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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH J'r!V n $ , V , 4 C' iA vX: X "I g J?4iyV V:u v IsJ .0 aw gSK K&& - UC'sft ,v '" ' ' - 4 itiffilnWimiii! ' '' ''7pS$; - ! (' ""' , ' J r '''S fe2s Hawaiian Fishermen Need the Trained Muscle and Sure Eye of the Athlete. Vi;S$ (Prepared by the National Geographic Society, Washington, lD. C.) Now that vacation days are bringing play to tlie fore for old and young, iREME $& m- - m M exvarita. Gnvciela. Mwvduiwvo of (Me w: Arkr A Big Querlm TXotoS- - fon JfCfefWtonai 5S.gE' si sr ,.3 i : -i X A' X Mary Garrett Hay, who wrote out a list upon the request of a newspaper, put the situation very well. It is impossible to do Justice to American women by selecting a paltry twelve. Each person will select according to his mental bias. The women I have chosen conform to a type that I admire, the kind of woman who is highly educated, progressive, devoted to the ideals of the new womanhood, giving her life to serious work earnestly performed. Anyway, the National League of Women Voters dodged making answer. It asked the Womens Joint Congressional Committee to make the selection. That body also dodged full responsibility and 1ms announced that It will ask five prominent men to help in the selection. And at the present writing that Is as near as Senorita Mandujanos quest'on has come to receiving what may be called an official answer. In tlie jneantime scores of lists have made their appearance some serious, some good, some bad, $. V XTl 3 4 I some Indifferent. In the lists the writer has seen the names of women have been given, each selected e'.gl as one of the twelve greatest living American women. 'A'" The observing reader has doubtless noted that the portraits given herewith number but eight. In addition to that of the woman who has started all this discussion. The reason is this : the writer would not dare to try to name the twelve greatest women. He Is merely grouping the portraits of eight women who seem to be popular choices, inasmuch as they appear In nearly all the lists. It Is of course a work of supererogatlonNto name and describe these eight women. However,- they JtmpoMo CMWlOfWoJ VWE&WOOP JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN HO ARE the twelve greatest living American women? Tills embarrassing question is asked of the National League of Women Voters by Senorita Graciela Mandujano of Chile. The Chilean woman was a delegate to the Conference of Women recently held at Baltimore in connection with a convention of the National League of Women Voters. She is a writer and she wants to write up the twelve for home publications. The question Is Indeed embarrassing. There is, for tine thing, an embarrassment of riches. If there were only twelve women in the United States worthy of being named in .answer to the question, all would be well. But the United States has so many great women to say nothing of the famous ones ! Its also embarrassing to the National League of Women Voters, for the reason that to answer it the league must perforce name at least one of its own members. And its embarrassing to anyone asked to draw re are so many things to be considup a ered. For example, from one viewpoint one would naturally name the First Lady of the Land Mrs. Warren G. Harding and from another Mary Iickford or Mary Garden or Geraldine Farrar or Mary Roberts Rinehart or Ida M. Tarbell or Edith suffragist. 2 Miss Jane Addams, Hull House, Chicago, social worker, author and lecturer. 3 Miss Anne Tracey Morgan, New York, American Committee for Devastated France, philanthro- pist. ' '' barton. Again, one might name Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont or Alice Paul of the National Womans party or Mrs. Maud Wood Park of the National League of Women Voters; it depends upon whether one Is or is not militant in the matter of women suf-freg- Agi tl. If wl.o Li.ve r ot list Is to be made np of women distinction in thahr restlve fields , Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, New York, honorary president National League of Women Voters, president International Suffrage Alliance, woman 1 list--the- . ' are: 4 Miss Evangeline Cory Booth, New York, commander of the Salvation Army, religious worker, 5 Miss M. Carey Thomas, Bryn Mawr, Pa., retiring president of Bryn Mawr college, educator and author. 6 Mrs. Thomas G. Winter. Minneapolis, president of tlie General Federation of Womens clubs, club v oman and writer. 7 Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren, O., vice chairman Republican National Committee, suffragist and author. - 8 Miss Alice Mary Robertson, Muskogee, member of national house of representatives from Oklahoma, Indian educator. Other names that frequently appear In the many unofficial lists ore these: Edith Wharton, novelist; Ida M. Tarbell, author; Cecilia Beaux, artist; Julia C. Latbrnp, worker for children; Mrs. Raymond Robins, sociologist: Helen Keller, leader of blind; Maude Adams, of endeavor there Is the difficulty that some of the names are not widely known. Such a list would be scorned by people who think only of popularity and notoriety und publicity. actress; , Mine. Louise Homer, singer; Mary Garsinger; rett Hay, club woman: Julia Marlowe, actress; Agnes Repplier, essayist; Mary Garden, singer; Geraldine Farrar, singer; Mary Pickford, screen star; Mary Roberts Rinehart, novelist. Mmes Schumann-Heink- It is worth recalling that sports and games ever were magic touchstones tq geography and to those allied sciences which provide the surest clues to how peoples live, and work, and think. In countless ways science has learned about climates, and products, and customs, and peoples of the past from toys, games and sports. An entire new field of Investigation was opened by the discovery that backgammon, as played in Burma, also was known to the Mexicans. A new light is shed on an ancient civilization when we learn that there was a law aninog the Persians by which all children were to be taught three things, horsemanship, shooting with the .bow and telling the l;ruth. Carthaginians and Phoenicians owed something of ther maritime glory to a love qf swimming, the sport by which they first mastered their fear of the sea. Equally significant In the history of nations is the decline of their sports. While the Persians observed the rigid regimen of the chase, as prescribed by Cyrus, their armies were victorious. While Spartan youths followed the rigorous discipline of Lycurgus their city was Inviolate. Led by Alexander the Great in ways