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Show The Russian arms haven't shown up very well in this war, but as for legs, they sure can go some. The Utah Agricultural College has the largest open air theatre in the United States, and we are informed that its total initial cost was $50. A treble clef choir of twenty-four twenty-four voices with Miss Rosemond Laird as director, has been organized or-ganized in Ogden. The toot of the iron horse is now heard all thru the North Tract and is more pleasing to the homebuilder than the dinner horn to the plow boy. Owing to the lack of necessary funds, Miss Maud May Babcock, of the U. of U., has announced her intention of disbanding her talented and capable company of actors. A Utah man has invented a mathematical machine that has the endorsement of many college professors, for the solving of mathematical problems of a geometrical geo-metrical nature, as well as others. Safety zones marked with white paint will hereafter denote to the pedestrian in Salt Lake City the places where he will be safe from traffic. Lines of white four inches wide will also be placed at the intersections of streets and crossings. The Salt Lake Board of Health has received 20,000 pamphlets for distribution to the citizens of the city, giving instructions for the clean-up campaign. The oamphlets will ' be mailed, and special attention i3 paid to the ''swatting of the fly". The members of the Domestic Science classes of the Weber Academy recently held a cooking contest in which the different lasses competed against each ither. The boys acted as judges in the alTair, the freshman class competing against the sopho-nores, sopho-nores, and the Juniors against he Seniors. In both cases, the younger class won. The deer season opens tomorrow. tomor-row. As to trouble hunting, there is no closed season. For once we are in harmony with John D. Rockefeller. He wont lend his money to the entente en-tente allies, and we well neither will we." ' If it is true that a fool and his money are soon parted it only provokes speculation as to how they became attached in the first place. You may have noticed that the crowned heads amoung the European Eur-opean belligerents are not so confidently announcing Christ-mis Christ-mis dining places as they were a year ago' ; Down in Haiti American ma-' ma-' rines had-a little encounter with armed natives, 'resulting in the death of- one marine and some fifty Haitieans'.' As in the case of our occupation of Vexa Cruz, h nvever, this must not be considered con-sidered a hostile act. We are definitely committed to peace-fulness peace-fulness and watchful waiting. Some kind of a Peace organ-izition organ-izition is proposing to send Mr. Bryan on a trip to the warring countries, as a sort of unofficial olive branch hearer and dove-tender. dove-tender. He is not certain about going into the war zone, but thinks he might be induced(pay n,)t announced) to visit some of the neutral countries, there to pick up any stray data useful toward peace purposes. That's right, W. J.!, "Safety First." |