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It ' VhIToGDEN STANDARD:" OGDEN, UTAH. FRIDAY, MARCH 8. l3lS. ''pil
Woman's Page 1 1
Dorothy Dix 'Talksl
' MOTHERS OF MEN.
hall Brooklyn, home of the Spar-
; "ryS the cartoonists and the
' rdts have mado merry over the Brook
jobber trees and bahy carriages,
hnt It appears that among tho woman
' ho tend tho rubber trees by the
i Brooklyn front windows, and push the
i Brooklyn perambulators there are
I those ffbo were tho lineal descendants
nf the mothers who, in sending forth
ihcir eons to war, bade them come
' Sck -svith their shields, or on them,
j A Brooklyn woman, of whom I have
nsrsonal knowledge, had a son enlisted
in the armv. Ho was a big, strapping
i id but under age for the draft, and
I rot finding army life all the beer and
1 skittles he had imagined it to be, he
S wrote to his mother that he thought
che could get him discharged on ac
count of his ago and that, anyway, he
believed that he was beginning to de
' velop flat feet.
To this his mother replied that she
thought that what was the matter
rith him was that he was beginning
to develop a yellow streak, and that no
son of hers would ever have feet flat
enough to come back to her when he
ran away from his duty to his coun-
Kow comes the story of another
Brooklvn mother who promptly tele
( phoned' the police and had her son ar
! rested as a deserter when he ran away
from camp and came home.
These arc the kind of women who,
are the mothers of men, who turn the
j weakness of their children into
strength, and give to the world the
) heroes who do, and dare. A monu-
ment should be built in their honor,
j not only to commemorate their virtues,
bat to stand as an inspiration to all
' other mothers.
v For we have glorified 'mother's love,
mother's tenderness, and mother's pity
' so long that we have lost sight of the
1 fact that motherhood has any other
'.' unction than just being a soggy mass
ol maudlin sympathy. Sometimes it is
a mother's highest duty to her child t6
nail him to his cross and force him
to carry jt on.
Nobody will dispute that mother's
sympathy is a salvo to our wounds,
aid that it is a precious, and comfort'
.ing thought that there is somebody
Thorn we can go to when things go
I wrong with us, and who will blame ev
' erybody, and everything else on earth
, but us for our failures.
But this very mother's sympathy,
that is such a balm to us, Is a dan
' gerous and deadly narcotic that kills
oar energy and- ambition, and par
1 alyzes effort, and makes weaklings and
j failures of us.
What we need when we come to the
hard sledding in life, where we must
. put every' ounce of grit that is' in us
i into our work, is not a mother who
; sheds tears over us, or "poor dears"
. us, and tells us how it breaks her heart
, to see us having to put our back into
things, but a mother who gives us a
, bright and cheery smile, bids us go I
1 to it, and do a man's or a woman's
part in the world, instead of being a
j quitter and a slacker.
Everything depends on the point of
view. Work is a glorious adventure or
It's the curse of Adam, according to
the way you look at it. You can
achieve everything, or the fates are
against you just as you believe it. You
believe that the world is a fine place !
in which a man takes what is his own
by the strength of his good right hand, 1
or you despair, and whine about the
unequal distribution of wealth, accord
ing to the way you are brought up.
It all depends on your mother's at
titude towards life. If she begins sob
bing over you in the cradle telling you
how it grieves her that you can't have
the things that rich children have, and
it she walls because you have to at
tend night school instead of going to
college; and if she is drenched in woe
; because you have to go to work when
; you are a boy, instead of Joy riding
around in an automobile, she inevit
ably engenders in you self pity, which
" the most fatal mental affliction
that anybody can have.
It renders its victim morbid, pessl
, jalstic, envious, and morally and phys
ically flabby, and kills every prospect
of success. There's no pep and gin
i S" left In such a person. Nothing j?f
, the spirit that makes him want to
So over the top, and fight his way to
1 ti lY' nor is tnere ln nim one (lua1
ty that draws him to another human
mg, rind gives comradeship that
; ffiake3 anyone give him a hand up.
