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Show 'Between" You and Me "Common sent is tht most uncommon kind of sense." mora In a minute about humanity than humanity knows about itself In a thousand years. To prove this watcb with what unerring Judgment babies choose eiielr friends. Honor that one whom children love; be on your guard against any person whom the children fear, and you will be right more often than If yon depend upon Bradstreet or a church member-- . ship roll. We hear much complaint these days about the younger generation's lack of respect for parental authority. But what about the respect which parents owe their children? For several years now, I have felt that the admonition, "Honor thy father and tby mother" as It Is usually given, without the parallel admonitions to parents takes too much for granted.. It assumes, for instance, that all fathers and mothers are worthy of being honored. Well, yon and I know that the most godless, bestial, vicious, criminal human creatures in existence do bring children Into thii world. How can such unfortunate children honor such parents, and why should they? While we are on this subject, there Is another Scripture which somehow seems to have escaped parental no tice: "The children ought not to lay up for the parents but the parents for the children." Perhaps I should add that this was written by a childless old bachelor. But there are some things about child training of which we may be fairly certain. For instance, every child Is different. Try as they may, with textbooks, conventions, and laws, our educators can never succeed In making them all alike. You see, the boys and girls simply can't help it Their parents are all different, too. Somewhere today the Napoleon of tomorrow Is mobilizing his army of tin soldiers, or dragging his cannon across the nursery floor. And the time to capture these great war makers is very soon after they are born. Somewhere tonight the Lincoln of the morning lisps his understanding of divinity. And the time to secure the best legislation is when our lawmakers are trying to "sheo how ze w'eels g' wound." Blessed is that man or woman who knows what to say to a child. It is better to be big "enough to talk to children than little enough to preach to grown-ups- . Advice is depressing. Demonstration is catching. But one can never teach a child by showing It what not to do. The doctors all agree that love is It is a wonderful good medicine. tonic and may be taken In many different ways. A boy usually likes his best with a little ginger In It. If he does not, be very careful of the case. Most Important of all, I think, is Is the anchor of character. What one knows about one's self counts for much more than personal mention In the columns of the home-tow- n paper. So long as holds one may ride out the wildest storm, but once let that anchor drag and shipwreck Is 'certain. As I have said before, this equality stuff is dangerous. When you say to your children, "You are no better than anyone else," look out I The growing youngsters will need a- lot of the salt of common sense to save themselves from such rot Help your boys and girls to think straight Teach them to accept as perfectly natural the fact that they are better than some of the boys and girls they know about, Just as you, their parents, are better than the fa thers and mothers of those less fortunate boys and girls. And then why then, because they are better than some other children, and because Dad and Mom are better than some other fathers and mothers, "there are some things that we simply do not do. We do not do those things because we are not that kind of people. Of course we could do those things if we wanted to. But we don't want to because if we did we would be, in .fact, no better than anyone else." Oh, yes indeed, then you must bear down hard on the personal responsi bility which goes with being better than some othr people. Exactly I This system will work only when father and mother are, in fact better than some other fathers and mothers. It will not work at all when fat. er and mother merely as sume that they are better thnn other If you are not reasonably people. certain of this factor In your problem you must proceed with great caution. However, If your team work was somewhere near 100 per cent before your first was born, you may be reasonably certain that you are a whole lot better than most parents. You may be sure, too, that given this starting chance, the other members of the growing family will do their share, and that father and moth er and sons and daughters will more and more pull together as the years go by. With this sort of teamwork the game Is as good as won. Without It-- well games have been won by those who are forced to play a lone hand, but the odds against such a victory - Br HAROLD BELL WRIGHT m wV Jt Team Work "Hit's true enough that most men re born of women at the aame time, you'll take notice that moat of ua baa Freacbln' Bill daddy. NEVER yon mind what some say. and girls are a lot more than race horses, Persian cats or Pekingese dogs lea, and they are a lot more fun. It Is a poor sort of a youngster that Is not worth saving. Even If the girl Is your child, you can never tell It might pay you to give her a decent chance. As for your son well, you know, there will always be room In the penitentiary for him. If you work things right I Speaking