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Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-08-05
All European Countries Looking to
Increased Use of Electricity
BY J. H. BELL, Chicago Electrical Engineer

All the of Europe preparing improve their public
utilities In all tie nations visited found them making big strides
development Sweden busy Harvesting the water
its northern with the intention Of eecrng
railroad system 1t installing huge underground telephone
cable system which will be second length only the line
ing between Washington and Boston.
Great Britain and Holland also installing underground cables
purposes France going ahead program Of restoration
Yes Of communication the battle and elsewhere be
saned plan far better Ian that of pre-war days
Belgium practically back to normal far the electrical
concerned Germany carrying active campaign
gain trade in electrical and kindred apparatus among northern
neighboIs Her agents everywhere
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-08-05
STUDY MOSQUITO WARFARE.

Boy scouts of Newark recently went
On an inspection hike to the nearby
marshes To observe the methods and
practice OF mosquito determination as
conducted by the local mosquito ex-
Aermination commissions. The boys
wfIl camp on the meadows.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-08-05
Decided.

"Jones and have made bet and
you are TO settle it. l say that"
"What are the terms of the wagerT
"Oh. the loser is to buy a good din
ner for the three of us. / claim
that"
"Nemmlne that. never knew Jones
to pay bet. You lose."-Judge.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-08-05
InterrogSSive Genius.

''Some Of the greatest men find de-
light in asking people all kinds of ques-
lions"
That's what makes me think my
young son has such brilliant future.
He does so continuously and with per-
feet ease"
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-08-05
Hens Vary in WEIGHT.

Egg-prOducing hens vary in weight
the average being about four pounds
The principal breeds of egg producers
are the Leghorns. the Wyandottes, the
Plymouth Rocks, the Rhode Island
Reds and the Minnrcas.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-08-05
Offers Amendment

Washington Senator Rorah (Rep.J
OF Idaho introduced Tuesday All
emendment 10 The agricultural credit
bHl To extend the federal farm loan
act to government reclamation pro.
1ectS. Present laws. he said, pro
hlhlt snch loans
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-08-05
ALIENS E00I-EASE does II

Whom shoes pinch corns and bunions
ache. get q package of ALIENS FOOTs
EASE. the antiseptio powder to be shaken
into the shoes IL takes the sting out OF
corns and bunions. gives instant relief TO
Smarting, Aching, Swollen feet. 10000
pounds of powder for the feet were used
by our Army and Navy during the war.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-08-05
Work 10 World Wide.

Road construction and maintenance
have become world wide as we'll as
provincial problems and foreign gov,
ernments are doing much work to
ward highway development
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-08-05
Church and the Re-establishment of Old
Fashioned American Home
By JOHN w. WEEKS, Secretary of War

The nation is gradually putting its house into
ORDER but neither the President by executive decree
nor the congress by the enactment of legislation can
wholly return the country to a normal state.
The solution Of our problems, both social and in
dustrial, will not be very difficult when the citizen
himself decides TO return to state of normacy and il
is in This connection that the church, think, has
duty to perform, the importance Of which cannot be
oyer-emphasized.
The first line Of defense of the republic from the
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-08-05
San Francisco Docks.

San Francisco has dock facilities
sufficient for the accommodation mt
one time of $50 vessels of average
size.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-08-05
ASPIRIN
Mamie "Bayer" on Genuine

Bewarei Unless you see the name
Slayer" on package or on tablets you
are not getting genuine Aspirin pre-
scribed by physicians for twenty-one
years and proved safe by millions.
Take Aspirin only as told In the Bayer.
package for Colds, Headache, Neural
gia. Rheumatism, Earache. Toothache.l
Lumbago, and for Pain. Handy tin
boxes Of twelve Bayer Tablets Of As
pirin cost few cents. Druggists also
sell larger packages. Aspirin Is the
trade mark of Bayer Manufacture Of
Observation-Disclosures of Salicylicacid.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-12-27
Graveyard Set Up at University
To Visualize Famine Relief.
Bv Herbert 7. Bassnan.

