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Show FRIDAY, DECEMBER THE PROVO POST 16, 1921 TIIE PROVO POST science on payday, the public still believes it is YULETIDE IN THE COUNTRY under no obligation to read the stuff unless it conveys worthwhile ideas concerning . the im Christmas Day In the Old Fern) Horn Recalls Fond and Plaaaant portant topics under discussion. Provos Popular Newspaper Published Tuesday and Thursday Evenings and Sunday Morning THE POST PUBLISHING Recollections. MR. DEPEWS' FIRST $100 COMPANY 125 West Center 8L Phone It HRISTMAS Among the wise gentlemen who have piled up NEPIII C. HICKS .Editor and Manager their millions it is the habit to fold their hands N. GUNNAR RASMUSON Associate Editor across their rotundity and blandly explain that Entered at the Postotflce at Provo City, Utah, as there is no great trouble in getting rich once s Matter. the first hundred dollars is accumulated. Of Subscription Terms: course, anybody but an idiot understands that One Tear 13.00 Six Months 1.50 the first hundred has to be saved before the first .75 thousand is made. We draw a distinction beThree Months tween saved and made, because it is maniimpossible for anyone to become rich by festly SUPPORT A HOME INDUSTRY BY 0 merely saving. He has to use his savings to - r SUBSCRIBING NOW 0 make jnoney. Now and then, however, we J come across something which seems to upset all THE ARMS CONFERENCE AND GUESSING calculations. Chauncey M. Depew, confessedly a rich and successful man, began saving as a mere The Arms conference at Washington started boy. lie saved until he had $100. That $100 is off quite bravely, through the proposals of Sec- in the Poughkeepsie Savings Bank, just where retary Hughes as to the reduction of navies and he placed it seven decades ago. With the original a cessation of work in building more fighting-vessel- sum is the accumulated interest. Now, we want for a stated period of time. The nations to know what good that $100 ever did Mr. Depew. were thrilled by the announcement, together He never invested it in business. He never used with the generally favorable reception accorded it, or the interest on it. How did it help him the plan by leading delegates from the principal get rich? By teaching him the habit of saying, countries represented at this momentous gathsay. But again we say that nobody ever got in all lands took you ering. Millions of rich merely by saving. It takes money to make heart and rejoiced over the auspicious beginning. money. But that .$100 of Mr. Depews never They have not lost heart yet, but they are show- made any money for him, except the interest, ing quite pronounced symptoms of nausea due to and the original sum and the interest are still an overdose of guessing1 on the part of news in bank. 'Now, why, or how,; or gatherers in the daily accounts sent forth con- what but whats the use ? Somebody please ex ' cerning the deliberations of the delegates sent plain. forth concerning the delibrations of the delegates assembled to consider this important matWhen you are ailing, write down carefully all ter. .the remedies your friends suggest for you and With few facts on which to work in writing then bum them. Then you will feel much better. their news stories, the correspondents are forced, or at least they .think they are, to resort to fanHome brewing sometimes means .trouble cies and so the papers are flooded with a Jot of brewing. contradictory Btuff. One day the guess is that the Japs, for instance, will do so and so, but the Put not your faith in idols, but in ideals. next they are put in the news stories as inclined to do something altogether different. Then the The goose that laid the golden egg would call reportorial wind veers again and the reading Every city man dreams of a place in the public is confronted with another series of guesscountry, but in his dreams he does( not include es as to what may happen. the work of a man in the country, ; The public has become disgusted and no longer Love is the smallest thing in the world if its accounts spends its time reading the of things which may happen. They are too the love of yourself. . plainly conjectural, or flatly contradictory from There Are men with the stature of a giant, the day to day. Keen interest in the outcome, the final decision of the conference upon the great todays hen a profiteer. matters which are being considered, seems not to piercing eyes of the eagle and the square jaws have abated, but the public declines to overload of a ruler of men who dont have much more Even admitting that than a pennys worth of brains, but if they hive its mind with bunk. feel they must that kind of appearance everybody win declare correspondents write a daily stint of some sort to free their con- - they are all brains. Second-clas- " J . . war-wea- ry tho-saving- . long-wind- s . ed high-salari- ed In V Christmas Hit Prehistoric Auto J SAY IT SWEETLY . Startup's Candy the country. day In the old farm home. What pleasant memories It recalls to some of us, and what good times It will mean for many of ua this year. There is really no placer-Ukthe farm home for Christmas good times and Jollity