generally, one need not expect elghteen-kara- t children from parents occasionally, though, the unexpected hapvaluable ten-kar- pens. Did you ever wonder what a baby would say If It could talk when It was born? Yes. I know, It Is easy to Imagine that some people were born talking; but that Is not what I mean. I think " the tiny would take a good long look at its mother, smile a knowing little smile and then remark: "Well, Mother, here we are but where Is the other one?" "The other one?" mother would falter not being able at the moment to think of anyone but her baby and herself. "Yes. There were three of us when this thing started. What has become of Dad? Why Isn't he here to hold up his end of this JobT Why should you and I do all the hard work?" And when the doctor or nurse or had hustled out and somebody dragged In the fond papa, I thin!; baby would look the guilty man over doubtfully and then address the pair: "I feel, parents, it Is only fair to everybody concerned that, we three have a clear understanding right now. There Is no sense In waiting until "Just-arrived- i Because a man knows more ways to make a fool of himself, he must not, therefore, con elude that he is wiser than a child. e mother who assumes that her child Is thoughtless thereby proves herself Incapable of thinking. A self-respe- We hear much complaint these days about the younger generation's lack of respect for But what parental authority. about the respect which parents owe their children? self-respe- Blessed Is that man or woman who knows what to say to a child. It is better to be big enough to talk to children than little enough to preach to ups. Self-respe- - grown- e Help your boys and girls to think straight. Teach them to accept as perfectly natural the fact that they are better than some of the boys and girls they know about. Just as you, their parents, are better than the fathers and mothers of those less .fortunate boys and girls. you have made an unholy mess of things. What we must do Is to start right." To this the doctor would nod his head In solemn agreement; the nurse would look mildly astonished; the parents would know not what to say. "You must remember," baby would continue, "that I did not ask to come here. You did not even consult me. Tor all you know I did not want to come. I was doing very well where I was. But here I am and I want to know right now what you propose to do about it. You are both equally responsible for my presence in this strange land. You know the country; I don't And so I shall hold you both equally responsible for whatever happens to me until I get used to things a little and can begin to find my way around alone." The parents would look rather more than frightened by now. And 1 think baby would give them a little reassuring smile before continuing sternly: "You see, I am an experiment, at best. And you certainly cannot, under the circumstances, expect me to Insure the outcome. In a few years I may be ahie to help a little, but by that time my future will be more or less determined. So It Is practically all up to you. And, between you and me," parents, nothing but the finest team work on your part can save this enterprise which you have undertaken from turning out a disastrous and humiliating failure." I somehow suspect that this whole problem of child training Is another one of those things about which the more we talk the less we know. Because a man knows more ways to make a fool of himself, he must not, therefore, conclude that he Is wiser than a child. A mother who assumes that her chi'd is thoughtless thereby proves herself Incapable of thinking. The fact Is the average youngster will think all around the average oldster before the grown-ucan get under way, and a child knows p are heavy. 1S28. by tha Bell Syndicate Inc.) Ca$e$ in Warfare have been made in Many effo-- ts the past to use various gases chiefAs ly sulphur dioxide In warfare. early as 131 B. O. the Spartans, in besieging the cities of Betium and Platea, burned pitch and sulphur un der the walls of these cities In order to break dom their defense by suffocation of the troops of the cltlea, r,.....m,m,?rm HTTLE BAND-WAGO- N Paris. The strangest accidental death of the year in France Is reported from Norof mandy. A farmer outside Rouen bit into a pear. A wasp that had burrowed Into the fruit stung the man In the throat aa it was being swallowed. An hour later, after suffering Intense agony, the farmer died of suffocation, despite all attempt made to relieve him by the local doctor. JOURNEYS '"''"'"'"""'"'i'ilUBY L. T. MERMIxlffiiilli!!l,'l'U'1'; niiiiuui . 