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Show TIIE MIDVALE MESSENGER. The Midvale Messenger JACK BORLASE, D- - Editor nt Midvulr. 1'ublUhed Saturday One Year In Advance Telephone Midvale 178. Entered aa seamd-ela- Salt Lake County, Utah 26, 1015, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1870. WHERE ARE THE NAMES? The fact that the entire country is up in arms against the one. profiteer has its humorous side as well as its serious Personified, the nation seems as a boy in his teens, flighty, restless, willful but, withal, ambitious and having a desire to do the best that he can. Not long ago the boy was talking "captain of industry" and was boasting of his huge profits to the entire world. Later, he took a look at himself in the mirror and started to talk of money as if it were only a means to some sort of an end or other that he seemed to have tucked away somewhere in his congciwicft. Now, lo and behold, he seems to have lost his temper entirely, and neither captains of industry nor cherished ambitions of the high and altruistic variety can' keep him from becoming red in the face with righteous indignation, on account of certain causes which so flatten his purse that he cant afford to take the giri out for her Sunday ride. And, of course, its sad very sad. But boys will be boys, so whats to be done about it? If he was thirteen six years ago, hes nineteen today. And if he doesnt the chances are that he will or overeat, some day become a real grownup man. The nations present brain storm seems, however, to be the result of hard luck rather than the result of bad intent. And it doesnt seem to understand the situation at all. After trying and trying and trying for years and years and years to make a hit in society, and then to have unsightly pimples blotch up the horizon-well, its dam discouraging, to say the least. Still, an ncfiwinnid look in the mirror would do worlds for the national complexion, and it might possibly have the effect of changing the part in our hair. Indeed, it might convince us of the fact that we have a head. Candidly, Uncle Sam ought to be ashamed of himself. To have had golden opportunities verily thrust in his face for nearly two hundred years, and then to be wrangling and jangling over the prices of pigs and of pop corn is nothing short of disgraceful were not). And not only that; (Please dont call us part of him is actually talking and doing all sorts of things which are not only ridiculous, from the standpoint of common sense and national decency, but are actually suicidal to all of those big and broad and wholesome aspirations of which the nation has at times been able to rightfully boast If ever the statement Brace up, old boy, was applicable, it is more than applicable, it is imperative today; and thq soqper Unde Sam all of him straightens up and pulls himself together the better it will be for Unde Sam all of him. over-joyride- r, pro-Germ- an And the strangest thing of it all is the fact that the wrangling and the jangling are unanimous everybodys doing it We used to write a few names on our slates which we were given to understand were the names of men and of women worthy of praise and esteem, on account of their high ideals and altruistic aspirations. But where are the names we can write on our slates today? LIGHT ON THE LEAGUE The idea always precedes the act True, the idea might not always be form of a definite concept It might come unhidden and even unnoticed, from out the depths of that thing called subconscious. But we know it to be a fact the idea always precedes the act; must precede the act A long time ago, war was an idea. Later, what was it? Ask the boys who are back. Now, peace is shaping itself into something like an idea, into something which can become an idea a worldwide idea if the world will but Jidp it along. And if the world WILL help it along, there is no doubt in the world that it will live and grow. Then the act Peace, world peace, will follow as surely as the dawn follows the dusk. Columbus had an idea a teeny-ween-y idea, perhaps, as ideas in infancy are likely to be; but it was a round idea and it revolved. Glorious! The world is ours. And it might even be true that the mental chart which Columbus placed before the court was crude as an Aztec tumbler. But here we are. JUST FOR FUN Speaking of ideas, what do you think of this one: A world in which man captures his soul and by virtue of it sees the horizon aa a means instead of an end ; in which guess becomes a discarded god and goodness a trite expression; in which love and hate and jealousy and revenge are but echoes of a foolish past, by reason of the fact that wisdom takes eternal wing; in .which joy ia so common that it goes unnoticed, and heeded only are things-to-b- e, made resplendent by the purposes of the day nij the ploddings oer the task at hand; in which comfort and ease are never trifled with; and in which perseverance is the miy form of propaganda. Today By RAYMOND B. FOSDICK, Training Gamp CocnmwBioq ' at the postoffice at Midvale, 5 over-danc- e Government Should Handle Army Social Work Through a Single Agency $2.00 An Independent Puper. v mutter June M. CLARK, Manager MIDVALE. UTAH Is a good time to subscribe for this paper... Social work in the army in any future emergency horrid be handled by the government itself through ingle noneectarian agency. It 166101 to me that the lesson of the war in social work involves perhaps three points: The elimination of sectarian auspice; reduction in the number of agencies employed, and the transfer to the government itself of much of the activity hitherto left to private initiative. After eight months with the troops in France I am convinced that the average woman worker attached to a hut is worth four or five men workers. Certainly morale and spirit of the troops is extraordinary. An Honest to God Anwriwin Girl, as the soldiers call her, can do more to keep the men cheerful end create an atmosphere of home than any other factor; and the work of our women in France T. M. C. A girls, Salvation Army girls, Bed Cross girls, and the representatives of other agencies has been in no ll degree responsible for the unflagging devotion and inexhaustible patience with which our troops carried forward their high enterprise. Our men have been glad to receive what the