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Show I . , ' THE RICH COUNTY NEWS. RANDOLPH, UTAH In Scotland April Fools day Is observed, but under a slightly different name the day for hunting the gowk," or cuckoo. Some few of us who, in our unsophisticated days, have gone snipe hunting in this country, know how the fellow feels whb hunts the gowk, and o realize that to he called an is not a compliment, that bird being a byword of contempt in almost ' every land. April-Cucko- RIO DE JANEIRO: CITY OF LURE COMENIUS: A PICTURE TEACHING PIONEER . v . The United States commissioner of education has asked that the birthday of John Amos Cdmenius be observed tu American public school pm March 28, in conjunction with its" commemoration in Czecho slovakia., The National Geographic society has Issued the following bulletin concerning the famous Moravian educator author of the first picture textbook and the first' advocate of. teaching science in the f v , , schoolh: The births of new nations usually mean the creation of new national heroes. Among the new countries of Europe not only, will - the men who played parts In thetr liberation be honored in years to come ; but the new nationalities already are planning to pay belated tribute to the outstanding figures of the period of their oppression. Take a country which holds a particular interest for Americans, since its declaration of , Independence was written in a Washington, D. C., hotel, and condensed so 'U might be printed in full in a Boston newspaper, and its constitution embodies many features of our form of government. It may augur well for tiie future a peace of Europe that has chosen to commemorate as one - of Its major holidays the birthday, not of a warrior, or even a political leader, but of a school teacher. reading about him there also will be much about pansophie schools, and the intuitive method, and natural-Isti- c conceptions, of education. But If you would get a more vivid picture of the pioneer service of this forerunner of Rousseau, Frobel,, Pestalozzi, and Montessori, try to imagine your school today as a place where: Pupils devoted nearly all their time to , memorizing page after page of dreary texts. -All teaching had to be done through , a foreign language (Latin). No objects were studied and only abstract words were used. Little was studied which related to the physical world, the childs environment, or his daily experience. " Nor was there any teaching of science, even geography, nature study, animal and bird life. None of the words, dealing largely with things the pupils never saw, w ere illustrated with pictures. And a kindergarten, physical exer- else, play periods, attention to hygiene were virtually unknown. - If you can imagine that kind of school you will gain some conception of the schools in the .time of Comenius, which he tried to improve in nearly all ofvthe particulars mentioned. ' Most widely known, perhaps, of Comenius books is the Orbis Pictus, thought by some to have been the first childrens picture book, and certainly the first application of pictures for school teaching of visual instruction. -- Czecho-Slovakl- a, Czecho-Slovakl- ' , ORIGIN OF i APRIL FOOL Even in these times of turmoil and contention, there is still one day when not only may a man play a fool, but his friends are privileged to give him fools hill. . a headlong push down The origin of the custom of playing practical jokes on friends and neigli-- . bors on this All Fools Day Is variously explained? Some of these explanations tnay interest those who have eaten cotton pie and bean chocolates. Some writers trace the custom back to'the days of the miracle plays given at Easter time. One of the most popular, tableaux satirized Ananias, Caia-phaPilate and Herod. In the decadent .lays of these dramas actors played largely for the amusement and apr plausert the groundlings, until Herod, in himself, and Pilate, in ' the performance of his jiblutinns, lit- - erally made fools of themselves, y . A Feast of Fools was held in the early spring by the Remans, and the Hindus, since time Immemorial, have celebrated as a saturnalia the vernal equinox, or Feast of Hull. During these festivities the chief amusement seems to have been that of fooling people and sending them on fruitless errands. Many students trace the origip back eno farther than France iu the Six- teenth" century. At any rate, the custom seemS to have radiated from Frapce to Englnfnl, as well as to Germany, If we are to believe wiiat Grimm says about it. France was the first nation to adopt the reformed calendar which decreed that the year should begin on tiie first of January. Consequently those who objected to sending out their New Years gifts and felicitations upon the