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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH New Vistas for Old Age The Philosophically Minded Person Will Discover Numerous Compensations and Enjoyments for That Period of Declining Activity. Ever since the days of Ciceros De Senectute, which we labored over in junior high, as they call it now, men have been fretting about old age. a writer in the Indianapolis News comments. It Is generally considered a time of life to be dreaded because of the sadness connected with declining activity. But sometimes the window opens upon a new vista, and we follow Vida T. Scudders pages Id the Atlantic with joy because they seem so sane. Having suddenly found herself arrived at the age of seventy. Miss Scudder is inspired to take up her pen for the benefit of those in like She regards it as a predicament matter of triumph, rather than discouragement, to have reached a time when one may be glad to be left off of committees and like respnnsihili ties, and spend the remainder of her days in the enjoyment of the scenes of life from the shelf to which she has been relegated, when one may read, not classics or any prescribed course, but just what has long been coveted as desirable or particularly restful. Lady Mary Wortley Montague evidently had a like aspiration, writing . to her daughter. Lady Bute: Daughter, daughter I Dont scold, dont call names. You are always abusing my pleasures, which is what no mortal will bear. Trash, lumber, and stuff are the titles you give to my favorite amusements. We ail have our playthings; happy are they that can be contented with those they can obtain ; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life and are the least productive of III consequences The active scenes are over at my age. I Indulge with all the art I can, my taste for reading. If I would confine it to valuable books, they are almost as rare as valuable men. I must be content with what 1 can find. (What would she have thought of the output of books, today?) Continuing. Lady Mary writes: As I approach a second childhood, I en deavor to enter into the pleasures of it. Your youngest son is perhaps at this very moment riding on a poker with great delight, not at all regret-inthat it is, not a gold one and much less wishing it an Arabian horse, which be would not know bow I am reading an idle to manage. tale, not expecting wit or truth in it. .... g and am very glad It Is not metaphysics to puzzle my judgment or history to mislead my opinion. He fortifies his strength by exercise ; 1 calm my cares by oblivion. The methods may appear low to busy people, but If he improves his strength and 1 forget my infirmities, we both attain very desirable ends. How Lady Mary would have enjoyed a puzzle I The typical old lady of a generation but lately gone, sat by the fire with white cap and spectacles, knitting socks for the whole family. Today, she dons a stylish stout, wears the new Oxford, in lieu of the somewhat passee lorgnette, and sallies forth to solve problems of politics or A contract bridge. dear young Hoosier friend sent me the following original verse: jig-sa- GRANDMOTHERS Whene'er I think of grandmothers, I think of cherished things; Of creamy, delicate old lace, And dear remembered dreams. I think of modest mignonette at new dayB dawn; Of perfumed sweetpea's pastel tints; Of shade upon a lawn. 1 think of Artemisia gray. Like filagree of silver hair, Of lips that speak of troubled hearts Loves words of wisdom rare; Of fragile Dresden china in A corner cupboard old. Dew-drench- Of Eden hours of d love. Too sacred to be told; Of shaded lights on autumn night. And sound of summer rain; Of new-borbabys lips against My breast that stings with pain; Of work-wor- n hands, that yet are soft That minister with loving care; Of love that makes een drudgery A shining halo wear. Oh precious, priceless grandmothers! Without you, how great dearth! Oh grandmothers! Life shows in you True beauty on the earth. new-we- n Trend to Spectacular in Mans Mental Focus It seems that the human mind, individual or collective, is not able to focus upoD more than one thing at a time. The queer thing is that this human mind prefers to focus upon the spectacular rather than upon the lasting. Back in 1866 a lonely Moravian monk discovered the laws of heredity which now stand as the bedrock of the life sciences. No one' in 1866 cared to take a look at this discovery, for every one was arguing about some incidental gossip which grew out of Darwins Origin of Species,? published in 1859. By 1900 they were tired of the Incidental and rather spectacular gossiping about Darwin. This gave the scientists a chance to resurrect the monk. And so the world of fundamental information took on new life Here we are today wrangling about economic Specifically, questions. about dollars and taxes. Such things are incidental and more or less spectacular. We will, of course, keep on with such subjects until some one finds a way to focus our attention on unemployment The man who succeeds in focusing the public attention on this point will be calling us back to something fundamental. There are those who seem to think that discovery is soon to be made. Washington Star. Really Big Thing The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and asm Draw? ms self-respe- THE THRIFTY CODE FOR TIRE BUYERS I hereby promise to trade in my thin, worn, dangerous tires today and equip my car before prices advance again, with the Safest and Most Dependable Tires I can find. Tirettone HIGH must have: in every High Stretch cord in every ply saturated and coated with pure liquid rubber, to give me Extra Blowout Protection. SPEED TYPE Every fiber must have: Two Extra Blowout Protection. Gum-Dipp- 6.00-16.00-16.50-1- 8 9 8 6.50-1- 9 7.00-1- 9 7 JO-1- 8 must have: 1510 1500 1740 1790 10.80 2990 HD HD HD HD HD HD Cord Plies Under ed Scientifically designed non-sk- the Tread for Greater Strength and