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Show gftTUKDAY, MAY 9, 1925 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Office Alpine Publishing Company Building phone. 85 A PROGRESSIVE, INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION Entered ia the Post. Office at American Fork, Utah, as second-class matter. "- Subscription rates, $2.50 per year in dvance. Advertisement rates: Display, 30 cents a column inch. Legal noticlXaders, legal rate of 10 cent, fiertion. Want ads. Kate-2 cents per word each insertion. 1 aymeni must accompany advertisement. ZZZ ',p : EDITOR HER PAY Mother', DaV, tW sco.nl Sunday in .May, at hand, and we can-mumi can-mumi y , ...,.,ui,mt BthMnntinir to pay a tribute not let this gentie un-awuu v " to the sweetest o God's gifts, -Mother. . WW is the man who can put his soul on paper tha all may J.i: 4,ttf if xvill hrirnr tears4 of joy and pride to many a jySTf all of tis could go he. and kneeling at her side say, "Mother, I love you," .she would understand all that words fad to Wy' To describe the love of a child for its mother, indeed, we must be possessed of the speech of angels.. ... On this day your editor hopes that you will wear a red or white carnation a sS,le and mote but beautiful tribute to your Mothers And each of us might do well . to pause and consider the words Hch w4!Stld from the Cross: "When Jew. therefore saw His Mother, and the Disciple standing by, whom He loved, He saith TTis Mother. Woman behold thy son!" . . , , , -Then saith He to the Disciple, Behold thy Mother! And from that hour that Disciple took her unto his own home. IT'S UPSIDE DOWN IF, YOU LOSE YOUR HEAD It depend entirely upon how you read the book of life whether the world W upside down to you or right side up. There is enough general cussedness going on all the time bo that it makes it comparatively compar-atively easy for ne to become a confirmed pessimist, provided ot eourse one; just naturally sees blue instead of white, ' but whea you stop to think it over what really is the use of getting all stirred up over the flood, the way Cain treated his brother Abel, or the War of 1776! Sufficient unto the hands are the warts thereof. This morning after having partaken of our prunes and toast, we went out ;into our yard and when we looked ' at our friend wife s flowers ad shrubs, all of them fresh and smiling, and then as we faced the street we were greeted by boys and girls who were on their way to school, and by men and women who were on their way to work, an4 everything and everybody seemed so happy, we said to ourself, our-self, "Thja certainly is a fine world and we are glad we are living in it."' ' We reached our office, and picked up the morning paper. In black! type dear across the front page, ,e read "Bomb Wrecks Business Busi-ness Place," "One Man Loses Ilis Sight" and then a little further down the) page we read where two policeman (two guardians of peace) engaged in a fight, and one of them vas dangerously wounded; wound-ed; in fact, the entire front page was given over to the re-eoiinting of all kinds of crime, and once more we said to ourself, "This is aw ful, what is this world coming to anyway!" AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN t . Mother s Day SATURDAY, MAY fl The Bank of American Fork! -ur nBiA tha naner atirl then wa dnmned it into the waste basket for ar we might unguardedly pick it up again, and we S . iV li 1l . it. .1 ! ll.A tn ilia 4Vimironld turnea our inaugui io un u me uuu m mc nvnu, i of finJ folks we-knew, and we visualized the flower gardens and tbf dutches and the schools and all the agencies for world betterment. mVil then the third time we talked to ourself and said. "ItXupsidc down if I lose my heaJ, but it's right side up if I niaintaitrllie proper perspective. . is 5 If, About the name of mother dings a powerful power-ful indefinable fragrance something that makes all men delight to honor her who bears it. As little "children there is no substitute for the tender care and brooding love of MOTHER.. ' Her children, grown, are eager to repay her years of service and sacrifice-and when. 