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Show I MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS Tbo now city administration enter-cd enter-cd upon its duties at noon on Tues-day Tues-day and now we all hope the promised increased prosperity will at once bo made manifest. Good government is a benefit to all the people and the new administration should be given a fair fl' chance to mnkc good its anti-election promises. The new city ofiiccrs and the personnel of tlio new city council Is as follows: Mayor Ezra Thompson. Attorney Ogden Hilcs. Recorder J. B. Moreton. Auditor Rudolf Alff. Treasurer Frank Swenson. City Council. First Ward Thomas Hobday, L. D. Martin, C, J. Crabtree. Second Ward J. H. Preece, A. R. Carter, E. G. O'Donnell. Third Ward A. F. Barnes, F. S. Fcrnstrom, John Holley. 1 Fourth Ward R. S. Wells, W. J. Tuddenham, W. Mont Ferry. Fifth Ward A. J. Davis, T. R. Black, M. E. Mulvey. Deputies and Clerks Named. J. B. Moreton, City Recorder Ben-jamaln Ben-jamaln S. Rives, chief deputy; W. A. Wright, criminal deputy; F. L. Palm-qulst, Palm-qulst, civil deputy; W. J. McLaughlin, clerk Juvenile court; Arthur E. More-j More-j ton, clerk civil division; Edna Pugs-ley, Pugs-ley, stenographer. Rudolph Alff, Auditor H. V. Melloy, chief deputy. Ogden Hiles, City Attorney H. J. Dininny and P. J. Daly, first and sec-ond sec-ond assistants, respectively; Nellie K. Hj Montgomery, stenographer. H' Frank A. Swenson, City Treasurer H' C. H. Croft, chief clerk; B.B. Qulnn, 11- cense inspector; A. T. Kline, assistant license Inspector; Charles Lawrence, clerk; Mose Morris, dog tax collector. Hj Mr. Swenson nlso notified the council that he had retained M. M. Beaver and George H. Wood in his . office tcmpor-arlly, tcmpor-arlly, and asked that their salaries bo fixed at $115 a month each. These appointments were confirmed, t. i'oto in each Instance being unani- Standing Committees of City Council. Public Grounds Hobday, Ferry, Carter, Barnes, Mulvey. Improvements Martin, Carter, Black, Tuddenham, Wells. Municipal Laws Crabtree, Ferry, Mulvey, Holley, Black. Streets Carter, Black, Martin, Tuddenham, Tud-denham, Barnes, Holley. Jordan Canal and Irrigation Hobday, Hob-day, Mulvey, Carter, Fernstrom, Wells. Markets Crabtree, O'Donnel, Holley. Hol-ley. Finance Ferry, Black, Crabtree, Carter, Fernstrom. Sewerage and Engineering Black, Martin, Ferry, Carter, Fernstrom. Police and Prison Crabtree, Hobday, Mulvey, O'Donnell, Martin. Firo Department. Martin, Black, Ferry, Carter, Tuddenham. Claims Ferry, Black, Barnes. Waterworks Mulvey, Davis, O'Donnell, O'Don-nell, Tuddenham, Martin. Cemetery O'Donnell, Hobday, Black, Wells. Holley. Revision Carter, Hobday, Fernstrom. Fern-strom. Election Black, Ferry, Barnes, license Mulvey, Hobday, Crabtree. Sprinkling Martin, Black, Carter, Tuddenham, Holley. Enrollment Holbday, Mulvey, Wells, Sanitary O'Donnell, Black, Hobday, Tuddenham, Holley. City and County Black, Hobday. Library Ferry, Mulvey, Crabtree. The new city council in choosing A. J. Davis for its president fulfilled a prediction pre-diction which Truth made nearly three months ago. Mr. Davis, wo believe, will bo a good presiding officer and is as much entitled to the honor as any member of the council. Truth desires to conipliemnt City Auditor Alff on his selection of H. V. Melloy for his chief doputy. Mr. Melloy Mel-loy is thoroughly competent and reliable re-liable and as honest as the day. Simon Bamberger's man, John Critchlow, has been made business, manager of the Herald, whatever that may moan. The Herald does not lack for managers. If long and faithful services and thorough competence counted for anything on the Herald the title and emoluments of business manager should have gone to Howard S. Stowe. THE BOY OF TODAY. (By Vivian Burnett.) The best nurse for a boy Is mother earth, either dry or wot'. Tho closer to her ho sticks, tho better man ho is likely to bo In tho end tho truer, the more straightforward, tho healthier. Sho teaches him no underhand ways. Sho is all above board herself, and tho boy who ties himself to her apron strings will inevitably pattern himself after her. It Is boy nature to like mother earth, and to got as much of her as ho possibly can. Tho traces of his familiarity and close contact with her that ho bears always on his hands and face, and refuses to be parted from unless forcibly and then restores at tho earliest opportunity, aro healthy evidences, though perhaps disheartening to mothers with overweening over-weening predilections for cleanliness. A boy without them, a boy smugly shining with soap and