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Show IDVALE OURN NOT SEEING OUR LIMITATIONS By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Deau of Men, University of lllinoi1. VOLUME 4 NUMBER 37 Phone Midvale 178 MIDVALE, SALT LAKE CO., UTAH, FEBRUARY 15, 1929 Goes To Every Home In South Salt Lake County Entry No· 6 In Journal's Famous Characters Contest Riverton Resident Has Trav.. ~led In Far Corners Of This World Of Ours " Thomas Phillip Page By Mrs. Z. T. Butterfield Thomas I>nilips Page, was born In lj;ngland, Dec. 22, 1850. He comes from a very old Welch family. He is the son of Thomas Gwynne Page, of Radnorshire, Wales, his father going to London and engaging in business, discarded the hyphenated name so that the name of the family is now • Page. The family traces their descent thru 51 generations, 6 Gwaldeg, ruler of Garthmadrgyn, now the country of Brecon and surrounding lands, who lived A. D. 230. The seat of their government was Garth, Breconshire, an insignificant place to day. This was some 200 years before the conquest of the Saxons under Henquist and Heresa, of southern England, and about 100 · years previous to the victories of the West Laxon and Mercians on the Seven and the Hee which divided the Celtic population who had kept their independence, unto Cornwall on the south, Wales in the center and Strathclyde on the north and brought about the limits of Wales approximate• ly to what it is today. The family of the Gwynnes at a later date became F:j:>x hunting Welchsquires, living on so e very poorest lands in Central Wales and having very little but their births to be proud of. His mother was Genette Scott, the dg.ughter of Robert Scott, of F.orfarshire, Scotland. The Scots of northern Scotland were originally McGre-· gors, the McGregors being one of the proscribeddans and the name not al· lowed to be used, took over the name of Scott. He received a good business educa· tion in London, England, and among other studies, attended a course of lectures on political and social economy at University College, London, •which more or less had an effect on his thoughts of life. (Continued on another Page) . The Whole Town's Talking Miss Bee Parsons, dramatic art teacher at the Midvale Jr. High, announces the annual faculty play, a three act farce by John Emerson and Anita Loos," entitled "THE WHOLE OWN'S TALKING". This play, by the author of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" provides a hilarious evening's entertainment. The title derives from the gossip occasioned by a non-existant flirtation between a movie actress and a country bumpkin. The girl he wishes to mar-ry demands that her future husband be a man of the world, who has sown his wild oats. Now Chester has never sown a wild oat in his life, but to satisfy the whim of his lady love, with the connivance of her father, he concocts a •tory of a mad flirtation with an actress. By an almost impossible coincidence, the actress turns up in his home town. Then's when the fun be-gins and the whole town starts talk.stng. Ethel Simmons-but really you must see the play. It will be played in Midvale Friday March 1st, Draper, Sunday, March 2, and Union Wednesday, March 6th. Every seat in the house will be nUmbered and reserved. The cast follows. Henry Simmons, a manufacturer, ................................ Heber A. Curtis Harriet Simmons, wife, Iona Ludlow Ethel Simmons, their daughter .. ... .......... ............. Mary Henderson Chestl)r B~ey, Simmons' Partner • ............................ E. E. Greenwood Letty Lytbe, a motion picture star ···············--··········-····-·· Twila Smart Donald Swith, a motion picture director . ...... .... ............ ...... ... Aaron Horne Ro~er Shields, a young Chicago blood ................................ W. E. Dewey _J.Ala Wihfon and Sally Otis, friends of Ethel, Bee Parsons, Utahna Jensen Annie, a maid ........ Katherine Evans Sadie Bloom ........ Allene Sutherland Taxi-Driver ........................ Ray Lester Mrs. Jacltson .................... Lorna Call FOR SALE-29 x 4.40 Balloon Tire with tube and rim for sale cheap. This tire has only been run 50 to 75 miles. Call at Journal office and make an o1rer. THE HIGH COST OF CHEAP SCHOOLS Experience has llhown that the cheapest article may prove the dearest in the end and so quality has become the slogan ot reputable business and industry. Our schools have undergone the same experience and adapted the same slogan. A piece of bad merchandise can be replaced by a better; an interior educational training, however, may bring permanent injury. Fortunately, quality has begun to assume value u it relates to our schoola. The sign is in the lengthening term of service given to school employees. This la due to a realization by board!! of education that it is expensive to lose eft\cient service. An investment in the nature of a reasonable salary increment which will retain an able corps of workers is small when the tate ot a continued educational policy is at stake. Such a salary increase is insurance against depreciation-a preventive measure against lessened efficiency in the school system. The departure of a mediocre teacher is of little moment; the removal from the classroom ot a personality that raage and the will to work is a distinct diates cheer, hope, comradeship, courloss. In recent years there Is an increasing evidence that school administration is a business and subject to the laws of business. Today business is a symbol of quality-quality in the character of products, quality in the calibre of its workers. We hear business executives tell of the lengths they go to secure these, how they specify betterments, enforce standards and evalute trade-marks. School officials have an equal concern for their products. Merchants employing large groups can tell you what labor turnover costs them. They can show you the expense of regainini' a customer's interest lost through inferior service. Both items are expensive. They eat up profits. The business of school administration is as sensitive to these methods of investment as is every other business. To maintain educational quality in the face of increasing attendance is the challenge. What is costs the schools to regain a pupil whose interest is lost through inefficient teaching or management is not known in figures, nor can the loss to a community by the substitution of a weaker for a stronger type of teacher be measured. Parents who have exper.enced either will say that the experimenting is expensive; that the loss Is so self-evident it should be avoided. If, in a spirit of thoughtless economy, :t is not prevented, such economy :nay prove to be costly and extravagant. The value of a commodity lies in be quality of its service. The buylng"lf good administration and teaching at the figure the market demands vould seem less expensive than the )Uying of inferior service at bargain rates. That school system which retains the interest of pupils, and gives valued service through the executive and teaching force, may prove more economical than a system costing less per pupil but unable to hold the pupil interest and giving mediocre service through a less efficient teaching staft'. The quality of school service depends on holding the interest of its customers and confining the labor turnover to the less efficient. Such procedure will go far toward remedying the high cost of cheap schools. Such is the policy which Is followed in Jordan District. ;RAND INTERNATIONAL JUBILEE AT UNION FEB. 21, 22 and 23rd Comedies, Dinners, Dances Concessions Featured According to programs being distributed by the Union Ward, a grand international jubilee wili be held at the Union Recreation Hall on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 21st, 22nd and 23rd. Scandanavia, Hawaii, Palestine, Hoi land, United States, India and Africa will be in attendance. Concessions, just like the side show at the circus, will bring back fonr memories of by-gone days. A hot supper will be served each evening during the three day festival by the Relief Society Ladies, and that is taking in a lot of territory, for they know how to put out the "eats". Thursday evening there will also be a special feature movie. Friday evening a comedy in three acts "The Three Pegs" with a local cast, will be the main attraction. Saturday evening a grand ball will be held. Good music is assured, for Carter's Band bas been signed. The nations will take part and a prize will be given for the best representations. Ralph Parlette Coming To Hold Self-Development Conference On March 4th MIDVALE WILL NOT ENTER ETeryone In Salt Lake County COPPER LEAGUE BASBALL Inrited and Ur1ed To Avail Themselves of Opportunity CLUB THIS SEASON Whether- you like it or not, the report is out that Midvale will not engage in Copper League Baseball this season. Robertson, star pitcher, arrived In Midvale this week, and receiving no encouragement, went to Bingham and signed for the season. Notice has gone out to other players that there is nothing doin&' in Midvale so far as a ball club ia concerned. It is our opinion that Midvale has received some very favorable publicity in the past two years since entering the Copper League. We were just beginning to realize on the inTestment and now it appears that we shall lose what ground we gained from a