
terical protests from the public, most people feel
ing that it is the aviators own business, move
ment looking to the prevention of accidents re-
sultng from defects in machinery has been started
This movement is in the form of a thorough inspec
ton of all machines before flights are permitted
We believe the movement got its start in France
from commission appointed by the minister of
public works to elaborate a code for the guidance
of aviators, which has recommended the appoint
ment of an expert to subject all aeroplanes to rigid
tests to determine their fitness.
1t is probably within the province of the state
to do this. No man may take his life recklessly
into his own hands, and no maker of aeroplanes
may lay his scruples aside for profit at the risk
of the lives of the buyers of his machines. 1t
ought to be the duty of the state to prevent the
use of defective aeroplanes, especially those de-
signed to carry passenger passengers, as it
is to prevent the use of defective steamboats,, and
that principle ought to apply to all vehicles
from bicycles to railroad equipment. The science
of aviation will be forwarded rather than i'm
peded by sensible restrictions, and some of the
prominent avators of this country have put their
stamp of approval on the inspection proposition |
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03
THE PASSING OF THE NATIVE SON"

Speaking to a large and attentive audience in
the Tabernacle few Sundays ago, DR.. Middleton
said: "The Polish Jew, the italian and the Irish
are erowding out in the New England states the
educated descendants Of the Pilgrims and the Pur-
itans"
Here is how the fighting Irish are doing the
crowding. We take our figures from William S.
Rossiter, census official of Washington, D. c.:
In Massachusetts, 355 persons in every thou
sand of total population reported in 1906 as mem
bers of the Catholic Church; in Rhode Island 400:
Connecticut, eos; New Hampshire, 277; New York,
278. Some of these proportions are double those
shown sixteen years before
The non-Catholie COMMITMENTS per 1000 of
the states mentioned, numbered about 148 in Mas
sachusetts, 131 in Rhode Island. 1876 in Connect
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03

years of age when arrested, and, after Eaebir,t L.
in prison for few months, the govarnr.,..
leased him on condition that he leave IRELAND
to return. In time this restriction was ~.-.....l
and Locke, after passing many years In H..
and New York, took vacation to ireland
On the trip across the Atlantic. he -ha..L.-,
with venerable old man who was ratIr-i...
Ireland to end his days in the land of l-. FL.
after an absence of thirty-fye years. r-. 81,
patriots resolve to round out his life in r-.r.-,
and his passionate desire to see again lis .....
land evoked for him the admiration and .--......
of Locke.
The morning the ship was due to siear~.. Iris,
coast, the two rose early, and as the o.f ,,..
through the dawn-light the dim ou,It..- H.,
native land, he took off his hat and imp s.....--
exclaimed: ireland, my beloved, the TO-. o., NJ,
morning to you."
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03
SOCIALISM.

The small-sized riots that the Socialist speak
managed to stir up on Second South street
last week furnish the best evidence of their in
capacity to do things. Assertions by the speakers
that the soldiers of the United States are hired
assassins and that the police officers of our cities
are just bad show how little the Socialists ap-
preciate the necessity of protection from those
debased human beings who, following the Socialist
doctrines, probably prefer to steal rather than work
to maintain themselves. There are a number of
fatal objections to the Socialism as preached by
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03
JOHN LoCKE'S INSPIRATION

Poor John Locke in his time wrote MANY beau
tlful sketches of Irish life and composed some
soul-stirrng patriotic songs and tender ballads but
he has bequeathed nothing so tender. $50 gen
erous, fair and loving" as his 'Dawn on the Coast
OF Ireland" We passed part of an afternoon
with him. at the home of the lamented Boyle
OReily, in Hull, Boston Harbor and heard from
his lips the touching story of the birth of the
"Dawn on the Coast"
John Locke was member of the Fenian
Brotherhood and was arrested for participating in
the Rising" of March, 1867. He was only 20
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03
STREET CAR MAMIE RS.

