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Show TH SaLINA SUM. S ALINA, UTAH THE SALMA SUN are making no money and are facing bankruptcy. The Washington representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation is credited with the statement that the farmers of the United States owe $3,000,000,000 and cannot pay it. Issazi Every Friday at Salma, Sevier County, Utah. A statement recently issued from Washington based on official information places the farmers indebtedness at $1,159,000,000. Subscription Rates Farm mortgages have always been considered as securities of One Year $2.00 the highest grade, but under existing conditions the farmers friends Six Months 1.00 have apparently created a situation which has done more injury in 75 Three Months regard to the financial condition of the farmer and his market than PAYABLE IN ADVANCE any other factor. They apparently meant wrll, but have rot looked far enough Entered at the Postoffice at Safina, Utah, as Second Class M ai ahead fully to realize the real situation and the effect that their assertions may have in the long run. Matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. The politician after votes always overstates his case and the evil effect of picturing the tillers of the soil as broke and in need of ADVERTISING RATES. charitable consideration has lowered farm credits. Per inch per month, $1.00; single issue, 25c Display Matter Special position 25 per cent additional. AMERICAN SUGAR INDUSTRY SAFE Legals Ten cents per line each insertion. Count six words to line With a world shortage running into hundreds of thousands of Readers Ten cents per line ea h insettion. Count six words to line Blackface type Fifteen Cents per line for each insertion tons the western beet sugar grower is in clover. On the sliding scale contracts the farmers raising beets are Obituaries, Cards of Thanks, Resolutions, Etc., at Half Local Read bound to receive millions of dollars in business. ing Rates,' Count Six Words to the line. A pretty fair tariff adjustment protects American beet growFor Sale, For Rent, Found, Lost, Etc., Ten Cents per line for Eacl ers against importations of cheap labor raw sugar products. Insertion. Of course, efforts of refiners will be made to break down this NO CHARGE ACCOUNTS. tariff and let in the cheaper raw material which increases their the fall. Hens that have practically completed their usefulness, and have passed through the breeding season, should be marketed as soon as the breeding season is over. Hens in June or July bring considerably more than they do in October or November when they must compete with cockerels. s market stock is well fatted, yellow mealed, well dressed, cleanly picked, not all roughed up or torn, no pin feathers left in, nor the legs arid feet left dirty. Broiler weights should be from to two pounds Tie and inch, the lighter weights beii g in h mural from January to July, the heavier for the remainder of the s year. weighing of a pound each, are in demand through January, February First-clas- one-four- th throe-fourth- Squab-broiler- and March. R easting fowls should range from five pounds a pair early in the season to ten and twelve pounds a pair in the fall and early winter. Hens weighing four or five pounds each sell better than larger or gmaller stock. Capons weighing about six pounds readiest sale, but the larger birds nine, ten pounds and more bring better prices. Weights are for dressed poultry. each command The poet sings about the footprints on the sands of time, but many householders are more concerned about the footprints in their garden patch. Formerly the woodlands were full the footprints of game, but now the principal trace cf wild life is the refuse left by last summers picnic parties. of The seal of the United States shows an eagle holding a sheaf of arrows, but if it were to be designed now, probably the old bird would be holding a bunch of baseball bats. It has gotten so that nothing discourages a farmer more than to pick up a paper and see that the government is going to do something for him. Try a want ad in the opportunity They are result getters. column. profit. The consumer of sugar will never get a cent of benefit from appli-ances---wh- at sugar. letting down the bars to cheap oriental and tropic-grow- n LAUDS OUR PLAYGROUNDS American growers of beet and cane sugar, north and south, are satisfied w'ith the present tariff and the consumer is not interested in satis-factio- n Southern Utah is destined to become the playground of the na nthe home dow industry. breaking tion, according to Frank A. Vandeilip, international banker from New York City. Mr. Vanderlip, in his private car, was in Omahr THE LAWMAKING MANIA on his way back to New York after two months vacation spent ir I Ie went hundreds of miles ii His case California and in southern Utah. Uncle Sam is afflicted with the lawmaking disease. Utah in his automobile and was immensely impressed by what h is the worst in the history of the world. saw. The output is so large the law libraries cannot house it, the tlm Zion and the of National north rim Bryce canyon, park lawyers cannot digest or assimilate it. It is said to be a fact that the 48 state legislatures enact more Grand Canyon were nmong the points visited by the Vanderlip part which consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Vanderlip, their six children anc laws than are even proposed by five great nations. six other children, friends of the familys children. The ratio before the war Was fifty new laws in Our Country The entire party camped out while in Utah, went fishing, rod to one by any great nation of Europe. horseback and roughed it in general. It takes 650 large volumnes to hold in printed form the Su"I never saw anything so grand as that southern Utah country, preme Court opinions on questions of constitutionality. It is simply sublime. said Mr. Vanderlip in Omaha. When tlv The Law Library of Columbia university contains 100,000 nation learns what is down there people are going to simply flock volumnes and increases at the rate of 800 a year. there in the smummertime. The scenes at the north rim of th Why not stop manufacturing so many laws, try enforcing some Grand Canyon far surpass those of the southern rim. Bryce can of them and repeal some of the others? A smaller legislative output would be an evidence of political yon and Zion park have the world beat. When the line of hotels now planned for that country arc; sanity. built and the automobile roads completed and improved, as they are planned to be, that scenic world will be easy of access and it CONTINUITY IN ADVERTISING will then be a Mecca for visitors and tourists. Some eastern railway executives are publishing financial staMr. Vanderlip is a