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Show f t Bmbwt Meub 10A Soft late f We stand, for the Constitution of the United States as having been divinely inspired. Life Marble s Ups And Evers City Utah, Saturday, May 7, 1960 By BOB PEAKMAN (The Kiwanis Magazine) as i HE game of marbles, as select a group played by irf my youth, was more of a. it-w- With Mother ONCE MORE our earthly planet in its journey around the sun has reached that wonder day of the Merrie Month of May Mothers Day. This is the happy day when long lines of sons and daugtoddlers toevcngrand- hters from-litt- le fathere make their separate pilgrimages, by one means or another, to their moth ere. Perhaps a majority of these sons and lines have long since daughters left their mothers, but mothers never "leave them. She exults in their success, and she sorrows in their failures. And even when she has gone on, her influ-- , ence is ktill there, year In and year out. These are times which invite greatness of souls. We need stout' hearts, trained minds, dedichted spirits for the strengthening of our own 'ramparts and the repulsion of the vicious forces at home and abroad that seek to destroy the citadel of our Christian way of life. Fathers cannot build the future for their sons and daughters, but mothers can and do build thejr sons and daughters for , -- the future. Our era is achieving feats which make the eight wonders of the world an heirloom of the past, so many are its prodigious accomplishments. All the growth, the achievements, the power over the are the unfolding of a divine purpose. Largely through 'the dedication of their mothers, sons and daughters have been inspired to walk in. company with the great Jntellects In history- and - the' dec-ad- daughters must take to reach the highest summit of human thought. , The one great hope of mankind is" a mothers simple and daily teaching: that her children are also sons and daughteis of God and that all men are their brothers-keppe- r. Opinions alter, names change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity and in every mothers heart". Every son and daughter needs fo remember always, and especially on Mothers Day; hCr constant lesson that success is not measured by the extent of property, but by the moral victory achieved and the nobility of character attested.' The apmoth of plause of men, the smile, fortune. ere have always taught their children? are like dust driven aimlessly by an idle wind, if we, as sons and daughters, do not plan our lives with faith, mold f it in hope,, and impregnate it with service to our fellowmen. Because faith is the alpha and omega of all human, progress, mothers never tire of building faith in their sons and daugh- ters. Have faith-i- n yourselflfheycom sfantly remind us. Their message is that we are the architects ofour own future,, that we be steadfast and bold. Her example is to look forward and draw from the forces- - from within-.- es opponent could shout no evers, you were empowered to move around the ring Jor a more advantageous angle, theoretically keeping equidistant from the ring. In taking, evers it was a custom to fudge, that is to narrow the gap between the shooter and the ring. - MOTHERS DAY anLasthe rich inheritors of her traditions, we must promise again to be of good cheer and of good heart. We have been trained and for-- tilled byherteachingyand we embrace it - moth- - " xxXUps:is; simplerThis gave the player the undisputed right to were knocked out. Write me a verse, my I lack for an inspiration The skies are blue and the trees are green, - And 1 long for a long vacation. - ' x a a Thus, poet Edwin Meade Robinson addressed his typewriter some years ago. His weariness with work, his restlessness, and his yearning for the outdoors -- and. summertime are felt year in, year out, by everyone Now is the moment to plan for the vacation to the country in the car with the top down, or the flight to distant places; now Is the moment to ,work out the details for relaxation, excitement, funr change. Now is the moment for each member of " the family to nominate his favorite place. It can be where the climate is equable, the surroundings beautiful, the sports superlative, where there are interesting things to do and Interesting people to know. Then again it can be a place known for its peace, its silence, and its charm, a StaAd Back Everybody Her We Cornel place where the middle of the woods i them is no vacation because though it infinitely better than elsewhere," where exalts, appalls, and instructs it also few persons come to disturb ones solitude, a place that 'still has the enticement of being just a "little bit "off the map, BUT WHATEVER ones vacation choice, - now seems the moment to where, so farat least, theplane entrain plan Tor it. 4 or bus does not stop, yet Quickly, now! (Why isnt one of the chilAnd then again, perhaps vacation dren around so that we wouldnt have to implies rest, pleasure and freedom from get out of The old hammock to go and get onerous work. And so, many will vacation the maps out of the glove compartment?) at what has always been their favorite vaIn only a few short weeks it will be sumcation spot, their own home. Travel for mer and vacation time! . top-rate- - e - End Story's and turned down another romance , , and so the beautiful princess out of loy- the poor hut honest and handsome suitor crown to the and tradition. There was alty (happily ever' after. tradition-breakin- g of the right enough