Show I I I I I i I I j S I CHILDREN OF SALT LAKE FAMILIAR WITH N Numerous Answers to Prodigal Prodigal gal Son Essay Contest Are Ably Done Hundreds of answers to the question ques question question ques- ques tion Was it right to forgive the Prodigal Son are pouring into the theoffice theoffice office of The Telegram-Herald- Telegram Republican and it is clearly going to tobe tobe tobe be a most difficult task to decide which are the five best The school schoolchildren schoolchildren schoolchildren children of Salt Lake evidently possess possess possess pos pos- sess not only a thorough knowledge of the parable of the Prodigal Son but they have reasoning qualities far beyond beyond beyond be- be be be- yond th their lr years The judges declare that after reading one youngsters youngster's letter let let- ter tei they were almost almot convinced that the thc indulgent father erred when ho forgave his wayward son but their convictions were completely upset by the very next letter they read which had bad for its premises the injunction to err crr is human to forgive divine and a most powerful argument In support support sup sup- port of oC the action of or the tl father is advanced To those are competing in this tills interesting ting and instructive contest the approaching engagement of or Tile The Wanderer at the Salt Lake theatre will mean a lot for it will give them the chance to see how the tho brilliant dramatist Maurice V. V Samuels has elaborated upon the tile story of the tile Prodigal Son and how that wizard of the theatre David Belasco has brought Jerusalem in the days of King Solomon the Wise with all its splendor and its strange people and stranger customs into actual twentieth twentieth eth century reality CHARACTERS CHARACTERS ARE REAL It It is said that the Prodigal Son his loving mother indulgent father and hard hearted brother are not mere puppets of the stage in The Wanderer Wander Wander- er but so great is Ia the artistry of the actors portraying these roles roles' and so wonderful the necromancy y of of Be Belasco Belasco lasco who directed the rehearsals that they become living breathing personalities The conditions of the contest are simple To compete one must merely be a scholar in any school in the city An answer of not more than words should be submitted This should be written upon one side of or the paper only and addressed to the tue Prodigal Son contest editor at The Tile Telegram Telegram- Herald Then it should be bej either brought or mailed to the office of or this paper papel FIRST PRIZE 25 There are five prizes which will willbe be awarded amounting in all to 50 I in war I savings stamps The Tile first firstI prize will be 25 25 the second prize I will wilt be 10 and the fourth and andS andI S I fifth prizes will wilt bo be 5 each It should be signed with a a. fictitious I n name and with witty witty-it it there sho should ld bo be a envelope containing containing- a slip sUp of paper bearing your correct name and aud address I |