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Show THE PROVO POST TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1920 TWO WHO ARE THE PROVO POST THE Provos Popular Newspaper .. ' Published Each Tuesday and Friday By THE POST PUBLISIHNG COMPANY -Phone 13 . :r 125 West Center St. ' - . - Editor, and Manager NEPH HICKS Entered at the postoffice at Provo City, Utah; as second class matter. .. .. : ; . . QUITTERS? : - Subscription Terms One Year (paid in advance) 1 ; 1. $2.00 1.00 .50 Six Months (paid in advance) Three Months (paid ... in advance) rrnTrrr?TTT?TwiTTTTTnTrriTi SUPPORT A HOME INDUSTRY BY SUBSCRIBING NOW 0 - , ... JOHN E. BOOTH UDGE JOHN E. BOOTH Is dead. This news was a feeling of innfound sorrow by a multitude of friends and admirers of Mr. Booth in this city, county and througout the entire state. It was not generally known that he was seriously ill and his death came as a pronounced shock to most of us. Judge Booth was a man whose life was exemplified . by good deeds and not by outward show. Little did he care the did life not present a broader as- for that things of pect than that of personal gain. It is. said that Oliver Cromwell once in answer to an inquiry from a portrait painter as to how he wished to be. painted, said, Paint me with the wart. Judge Booth possessed just such a spirjt, and was one of those who was not ashamed to. exhibit it. His life was full of deeds of kindness and his philan' thropy was felt in many a stricken home. He had a keen perception of right from wrong, and during his fourteen years of service as judge of the Fourth District court, he-- . administered' a justice that forbade any thought of improbity. To spare the weak, help the unfortunate, defend - the injured and oppressed, and. relieve the distressed was his constant aim during his public as well as his private . re-''T-'V ' ceived with , . , - ; - self-respe- ct, half-starv- , beihg-constraine- , te N are foremost. But this standard of payment is prfecisely what the teachers are not getting. In many cases their pay is so low that they simply cannot live on it. For such as these, the matter resolves into the plain question of giving up teach- -' squalor. So, ing Or draging out an existence of it is not surprising to learn that many hundreds of teachers ""are answering this question by throwing up their work. In the last three years, according to a recent survey of Chicago trade conditions, 40 percent of' the teachers have abandoned the profession solely on account of the impossibility pf living decently on the salarie8 paid.-- - 7 - v These teachers salaries are such as washerwomen, jan , . half-starv- ' - Allusion to his private life revives many pleasant memories, for if Judge Booth was anything he was a hum- orist. Many an audience has he entertained with his quaint stories, and many a life has been brightened by, the sunshine of optimism reflected through his genial personality. yK , The Post joins the familys many. friends in..extend-- r ing sympathy in this hour of sorrow. .. rs should permit them to live with some approach to comfort and personal dignity in theSe days of ' severe stress, the teachers on whom rests responsibility for the right mental guidance and direction of the oncoming generations ; ed self-repe- ct Surely, if there is any group of workers whose pay . soda-founta- in re ; mechanism. -- life. teachers in Kansas and elsewhere have refus- SCHOOL organize into unions, with American of Labor affiliations, on the ground that their duties to parents, to pupils, and to the public are inconsistent with coercive action by strikes. They refuse to surrender their individual freedom of action in possible in- -, stances where obedience to'a strike command would conflict with their conscientious convictions concerning their duties as citizens. '. All of which is highly commendable as a principle. It should have its reward in full public appreciation. That appreciation should take a more substantial form than mere verbal eulogies. It should take the form of payment for services rendered in generous proportion to the value of tfiose services. And what service is more valuable to the country, more vital to the enduring welfare of the American people, than the proper education of our American children? Surely the men and women on whom falls this grave responsibility and who, in the instances cited, have shown so patriotic an appreciation of those responsibilities, sure entitle to such payment for their services as will enable them' to live as well as those in the countrys industrial itors, and teamsters would. Scorn. A bricklayer, whose craft demands an obviously low order of skill and intelligence, may earn nearly as much in a week as a teacher is paid in a month The average school teacher, says the Chicago trade survey report is under a 25 year handicap on the basis of lifetime earnings . The average teacher will 'have to live to be 70 before her total earnings are as much as a plumber can make by the time he is. 40. Blacksmiths, shoe-stoclerks, under present wage clerks, scales, will have earned as much at 40 years of age as a school , teacher .would at 52. ' The teachers will not form unions. They will not strike. ' They regard such action as incompatible with their ideas of personal independence, and the duties