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Show THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, MOAB, UTAH a ee ee (Bell Syndicate-WNU Service.) W YORK.-Science hasn't yet the of beating a way found Grim Reaper, but modern research is making great strides in uncoverof preventatives and causes ing physical and mental old age. who While admitting that people live much beyond 100 years are rare exceptions, medical men have de- Years, Made Teddy Roosevelt, Who Had Served Seven Only Other ‘Serious' Try in 1912 ae ee ... When Wife Is Man of the Family Fight Old Age iat dent Grant Almost Made It, He Led for 36 Ballots in 18380 WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK Kathleen Norris Says: Science Seeks New Ways to As ‘Bullmooser.' eee ta ad eee aels oe teat le eee ane eee Sn Grant as a **presiden‘A contemporary cartoon by Keppler, depicting Morton, Conkling and others, hidden tial automatom" (operated by Fish, who silently smoked his cigar while the people behind the platform) him about his third term intentions. anxiously awaited a statement from EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article, last in a series of three impartial reviews of the third term issue, tells how a "dark horse" named James A. Garfield prevented Ulysses Grant from being elected a third time. Ill. THE TWO PRESIDENTIAL NLY twice BIG TRIES in history has a President been receptive to a "‘third term.'' Ulysses S. Grant was the first and Theodore Roosevelt was the second. In Roosevelt's case, it wasn't exactly a "third term," for he had not previously had two complete terms as President. About the middle of Grant's second term some of his supporters started a movement to renominate him. Immediately there was an uproar. "Caesarism!" shrieked the New York Herald, the leading anti-administration newspaper, and that cry was echoed by Horace Greeley's powerful New York Tribune. Then other papers joined in the campaign to awaken the public to the dangers of the political machine that had been built up in Grant's administration. As a result of this uproar, the Republican state convention in Pennsylvania on May 26, 1875, resolved: That we qualified declare adherence a firm, un- to the un- written law of the Republic which wisely, and under the sanction of the most venerable examples, limits the presidential service of any citizen to two terms and we the Republicans of Pennsylvania, in recognition of this law, are unalterably opposed to the election to the presidency of any for a third term. Grant had felt that it was undignified for the President to reply to the accusations of the newspapers. But when members of his own party went on record so strongly he felt that he couldn't ignore the issue. He issued a statement informing the convention that he had sought neither his first term nor his second. "IT am not, nor have I ever been, a candidate for renomination," he wrote., ‘I would not accept a renomination if tendered, unless it should come under such circumstances as to make it an imperative duty-circumstances not likely to occur."' Feared He'd be ‘Drafted.' But this didn't allay the suspicion that he might permit himself to be "‘drafted.'' So state conventions continued to adopt anti-third term resolutions and on December 15 Rep. William M. Springer of Illinois offered in congress a resolution That in the opinion of this house the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents of the United States in retiring from the presidential office after their second term has become by universal concurrence a part of our republican system of government, and that any departure from this timehonored custom would be unwise, unpatriotic, and fraught with peril to our free institutions. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 234 to 18-80 Republicans joining with 146 Democrats to pass it over the opposition of 18 Republicans. That stopped the third term talk and Grant supporters made no effort to oppose the Republican nom- ination of Rutherford B. Hayes, who won in the election. After leaving the White House Grant started his tour of the world which became a triumphal procession in every country he visited. When he returned his friends began talking third term again. Although he told them privately "I am not a candidate for any office, nor would I hold one that required any maneuvering or sacrifice to obtain," they weren't convinced that he wouldn't accept it if offered him. Even if he was sincere in disclaiming any desire to return to the White House, that wasn't the case with his wife. Julia Dent Grant wanted to be queen of Washington society again. How much she had to do with convincing Grant that he might win a third time is unknown. But it was probably considerable. At any rate, he allowed