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Show THE PROVO HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1522. UKCII SATIS RAILROAD fir gjj J If (f aly with Iha joura.1, t hrJKZSSSSTfi " . t ""f.' That Good Coal V"- - I THE BURNING QUESTION of household economy la the coal question. Whether it la seeded for cooping or heating purposes it must of necessity make a considerable item in the list of expenditures. Ton must have It It cannot be dispensed with. : Therefore the most economical kind la the best; so by procuring your supply at Smoot St SpaHord's you will surely get the best, and at a less outlay than by buying the poorer qualities, when you get more dust and slag than coal. Smoot & Spaff ord Uptown Office, Commercial Bank. Yard Phone 17. Car Troubles ARE EASILY SOLVED AT OUR1 GARAGE We do all kinds of Repair Work and DO IT , We make a specialty of Electrical Systems. test your batteries, recharge or repair them, or sell yoa a new one. We See Us First. SMITH BROS. GARAGE The 161 West Center. HE .American is apt to re gard his New Tear as The New Tear. Had he a penchant for celebrating holidays he could travel in a more or less leisurely way around the world, and in the course of the year could participate In six or seven New Tear festivities, adding a couple of Christmas celebrations for good measure," according to a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geographic society. "Our American might start his progressive holiday Jaunt by going to some western European country for the approaching New Tear which the United States too will celebrate. He could then travel to Greece, Jugoslavia, Rumania, or Bulgaria In time for Christmas In those countries. Christmas is also December 25 in the countries named, according to their calendars, but corresponds to January a T In America, "By remaining a week in the same country he could also spend New Tear Day, called January 1, but corresponding with the American and western European January 14. By pushing on and making good connections he might be able to reach Singapore, or by supplementing steamers with airplanes could reach China It self 'to take part the most in thoro u g h g o 1 n g New Tearcelebra tlon in the world, the Chinese New Tear. "After the Chinese New Tear celebration, the traveler could pursue his holiday less hunting for a strenuously while. He could arrange to arrive in Slam In time for the Siamese New Tear on April 1, and afterward could have five months of sightseeing before reaching Arabia for the Mohammedan New Tear on September 4, He could . then cross the Bed Sea and make a quirk Journey Into Abyssinia to take part in the New' Tear festivities of that country on September 10. Returning to the Red Sea and taking a steamer north he 'ould easily reach Jerusalem in good time for the Hebrew New Tear, October 3. "The holiday hunter rvrould now have taken part In . all the- principal New Tear celebrations of the world and could return. to the Western hemisphere to spend the Christmas with which he is most familiar at his own hearth side. In six .days less than a year he would have chalked up seven New Tear and two Christmas celebrations to his credit. "The world's multiplicity of New Tear Days and Chrlstmastldes Is due to the fact that our calendar Is largely an arbitrary device. The enrth revolves around the sun In 3G5.2422 days, which makes the true year a very odd measure of time. And it is almost as difficult to choose a logical beginning for the year as It is to find the starting point of a circle. Different peoples have' selected different starting points and have also assumed the yesr to be of slightly different lengths. This has not only resulted in the years beginning at different times but has also caused the times of beginning to vary in their relations to one another from year to year. It Is as though a clock had half a dozen or more hands all moving around the dial from different starting points. "The most logical starting points for the year would seem to be summer and winter solstices and the spring and autumn equinoxes; and all of them have been made to mark the ' beginnings of the years In some parts of the world. The Gregorian calendar that is now In use in the United States and throughout most of the Christian world, Is the Julian calendar slightly modified. When Julius Caesar caused it to be the constructed, beginning of the year, January 1, was placed seven days, after the winter solstice, and not in with it CUT I'll SOU T WILL POLITICS International New Service. LONDON, Jan. . British Industry has cut its wages bill more than one billion dollars a year. There exists an organized conspiracy to secure unreasonable reductions In wages and a drastic extension of the normal working week. These facts are doing more to foment revolution, disorder and bloodshed than all the activities of the extremists of the lbor world. Such are the declarations of the General Council of the Trade Union congress, in a manifesto Just issued. It contains a strong message of warning to the Industrial chiefs of Britain and to the vast middle-clas- s public, who, as labor sees it, permits this alleged campaign of alteration of labor conditions to proceed without protest "The existence of a serious slump In icade and abnormal unemployment," the manifesto reads, "appear to be considered by employers as an opportunity for imposing reduction in wages and increases in hours. In some quarters the spirit of getting their own bac kappears to inspire the employers, but which is meant the determination to punish the workers for their audacious attempt to keep wages up during the war."We have to warn employers that a policy of reprisals is one likely to lead o disastrous consequences. Stability in industrial organizations would he quite impossible, and a policy of atas determined