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Show PAGE FOUR THE OAILY STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY, AUGUST A turned into other channels what a tremendous economy there would be. One of the reforms that is crying OGDEN, UTAH Journal Publishing Co, .... Publishers aloud to the nation Is for less hot air" in politics and a better appreciation of (Incorporated) Published every evening except Sunday the common sense of the average Daily State ifmtntal Telephones Business Office ,.,..BelL CM 1 ring Ind, 4441 ring Editorial Rooms ....Bell, 4(4 I rings Ind, ((4 I rings TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTS By Mail On. Tear By Mail Six Months By Mail Three Months By Mail One Month By Carrier One Month Pay Ns Money to Carriers 11.04 1.00 50 50 ma'ter at Entered as aecond-das- s the Poatofflcu at Ogden. Utah, under Act el Congress of March I. 1570. M. F. CUNNINGHAM.. Mana'g Editor B. A. BOWMAN. .Business Msnsger NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS You should receive your paper not later than T:04 p. m. If not received at that hour call Phone 4(4 and it will be sent you by special messenger. No paper delivered after I p. in. Pay ne money to carrier or ether collectors unless they present credentials from ths u.idorsignod. 'JnJer no circumstances will carriers or collectors be allowed to take stops. All notices of this kind must bo given . to this offioe direct or by latterv or in person, or phone 664, one ring. JOURNAL PUBLISHiNG CO, MR. KIESEL GETS BUSY AGAIN depots were to be built in Zion if there could be such- - It seems like a para- dox to say two union depots much like calling a man and woman a couple after they have been divorced. But two depots had really been deckled upon, one for the Harriman roads and one for the Gould roads. Work Is REAL PAPERS TO READ In progress on the Harriman depot ATVRALLT the press is the first end a bluff at work was being made to take advantage of the open- - i on the other. This has been the situa- ing of th( Bamberger rqad. On the tlon for years Now cornea the statefirst train to reach this city supplies of ment that since Harriman and Gould Salt Bake City morning papers came. gut together a few days ago tha pro-Je- tt They wer distributed over town before for two depots in Zion has been businessmen reached their offices. The knocked out and but one depot will be pledge is given that they will be in erected for the accommodation of all this city every morning henceforth at roads entering that city. 1:25, and that they will be distributed This will be all right if it does not throughout the city by 7:00 o'clock in result In throwing the whole enterprise the morning. up high into the mid for another deAmong the benefits to be derived cade. After all there are the best of from tlw opening of the Salt Lake A for one depot In a city. Ogarguments Ogden Railway this wll be by no den present a good Illustration of tha means the least. Heretofore the mornadvantages of one good depot well aring papers have reached this city at o lata an hour that tha circulation was ranged and kept up. N This was a necessarily restricted. handicap to the community especially as there was no local paper worthy of the name. In this day and age no community is really all vs without a morning paper. Canvassers for the Balt Lake City dallies were In th field yesterday and it goes without saying that tha circuin lation of the Herald, Tribuna and will be tremend. Republican opsly Increased here as a result of these canvasses. When tha dtlsena of Ogden grow tired of going to Balt Lake Inter-Mounta- City for their newspaperg they may undertake to establish a paper of their own to be printed at home. J. K1B8GL la on the warpath Interest of irrigation. If THIS MAN MEANS IT this man has a hobby In Ufa It is nARLET P. CHRISTENSEN means the redempton of the arid deserts of business. He la la tha race for the west. And who could have a the Republican nomination for Con grander hobby? Through the enthusi- grass and will fight every inch of tho asm.. the Intelligence and the energy ground to the end. He convinced !)ia of just such men as Fred J. Klesel Ogden friends of this fact on tha occagreat victories arc being won on ths sion of his recent visit to this city, plains of the west year after year; and it may be said Incidentally that ha great things are toeing accomplished In has many friends In Weber county. the cause of humanity; homes are beAnd why should he not bo a candidate? of millions of The field la open to all qualified reach within ing placed and in In good standing. Mr. this foundation ths Republicans families, way is being laid deep spd solid for per- Christensen has tha qualifications. He manent thrift and prosperity in the has held high positions both In his west party organisation and In tha