newly chosen date in- stead of April 1, as they had dime previously, subjected themselves to endless taunts for being old fogies by going on visits that .had no meaning. The French call the victim of a prank on April 1, un poisson davril, or an April fish, of which our AmericanSlang, jou poor fish, Is good translation. The origin of the expression used in this connection probably arose In the obvious comparison between the person who bites unwittingly and the April fish, which is a young fish and therefore easily "caught. s, - Since Montevideo is In the son then hemisphere its seasons are the reverse of those in the United States. Visitors are specially numerous for the bathing season, which begins in October, corresponding to the northern May, and is at its height at Christmas. Detached impressions of Montevideo will bring to mind many similes and contrasts with better known cities, pike New York, it covers a narrow peninsula from shore to shore; hut In architecture it Is the antithesis of the North American metropolis, being made up of a seemingly vast number of low stpne buildings, a few two or three stories in height, tiie great majority of them but one story. The principal thoroughfare, the Avenue of the Eighteenth of July, extending along the ridge of the peninsula, with its colonnades and sidewalk cafek, gives a touch of Paris. As a great packing center for the live stock produced on the unsurpassed pastures of Uruguay, Montevideo is comparable to Chicago or Kansas City. Evidence of this fact Is sometimes wafted on the winds when they blow to the city from the seat of the gigantic industry across the t bay. In physical equipment Montevideo is modern. It is well lighted, well wa n tered. adequately supplied with facilities, and most admirably drained. Socially it clings to the past, following more faithfully than any other large city outside of .Spain and the Orient the old Spanish-Mooris- h traditions of societys proper attitude toward women. , As in other large South' American cities, moving picture theaters are omnipresent. Most of the films they show are imported from the United States. Montevideo is famed for its port, which is one of the best on the Atlantic coast of the Americas. The city has a population' exceeding 400,000, more than a quarter of the population of the entire 72,000 square miles of the Rio de Janeiro, first of the three South America capitals to be visited by Secretary Colby ou his recent jpur-ne- y of courtesy to our neighboring continent, is described as follows lb S communication from Harriet Chalmers Adams to the National Geographic so- 4 ciety: This city af lure terraces up from a glorious bay the Bay of Guanabara, isle - bejeweled. mountain - encircled From tiie shore, where parts and boulevards are fast crowding on tiie old Itio of narrow streets, rise the forested hills on whose slopes the lovelier portion 'of jlie city lies. Place your hands on the table, fingers spread, wrists upraised. Each finger represents one of Rios hills ; each space between, a canyon up which the city climbs. Many of the new homes cling to the hillside below the streets and are entered from the roof. Others of these cliff dwellings perch high above the thoroughfare and are reached by a long flight of steps or by levator on an inclined plane. Some bear the name of the lady of the manor over the front door Villa Rosita, Villa Lucia and the dark-eye- d lady herself is often keen leaning from the window. Can any other city offer such entrancing vistas as those from the mountain heights back of Rio? I have traveled far and have yet to find it. Turning bayvvard, we look down through a frame of tangled vines and of the republic. jn 1800 Monte video was the branches, onto the tree-top- s largest and most important' city in sloping virgin forest. A scarlet-winge- d a big South America. It is now surpassed bird flits to a nearby tree-ferby Buenos Aires, Rio and Santiago de Chile, while jts rank as fourth city is closely contested by Sao Paulo, Brazil. CAT DELIVERED ITS MESSAGE d Feline Proved It Least Had the Courage of Ito Convictions. URGE GROWTH IN DAIRYING dairy Division Direct Efforts Toward Increased Use of .Milk and Daihy Products. (Prepared by the United States- Department of Agriculture.) In the Southern states the work conducted by the dairy division, United States Department of Agriculture, to promote dairying and the consumption of (airy products has shown marked results. The efforts last year were directed largely toward increasing the use of milk and dalrv products 'on the trans-pdrtatlo- AIRES: CITY OF SUPERLATIVES AND BUENOS v CONTRASTS Bueno. Aires, capital, iff Argentina, which recently attracted world attention by withdrawing its representatives from