Mother's sympathy has made more
allures than any other one thing in
toe world.
On the other hand, the mother who
I !e3 her children a brace instead of
lif ?'hen they faco tno hard duties of
"lo, breeds in them the qualities that
oaues success. Do you think that
r8t , 0 Brooklyn boys whose moth-
r5? ! them steadv the ranks
jnen they got wabbly, and wanted to
y "TOP out, will make good soldiers?
,a doubt oC iL Tuev simply
. ,j,"1Un t dare to come back and look
rt ?0ther6 la the face If they
wowed the white feather. Thev would
know that their mothers wouldn't
weep tears of sympathy over a cow
ard. They would shrivel him up with
their scorn.
All life is a battle, and it's hard on
the young and weak. Thoro come
times of discouragement when every
boy and girl feels like throwing down
their weapons and surrendering, and
whether they do or not depends abso
lutely on the kind of a mother they
have.
When Johnny's work gets to the
place where It's a dull, monotonous
grind of daily labor, with lots of un
pleasant things In it; when he doesn't
get very -well paid and things look dis
couraging, mother can pity him until
she makes him as. soft and spineless
as a dishrag, so that he goes half
heartedly and sullenly about his task,
or leaves his place In tho vain hope
that he will find that mythical job that
has big pay and no work attached to
it. And Johnny by means of mother's
sympathy qualifies for the roaming
ne'er do well class, who never get any
where. Or mother can say to Johnny, "Of
course your work is hard. All work is
hard, but you are man enough to go
through with it without a whimper.
Of course you're not being well paid,
but the way to change all that is to put
every ounce of your strength and in
telligence into your work so that you
will work out of the ill paid class. You
have to pay for success in this world,
my son, with your heart's blood, but
it's worth it. I'm backing you to win,
because I know you've got the stuff in
you to enrry on, Instead of being one
of the weak ones that fall by the way
side." That kind of a mother puts iron into
the souls of her sons. She makes
them unafraid of but one thing in the
world, and that is that they won't come
up to their mother's measure.
And it's mother's pity that is first
aid to the divorce court. A spoiled
young girl who has not been taught
that she has any duty to any human
creature, or any responsibility, or that
she's expected to do anything but
amuse and indulge herself, gets mar
ried. She finds that matrimony is not
a picnic; that it calls for self sacri
fice and self denial, and she rebels
against it, and runs home with her tale
of woe to mother. And mother weeps
over her, "poor Mary's" her, and re
gards her as a rnartyr. The end of it
is a broken home and divorce.
But ninety-nine times out of a hun
dred Mary wouldn't run home to moth
er If she knew that mother would say:
"Of course marriage brings care and
responsibility. It's the serious busi
ness of life. Go back and do your
duty that you swore to at the altar.
And there would be no divorce.
What we need is not mother's sym
pathy. It's mothers with nerve to hold
their children up to doing the right
thing. Cod send us more mothers
of the Brooklyn type.
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H SCHOOL M
S SERVICE FUG
An address, patriotic songs and a
semi-banquet described the ceremon
ials attending the raising of tho huge
"Service Flag" "at the Ogden High
school building yeaterday in recogni
tion of the 193 former high school stu
dents now in some branch of Uncle
Sam's forces.
The formalities took place at the
school building. Herman Jensen, a pa
triotic and exceptionally brilliant
young man, made the principal ad
dress. Later, the entire student body
repaired to the domestic science de
partment whore students enrolled in
that department had prepared a lunch
eon and a semi-banquet took place.
Ogden High school, as an Institution,
has accomplished a groat service in
contributing 193 students to the array
of soldier boys. The students not en
rolled also have been patriotic they
have given soldier and Red Cross
benefits; prepared Christmas presents
and have made special and frequent
efforts to recognize tho valor of those
who havo enlisted and add to their
comfort and convenience.