The time between 80 and $50 are the "rush'
hours in our city, when tired men and women are
hurrying to their homes or boarding houses after
their days labor. Not long ago when, in a crowded
car, lady entered and hung on the straps, some
man always rose and yielded his seat. But things
are changing, The English ideas are prevailing
that a mans fare entities him to a seat, and that
the Utah Light & Railway company, and not pas
sengers, must furnish sittings to their patrons.
For this change in public sentiment the ladies
have only to thank themselves. 1t is rare thing
for Salt Lake woman to thank gentleman for
yielding his seat. 1t is accepted with an air that
to marvel at the impertinence of man for
sitting down at ALL Two women will occupy three
seats, though the man be standing who gave his
seat to the newcomers.
If a lady comes into a car with an associate,
and man gets up to make room for her, she viii
watch her chances and smuggle in her male friend,
leaving the who yielded his place to hang on
by the car straps Very often she smiles with her
friend at her own cleverness. Men tire of this;
and, tagged out from their work and anxious to
read their papers or rest, many of them hold down
their seats to the end.
1t is a common practice for mothers to take
four-year-old in their arms, enter the car, con
fdently expecting that no will be brute enough
TO suffer lady to stand up with a child in her
arms. The seat yielded, the four-year-old baby is
clapped down it, the woman heaves a sigh and
looks around for some other brute to give her
seat.
These contemplate tricks are now pretty well
understood; the "brute" keeps his seat and, after
standing awhile, the mother sits down taking little
Johnnie on her lap.
Two of on last Saturday afternoon, when
the matinee out, surrendered our seats to a
couple of rather dehcate-ooking damsels whose
pale cheeks appealed to our sympathy. They didn't
even turn their heads to bow a "thank you" One
of them, the blonde had been at the matinee. and
continued the conversation in the seat which she
no doubt had begun on the street. Said the
Brunette-And is it really such an improper play?
The Blonde-Wen, you know, Gladys, it isn't |
just the play we'd want our fathers or brothers to
see, but it's all right for US girls.
So these were the Notwithstanding damselsn |
for whom we gave up our seats. Now except for
a woman with baby in her arms, an old lady, an
old man, or an apparently sick man or woman, why
should any man be expected to yield to another
seat for which he paid? Nobody gives up his seat
in hotel bus, nor at public dining table Cen
emen do not give up their Pullman berths or their
state rooms because ladies have to sit I'D in the
chair or deck salons. There is a growing
feeling that if cannot find seats in one car.
they must wait for the next
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED
CARD FROM BISHOP sCA--TAN.

feel IT my duty protect Catholics and the pub
lie generally from fraud and imposition by notifying
them from time TO time that no person bearing the
name and gar5 Of priest sister anyone else IL
authorized permitted TO solicit collect this
diocese for any purpose whatever connected with
Catholic Church without having from me permission
in writing, bearing my seal and signature. Should
anyone be found engaged In doing this unlawful
work or collecting without such a document, he
she. as the may be- should be regarded by ell
a maud and an mposter. L SCANIAAN,
Bishop of Salt Lake.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.

The 1nteTmountain Catholic goes into nearly every
Catholic home this diocese It's circulation in Mon
tena, IDAHO Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada and many
otnsr states Is very large. Only reliable firms and
business men advertise IN the paper. All subscribers
VIII find IT to their advantage when about to invest
purchase or consult business matters to read over
she list OF our advertisers We not only recommend,
Out AJAX for then the patronage all our readers.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03
DAWN ON THE IRISH COt@

Than-A-Mo-Dhia! But there IL is
The dawn on the hills of Ireland
Gods angels lifting the nights darz veil
From the fair sweet face of my strickland
Oh, Ireland. isn't 1t grand you look.
Like bride in her rich adoruiu.
And with all the pent-up love of my heart
bid you "The top of the moruta,"
This one short hour pays lavishly back
For many a year of mourning;
I'd almost venture another flight.
There's so much JOY in returning.
Watching out for the hallowed shore
All other attractions scUrning.
Oh, Ireland, from my heart of hearts
| bid you the top of the morning.
Ho! no! upon Clenna's shelving strand
The surges are wildly beating.
And Kerry is pushing her headIands out
To give us her kindly greeting.
Into the shore, the seabirds fly
On pinions that know no drooping
And out from the cliffs with welcome CHARGED
A million waves come trooping.
And doesn't old Cove look charming there.
Watching the wild waves motion;
Leaning her head against the sair
And the tips of her toes in the ocean1
[ wonder I don't hear Shandon's bells.
All, maybe their Ginning is over;
For manys the year since l began
The life of a western roverl
Oh, kindly, leal, Celtic land
So generous and fair and loving,
No wonder the absent Celt would dream
And think of you in his rowing.
The alien land may have gems in gold
And sorrow may neer have gloomed IT.
But the heart still signs for the Distant land.
Where the love light first illumed it.
For thirty summers, ashore Machree.
Those hills l now feast my eyes on,
Meier met my gaze save when they rose
On memory's dim horizon.
Even so, it was grand and fair they seemed,
In the vision drawn before me;
But dreams are dreams, and my eyes would ops
To see Texas skies still DER me.
And often on those Texas plains,
When the day and the chase were over.
My eyes would stray DER the watery waste
And round this coast line hover
And the prayer would rise that some future day
All danger and doubling scorning.
1 might help to win for my native isle
The hight of young Liberty's morning
Now nearer and clearer the coast line shows
Was ever scene more splendid
can feel the breath of the Munster breeze,
Thank God, my exile's ended
Old scenes, old songs, old friends again;
The vale and the cot | was born in.
Oh, Ireland Ireland, from a raptured heart
bid you the top of the mornin'l
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03