'Dad" is gone they insist on caring for mother. But that is not what mother wants. She craves and surely deserves a sense of financial finan-cial independence a home of her own. . Let every day be mother's day and let every household begin a ravings account right now that will make Mother's last days free from financial worries when Dad's strong arm iiS no longer about her. mR ifi m "If we save consistently we have done the thing most needed to establish our prosperity." pros-perity." Meredith (Secty. Agr.) 1 I 5 I'" . - . . M rtrrular No. 64 and can M owaineu by addressing Publications Division, . Utah Experiment Station, Logan. Utah ..o 7 - Scarcity Adit to Valu One Rood hUBbHnd la worth two wives, for the scarcer imw ur the more Franklin. I, v " - - they're valued Benjamin ,. - ------ m m tuni UOM In prwluclng a dog m canine hero and villain in recently, the director had because the anlmala having thT became dose friends while thrBi11 was belnir made. GtniuM and Talent flnliia dna what i does what It can. Lnr.i t ... 33 Years Successful Banking A STRONG BANK Jl Half Hundred Colleag Courses Cach an Cvent .y,nrf.'tilyjl slhwSlilOl Prepare now to attend the Second National Sunp'tf School. Courses covering all major branches of learning, learn-ing, with graduate or undergraduate credit. Twenty, eight celebrated educators at your service, including Thomas Nixorr Carver of Harvard and Charles A. Ell-wood Ell-wood of University of Missouri, both to teach full 1st Term: June IS to July 25 2nd Term: July 27 to Aug. 29 Register June 12 or 13 Registration Fee, $25 1st term of 6 weeks, $35 full quarter. Write for catalog. UtahAgricultural Colleqe LOGAN, UTAH Alpine Stake Preparing Tor M. I. A. Anniversary The celebration ot the 60th anni versary of the organization of the Mutual Improvement Association, to be held In Salt Leke City June 6, 7, B and 9th, promises to be one of the greatest ever held in Utah. A special feature) of the M. I. A. Jubilee celebration will be the monster mons-ter parade on June 9th, in which over 10,000 people will participate. It is expected that 300 M. I. A. workers from this stake will take) part in the parade, and the delegation from this stake will be headed by a band froni Plehaant Grove. Former Governor Charles R, Maybe will be grand ma- shall of the parade. Twelve bands have signified their intention of en tering The Alpine stake ladies chorus, a Junior girls chorus from the stake and a male chorua ot Left, under the direction ot Abe Anderson of Lehl will participate in the contests. The M. I. A. board of this stake will meet Saturday evening in the tithing office at 8 o'clock to arrange definite plans for actton and on Mon day, May 11th, all M. I. A. workers of tjte stake will meet in the tabet-naele tabet-naele and it is expected that Claud pCornwall ot the Genefral Board will be present. Advertising will ruin you if you let your com Then too, while waiting for your ship to come in, ership. pe) ition do it all. ight be receiv- c There's just "bread and there's ls)M Utah Experiment Station Issues Circular On Sugar-beet Insects The Utah Agricultural Experiment Station has Just issued a circular on insects injurious to the sugar-beet. This publication is entitled "The More Important Insects Injurious to the Sugar-beet in Utah" and is by I. M. Hawley. Station Entomologist, Copies of tills publication will be srtit without charge to all those requesting re-questing copies. The' publication is listed as Utah Experiment Station aWifw MB 1 and, oh! what a difference! Double Loaf 15c At Your Grocer's Ask For It By Name! - np"-"mai " 1 TfggiwarfCT ROYAL BAKING2CO. SALT LAKE .M , :k..tf ....... a . 21 DAYS TILL Memorial Day Thore is ycTSuJlicicnt, time to j?ct that MONUMENT erected. BEESLY MARBLE and GRANITE COMPANY Provo, Utah "For Those That Gave The Most" What Is the American Legion ENDOWMENT FUND Child Welfare Program The providing of "a home for every homWess cliikl 'of a veteran" is the basia of The ArneiK-an Legion's child welfare wel-fare program. The accuinulatinff -discovery ef these children In almshouses, in unhappy and unlit homes of distant relatives unable or unwilling to srive proper care, In the very streets and alleys sometimes, has wrung the heart of tho Legion. It Is determined that every homeless child of a veteran shall have a fair and square cham e at life, an honest, happy- Ameri- can home, a proper education. Primarily, where one parent survives, the effort Is to maintain the natural, original home. Where none survives, or, surviving, none is willing, competent or able to maintain a home, there must be a home found for the