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State aid may be forthcoming for tho
relocating and Improvement of tho fifteen-mile
stretch of road In Park Val
ley on the last Utah lap of the Over
land trail, according to members of the
good roads committee who "went to
Salt Lake yesterday to confer with
tho state roads commission and Gov
ernor Bamberger concerning that and
other questions. The Ogden commit
tee men returned last night and re
ported that the meeting had been suc
cessful, they thought.
Governor Bamberger expressed him
self as not disfavoring such road work
at this time nnd it was Intimated that
tho stale would aid financially in the
project The committee men informed
the commission and the governor that
about $10,000 would be necessary for
the work. Suggestions were also made
of using convict labor and the interned
German prisoners at Fort Douglas in
the road building.
A. P. Bigelow was chairmnn of the
committee, which included prominent
men from Weber, Davis and Box Elder
counties and he also acted as spokes
man. The matter of completing the hard
surface road between Ogden and Salt
Lake through Davis county was also
called to the attention of the gov
ernor, who expressed himself as fav
orable to the work. County Commis
sioner Moroni Skeen also broached
the subject of securing aid from the
state for the hard surfacing of that
section of the state highway between
tho northern city limits .and North
Ogden.
W. H. Harris of the Ogden Rotary
club spoke for that organization, and
D. G. Bolton of the Salt Lake branch
appeared for that branch.
Before the delegates returned homo,
they were informed that the matter
would be taken under advisement for
an early decision.
The members of the committeo who
attended the conference are the fol
lowing: Ogden A. P. Bigelow, chairman: 0.
J. Stilwell.
Weber county Ioroni Skeen, chair
man; Bishop D. II. Ensign, M. P.
Brown.
Box Elder county Brigham Wright,
chairman: Albert Holmgren, Bishop A.
R. Capner..
Brigham Mayor J. W. Peters, J.
Francis Merrill.
Tremonton Mayor Charles Mc
Clure. Garland Mayor L. W. Preston, J.
W. Lewis.
Park Valley Fred W. Herrington.
Davis county Arthur Hess, Horace
Van Fleet.
Kaysville Hon, J. W. Thornloy,
mayor; W. P. Epperson, J. G. M.
Barnes.
Farmington Mayor J. D. Wood.
Bountiful Mayor Quale Cannon,
James E. Burns.
Woods Cross Richard Stringham.
Rotary club. Ogden W. H. Harris,
W. R. Kimball. Salt Lake City C. A.
Qulgley. D. G. Bolton, F. L. Gardner.
COIF EHCE OF THE
nCllZEOCHUH
Members of the Reorganized Church
of the Latter-Day Saints will hold
their annual conference here Friday,
Saturday and Sunday. The principal
speakors will bo Apostles J. F. Curtis
and W. W. Green. The conference will
be held at the church, Fifteenth street
and Washington avenue.
Apostle Green has just returned
from a trip through Palestine and his
address on Friday evening will be
largely a lecture upon tho Holy
Lands.
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EX1ITI0I OF
MEN IN TIE DRAFT
Tho physical examinations of sev
eral men referred to the medical ad
visory board from the city district
have resulted as follows:
Qualified for limited service:
Leland D. Thomas, Walter Thurs
ton, John Mocho, Harry de Roi Jack
son, Gcrrit Vander vlles.
Qualified for general military serv
ice: Charles T. Moore, Bert Ray Miller,
Spencer Collins, Marlnnus Van de
Graaf Merlin C. Edvalson, Sylvester
Swift, Frank Chase, Marion C. Smith,
Daniel W. Knighton.
Rejected for physical disability:
R. E. Shorten.
Of the Weber county registrants ex
amined by the medical advisory board,
two passed for general service, four
for limited service and three were ro
jected. Those passing for general ser
vice wcro the following:
Lawrence Waymont, Walter Grilllth,
Scott N. Hurd, Levi Farrow, Henry T.
Williams, Hyrum E. Reynolds, Cease
J. Martlnat, Simon Hernandez, Earl
Miller and Calvin Cragun.
For limited service: Merrill Ure,
Virgil Homer Nelson, Albert Leon
ard McFarland, Edgar Felt.
Rejected: Joseph Earl Arave, Da
vid Widmer, John Louis Saunders.
