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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHI, UTAH Sole Guardian' of Health of 13,000,000 People MODERN MAKERS OF LIVE SLANG Pk Ten Writers Get Credit for Enriching Language. ".'. I . - y- unit y . - t TrmiMririin iiiimwii iian i! ftfj i .' rrr iiinirt r Win-cbel- - n Dr. Percy T. Watson, director of the Fenchow hospital In Shansl province, China, the sole guardian of the health the members of his family after he returned to his Minnesota home at Northfield to spend a year's vacation. All of the children were born In China. of some 13,000,000 Chinese, is here shown with President's Mother Judges a Baby Contest . ,.. Si. 5 fx 1 I Wilfred J. Funk knows word He ought to, because be publishes dictionaries and writes poetry highly but both dissimilar occupations, dealing in words. So be may properly qualify as an expert on slang. One feels that he Is a bit too exclusive, however, in crowning only ten Americans as the fathers of modern slang, or the argot of Americana, if you must give your slang a highbrow labei This is said in no disparagement of the niugniflcent audacity with which the ten be mentions have committed mayhem on innocent English. The ten fcime Silverman, IL L. Mencken, T. A. Dorgan, Walter Bugs liner. Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Gelett Burgess, George Ade and Gene Buck are leaders, no doubt, in the creation of the new and startling jargon. But their task is shared by thousands of others, mosUy anonymous, who dally are coining new language and putting it into circulation. The chances are that the most popular and enduring examples of slang, should they be traced to their birth by a careful scholar, could not be given a definite paternity. Like Topsy. they Just grew. Not a few of them grew on the sport pages of American newspapers. Witness the verb to Merkle, or to pull a Merkle, which arose from an unfortunate but spectacular incident in a certain world series of 20 years ogo. And long before the modern Anier- - - - ; f; r t fiii L ! 0$ black marble. hair-splitter- s. All cleaned up, end Micast The Manager What made you fall down on the duet with your wife? You sang it all right with Mrs. Tonsils. With my wife it The Tenor seemed too much like Interrupting her. 'I onlyScapIui Removing spark plug oxide coating gets rid of the chief cause of sluggishness, hard startlnt Blisters, cracked skin. Itching- or burning soon relieved and healing; Dtomotcd with toothinc - JlesinoU WNU 3734 W CtEANED SPARK PLUGS GW MOTORS THE SPARK OP UFE... SAVE GAS . . . SNAP UP PERFORMANCE loss of power. All Registered AC Cleaning Stations are ready NO V to clean your spark plugs. Ic costs so little means so muck I Replace badly worn plugs vfih new ACs. 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I X - s , 1 a(J HdDTTEIL J, i They're Calling Admiral Byrd - surrounding g "fewest Hotel IflK"? 5 Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the President, acted as Judge of a baby contest at the Dutchess County fair at Poughkeepsle, N. Y. The photograph shows, left to right, Clay Bridges, second prize winner, with his mother; Mrs. James Roosevelt; Madeleine Pearl Holder, first prize winner, In her mother's arms, and Shirley Ann Hick, third prize winner, and her mother. j.-- . from Salt Lake City's , rr- V , Stone tains which has been used "for s time on roads in three villa-e- a Miskolcz. Hungary, has teB . Clared by experts to be higb-q- , THE y - COSTLY ROAD MATERIAL X 7 ft':- l. lean uport page bloomed to its present flower of lingual license, slang was being built in the same manner. Artemus Ward. Orpheus C. Kerr and 1'etroleunt V. Nasby were doing it half a century or more ago. And before them were other generations of atslang founders. Rome of them In their fame of a bit day. tained Most of them are forgotten. Bong ago the wise began to recognize that slang is good English In the making. They poo poohed cbe strictures of the purists and Is now In Much the dictionaries, frequently without the patronizing label of "colloquial" Happily all slang does not make the grade of good, or accepted English. Frequently it Is not apt and falls of its own weight Good slang (and we maintain that the definition is valid) should be direct, illuminating, a detour to greater clarity along the sometimes tedious highways of language. As such it merits a permanent place in the language and if It is good enough it will attain it Cleveland Plain Dealer. 1; it .s tlSsX s v :4' ' i v s tii 1 , irwnfru Upton Sinclair, Socialist, who turned Democrat and won the nomination for governor of California. CZECH CHAMPION Short of hanging, banishment to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), was the worst penalty inflicted on offend ers a century ago. The six farm laborers of Tolpuddleu, sentenced for combining In a trade union, whose centenary was commemorated by the trades union congress this August, were sent there. Mr. Stanley Unwin, the publisher, and Mr. Severn Storr have visited the remains of this dread penal set tlement at Port Arthur in Tasman's peninsula. Near a peaceful beach, shaded by gigantic gum trees, they state in "Two loung Men See the World," they found the ruins of the village and prison with its exercise "silent cell" for yards, pitch-blacprisoners who raved, and long triangular cages. "Each man was let loose In a cage to himself for an hour or so a day, during which time he could neither speak nor make signs to the man 'In the next cage to him without earning extra punishment. Here he clanked up and down, up and down, in his heavy irons that tore the skin from his ankles and wrists, more unhappy, poor wretch, than the wildest of wild A? : T Argentine Training Ship at New York i I s ( e arm-bon- e leg-bon- tor-race- s, whiie necessary on all