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Show . , t . ' ,. '.---- I n . " THE PRESS-BULLETI- ' V J 7M&Z MankfJre dored rssMmj-- that V . JBU1 W 1 I tf If if ? !j m I : Apfl'' a I J u & In K ' M 1 New York City's Financial District I Decorated In Honor of a Foreign ! War Mission. j . Onj. M Days in 1918 in Jfa A W, ' I , Which the World'. Bu,i. I eAj&LgJ ' new Is Mf Interrupted l 4 j- - Somewhere by Holidays j and Sundays, French Citizens Celebrating the Fall of the Bastlls. with 2(1 out of Us possible 30 days. May comes next, with 23 and an Sunday not otherwise cele-brated, thus actually tying November In the number of days closed to busi-ness. March, on the other hand, Is the longest all around business month, having only 19 holidays. Thus at least two-third- s of every month in-terferes with the free play of Inter-national business. Even such generally observed festi-vals as Christmas and New Year's Day can't be depended upon by the banker without consulting the Inter-national calendar. New Year's Day Is the only holiday universally observed. P.ut, alas. It falls on 11 different dates In different parts of the globe, and some countries observe more than one, of them. An exhaustive study of these New Year celebrations would give one a pretty fair knowledge of the ancient history of the world. Curiously enough, one of our own states, Massachusetts, does not make this a legal holiday, though her citizens generally observe It. Where Chlstmas Is Not Observed. Christmas Day, due to its religious significance, Is not so generally as New Year's Day. It has. moreover, only three different dates. It was not generally observed on De-cember 25 until the fourth century. The early church, lacking any au-thentic knowledge as to the date of Christ's birth, celebrated It without uniformity In May. April and Janu-ary. The Armenian Church still ob-serves January 6. Why the Decem-ber uate was finally selected Is uncer-tain. Some see In It a displacement of the Roman Saturnalia; others de-clare It a survival of the Feast of the Winter Solstice, and still others point to Its coincidence with the old Ger-man Yuletlde Feast. Countries where ! ' I i CURIOUS HOLIDAY FACTS. i w w There Is no national legal hoi- - j iday In the United States. ' Massachusetts does not ob- - serve New Year's Day as a w legal holiday. w f Five Christian countries do , not observe Christmas as a It-- ga holiday. j New Year's Day Is the only w holiday observed throughout the world. Eleven different dates are ob- - j w served as New Year'e Day In different parte of the world. International business will be w Interfered with by holidays or w Sundays on 281 days In 1918, of w these 281 days being holidays. This leaves only 84 days In w w which universal banking bust- - w ness is possible. w November, with 26 holidays w In different parts of the world, w leads the months. j I March, with 19, has the few. est holidays. w Brazil leads the nations of the world with 84 holidays. w The United States comes next w with 54. w ' By GARRET SMITH. j uiau plays or prays the W111LK a business will be la-- 1 with on 2S1 days j during 1U1& lu . otiier' words, there will be only 84 days la this coming- - year Uiai are not Sun-- ' j days or special holidays in ouk of, ! biow Important coruiiieix-ia- l regions of (he eaiih. Nor is this an unusual exMiiiitiou created by the war. We are aivusioiued lo Jump remarkable eoiHtltlotiH into the category of war evi! Hi cue daya. On the contrary, some of the lighting nations have for the time being stripped their decks of minor and unusually superfluous Hol-idays. Ever since man was condemned to t caru his bread by the sweat of his brow he has been putting in a lot of ; spare time trumping up methods of j heating the game. Next to working Into the boss's Job the invention of the , holiday has been one ot his airiest . little aculeveineuts in this line. Uke-- ' wise ever since' bosses and holidays evolved, along about history s suu- - rise, the former have been cursing ' the latter as troublesome breaks lu important to know whether the bank in that particular city will be open that duy. Does any one around the I lace knew whether January 5 la a bank holiday In Peking or Athens or Cape Town? Usually no one does. It's hard enough to keep tabs on the 54 holidays rnmpant In these