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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHI. UTAH I Britain Launches Another Huge Submarine IV 1 Uncommon Sense . By JOHN BLAKE 6. BU SyadtcaM-WX- U Service "Give me a shoulder up, mister." "Get out of the way. kid, don't o other me." "Ah, Mister. I can't nothing 'down here. The paradell be passed before I git a look at it" "Move on, youngster! I'm tookln' at the parade myself." Down the line went the little boy. distracted by hearing the blare of the approaching circus band, beginning to cry. lie had run a long way, as fast aa his short legs could carry him. The "P'rade" was all he had expected to see. Willing Shoulders Little boys whose trousers are too big for them, and soiled and shabby at that, are lucky if they can see even the "P'rade." rirpat Britain launched another of Its vB Klldinr down the ftl, fdTe of the British navy. I"".. il," ' .""c". alU!alMm TweedIe- S D - recently. Here Q. M. Submarine wif Vice Admiral Sir Hugh J. ' I solately away. "Hi, kid, com' 'ere." "Can't you get no leg up to see the circus hosses?" "N-nsir." There were tears on the urchin's cheeks. "No. sir. Nobody won't help me up." "They won't, won't they, the bums. Well, I wUll C'mon." And so the boy saw the parade. More than that, his benefactor gave him a quarter, and in those days a quarter bought a seat where one would see the whole show. It wasn't a big show. It had only one ring and one clown, and two elephants. But It was a fairyland for a small For Recreation of Eminent Democrats "!9rrr V;'2M' r"""v?5r yi a, ' TA&XtfltZ ' - i 5 ' ,"0 . ,Sf0 - Tucked a ay a mong the trees of Jefferson island, in Chesapeake bay. stands this Bedate and richly appointed clubhouse, with Its executive wing, Democrats, and dedicated to the recreation of President Roosevelt. 1 ' - v -- v1Sfe-ct'- LVJr'Vsac ' V .' t ' r o boy. Giving happiness to children, especially to poor children, Is not only a very cheap means of dispensing charity, but It is one which brings rich returns to those who dispense W" Kcx4M - 2" The child was turning back, hopeless now that be would get even a peep at the wonderful procession, when a large man happened to look down, and saw him walking discon- 1 J ft It r-i- ii Having been, in my very early youth, a recipient of that kind of charity, I know how much good it does. you want to try an experiment in that tort of happiness, which is more bleued to five than to receive many timet over, do something for tome poor youngster now and then,' tdme-thin- g that will bring a little change into hit life. m New Leaders of the Mormon Church ON BAD EMINENCE 'Mini I'l iihmnmi lilimiiillFI ilium. Sacred .and Lucky Numbers Superstitious Notions Connected With Almost Every One of the Digits; Six Is Held Highly Potent in Mystical Properties. Very many superstitious and curious ideas have been and are at!H connected with numbers. Great hopes have been founded upon certain combinations of numbers In lotteries, in horoscopes, or in predictions regarding important events. Important hare awaited favor- able dates for their inception, and the lives of more than one leader of men have been more or less influenced by a regard for certain numerical combinations, supposed to have a dominating power In shaping a successful career, writes a contributor in the Birmingham (Eng.) Weekly Post There have been superstitious no- tions connected with nearly every one of the nine digital numbers. The number 1 was held to be sacred because it represented the unity of the Godhead. This number Is esteemed as very lucky by the Javanese, who allot bnt one day to each of the several operations of husbandry, leaving that portion of the crop that could not be gathered in one day. The second digit acquired an especially evil reputation among the early Christians, because the second day hell was created, along with heaven and earth. The Caballsts said It typified anion of Christ It seems to have been a number unlucky in ber and contains an the harmonies"; is a theological number, thirdly, consisting of perfection"; fourthly, "It is composed of perfect numbers, and participates of their virtues." He may find better reasons for the importance attached to this Dumber. Much of it is doubtless due to Its prominence in the Bible. The seven days of creation led to a septenary division of time to all ages. Several of the Jewish feasts lasted seven days. Elisha sent Naaman to wash in the Jordan seven times, and Elipah sent bis servant from Mount Carmel seven times to look for rain. For seven days seven priests with seven trumpets invested Jericho, and on the seventh day they encompassed It seven times. There were seven virtues and seven mortal sins. The ancients not only noted th Importance of seven as an astronomical period, but also connected with the seven planets the seven metals then known. The scut of man was anciently supposed to be controlled by this double septenary combustion. It was also an ancient belief that a change In the body of It man occurs every seventh yean year. Says an old writer t "Augustus Caesar as Gelllus saith, was glad, and hoped that he was to live long, because he