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Show THE UTE SENTINEL PAGE FOUR Breaking With the Past By LEONARD A. BARRETT Historians tell ns that clvlllzat1on will go forward just so far ns it has gone backward. The pen· dulnm of a clock swings ln both directions an e q u a 1 distance from the center. Society can make no progress without a past out of which t ha t progress emerges. The past, remote and inacces ·ible a s it is, is very definitely related to and responsible for the present. "Oat of the yesterdays many and great" come both the mind and material whtch makes our future. So far as society is concerned, the most important -contribution the Jlast makes to the present is e}rperlence. All else may be forgotten, but that remains. It Is experience that urges us to avoid past mistakes and profit by the lessons we have learned. If this were not so progre&s would be impos ·Ible. 'Ye become stagnant when we live more 1n the past than In the present. Living in the past means that we repeat the same mistakes. think in the same old grooves and harbor the same selfish mental attitudes toward life's value. A fresh start, or the power to beWrecka Start Island Boom Wreckfn... of two German steamers off a remote island of the Leoendive group tn the Indian ocean brought undreamed-of prosperity to the Islanders. According to a report from Simba, wages skyrocketed from 10 cents a day to 50 cents, the thatched roof of every house bas been replaced by an iron one, and oJd rusb llghts have been supplanted by hurricane lamps. A German cargo steamer ran anround on a promontory and its cargo was jettisoned. 'l':te 3,000 Islanders Rulyaged tbe floating freight, and many got work at unheard-of wages. The Germans then bought water at two cents a gallon and rice at $10 a ibag. A second German vessel, coming to the rescue of the first. also ran a._g-round. bad to jettison Its cargo and hire more help. After the ships left the natives sold the "treasure'' and are rich. gin over ag.afn, whether we start with the new day, week or year. requires a very definite breaking \ ith the past. 'l'he song of Pippa tn Browning's poem, expresses the true philosophy of progress. "Wherefore repine with thee to lead me 0 day of mine." Midvale, Utah, Friday, January 18, 1935 Infant Remembers All Donors of Toy Detroit.-SedelJ Gould ls nlne teen months old, and a memory prodigy. If ou visit her home ln subnr· ban Highland Park, you'll only need tcll her your name one~ She won't confuse you with any of the other guests, either. Her collection of dolls and toys is so large it's breath·ttlk· tng; yet she can tell you who gave her every one of them. A-B-C's are as easy for her to remember ns A-B-0. You'd think her parents, 1\Ir. and Mrs. Mnx Gould, would be proud. nut they just say: "We began noticing her mar· velous memory more than a month ago, hut we didn't realize that Rhe was especially accomplished until our friends told us how unusual she was." Breaking with the past demands the elimination of all remorse and the removal from our vocabulary of thnt obnoxious little word, ''if." The moment we carry into the future all that is suggested by the r•hrase, ..it might have been," we hnpalr vision, diminish vitality and cloud judgment. The decl ion to· begin again demands a tremendous amount of will-power. Theodore Roosevelt alwass took keen deltght Noaefly Attacks Deer in speaking about ••his second wind!' 'nle nosefty larvae which attack Our second wind, or the opportunity deer and which grow to be as large of a fresh start, ls within the reach as an Inch and one-half by the time of every person who casts off they are expelled through the nosweights talwn over from the past trils ot the deer in the summertime, and permits courage, hope and permay predispose the deer to various severance to lead lllm on. infections. {C). Western Newepa.per Unlon. ''Good Old Times'' Bes·t Viewed in lmaginatio PlentJ· of people still not very old can rcmembel' a parlor game which they played as children with their parents and grandparents at Christmas parties, called ''Stagecoach,'' the climax of which always wns. '"£he ~tagecoach upset !" One pleasure ln these pictures is largely the pleasure of people In out of the wet looking on at an entertaining shipwreck. True, our airplanes may crash, our st1ips sink, our motors collide, even our trains occasionally run off the trestle, but still we lllte to pretend that an this is a vast lm· provement over the way great-grandfather had to cover the miles. Is it? In speed no doubt it is; in safety it isn't; in picturesqueness there seems to be no question about it: we have lost. But pack up into one of those stages and send us jogging at a trot or even at a canter across an Eng1iEh countryside on iron· frozen roads and we would kick lilte steers, and even arrived at a village we would have found the inn, literally spealdng, ''not so hot." The steam radiator, which has all but worsted the interior decorator and destiny Itself In the attempt to do· mesticate it; the rose-parchmentshaded electric light (you notice nothing ls said ab9ut telephone and radio), and, ah, the hot and cold shower bath-where were these, pray, in yottr picturesque, romantic Eighteenth century? The squire rode to his hounds, read his classics, ate his beef, drank his port, and nursed hls gout in a spacious rural leisure; but dentistry, aseiJsis. anesthesia, hygiene nnd the dally bnth were to him "unlmown." 'Ve cannot have It both ways. In the ol<l school nt \Vlnchester, England, founded by William of \Vykham 561 years ago, a party of guests from Boston were admiring the schnlastic standards of the boys and the splendid medieval Gothic of Its buildings when they came upon "the baths''tln tubs! "Imagine," said o Anrvnrrt professor, "'American boys putting up with these for five minutes. But," he added ruefully, "the only place we have seen so far in which nn American school can improve upon 'Vinchester is the plumhing !''-Uncle Dudley;• in the Boston Globe. Plan to Employ Robots in Arctic Exploration True Detective S ory By Vance Wynn The Man Who Hit the Bull's Eye flourished long M OONSHINING before the prohibition amend· ment was made to the Constitution of the United States. Twenty years ago it was carried on ln the mountains of West Vir· ginia on a scale that made the government authorities gasp for breath. 