United States. It therefore becomes neces-sary to send an expensive cablegram to get the Information. This sort of i thing happens not once, but many times, In every banking house with an extensive foreign business. j Among the holidays established by 1 custom the occasion la generally the anniversary of an Important political went or the birthday of a national hero. Such holidays are therefore lo-cal, while church holidays are for the most part general. The former class prevails In the newer and more dem-ocratic countries, while the older ones confine themselves largely to the church fasts and festivals. ' Where Holidays Are Thickest. Contrary to the popular notion, the new democracies of the west enjoy a greater number of holidays than their sister nations of the eastern hemi-sphere. Of the 97 nations or depend-encies listed Brazil leads, with 84 holidays. The United States, with VI, Is a close aecond, although she, unlike Brazil, practically ignores the days. Another popular delu-sion is shattered when we find that France has only 18 formally observed days and Italy only 23. We had sup-- I posed the latins always outdid us In this particular. Among the other bel-- , liKeienis Germany, It la presumed, will observe 20 days next year. Great r.rltuln 16, Japan 15 and Russia 17. In most of these countries numerous local holidays ordinarily observed have been abandoned during the war. The study of holidays Is fascinat-ing to (he historian. Those of our ivn country offer a particularly rich Held. If one knew the meaning of all i he half a hundred days celebrated lu the Culled Stales, with the collateral event connected with eHch, he would be well versed In the nntlon'a history. 4me of the 'first surprises in store for such a student Is to learn that the I 'tilted StHtes has no national holi-day. The reader will at once think of Fourth of July atid of the Presi-dent's Thanksgiving proclamation. But not even these are national. Acts of Congress and Presidents' pro-nouncements In this resect apply only to the District of Columbia and he territories. The states usually follow suit, but as a mntter of cus-tom only and not of law. Here Is a 'bailee to win some bets from your friends. the old style calendar prevails still celebrate January 7. In the Puritan days Scotch Presby-terians and Kngllsh rejected Christmas Day altogether as "savoring of papistry." and In New England Thanksgiving Day was de-vised to replace It. It seems a curi-ous thing that there are today Christ-tla- n countries where It Is not ob-served legally. Such are Norway, Pnnnma. Pern. Portugal and the South African Union. The last named, however, still ob-serves the old Kngllsh Institution of Boxing Day on December This was the day when the English gentry, having had their own Christmas cele-bratlo- n the day before, turned their attention to the poor by presenting them with Christmas boxes. The day later became the dsy for general giv-ing of Christmas gifts. Portugal Drops Traditions. The only country on earth a study of whose holidays reveals little of its political, racis! or religions origin Is Portugal. The first attempt to estab-lish a republic In Portugal was made on January 31. ISM. This Is reflect-ed In Its calendar of holidays, which runs: "January 1. dedicated to uni-verse! brotherhood; January 31. ded-icated to the memory of all those who fought and died to establish the re-public In Portugal; May a, In mem-ory of the discovery of Brazil by the Portuguese; June 10, municipal hol. day at Lisbon; June 'J4, municipal hull lay st Oporto: October .", the d;ite of llie establishment of the Por-tuguese republic; December 1. Fla? Iuy. to commemorate the Independ-ence of the country; December 25, Family Hay." These hrlf notations on holidays nihil only their distribution and dates. I'lck of these lies a wide field lllled with (piaint and curious Infor-mation relatlrfc to the manner of litem . the year s work. By the Middle Ages holidays had becotu ao numerous 'i that they seriously interfered with i Industrial pursuits. A valuable re-- suit of the Reformation not generally ' appreciated was tiis abolition ot a large portion of these holidays. But as 'time went on political and religious milestones accumulated a'gnin. Today, while the year's over-- , load In auy one country is by no j means as serious as