tread to give me EXTRA SAFETY. id Make the Thrifty Code Other Sim Proportionately IO a v your Code. Raw materials, commodities and wages are up and going higher. When you know tire prices are going higher its smart to Buy Now and Save. REMEMBER Firestone Tires hold all world records on road and track for Safety , Speed, Mileage and Endurance. Drive in today well save you money and serve you better. Gum-Dipp- the MASTERPIECE of TIRE CONSTRUCTION cSew Tiresfone THE ed THE NE SUPER OLDFIELD TYPE Built to equal all first line standard brand tires in quality, construction and appearance, but lower in price another Firestone achievement in saving money for car owners. SEALTYTE Leakproof TUBE ?ire$fotte Aquapruf Brake Lining As Low As ;240 Relining Chargee Extra Ttresfoae Spark Plugs Save Gasoline L We will test k 58 Each In Soft your Spark Plugs Free firtttottt firestone OLDFIELD TYPE lord Dreilone . Chevr.. 4.50-8-1 Batteries ($630 forJZrf" S(60 J 4.75-1- and vow 9 Nash old battnry will test any make of. Battery FREE See Firestone Gum-Dipp- ed Welfare Workers Baseball Fundamental Truths 8b 1931, Bell Syndicate. WNU Service By ED HOWE workers have always v V robbed the poor as cruelly as the politicians have robbed the people. The earliest book and public speaker began with a plea for the poor, and the clamor has grown ever since, bnt the poor have not been relieved. Welfare workers seem to prefer to keep the poor as exhibits when they inaugurate a new drive, as teachers exhibit Children when school directors are being appealed to for another appropriation. The present world-wid- e poverty Is disgraceful; had we handled ourselves with the intelligence and vigor we are capable of, have actually shown in other ways, poverty would not exist. tttklfare 0. 0-- McIntyre says baseball is slow- ly passing out, and must inevitably disappear. I hope so; baseball has become one of the greatest American bores.' The first ambition of an American youth should be to become a good provider for a family, a safe and respectable man In bis community; to occupy a good job so capably he is more apt to be promoted than discharged. It Is bad for a young man when his greatest ambition is to become a sandlot rowdy called Spec or Red Bringemin. Hit-emha- Eases.. 5.00-8- 0 t$745 Other Sieee Baick) Cberr.-- Ford f V $3.10 Roeknel 5.85-- 1 S ) Ford. Chevr. 4.50-8- 1 COURIER TYPE Ford $5.65 am) Studerf $9 .00 0s3V& 05 5.50-1- Proportionately Low fireetone SENTINEL TYPE Ford Cherr. 4.40-8- 1 $345 Cherr.. 4.50-2- 1 $425 FordT $3.60 Plmh$465 ifthmr Sixea Proportionately Low Tires made in the Firestone Factory and Exhibition Building at A Century of Progress Chicago rd There are millions of thinkers at present, and millions in the past have left records of their thoughts, yet few have ever recognized fundamental truths that should occur to almost anyone One of such truths generally missed is that all men have equal rights in the world. You may say this right has been abundantly granted. It hasnt: no one grants rights except to the poor. Have the rich not been denied their rights from the beginning? And are we not lately agreed in denying the rights of the middle class? Yon may say again I am mistaken, but in this case I am not: no one is freely and generally granted human rights except the poor man, who will not take advantage of them. In the few sound sense, stood unless pressing it cases where writers have they will not be underextremely careful in exThere Is so much going on people will not bother long with paragraph or page not simply written and easily understood. Among the small number of men whose names attract my attention on encountering them in print is Benjamin DeCasseres. I do not know who he is; only that he seems to be struggling to make a living as a writer, has a good deal of real genius, and writes too much about the old days of heavy drinking and bartenders. Lately he had two pages of paragraphs in a magazine, and I was able to understand only four of them : 1. The honest man is one whom the world both respects and plunders; 2. Belief of any kind is impossible without some degree of Intolerance; 3. Whatever exists aspires to tell a petty lie about itself; 4. There is a kind of sweetness of character that is extremely disagreeable. (I have changed the last paragraph somewhat, as DeCasseres uses many objectionable words In his writings, mistakenly believing they add strength). Dog story for O. O. McIntyre: As nice a girl of nineteen as I know owns a pup seven months old; and there never was a more useless, troublesome, lovable, impudent, natural or amus-- . Ing nuisance. Being given a bone, and unable to get outside to properly bury It. he hid it in the bed of his mistress, and awoke her in the middle of the night vigorously digging it op. Another (and Mr. McIntyre will miss this, unless he Is careful) : A womai; owns a bulldog very smart, and appreciative, but. alas, he is getting old. He usually sleeps on tho floor in the bedroom of his rather elderly mistress. One morning, when she awoke, the dog was sound asleep, and his mistress addressed him affectionately. As he paid no attention, she then declared he no longer loved her, and threatened tears, etc. Finally tho old dog. actually disposed to politeness. and really loving his mistress, could no longer avoid paying attention to the proprieties, so be. very slowly began to yawn, to stretch. (This Is the point of the story ; his slow, deliberate recognition of the affection offered. owing to age. Finally, In his stretching, he managed to turn over, and went to sleep again). good-nature- Dependable We Howe About: d No pope, professor, poet, statesman, patriot ever left a simple guide to direct simple people, although these are the guides we simple people are urged to follow. Go to your local Firestone Service Dealer or Service Store Buy today before prices go higher I think 1 am injured as an innocent bystander oftener than Is the average- - |