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Show PLEASANT GROVE REVIEW life''- , f. v ft ' v:-j : r Flowers Ever - in Men's Minds at Eastertide Easter Is the oldest festl- 3 was instituted by Nature, herself, an,d was orlglnnlly f I celebrated In honor of the 'J spring. Primitive man coujil not fathom the spring miracle, but he could appreciate it, and celebrate cele-brate this Joyous "Festival of breaking bud and scented breath." r Every" nation basTts own7 name and legend for Bprlng the resurrection resur-rection of life. Each year, when Nature lived and blossomed anew, the tender beauty of the flowers etirred the human pilnJ to wonder and deep speculation. Literature Is rich... In - beautiful - legends of the flowers, which tradition says first bloomed in Ileaven. When the evil angels were driven from Heaven they snatched their arms full of flowers and carried them away. But God w)uld not permit per-mit bis celestial blossoms to be taken to Hades, so be caused the wicked angels to become tired, and one by one they dropped the flowers flow-ers over the earth before they reached their destination. Another old legend which accounts for the beginning of the flov ers states that Venus winkled nectar Into the blood c the wounded Adonis and flowers iprang up. The word flower Itself cjmes from Flora, goddess of flowed i , ALfJOUGH the flowers were orlglnatlyonnected wlth ja- gan customs and beliefs, most of thfm are now closely, woven, by il a. . m.. In all ages and lands the white Illy has been closely associated with the two 'greatest mysteries of human hu-man life blrtb- and death.- Juno, the queen of the Roman gods, chose the lily as her symbol, and the classics class-ics ell us ot fiASSfl plfm mono the lilies. Joan of Arc was crowned with white lilies to typify the purity and sacredness of her mission. The first lily used as a symBol of the resurrection was the Madonna, or Annunciation Illy In famous plc-tpres plc-tpres of saints, angels and the Madonna. Ma-donna. In the Madonna pictures. a stem to represent the trinity, or the annunciation, conception and blrtb of the Savior. A pot of these lilies over doors and windows is symbolical of the Virgin In ecclesiastical ecclesias-tical art and arcbitecture, but lily piljars, or columns, typify the resurrection. res-urrection. TV MODERN times the Easter lily 1 has taken the place of the Madonna Ma-donna 'Illy both In America and Europe, because it ' Is a hardier plant. The. Easter lily, or Bermuda tllyrwas "originally a native" . of Japan. More than 204 years ago a pirate sea captain brought some ol the bulbs to - Bermuda, where It grew larger and more beautiful than lc the Orlen IemenownjsJneL TSeTmudiTiny, and for generations Its care and cultivation were handed hand-ed down from father to sou, until it became one of the household gods oi-lhelslandipianteiv - Until very recent years America was entirely dependent upon China, Japan and Bermuda for bulbs of the Easter lily, but through painstaking experiments experi-ments the United States government has learned to produce our own bulb supply. . -- - Not only the Christians, but all other - religions of the world have used the Illy to typify consolation and hope. The lotus Illy Is sacred to the Buddhists, and to It they dedicate ded-icate ceaseless prayers which are printed on parchment and fastened to constantly revolving cylinders In the great temples of Tibet From Egypt to China superstitions and great love -abounds for the sacred lotus. Tradition also relates that Judith, the Israelite heroine of the Apochrypha, wore a crown of lotus lilies when she went upon her mission mis-sion To dmrdy'WdloTera'wTirAnd all the world knows that Cleopatra wore lotus blooms In her hair. npUEnE Is a legend old as Chris- A tianity which says that the Vfr-' gin spilled inf gw Jlropr Jf her milk- on the ground, and from these drops sprang the dainty little Illy of the valley, those "fairy bells that bring Incense to the spring." But In some of the old English country villages this precious little flower Is called the "Ladder of Heaven." The ancient an-cient Druids l believed that It symbolized sym-bolized future happiness, and they used It at weddings to insure wed ded bliss to the bride and bride groom. In th6 old days all marriages mar-riages were celebrated In the spring Few modern brides realize that they follow, an ancient: pagan: custom when they carry a bridal bouquet of lilies of the valley. In the days of dim antiquity all flowers were divided into two general gen-eral classes. The bell-shaped blossoms blos-soms were called lilies and all the others were, roses. This Is said to account for some flowers being called roses which do not belong to our present rose family. The rose of Jericho Is one of these. It is not a rose at all, but a sort of vegetable.