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Show TMe SaUna USI THE SALMA SUN Issued Every Saturday at Salina, Sevier County, Utah. 4 4- - 4 Subscription Rates One Year $2.00 1.00 Six Months 75 Three Months PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Salina, Utah, as Second Class Mail Matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 4- - 4- - 4 ADVERTISING RATES. Display Matter Per inch per month, $1.00; single issue, 25c. Special position 25 per cent additional. Ten Legals cents per line each insertion. Count six words to line. Readers Ten cents per line each insertion. Count six words to line. Blackface type Fifteen Cents per line for each insertion. Obituaries, Cards of Thanks, Resolutions, Etc., at Half Local Reading Rates, Count Six Words to the line. For Sale, For Rent, Found, Lost, Etc., Ten Cents per line for Each Insertion. NO CHARGE ACCOUNTS. H. W. 4- - or-(d- er self-impos- m Times-Republica- REPEAL, BY ALL MEANS. There is a movement now under way which will undoubtedly result in the repeal of Utahs law when the next legislature convenes. The Sun favors such action for the reason that the law has been nothing more than a joke as it has not stopped either the sale or the use of cigarettes. Throughout the state, with possibly a few exceptions in small agricultural towns, cigarettes can be purchased. About the only thing that the law has done is to deprive the Utah newspapers of the advertising which ordinarily would have been given them by tobacco companies. In addition to this the state has been given a lot of unfavorable advertising. Cigarette sales in Utah have kept up to normal if they Have not actually increased. The next man that Carbon county sends to the legislature ought to go there with instructions to thelp repeal this and a lot of other anti-cigaret- te Kinney Bros. Hawaiian Orchestra will I COME ON!! my town, That wouldnt be nice, you know! 4- - X 4 X I think my town is the very best town, In all the world to me! Or if its not, I want to get out And try to make it be! I talk my town and I preach my town, As I think a fellow should Who has more at stake than to win or make For the love ef the common good! X X 4 4 4 I bet on my town and I bank on my town, And I think it fine to feel When you know your town and you love your town That its part of your honest zeal. Im proud of my town, I love my town And I want to help it rise And thats the way to help a town Not curse it and despise. By Subscribing For TheiSalimia tSuik ! lasting gratitude of their constitu ents. Forget the granny laws anc jive us something sensible. WHO IS TO BLAME. A controversy has arisen as tc who is to blame for the strike of the railroad shop crafts. Due to insistent demands by the public for lower rates the Interstate Commerce Commission has made a reduction in freight rates. It was well understood at the time that freight rates could no be reduced wtihout reducing wages of railroad employees. Subsequently the. United Stater Railroad Labor Board, after ex haustive investigation, issued an order reducing the wages of certaii classes of railroad employees among them the shopmen. The leaders o the Shop Craft refused to accept thi order of the Board and called a strike. It Is contended by some comments tors therefore that the public is tc blame for the rate reduction whicl necessitated the wage reduction and hence for the strike. This is a very superficial view Rates were reduced with the idea of restoring normal commercial condi tions. It is noteworthy however tha the railroads did not strike. On the contrary they accepted the rqductior because it was ordered by a lawfullj established government tribunal anc they did it at a time when thei. margin of revenue over expenses was small. But the employees went on strike though a lawfully established government tribunal had ordered a wag eduction and they did it in spite oi the fact that the new scale of wager was from 29 to 90 per cent highei than in 1917. Blame for the strike therefor rests neither on the public nor on the rail roads but on radical labor leaders who gave the workers unwise counsel. It is well said by some one during peculiarly applicable to the present strike, that if the kings and kaizers. emperors and czars had to go ointc the trenches and endure the suffering and privations of a soldier there would be few wars; and if the paid labor leaders had to walk the streets jobless and hungry and endure the hardships of a striker, there would be few strikes. OUR AN N UAL CONFLAGRATIONS. It is an historic fact that the American people burn up each year property that in value is equal to the cost of carrying on the national government in times of peace. A great national fire prevention exposition is to be held in New York next