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Show 1 Entered an second claaa matter, July 18, 1922, at the postoffiee at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March S, 1879 VOL. 3, NO. 34 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1924 EVERY ELECTOR IN WHERE HE 8TANDS announcing his candidacy for the city board of education from the First precinct, the publisher, Frederick L. Bagby, is actuated solely by a desire to serve the school children of Salt Lake City and the taxpayers who support and maintain the public In Will H. Lovesy Mrs. William Reid Second Ward OUT FOR ELECTION Joseph Anderson George H. Raybould Third Ward E. J. Haag Ray M. Haddock Fourth Ward George F. Wasson Fifth Ward Ralph D. Evans FIVE MEMBERS OF CITY BOARD OF ELECTION WILL BE CHOSEN ONE FROM EACH PRECINCT OF THE CITY Wednesday Editorial Comment THE CANDIDATES First Ward Frederick L. Bagby John Cuthers CITY SHOULD TURN Don't forget that school election day. $1.50 A YEAR 9 is Dont faii to vote. , j Here are the polling places: First Precinct. Districts 1 and 2 Sumner school, 636 South Third East. Districts 3 and 4 Hamilton school, 770 South Eighth East. Districts 5, 9 and 24 East High school, 850 South Thirteenth East. Districts 7 and 8 Triangle drug store. Ninth East and Ninth South. Districts 6 and 21 Liberty school, 1090 South Thrid East. Districts 10, 11, 19 and 20 Whittier school, 1600 South Third East. Districts 12 and 15 Hawthorne school, 1632 South Seventh East. Districts 13, 14 and 16 Emerson school, 1343 , McClelland avenue. Districts 17 and 23 Forestdale school board members. drug store, 2200 South Seventh East. Districts 17 and 23 Forestdale drug store, 2200 South Seventh East. Districts 22, 25 and 18 Irving JunJimson Weed Valuable Both the leaves and seeds of the ior High school, 1173 East Twenty-firs- t Jlmson have medicinal properties. The leaves are collected at the time of flowering, and the entire plant is cut or pulled up and the leaves stripped and dried In the shade. The leaves are poisonous, causing dilation of the pupil of the eye, and are used principally in asthma. For the collection of the seeds, the capsules should be taken from the plants when they are quite ripe, but still of a green ' color. The capsules should then be dried for a few days, when they will burst open and the seeds can be readily shaken ont. These; should then be carefully dried. Intelligent Reading If the boobs which you read are your own, mark with a pen or pencil the most considerable things in them which you most desire to remember. Then you may read that book the second time over with half the trouble, by your eye running over the paragraphs which your pencils has noted. It Is but a very weak objection against this practice to say, MI shall spoil my book" ; for I persuade myself that you did not buy it as a bookseller, to sell It again for gain, but as a scholar, to Improve your mind by It; and If the mind be Improved, your advantage Is abundant, though your book yields less money to your executors. When Pillory Was Uaed The use of the pillory for the punishment of evil doers was only abolished In England during comparatively recent times, and was In active operation In June, 1837. This peculiar form of punishment has a venerable history, and was known before, the Conquest, In the form of an Instrument of torture called the stretch-necThe pillory was usually dedicated to fraudulent dealers, sellers of sham gold rings, or counterfeiters of papal bulls, until Star chamber tyrants made It a political weapon, whereby many a noble heart was tried and tempered. k. South. Second Precinct. Districts 26, 27, 30, 31 and 32 Fremont school, 153 South Second West. Districts 33, 34 and 36 Grant school, 625 South First West. 35 and 39 Riverside District 609 South school, Eighth WeBt. 38 and 41 Jefferson District 37, 1103 South West Temple. school, 28 nad 29 Franklin Districts 809 South. Second West school, 42 40 Edison and school, Districts 1416 West Eighth South. Third Precinct. District 52 West High school, 241 North Second West. Districts 53 and 54 Jackson- school, 750 West First North:. Districts 51, 55 and 56 New Temple hotel. 111 North Main. Districts 57 and 61 Washington school, 163 West First North. District 58 Residence, 418 North Fifth West. Districts 59 and 62 Onequa school, 513 North Tenth West. District 60 Bonneville school, 1561 North Chicago street. Fourth Precinct. Districts 76 and 77 Eagle Gate pharmacy, 51 North State. Districts 78, 79 and 83 Lowell school, 119 E street. Districts 80 and 84 Longfellow school. First avenue and J street. District 85 Ensign school, 431 - Ninth avenue. Districts 81 and 82 Wasatch school, 1155 East South Temple Fifth Precinct. Districts 101, 102, 103, 104 and 109 Tweflth school, 438 East First South. Districts 105, 106, 107, 108 and 110 Bryant Junior High school, 733 East First South. oom Districts 111, 112, 113 and 311 city and county building. Districts 115, 116 and 117 Webster school, 421 South Eighth East. 114-R- Believe in Yourself What most people most need Is a better opinion of themselves not egotistically but arising from on honest estimate of their own capabilities. This would inspire