- This plant Is sometimes used as a symbol of the resurrection, be cause It is usually found In a.shriv-eled, a.shriv-eled, -dried-op condition,' but' It Is immediately revived or resurrected by a I.rttie moisture. However, the Lrese of Jericho -Is more -com monly called the rose of Mary because tradition tra-dition says that It grew to mark every resting place of the Holy Family Fam-ily during the Journey to Egypt. LAJJOTHERfloweiof therEaster 1 KPASnn fhp nrimrnsia la Ulrta. wise not a rose Its old generic name is primula or first and since It was not bell-shaped it was called o rose. This flower blooms so early that It has become the symbolical flower of the month of January : Primroses, the spring ....max ....love them, Summer knows but little of them. The briar-rose, according to ancient an-cient Christian tradition, grew from the drops of blood that fell to the earth from the Savior's brow when It was pierced by the crown ol thorns on the cross. But there is another an-other legend which says that Christ's crown of thorns was made ot the white briar-rose Itself, and the red rose sprang from these blood-stained roses: . Men pierced his brow with thorns, but Angels stanched his blood with roses. To this day the faithful In some parts of Russia wlH never suffer a red rose To lie on the ground. The red rose Is usually considered an emblem em-blem of the crucifixion, but the white rose "belongs to Mary, She dried her mourning veil on a rose ' bush and the Jmsh bore white roses ever after. . CUPID gave Hippocrates; the god of silence, a rose, and that flower has since become the symbol of silence. When the Greeks wished the conversations at their feast tables to be kept secret a freshly gathered rose was hung from the ceiling Just above the head of the table. It i was considered dishonorable dishon-orable and even criminal to reveai anything said "sub rosa" (under the rose). But the mythical blue rose Is symbolic of heavenly bliss and unattainable earthly ideals. The passion pas-sion flower got its name from the fancied resemblance of certain Darts ui aiv iv lust i uiucuia VI thrwictfliloB."ir is also a "symbol of faith. The evil mandrake which Is found In southern Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor is also bound by tra dition to Easter. Only at Eastertlmc does the devil lose bis power over this herb. Washington Star. News Review of Current Events the World Over Test Vote in House Encourages Wets Two Famous Men Take Their Own Lives Sales Tax Meets Strong Opposition. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ' J. M. Beck Easter Day "Welcome, happy morning!" age to age ehall tay, -Earth herioyc6nfeseMclolhingherfor tpring, All freih gifte returned with her returning King: Bloom in every meadow, leaves on every, bough, Speak his sorrow ended, hail his triumph now. Hell today is vanquished, heaven is. won today. f rom an old Latin Poem. WET leaders In congress, greatly great-ly encouraged by the test vote in the house, have started a vigorous vigor-ous campaign "to compel the major parties to place In their platform planks declaring for resubmission of the prohibition question to the people. The motion betore the house was to discharge dis-charge the judiciary committee from Jurisdiction Ju-risdiction over the Beck-Liuthlcum resolution res-olution for amendment amend-ment of the Eighteenth Eight-eenth amendment, which has been' defeated In the committee by a vote of 14 to 6. The The, test vote was forced under the liberalized rules by 145 petitioners. On the call of the roll, 22 members mem-bers voted asninst the motion, 187 for it, and there were' 18 not voting. vot-ing. Follortinf; the custom, Speak er Garner did not vote. The strength shown by the wets was greater even than many of them had expected. and they were correspondingly jubilant jubi-lant Their cause had gained 59 votes since tbe house voted December Decem-ber 17, 1917, to submit the Eight-' eenth' 'amendment Beck, and Linthicum, co-authors of the resolution, declared the fight was all but won and that all that waa needed was one more election. Mr. Beck said: "This vote makes It plain that if the Republican party adopts a