WITH THE STORY ended for now, at kind, of course in this latest, successful . lpast Americans an gn hark automatic dishwashers, " their automatic-matchin- rrbmahce td" wi n" heartsall over again! But, basically, fairy tales have always washers, dryers and ironers, been escape literature, transporting the their- - power lawh mowers, their golf listener out of his squalid, difficult reality ' courses, leaving Princess Margaret and into a magfc world of 7 princesses and her Tony to the privacy they so richly deknights and romance., The Twentieth Censerve. It was a lovely wedding. The stately, tury fairy tale of the Princess 'and the that, transporting Amerihistoric pomp of Westminster Abbey came - Commoner did -cans a into realm, of leisurely ocean impressively through the television screen. rent-frecruises and honeyMargaret was small and lovely, and Tony moon cottages. seemed gallant as young men in his position have ever seemed in the fairy tales. WELL, ITS OVER NOW, andso back .to hard TealityThank -- goodness fbe They have both conducted themselves: (well, "under difficult circumstances Prinr y soft beauty of May and, oh yevthat newi cess Margaret's sense of duty wonjthe the shock not en- power. mower-ma- kes hearts of Americans years ago when she tirely unbearable. . g e, m j ,no good-stif- changeums. Just what constituted a legal peqwee varied from day to day, and depended for the most part on whether the game was keep urns or funs. Almost anything went in funs? even those diamond-cu- t opaque beads that could never pass the marble test in keep ums be- cause they had a hole m the PEAKS AND .CLEANS in the The advantage herels ring, clear. Beaks empowered the shooter to build a little earthen pedestal and place the marble on top. "Cleans allowed him to clean out the sticks, twigs, doodle bugs, Something fo Show Juvenile Judges r ment for his shooter if he thought ah opponent was about to kill hfm In the game (hit his shooter with his ownL The rub was that if you put the thing down, you had to shoot with it the next shot. If you wanted to stop the switch the correct cry was three-yea- r grasshoppers, or whatever obstructions might, have strayed into his line of fire, He might also pat the earth to the smoothness of a shot. table top before taking-hi- s The ultimate of all peaks and There cleans was cow trails. was" something downright dishon-- " est about eow trails. Even today I suffer occasional qualms of con- science because I used to take cow trails" at every opportunity. If a player was quick enough to sing out cow trails before he was shouted down by the opposition, it was his constitutional right to engineer a deep trench with his finger. With soft dirt and a .finger, a trench could be to the victims marble in such a manner that it was quite impossible to miss. drops. With drops he picked' up his shooter, stood erect over your dug- in marble, sighted downward like : a bombardie- r- and let er go. If there was an audible click, youd had it, brother, you were dead. ' SUBSTITUTIN G ones taw with another marble in times of peril was a recognized, procedure. As in football, the substitutions varied with the play. One There were specialists. player always carried a large coaster from an old -- put-do- laven- der-colored When Men Of Letters Write To Their Mothers i'VNE of the most charming let- ters in the collection Is from Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was written' when he was 17, and it is whimsical and amusing; in it he tells his mother that .he thinks perhaps he will be an au- thor when he grows up, becaui se the illegibility of my handwriting Is very author-likI had not known this side of Hawthorne, The brooding moralist is familiar to everyone, but Hawthorne was, I find, much more than that. IN THE SAME, VEIN, I Was un-- . prepared to, discover William James, who had always struck me as ac sobersided individual. writing to his mother about a girls school that was. in the building opposite did pie. His letters start: Dear ' Mammy. JOYCE KILMER had an even odder name for his mother She was a most distinguished: lady of good family, but Joyces letters 1 always begin: r - - DearBrat. er . Buckshots were barred, however, not because we thought them unsporting, but because nobody had ears sharp enough to tell when a marble collided with a BB. ABOUT THE ' ONLY other re course from cow trails was buries (pronounced berries). With buries you stomped your shooter into the ground wjth your heel. You were allowed one .good hard stomp, no grindings, and this was usually sufficient to cover the top of the marble, In this you were relatively safe , unless your adveisary bested you in a shouting contest and got f chair, which he would substitute for his shooter in the bull ring. (Boston). In that game the rules are somewhat different in that the players may shoot from within the ring and must drive the opponents shooter out. . This particular coaster was about two inches in diameter and was flat on one side, placed flat side down, not even the strongest shooter could budge it, let alone propel it out of the ring. From time to time there was angry talk of barring this spheroid on grounds that it was not round and consequently" 'hot a marble. But the owner (a pubist) held that few marbles in the game, especially crockies, could have withstood, the test of perfect symmetry. My long lost collection of aggie shooters attests to the immovability of that three-quart- middle. PEEWEES were one