contidence in themselves and direct them to undertakings which they can accomplish. Grit. Find Friends in Books Books are true friends that will neither flatter nor dissemble; be you but true yourself, applying that which they teach unto the party grieved, and you shall need no other comfort or counsel. Exchange. German Film Production Motion pictures In Germany are en-loyl- ng runs of many weeks and the ones are being run through suclarger cessive months, according to a report to the Department of Commerce from Rudolf E. Schoenfeld, Berlin. Lack of good films and not their appeal to the fans is given as the reason for the long runs. Germanys production of (liras has been waning steadily since 1921. In 1922 the total output was 1,221 ,2S0 meters, or roundly 35 per cent of the 1921 production. In 1923 the production had dwindled to but 775,783 meters. Consul attention to school board duties. He has had experience in school work, having organized and conducted the U. S. Army educational and vocational schools at Fort Douglas following the war. He stands firmly against any attempt to Introduce politics or religion Into the public schools. He stands for practical and efficient education that will best fit your children and his children for performance of their duties as American citizens. He stands for fairness and justice For the major portion of the past years he has been in close contact with the work of the board of education and the public schools of the city. He is In daily contact with this work now and, is in a position, if elected, to give daily to all. twenty-fiv- e Jesse N. Smith Every qualified elector should take enough interest in his children and the children of the city to turn out and exercise his voice in the selection of men for that important board which controls the public school system of Salt Lake city. It is a duty you owe your children, yourself and your community to take part in a school election. There are two chief things which should guide the voter In choosing a candidate to support, first, his general qualifications for efficient service on the board of education and seconjd, his ability to give time and attention to the vitally important' work of this board. The main object is to elect men who will place the best interests of the school children of the city above all other considerations when it comes to determining their actions as school. Navajo Brave Flees From One Mother s Tribute to Daughterdn-La- ( Warm Current Exists , No Matter How Called Mother-in-La- w The superstitions of the Narajos are so many and so varied that life for them would be a constant burden If they observed them as carefully us they are supposed to. It is probable that the great American mother-in-lamyth, which represents all mothers-in-laas being very bad medicine, had its origin In the beliefs of the Navajos; for very terrible things are w w supposed to happen to any Navajo man who Is so unfortunate as to meet face to face, writes his mother-in-laKenneth L. Roberts, in the Saturday Evening Tost. When the Navajos are pressed to reveal the hideous calamities that' would befall them in the event of they meeting their mother-in-law- , move uneasily from foot to foot and evade the issue. It is horrible to talk about, but It Is obvious that meeting In Navajo circles Is a mother-in-la- w the very apex offcoughTlucff.'' A Navajo will go to any length to avoid burying a dead man. It is very bad medicine to kill or skin a bear. Ills superstition, however, has never led him to consider as bad medicine the stealing of fascinating little odds and ends from the white man any more than the white man in years gone by considered that he was doing any particular wrong when he sold Navajo women and children 4nio slavery, stole Navajo land and killed Navajo sheep. w It was with some consternation that one read in the newspapers that the gulf stream had been proved a myth. If one of the sacred scientific trinity had died, what was to become of the others the nebular hypothesis and the law of gravitation? A closer reading, however, was reassuring, remarks the New York Evening Mall. It appears that M. Le Danols, a French savant, asserts that there is no such thing as si gulf stream. What is called by that name Is a combination of ocean tides. There are, he 'says, two .kinds of water In the North Atlantic, warm and cold. The warm moves in a northward current to some undetermined point and turns backward again. The fluctuations, however, are tidal. One has a vague memory of reading something very like that In the physical geography botS wbourtweury years ago. Apparently the phenomena exist, whether one' explains them by the term gulf stream or as ocean tides. That which we call a gulf stream by another name will smell as sweet to migratory herring and sardine and, happily, one can still paraphrase Romeo and Juliet" regardless of whether Bacon or Shakespeare wrote It. And the warm Atlantic current still saves Europe from a return to the glacial period regardless of whether one accept the nomenclature of Franklin or that of M. Le Danols. World Enriched by Genius in Poverty Early United States Official Given Honor Art? What have Idle riches" done