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Show THE CITIZEN 14 NEW BOOKS What are we to think now of popular education- as we witness its fruits and in the theatre and the music-hal- l the movie? Is this all that education can do for us? - (Continued from Page 11.) long over two years, and we were In deadly grapple for our lives, I saw at a' West End theatre a iarge troupe of chorus girls, all uniformed os men, In tlghtly-littln- g coats, cut short with little flaps, so as to display the least attractive part of their bodies, and set off with other items of mens attire in garish colors; the whole costume being a pattern of modern vile, ugly, senseless, bad taste. The girls had been drilled to perfoim in unison a series of quite meaningless operations and evolutions, waving their arms, lifting their legs, placing their bodies in ridiculous un- graceful attitudes, and sometimes flaunting unconsciously that terribly conspicuous and least attractive part of their bodies which the costume seemed chiefly The hideous exhi'designed to "exploit. bition was accompanied by music that could only be described as appropriate to it. I had come into the theatre reading of liorrlbie battle carnage in Flanders. My heart sank within me, and I hurried away from this more dreadful scene. The . dialogue is now slovenly, and insincere. It is usually, in very bad English: al, I will give a sample. The following sentence was spoken in a fashionable West End theatre, in a piece that had no connected story of discoverable plot; where none of the personages, so far as I could e, discern, acted from any intelligible or had any reason for being in the places where they found themselves. There was a succession of bright tawdry scenes, a display of gorgeous dresses, a crowd of chorus girls and several star performers of both sexes, who appeared in different disguises throughout this disordered maze and revel of insanity. The leading comedian was making advances to the leading mo-tiv- lady. I suppose you mean to infer that Im hot stuff, she replied. I am fastidious in the matter of dialogue and I claim that this tine should have read, Then you think Im a whore. That is 'good Shakespearean English, and it says what she meant in exactly half the number of syllables. It has also the merit of implying a reproof Instead of a sanction for further Impropriety. Mr. Jones asks to what extent we must blame popular education for this descent into brazen vulgarity and flagrant foolery. It is in the popular theatre that we see people as they acutal-l- y are, and now the stage makes hideous exposure of unsightly mental ana spiritual nakedness: . I ask you, sir, to dwell for a moment on the comparative levels of popular education in the time of Elizabeth and in our present time, as measured by the popular s. entertainments in their respective obwas There plenty of brutal, scene amusement in the days of Elizabeth. Doubtless there we re displays wliicn would have shocked the ears and eyes or many of the frequenters of our present popular theatres, though I question if those coarser entertainments of a coarser and more robust age were so charged with insidious corruption and mental depravity as some of our present-da- y entertainments. But alongside those brutal exhibition, there flourished the greatest drama of all times. One might put up with a large amount of tawdry, extravagant display and witless vulgarity, treating it as merely holiday exuberance If alongside we had a vigorous, sane, modern drama that addressed itself to intelligent audiences. But the music-ha- ll has usurped and devastated nearly all the evening leisure of our masses. It Is our national' school of taste and manners, and it clearly indicates the level and the drift of our popular education. tne-atre- If a man drugs me with ether, and takes from me my watch, he knows he has robbed me, and, in his heart, he probably calls himself a thief. But if, in some greatly involved matter of politics, a man drugs me with the fumes of his words and lus whimsies, and takes from me my power of right judgment, he doesn't know that he lias rooued me, and he probably calls himself a Social Reformer. Very likely, before drugging me, he has carefully and systematically drugged himself, and then, if it is to our personal or class interest to be deceived, we go on drugging each other, and we form a caucus to drug all our neighbors. And by and by a monstrous bill comes in for the state to pay. that the Bolshevists are straight, that they are probably honest, and MARY JANE WALTER PHILLIPS, Administratrix of the Estate of Esther j. Walters, Deceased. profoundly wise, and shining clear, and thus far superior to western bui teamen crudely ignorant of the world or modern ideas, that is to say Mr. Wells, ideas: : Attorneys for Administratrix. Date of first publication, August l4th, Imagination