the League of Nations assembly, is not merely the capital and chief' port of a South American republic. It Is a world center a city of su- perlatives, contrasts and paradoxes. Its population' of close to 2,000,000 makes it, by a wide margin, the metropolis of South America and the Southern hemisphere. It is the greatest of Spanish-speakincities, having nearly three times as many inhabitants as Madrid. It is greater than any Latin city except Paris. In the New World it shares third place with Philadelphia; only New York and Chicago surpass it. And now that Petrograd and Moscow have shrunk, while Berlin and Vienna are marking time, It probably ranks or soon will rank as the sixth city of the world, led only by the two metropolises of Europe, the two of North America, and Tokyo in Asia. This great city Is the focus of the culture, thought, politics, economics and social life of Argentina, as well as the funnel through which pour the millions of pounds of dressed meats and the millions of bushels of wheat which make up the contribution of the republic to the hungry peoples of the Old World. In its general aspect it is a combination of New York and Paris. Its language is the language of Spain, but many other things Spanish have been thrust aside. Its Inhabitants would laugh at the Idea of a mid-da- y siesta so generally observed in most n countries. The obsession of manana has been discarded ; the pimple of Buenos Aires live in the throbbing present, going strenuously about their business in streets whose bustle ju)d whirl are as balm to the heart of fhe homesick New Yorlc-jjwho feels that, after all. he cannot Broad and Wall or Forty- e second and Bromlway. Subways, com muters and taller buildings than can be found in any other 'dt In South America heighten the illusion. In progress and the possession of vision the people of uenos Aires are unsurpassed even by the restless Judders of North Americas greatest cities. For centuries aft,er its establishment Buenos Aires was without' a port. Ships anchored miles from the shallow. sandy shore and all frffeht was handled in lighters. Within the last 25 years the municipality has constructed the largest artificial docks in the world. These provide adequate facilities for the thousands of ocean vessels and coasting craft that put into, "its port annually.- "of streets Tnie narrow checker-boni- d In the business center which the colonial Buenos Aires bequeathed to tiie world-citof today hils been a constant emLarrassment in the face of tiie demands of modern business. The has widened some of municipality these narrow ways at a cost of many millions of dollars, Into stately ,aud handsome avenues, and is carving other arteries of traffic diagonally through the closely packed squares. In the newer parts of the city streets of ample width. and numerous broad avenues have been laid out. Many of' the avenues are lined w ith the costly palaces of Argentinas It is in this part bf the avenues city and in such Avenida de Mayo, as the with its mile or more of fine hotels, j clubs, cafes and business buildings de luxe that Buenos Aires reminds the traveler of Paris. g Sugar Loaf, the Sentinel of Rio Bay. blue butterfly zigzags lazily by. There are purple orchids within reach and waxen begonias at our feet Far be- -' low, set in verdure, gleams the kaleidoscopic city, with Its crescent shores. The bay, set In Its amphitheater of hills, sparkles like a sapphire. To and fro among the ships at anchor ply the busy paddle-wheferry boats to the islands and to Nictheroy, the little sister city across the way. In the distance tower the blue spires of the lofty Organ mountains. Today we can see the sharp crag called the Finger of God. Often i is veiled in mist. Avenlda' Rio Branco, Rios finest thoroughfare, is more than a mile in length and so wide that it consists of two distinct boulevards separated iy a row qf shade trees. It is thronged day ,and night with automobiles. The the widest I have ever seen, sfones laid in moare saic design, like those in vogue in Lisbon. Both stones and workmen were brought from Portugal, but similar pavements, constructed later in other parts of the city, are home-madAt the cinema theaters the people of Rio de Janeiro know real comfort. Unlike most of our moving-pictur- e "houses, those in Rio have spacious waiting rooms where you sit, listening to excellent music until the hour for ' the first reel comes round. Rios climate is often maligned, but it suits those who like spring and summer weather. It Is never as warm as summer in many of our Eastern and Middle-Wes- t cities, and the nights on the hills are nearly always cool. Now and then on the wide world trail we find a scene which dominates. Such is Rio de Janeiro, City