A cemetery of living appeals and vitalized
entreaties marked with the headstones OF
misery and despair, visuazed to University
iof Wisconsin students the purpose OF recent
campaign to obtain funds for the Chinese
famine.
The 1000 university students beheld, as
Ithey passed to their classes on the Monday
morning of the week set aside for the drive,
a miniature graveyard with 900 white head
stones occupying a prominent place on the
campus Those 900 headstones represented
900 Chinese lives which the university stu
dents were asked to save. Each headstone
Iimaged a grave which would have to be dug
somewhere in China if the So needed to save
a life were not contributed by the students.
On the following morning 40 small Amer
lean flags stood in the places where 40 white
headstones had been the day before. Each
flag signifed freedom from starvation and
hope of surviving until the harvest for one
famine sufferer And the mornings OF the
succeeding days OF the week saw the white
headstones gradually being displaced by lit
tie American flags The campaign being an
appeal, and not drive or personal solc1ta-
ton, other methods of petitioning funds also
were used.
The 40 Chinese students OF the university
wrote out receipts in Chinese characters and
these were given in exchange for dollar
donation. Booths, where the students could
leave their contributions were set up on the
campus and posters were erected in numer-
Gus places The student cafeterias had at the
cashiers desk receptacle for contributions
and a poster requesting the students to eat
little less during the week, and to contribute
the amount saved. Donations of faculty men,
bers were not allowed to go toward clearing
away" the cemetery, for they were pledged
to raise 81, 500 entirely outside of student do
nations.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-12-27
The Battle of the Brides.

1t is apparent that full AmericaniZation IS
not effected by marriage with an Ameri-
can, or, in the case of the German war brides,
by becoming the mother of an American
citizen Proof of this was provided in the
famous battle of the brides fought on the
army transport that brought large number
of recently married German and French wo-
men to their new homes in the United States.
The Germans remembered Die Wacht am
Rhein," and sang it with gusto, and the
French lifted up their voices i'll letting ev-
erybody know the "Marseaise" while all OF
them, as observed by an American sergeant,
had forgotten entirely "The Star Spangled
Banner" They were Americans under the
terms of their alliances entered into at the
altar, but they were moved to betray the vio-
lence of their feelings by exposing the bit
terness they treasured as a remnant OF the
world war. 1t was fortunate that the battle
of the brides consisted mainly in the women
trying to outsing each other, with little
hair-pulling and face-scratching thrown in as
variation 1t is fortunate again that in the
United States they may find themselves sep
arated by great distances, in which event
there will be no recrudescence of the fighting.
Such is the feeling of animosity between the
two peoples which has been encouraged for
so many generations that it has become
chronic With no desire to make an odious
comparison it may be observed that the re-
lationship between the French and the Ger
man is about the same as that between
the ordinary alley cat and the average back
yard dog. Friendship seems to be not only
an impossibility, but a thing both heartily
wish to avoid The suspicion grows that each
has a desire to cultivate the bitterness. Each
might express a willingness to forget the
past bitter contacts if the other would show
the right department. Meanwhile the rest
of the world looks on, rejecting that both the
French and the Germans ought to be ashamed
of themselves, and make an effort to live be-
side each other as peaceful neighbors.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-12-27
Nothing Is Free.

Somebody has we'll said that there is moth,
ing that is free. Every commodity costs
somebody something. Free text books for in
stance, are paid for by taxpayers. When
somebody gets free ride somebody else
pays for it. The highways are free, of course,
but the people pay pretty price for them
just the same. The local taxpayer is some
times assured that this or that improvement
comes out OF state funds or federal funds.
His criticisms are thus quieted. But he is pay
ing his share all the same, and is also paying
for improvements being made hundreds OF
miles from his place of residence. Every
thing of value is paid for by somebody in
some way; and usually a good stiff price is
paid, especially if it is among the things &C
counted Gree" Even the free advertising that
some people succeed in sponging costs the
publishers something.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-12-27
The American Big Four.
From the Montgomery Advertiser.


