Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, June 24, 1921, Page 5

“rapa ary, “Let Cannons Roar at Daybreak!” 41 OF CELEBRATION GRANGEVILLE -:- IDAHO Sie Monday, July 4th, at Hall’s Patriotic Program Grove at 11 a. m. _ Inspir- ing Patriotic Speeches by Popular Speakers. Vocal and Instrumental Music and Literary Selections. BUCKING CONTESTS JULY 4 and 5---$5 for each horse entered; $10 for best bucker. First prize, $50; Second prize, $25, each day. 3 Days-BASEBALL-3 Days Games on Afternoons of July 3rd, 4th and 5th for Lib- eral Purses, Determining the Championship of Idaho, Lewis and Nez Perce Counties. The Fastest Ball Ball Games in North Idaho. Music By The FAMOUS COWBOY BAND Plenty of Cool, Inviting Shade and the Best and Pur- est Water in the West. Spend the 4th Where You Can Enjoy Every Minute of the Day and Night BOWERY DANCES EVERY EVENING A World of Fun Is In Store for You. Finest Hotel Accommnations in the State. Come to Grange- ville and Have the Happiest Time of Your Life. Celebration Under the Auspices of the Grangeville Commercial Club C. H. WOOD, Chairman Committee on Fairs and Entertainments CORRECTING DAD + By JACK LAWTON. (©. 1921, Western Newspaper Union.) Arthur had received another of Aunt Sarah's letters, and a Metter | from Aunt Sarah usually spelled trouble. These missives were the one | irritant in his college career, Aunt Sarah had complained of everything in the family household, and now, the | last—and greatest offender—was old dad himself, Arthur gripped his | chair and scowled. It was all right to bowl over the chauffeur or the last house decorator, but dad—he wasn't solny to stand for that. Then Ar. thur’s frown changed to amazement His father, infatuated with a young silly nobody, and contemplating mar- | | CRUMBS OF COMFORT ringe again? Surely, this was im- possible, Aunt Sarah's imagination | had run away with her, He would | go straight home and ascertain the | fact of the matter; so Arthur packed und went. His father was alarmingly frank and regardless, at sf | marr; asked his indignant son, ia it? and choose to o he coolly | whose affair And us for the girl being young | hot in our station, those small trouble me not at all, if cun overlook the difference ip sure that | shail no “objection, And ‘when tt she evidences the clever ex- penditure of money, 1 have money to | do and TE orather think that it will | vive me more pleasure buytog things for » pretty, grateful than for | an indifievent who takes the | inoney as a matter of nly marry Maisie.” leaned forward with an tp sture. he repeated unbellevingly. vatters Mulsie our ages, 2am uke cones to station—weil, @ natural talent: in 4 son spending of will cert course, 1 Arthur credible Mais “Maisie? older man nodded She sings iy musical explained, “the name ts, varintion of Maury “Musical comec comedy,” he 1 belleve, a ” the son again re rtwise. peated, par “Why ne Tower, 1 impatiently hat is where I first saw her, tn the elder, de- musical comedy, A pretty rural act | that quite took my faney. So did! the girl, I got Simpson, the manager, to introdu Found out later that Mary , Maisie, that Is—had made her debut into stageland through frocks for a leading | handwork a specialty tn | herself. | “If you have any objections, It does not make the slightest difference, 1| intend to ask her to be my wife, and will even hold out wealth as an in- ducement, And there is no love to my case—that is, not as the meaning | of the word goes. You left me, a lone ly old man in a troubled prison—for Ss rule and Sarah's com bo relief to the lonelt- embroidering lady; made order to support h's iron plainings are bess nie In & measure to forget past sor row Well, that fs all 1 ask of her.” The young man, seated Ip the big mahogany chair, gazed over at the old man across the somber roou, Arthur had never noticed before the lines of sadness beneath the weary eyes; nel- ther had he been fully aware of that recently whitened hair. So old dad had been le y, deserted. The b use, In all its luxury, was most depressing--poor dad! But he must not let this scheming little act- ress annex so easily his father’s for- tune. He would see her first, and con- } sider dad's problem later Arthur got | out the car and drove in the direction Aunt Sarah guve him, “It was writ- | ten on the back of a pink letter from | the girl,” she contemptuously told him. Maisie was at home; at home in a tiny flat, ing bird in the window, | “Come in,” invited Malsie, “but please excuse me if 1 go on sewing.” | She was as charming as Arthur had tndiguautly fancied, with o refined su- perior sort of