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Show Lobar I Is Marriage a News Note? Success? A I - S 4? . ' m " By RING LARDNER I WWI&Wy I ''" j ' ' (Copyrlght,Tff.N.U.) 'ifSS Vs. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON lONDAY, September 3, marks the forty- - LI2 A little group cf workers In New York city heard the suggestion marking- - the birth of Labor day and creating a holiday which has encircled the globe. The tdea originated May 8, 1882, at a session of the then newly formed Central Labor union of the metropolis. Its sponsor was P. J. who was one of the best known labor leader of his day, for many years secretary of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and a vice president of the American Federation of Labor. McGulre's thought was that one day In the year should be set aside as a genera) holiday for the men tnd women who toll. In its Initial form the plan contemplated a Labor day, pure and simple, for observance by those who work with hands and muscle. The first celebration of the holiday took place In New York September 5, 1882. Since that modest beginning the world has taken Labor day to its heart as one of the most Important holidays on the calendar. The voice of McGuire has been Heard round the world, and by all classer of the population. Labor's holiday has become an International institution for millionaires and workers alike a festival of relaxation and recuperation for all strata of the social structure. No holiday of the year has greater popularity. A basic reason for the vogue of Labor day is to be found in the wisdom shown by its originator in choosing the date for the celebration. McGuire's choice was the first Monday In September as a strategic date midway between the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving day. His feeling that this was the most suitable day of the entire year for a new holiday found ready echo In the minds of workers, offering a respite from toll after the blistering weather of July and August. Everybody was ready for a rest at this particular season, and there was piompt response to the suggestion of s double holiday over Sunday and Monday. In recent years there has been a pronounced tendency toward a triple holiday, causing the rest period from Friday evening to Tuesday morning No other holiday of the year offers similar advantage year in and year out. After the New York celebration of 1882 the popu larity of Labor dav grew with Increasing swlftnes until it ad extended to practically every state !n the Union. It now covers the island possession. of Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Formal action toward nationalizing the holldnv was taken by the predecessor of the American Federation of Labcr at Its annual convention In Chicago in October, 1884. The body was known a the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada, then four years of age and strikingly small In comparison with the mighty federation of today. At the Chi cago convention, for example, there were but twenty-six delegates, representing a constituency ol nineteen International unions, local bodies and central labor unions. The annual report of the financial officer placed the year's expenditures at $543 20, with a treasury balance of $188.04 at the end of period. This offers strange contrast with the recent report of the federation, showing a year' receipts of $518,451 and a balance of more thai) Back By Back The $210,000. At the Chicago convention the delegates adopted a resolution intended to give Labor day observance The resolution stipulated national importance. that the first Monday in September should be set apart as "a laborers' national holiday," and recommended Its observance "by all wage workers. Irrespective of sex, calling or nationality." Popular response for spontaneous, but untiring on the part of organized labor were required for the procurement of legal Banction for the suspension of work. Congress and state legir'.ative bodies received vigorous and insistent requests for the enactment of federal and state laws recognizing the day as a legal holida'y. Ten years elapsed before the passage of a congressional net establishing the first Monday In fjeptembci as a IpkhI hoi. clay for the District of McGuire in 1882. Mention of the difference between the observance of Labor day in this country and in Europe, where it was the occasion for demonstrations to of the beating hammer which the steel is wrought, of the workshop's clamor seeker mSy find the Thought, The Thought that Is ever master Of Iron and steam and steel, That rises above disaster And tramples it under heel! Back of the motors humming. Back of the belts that sing, Back of the hammers drumming. Back of the cranes that swing. There la the eye which scans them Watching through stress and strain. There is the Mind which plans them Back of the brawn, the Brain! Might of the roaring boiler, Force of the engine's thrust, Strength of the sweating toiler. Greatly In those we trust. But back of them stands the Schemer, The Thinker who drives things through; Back of the Job the Dreamer Who's making the dream come true! BertoTi Braley. ? 