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Show UTAH BRIEFS IVWTIN f UMI Hit homes exhibited at MUraur lit home show numbered over fifty fins tutrices. Army officers front II. I Might supervlwil lb show. llnsbk Lebl-Bl- ock Wsr vteroti will bold a 4 rtoy meeting bers Aug ut I'.ib la 1'bh. India iNiusbiers of ths rbsteers bars placed many relict la lbs new muM'iim tin T votm ninn MS, Quick relief from rheumatic pains without iurmi at Flllmor. Richfield Hcvb-- r County Iras large attendance at "County Poultry Ikiy. lruvo Apple growers art urged to spray iree st om for cuddling moth. Viliir City A niomiioeiit In honor of Ms ui be (Imlism, III filled moll pi bt ami World War bi. will be erd cl at Ibe M where (lie filer met Idsl deoiti Imd winter, ofier an unmx-fual tempt 4o reach sufety following s forced binding. I'lemotnl Grove A good bean crop I Iwtiitr harvested. lielta Loral seed growers held a meeting to iIImtiins their problems. Cmlor City A new federal building la to be ini'N here. Logan Hull for $:i925.(iO, damages, for an nulo iieeldeul, was filed bers by the alleged victim of Hie disaster. Jlrlglraui City Beet prod union Is estimated si 12 bam per oere, will he Utah's Ogileu share of Ibe recent federal appropriation for survey of public lauds. Ft. I Migh- t- IL K. Kc'rarr, of Suit Irak City, has bee rlnwen to represent I'tab In the Natlonl sin ding match at Camp IVrry, August 21 and Kept cuilier 14. Price Tills city will endeavor to secure the 11131 American Legion slate convention. I igden Active spraying of orchard conducted In Wetter County. Iras Ogden The river Is to bridged iit Dim Furr Purk In lime fur U. P. Athletic imx-- t August 13 ami Hiih. Halt party holds Its state convention ut (igden. Beaver A highway over the divide via Puffer Iraki Is planned, Slulervllle A 4 II Swine club Iras been organized here. Ilelx-- r Stock men bold un outing ut Wo.lf Creek. Logan- - 1300 people attended tbs I.ugun holiday celebration. SpiiliMi Fork Orchard exHrt of the Logan Agriculliirnl College tin a of the Utah completed county orchards. Ron il from Huntsville will Morgan lie improved if plans are successfully matured. Towle W. CiK'heran, 71. a harvester worker, was found dend in a liny To relieet the wont rheumatic pain I a very metier. Hayer Aepinn will in it every ume I li'a somethin yoa caa always take. CtnmntArpmm tow arc kormlm. Look for tha Bayer Croat oa tack tablet ey MnnEuii asiipii nun rt Defeat weekly bridge party waa In aeanlon. Go receiving an enviable a number of face card, Mr. Oh, what a beginner, exclaimed; beautiful band 1 have! Bobble, busy with block In hi allotted corner, arose and walked over Afier an Intenne wru-tin- y to Mr. of her hand, which bespoke many hour on the fennla court, he ald: "Yea, hut your thoughtfully arm 1 all freckled." Mother II, II. Ix-c- n lanes Lij Sweeter lt feJItl. 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Ilyrum Work is being rushed on the highway through Logan canyon. Richmond Cove, Richmond, Welisville and Mendon water users have now voted to accept the payment plan for suscriptlons to water rights under the proposed Iiy-rtiChain Lightning reclamation project. reLast year a few cents worth ol Ogden Weber County sheriff electricity strapped out of the sky ports that Ogden Jail has more prisonabout 500 tinies and killed nt least ers than for many years past. Unemone person. Lightning also deployment is blamed fur this condition. Price That the Cnrlmn-Kiner- y Fish stroyed $13,000,000 worth of iusurod property and much more than that and Game assocliition will lie aide to uninsured. Country Dome. raise Its own pheasants in another year from eggs produced in this section seems certain in view of the sucSeeking a Bargain Miss Snipe I wonder why Maud cess said to have been attained this when she gave her age as twenty-fivseason In hatching the ggs. married that rich old man? to have killed Fillmore Alleged Miss Snapps Oh, I suppose she Aixdina Gonzales at Lyndyl on June made a discount for cash ! Stray 15, and captured in Salt Lake shortly Stories. afterward, Jose Urbina was found of second murder a guilty degree by jury here. Brigham City Fire cuused from a spark when one of the combine harvesters operating a field at tory Point struck a rock, destroyed 50 acres of grain. Brigham City Flooding of 8,000 acres in the first unit of the Bear river water fowl refuge has started, following the acceptance by the government of the construction. Due to the lack of water, there has been little food in this area, but since the flooding It is anticipated there will be food In abundance In the marshes. The im- D provement of the refuge is expected to be steady from now on. Provo Farmers and shippers of potatoes are warned to heed the state law regarding shipping and selling potatos. The law requires that all potatoes packed, loaded or offered for sale in the state as well ns out of the state !I had a nervous breakdown must have each