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I THE STANDARD-EXAMINER PUBLISHING COMPANY Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Postoffce, Ogden, Utah " ESTABLISHED 1870 Member of tho Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Associated PreBB ; An independent Newspaper, published every evening and Sun 'day morning without a muzzle or. a club. Subscription in Advance One Month idlsn One Year ?9- " MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS : The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republi cation of any news credited to it not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. II MAY DAY IN OGDEN. May Day passed in Ogden without a ripple of excitement. There Vas no outburst of any kind and those who may have hoped 'for a lively time were disappointed, r Too much hysteria has prevailed in certain quarters of late. This country is not going to the dogs. The American people are not losing their balance. They will find some way out of their present Upset without a resort to the drastic. One thing is evident. There is need of more mutual trus. on the part of both employer and employe and greater confidence in the sanity of the people as a whole. I! 'DEFEAT OF REED. Down in 'Missouri the Democrats have held their primaries for the naming of a delegation to the San Francisco convention and they have defeated Senator Reed as a delegate at large and also as a district delegate. ' Now Senator Reed will stay home, where he should be. No man of his promptings should be in public life. Uc is talonted in speech, is an orator cl" ability, but in the highest type of Americanism he falls far shorT. During the world conflict he objected to every move promising good for his country. He was an obstructionist and evidently he had in mind none but a certain part of his constituents in St. Louis. His defout in the primaries should relegate him to political scrap pile where old junk is to be found. He started out to follow in the footsteps oC Senator Stone, and has met with the same rebuke that was given Stone before his death. ION THE BENCH CAN AL. . ' Control of the Bench canal is now in possession of Ogden City, although there are many outstanding shares in private hands. Be I cause of that control, members of the city commission are called on to help supervise the management and pass on the expenditures. On last Thursday the city officials went over the canal with the offi cers of the company and they were escorted by Hyrum Goodale who has been water master for 31 years and Whose father directed the construction of the canal. During the fall of 1S55 tho- canal was started and the digging of the waterway was completed in 1S57. This was Ogden 's first ap j propriation of water on a large scale from the.Qgden river. Suffi cient water was diverted to make 'a stream of 8 to 10 second feet, ' and 500 acres of land within the boundaries of the city were covered, i The canal hugs the sand ridge from the north of Ogden canyon on the south side to the top of what is known as the Dugway. There is some heavy excavating which had to be done. by pick and shovel in the early days when scrapers and steam shovels were unknown. Mr. Goodale said that, when the canal was being dug, labor was 100 per cent efficient. Men worked long hours at $1.50 a day, and were paid in stock. Many of them had nothing more for their mid day meal than dry bread and onions. Going over this early construction, one is impressed with the amount of hard work performed by the pioneers of Utah. The foun dation of this commonwealth was laid by endless perseverance heavy sacrifice and devotion to duty, and we who are the beneficiaries should be thankful that our predecessors were men and women so de voted to home building as to have built most firmly and enduringly. The men had nothing as good as is worn by the overall brigade of today and the women had never heard of silk stockings. They stinted themselves of even the necessaries of those days of privation, and on thrift paved the way for our present progress and prosper ity. They have gone, but a thoughtful people remember them with an acknowledgement of debt of gratitude. DRIVING PEOPLE OUT OF DOORS. J ."When the fire marshal of the Pacific coast was in Ogden, he said that of every two houses erected in the United States, one is destroyed by fire and his solution of the house problem was to stop the fires. But the mere waving of a wand will not prevent fire losses and the house shortage must be made up in some other waj One of the magazines devoted to architecture, considering the building situation, and the distress caused to tenants who are being , driven outdoors because there is not sufficient housing facilities, ' says: There is no more vital topic before us, nor one that calls for a more immediate practical solution. Our cities have grown in population with tremendous strides, while the building of places were people may live has been at a stand still. The result is a constant advancement in rentals with an equally constant inability on the part of hundreds to meet