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Show THE PROVO POST FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1924. PROVO POST THEProvos Popular Newspaper . Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by topclor SEDAN THE POST PUBLISHING COMPANY Phene 13 125 West Center St. Entered at the Postoffice at Provo, Utah, as N. C. HICKS Matter. Second-clas- s i ' -- Manager Terms to Subscribers: $0.20 By carrier, per month 2.40 and year per In Wyoming (in advance), By. mail Utah, Idaho, Nevada, 3.00 All other Btates - GRADE CROSSING PSYCHOLOGY When ill, a person will spend weeks or months in bed and money for doctors, nurses and medicine, with the hope' of saving his life. But, judging from the number of grade crossing accidents, many of them place their life in imminent peril by dashing across the track in front of a train and even into the train rather than spend ten seconds waiting for a train to pass. The psychology of this is not easily discernible. It is evident, however, that not grade crossings, but carelessness in effecting a crossing, is the seat of the trouble. Many devices have been installed for protection of public at grade crossings but the most effective- safeguard is for drivers of . autos to stop, look and listen. North Carolina enacted a law requiring autos to stop before crossing and in six months with this law in effect, in pite of increase in registered autos, grade crossing casualties on the principal railway system of that state were reduced fifty per cent, fatalities being four instead of eight, injuries eleven instead of fast-movi- twenty-tw- o. When it is considered for Every Convenience Year Round Use ng that such a law is intended to of a Fordor Sedan enjoy complete driving comfort at all times of the year and in all kinds of weather. The owner In summer with cowl ventilator open wide and the six large lowered, the Fordor Sedan is as cool and airy as an open car. And for travel in rainy weather or over dusty roads, it embodies every essential provision for the comfort of passengers. At its present low price, the Fordor Sedan offers remarkable value as a sensible car for year round use. side-windo- The Great Tragedian, ROBERT MANTELL, as RICHELIEN. GREAT TRAGEDIAN THE LIGHT IS BREAKING TELLS INCIDENTS OF. The natural trend of economic forees, accompanied by a return to reason in Europe, now promises to restore to American BARNSTORMING DAYS agriculture that measure of comparative prosperity which the most frantic and political and legislative efforts have failed to bring about. B. Mantell, Noted Actor, To three Americans General Dawes, Owen D. Young and Robert To Appear At Columbia Henry JM. Robinson will be due the credit for formulating the Thursday plans under which Europe seems about to again take up the orderof life.' ly processes Mr. Robert B. Mantell, the great The laying up and maintenance of stores of foodstuffs in who comes to the ColumEurope which in the past absorbed the overplus of American pro- tragedian, bia Theatre, Thursday, May 8, reduction, and relieved the markets from its depressing weight, has counts the following incident of his been lacking for nearly two years. The resumption of purchases barnstorming days Merry Old necessary to accumulate the normal reserves, together with the y reduced production of American farms which seenis to be under It was a merry gang of constituted that should vagabonds the moribund conditions market with Way, shortly replace AJice Marriotts Company. The reperoldtime activity. of this really accomplished Mr. Owen D. Young, before the departure of the Ameri- toire was extensive, but the tragedianne can Commission for Europe,just a in letter to the editor of the Agricul- mainstay was Queen Elizabeth. tural Review, of Kansas City, said: Cl had the role of Lord Howard of It is unnecessary for rrte to tell you how deeply interested I Effingham. I quickly struck up an with Sir Francis aip in American agriculture. I was born on a farm, struggled on intimate friendship Franit Muring all my earlier years, and I am still struggling with the Drake, the Earl of Essex and noblemen same farm. I know something from actual experience of the prob- cis, Lord Bacon. The four became as inseparable as DArtagnan lems of the farmer, and I have greater interest in seeing sound and his three comrades, Athos, Port-ho- s conditions created for American agriculture than for any other and Aramas. Lord Bacon was one branch of our activities. Our industries are quite able to take oftr old friend, Richard Edgar, no but now Edgar, cafe of themselves. Our agriculture is very largely at the mercy longer the greatactor of normal proan associate just of Jforeign disorganization. I hope the farmers of the . country The Earl of Essex, was, portions. fully appreciate this and will demand J action. If they will, they will in private life, my particular chum, ' ' get it. Frank Clements, who afterwards won In those few words, ,Mr. Young points the way. It does not distinction on the stage in America. became, in the lead along political paths, or through legislative halls. It runs in Sir Francis Drake if so roGerald plain wings, the direction of restoring order, confidence and credit in Europe. mantic a real name Eyre, cat be called well-meani- ng ! . ; j safe- guard the drivers of autos against injury or death at crossings, it would seem that they above all others should favor its ws I Detroit, Michigan advantage ofevery short cut we could discover. Never in the days when intrigue ran the highest was Sir Francis Drake so unpopular as on that dusty afternoon of early sum- See the Nearest Authorized Ford Dealer mer. We reached the theatre only a few minutes! before time for the curj tain, and quickly exchanged our garments fo rthe regal attire of tliej Court of Elizabeth. 