publicity standpoint. However, the opponents of the merits of this class of publicity will have an opportunity to demonstrate their point the coming season. We have tried baseball for two years. Now we will let it die and see what happellll. If it is a detriment, then why continue it. If it is an asset, then we Pres. Arch Thurman of the Utah want it by all means. Education association, assisted by G. A. Larson of the Ogden local associa- respectively, with two .other western tion, conducted the regional confer- states, California and Colorado, inence for the Carbon and Emery Co. creasing 182 per cent and 100 per cent locals recently at the Carbon County respectively. The finance section adopted resohigh school. Mr. Thurman told the finance sec- lutions favoring the classification of tion that, from seventh pla~e ln 1920, property for tax purpoaes, and le&ill· Utah had dropped on the educational latlon for additional state aid to be list to twenty-first place in 1926, and distributed in the school districts on that, while the United States average other than a census basis. In the closing general assembly the for increase in Educational expenditures within that period had been 91 conference went on record aa faTorini' per cent, Utah had increased but 21 the plan to have the state superinper cent, being the second lowest tendent of public instruction appointstate in the union. He mentioned that ed by the state board of education, some of the more backward states, which in turn would be elected by the such as Georgia and Florida, had in- people, one board member from each creased 91 per cent and 328 per cent, judicial district. Utah In Second Low Place On Educational List Of Union Salt Lake County Sportsmen To Hold Meeting In Midvale Wednesday February 20th. Illustrated Lecture Free Midvale 2nd Ward Will Present Opera "Gypsy Lover" The public in general will be interested to know that the splendid efforts of the Second Ward Choir members will make it possible to present the operetta, Gypsy Rover, early in the month of March. This promises to be a rare musical treat. Claudius Doty and Miss Ruth Bergman are carrying the stellar roles. Other character parts are taken by Mrs. Lizzie Bergman, Mrs. Ray Hughes, B. A. Rasmussen, Bert Buckley and Leon Rasmussen. A chorus of 20 voices support the cast. Watch for later announcements. Lady Lions Will Have Charge Of Lions Party February 21st Thursday, February 21st, 1929, Is the date. What date, what about it? Why! Haven't you heard the good news? The Lion Tamers of the Midvale Lions Club will have charge of the party following the regular luncheon at the Midvale Jr. High school on that date. Dancing will be participated in wherever the Tamers desire to go and any other festivities which they may arrange for that date will be enjoyed. Lion Tamer Mrs. J. A. Alcorn Is chairman of the arrangements committee. She has appointed several of the Tamers to work with her on the committee and they are arranging a general good time for that evening. All Lions please take notice and keep that evening, Thursday, Febru- ary 2lat, open. Midvale haa been selected by the University of Utah, Extension Division, and by those interested in putting over the Ralph Parlette Self-Development Conference, aa the logical place the central point, at which to hold this world famoWI conference. Salt Lake City, Provo, Ogden, Bri~rham City, and other towns and cities in the Intermountain region are sponsoring these conferences at this time. Ralph Parlette ls a national 1igure and waa brought to Salt Lake City under a guarantee of $6000. His lecture• have attained such success that the University is already well over the guarantee through registrations. The conference for Salt Lake County will be&in in Midvale on Monday, March ~th, and he held thereafter every Monday and Thursday night of each week In the Midvale Junior high auditorium. Unlese your dead or dying, folkt, don't miss this. However, Parlette has no message for the dead. Ra.lph Parlette'• Way of Lecturing "I'll tell you what I always try to do on the platform. I try to say things that I believe as I believe my own life. True things. Fundamental things. Optimistic things. I do believe in everybody. Believe there 18 success and happiness just as much for one as for another, and believe that our troubles and bumps only help ll.ll to be wiser and happier." Mr. Parlette Says: There 1.1 no stNngth without strugi'le, no success without sacrifice, no a-reatness without service, no life with out labor..