5J p Columbia and the territories. Oregon has anticipated the federal law by legislative act passed In 1893. Other states fell In line one by one, until the day now ranks as a legal holiday throughout the United States. In most states the status is established through statutory provision. In Wisconsin and Wyoming the observance comes through proclamation by the governors. In the Philippines the celebration takes place on May 1, in accordance with European custom. . The May day celebrations in Continental Europe owe their origin to American Initiative. This foreign adoption of the McGuire idea came about in connection with the eight-hou- r movement inaugurated by the American Federation ef Labor In 1889. The same year brought a meeting of the International Labor Congress in Paris. To this meeting a letter was addressed by Samuel Gompers, president of the American body, urging that the international organization should with the eight-hou- r movement by making a declaration of sympathy. In his letter Gompers appealed for demonstrations in all European countries to be conducted on May 1 of the following year. The congress complied and started the machinery for widespread continental demonstrations on May ' 1 1890. In this way it came about that the Gompers suggestion was the instrument which created May 1 as the Labor day of Europe. The start, made In 1890, caught the fancy of European workers and May day became the recognized time for demon strations all over the continent. In one respect there has been an Important difference between the observance of Labor day In the United States and the practice of European workers with reference to the first of May. The American holiday is of recreational character, while European workers have tended to exaggerate the demonstrational system as a means of emphasizing their organized demands and grievances. The result of the early demonstrations was to "emphasize their organized demands and grievances," recalls the fact that there was a time in the early history of Labor day in this country when the greatest concern of American working-mawas for the "right of labor." That concern was expressed in an editorial uttered by the late Samuel Gompers In the first Labor day editorial which he wrote after congress had made it a legal holiday. The editorial, which appeared in Hie American Federationist for September, 1S94. follows : In the cycle of time we are again on the dawn of our most important national holiday Labor day. Most important, since It for the first time in the history of the world devotes a day to the recognition of the fact that the wage earners must hereafter be regarded as the important factor In the economy of life. In this day when so many look upon the dark side of the progress of the labor movement and predict worse things in store for the laborer it is not amiss to direct attention to the fact that the life of the human family is one vast struggle, and that though the progress is not as swift as we, as well as our impatient brothers and sisters of labor, would like it to be, yet the fact that in our decade we can see the rights of labor more clearly defined, the vantage ground obtained, and obtaining a clearer insight into the existing wrongs, the more intelligent perception and determination to achieve labor's rights. The past year has witnessed several contests, some of them defeats, but though defeated in the immediate object sought, they have awakened a new conscience in the American people, arid will contribute more to the thorough organization of the wage workers of our country than hundreds of meetings, speeches or pamphlets. The great conquering armies in the history of the world have had their reverses, and the labor movement cannot expect to be an exception to that rule. Each defeat acts as a trenchant warning to the toilers of America that error must be avoided, that intelligence must pravail, and that no success can come to them unless It is through their own efforts anrt their own organization, and by their persistency manifested. Pessimism results in indifference, lethargy and impotency and this in turn simply permits the corporations and trusts and the entire capitalist class to filch from the toiler rights which have bm dearly bought. The organizations of labor must be thorough and complete and above all must be permanen' Those organizations which arise like a flash in the pan only go to show how arduous is the struggle before the toiler, In order to overcome the antagg onism of the classes of our eoun-try- . n The drudge may fret and tinker Or labor with dusty blows, But back of him stands the Thinker, man who knows; The clear-eye- d For into each plow and saber. Each piece and part and whole, Must go the Brains of Labor, Which frvea the work a Soul! e, l October 14 In South Australia. The basic idea in all these countries is that which was voiced by P. J. THE. THINKER sixth anniversary of a holiday which is a red letter event on all American calendars. For that Is Labor day, the day which all workers. If they observe the tradition of Its founding, should make a "festival day with parades, speech-makin- g and picnics." Of course, the manner of our celebrating all of our holidays undergoes a change through the years, and this applies to Labor day, even though It Is one of the "youngest," as well as to the others. But it Is Interesting to note how Labor day first came into being and how It was celebrated four decades ago. The history of Labor day, as told by a chronicler In the Herald-Tribun- e of New York, where Jt originated, is as follows: effort and TRUCK LOAD OF HAPPINES'5 -- invite governmental opposition, with frequent clashes between the workers and the police or mill-tar- y forces. In latter years, however, the May day observance has been given more largely to cessation of work, parades, meetings and commemorative exercises devoid of violence or disturbance Europe has been slower than the United States In granting legal status as a holiday to the dav selected by labor as the time for annual celebration The countries which have recognized the first of May as a legal holiday are Austria, CzechoSouth slovakia, Esthonia,-- Finland and Madeira. American nations ecognizing the date are Colombia, Ecuador and Uruguay. Latin America in general follows the European custom of celebrating May day, and the day Is a legal holiday in Haytl and Panama. That the McGuire iiea has spread round the world Is shown by the circumstance that many British colonies and possessions