OCR Text |
Show VOLUME XXXIII PAYSON, NUMBER 5 Farmers Urged to Organize UTAH, NOVEMBER 25, 1921 PRICE, FIVE Prominent Labor Leader Asks Red Cross Drive is Continuedfor One Week and Reap Full Benefit of Federal Farm Loan Act Called for Saturday Evening at City Hall, When Proposition Will be Explained Fully. Future of the harming Depends on Meeting Action Says Local Banker.. For Evolution of Modern Owing to delay in the arrival of supplies, the period during which membership in the American Red Cross will be accepted has been extended for one week, and the campaign will not close until December 2. Those desiring to renew their membership may pay the fee, $1, at the following places: Payson Exchange Savings Bank, State Bank of Payson, Farmers Mercantile ., The Fair, Modern Pharmacy, Shuler Motor Co., J. A. Loveless, Page Furniture Company, Colvin-ReecCompany, B. F. Ott, and the Paysonian Post Office, Schramm-Johnson- , office. The annual meeting of the Payson Branch will be held in the rooms of the Payson public library on the evening of December 2, at 8 oclock. "All members are urged to attend. Officers for the ensuing year will be elected. School Systems in America Secretary Declares Present Methods Do Not Give Proper Equipment. Says Children Face Life With Unworthy Tools. New Suggestions Are Offered. Co-op- e By JAMES J, DAVIS, For the purpose of organizing a Federal Farm Loan Secretary of Labor. association, that full benefit may be derived from the provisions Editors Note. James J. Davis of the federal farm loan act, through the War Finance corporain labor circles throughout the known all others men 'and business tion, a meeting of the farmers, United States. The mere fact that interested in the building up of farm interests, has been called he was made a member of the Presidents cabinet at a time when The hall. in the November 26, meeting city for Saturday night, C. B. HANCOCK DIES ANGEL OF DEATH keenest brains of the nation the the and will be presided over by Charles H. White, probably, wero needed to guide its destiny of shows in itself that ho is n man whose workings of the War Finance corporation in the matter AFTER LONG LIFE OF CLAIMS ONE OF MOST opinions must bo rspected. loaning money to the farmers will be explained by local bankers, GREAT USEFULNESS RESPECTED MATRONS The nntionnl systm of education thoroughly in touch with the situation. business and its and farming The salvation of Payson needs reformation. It has stood still in its fundamentinterests depends on the manner in which the farmers take Suocked Wan important Character In Progress als while every other art and science Is Untimely by said local a Community the made offers government, by advantage of the has advanced. Demise of Greatly Esteemed and Upbuilding of States banker this morning. Through organization the farmers may Tho American youth of today is beWoman. borrow money with which to pay off their obligations and give Utah and Idaho. ing turned out of schools not fitted them working capital, at 6 per cent interest, while the banks to give his best in the battle that an are compelled, in the ordinary course of business, to charge ten Mrs Charles Cravens, wife of C. B. ever growing complex economic situHancock, one of tho most im. of a carried for be loans The period interest. may cent demands. Ho is being bedecked ation per Charles Cravens, died quite suddenly portant characters in the history of 6 cent the and educational with paid annually and one-thirper thirty-thre- e years, this morning at the family home in Utah nnd southern Idaho, died at his pretties, a dress Mortuniform must bo cast asido to time. that in that will clear off both interest and principal this city. The immediate cause of homo in this city early this morning. to tho drab of the .dull gages will be taken on lands under the Strawberry project and of death was septimaonua, following He had boon in poor health for quite give place and the he lose time garb an amount equal to 40 or 50 per cent of the valuation of the land child birth. The infant failed to a long time, and death was due to working in is that a mnking charge precious infirmaries incident to old age, will be loaned. The four per cent difference between the survive, time of strength and enthusiasm, of in Glasgow, born was Cravens Mr. Mrs, Hancock was born in Ogden interest charged by the government and that charged by the Scotland, in 1880, and came to this plastic years that yield too easily the son-e- f C. pa 1851, Janumry rimes to tho fingers Of i.,. many banks will more than pay the water charges. country with her parents when sho B. Hancock and Samantha P. and environment, of ideals that Every farmer and business man is urged to attend the was' two years of age. The