these advances. .The owner of property is gov erned by the demand and. rents his space to the highest bidder. The tenant who for years has met his obligations, who has remained in spite of the offer of other agents of newer and better quartors at a like or even a less rental, re ( ceives no more consideration than the tenant of ycsterda Pay the advance or. get out is the answer. This, .condition has ceased to be one of merely ordinary business. In many cases it has and will continue te create a state borderincr on panic. Thousands who are employed in our cities whose in comes arc fixed arc unable to meet the competition of those who have made money by the war, and they arc confronted with the fatoof those subject peoples who have been driven , H. from their homes by a marching horde of conquerors. Here in -Ogden .there is a great scarcity of cottages and every flay families are out house hunting, having had their abiding places lold from over their heads. One woman, -who was notified that her landlord had sold their dwelling place, requested the Standard-Exam-ner to urge the necessity of public action to prevent the evictions ; J, rhich are being made in. this way. She related that her boys and girls 1 1 were being taught high ideals and were being educated to believe . I lhat the big thing in life was not the dollar. "But what effect will H; ( this homeless condition have on my youngsters?" she asked, and i then she proceeded to give this answer : "Why they immediately will say, 'Mother, you are wrong. Rot even a home is possible. Unless you get mone3r,you are like the B'; imad, moved from pillar to post." i t Prominent Ogden men of means are beginning to realize how i lerious is the situation and they are doing all within their power to rtimulato building, and, as a result, the engineer's office in the City H j Sail is receiving more applications for building permits than at any H !; 1 irae in the history of Ogden. In one district alone 40 cottages are H j ' be erected, and n every part-ot the city new hemes arc being con- tructed. ; ' ,m ... 4. WL " BRITISH ENM'S - TASKJIFFIGULT Writer Declares Trade Rela tions, Treaty and Irish Ques tion to Face Sir Geddes LONDON Sir Auckland Goddes, now ambassador from Great Britain to the United States, la facing a diffi cult task, according to Dr. Arthur Lynch, who recently returned from tho United States and who has ont llnod tho situation in an article in tho Dally Express. Tct Dr. Lynch be lieves that the "government has made a good choice" for tho Job. Dr. Lynch pays tribute to tno American's ability to distinguish be tween "man" and "manner" and feels certain that Sir Auckland will mcas- I uro us to America's standard of a man. Continuing, ho says: "The mo in thing Is to recognize the I big interests of America, the fact that henceforth she is destined to be a great world force, and that, among other things, sho may soon bo out tor the biggest navy on earth, or on tho ocean. "Tho internal rcsourcoH of the country are vast beyond comprehen sion, and the external expansion h.is come. We will meet the Stars and Stripes everywhere, and the cardinal principle in the wholo foreign policy of this country must bo friendship with the States. Thoso who talk otherwise and thoy exist in abun dance are like children playing with a llvo bomb. "Then there Is the curious political phenomenon to noto that though the Individual Yankee is keen on tho dol lar, tho United States moves on ideal istic motivos. No nation in tho world nas a nner rccoru in wus ri'spcci. , "All matters of internal economy are best left severely alone by an am bassador. Even to agree with your host when he Is decrying some evil of tho system is dangerous. But Sir Auckland can be silent, and the com bines a look of wisdom with sphinx like inscrutability. "To treat with tho president will be an easy matter. The ambassador will require to be harmless as a dove in dealing with a man who is suffer ing from overstrain, and who, the more unpopular his politics become, holds to them with the greater ob stinacy. The actual questions that will give Sir Auckland trouble are trade rela tions, Involv'ng the depreciation of the pound, the league of nations and tho Irish question. "As to the league of nations, the longer it becomes discussed the less chance it has of obtaining the en dorsement of the United States In its present form. The .attempt to con vince the Slates to bo content with one vote while Great Britain and the dominions have six has been the ma'..i J causo of the anti-English feeling. This is stronger than it has been for do- j cades. "Of the Irish question and still an other, of deeper baso and real im port, though nover referred to in dip lomacy, I will say but little. Irbiand has caused a strain between Englar.d and tho States which is now great and week by week is becoming more t serious. If Sir Auckland cannot re lieve the tension In 3iich a manner as to satisfy both countries, then to use an Irish expression 'he will be only wustlng his time as ambassador,' lhat is, he ought to bo something bigger." oo 1 MAY DAYS f May 1, 1898 Dewey defeated Span ish fleet in Manila harbor. May 4, 1886 Haymarket riot (strik ing farm machinery workers) Chicago, 111. ' May 6, 1896 First successful flight of a heavicr-than-air machine. Langley airplane; flight mado near Washing ton, D. C. No person in the machine. May 7, 1915 Steamship Lusltanla torpedoed by German submarine; loss of lives. 