and good cheer. Here, If anywhere, prosperity and plenty abound, and In family gatherings and in neighborhood reunions, with an abundance of the frulta of our labor with which to epread our bountiful boards, old ' friendships may be renewed, new ones made, and even the stranger within our gates may be added to the list. At Christmas time we may put Into practice the real principles of neighboring. Living close together does not always make neighbors. . Speaking acquaintances are not always neighbors. To be real neighbors we must hare the spirit of nelgbborUness in our By FRANK H. WILLIAMS. c, ua h, KeClur Folks In. tbs seventeen hundred block on Brampton street used to say that it sounded like a blacksmith shop on a busy day when Jim Staples tattled down the street In his flivver to the Johnson home to call on pretty Ruth Johnson. mat, Folks were about right In the ter at that Certainly Jims car looked like a relic of the prehistoric past, and at the sound of Ita panting, wheezing, coughing approach cats were known to flat In terror and dogs were wont to lift their voices In mournful baying at the moon. But Jim and Ruth had a good time In the old wreck. On soft spring they bussed downtown to pichearts which prompts us to get to- nights ture shows or to an lee cream parlor, gether once In awhile, to gather and Sunday afternoons generally found n around a tabla and feast, them well out Into the country eating and visit, and laugh and Joks and have dust of larger and less antique maa rousing good time. To lore our the chines. neighbor es we do ourself, we hare to Perhaps they would still have been know him pretty well, end there la and noisily traveling here and sedately nothing like these neighborly reunions there In "Maxine," aa Jim called his as a means of getting acquainted. If It hadnt been for the It may be that some of us will hare machine, of Ferguson and bis Twin Henry to do a Uttle mental end spiritual Whizz. Right housecleaning before Christmas day was a newcomer In the town. dawn. We shaU have to rid ourselves HeHenry was sonlkT years older than Jim diseU of the old rubbish of grudges, and many times more zutcoeiful and likes, Jealousies and 111 feelings which Right away when ha saw we wiU find pigeon-holeaway when aggressive. Ruth he feU for her with a thud which we begin to overhaul the accumulation of the years. You will hare to reverberated In gossip at bridge parthrow all this Into the discard before ties end other social gatherings for He managed always to be on you can get into the real Christmas days band when she was leaving the office mix. wtil two not because the spirit, If you hare wronged your neighbor la for home and he always Invited her house. any way, Christmas la a good time to for a ride to her And, of course, Bath liked riding In make reparation. "And If yon feel that the Whizz because ltalipped along aa yon hare been wronged, why, Just foroft as silk and with only a faint purr, get It, and the Christmas spirit and will do which reminded Ruth of tho family cat the Christmas the reel. Christmas should be e time announcing ita happiness aa It lay beof peace and good will to aU mankind, fore the open fire on a winter night Of course Henry's advent in nb way and not to a few farored friends. It should be e time of reviving old as- Interfered with Jim's regular schedule sociations, of renewing old friend- at calls. He still bounced In his flivships, and of making new friends, and ver to tho Johbsoa homo every Tuesday, Thursday; Saturday and Sunday the peace end good will, the But and good fellowship thus re- night and Sunday afternoon. vived should not be allowed to die out there was a difference. Now end then aa the yule fires cease to burn, but he surprised sly smiles on the faces should flow out In a plenteous stream of the Johnson family aa they looked to enrich oar lives through sU the at Maxine, And quite frequently he frit aa though he was being compared days of the coming year. with Henry much to the latter's benefit and his own discredit, "I simply cant afford to buy a Whizz car Ilka Fergusons gasped Henry boyishly end rather wrathfully to Ruth one Sunday afternoon. . "Then It would bo foolish even to think of doing such a thing, said HE honest, to be kind Ruth emphatically. to earn e Uttle and spend Jim felt somewhat cheered up at a Uttle less, to make upon this. a the whole family happier for "Do you would you" he began his presence, to renounce when hesitatingly as he gulped a bit that, shaU be necessary and not He looked aldewaya at Ruth. Sho be embittered, to keep a few waa looking at him expectantly, but without those frieeda but capituwith an unfathomable look on her lation wbove aU, on the same face. grim condition, to keep friends "Do you began Jim again. with himself her la a task for . Then he suddenly. A faint stopped of haa man a fortitude all that sounded behind rurr him, and then and delicacy. He haa an ambithe Twin Eight .Whizz passed him In tious soul who would ask more; a cloud of dust Jim saw Henry turn ha has a hopeful spirit who and tip 4l hat to Ruth ; and then Ip Should look oo such an enteran Incredibly short length of time the