128, Western Heweyape Union.) The Hayes-Tilde- n Contest of BESIDES generating a great deal beat and leading to un- precedented means of finally deciding the contest, the close Hayes-Tildecampaign of 1876 first saw use tn a Presidential canvass of the elephant as symbol of the Republican party. Thomaa Nast, Harper's Weekly cartoonist was the artist who evolved the conceptions of the elephant and the donkey to designate the major parties, besides contributing the Tammany tiger to the political menagerie. He brought out the donkey somewhat before the elephant In the congressional campaign ot 1874 the elephant first lent Itself to caricature as the "Republican vote'' dashing through the Jungle perilously close to a pitfall sparsely covered by unsound money planks and other In secure platform lumber. In this car toon Nast represented the Democrat!' party as a fox. But by 1876 the ele pliant and donkey symbolism had bfr come standardized and was destined to be universally accepted thereafter by other cartoonists. With Democrats flaying corruption In the Grant ' administration, wltb James O. Blaine, unsuccessful Uepub licau aspirant for his parly's nomina tlou, "waving the bloody shirt" and striving to divert attention from fail ores of the Grant regime by renewing sectional bitterness between North anil South, the contest betweei Ruther ford B. Hayes of Ohio and Samuel J Tllden of New York, men about even ly matched tn personal abilities, de veloped considerable bitterness. Partisan and sectional hard feeling created an atmosphere that encour aged crooked work and a determlna tion, In certain quarters, to win b fair means or foul. The bulMozlnx of masses of voters to prevent them from casting tbelr ballots, and offers of election officials to sell out returns in at least one southern state where the results were cruciully Important, were among the manifestations of serious Irregularities in this uniiFual and indecisive electiou. On the face of the original return Tilden's success seemed assured. Most Republican newspapers conceded him the victory the morning after the election. But a telegram from a member of the Democratic national committee to a New York Republican inquiring ubout the returns from Oregon, Louis! ane, Florida and South Curolina In ppired the editors, uoting his doubts, boldly to claim the election for Hayes. Republican party managers quickly seized upon this audacious lint of atwired tack. "Claim everything," Zachariab Chandler, chairman of the Republican national committee. And It was done, setting up the supposl tion that Hayes bad a lead of one electoral vote over his Democratic op n ponent The result ultimately came to hinge disputed returns from South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. without these etates, had l&i electoral votes. The vote ot any one of the three would elect him. Hayes had an undisputed 1G6. He needed South Carolina's seven, Florida's four and Louisiana's eight to have a margin of one over Tilden's acknowledged total. Feeling that had mounted high dur an higher when Ing the campaign canvassing boards begun passing upon the popular vote in the three disputed states where, especially in Louisiana, it was charged fraud and intimidation had upset the true results. President Grunt sent down extra troops. Dele gations of lending politicians hurried to New Orleans to watch the Louisiana canvassing board, wholly made up ot Republicans, conduct its count There were ugly rumors of an attempted sell-ou- t of the vote. Finally the board, by throwing oui 13.250 Democratic votes, reversed an apparent Louisiana Democratic ma Jority and gave the state victory to Hayes. In Florida and South Carolina Republicans also declared he bud upon Til-de- won. But Democratic electors in the three states would not accept these verdicts. They returned rival sets of efecioral votes for Tllden. Thus It was a grave unprecedented dilemma that faced congress, in which one bouee was Democratic, the other Republican. Partisan bitterness throughout the country was intensified. Henry Wat terson, Louisville editor, proposed marching to Washington with a hun dred thousand persons to see that the Democrats had fair play. Congressmen racked their brains to find a way out of the Impasse. Finally the question of wuleh sets ot returns should be accepted was put in. to a specially appointed electoral com mission, composed of ten congressmen (five from each party) and five Su preme court Judges. In the commission the result ultimately was decided favorably to Hayes by th vote of one mun. Justice J. p. Bradley of the Supreme court whose election to the commission gave It eight Republicans and seven Democrats. The decision giving Hayes the victory was approved by congress early In the mornlni of March 8 the closest America ever has come to being with out any President on an inauguration into. Term Tradition Upheld The "Lucile is the Happiest GirV Man Swallow Wasp and Die in Agony Anti-Thir- d twice In our history has the term tradition, established in the precedent set by Presi dent George Washington, been seriously challenged. Both times, though the challenge Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt were Immensely popular figures, the force of the precedent overbore them. In 1880 President Hayes was un available for renomlnatlon by the Republican party. His stand for civil service reform sneerlngly called "snivel service reform" by the spoils certain strong men bad alienated party leaders. The time was ripe for a third term boom for former president Grant Foi four years be bad been out of office. The unfortunate scandals that came to light during his administration bad been partly forgotten. He was com lug Into his own again In grateful re membrance o: the North as the gen era! who had saved the Union. Upon his return from a trip around th world In 1871 his Journey across the United States was tittle short of a triumphant progress. Grant's reasons for wanting a third term were variously attributed to the desire ot his family for social pres tige and to his own belief that his travels had given blm a wider knowl edge ot the world that would fit him to be a more capable