of abnegation and exercise, the Macedonians were Invincible. The Romans extended their civilization so long as their gymnasia prepared youths to endure long marches and bear crushing burdens. It is fairly obvious that coasting is a sport of the zone where snow falls, and reasonable that those peoples most generally proficient In swimming should be found In the equatorial Islands, Where limpid waters invite surcease from the scorching sun, but less well known, perhaps, that card and board games developed in southern Asia, where zest for play Is just as keen but temperature dampens the ardor for exertion. The reactions of geography and sport are mutual. To the Netherlands are traced the stilt and the skate, which even yet have their work-a-dause In flooded and frozen areas, but are playing for the rest of the y world. Sometimes sports spread beyond na- tional boundary lines and express the Thus the tournaments of the middle ages were the normal symptoms of the adventurous spirit reflected In the quests for the Holy Grail. Games and the Individual. Games Invariably adapt themselves to the individual need for a balanced life, mental and physical. This fact was Illustrated by comments of civilian writers In the fighting zones during the World war, who told how Englishmen and Americans sought diversion in active play, while Frenchmen relaxed in more quiet fashion smoking, by the side reading, or of a' welcome fireplace. Many noted this as a contradiction, in view of the supposed sprightly temperament of our Gallic cousins. But as a sporting writer, in an article printed years before the World war, put it, the Englishman, phlegmatic during ills work, seeks excitement as a relaxation, while the more animated Gaul needs quiet during his leisure." Just as the Individual adopts games which meet his bodily need, so If seems that national pastimes are modified to foster and fortify the peoples who play them. , Influence of Englands Sports. Bight up to 1914 it was almost bromidic to laugh at the Englishman for putting his recreations In his Whos Who, alongside of matters considered more weighty, and for publishing massive tomes and cyclopedias of sport. Now the world knows that the Derby at Epsom, the cricket at of NorthRugby, and the amptonshire had everything to do with the bulldog determination with which he carried ;on one heartbreaking ' summer after another against vicious Hun onslaughts in Flanders. Britons But even tlie are said to have admired and wondered at the American dough-bos amid the whacking out booming of Big Berthas, Issuing ocs in casional common ideals of an age. fox-hun- sport-lovin- g y three-bagger- ran-check- mid-innin- g when the downpour of bursting shell became too distracting. Some historians assert that the Greek games formed the foundation for the lucid thinking and the lofty art Concepts that made her product classic. Yet the Olympian and the Pythian games at their best afforded no such spontaneous, and at the same time intricate, Interplay of muscle and mind as baseball. Throwing, catching, and running are ..as old as man; but It took the American genius for play, no less distinctive than the American gmins for science, industry, and commerce, to weld these motifs into a game that puts a, premium on skill, yet admits of infinite variety; that rawest youth or trained athlete may play ; and that Presidents and office boys steal away to jvateh. If the Greeks paved the way for classic art by teaching adults to play and Great Britain followed In her footsteps with a more spontaneous and democratic fervor, America now appears as the most forward-lookinnation In her attention to childrens playgrounds. There Is nothing artificial about the games taught to children on American playgrounds. They are products of a rich heritage of play tradition. Neither written history nor the faint' traces of prehistoric times carry us back to a period when children did not play. Excavators in Central America found tiny rattles of bone and clay, as old as the pyramids of Egypt, In graves alongside baby skeletons. In Atticas tombs were uncovered dolls of days, made of Ivory and terra cotta. Little Hippodamla had a miniature bed, with slats, for his dolls, for boys formerly played with dolls. Roman childrens toys were held In such high esteem by their elders that when the children grew too old for them they were offered to patron gods. Games With the Ball. Running, throwing, hitting, and kicking are the fundamental musculaf operations of Americas characteristic sports baseball, football, tennis, and golf. The peoples of antiquity manifested all these instincts in cruder form. Luzon hlllmen, the Polynesians, and the Eskimo and Sumatra Islanders had games played by kicking a ball. Greeks played It, and the Roman game, harpastum, derived its name from the Greek I seize," which Is evidence that carrying the ball was piactlced then. With shoes of hide, the medieval Italians played a game which seems the direct ancestor of the Anglo-Saxo- n Gaelic college sport. scholars point to a football game In Ireland before the time of Christ, and until comparatively recent times Shrove Tuesday was distinctively an occasion for football as Is our Thanksgiving today. In old England football was even rougher than most sports of those hardy times. James I thought It was meeter for lamelng than making able the users thereof." Henry VHI and Elizabeth ruled against It. Edward n frowned upon It for Its Interference with archery and also because of the commotion it aroused, likewise, one must go back to the Greeks and Romans for the origin of tennis, which descended to England by way to France. In the Twelfth century a game with ball and plaited gut bat was played on horseback. Then came La boude, In which the horses were abandoned. Henry VHI of England was a youthful devotee, while Louis XIV's heavy expense accounts show salaries paid to caretakers of his courts. If tennis has a royal lineage, golf, which was later regarded as a rich man's game, had most plebeian beginnings. Contrary to a widespread belief, It seems .lot to have originated In Scotland, bqt In northern Europe. Apparently It was first played on ice, being one of the winter sports adapted to the physical geography of the Low Countries. By the Fifteenth century golf had attained such vogue In Scotland that it threatened the cherished archery, and It Is classed with fate-baand other unprofltabll sportis by James TV. That monarch, however, seems to have disregarded his own edict, as did enough other Scotchmen to keep the game alive. g pre-class- ll - |