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Show i Friday, October THE OGDEN POST Car Company Paid For Construction Work Are Consolidations Of Newspapers An Advantage to Public The Ogden Post AM) TFIKATKIvCItAMS Ruhlii-herjich i'riday by 1'he Ogden Rnet Print mg and Publishing company, 2J28 Kiesei avenue. d Entered at the puKtoffiee at Ogden, lTtah, fur trunsniissiuii through the; mails us second-clas- s matter, under' permit issued October 17, 1D27. Advertising Hales Display, per inch Ixa-a- l uml legal, per line $0.50 .1U .. Political advertising, per inch W. P. KITKKSON. 75 Ani-n- t consolidations of newspapers: It is not always true that such consolidations are of advantage or beneIroniotcis of fit to a community. such consolidations always try to make it appear to a community advantage as well as a newspaper advantage to have but one publication of general news nature in a town or city of from one thousand to a hundred and fifty thousand population. Rut there may be times when it is a disadvantage to Iost, Jr. notices that: - - have such a condition. Eor instance, when public questions of vital import are under consideration, such ns the acquisition of municipal President. Telephone 365 Editorial LEGION WOULD DRAFT CAPITAL AND LAR.OR The American Legion will eiivl nvor to have congress puss a bill drafting capital and labor us well as man power in enso of war, during (bo session of congress next year. The new legion commander Edward E. Stafford says the legion will every effort to have the bill passed. Surely it would be a proper law and would remove the possibility of profiteering us was the case in the late wur. SPEED DEMONS WIN; - register. enterprises by private riirjioruliuns the voting of bonds for road or other lurjioHeK, extending city lines or enlarging park systems, etc., do the people then want their news and infoi (nation inspired from only one source? Do they want to feel they have no other recourse than the single news-paito give all sides of public questions? Political matters may be different. Outside and other publications may take a hand in the usual political campaigns und either support or controvert the local newspaper's stand in Ihut particular. Rut the purpose and policy of treating vital local propositions may not always be the best when directed by one head or one publi- - Renee on earth, good will toward the successful candidates at the f.irthcoining municipal election. Famous specialist claims that man should live one hundred and forty ears, but whoinhell wants to live ihat long. - er (Davis county) has shipped out nearly one hundred car loads of past few green tomatoes during the weeks. A remarkable record. 's - Increased enrollment at all of splendid schools is a satisfying fact, and is also a favorable hurometer of the citys substantial growth. The Lyceum theatre is undergoing Home very creditable improvements to care for its increasing patronage. Weeds can't grow on a busy thoroughfare, nor can business drones survive in the busy and progressive cities of today. flivvers continue to gum the highways regardless of the up fact that Uncle Henrys long overdue new model has as yet failed to put in jts appearance. - After next Tuesday, at least thirteen good citizens of Ogden can beat their swords back into plow shares ami resume their respective normal walks of life. Dirt and litter in a business house at opening time in the morning, denotes indolence; the same appear- ance at closing time indicates an active day just ended. Sunshine radiating from the heavens above and from the soul within makes one grateful for the prive-leg-e of living in this wonderful valley of peace, prosperity and rules, and the casualties steadily increase as the buttle eating of distance goes steadily on. Already the world war losses of the United States have been passed in numbers killed, but tho speed and wrcckless driving battle goes merrily on. Hospitals are not big enough to take care of the injured and additional room is being added, and institutions of like character are being planned and built. Rut after all there is much to be thankful for. The automobile industry has had much to do with the prosperity of the nution and our people gladly give up their money for the comfort and luxury of the automobile, and when properly used it helps them to make more money. We should also be thankful that we are not taxed for the support of those maimed and killed in the battle, and suggest that Governor Dern embody that fact in his forthcoming Thanksgiving proclamation. War legislation applied to automobile victims would bankrupt the nation. It takes a better and a broader mnn to own and publish a newspaper in a town or city having but one such i.upor than where the town or city has two or more papers. It takes a wiser and a more studious mind to treat the whole public fairly than where consideration may be given to only one side. Rower and prejudice may dominate more frequently than rnnmion sense and the public weal, but in the end progress and development of a community depend on the good will and acquiescence of a majority of the business interests involved. Ry business