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Show ! j ! - i r f f f ' 1 w jr 1 - f - . f WnfeSw . ''W'V - . ru.Jrv .. 5 EDITORIAL COLUMN By iVepi Hicks : has a Rotary club, which like all Rotary clubs is of business men, one from each business or PROVO in our city. This organization is affiliated with the national organization of Rotary clubs, consisting of about 600 clubs in the United States, (including Honolulu, Manila, San Juan and Ponce) Great Britain, Cuba, Ujrugay and China, with a total membership of nearly 60,000: These men are presumed to be leading men in their business or profession and of high moral standard. Their activities cover a wide scope, but one of the most important is work a boy's committee, and in among the boys. Every club-ha- s are 'noble a many-citiWorkf endeavoring to ' they doing make the boy of today, the clean, moral and honest man of tomorrow. There is much in Provo that such an organization could find to do in assisting the boys of our community. One of ' the things that we think of at this time is the work of converting the many vacant lotsin Provo into beautiful and profitable gardens. Each year the needs of a movement that would encourage our boys in working these lots comes mp for discussion. Certain emphasis was given to the value , f such a work during one year of the war and the results were surprisingly gratifying. The boys in this, as in all communities, need encouragement and we hope the boys committee of the Provo Rotary club will make an effort to 5 i get the "boys started in a campaign whereby the products of their work woiild notpnly he of great benefit to them individually but a benefit to the community at large; and while such a service is only one of many that might be sug- ge&ted, we commend it to the consideration of the Rotar- - - - --- (QfCOBFOBATED BY lTHB STATS OF KEW YOU) Total Amount of, Outstanding Insurance Larger than that of any other Company in the More than has ever been placed in one year by any Company in - and paid for in 1919 jplacesd The largest amount ever placed Number of Policies in Force December 31, 1919 ' Gain in Number of Outstanding Policies Larger than any Company in s 1,986,410 s . . t - - HE boy who is allowed to reach twelve years pf age r without doing a bit of honest work other than mere school work, wont as a rule, do much good in life. A mother cannot begin too early in teaching the lesson that is one of the chief ends of life, yet copniless mothers ' .are shocked at the very idea. jThese'mothers are bringing up their boys in idle and lazy habits, and most undoubtedly such training tells in after life. It may be asked ; What . does one mean by work? Anything that calls" forth muscular application, coupled with a trifle of mental effort-k- nife cleaning or spoon cleaning, or boot blacking, and a hundred other small things. We have actually seen a delicate, tired ' looking mother remove the boots from the feet of a burly, healthy, strong, twelve-year-ol- d boy who has just come in after romping about in the mud. After removing the boots, J she carefully scraped the mud off, wiped the leather with. a doth, and set them aside before she polished. Meanwhile the boy playing on the floor with a half a dozen marbles., The mother was teaching a fearful lesson in more ways than one. She was teaching the boy to be lazy and idle ; shn - way training him to lean on others rather than depend on himself ; and she was killing his respect for womankind by allowing him to understand that all dirty work of a home should fall on a womans shoulders. It may be asked : What aort of a strong boy will stand by and see all this happen without offering to lend a hand? If you ask that you dont know boys. A boy will naturally shirk work if permitted to do so; very few boys of their own initiative will tackle work unless set to do it. The desire and inclination to work are not born; they have to be taught just as is the We take it that the successful men of the world are those whose mothers taught them to work and the failures in life are those whose mothers blackened their boots .. k 7'.. for them as childre- n- Teach, a boy that to Work shoulcf be 'T his greatest object. You thus prepare him for the battle of life, and send him out into the world well armed to join the fray in which the weaker invariably go to the wall. It is not ' harsh to set a boy to perform little tasks after school hours too not of them; nor yet too hard ones, but just many . sufficient to let him understand that he must fill n. useful place in the world, and by his own exertions to do all he can to further the happiness and comfort of those around him. ' Hake him carry coal or wood, or an hour in the garden never let him be actually jdle, for .thus you create the loafer. , i t I 1 i x. f-- f , r ! it - v 1 !!', L ! : Dont imagine you . stand s lot of that . f i Averaging one policy Amount paid to in 1919 Policy-holde- rs , a 4 f i 1 1 i y ft JJ r m - - . Policy-hOldS- i r.