dry platform in June It will court disaster." . He predicted it would not be necessary to wait for the meeting of the next con gress forTtetion to modify the dry law, believing that this congress at the session next winter, as a direct result of (the November election, will submit the anti-prohibition amendment : " : ' Leaders of the drys, for their part, though admitting wet gains declared tney were undismayed, calling attention to the fact that the wets were still far from having the necessary two thirds majority.' Both sides, in the Republican party .lave been hoping thaLJ'Jesi-deht thaLJ'Jesi-deht Hoover would declare himself, but there was nothing to Indicate that be would depart from his neutrality neu-trality In the pre-eonvention contest. con-test. A. -close .associate of the President Pres-ident was quoted as saying Mr. Hoover had not changed tils belief that the country is still preponderantly preponder-antly dry. : .-. Representative Fred Britten ot Illinois introduced in the house a bill for reneal . of the Johps 'ftv and ten" law which stiffens the pen alties for violation of the Volstead act. yWO of the world's famous men decided that life, was no longer worth living and sd committed suicide. sui-cide. George Eastman, Internationally Interna-tionally known as the developer of the camera, and the photographic film and also as one of the country's coun-try's grea.testnjyL anthroplsts, put a bullet' through bis heart at his home In Rochester, N. I. because he was In HI health "and, as his"-farewell note said: "My work is done- Why wait?" who founded the Eastman Kodak company and was chairman of Its board, had made a vast fortune, but had given away all but about $20,000,000., His philanthropies, estimated es-timated at $75,000,000, were scat tered over the world, the recipients Including universities and schools and dental clinics In many cities in this and other countries. He was seventy-seven years old. a bachelor and a loverof music and art. Mr. Eastman's many friends mourned bis death, but none was found to criticise his decision that It was time for him to go. Ivar Kreuger, head .pf the great Swedish match trust and one of the world's most noted industrialists, was the other notable suicide. For months his numerous Inter ests bad been hammered ham-mered on the exchanges ex-changes of Europe and bis losses were supposed to have been heavy though his remaining fortune for-tune was very large. He had just failed to obtain a $10,000,- 000 loan In New York, where he bad always been able to obtain vast sums for the asking, so he sailed to Paris and there ended bis life with a revolver. Like Eastman, Kreuger was unmarried. His death created a sensation In financial circles, especially espe-cially in Europe, and the shares In bis companies declined sharply. The Geo. Eastman Mir Eastman, 17 V; i Ivar Kreuger Swedish government obtained -from parliament In special session permission per-mission to declare a moratorium on the debts of those concerns to prevent pre-vent a raid by creditors, and the Stockholm exchange was closed for a time. DEBATE on the billion dollar revenue bill continued In the house throughout the week, and the opponents of the, sales tax sought to form themselves Into a bloc. Their determined fight against this big feature of the measure at least resulted in changes, for the ways and means committee agreed to accept ac-cept an amendment omitting certain cer-tain canned goods and press telegrams tele-grams from the list of articles upon Which a 2.25 per 4?ent sales tax Is proposed. The committee also was considering amendments exempting cheap clothing, electricity used for Irrigation projects and 'radio com-pany'leased com-pany'leased wires. 1 . Prospects for adoption of tne sales tax were lessenedJn mid-week when leaders of organized labor and of .the farmers came out In opposition opposi-tion to it William Green, presl dent of the American Federation of Labor, declared "labor will call on Its friends in congress to defeat that section of the taxation measure"; meas-ure"; and Fred Brenckman of the National Grange said imposition of the sales tax would meet the unqualified un-qualified disapproval of the 27,000,-000 27,000,-000 people upon the farms of this country." Should the bill substantially as it stands get through, the house, its sales tax. feature will face strong opposition ln the senate. A group of senators is ready to junk it, and these including the men who are classed as progressive Republicans. Some