Show v- v VI VII I P Barkers and Megaphone Pests I ITHE T THE HE spectacle of a voiced lusty-voiced Bull of ot Bashan roaming through the principal streets with a n. megaphone advertising a baseball game or a football game ame may be tho the proper caper in Bird Center or Bingville but it is hardly fitted to a city of Salt Lakes Lake's bulk and pretensions Obviously if one can do doit doit o oit it scores of or others may It is calculated to give ge g e the casual stranger the impression that Salt Lake is a n community with a village income and a cit city thirst The particular idiot in the city administration that thatis is responsible for permitting it ou ought ht to be hung up by the thumbs and forced to listen to it One method of making Salt Lake a real city will vill be to put its affairs in the hands bands of someone with a modicum of sense and judgment The people of the city durin during the Mormon conference con con- ference the state fair and the visit of the President were embarrassed and made ashamed by two catchpenny catchpenny catchpenny catch catch- penny devices in Main street employing barkers to harass and annoy passers passers-b It looked like South Clark street in Chicago with a simultaneous and co coincidental coincidental coincidental co- co incidental off cast-off clothing sale in progress each fly- fly night by-night merchant trying to dispose of of all his goods goodsin in a given time If that sort of thing m must st be done in ill Salt alt Lake why not choose back streets for the purpose Salt Lakes Lake's business conditions in ill no wise resemble resemble resemble ble the last day of a count county fair so 80 why permit them to be given that appearance appearance S Salt Sail lt Lake merchants who have ha their money invested here and pa pay taxes should have Salt Lake patronage a J S I II H. C. C Erick Friek once more denies that he be has sold his stock in the United States Steel corporation and is to retire from the steel business Any time Mr Frick Prick sells ells any stock one ma may conclude e that it is no longer a dividend payer And United States Steel is not in that category Gifford Pin Pinchot hot is against the of President Taft lait We Ve understand nd also that Police Chief Barlow favors the re-election re of our present mayor Quite a correlation of ideas is it not And each furnishes an excellent argument argument why the re reverse erse should happen Mrs Ida Von Claussen who has hns achieved a arent great rent deal of notoriety of a certain kind during the past few years talked so o much in court rd- rd that her sanity is to be tested If that rule of logic is to become un universal how will William Jennings B. B escape I Of the ten men inca paroled from Leavenworth penitentiary penitentiary peni peni- there arc are t two two- o. o bankers anke There is still a number of bankers inside the prec precincts of the tIle f federal deral prison It surely is a shame to confine t their scope o of operations during moving crop-moving le s I |