In the Mldrtlt I Ages, the growth of International finance has made the worlds aggre-- ' gate of closed days a serious factor and on expensive one. Not until now, however, has any attempt been ma te ,10 compile an exhaustive list of holi-days" for the guidance of bankers and tvieiehnnts. This task has Just been .completed by the Guaranty Trust Company of New York city. The re-sults have been published in a book-let thot should lie a valuable addition to the reference library of every bank In the country doing more than a pure-ly lol business. Importance of Bank Holidays. Suppose a bank has u commercial pafer collectable In 'eking or Alliens cr Cape Town ou January 5. It la Amarica'a Red Latter Days. American local holidays are rich In historical significance. Of such are the commemorations of Hunker Hill and lletuiliigtoii and New Orleans and San Jacinto; the all but forgotten Fast Iay of New England, still sur-viving In New Hampshire; Patriots' Duy in Maine and Old Defender's Day in Baltimore, I'loneer Day In Idaho uttd the various Admission Days pop-ular with otiier Western states. Con-federate Memorial Day In the South, together with the birthdays of Lee and oilier heroes of the Confederacy. Two states have Independence Days f i heir ow n. Texas observes her sep-aration from Mexico on March 2. North Carolina commemorates the Halifax Independence resolutions on April 12 snd the Mecklenburg decla-ration on May 20. It remains for Frederick county. Md., to celebrate nil alone the repu-diation of Hit Mmnp act, one of the mon local celebrations of an Impor-tant national event on record. Among the favorite mouths for hol- - fdays the world over November leads, im III KILLED IN COAL MIS This in an Increase of 470 Over Pre-vious Year Increase Caused Largely by Speeding Up Request. ' v) The demoralization forced upon the coal mining industry by war-tim- e con-ditions Is said by the (Bureau of Mines to be responsible for the highest fatal-ity record from accl1ent9 In that In-dustry In the last seven years. During the year 1917, there were 5 men killed in coal mining, which Is an increase of 470 over the previous yenr. "At least, temporarily, It gives a black eye to the splendid efforts of the Bureau of Mines in its campaign with the miners and mine operators for f afer conditions," Bald Secretary of the Interior Lane today. "Until the war struck us there had been a constantly decreasing death rate which was very gratifying to the men of the Bureau of Mines as well as to myself. There! had been the utmost be-tween the industry and the bureau and it had begun to appear as if we bad passed those disgraceful days when human life was cheaper than a mine mule. "Although the war has changed all this for the time being. It is still our duty to analyze and see if we can not correct some of the conditions even during the war, for a single life saved,-i- s not only humane, but a step toward victory. The unfortunte death toll of last year is undoubtedly due to the fact that the industry has been speed-ed and retarded spasmodically throughout the year. There was the unusual demand for coal, the uncer-tainty of prices at the mines,' the fail-ure at times of the transportation faci-lities, and the i hanging, of markets to avoid unnecessary hauls, the difficulty in obtaining experienced men to offset enlistments, the draft, and miners vol-untarily returning to their countries in Europe to take part in the wa. All of these factors combined against the best efforts of the operators to pro-duce coal in sufficient quantities to keep the country supplied with the necessary fuel, and also to have the safety conditions which we expect. "The speeding up of the mines at times, under the circumstances, was conducive to a high death rate. Mines found themselves short of labor and compelled to employ new and Inex-- j perienced men from other fields. Many of the experienced mine fore-men and safety engineers had either enlisted or been drafted into the army, or obtained more remunerative elsewhere, with the result that less experienced foremen had to be placed in charge of some of the workings. With the exceedingly large demand for coal, it was not possible for the operators and others concerned to give as much attention to accident prevention at the mines as in recent years under normal conditions. "Mines