family When ho was but (4 few months may bo shuttered by tho rude hand of located at Helper. On May 22, 1902, old his parents moved to Payson, necessity. meeting. Children should be trained to d . Raw-so- Miss Edna Cowan of Halt Lake is WILDE-TALBOspending her Thanksgiving vacation Mr. and Mrs. John Wilde announce with her Mr. and Mrs. parents, the marriage of their daughter, Miss Frank Cowan. Sue Wilde, to T. H. Talbot of Los Angeles, at Los Angeles, Cal., on. day. The ceremony Thanksgiving was performed in the Presbyterian j church. The young couple will make their home in the California city. Prize Offered For Best Xmas Story NIGHT COURSES OFFERED AT PROVO UNIVERSITY A number of night classes in busiat the ness have been organized through university Youg Brigham inthe extension division of that The courses being offered stitution. at present include, advanced accountcommercial law, ing, by Dean Iloyt; Edward Johnson and by Professor J. Mr. Mathelementary accounting by each meets course The latter ew. 7 oclock at the Thursday evening at high university Young Brigham school building. DiThese courses, according to nssist to are designed rector Nelson, men and women who aspiring young 1 through the clay, and aro employe are denied the privilege of attending but the Tegular university courses, their who are desirous of augmenting education. coursA great many correspondence extension the es are also offered by - wide range cf division, covering ait possible for and making subjects time into their spare turn to people home. at study profitable 1 SARAH JOLLY, ONE OF EARLY PIONEERS, 5. DEAD Mrs. Rairah Jolly, who was among to Payson, the first settlers to come this Friday in home city died at her illness of several bom in Galveston, years ago. She a young girl when to Payson and and suffered all of the hardships those times. to incident privations Her husband died many years ago, children and she is survived by two ifrs. John It. Wilson of this city, and Cal. Joseph Jolly of Montague, be The funeral announcement will made Intel, night after an weeks. She was e Texas, eighty-on- little of its England manufactures The greater part of her ice. l in supply comes from Norway fast wooden ships. own spo-rin- Ark was The wood of which the sciidentified many by lniilt has boon as cypress. entists The Paysonian is preparing to publish a Christmas edition, to be out on December 1C. It will contain many unique features and it w ill bo the - effort to make the edition one of the best that lias ever appeared in Utah county. For the Christmas edition the editor wants a good Christmas story and that local talent may be given ni test The Paysonian will give a prize of $10 for tho best Christmas story and $5 for the second best. The contest will be open only to students of the elementary grades of the schools of the Ncbo district. The stories must bo thoroughly original in The ideas, plot and construction. following conditions will be observed: First The story must not be less than 1,000 woids in length, nor more than 1,500 words in length. Second Only one story will bo each elementary accepted from school in tho district, the one acThis will cepted being the best. necessitate an elimination contest and this elimination eonlest nay be conducted under such conditions as the principals of tho various schools of the district may deter, ' mine. Third All stories must bo in the r.iiysoiiinn not later than December 1. Fourth Each story must be signed by a nom de plume and be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the ieal name of tho Those author. desiring manushould enclose the returned script necessary postage. Fifth. All stories must bo written o, the typewriter, on one side of the paper only. Sixth.The prize winning stor ies will be published in the Christmas edition of Tho raysonian. Seventh. Address nil communications to The Paysonian, Payson, Utah, care of Btory Contest she was married to Mr. Cravens, and and he lived in this city until 18C8 since that time had made her home whon the family removed to Harris-villin Payson. She in survived by her in Weber In 1870 he o eounty. four was ordained a priest by Daniel . B. years old. Rawson. On September 27, 1874, he The fuueral will be held from the was married to Louise A. Shnrtliff Presbyterian church on Sunday af- in the endowment Wild-mahouse, Salt Lake. 2 ternoon at oclock, the Rev. In 1878 Mr. Hancock moved to the Murphy officiating. Marsh valley, Ida., and became supTho unrest that has descended on erintendent of the Sunday school, the world as the aftermath of the that for twenty-seveholdng position great war, together with the disturb1885 In he wan ordained years. ance of trade, unemployment ajid other evils, followed after the Napo- a high