executive. His triumvirate of managers. Sena tors J D. Cameron of Pennsylvania (who was chairman ot tne party oa tioiial committee), John A. Logan ot Illinois and Roscoe Conkliiig of New York, wenl to the convention In Chi ugo with slightly more than 300 dele gates out of 378 necessary to nom Inate. If able to enforce the unit rule whereby the big delegations of I'enn sylvunia. New York and Illinois could voted solidlv tot the general in ac cord with the wishes of the majority of Utose delegations, the Grant managers were ussuied of some sixty more votes, that would 'invc brought their favorite almost within reach ol the prize. But their plan to have the unit rule maintained went to smash in the convention and the oratory and floor leadership of James A. Garfield of Ohio the orphan canal boy who became a college president, a general In the Civil war, and a mem ber of congress from bis state were largely what defeated the unit rule strategy of the Grant Stalwarts, as they came to be called. Grant was put tn nomination by Conkilng in one of the most famous speeches of convention history, beginning with the stanza of verse: "And when asked what state he balls from. Our sole reply shall be He comes from Appomattox, And its famous apple tree." As the storm of applause for Grant's nomination died away. It was Garfield's task skillfully to present the nomination of Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman as Ohio's favorite son, which he did in masterly fashion though the actual effect of the speech was to heighten appreciation of Garfield's own availability as a possible dark horse. He got only one or two votes In the early balloting, however. Then on the thirty-fourtballot Garfipld's tolul took a spurt when Wisconsin- - threw ber entire 16 votes to blm, and they were recorded despite his own strenuous protestations that he was not a candidate. On the thirty-sixtballot, although the Grunt total of 306 held firm, 3!9 votes went to Garfield In t generul stampede Apparently stunned with surprise, he was acclaimed the winner. To placate the defeated Grant fac tion, Chester A. Arthur of New York by no means a conspicuous figure na tionally, was named for the vice presl deuey. from which position be was destined to ascend to the Presidency upon Garfield's assassination by a disappointed When the Democratic convention met at Cincinnati the contest was a wide open one among a score of asof Gen. pirants. But the Winfield Scott Hancock soon asserted Itselt As the Wisconsin Republican delegation had started the stampede to Garfield, so It was the Wisconsin Democratic delegation that loosened a landslide to Hancock. convention Numerous other state delegations changed their votes after the second ballot and he was declared the nominee. Charles A. Dana of the New York Sun cynically dismissed Hancock as "a good man weighing 250 pounds." His worth was weighabte in more however. Hanthan avoirdupois, cock's generalship In the Civil war made him, as one historian has put It "the knlghlliest figure of all the hosts which the North sent forth In battle," and Grant hailed blm as bis ablest corps commander. The contest had an extremely close Out of a total popular vote finish. the division was so of U.000.000, nearly equal that fewer thun 10,000 votes separated Garfield and Hancock In the popular count These votes were so distributed among the states, however, iat Ga field had 214 and Hancock 155 tn the electoral college. ONLY h h office-seeke- r. So many mothers nowadays talk about giving their children fruit juices, as If this were a new discov ery. As a matter of fact, for over fifty years, mothers have been accomplishing resnlta far anrrmsslnws Ur,...i t UJ uUIig -- 0 can secure from home prepared trait Juices, by using pure wholesome Call, fornla Fig Syrup, which Is prepared under the most exacting laborator? supervision from ripe California Fi richest of all fruits in laxative and nourishing properties. ABSENT 14 YEARS Ifa marvelous to see how bin. HE GOES TO CHURCH weak, feverish, sallow, consttnaterf d children respond to Its gentle Influence ; how their breatk But Was Driven There by clears up, color flames In their cheeki and they become sturdy, playful, Bandit Guns. A Western moth again. Mrs. StolL H. J. Valley P. o.. Nabsence Denver. After a - "My little daughter Tony Vitullo has gone to chureh but ebraska, says Roma Lucile, was constipated from through no choice of bis. Vitullo, babyhood. I became worried about who is a prominent Italian sportsman her and decided to give her some in Denver, broke his "churchless" record at the Instigation of two bandits California Fig Syrup. It stopped her who urged bira on with the ends of constipation quick; and the way. ft Improved her color and made her pick their guns poked In bis ribs. n she The bandits held up Vitullo when up made me realize how he was returning home from bis club. had been. She Is so sturdy and well He drove his car into the garage and now, and always in such good humor was confronted by the two masked that neighbors say she's the happiest girl In the West" figures who showed their guns and reLike all good things, California Fig lieved him of $190 and a diamond Is Imitated, but you can always Syrup stickpin valued at $250. They then ordered him to drive to a get the genuine by looking for the distant church. When he objected to name "California" on the carton. this