October for the education of the oublic in the line of reducing the annual conflagration losses, campaign to educate the masses of the people from children to adults to be more careful in handling inflammable matter and setting fires. Furnish the Music j HELP BOOST I knocked my town or I blocked when he advocates the repeal of the cigarette law as it reads on the statute books today. Ever since its en- X actment it has been broken and with X the weakness back of it there is ev4 ery liklihood that smokers will con- 4 tinue to enjoy the weed irrespective of laws that are passed to prevent X it. If the law makers will go into 4 Baltimore Sun legislature with the intention of making sensible laws and laws that can X be enforced, they will win the everi4'f,444,44,444,444,4,444,4444"44,4444,"l,4444444444,444'444,44 the war, and it will bear repitition as n. SALINA OPERA HOUSE Monday Night, Aug. 14 my town. And I want to do my part To make it a town that all may If BOTH SHOULD RESPECT THE LAWS ditions to respect and maintain the There is no liberty peace laws. where the laws created by representative government are not supported by those represented. It is not the duty alone of officers to keep and maintain peace and but the duty of every citizen. It is a burden upon every man in every community without any exception. There is no question of classes under the law. The law does not recognize distinctions. Before it all men are supposed to be equal and entitled to its benefits. It follows therefore that the burden of keeping and maintaining order is so imposed on all without distinction. In the present sitaution, which is ticklishly dangerous withoqt discussion, the possibility exists of serious trouble. It is time for all of us, inclusive of all classes, of officials, public, disputants, it is a time foi serious thinking and sane judgement. We are all to remember that this is our country, our state, our community. That we are all stockholders in organized society. That it is upon us irrespective of private or personal troubles to maintain and keep within the laws we have made and created as a protective of all. And the basis and beginning of all our thought and cogitations must be that the laws of the land must be maintained and that it is a common duty to maintain them It is the limit of unwisdom for any of us to assume that he is above and immune to the law. True enough, individuals and organizations sometimes seem to be successful in evasion and even in defiance of the law, but it is a temporary advantage. The inevitable reaction comes. The pend-luswings back against those who set it swinging. In the long run those who assume to be higher than the law or who strive to evade the principle of equality under the law suffer the consequenses of their act. It is as sure as sunrise. The first responsibility of citizenship is to maintain citizenship, to defend the common rights of citizenship which are the basis of equlity of opportunity in a country where men are free, and that responsibility rests upon every man without distinction as to place, power occupation, race or color in this country. Mine workre and mine owners, striker, employer and public, the first essentitl of good government is to keep the peace and obey and maintain the law. Marshalltown (la.) ' Special Dance trust my town and I boost 4 X foolish measures now on the statute books. Price Sun. We believe Brother Crocket voices The laws are or ought to be the sentiment of the majority of the supreme. It is the duty of every citizen, of all classes and under all con- sensible voters of the state of Utah I praise From the depths of every heart! I like my town and I sing my town, And I want my town to grow; 5 j : I know my town, and I love my town, And I want to help it be As great a town to every one As it seems to be to me I praise my town and I cheer my town And I try to spread its fame; And I know what a splendid thing twould be If I wounld do the same. X 4- - CHERRY. Publisher. j 4 4 PAYING FOR GOOD ROADS . Every so often newspaper editors 'ind on their desks publicity front some automobile association protesting against any higher license fees n motor vehicles. The arguments are jsually carefully prepared and forcibly presented. Automobile associations all over .he land appear to be opposed to taxing the' industry more because it is caxed so much already and in so conditions, the public is taxed and riders in lighter passenger cars are penalized and jounced for the sake of making possible a little cheaper motor truck transportation. Good roads are not expensive to motorists they are an economy. The poor roads are what cost the money. It will pay ten million automobile owners in this country to look beyond their noses in this matter that is, the