Bankers have discovered that the people are
automobile crazy" which is polite way of saying
to them that fool and his money are soon parted
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03

When your friends designate certain Of your
actions foolish, just content yourself with the re-
Election that you may be making. progress while
they are standing still
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03

In our cmapaign for honest weights and meas
ures, we may all trust that the weight of years
will ever be light.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03

John D. Schnapps, saloonist of Cleveland, was
arrested for displaying a sign, '"This is John DIS
Place" What's in a name?
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03

1t sometimes happens, however that even an
employee can give the employer pointers on how
not to run his business.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03

unfortunately, when the Office starts out to hunt
the man, the handicap is so great that it Is over
taken in the first lap.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03

The value of experience is not Iessened if YOU
profit by the other fellows expensive lessons in that
school.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03

Nothing is made sacred by simply calling it 50.
There must be some sacrifcial service rendered,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03

Food for reflection hasn't yet reached prohib-
tive price, anyhow.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03

Because men can fly they feel pretty much
swelled up, but time has been flying for millions Of
years.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03

There may be just two sides to an argument, but
if it is the square, there must be four sides at
least.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03

Good men are not very often found on the bar
gain counter.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03

Hope without labor to bring it to fruitioa Is
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03
CHANGING ADDRESSES.

supscrioers removing from place to another.
- oesins papers changed, should always give for
Iner as well present address
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03

henittances should be made by postofrce eX
press money orders. drafts or registered letters.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-03

they are standing still.
Bankers have discovered that the people are
automobile crazy" which is polite way of saying
to them that fool and his money are soon parted
John D. Schnapps saloonist Of Cleveland, was
arrested for displaying a sign, "'This is John DIS
Place" What's in a name?
I 1t sometimes happens, however, that even an
employee can give the employer pointers on how
not to run his business.
In our cmapaign for honest weights and meas
ures, we may all trust that the weight of years
will ever be light.
Unfortunately, when the office starts out to hunt
the man. the handicap is so great that it Is over
taken in the first lap.
The value of experience is not lessened if You
profit by the other fellows expensive lessons in that
school.
Because men can fly, they feel pretty much
swelled up but time has been flying for millions Of
years.
There may be just two sides to an argument, but
if it is on the square, there must be four sides at
least
Nothing is made sacred by simply calling it 50.
There must be some sacrifcial service rendered
Food for reflection hasn't yet reached prohiD-
tive price, anyhow.
Good men are not very often found on the bar
gain counter.
Hope without labor to bring it to fruition ID
vain, ------------
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-28
CASES ARE SET FOR
TRIAL COMING WEEK
Hearing of Three Suits Expected to
Occupy All of the Time of the
Court.