- .... I know when I am growing-! am ao dissatisfied with myself. I know when I am not growini'-I am so satisfied with myself. The man who always agrees with you is either a fool or thinks you are. It matters little what people think you are; it matters much what you think of people. In the Self-Development Course Mr. Parlette fa.shlou a Mirror In which every man dlacoven hla own Image. Am I aware of my opportunities? Am I master of my own abilities? What are Success and Happiness? How attain them? Am I ever Dissatisfied? Discour&i'ed! Disappointed? .A.m I ~etting a crop ot lemons from my Tree of Life ? Am I "shaking up or rattling down?" What are the most important things in our Uvea! Am I findini' life better as the year-a &"O by! How can we help anybody else? How can we be thrifty? Why am I bumped? Why must I struggle ? A..m I able to ~et aloni' with my auociatea! RALPH PARLETTE'S COURSE ANSWERS THESE QUESTIONS. Re&ister Now! Immediately. Call the Midvale Journal, Tel. Mid. 178, and we'll come to you, explain the entire proposition, take your registration it you so desire, and give you more for $5.00 than you'll ever get in the future, it you live to be a hundred years old. The satisfied, contented, self-contained individual, who does not believe in this sort of bunk, will be given a FREE ticket through the courtesy of The Midvale Journal, and when the conference is completed, at the end of six weeks, if he or she has attended every session, we'll get one hundred per cent interest on the money invested, It you don't want this proposition, then you're on your way, feet .fl.rst, soft music, sweet flowers, but you don't feel the pain. News Briefs BETTER HOMES WEEK J. L. MEYERS, PRESIDENT FISH AND GAME ASSOCIATION Watch the Salt Lake County Fish and Game Protective Association during the year 1929. J. Lawrence Meyers, of Midvale, is the president and when J. L. hooks on to the "little red wagon" there's some thing doing "all the while." Myers put on the Midvale Lions Club on the map. He has been interested in all civic, social and religious affairs of the city and county for rna-· ny years. He is an able speaker and holds his audience at will. Just how the Sportsmen of Salt Lake County happened to find him, we do not know, but they certainly know a live wire when they see one. A member of the association only recently remarked: "That fellow J. L. Meyers sure knows his onions, doesn't ' he." Wednesday, February 20th, 1929 So much for the obituary. On Wednesday February 20th, at 8 p. m. in the Firemen's Hall in Midvale, there will be an illustrated lecture on scenic Utah by Dr. J. E. Broaddus, of Salt Lake City. This lecture will be under the direction of the Salt Lake County Fish & Game Protectice Association and will be free to all sportsmen and their families and all lovers of outdoor life. A special invitation is extended to everyone in South Salt Lake County to attend this meeting. Sunday, February :Uth Sunday will be Governor's Day at the new association hatchery which adjoins the state hatchery at .Murray. This will take place at 11 a. m. and a general program with talks will be given. All sportsmen of the county are invited to attend. Thursday, March '7, 19.29 Sportsmen's Annual Riot will be held in the basement of the Elks Club at Salt Lake City. Big surprise proAdmitgram with plenty of eats. tance to this will be by membership card only. Sunday, February 1 '7tb, 1929 Tune in on KSL, Salt Lake City, and hear the Sportsmen's broadcast, and a special message from the new president, J. L. Meyers, ot Midvale. Time, 5:15 to 5:30 p. m. On Friday, February 15th, President Meyers will preside over a meeting of Sportsmen's at Murray and on February 28th, he will talk before the Kiwanis Club ot Salt Lake City. Some job, this president's job of the local sportsmen! On another page of The Journal ot this issue, you will find an illustrated article concerning the Salt Lake Fish and Game Protective Association Fish Hatchery, at Murray, Utah. The Better Homes Committee of which Mrs. J. Hollis Aylett is chairman, will have charge of the program at the next meeting of the Community Club Wednesday, February 20th. Better English week, which is the last week in February will also probably receive due attention at that time. The meeting will be in the new club rooms. SELEO.l' BOOKS ADDED TO The Library Committee announces the purchase of a number of books that should be of special interest to all book lovers. BAMBI, by Felix Sallen is for the rental shelf. Boys Own Story of Col. Lindbergh by Richard Beamish and 12 new Peter Rabbit booka are now on the library shelves. Under date of February H, 1929, a communication was received from the Christian Science Committee on Publication, commending The Journal on its desire to publish a constructive