of the more liberal Democrats want a substitute bill providing for selective sales taxation and possibly for Increased surtaxes on" Incomes about j100,000j:he house suriaxJs 40 per cent from $100,000 up. MANAGERS of the Republican party are busy making the arrangements ar-rangements for the national convention conven-tion in Chieago, and many of them tn their Informal " talk in Washington felt certain that Hoover and Curtis would be the . nominees, nom-inees, on a liberalized liberal-ized platform which would serve to conciliate" con-ciliate" the -wets without, outraging the drys. The members mem-bers of the national committee charged with selecting the presiding officers of the convention at first thought It. would be well to have Charles G. Dawes for temporary chairman and "keynoter," hut it was said he was unwilling to accept the honor.- For permanent chairman It was virtually virtu-ally agreed that Bertrand H. Snell, congressman from New York, would be the best man available. He is one of the party's strong menand a skilled parliamentarian. However, How-ever, betb -posts-were left anffjled", the final choices to be made at a meeting In Chicago on April 9. The arrangements committee de-elded de-elded that four radio broadcasting booths should be put In the Chicago Stadium, It also named Df. A. M. Harvey of Chicago chief of the staff of physicians and nurses, - and George L Hart as official stenographer. stenog-rapher. c Democratic- nianagers also are slowly completing the details for their convention, but have made no announcements. In general, they will take over the Stadium as the Republicans leave it Is admitted by nearly everyone, he will triumph. ' As against nearly 19,000,000 rotes for Von HIndenburg there were about 11,500,000 for Hitler. Ernest Thaelmann, Communist, polled almost al-most 5,000,000 ; Duesterberg, Nationalist, Na-tionalist, got 2,000,000. and Winter. Independent. 11.000 odd. Hitler's vote was so far ahead of the Nar.l vote in the relchstag elections of 1930 that he decided to remain in the contest t Toward the close of the week the Prussian government claimed it had discovered plans for a civil war and therefore raided Nazi headquarters head-quarters throughout the state. ; r B. H. Snell I UMORS. rumors, and more ru-morsall ru-morsall proving false. Clews leading nowhere. Theories swiftly exploded. Investigations and negotiations nego-tiations that have no result Such has been the course of the Lindbergh baby kidnaping case up to the time this Is written. Toward the close or the week the authorities were In quiring Into a story told by, Charles Oliver, a prisoner on Welfare Island, Is-land, New - York, to the effect tbaf the plot to stea! the child was batched In a Jail, being proposed to him by William G lea son of Cliffslde, N. J. The latter was taken Into custody and denied everything Oliver said. An Ingenious theory originated in Philadelphia that henchmen of AI Capone stole the baby for use as a lever to pry that gang leader out of JaiL DAUL VON HINDENBURG maln- tained his place as Idol of the German people In peace lime as well as Id war. In the Presidential election elec-tion be soundly beat bis chief rival, Adolf Hitlerr leader Of The Nazis or Fascists. But the aged President failed by fe-half of 1 per cent to fet a majority of The total Totes cast, so there roost be a run-off election elec-tion on April 10. At that time. It FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT and Gov. W. H. Murray of Oklahoma were the contenders In the Democratic Demo-cratic primaries of North Dakota. The returns from the rural districts were slow In coming in, but on the basis of partial returns it appears certain that the state's delegation would . be Instructed for the New York governor. However, Alfalfa Bill had captivated the Imagination of many of the farmers and was making a fair contest On the Republican side those seeking the preference of the voters were Dr. Joseph L France of Maryland Mary-land and Jacob S- Coxey of Ohio. France was well in the lead. ' Mr. Hoover's name had not been entered but he received some votes.. Mississippi elected a new congressman con-gressman to fill the term of tbe late Percy E. Quin. He is L. Rus-. sell Ellzey, Democrat superintendent superintend-ent of a college at Wesson. NEGOTIATIONS between Japan and China for the withdrawal of Japanese troops from the Shanghai Shang-hai area were reported about to open, after conversations engineered by.the representatives