prise to be successful. There la Whiz was only a speck far in the Indeed' one element In hnman distance. blindnesa not Itself that destiny Jims afternoon was spoiled right can controvert; whatever else there. He writhed sa he thought of we4 are Intended to do, we ere the sardonic look on Henrys face, and not Intended to succeed ; failure ha kicked Maxines pedals wrathfully la the fate allotted.. It Is so In aa he thought of his financial Inability every art and study. It la so to purchase a Whizz or any other above all the continent art of car. : . jl living well. - Here is a .pleasant were "What to or you end going querthe say? for year's thought ied Ruth beside him. for the end of life. "Only Jim gave a fleeting glance at her, will te satisfied, and felt his heart bound at the sight of there need be no despair for the her piquant prettiness and then turned despalrer, Robert Louis : well-lade- -- ad-te- nt neigh-borilne- yv-- v Is Ther Ideal CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR YOUNG AND OLD CHOCOLATES FREE , A fancy box of STARTUP'S beat cholocate will be given free to tho party sending ns the largest number of STARTUP name clippings from any Startup packages of candy or chewing gum. Other contestants will receive prizes according to number of STARTUP name clippings sent in. CONTEST CLOSES : JANUARY 51922 Startups Industry Is worth half a million dollars annually to this commto all the fruit grown on Provo unity-equal , Bench, AS WELL AS IN TALK! If your dealer is not supplied, phone 18 and we will have delivery made by a loyal BOOST BY BUYING . . dealer. Fancy Boxes Prepared for Parcel Post or Express Free-Guaran- teeing Perfect Delivery. SWEETLY THINE. d STARTUP CANDY CO. When You Get a Good Thing Remember Where You Got It w - a , e . v 1 r BRUNSWICK - . Sr41ml. Newavapw 't f" PEERLESS GOAL r Smoot Lumber Co. : . Phone Two-- 0 ; high-pric- THE SUPREME XMAS GIFT A GIFT THAT GIVES JOY TO THE WHOLE FAMILY ' Cookie Rocks. cupfuls of sugar, one-hacupful of butter; cream. Add three eggs wel. beaten,. three cupfuls of flour, one teaspooeful of soda In a tablespoonful of hot water, one pound (JT dates cut In email pieces pound of shelled walnuts (one and a half pounds In shell), one teaspoonfut of cinnamon, one-baBreak the teaspoonfnl of allspice. nuts In large .pieces and cut the dates One and one-hal- f lf somberly away. Nothing P he ejaculated, and gave Maxine more gaa until she sounded like an express train pounding Over the great continental divide and rolled and rocked like an ocean liner on a stormy night at sea. It was on the next Sunday afternoon that Jlni had an engagement to call for Ruth at two oclock at the home of a friend where she was to From there Jim wee to take her to see another friend who waa leaving the city at three oclock and then the rest of tho afternoon they were going to spend riding out In the country. Of course, when so much depended about the size of raisins Drop this stiff dough from a spoon on buttered on Maxine she had to get balky. When tins In the size of walnuts' Bake In Jim turned tho crank on her Sunday slow oven. noon aha rimply wouldn't do her cusShe stood perfectly tomary shimmy. still, refused to cough and merely MERELY three-quarte- m THREE POPULAR MODELS, ABSOLUTELY : BACK TO LINDLEY HEINDSELMAN MUSIC CO. 120 W. Center St Phone 386-- W. lf looked cynical. Jim gave her an extra shot of gaa, then cranked again. Nothing" doing. Jim took off his coat and put more elbow grease Into his task. Still there Ethsl under the waa nothing doing. Finally, however, mistletoe T when Jim was about reedy to call up Jack: That's II Ruth and teU her his troubles and sugright I'm going to take gest that ah get a taxi and that he her for a sleigh-rid- e wouUJ meet her later, Maxine gave a tonight ... grunt and began heaving mightily, Jim Jumped In and scooted down the street at a speed which might have The Indian' Vlpll. made even the Twin Eight Whizz git In a book of sketches of upper up and take notice. Canada, a pretty incident la cited of As Jim neared the house where he the writer meeting an Indian at mid- was to meet Rnth ho looked at his night on Christmas' Eve, during, a watch and gasped.. It was 2:43 1 And beautiful moonlight cautiously creep- then as he came In sight of the house ing along, and beckoning him to sL his heart sank to his boots. Ruth lencs In answer to an Inquiry the was Just getting in Henrys Whizz I Indian said: "Me watch to see the Even at Jim gated at them the Whizz deer kneel; this is Christmas night started down the road. and all the deer fall upon their knees Jim started In pursuit 'Running U the Great Spirit and look op." down blU he seemed to gain on them. POSTPONED S Frank: you didn't manage to PRICES PRE-WA- R take-dinne- catch ft Wl;;-5rv'- . 4M Provo, Utah " v, -a- - HOLIDAY EXCURSIONS Fare and for the Round Trip One-Ha- lf . Tickets on sale Dee. Return limit Jan. 4. mum fare $2.50. . 4. Mini- Full information from Agents of Union Pacific See Nearest Agent Coionades, Book Cases, Kitchen Cabinets and all kinds of Cabinet also Furniture Repaired. Phone 554-- J. , , n F5 Shop 335 West Center Try a Post Want Ad! It Pays |