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T, (Jians of .Massachusetts, at one time owned the volume and it bears land the his autograph and marginal notes written by him. evening performance jless than four hours off. There was s and agricultural officials of Mas-!n- p m.oney in pocket to pay for a in advance and none at home ltrap sachu setts have protected to the Powder Comnanv nation-wide S st its 'proposed that ciovs should be reduced when they become destructive, but left we girded up our loins and extermination campaign would result in more stai-tefor Hull after th emanner of that a nation-wid- e or less slaughter among nesting game ind song birds and add to pI1.??ms of. old''a trudged across ditches the fife risk in the forests. and s1 1924 ' plain. These noblemen had fallen on 1 CUTTING OFF A YEAR evil days since the intriguing times of good Queen Bess, when they held all England in the hollow of their hands. Their average earnings were Prominent educators are seeking a substitute for the present only fifteen shillings a week. Bu.t them in their gorgeous standard four-ye- ar college course. The traditional term is in no one, seeingwould have guessed it. attire, stage of danger being set aside in a striking manner. were even more suave and poThey A three-yea- r course, whose short summer and Ghristmafe lite and prosperous looking than in vacations will give it as many study hours as the usual foilr-ye- ar the days of the Spanish Armada. the theatre, the differterpi, is to be inaugurated at the new college for enceOutside was apparent. It was no unwomen in Bennington, Vermount, thatis being projected by the to behold the four common he4ds of Wellesley, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Barnard friends sight the street to along trudging and other distinguished schools. our lodgings. Lord Howard with a his arm, Sir J The new college is sponsored because the present womens loaf of bread under a of meat. with Francis Drake in joint the East cannot take care of the young women seeking colleges. Lord Beacon with a string of sausagto ittend them. The new institution is planned that parents may es, and the Earl of Essex with a be spared the expense of unnecessarily long collegiate courses. bunch of onions. They themselves American parents will welcome anything that will spare the realized how far they had fallen in sacrifice necessary to send children to college for four years, if the social scale when even the matheir jority of cheap inns closed three years will do as well. It is significant that our to peers of the realm, and ofdoors stae universities have not led the way in this possible improve- ten forced them to hunt for hours ment ; it had to be done by those who appeal to private citizens for when they struck a new town for a endowments. Dearborn? Independent. place to put up for the night. & One day the four noblemen, then in Hull, decided to improve playing Of the ten cents paid for a loaf of bread, on the average, six their fortunes. Sif Francis Drake, cents goes to the baker, one and cents goes to whose head for figures had caused of a cent is given to those who haul the him to be appointed treasurer ofa the retailer, nine-tentquarter, lashed his brain into whejat to the mill and the flour from the mill to the baker. The the financial delirium, during the course elevator gets not quite one-tent- h of a cent and the miller slightly of which he came to the conclusion more than half a cent. Producers of the wheat, the yeast, the salt that he had discovered a way to beat announced to us so and ibther ingredients get a little less than one and a half cents. the races. - Hhe he knew all about that confidently The bulk of this cent and a half goes to the wheat farmer. the horses that he convinced us. all our We, accordingly, scraped together, and took a trap to Disdaining to give up his ship and backed by his crew, Cap- savings race track eight miles away. tain j Charles Williams, seventy, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the."When we got there, we all turned steered his vessel, the Brina P. Pendleton, for ten days without a over our money to Sir Francis. He, rudder after the schooner had losti her steering appartus in a gale. with a smile of superior and suA sister steamer offered to take off the crew but they stuck to preme confidence, bided his time, and then laid every penny on a dead the vessel and by manipulating the sails, they zigzagged through sure The horse nonchalantthing. gale after gale to Norfolk, Virginia, Harbor. ly strolled under the wire fifth or sixth. The smile on Sir Francis' face The Harvard University library received a gift of a rare volas quickly as if Queen vanished ume in honor of the ninetieth birthday of Charles W. Eliot, PresElizabeth had suddenly turned off ident Emeritus. This book is Heylyns Cosmographic Containing the electric current of her favors. the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, second Clouds gathered on the brows of the editiqn, prfnted in London in 1657. 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