charm, however, which he had not fancied at all, The sewing domestically with a sing: | | upon which she busied herself was a guy covered cushion for bis fa ther's favorite chair, “In place,” she sympathetically in fortied Arthur, “of those gloomy dark green Uhings that are all about.” { And as tulked confided, they she soflly, her regret cencerning his fa ther's desolate fife, and ber own help less desire tu brighten It, “kor, what can 1 do’ asked Malsle hopelessly, | “and Mr. ‘Tower ls such a dear, good wan. mercenary idea of marriage had evidently not entered the girl's pretty head Arthur returned home thoughtful, His father thereafter was ully aware of his son's kindly est and attentions, Then one day Arthur sprang the news, “Lam g he announced, “te marry sie.” The elder Tower stared, then with more of relieved he sauk an odd satisfaction than of chagrin, expression, into his chair, “The artful creature!" gasped Aunt Sarah, “She is bound to get the money one way or another,” “Maisie never would have married for money,” Arthur declared, “and, | of course, new she knows that dad | will cut me off tor being a Araitor. | But Maisie and I love each other. Our sorrow is to leaving father alone.” | Arthur's father came slowly for ward, with outstretched hands. “Why alone, Art?” he asked smil- lug. “There's lots of room in this big beuse for my son and his wife. And it looks to me as if this were | of our brains, If Maisie can cheer, and help | The cause of freedom is the cause of God. - Let other's sins alone; attend to your own. An hour well spent is worth a week wasted. e A plain dinner with wise guests Is | & royal feast. | A hermit is a deserter from the army of humanity. | The indolence of the soul is the de- cay of the body. Republics end with luxury, mon- | archies with poverty. | ae | Seek acquaintance with the wise; intimacy with the good. None live so easily and so pleasant- | ly as those who live by faith. The race of mankind would perish | did they cease to help each other, The rust of inactivity Is more de- structive than the sweat of exertion. No sinners are ever so intolerant as | those who have just turned saints. | Our greatest glory falling, but in full, is not in never rising every time we What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is im | mense, ~ | Man is the arch machine, and all his inventions are but toy models of | himself. We complain of life, yet we often than we use, shortness of more time | the waste We seldom realize how irresistible are the powers of gentleness and kind- | ness. Half of our diseases come from the heglect of our bodies or the overwork If we commit small faults without regret today, we shall commit greater | ones tomorrow. Remembrance is like a moonlight of the mind, and it can touch the ruins of other years with a softened light. The great are often only great be- cause we are on our knees, and they would shrink strangely if we should arise. It is not the greatness of a man's weans which may make him independ ent, so much as the smaliness of his wants. Let uy have faith in labor, and in the goodness of a God who hus placed us in a world where labor alone can keep us alive. ° is the insurance which we lives and property, and premium which we Justice have on our obedience is the thust pay for It. God made the human body, and It is by far the most exquisite and won- derful organization which has come to us from the divine hand | co | construction of new buildings, A man's house should be built to last aud alse to be lovely, and to have as much as possible of richness aud pleusantness both within and without. | From Comfort. TIMELY 1921 THOUGHTS The world will continue to exist. Business must move along. What is happening now, has hap pened before. It took ten years after the Civil war before economic equilibrium was restored, Picture the state of the world’s | mind in the dark ages, Men miust hope. There can be no progress or pres- perity founded on gloom. Those who are well must help the sick, Those who have enough and to | spare must help those who have not. | An ounce of good cheer goes farther than a pound of commiseration.