procedure on the ground that he Is It Love? bad missed church for 14 years, they told him that it was time for him to Mable Do you think Clarice really likes Bobby? change his ways. Alice She doesn't know yet. She's Tying Vitullo In the deacon's chair, the robbers told him where they would going to" that famous Vienna psychileave his car, and left After freeing atrist to find out himself from bis bonds, Vitullo went to a farm nearby and telephoned to Give a people enough idleness and the police. they will develop feuds. "1 didn't really get scared," he said, "until they left That church has more creaks than a second-hanflivver." , under-nourishe- ar :- run-dow- d Boy Jump 60 Feet From Bridge Into River l.cwlon Maine. A fourteen-year-ol- d Lewiston boy, whose name the police decline to make public, was taken to police headquarters upon complaint of Maine Central railroad officials, and admitted to the police that during the present summer be has jumped from the Maine Central bridge between Lewiston and Auburn, into the Androscoggin river below, no less than 36 times. The jump Is a perilous one, a distance of 60 or 70 feet to a bottom covered with boulders, and perilously near the Union Water Power company dam across the river. It is a dive that requires an expert to negotiate safely. The boy said that several times he was obliged to leap off the bridge to escape oncoming trains, and at other times he did it for the fun of it, using the high bridge for a diving tower. The boy was taken in a round-uof lads who have caused the railroad no little trouble, damaging property, removing Insulators from the telegraph wires on the bridge and otherwise annoying the officials. They have disregarded the signs warning people not to trespass on the bridge and failed to heed verbal orders given by railroad employees to keep away. p Luxurious Death Way Out of Love Triangle A. Sour Stomach In the same time it takes a dose of soda to bring a little temporary relief of gas and sour stomach, Phillips Milk of Magnesia has acidity completely checked, and the digestive organs all tranqulllzed. Once you have tried this form of relief you will cease to worry about your diet and experience a new freedom in eating. This pleasant preparation is just as good for children, too. Us it whenever coated tongue or fetid breath s signals need of a sweetener. Thysi-cianwill tell you that every spoonful of Phillips Milk of Magnesia neutralizes many times its volume In acid. Get the genuine, the name Phillips is important Imitations do not act the same 1 PHILLIPS New York. Joan Fornum, age twenty-ta pretty blond, spent all except $10 of ber $127 that she might have a luxurious death. The girl's body, clad in a lavender silk negligee and expensive boudoir slippers, was found In apartment In Brooklyn, on which she had Just paid $75, a month's Salt Lake City Directory Miss Fornum had told her landlady, Mrs. Harriet Baird, that It MOXUM HOTEL Milk wo, gas-fille- d rent of Magnesia . SALT LAKE CITY was to have been her wedding day. Make this your home. Room $1.00 to 3 Street Bus. Free State and Fourth Sooth "But his mother Interfered," she had Win Head. Mgr. said, "and I had been saving up money all the time for our marriage. It's foolish to save money, so I bought t Is a solved sWobiem when yon decide nn these things." ihlpplns to the BROOKI.AWN CREAMERY CO.. 26 So. 'West St., Salt Lake City, Later, other tenants, smelling gas, ffrite for SUapias let Tags. Coastal aa CSKwatiSrrK broke Into Miss Fornum's room and found her dead. Beside the body was McCune School of Music and Art a copy of William Cullen Bryant's Faculty of Eminent Teachers wading Music School in Intermountain Region "Thanatopsls." open at the lines: Vfuslc Dancing Dramatic Art Salt Lake City, I tan. So bait thou rest and what If thou .'00 North Main St. withdraw NICHOLS CBISMON In alienee from tha living? CHEMISTS AND John Lagatta, noted magazine illus- ASSAYERS 1 omee and Laboratory S. West Lake Salt City, Utah. P. 0. St., trator, whose name appeared on a torn Temple Box 166s. envelopes and prices note In Miss Fornum's room, denied furnished on Mailing request. Mrs. her. Baird said the girl knowing had been a newspaper reporter and came of a good Boston family. Music CREAM WANTED" 129-13- We Teach From Direct Sheet Saves Boy; Finds Son Marshtleld, Ore! Hearing the cries of a drowning person, A. T. Sorenson leaped from a big boom Into Coos Bay and rescued a boy. When he brought the lad to the surface he discovered that he had saved his own son. Find Ring in Rubbish North Bay, Ont A $000 engagement ring, which had been lost and thrown out with the rubbish by a hotel chambermaid here, was found by a youngster exploring the rubbish for funny papers. Correspondence course on HAWAIIAN STEEL GUITAR will be given in the future by the UTAH CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC SALT LAKE CITY 61S Templates Bldg. Write for Information. Also local teach Ing. Cullen Hotel Fred J. Leonard, Manager Paul Pardae, A sat Mgr. Meet Your Old Friend Cullen Cafe and Cafeteria S3 Flowers Dangerous Portsmouth, Va. Flowers here have proven such a traffic hazard that It has been found necessary to remove several beds of ennnae from one of the city streets. at the W. 2nd So. St. Salt J.nke City, Utah. CULLEN GARAGE 37 West Sad So; STORAGE AND SERVICE W. N. U, Salt Lake ty, No. 45-19- 28. lia rs! |