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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-11-27

jack lHIt wrote n Characteristic appreciation
of Zion canon for II rnIiroad administration book
let in which he said:
'Z"n c;'non is an epic. written by Mother Ma
ture In l,er most acsiatic humOr. Illustrated by
Creation In its most majestic manifestations. pub
lishet by God Almighty inspiration to al
nnnkind Zion canon is ilse most beautiful spot
on this continent think have seen all the
famed show-places that the evolution OF the
earths formation has made And of them all
Zion to me stands first. stands alone
Zion has the loubl. charm of form and color.
and 1t Is hard TO say which Is the more appealing
The entrance to the canon Is spacious and i'm
pressve. The course up the Rio Virgin Is
tuous and the variation Of view and OF formation
of the lofty walls is great. At the end of six or
seven miles Vf canon the wall narrows to the
stream. Whit there Is beyond is practically un-
known Thus from the plateau above the vsi-
tor may look down. thousands OF vertical feet into
the painted canon with It's river From the river
bank he may look up thousands of feet with
changing view ut every turn of the canon
The entrance To the canon is most impressive.
To the west r.ses the West Temple (765O feet).
fanked by the Towers of the Virgin. The guar
dian to the east Is the East Temple (7.OOO).
hnnked by the Wntchmnn (G35O). and Bridge
mountain (6,G5O). Then come the Streaked Wall
on the west side and the Brown Wall on the enst
side. topped respectively by the Three Patriarchs
and the Mountain of the Sun Extraordinary fea-
lures Of the wall formation include FL GOberna-
dor. the Great Organ and the Temple of Sinawava.
The visitor finally comes to point where the
chnsin is more thnn 1000 feet deep and the walls
nearly touch that he looks up to no sky.
The walls practically vertical and parallel and
warp In and out. thus cutting OF the blue above.
Here IS revealed the secret of the Making of
Zion. as is pointed out by DIR. c. X. Gilbert of the
United States geological survey. This chasm is
example of downward erosion by sand-bearng
water. which acts like the marble saw. The cut
is not entirely vertical because the current has
carried the cutting sand to side or the other
and the unlulates both In its vertical and
horizontal sections.
The forms along the canon walls are extraor
The famous Vermion Cf of the Painted Desert
here combines with the White Cliff and we see a
thousand feet of white superimposed on two
thousand feet of red But this startling combina-
tion is hut the beginning of II veritnble riot of
color. The Nermilion Cliff on the Painted
Desert stratum--.'3O feet OF deeper red set off
by purple and mnuye shales. Below this is hun.
dred feet OF brown and gray conglomerate. The
crowning touch Is the cooring of the upper sum-
mits OF the White Cn Here there are In places
several hundred feet of varicolOret slafes and
limestones whose secpage Enthusiastically stains the
giistehing white. In consequence the meeting
of these ui,,ny coiors Zion Is gorgeous as a
Gypsy scarf. and sunrise and sunset produce un-
believabe effects
For example take the West Temple From a
foundation of mingled reds yelows. browns.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-11-27
Supporter. Fear Voters.

Washington.-Trem pressure
will be brought TO bear upon Presi-
dent Wilson to induce him to accept
essentially the Lodge reservations to
the League of Nations covenant and
thereby prevent the treaty from be-
coming an issue In the presidential
campaign. The expressed desire Of
Senator Lodge and the challenge Of
Senator Harding to submit the issue
to the people has alarmed most Of the
League of. Nations advocates.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-11-27
Prevent Radical Meeting.

Reading, .Pa.-Fully, 1900 citizens,
many of them American Legion men,
bers, with small number of women,
paraded past the Socialist and radi-
Gals headquarters here before a big
mass meeting in the square in front
of the court house, which made the
radicals change their minds about
holding Debs amnesty parade and
mass meeting The parade was called
off entirely.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-11-27
cIe.. win Adoption Of Creed.

Detroit, Mich,-The Y. NJ. C. A. of
North America closed the business ses-
sions OF its fOrtieth annual convention
with the adoption of the principles
of the social creed set forth by the
Federated Council of Churches of
Christ and the interchurch world
movement. The present state of un-
res. throughout the world, Harry
Stone, general secretary of Portland,
Ore, declared, demanded that the
convention adopt a progressive and
forward-lOOking program
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-11-27
Warn Mckee AGAIN.

