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Show I Uncommon Sense JOHN BLAKE 8B e Bn trsdloM. WHO Traditions . Smart Household Linens in Color Itncle Phil . rawAmtriraa Political Hucory FRANK his scheme for organizing the steel workers is likely to lead to acts by his followers and overzealous and foolish acts all too frequently lead to bloodshed. over-zealo- We've Much to Watch When we are alone we have our thoughts to watch; in families our tempers; in society our For a number of years, steel tongues. It is not sufficient to have qualities. We must make proper use Pattern No. 5348 Let us do a bit of "garden-- ' of them. Its linens were going to ing. beautify, with cotton patch flowers and flowerpots. This easy applique is sure to enhance a pair of pillow cases, scarf or dainty hand towels. Take colorful scraps, cut them into these simple flower forms, and either turn the edges under and sew them down, or finish them in outline stitch. Its called "Linen-closGardening"! In pattern 5348 you will find a transfer pattern of two motifs 5 Ik by 15 inches, two motifs 4 by 15 inches and the patterns fair the applique patches; material requirements; color suggestions; Illustrations of all stitches needed. To obtain this pattern, send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St, New York, N. Y. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. Those who make threats don't fulfill them any more reliably than those who make promises. A pessimist doesnt tell a lie, he only sees (me in everything. Fault-FindiIs Easy It requires keen vision to detect a virtue, but most of us can find fault with our eyes shut. Give us a day once in a blue moon when we don't have to ng et make good. When you forgive a friend, do it with a hug or a handclasp. That seals it. They Come to Earth When a hero marries an angel, it is two very ordinary people who set up housekeeping at the end of the honeymoon. Sometimes the only way to combat a gloom spreader is with laughter. Be fit for more than the thing you are doing. WONDERFUL FOR THESE SKIM BLEMISHES Wonderful, thousands say, how the soothing penetration of CUTICUBA Soap and Ointment helps banish ugly skin irritations due to external causes. Wonderful, how this mildly medicated Soap cleanses and soothes how the Ointment OINIMEUT Dame Durden Dame Durden was the notable housewife of a famous old F,nglish song. She kept so the ballad says, five serving girls to carry the milking pails, and five serving men to use the spade and flail. The careful and conscientious Esther Summer-soIn Dickens Bleak House" Is n nick-name- d Dame Durden. Glue Long la Use The history of glue dates as far back as the story of civilization runs. Among the possessions of King Tut which were brought to light were beautiful Inlaid wooden plaques that were put together with glue. Apparently It was one of the first manufactured products which are still in general use today. Macaroni, Spaghetti Skapea Macaroni and spaghetti In Italy have almost as many shapes as there are cities in the country. At Bologna It Is ribbon shaped; In Rome It comes in strips, but that of Sicily amazes travelers most of alL It Is skillfully rolled around knitting needles to make it a tiny spiral. Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island was long called St Johns Island, but was given its present name In 1799 in to Prince Edward, compliment Duke of Kent who paid it a visit The prince was the fourth son of King George III Maraje Island Marajo is an island about the size of Belgium, in the mouth of the Amazon. Its government is a feudal system which has for its object the happiness of the people. There are no biting insects on the island, and pretty girls play guitars to the stranger there for the sole fun of confusing him. Waffle Irens ef Many Types Waffle irons of Colonial days took various forms. In the "Colonial Kitchen" in the Baltimore Museum of Arts, a composite representation of the kitchens of New England and the South, there are at least five different kinds of these early waffle irons. City Has Pew Bailt On June 29, 1698, the Common council of New York city sppointed a committee to Agree with Carpenters for the building of a Pew in Trinity Church for the use of ye Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Assistants of this city and for their Successors." The Word "Impetus" The word impetus" is defined as the property possessed by a moving body in virtue of mass and its motion applied commonly to bodies moving suddenly or violently and indicating the origin and Intensity of the motion. well-know- L HAOIN companies have refused steadfastly to recognize un- -' Steel Bucks ion labor as YVITH President Roosevelt's re nomination by the Democrats a certainty for a long time and foe , It long has been said that foe resented by the method of administering laws frerep-Unio- nt professional lead- quently has creat-Ta- x ed more dissatis- Labor. They have attempted to Irritation faction among foe citizens than the defeat the inroads of that organization by forming what is known as requirements of laws themselves. company unions, groups of employ- Tax laws of whatever kind furnish ees on foe pay roll of each corpora- a splendid example. It has always tion. They have accorded to these been true since we have had inLaw groups foe right of collective bargaining and have insisted that they would deal only with the representatives of foe company unions for the reason that they believe they then are dealing with foe employees concerned with questions of pay and working conditions in that