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Show t The Democrat will save you money on your legal notices. A Live Democratic Newspaper For Live Democrats Call Was. 1587. Entered as second class matter, July 18, 1922, at the postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Aet of March S, 1879 - i i i v SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1924 VOL. 3, NO. 33 $1.50 A YEAR i District 52 West High school, 241 North Second WeBt. CONTEST Districts 53 and 54 Jackson school, 750 West First North. Districts 51, 55 and 56 New Temple hotel, 111 North Main. Districts 57 and 61 Washington 163 West First North. school, FOUR IN CANDIDATES FIELD 58 Residence, 418 North District FROM SOUTHEASTERN SECFifth West. TION OF CITY NO Districts 59 and 62 Onequa school, OPPOSITION TO WAS513 North Tenth West. SON IN FOURTH District 60 Bonneville school, 1561 WARD. North Chicago street. Fourth Precinct. Districts 76 and 77 Eagle Gate THE CANDIDATES pharmacy, 51 North State. Districts 78, 79 and 83 Lowell First Ward 119 E street. school, Frederick I.. Bagby 80 and 84 Longfellow Districts John Cuthers school. First avenue and J street. Will II. Lovesy District 85 'Ensign school, 431 Mrs. William Reid avenue. Ninth Second Ward 81 Districts and 82 Wasatch Joseph Anderson 1155 East South Temple. school, George II. Rybould Fifth Precinct. Third Ward Districts 101, 102, 103, 104 and 109 E. J. Haag Tweflth school, 438 East First Ray M. Haddock South. Fourth Ward Districts 105, 106, 107, 108 and 110 George F. Wasson Bryant Junior High school, 733 Fifth Ward Blast Editorial Comment SPIRITED First Ralph D. Evans Jesse N. Smith Districts Room 311 Districts Eleven candidates for election to the Salt Lake City board of education are in the field to be voted upon by the residents of their respective precincts at the school election to be held Wednesday, December 3, next. Four of the eleven candidates are from the First Municipal ward, which gives promise of 'famishing the most lively contest of any of the precincts, especially in view of the fact that one third of the entire voting population of the city is in this precinct. Ordinarily there is little interest in a school election too little in proportion to the importance of it, and it is a difficult matter to get voters out to ballot at such an election. Two years ago only 5,000 votes were polled in the city where there are normally about 40,000 votes in a general election. .This shows sad lack of interest on the part of parents and taxpayers in a matter of vital import to them. Parents, whose children are to be educated in the public schools, should at least show enough interest to go to the polls and vote for the men they think best qualified to direct these schools. Approximately 80 per cent of the taxes you pay goes for educational purposes. Certainly the taxpayer should have enough interest in who has the spending of this money, to go to the polls and help select the right men for this responsible duty. Let's see the voters turn out and vote at the school election December 3. Here are the polling places: school, 421 THREE VITAL POINTS lng population of;the entire city. It In selecting members of the school contains twenty-fir- e voting districts board voters should be guided by and here are found some of the most three things. efficient and energetic workers which man to the Republican party in the city of the First, qualifications efficiently perform the important possesses. It is normally a Republiduties devolving upon him as a mem- can precinct. To. carry nineteen of ber of this board. the twenty-fiv- e districts in this prefor cinct his the Second, George H; Dern for governor ability to give necessary time and attention to against a landslide for the rest of school board work. the Republican ticket, is a big job. Third, whether he will really serve But it was done by the First Prethe interests of the schools, the cinct Democratic organization, headed children and the taxpayer or will by John Halverson, precinct chairmerely be a cats paw for patronage man. Mr. Halverson is not a man who talks about what he does he seekers. In each precinct of the city the just goes out and does it. The editor voters should determine these points knows because hS is a member of about the candidates and then vote the First precinct organization. Mr. for the man or woman whom they Halverson directed and brought about are convinced will render the best the most thorough and efficient orservice to the school children of Salt ganization in the First for the recent Lake City, the public school system election that the Democratic party and the taxpayer whose money is has ever had. Every disrict had an active organization, and every disspent to maintain the schools. There is no more important work trict raised money to finance Its in the city than that of the Bchool own work. Mr. Halverson, In addition to his board. Every voter should take an South. interest in the school election and duties as precinct chairman of the 111, 112, 113 and 114 greatest care should be exercised in county finance committee and of the city and county building. selecting members of this board. 