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Show MOTHER JOYOUS -1 us soyiED I "Proud of My Boy," Says J Aged and Blind Parent of il Parley P. Christensen ! I SALT LAKE, Julv 16. "I Just have sssnT 'to laugh, I'm so happy and proud of M4 my boy. Mrs. Sophia M. Christensen. the aged and blind mother of Parley I I". Christensen. said in a voice cjuav - ring with emotion early this mon Ing, I I when she answered the telephone to ! learn that "her boy" had been selected fffl by the labor party to be Its candidate flt lor th greatest office in the gift of MM tho American people. Lbk It was several minutes before the mm 4. -. bnppy mother could compose herself WW ') ' sufficiently to answer questions rebi- bbb&L 11' e to lb.- earlv Ilf" "f her :-irn 1 . Bt Mrs. Christensen, who is n native of V l lirnmark and 77 years old. has been WP totally blind tile past eighteen months BL I but has not regretted the loss of her mtt sight so keenly until now, when she k wanted so badly to see her boy If ' .again." H Jl .-reins so funny lh.it my bov - - my Parley should be running feu president of the L'nltod States." the j mother continued. X W AS niUGHT BOV. W . "Parley was always a mighty brlgl.t w j bov too," she added proudly. "But v I that he should be a candidate for I president!" she exclaimed almost loo L incredulous to believe It. H I'.otli Parley's father and 1 Sere k born in Denmark) and came to the My ; country with our parents when wo k Were ll yegXS old We were married in Idaho and settled on a tarm In . I Weston, Ida., where Parley was born. I Jul IS, 1870, i Parley was brought i Up on a farm Jm,t like other presl- I ! dents. Our family was a large one f j ) fyou see. 1 have fourteen children. f I eight boys and six girls and Parley , f , had to w,,rk his way through school. I t A 1 ii'-iirlv .is I ran lonicmber lie t 1 H entered thr- University of Utah when si u lie was only 17 years old, and grad- ' Ait nited when he was 2u For one or two .SBS " years don't remember which ho mwk I taught school nt Murray. !om thero - mJM 1 think he w nt to Tooele, where he mW was a teat t - first and then was mads fl superintendent of schools. After ho bbbVNI I had saved enough. Ln addition to help- bbbt 'Ing his folks, ho went to Cornell urn- Hi 'verslty and studied law. After grad- B1BM ' uatlng. ho returned to Utah and prac- H nit I'JED COUNT! ATTORNEY. jH. " He served two terms us county at- bbbbb nd was secretary of the con- bbbbbbb ventlon that mude Utah a state. He bsbbbfTv' I whs also a member of tho Utah legis- BBBBnci latino BBBBB i .My boy is only 50 years old, and SBBBBSnP lis not married yet He is very young bbbbbsV fOI his age." BBBBSaJ'l-' it ium seems too funny to be true bbmm ;i can t help laughing, but It's the Joy- bbbbiI(!' I Oils laugh of a pioud mother," she ex- bbbbTI ' Mr. 1 lirlstensen for several years ' 'was chairman of the Utah Republican wmmmmm -'l state committee. In 1 9 J 2 he voted for SBBBH ' hi Ri cvelt-Johnson ticket j BS, His political career during the past ' bbb ) eon , losely Identl- 1 BV : ' with the movements ol farm and ir , tabor organizations, Hu The nominee Is an ndmlrer of Sen- LB ; '..tor Uobert M. Ia Pollettb, Christen- BaVJi sen was a pioneer believer In the pro- bbbbbbv principle! enunciated by mWr C onsln 11 when in- was gov- 'Bm of tho state He openly sui- fLr ported La P'ollette in th.- convention 1 m und fought Insistent!) to get a plat- , .form favorable to the senator. Aaf'li P'lfteen years ago be woo defeated 'ft , for congress from Utah. |