for that? By rights they should have produced, they should have created, but so far as output goes their contribution has been disappointing. One often hears the suggestion made that young people of artistic promise If should be endowed" to create. only he had a little more money, and leisure what great things he would dol" Would he? I believe, sordid as It may seem, that the wolf at the door has often been one of the most powerful Incentives toward artistic creation. Of course there are volcanic gifts like those of Shelley or Blake that erupt spontaneously and Irresistibly, regardless of the consequences. But many of the greatest artists have been goaded on to creation by need. Shakespeare, Chatterton, and (coming a long way after these) Walter Scott, Doctor Johnson, Anthony Trollope. On the whole, great artists have been not only hard workers, but men who have had to work hard. Violet Bonham-Carte- r in Good Housekeeping. . Mystery of Sound Board The sound board of a piano, although It Is actually a thin sheet of flr wood. Is a wonder not fully understood In Its effects. Most people know that every note has a complete and very elaborate set of vibrations which give It Its pitch and character, and all these separate sets are reproduced In the sound board quite Independently. Even In comparatively simple music there are frequently thousands of vibrations going on in that piece of thin brittle wood, which we can hear but cannot see; and with all the crossing and recrossing of the vibration 'lines which must take place there is never any confusion, and It is possible to select any group of vibrations as the one to which we can pay the most attention. Perhaps even still more wonderful Is the fact that the piano maker can make the board susceptible to dlf ferent kinds of vibration, without knowing how he does It. The 1922 series of $10 gold certifi- cates bears the likeness of Michael the first treasurer of the United States. The germ of the Treasury department was planted on July 29, 1775, when the Continental congress appointed two treasurers. The appointments were Hlllegas and George Clymer. The latter soon resigned to accept his seat as delegate to the congress. Hlllegas discharged the duties of treasurer until September 1, 1789. The Treasury department was organized under an act of September 2, 1789. Strictly speaking, it was reorganized, for 'the department, under UI1-lega- s, various names, bad been In existence since 1775. The Constitution went into effect March 4, 1789, Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States April 30, 1789. It will thus be seen that nillegas was treasurer many months after the Inauguration of Washington, and for nine days after the Treasury department waj organized under the Consti- tution. Festival of St. Peter On the eve of SL Peter's day bon- fires were commonly prepared and ignited throughout Great Britain. ' This festival was most fervently kept up at Eton during the Middle ages, where the boys made their bonfires against the church.. In London the day was also associated with bonfires In the streets and with the setting of a Watch at night, the Watch parading with torches, and sometimes numHistory bering fully 2,000 citizens. records how King Hal, disguised in a guardsmans coat, went privately into Cheape to witness the pageant Yorkshire fishermen remembered St Peter on his day by holding festival, dressing their boats and painting their masts, and sprinkling the prows with good liquor for good luck. ' Unhappy Moment for ALL ELECTORS ARE Wearer of Crinoline w When I first saw my son Tylers an- ' Mrs. E. M. Ward lias s host of good gelic manner under his wifes regime yarns In her remarkable Memories of I held my breath, because in the old Ninety Years." There is, for instance, days Tyler in a beatific state of mind the terrible story of the punctured meant Tyler getting ready to break crinoline : out In a new place. Tills unusual Incident happened to a But as time goes on and the seren- Mrs. Tooke, wife of the then vicar of ity remains unbroken, I repeat to my- Upton. After a confirmation service self that perfect line from the "Just in the church the friends of the' vicar So Stories" "Not always was the were Invited to meet the bishop of Kangaroo as now we behold him" a Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce known text that I recommended to all moth- as Soapy Sam" at the vicarage. ers who have seen their brisk sons Mrs. Tooke was a woman who alwives. trained by neatly ways dressed well. On this occasion Indeed, the longer I live the more she wore a black velvet - crinoline, ready I am to believe that a young trimmed with old lace, which set off mans wife may be better acquainted her remarkable complexion. After with his actual current present day lunch, as she talked to the bishop, a self than his mother can possibly be. curious sound like an angry serpent sees in her bus-ban-d hissing penetrated the drawing-rooMy daughter-in-laa forceful man of affairs on While the guests paused in astonishwhose judgment she implicitly relies. ment, Soapy Sam" looked mystified. I respect his judgment, too, in a way, Then a grumbling noise was heard, a but I cannot help knowing