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Show FABLES AND THE BULL. DO YOU remember the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece? It is as old as time itself, almost. al-most. Jason shipped a crew of Minual heroes on the good bark Argo and put forth for the land of Aletes through the unknown world. Nearly every school child has been thrilled by the tale of long vicissitude, the struggles made and obstacles overcome by those heroic Argonauts of mythology; how, after terrible suffering they reached the land of the Golden Fleece; how they enlisted the services of the witch Medeia and how the king, Aletes, set for them the task of taming the brazen, fire-breathing bulls and plow- ing with them the sinister acres of Ares. Jason tamed the bulls, plowed the field and sowed therein the serpents' serp-ents' teeth. An army of men rose from the furrows and rushed upon Jason, but he doffed his helmet and hurled it into their midst while Medeia caant-ed caant-ed her magic and the dry-farm warriors war-riors fell upon each other in their rage and fought until all were dead. And, as the legend goes, the kindly earth opened and swallowed them up, thus saving to the king and others a tremendous undertaker bill. The Herald-Republican forgets that Jason was the original thrower of the bull. In an ignorant, uncouth assault upon those men and women In Utah who choose to be Independent of the corrupt political machine, the party organ says: When the fabled adventurer created by Grimm became frightened fright-ened by the bloodthirsty appearance appear-ance of the army which he had grown from a planting of dragon's teeth, he cast a stone among them. Each then set up some other until none was left; throw the certainty of a fat office into the ranks of the Utah Bull Moose and the resultant precipitancy with which each soldier of the common good would forget Armageddon Arm-ageddon and endeavor to strangle his nearest neighbor would put even the Inventor of fables to tho blush. When the party organ can't even get the fables straight it is not to bo expected that it will present facts correctly. cor-rectly. Its wild guess about the origin of the legend is on a par with its boorish summing-up of the political ituation in Utah, insofar as it affects the Bull Moose. |