Judge F. D. Ramsay called the dock
ct this morning in the circuit court
and a trial list of cases for next week
was prepared. The attorneys who
have cases in which they are ready to
go to trial were present. Only three
cases were assigned for immediate
trial, as it was thought that they
would occupy the greater part Of the
week. The list is as follows:
Monday-Knabe VS.. r. l. Sash &
Door works; Muenter VS.. Moline Pillow
Co.; Huesing vs.. Looney.
General-Weaver VS. Mississippi
Valley Traction company; State bank
OF Rock Island VS.. Shields, ct al;
State Bank of Rock Island VS.. Bryan,
ct al; Burgart vs.. Tri-City Railway
company; Pickup VS.. Hanson; B. & B.
Coal company VS.. Bishop & Son; Lin
den VS.. c., r. 1. & P. Ry Co.; State
Bank of Rock Island VS.. Bryan, ct al;
Looney VS.. Wilmerton; Rudert VS..
Rock Island Brewing company; Dunn
beck VS.. Walsh, ct al; London Guar.
& Ac. Co. VS.. Moline Ice company;
Daxon VS.. Scott; Crockett VS.. Rock Is
land & Peoria Railway company; Car
penter VS.. Auer: Guckert VS.. C. r. 1.
& P. Ry. Co.; Wilder VS.. G. r. l. & p.
Ry. Co.: Ritter, ct al, VS.. c., r. I. & P.
Ry. Co.; Thede, ct al. VS.. c., R I. & P.
Ry Co
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-28
TRI-ClTY BUILDERS
PLANNING new BODY
Master Carpenters, Painters and
Sheet Metal Workers Included
in Move.

Plans for organization of a tri-city
building trades council are under CON
sideration. All of the contractors eligi-
bic to join the proposed organization
have not been talked TO, but several
who have discussed the matter have
announced themselves as favorable to
the move and a general meeting of
all concerns eligible to membership is
q possibility for the near future
Master carpenters. master painters
and master sheet and metal workers
are already organized The plan I'M
der consideration is for them to join
one central organization-this to be
done in the event that masonry con-
tractors, boss plasterers, master cleo
trical workers and master plumbers
can also be induced to join.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-28
Personal Points

H. D. Mack is in Clinton today.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. NJ. Hansen OF CIin-
ton Junction are visiting with friends
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Reynolds of
Galesburg are here for visit of sever
al days.
Mrs. c. s. Crawford and granddaugh-
ter, Julia, have gone to Lincoln, Neb.,
for an extended visit
Dudley White. a former resident OF
this city, now residing in Nye, Mont,
is visiting with friends in the city for
a week.
Miss Leah Goldburg, 222 Thirteenth
street, returned home last night from
Chicago. where she visited relatives
several days.
John Thompson. 537 Twenty-third
amazoo, Mich. where he has been at
tending school.
Edward Cook, SAG Twenty-fourth
street, has departed for Fl Dodge,
Iowa, where he will remain during the
winter, months.
P R. Sheehy left for his home in
Denver, after visiting for the past few
days at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Brennan, 744 Twenty-fouTth street.
Mrs. Whitney. who has been the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Mary Car
ter. for several weeks, will leave to-
morrow morning for her home in Bos-
ton.
Miss Mary Torticel, 1916 Twenty
third street. has departed for Gales
burg and Rio. where she will spend
several weeks visiting with friends
and relatives.
Major Charles Keller has returned
after a trip from Chicago to St. Louis
in connection with his new duties as
a member of the national waterways
engineering board.
Mrs. F. H. Bein. Sal Forty-second
street, left last night for North Yak
ina, Wash, to visit six weeks with
her daughter, Mrs. w. w. Howell.
formerly Miss Bessie Bein of this
city.
Edward S. Kelley, vice president of
the Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul
road, took advantage of an inspection
trip yesterday to call on some of his
boyhoOd friends in Rock Island. He
was accompanied by Mrs. Kelley.
Mrs. James Kelly will leave tomor-
row for her home in Chicago after
making an extended visit at the home |
Of Mrs. Katherine Meenan, 1888 Eighth /
avenue. Mrs. Frank Potter has de |
parted for her home in Oakland, Cal, |
after making an extended visit with |
Ter mother. Mrs. Meenan.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-28
AUTO TRAIL BLAZER
BATTLES SLEET
!. L. Westgard, on Way to Pacific
Coast, Reaches the Tri-
Cities.

After fighting his way for
niles through binding sleet
torn A. L. Westgard arrived at
davenport last night on his coast-to-
coast trail blazing trip for the Touring
Club of America. Cold weather was
encountered all the way from Ottawa,
breaking into a near blizzard east of
Moline which beat the travellers down
and brought them into the city all but
frozen. They were met here by F. a.
Steel, Frank Carson. c. NJ. BEEN, H
c. Gates, B. W. Sloan. B. J. Kicker. l.
D. Baum and John Gibson, president
of the Iowa Automobile club, who will
conduct them to Des Moines, where
the governor will receive the party.
The run today will end at Grinneu