water, stems' hardly a boy at all. This is by no means an argument that a boy should always bo dirty. It is only a record, of tho observed fact that a real boy nearly always is so. Such is real boy habit, and for tho reason that no boy can live in a normal and healthy communion com-munion with nature without somo of the "nature" In more senses than ono rubbing off. There is, however, dirt and dirt, city dirt and country dirt, tho dirt of nature and tho dirt of artificiality, and they are in actuality and in significance sig-nificance as wide apart as tho poles. Country dirt fits that well-known description, "soil In tho wrong' place," and represents a boy's untrammcled activities, a visit to the stable, a climb up a tree after apples, or a grubbing in tho ground in search of a precious root. It comes off easily with soap and water. City dirt means playing around in tho street, squatting squat-ting on tho curbstone, and pitching pennies, craps perhaps, all abnormal abnor-mal restricted activities, and it comes off hard. Hand sapollo had to be invented in-vented to deal with It in its material manifestation. -But there is no hand sapollo to cure tho moral delinquency that it typifies. For this reason, tho city boy of to-day is to bo pitied when 'H compared with tho country boy, es- pcclally tho country boy of a couple or three decade's ago; and one wishes wM tho city lad somo of tho joys that tho JM country boy had In thoso days, joys not Impossible to him to-day, but somehow and it seems unfortunately, by tho progress of so-called clvillza- Jon made antiquated and out of fashion. Tho separation from tho soil which the trend of modern civilization seems to bo making absolute, cspe-dally cspe-dally in tho caso of tho city boy, and moro and moro so In tho caso of tho country boy, since ho is being led to took towards tho city and copy its ways, this trend cannot bo but harm-rul harm-rul for tho youngsters, and thero is iced for much Insistence and demon-Uratlon demon-Uratlon on this point. How many boys of today can do so slmplo a thing as harness a horso? Most of BB them, if given even a halter, would put it on upsldo down. Their strange-ncss strange-ncss with tho horso would mako him so afraid that they could probably not finish tho job; and would bo afraid themselves, too. To be friends with animals is" an Bj education in itself; and a boy who docs not know a horso, a dog, a cat, H a pig, chickens, tho barnyard family BJ and tho woodland family, rabbits, H chipmunks, coons, and wild cats, too, H all around, through and under, lacks H something essential. It' Is helpful to H a boy to know that he can control so BJ big an animal as a horso just by tho Bj efforts of his will. Tho boy that has Bj not a dog friend is to be pitied. A Bj dog paraded on tho end of a string Bj Is no real companion. A dog friend BJ is ono with whom you havo trod the Bj leaf-strewn paths of the wood; start- H Ing with him at every woo'dland stir gBj and scurry, every scont and footprint. II A boy learns quickness when he bor- JM rows in this way a dog's ears and fl noso. Bo sorry, too, for tho boy who 1.1 docs not know a robin's egg from a Ml wren's, or a swallow's nest from an nfl oriole's; who cannot tell tho call of '' tho catbird from tho whlppoorwlll. '5 Thoro are sadly many city boys oven th so ignorant, and many who know only j'J because they had in school "nature" il lessons'from books. jj The, country child learned .truly I I from tho book of nature, and had the real thrill of a discoverer when ho found after a storm at tho base of a tree wee speckled shells" of blue, and took them homo to mother to bo told they wore robin's eggs and to begin a collection of .birds' eggs then and there. To be a friend of tho trees, to know tho birch and the beech, tho ash and the aspen, the oak and tho elm, not becauso you have learned to Identify them in the park from pictures pic-tures of their leaves In a book, but because you havo grown up with certain cer-tain caks and elms, that is somo-j thing worth while. A country boy's sports help In his making, but a city boy's In his unmaking. un-making. What Is there comparable with the journey made by tho crowd on Saturday mornings In summer, across tho Hold (and how tho stubble of tho wheat hurts your baro foot) through tho small woods, to tho swimming swim-ming pond for a good splash, and contests In spocd and endurance, races In water and out, encumbered by garments. Then, the silent crafty mornings spent with a rough rod and no reel, at tho creokslde, In combat with finny antagonists, tho llshing. Thoso hours add something to