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Show 31. UTAH, DECEMBER THE PAYSOXIAN. PAYSON. PACE SIX n?0. EUROPEANS PLEADING Five Minute Chats on Our Presidents Five Minute Chats on Our Presidents By JAMES MORGAN By JAMES MORGAN (Copyrlxbt 3920, by James Morgan ) (Copyright, 0 That Hope of Future May Receive Means of Life. Morgan.) rO 1914 President Wilson broke off diplomatic rela tions with Germany on her renewal of ruthless submarining. April 2, read his war message to congress. 1918 Jan. 18, laid before the senate his 14 points. Nov. 11, the armistice signed with the German revolutionary government. Feb. by game Elder Generation Sacrifices Self FIRST TERM WILSONS WILSON AND THE WAR 1917 1820. FOR THEIR CHILDREN 3, 1915 Tie Aug. 6, death of Mrs. Wilson. Dec. 18, the president married Mrs. Edith Bolling Galt. n week at the clerk's desk in of the house of on the evening of April 2, 1G17, President Wilson was tho centrr figure in one of the great moments of world history. Not only his own peopl i hut mankind stopped to listen. Tho president hud been only five months before because "ha Alas, the kept us out of the war. war would not keep out of the United States. The war took on new fury, with tho resumption of ruthless submarining, which Germany had modified the year before at our demand. The president thereupon handed the German ambassador his passports, and next ho proposed that we should am our merchant ships. The filibustering senate failing to give him this authority, he proceeded l.lmself to am thn. But shipping vanished from the sea, with Its hidden terror, and at last he called the newly elected congress In extraordinary session to receive a communication concerning grave matters of national policy." No other president In the whole course of his service has had to make so many momentous decisions as Woodrow Wilson has had to make lo stood AS thelie hull 1 Wilson had been the classroom for n ipiartcr of a century that the president ought to he more like n prime with minister, trying to other human beings, than a mere department . . . hailing congress from some isolated Island of authority," the opportunity came to hijn to put his theory In practice. When congress met In extra session a month after his inauguration he walked In and delivered his message In person, reviving a custom which Jefferson had stopped only because he happened to have a poor voice and was an awkward speaker. President Wilson udopted the attitude of a sort of member at large of both houses, sauntering unheralded Into the seldora-usepresidents room, which adjoins the senate chamber, whenever lie had any special business, and talking things over in the open. The president succeeded not by arousing a personal loyalty to himself I have but by the force of his Ideas. had a majority on the floor, but, he never a majority In the admitted, cloakroom." Here are the outstanding Items In the peace record of the Wilson ad- l OX AM) COTTONTAILS ministration: Tariff revision, the first Income tax, the federal reserve act, the only the federal trade commission, the to get all the wood animals Clnyton trust law, 30 arbitration trea- o have n go id opinion of him was to ties, the senmnns act, the farm loan, give a lug iln ii, lor he lia-- Mme-liogot rather a had name among the iiiiinuU fur being su (rick.v. So all day long lie Hint about telling all tlu iiniuinls that when it was Jnrk (pule din k tin y were to come :o his house and dine. There were the Squirrels and the Coons, the To- sums and the I.ear family and all the Rabbit family ineluding Woodrow In -- d Wilaon and His First Grandchild. Mra. Woodrow Wilaon. the solitude of his study at the Whits House In those anxious days before the assembling of congress. He could not divide the burden of such a heavy responsibility; he had to bear It alone and without a precedent to guide him. Should we give a further trial to armed neutrality? Or should we enter upon an Independent naval warfare against the submarine menace to our shipping? Or should we back the allies with money and supplies, but leave them to do the fighting? Oi should we join forces with them unreservedly. contrary to the historic policy of America to go It alone? Those alternatives were In every mind In that bewildering period, and the president had to choose between them In framing the policy to be submitted to congress. He made the holder choice of going Into full partnership with the entente allies, pooling with them all our resources, oui man power, our money power and our producing power. The broad plan which he unfolded and which congress quickly approved assured In adnnce the success of the great, unparalleled undertaking, and he pushed it through to victory with