sack or other containand could not do the work I er plainly branded or stenciled with have to do around the house. the official grade contained therein. one of your booklets Through Potatoes that do not conform with the I found how Lydia E Pink-ham- s must be labeled with regular grades Vegetable Compound the word ungraded, or Milk Hy-ruu- i, By ELMO SCOTT WATSON IS A f MOST Americans know. Uncle Sura Is the person! flcation of the United States, Just as John Bull Is the personification of Eng-- f "Jut land. Most Americans, too, know I that there was an "original Uncle Sam, a certain Samuel Wilson,- - prominent during the War of 1S12. But there Is much dispute about some of the details of his career and there is more than one version of the story linking him to the popular nickname of the symbol of our country. Not only are the facts of this original Uncle Sam's life subjects for dispute, but there Is even a dispute over the date of his death and the place of his burial. Both New York and Indiana claim the latter honor and monuments have been edected over graves In each state, one In Troy, N. Y., and the other In a cemetery near Merrlam, Ind., each purporting to be the grave of the original Uncle Sam. Although this Samuel Wilson gave to our national vocabulary the term Uncle Sum, It has been the artists and cartoonists of the past century who have made Uncle Sam a familiar figure to all of us. The first known figure of the United States In cartoon, from which the present figure Uncle Sam has probably grown, appeared in an English paper about 1S45. It was referred to as Brother Jonathan, the then common designation of the United States In England. It may have been merely a close relative of Uncle Sam. In any case it represents (Figure 3) a young man, of decidedly flippant tendency's, dressed in the high hat, tall coat and tight trousers of the day, gayly thumbing his nose et thespectntors. The original American cartoon of Uncle Sam was published March 13,';1S52, Id the New York Lantern, a comic weekly of the time. It was drawn by F. Bellow. In it ft Figure 1), Is pictured an amused young man, wearing the high beaver hat, tight trousers, low-cwaistcoat, high collar and bow tie In which he is still portrayed. It may safely be said that Bellow, in 1852, was the fattier of Uncle Sam, though Ids motherhood has been shrouded In the tales of an earlier year. Bellows Uncle Snm, however, wus still a young man, not having reached the stature und perfection of bis later years. It was that great American cartoonist, Thomas Nast, however, who matured Uncle Sam and gave him to the world as we now know him. lie was to go through a considerable evolution before Mr. Nast took him in hand. An English cartoon of about 1855 shows another phase of his development, a still young man of decidedly hostile Intentions (Figure 2), weard felt hat of our southern ing the r in planters, carrying the lash of the his pocket, wearing a coat and tight trousers, putting up his fist, at the conventional and amused John Bull. During the Civil war period another English cartoon shows Uncle Sam, still a beardless young man, as a showman, wear- broad-briinme- slave-drive- long-taile- d Tha twelve cartoone shown above, provided by l company, publishcourtesy of the er of John Erekinee "Uncle Sam In the Eyea of Hie Family, were selected from American and fore'jn papers over a period of more than 50 yeara and illustrate the evolution of the cartoon figure "Uncle Sam and tome of the various ways In which different artists have thought of him. 1. First known example of the use of the cartoon figure of Uncle Sam in the United States, published March 13, 1852, In the New York Lantern, drawn by F. Bellow. 2, 3, 4. Early examples of Uncle Sam published abroad more than 75 yeara ago. 5. Example by Oscar Ceeare, New York Evening Post, published during the World war. 6. Example by Rollin Kirby, New York World, published during the war. 7. Example by J. H. Casset, New York World, published during the war. 8. Example by Charles Dana Gibson, published In Life during the war. 8. Spanish cartoon, during the war. 10. German cartoon, during tha war. 11. English cartoon, just after the World war. 12. Italian cartoon, during the war. Bobbe-Merril- Spanish-Amerl-ca- n Spanish-Amerl-ca- n ing a high heaver hat. tight trousers and long. tailed coat (Figure 4). Thomas Nast added to the young man the chin whiskers that have been variously trimmed and combed by the artists of the past 50 years to indicate everything from a country bumpkin to a benevolent despot. Nast also added the familiar starred vest and striped coat, and put stars on the hat. Nast made Uncle Sam a more real person than he had ever been before. It Is said that Nast took his inspiration of Uncle Sam from the character of Abraham Lincoln, drawing Into ids physiognomy some of the benevolence, kindly humor and tolerance that characterized Lincoln. American cartoonists have since followed