The American delegation to the Washing
ton conference took particular pains, in its
treaty making to observe the rights and dig
mites OF the senate. The senate had shown its
teeth and vented its anger on the Versailles
treaty; the Big Four of the American dele
CATION had no intention of making the senate
mad by failing to pay due respect to the
+senate's ancient privileges and self esteem.
The four power treaty of profound i'm
portance contained only 800 words, yet the
American representatives found room to IN
sert a special provision declaring that the
treaty should not become effective until 1t
had been duly ratified by the constitutionaly
qualified bodies of the various countries, a
statement which would not have been neces-
sary but for the prolonged bitterness which
characterized the ratification fight over the
Wilson treaty.
The senate was also given assurance by
no less a person than President Harding
that the administration never for moment
intended to dodge the constitution by enter
ing into a gentlemans agreement, which
would not require approval by the senate
That proposal was seriously made IN Wash
ington by a well intended gentleman who
thought he saw an opportunity to dodge
senate fight, but it was neither upheld nor
approved by any administration leader who
knew the temper of the senate
The silence of the Big Four OF the Ameri-
can delegation has been the marked feature
been given out by any member of the four.
Only two members have spoken at the open
conferences, and then only because it was
necessary that they should speak. Secretary
Hughes has spoken briefly as presiding Off
Ger in opening the conference and he made
brief but direct speech in submitting the plan
for naval reduction. In presenting the tour
power treaty Senator Lodge delivered pol
ished and almost poetical address,, but it
was quite short and to the point. Ex-Secretary
Elihu Root and Senator Underwood have
found no occasion which they deemed neces-
sary for delivering addresses. Each may sub
init reports when his particular subsection
or committee of the conference submits its
findings
1t is not, however, the silence of the Amer
lean delegates at the conference, but their
silence outside the hall OF meeting which IS
significant Much work has gone forward;
dozens of conferences have been held; many
jealousies and prejudices have been adjusted.
1t has been no time for talking; it has been
no time for anybody to try to get personal
advertising The consequences OF this con-
ference will have too profound an effect on
humanity to have them prejudced by the
usual political or propaganda methods. The
American delegation as hosts to the confer
ence, had to act and talk circumspectly and
they had to do all that was within their pow
err to bring the conference to the fulhlment
of the high hopes placed in it by the people
of America. They could not do this by being
garulous.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-12-27
EXPENSIVE TO RAISE COTTON.

From the Sandersville Progress
1t is claimed that cotton can be produced
in Georgia in spite of the boil weevil, but if
the producer is asked to make out an accu-
rate bill of expenses he will tell you that it
will require twenty-five cents pound for a
profit on the crop and the chances are that
a dollar pound will not pay for the expense
of cultivation, even when a respectable yield
is secured. The expense of fertilization cul-
tivation, picking up the squares and the pur-
chase of calcium arsenate will cause many
farmers to turn away from cotton as a money
crop the coming year, and many of them are
already planning to abandon the cultivation
of cotton altogether
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-12-27
One of Georgia's Funny Laws.
From the Triton Gazette.


Judge Ewes charge to the Tiff grand jury
Monday morning called attention to another
funny quirk in Georgia's criminal laws. One
law makes it felony in this state to manu-
facture or distill alcoholic liquors. Another
law makes it felony to put potash in any
manufactured or distilled alcoholic liquor A
grand jury can indict a man accused of man
ufacturing or distilling alcoholic liquor, and
it also can again indict him if there is evil
dence to sustain charge that he put pot
ash in alcoholic liquor that he manufactured
or distilled. While it is a felony to produce
certain article if a person insists on pro-
ducing said article, it is made felony to put
an ingredient therein considered harmful A
person who manufactures or distills alcoholic
liquors is made felon and an outlaw, but
at the same time another law protects this
feon's accomplice after the fact by providing
that said felon shall not adulterate the arti-
Gle manufactured with an ingredient that
might injure the health of the purchaser
thereof Again it is a misdemeanor in this
state to have any amount of intoxicating
liquor on hand Yet another law protects a
man or woman who commits this misdemean-
or. 1t also protects the person who is the
accomplice of felon. Sometimes we Geor-
gians are funny people, in some things.
And our general assembly does some funny
things.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-12-27
The Span of Life.