conceive our our rulers had followed if plight today, Mr. Wells advice, and had Incorporated the cause of the Ailies with that fithy mass of corruption, fraud, massacre, disease, and anarchy which now festers in the vitals of the Russian people? How thankful we may be that our foreign office is filled with limited, ignorant, uneducated men, who, not possessing Mr. Wells' clarity, and being crudely ignorant world of modern ideas, in Mr. Wells could not get a grip upon the situation. Can human CALL FOR CONSISTENCY. CARLSON & CARLSON, -- A. D. 1920. : NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Estate of Ledreu Loverldge, deceased. Creditors wlxl present claims, with vouchers, to the undersigned at 634 Clift Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah, on or before the 16th day of October, A. D. 1920. WILLIAM G. LOVE RIDGE, Administrator of the Estate of Ledreu Loverldge, Deceased. CHENEY, JENSEN, HOLMAN, Attorneys for Administrator. Date of first publication, August 11th, A. D. 1920. ; NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Estate of John Hajiglanis, known as Juan Hangangianis, . deceased. Creditors will present claims, with vouchers, to the undersigned at 631 Judge Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah, on or before the 16th day of October, A. D. 1920. GREGORY A. PAPAILIOU, Administrator of the Estate of John Hajiglanis, known as Juan Hangangianis, Deceased. KING & SCHULDER, Attorneys for Administrator. Date of first publication, August 14th, . The battlefield does at least produce heroisms and shining sacrifices,, but what does commercialism produce? What is this peace that we acclaim, and how rich is it in the valors and sanctities of the soul, the ornaments and elegancies of the mind? 4 have known much of English commercial liie. I have some knowledge and experience of American commercial methods and practices. These nations may jusily claim that, as human nature is constituted, they compare very favorably with most other nations. There is certainly a greater proportion of righteous men in London and in New York than would have saved Sodom from destruction. But commercial life everywhere seems to be necessarily leavened with baseness, dishonesty, greed, and cunning selfishness. Can we contemplate, with any satisfaction, the perpetual dedication of the greater part of mankind to industrialism and commercialism, human life everywhere becoming more mechanical, more uniformly prosperous and banal and smug, dwarfed down to standards of material comfort and competence? The spirit of man loses its finest impulses, loses its wings if it stays too long in the warm nest of material prosperity. Ln both sides of the Atlantic, amongst men of high repute and great commercial standing, I have known trade dealings and daily practices so abhorrently mean and dishonest that rather than put my son to fight for his livelihood with such weapons I would thrust him into the deadliest forefront of our battle line, and t.iink I had acted well by him. 1 given us a wrong standard of values. We have become materialists and utilitarians, sanctifying ourselves with silly sentiment, as in that detestable song wrhich declares I did not raise my darling boy to be a soldier: Education has the American mothers two years ago, hugging their darling boys to their bosoms. But He that had the steerage of their course caught them in Ills fist, blew Ills strong breath, and filled their sails and wafted them to France, there to fulfill the destiny that He, and not their mothers, had chosen for them. Nor will any American mother whose son Is gathered amongst the first fruits of her countrys valor, in that richest vintage those vineyards liave ever known, esteem him any the less her pride and joy, because he found in the valley of the Marne a safer and more sacred resting place than in her arms. So sang One of the results of education has been internationalism, with Mr. H. G. Wells for its prophet. Internationalism seems to consist largely of a defense of iniquities. Mr. Wells says When the Democratic party, by a League of Nations vote, has given England the power to say when and where Americas khaki-cla- d boys, comprising the best and greatest military force this old world has seen since the morning stars first sang the anthem of the universe, shall go to settle the national quarrels of Europe, Asia and Africa, then let the Democratic party be consistent and logical in its action, and as our boys go marching away, let the Democratic party muffle America and The Star Spangled Banner and have the band play God Save the King. WILLIAM E. WHITE, Marysvale, Utah. August 10th, 1920. of living? You dont have to meet it, answered the irriating person. It overtakes you. , Consult County Clerk or the Signers for Further Information. NOTICE. 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