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Show THE CITIZEN 9 IjwwiuHiiiiHMiMiMwinMiiiiimaiiMiiiiHiiiiinnmMiiimmiiisiiMiiaiiiaiiiiiiiiiiii EW BOOK More then oyer before, uoeesiful business re- quirei Banking Seryiee of the broad, permanent oharaoter we tfivo. 0 i 5 IIIIIHIIIIIIIII DANGEROUS DAYS. By Mary Roberts Rhinehart. Book by courtesy of D. A. Callahan. '"TOWARD the close of this work 'Dennle Nolan says to Clayton Spencer, the chief character: We have had one advantage, Clay. Or maybe it is not an advantage, after all. Do you realize that you and I have, lived through the Golden .Age. We have seen it come and seen it go. The greatest height of civilization since the world began, the greatest achievements, the most opulent living. And we saw it all crash. It will be a thousand years before the world will be ready for another. Thus two of the older men, watching the young men go to war repine because they have been condemned to the gray, inglorious days at home. For all of us it has been a Golden Age despite its physical horrors and spiritual atrocities. If it has been, a revelation of illimitable cruelty and brutality, it has also been a revelation of most mens faith in whatsoever things are good and their desire to attain them for humanity generally, by death, if necessary. The cynic will say that not one man in a thousand was impelled by such an exalted motive, that the volunteer and the conscript were influenced by practical considerations that had little to do with the finer spiritual qualities; but those who watched closely during the war saw that mens souls were touched by a divine fire and a consuming hope of better things for humanity, and that la why the war itself was a part of the Golden Age and perhaps the best part. Pacifists that we were at the beginning of the European conflict, we did not realize what some meant when they tried to tell us that war had its compensations and that it brought out the best in men as well as the worst. The author, presenting to us a cross-sectio- n of American life just before and during our participation in the conflict, is concerned not a little with the idealistic side of American man-hoo- d and womanhood. And by way of contrast we have the weak and selfish men and women who, frightfully out of place in a world newly awake to the beauty of sacrifice and fearing to forego pleasure and convenience or to lose something even dearer, accused those about them of dramatizing themselves and the war so as to assume heroic poses. Such, for example, was Mrs. Clayton Spencer wife of the millionaire munitions maker. The story revolves around Mr. and Mrs. Spencer and their son, Graham. She tries to keep her son out of the war and is well on the way to make a mollycoddle of him when events which she is unable to control whirl him into the conflict and make a man of him. And all the time she bears her husband a grudge for At sending her boy to his death. the same time she is weary of her . . i tMtasacti CoJ3akhio ims aimiwswuisHaocMo stasusned yyy f ww . wvwwwwwwwv Every Dollar Paid For Insurance in 1 The Guardian Fire Insurance Company : of Utah ' Stays In Utah ' I: The Agency Company l; I Managers 334 South Main Street SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH II 'I . ' Tel. Was. 6619 Apen All Night UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMERS S. D. EVANS Modem Establishment New Building 48 State St. Salt Lake City iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiHiisMiiiiiHHiHHHiiiniiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiinniir"T j No Thief Con Track Yrar Valuables rad Papers I If they are i low cost behind the tons placed i of steel and cement of our safety deposit boxes. I It's mighty restful to go away and s to know that we are watching your valuables. A box for every purpose at very W. a McCornlck ...Pros. Anthon H. Lund... 1st Vies Proa. 2nd Vies Proa. Mlchelaen Cashier D. E. Judd AsaL Caahler fjm 1 1 J B J husband and is carrying on a flirtation with a dilettante architect whose soul is not deeply penetrated by the hferoic impulses of the war, for the good reason that it is impossible to penetrate shallows deeply. Although this is a portrayal of the effect of the war upon the rich, many sides of American life are revealed. We come in contact with workers who, however, are somewhat neglected by the author with plotters who blow up factories, with soldiers, secret service men and, in fact, enough of the salient' characters of war days to give, on the whole, a very vivid and very true picture o? American life of the period. It will be from such novels as these that historians will obtain the atmosphere which will give verisimilitude to their facts. Without such aids to their would imaginations the historians wander hopelessly through graveyards of details and would be unable to give their contemporaries a living, breathing visualization of the worlds most stupendous historic drama. pro-Germ- LADIES! Get the habit of lunching and dining at ROTISSERIE INN We serve Fine Salads, Cold Chicken Consomme Jelly, Sea Foods and all kinds of Hot Weather specials. Special attention accorded our guests by C. Rlnetti and F. an If the author has not produced a great work, perhaps the blame does not lie solely with her. Although she is considered by many our foremost woman novelist, she is necessarily limited by her characters. We may blame her for not selecting characters that would permit her to draw sublime pictures, but if we do we shall blame her for trying to draw true pictures of American life. THE LADY. By Emily James Putnam. New York: G. . P. Putnams Sons. is well that we should have a recITord of the lady, for she seems likely to disappear from view. Mrs. Putnam does not give us an exact definition of the lady. It would puzzle the best of us to do that, but the lady must produce nothing and she must consume a great deal. But she is by no means a parasite. She has a sort of hothouse culture that it is good for us to have in our midst. She has been trained as an ideal. She assuages, mollifies, inspires. But Mrs. Putnam does not deal so much with the lady of today as with the lady of history. In ancient Greece the lady was almost a religious cult. Some of the ladies of Rome were unsurpassable in their splendid womanhood. The mediaeval lady performed services that the world will not willingly forget. They justified their existence, and they were nonproductive only in the material sense. But wlmt shall we say of tho lady of today? Must we confess that she produces nothing whatsoever, either material or cultural, that she is not worth either her training or her keep, that she is more often an injury to the community than a benefit? At least (Continued on Page 15.) 323 SOUTH MAIN STREET More than 15,000 in- dividuals, firms and corporations repre- senting every west- ern industry, accounts Walker Bankers. have with Brothers For the reason ask our customers. Walker. Brothers Bankers Founded 1859 Resources Over $11,000,000 ill When Buying or Selling Stocks See H. B. COLE, Broker Room 1, Salt Lake Stock Exchsnfe Bldtf, WE PRINT GOODWINS WEEKLY OUR CRAFTSMANSHIP SPEAKS FOR ITSELF Century printing Company W.G ROMNEY J. Q. RTAN CENTURY BUILDING 231 EDISON STREET Phone Wasatch 1801 Printers. Binders, Designers, Linotypers ' |