of the few ways to counteract cow trails. Peewees were less than average size marbles, often round steel ball bearings (little steelies), which a as a replace- player .could tetters , moon-chipp- flat-side- ed d coaster. e. toss, all the time carefully measuring the distances by eye. " The last lagger didnt have a chance. Hardly would he have thrown his marble when a chorus of LAGS AND NO LAGS would rise up from the line. The unfortunate player never even had a chance to see where his shooter had landed before thq issue was decided. It was 'only when one of the early laggers, trained to follow the taws flight much as Mickey Mantle picks out the bad ones, gave out with no lags over, while the marble waTyenriflTghtthaf"the-isswas decided and the game ' began. THE GAME OF MARBLES, I un- derstand, is dying out. In a few years no one will know how to play it, and it shouldnt surprise me to n learn that I am one of only a people left cognizant of this particular set of rules. The schoolhouse in . County District 161 is no more. It has been moved away. Gone, too, are the faded October pumpkins on the window, where once fheafter-noo- n sun. shimmered in to seek out dancing diamonds on the floor. school-yard The where frantic crys of dubs and no dubs, cut through the stillness on the warm May afternoons, is a tangle of dead grass and broken sunflower stems. I. have never been lo one of- these professional marble tournaments sponsored by veterans organizations and other groups allegedly interested in keeping the game alive and saving youth for better things. I have no idea how they play the game. SINCE THE CONTESTS are held in baseball stadiums and concrete parking lots, I suppose there is a hard and fast set of rules that precludes vocal amendments. ue half-doze- one-roo- barbed-wire-fence- When An Albatross Follows A Ship looked like the water round a rock in a torrent. The great birds seemed to know just where to find the air currents they needed. Some preferred 'to maintain their usual elliptical track, but "others would hang," poised a few feet off, riding the turbulent wind on outstretched " ' wings. Nine-tent- - . ' man-mad- high-speed- banking,-soaring-divin- g per-fect- middle- ms 4 . wind-spee- - - v -- ?. n.c5 retaified-its-exaet- ance.- at-ho- -- he - ly 1 5 At "this close range"the COll slant small movements of wings, feet bird kepUts trim and flying speed were noticeable, but it was an easy, unhurried perform- andtail-by,which-t- - tele-"scop- e! - d, two-wor- , judged-Willia- uere ACTUAL SKILL in shooting was of little or no importance? If you were good enough (or lucky enough) to knock two or three marbles - out of the ring with a" single shot, and then stood by tongue tied while someone shouted no dubs or no trips, you had to putjhe extra maibles back When you tossed your shooter at the lagging line to determine the order of precedence in shooting, it wasn't enough to come to rest on the line, besting your opponents. You had to shout no lags over" before a collusion of other players decreed otherwise, or your accomplishment was made null and void.' This of course was no mean trick because, as in all such cases, you had one more word to say. To circumvent this, you said not three distinct words, but one indistinct one: nelagsover. Almost any noise was accepted as the right and proper .phrase. It was a test of vocal dexterity, not of diction. . I doubt if theyve ever heard Clearly all of. this did not makp of evers, or ups, cleans, for a fast moving, placid game. cow trails, or buries. cheats1 Lagging itself might take up the if-- a "player shoots three better part of a half hour, and was --And -- marbles from the ring with a usually completed only through a single shot it seems unlikely that fortuitous chain of circumstances. d anyone would register a JTHEPLAYERS, having - lagged, - protest and make him put the extra - would stand next to the lagging ones back. Somehow it seems a shame.' line, waiting for the last man to And yet I am forced to say that the extraordinary thing about these - By WILLIAM JAMESON letters is that there ard so few s QTTT.T, blowing as hard as ever. are surprises The sea had risen during typical of the character, the speech, the rnght and when dawn came the ideas, the needs of their ausldwly we saw, under an overcast thors. That fs why they reveal so sky, waves 300 or 400 yards from much, and why, at least to me, crest to crest with troughs 30 or 35 ' feet deep.. they are so fascinating. The deck was plugging up and What would you expect to find down and lurching from side to in a letter of Baudelaires, for exmorbid side.,,. ample It was wild but cnlonrliH Guilty misery? Dee weather. machines Our spair? They are there, at great alba- were but"the stormbound, Jqogth,-..in. the'..iongesi,jpljpng..o.f: -- feis own-.