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Show r'J, V, vjv 4. r, PROVO POST, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1921. 44 Arw- t - vJi'yp c THE PROVO POST Provos Popular Newspaper" Published Each Tuesday and Friday By THE POST PUBLISHING COMPANY Phone 13 125 West Center St. NEPIH C. Entered at the postoffice at Provo City Utah, as second class matter. One Year Subscription Terms 1.50 ..... . $3.00 six' Months Three Months v stop And think! mir In words whose wisdom is proved by their vitalold Marcus Aurelius says: Give thyself time to learn something new and good each day, and cease to be whirled around. Plainly, human nature remains pretty much the same down through, the ages. Yet it is likely that in this our day no counsel is more to the point of human need than this of the old Roman. The only life worthy of the name is that , which proves itself .in growth.' Mari, like every other form of life, must go forward to larger and - better - expression, or fall - backward -- into stagnation and death. There is no middle course. The tree is known by. its fruits. Any of us may ity, ...Editor and Manager HICKS V'TT.T' .75 this hour apply the simple test that determines 4 whether we are really living or dying. It is the 4 4 test of growth ; the test of growth in production. The trouble is that our age is prone to mistake motion for progress, whirling rapidly like MEMORIAL DAY. a squirrel in a cage, it flatters itself that it is doing something. Or what is Vorse. perhaps, Little did the- - women of the South dream it lacks even desire for a definite goal.. Like the that they were establishing a national and even child on a it seeks movement an international custom when early in the spring rather than destination. Therpis enough lost of each year during the Civil War they strew motion in the world every day to run a thousand flowers on the graves of their dead soldiers. factories for a year. We fail to achieve that Different localities in the North adopted the concentration so absolutely essential to the custom, but its observance was not universal. learning of something new and worth while The movement became nationwide in 1868 which marks the functioning of the creative when General John A. Logan, as commander-in-chi- mind in discovery, invention and production, beof the Grand Army of , the Republic, cause we fail to be still arid think long enough issuedan order fixing thethirtieth day of May to determine' direction and destination. In the of that year as a day for the general observance dizzy whirl to which we surrender, like a dog of the custom by members of the Grand Army running after an automobile, we imagine tha(t and their friends. The day possibly was chosen although, we do not know where we are going because it was the date of discharge of the last we are somehow on the way. The question is, Union volunteer of the war. Since that time on the way to what? Dearbomjndependent. i May thirtieth has been regularly observed as r Decoration Day throughout the country. . And ANOTHER VIEWPOINT, as the years went by, the custom embraced a st larger scope. Not only the graves of the valiant Perhaps the Post's editorial Tuesday touchsoldiers of the Civil War were strewn with ing on the modes otf .dress and the moral standera,, but the tombs of all. the dead. were deco- ards of the people df the present generation may rated. have appeared too brosaic to some of our read.The .World War added still greater signific- ers. Following the appearance of that editorial, ance to the day.. When the women of France a Post subscriber jBent in the following verse, dnd .Belgium covered the graves of the Ameri- which, we confess. ontains an element of tcuth. can soldiers with beautiful blossoms, the ob- It at least implies at life is viewed from many servance of Decoration Day became internatio- angles. nal. This year the French people will dedicate THE IDEALIST. two days, May twenty-nint-h and thirtieth, to of American who the the memory gave heroes, By Si E. Kiser. their lives that France might continue to exist. fv- The people of Provo, under the direction of I said Ebenezer wish, the G. A. R., Indian War Veterans, American ' There wasnt any funGray, on earth; will and the Service Star Legion, fittingly Legion tell - " if had Ill I you, my way, observe the day in various exercises. Id stop the dancin and the mirth. Im old and sort of on the shelf, You can't take .it easy.1 Nothing worth Its years since I was at my best; , 'while is ever taken that way. As long as I cant dance myself, ' Im keen tot stoppin all the resL A quick temper makes slow progress. If I could have my way Id send Short-skirtewomen all to jail; , Children do not always know whats best for make em cover Id up, my friend; them, neither does anybody else. Last year my sight began to fail. Id stop whats called the wild, gay life It is never hard to convince a man that hea Its wrong, as often has been shown . right. ; And, anyhow. Ive got a wife . Who never lets me out alone. You may always be, looking for things andj did ever but never finding them, try looking you Id dose the movies, big and small, -for trouble? 