grim, unrelenting persistence. Ameri-- ' cans generally assumed at the start, and the British government agreed with them, that we should not have to send a great army to Europe, If Indeed any at all. But when it became an imperative necessity to go at donblo quick to the relief of the broken line In France, the foundation was so well laid that we rose to the unforeseen emergency, building up In a year and a half an army of 4.000,000 and ferrying 2.000,000 soldiers across the Atlantic. The brains of the country, all the talents, were mobilized for the and scientists, bankers end railroad men, labor leaders and clergymen, each being charged with the task for which his training fitted him. It Is a race between Wilson and Hlndenburg," said Lloyd George, when the big German drive surprised the entente and smashed through Its Well, front in the spring of 191S whoever won the war, llindenburg lost that race. The rest the president's journeys to Europe, the treaty and the ImUle over It, are history still In the making. Many years must pass before that extraordinary chapter In the story of the presidency will be finished and may be told L- - the spirit of hieUricol the repeal of Panama tolls, the shipping act, the child labor law, the purchase of the Danish West Indies and war-merc- - It i I t Impartiality. VI I; hants Jusa qtn-et- every one begun to wouder where the) could he and what kept them so late. It happened that Jimmie and Susie Cottontail were in it at all sure they would enjoy Mr Fox's dinner and they had run over to the farm on the hill to have a dinner of some garden stuff of which they were fond. They had stajed longer than they had Intended and when they started for Mr. Fox's house were not as cautious as they usually were about throwing Mr. Dog off their track. Just as they were entering the wood who should come hounding ater them hut Mr. Dog, who had followed them from the farm, and off ran Jimmie and Susie Cottontaillooking for a hole In w hich to hide. Mr. Fox's house was the first refuse they came to and In the door they burst, with Mr. Dog at their heels. Of course, there was no dinner and the party was spoiled, for everybody ran, and Mr. Dog, not knowing which one to chase when he saw so many, went home without having caught any- r, g (Copyright.) O Woman Water Carrier. the woman water carrier, for centuries an Institution In the Holy land, Is threatened with extinction because of the use of water carts, growing popular through the demands of sanitary measures. The picturesque water carrier, gilding along the streets in her colorful costume, with a vase of water balanced on her head, may soon become a memory. The "fellaha, one. fs when Saturday night bouta close up aud work I no feela ver good. I gotta money hut no moocha pep. I steppa one place where sella da flowers for geevu look. Was leetle keed outs'de bouta seexa years old. He sella da paper hut he gotta plenta left wot he no sella yet. He aska me, "Ileuse, meester, you Ilka buy da p.iier? I say, Wots matter you no sella bere dees? Everybody stoppa read lor go to bed now. I aska eef he wunta getta rich one day. He say no wanta getta rich jusa huv bees nuidda buneha flowers for Sunday, llees name Jimmy Brown and he tella me bees fadda go dead longa time. He say tomorrow was was when bees rnudda gonna liuva da drtliday. I lika to buy my rnudda some flowers so I try sella more paper, he say. Eef 1 vlla every one I gotta plenta money. I betta. meester, my inufida m re glad eef I geeva lir flowers for la present. Wop.fft you please buy jusa one paperE' You know I readu jpaper longa time before dut night. But I lika dat leetle Jimmy Brown alia right. I no wanta heem gi'ta wise so I say I gotta twenty five keeds my family and everyone and I buy da whola wanta uewspu. works. And rlghta queeck Jimmy smlla so hoeg and go buy bees rnudda some flowers. He say, "Tanka you, Mees-leand den he walka home maka plenta noise weeth wheestle. He sure was glada keed alia right. Jusa between you and me no foi npreadu round to Jimmy, I no gotta keeds and I no wanta alia twenty-flv- a dut paper. But I wanta see Jimmy geeva bees mamma da beega boquet for present. I buy everyone da paper lie gotta and when he ees gone I row een da waste can. Pretty queeck I no feela seeck any more and I starta w heestle, too. Som-atlnmaka me feela good alia for sudden. Mebbe was dut tuue Jimmy w heestle. Wot you tlnk? as 1916 AFTER one optimistic note In the desneed pievuilmg through the w.ir-torperate areas of eastern Europe is the and touching faith of the people In the children The elder generation hns put ull Its hope and tmst In the future of toe geiien.tion now m Its early years. In fact. In many Instances It Is deliberately