child. Preferably that home will be found by adoption Into the family of a Legionnaire, a family carefully seleett-d and tested as to its ability to bring up tha child. The characteristics of the adopted home must accord as well ns possible with what the parents, if living, could have given, or, dying, would have approved ap-proved for their baby. It seeks families" which stand the test of thorough-going, wholesome character and American-' American-' Meals, as foster homes 'for tho' homeless children of veterans. In this work the Legion seeks the assistance as-sistance of every established agency In the country devoted to child welfare. To all such agencies it proposes to give assistance. as-sistance. It will help to defend childhood child-hood ngntnst poverty, hunger, disease, vice, ignorance, crime nod death. There will alwav.s remain, after" home restoration and adoption have been provided pro-vided for many children, -a group of orplfans unsuitable for adoption bci'ause of physical or m-ntal inferiority or un-' attractiveness. Those are the children whom "nobody .wants." The, American Legion . wn-its tem. The American Legion nuvillhrc wants them. fYr this group there mnv lie required permanent care. They Mmll hove, it, - The Lesion will build no large orphan homes or asvluins A series of cottage-type cottage-type homes, called American -Legion billets, is being provided for the temporary tem-porary abiding places of children needing need-ing them. These tottage groups afford a family life ,irt each for about nitje youngsters young-sters under a house mother. No schools are established, the children attending near-by public srhnoi- with other children child-ren of the community. The fdffeTat'Otter Lake, Mich., Is now In operation. A relatively small number in mess nomes win ne needed. are certain to bo donated. Thev ment Income as applied to the billets will be used for administrative and mainten ance purposes as required. women who gave for which .America There are many thousands of orphans left father-, less when Americans made the supreme sacrifice during the World War or who have since died of wounds or disease contracted during the war. Many thousands of these children are destitute today lacking food, clothes, shelter and the character-building environment of I proper home. There are thousands of women who were left widows by me- vrm v ar-Mspicnaia American their husbands to the high eause fought. These lonely women and these hungry, homeless children are the ones who gave the most to their country who gave far more than the war'g heroic dead, far more than those who gave generously of their means and their tal-cms tal-cms a nd services that our cause might triumph. The children of those who gave all for America must and shall have their chance! America will pay its. debt of gratitude to the destitute and sorrowing women who sacrificed so much for their country. How Is This to Be Done? The American Legion Endowment Fund a nation-wide enterprise is to be provided by all Americans. Many outstanding oltivnna I, : i ...m. ,t. . n ..11 ,W1.C jKiHfu wiin me jviiientan Legion to make, this possible through opening the fund to public subscription.. -Monday, -May llr the- opportunity will -he- presented to all citizens of Utah to provide this state's ouota of th fnn.l l.w v "J nuuntl ipiiUXJ. . ie endowment, fnn.1 nan nnn mC 1",f,c imuwiiBuy is iv T'l.uiw.wu. ine moL'rain nr r-hA wolfo ie needs. or the sorvipn m'a n i turm UlitatlOn Of . VOtonmc u U :n : V. inn. struclive care is to lie carried out with the interest earned T! ti hnl liv th thi) rin , viv II U tilV III ! I K V ---- is permanent fund estimated at $225,000 per year, ig next week' . " ijiuv:ii luuiu in in i" is worthy inidprhikmfT ' m. if vnnr amy t lenm about your part in this nation-wide pro gram n, perchance, a worker does not call upon you to solicit your subscription, telephone American Legion lownient rund Headquarters in order that one may'b sent to you If you had been killed on the battlefield-your little child' yen leu orphans your wife-a widow if today they we Se5 t d" ? WUld yU Want and expect 7our coran rLi -V THE AMERICAN LEGION ENDOWMENT FUND President Calvin Coolid Honorary Chairman- National Commander James A. Drain, Chabia' LAFAYETTE HANCHETT, State Chairman. DR. J. P. NO YES, American Fork Chairman. "Temporary CarePermanent Care" 3 |