of Lure. So long as glory of form and color gladden the eye, Rio will stand preeminent in beauty among the habitations of man. side-walks- black-and-whi- e. V MONTEVIDEO: CITY OF THE HAPPY MEDIUM Montevideo, capital of the republic of Uruguay, was the second stopping place of Secretary of State Colby in his recent official visit to South America. Physically situated so that it is one of the healthiest cities in tiie world, with an equable climate which makes it a delightful place to live in, and possessing an atmosphere free from the bustle and noise of the more modern and commercial Buenos Aires and the more metropolitan Rio, Montevideo has become the resort city of South Americas Atlantic coast. Thousands of wealthy South Americans are to be found there at nearly all seasons of the year, participating in the carnivals, gambling in the great government-owne- d casinos that may be compared to those of Monte Carlo, or merely enjoying the restful life of this city which still clings to the Spanish habit of looking to manana. Spanish-America- Purebred Found on Louisiana Plantation. Cow form through campaigns for cows on every farm, and improving farm dairy products by practical demonstrations in schools and in farm kitchens. In demonLouisiana 274 cottage-chees- e demonstrations, 207 butter-makin- g strations, and 236 demonstrations on milk products were made, and 26 meetings were held. As a result, 2,698 families were reported as using more rtllk, 178 cows were brought in where there were none before, 34 boys and girls clubs were organized, and much Improved dairy apparatus was pur- chased. In South Carolina the activities resulted in the increased use of milk In 1.384 families and In the purchase of 73 family cows. Sixty demonstrations were given in butter making and 38 In making other dairy products. The work In Mississippi resulted in placing 322 family cows in 11 counties and In the purchase of 2,046 pieces of Improved dairy equipment. Dairy clubs were organized in 11 counties, 49 meetings were held, and 78 demonstrations were given. CAUSE OF TEAT AFFECTIONS Hand of Milker Should Ba Kept Clean and Finger Nall Trimmed ' Quite Cleeely. Milking with uncleansed wet hands is a fertile cause of teat affections. The teats and udder should be cleansed each time before milking and the milkers hands also should be kept clean. The finger nails of the d milker Should be kept and when milking care be taken not to squeeze the tips of the teats too hard. Such bruising is the cause of a condition which we have termed corns of the teats The skin becomes hardened, horny or calloused and milking then becomes difficult, or the milk sprays during extraction. Dirty and contaminated stall floors and 'allowing cows to lie upon dirty, wet ground, or wade in stagnant water or drag their udders through wet and filth on the way to the stable are other causes; and a common cause of sores on the tip of the hind teats Is bruises from stepping upon them when crossing a sill into the stable or by trampling In narrow stalls. , close-trimme- TRAIN CALF FOR SHOW RING Youngster Should Become Accustomed to Being Handled by Strangers and to Stand Erect r. fan-fro- and properly develWhen a well-fe- d oped catf is brought into the show ring It should present a pleasing appearance. It should be clean, well groomed, halter broken and trained. To train a calf say specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture, put it to lead and to stand squarely on ail four feet with head alert so as to exhibit Its best features. It should become accustomed to being handled by strangers, seeing strange sights, and hearing unusual A good' calf Is frequently sounds. placed below an inferior one because the judge cannot put his hand on it to judge it correctly. a halter ou tt and teach COW-TESTIN- On ASSOCIATIONS G June 30, 1920, Number Had creased 84 Over Corresponding Date in Year 1919. ' In- y semi-busine- tree-rimme- d i UTAD GSuS Battle-Scarre- associations in the Uni467 on June 30. 1920. This number represents a gain of 84 over the corresponding date in 1919. Bull associations increased during the same period from 78 to 120. Cow-testin- g ted States numbered SUPERIOR RATION FOR COWS Corn Silage, Clover or Alfalfa Hay, Corn and Bran Are Excellent for Producing Milk. The other night I saw a clever cat Be sat on the fence in the moonlight, all alone, writes a correspondent of the Boston HeraltL. He looked upat the moon and opened his mouth. 