interests we have in mind everything and everybody directly or indirectly concerned with affairs in u community. Can the editor and publisher of a single newspucr always see and appreciate all sides for ull these interests? Can he impartially and fairly present und represent all these interests? Cun he duly urge and criticise local affairs without individual prejudice thut overlooks some important differentials in the community - -- . ma- chine, or shall he be a jelly fish, retiring into seclusion every time a public ugitution is set up? The business be served in an ad community promise. Jack: Joe: Alright. Jack: Well, is it On second Joe: it's a better not. A married inmate of the Utah penitentary, who had served but eleven days of an indeterminate sentence for a vicious statutory crime, had the effrontery a few days ago, to ask the board of pardons for cle- con-soliilat- It makes some women awfully happy to feel sorry for somebody. Sometimes opportunity knocks at a man's door and sometimes she knocks him out. liusy men are seldom afflicted with ts of melancholy. Com-pa-n- n, ee that endures in a J lew Reproducing Instrument tt'iitiiiin.ttiHiiiiiuiiiii This model, ct the Conaoletta type, is finished in beanti-full- y figured Wat-nut with an lay of Com-pan-ne- over- uiiin Satin wood. The pries of the imnatai is $160 BRUNSWICK THE PANATRQPE Uype.) (fioeponerthfli vr-.- ... of - ' of wood design beauty BEAUTY way they are combined . . ... . . . . beauty of beauty of workmanship musical quality all are inherent in this newest Brunswick creation. Plays all records. It is these things in combination that make the Brunswick Panatrope the outstanding achievement instrument. of the decade in a reproducing And we'd like to prove thi to you with a demonstration. bawlei the drill sergeant to the awkwari lift up your squad. left leg, and hold it straight in front of you. Ry mistake one member held up his right leg, which brought it out side by side with his neighbors left leg. mency. And who is the galoot over there It is reported that the portrait of holding up both legs? shouted the Eresidcnt Coolidge will ere long d sergeant. adorn Uncle Sams $10,000 bills. Rost, Jr., has heard that government bills of that denomination are really in existance, but it is purely hearsay, as our personal contact with greenbacks is usually confined to those sometimes jestingly referred to as Jewish flags. Nature has used her magic paint brush with a touch that no artist can equal, as is evidenced by the beautiful colorings in the nearby hills and eonyons. The leaves on brush and forest have turned to those exquisite soft shades and brilliant colors, such as the finest hand is unable to reproduce on canvas. The beauty resulting is one that can be fully appreciated by taking a short drive up one of the scenic canyons hereabouts. cases coming beof forty-eigfore the state board of pardons for clemency at a recent meeting, alof the offenders most may cost you few are consideration for serving asking many miles time for statutory offences, some cf them of the most revolting nature. Moral lepers, degraded and depraved, who prey on innocent mileage claim girlhood and young womanhood, should be required to pay to the last ounce, jheir pound of flesh, that society may be ridded of them for at least a coniderable length of time. - THE BRUNSWICK SHOPPE e, Jones Music Co. . Light-Ra- y Orpheum Theatre Bldg. Records Open Evenings hard-boile- features ut Ill bet you is elected mayor: majf town or a small city,' providing thie newspapers of near by cities are not extensively circulated in the city and surrounding territory, but is that all Ter haps a pretty girl is culled a there is to be considered in a communpeach because she has a heurt of ity? Cases might be mentioned where stone. newspaper consolidations have been Why doesn't some enterprising at- brought about through investment of torney write a book of unwritten money by financial and local interests that will tie the hands of the publaws? lisher when it is necessary to reDaniel is the only inaja we ever strain or direct him. Cases' might be heard of who wasn't spoiled by being pointed to, also, where immediate relionised. covery at the price of such consolidation is the dominant spirit of the Re good and you will be happy single publication in a community. Adas happy as you can be under the vance in rates, justifiable enough, may also be accompanied by a curtailment circumstances. of loss of news, circulation other A woman forgets ull her troubles and suppres when she is wearing a new hut for sion of expensive good will activities and community boosting, lessening of the first time. labor expense and cheapening of and office talent. Some people are criticized because It may lie idealistic and profitable they won't talk and some because they to a degree to have newspaper consoliwill. dations forced upon a comunity. UnA woman suys that there is no der the high rost of equipping and oppleasure in suffering if it must lw erating newspapers, other competition may be kept out of a field once done in silence. Hut it is our belief that The average mans ambition is to unless the purpose