Comforting, indeed, is the announcement
by life insurance officials that fewer deaths
have occurred in the United States and Cana
da this year than in 1920 and that the span
of life is gradually lengthenng. Better health
for the people Of the two countries lis thus
shown to be a fact for of course, longevity
depends, in the main, upon greater freedom
from diseases through evading, resisting and
curing them. This speaks we'll for the adj
vancement of the medical profession, which,
various reports have declared has made great
progress in the treatment of human ailments
1t is certain that good deal of the ground
has been gained by the people themselves
through the adoption OF better methods OF
living, including sanitation, protection against
exposure and immediate treatment Every de-
veopment to modern living habits is a de-
veopment for health Homes, properly heat
ed have healthier occupants; up to date meth
DDS OF sanitation which belong to any plan
of modern living are bound to contribute to
good health; whereas the wisdom of taking
stitch in time by calling physician before
dangerous condition is developed may be
realized by any sensible person. Laws con-
trolling conditions in cities, towns, schools,
etc, have effected an appreciable change for
the better. They represent society's only way
of protecting itself, thereby making distinct
appeal to the best thought of legislators.
The span of life might be heightened even
more and the mortality figures further reduc-
ed, according to the insurance reports, if
way could be found to decrease the number
OF deaths by accident. Motor vehicles, it is
announced, are exacting an alarmingly grow
ing toll of victims. The deaths from this
cause have increased IS per cent this year.
Such deaths, of course, premature and
Humanity thus is forced to pay
a toll that could be appreciably cut down.
The fact that 1921 witnessed $4,000 fewer
deaths in the United States and Canada than
in 1920, despite the IS per cent increase in
motor vehicle fatalities, shows a splendid
gain in one direction and deplorable loss in
another. How, then, to wipe out part OF
the debit and apply it to the credit side OF
life's ledger becomes pressing obligation for
society.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-12-27
Eat More Honey.
From Farming Magazine.

There is no doubt that honey, sweets Of the
blossoms as produced by nature, is superior
to our artificial sugars. We should use more
money and advise all our friends to do the
same, knowing that we are thus to secure bet.
ter health and longer life. Pure honey con-
tains the most fragrant and delicious, as well
as the healthiest, properties of the vegetable
kingdom.
1t is impossible to manufacture, by any
chemical process, any sweet and expect it to
be as heathful as that which is produced nat
urally from the blossoms of flowers. The nee
tar of flowers is an essence gathered by the
busy bee from the sweet Towering plants OF
the fields and forests and converted into hon
ey by a process no chemist can successfully
initiate. 1t is Natures own product-man
has no part in its production.
"Sweeten Up and Keep Sweet
With pure honey:
Twill give you health
That's worth more than wealth
Worth more than all your money
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-12-27
Christmas in Dawson.

The Christmas holidays have been more
generally observed in Dawson this year than
usual, though it has been in rather quiet
way, following a rush on Friday and Saturday.
Business the past week in the line of holiday
goods was brisk, the stores being crowded
each day with shoppers. Almost every organ
ization in the city has been generous in scat
tering Christmas cheer, and individuals have
found the JOY OF the yuletide in contributing
to the relief OF the unfortunate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-12-27
The Biggest Star Yet.
From the Scientific American.