have their own Labor days. Canada celebrates the first Monday in September, in keeping with the United States Newfoundland custom. observes September 2. Queensland and Western Australia follow the European practice and observe the first of May. "Eight. Hour day" is observed on April tl In Victoria, on October ( In New So'jth Wales, and on Aus-trali- wealth-producin- Today more than ever the tollers recognize how essentially they are thrown upon their own resources; that they have few if any outside tneir own ranks who sympathize with them in their efforts for the emancipation of mankind. Tollers, organize. Let us carry on the good work and In a few more revolutions of the earth upon Its axis we shall have a better world a better mankind. Waiting will not accomplish it; deferring till another time will not secure it. Now is the time for the workers of America to come to the standard of their unions and to organize as thoroughly, completely and compactly as is possible. Let each worker bear in mind the words of Longfellow: In the worlds bruad field of battle, In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife! There Is one significant statement In that editorial by the "Grand Old Man of American Labor." for when Samuel Gompers uttered the words "intelligence must prevail" he was giving it t he keynote of what was1 destined to prove its soundest and most successful policy. In the years which have followed since that editorial was written, however, the spirit of American labor, as exemplified in Labor day, has changed. It is still steadfast for the "right of labor," but it Is also conscious of the responsibility of labor as well. Today the American laborer is the most prosperous of any in the world and that is because he has brought to bis task an intelligent conception of both Its rights and It obligations, a consciousness of th dignity of his Job, no matter what it may be so long as he does It well, and as a thinker, as well as a doer, he Is the backbone of the American nation today. to Lio, Utah To the Editor: One of the big N. T. newspapers arhave been running a serious of ticles lately on marriage and whether its a success or vice versa and every that day they been printing letters and husbands them In by to was sent case wlfes statelng their views on the think to they seems editors and the should be the people that should 1 been ought to know, but as far as letters their able to make out from extra into innings will go the game and they will finely half to call it off on accL of darkness. It looks like what the papers calls a bung jury and It should b. The trouble 7rt:h'the discussion and why It ain't I'lnl to get us nowheres Is on accL of the big majority of the letters comclng from people that has a only been married one time. I got friend of mine that is now running his 5th relay and ought to know what he is talking about so the other night I asked him to give his frank opinion on the subject, thinking my host of readers would be Interested and here is what he had to say in part "Four marriages out of five or in other words 80 per cent is a howling success. The other 20 per cent is a fiasco of the 1st water. I am at pres-'eIn the midst of the last named, but as the successes Is more pleas-ante- r to talk about than the busts, I will start in on the former. "The 1st gal I married was the daughter of a wealthy real estate man named Ella. The old man gave her a check for $10,000 for a wedding present and as we was waiting for the train to take us to the Falls, I got her to endorse the check on the grounds that maybe we would run short on the trip and half to get some of the porters to cash the check. Well, we got to the Falls and set there lookhr and ing at them for about finely I asked her how she liked It and she said her ft hurt her In her going away shoes and besides If they was pleasure to be got out of stare-In- g all day at a bunch of running water why not do it in comfort by going back to the hotel and go In the bathroom and turn on all the faucets. d She said that as far as she was Niagara was a cheese. So I told her that of course they wasn't no sport in just setting there and gapeing at it, but the real fun was to rent a empty bbl. somewheres and get inside it and leave the stopper out so as some air could get in and shoot the Falls. So she liked the Idear and we engaged a bbl. by the hr. and come to find out they wasn't room enough In it for the 2 of us to ride at once, so I said we would flip a coin and if it come heads she was to go 1st and I flipped a coin and sure enough it come heads. "The next gal I married was name Claire and she didn't have no dowry but she carried $5,000 accident Insurance as she use to travel on the road for a vacuum cleaner. It wasn't only about a wk. after the honeymoon that she catched a cold, and it settled in a hollow tooth and for a couple nights she layed and moaned and finely she said she couldn't stand it no more so I lit up the lights and began showing her some of my curios to take her mind off the tooth and one of them was a double bid. shot gun and before I could say .lack Robertson both hbls. went off right in her eye. The coroner said it was a accident. "No. 3 was name Eloise and I hadn't never heard the name before and kept forgetting it and calling her Ella and Claire both of which had left me a widower, and she knew it and didn't like It very well but I couldn't seem to get out of the habit and every time I done It she would start a quarrel and it finely got to be a regular mania with her and she says the next time I called her out of her name she would croak herself. So I says don't do that Claire and next thing I knew she had drunk a pt. of wood alcohol thinking it was carbolic acid and when I tried to get our Dr. the line was busy. Eloise left me a chest of silver that her uncle had give