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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01
A SERMONET FOR WORKERS

GFor the News" by II. j. Hapgood.l
Enthusiasm is contagious. il Will
spread like good news throughout the
office. Everybody will get his share
and will work all the harder accord
ingly. When l employ man. said
the president of one Of the big lnsur-
ance companies recently, Il always size
him UP for his ability to instn enthu-
siasm into other men. Any man who
can do this is worth retaining. whether
or not he produces directly a dollars
worth OF business.
Such man IL always valuable. HIS
very presence in your place OF business
brings the cheerfulness that makes la
Dor light. He goes about his work
with such earnestness that he inspires
greater efforts on the part Of those
around him
On the other hand, know many men
whose personal influence seems to pro-
duce in everyone kind OF lazy de-
preston which makes him careless In
regard to his individual tasks, and in
different to the welfare of the business
In general.
No matter how valuable that man
may seem to be, he has no place In
your office. He may do his own work
with dispatch and exactness; but he
so affects the work of others that the
good he does is more than over-bal-
anced by what the others fail to do.
Employ n man whose energies are
tireless; whose capacity for work
knows no bound! His enthusiasm
creates a spirit of earnest endeavor
and cheerful effort among his fellow
employees. Everybody feels stronger and
happier when he is present and his
salary is more earned b the extra
work produced as direct result of
his enthusiasm.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

their choice. But the graduates OF
technical schools rarely fail These
schools cannot turn out well euuip-
ped men fast enough to meet the
constant demand for their services
Any professor OF standing knows that
the requests made for trained men In
his department exceed the supply. In
many OF the technical schools the
members Of the graduating classes are
placed before they receive their diplo-
mas. They leave the institution on
commencement day 70 begin work In
good positions. In some lines, no one
but such graduate can secure a
place.
These facts tell their own story. Are
the teachers OF this state ready to adj
init the real situation? We believe
that most of them are, theoretically
Practically. however. they are limit
cd as to the means OF realizing the
Industrial idea IN the schools. Such
training costs more money than has
yet been spared to school expenses.
on tho other hand. much could be
done on present resources. II the teach
ers themselves were ready to do IL.
Are they trained for It? We fear not,
as general thing, Are they sufficient
ly paid to enable them to take enough
technical training to introduce 1t into
the schools7 They are not.
Nevertheless, the high schools can
lend effective aid. providing that their
principals are men Of gobd ability
and OF sufficient discernment to per-
ceive the needs of the times. We sup
pose that the consideration of what
the high school course should be will
enlist the careful attention of the best
educators in our midst.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01
TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

The Utah state Teachers Association
VIII meet tomorrow at Provo. 1t ap-
pears to have upon its program certain
references to the subject OF manual and
technical training in the public schools.
Art and handicraft. domestic science.
nature study work and topic entitled
THE Most Effective High School
Course for Utah." are among the sub
jects enumerated for presentation and
discussion before the teachers of the
state.
II IL In the high school that moro
may be done towards technical train
ing than in the common school. The
latter can impart the tendency and
the former can give more definite d.
reetion to that tendency; and finally
the technical college can impart to the
high school graduate the necessary
skill to enable him to make a sue
cess Of an Industrial career.
Technical education in any form Is
expenslye but the practice OF mech
anism, domestic arts. and elementary
agriculture. and nature work in the
public schools is entirely within reach
II only the teachers and school or
icers can be converted to the educatlvo
value OF such work.
quite recently, 1t Is true. prom
lnent business man announced that a
common school training supplemented
by four years I'm the workshop, was a
sufficient equipment upon which a
young man ought to succeed. But Is
this 90?
Place thousand men whose train
ing was limited to o grammar school
course aud practical experience IN the
shop side by side with another thou.
sand from Rensselaer, Massachusetts,
institute. the slbley school, Purdue,
stevens institute. Worcester Polytech-
mic aud similar technical schools and II
will be seen that the latter group would
furnish the larger number OF efficient
and successful workers. II the attain
ments OF the entire body OF gradu-
atos Of American technical schools
We're compared with those OF an equal
number Of workers without any ad-
ynntages of the schools the result
would not be doubtful.
No young man should be- deceived by
the industrial success Of men without
technical training, Such men are ma,
rural leaders, They are few In NUM-
Der. Their success often has been due
10 native genius. Sometimes peculiar
conditions have helped them forward.
Leadership In other fields has come In
the same way, Those who have been
trained for command often have fail
ed completely Wherever one has sue
ceeded thousands have failed.
Many educated men miss their op.
portunities. Or fail in the profession OF
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

