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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-08-12

EF AN AUDIENCE of a thousand
persons were asked if the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado were a
u National Park the chances are
that nine hundred of them would re-
ply in the affirmative. Yet, this
stupendous wonder is not a National
park, but a National Monument and
30 it will remain until sufficient pres
sure has been brought to bear on Con-
gress to recognize this-the most
stupendous wonder that we have-as
a National Park. On the bank of the
Canyon stands the monument to Major
Powell, explorer and geologist and
second Director of the U. S. Geolog-
tcal Survey and to this hero who made
the first successful passage of the
Colorado, we owe the first apprecia-
ton Of its scenic grandeur and the re-
markable geological history of its
past This was fifty years ago. Today
we are trying to make this the crown
of our National Parks.
Congress has been petitioned to
make the change and there are many
reasons why it should be done. Robei t
Sterling Yard, Chief of the Educa-
tional Division of the National Park
Service, is one of many who feel this
remarkable wonder should, with the
surrounding country, be under the
Jurisdiction of the National Park di-
vision of the Interior Department and
he is salguine that though it is still
in charge of the Department of Agri-
culture it will eventually come under
his department.
But whether National Monument OF
f National Park makes little difference
- the tourists who come long dis
/ tances to see this colossal wonder
Last year three thousand two hundred
persons visited 1t and out of this mum
Der at least a fourth arrived by auto
mobile. The year of the San Fran
cisco Exposition over one hundred
Thousand persons stopped at tn,
. Canyon. Quite a difference from thu
first year that the railroad was bull
to 1t when about eight hundred dar
ing and intrepid people-or so the!
thought themselves - visited thi
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-08-12

and which leads to the river. An odd
stretch of this trail is called Cathedral
Stairs because it is an abrupt descent
through the blue limestone by sue
cession of stair-like steps or short
zigzags. This is the newest trail into
the Canyon and hence is not so well
known as Bright Angel Trail, which
leads down seven miles to the Colo
RADIO River. The Indian Garden Is
located on this trail and one part Is
called the corkscrew. 1t Is sort OF
spiral pathway up an almost perpen-
dicular wall and one may often hear
heated discussions as to which is the
most perilous the Corkscrew of the
Bright Angel or the Cathedral Stairs
of the Hermit.
It Is not necessary to go down into
the Canyon, but it is desirable both
for the experience and the views.
Probably more than half of those who
visit the Canyon do not go down but
content themselves with looking from
the rim or plateau. AS automobile
travel increases the number OF such
tourists has become noticeable. There
is a road up to Grand View which in
three and a half hours affords COM
prehensive idea of the Canyon if you
stop at the various lookouts. Another
popular trip is to Desert View, because
on this ride you get a good view Of the
Painted Desert. Sometimes, but not
frequently - hardy travellers plan
camping trips to the Canyon and start
with pack and saddle and competent
guides. Such camps in winter are
located in the sides of the Canyon
where it is warmer than on the
plateau at the top. Explorers who
have time enough are often tempted
to take a trip into Cataract Canyon,
which comes into one side OF the
Grand Canyon, and which ought to be
included in the National Park area.
What To Wear
It seems somewhat incongruous to
think of such details as proper cloth
ing, field glasses, and other rarapha-
MALTA in going to see what is the great
est wonder on the North American
Continent, but Paradise were not Par
adise without comfort. Stout walking
boots, broad brimmed hats ard col
ored glasses are desirable. For the
women, the divided skirt is the cos
tune par excellence. These can be
rented for the Canyon trip, but most
women prefer to furnish their own
and to wear them during the whole
stay.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-08-12