public On his return from California early servlco and ha has carried away honin the spring Mr. Klesel announced ors every time. He Is a good camthat at the proper time ha would take paigner, a good fellow, good mixer up the work of collecting a fund to and would make a good Congressman enable Utah to. make a proper staying because j,e I well educated, well trainat ths Irrigation Congress to be held ed In public life and la a student of In the fall In Albuquerque, New Mexi- public questions. To friends In Weber county Mr. co. Mr. Kiesei ip now engaged In this confided the Information work,, and It is gratifying to know that Christensen ho is meeting with success. Utah that he had aasuranco of good support should bp well represented at this for the nomination from all parte of tho It is far to go of course, state. He asserted that he would reCongress. but ths results to be obtained will well ceive the votes of half the Cache county delegation, more than half tha Box repay the effort and the expense. At ths same time Mr. Kelssl is not Elder delegation and practically all tha votes from moat of tha counties losing sight of his main object. This Is to have tits slate, through the legis- In the southern part of tha stats. He admits that the battle Is atlll to bo lature, get back of these enterprises that mean so much to the state as a fought out In Salt Lake and Weber whole. He la also keeping in mind his counties, but la absolutely confident of the outcome. propet t to hold a session of ths IrriTho candidacy of Parley P. Chrisgation Congress n Washington, D. C., tensen for this particular nomination at to enable ths great men of the nation thle time will add materially to the Into realise by actual contact what this terest of tho campaign. means to America. FlUSl) the . THE SHORT SPEECH IB BEST LOOKS LIKE GOOD TIMES HERB were no eigne of hard times in end around the circus tents view to the effect that W. J. yesterday. On the contrary there Bryan's speech of acceptance la to were many Indications of good times. contain but 5,100 words That a long The crowd was Immense; It was gathenough, especially for such hot weath- ered from all parts of Weber .county; er. It means five solid columns of It ai a reading matter In the State Journal prosperous looking crowd, out for a and that la more then one perrons out good time. of every hundred will read. Of course It Is hardly aafe to Judge What la wanted particularly In pub- of business conditions by the way peolic life these days Is men with moral ple patronjx places of amusement, becourage to keep silent on many sub- cause It la well known that many will jects and boil down whmt they have deprive themselves of the comforts and to aay on the really vital points necessaries of life In order to be Speeches messages and reports lose In amused In order to drive away their pqwer and influence in proportion as troubles. But no one could mingle they are extended beyond reasonable with the show crowd yesterday withlength. out carrying away the Impression that Mr. Taft and Mr. Bryan might with here was a o and happy gathperfect propriety ignore altogether ering of workers who were not afraid nine out of every ten of the subjects to enjoy the pleasures of the day. they are discussing because they are The management of the show took not issues in the campaign. The real away a tremendous number of Issues can be counted on the fingers dollars, but It is doubtful If of one hand, and It would be a gain many could be found today who reall around If the discussion were con- gret having spent their money. It was fined to these subjects, and then boiled a good ahow and It made a break in dotfcn. the monotony ' of life for many that jlf the paper that is wasted In print- la worth many tlmea what It cost ing these long speeches could bo saved there would be fortunes in It for many. NO UNION DEPOT YET. If the energy btu forth In setting NE of tho standing Jokes In this type on these long speeches and ths of th country ta the anion press work In printing them could be depot for Salt Lake City. The Joke saved their would be fortunes In It la revived at this time by the getting for large numbers If the time spent together of Harriman and Gould In In reading them could be saved; if railroad matters. The question was the eyesight they destroy could be supposed to be settled. It was gensaved if all this energy could be erally understood that two union TV7 ELCOME news comes from Fair-- " well-dresse- d, good-nature- THEY PURSUE RIGHT COURSE at tha head of th good roads movement In this particular section of tho state are following wise policy. Instead of expending large sums of money for the construction of permanent roads and then permitting them to run down, they have provided right at the beginning that every mils of permanent hlghkray Is to b patrolled and