81,200 raised by the committee Mr. 115, 116 and 117 Webster Halverson personally collected in South Eighth East. more than $800. i BIG TASK WELL PERFORMED John is the sort of Democrat who The First municipal ward of Salt the vot- - counts. Lake city contains one-thir- d In Something of a Hurry - Every trade has its stock of yarns, but occasionally a new one does occur, only, alas, in time to A certain well-knobecome a classic. was holding man newspaper forth" to a" group of writers, among whom was a rather famous novelist. The Journalist was saying that he had recently been engaged In revising the obituaries held in readiness by his paper. Turning to the novelist, he added jocosely: Tve Just been writing you up. But the novelist, apparently, had not been following very closely, and waking up with a start, he asked eagerly: When is it going to be published well-know- n w r Engelmann Spruce Valuable In its fullest development, Engelmann spruce becomes a large tree, a hundred feet or more In height and three feet or more in diameter, with a smooth, straight and only slightly Great quantities of tapered trunk. are cut for lumber. spruce Engelmann The wood Is soft and straight-graine- d and is used for various construction purposes, as telegraph and telephone poles, as mine timbers, fqr the construction of log buildings, and to some extent as lumber for Interior finish. In contrast with the only other spruce In Rocky Mountain National park, Engelmann spruce is of considerable Importance commercially. . ' old-fashion- ed school, 14 and . 16 Emerson McClelland avenue. Smoking in Church The Indignant complaint was recently made at a religious conference in England, to the effect that men go to church smoking and only put out their pipes or cigarettes in the church porch. This objection would have astonished Welshmen of an earlier genSouth. eration. Until little more than half a Second Precinct. century ago. In many parts of Wales, Districts 26. 27, 30, 31 and 32 Fre- the opening of the sermon was the mont school, 153 South Second West. recognized signal for the male part of the congregation to light their pipes, Districts 33, 34 and 36 Grant and no one seems then to have seen school, 625 South First West. irreverence in the custom. Simany 35 District and 39 Riverside ilar conditions obtained in various school, 609 South Eighth West. parts of Scotland. District 37, 38 and 41 Jefferson school, 1103 South West Temple. Districts 17 and 23 Forestdale drug store, 2200 South Seventh East. Districts 17 and 23 Forestdale drug store, 2200 South Seventh East. Districts 22, 25 and 18 Irving Junior High school, 1173 East Twenty-firs-t 28 Districts nad 29 Franklin 809 West Second South. school, Districts 40 tnd 42 Edison school, 1416 West Eighth South. Third Precinct. .. Line of Least Resistance Janet's husband was a simple old fellow. One day the good laundress wanted her husbamT to paint the mangle. Having told him what to do, she went out to buy the dinner. On her return she could see no sign of her husband In the cellar. Joe! Joe!" she called. Where are you 7 "Upstairs I replied Joe from above.. "What are you doing up there? I Painting the mangle. What are you painting up there for?" I re-- ( Superstitions Dog-Da- y s, 13, -- plied Joe. An ancient British calendar dealing with' midsummer problems says: NewDistricts 1 and 2 Sumner school, born children must on no account, 636 South Third East. sleep on bones during the dog-dayDistricts 3 and 4 Hamilton school, not even when hidden beneath their nurses lap ; and It will bring futal bad 770 South Eighth East. Districts 5, 9 and 24 East High luck if they be set to sleep on graves. A deal of superstition still clings round school, 850 South Thirteenth Easf. baby. When it takes Its first airDistricts 7 and 8 Triangle drug the abroad. It Is of highest importance ing store. Ninth East and Ninth South. that it goes upstairs before going Districts 6 and 21 Liberty school, down, or It will never rise In the world. 1090 South Thrld East. In rural cottages, blessed with the wooden cradle, the suDistricts 10. 11, 19 and 20 Whittier school, 1600 South Third East. . perstition clings to it that to rock the Districts 12 and 15 Hawthorne empty cradle Is to rock into It a new baby. school, 1632 South Seventh East. 1343 number of good stories center around General Lord Rawlinson, who, the for 40 years was connected with Iridium The In general British army was brought prominently before the British public eye by being home on furlough. While he was In command of a column during the South African war, Lord Rawlinson was constantly sending In demands for heliographs, with no result. At last when drawing near Kroonstadt, in what was then the Orange River colony, he signaled again to ask whether his heliographs had arrived. Officialdom, however, was rampant, and wanted to know What do you want them for?" Back went the reply with caustic brevity, To fry kidneys on, of course ! A Well, the paint was up here! First Precinct. Districts Rawlinson Was Peeved Cucumber Long Known The cucumber Is one of the oldest of the. garden vegetables. It had Its origin some 3,000 years ago In the Far Eastprobably In India. Origin of Name "Canada According to Father Hennepin, the name Canada was derived from a corruption of the Spanish words Capo de Nada, or Cape of Nothing, which the' early voyagers gave to the scene of their discoveries when, under a conviction of Its utter barrenness and Inutility, they were about abandoning it In disgust, says the