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Show THE PROVO POST ) J . MOLLYCODDLES, OR BARBARIANS WHY EITHER? L Provos Popular Newspaper" Published Each Tuesday and Friday By V V- -: A - The recent big sporting event at Jersey that we are nota Ration of CityNeither are we barbarians. mollycoddles. Editor and Manager Thus, we have advanced so far along the finer publishing company the. post Centkf Thtttd 13 Sf 125 West KEPIH C. HICKS - i aX we would i- - 4 civilization that no longer paths-o- f Entered at the postoffice at Provo City Utah, as stand for a prize fight of the older order a long second class matter. drawn-ou- t bare knuckle fight to a finish. But asa people we are still sufficiently' virile to be ijabseriplion Terms ; (let interested in a glove contest between two magOne Tear LM Six ilMtks nificently developed, finely trained men, each .78 ambitious to be declared the heavyweight chamTVee UssUs pion of the world. More than 90,000 men and women witSCBBT nessed the actual fight Many times that num e SOT PORT A HOS1 inwUHlSr ber sat in theatresorlub,rooms or stood in 4 scribing how front of newspaper offices and listened with deepest interest to reports from the ring as they THE COMPLAINERS came in round by round. Millions were sufficiently interested to read with avidity all the washerlady re- details "Oh, GodTsint it tumble, published in the newspapers. marked the other day, after . few minutes' of no harm was done.. As a people, we And houselaundry work on a summer morning. The There are not brutalized by the gladiatorial struggle. wife had thought it was a fairly cod day. No one at ringside is less a man or a woman for was more humidity .than usual, but as the ther- having witnessed the contest. - Not even the mometer registered only 75, it did not seem such contestants are the worse for' the fight. The a bad morning. The washer, lady looked ath- defeated man, knocked into a letic and muscular, but she could hardly-wor- k condition by a blow upon a vulnerable point and five minutes .without grunting and fretting. with his face covered with' blood, was none the Little incidents like these are occurring daily, worse 24 hours afterward. His bleeding wounds and raise the question whether people are los- were purely superficial. Hi$ only injury of concouning their fortitude. The pioneers of this hard sequence, a broken hand, was received in a pracof tice bout long before the actual fight. A few try built it up by the hardest .kind work. If they ever stopped for hot weather, no weeks will see the injured hand as good as new.' record of it exists. Most people who were Every night in. hundreds of club rooms, brought up in the country can recall how the every day on back lots in hundreds of villages, farm help used to keep hoeing corn and mak- young men and boys are worse injured in friending hay on the hottest days, and very little fault ly boxing matches. Football, hurdle jumpingr was found about it. even baseball,, have their harvest of injuries. Of course, many people have worn themselves All sorts of athletics produce results' not condudown by hard work, and have lost at An early cive to longevity. The prize fight is neither betage all elasticity of youth. Many women who ter nor worse than these that is, the prize have had to do housework and care for chil- fight as it is conducted today. dren, have yet gone out to do six to eight hours men, and women, too, for that of laundry work additional to their home cares. matter. Are and always will be interested in You cant find fault with such people if their feats of strength and skill. .Always will the world admire physical development. motions are languid. On the other hand, many people since the Around the head of the man who can whip a into fallen have man on earth there is a sort of halo. war other of times inflation, any easy secure We felt When not admire him for his mental culture habit. perfectly they may loafing of a job, they dawdled over their tasks, and ac-- - or his social graces, but deep down in our hearts quired a habit of inaction that must have tended we wish we possessed some of his strength and to reduce their physical vigor. Now they feel some of his . skill. And, after being properly ' burdened and driven if 'asked to do good, active trained, if he sees fit to enter the squared circle and demonstrate his superiority against an . work on a. warm day. There are some folks who are perpetually ambitious rival, also, properly trained, what of complaining about their tired feelings, or other it? Are we.exhibiting brutal inclinations and tastes if we