cultivated land subject to erosion, are not alone' sufficient to prevent losses of soil between terraces. Fertile soil and needed water are lost by sheet erosion and run off. These stations have shown that this low can be reduced by strips of cover crops supplementing the terraces. The Iowa station has shown by extensive tests that many farms are being washed away at the rate of 1 foot every 60 years. When corn Is grown continuously, the loss takes place at about 1 foot every 36 yeat-Whecorn rows run across the slope, the losses are cut in half. Losses from land in alfalfa, clover, and are very small. When sweet clover was plowed under soli and water losses were strikingly reduced. From the Far West the Washing ton station reports results of studies on soil representative of large areas In eastern Washington. Winter wheat as h or one-hal- f yielded only whlc on land acre bushels per many had lost Its topsoll because of erosion. Yields' of spring wheat were even less favorable. Here, too, It was proven that vegetation, whether ot grasses, legumes, or even grain stiifc-ble- , went a long way toward sol and water losses. dently, this man had escaped, contrived by almost superhuman efforts to break his fetters, and struggled on until he collapsed and died. The penitentiary itself was a huge building of two floors where some of the convicts worked. If a convict rebelled, his irons were made heavier, his meager diet was reduced, his term of solitary confinement prolonged, or he would be put to grind cayenne pepper the worst task of all. Some convicts became beasts!" warders, and these proved the most For one man, who had the strength brutal of alL "We look back In won. of a gorilla and doubled up ordinary der," the two travelers remark, "at iron bars In his grip, a special cell the callous inhumanity of those had' been built; for another, a special days." run and house, because the horrors of the chain gangs had driven him Girli Unit Enemy Tribes mad and no one dared go near him Through the work of Girl Guides It Is recorded that sometimes, when in Africa two native tribes, ISO miles two prisoners were confined together apart, which have been enemies for they drew lots to decide who should centuries, have decided to be friends. strangle .the other and be hanged Each tribe has its Girl Guide comfor it pany, and they decided this year to Across the small bay was another have a Joint camp. The Invitation building, Point Puer, where Juvenile was sent from tribe number one. prisoners were housed. Adjacent was The Guides of tribe number two reit steep rock overhanging a lagoon, sponded and waUed the entire 180 called "Suicide Cliff," because here miles for a fortnight's fellowship. the lads used to throw themselves to The shyness of the first few hours death. Amid the ruins of Port Ar- was soon broken, as with their leadd walls of a once ers they Joined In preparing the thur are the beautiful church which one of the common meal and helping the old Poor Aim convicts designed, buying his free- people in the village. In doing their Pedestrian I say, you just missed deeds they soon became dom for work that Is superb even In good Older members of the me. friends. Its ruined state. Motorist Well, stand still and III Many daring and ghastly attempts tribes liked the friendship Idea and at escape were made, but "once the adopted It try again. Answers Magazine, k These little penguins, natives of the South pole regions, recently gave Ibelr first radio broadcast from station KFSD at the San Diego zoo, and were M doubt hoping that Admiral Byrd In his Little America home was listening In. A measure of the nationwide Interest in controlling soil erosion and water runoff is found in the latest report of the United States Department of Agriculture n the work of the state experiment stations. With esprisoners had contrived to elude the annual loss from soil erosion timated at not less than $400,000,008, their would-bcaptors and gained wits the mainland of Tasmania, it meant the department, In certain death from starvation in the experiment stations and other state Impenetrable bush, or murder and agencies, is attacking the probteaf cannibalism among their own ranks along two lines. Research as to the best ways u If there were several In their party." control erosion is being carried oa Only a few months before the visit of Mr. Unwin and Mr. Storr, a wood- in all parts of the United States. man had made a gruesome discovery Control measures thus discovered on the densely wooded slopes of are put to immediate use by Civiilaa Mount Arthur a human skeleton Conservation corps boys who to with the broken Iron fetters still more than a dozen states are planting trees and other soil binding and clinging to Beside It, in a straight row, lay the crops, building terraces and building buttons that had adorned the con- dams to control flood water. Krosion studies at the Alabama vict's clothes in "those bygone days of harsh tongue and cruel lash." Evi- and Texas stations show that n blue-gras- $ . v s 'Ms W v v s. W ,'ss"', fcLi Vi, ' .I..,., is j iV i i 1 i N The Presidents Sarmlento, training ship from Argentina, photographed as he arrived In the IIudcn river at Nv York. She Is carrying the naval cadets a a long cruise. Roderick Menzel, tennis champion of Czechoslovakia, Is shown here as he arrived at New York to compete In coming net tournaments In America. Diamond-Bearin- g Ostrich Not long ago a law was passed la South Africa prohibiting the shooting of ostriches In the diamond fields of the Kalahari desert Numerous hunt-er- s, even special expeditions, were killing them rapidly for the diamonds that were sometimes found la their stomachs. One bird had seventy-one- , one of which weighed more than seven carats. Collier's Wpekly. s one-tent- ca-trollin- g ivy-cla- |