- -r- w Reduction in general mortality at ages 1 to 74 in 8 yearn 17.9 per cent Typhoid reduction, 69 per cent.; Tuberculosis, over 33 per cent.: Heart disease, over 23 per cent.; Brights disease, over 25 per cent.; b jedious diseases of children, over 46 per cent. general reduction and in each case of disease, this is far greater than that shown by ... In 4Ajeeat3e$SHeiBi , statistics of the Registration Area of the United States. Death Rate for 1919 lowest in History of Company. Ut Tbs Correct Wort. Polish King, s Wu Old Brown wont Uve Ion; be has In 17M, on. the 11th of April. Sttuv lelnus Ponlnlowskl, the last kins of one foot In the srate already." --Ton taean one foot' In the grave." Poland, died.- ' Ponlatownkl ascended "No hes going to be cremated." conPolish The . throne to,1764. the dition of Poland required a strong man on the throne-tkeep the country ' tn a Book from row.' And Stanislaos lacked the Store. " and necessary strength statesmanship, Cntomer Have yon a book of synoRussia, Prussia and Aietrla divided nyms? this kingdom among then, and the do Green Clerk ni see, madame. (To posed king retired to Petrograd on S department bead:) Do we carry Ur. pension, here be died In 1793. Synonyms works? o A t ,9hv4-- . T , I. '-, r'-.- The Golden y TnVV' - J (k i . t- - TP -- f. V n: :1 , ; V to the 'g Worlds 1 reasury ' rA HA V s'' it y. StybX i tf ,v Ray Lawwrence, Who Comes to. the Columbia Wedaday as One Of the Big Attractions, Along With Ray Comes Eddie Foy (Himself) and the Little Foys This is the First Time Provo Has Had the Opportunity of Playing Such A Bgi Time Act. 7 STARR PHONOGRAPH by demonstration or cbmparison in your home without obli- gation. . 1 of Music!; Let us prove the i rgaUi , Bringing the total distribution to over 200,000,000. - - $73,581,759.91 Metropolitan men distributed over Twelve Millions of , pieces of literature on health - home is the worlds greatest savings bank. and thrift are attributes of any man who owns a of plot ground and builds a home on it. , Homes yield the highest interest of any bank in' the . world. Besides being a paying investment in a financial way, a home creates greater earning ability The home .owner is a citizen of the communityr He is interested in seeing property valije increase. ur He is also a better work- " man. - It is estimated that one million news homes are needed in the United States. All realize to some extent how urgent is the need for more homes. Building is delayed in the hope that soon labor conditions will become more favorable. " Waiting for reduction in construction costs is Wasting lime, for prices of materials, are not likely to decline until there is a reaction in wage scales. Price of building materials is made up of labor costs plus the cost of raw mater-ial- s. Production .and transportation of raw materials are labor items. There can be no drog in selling prices without . i the corresponding drop in production and transportation . costs. . 289,125" Metropolitan Nurses made 1,300,883 visits free of charge to 256,000' J fi , 7 sick Industrial THE - ,ur fcM.in,'' - Payment of claims averaged f505S3 a minute cf each business day of 8 hours. f ; $29,085,337.17 paid for every 30 seconds of each business day of 8 hours. will kill your precious ones boys can form of killing. Good Citizen. 0- $835,736,487.38 . THE HOME BUILDING CAMPAIGN 1''--, 1 ' . rj ? . C, 1 $864,821,824.55 $89,367,126.27 Larger than that oj any other Company in the. Wceld. . 1 21,770,671 in one year. the World has ever gained Assets I Increase in Assets during 1919 -- I . Larger than that of any other Company in America. 1 : $914,140,618 More than ever has been gained in one year by any Company in the World. ip ! the World. - Gain in Insurance in Force in 1919 - y $1,418,681,492 in one year by any Company in -- y $508,590,405 More than has ever been p laced in one year by any Company in the World. Total Insurance -- O- I'Z $910,091,087 the World. . , ent $5,343,652,4)4. Industrial (weekly premium) Insurance paid for in 1919 7 Vice-Presid- World. Ordinary (annual premium) Life Insurance paid for in 1919 . i H. ECKER, FREDERICS HALEY FISKE, President . TEACH HIM TO WORK, -- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company X ' -- es . Largest Life Insurance Business in the World A SUGGESTION TO THE ROTARY CLUB. P . . 4 i fV anV-O- -J OST, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1920. PROVO I -W y rtvr r Sfc?5.Sv .3U, O RASSMUSSEN MUSIC CO. 336 West Center |