tack and counter-attacby opportunities, would take the place of engotlatlon. "The worker has a moral right to claim improvement in working condi tions. "Organized labor will refuse to ac cept the theory that the proper func tion of industry is to provide a bare living for the worker and opportunity for wealth accumulation for the employer. "As representatives of 6,000,000 workers we refuse to accept the present standard of life as the highest ' possible. "We are prepared to work for the constitutional changes necessary for the attainment of higher standards, bue we warn those among the employers who would sabotage present labor conditions that the extremists on their side are more likely to create undisciplined revolt, chaos and disorder than the extremists on ours. "We are convinced that in this country, by constitutional effort, a gradual evolution toward a just social order is possible. We just as em phatically declare, however, that the patience of the workers we represent will rapidly be exhausted if the pres ent attempt to sweating, long hours and low wages is success - fill." Uncle Sam's Women Chiefs - By MILDRED MORRIS, I. N. & Staff Correspondent NEW TORK, Jan. 9. "If you have political aspiration, go south, young woman." That was the advice of Miss Charl Orniond Williams of Memphis, Tenn., president of the National Education association. Miss Williams says women suffrage has increased it possible the chivalry of the southern man. "Because of this traditional chivalry of southern men, women in the South have a better chance of holding high public offices than In any other sec tion of the country," she said. 'The Southern man s reverence for womanhood makes him feel that if a fine woman wants a political office, it is only courtesy on the part of the man to give it to her." Miss Williams predicted a renais sance in the South as the result of the women vote. "I think the Southern woman will show more political independence than even the new woman voter in other sections of the country," said Miss Williams. "The Southern woman, in spite of the fact that she is pictured as a hot house flower who cannot live without the protection of man, feels freer in other parts of the country. This is because she Is not afraid of her men. She has never had reason to be. She still has the protection of the chivalry that has made the South so wonderful and at the same time she is absolutely on an equal footing with the men bssszsss: OLE JOHN'S POEM X 1 3) 0 h- - -- Yl &) ' H ' '''''.vtn.'vjj 00 At! ri FX' J , I . Many women are now holding olTiccs in the government at Washing, ton Irom chiefs of bureaus down lo typists. Above arc some of the U,. er$: (1) Miss Grace Abbott, Chief of Children's Bureau; (2) Mis Matvr Anderson. Chief of Women's Uunau. Labor Department;' (3) Mrs Hi Willcbrancll assistant allorncy ;eiirral; i) M,s. Hckn Gardner V.u- - , Unci tml htr-u- e Dr. Commission; (5) Valencia Parker, Seen ES2SBSBXB&BS1S&XS1 MY OWN TOWN. Breathes there a man with soul so dead, that never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native town? . f . It suits my inner feelin's fine, to think along this sort of line, and no fresh buy can call me down. . . I've allers knew that civic pride should fill the village dweller's hide, and leave no space fer slacker stuff. I'll sight ye to our city hall, our churches, schools, our streets, an all which shows that we keep up to snuff! I hate to see a bailiwick all littered up with boards an brick, out in vain fer paint. It hurts to see the wimmen-folk- s spuds or artichokes pretend' in' somethin that they ain't. . . , The village corperation lends a smart disinction to. its friends, who allers hold some sheers of stock. . . . Tou'll notice public sperit here, from up about our mayor's cheer, to the husky babies n our block! Tou might select our streets, as fittin' place to spread the eats, if you should like to dine in town . . . but gosh of course you wouldn't dare the wheels of prog' ress, rollin there, would spill yer drinks an' knock ye down.! TR. 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Mexican sombreros of the best quality are so costly that it would take a year's wages of a workman to minutes buy one. and 14 seconds. Tills excess caused More than 25.000,000- - tons of patent the nominal January 1 to creep gradually further and farther beyond fuel are made in Germany annually, the winter solstice so that by the against less than 2.000,000 tons In time of the Church Council of Nice in Great Britain. 325 It was eleven days beyond the Elderly women who find their form solstice Instead of seven. er modes of earning a living gone are the of cortime "By Pope Gregory's now qualifying as "lady cooks" and rection In 1582, January 1 was 21 days repairers of clothing for business beyond the solstice and Christmas 14 women In Germany. If the calendar hud rebeyond. mained uncorrected, New Tear Day Difficulty is experienced In procur-nsultablo horses for artillery, so would have gone on creeping forward, first into iprlpg, then into summer." experiments are being tiade with motortraclori. Behind Your Telephone The telephone on your desk or on the wall indicate little of the plant and organization necessary to make it function. Along country highways, underneath city streets and housed in our central office buildings are millions of dollars worth of poles, wires, cables and equipment, all necessary to make service from your telephone adequate, efficient and dependable. In addition to the physical requirements there is an army of trained men and women, each with a share in the task of maintaining and operating the plant, and each with determination that telephone service shall be continuous and satisfactory. Is a Genuine Joy to Serve an Appreciative Public Mountain States Telephones Telegraph Company |