newspaper acceptable and helpful to adult subscribers and also interesting and instructive to school children in the community. ------ Mrs. R. R. Fenn was hostess to members of her club Friday at her bome on ~nter street. It 11 wlse, we say, tor a man to realize bls llmltat1on1. By so doing he does not rush into things for which he has no fitness: be does not attempt that which Is beyond hla powers of accomplishment. I know, for Instance, that I am not musical. I am neither a performer n o r have I musical appreciation sufficient intelli&"ently to criticize a pertorman~e to which I listen. For that reaa;;on I say nothing, and I am conTinced that many ot my friends whom I hear making wise comments upon tbls or that musical performance might better follow my example. Ball has little or no sense ot humor, and he has the judgment to realize his lack. He can n&ver see the point of a joke even when It Is explained to him 1n detail. If he laughs when some one tells a tunny !;tory !t is to be polite, and not to put himself outaide the circle, rather than becnuse he Ia amused by the recital or understands what it Is all about. nut Ball never cracks a joke. lie never launches out, as many people d( Into a nurrative Intended to amuse and then forget the point and ellda Ilia tale without a cllmax. He knows his limitations and he wisely never goes beyond th em. "Wisely,'' I said, but I am not always aure that 1t is wise too acutely to realize one'1 weaknesses. Too keen a reallzatlon takes the energy out of one, robs him ot Initiative ano makes one afraid at times to try anything. We all thought Clancy less than ordinary when he was in college. He was handicapped in two ways. He did not baTe any money and so was forced to earn his living by li:cting us a j!Ort ot chore boy In one ot the local stores at twenty cents an hour-a job which brought hlm only a meager subsistence-and In addition to this handicap be had a dull brain. Even his best friends admitted that Clancy was very ordinary. But somehow he himself nner realized this fact. He stumbled along In his stupid way, Insisting on being a leader. He had neither tnct nor social t1nesile, but whenever anything political or social was under way Clancy was alwaya on hand pushing himself to the front and Insisting In a crude llllterate way on being heard. No one thought he would make a aucce!!s of his profession. He was too crude, too stupid, too lacking In the qualities which enable one to get on wlth men, but Clancy never recognized these limitations of his, and he has a-ot on. It has never occurred to him that he is commonplace. He has put a a-ood estimate upon his own abilities and wltb that In mind has forged ahead. In some way he has appar£>ntly fooled people and they have taken him at his own estimate. He Is really qu!te the Uterary critic; his friends are among the best people ln the city In whlcb he lives. He has risen above hill limitations. (._ ltlt, Western Newapaper Union.) Business and Professional Women's Club· Meets An interested group or professional and business women listened to Mrs. Clara M. Clawson, of Salt Lake, State Organizer Monday evening. The next meeting will be held February 27th, and before that time all eligible \VOIDen and girls in our town will be given a chance to join as charter members, thus avoiding payment of the initiation fee, which of course will be affiliated immediately with the State and National organization and members of our club will be entitled to visitors privileges in all Business and Professional Women's Clubs in the State and Nation. Something to remember on your next vacation trip. OLD FOLKS DAY AND COI\OIUNI- TY REUN!ON PLANNED BY MIDVALE lS'!' 1/, 2ND WARDS Friday Feoruary 22nd, Washingtons Birthday, is Old Folks Day for Midvale. The 1st Ward will hold their celebration, as usual, in the ward chapel on East Center street, and the Midvale 2nd ward will celebrate in Goff's hall. The day begins by the dinner served at 12 o'clock noon; the program follows and a dance at night concludes the entertainment. The Second Ward will give their program in the Iris Theatre. The various committees are sparing no effort to make of this day one long to be remembered by the old folks. DIPPING INTO SCIENCE ************************ Why Hot Air Rises Heat does not an'ect the pow· er or gravitation, for any given weight will weigh just the same regardless of the heat applied. HoweYer, heat generally cn uses a thing to swell and it occupies more space. It is therefore lighter In proportion to the apace It occupies. This relation of volume end weight causes warm air or hot water to rise. ((C). 1929. Western Newspaper Union 1 |