sandstone that projects out into the
chasm, it is concealed by large stones
though it stands con the rim near
Bright Angel Trail It is little
house, equipped with large binocu-
lar telescope, which gives wonderful
views of distant reaches of the Canyon
in the day time and shows magnificent
heavens at night. Seven miles and
a half away from this at the end of
the Hermit Rim Road is the Hermit
Rest House, a sort of cliff house or
cave dwelling, cut into solid rock.
There is a main room, a domed recess,
and huge fireplace. 1t furnishes
rest for those who take the Rim Drive
and for the intrepid riders down the
Hermit Trail and there is a wonder
full view of the gorge from its porch
which projects beyond the edge of the
abyss. These are the principal build
ings on the Canyons rim. There are
no stores-unless the Hopi House can
be called thus-there is no hustle, no
noise, and all these buildings are nee
essary as well as pleasant:
Interesting Trips
There are certain trips that every
Grand Canyon visitor ought to take
One is the exciting ride along the
Hermit Rim road and another is the
automobile trip to Grand View. These
take day. Another day can be spent
in going down either Hermit or Bright
Angel trails and many days ought to
be spent in walks to various points
along the rim in order to get different
views of the gorge. The Hermit Trail
is the new way down the South wall
of the Canyon to the river and it starts
where the Rim Drive ends. The two
cost one hundred thousand dollars.
Imagine if you can, the sensations in
bowling over this Hermit Driveway,
along the brink of the tremendous
abyss. Wonder at the engineering
skill required to construct such a road
is lost in the gigantic panorma of the
Grand Canyon as different views ap-
pear. Visualize If you can a smooth,
hard roadway, on the rim of a chasm,
where in places there is a drop of two
thousand feet within a rod of this
road.
The Hermit Trail
Seven and a half miles of this and
Hermit Rest is reached and soon one
is getting acquainted with your mule
and pinning your faith on the ability
of this companionable creature to take
you safely down the Hermit Trail,
which was built by an expert engineer
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-08-12
Thorough Training In Bayonef Work Given he Marines
Before They Depart for France To "Stick" the Huns
Copyright. 1915 The International Syndicate.

with them is that they don't give US
credit for knowing anything at all.
They tell us this things a rifle, and
the thing on the end of it is bayonet,
and so forth"
That may have been the state of
mind of the French when the first
American troops were turned over to
them for final training on French soil.
But the United States Marines, fresh
from their unique course of overseas
training at the Marine Corps camp
at Quantico, Va, have helped to con-
vince their blue devil pals that some
things need not be told to the Ma
rines.
Experienced "sdck-Up" Men Are
Tutors
AS soon as the Marine Corps estab-
lished its overseas camp at Quantico,
shortly after war was declared, mod
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-08-12
"A Colossal Wonder - Niagara DWarfed BY Compar-
ison - Should Be Crown Of Our National Parks
Copyright. 1918, The International Syndicate.

phenomenon. One reason why this
Canyon has such a number of sight
seers is that the railroad runs a train
from the main line, close to the brink
and while it is desirable to spend
many days sightseeing, to go down
the trails, to walk on the rim, and to
ride to various lookout points on the
plateau, it is possible to arrive by the
morning train, spend the day at the
Canyon and to depart at night. True
It is a bare glimpse of a colossal won
der, but it is better than nothing.
Mecca For Noted People
Probably every distinguished per-
son who has gone West of the Mis-
sissippi has at some time or other
visited the Grand Canyon. The rec
ords of the hotel shows a remarkable
array of foreign names, some of them
personages whose signature would sell
for hundred of dollars. Noted actors
stop there on the way to the Pacific
Coast, distinguished professors spend
part of their vacation there, geolo-
gists whose names are famous feel
their knowledge is incomplete without
seeing it, and wealth and fashion must
see it if only to say they have been
there.
Almost any time that the Canyon
is visited one runs across distinguished
, persons. There is already a large, ex-
pensive hotel and a smaller and less
expensive one. 1t is planned to build
cottages where, school teachers and
others of limited means can in a meas
ure keep house for a week or so and
in this way educated people, artists
| professors and others of that ilk can
spend any length of time studying the
formation. One reason why this
and some other projects have Jagged
is because there is no water on the
rim of the Canyon. Water is brought
from a distance of about two hundred
miles and this Is expensive business
In fact, development at the Grand
Canyon takes place under great diff
culties, the greatest Of which perhap!
is the mining claim problem. Claude
Way, representative of the Fores
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-08-12

n N HIS HILARIOUS account of
r his experiences abroad as a war
correspondent, Ring Lardner, the
q you-know-me-Al humorist, tells of
meeting an American captain at an
IA. E. F. trench school in France,
who spoke in complimentary terms of
the French tutelage given the Amer
lean warriors.
They've been more than diligent
with u.s." Lardner, in his book, MY
Four Weeks in France" quotes the
officer as saying, They've never
shown Impotence when we failed to
grab their point, but have gone over
1t and over it till we've learned it to
suit them. The difference in Ian
guage makes it hard sometimes to get
what they're after, but they eventually
manage to make themselves under
TODD. The only fault I have to find
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1918-09-19

