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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHL, UTAH STILL FAITH IN CURSE POTENCY Modern Man Has Not Outgrown Old Superstition. r--"A-F: Ancient Egyptians are acquiring an undeserved reputation for eSciency la curses, remarks Science Service. The curse of a pharaoh's tomb Is today spoken of with awe as somer In thing superior and malevolent power. But the Egyptians were no more given to concocting curses than any other people, and there is no reason for singling them out according to Dr. George S. Duncan, professor of Egyptology at the American university. Dr. Duncan has made a survey of curses In Egypt, Babylonia and Israel, and be reported the results recently before the Americas Oriental society, meeting in Philadelphia. There are 195 curse verses in the Bible, mostly in the Old Testament Doctor Duncan has counted them. Again and again Bible characters went op to a mountain top, to be near the source of power, and from that high place caWed down wrath of heaven on evildoers. Gerlzlm and Ebal, two peaks, came to be associated with such rites. Gerlzlm was a mountain for blessing and Ebal for curses. Curses were common In Babylonia, reported Doctor Duncan. It was customary to put curses on landmarks and boundary lines, so that anyone who Interfered with them would be punished. There were no fences, but the people believed that one who broke the property laws would be visited by sickness or other misfortune as a result of the curse. The curse was depended on to work, whether the law actually caught the offender or not Origin of the dependence on curses Doctor Duncan attributes to old, old belief in good and evil spirits In the world. Prehistoric man, far back in the Stone age, was ridden by superstitions, as he began to put two and two together, and saw more than coincidences when evil followed some particular situation. In time he began to try to control the powers himself. There were always enough misfortunes, small or large, happening to any man to prove that he was "cursed" If he was gullible enough to believe that. Prehistoric man was gullible. So were the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians. So were tne people of extra-siniste- 4 V r- - ?fr ' "v Ik' MHHMMMHlH Hudson River Vista From West Point. Prepared by National Georraphlc Society. Washington. D. C NTJ Service. have New and well-likenclosure ten feet underground which Is something of a mystery. Who dug It and for what purpose It was used, Is a problem historians are attempting to solve. New York, the Empire state, from colonial times has been a state of startling discoveries and marvelous development More than 11 years before Plymouth Rock and less than three years after Jamestown,' a - sword-gir- t figure In steel corselet and plumed helmet stood i proudly defiant before a band of Indians, The scene was the shore .4' ; val-- i of a luke in a mountain-bordereley, the time the morning of July 30, AKCHEOLOGISTS e ' hos-.j.tll- e . . d 1009. As the redskin warriors rush toward '. . ( :' ' ? J him with bloodcurdling war cries, the Intrepid adventurer Is unperturbed. Not until the savages approach within bowshot does he move. Then he raises his arquebus and fires. Three of the four leaden slugs find their mark. Two chiefs fall dead and one of their braves clutches at a mor-flaring-muzzle- tal d wound. Samuel de Champiain, the great French explorer, to win the favor of I the Hurons of the St. Lawrence coun- try, thus brought war Into that de-'- , lectable land which we now call the ' state of New York. The Immediate result of that shot ' on the shores of Lake Champiain was victory. Though the martial Iroquois for generations had schooled them-- , selves to face death In every form that Bavage cunning and barbaric cruelty could Invent, still, for the moment, they could not stand up against this new, Btrange weapon that spoke with the voice of thunder and flashed with the tongue of lightning. Shot Gave Region to the English. Who can measure the full consequences of that shot! ?' The enmity toward the French It engendered In the breasts of the Iroquois forever sealed that land to 'French colonization and made the Iroquois lifelong allies of the English, I who were soon to arrive. ? It made northeastern New York the Belgium of the colonial wars, with the fertile Champiain valley as the immediate objective, but with all America as the ultimate prize. It raised Crown "Point and Tlconderoga, and led Wolfe and Montcalm the one to victory and the other to defeat, but both to death to that fateful field on the Plains of Abraham before Quebec. That shot. Indeed, led to the lowering of the flag of France from the parapets of New France and to the hoisting of the Union Jack of Britain over the latitudes above the St. Lawrence. J One well might believe New York would speak French today tnstead of English ; that there would be no United States, If Champiain had come first to the forest at the foot of the Adiron-dack- s with peace Instead of war. Statistics seldom sparkle, but once In a while some of them tell so eloquent a story that they are actually Their measure of New dramatic. Tork's place In our country's economic situation discloses that the state, with of the nation's land only h and only of Its popuhitlon, s contributes of its bank of Its taxable clearing ; earns of Us Income; possesses bank deposits; produces In scores of of Its manufactures. other ways tbey add to this brilliant record of human achievement. Whoever wanders from the overpowering roar of the mighty, canyons of Manhattan, np the Hudson and through the Mohawk valley to Buffalo, and thence to the Inspiring thunders of the waters of Niagara, noting as he goes the mighty artery of commerce and Industry that ties them together, discovers that within ten lane In miles of this America 80 per cent of the state's population work like the beavers that once roamed where they live, to serve varied needs of the nation. What the Erie Canal Meant New York's people have ever been ready to capitalize every advantage of geography. They built their chief city at the crossroads between New England and theWaboard colonies farther south. Presently foreign shipping came In increasing volume, and count-la- g houses flourished. ? J one-sixtie- th one-tent- one-thir- d one-fourt- h man-mad- most-travele- d ' e Then the trade of the Mississippi valley