Washington. = Mexico has been
warned by the American government
that any further molestatiOn of Will
lam c. jenkins, the American consular
agent at Puebla, who recently was
kidnapped by bandits, would seriously
affect the relations between the
United States and Mexico. for which
the government Of Mexico must as
sumo sole. responsibility"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-11-27
Remarkable Case Of r
4 Kansas Woman

Atchison, Kans. .:-''About twenty ysase
aSo FIRST commenced taxing DR.. PiRce's
Favorite Prescription for displacement and
other feminine weakness. Tho 6rst half
dosen doses gave me great relief. and BY the
than for . long while. Since then have
taken this medicine whsnevcr have felt
rundown, weak or nervous Ind Il has
always given me the desired relief. I an
very glad 70 rscommend 'Favorite PEcsc1ip-
Da Sa rickNSR. Il SeR.ir Ills n 4. iosS 3.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-11-27

I HE national parks will probably
u sOOn stage contest In scenic love
liness between Yosemite valley and
Zion canon. For the bill creating
IL Zion canon national park has
= been passed by both houses OF CON
gress and ut this writing is In con
ference over an amendment.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-11-27
Mantre.l coll.oe burned.

MOntreal.-The main buildings Of
the University of Montreal. better
known us Laval University, containing
the medical department, werfs de-
stroyed by fire here. The loss Is esti-
mated mt $4OO.OOO, which is covered by
insurance.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-11-27

An adjustable foot to hold a laddcr{
firm on uneven surfaces has won its
inventor patent. Z,
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-11-27
A Nervous Breakdown
Nortonyilla. Kana%

Kan1as CITY. KAN. :-"Dr. Pierces FaV.
oFits Prescription brought me through .
veey critical period for which I shall alwsy1
tAst othsf suffering women may taks 10
sdvios and Try The Prescription I I'D .
ssvsrs nesvous breakdown. caussd b
woman,s trouhls. -Doctoes ealIsd L ianaH-
nation. / doetoesd for about 6vs ysaigwitA
~ VS. hs,2 g: . =. = nsi as rIsse:: 1;,af -
va ready 70 do anytAins. for rstisf. u q
ooce got both the 'Favoeite Prusr1plioa.
and tie Golden Medical Discovery. I
think took about . dossn bottles hnA &
was surely worth Il - Il restored No y 6pod
MRS. LUCY FOREMAN. sl1 9. rsoi.
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grays and purpIes 1t rises ab
ruptly 1000 fe The body IL
a brilliant red. =. he upper third
is white. The huge mass Is NO
perfect In conformation that 1t
suggests the work of titan
architect. And on top of the
lofty central rectangle rests Al
squared cap of red above the
glistening white.
Across the cannon. and slight
ly to the north. rising between
two peaks Of deepest umber
looms the great silvery dome of
the Eastern Temple. clothed In
coiOrings like to Its western sis
ter. This rounds to II broad
summit upon which is mounted
a symmetrical cap OF that same
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-11-27
Well Known
Kansas Woman

-Ounn8 middle He
] became IL s,aln.
down. WAX ard ~.
Nous. I took d.
Rieroe's favoeite
Prescription 9nd 4
beuuGht me- NronSh
Ghi6 critical petjod 4
sp3endid health. Il
havp also tAken ~
Ds. pierce's Gold6
Nes3ipal DispoveY
Nn blood tonic and
for tho hvet and
found II squaR -
d to recommend D1.
dRS. WIN. OCKER.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-11-27

Hold UP.
"Iiere's Il man who was held up in n
taxi Glow much did the chauffeur
charge him?'-Judge.
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Dies That Coined Words