1154. May 9, 1920 Mothers' day. May 10, 1859 Gold discovered in Colorado. May 10, ISCS-Mefferson Davis, pres ident Confederate Btates, captured by northern cavalrymen. May 11, 1858 Minnesota admitted Into union. May 13, 1607 Beginning of first English settlement in America, at Jamestown, Va. May 13, 1846 War against Mexico declared. May 21, 18S1 American Red Cross founded. May 24, 1819 Savannah first steam ship to cross Atlantic, sailed for Liver pool. May 29, 1848 Wisconsin admitted Into union. May 30 Memorial day. May 31, 1913 Election of United States senators by vote of peoplo made part of the federal cnostitutlon. oo INFANT FOUND HELDJN HOTEL (By International News Service.) ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. A golacn hftlrcd, blue-oyed boy of two and a half years, abandoned In St. Johnsbury ho tel and locked alone without fooa lor twenty-four hours in a room on the fourth floor, Is furnishing northeast ern Vermont with mystery and ex citement a-plenty. Tho local authorities have come to the conclusion that tho lad was kid naped. He Is well dressed and ap pears of good parentage. Little "Billy" that Is the young ator'a name is believed to havo been left here by W. H. Wheolor, a con vict on parole from Windsor prison, and his wife. A search for the couple has led the police a merry chase across tho stato of Now Hampshire. The Wheolers are reported havo beon traveling free by the simple method of engaging a ola blo rig In one town, driving it to tho next, la.vian: it. hiring a fresh outfit I May Third to Tenth I 1 Yes, this is Gingham Week and a mighty important event it is in the Spring 1 selling program of this store; one in which all Ogden and Weber County 1 women will be most interested. B rst thing at will impress you entering our Wash Goods Sec- rT5Tv B0- M WjHk ln k the immensity of the displays of Gingham which com- i n i'tK prise "PickM of tne prettiest and best that tha American as well . If ' Av as tnose tnat tne British mills have turned out ginghams in plaids, sf T m rH W J J I j checks and plain, in every color and texture that is in favor. $ rk&3$Mlli Ginghams are justly entitled to their popularity which is far great- ftlnfiFrS I I33na er tQday than at any time since they were first shown to our grand- FvfifuJLJra 51 P jf ZN rn others because of the smartness of the styles in which they are isMs A ! t- ijK u snown' the great durability of the fabric and the reasonable prices GMi 1 Tn at wc k offered this week. yn ' OU Have Your Ginghams MadeUp 1 y While the Season Is Young Mw I i J Wise shoppers will take advantage of this week's special showing and m&'jP51 advantageous prices to secure ginghams that are to be made up into $ JIF ( 1 TTL c.s street, porch and house dresses for themselves and frocks fir the ( 1 m ' Jt children. And as the arrival of the bright, warm days emphasizes m iJj the need of such wearables it is doubly important that you select the QT fhxL ginghams and begin work on them as quickly as possible. rcf j In the making of your Gingram Dresses we suggest that you use the Peerless Patterns. They are the most depnd- J able as well as the most economical for the use of the home dressmaker. The new May number of the Peerless Patterns which has just been placed on sale in the Pattern Dpartmnt il- J? lustrates a number of new modes which arc especially pleasing when developed of the pretty Ginghams. A com- plete assortment of these Patterns, in all sizes, is ready to meet your demands. Every home dressmaker should $1 have a copy of the Quarterly Fashion Book. Jfl Three Notable Gingham Offerings for This Week I Ef Although they arc mentioned briefly, each group o-nprises a very large showing of pretty styles. The great in- 1 j centive for making immediate purchases is the tremendous variety presented and the specially low prices named for Jf 1 , Dress Ginghams Dress Ginghams Imported Ginghams i k large collection of pretty Dress Ging- The Ginghams in this gTOup are of extra The world-famed weavers of Great Britain if : g aams, full 32 inches wide, in plaids only, Mne quality, with many beautiful patterns oroduced these beautiful Ginrrhams and it M i ;s as fine a collection of the imported so I las been selling regularly at much higher U favored colors to choose from- These yon ever looked at. These Ginghams f prices. It is real economy to buy them Ginghams are full 32 inches wide. No pret- ire 32 inches wide. The lot includes a won- J & this week at the special price of tier Ginghams in the land than the ones ierful collection of handsome plaids They II ' J fve will sell at this price. ire better qualities and better values from ftf I 37c a Yard 50c a Yard 75c to $1.40 a Yard Lovely Colored Voiles That Will I I