the lead of Vast, generally giving their figures a dignity and an Impressiveness in keeping with the growth of American destiny. Tlitf war produced a great flood of Uncle Sam cartoons. Most of them were unfriendly, with the single exception of England, who maintained an attitude, ns illustrated by her cartoonists, of amused expectancy, somewhat troubled by the growing power of her younger brother across the seas, but generally friendly. Naturally the Spanish cartoons of the period were the most vindictive. One (Figure 9) is typical. A German cartoon of the same period is far from flattering. Though the costume is faithfully portrayed, the figure is that of a typical Hebrew peddler engaged in selling the fruits of ids victory over Spain in the form of doves (Figure 10). A picturization of Uncle Sam common abroad in recent years Is that of a very much bloated, exceedingly prosperous and none too cultured gentleman. An excellent example of this type appeared in Italy Just after the last war (Figure 12), showing a vast Uncle Sam, fat and plastered with Sffanlsh-Anierica- n the tottering figures of England, France and Italy. During the war cartoonists of great ability gave to the nation example after example of the figure Uncle Sam In which the element of caricature had been submerged and the sense of a national spirit personified, though the precise featuring of the figure differed with the differing technique of the artists. One of the most distinguished of these drawings appeared In Life, drawn by Charles Dana Gibson, the recognized dean of American Illustrators. (Figure 8). Uncle Sam Is here portrayed as a fine elderly man of deep sympathy, supimrting and congratulating a mother whose son Is going to the colors. The face is patriarchal, the features benign. Another great American cartoonist. Oscar Cesare, drawing for the New York Evening Tost (Figure 5), shows an exceedingly dominant old gentleman In the act of offering the nation the choice between the shackles of autocracy und a Liberty bond. J. II. Cnssel In the New York World shows an equally dominant Uncle Sam In a somewhat different mood, making a kindly selection of the man power for the war through the selective draft (Figure 7). One of the most forceful of the American cartoonists, Rollin Kirby, drawing for the New York World, has frequently portrayed Uncle Sam. His figures, splendid in technique, may be taken by many as the spirit of America they like to consider as most definitely our own, physically pow-- . erful, determined and forceful of expression, against the encroachments standing and infringements of hurtful Influences. Such an. Uncle Sam (Figure 6) Is shown ready to throw bodily from the country the undesirable influences contributing to lawlessness. Although the cartoonists have given us our conception of Uncle Sam ns a national symbol, it has been (eft to a famous American novelist to portray him as a man. That novelist Is John Erskine, whose book "Uncle Sam In the Eyes of His Famcompany ily was published by the Bobhs-Merrirecently. It was an ingenious idea that the novelist had. Recalling the familiar cartoons of Uncle Sam, Mr. Erskine states ids main purpose in a foreword to his book as follows: I have long believed that this figure might be filled out into a complete character, endowed with an inner ns So he set about to tell well as a public character. a story that would be more than just a novel about a mythical character; it would be a biography of a national temperament As a result Americans and our foreign cousins have for the first time In their lives an opportunity to know 'what Uncle Sam thinks about; how he would act under given circumstances; how he lives; who his wife Is; what domestic troubles he had and has; the nature of his business; his attitude toward his family, who must, of course, be the nations about us and their people. Renders of Ills book may or may not agree with the novelist, perhaps, as to his interpretation of this famous character. But, at least, the idea of making him the hero of a novel Is an interesting step in the evolution of Uncle Sam. 9 by Weatern Nawapapar Union.) money, supporting four-squa- re ll 30-ye- of Magnesia e had helped other women and to the drug store and got me six bottles. It has done me good in more ways than one and now I work every day without having to lie down I I went Mammoth B. Hansen, 12, dies ns result of injuries inflicted by the kick of a horse. Moab CafJe values In Utah have dropped one million dollars according to tax assessment records. . Midvale The federal government expended $18,013.00' during the fiscal year In a war against rodents. Salt Lake The state 1930 records show 93,520 automobiles on the tax rolls as compared with 80,395 for 1929. Nephl A 41,000 volt power line from a connection In Juab county to Delta Is planned for the falL will answer all letters with Hannah M. Evers pleasure. meyer, 707 N-i-6 Street, East St Louis, Illinois. |