Show PERSONAL OPINION by elwyn blake many of us feel that there is need of a drastic change in our form of government or at least in our system of taxation however whether socialism or communism is the answer is doubtful we give a few figures figure here which may throw some light on the effects of the russian brand of communism with regard legard to commodity prices price which hit the people as a whole i the saturday review published in london gives these figures on prevailing food prices in russia bread 40 cents a loaf butter 2 a pound cigarettes 1 a package of 20 coffee 4 a pound sugar 35 cents p pound nice it we must go slow and with extreme caution or we may find ourselves in in the same boat wo we are glad to say that a few showers have begun to fall in this part of the state past experience would seem to indicate that their hit N w 11 sll ll become heavier each day for a time and we can ore doiy y hope tim they will be of material benefit to tra the if ims and range land if miss shirley redd continues to write short stories of f the caliber of wagon tongue we of monticello may well expect to bask in the reflected I 1 g glory 0 ry of a successful author 0 As the rules of the national parks park 9 r provide that there thee beno be no grazing within their boundaries it does not look as though we will have a na dional monument made of the wilderness area along the green and colorado rivers this monument would be a great attraction to the traveling 0 public but in our opinion it would woula be a greater attraction if the cat cattle tie ranches were wera allowed to stay the value of local color is great and cattle chesare ran bo becoming coniing fewer perhaps it would be well for the park service to revise its rules lules the following article reflects the I 1 editors opinion so closely that we feel it is worthy of reproduction iiren MEN ana AND MACHINES 4 P A dommon common phrase these d days a y s is lechno techno technological logical unemployment it u usually S is ie I 1 used by y those who oppose 4 because orthe mistaken belief belief tk at machines wark away from me riThey 11 seem lynk that the inseal installation aaion fi of a machine of I 1 which sets ets one tap do t the ie wa wor vt five mea means ns th atthe other fourman four men join the bread lines 1 the trouble with such a belief belibei is that it is based upon thoughts that go only half way actually tile the machine instead of throwing men out of work has increased employment that is proved by facts during the three decades ended in 1929 the united states went through the most rapid development in its history in the application and indention of machines and what was the result the numbers of persons employed rose 88 per cent wo anile le the population only 62 per cent mechanization increased per cent and production rose per cent the linotype machine was one that let a single man do the work of about five it was introduced in the early yet in 1889 to fore ere wac only employed employ rI in the flie ing and publishing bus bossiness bussin siness against in 1929 that does doe not include the thousands who got new jobi job to supply apt aper r in in ani machines machine ne iel by te t r stimulated printing business the real result 01 0 this invention has ot at wily ol 01 increased r v plo ment but oetter education costi dropped croppe 1 so ti tt ww now ever body can an aford af a ord to griir d 1 matter and dropped from per arnt ct nt of the population in 43 0 per cent in 1930 nearly the same thinks things are true tru of other mentions there have been periods of adjustment when employment f in a single industry was temporarily pora rily reduced but BU in in short the machine instead of gobbling up jobs ogre lik like e has raised 0 our ur standard of ai in ing it now is the highest in the world and has provided millions million of new jobs industrial press service |