kept in perfect condition. This is n wise precaution. Systematic work at the right time and in the right way of keeping the roads In repair will result in' a tremendous saving in tha long run. But these men are not stopping here. At the meeting in Farmington court house yesterday the draft of a law to be submitted to the next legislature tar toward allaying all frlctloh between farmers and the owners of automobiles In addition to providing for the care and maintenance of tha roade this tentative law provides for the regulation of speed of nutos; for danger signals at all points where accidents might occur: for tha slowing down of autoa In passing teams; for the topping of autoe in case of accidents; for the cars of tha injured In case of HE men - r rr vital Interest all who uao tho roads. It la encouraging to Hot the cooperative spirit that exists between th cities and tha country; between tho automobile owners and tha farmers In this matter of good roads. It augurs well for an Improvement that means much to all concerned. 1908. ! ' Value of Good Roads To the American Farmer Few subjects are receiving more universal attention these days than that of improved highways. The following article from the Denver News is well worth reading in this connection: It cost a little over a billion dollars to haul the farm crops of America to market last year. With good roads, roads such as are to be found in some parte of America and in all parte of France, the marketing- of the crops would have cost 1400,000.000. Six hundred million dollars per year, then, la the price we pay In this land of the - free for having impassable roads. Did ever a nation spend so much (or so doubtful a luxury before? With American roade lying open and before the eyes of our foreign critics, what monstrous injustice it Is to talk of American dollar worship! Most of men of middle age can recall the annual picnic known as mending the roads Just why it got that name no one baa ever explained, for in practically every case tbe picnic left the roads in worse condition than before. The law In many states prescribed that each resident of a rural district must pay a certain road tax in labor each year. The payment of this tax was done under the supervision of a local officer known as the patlimarter. The customary time of payment was in tho early summer. Just before baying time, when there wasn't much else for the men and teams to do. The neighborhood turned out with horses and plows and harrows, ripped up divers sections of highway which the year's travel had packed to a more or less navigable condition, rounded them up nicely In the middle, scratched them smooth with the harrows You were never fath-omle- sa expected to work very hard at these festive occasions, and the path master who insisted on real work soon found himself unpopular. It was just as well, for since nobody had any real notion of roadmaking, the more work the worse results. What some of those results were and are we have vivid testimony.' Across Iowa last winter the racing nutos had to take to the railroad tracks, because the common roads were simply Impassable. Last March some misguided creatures oegaa an automobile race from New York to Savannah, Ga. It was just as the opening of navigation or the country roads of the middle South, the time whea the roads are too thin for wheel and too thick fo.' boats Across Virginia each racing automobile had an escort of six mules to pull It out of extra deep mudholes and to haul Its emergency rations of gasoline. Usually this was enough; but when an auto was so thoughtless as to tiy in the mudhole all night, the mule teams had to be doubled, and all the negroes of the neighborhood to service before that contestant could proceed. The racers averaged four miles per hour across the Old Dominion a perfectly stunning rate of speed, all things concom-nmnder- ed par-.Itul- ar sidered. And yet the roads of America are vastly better than they once were, end the Improvement le going on apace. The United States government la lending a hand by setting its spare scientists to work teaching the people of different regions how to make the beet roads at the least cost. The states are doing vastly more.. New York In 1905 voted to spend 150,000.000 on her highways. and while no other state ta Investing In roads at that rate, all are dote something. Cities are r.rd -good business to Improve , leadin out Into the farmu. the farmers are beginning t., 1 elves in a rational fashion t1 f..r HsT way Improvement, and ma:.j throplsts have passed by tl- ttonal college and library uu..auJBt spend their surplus fund roads Historic mudhole a -- tJ. slowly filled up. stone and ci- lt replacing the craiy wood.., i.r.tJj7 and a hundred inventions l.a;- made to help get the best the lowest expense. Some of theee last deserve i.t:, Macadam roads have long u , ,, ed as the standard of hifl. struct Ion. But macadam iiu.;'.ij 0; old pattern, with crushed k i.e e!jht Inches thick, cost from t0 j1 000 per mile. Now It ha l.,-- ,, founJ t- that three or four Inches will ,j, quil as well, and the coat Is cut Nuarely In two. In some parts of tl uenusj states, where crushed stone i ran, u has been found that the which makes the roads almost impu. able la the best of g m. terlal when burned. In utter region the farmers have dis, owred how to make good roads by the simple . pedient of rolling or dragging then after each rain, and In yet otli.