particular plant If foe national unions were recognized, officials of a given company always have had to negotiate with foe expert union negotiators who are paid by foe national organization. The results have not always been happy. This combination of circumstances, together with a disposition on foe part of foe steel companies, I am afraid, to be rather selfish in their attitude toward labor has developed a continuing controversy that has raged over the last score of years. It happened that foe rather insolent announcement of foe steel companies, their challenge, came almost simultaneously with foe delivery of President Roosevelts speech accepting the Democratic It was nomination for in this speech, it will be remembered, where Mr. Roosevelt de- nounced economic royalists," in which he resorted to expressions bound to create class hatred and In which he used language that is certainly going to help discredit are large which corporations enough to attract national attention. Of course, I know that Mr. Roosevelt did not have the steel industry particularly in mind in his assault on massed capital but the effect is foe same as though he had been shooting directly at the steel industry because of foe coincidence mentioned above. The tragedy of foe thing is that the professional labor leaders are going to use foe steel industrys challenge politically. From all of the inside discussions that I have heard, it appears that Tho Real It taw the issue between the steel industry and its workers is no longer simply whether foe steel industry shall be unionized. It is a question of how it shall be unionized. In addition to this, Mr. Lewis has been chiseling away for several years in promoting his labor union idea oi organizing all workers in one unit Instead of foe craft union idea that is basic in foe American Federation of Labor. That is to say, Mr. Lewis proposes to have a steel union or a ahipbuilding union or a textile union instead of organizing the workers in accordance with the particular jobs they do, whether they be engineers, painters, carpenters, moulders or any one of the various other crafts. come that taxpayers tax laws have complained more about bureaucratic regulation, indecision, lack of uniformity in administra- tion and, generally speaking, slow processes of settlement than about the amount they were required to pay. The same is true about our customs laws despite the fact that they affect fewer persons directly. The other day the Treasury issued a notice to customs inspectors that was "effective immediately." It was a change in policy respecting foe quantity of goods an individual may bring in from foreign shores without the payment of the customs tax. Since 1798 or thereabouts, there has been a law which permitted a returning American to bring in commodities of whatever kind he desired, except narcotics, up to $100 in value but that law permitted foe Treasury to make exceptions. The Treasury notice foe other day was an announcement of an exception to this $100 exemption. It said that no inbound traveler could carry more than one wine gallon of liquor without the payment of foe customr tax thereon. A practice had sprung up since the import duty on liquors has been made so high of returning tourists bringing in almost the full exemption in liquor alone. Probably the practice was getting very bad and no one questions the judgment of the Treasury in determining policy. But it IS the method employed in making this change that has aroused criticism. In ordering the new regulation "effective immediately," foe Treasury forced upon hundreds of travelers the necessity for paying duty on their personal stocks of liquor in what amounts to a surprise order. They had left foreign shores under one regulation and arrive under another. I have no doubt at all that the Treasurya reason for changing the rule while foe game was being played will result in a considerable amount of revenue for foe government But there are many who believe, as I do, that foe department in all fairndss should have issued its regulation to become effective at some fixed date in the future in order that citizens who must comply with it would be prepared by proper notification of what they were expected to do and foe penalties for failure to obey. The incident to which I have referred is an outstanding example of inconsideration and such things always cause citizens to have a hurt feeling, a feeling that foe government changed the rules without consulting those who must obey the rules. . WmUth Nawapayar Ualaa. show-manshi- selection of Governor Landon indicated for several strongly montha before the Republican convention met, this wasnt a year for "dark horses." A dark horse" is American political slang applied to a man who ia not generally mentioned as a candidate previous to a convention but who wins the nomination when the delegatea fail to agree on one of the leading candidatea. The phrase started as English racing slang, originating in the practice by jockeys of dyeing black the hair of fast horses in order to enter them in races under another name and thereby being able to "clean up" in the betting. Gradually the use of the term was extended tc apply to any horse, regardless of its color, which won unexpectedly and similarly it was applied to candidates for public office. American political history affords a number of examples of dark horses capturing the Presidential nomination but only a very few of them have gone on to occupy foe White House. In 1844 James K. Polk of Tennessee won the Democratic nomination at Baltimore when