-were trosses the finest letters in this book. enjoying themsejveT James spent his afternoons , swooping round at What would you expect from watching the girls through a w'ithin to ? Biting AlFof the girls of two sear an inch or ? the all are sarcasm too, there, They however or so he assured his in their boisterous in. a few of his many letters; I f mother. element and moving aS it seemed, wish we could print them all, beNo doubt he used the informa- in-cause no one ever wrote better letany direction "they wished. tion thus gathered in the working while were ters. penned in Byrons late? his of "out psychology I COUNTED EIGHT in company, he was on a trip, which event is years. juvenile, adolescent and brother the cause for many of the letters -aged I mis birds and one white oldin this book. ster the same old male, as I beHenry, too. I suppose everyone (YOU DO NOT WRITE to your lieved, who has been with us all thinks of Henry James as having 'been a very serious youth, and' , mother if you are living in "the along. same house with her; some of the On the course they were follow- probably hfr was, most of the time. deck But can you guess what he people on my original list are not. jng( the d oyer-th- e -- called his mother When be ad represented here bedause they ap - : vas bctween 50 and f0 dressed-he- rin a letter? Mater? parently never left home;)" Around the ship were eddies and From the edltere tntre aettnn to MotheV? Mummy dear? I think it- -,. yew will surprise you os much as it tt.pre cbnutl able to see them,.. would . have - Aiuersonr Compared With The Game's Accompanying Shouting Con tests' bf Imagination to use that term for the rain came even less often than the magazine salesman, and he sold subscriptions. ice a.SfcinJ)oofngWas.Of Littl&OrNoJmportance- - down again. .(It tbbk aTot JUDGES AND PROBATION officers of perior setup, just about sizes up the states the Rocky Mountain Juvenile Court In capital facilities for this service The d stitute will be shown some other counties mostly use areas in their youth service facilities and an effective youth-hel- p jjails as juvenile detention quarters, 'program when these social workers . But the State Statutes (Sec, ..... convene in Provo, May 8 to 11, for their under the age of 16 that.children provide annual convention. That the conclave who are brought before any court shall Is to be held in Utahs showplace of juvenot be confined In jailsIockups or police nile services is fortunate, since most of cells used for ordinary criminals, but In the state is faf behind in this field. entirely' distinct and separate. ' Delegates will be shown, as the top premises An effort was made to meet this prob- Attraction, the Utah County Youth Home, lem when SB-3- 7 was presented to the 1957 -a maximum security edifice with the atLegislature. The bill failed, chiefly betractive setting and furnishings of a pricause county commissioners took the posivate residence, tion that they would not consent to Laving The Utah State Training School - the Public Welfare Department telling Fork with its famed Trip to them what facilities they had to provide Fairyland will be an attraction, as will and how they, had to spend the taxpayers the Pine Hills Treatment Center, a condollars. Utah hasnt been able to get a verted residence in which a most remarkjuvenile detention program, of a juvenile able experiment is taking place. Here, mental health program, off the ground ' under a Ford Foundation grant, evaluince then. ation of an intensive probation program is The detention program will come bebeing made. Visitors will see Judge Monfore the - 1961 legislature with more roe Paxmans famed juvenile court in ac7 power and prestige behind it than it had tion, also the splendid Utah County Child in 1957 Providing: physical facilities Guidance and Mental Health Ginic. will be part of the problein. AnThe result of these Inspections and other will be to coordinate .the services of demonstrations undoubtedly- - will be a the Juvenile Court Probation Officers and fresh determination by each 'Visitor to the Public Welfare Child Welfare Workers. But many, go thou and do likewise. Utah workers especially, a hard UTAH COUNTY has shown the way in time doing so in the face of generally poor meeting many of these problems. The , facilities. Rocky Mountain Juvenile Court Institute , Salt Lake County has a Retention there should provide inspiration which, one hopes, will lead to proper facilities home, woefully inadequate as to space and equipment That, with Utah, bountys su- - throughout the Mountain West will-hav- . particularly devasting missile by shooting" down at fhe target. Here again it was the custom to , move several inches ahead while launching the shooter. No ups, when shouted rapidly enough, was sufficient to keep the shooter grounded. If he chose to disregard the edict, and raised his hand ever so slightly, a. chorus of knucks in the mud would set him Get Away From It All old machine To NOTTO FUDGE would have been taken as a sign of arrogant self confidence. In fact, there was one game, cheats, where anything was legal ad you werent caught,--- lathis 'game "many more marbles were stolen out of the ring than so-lon- g SO ON - a than nt -- - contest shouting shooting contest. For instance, if you could say, -Evers and ups and peaks and cleans in the ring before an could rattle off, No evers, no ups, no peaks or cleans in the. chances were youd come ring, out way ahead of the game. ' I shall attempt to translate as memory permits I apr ?pt at all sure about the word evers, That is to say, I know perfectly well what was to be gained by shouting evers, but I have forgotten, or never really knew, what base word this term was an evisceration of. ' IT WAS NOTICEABLE that Individual birds would often fly exactly the same track relative to the ship, each one keeping to it up against the windjto 50 or 60 feet, flying level for a while and then divings d x at very high speed. When just above the water a steeply banked turn brought the bird into, a trough between the' waves with its wing-tip- s only a religiously-soar- ing down-win- , w tr Tk!" Morr?w c |