priest by John Henry Smith Of course, in those at. Franklin, Ida. He bceamo second leonic wars. days it did not affect America in counsellor to Bishop M. L. Truell of the same fashion as the aftermath tho Marsh valley ward, and in 1900 of the world war does today. This at Pocatello, Ida,, ho was made country was too far . removed from Europe in the days of the sailing high counsellor to. Ho was ordainol vessels and it did not depend to a patriarch of Portnouf stake of Zion such a great extent on exports and by Francis M. Lyman on August 15, 1915, at Downey Ida. foreign trade for its prosperity. It is interesting, however, to noto Mrs. Hancock died on April 25, with what similarity tho situation in 1915, leaving nino children, all of whom are now married. Hancock England has shaped itseli to that of married Matilda D. Hancock of Pay-somore than a century ago. on September 29, 1915, and the William Cobbctt, famous political disfollowing year moved to Payson the of told writer' and reformer, illusionment and discontent that fol- to make his home. The children are Charlowed immediately after tho end of les W. surviving Hancock of Blnekfoot,, Ida. In his tho war with Napoleon. George A. Hancock of Downey, Ida., .Weekly Political Register for October John R. Hancock of Riverside, Utah, wrote: ho 28th, 1815, Ida Bowman, and Alvin C. Hancock beEveryone, however ignorant, of Downey Ida., Chloe Curtis of gins to perceive that this career of Pocatello, Ida., Alma O. Hancock ol war and this harvest of glory have Blackfoot, Ida., Louisa Hadfield of do not yielded happiness. People Riverside end Louis Hancock of not know how it is; but they know Ida. There aro forty-onDowny in distress. Agriculthat they are gramkhildren. ture languishes; trade follows agriThe funeral will bo held from t lie culture; nobody has money to pay Nebo toStake tabernacle rent, tnxos, or debts. morrow afternoon immediately after the session of the., quarterly conferFarmers Suffered. ence. The body will bo taken to A corn bill has not protected the Downey, Ida., for inerment. The cheapness of food has farmer. Mr. Hancock was one of tne t not lessened the misery of the poor. men of his time. Jt. was interThe nation perishes ested in the construction of railroads Nothing sells. in the midst of the spending of the school houses nlnd public buildings in produce of successive abundant har- southern Idaho, and in the progress The people do not perceive of Idaho and Utah he was an imvests. the real cause of their distress. The portant character. fanner sees his wheat fall from 15s. He ascribes it to PRIZE UNCLAIMED. to 7s. a bushel. the defeat of Napoleon, and says Tho Fourth of July committee that he was the best friend of the that it is still holding the Others damn the French, farmers. and say that it is their produce that cash prize awarded to the Bee Hive lowers ours in price. Nobody sees, Girls for the best float in the - pahr, at least, appears to see, that their rade. It will bo paid on application distress arises from the debt and the to Barry Tipton. military establishment and other fixCAUSE OF DELAY. ed expenses entailed on ns by the is which n.Pd from the attempt war, Ouing to an accident to the linnow making to bring us upon a par of exchange with other countries, by otype this issue of tho Paysonian is diminishing the quantity of our pa- late and lacking in its usual news features. per money. husband and one CENTS daughter, n .r. e fore-bios- ters the world wise enough, but bewildered and helpless. act-uall- y Chances foe Youth I would not for anything surrender or curtail tho training wo. should give our children in apprecia n of the fine things of life. But long ngo it struck mo that for the saltoy of the individual and for the safety of tho country, the ideal system of education for the average young boy or girl in our land constituted of at least a high school training and tho acquisition of some practical- trade. This has been no idle theory of mine. The theory has been in practical operation in the home school started and niaintnined by the Loyal Order of Moose at Mooseheart, not fa from Chicago, along tho Fox stiver in Hlinos. Exports have been generous enough to praise this experiment in tho highest toms. They have pronounced it not simply a remarkably successfully thing in itself, but a model to the Test of the country in sound education. The idea of Moosohoart occurred to mo when I was- - a worscr in the iron mills of Pittsburgh. There I saw heads of families die and leave their dependents totally helpless, the chilcircum-stanc- c dren with little or nd education and drivon to work without the slightest ' training. Often they wero dispersed so that brothers grew up apart fnd of the finest things in life unknown