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B 2 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY H PUBLISHED E.VERY SATURDAY. H TENTH YEAR. HH SUBSCRIPTION PRICE OP GOODWIN'S WEEKLY. 9 Including postage In tho United States, Canada and H Moxico, $2.50 por year; $1.60 for six months. Sub- H Bcrlption3 to all foreign countries within tho Postal j Union, $4.00 per year. H Single copies, 5 cents. H Payment should be mado by Check, Money Order H or Registered Letter, payable to Goodwin's Weekly. H Address all communications to Goodwjn's Weekly. j Entered at tho Fostofflco at Salt Lake City, Utah, H U. S. A., as second-class matter. M P. O. Boxes, 1274 and 1772. H Telephone: Bell, 301. H 912-916 Boston Block, Salt Lake City, Utah. M J. T. Goodwin, Mgr. L. S. Glllham, Bus. Mgr. H C. C. GOODWIN EJ'tor Hj 'Underno circumstances will " will accept the nomination H I be a candidate for or accept for President If It Is tendered B another nomnaon.'-Prident to me.' -Theodore Roosevelt, Feb- BH Rooievelt. November 6, 1904. ruary 12. 1912. E bo a closer watch on tho youth, tliere should bo Hj a closer watch for criminals and they, when ar- H rested and arraigned, should bo more thoroughly M prosecuted. Tho idea should bo that this town K shall bo better than the next town, and when Hi that becomes fixed in the minds of tho people, H then every town will be boat and the aggregate H will make a nation incomparable. H We have fine schools in Salt Lake City, but H how much interest do the men of affairs of the H city take in the schools? If anything is unsanl- H tary they want 'hat fixed, if anything is unsafe H about the school house they want that fixed, but B they leave all the rest to the teachers, and how V many teachers of them all are competent? We Hh do not mean to say that they have not the book H education, we do not mean to say that they are WM not as good teachers as any other state has, B , but how many of them, when training a class, m can so train that class that they will perfectly H understand what the lesson means? If it is an H event in history, how many teachers devote five H minutes to explaining to the class the attending H conditions, how that event came around, where H it was, what decided it? In that way when tho H scholars wont out with the diplomas, their di- H plomas would count for something. Then r H student's mind would be loaded with some facts H which would impress the other facts upon his H or her memory. And when any moral lesson is H to be taught, how many teachers can handle H that properly? H Beyond the teachers how many homes aro H there where the children receive from their par- H ents all that they should receive, by way of H kindly advice and counsel? What has been done H in the home to make the race better and stronger H and more ready to meet life's duties and to ful- H fill them? Hi That is where armies and navies start, that IB s where statesmen get their first impressions Hi and the whole lesson is this, that when' the H American children go out from their homes HI equipped with all that the 'homes can give them M and go out from the schools equipped with all H that the schools can give them, wo mean en- H lightened schools that will broaden their minds H even as the acquired knowledge then when that HF time comes the American people will be as were H the Greeks physically -the most perfect nation H on earth. As To Utah THURSDAY last was Utah day, devoted to booglng Utah. All classes took part in it and j that was entirely proper because Utah is a H state where that' which would be ordinary boom- Ing in any other state, in this region would be just commonplace in telling about the wonders H of v, state. But a great many years ago this writer be--gan to tell the people of Utah of some of their mistakes and to beg of them to not commit them any more, and it is with no senBe except in sorrow and as a matter of duty that we refer to those old days, because had tho writer's ad vice been accepted, Utah would have needed no booming now. She would have been teeming with people, all her industries would have been exultant with life and power, and if they are not today, it is because even to this time all the advice that was given them has not been accept ed yet. When we first began with our appeal, there was a state of affairs here which it is painful to even remember, because under the stars and stripes, under the glory of our institutions, de spite all the experience that had come to men since this Republic was framed, thero was a power here that was determined inside the Re public, to rule this region, regardless of the Republic's laws when they conflicted with the laws which they in their arrogance and power decided to have prevail. A little of that still remains. When that is all eliminated there will be no need of Utah days. Every day in the year will be a Utah day. It may be denied, of course it will be, as it has been denied ten thousand times over, but that does not alter the fact. To make what we are saying plain, a single fact only need be cited. There is no one here in Utah, Mormon or Gentile, that does not know that if a man were here, perfectly equipped with education, with experience, with youth and strength to act, it would bo impossible for him to ever hope to fill any important office in this territory, like governor or senator, except he first made his terms with the Mormon chiefs. That is just as fixed today as it was thirty years ago, and while that is the truth, good meaning people may boom Utah all they please, they can tell of its wonders, ' Its climate, its mines of iron and coal and copper and silver and gold they may tell of its fields and what the soil will produce, they may tell of the ad vantages for manufacturing people, but it will do not much good, because self-respecting young Americans will not come here except for some mercenary purpose and there will be a ban on tho state. We are saying this today because we may never say it again, but it is the truth and those in authority in the dominant church here ought to feel it and for the Bake of their own people, their own good names, and the prosperity of Utah, they ought to give up that, and to deel j that the righteous laws of the United States are good enough for them. They do not interfere with their religion in the least. They are bound to protect that religion if it is assailed In any un just manner, but they are supreme in their own domain and they will brook no divided alle gianr . A LITTLE PARABLE. By Anne Reeve Aldrlch. I made the oross myself, whos,e weight Was later laid on me. This thought is torture as I toll Up Life's steep Calvary. To think mine own hands drove the nails! I sang a merry song, And chose the heaviest wood I had To build it firm and strong. If I had guessed if I had dreamed Its weight was meant for me, I should have made a lighter crous To hear up Calvary. 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