XLIORDS sometimes seem to jump
w into a language; conditions or
circumstances bring them suddenly into
use and they remain or disappear as they
show themselves necessary or not As q
general rule, however, words are slow Of
establishment; it often takes years before
their position as a part of the language is
secure-before they shed the dictionarys
stigma "colloq." or Slang"
The war brought suddenly into active
use a long list of words and to others
added wholly new meanings. Many Of
these Prof. C. Alphonso Smith Of the de-
partment of English, University Of Vir-
ginia, has collected in New Words Self
Defned. Theyuare words that not only
occur IN ordinary speech but within the
last five years have found their way into
the news columns of the papers and into
magazine articles and fiction.
Prof Smith does not venture to say
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Continued from Eighth Page.
that ''the world is so full of number Of
things"
busting and stock work, did you say I
Oh, yes! Lots Of it! And cataloguing and
filing and arranging and rearranging
piles and stacks Of books and fighting
flies and removing the stains of grimy
fingers and soiled gloves and coal SCOT
quite enough Of this there is to keep ones
feet on earth. And since you mention it
there are the snubs of the arrogant and
the insolence of the undeveloped-bu
then heaven and hell have always been
a little mixed; haven't they9
Speaking of phases of selling, Mr.. Ed
tor, don't you agree that this phase of
cultural development FOR book clerks is an
important one and don't you think that
the book clerks job would make wider
appeal to young men and women survey
ing the field In search of congenial en-
ployment If these facts we're knowni
ELEANOR FOSTER,
Book Department, l.. S. Ayres & Co,
Indianapolis, Ind.
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which words IN his list he thinks may live.
It would be too difficult matter. John
Russell Bartlett published his Dictionary
Of Americdnisms, which reached several
editions in the last century, when tout
sider' had scarcely come into its present
use, and when people were seriously dis
cussing whether Ben Butler was the in
ventor Of the term "eontraband"; yet
some of the half-accepted words of that
time have passed out of general use and
most of them are probatiOners still. Prof.
Smith may have profted from this; at
least he merely gives word and permits II
to define itself by context, quoting pas
sages from the writings of those who have
used it.
"Doughboy" he traces further back than
most other writers who have sought its
origin. He finds "doughboy" used as
early as 1856 by the English. In Amer
ca, he says, it dates back to the civil war.
"Gimper" may not be so familiar. Lieut.
Eddie Rickenbacker defines gimper "as
bird who Will stick by you through any
thing" "Defeatism' seems too expressive
term for certain form of passive trea-
SOP to expire.
"Boche," @Heinie" and "kamerad" ap-
parently passed with the signing of the
armistice. "Camoufage" and "barrage"
survive, but in the next war, if there is
one, there viii be other names for big
guns and big shells than "Big Berthas,"
"Jaek Johnsons," BLACK Marias" and
"crumps" Will there be new name for
a depth bomb instead of cash can" or
"egg"f We may soon outlive "cubist"
and "futurist '-but Rooseyelt's "lunatie
fringe" is worth preservation.
WORDS SELF DEFINED. BY C. Al
PE0Nso Smith. Doubleday, Page & Co.
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ITO THE EDITOR OF Books AND THE
L BOOK WoRLp-ISr: Mr.. Gilbert

ITO THE EDITOR OF Books AND THE
l. Book WoRLD-S1: Mr.. Gilbert
Chesterton, in one Of his more suave mo-
ments, has informed us-and not with
out some slight basis Of argument-that
one may not grow whiskers in moment
Of passion. While we may admit that
casual observation might lead Us to believe
that the genial essayist's case is not salts
factorily proved-for we have seen some
whiskers that looked as though they might
have been wished on-we may still use his
argument as text for this endeavor. We
acknowledge that physiological laws inhibit
the instant growth of the facial spinach
or physiognomical lambrequin. It takes
years Of practice to become a CONVINCING
dying swan. The art of the Indian fa1r
is no kindergarten game and it may be
inferred that the first few years St.
Simeon Stylites sat on his pillar were the
hardest. - '-EG
No more is it possible to wish instant
sense into literary critic.
Having thus befogged the amiable
reader, let US speak of Mr.. Somerset
Maugham's The Noon and Sizpence. I
do not desire to speak of this book merely
as book in process of review, but rather
I choose to consider ii as an epoeh-as
the marking of state ST mind. 1t is not
only the greatest novel Of the year-it is
more. It is textbook, the vital idea Of
which has failed to penetrate the minds Of
the critics.
Mr.. Newton saw an apple fall. "HaW
he exclaimed, "Gravityl" And immedi-
ately there was gravity. For number Of
years the able critics of those days cor
sidered old man Newton plain buy The
late Mr.. Diogenes went about hunting an
honest man. He used an old fashioned
lantern. We have better lighting systems
in these days, but the hunting is no better.
Mr.. Vaughan uses no diogenestic Ian
tern. A whole New York Edison service
is his when it comes to brilliancy, yet with
al the illumination he has failed to dis
cover a critie-up to this time-who can
see what he's driving at or who is honest
enough, If he does see, to say what Mr..
Vaughan has tried to make his readers
see The brilliant Englishman has form
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stories they can't write than there are
with narrative ability but nothing to
write about"
IF you have a story to tell tel it your
self, in your own way. If you have the
knack of story telling, find or invent your
own characters, incidents and complica-
ton.
No baby has right to two fathers!
EDWARD N. TEALL.
(''Part Author Of The Unkno10n Qudn-
tity)
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These, Among Others, Made Judging ArduOus