which have not been able to obtain an adequate supply of coal cars, have been operated only part time, which again is not conducive to safe conditions. This has resulted in an Increase of certain dangers, especially those due to gas, dust and falls of roof, which would not obtain in the case of the mines operating full time. An active mine will ordinarily be kept in better condition than one operated only part time. "The remedy, therefore, both for a sufficient supply of coal and greater safety for the men lies in a continu-ous, steady flow of coal from the mines, without these overstraining bursts of speed and these part-tim- e operations that led to a neglect of the usual precautions in the mine. "I am satisfied, from what the in-dustry has done In the past, that this year with the bettering of the condi-tions over which the operators have had no control, there will be a greatly increased production of coal and with- - out an unusual sacrifice of life. Given 'the proper encouragement and coop-eration, the coal-minin- g industry will not fail." School Notes lLast week the assembly was held under the supervision of Professor P. S. Marthakis. 'With the assistance of his chemistry class. It proved to be one of the most Interesting and enter-taining ever held in the school. Miss .'Mcf onough, of the Domestic Science department, will be in charge of the assembly today. It is hinted around the school house that there will' be doughnuts handed around, and say! those girls sure can make dough-nuts, if you don't believe me. ask H. or A, they know. ' .Last week s program was as fol-lows: Opening explanation, Professor 'Mar-thakis. " Distillation of Water Lillian Chi-ar- a. Electrolysis of Water 'Alfred An-- . derson. Decomposition of Water by Sodium Clyde Countryman. Conduction of 'Electricity Through Salts (.Steinmetz) )ewey Miller. . Preparation of Chlorine Chris Plates. Properties of Oxygen Victor Ash-wort- h. . Professor Nielsen gave an interest-ing talk in assembly Monday morning, on the treatment of Jordan when they come up here Friday night. We prac-ticed our new yells that day and Wed-nesday morning, and also learned our new song. ' iMrs. King wrote it and it sure is a dandy. The tune is set to "Dixie," and it sure hits the right spot The Utah Power & Light company have their men at work on the installa-tion of the electric hot plates for the Domestic Science room. The hot plates arrived in town Monday and the light people went to work Immed-iately. The science table will be cov-ered with Diato, a new product that is three times as hard as marble. The hot plates will be imbedded in this compound which is made of silica and numerous other substances. Mr. 'Sam Jones, of the 'Power com-pany, is in charge of the work and he says that the plates will be in work-ing order within the next week. AVatch out for. Jordan, the report is going the rounds that they are going to have a special train in which to come to Bingham tonight. If they do, watch out, because they will come with their fighting togs on. Every one wants to be at the game and see the Miners "Reform Jordan." For we are going to do it, so everybody be sure and be there. Yours truly. 'EMPTY EVAN1S. Ui ITE K Ogilon now bus u rit:iry club, meet-ings to be held weekly. Approximately 00 per cent of tiie pu-pils of the public schools of Salt Luke will raise war gardens this year. Owen Edward Carohin, one of the lessees and operators of the Daly-We-mine, died at the Miners' hospital at Park City after a brief illness. The Rich county draft board has completed classification of all ques-tionnaires and reports a net eligible list of 32 per cent In class one. More than 200 Salt Lake teachers gave voluntury service in preparing occupational card-indexe- s of question-naires returned to draft boards. The carrluge In which Brighntn Young Is said to have entered the Salt Lake valley is to be set up and placed on exhibition at the State capltol. Lutherans of Utah are taking part In the national campaign to raise $750,(HX) for war-tim- e service, under direction of the national Lutheran commission for soldiers' and, sailors' welfare. With the prospects assured of reap-ing the greatest financial returns for wool In the history of the sheep In-dustry In Utah, preparations are in full swing for the April wool clip. Chin