Roscoe Conkling to proceed with the buildup for his nomination by the Republicans. Sentiment in Grant's favor grew rapidly, partly because of his popularity with the people and partly because of their dissatisfaction with Hayes' administration. As the movement to renominate him gained momentum, the old cry of ‘‘Caesarism!'' was raised again and early in 1880 a number of Republicans held an anti-third term convention in St. Louis. They adopted resolutions denouncing the third term idea, the corruption of the Grant regime and Conkling's ‘‘bossism."' When the Republican national convention was held, this element joined forces with the Hayes wing of the party and the supporters of James G. Blaine to prevent Grant's nomination. But despite their efforts, he led the balloting for 36 votes, only to lose out when they sprang a "dark horse"' in the person of James A. Garfield. Bitter in Defeat. When Grant received the news of his defeat, he spoke bitterly of his managers. ‘"They never should have permitted my name to come before the convention unless they were sure of victory,'' he declared, which was ‘pretty sure proof of his desire for a third term and his willingness to ac- cept it if offered him. The case of Theodore Roosevelt was somewhat different from that of Grant. He became President on the assassination of President McKinley. After} he finished Mc Kinley's une x- pired term, he was elected on his own right in § 1904 -and this § was his only elec- } tion as President He had, however, served sevens years, almost two Theodore ‘erms. Roosevelt On November 4, 1904, after his victory over Alton B. Parker, the Democratic candi- date, Roosevelt issued this* state- ment: On the fourth of March next I shall have served 3% years and these 3% years constitute my first term. The wise custom which limits the President to two terms regards the _ substance, and not the form, and under no circumstances will I be a candidate for nor accept another nomination. A "third term'' boom was started for him in 1907 and he was obliged to repeat his refusal. Both these refusals rose up to plague him in February, 1912, when a letter signed by the Republican governors of seven states asked him to be a candidate again. "IT will accept the nomination for President if it is tendered to me, and I will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed its preference,"' he replied. Despite the cries of ‘‘Steamroller!'' and ‘‘Fraud!'' by Roosevelt adherents, the convention expressed its preference for Taft. So T. R. bolted the convention, formed the Bull Moose party and campaigned as its candidate. Although he carried six states with 88 electoral votes, as against Taft's two states and eight electoral votes, Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, carried 40 states, got 435 votes in the electoral college and won.an easy victory. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) to the glands. Finds ‘Filtrate Jutland tobacco, alcohol-or women. culture. Sir Charles has larly conspicuous affectionate I get out to the farm Saturday at noon, to, receive a warmly children of the welcome, but no comprehension on the part of Rex and the burden I carry. NORRIS KATHLEEN HE situation in the Brown family is one that could not have existed a hundred years ago. It is a problem born of our modern civilization, and one that many a wife and husband will have to solve if social and marital adjustments are to be made successfully, and unnecessary divorces avoided. Ann Brown is 36, tall, energetic, radiating health andhigh spirits, and equal to By Moves East. For four years before she married, Ann taught in an aristocratic private school. Then, before mar- riage, she entered a woman's college as a junior, and graduated with honors in eighteen months. In the three years after her marriage she had a son and twin daughters and managed them magnificently. Upon Rex's small salary Ann purchased a large country house with seven acres of orchard and garden, and had paid for the place when Rex Hope to Boost Life Span. Although it is recognized that a long life is often inherited from ancestors who possessed the same traits, some scientists actually hope the average life span can be increased to 100 years. Nor is this all they promise, for a long old age of feebleness is not conducive to happiness. Science believes, rather, that if mankind will co-operate it can avoid death by disease or other accidents until the time comes for a quick old age and sudden end. Sociologists are heartened by a modern reversal of the recent trend toward ‘‘junking'"' old people as unfit for profitable employment. It is now conceded that both youth' and age are needed for a proper balance of the community, and old people themselves are realizing that their mental