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Show DEFEAT OF HEYWOOD. Evidently the Sutherland men dominated the Weber County Republican Re-publican convention yesterday and made and unmade candidates, but why they should have turned down A. R. Heywood, also a Sutherland Suther-land supporter, is inexplicable. Mr. Heywood is one of the mo3t brilliant members of the bar in this state, he is a clean man in public and private life, he is a man of ideas and force of character. He would have been a credit to Weber county in the legislature. His allegiance to Sutherland would have proved galling to some of us, but if we must have adherents ad-herents of that camp, none would bo more acceptable than A. R. Heywood. The one great handicap Mr. Heywood suffered was his refusal , to play small politics. He has sufficient self-esteem to offer himself him-self as a candidate on his merits as a man. He might have supplemented supple-mented that with button-holing and quiet manipulation of things political, but he did not, and so he lost. Well, perhaps he is the gainer, as we know Ogden is. Mr. Heywood, Hey-wood, as president of the Weber club, has been a power for good in this community. He has won richer honors and has built more enduring en-during monuments to his name by being the head of the Weber club, than he could have hoped to achieve in politics, and we confess con-fess to a feeling of relief that, instead of being a Republican nominee for the legislature, with his talents hid behind George Sutherland, he is to continue to devote himself to the higher purposo of building build-ing up Ogdcn. GUARD THE CHILDREN. Dr. Eliot of Harvard, one of the great educators of this country and a leader of men, has been converted to the idea that there should be more publicity given to sexual diseases and vices. That suggestion is not new to the readers of the Standard. This paper has been contending for years for publicity and has advocated the teaching of children to understand the pitfalls which confront, those who, growing worldly, step blindly into forbidden paths. v There is so much venereal disease in this country today that, were it called smallpox and its spread noted, those free from it would flee in horror. But no one, other than those afflicted, are concerned. con-cerned. We all stupidly close our eyes to the plague and refuse to recognize the filthy sores of humanity, and, squeamishly refrain from pointing out to our children why certain moral laws are the wisdom of the ages, the disregard of which must invite untold dangers dan-gers and possibly bring physical breakdown, mental anguish and premature decay and death. There is no greater problem before the American people today than the safeguarding of the rising generation from the effects of the sins of impurity. Dr. Eliot has our commendation. May he continue to preach publicity on this great affliction. |