Soon Appear in Charming Frocks I 1 fx These transformations will take place all the more rapidly once Flaxon In both light and dark colors. A most satisfictorv oh M the feminine side of Ogden becomes familiar with the lovely colored ored material for dresses. It is made in the 30 inch jtn co1' m m Voiles that are included in this play of -wash fabrics. width. Priced from, a yard 4jC TO 95c M A None have too many frocks, such as would be made from these Duretta cloth in pure white onlv. An ideal middy materini wttv, AS M voiles few have anjnvhere near as many as they wish if you arc your with a fine twilled weave and soft finish Priced nt AQn Ex j own dressmaker they will cost you but little. ' Q ac a ard t& m White wash organdie of very fine sheer quality, with rrim ffl TO The displays are made up of tho newest pattern effects which are The various qualities are from 40 to -15 inches wideband jit Iin,s"- cfi M n wonderful colorings goods full 40 inches wide, jq QQ launder beautifully. They range in price from, a yard 4C TO 86c M ' 'White material for shirt waists. Very god qualitv while vnii M M Remper cloths of extra strong weaves and standard make. Shown In In neat plaid and striped effects. The assortment oi a woven K either striped patterns or plain colors, 32 inch width. yjo nr includes some splendid values. Priced from, a yard j4c m flft M Priced from, a yard' LiOl TO VOL White materials which are great favorites this season: V.VU M W. White voiles, 40 inches wide. fsL ll JB , . Pajama checks, 36 Inches wide. ,v Jg H M Luna lawn, 30 inches wide. v f ' v s' ''7' ' Tyron suitings, 30 Inches wide. T jjft H i Jv Prices from 57 c th $1.5 0 a yard i j ' BURT'S -I and moving on. Their trail has led through Plymouth, N. H.; Laconla, JSast Tllton. P.inacodk, Concord, Sun cook and Manchester. Tho woman, who gives the name of Pearl Whltclor. engages the rig. it is Bald, and picks up her husband oujtsldc the town. Meanwhile in this community in the hills, every one is all excited over little "Billy." From far and near northeastern Vormonters have come to see the lad. More than 100 chila less women, a majority of them mar ried, havo offered to ado,pt "Billy." The littlo fellow has been uhowered with gifts by the people of this sec tion and the merchants havo fitted him out with clothes. "My nam0 J.n Billy Foaa." the lad told Sheriff Wilbur Worthen when tho latter visited him aoon aftor ho hnd been discovered alono in the no tel. This statement furniahed a cluo which resulted In unraveling a little , of the mystery surrounding the baby. ! The authorities visited tho home of Mr. and Mrs. vrnon Foes at Morris- vllle. Here they learned that W. H. Wheolcr was recently paroled Irom "Windsor prison. He had been placed In tho Foss family. A few days after Wheeler arrived at tho Foss home Mrs. Wheeler came, bringing little "Billy." A week or so went by and tho Wheelers and Eiliy auddonly disappeared. The polleo found that the ex-convict and his wife had hired a horse in a livery stable at Morrlsvlllo and had driven to Johnson, Vt. It is alleged Wheeler sold the outfit. Wheeler, his wife and baby came from Johnson to bt. Johnsbury by train. Arriving here, they put up at the St. Johnsbury hotel. They registered as "Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Martin and baby of Cambridge. Vt." The next morning Wheeler and his wlfo fiod, leaving the child alone in the hotel room. ! Satinwood, from a tree in India, is remarkably close grained, heavy and durable. ....... MINISTRY SAYS NO . 'AIR TRUST PLANNED (By International News Service.) LONDON" The- report which has been circulated here that an "air trust" has beon organized, consisting of representatives of the loading air-1 craft manufacturers, is donlcd by the air ministry.' Tho report stated thit the various firms in the combine had agreed to divide tho work in such a manner that one group 3hould havo tho sole rights to passengor traffic, another to mails, a third to 'joy flights" and so on. J3y this means, it was hoped to make civilian flying a financial success, independent of gov ernment subsidies. , "Nothing has been dono in thl3 way," said an official of the air min istry. "For ono thing, it must be clearly understood that nothing can be done in the flying lino without tho consent of the air ministry. We over- T 1 gP see everything in tho flyW lino 11 certainly will never asr j to monopoly of one branch of !h hI by an individual corporation.' Wrk " Ione of the concerns said tn " H affected would mako anv (V b ' HH on the matter, anS ? ls thought that the proposition J'0 HH suggested has received S death ?W from the authorities. ' th b,0v oo- . H FREED "WITH HONOR" HH AFTER ASSAULT ON GERMAN, HH for assault, was discharged "with hon- Ki or ' Jn police cour'. when he related tho BEHl circumstances that led to his bcin- BH taken Into custody. p JHaRg "My brother was killed in France " Kennedy told the court, "and when H this German fellow. August Something H yelled at me that it was loo bad more H Yanks weren't killed over there I hU H him hit him hard, your honor.'! H 1 H