outlook on the world and life is as much a part of staying young as anything else. Three years ago she was offered a position in state work at $300 a month. Her children were safe in the hands of their father and a fine old colored servant, and Ann was free to go to the capital and embark upon work that fascinated her. A radio contract now pays her an extra $50 a week. Here is a part of her letter explaining the problem she has to meet in making a sound adjustment for herself and her family. Rex's Life Happy. Cite Franklin's Work. Historians point to innumerable cases where people have done their most notable work at an advanced age. Benjamin Franklin was serving the United States as ambassador to France when he was 79, and several years later was making some of his most important scientific discoveries. Moses, vigorous Israelite leader, was past 90 when he led his peopie to the promised land. Frenchmen still talk about Ninon de Lencios, a lady who lived in the days of Louis IV. Although never beautiful, she was so witty and had such a lively mind that men were in love with her when she was past 80. An Englishwoman, Jane Lewson, attained the age of 116 before she died in 1816. It is because science believes premature death is caused so largely by accidents of youth that medi- cal men lay great stress on pro- tecting children from diseases that affect the heart and other vital organs. No offer of help is held out to those who seek repair of such bodily damages, yet Dr. Morgan found that rats which had gray hair and other signs of premature old age showed improvement when the ‘‘filtrate factor'' was introduced in their diet. Re : A SPREAD, Pattern Scandinavian and : not been particuin Britain's high it what true Col; style, of sprays of varied f.# ers, can be yours with ease-thal by all but, navy, ‘‘has 6656 in bouquets takes.' are all in the simp, Place them in a wry Sixty years old, in the navy for 46 stitches. Pattern 6656 qi d of if you prefer. years, he has been in comman tains a transfer pattern of 18» He fought home fleet since 1938. lost his job seven years ago. She immediately opened a girls' concentration school, taking four boarders and enrolling a class of eleven. This paid well, for many of the pupils were difficult or arrested cases, and Ann's teaching experience had been largely with children of this type. certainly he accounts, determined has of the command that overeating is not conducive to longevity. It has long been a proverb that gluttons ‘‘dig their graves with their teeth,'' and laboratory rats allowed to eat all they wanted actually did experience shorter lives than those whose diets were controlled. Science British mingling Life filtrate factor are believed to be contained in yeast, whole rice and rice hulls, eggs, milk and many vegetables. He a charmswediab ng daughter Marie Louise Berndtson, of Stockholm. Berndtson of Axel a salon of has been Their home every demand life has made upon her. Her husband, Rex, is a milder type, and has never been particularly fond of business of any sort, or capable of holding anything but a routine office job. A CENTURY PLUS -Tony Bodance of New York celebrated his 105th birthday by doin' the shag with his nurse. His recipe for longevity; No meat, has Veteran, Heads Home Fleet wife, who was Factor.' on frown men medical Though straight vitamin dosages, Dr. Agnes of the University of Fay Morgan California has tried to isolate a new the from absence whose vitamin body is at least known to bring on many symptoms of premature age. In working with rats Dr. Morgan has concentrated on diet, perfecting absence whose a "filtrate factor'? Among orresults in rapid aging. of this constituents the dinary foods, sonally. Admiral, British , be fleet, may ba ttles naval per rather British home current hisi of the taking eae Charles Sir commander-in-chie! M. Forbes, is simply a series of changes in the but no single place body, human has yet been discovered where its efGlandular defelt. first are fects ficiencies are popularly thought to and this in le, be largely responsib turn may often be traced to dietary skin becomes When deficiencies. drier, wounds take longer to heal, and bones get brittle it is generally that the trouble can be conceded traced Bedsp re Feat YORK.