Not Necessary.
b wife's relative ever required
fble feeding,-Oho State Journal.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1918-09-19
GREAT Y. VI. &. A.
WAR CONFERENCE
Hundreds Will Gather at Jackson Septem
tember 25th and 26th, Preparatory
To War Fund Drive.

Jackson, Miss, September l7The Capital City of Mis-
sisspp is preparing to entertain September 25th and
26th more than fifteen hundred prominent of the
who will represent each of the 9igty-wo counties the
great War Conference preparatory to the launching of the
United War Fund Drive by the Y. NJ C. A. and affiliated
organizations November lth for the of OOO
600.
One feature of the coming campaign is that the Y NJ c.
40 cias will devote their time during the Liberty Bond
drive to the making of speeches in interest Of the
pagn Not until the people of America have poured into
the treasury of the United States the Of eight billion
dollars to hasten victory for boys there will the
NJ. G. A. start to work in interest Of their drive.
The conference in Jackson will last two days All
meetings will be held in the Galloway Memorial Methodist
Church, block from the New Capitol Many national
characters and notable speakers will be present.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1918-09-19
n-Joy-Riding Sundays
A Success.
People Everywhere Heeding the
Request of Fuel Administration.

The "Non Joy Riding" Sun
days designed to save gasoline to
provide an increased supply for
use of our Army and that of our
Allies are reported as thorough
success by the U. S. Fuel Ad-
mlnistration.
From the big White House
cars which carry President Will
son to the smallest "Flivver" in
the land, Americas automobiles
on Sundays are doing war SER
vice by remaining Idle.
Each car owner constituted
himself his own Fuel Admins
traitor and demonstrated that a
request from the Government
for cooperation to aid in the war,
is fully effective.
With automobiles idle, varl-
Gus transportation methods were
substituted. President Wilson,
who led the country in gasoline
conservation went to church last
Sunday in an ancient White
House carriage, behind pair OF
horses. His police escort, usual
ly mounted on high powered mo-
tor cycles, rode bicycles.
Many people nave asked wheth-
err an automobile should be used
in going to church. The Fuel
Administration answers that
where the church can be reached
in any other way. the automo-
bile should not be used and that,
after all, the conscience of each
citizen will be his best guide.
1t is reported that in great
many cases the proprletors OF
hotels and restaurants in outly-
ing districts, and many opera
tors of soda fountains in towns
have refused to serve pleasure
seeking customers who drove
out in automobiles. TaXiCab op-
orators in most cities refused to
serve pleasure seekers or to take
passengers except in the most
cases. They declined all
hourly and pleasure trips. Pa
irons of sight seeing cars have
been made to feel that by riding
on Sunday they are violating the
Fuel Administrators request
jus. as much as the man who
drives his own car.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1918-09-19
OUR SAVED FOOD
FED the ALLIES
Food Administrator W..aes presi-
dent America Conserved 14l,-
100000 Bushels Wheat.
CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN.
Meat and Fat Shipments Increased by
s44,eoo,ooo Pounds.