Chin, mayor of Salt Lake's Chinatown, was arrested one day last week by members of the purity squad and taken to the police station, where he was charged with violating the pro-hibition law. Two masked men, heavily armed, robbed W. D. Peterson, manager, and Claude Jepson, janitor of the Broad-way club, at Salt Lake, of money and Jewelry valued at $1,200 early Sunday morning at the clubrooms. I The first Vernal boy to give his life for the cause of liberty is Clyde M. Coupe, son of James M. and Minn Coupe. He was stricken with cerebri-meningit- is January 28, at the naval training station In Norfolk, Va. E. M. McCain, switchman In the railroad yards at Ogden, has been ar-rested, charged with being Implicated In the theft of a number of automobile tires from a box car on the Southern Pacific near Ogden In January. Inquiries received at the office of Ir. R. N. Mead of the bureau of animal Industry In connection with the state live stock commission Indicate that the pork production of Utah this year will be much greater than In any past year. The Rev. B. Henry Leesman, pastor of the (ierinan Lutheran church at Ogden, who was arrested at Fort Douglas, charged with having attempt-ed to aid an alien enemy prisoner, has been released from Jail on a bond of $2,000.' .. . . The Salt Lake chapter of the Ameri-can Red Cross was culled upon lost week by the western headquarters to furnish 120 children's pinafores, 120 children's capes and 40 girfs' dresses as its February allotment of refugee, clothing. "Help your boy raise hogs" is the advice Issued by the federal food ad-ministrator for Utah. Liberty bonds. Red Cross subscriptions and other war aids are no more Important than the financing of the Juvenile's hog raising enterprises. one of the features of the Inter-mounta- in Fat Stock show, to be held at the stockyards In North Salt Lake, April 4, 5 and 6 next, will be the sale of a blooded wethm- - for the bene- - fit of the local chapter of the Ameri-can Red Cross. While walking to school, William, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Outnn Creen, of Spanish Fork, was knocked to the pavement by two older boys who were playing and sustained a ser-ious fracture of the right leg between the knee and thigh. Asserting that he was cruising the South seas June 5 last when the youug men In this country were registered for the selective draft, Eugene Ertck-ftot- i. of Ogden, has applied at the' city exemption board and asked that he be allowed to register. Nick Haworth was granted a full pardon last week at the regular meet-ing of the state bourd of pardons after repented efforts to gain freedom made by the convict during recent years. Haworth was accused of killing a wutchman named Sanderson at Farm-Ingto- Applications for the purchase of gov-emine-coal lands estimated to be wort It more than $7(KMKK) have been made since February 1. according to a njy.rt made by the registrar of the United States land office at Salt Luke. The greater part of the laud Is in F.nicry county. .1. Leo Fairbanks, of Salt Iike, has been npiMilnted state director for Utah' for tlit tlonal M.ster contest. The; contest Is under the direction of the national war savings committee and is open to all pupils In the schools of the I'nited States. Its purpose is to Incite interest In tiie $2.tKHt,()iKl,(HH) war savings fund that Is now being raised. The l lntiili County Bookkeepers' as-sociation Is preparing to do its share in entering to America's sweet tooth bis season. The association has Just: placed an order for iHl ftve-gullo- n Jioin-- cases for the coming season's j crop." which Is twice Inst year's order. i Owner, proprietors and agents of rooming houses mid hotels in Salt Lake where Immoral women have been known to visit wiililn the past thirty days, have been notified that n future visit or habitation by undesirables will mean the enforcement of the almte-Diin- t law. When You Have a Cold. It is when you have a severe cold that you appreciate the good quali-ties of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Mrs. Frank Crocker, Pana, 111., writes: ."Our five-yea- r old son Paul caught a severe cold last winter that settled on . his lungs and he had terrible coughing spells. We were greatly worried about him as the medicine we gave him did not help him In the least. A neigh-bor