1 braced myself for what I believed be coming, namely, his effort at But no, this was a clevej cat. Like O. Henry, he dealt in clever surprises. In his attitude there ua something of suspense. My wait'ng nervous system felt tiie strain of It, Then he gave voice to a great silence. He said nothing in a dramatic nay. "smirk , on his With a pussy face he jumped off the fence gracefully and disappeared into the night. He was a clever cat He did the unexpected in an original and artistic way. He annoyed me, for he failed to live up to my conception of cats, yet I felt a certain admiration for him. The next night another cat sat on the fence. This was a great cat, though his appearance was far from He was scrawny, and prepossessing. his coat bore, all too plainly, tiie scars The diof many a foughten field. vine light of unrest burned in his eyes. He threw back his head and poured out his very soul in vigorous expression, sincere and earnest, though unappreciated. Nothing daunte by the lack of applause, or by the shower of missiles, directed at his scarred person, he gave full vent, to his message In a form whiclt though unconventional, seemed best to fit his muse. Then, with an air of utter abandon, he shook the dust of the fence from his unconcerned feet and disappeared. This, thought I, my ears still ringing, was truly a great cat. He had a message arid he, gave It. Let the world receive It or- - reject it as It will , Mallorca. Juatly Entitled to the pellation Given to It, Island of Calm." Ap- Mallorca, a tiny speck of an island in the Mediterranean, is a land of peace and ease. A great painter and writer who visited the' island, has christened it The Island " of Calm, because thebe everyone moves, rests, talks, walks an conducts his courtships as if the day had 48 hours, the mile about 16,000 feet, and the span of human life 700 years, so little haste do they make in living and enjoying life. These people who take life so leisurely, are not lazy, shiftless or unpleasant in personal appearance or manner. They are intelligent, honest, capable of work, sober and economical. These characteristics, preserved throughout centuries of uninterrupted peace and tranquility, have made them peaceable, trusting and The men are of medium height, strong and agile. And as for the women, they possess the same lovely skin as the women of North America, features as if sclnptured by Phidias or Praxiteles, But and they walk like goddesses. they know nothing of the joy of living, due partially to ancestral Arabic influences and to tiie fact that their island has for so long been under Strict religious repression., , iiome-lovln- g. - -- Little Sign of Culture in Speech. Americans are known the world around for their short and nasal as andmany have been misled into broad-'enin- g all their as to prove their culture. But the original sound was as in far and palm; it is Jhe first sound uttered by infants and still the most general sound of the letter cn tie continent of Europe. The ah sound was the most frequent for the letter in the earliest English 6r Anglo Saxon, still considered the model and best usage in our language. The a In ask may be pronounced like the a in bare dr at, but, according to the Americana, with Jhe Encyclopedia majority of good speakers-i- t should be akin to the ah sound. Best authorities hold that the excessive use of the short a is most common in America, outside the greater part iff New It is thus a provincialism, England. whereas the broadened as may be Indicative of travel, familiarity with the languages of Europe, and ' association . with cultured people. I Conwoiaaeur" and Dilettante. one who The connoisseur Is knows, as opposed to the dilettante, The who only thinks he knows. connoisseur is cognizant of the true principles of art, and through his pass a, kiiowledg'i Is compete , w dence. , s ' Thirteen cents was the amount of income tax paid by one of 'those filing their returns on the last day at Ogden. The largest tax paid at that point was ' $0000. of the measures passed by the recent session of the legislature reveals the fact that the legislature passed no law to place any limit on the district school tax levies. It is announced that Joseph A. Smith of Sevier county .will be prpsecuted he state of Utah on a charge of falsely and 'fraudulently presenting a claim to the state road commission. Heber Walker of Brigham City is exhibiting the pelts of two fine bobcats. The animals were caught in traps in the James Hansen canyon, about q mile north of Brigham City. As the result ef an automobile accident at American Fork, Mrs. 91. Mason, of Sait Lake, suffered a fractured wrist and three other occupants of the car sustained slight hjaries. Last week 556 shop employees of the Denver & Rio Grande rah load in Salt Lake were laid off, while, about 750 men employed in the Southern Pacific shops ip Ogden were laid off for the by-C- week. William H. Cock, who died at au Ogden hospital March 14, was the third manto succumb to injuries suf- fered in tbs