Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-12-21

will and has it not for treless energy and con-
fesses that he lacks it, though he prays to heaven
for this force that others have?
To all of you the Christmas has its meaning
There never was a conquerer like the child in the
cradle God hath chosen the weak things to con-
found the mighty. For 1000 years the history
of the worlds civilization has been the story of
the gentler virtues, the poem, the song and the
of suffering well The race is not to
the swift nor the battle to the strong. Every let
ter of that sentence is eternally true
The grandest things that were ever done on
earth were done by men and women who had the
spirit of the child. The sublimest work of the
Creator is the sweet faced little child. 1t is every
thing for the child, heaven please-all harvests
all gold all schools all trade, all government, all
the coming better times. Christmas means, "And
a little child shall lead Them Emory J. Hayne
30 H. O..
WHAT wonderful! wonderful weather. We
never saw anything quite to equal it in this eli
mate. AS the mid-winter period draws near it
actually grows warmer and more pleasant. We
work in the middle Of the day indoors, with the
windows or doors open, and an absence of fires,
with the utmost comfort. We doubt if Califor-
MIA or any other country on the globe can beat
this much. But if it continues much longer it is
going to put the old-time ice man, who depends
upon Dame Nature to freeze his product, out of
commission For there is bound soon to be big
falling off in the demand for COAL and the ice
will have nothing to sell next season. And this
is not the worst feature of the case either If
we do not get some storms, the farmers will go
mighty short of water next season, and if this
happens, lot Of us may go short of food for man
and beast On the whole we believe this weather
is almost ''too good for the season of year, and
we would prefer to put up with a few more rigors
and see better prospect for fruitful season
ahead. We are wishing now for good snow for
Christmas.
30 A. g..
IT is certainly disheartenng for parents to
hear such report as was given at the Parents
Teachers meeting yesterday in relation to the
upper grade students of the elementary school
and the junior high school department. Not that
the coalition is so much worse than we had right
to expect. Evil is rampant in the world at all
times and it is only by constant warfare that right
and virtue can keep the mastery 1t merely makes
the duty of parents palmer. We cannot send oui
children to school, dismiss them from our minds
and expect that the teachers are going to do the
rest 1t requires constant effort and watchful
ness on the part of parents as well as teachers anC
civil and ecclesiastical authorities to keep the ev
propensities in children in check, and until some
means of keeping young boys and girls in theil
early teens off the streets at night, we fear thai
we will not get very far with the campaign fol
improved conditions. We are still of the opinion
that the city authorities could assist materially
by the enforcement of curfew law.
30 A. g."
THE people of Cedar City and Iron County ar
never laggards when it comes to patriotism ant
generosity towards any deserving charity. II
the big nationwide drive that is on this week fo
members of the Red Cross Society, the organizer
have found ready and willing response on tn
part of local people. The main difficulty they en-
tertained was in securing enough buttons an
badges to designate members. And we still hea
members complaining that they paid thr mem
bership fee but failed to obtain badge. The YER
limited number of buttons supplied by the nation
al organization were exhausted before the can
paign was fairly opened Ascertanng that n
additional and adequate supply was obtanablt
the committee bought up every suitable bolt G
ribbon in town. and had it printed for badges tn
first edition being exhausted and a second Gale
for. If every town in Utah did as well as Ceda
City, in proportion to population, we predict tina
Utah will be the banner state in the big Red Cros
drive.
"".S a. g..
IT has been practically decided to hold schoC
on Saturdays in the Cedar District school, at eas
for month or two after the holidays The ques
ton has been under consideration by the parents
teachers and members of the School Board fo
the past several weeks, both sides of the questio
receiving support both from members of the fac
ulty and parents. The unsettled condition Of tn
country, with the great shortage of labor, seem
to make it necessary to crowd as much of tn
school work as possible into short period of tim
in order to be in position to meet the eXpecte