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Show TIIE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, UTAH D. A. R. Officers See Model of Danger in Impetuous Demand for Reform in Administration of Justice LEnfant Memorial By CHIEF JUSTICE DE YOUNG, Illinois Supreme Court public is being awakened to that vigilance which is the cost good government. Still, there is a need for caution that we not overstep ourselves. There are modern philosophers who are impatient to wipe out the restraints in law that have proved their value through the ages. On the streets and in the press almost daily there is some one who would remove the presumption of innocence from a criminal trial. Some one else wants to remove the requirement that guilt must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. T1 ese are rules that must be retained or the administration of justice will retrograde cen- TIIE i turies. However, I would be the last one to say that our courts are efficient, that they have kept abreast of the times. Take the law, for example, that makes a jury in a criminal case judge of the law as well as the fact. This presumes that twelve men know more about the technicalities of our Constitution, our common law, our statutes and our Supreme court opinions than does the presiding magistrate who has devoted his life to the stddy. The law, enacted in 1815, should be abolished. Our faults lie as much in the organization of our courts as in the laws. There is much room for legislative improvement. But the legislature doesnt always move with celerity. There is nothing dramatic about reforming court procedure, nothing there to attract a legislator anxious to please his constituents. The judiciary has little political power. It has no patronage, it has no funds to distribute. But the pubBaby lias little upsets at times. Ali lic is aroused by the weaknesses of our criminal prosecutions, and the your care cunnot prevent them. But you can be prepared. Then you can do what public will get the needed reforms. When your Children Cry for It fr National officers of the Daughters of the American Devolution inspecting the model for the proposed to Major L'Enfnnt, noted Drench engineer, who projected the plans for the city of Washington. Nobodys Fault but His Own if Man Fails in Japanese Women Try to Rid Tokyo of Graft This Modern Life By BISHOP B. F. P. IVINS. If a man misses his mark in life, you can be sure it is his own fault. This in spite of the behavioristic psychology, of which we have been hearing so much of late, telling us that we are absolutely fixed by what our inheritance and environment have made us and that if we knew perfectly what a mans environment and inheritance were we could plot his mental reaction and how he would respond to any given stimulus. This kind of a theory is nonsense. The psychologists are beginning to acknowledge it as nonsense. Hen do not act that way. Man is responsible if he fails to come up to the mark. Man i3 a free agent; in theo- logical terminology, he has a free will. Sin is nothing more than missing the mark. There are certain overt acts which men generally agree to be sins, such as murder, stealing, lying. Then we seem to catalogue sins by degrees and some we condone, such as divorce, cheating in business, the diplomatic lie, gossip, tale bearing and scandal. You cannot classify sin in that way. Our Lord never once, as far as we have a record, condemned an overt act of omission, but he condemns the sins which we today are inclined to ignore, any exiierlenced nurse would do what most physicians would tell you to do give a few drops of plain Castorla. Nc sooner done than Baby is soothed ; relief is just a matter of moments. Yet you have eased your child without use of a single doubtful drug; Castorla Is vegetable. So its safe to use as often os an infant has any little pain you cannot pat away. And its always ready for the crueler pangs of colic, or constipation or diarrhea; effective, too, million for older children. Twenty-fivbottles were bought lost year. e Bilious, limm, constipated? Taka Nl J kTURES REMEDY toniarht t the mild. safe, native. Youll feel fine In e morning. Promptly and 10 easantly rids the system the bowel poiaons that 'Tq.M0RU0W use headachea 25c. mr.HT O . Mulll n those of commission. and cleansing of moral wrongs is the great need of all Christians. EUROPE CUNARO LINE. B2 day a, Japanese women prominent In the society of Tokyo have organized to free that city of grafters. shows some of them talking in the campaign against the corruptionists. HEADS TENNIS TEAM Youth Handicapped by Multiplicity of Rules Laid Down by Elders The By DR. BRUNO ROSELLI, Vassar College. Betsy Ross Gives D. A. R. a New Flag 'A ma Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, president general of the Daughters of American Revolution, receiving an American silk flag from Miss Betsy Ross, direct desecendant of the designer of the Stars and Stripes. Miss Ross represented boys and girls of the United States in the American Flag associations contest. Since Eve woman has gone on liking being pretty and being told so. Men fool themselves when they tell women they