Detroit News. It has been conjectured by late historians, with greater appearance of probability, that Canada is a modification of the Spanish word signifying a Nature's Amends for Great French Dictator Beginning of Empire Toll Taken by Years in Great Northwest Typical of His Race Napoleons character and personality are still under the microscope. One of the best of recent analysis of the great commander Is Napoleon, by Herbert A L. Fisher, at one time British minister of education. Mr. Fisher has made the French dictator luminous by his phrases. Here, for instance, is a passage on Napoleon as a young man, portraying him as a turbulent example of the people from which he sprang : The Corsican bore a character for sobriety, courage and hardihood. Hate was for him a virtue, vengeance's duty, pardon an infamy. He felt the call of the clan like a Highlander, an Albanian or a Zulu, and was full of common the pride and to gallant men who have never met self-assuran- ce a superior. Vigilant and astute In his judgment of character, he was a master of dissimulation save where passion broke In and spoiled the reckoning. His standard of honor forbade theft, enjoyed hospitality and tolerated woman as the drudge of the household and field. In general Jils deportment was noted as grave and social. He was sparing of amusement,' would sit at cards without a word and suffer torture without A cry; but when the seal of silence yas once broken, language would stream from him like a torrent, an index of that uneasy, impatient, quarrelsome energy which was a common attribute of the race. - 6. nt 1 54-4- ox-dra- means. Probably Girl Never Arnold ' Wife Shared Lesson That Forgot Key Is One of Oldest in Husband s Disgrace Stories have a way of accumulating Good Stories Told of of Religious Symbols April 8, 1779, Gen. Benedict Arnold aboutthe memory of famous wits, and Famous Writer French When you next unlock the door of v. and Margaret, be Jer. known as teggy Dea n Swift wasao exception to-' this . .'-r- Shippen, were married in Philadelphia. The marriage was the culmination of a wartime romance. The groom, then a trusted subordinate of General Washington, was later to become the most excoriated man in American history. Most every one has heard of Arnold's unspeakable treason, and even of his love affair with the charming Peggy. It was certain that his wife was in absolute Ignorance of Arnolds sad adventure. Indeed, as soon as the traitor was sure of his own safety he wrote to General Washington asserting his wifes innocence, and saying: I beg she may be permitted to return to her friends In Philadelphia, or come to me, as she may choose." Washington, who was a just man, believed in her innocence. He offered to send her with an escort to Philadelphia, or to put her under a flag of truce on the kings ship, Vulture. She chose the former and arrived in Philadelphia about October 1, 1780, says the Detroit News. But she had not been there a month when the council adopted a resolution ordering her to leave the city and not to return during the war. Five years later she came home again, but was treated with so much coldnejss and neglect, even by those who had encouraged her marriage, that she left again, never to return. She remained with Arnold during the remainder of his broken and disgraced life. He died in London, an embittered and sad man, without a country. Recorded Their Fear of Premature Burial Fears of premature burial have resulted In the formation of a society to effect reforms in the law of death certification, writes Arthur Pendenys In John o Londons Weekly. There Is, however, nothing new in these fears. The Egyptians kept the bodies of the dead under careful supervision by the priests previous to embalming, and until satisfied that life was extinct. The becausethe Spaniards Greeks were aware of the dangers of passage thought they could find a passage to premature burial and often cut off the India through Canada. fingers of a person believed to be dead general rule, according' to the "'San Francisco Argonaut. A hoard of Swift anecdotes recently unearthed Includes the Illustration of the dean's mania for closed doors. Swifts housekeeper hired his servants, but when they came into his employ he always told them there, were only two rules to observe. One was always to shut the door after entering a room, the other, always to close the door after leaving the room. On one occasion a maid asked the deans permission to attend her sisters wedding, when he not only gave his permission, but lent her a horse upon which to make the journey, and another servant to 'accompany her. In the excitement of the moment the unfortunate girl forgot to close the door after her, and Swift, allowing time for her to get well away upon her journey, sent another servant posthaste to bring her back. In fear and trembling the poor girl presented herself before the dean, asking him what he wanted her for. Only to shut the door, was the reply, after which you can resume your journey. . The Lasso Our word lasso Is from the Spanish lazo, meaning a snare. The lasso is a rope from 60 to 100 feet in length with a slip-nooat one end. It Is used In the Spanish and Portuguese parts of America and in the United States and Canadian West for catching wild horses and cattle. When not in use the lasso, called rope in the West, Is colled