ENFORCED LOYALTY '
ON BUSINESS BASIS
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business basis in Macoupin, Madison
and Montgomery counties in southern
Illniois, where the activities of pro
German propagandists recently bo
came so pronounced that vigilance
committees in numerous towns .havo
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to make public manifestations of their
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stamping out disloyalty. Tho first
move to oust the propagandists was
mado in Staunton, where an alleged
leader of tho I. W. W. and a Chicago
attorney were escorted to tho city
limits, coated with tar and feathers
and started walking in different direc
tions. The reason for this aggression
was said to be the activity of the men
in causing dissension among several
thousand coal miners near Staunton.
Oh tho same night moro than one
hundred persons were mado to sign
pledges of loyalty. '
News of tho use of such stem meas
ures spread and within a week Wor
den, Mount Olive, Gillisple, William
son, Hlllsboro and several other
smaller towns made demonstrations.
In some of Uxeso towns scores of per
sons were taken from their homes and
requested to mako public profession of
their loyalty. Sovoral men were taken
from their beds and, kneeling on tho
sidewalk, were forced to kiss every
star in the flag. Somo were mado to
sing tho national anthem while others
wcro compelled to play patriotic airs
on musical instruments. Protests
against such actions wero construed as
evidonccs of disloyalty. In sovoral
such instances arrests wcro mado and
federal charges proferrod against the
men.
Tho most serious result of-tlic dem
onstrations was in Hillsboro, where
Clifford Donaldson, 21 years old, was
shot when the vigilance committee
called at hitr father's home in search
of I. W. W. members. Shots wore ex
changed. Donaldson was killed and
E. B. Emory, city marshal, and Ernest
Flath wore wounded. Later it was
learned Donaldson had enlisted in tho
navy only a few days before his death
and that his father was unacquainted
with any of the suspected persons.
Members of the vigilance commit
teo deny that they counsel violence.
They declare that their actions havo
the "approval of chic officers. They
insist that the district ombraced by
Macoupin, Madison and Montgomery
counties for some timo has been tho
objective of an active campaign by
pro-German sympathizers.
As evidence of their success they
point to a recent meeting of repre
sentatives of more than 1600 members
of a miners' union In Stanton. In less
than one week after two alleged sedi
tion leaders had been tarred and
feather, the union voted a contribu
tion ?810 per month for the Red Cross,
purchased $1000 worth of thrift
stamps, reinstated all members who
had lost standing because of army or
navy enlistment, arranged for pay
ment of their duo3 during tho period'
of tho war, and ended a mass meet
ing in such a burst of patriotic fervor
that tho singing of tho national an
them was drowned in cheers for Presi
dent Wilson and the government.
Reports from other cities where
demonstrations wore staged indicato
that tho same leaven of patriotism is at
work and that prospects are bright for
a fulfillment of the wish of "loyalty"
leaders that tho district bo made "100
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LOSS OF STEAMER
THE HAGUE, March S. The Dutch
foreign office announces that It has
received compensation from Germany
for damage to the property of tho Bcl
, gian relief commission resulting from
a submarine attack on the Dutch
steamer Rijndijk on April 7, 191C.
The Rijndijk was beached after tho
attack but her cargo was damaged by
water. Germany apologized to Hol
land for the attack in August, 191G,
and last November it was announced,
at Tho Haguo that she had paid com
pensation for damaging the Rijndijk.
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Tho Utah Eagle, a monthly publi
cation issued by the Utah School for
the Deaf, and Blind, is just out for the
month. It gives a keen insight into
tho lives, ambition, joys and little
problems of those deprived of their
senses so dear to tho child.
These children are by no means shut
in from the world; they take trips of
inspection to factories, raise poultry,
and from tho little stories written
about their activities, there Is practi
cally no difference in the viewpoint III J
of the unfortuna children and those I I
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speaking are moderate in their wants. H
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Christmas a set of tin dishes and a m
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necessity of the chamber granting ad- H
ditioual war credits to the govern- ffi
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