are working hard to make sums of money for them. They do not realize that it isnt so much their making of millions that women want, as to have them spend an evening at home telling their wives how nice they look. Youth is seriously handicapped by a multiplicity of rules and laws that the older generation has seen fit to weave. Instead of making things easier for youth by helping develop the fundamentals that go for responsibility, we have created more laws, and then given the impression that they may be broken as one isnt found out. All around we see the worst structures of society. kind of I have no patience with a youth demanding freedom without responsibility, but I have the utmost sympathy with that quality of youth which demands freedom from unfair shackles imposed by the older generation, in order that its own sense of responsibility may have an opportunity to super-hypocritic- d al develop. More Extensive Training of Country Teachers Only Fair to Rural Child Fitz Eugene Dixon, who has been named captain of United States Davis cup team. He succeeds Joseph W. Wear, who was temporarily placed in charge in France last summer after William T. Tilden had been declared Ineligible. By ETTA M pi NEW NAVY AID I I King Gustaf Inspects New Destroyer SSSSSSS $900 to $1300 Spain, Tangier, Algiers, Italy, Riviera, s, Sweden, Norway, Edinburgh, Berlin (Iaris, London( Rhine, etc.). Hotels, drives, fees, etc. included. MadltarrawOM Cnilss, Jan. 29, 9900 up Frank C. Clark, Timas Bldg., N. T. Tros-sach- Talking Mountain Found Undersea mountains that just could not keep silent, hove yielded their secret to the persistent scientists. By firing detonating shells from a brass shotgun and determining the time the echoes took to return from the floor of the sen, scientists on the yacht Carnegie found two new ranges of mountains. One la more than a mile high above the sea floor near Ecuador. The other rises 0,730 feet, about 400 miles north of Juun Fernandez Island. This range may be a contributing cause to the Humboldt current, and may also be the remnant of a sunken land whence sprang the mysterious Easter island civilization. Coming Down "Since Dorothy married she has stopped wearing high heels her husband disapproves of them." "I always said she'd lower herself by marrying that man." Tit-Bit- The back of a clock, like some men, Is always behind time. 0. CHRISTENSEN, Minnesota Educator. If the rural child is to have a square deal, the schools must do much better. One year is too short a time to make the necessary preparation for teaching in a rural school. When we compare the qualifications of rural teaching today with those of 10 years ago, we feel that great improvement has been made, and yet we must do better if the rural child is to have the square deal to which he is entitled. The problem is before us of standards to be met by entrants to the rural curricula, courses to be pursued during the training period and requirements to be met in practice teaching. Two years should be the minimum for this hardest of all teaching jobs. The practice teaching khould occur in the second year and should be of two kinds: Teaching in the grades and teaching in our typical rural schools. Gospel, to Be Attractive, Must Put Forward Demand for Devotion A DOZEN By REV. C. LESLIE GLENN (Episcopal), Chicago. Christian gospel, similar to that which drew men to the service of tin nation during the World war, is one of the great needs. The present generation is "spiritually wistful. Too often the mild demand? of orthodoxy have led young people to find atticism almost more of an advantage than faith. A tame gospel will anvays fail. Life cannot he bought cheap. The gospel for the age must have in it a demand for the same devotion that was called out bv the World war. The war was the one tiling that lifted men out of their own selfish concerns and gave purpose to life. A Ernest L. Jahncke of New Orleans, who has been named assistant secretary of the navy by President Hoover. He succeeds Theodore Douglas Rob Inson of New York. A Black Hair bitious, quick-tempere- have confidence in themselves, hut good at biding their feelings. great are not spite of its horrors, it provided a reason for existence. For most men, nothing like it has come along since. Many are in a state of mild desperation, tamed anil conformed, looking back on thf dais win n there whs a world to be fought for. g'-Ir. Ter,sons with black, glossy hair are Said to be of independent spirit, amKing Gustaf of Sweden on the bridge of the new destroyer, Ehrenskoeld, ns lie Inspected the latest addition to the Swedish navy. The monarch is aD expert navy tactician. at different things may cause a headache, but there's just one thing you need ever do ato get relief. Bayer Aspirin is a absolute antidote for such pain. Keep it at the office. Have it handy in the home. Those subject to frequent or sudden headaches shouldn. carry Bayer Aspirin in the pockct-tiUntil you have used it for headaches, colds, neuralgia, etc., you va no idea how Bayer Aspirin can help. It means quick, complete reliefv.hoto millions of men and women use it every year. And it uces- not depress the heart. |