had passed his sixty-threEnglish dynasties. Harold II was years. For olde men seldom passed slain in battle; William H and Ed- that year, but they are in danger of ward n were murdered ; Ethelred n. their lives. Two years, the seventh Richard II and James n were forced and ninth, commonly bring great to abdicate; and nenry II, Charles changes to a man's life, and great H, and George II were unfortunate dangers; therefore 63, that containin many ways. The number seems ed both these numbers multiplied toto hare been an unlucky one t,o the gether, eontalneth unknown sovereigns of other European countries. The Charles II's of France, of Navarre, of Spain, of Anjon and Harm Don by Seeking of Savoy passed or ended their reigns to Standardise Child unhappily. "Children are being wronged by The number 8 has an abundance of superstitions connected with it enforced molding to the means of It was the perfect number of the mass measurement" Dr. L Newton Eugemiass says in Eygela Magazine Pythagoreans, who said it represent- In an article entitled, "The Myth of ed the beginning, middle and end. A greater importance was given to the Average Child." "Standardizing the number because it represented plastic youth Into average patterns the Trinity, not only in the Christ-Ia- n is detrimental physically to growinf children, troublesome psychologically religion, but In many otners. There was but little mystery at- to perturbed parents and false biotached to the numbers 4 and 6. In logically to the national Ideal Chll-drare individuals, sot average, fa folk-lor- e d the clover is their body build and in their organ especially lucfey. .'The four of clubs Is an unlucky card, and it Is named and tissues even to the single cells, twenty-fiv- e trillion in number, that the devil's four-pos- t bed. The Caballsts asserted that the compose the human structure. . . . number 6 was ;potent in., mystical Every child Is unitary and unique. Never before and ;never, again can properties. The world was created In six days, the Jewish servant the exact conditions be reproduced served six years. Job' endured six for the evolution of the same being. "A child Is considered normal phystribulations, and hence the figure when he does not reveal any ically typified labor and suffering. The rabbis asserted that the letter van, pathologic disturbances that interwhich represented six, was stamped fere with his functional integrity Of on the manna, to remind the Jews with his pattern of growth development It is a negative definition exthat It fell on six days only. The number 6 was an unlucky one pressed in terms of the abnormal beat Rome. Tarqulnlus Sextus was a cause wo have more knowledge of brutal tyrant and the church was di- disease than of well being. "Clinically, It Is practical to classvided under Urban the Sixth. children in two extreme groups ify The number 7 has been invested with more mystery than all the oth- that define a wide range of norm for er digits together, and to It were any one child. . . . The one Is ascribed magic and mystical quali- dynamic and thin, and the other statties possessed by no other numbers. ic and fat" Several learned treatises have been written on this number, and sepTruly Great Man Emerson's line: ."It Is easy U tenary combinations have been sought everywhere. In an old writer the jrorld to live after the world's of two centuries ago we may read opinion ; It is easy in solitude to live why, in his opinion, the number Is after our own ; but the great man Is peculiarly excellent First he says, he who In the midst of the crowd "It Is neither begotten nor begets"; keeps with perfect sweetness the Insecondly, "It Is a harmonic num dependence of solitude." e) en four-leave- Children are all entitled to happiness, for while still children, they merit it richly. If, by and by, they turn Into crabbed, grownups, forget them.' But If you can, give them a shoulder up at a circus parade or even a seat at the big show. . i 1 f. M tit k 1l George "Baby Face" Nelson, Midwest killer and outlaw, who 13 now ranked as Public Enemy No. 1 by the Department of Justice, succeeding Charles 'Tretty Boy" Floyd, who was slain by federal agents and police In ' v N . Ohio. v TRANSPORT AID ii i . Hi the century-olprecepts of Brigham Young, these three have attained the highest offices In the Mormon religion. Left to right, y are: J. Reuben Clnrk. Jr.. first counselor: Ileber J. Grant, president; and iu 0. McKay, second counselor. Still following f d 3s 'irst in Back to the Land Movement Compared with the people of Adam's time, this generation is wise Indeed, in Much to some ways. Adam, could he return to Learn the earth, would marvel at high buildings, at automatic machinery, at ocean liners, telephones and radio. But he might discover that in some directions people of today know very little. We have, for example, still the belief that war Is Justifiable, that men and women are more often esteemed for their wealth than their brains. Nobody can say how far the march of science Is going to carry us. Almost every day we awaken to read of something new science has done, something that has been put to work for the benefit of mankind almost as soon as it was invented, which is the case with the motor car, the great steamship and railroad trains that run more than a hundred miles an hour. could the old patriarchs of whom we read in Scripture return to this world, they would probably wonder why criminals still rule But TOW'.'i.''''