sncnlii ing for the children, the Euiope of to- federal aid for good roads. The federal reserve law is potentially as great a piece of constructive legislation ns any that has been enacted in this country. We were absolutely without a financial system, and the money of the nation was in the Irresponsible control of a few big banks In New York. Every attempt to remedy this situation had failed because private financial Interests naturally wished to keep their control of the money. The Aid-ricbill In the Taft administration proposed to give the sanction of law lo this private domination, but con- gress refused to pass 1L The federal reserve act simply reversed the Aldrich plan and gave the nation, through the government, the control of Its own money. President Wilson was the relentless driving force that pushed through the federal reserve bill and the rest of the legislative program The electric spark was omitted from President Wilsons composition, and this omlsrion denied him a flowing communication with his fellows, a natural limitation which was confirmed by the life be had led until he was suddenly thrust Into the hurly burly of politics. President Wilson hns been a lonely figure In the White House. He came to the presidency a stranger to public men, and no president can make new friends real friends, was one of the big His surprises of our presidential elections. For several hours after the polls closed he appeared to have been badly beaten, and Hughes went to bed with the assurance that he was presidentelect. After all the great Industrial states which had decided the elections In the past, except Ohio, had sent In reports of Republican victories, the tide was turned by the far West, whic had been almost forgotten In the reckoning, but where the conservative Interests had less influence. At last the returns from remote hamlets In tho Sierras gave California to the president by less than 4,000 plurality. lie had lost all but two of the northern states east of the Missouri, and yet won by carrying all hut two of the states west of that river, where the women voters are supposed to have rallied to him because he kept us out 4 tho war," The next day Mr. Fox was talking with his friend, Mr. Coon. "No one of the animals would have gotten us Into such a fix hut those Cottontails, he said. In the first place their ears are so short they never heard quickly like some others of that family, and then those tails why, they can be seen for yards and yards! I should have known better than to have asked them. And every one knows they have no sense. The Cottontails run into the first opening they see and never keep I on running ns their cousins do. have had my lesson. I shall cut them off my visiting list from now on." And that is the reason the Cottontail family are never invited to any dinners that the wood folk give their trails ran be too easily followed by Susie Cottontail and her brother Jiuv-tni- e and many others. Vou may be sure that no one ate nn, dinner that day. They all saved their appetites for Mr. Foxs nighttime feast, for, as Mr. Coon expressed it, We should he very ungrateful to Mr. Fox If we did not take to Ills dinner our very best appetite; therefore, our stomachs should he empty. Mr. Fox let them in one by one and was careful to draw all the shades and stuff the kejhole so the light would not show outside if anything appened that Mr. Dog should he roaming through the woods. At last ull the animals but Jlinmie tnd Susie Cottontail were there, and ' Landed Freak Fish. ) FUNGI THAT DAMAGE CANVAS W C. A. BLACKSMITH ALSO IN LIN Farmer Discovered He Was Not the Only One Who Was Taking Down Good Profits. While Tom Biggers, the village blacksmith, toiled over the plowshare brought in by old Ieter Mullins, the farmer, the owner told at length of the remarkable success he hnd had with three litters of pigs he lmd sold in market that day. Now," said old Peter, them pigs was less than eight months old ; and they brought me ten cents a pound or a little above 100. Why, Tom, dhly a few years ago them same pigs would have fetched me only about hnlf as much. I tell you, Tom, the fanner Is glttin his harvest, now. By this time Biggers hud completed the sharpening of the share, nnd he handed It to Peter. From a purse old Ieter took forth two dimes, the usual price for such n job, and dropped then) Into the blacksmiths hand. observed Biggers, Say, Peter, youll have to come ngnln. I charge thirty cents since the first of the year for sharpening that plow. Thnts an outrage! sputtered old Peter. Why have you raised the price on me? To buy some of thnt pork you were just telling me about, said Biggers, with a grin. Philadelphia Ledger. well-wor- n Old d J