to Tiach other throughout but they can never secure tbose fine their lives. things unless they are equipped to exWhat MOvneart Is. pend to best advantage every power Mooseheart is not an institution. It nature gavo them at birth and Americas educational system today is neg- is not a sectarian retreat. It is not lecting too many of thoso powers and a reformatory. It has no officialdom to rule it. From the first it has been feeding to excess ot-a- . We Americans have long been Just a free and untrammeled experiment ly proud of our froo public school sys In the first place, Mooseheart is a tern. For the moro life we home. Mothers otro there, s that lived a dozen years ago it did very they need not be separated from their well. Now. it seems to me, our deep- children. Babies have been born est, fundamental notions of what a there, of expectant mothers loft with system of scrooiing should be are in out aid by less fortunate members need a We of tho order. This homo at Moose-hear- t complete reshaping. is a comfortable little town of liavcbeen sending our children out into the world to work their way hoinos( cottages, offices, school buildupward, but with blunted tools in ings, work shops, a hospital, an audtheir hands. Now they need more itorium and everything thut belongs accurate fitting for tho work they are to a homo community. Tho tract ' consists of more than 1,000 acres, to do, and we must supply it. and the farm that snpplics it with Lifes Real Needs. milk and other foods is at the same Let us look at the mutter moro in time a model school of agriculture. detail. Every year a certain pro- In tho midst of the place is a.lako for water sports nnd the wholesome portion of our children must begin work and leave school at tho end of exercise they promote. And we have not a football field, a basethe grammar grades. They leave ball forgotten diamond and a playing space for these grades with the elements of all. We havo an orchestra and a arithmetic, geography, history, English nml other languages- - hardly band of more than 100 pioees. The much more. Those who are fortunate students who form these bodies do not Kimply scrape end foot and make enough to finish high school have, of a noise; they arc under the trailing course gone much farther into mathof a skilled and inspired instructor ematics f.nd history nnd tho languaand they play the best of music and acand the into nnd ges, past present sad tivities of tho world wliat we call play it well. Some of the houses were designed by ' Moose-hear- t buildings makBut the I am cosmogony. point students from materials shaping is thut this sytem of education ed in tho schools nnd shops. While strikes me as bcgining at the end the students were about it they fashi-inno- il instead of at the bcgining. All those ornaments for these buildings studies given onr Children have been as well ns blocks and lath. useful enough, but except for mathematics n.nd English study, they all School Is Gaining. fo-a training constitute the finer Even now barely well begun, tilings of life rather than for lifes Mooseheart has grown in the eight practical needs. Let me hasten to say that 1 am not years of its life so that 1,034 chilfor curtailing in any measure the dren, from babyhood to young man training of the very humblest of our nnd womanhood, enjoy its advantachildren for enjoyment of the finest ges. It is distinctly on the make. things in life. The point is that this Wo rare now building a "village for training should como at the proper babies under school age. They retime nnd that life can moan nothing ceive, in babyhood, a care that is to him until he has been taught some scientific and practical but yet symmens of earning his livelihood. Our pathetic ami homelike. At .every colleges themselves yearly release to stage all institutionalism is carefully the world great crowds of eager voting avoided. Tho chldron wear individ-people highly trained in the apprecia- mil clothing and when they arrive at tion of lifes finest things. They a suitable age they select their own.-A- t still later ago they make their know- tho great deeds ad tro great works of art of the far past. They own. At all times they romp tohave a deep understading of natural gether as a huge hnppv family, as law. They have been much as possible out of doors in nnd economic "understand to and enjoy life, tho country air and subject to the aught and measure the present against the influences of the natural loveliness s background of the past. But all this about them. At Mooseheart' i spared. We find it en effective for enjoyment nnd understanding, the nrisbo-- ( it is not for training for actual punishment to reprive work. Many a college graduate en Continued an Pago d.) easy-goin- , " - the-rod-i- |