spoke so highly of Chamberlain's Cough 'Remedy that I got a bottle of It. The first dose benefitted him so much that I continued giving it to him until he was cured." NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR PATENT United States T,and OKIce, Salt Lake City, Utah. February 19, 1918. Notice Is hereby given that Utah Copper Company, a corporation of New Jersey, whose post office address Is MoCornlck "Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, by John iM. (Hayes, its at-torney in fact, whose postoffice ad-dress is iMdCornlck (Building. Salt Lake City. Utah, has filed an applica-tion for patent for the lode mining claim called the Atlanta lode mining claim, situated in West Mountain Min-ing District. Salt Lake County. Utah, and designated by the field-note- s and official plat on file in this office as Mineral Survey No. 64S1 In Sections 14 and 23. Township 3 South. iRange 3 West. Salt Lake meridian, said Miner-al Survey No. 6461 being described as follows: Commencing at Corner No. 1 of the claim ffrom which the northeast cor-ner of Section 23, Township 3 South, of Range 3 West of the Salt Lake Base and Meridian, bears south 67 dog. 48 mln. east 1120.4 feet), and running . thence north 51 deg. 34 mln. west 376.4 feet to Corner No. 2 of the claim: thence south 43 deg. 23 min. west 1100.2 feet to Corner No. 3 of the claim; thence south 51 deg. 34 rain, east 600 feet to Corner No. 4 of the claim: thence north 43 deg. 23 min. east 950.1 feet to Corner No. 5 of the cjalm. and thence north 16 drg. Otf min. east 484.8 feet to Corner No. 1 of the claim, the place of beginning. The area of said claim as above de-scribed by metes and bounds is 18.064 acres. From which are expressly excepted and excluded the following areas in conflict with the following named claims, to-wi- t: Sur. 4793, Aille Iteldel lode. 1152 acres; Sur. 4793, iBroad Gauge lode, .719 acres; 1.871 acres; the net area of said claim (being the area claimed and applied for) being 16.193 acres. Said claim Is located in the south-east quarter of Section 14 and the northeast quarter of Section 23, Town-ship and Range aforesaid. The claims adjoining mild Atlanta lode mining claim, as shown by the ofricial plat of surveys are as follows: Ailie Heidel lode," Survey 479:!; 'Dmad Onage lode. 'Survey 479.'!, and A. J. L. lode. Survey 5836. I direct thnt this notice Le mihlished In the I'reHs-Hulleti- n at Bingham Can-yon for a period of nine consecutive issues. 11. ItMKFiLY. Register. (First publication Feb. 22. 1IIS; last publication April 19, 1!IX) OLD-TIM- E COLD CURE-DR- INK HOT TEA! ia,ii tut it ti.t.4 4 Get a small package of Hamburg Breant Tea, or as the Orinan folks call it, "Hamburger rtruot Thee," at any pharmacy. Take a of the tea, put a cup of boiling water upon it, pour through a. sieve and drink a temup full at any time during the day or before retiring. It is the most effective way to break .i cold and cure prip, as it opens the pores of the skin, relieving congestion. AImo loosens the bowels, thus break in'j up a cold. Try it the next tinm you suffer from a cold or the prip. It is .inexpensive and entirely vegctallc, therefore safe and harmless. RUB RHEUMATISM FROM STIFF. ACHNG JOINTS Bab Soreness from joints and muscles with a small trial bottle of old St- - Jacobs Oil Stop "dosing" Rheumatism. It's pain only; not one case in fifty requires internal treatment. Huh sooth-ing, penetrating "St. Jacobs Oil" ri;;lit on the "tender spot," and by the tiiuo you say Jack Hubinsou out comes the rheumatic pain. "St. Jacob's Oil" is a liarmlens rhriinmtiTii cure which tirver dinappouits and diKun't burn the skin. It takes pain, soreness and stifTnek-- t from aching jo i lit, in uncled and bonca; Ktops sciatica, lumbago, backache, neuralgia. Limber up! (let a 25 cent bottle of old time, honest "St. Jacobs Oil" from any drug vtorc, and ta a moment you'll be free from pains, aches ami utitTiii hA. Don't suffer I Rub rheuma-tism away. How It Generally Works, After snylng. "I don't want to flue fault," the average limn proceeds tt pick a flaw. Glass Making n Old Art. Fracrieiits of wine vases as old a the Exodus have been discovered In Egypt. The art of glass mi, king was trifiablv known t;i i In- - ancient Assy-rians, in tli New Testament glass Is Ulludt'd to as an emblem of Brightness. |