VIlliaillBIBKIIIIIlIHUlHIHIlHIHIBIUIIIlIHUI of the M(lJor w Broughton-Alcoc- k British army made some studies on the fungi that cause Mack and brown spots on canvas tents, awnings, etc., and thnt bring about a more or less rapid destruction of such articles. A note on the subject by J. Ramsbottora appears In Nature. The investigations were carried out partly In Malta, where, it Is said, awnings last only about a year. The principal destructive agents in the case of cotton and canvas were found to he Miirrospnrium and Stemphylium. The variation in the color of the spots is found to be due to the presence of various other fungi in association with tlm genera above mention!. The first signs of fungoid growth appear 00 the inner side of the roof petitions of tents and marquees. Often within three months pressure on the spots miwle by tho funpi leads to perforn- tlon, or a strong wind causes tearing. Experiments showed that the Wllles-de(ouprnmmonium) method and cutch treatment prevented the growth of the fungi. Scientific American. j , shark, reports ropulnr Mechanics Mag- azlne. Its upper Jaw was surmounted, horn of however, by a clumsy-looklnsolid hone. A month after its destruction In a fertilizer plant, a prominent sclenttst notified the fishing captain that he had caught a female of the species basking shark, of which only-siare known to have been taken during the history of tJie world's fishing Industry. g x flax-mad- Real Beer for Bavaria. The Bavarian breweries nre to resume the production of beer with an alcoholic content of eight per cent, according to a statement made on August 5 by the Bavarian minister of agriculture, following his return from a meeting In Berlin, where the general food situation of the nation hnd been discussed nnd eertnln plans for the future agreed on between the national and state authorities. He also said thnt the dally bread ration was to be raised from 200 grams to 300 grams per capita nnd that the state control of the egg market was to he dropped to October. Fleet to Hunt Sponges. Hie enormous rise In prices of aponges has Induced Italian ship owners to construct many new craft for sponge gathering, the fleet setting forth from Sfnx, the sponge market, numbers some 00 vessels this year. In contrast to 30 In previous campaigns, writes United States Consul Cooklngham of Tunis. The sponges gathered dnnua the slimmer campaign now In progress will, it Is expected, bring nt least P0 ranm per kilo to the Sfnx market e high-price- h A wearied marine monster blundered Into the net of a Snn Diego, Cal., fisherman not long ago. On being pulled Into the fishing smack by the astonished captain, It was found to measure a little more than 13 feet long, and in general configuration to resemble a n Hilton had strong- ideas on many things, and never hesitated to One day ne was acvoice them. costed by a healthy looking individ. ual, begged for a copper to buy food. Hilton eyed the man sternly. Why do you waste your time You he said, coldly. bogging? ought to he working. The suppliant drew himself erect. True. he deHave you ever begged? manded, in Teturn. Susie Of course not' snapped old HilPapa, what makes a man ton. angrily. always give a woman a diamond enThen you don It know what worn gagement ring? is the begger retorted. London j Her father Tho woman. EdinTit Bits. burgh Scotsman. Mr. Dog. (Cepvi Ight - morrow. districts stippll'-- s In the necessary for maintenance of institutions are lacking, hut it has been noted that always the request for outside aid emphasises the needs of Hip inorphanages. Hmv marked is ihls clination was Indicated hv the fact that one district of Boland the authorities, appeal iig to an American relief organization for assistance, asked assistance for only one military hospital, four general hospitals arid twenty orphanages. The appeal has reached Alii'-ricwith the result that because tliev know of Eiuopiii.i that literally mill, face starvation and denth fiopi unless the aid that only tins count i y can civp is forthcoming eight great American relict agencies have banded together tinder the inline of the European Relief Council to raise needed to tide the baby generation of Europe over possibly the most critical winter It has yet faced The-- e are the American Relief Administration, the American Red Cross, the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers), the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America, the Knights of Columbus, the Y. M C. A. and the Y. The Time Is Coming When the government will exact from every merchant, business man and farmer a complete statement of his business affairs for the year 1920, on which to base the annual income tax. 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