-Adm. EW and proper diet the rest of our lives can do much to keep men and women living to a ripe old age. } On Your F. PARTONce.) By LEMUEL ures -WNU Servi (Consolidated cided that proper care during youth Seeking causes for the death phenomenon, they believe that old age Embroider , Bougy **Rex lives happily upon our little farm,'' writes Ann. ‘‘He adores the children, and he and Lenny, the housekeeper, and certain friendly neighbors live a community life that more than satisfies him. I send him $200 a month, and he saves on it, raising garden vegetables on the farm and selling apple and walnut crops. We have two cows, but Rex doesn't get up to milk them; he trades milk for a farmer's services. Rex sleeps, and eats, and laughs, and loafs about, and says he is the happiest man in the world. ‘"‘Meanwhile I keep office hours, interview scores of persons every day, carry a heavy responsibility in the decisions I have to make and the treatment I have to recommend, hold innumerable distressing meetings with parents, prepare my 15minute radio address every week, handle hundreds of letters, and live alone in a small apartment. I get out to the farm Saturday at noon, to receive a warmly affectionate welcome, but no more comprehension, on the part of Rex or the children, of the burden that I carry than if they were so many birds. Offer Rejected. ‘Some months ago Rex had a really good offer to go into the realestate business with a man who would put up all the capital, and expect Rex to contribute only his personality, which is very pleasing. My husband declined the offer, explaining to me that he was too happy as things are. His salary, if he succeeded at all, would have made it possible to save for the children's schooling; I would like to put all mae into fine boarding schools some ay. "I ask you if you consider this a fair adjustment of a family's financial problem. Is it fair to have one partner working hard all day long, occasionally skipping even the weekend holidays, and to have the other living joying and on the fat of the land, enhis children's companionship entirely free from care? And if you agree with me that it is not fair, then what do you suggest as an argument or change that will bring matters back to normal?"' The Answer to Ann. Well, to begin with, Ann, you describe here exactly the normal married life, were the position of the sexes reversed. Thousands-millions of women, for hundreds of years, have had the home, the housekeeper, the fruit and flowers, the children's companionship, the regular income, the freedom for neighborly intercourse that Rex is so much enjoying. Were you the one at home and he the one at work, nobody could find anything to criticize in the situation. If that were very naturally plaining that the case you might find yourself com- while you were rele- gated to dull household and farm duties, the company of children and an old colored woman, Rex was living an exciting and important life among the lights and gaieties of the big city. You are, obviously, the business member of the family. Everything you touch succeeds, and your income already is one that many a man would be proud to earn. You've followed your bent, taking a few years out for wifehood and motherhood, it is true, but immediately returning to the wider field, to the great service that you are privileged to give to the unfortunate and defective children of the world that you meet in the course of duty in the position of trust that you evidently hold. Consider Rex. Why grudge Rex his content? So few men are content! If he likes to putter about with apples and walnuts, to take the muddy old car and go bring the children home from school, to hang on a fence gossiping with a neighbor or to go off for a few days' fishing, why shouldn't he? If those quiet domestic occupations had satisfied you, he would have been perfectly willing to have you enjoy them, and would have plodded away patiently at the office work he hates, to support you in them. It is a poor nature that, taking what it wants itself, yet looks aside jealously at the simpler pleasures of other folk and resents them. Wives who fret because their husbands enjoy downtown lunches, occasional bridge games at the club on the way home, lodge meetings, golf, hunting, are pretty narrow wives. To make someone else unhappy never contributes to your own happiness. Should Rejoice. Rejoice, rather, that matters have fallen out so fortunately. The children have their father, and a comfortable country home. Rex is useful and needed, for you could hardly turn the responsibility of the farm over to Lenny. He decides about crops and pruning, about the care of the cows, the car, the roof shingles, the children's colds and scratches and homework; on bitter nights, on burning noondays you know he is there to keep an eye on ‘ household. Somebody has to oO it. Meanwhile you pursue the profession that is not only so valuabl e to humanity, but that must be peculiarly gratifying to you. You have your office, your assistants; your opinions are respected. The radio work alone sets you apart as a conspicuously successful woman, and there are other doors ahead of you-other triumphs and achievements which you must aim to achieve, the in the Battle of Jutland, winning the From 1925 to 