of the United States-and Great Britain. It was understood the Japanese forces should be withdrawn gradually and that the Chinese should pot enter the evacuated territory until final agreement was reached. .The operation opera-tion will be supervised by a-commis-slon with neutral members. Under this agreement China abandons aban-dons the point that Manchuria must be considered simultaneously with the Shanghai problem, and Japan abandons tbe point that the status of Shanghai must be fixed prior to her withdrawal. ' - 7 ''. ....... : Mean while the Lytton "commission sent to Shanghai toy the League of Nations, with . Ma j-Getu: Frank Me-Coy Me-Coy representing the United States, began Investigating the -doings of the Japanese in and about Shanghai. Shang-hai. : ' ' rjOSTMASTER GENERAL W. 1 Brown, in a memorandum submitted sub-mitted to the special economy cemv mTtfee of the house of representatives, representa-tives, pontjd out many ways in which the cost of the postal service serv-ice can be reduced, but said all of them require legislation. He admitted that the postal service serv-ice is overmanned for the handling of the present reduced volume of business due to the depression. He suggested- that ' economics could be achieved by redncing the force, reducing re-ducing pay, consolidating rural free delivery routes and providing' government gov-ernment buildings for post office stations, branch post offices and garages ga-rages whch under the law are now leased. Such economics, however, said Mr. Brown would not balance the Post Office department budget which can be effected only by increasing' postal rates also. Mr. Brown submitted for "careful "care-ful consideration" the proposal of Senator W. H. King that rural free delivery routes be let to the lowest bidders, although the postmaster general recorded himself as opposed to such change because "It would be likely to result in a' substantial Impairment of ..the--generai excellent service which is now rendered to rural patrons",., : mmmmmmmm: or I I x" ,rul .c TARGETbitstbebuK JL oh' every count ft?, new idea in roll-yom tobaccos . . . real ci&r tobacco, blended just! ready-mades. t "And the smokes yJ from Target look like mades. They stay plump) don'troUoutattheendit get 40 gummed 'papenl with every package. No roll-your-own smokes! bust open while y m'ret to smoke them. And the saving ybua is a 1932 idea, just m it, I' get thirty or morel smokes from each pact Target. And I pay onljl dime. Yes,sir,i m torTar AND GET THIS: J Government Tax on 20 tigiiti" mounts to 6(. On 30 dpti you roll from Target Totwe tax to just about U. NowonM get such value for a dimel SAVE MONEY ROLL YOUR OWN SEE WHAT YOU SKI Wrapped in Molttureproof bit !as i it "t i j.j jii iiw wui.ua Sen. Swanson A DJOmtKMEXT until April 11 was taken by the international disarmament conference at Geneva. Correspondents there relate an Interesting In-teresting Incident "7 '"; 7 nnrlnir tha rtlccna. toi sions In the naval commission. Vice Admiral D. P. R. Pound of Great Britain naively pro- k Dosed that thev eliminate from the pi tbe conference an article in the Wash ington treaty providing pro-viding that a nation engaged in war shall not seize a war vessel of another an-other country being constructed in Its own yards. He said it was not logical to expect a country at a moment mo-ment when It' Is straining to the utmost ut-most not to lay lu" hands on all available material. But our own Senator Swanson was on the alert at once, declaring this would not do at all. Ships constructed con-structed Id time of peace for another an-other power should ot possibly be considered available to tbe builders build-ers In time of war. be said. Otherwise, Other-wise, there would never be a chanc for tbe governments to agree on their relative strengths, Mr. Swanson exclaimed. 7 Other delegates supported Senator,, Sena-tor,, Swansea's argument, and later the British admiral smilingly Intimated Inti-mated that bis proposition bad been misunderstood, and withdrew it (ft 1111 Wwtera KcvstwiMf Calea.) Brown Sj Williamson TobKaftri Louisville, Kentudr E - store With a tmiori One of the oldest storn delphia is this year celebm one hundred and eighty-first sary. It is a little gunsnrs and was first opened forks 1751. The site was orlgica by William Penn in 16S4 Ham Drinker erected a b which tbe first white child the Quaker colony was bom Frank Confeiw "So you want to marry m ter,wsald the man. 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