at the right of the saddle in front of the rider. When an animal Is to be caught the rider, galloping after It, swings the coiled lasso round his head and casts it straight forward In such a manner that the noose settles over the head or round the legs of the pursued animal, which Is speedily brought down. In order-tbecome skillful at throwing the lasso great practice is required, and. If possible, Instruction by. an expert. se - before cremation. In modem times, the fear of being Explaining Bishop's Garb buried alive has haunted many. Wilkie That the modern bishop wears the Collins had this fear, and always left garb he does only because It Is the overnight on his dressing table a note relic of the days long ago when a solemnly enjoining that, should he be bishop had to ride about his diocese found dead, his supposed death was to In all manner of weather In order to be carefully tested by: a doctor. Hans make the regular visits- to his very' Andersen always carried a note In his large flock is a theory advanced In pocket to the same effect. Harriet Mar-tinea-u England. The apron Is a relic of the left her doctor $50 to see that riding apron, it is maintained, and the her head was amputated before burial. cords on the hat were once hat cords to protect against high winds, and the breeches and leggings are still Musioal Prodigies. familiar in the garb of the equestrian. musical Most prodigies are boys In law that girls develop the spite of than boys. Girl prodimentally faster are almost unviolin on the For Joy-Ride- rs gies of few the great divas motorknown. Very To the list of road signs for as child wonders, known been B. other the have ists printed sugday, J. a method Is mesmeric there addition: this Whats your although gests s can be young-girlIs The which taught all morgue open hurry? by of imitation artists. In Boston great to Transcript. night. sing - The critics hare always stumbled a Large looms tlie Columbia river In little over this final phase of supreme the history of our country. It was the genius. They used to think that key that unlocked the greet Northwest Michelangelo's last work was unfin- and added three states to the Union ished. Thej' still often think that what the only portion of the United States we must recognize in such a manifesacquired by right of discovery, possestation is lassitude, failure of energy, sion and settlement, says the Nations a weakening grasp of brain or hand. I Business. am not sure that there is not an eleIt was In the mouth of the Columbia ment of truth in such criticism, ob- that Captain Gray of Boston sailed his serves Havelock Ellis, in the Forum. ship Columbia In 1792 and raising the Only let us not forget that It is the Stars and Stripes, took possession of mark of high genius, less to display the Northwest in the name of the athletically Titan strength than to be United States. able to use weakness to reach divine Here, where the mighty Columbia ends. That power, it may well seem tumbles its waters Into the Pacific, to us, Is supremely visible in the typi- Lewis and Clark, first to carry our flag cal last phase of the highest genius. across the continent, reached their The artist has lost his early power of western destination In the winter of realistic grip, and with it lost also his 1805-0Another six years saw the Astor-Iluearly taste for such power. But he has lost It only to attain a wider and expedition, traveling by land and deeper and more symbolic mastery of sea, establish at the mouth of the Cothe world. He no longer cares more lumbia the first permanent American than he has ever before for its es- settlement on the Pacific coast. Then followed the outriders of era sence, and he Is conscious of that essence with a delicacy of sensitive per- plre the missionary, the trapper, the ception he never before possessed. He adventurer. Came 1843 Thrilled by the story of is no longer concerned with things; As the paradise beyond the mountains they are receding from his view. 0 he rises above the earth, like. Elijah in and fired by the militant cry of his chariot of fire, he now sees it only or fight! of Senator Thomas Hart in the distance. Henceforth he no Benton, the covered wagon on the is started deals the with westward It moving longer things. grains soul of things that he brings before greatest migration of all history, bringus. That is why his latter work fas- ing within a little more than a decade cinates us endlessly as, slowly, after 200,000 settlers who established homes, many years, enlightened by the long schools and churches, founded an emcourse of our own experience, we be- pire, and saved the great Northwest gin at last to understand what it for the Union. Concerning Parrots Of the 20 , commonly known varieties of parrots, the most talkative ones, according to George Bruce Chapman, head of a London house that has Imported and sold the birds for more than a hundred years, are the Brazilian Amazon and the African Gray. The former has bright blue and yellow feathers and red tips to the shoulders and flight wings. The African Gray has a red tall. In Brazil natives watch the nesting places and when the fledglings are a few days old, the feathers of one of the wings are trimmed. Later these birds are easily captured, placed on perches and taken to the nearest village. Fenders say that the birds should be fed