.!Wl':ffffi''g'' '1 '4 many districts, even many cities, why in some places children are put to work before they are strong enough to work, and why thievery and rascality is permitted to exist , at all :: Ii ; 5 'v,?l -- "i ' 11 - vv two ttrst city dweller to sign an application for on live to land the N. J. Hundreds applied for r .nt . Most of the men are on f In New otner York. They will clear the land themselves and make 'cations to the housine administration to build their homes. Ernest Jeffers was the 8 of land at Pinehurst, to till, ns n,rf Cloieti Aid to 151.1 ;'''ts often mean the difference a home which Is constantly l find nnn . . . iuai appears orueriy "t. Ko on rnrn rpnllv ton n e Ktfiigl)tpned nnlnaa Hiom to F"1 evpri'Ihins- - Nearly all are short on closet space In,!?.,n' nn(1 corners which might with little in- , y, and their ralua to the houae- - N.tn.. ttQ f U enormous. The Term "Dark Home" been The term "dark horse" has horse a Sam Flynn, attributed to Dusky trader of Tennessee. Ills horse, country in " entered Pete, was quietly attention race meet, attracted little The the won purse. and unexpectedly one thus come to describe whTwas not In the race until the last of winminute, had no expectations the gained ning, but unexpectedly prize. A Surely, the experience of all our ancestors, far back as history has been recorded, should have taught us to do better than we have done. What Is the difference between a fight between barbaric nations and a fight between two gans which are trying to beat each other to a lu crative kidnaping T We have no exact means of meaa uring the distance back to Adam, but it is n long way, and there has been plenty of time to make reforms which as yet we have not even attempted. I covered that when the purple beSees Kinship Between comes a slightly yellow Vitamins and Vision materialtransparent Is spilt off from it This The manner In which the eye material, a hitherto unknown chemworks; particularly how It perceives ical, was found to be closely related what one knows as color, la a very to carotene, which, In turn, Is a close considerable mystery. The puzzle la relative of vitamin A. Doctor Wald then actually witnot very much clarified, but Is possibly made more Interesting, by the nessed the transformation of the new recent discovery that there Is a close yellow substance Into vitamin A. relation between vitamin A and the Literary Digest rhodopsin of "visual purple" in the retina. Stamp Worth $9,000,000 It has long been known that visual Stamos valued at more than S9.- purple, which plays an Important 000,000 will be on display nt the Inpart In the functioning of the re- ternational philatelic exhibition which tinal rods. Is sensitive to light will open In v lenna, Austria, on June bleaching to a colorless material 24. One thousand prominent stamp when to illumination. collectors will take part In the exhi exposed this phenomenon, Dr bition. What Is believed to be the Watching George Wald, at the Oceanographic only existing specimen of the British Institute, Woods Hole, Mass., dis Guiana one-cestamp will be shown nt Secretary of Commerce Roper hai announced the appointment of Labcrt St Clair of New York aa transportation assistant secretary of commerce. Mr. St Clair has specialized In rail and motor transportation for 15 years, and is familiar with other forms of As long as whole cities are powerless He is the author of a standard history of all types of land, water, to keep few thick jowled racketeers and air transportation used since the from preying on the public, we can hardly congratulate ourselves as e race birth of civilization. on the record we have made since we The Choice of Muttons KCl trana-portawo- Year Around Porch Removable class panes for the porch are made to order by window id conservatory manufacturers. There are dozens of styles to harmonize with all kinds of architecture and to suit Individual tastes. The porch needs only to h insulated at the roof and floor be fore the glass is Installed and weather-strippemaking the porch a weather- iht sun room. When summer comesaa !'ln. the panes are taken down ensilly as screens are removed In the fall, and the room again becomes a pleasant open porch. d, Double Action Double Tested Manufactured by baking powder Specialists who maka nothing but baking powder under supervision of expert chemists. came into the world. While we are boasting of our progress, rascal terrorize towns and villages, and In many places when winter comes, the poor suffer from Insufficient food and raiment It seems to me that most of out boasts about what we have done are pretty futile. And I hope that men and women who live a thousand years In the future will, when they look back, have more to boast about regarding progress and kindliness and humanity than we hare today. 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