4444444444 SUPPORT A HOME INDUSTRY BY SCRIBING NOW , 444 Get Your Coal While You Can SUB- - 444444444444 .With an. underproduction running into the millions of tons, SOMEBODY: d, merry-jjo-roun- is going to get left when they go after coal sbmetime next fall." r ' . Right now, however, there is plenty of coal in the yards, ready to be delivered' to your bins. Be prudent and get your winter supply of coal ef whleyoucan. vl- - Utah Fuel Co. , Miners- and Shippers Exclusively - of Castle Gate and Clear Creek Coal 1 Even the Whale had to TAKE A LOSS The Whales loss was a life saver for Jonah - d, 1 f i 1 Without no wherefores and no whys; 1 . ; it t I never go myself at all I have such trouble with my eyes, And if I could this aint no joke - Td stop the smokin mighty quick; For a while, time flies, but after middle age, whizzes.' Every man believes he could purify politics if, hed only take a few days off some time and do it. Id make the kids quit spoonin, If Id the final no or eyes; Its many years since I got thru - too, t a few wouldnt re all sizes and;repair colors Meier, Indulgin in such foolishness. - - It makes me mad when others laugh Or, love, said Ebenezer Gray, . Prices Pre-W- ar I haven't told you nearly half Id do, if I could have may way ; Better be laubhed at than not noticed. politics . As for myself, I never smoke. Because tobacco makes me sick. About everybody is willing tio admit that in order to get bade to normal everybody else wages and profit should be decreased. If everybody played have to work at it. AND OUR LOSS IS A LIFE SAVER FOR YOU -- 1 - r, i '4 i, i i past when city can hope to draw President-Elec- t 'people to It by sending out alluring Enliterature unless that city. has opHis portunities tor the homeseeker that I in. as the liter- are equally as attracUre onrl Riidinefid Associate Btnre . Mr thlnkB Hunt thus Bent ? ' r Proro is Ideally located to draw trade . ; Dr. F. S. Harris, president-eleRobert Hunt, director of the sales from a large territory. Proro of the Brigham Young nnirerslty, department of the M. E. chants, he thinks,' should conduct $mtth company of Omaha, Neb., was their business along slmiliar lines to accompanied by K. B, Sauls, secrea Proro risitor Wednesday. Mr. Hunt; that et the merchant in the big tary to Mr. Harris, came to Proro : la a close friend and former business centers, Attractlre sales and special Wednesday to attend the Commencement exercises, the Brimhall test!-- 1 associate of W. R. Bntler of this eity.l prices are always of interest to the One Values to $7.50, choise $3.95. Mr. Huat was the chairman of the. closely they scan the pages of thejmonial, and a meeting of the exe- committee chosen to write the code newspapers tor the bargains offered. cutlre committee and board of dl- See . Mr. Hunt stated that while his rectors of the school. While nothing of ethics of international Rotary, so . , It la needless to say that he was happy visit Wednesday was cut short as he definite was given tor publication It understood that a number of to know that Proro supports a lire had Important matters elsewhere de-ihis attention, he hopes to rorements will be made at the in Rotary club; In discussing industrial condition! return to Proro again In the neir stltutlon during the summer months, B OFFERED BULLET GONE, MIND MILLIONS DONT EXCITE HE1 RESTORED, with a representative of the Post, future and meet more of the busi- - Dr. Harris and Mr. Sauls win make x. u. their homes In Provo after the first Mr'. Hunt declared that the time is pes men of this comunlty. of September. After Wten L1111 Qussl Taylor, a negro Mrs. Margaret 8. Gray, superinThe Prussian Minister of Justice Mr, Saul is well known in Proro. I Four ne medals to be offered stud- - brain for "four a durlng that! woman women Recreation has directed that shall not be He completed his high school worklnts in music and literature annu- -' tendent of the Bureau of of, Dallas, Texas, who Woo and In Pittsburgh, is the first woman to admitted to the examinations qualify, and worked In the offices of the epUepSy lowly hut in part of the citj year were officl-'..- L Roman 'Leondowski Is now hold a city position in the Smokf Ing them for the highest offices ofjKnlght Investment company before ally beginning next L 8an,t. populated at the monthly meeting a norma, man He exclusively by people ally accepted , the law. City."' 'going to Logan. convict, her own race, was informed that tlf of the Executive Committee of the mec e. and was kept Supreme Court of Louisians Board of Trustees held at the Uni-'i- n the - nemore State Hospital for rendered 1 a Judgment In her tw j Insane Criminals. rereity Wednesday. Seren In the suit Involving title to land Three ot the medals are In music. qygeons removed the loadweeks ago vj- - the heart of the olLfleld in H oaf The firs of these, given by Mr. Les- - brain. His pilnd is now perfectly Da. and that 'she would come ttr ter R. Taylor, Branch Manager of dear and bis memory good. He was possession of several million dollar the Taylor Brothers Company, Is to ble to tell his examlniwwhoPnd-be M a she' received the B1 awarded the student who erewskl and wins Depew and Edison are withoutresult, . any sign of Interest first place in an official contest on d In discussing them ha showed I dont see no uee gettln exclt the piano. marked intelligence. He will now be bont it," she sald. ItTl be tW The second medal Is offered by th prison as an ordinary . enough to get excited when I Mr. and Mrs. Walter the but not mProbb!e he money and I idama the moi aint got U gel a stndent winning first j8 pardon th ffround of yet. test of wind Instruments. Mr. Adams his presentnormalTtr. Is It stated that 15,500,000 word ' is Manager of the Utah Valley Gas of oil has already been taken ontf -and Cokq Company. r the land, and that the property itlll The third medal Is offered by the has a value of $8,000,000 to fl(-000,000. It was while lnvestig1 the title to the land that attorn got on the track of the Taylor donor or an. They found her in Dallas, sad In the University. gladly gare the attorneys the case In each case the contestant, are to The donorMhe me'rary medal 1. a fifty-fift- y basis play two selections, the first a " ognixed classic of technical SVbSS : So Son stoiritorS SV. Female silk workers In Ch1 ments and the second Tn been granted an Increase hare number n Ift each to accentnatlng melody, c e the donors provide that in fot a wages day of fro wriM?g?be case. XT lady to SO cents. Harris and Secretary Provo joying Visit i - I ct mer-promotl- oa SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY lot of Mens Trousers, , , up East Window; your is 1 I MEDT i. I vr. I . u ft . For Decoration Day ON SALE TOMORROW -- aon' ----- - ' j 1. SUTTON MARKET JSK ggSiSTSSl 4 Phone 194 Order Early vi 5. . ul; hesVshntJ"8 , a y 12-ho- ur 1 |