twice a day, and with proper care ma will live 3C . j . Idiots Called Nonsneezers That idiots are Incapable of snees-n- g was' a' belief of our ancestors. -- f- Max ORell, the Yamous French sati yur home or office, reflect, armotint Irist, joked to the end. When he was upon the ancient and historic symbollying on his deathbed, and after the ism of the key. If you ever have the doctors had informed him that there opportunity to examine the Images of was no hope, he wrote: I fear that the Egyptian deities you will notice in I am doomed. The doctors give me a the hands of some of them a cross few months, but I believe I shall last with a circular haudle. It represents longer. At any rate I shall try; for the Ankh, or key of life, one of the oldest of all religious symbols, denotTd rather wear a hat than a halo. Max ORell, like all professional ing the power to open and close the men, was occasionally Imposed on with doors of heaven. The key had a magiregard to hospitality, hostesses Invit- cal meaning for the Greeks and Roing him to an at home as a guest mans. Their gods were often given as, for example, and then expecting him to perform, in the title of Janus, the god of gates, who was supother words to tell a few stories. Once when this happened, he left the posed to unlock the doors of war and drawing room hurriedly and went Ieace. In early Christian history the down to the hall, whence he returned symbol of the key was associated with In a few minutes in a state of great St. Peter, with his two keys of gold excitement, and approaching his host- and iron. In the Middle ages the key ess whispered agitatedly into her ear: was used to assist In the identification Madam, what kind of people have of guilty persons. If, for Instance, a you here? The check you placed In theft had been committed, a key was my overcoat pocket my fee for to- laid on the open page of a Bible, when San Fran- It was supposed to move towards the night has been stolen I cisco Argonaut. Wedding rings had their culprit origin in the key presented to the Roman bride by her husband, as a sign of Wars of the Roses her authority in Ills household. The Wars of the Roses were a series of sanguinary contests for the possesi Proof of Smoked Ham sion of the English throne, waged hy That the proof of the smoked ham the adherents of the houses of York and Lancaster, whose badges were the Is In the smell Is the conclusion white and red roses, respectively. The reached by the wholesale meat packstruggle, says the Kansas City Star, ers, as a result of years of experience, commenced with the battle of St. according to a story recently pubg business, Albans (1455), and lasted until 1485 lished. This as might be expected, is of when Henry Tudor (of Lancaster) de- moreover, feated and killed Richard III (of a nature that to become an expert at York) at Bosworth field. The two It, requires years of training. A man houses were finally united in the per- experienced In this line of work, howson of Henry Tudor (afterward Henry ever, Is able to test 2,000 or 3,000 hams VTI), who in 1486 married Elizabeth a day, and in some of the large houses, of York, daughter of Edward IV. It Is where many thousands are turned out estimated that the Wars of the Roses dally, there may be a regular corps occasioned the deaths of 12 princes of of them employed. Upon the Infallithe blood, 200 nobles and 100,000 of bility of the Judgment of these men. the gentry and common people of Eng- Indeed, the reputation of such concerns largely depends. Certainly there land. are more ways of making a living than the average individual realizes! Oldest Almanac Christian Science Monitor. In the British museum Is an almanac that Is 3,000 years old; It Is The South Sea Bubble supposed to be the oldest in foe Speculation at its wildest was shown world. It Is written like all other Egyptian In the South Sea Bubble, a $50,000,-00- 0 project launched by Robert Hartmanuscripts, on papyrus,, and was found on the mummy of an Egyptian, ley, earl of Oxford, England, to dewho had treasured It apparently as velop trade monopoly with Spain something sacred, for It Is of a strong about 1711. When Spain, after the religious character. Under the days, treaty of Utrecht, refused to open her which are written In red ink, there Is commerce to England, the privileges a figure followed by three characters, which the South Sea boasted of getting signifying the probable state of the became worthless... In spite of that stock rose to $1,000 a share, largely weather. evinot was through speculation, until Sir John -It Is It entire, but BeBlunt, one of the leaders, sold out. owner Its died. torn before dently with yond clearly establishing the reign of and thousands were beggared diswas Fraud stock. of the the drop Raineses the Great, It contains noth33 and the closed only company paid ing else of any value. cent. per key-beare- r, ham-smellin- ' - Unnatural Mothers When lions and tigers bring forth young In captivity, the greatest care has to be exercised to keep them for several days In the dark and undie-turbed, as otherwise the mothers will almost Invariably destroy their cubs. . , Infallible Test . Another way to tell the newest members of the business mens luncheon dub Is by noting which ones are present at the' time the luncheon Is scheduled, to take place. Kansas Cl ty Star. |