sophistries of subsidized associations. The man who advocates higher license fees to maintain and improve highways is not an enemy of the automobile owner. He is his best friend. Boston Commercial, July 15 nany ways. It pays all the taxes any other industry pays and the license fees in addition. Of course, a big business ike the motor industry pays enormous taxes. But the product of this business 1922. It might be added that every citi.auses other taxes to be so high. zen who does not own an automobile especially larger cars and is also vitally interested in the road wear out deal a heavy trucks, great of road. It is only fair that they question as permanent road construcshould pay, largely through license tion and maintenance will play an fees for road which they wear out. important part in future tax bills. Those best qualified to know, state A WARING WORTH HEEDING . hey are not doing so. , At any rate, anyone who goes a litIt seems to me that an era of un- -' f tle way off the main avenues of moprecedented prosperity may be looktor travel knows that the condition ed we will make the most of if for, jf side roads is worse than a few our ears ago. The side roads and side opportunities, says H. B. Ainsstreets have had to be neglected so as worth, first of the o maintain the principal channels of Wells Fargo Nevada National "Bank traffic. There has not been enough of San Francisco. money to go around. One of the greatest dangers, as I Practically all the motor fees have tan see it, lies in the apathy of our been used to maintain rodas, and in American citizens toward public afaddition the other taxes of most fairs and legislation. Politicians and nunicipalities and states have been their henchmen, in and out of public .ncreased. What is more and this office, are active in evolvconstantly in not a few cases the is important schemes for separating the taxdebt limits of municipalities has ing from his money and the rate payer been reached. of increase in the public debt of OrEvery motorist desires good roads, egon and California should prove a and kicks if he does not have them, warning to all loyal citizens who it is realized more and more that would attract industry and wealth to oor roads mean larger tire costs, our states rather than to make them jigger repair bills, excessive gaso- as centers of freak legislation. The line needs and more rapid depreciasound sense of the great American tion on the car. public cannot be questioned, but our The motoris might just as well progress must depend to a large expay for better roads as to stand tent upon the awakening of public If the li- confidence and the giving expression higher costs elsewhere. cense fee goes to make roads better, and force to the will of the majority. .he motorist will gain in the end. He s being educated to this fact. Bolivian Finances. The head of a large company says The 1916 budget estimated of Bo.hat it costs, depreciation included, livia, as published in the West Coast about $6000 per annum to operate a Leader, place the expenditures at large truck. This includes gasoline, (in round numbers) and the he driver and all expenses. The revenues at $5,600,000, leaving a decompany pays a license fee of only ficit of $3,100,000. Deducting the discount on salaries recently authorized 550 per truck. the Bolivian government, amountBetter roads easily could save by to $600,000, a deficit of $2,500,000 ing twice this fee in maintenance and in remains. Adding to this the 1915 deiddition enable the truck to accom- ficit of $1,400,000, there is a total deplish more work. He states that he ficit of $3,900,000, which is to be prowould be perfectly willing to pay two vided for by an issue of customs waror three times as large a tax on his rants to the amount of 10,000,000 bolitrucks because it would be an econ- vars, or $3,893,000. omy to do it for the sake of better roads . River Has Name of Indian Chief. The Citon river, which furnishes to Heavy trucks wear out hundreds of housands of dollars more in roads New York the greater part of the wa ihan they pay in liceuse fees. If they ter consumed in its limits, was named tor an Indian chief. cannot afford to pay larger taxes, they cannot afford to compete with Bottle to Be Taken Apart. the railroads, and tne traffic ought to One of the newer vacuum bottles go back where it came from. can be taken entirely apart for As a matter of fact, under present "1 OF SALINA Capital and Surplus $85,000.22 JAMES FARRELL, President H. S. GATES, H. ysasftiw a t- B. Vice-Presid- ent " CRANDALL, Cashier .J - vice-preside- nt Mr. Builder:- Are you planning a barn, a residence, fences or any work that will need s Lumber? First-Clas- 0 We have all grades of Building Material. John Arneson Lumber Salina, Utah- - Co. I |