grew consequential and the several states began to battle for It Even George Washington lent his prestige to the endeavor to hold It for Virginia. But De Witt Clinton outwitted them all. Never had old Cato cried out more earnestly or more persistently. "Delenda est Carthago." than De Witt Clinton urged that "The Erie Canal must be built I" It was a momentous undertaking In those days to raise for a waterway.1 "Clinton's Ditch" won, and presently the lion's share of the Mississippi valley trade was moving through the Mohawk country and down ttie Hudson, because It could float to the ea on lake and canal and river, while other states labored and tugged over the mountains in Conestoga wagons, railroad Inclines, and the like. Gone Is the glory of Erie canal. The elite, who once traveled through the state atop Its leisurely moving barges, now roll at high speed In modern motor cars on superhighways, rush express trains, along on world-fameor fly like birds along the sky paths, seldom giving It either glance or thought. But New York, both the state and the city, whatever their unrivaled position, will ever owe Lomage for their primacy to De Witt Clinton and that symbolic ditch. Never has a state possessed a clearer title to Its sobriquet than the land of the Hudson, the Mohawk, and the Genesee holds to Its name of Empire state. Measured by the hosts of Its people, by the magnitude of Its wealth, by the extent of Its Industry, by the splendor and variety of Its scenery, or by the magnificence of Its program for the public weal, New York Inspirlngly lives up to that title. $50,-000,0- d Really an Empire. With more than twelve and a half million people, It Is Indeed an empire, outranking Canada by a margin of two million and coming close to doubling Austria. It has two people for every one on the entire continent of Australia and three for every two lt the Union of South Africa. With $37,000,000,000 of wealth, It stands ahead of half of the nations of the earth. Even the whole United States, as recently as 1870, could not match that figure. Most assuredly In the variety and splendor of Its scenery It is an empire. throughout the entire state grldlroning Long Island; checkerboarding Westchester county; zigzagging up the Hudson and down the Champiain country; crisscrossing the Adirondacks and Catskllls; skirting the St. Lawrence and Lakes Ontario and Erie ; peeping into every corner of the Niagara front; exploring the Genesee area; threading in and out among the Interior lakes, from little Conesus to big Cayuga, and from beautiful Skaneateles to gorgeous Otsego; reveling In the many beauties of the valleys of the Mohawk, the Chemung, the Susquehanna, and the Delaware, one thinks he knows something of Empire state scenery, and Is ready to say of It, as Wallace Nutting says of the Hudson, that here we find "civilization set In beauty." The magnificence of its park system, the perfection of Its parkways and boulevards, the fine quality of Its schools, the care it gives Its dependent population, and the plans It projects for the future, all stamp It as Imperial alike In understanding, vision, and purAfter-ramblin- g pose. There In tin history of any state than that which deals with the deep concern New York shows In the conservation of Its scenic, historic, and recreational resources. This concern Is a fitting companion care with piece to the which the state educates Its youth a growth represented by a tenfold Increase In expenditures for elementary and high school education in the last 30 years. From Lake Champiain to Niagara falls, from the western end of Chautauqua county, on Lake Erie, to the eastern tip of Suffolk, at Montauk Point New York has set np a series of CO parks, of varying type and area, to provide recreation centers, to save scenic regions, and to safeguard historic shrines, and Is developing them In a manner that no great commjnlty has ever surpassed end few have equaled. Is no finer chapter ever-growin- g the Middle ages. In medieval Eng land, said Doctor Duncan, the clergy vest into the fields and invoke.! blessings on those who regarded the landmarks and enrses on those who moved or otherwise transgressed the boundaries. Centuries later, Shakespeare wrote 167 passages dealing with the live topic of curses, and had one put on his own tomb. And has modern man outgrown bis faith In corses as a means to getting what he wants? Far from it In Pennsylvania a boy shoots a woman be cause for seven years, he says, she hexed htm and cast evil spells. Stock Exchange Deals Center at "Money Desk" On the floor of the stock exchange Is an Institution called the "money desk." About noon each day mem- bers of the exchange begin to gather around this desk, John T. Flynn writes. In Collier's Weekly. A few of them represent large New York banks with money to lend. The others are looking for credit Around that time the banks know bow much they have to lend and the brokers are beginning to know what accommodations they will need. Over that money desk flow countless millions of dollars. It Is by this mechanism that the New York banks have their pipe lines running Into the exchange, with their agents there to manage the spigots. Of course, brokers' loans are also made by banks directly outside the exchange, but this is the chief method. Obedience to Health Laws Duty of Parents ' September Is a momentous month In the history ef our nation. Thousands of children have resumed the school work interrupted last spring by the arrival of vacation time, or have begun their first year of the educational process which we hope win make able, cultured, enlightened citizens of them. The school has a grave responsibility, not only toward the child's mind, but also toward Its body. What good is learning without health? We know, in fact, that the learning process and health are Inextricably combined; the healthy child learns quickest, remembers better, is more Interested In his work. Recognizing this, most modern school systems include health teachers and lessons In health. But the school cannot bear the whole responsibility for the health of children. The parents and the home are usually more potent directional forces for the health of children than any outside institution ever can be. Healthy children come from healthy homes. It Is the duty of parents to know and observe health laws. Dr. Allen G. 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