wreck of a Union Pacific work train at lnight, WyoM on Janu- i ary 28. C.. A. Hammond of theliouse of representatives from Grand county, who has been verj? ill at Salt Lake for some time, has --undergone a blood transfusion operation, in an effort to save " ' bis life. The department of agriculture bill has been signed by Governor Mabey. Appointment of the new state board of agriculture and of the commissioner of agriculture may be expected now at any time. Lincoln G. Kelly has been appointed by the governor as the head of the department of finance, a newly created office, and Seth Pixton, of Midvale, has been named as state bank commissioner. The new state automobile license law is effective April next, instead of March 12, the date on which it was approved, or March 15, the date on which it was ffiled in the office of the secretary of state. WilBam 12. Hart, moving picture actor and playwright, will, present street scenes of Salt Lake In one of Ms forthcoming pictures, having made a visit to the capital city last week to secure the pictures. r Joe Garcia, a Mexican 30 years of age, is being held in the county jail at Salt Lab? for investigation as to whether he may have been Implicated in the killing of John Westerdaht and L. P. Peterson at Dividend. William Bailey, formerly secretary of the state board of equalization, was selected hs chairman of the board at t,he organization session held inthe capitol last week. Roscoe E. Hammond was chosen as secretary of the new boar "I The State Bank of Garland, temporarily closed last week, js to reopen. Depletion of reserves due to the difficult situation in agricultural credits, and the falling off in deposits, resulting from inability of the banks customers to liquidate, made necessary the temporary sulpehsion. Mrs. Clara Tesch was possibly fatally Injured, Mrs. Alta Roberts and son badly cut by glass, her and two automobiles wrecked, when an auto driven by Clarenee Cutting, aged 19, collided with Mrs. Roberts machine in Sait Lake. Yonng Cutting admits he is to blame for the accident. George Freeman Hanson, of Magna, was killed,, and Mrs. Charles L. English, of Garfield, mortally injured and her husband seriously hurt, when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a train at a crossing uejr Salt Lake. Mrs. English! baby was thrown upon the pilot of the locomotive,' but escaped injury. son of Mrs. Viola The B. Lund, of Brigham City, was severely burned about the neck and arm the other day when It placed a celluloid comb in the open door of a heating stove. The comb ignited and exploded, throwing flames into the child's cloth- critical judgment, concerning any art, particularly of painting, sculptufe or than music. He is of a hivbo the amateur, and more nearly approaches the artist, whose rules of action he is familiar with, but does 'not practice. The dilettante may be a lover of the fine arts, science or letters, and may pursue any one of the arts in a desultory way and for amuse- ing. Governor Mabey has signed tbe ment and Lowell says of him: "The main characteristic of the dilettante is measure permitting the state land that sort of impartiality that spring commissioner to dispose of lands unfrom Inertia of mind," admirable for der the ncrlgable waters of the state, observation, incapable of turning it to in cases Where individuals have erect- ed substantial Improvements 'thereon. practical account The state reserves any mineral rights. Brigadier General Frank T., Hines, Hope Springs Eternal. Didnt1 1 tell you? a former resident of Utah, who reMayme There You ast when youd get married an cently retired at his own request after the oulja board sez Never I having successfully directed Jhe army Gert Wait fer the finish. Its gon-t- o transport work during the waj is BeYoull ba ing mentioned as tbe probable selecspell out Never fear. wed soon. tion of the president for chairman of Houston Post tbe U. S. shipping board. -- e 4 1 Here is a good ration for dairy cows: Corn silage, 25 pounds ;. clover or alfalfa hay, 10 pounds; corn, 4 pounds; bran, 4 pounds. In every case, silage Is considered an exoelllrat feed for the milk cow. IS UNKNOWN WHERE HUSTLE 0 Pleading that he- - was out of work and hungry, F. M, Lewis has confessed to the robbery of car of merchandise" at Price on February IT. Former Governor 'WUUam: Spry of ' . Utah has been appointed commissioner-o- f the general land office, to succeed Clay Taliman of Nevada. The governor has appointed Gl F. McShane as a member of the state industrial commission, and James tvera as a member of the board of corrections. , G. P. JVVanner and George Mendfel-coare to stand trial at Logaa on the charge of having stolen checks amounting to $70 from the postoffice at Provi- . ' 4 . |