director and member of the executive com It is about in the railroad presidents. mittee of the Union Pacific railroad and his visit to southern Utal tistics over their names as same class with singing psalms to a dead mule. may mean much to that country when questions concerning i' we sell the BEST electrical appliances Public utilities advertise more intelligently and more continu arise in railroad circles. ously and as a result people buy their securities and the values of gas, electric light, power and traction properties are becoming prosFARM WORK NOT INJURIOUS perous. There must be continuity in publicity. Keeping the public we sell nothing but electrical appliances Those who are so exercised over children doing a reasonable or die and new move as is informed a continuous job, away many amount of labor are now inveighing against the long hours anu In dealing with the public, use language ones take their places. alleged conditions of boys on the farm, says the Monticello, Iowa, understand. the can public So far as future industry, manTheir pity is misplaced. Express. Railroads and public utilities cannot expect to advertise in liness and good citizenship is concerned we will back the farm boj flush times and live on the memory of .t when they are hard up. boy in town, who are obliged to loaf against the thirteen-year-olin trouble, or about to the 100 Electrical Store We do not believe ir They cant expect to advertise when they are because the law prohibits their employment. kick the bucket and expect to get anything in that direction. fror.' children in do believe we child nor labor, keeping grinding SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTSSSSSSSE 1TZESSS reasonable hours of light laber. Many a child has been developeo is that there are always dollar farmer's the about Another thing into a loafer by not furnishing him a task in early life. two city men waiting for it. 1 1. W. Cl 1ERRY, Publisher. Ask those who have our kind of they are giving. Because Telluride Power Co. d CULTIVATE THE FRIENDLY SMILE town boosting cheerfulness and cordiality have an importToo often people permit business cares and worries to ant part. cause them to forget the stranger within the gates and the friend who passes by. Many a man has gained a reputation for grouchiA smile carrier ness who merely has not thought to be cordial. The visitor in a city is favorably one much farther than a frown. if he the people sees on the streets are cheerful and smi; impressed I !e at once gains the impression that it must be a good towr ing. which has a cheerful people. The visitor naturally thinks that a city which offers welcomt If the people he meets smile in so conspicuous a way means it. realizes that he cheerful once at and are they are a people worll The cordial greet while and the town one worth looking over. ing with an accompanying smile of welcome, helps more than anyThe smit thing else to give people a good impression of a place. Grouchiness gains nothing for attracts and the grown repels. Most people would prefer even the Cheerful Idiot to person. the Chornic Grouch. In DAZZLING AUTO HEADLIGHTS Driving into the dazzling lights of an oncoming car is dangerous business dangerous alike to the dazzler and the dazzled. And To dun the lights of a car is so simple ano it is so unnecessary. it seems that the danger involved by not doing sc easy a task, that would compel the motorist approaching another car at night to take this simple precaution against the possbility of accident to his It should not take a law own car as well as the cars of others. Common decency to bring about the dimming of headlights. of night driving this rule motorists demands that simple practice etiquette, for it is etiquette, and good manners are just astessentia! on the road as in the ballroom. We are getting ready for airplane traffic. seem to have been built for it. No wonder old man Solmoon was so wise. to know a lot 0 information. picking up with-70- The politicians who pose as the alleged friends of the farmer talk too much and their declarations that he is bankrupt hurts his credit. The market for farm mortgage loans is likely to be affected by the reports from Farm Bureau leaders who claim that the farmers Many of our roads Any man ought wives and 300 lady friends chasing around The man who is always expecting someone too put something over on him is constantly putting something over on himseh. What makes the wild flowers wild is to have the people drive out from town and tear thorn up by the roots. the old davs when most all men chewed tobacco a girl had to love one of them better than girls love nowadays if she consented to kiss him. In Some day the doctors will start conducting business like the liver battery service stations, we suppose, and rent you a lung or while your old one is being repaired. me RRK'FS IM!) FOR man tir.u.iTY The most popular package today for dressed poultry is th ' ho h dd"g me dozen carcasses. It is necessaiy to see that the bird fi tight, else they may becom-ful manner. poultry c - 'For successful marketing of poultry it is important that the wrnv.s of the market be studied before it decided what breed to keep," wiites M. K. Foyer in The Farm Journal. Some markers call f xr small roasting fowls, others for medium, raid still otheis fo- large. Our Ainoiican epicures will r.'t fowl take to a but to when it comes tlv'y poultry, timkeys are eager for or other fowl. Much of the dressed poultry con- signed to commission bouses in large cities sells lew because the carcas.-an are not packed v'Mi rki'l. It is not enough to turn superior goods much is lost if they are not marketed in the most care whito-skinm- FROM et SWIFT j j i Descending from cloudland in a parachute is a thriller under any conditions, but taking off from an airplane that is tearing through space at a terrific rate, is a feat that makes the spectator dizzy with o ihio in the fall, some of them wonder and suspense. rt nt might be marketed throughThat is the daring trick of George out the season as brodo's. Broiler; Babcock, of the flying circus that two to three times as much will give daily shows at the Utah per pound in May and early June State Fair, October 1 to 6. lie goes as they would bring as roasters in (V'-vj- -nJ up with his pilot to an elevation and then lets go, a tiny speck in the sky. His great umbrellalike contraption unfurls and he drops down, nearer and nearer, looking like a spider suspended by the gossamer strands of its web. He lands always within the racetrack area, where all may have a clear view of every stage of hif stunning stunt. That is one of tl ' wonders of his performance h; ability to land where he wishes. g AIRPLANE j .l 1 DROP DEATH-DEFYIN- - white-skinne- d HURTING THE FARMER . 1 |