there was a deadlock between Martin Van Buren, and Lewis Cass. In foe election he defeated Henry Clay, the Whig, and became the first "dark horse" President. Again in 1852 the Democrats assembled in Baltimore and again Lewis Cass was a leading candidate with James Buchanan and Stephen A. Douglas furnishing the principal competition for the nomination. But again there was a deadlock and when the tide turned toward Franklin Pierce, again there was a stampede and this "dark horse" from New Hampshire was nominated. In the election he defeated the Whig candidate, Gen. Winfield Scott. As for the Republicans in 1876 they passed up their strongest man, James G. Blaine of Maine, and his principal opponent, O. P. Morton of Indiana, and gave the nomination to Gov. R. B. Hayes, Ohios "favorite son, who defeated Samuel Tilden, foe Democratic candidate. In 1880 they turned down Grant's bid for a third term, again passed over Blaine, failed to rally to John Sherman of Ohio, another strong contender, and finally selected another Buckeye dark horse" Gen. James A. Garfield. The most recent Republican "dark horse" to win foe nomination and election was still another Ohioan Sen. Warren G. Harding, who was chosen after the Lowden and Wood deadlock at the Chicago convention of 1920 had been tied up in a deadlock between Gen. Leonard Wood and Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. addition to this, is that Communist agitators are going to use this situation as one vehicle for spreading their propaganda of dissatisfaction and discontent and Mr. Roosevelts attack on massed capital unfortunately lends itself to the nefarious schemes of foe Reds. ers in the American Federation of scon WATSON DARK HORSE Since the steel industry has its Washington. The steel industry f the United States has cast for it- company unions, there is a conself a role in the viction in many quarters that Mr. Labor and forthcoming cam- - Lewis might well pause to consider PoliticB paign whether it whether this is foe time to carry intended to do so forward hia program of bringing or not. The same is true of John steel workers under national labor L. Lewis and his segment of or- union control. There are those who believe that foe company unions ganized labor and it is pretty genbecome units in foe erally suspected that Mr. Lewis in- eventually willstructure of foe countended to get labor questions well larger labor mixed up in politics. It is all try and, if that be true, it is made more important because of Presi- to appear that Mr. Lewia has hurt dent Roosevelt's attack on "eco- labor's cause. On the other hand, the steel innomic royalists in his Philadelphia acceptance speech. dustry already is under attack by Whatever rights the steel indus- the government. Mr. Roosevelt try has or whatever rights Mr. suddenly "cracked down" on some Lewis and his followers have, the of the major companies recently, fact remains that they are all knee charging them with collusion in deep in politics and there is every bids on government work. He reason to believe that each side came out with this charge at a will suffer in public esteem as a time which undoubtedly will stiffen result. It means simply this: each the backbone of the union agitaside is mixing up problems that tors and it is not unlikely that by are basically economic in charac- the same token he has stiffened ter with sordid, even unclean, po- the resistance which the steel comlitical motives. panies will use. This outburst is prompted by two Yet, it does seem that the steel things: the gigantic steel industry companies made a fatal mistake in has taken the position that it will the pronouncement they have isdefend itself against encroachment sued. There are too many people of professional labor leaders like who will be inclined to believe that Mr. Lewis and President William the steel companies have taken adGreen of the American Federation vantage of an apparent assurance of Labor and their satellites "from of collapse of federal supervision. The steel industry There are few who believe that the any source. thereby has thrown down the chal- federal compulsory collective barlenge and now that such a die is gaining statute will last very long cast, the steel industry will be but the fact that this statute is compelled to do a number of in- due for foe discard, it sems to defensible things if it adheres to its me, hardly warrants the action which foe steel companies have program. The same condition is to be ob- taken. They are no more warserved in the organized labor situa- ranted in that than union labor is tion. Whether Mr. Lewis is willing warranted in taking advantage of to admit it or not, his declaration the political situation to feather that he will foster, even enforce, their own nest A real dangei, in the Eye" bunk," says Clyde Beatty, animal trainer in his book, "The Big Cage." "Trainers for years have made a practice of staring straight into the eyes of foe animals that they work at dose range," he says. "I do it myself. It Is part of the stage setting, however. It has no effect on the animal. II la just an effective trick of I'm all for showmanship. But I want it known that when I make an animal do my bidding, it isnt because my eyes are looking kite his." MS ELMO in The popular idea about foe use ef the "hypnotic eye" in making wild animals or any animal behave is "all in my eye," or, ha plain language, "pure, unalloyed n Talcs md nr. There are few village smithy same kind of work would be in chops today under the chestnut evidence as soon as there was a trees. One reason