The enormous size OF Betelgeuse, as reveal
ed by nterferometer measurements at Mount
Wilson was a topic of widespread popular
interest a few months ago News now comes
from the same observatory that Antares, the
well-known first magnitude star in the Scor-
pion, is probably even bigger. Its angular
diameter, as measured with the interferome-
ter, comes out 0039 second, thus greatly ex-
ceeding Russel's predicted value OF OOPS sec
ond. There IS some question as to the paral-
lax. If it is assumed that Antares belongs to
the Scorpion group, the resulting value OF
the parallax is 00085 Sec and the diameter
430 million miles. If, however, we give the
same weight to this value and to the mean
OF the measured parallaxes we find 0.013 sec,
and a diameter OF 280 million miles. Either
value is greater than that obtained for Betel-
geuse, viz, 218 million miles.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-12-27
Hail and Farewell.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
For the new launched battleship West Vir-
ginia it is hail and farewell! Unless states
manship of the world is bankrupt the stars
and stripes will never fly over her. Those
eight great 16-inch rifles will never roar from
her gunpits and her IA ,fve-inch rifles will
never speak in the argument of kings or the
stern and grim debate of peoples.
Her 10000 horsepower will never drive her
on the grey-green and open lanes Of the deep
seas That hard shell of armor, the thickest
and toughest ever rifted on a battleship will
never meet the shock of high explosive or
stop a plunging she'll
The West Virginia will know no port save
and except the port of her birth and fashion
ing. Never for her will the outbound stream
ers snap or far ports call across the seven
seas Not for her steel lines the grim war
paint and not for her masthead the joy Of
the home-b bound pennant
That terrible beauty that clothes battle
ship is to be destroyed. The millions that
have gone into her steel ribs, her splendid
engines and into her naked and shining decks
are lost. Today she might be the most per-
feet and powerful agent OF destruction riding
on water Tomorrow she is to be one with
the war galeys of Crete and Carthage.
Hail and farewell, West Virginia! The
nation that dreamed you and fashioned you
has prepared your doom. You are part Of
that thing (which civilization must kill, or it
will kill civilization.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-12-27
A New Champion.

Somewhere in the milky way a contest for
the title of champion of the universe has just
been decided by Prof Michaelson, the as
tronomer, whose interferometer in the hands
of another who acted as referee resulted in
the counting out of Betelgueze and the crown
ing of Antares Antares at this writing is the
biggest single object ever viewed by the
ewes of mortal men and until the Interfere
meter interferes with his standing and meas
ures one bigger, he will be the undsputed
heavyweight champion of the cosmos He is
so big that his bigness does not seem posi-
Bile, and yet astronomers all over the world
have agreed that Prof. Mchaelsons nstru-
ment, the interferometer, measures the heav-
emily bodies most accurately.
Prof Henry Norris Russell writing in the
Scientific American, describes the new cham
pion and thus presents him to a wondering
world which would be but atom if placed
beside him. Antares is twice as far away from
the earth as is Betelguese His actual luminos-
ity is about 5000 times that of the sun, his
diameter is 500 times that of the sun and his
superficial area is about 100000 times as
great The diameter of Antares is 42OOOO,-
1000 miles. That distance is half as big again
as the diameter of Betelgueze and is more
than twice the diameter of the earths orbit.
When it is remembered that the sun is some
%, 100000 miles from the earth, and that that
distance is less than one-fourth the diameter
of Antares, it is easy enough to consider him
fit to be champion as far as size is con-
cerned..
Antares is flaming sun himself, one no
doubt that controls his own solar system, but
! if there is life on some planet revolving about
him it necessarily would have to be much
farther from him than the earth is from the
SUM- Otherwise it could not exist as life is
understood on earth That would create an
orbit for live planet much longer than thai
of the earth, hence year in the Antares solar
system would be long drawn out, Light that
started from Antares in 1851 is just now
reaching the earth although it has travelled
during the $40 years at the rates of 10000
miles per second. Antares may be seen with
the naked eye and is in the constellation of
the Scorpion 1t is the red star and is classed
as being in the sixth magnitude.