Show BATIE OF WITS l CLOSES AT NOON TODAY If Your Yo ur Child Is Not No t Entered in Bright Sayings Contest Get Busy Do It Now TODAY TODAY TODAY at noon the bright sayings contest conducted by The Herald Kerald 1 Republican will close and the contest editor will get busy and select the brightest bright sayings o 0 f Salt Lake children and award the prizes The prizes for the best of juvenile wit and anti humor consist of tick tickets tickets tickets ets to the Colonial theatre where The Red Eed Mill is being given with the Dutch Butch Kiddies as the feature There any doubt that Salt Lake children are unusually clever Native humor repartee and cute creative wit abound in the thousands of ot bright say ings lags that have flooded the contest ed editors editors editors desk Not liot only has the contest editor been put up against a bard hard game because of or the great number of or entries but because of ot the rare quality of ot hu humor humor humor mor that crops out In a great majority of or the things that children have ut uttered uttered uttered Parental pride has been appealed apP to and parental pride has responded to the appeal Contemporary humor had suffered a reversal oZ ot form torm until the tho contest opened and when the deluge or ore witty utterances utterance of or Salt Lake children ren swamped the contest editor the very man mall each day rippled with mirth for under the seal and stamp there came caine real gems from the tho innocent minds ot of c little children The office is busy hours In the day and the force torce is always In a hurry hUrr For J or that reason the contest editor found the th busy editorial rooms altogether too crowded for him tar handle n the contest and properly file the th letters oC of each succeeding mall mail In The tle fast tast grind of or getting out a daily daiy newspaper n every everyman I man Dan on the force Is working against time at his own awn tasks and has hai little leisure for anything but out his own busl I peas p Yet let when the tho contest editor i ir r ripped rIpp d open a letter and found an ex cx exceptionally 1 I I bright saying he ha did dirt not I hesitate to share the pleasure with the entire force the consequence being that everybody had a good Rood laugh augh I IWho Who will get the prizes I Well the contest editor know yet At noon when the last entry enly is received the sorting will begin and the best wit of ot the day will be exem exemplified pUrled In less than a score of success successful ful rul contributions In the meantime if it your child has I ever said anything that not only made I you laugh but which will make others r laugh especially the contest editor who holds the balance of ot power send It to The before noon today It may win the prize The final decision will not be made until after the clock strikes twelve today Here are the rules of ot the contest Write out a clever remark or speech not to exceed fifty words and send It to the Childrens Contest Editor of or orThe The Sign your name and address and the childs name and age As A J many of ot the clever sayings as we can find room for tor will willbe wille willbe be e printed prInte The contest will close at noon Thursday May 12 1 and on Friday May ilay ay 13 the names and pictures if we can get them will be published in inThe InThe inThe The The child whose speech sp ech Is adjudged to be the most clever will receive a box six seats for tor the Saturday May 14 mat matinee matInee matinee inee of The Red Mill which is play playIng playIng Ing tag at the Colonial A second prize of ot four scats seats will be given and ten other prizes or of two seats eats each making a s to total total total tal of or thirty seats for tor twelve persons The Red Mill Is at the Colonial this week and seats s ats to It have been chosen ch sen senI as prizes es because of ot the cute little I Dutch Kiddies s in it who appeal so strongly to the children |