Show Prize Win Alin ing ling Paper In M Ba Baines nes Contest Lowell Barlow Darlow f Bountiful won the prize in theartha the artha i lartha artha E Barnes Bunes contest which was icid at the Central High school in K yesterday This is the tenth event The prize cons its ts is of a gold D mounted with dia dint dian Mr lr Barlow wo woi two prizes given iven last winter by the American Electric Cooperative Legu on house lighting one being the coun coup y prize of 15 th the theother theother other a prize of for the thc InterMountain InterMountain Inter- Inter InterMountain Mountain district comprising Utah I Idaho and s 7 J For s some some me he ho he failed to enter the Inter Nations contest which might have prey Miss Julia Groo of Portland re from getting the grand prize amely a complete electrically d home homo valued at The others who took part in the Barnes Darnes contest their an ain subjects ar are Annie Rigby s Brigham Young Ruth Bro Broyn n n Opportunity Arthur Gailey Galley constitution Constitution of the United States J Jannetto Knowlton Our Own Lincoln Orson Cannon Value of Service Ser Mary Clark I Appreciation of literature literature Bessie Coles Story of Our r Flag Leona Draper Value of rime SAMUEL O i f ll t twenty eighteen fifty Wilyam Will am the Emperor I was born orn in a Q gor palace All Germany waited t herald his birth and more than a s 3 re of doctors and servants stood rea read to serve him On the same day in a ittle dingy frame house just across he English Chan Chan- Channel Channel nel in the slums f London London Londo a poor woman Mrs Gom rs re by name gave ga the world a bab baby which she name named i S Samuel His bir was unheralded his future was d rk k kand and his handicaps handi- handi caps were great The Kaisers Kaiser's empire em- em empire pire Germany fel but Gompers om- om pire ir the Labor America Federation of La- La bor st still ll stands lie He went to Be ac ol J 1 until ten years of age but dire diro p erty forced him to work thirteen a anday fourteen hours n a aI aday day at very sin am I 1 wages At thir- thir thirteen ten teen years o of ag age he came to Amer- Amer lea Ica i a and aim and worKed 1 l ird rd for a living as asa a cigar marker lIe He was convinced early in life that f he Jie was to accomplish accomplish accomplish anything in Ild his this world v he m st first become edu edu ted fed Gompers fol- fol followed followed fol followed lowed UP tip his bis co coi by working hard every day a d studying diligent diligent- diligently ly every night t was not many years rears before the little boy became a welled well ed young man and later on in in J I 1 fe fc was was wasi looked as one of the be t educated c men in America bet Samuel had worked hard under antagonist labor conditions i since he was o u m nr re ro lad Jad and natural natural- naturally naturally naturally ly when he bec bee me educated his first thoughts r re I umed to too the labor situation In i eighty one 1881 he organ ed cd th the American federation on of Lr Ll Labor or for the lone pur- pur purpose pur pur- purpose purpose pose of betterin bettering labor Jabor conditions inthe in inthe the United Stat States State For five years he served as yit rt it of or the Federation without pay ay amU one nc year his total expense account was only thirteen dollars 13 pe lIe ie was elected re-elected re president every year except one since that labor Jabor benefiting institution was established During During the intervening years he be life in indefatigable indefatigable indefatigable able eager sincere and constant effort ef- ef effort ef effort fort to give the working men higher wages shorter better health conditions and protection protection against in- in injurious in injurious jurious accidents accident lIe He fought for th the in-I in abolition of ch child child labor Jabor for the elimination of long wo working king hours for wo- wo women women wo women men for a decent nt nt living wage for girls in industry and for a free edu- edu educational educational edu educational system that all aU poor people may become better citizens lie He spent his whole life ire you might say i or everything which make for better children better and better men Omen Mr Gompers was a fervent and de de- de- de devout devout vout Christian I He lie e believed in the th e Great Creator wh watches over all of us and much of his time anden and en- en en energy orgy ergy was devoted In n joint effort with h the churches of a al aU denominations t to tomake tomake o make the world better and bri brighter lIe He and his felI fellow fellow v workers have hav e shown themselves rilling willing to go t to o prison if need be n defiance of tha t which they considered usurpation of o f judicial power and dhe he exploitation of o othe f the common men by cy capitalists Ills His energy was extraordinary He tra tra- tra many thousands of or miles every year ear and spoke poke to t his followers al al- al 1 most daily It wag Wal wag this und undying ing en- en en energy orgy ergy that elevated ele him him a boy born in inthe inthe the slums of a fo foreign foreign ign country to council with the rufers rulers of nations who were deciding the inte fate ate of empires He shook hands w with th kings in their palaces and was the the personal friend