societies had for them in the shape of service or supplies, and they have not cared two straws whether it came from Protestant, Catholic at Jewish hands. Our boys fought st Chateau Thierry and in the Argonne as Americans. They did not fight as Protestants, Catholics or Jews. Aa a matter of fact there is no reason for sectarianism. The religious interests of the army are wisely confined to the chaplains. WE ARE RECEIVING DAILY- - NEW LINES OF MERCHANDISE SUCH AS LADIES FALL AND WINTER COATS, MENS AND BOYS SUITS OF ALL KINDS AND STYLES. WE HAVE ONE OF THE MOST COMPLETE LINES OF GINGHAMS AND PERCALES WE EVER HAD IN THIS STORE. NOW IS THE TIME TO GET THIS AS SCHOOL DAYS ARE SOON HERE. WE ALSO HAVE A COMPLETE LINE OF SCHOOL CLOTHES FOR THE GIRLS AND BOYS. BOYS SUITS, LATEST MODELS, BIOUSES, SHIRTS, SHOES, HOSE. MISSES GINGHAM AND WOOL DRESSES. WE CAN OUTFIT THE CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL AT A GREAT SAVING FOR YOU. CALL AND SEE OUR PRICES ON THESE. YOU CAN ALWAYS DO BETTER WITH THE The J. C. Penney Co. INCORPORATED MIDVALE, UTAH Child Labor Laws and Decisions of the United States Supreme Court By SENATOR W. & KENYON, of Iowa The Supreme court of the United States killed the law to exdude child labor products from interstate commerce. So congress passed another law to emancipate the child slaves by placing a heavy federal tax on thf state products of tlieir toil A federal court in a notorioua child-lab- or has declared this second law unconstitutional. law without The Supreme court cannot kill the second child-lab- or several has federal the its that unquestionopinions government reversing able power to tax without regard to motive. If it should annul the law, however, we have still another recourse. Congress can and will enact a law to bar from the mails all matter concerning the products of children below a given age. Child labor being deemed a menace to the national welfare, congresa is dearly performing its duty when it withdraws the postal service from . that sort of industry. If the Supreme court should destroy this third hope of ending child, labor then we must carry the fight to the jpeoplfeshid have them amend the Constitution so specifictlly that there will be no question about the will of the nation and the rig&'of congresa to abolish the eviL How It Comes That Political Bosses Control Public School Systems Does Your Mother Use an a ectric Iron? Mine does, and she thinks she never could get along .without it Her electric iron saves her time, because it heats quickly and stays hot, is never dirty, its handle is always cool, and she can attach it wherever she has an electric socket. I always rqmember the old flat iron grandma used, because there was so much bustle when she ironed. The fire in the kitchen stove was so hot that her face aiyl hands were nearly cooked. When she got through she was tired to death. Now the electric iron is a pleasure to use. Mother can keep her hands pretty and clean, and can put up her ironing board anywhere she wants. I heard my father Bay he bought it at By JACOB M. LOEB, Chicago Board 4 Education To build political systems fortunes upon the school system is trafficking in childrens souls. During mom than five years of service as school trustee one sees much of school boards, something of the public, and very little if any between the two. To appoint as school trustees men and women unknown and untried ia taking a gamblers chance.- To commit the administration of a vast business enterprise to those without experience or training ia poor judgement. To confer upon hucksters the responsibility of preparing budgets, of expending million, or negotiating leases, of making real estate transfers; is signal improvidence. The public ia divided into three classes: The educated, who keep aloof from public questions; the clsss that can think but wont, and, thirdly, e the fliMf that cannot think for itself and accepts the judgment the of others. The latter class ia led by various types parlor propagandist, the agitator and the political type and the boas type; mom dangerous and controlling than the others. So we have a public a part of which ia thoughtful hot inactive, a part unthinking and directed by vicious leadership. The Progress Company Midvale, Utah - ready-mad- I. Lester Ice Co. Not How Cheap, bat How Good. Res. Phone Midvale 175-- J Artificial IP!7 AMPLE SUPPLY Constructive Salesmanship Is Largely to Determine Progress of World Utah Agricultural College By GEORGE N. PEEK, Fonneriy of Wr Industries Board The Home of the Efficient Education No real salesman need have any misgivings as to his status after the war. Spurious salesmanship, the black art of commercial demagoguery, which has flourished in America in times past; will be swept away, along with much other debris of an age of ruinous competition; but them will be greater opportunities than ever for the salesman who has thoroughly mastered his profession. The progress of the world for the next several yearn will be largely determined by the constructive salesman. One might sell a motorcycle to a savage after a bona fide demonstration of what it can do; but if he did not educate the savage first it would be wise not to return to that territory again. It ia a crime against civilization to sell anything anywhere, even though the thing be sold at cost or below, if the selling is not accompanied by actual service. The great achievement of the war, next to destroying autocracy, was the elimination of things useless from our industrial life. But this very elimination necessitates the retention of all rueful processes. Instead of should know finding that his job has vanished the constructive salesmen are the being swept away past that the things which have hindered him in and that the world ia inviting him to his greatest possible achievement BEGINS ITS FALL QUARTER Monday, September IS Degree and Vocational Courses offered in the Schools of AGRICULTURE, HOME ECONOMICS, COMMERCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, MECHANIC ARTS, GENERAL SCIENCE, AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING. THE U. A. C. TRAINS FOR 60 SPECIFIC PROFESSIONS Over two positions were open for every 1919 Graduate of the College For catalog and further information address The Presidents Office, Utah Agricultural College, Logan, Utah. |