respect is equally true Of Romanism.
as is evident from its status In France
| in Italy, and even In this codntry.
10 quote IRON the review In the Spring
field Republicans.
Roman Catholicism also has los,
the old authority and has already lOst
| entirely a 'iIlas,er5 over the controi-
| ing forces Of modern life; that 10 hats
| lost the voice OF authority In the state
indeed, a jew and freemason has
lately been elected mayor of Rome,
the holy Guy; that II has lost contrvl
over large areas Of religious thought
ana has lost power to give to the pvo-
pie a good religious education DR.
Smyth's criticism OF the failure Of
Professionalism is. i'm reality a criticism
of the failure Of the Christian church
IN all of its branches The question
he faces Is, therefore. has the Chris
tian church culminated?"
Yes, that is the great question OF
the present II faces us wherever wo
look As Professionalism revolted against
the authority OF Rome and appealed
to the Bible, so higher criticism revolt
ed against the authority OF the Bible,
and skepuclsm now holds many
Christian pulpit No matter how much
it may be regretted, there Is decay,
disintegratlon, in the religious world.
The present Is n time OF transition.
Thoughtful observers of history can.
not have failed to notice that at just
such periods the Almighty always has
laid the foundations for reconstruction.
In time of moral and religious de-
cay. Noah was commanded to build
the ark, At such time, Moses was
raised UP and reared in the wilder
ness Ezra and Nehemiah were raised
up under similar circumstances. At
such a time the Son of Man came.
Again in our age, which is acllnowledg-
cd TO be one of religious. IL not moral
confusion. the Almighty has establish
cd His Church, as a preparation for
new era He has restored the Priest
hood, and the spiritual gifts. He has
re-opened the channels Of communicd-
ton between heaven and earth. Thc
Church of Christ represents the onlS
Modernism" that has in 1t the ele-
ment of catholicity on which unity can
be established. The Gospel Is Gods
offer to mankind of an efficient rem
edy against all both social, moral.
and physical ills Of the world. 1t has
proved TO be efficient, even unde
storms Of adversely, such as no Amer
lean religious society has been called
upon to endure.
The Church. however, is growing
and that is one OF the great signs
Of the present
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01
OUR NATIONAL SETTLING DAY.

1t Is with feeling almost of awe,
that one contemplates the advent Of
the first business day in new year in
this vast country of ours. aud tries to
realize something of the magnitude of
the figures involved in the payment OF
interest. dividends and other annual
profits. In New York City alone, It Is
estimated. one hundred and ninety mil
lions will be paid out by the great cor
porations of the country to the hold
ers IF coupons and stocks, as the semi
annual dues to the investors Of the
country. Add To this the hundreds
and thousands of smaller concerns
scattered throughout the United States
with whom January Is settling day,
and some idea, though a faint one.
may he gained OF what the opening
of the new year means to the business
world. To fortlfy themselves for the
demands that will be made on them
tomorrow. the banks OF the United
States for long time have been draw
Ing in their means and increasing their
reserves. and this, in times like the.
present, has added 10 the general
strlnRency, But all the vast streams
Of money released tomorrow, should
at once seek and flow back into the
ordinary channels Of trade. so that
early in the new year normal condi-
tions should be resumed and the coun-
try should emerge from the clouds of
depression which have surrounded It,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01
WHAT CAN BE DoNE7
Kansas City Post.

Notwithstanding thousands of years
of effort. not single crime has been
completely stamped out OF existence. All
the biggest crimes are now as common
as ever, and there is a rather strong i'm
preston, supported by some statistical
evidence, that crime is increasing rath-
er than diminishing among us. Vice
Is certainly no less rampant than in the
cider day. Everything in the way of
repression that human ingenuity could
devise has been employed. Men have
been imprisoned, degraded, subjected
TO torture, manned hanged and burned.
all without avail. Pathological authori-
Ties even claim that punishment In
stead of diminishing crime tends to In
crease 1t. and that the severer the pun
ishment the more rapidly does the evil
spread. The argument is that the ten
dency of punishment is to brutalize
and degrade the entire population, the
administrators no less than the victims
or punishment. II this be true, and
1t seems to be true, then wisdom would
dictate an entirely different method of
procedure.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01
TRADE BALANCES FAVORABLE
Phlladelphla Public Ledger.

Although the imports of the United
States in November were less by about
S9,00O.O00 than for the corresponding
month of 1906, the exports were IN
creased by nearly S22.OOO,OOO to S2O2.
444.474 Az the aggregate of imports
for the month was $ll0iS9,1O9 the pal
ance of trade I'm favor of the United
states was S916S5.365, which much
more than absorbed the entire gold i'm
portatlon for the same month, amount
ing to $63 ,S47,Sf7. II is true that the
excess OF gold imports for the II
months ended with November. 1907
Is considerably less than that for the
same period In 1906 but as the i'm
ports and exports are still expanding
the situation entirely refutes the prog
nostications of evil made In connection
with the high figures OF the nation >
foreign commerce both in 1905 and
1906.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01
JUST FOR FUN.
Dose of His own Medicine.