her who was in the jewellry business and I sold it for fl.SOO. "I was married to tle 4th. one name Kate in August and her fi.ther give us a house and lot. She had hay fever and a red nose hut I loved her and Ihey wasn't a diiy past when I didn't bring her a bouquet of some kind of flowers. One day the florist didn't have nothing in stock and I was kind of scared to go home without no bouquet so I stopped by the side of the road and picked a nosegay of golden roils and and tossed It in her lap and the 3d explosion hlowed her up. "The lease said about the present Incumbrants why so much the better. I've done everything I could for her but they don't nothing satisfy tier. To make a successful marriage they's got to be a sense of humor on both sides and in our cuse its all 1 sided. So all in all I claim thoy's 4 successes to every 1 fiiv and ns soon ns I can get rid of tliis one I'll marry 4 more and stop on No. 0." That is what a bird told me that hns hud some experience aixl his word should ought to carry weight. Personally I am not in n position to speak as my first wife is still sticking it out on aect of the kiddips hut I suppose If you was to ask the both of us if marriage was a success or failure, the answer would be a tie. (te by the Bell Syndicate. Incl nt 1 rnmugi VERNAL. F The Uintak add to the wealth of transportation comes west Vt, s rare minerals found nowhere?' LEHI Sugar , JJtah for beet produeti 1928 is forecast tons, according to the United States department 1 of 7 Frank " at the local " drews Z office BOUNTIFUL One of the fin Tored fruits that is matin. . mous in world markets is the jJM f """ca tilJ crop m 19J7 Exports Talued at $673,000. ' HEBER CITY 1927 was valued Utah's wheat at $5,792 nun per cent of whiVk '. wheat, 85 on dry land farms, averaged uyniig grown on irrigated bushels to the acre. GUNNISON cJ mSI wneat, 80 per, land, average Damage nine mm iub taousanas poSsiblj of dollart J - w.uiio estimate !g not J obtainable, was caused by a cloudy oy nan, which tvi Over Gunnison Wednesday ff .1 The heavy downpour lasted tM SALT LAKE Fourteen fedE! iiisuway orujecis, costing a total epproximately $1,500,000. ar der course of construction In Ctai, is shown by a statement nrMj the offices of the state road comj or some eion. tnose projects are n Hearing completion and the majorii or mem win oe finished before close of the present year, It wasiittl ed. OGDEN Prediction of breaking onion cron for Utah in raai by Frank. Andrews, agricultural stati ucian, in nis August bulletin. Tl bulletin says that Indications August are for a probable onion crop Utah of 403,000 bushels in Ane v The acreage this year is estimated 970, as compared with 900 last yeaf For the United State as a whole total late crop of onions, including Utah crop, is forecast at 15,178, compared with 17,773.000 in showing a considerable reduction. KANAB Ranges throughout mm em Utah from Panguitch and Codal City southward have received art lS, i - - . u o Tl dntl a( vain IU1U durbf the last few days and the skies a still heavily overcast. This summel has been one of the dryest for som time, and the ranges are burning nj and in some places barren. The M est and park officials in Zion National park and the Kaibab National forea and Grand Canyon National park hari been especially alert and have, In til case of Zion Park, forbidden promisca ous smoking, allowing it only In cer tain areas, due to the extremely h!! fire hazard. GUNNISON Sanpete county is m ceiving a great deal of recognition from the state on the highway! througout the county. On the federal aid project for cement highway to W built in thft northern nart of the MM tv. at Fairview. ML Pleasant Ml Spring City, A. G. Youns Construction! company of Richfield was let the cow trnnt hoinc tlio lnwaot hMHar Thfl amount, $95,967.03, was within $21 oa the estimated cost of the construcuoa as made by the state department es gineers. The second low fisure wH made by the Sevier Construction con pany at $97,651.17. LEHI Sugar beets, grains and la? In some parts of Utah are suffering from the excessively dry weather, aof ccording to the weekly crop report J. Cecil Alter, government meteorol ogist, Issued Wednesday. The report follows: "The weather has continued dry, excepting for scattered showers over the southern portion of the stare. Temperatures were also abnormaii; high, conditions being rather unfavorable for alfalfa seed, irrigated crops not abundantly supplied with water and the grazing ranges generally Grain .cutting is naarly finished and ' spring grain threshing rapidly. freshof SALT LAKE Registration f flio TTnivprqitV Tnpn cfiidanlo Utah will take place Thursday, Sep tember 27, and former students wu register Monday, October 1. FridaJ and Saturday, September 28 and 23. will be given" over to special instruAll ction periods for the new students. atteni to freshmen . will be required . .at h-T j.eguiar classroom instruction school gin Tuesdav, October 2. High piauuates wno are enterals versify for the first time should s? to a copy of their high school credits T ho .i ikctuiuti a tc unite f ofc toast OB Last y month prior to registration. HS1 freshmen, the largest numow The Vile r.t Injtitiitfnn entefC the University. It Is estimated tlat this fall enrollment of first year Sv dents wi-- be even larger. Newclass?1 mnro fortltlK- - mnmti. fO OTlH flttier 8"fl ed facilities liavn been provided I the large number of students expected con"' H. V. Swenson, Utah agricultural inspector, has been St' I f naars i PROVO ty peaches for chemical analysis to mine whether or not they are the spray residue regulations. dete iu (lien 1U1 niiil'"" et of the fruit will be loaded this ',ie fr. ;7s and Tha rniii ,, r'mn It fl'" .u ,ii f-- i,, ... to Mr. Swenson, and the gi offer to me sectloa are looking ior xtvr'.'i'r-vHy geed yrar. -e- s |