—From Life. SHORT AND SNAPPY Too many desires block the road to content. An impatient man promotes the | growth of patience in others. A wiser hoards without gain; a spendthrift spends without profit. ‘The economic vigor of a nation de- pends upon a healthy circulation of mouey. We are ali hooest in the matter of faults, crediting each man Tully with hls owa, . _ soe. Ferd) ae | $500,000 for the | the same purpose, | down and wit DS NOT ALLOWED TO BE PESTS City of Boston Has Strict Regulations Governing Construction and Main- tenance of Billboards, The following regulations are In ef- fect In the city of Boston, governing the use of billboards: No outdoor advertising shall be per- mitted on any location within 500 feet of town or city parks, playgrounds, metropolitan parks, parkways, state | reservations or public buildings. No outdoor advertising sign shall ex- ceed an area of ten square feet If within 500 feet of any public highway. No outdoor advertising sign, wher- ever located, shall exceed an area of | 100 square feet, and all such signe shall be rectangular in form, No outdoor advertising shall be per mitted upon any rock, tree or natural object of beauty, All fields and backgrounds of out- door advertising shall be of neutral edors, and the flelds, backgrounds and letters thereon shall not be discordant with surroundings, and nothing shall he placed thereon except letters of the alphabet and numefals. No outdoor advertising shall be al- lowed within the area between Inter- secting streets and within a radius of 350 feet from the point where the cen- ter lines of the streets Intersect, The structure and the materials of | all outdoor advertising signs shall meet | the approval of the department of public safety of the state as regards all | questions of fire hazard, No waste or other rubbish resulting from any billboard or outdoor advertis- ing sign shall be allowed to accumulate on or in the vicinity of the+premises where the same ts located. Bottoms of ail signs shall be at least three feet from the ground, Ke No outdoor advertising shall be per- tnitted or allowed to be maintained without an annual state license. SEE VALUE OF PLAYGROUNDS Cities Spending Much Money Now for Recreational Centers, Which Might Have Been Saved. Memphis, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Akron and Hartford have in the course of the last year doubled their ap propriations for playgrounds, while Dayton trebled its appropriation the year before, Detroit has issued $10,- 000,000 In bonds for parks and play- grounds; Portland, Ore. has issued purchase of play- grounds, and Pittsburgh $981,000 for With the lucrease of congestion in the streets of Amer- ican citles the business of being a child becomes more and more hazard- ous, In this connection the American City states that 23 children a month, ob an average, were killed in the streets of New York city during 1920, Few blocks In the elty have provision for play space, Of the 15 play centers planned by the Playground association all but six remained closed because of lacks of funds, It is pointed out that the policy of providing accommoda- tions for play should be adopted in ection with rebuilding and the The time to lay out playgrounds and recreational centers is before the town has grown to an extent that makes It necessary to condemn property for such purposes. Let there be a proper- | ly understood, comprehensive plan fol- | lowed In. the development of the town from its start, Trees Public Property. The ploneers planted forest or shade trees when there was scarcely | ap argument for their planting—when they were hemmed in and surrounded by virgin forest, writes C. F. Bley in the American Forestry Magazine of Washington, Today we are enjoying the fruits of their devotion, wisdom end fiver te eBhall we do less— when there is so muc2 more need—for the rising generations qnd for those yet unborn? Not every hesbandman has appreciated the value & shade trees, witness the ruthless tting making into cordwood of whole lines of noble, stalwart sugat maples! A legal enactment In every state providing that every tree now or hereafter standing within the legal road boundary shall be considered public property is suggested, Appropriate Symbols. Symbols are curious things. Our language Is full of them and so is re- ligious ritual, the ceremonies of se- cret societies, and at times It Is very picturesque. When we wish to Imply that a man's head Is full of absurd, chaotic ideas we say in slang that there are “bats In his belfry.” Do you not see how in a dream a belfry could symbolize a head, and bats, mor- bid, sinister and absurd Ideas? Friday Was Columbus’ Fate. It was on a Friday that Columbus set out from Spain to seek a new world; on Friday that he first caught sight of land; on Friday that he start- ed on his return voyage; on Friday that he safely arrived back in Spain; on Friday that he first sighted the Awerican mainland on his next voy- age; on Friday that he first set bis feot upon it, and again on Friday that the tanded ta bis walive land, os