Hades Journalists 10 shade of New
York ship news' reporter) How do
you like Hades? Did you have a pleas
ant voyage? What do they think OF us
on earth? How do our women COM
pare with those OF the United states?
How do you like our climate? lis this
your first visit? Are you going to stay
lonR?-Puck.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01
Didn't Faze Her,

Mr.. Jagway awoke from a troubled
dream and saw his wife going through
the pockets OF his trousers.
III you ind anything In them. my
dear" he said "let me know, VIII you?"
III l don't find anything I'm them,
Eb4neger" she answered, In a high
keyed voice, "In let you know. all
right"
Making no rejolnder. M JaBway
calmly awaited the coming explosion -
Chicago Tribune
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

"Panios and industrial depressions
are the result OF the characteristics Of
human nature, which manifest them
selves IN business and elsewhere" says
Secretary TAFT, Let that be admitted,
but what Is II, then. that causes these
characteristics Of human nature" 20
manifest themselves at certain tlmes2
That IL tho real question which is
begged IN ths above explanation.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

Representative Littleield is opposed
TO any reduction Of tho tariff on wood
pulp. Does he spurn the power OF the
press? The press Of the country ia
vurs It.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

When the chaplain Of the oklahoma
house OF representatives prayed that
MI Bryan might be elected President,
did Mr. Bryan. IN his heart say Me
tOo?n
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

The craftsmanship Of the senate COM
mittee on agriculture has been be-
stowed on Kansas, that's right.
westward the course Of empire takes
its way"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

The government is not yet through
with the coal lands fraud cases, which
indicates that those who tubilatrd over
Judge Lewis diclslon are not entirely
out Of the woods.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

"Twonty-six pianolas aboard the bat
tIeshps. Armed TO the teethl" says the
Boston Transcript. Rather is It not
armed 70 the ear?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

The statistics OF deaths from acci-
dents IN 1897 are appalling. They are
not chapter but a great, thick vol
ume; and st. grows larger each year
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

Before night half the New Year res
olutlons will be sicklied Ger with the
pale cast of thought.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

There is small choice between being
IN the hands of your friends and being
In the hands of receiver.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

In strolling through the garden, while
waiting for hts hostess to appear. a
newly arrived visitor came upon Bob.
who was building a fort Of the gravel
OF the walk
And who are you, little MANI" asked
the visitor
I'm baby's brother" said Bob proud
ly.-Yonth's Companion.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

In It's way Gov; Sparks proclamation
calling the Nevada legislature in extra
session is an emancipation proclama-
lion.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

lie was telling her about the mem
bers OF his cricket team Now, there's
Brown" said be IN a few weeks time
he'll be our best man"
"Oh Jack" she gushed. what a nice
way TO ask me"-Judy.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

James j. Hill is the most optimistic
man in the United states. Among OPP
timlsts he stands in class by him
self.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

The logical successor of President
Roosevelt is the man who can get
there"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

The editor of the Atchison Globe is
singer This explains why the Globe
Is such Hummer"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

Advanced vaudeville has made no ad-
vance so il will be retired.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

Trust need not fear the law II
they do not break the law.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

Don't adopt any rash resolutions. Let
the City Council do 1t.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

Happy New Year to you! And many
of them
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01
Awful Consequence.

he-tlirting is dangerous business.
hhe-Yes Il sometilnes leads 70 mar,
riags-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-03

was taken, further than to instruct the
| manager to arrange for a new schedule
as soon as possible, the report to be
| submitted to the board for final adop-
1 ton.
Hugh Hope, the football quarterback,
| was elected basket ball captain for the
| coming season and Manager Millice
| was instructed to get strong schedule
| of games Immediately. The basket ball
| squad will start at once to work out for
| basket ball material and strong sea-
son is expected.
Thirteen players We're awarded the
ticipation in required amount of ath-
! letics in any given line. In football the
recipient of a wv must play in three
games after the first three, which are
usually considered practice games.
Those who received the W. were:
Robb, Larimer. Brethour. Hope, Nc
Vey, Smiley, Munford, Whitney, Nc
Knight Codding, Realm, Templeton
and Foster.
Three events remain on the WASH
burn athletic calendar for the remain
der of the year. The Old Spav game
Saturday will be the most exciting. The
next is the election of captain. The
players who received the 'tW' will meet
in the Washburn chapel Saturday De
cember II, at 10 o'clock, and will elect
football captain. The other event will
be the election of a coach, but this will
be a mere formality Coache Weehde
can have the position another season If
he wants it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-03
BLEW UP The LEVEE.
Pine Bluff Citizens Cut War Depart
ment Red Tape.