Conservation measures applied BY
the American people enabled the Unit
ed States to ship to the Allied peoples
and to our own forces overseas ILL.,
100000 bushels of wheat and S44, ,600,-
900 pounds of meat during the past
year. valued in all at 81, 400, 600, ,00a
This was accomplished in the face OF q
serious food shortage in this country,
bespeaking the wholeheartedness and
patriotism with which the American
people have met the food crisis abroad.
Food Administrator Hoover, in let
ter to President Wilson, explains how
the situation was met The voluntary
conservation program fostered by the
Food Administration enabled the piling
up of the millions of bushels Of wheat
during 1917-1S and the shipment of
meat during 1917-1S
The total value of all food ship
ments to Allied destinations amounted
to 81, 400,000000, all this food being
bought through or in collaboration
with the Food Administration. These
figures are all based on official reports
and represent food exports for the
harvest year that closed June 80 1918.
The shipments of meats and fats
(ncluding meat products, dairy prod
ucts vegetable oils, etc. to Allied des-
tinations were as follows:
Fiscal year 1916-17... %, 900 600 lbs
Fiscal year 1917-1S. BOIL 100 900 lbs.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1918-09-19
PROCLAMATION

To The People of Mississippi:
hardly necessary for remind that the people of
Germany and her allies sub
rampant Lthuana Russia Poland and Gaicia and the Jews
have been subjected to ndgny
persecuon They have been permitted
sufficiently clad and have been ground between the and
both friend and foe No words adequate
oppression which they have subjected Je
usaem Holy City has taken from the Turk after cenu
occupation restored civilization The Jew has been
the earth born of the centuries
abiding, liberty loving patriotic lie has
fought for freedom and hberty every flag
Statewide campaign is planned for the purpose of raising
aid the thousands of ID starving Jews IN Rus
sa Poland Lthuana commendabIe this and
deserving enthusiastic support that THEO G. BIBO
Governor of Mississippi issuing this proclamation setting
September Twenty 1913 Jewish Relief Day
call upon people organize in each city, town, village
and that aggressive and vigorous
that da and Mississippi contribute of her
means relief of the suffering starving and deserving Jews
in those they been the innocent victims of
Cor Liberty Bonds Saving Stamps Red Cross Y NJ A.
and Funds and most fitting and that each
and every give Of his aid the suffering
and dying of this great race.
In Testimony Whereof have hereuno
set my hand and caused the Great Seal
OF OF Mis- sssipp to he affixed
this the 7th day Of September, A. d. 1918.
THEO. G. BILBO.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1918-09-19
JOHNSON THANKS
MANY FRIENDS
FOR VICTORY

81 want to express my CRATE
full apprecia ton for the loyal sup
port of my friends throughout
the district.
1T has been great victory
for decency and morality. l
claim no credit myself. The
credit is due the people who
used me as an humble instru-
ment. pitched my campaign
on high plane refusing to in
dulge in vltuperation and SLAM
der. The people have indorsed
my course. l promise the peo-
pie again that l will dedicate my
life to their service while in con-
gress.
Il will stand by the president
and assist him in prosecuting
this war to a successful conclu-
sion, and will so deport myself
as a citizen and congressman
that when my term expires l
will be able to come back to the
people with my mission just
as clean as it was the day | re-
ceived it.
Il thank the people from the
bottom of my heart.
Sincerely,
PAUL B. JOHNSON.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1918-09-19
$4,000, 900 bushels

Increase ......... SO,9OO,OOO DuSnetS
OF these cereals our shipments of
the prime breadstuffs in the fiscal year
1917-1S to Allied destinations were:
Wheat l31 100000 bushels and of rye
1390OO0O bushels, total of 144,900.-
600 bushels
The exports to Allied destinations
during the fiscal year 1861 were:
Wheat 1875, 100000 bushels and rye
$500 900 bushels, a total of 137, 400 600
bushels. In addition some 10.00o,00o
bushels of 1917 wheat are now in port
for Allied destinations or en- route
thereto. The total shipments to Allied
countries from our last harvest of
wheat will be therefore, about 141, 1,000,-
600 bushels, or a total of 154, 900, 600
bushels of prime breadstuffs. In td-
dition to this we have shipped some
l0,000,000 bushels to neutrals depend
ent upon us, and we have received
some imports from other quarters.
"Phls Accomplishment OF our peopie
In this matter stands out even more
clearly if we bear in mind that we had
available in the fiscal year 1916-1T
from net carry-Over and as surplus
over our normal consumption about
200. .G00.O00 bushels of wheat which we
were able to export that year without
trenching on our home Loaf Mr..
Hoover said. "This last year, however,
owing TO the large failure Of the 1917
wheat crop. we had available from net
carry-Over and production and imports
only Just about our normal consump-
ton. Therefole our wheat shipments
to Allied destinations represent APP
proximately savings from our own
wh"at bread
81 am sure" Mr. Hoover wrote mi
concluding his report, that all the
millions OF our people, agricultural as
well as urban, who have contributed
to these results should feel a very
definite satisfaction that in a year OF
universal food shortages in the north.
epn hemisphere all of those people
Joined together against Germany have
come through into sight Of the coming
harvest not only with wealth and
strength fully maintained, but with
only temporary periods of hardship,
at is difficult to distinguish between
various sections OF our peorle-the
! homes, public eating places, food
trades, urban or agricultural porlla-
tions-in assessing credit for these re-
suits. but no one will deny the doint
nant part Of the Aurrr+-r-- women ''-----'
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1918-09-19
Regulations Governing
Weekly Papers.
In Order to Conserve Print Paper
The Following Was Issued.