they owe to the American public. Bq t living. lives of pauperism is also at variance with their ideas of So they resign and take to occupations by. which they can make enough to live on in the way they should live. They recognize their duties to the public, but they do not recognize starving to death as among; those v "' :i duties. means no singular. Tteachers The case of Chicago is by to abandon in many other localities are ' their tasks. Chicago happehs to have fiirnished us. with the latest statistics on the subject; that is ait Possibly the school-room- s and of thousands glaring evidence of vacant some day arouse us to of teacherless school children may the fact that if the teachers recognize their duties to the it may be tune for the public to recognize its . to the teachers. duties are The school teachers quiting. That is undeniable. But, in present conditions, is it they who are thetontempt-- . ible quitters, or is it the public which will not pay them enough to provide a decent living ? ' . E nation this of Democracy During the past seven years has' undergone many severe strains, many of which might have been avoided if we had had a president whose ambitions might have been confined more closely to giving the American people' an administration with their interests solely at heart; and one who might have abided closely in following a trend along constitutional lines, rather than - bent-on- . establishing precedents along lines Which left Americanism in doubt Sheridan (Wyo.) Post. . ed : -- - - . -- -- uf!!!!!! u E- WHAT CONGRESS HAS DONE (y mm Provo Herald takes exception to a statement by, county chairman Harvey Cluff in his in a recent issue of the Post of the , .. high cost of living. : Mr Cliiff expressed the ; opinion that the president and his socialistic tendencies to- -' gether with his total disregard of all economic principles were the cause of the present high prices more than anything else. The Herald , asks the . question, , What has the Republican senate done toward lowering the price of living during these six xr eight months they have been , to the editor of the Her- in session? We aid that the Republicans and no small' number of Demo- -' crats have had practically all they could do to preserve the independence and sovereignty of the nation from sub jug-- ., , ation to foreign powers as designed by Mr. Wilsons League of Nations ' For his further information we might suggest to the " editor of the Herald just a few things that congress has done in the following brief paragraphs: Two rf Um stm teat eoaatnKUT UMara immm MU sad Um raUraad boobs tba aoal Mi ea (sad IVj crsalastioa'Ma hava baaa eaaeUd by tbs RspabUeaa Oaaarsaa. 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' Tba Prasidoat bad ad; ' raaomBandsUoa to offer wbaa ba autoaaesd that tba roads, Impairad, aad damorallsad aadar (OTeromant oparaUon, would bo tort 4 back! A oolloaaal loss roattltlny tromi ; to tbelr owaors oa March 1, 11X0. ralaoas aanaaamaat moant chaos In tbo absanco of cpbnQdlnp lasl to avort tbo .latloa, aad It was reserved for Republican yiM BMMctata : till! , fpra1 v . MsMUoa. AJ v iJl -- might-suggest- ' y i : i . pSQF. ' J-J- - CLEtUy II Famous Utah Tvlpsician Buys Sonora Professor John J. McClellan, Tabernacle Organist and one of Americas most 'eminent organists and musicians, has chosen tbo Sonora phonograph for his home. Thus Sonora wins again in critical competition. . Naturally, musicians are .musically critical rthey dohaztd. the. beet in tone , and technique. Judged from this standpoint, Sonora always wins. At the Panama-Pacifi- c Exposition the only jury which heard and judged all exhibited gave the Sonora .the highest score for tone quality. And phonographs ' ? its tone that yon want most in a phonograph, after all. ; : .TNI tKSTMJttnrr or QUALITY, 1 CLEAR law-maka- ra ; aiUalty. ImpendUis tUnswayd.Jby tbo braasnro of aalflsb Intarasts, unawad by tba;' Of labor and tba proponent of tba Plumb plan which was ; backed by a powerful lobby, a law was evolved and enacted which even a Democratic Attorney General Is compelled to approve a sound' . and eonatitntlonal and which is haded by economists as tba sreatast atap forward In may years. i MaanwhUe, this Republican Congress Is enforcing eoonomy-cut- -' ting tbo eatlmatea of DemacraUe department beads by tbs mUUons to ! taxpayers. ' tba.ulUmsto, tf not Immediate, relief of tba i ; ; . thraats r . . g '..-- , - ordinary. ; .When can we prove these statements to youT . day and judge for yourself. r ii I E ... . ' over-burden- . I Sonora is found in the homes of thousands of musicians,, professional men, 'bankers, business men wherever true ment is found. Besides, the Sonora costs no more than the , .y'-.5--- 1.- . AS A DELL i::' . - s ' Come in any ' . . Woodrow Wllson is directly responsible foe, the refusal of the Senate to aprove the treaty of peace. His stubbornness has played havoc. Philadelphia Enquirer. - E J3om witK Washington is said to be thinning out a little, but just in time to keep up the crowd somebody has suggested a member. Boston Evening reunion of Wilson -- ex-cabi- Transcript. ' UNIVERSITY. AVEi PROVO, UTAH . ... ! tf Al tfveQentiutf, liun sut. st f Salt Labe. ' E The rout of President Wilson is for the time being .. complete. The London (England) Times. w- - |