demand for it. A Village is that there aren't He is known today all over the Blacksmith any more chestnut state, and in many other states, trees. Another is whose residents have bought his that the motor car is rapidly work. And if he had the advertising driving horses and vehicles drawn fey horses out of business. gift that some people have he I used to think that in fifty would have a wide reputation. years or more practically all the But not, I am sorry to say, a village smithies would disappear. great business. But lately I have learned better. For his work is artistry, and Here In a little coast town In cannot be done in quantity over a Maine Is a village blacksmith who single anvil. a has more work than he can do. It cannot be said of him that he though he has probably not shod a horse or repaired an agricu- is another Benvenuto Cellini. He ltural Implement in twenty years works in iron, not in silver and or more. gold. t But he is a master craftsman, For atime after the "devil wa which he never might have begons" began crowding horses and come had he not been forced by horse drawn vehicles off the road, changing conditions to become he had little to do. something besides the village Then one day he saw some or- blacksmith. namental grill work that had been I saw him at work the other sent to his town to be used as an morning on a pair of beautiful andirons. adornment on a new building. He examined it carefully, then I asked him what they cost. went home and thought a little. "A lot of time. he said. "There is no reason in the world "Yes, but how much money?" "Oh, not so much. But the felwhy I cannot do that kind of work," he said to himself. "I will low Im making them for isn't do it, by Gosh." rich so I wouldn't like to charge t him too much." And there was proof that ha the children to still "love Today see his flaming forge and hear the really had the soul of an artist. bellows blow." Over the anvil on which he used to fashion horse shoes he makes beautiful things of steel and iron. Visitors seeing him at work have come in to inquire if his handiwork was on sale. He assured them that it certainly was, and that more of the Not "All 7haltlanllJho0'6 By Ministers Son Invents Invisible Ear Drum The Invisible Ear Drum Invented A. O. Laaaaid, a aea of the late Bov. A. B, Leonard, D.D, for away jsam aoeretary ef the Board ef Foe alga Mlaslaaa ef the Methodist Epio-opChurch, for his owe relief great extreme deafness and heed ails as. has ao greatly improved hia hearing that he eaa jolt la any ordinary conversation, go to foe theatre end hear without difficulty. Inaxpeo-alv-e and has provad a blessing many people, Writ for booklet to fey al A. O. Leonard, Inc, Suita 200, TO Fifth aveone New York dty. AdvC High Dignity One of tho aublimest things la the world is plain truth. wire m fbleman LANTERN 0 (hi SNIt OAm fan M tka bla IfcMahrtaMtr tea a (Si YOUR LOOM. BUlll-tar FMXB ZWSar THE COLEMAN LAMP AND STOVE COl ARROW BRAND PICKLES PHOTOGRAPHY BoS Maa or aoallaw jraar raU Bmhpl kuiUlal anlananala Iraa 111 WtMMala rbataahae S lie Wart ialaaa. WK G. O. P. ERHAPS you never heard of a young printer named T. B. Dowden, but he was foe man who was responsible for G. O. P. being synonymous for foe Republican party. It came about in this way: In 1884, foe year that the Republicans finally nominated James G. AFTER YOU EAT? Blaine for the Presidency, young Dowden applied for work at the Abet yon finuh a meal esa you be sure Cincinnati Gazette and got it. of regular, uecemfiil elimiiutionf Get lid of waits material that causes guy About 2:30 oclock one morning, headaches. Take Milnesia Wattes just before the Gazette went to acidity, elimination. Each hr quick, took Dowden from the wafer equalspleasant press, of milk of 4 teaspooufula copy hook a piece of copy marked 20c, 35c & 60c at drag stoma. BugneM. Must go in ten lines. He began setting it in type and, as he finished, found himself in difficulty. My copy ends with Grand Old Party and I have two words left over after Ive sel foe ten lines," he told foe foreman of foe shop, "What shall I do? "Throw 'em away and use your Intelligence! exclaimed foe fore- WNU W 3136 man impatiently. No, wait cut em short get em in some use way! Abbreviate em. initials do anything, but hur-- ! SALT LAKE'S NEWEST HOSTELRY ry up. This page is going to be p ... ! p. ... ... , late!" j So Dowden went back to his case and foe next morning foe Gazette came out with this sentence on foe front page: The Hon. James G. Blaine will address foe meeting on 'Achievements of the GOP.'" At foe meeting that night the Republican candidate was conciud- speech when a voice ing a floated down from the gallery: "Why dont you tell us something about GOP and what it did?" retorted my friend, "Why, Blaine, "Ive been talking about GOP all evening. The word GOP contains foe initial letters of foe Grand Old Party and that is its official and abbreviated name." The audience roared with laughter but Blaine didnt crack a smile. He little realized that he had given currency to an expression which would become a familiar trademark to millions a trademark attached to a major political party by a hurried young printer named T. B. Dowden. two-ho- ; , ' . j ur Waatara Kawapapav Ualoa. ! HOTEL j Temple Square Rates S1.50te$&00 la wlU alaraya ham lit f hU it pW.YM aM lita, aaaaaawly aaaUaatalla,thaaa th kiy iwlihiT fans ilnil why this hatal hi il HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Taw aaa alaa apftaaiata whf I ffa a atari af SatiactJaa ta ala at Ml haaaUfaf fcaatairy ERNEST C ROSSITER. Mgr. |