In order to conserve print pa
per the War Industrial Board has
issued the following regulations
governing the publication OF
weekly newspapers which every
newspaper will be compelled to
observe. We must have our sub
subscription books in order not
later than Novem Der first, show
ing that no subscription is over
due more than three months.
We trust that our friends will
appreciate our obligation to meet
these war requirements of our
government aud not necessary to
drop a single name from our
lists on account of arrearages:
l. No publisher of weekly,
semi weekly or trimonthly news
paper shall use in It's production
any paper except newsprint, and
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( basis 24x36 80 pounds. All
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and regardless of weight.
2. No publisher may contin-
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3. No publisher may give free
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10 camp libraries and bus OF.
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TO bind tor permanent keeping.
4. No publisher shall give
free copies to advertisers, except
| aot more than one copy each for
checking purposes.
5. No publisher shall accept
the return of unsold copies from
aews dealers.
6, No publisher shall print
extra copies for stimulating ad-
vertising or subscriptions.
7. No publisher shall send
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er publications, except to such
| )ther publ'cations as are printeo
within the county, or within a
radius of 40 miles from his polnl
}! publication.
8. No publisher shall sell his
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! ow or nominal subscription
| Jrice.
9. No publisher shall sell his
Publication to anyone below the
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10. No publisher shall Off
premiums with his publication
unless a price IS put upon the
premium for sale separately and
the com blned price Is at least 7;
Der cent of the sum of the indi
vidu4l price.
II. No publisher shall conduc'
voting or other contests for the
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tons. Subscriptions obtained
| IN this way will not be consider
ed bonatide.
II. No publisher may lssu,
holiday, industrial or other spec
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A sworn statement will be re.
CURED from each publisher OF
Novem Der lst, as to how man,
Of these rules have been put int
Effect by him, and what result
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consumption have been obtained
Ex-Governor Hall has with
| -. 9,
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1918-09-19
s44.600.Oo0 lbs.

Increase ........... 844 900 900 lbs.
Our siaughterable animals at the be-
ginning of the last fiscal year were not
appreciably larger than the year be-
fore and particularly in hogs; they
were probably less. The increase in
shipments is due to conservation and
the extra weight of animals added by
our farmers.
The full effect of these efforts egan
10 bear their best results in the last
nan of the fiscal year, when the ex-
ports the Allies were 2133, 100 900
pounds e., against 1886. 100000 pounds
In toe sam period of the year before.
Tins compa'es with IN AVERAGE of
801 100000 poulls OF total exports fos
the same half yeas in the three-year
prewar period.
In cereals and cereal pt -,ucts rs-
duced to terms of cereal busl,,r -
shipments to Allied destinations have
been:
Fiscal year 1916-17. 259,9O0000 bushels
Fiscal year 1917-1S. $40, 800, 900 bushels
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1918-09-19

Ex-Governor Hall has with
drawn from the Senatorial race
in Louisiana, leaving the nomi-
nation to Hon. Edward j Gay.
Of Plaquemine. Mr.. Gay is a
millionaire sugar planter.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1918-09-19

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,''@np reasAaom aav2 ''9Sn la =
.acI red iro.a Com pressed cotton nbet,