or of seven American American Presidents Presidents-Nc- Presidents Mc-Kinley Mc Kinley Cleveland Roosevelt Wilson Harding and rind Coolidge These presidents often oCten c called called him into con con- consultation con consultation su tation on vitals vita ta problems and in I many cases relied wholly upon his I decision Samuel Samuels Gompers gave his I best efforts and md this iris enormous influence influence ence of his unlimited unlimited power toward upholding upholding the thc ide idea of American Demo Democracy Democracy Democracy cracy in the World Word War His last words were an i invocation invocation vocation of or Gods God's blessings on A American American institutions institution that they might grow better day by ay y- y yi I i G Grand nil 8 Man Manag a wu he ag was he-was he commonly millions of Wage earners was s se enty five years old and still active when then the fa fatal al illness came suddenly upon him while un en a visit to Mexico He lie was not there thereon thereon thereon on a pleasure t t ip no nor was he there merely to be e a honored guest at atthe atthe atthe the of Calles Canes but rather beca beel se he be had been ask ask- asked ask I asked Government Gove to in- in innovate innovate in innovate ed b by the l n novate a that would improve the labor condi condit ns existing in that country There 3 nothing that Mr Gompers would rot lot loJ d do no effort would not exert n order to give the wage w earner a l e rn n living and the same name equal rig Tig s as were enjoyed i by more ci lIe He bad had b been En warned b personal friends of hi hit failing heaU healt but still he refused to quite It hu he hui him deeply to find that he was in in tle care of physicians and that he wa not nut strong enough to go on The e a old man roan took tie comber ill on Monday the seventh and at last on I the thc ninth knowing that th end omi would come he expressed his dc de ro ire that if he must die he wanted t to die on American soil He lie had be n active all aU his life and o often ten express d his wish to die on the job This is isi what happen happened happened ed He lie died o 0 on December the thir thir- thirteenth thir- thir thirteenth thirteenth in Te- Te Texas Texas Te Texas nineteen four wenty-four after spend ig g a whole lifetime working for soc 1 I betterment and the righting of wrongs As this wonder il i I life was nearing its completion h said Nurse this is the end GO Moss bless our American Institutions tha that I they might grow better day by ly y These devine inspiring words sapped the remain remain- remaining remaining ing vitality of his llis 1 is great kind heart and Samuel Gompers breathe his last As the funeral train made its it's sad journey eastward eastward thousands of people gathered at different cities where the train was scheduled scheduled to stop to pay their last respects respects ts to the man who had done more tor for the wage earners than anyone elso in American History Even after dark large crowds were found at every station bent on enter enter- entering entering entering ing the train mid and and obtaining a Do last look at nt the famous leader Jeader of men At Ata Ata r a number of cities cities along the route some had to be turned turned away because the train could not not stop longer Bythe By Bythe the time the tram train reached New York over one hundred hundred l thousand persons persons froh from l a alt all walks of 01 life lifo had 1 l yo th ie-th 1 th h car to pay tri tri tri- Continued on Pago 6 b PRIZE P PAPER IN M I ARNES DARNES CONTEST Continued from Page Pace 1 bute bule to the man hey lo loved d As A the train was wa about ro enter one one city an anold a anold n old crippled man m n a crutch dotTed doffed his hat and bowed is head as the car passed I If I labor ed that Samuel was their exclusively they the y w wc ie e mistaken If I f the white man or orthe orthe orthe the black man bel be believed eved ved that labors labor's Aa leader was wa thE rs r's alone by right of the brotherhood f f work they too were wrong for tor th red man also al came to claim him Chief Un of the Osage 0 age India Indie Indi is s boarded the train at Fort Wort i Texas dressed in complete tribal The ama mas- massive ma Live sive ive lid of the cope coffin Va was rais- rais raised rain rais- raised rained ed The old Indian chief gazed upon the fallen labor cl cf c and the tears te began bean to roll own his wrinkled sunburned face T ere stood a child of the first Americ Ameri ns ins looking down at the man who nCe ice the offspring of an English slun stun had risen to be e eone one of the first Americans rho stricken stricken grief chief I ai cd his hi brawn brawny right hand and andall all present re ent stood at attention with how bowe heads while tho the Indian delivered in a deep dee solemn tone the Indian p yer for the tho re- re repose repose re repose pose of the dead Gompers leda led a en eer Peer that has no parallel in history At the end oi of five seventy five years o 0 ol constant u upward ward toil he gave pave his Ins lif for the principle principle principe leof le e of good will and Understanding be- be be tv be tween men and me I The death of this great eat patriot rd a id d humanitarian is a rea real loss to the Nation as well weB as to the entire world |