that he Is decided squeak, a shriek, and loud rethe same Tyler who, at the age of port, followed by profound silence. four, howled himself into a high fever When a little later Mrs. Tooke rose one day because I would not let him to bid her guests farewell, her dress lead a bloodhound in the parade when hung In heavy folds all round her. Uncle Toms Cabin" came to town. Afterward she explained what had Mothers view their sons with what happened. Her dressmaker had perpsychologists might call an associa- suaded her to have a special fixture tive fringe." We are handicapped by to her crinoline which consisted of assorted memories. We cannot esti- tubing, inflated with air, fastened mate our sons exactly as their wives with a screw. This uncanny estimate them. They came upon us at tightly contrivance made the skirt flow out, A Maternal Philosa different stage. but Mrs. Tooke struck her foot in the Atlantic Monthly. opher against the screw and the whole structure collapsed as 'the air escaped. San Francisco Argonaut. Observation Relieved well-select- ed w It has perhaps Monotony of Illness Historic Gray9s Inn often been my feeling that Linked With America the happiest man is the healthy bookworm who, by laying out Grays Inn, In London, has long been a quarter for a second-han-d volume, the mecca of the Baconian. Those peoweek? can ple' 4vho belief e I hf"PTJliri3 Cacoif as the other fellow, more dependent wrote Shakespeares plays visit the Inn upon expensive entertainments and to see the hall in which Bacon for Indulgences that draw on his wad. many years presided as treasurer, and The former is among tbat happy class the. gardens which he planned, says that can say with the poet, My mind the Detroit News. There are links be- to me a kingdom Is; such pleasant tween the Inn and the United States. Joys therein I find." There was a Lawrence Washington, But I discovered his equal the other admitted a student in 1007, whose day when visiting a sick friend In brother Robert was a direct ancestor Outremont whose house adjoins a va- of George Washington. There is an cant lot, says the Montreal Herald. I entry in the admission register of the found him sitting comfortably on the Inn recording the membership of veranda overlooking that lot and Thomas Yale. This was an ancestor studying it through a pair of field of Elihu Yale, whose piety helped to found a great American university. glasses. Andrew Hamilton was a member of He asked me: now many kinds Is there of plants would you suppose the Inn. His admission Is recorded in In that field?" 1714; Andrew Hamilton, of Maryland, Hamilton designed About half a dozen," I replied. America, gent. I have already found 77," he as- the state house of Philadelphia, the sured me, and went on to name them. building which was the birthplace of Confinement to a veranda did not the American republic. worry him much. get'kg-iBhclnbteaswwin'- Man's Feathered Friends Birds are closely allied to the shepherd and sportsman and those who are wise In bird lore, rely on their feathered friends for information and warning. The wryneck Is the woodmans bird. Its hawklike cry in April giving the signal for the stripping of oak trees bark. The yellow wagtail Is a farmer's bird, ushering In the time of spring sowings. As Brit- ish farmer, the sandpiper Is the anglers companion, the wheatear keeps the shepherd company on lonely downs. Even the miller has his bird In the redwing, called "windmill thrush, since the working of Its wings suggests the revolving of a windmill's sails, while it Is supposed , to seek shelter by windmills In hard weather. Redwings now arrive In force; the pity Is that few windmills are left to keep up the traditional association. London MalL Expert Shingle Weavers of eff- Youth and Old Age To know what you like la the beginning of wisdom and of old age. The Youth Is wholly experimental. essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch Is Ignorance of self as well as Ignorance of life. These two unknowns the young man brings together again and again, now In the airiest touch, now with a bitter hug; now with exquisite pleasure, now with cutting pain ; but never with Indifference, to which he Is a total stranger, and never with that near kinsman of Indifference, contentment. If he be a youth of dainty senses or a brain easily heated, the Interest of this series of e??rlments grows upon him out of all proportion to the pleasure he receives. It Is not beauty that he loves, nor pleasure that he seeks, though he may think so; his design and his sufficient reward Is to verify his own existence and taste the variety of human fate. Robert Louis Stevenson. . In spite of the multiplication Wrestling Is Old Sport woven still are (or Wrestling took a most Important labor. Shingles has No hand. machinery place In the early Olympic games. ac-It packed) by eliminatof also considered a necessary was Invented been capable yet Exweaver. complishment of the athletes of the ing the expert shingle caras the amine a bunch of shingles days of chivalry- - The county of penter takes them apart for shingling Cornwall, England, led thea van In Cornish the roof, and you will see the unique wrestling, so that to