Pine Bluff, Ark. Dec. 3.-The govern
ment levee, which turned the raging
Arkansas river flood against the city
levee, was blown up at $40 O'Clock
last night. 1t is not known who set
off the dynamite. The action was ia
ken to save the city. The river was
slowly washing its way through the
city levee.
Early in the week the city appealed
in the levee to save the city from the
rising flood, which was undermining the
buildings along the shore. The war de-
partment refused and yesterday the cit
liens in mass meeting decided to blow
up the levee on their own responsible
ty. However, last nights action is not
regarded as official or ordered by the
mass meeting. 1t is believed to be the
work of one or two men, who have ia
ken the matter into their. own hands.
The point which was blown up has
continuously thrown the swift current
against the south bank. right at the
business center of the city. BY blow
ing away the point, it is said, the river
will change its course and the current
will strike the bank nearly mile be-
low the city.
beating against the back doors of Ho-
tel Jefferson and the Jefferson county
court house at midnight. 1t had taken
away 25 feet of ground for a, distance
of three blocks and threatened to take
away the rear wall of the big hosiery
and the 100000 annex to the court
house before daylight. livery stable
at the foot of Court street fell into the
river while thousands of sightseers
stood along the river bank. All the
stock and vehicles had been removed
from the building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-03

outcome of the deal.
1t is bigger than the Joe Letter deal
when that young millionaire lost 9
millions ten years ago. 1t is bigger
than the John w. Gates holding which
caused that plunger a heavy loss four
years ago. 1t is bigger than anything
"Old Hutch" ever attempted in the
day of his ascendency twenty years
ago.
Most Of this big holding is for de-
livery next May. The "Patten" crowd
started buying several months ago on
the theory that the worlds crops are
short of requirements, and that all the
available wheat will be needed before
another crop is raised. They were en-
couraged in their faith by the long
fall drouth in the central states, which
resulted in diminished area for next
years crop.
They met with obstacles that would
have discouraged most spectators
but Patten is famous in board of
trade circles for his staying qualities.
Despite extraordinary receipts large,
continual accumulation of wheat at
market centers, and indifference on
the part of foreigners, Patten and his
friends have kept on buying, until
May wheat is now almost as high in
Chicago as in Liverpool. when the
English market normally should be 10
cents over Chicago.
Patten has held on persistently
throughout the period of accumulat-
Ing SUCKS, now, III lIAS past wv
days when there are signs that the
big wheat movement from the farms
has reached an end, prices have
started up.
Some traders believe that Patten
and his friends will meet the same
fate that Joe Letter and John w.
Gates met, and that they never will
be able to sell their big holding
without suffering a heavy loss.
Patten never has been very success
full in wheat deals, though he has re-
peatedly made large profits in big
deals in oats and corn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-03
CITIES ARE DILATORY.
Several Have Failed to File Plans of
Sewer Systems.

There are eight or ten cities of Kan
sas which have failed to comply with
the law enacted at the last session of
the legislature requiring cities to file
with the state board of health full
plans of their city sewer systems.
The state board of health is plan
ming to bring actions against these
cities to compel them to furnish the
plans, and further to collect the $500
penalty which is provided in the law
for failure to provide the state with
the plans
Prof. Hoad of Lawrence, the man
who is at the head of the water and
sewage examination work of the state,
is in Topeka today getting the data to-
gether to determine just which cities
are delinquent in filing their reports,
and preparing to put the necessary
material for action in the hands of the
state board of health.
Some of the cities which have thus
far failed to send in their plans have
no doubt become liable to the $500
penalty through the carelessness of
some city officials, but other cities
have fatty refused to comply with the
law. 1t is understood that the city of
Lawrence has refused to furnish
plans, and will be in the list of those
against which actions will be started.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-03
GOV. MACON ARRIVES.
Comes to Arrange for Withdrawal of
Troops From Cuba.

washington, Dec. -3.-Governor Ma
COON of Cuba arrived here today and
had a conference with Secretary of
War Wright relative to the methods
to be employed in the withdrawal of
American troops from Cuba and on
ether matters relating to the govern
ment of the island. The troops, it was
expected, would be withdrawn in
February, but just how rapidly and
whether a small number of soldiers
will be left there is yet to be deter
mined.
Former Senator Blackburn of Ken
lucky, governor of the Panama canal
zone was today in conference with
Secretary Wright.