enjoy the contest? The more they , fret the barbarious . adverse 'Conditions. disIf other worse they feel, and the more Dempsey were permitted to pummel with people his achieve who ponderous fists an untrained bank clerk or like them. The folks satisfactory never to mention if Carpentier were allowed to make a chopping results in life make an effort ' block of some victim not prepared to defend their bad feelings. himself and unable to respond in kind, the ex0 hibition would be a brttal one. But these men More good ideas perish than ever see the who into the ring are trained to the minute. do it simply for the want Theirgomuscles light of day; and they are like steel springs; their flesh ' of action. been trained to receive blows without., inhas. " o ; : At the worst, they fight till one or the than a jury.. is better worker genius without, other is jtop tired to respond, or until one reA, ; O . ceives a blow wjiich temporarily renders- - him genius who wont work. f t . ' Neither is helpless.-Q j injured 'permanently! The man who is knocked down and who is unFailure is so easy to forget. t able to get to before a referee counts off O-10 seconds, responds readily to the care of his One live baby is worth a whole graveyard trainers and is prepared for a hearty supper a full of dead ancestry. few minutes afterward. o . Some of us to dance till daylight; wledge and industry never have to wait some like the thrillprefer of a man make a paraseeing a market. chute leap from an airplane; some shout them' 0 selves hoarse over a football scrimmage; some 77 The dead are always popular. pride themselves on their ability to labor for 0 a vacation. If others of us like years If there is no work in Heaven, then this to see without two giants-do- n padded gloves and old world has got Heaven beat a mile. an innocuous fight to a finish what offight it? 0 We need be neither mollycoddles nor barbarians. A man without ambition is as useless as ' Utica Globe.' V . semi-unconscio- us 13,759 Buick automobiles were delivered into the hands of owners in June. This provethoroughly that the American public is both willing and able to buy generously where it is assuredTu . dollar for dollar value. and it demonstrates also that a large percentage of the motoring public does have this buying confidence in Buick performance andl Buick worth. . -- 11 Red-blood- ed - Prices of Buick Six Cylinder Models - Model 4 Model 22-- 4 22-4- Model Model Model Model Model .e . . . - his-fee- : : -- -- last years dog license. I Work is the only real journey to success.. self-start- er for mans O ' ll FAITH CVRE. Dr. Simon Flexner, head of the famous Rockefeller Institute, snfd at a dinner In Philadelphia: Dont be surprised at the faith cures you hear about. Even in legitimate medicine faith plays a large part ,JA friend of mine treated an old woman, for typhoid Manayunk fever. At each visK - he put his thermometer in her mouth to take her . temperature. She Improved, and finally n day came when my friend could dispense with his temperature raking. That day he and departed. But he hadnt 'got far from the house when the - old womens daughter ran after him and called him back. Mothers much worse, . she said. My friend went back to the old woman. She looked at him reproach fully from her pillow and moaned: v Michelin users have often remarked that these superior tires puncture less frequently than other makes. tread-thickne- The 34x4 Michelin, for example, is practically a whole inch thick. Come in and let us show you your size. .' Provo Motor Co. PROVO PHONE UTAH 133 W. 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The Provo Poet will present daring the next few weeks, some interesting facts gathered largely from recent reports of the American Newspaper Pub- ' lishere Association in regard to to development - of adver- Using business, with some in- stances of success attained as a result of publicity.. , This subject is one of keen. interest also to the buyer of 9 household and personal snp-If the moat enerprislng plies. distributors of merchandise are publicity .to a - much larger extent than ever before, it be- comes more than ever neces- sary for the consumer of every to" watch day merchandise newspaper advertising with a great deal of care, as the means . by which the most enterprising and. successful merchants con- -, vey information about their 4 YouCan aRange for " - Have you considered the coolness, the convenience of a clean cooking electric . range in YOUR kitchen? v - . 'surface burners and standard . oven. 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