1928, he was D. S. C. He ordnance. of naval director destroyer flotilla the commanded 1931 and 1930 in fleet Mediterranean of and was sea lord and "controller He was the navy from 1932 to 1934. Mediterthe of d second in comman fleet from ranean 1934 tifs ranging from 6 by 6 incheg 134 by 2 inches; illustrations stitches; color schemes; mate als needed. Sewing RUNS, no no hits, Enclose tern ton, atte red apes 24 He emerged against the backdrop of the Boston Beacon street aristocracy, and was known as the ‘beau of the beaux arts,'' when he was studying architecture in Paris. After short turns in architecture and banking, he entered the diplomatic service as a career man, serving in various posts at Tokyo, the Philippines and London until his appointment as minister to Bulgaria in 1937. He became minister to Denmark last August. cautious, Garcia'? diplomat never get in to the out ‘‘message who on diplomat's a to has learned limb-No. rubric. This 1 in spite of an occasional frolicsome mood, as when he named his infant daughter Helen Maria, in honor of General Dawes, his former chief at London. -_@-+ WAS grim, Hendryk big, bad just a year ago that lean, Calvinistic old Premier Colijn warned Holland of trouble ahead in which innocent byStatesman Colijn standers cerWarned Holland tainly would To Be Prepared - hurt un- ess they prepared to defend themselves. His urging had much to do with his country's diligent war preparations of the last twelve-month and today, Mr. Colijn, no longer premier, but an influential elder statesman, says Holland is ready to make things extremely unpleasant for trespassers. In the World war, the astute Queen Wilhelmina managed to save her country by a miracle of adroit maneuvering. She might be able to do it again, but just in case, they have re-rigged their dykes for webfooted warfare, if necessary, greatly enlarged their fighting forces and co-ordinated their defenses for the best possible showing a bantamweight country could possibly make against the big sluggers. Mr. Colijn, 70 years old next July, is an amiable, cultured gentleman, not given to fighting talk, but not inexperienced in real fighting. His political and financial fortunes were advanced by his showing in some catch-as-catch-can milling against the savage Sassaks on the Island of Lombok, east of Java, when he was a young lieutenant New You |} 15 cents in coins for Pa, |J | in the ccccccccccce CCHOO Oo OOOH OOOOH OH 1 OOOH OOOOH OOS EEO OOO OES Se ee54,, OCs | 5544, How George Came to Get His Face Slapped years in the state department, is America's fully adequate minister to Denmark at a critical hour. He assumes charge of French and British interests. a SO Address is errors NO... Name ymn is tops. Ray Ather- U. S. Diplomat's Batting Average Rated at 1,000% is Circle Needlecraft Dept, to 1936. a good score for a diplomat. The runs and the hits aren't expectand goose-egg in ed in diplomacy the error col- He | order to; 82 Eighth Ave. A British friend who arrived here recently tells me Sir Charles is rethe best naval garded as perhaps strategist and tactician of England, type ‘‘bulldog'' esteemed the of who, unless spurred by higher command, would attempt no too-hazardd ous exploits, but may be depende to go all the way through. -_@- O Send - ; The dumb blonde on a comp ramble had been paying a gry: deal more attention to her "boy companion than to the fre spring scenery. Entwining arm with his, she _ gushal' ‘George, I think you're wontah. ful!'' T. "Thank you, Mary," answer George slowly. ‘And I thi you're ditto." ! The dumb blonde pondered oy this. Before long they came yy old Jollop, the farmer, who tending his pigs. She took} aside and said: ‘*Tell me, Mr, j# lop, what does ditto mean?" J Jollop thought for a momeiii then said, ‘‘You see that pig ova} % there by the fence?" "Yes."? 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One of the mal tive "‘woman's" tonics. Try Daily Growth I don't think much of 42 who is not wiser today than®) was yesterday.-Lincoln. Nether- lands army. His service in the Far East brought him in touch with Sir Henry Deterding and he moved along with Sir Henry to wealth and eminence in the world expansion of the Royal Dutch Shell Oil company. _He is a financier with a strongly liberal political orientation. In his public activities, he has been a vig- orous foe of both the Nazis and Communists. In November, 1938, he denounced the Nazi anti-Semitic pogroms as "‘the most tragic episode of modern times.'' He is calmly assured that civilization has Staying power, air bombs or no air bombs. He has been leader of Holland's Calvinist party. He was a farm boy who knocked off milking one night and told his father he was off to military school. 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