Uiated a law as obvious as Newton's law
of gravitation, and some day it Will take
its place in the codifcation of the laws of
the days work. Then the social fabric
will be rewoven nearer to the hearts de-
sire and the world Will become fuller of q
number Of far more interesting things
than it is at this moment.
The critic of the Manchester Guardian
has written vigorously of Mr.. Maughams
book and his essay has been widely quoted.
He treats Strickland as do all the other
critics who have talked of this amazing
character. He treats the novel as though
it was meant to be the story of an indi-
vidual. 1t is nothing of the sort. 1t is
the story of a type of mind. That this
type is called Strickland is beside the
point.
The Guardian writer, in common with
the others, considers that Strickland made
no manifestation of his unique quality of
genius until he left his wife and family
and went to Paris to paint pictures. This
is far from the truth. The genius of
Strickland was there in the beginning,
and in using the name Strickland l am
simply identifying a state of mind-an
idea. The story Of Strickland leaving his
wife in order that he might paint is
simply a manner of describing how the
manifestation of important ideas-the
manifestation of genius, if you like
cannot be brought into being by the
handicap of the eternal commonplace
Some of the critics have maintained
that there could by no possibility be such
a man as Strickland. The reverse Is the
exact truth. Every man, and every wom-
an for that matter, who is possessed Of
slightly more brains than God gave q
goose, is a potential Strickland, just as
every woman and every man Is q poten-
tial Amy. And there are more Amy
Stricklands than one might wish. If
Strickland had curbed his desire to show
his genius through painting and had gone
on living with the commonplace Amy and
impossible Reverend Robert he would
have developed a moral and mental lep-
rosy as horrible as the physical disease
which finally translated him to other
worlds. Most of Us do that very thing.
Not many of US have the courage to ac-
knowledge it.
Mr.. Vaughan has done a great thing.
He has done it with flaming sanity. He
has laid down the gospel of mental Gber-
ty and has, in the form of novel, shown
how it is possible for the neck of genius
to escape the milestone Of the common
place by the simple process of taking it
off, and going on to freedom.
The reviewers complain that Striek-
land is impossible because he did not take
pains to get sufficient food, well cooked
and well served, and continue, "He would
not be a man Of genius if he did not sue
coed in doing 80" The people cried,
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Collaboration.

l. Book WoRLD-.Srs The best book
published this year is-God save you,
merry gentlemen MY OWN BOOK. l can
not say "a poor thing, but mine own" It
theoretically half mine; In fact, mine by
barely more than one-third.
4 gentleman came into our publishing
Office, full Of story, and asked who could
write it for him-make it marketable.
We named some persons of letters. None
of the suggestions quite suited him. Finally
/ said: 'Let me write it," He liked my
eye, my voice, my necktie or my immedi-
ate availability. you're on, said he; OF
the polite Boston equivalent. For seven
weeks thereafter we labored together.
The story divided, by its own logic, into
three parts.
In Part /. wrote rather mechanically.
i did job. It's job fairly well done;
still, a job. Even Books and the Book
World, in damning it, said the writing
was worthy of better materials!
In Part II. I wrote out of my soul 1
loved the story. Part II. is mine.
Part III. is not. My side partner got
into the saddle and rode, rode hard, for
the finish. Part III. is rather materials
than story-a series Of kilograms and let
tiers; yet who knows but that the very IN
timacy, the absence of literary artiiciality
in the exhibit may win favor for It'll Per
haps the matter will prevail over the man
ner.
But: You who can write, do not you
write with another! He who sets out to
write Nth another ends by writing for
another. Both collaborators do!
Job wrote his own book. There is only
one name on the title page of Tess.
Skipping a hundred arguments" stop
here:
IL you have a story and don't know
how to tell it, there's something wrong
with:
(a) The story; or
(b) Yourself.
II your story were good enough to de-
serve to be told it would tell itself It
would press for delivery like the ipe
fetus.
II you were born to spin yarns and
point morals for the world you would not
want to share your "style" any more than
you would want to share your shirt
Copartnership is marriage Of minds,
and it is almost certain to reveal incom-
patibility. Even if the victories and the
surrenders are evenly balanced each sur
render has sting in IFS tail that all the
victories cannot denature
1t is generally understood that the
writing Of story is more dificult-not
more antt-than the furnishing Of
plot. There are more people with
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True, o King; live forever The King
did not Immediately live forever. nor IS
it possible, 1 imagine, to make the critics
and the average reader come instantly to
the understanding that Mr.. Maugham's
story Is but parable teaching how genius
may not manifest itself if it BE- weighted
by the overwhelming pressure of the
deadly dull TAB"
Washington, D. c.
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WORDS SELF DEFINED. BY C. Al
PHoNso Smith. Doubleday, Page & Co.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-10-09