is to actually serve and fairly advance the interests of all lower his record. the community and make better newssuch consolidations are not alpapers a womans Only temper cun equal ways n consummation devoutly to In the warmth of her love. wished. When a man is accused of leading Ixive thnt makes the world go a dog's life it may be an insult to the often prevents the income from dog. going more than halfway. Only those who have plenty of gold Rs ever get anything out of a silver wedto fool and it's foolish to Vay be easy. ding. After a mnn has been married six months he begins to notice how his wife resembles her mother. tract price of this improvement, but as 1 understand, these warrants were drawn upon the fund created by the assessment against the property of the railway company and will be paid out of that fund so that the improvement will not cost the city anything The special taxes to pay for these improvements were payable in ten in stallments and seven of the ten have already been paid. Warrants were issued in this matter precisely the same as is done in cases of the construction of sewers and sidewalks and the paving of streets, and taxes were levied against tne property of the railway company to pay all the warrants, the same as taxes are levied against abutting property to pay for sidewalks, sewers and other paving. In my report I mentioned the fact that warrants were issued and a tax levied to cover the entire work, for the reason that it seemed to me that the expense of constructing this curbing would be only a small part of the entire improvement cost and that its removal, in my opinion, would fur nish no legal grounds for the railway company to refuse to pay the remaining installments of the assessment There was no intention on my part to convey the impression that the city had paid or would pay any part of the expense of any portion Rlank $5.00 that of this improvement, nor to criticize the action of the then city commissioners in making the improvement" a bet or not? I think thought, atten-shu- n- BEAUTY Og-djn- cation. WAR I OSS OUTCLASSED The press has lost its fight against excessive speed on the part of automobile drivers. Almost everybody has a car, and almost everybody thinks his car is a racer, and almost everybody gauges his speed by the rapacity of his engine. And so it is, the mniority Raruum was right. It won't lie long now, October 25. Uneasy lies the head that encases a political ambition. A vole at the primaries indicates interest in YOUR city. Music hath charms. Especially is it charming when played on a cash Whin the attention of City Attorney A. W. Agee was called to a recently published news item in which it was said that he had stated that the city paid for the construction of the street railway line on Washington avenue north of the Ogden river bridge, he said: of the This is a misconception language and meaning of my opinion. Tiic board of city commissioners had requested an opinion from me as to whether or not the removal of the curbing on each side of the railway tracks would invalidate the tax assessed against the street railway com' pany to pay for the construction of that curbing. Until I examined the records I supposed the tax was levied against the property of the rail way company to pay for constructing the curbing only. Rut upon examination I found that this special tax was levied to nay for the entire Improvement including the reconstrue tion of the railway line. It is true that city warrants were issued to the contractor for the con- 21. --- ht one-four- I It A TIRE that gives MILEAGE a cents more to buy a General Cord, but the of added service you receive more than makes up for the slight increase in original cost. We can prove this extra through the local users. th Ogden tor Ogden i The Car Looks JUST FINE After being given away at the albride discovers that she 9 9 I tar many a has been sold. It often happens that when a man knows his duty he tries to stave it off by seeking advice. That is what you will say after we have given it a thorough wash and polish. The cost of this worth while service is very little. VOTE FOR Fred King CITY COMMISSIONER A retired railroad engineer, who ha been revident property owner and taxpayer in Ofrdra for the poet thirty-fiv- e years. Mr. King knows the needs of the workinc people of Ogden. For the pant forty-fou- r years he has been employed by the D, ft R. G. W. railroad, and was recently pensioned with a clear record. i A MAN WIIO HAS WORKED UNDERSTANDS THE WORKERS' NEEDS As a taxpayer, he understands the erty owners' needs. MR. KING IS FREE FROM MOTIVES prop- ULTERIOR His piutform is one of service for the people of Ogden. Paid Advertisement. See Us for Your Winter Storage Distributors for U. S. and General Cord Tires My only promise and pledge is to work at all times for. a greater Ogden. Thirty years ns a businessman and taxand payer of Ogden has qualified me for a business-lik- e economical administration of the problems which confront the city. N. O. OGDEN FOU CITY COMMISSIONER Tviil Ailirr(i'Miniil J. W. Brewer Tire Co. Phone 339 2364 Grant Avenue BE IN LINE I VOTE for A. L. BREWER for MAYOR g |