give bunch a into which the compact proverb. The process by hug has passed with wide a associated Is woven. Now season shingle, summer has been now a narow one, makes the bunch the wrestling matches at St. Ives, providexact width, and all day long the ed for by a worthy citizen who beweaver stands and seizes shingle after queathed an Income for games to be shingle thrown out from the sawing held every fifth year for ever around machine, and without any false moves his mausoleum which was set up on a weaves them into compact bunches. high rock near the town In 1782. The has been ex- game meant as much to St. Ives. PenThe term shingle-weave-r tended by custom, till It now applies zance, Helston and Truro as the to anyone who works In any departOlympic games to the ancients. icient machines to lighten and simplify ment of a shingle mill. Guerrilla Warfare The word guerrilla is of Spanish Reverse English and means a skirmish or little The bashful young man wanted to origin war. It Is the diminutive of guerra," propose, but he did not know just what meaning war. A guerrilla war is one to say. Finally lie blurted out : "If I carried on Irregularly and by Indepenwere you Id marry me! dent bands. - Old-Ag- e Bicycle's Advantage When a man walks a mile he takes on an average 2,263 steps, but when he rides a bicycle with an average gear he covers a mile with an equivalent of only 627 steps. Compensations the undoubted compensations for being older than you were Is that you dont get so excited about saving the world by passing a law designed to accomplish that desirable end. Ohio State Journal. ENTITLEOITO VOTE OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY NOT REQUIRED FOR VOTING AT SCHOOL ELECTION DEC. 3. To correct an erroneous Impression that seems to be widespread among voters of the city. It Is explained by the public school officials that a person does not have to be a property owner or taxpayer to vote at thn school election to be held throughout Salt Lake City on December 3. next. It Is explained that only In case of bond elections Is the property ownership requirement applied. In a school election any person registered and qualified to vote at a general election Is entitled to vote for school board members within the school district in which they live. The registration books used for the recent general election will be used by the judges of the school election, and any person living In the city whose name is on the registration books for their home district can vote next Wednesday. It Is further explained by the school officers that In the school election representatives on the board are voted for and elected by precincL The residents of each precinct vote for one candidate from that precinct and do not vote for candidates from any other' precinct. The ballots are sar arranged tbat they bear only the names of candidates in the precinct itr has bet-i-t foued aU- - tlmt .herc voters is some confusion among which they arc to represent, as to the precinct in which they live, the boundary lines of these subdivisions not being definitely known. Hence the following boundaries of the precincts are given for the benefit of these voters: section First precinct All that - -- of the city lying south of Sixth South and east of Main street. Second precinct All that territory lying south of South Temple and west of Main street. Third precinct All that territory lying north of South Temple and west of Main street to Second North, then west of West Canyon road. Fourth precinct All that territory lying north of South Temple and east of Main and West Canyon road. Fifth precinct All that territory east of Main and between South Temple and Sixth South. Scriptural Translations Every year scholars are tolling to translate the Scriptures Into more and still more dialects. Thousands are plodding all over the globe to put these translations in the hands of all peoples. In the Interiors of distant countries, far up the Amazon valley perhaps, or Into darkest Africa, where the Bible has never been, colporteurs are tramping with their packs. Motorcars are carrying the Bible across the desert from Damascus to Bagdad In 48 hours, a journey that was once a matter of six weeks, and by fastest camel post a trip of nine days. Monuments to Apples Monuments or markers have been erected to a few of the most noted varieties of apple. In 1895 a monument was built to the Baldwin at Wilmington, near Lowell, Mass The first In New York was erected In the town of Camlllus, Onondaga county, on the original site of the Primate apple trees of John T. Roberts of Syracuse, In 1903. There followed one to the Northern Spy In 1912, and the McIntosh Red In the same year. A monument to the Wealthy was erected at Excelsior, Minn.. In 1912. Sources of Rubber Sap varieties of trees, shrubs, vines which discharge ruband plants ber sap are numbered In the hundreds. One of the smallest and most common is the pasture milkweed, and the greatest Is the Uevea Brazlllen-ai- s which sometimes attains a height of 120 feet Automobile Digest. The Among Old Custom Retained In Arabia and other eastern countries' at the present day the most solemn agreements are still ratified by salt. -- |