'l'he general Impression of the moonshiner is that of a poor white man who 1s wllllng to take big chances 1u order to make a little 11· legal money. This is true of some sections, but at the time mentioned there were bold and unscrupulous distillers who carried It on as a business in a big way, and who made fortunes by the operatton. Wayne Gooch was one of these men. Ue was called "the King of the 1\loonshlners," and there is no rea· soi. to doubt that he was entitled to the distinction. The scandals grew to sucb proportions that the commissioner or internal revenue at \Vashlngton determined it would have to be stopped at all hazards. The man he assigned to the job was a fearless agent named Tom Kennedy. He had several &dvantages. One was that he knew the mountains of West Virginia. Another was that be was a crack shot. 'l'hese things were Important, because the moonshiners placed small value on human life. Most of them bcnsted that thPY would not be tnken all~e. and by tne same token they would kil1 anyone who attempted to interfere with their business. 1\.ennedy determined to confront the lion tn his den. He made np his mind to go to t:he Gooch stamping grounds in the gu1se ot a government forester. Merely to be kn wn as a pers:m who was connected with the government in any capncity was taking a big chance, but Kennedy was n man who hnd heen taking chances au his life, an~ one additional chance meant little to him. He hnd two capable assistants with hJm, and he went direct to the cabin where the king of the moonshiners made his headquarters. To send up sounding balloons tn the r~~ar North and thus explore the atmosphere Is all but a hopeless pro· "ceding. In the Jcy wastes the chance is almost rJl of recovering n balloon and Its precious freight of featherweight lr.struments for Kit Is Busy Again recording :temperature, pressure, moisture and the like at different altitudes. Therefore, the Soviet physicist, Professor Samolovitch. some years ago invt'Dted apparatus which would mal{\! it possible for a sounding balloon to send ba(·k to the station from which It was launched wireless messages that tell just what conditions it is encounter Unique Gridiron Squad Ing. The system waf< first used durFootball in Denmark made history log the polar voyage of tbe Graf wlten a German team composed en· Zeppelin. tir~ly of brothers met a Dantsh If the professor has his way, the eleven near Copenhagen. The broth· s.•unc principle will be applied in ex ers are named 1\:luntze and they plorlng the more inaccessible regions hailed from Brauchhausen. They of the Arctic. Instead of men trudg· wall{ed onto the field led by their lng through snowdl'ifts, risl~ing thPiJ father who, himself an enthush1st!e lives among hummocks and killing foothalle1•, Initiated his sons Into the dogs for food, we \•iuuld ha \ e crew game as soon as each could toddle. less vef;:sels treading the Icy wastes It was the first time the team had and reporting by radio the state of left their own country. though they the weather. had traveled much In Germany: and Consjderlng the nature of the polat hoth father and mo:het 1\tuntze ac- seas-the floes that block passage, comrmnied the boys. .Many at the the piling up of huge masses of tee game found the critical anxiety and under the action of tbe wind-the Kit Klein of Buffalo, ... Y., who swelling pride of father Munt7.e and proposal seems wild. Nothing but as the women's speed ekating the wistful absorption of mother the bare idea bas reached the editor champion in .1933, is active in this Muntze at least as pleasant and dl· of this department from ahronrl 'inter's contests. .At Newburgh, N. verting to watch as the game Itself. Samolovitch Is o experienced an Y., she won the 2"20 ynrd dash In They were genuinely sorry when the Arctic aplurer that he must be very the Middle Atlantic meet, her time gallant eleven. ln spite of excellent sure of {l\'ercomlng thf:> obv-ious dif being 241S seconds. team work, was beaten 7 to 2. ficultles.-New Yorlt Times. ~t+ttftttf.ftftfttttfttff+t••··················••++++•+•••++t••••••••ottttfftt•t••••••O. w s Next Week Co~ytiaht Public ledsu He introduced blmself by his rea) name, and be wanted to know what the authorities could do to belp the cultivation Jf trees ln that part of the country. Gooch, who was a big, bloft' fellow, received him cordiaHy enough, even though he kept nis weather eye on this curious stranger. He said the soil in thnt part of West Virginia was not particularly adapted to forestry, but he cheerfully escorted Kennedy about thecountry. It was just what the revenueagent wanted. He kept his eye.s and bls ears open. and at the end of 24 hour was f-orced to confess that ther was not even the slg1 of a still 1 operation. Uurlng that time the king entertained the agent in a royal fa blon. One day they had a shooting: match, with a big target set up nea the caoln. Kennedy participated, and to the great delight and admiration of the king the visitor- ' hit the bull's eye nJne times out of" ten. Gooch said that was the best record ever made In that locality. He parted with bis guest wltb apparent reluctance. Kennedy had played his cards SO> well that J"le was not even suspect· ed by the king of tbe moonshlners.. 'l'hey parted one night wltb expressions of mutual esteem. Kennedy had no misconception ot hls man. He knew that if bls true charac· ter had become known he would have been shot like a dog. This thought keyed him up to tb& game he was about to play. He left the cabin and the Yicln· lty, but he had proof that distllllng wa. going on on a great scale. He discovered that the stutr was sent to the depot in a truck t nbout midnight each night. t;o he Jay In wait with bls twt> men and when the team arrived at a certain part of the road he appeared in the highway with a loaded and primed revolver. The driver and his assistant, taJ.{en unawares, surrende1·ed. in the meantime, Kennedy sent ror re-enforcement~ and before another day had gone by the king of the moonshiners nnd his men bad been taken into custody. WNU Se.rvJc-e by KETI ..~~~~NNHWHM~~~.-. . . . . e |