salmon industry is to continue" he said recently. "Only strict legislation that will close the principal fishing grounds to trapmen and nets for years to come will prevent the extinction of the salmon. Today rivers that once supplied the largest number of fish furnish but a handful compared with their former amounts.
 There is nothing that can take the place of the salmon. This summer in many places I saw only thousands of fish where years ago millions used to swarm.
 "It's all an old story We have preached our tale for years and we can not convince these men who make money enough in the big years to af- ford to lose in the lean ones that they are killing the goose and that the golden eggs will shortly cease to be-"
 The remedy does not lie in our hands. Alaska has no power over it's fishing resources. Only the federal government can take the steps neces- sary for protection. Protests were made against the establishment of a cannery on the lower Yukon when 1t was first proposed. These should be renewed and the Washington authori- ties given an account of Interior con- ditions resulting from the operations of the present season.-Fairbanks Git iZen.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-10-09
SUM MONS
Mo C--120


 Tn the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, Third division. Carl N' Anderson, Victor Swanson ana Jus tus Johnson, plaintiffs, vs. North Midas Copper Company, a corpora tion, and Frank A. Ball, trustee, defendants.
 The President of the United States Of America, greeting to the aboVe- named defendant, Frank A. Ball, trustee:
 You are hereby required to appear Ill the district court for the territory ot Alaska, Third division, within thirty days after the completion of the pc riod of publication of this summons, to-wit: within thirty days after the 18th day of November, 1913, ana answer the complaint of the above named plaintiffs in the above-entitled action in which said plaintiffs demand the following relief, to-Wit: A per sonal judgment against defendant, North Midas Copper Company for the sum of twenty-five hundred ffty-two and .82-100 dollars ($2,552.82), the further sum of seventy-fve dollars ($75) for preparing and recording plaintiffs claims of liens, the further sum of four hundred fifty dollars ($45O) as plaintiffs attorneys fees in this action, and for such other costs and disbursements as plaintiffs may incur in this action, and that such sums and all of them be ad- judged first, prior and superior liens upon and against that certain mine and mining property, situated on the east side of kuskalina river, in the | Chitina recording precinct, territory 1 of Alaska, and consisting of the lode claims called Morning, Hercules, Gen. tury, Evening Sunrise No. 1, Sunrise l No. 2, Sunrise No. 3, Sunrise No. 4, Golconda, Minnehaha, DuPOnt, Camp Bird, Boston, New York, May Day, Black Jack, North Midas No. 1, North Midas No. 2, North Midas Millsite, and the placer claims called North Midas No. 1, North Midas No. 2, North Midas No. 3, North Midas No. 4, to- gether With all buildings, tools, ma chinery, equipment, trans, cyanide plant, mill, and all other tools, ma chinery, buildings and equipment sit uated upon or in any manner connect ed with said mining claims; and that plaintiffs said liens on said property, mine and premises be fOreClOsed in this action, and that any interest, lien or claim that you, the said de fendant, Frank A. Ball, trustee, have or claim in or to any of said mine, premises or property, be adjudged to be inferior and subordinate to plain tiffs' said liens, and that as against plaintiffs you be adjudged to have nc valid right, claim or lien to, upon or against any of said premises, mine ol property.
 The date of the order for the publi cation of this summons and the serv ice thereof by such publication is September 30, 1919.
 The date of the first publication oi : this summons is the 2d day of October 1919, and the date of it's last publica tion is the 18th day of November 1919.
 Witness, the Honorable Charles E Bunnell, Judge of said court, and the seal thereof, on this 30th day of Sep tember, 1919.
 Court SeaD ARTHUR LANG. Clerk of the district court for the territory of Alaska, Third division
 By JOHN B. MILLER,
 Deputy Clerk.
 Donohoe & Dimond, attorneys for plaintiffs.
 First publication, Oct. 2, 1919.
 Last publication, Nov. 13, 1919.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-10-09

We always have a supply of pasteurized sweet milk and cream on hand. Also buttermilk and Bulgarian buttermilk. City Dairy. Phone 187.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-10-09

Electric irons, pounds to oE pounds. Prices $3.5O to s6.50 at thu Northwestern Hardware Company.