-- pi a mixture of sand and clay, costing 1300 or 8400 per ntlle. Is found almost as good ns the beet macadam. It U well that the roadinnking are abundant and varied, for there are roads enough In tlw United 8tates to reach eighty-si- x times around the earth at the equator and nearly all those roads are bad. The advocate of good highways will find apipie room for their missionary enterprise for t generation to come. track-makin- y-- t r holding on. In the meantime the Re- - j manager for years waa secrecy In republicans go right along piling up ma- -: gard to accidents and, where aupprea- - YELLOWSTONE PARK Ion was not feasible, partial distorjorltlfaS. tion of facts damaging to tho comTRAVEL IS HEAVY Chairmen LymanR. Martlneau of the pany's Interests. As a consequence of Democratic state committee Intimates thle mistaken policy th public unconthat the Democratic state convention sciously fell into tho habit of accepting with suspicion all official statements, will be held about the middle of Notwithstanding the short lift at which were often held back as long as the Oregon Short Line extension to possible. Yellowstone National park, the local Mr. Harriman really introduced an A genuine sigh of relief must have officials of th. line claim they an innovation last year when ? tll Ulon x sr handling over half th. trad ot tho clrc The Pennsylva park. This la, they claim, remarkable U ,B order that every in th. fact that east It Is hardly knows d the announcement the other day to 'the i effect that a gubernatorial nomination f th n could not Do .hot into him with a thlr acc,dent sponsible for It shall be posted on its teenth-lnc- h gun. bulletin boards. Mr. Shont's idea seems to be that tha public, through tha press, The Women's Republican club of la entitled to prompt and accurate InBalt Lake City held a successful outing formation when anything goes wrong, at Saltalr yesterday at which Gover- and it la a sound idea. It le good businor John C. Cutler and Senator George ness, too. New York World. Sutherland 'were the principal speakers. Mrs. Dannla C. Elchnor is president of the organisation. o " Political Splinters th. new extension has been opened, although they have been awtrt of tho Intention. The travel to tho recreation place thle year will be approximately 10,000 persons, and of thk th Oregon Short Lin. expects an swa half. Up to this time twentysma special trains have been engaged this season from tho O. 8. L. for special that parties. The fact that tha Democrats of the Third Judicial district are absolutely quiet still leads to tho belief that the Democrats and "American" will comThle much e certain anyhow: Bry- bine on tho Judicial ticket In that an will not go to Oyster Bay to get trict. Republicans and MAmer the final stamp of approval on his so-- 1 cans" have been In tbe field with their ceptanoe speech. At the same time It tickets for soma time past might be better for him If he did. LET THE FACTS BE KOWN. Salt Lake City papers are beginning In adopting a policy of frank dealing to sit up and take notice of David Mattson as candidate for etate treas- with th press in regard to accidents President Shonta has made a wise urer on ths Republican ticket move. Under the new system of publicity, In case of accidents on th Inter- lines Involving personal In- borough's enter the race for tho Republican nom- -t nr dl to traflt,c th facU wU1 (nation for county attorney rHla'l . telephoned promptly by nWs .sJSatlon: to Ptaro for " When merely trivial newspapers. finally consented to enter. accidents, like short circuit, occur. It I the wM not be worth while to . ,n M.h. ynn.ji i i the : newspapers, but In any event notify will they of trying to shake jb fro. to make their own Inveetlga- - Mon. ne they have been rbo1 nd J doing, gaged in game of Tho general practice of railroad ! dla-T- .j,,.. nJrlUn.f ?t ," th.l " ?' tlme-honmwd- r1 time-honor- ed he NOT FOR HER, Miss Sambo Not ndeed, j wouldn't A go to no theatre. Mr. Johnson Why not? Mr. Nagger Miss Sambo A gemman frien' done never done. tol' me dat play was one er da kin dat Mrs. Nagger ud make yoh hair curl, an I has trouble work consists sufficient dat way now. man. HOT ONE. 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