the country boy's equipment, a healthful enjoymort of thoughtful, contemnla- Itlve hours, that stand, and havo stood htm, in good stead, something that tho city boy In the rush and rattle can never have. For these pleasures, our city life substitutes a perplexing mazo, of so-called enjoyments, theatres and such, eo many of them that none lcavo3 tie slightest Impression, and a sense of distraction and a consequent conse-quent Inability to concontrato on any ore particular thing Is tho only result. From tho time tho city boy of our day! Is able to "take notice," he has his little hands tucked full of toys. It is toys from that day on; over and over, more toys; from doting father, pro-i pltiatlng mother, pleading auntie, and ndoring friends of tho family. Tho country youngster In search of amusement and occupation for his mind starts cut, perhaps, with his dog on a woodland tramp, during which his keen observation makes him master mas-ter of now facts and gives him now fcod for thought. Your city youngster, young-ster, in general your youngster of today, to-day, being threatened with ennui, remembers re-members a now kind of toy ho has seen In a shop window and makes every ev-ery one's life mlsorablo with petitions for money until he gets it. Tho boy who has everything that ho wants already al-ready manufactured at his hand, and only needs to wheodlo money to buy It, In tho long run will not stand any chance with tho boy whoso resource-J resource-J illness has been trained so that ho can "make something out of wood that will do as well." Tho logical cor-icctive cor-icctive to this artlllclallty, this sophistication, sophis-tication, is more outdoor lire, more of tho simple living with nature that gives a boy backbone and substance, gives him a love for tho largo real things of tho world, to tako tho place of tho admiration for tho fripperies which Is growing about him more and H It is quality, not clovorness, that H one wants in a boy. There is no deny- ing that (ho youths of today aro clov- er; clover with their kindergarten way about a great many things. Tho plays H nnd toys of ono will have led him into some sort of knowledge of electricity; ono may havo set up a printing press cf his own; ono may do llttlo drawing or modeling; ono may be deft at car- pentry and turning; and ono may bo Interested in photography. Uut none of these things furnishes the making of a real man. None of them helps create tho bono and blood that a man needs for his fighting days In tho world. Their inlluence is rather away from that centralization of purpose which is demanded of tho worker to day, and will be demanded moro nnd more in tho future. Even in his sports tho city boy Is sophlseated and unnatural. Tho champions of football. os a training school for men aro many, but after ill thoso boys who really engage in tho game aro few in comparison with theso who tako their training out In sitting on the bleachers, losing a great deal cf money In wagers, and having a "hot old timo" If their team happens hap-pens to win. To reach any expert-ness, expert-ness, moreover, in tho game as It is ployed today, an abnormal sacrlllco of timo and energy is necessary. To understand it even requires closo study; and what is true of football and almost In the same degree of baseball, base-ball, fellows true in all other games and sports as they aro in vogue today. The probable effect upon the growing boy Is evident, and as an offset to It ho needs as much as he can get of tho normal pleasures that have made the country boy and given him that virility viri-lity which Is evidenced In his proverbial prover-bial success when ho comes to tho city and competes with the city-bred boy. It Is well worth while to assist the youngster of today to acqulro a liking for such pleasures. The boy and Mother Nature, It cannot bo too often reiterated are friends, and all ho wants is an oppor-, oppor-, tunlty to associate with her. Give him a chance, lot him go camping, live In tho country, if all tho year around so much tho bettor, certainly In the summer. Let him get to know tho world, animals, birds, trees, by growing up with It, and do not cramp his physical, mental and moral stature stat-ure by substituting for tho living green earth and Its friendly creatures, dirty asphalt streets and the dingy brick walls. Tho boy should havo the open world as a birthright, and if our present conditions of society rather restrict this inheritance it should be tho aim of thoso Into whoso hands the management of his affairs are temporarily tem-porarily placed, to see that he gets as much of It as possible. o |
