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Show EDITORIALS GUESSING ABOUT RUSSIA There is much guessing and speculating about the future of Russia, and there are many who believe that the vest empire will be overrun by the Huns. Russia is now in a deplorable condition, split with dissensions at home and overawed by the menacing; armies of Germany and Austria, but there is still hope that the j great nation will survive and emerge from the clutches into which she has apparently fallen. There is much intelligence in Russia, ! and in time this will assert itself. It is not likely that the people who have risked so much to free themselves from the rule of the j czar will yield without resistance to the oppression of the kaiser. Once she is organized with her 170,000,000 people she will be proof j against Teutonic encroachments. ; i i TUMBLED TO NOTHINGNESS The Park Record makes disparaging remarks about the possible future destiny of the Salt Lake Herald-Republica- n, and there is a possibility that it has already incurred the enmity of the Popgun by speaking up on the subject. Still what the Record says it says well, and we are going to take chances atrepeating what it says about the spineless combination. Here it is : "For a long time past the Herald-Republic- an of Salt Lake has been slipping backwards and degenerating into a no good news-paper, but now it has lost all hold and tumbled into the abyss of nothingness by its merger with the Evening Telegram of that city. , mLm Guaranteed jf Work Clothes . I t?5R J'"" Made of good, substantial mater- - , ials, guaranteed to stand the hard- - ...... f est kind of wear and priced un- - JL-- - L usually low these are just a few 3" good reasons why you should buy l'Mg your work clothes here. &33d Unusual Hat . SSp and Cap Opportunity (A Q We still have some mighty good H T.fy tHoattakaendupCasppacvealubeasdlylefnte;edeendoufgohr I V ) our Spring stock. WkK Help us make room for the new v goods, and get a fine Hat or Cap at a big saving. Short lots, odds and ends in aU snades Priced for J quick clearance I J $100, $145, $1.95, $2.45 J. flays IT'S QUALITY A 1 in coal that makes the heat, Miuv, I that makes possible a 90 rtctunzi t per cent consumption and a Vr vS&IL ' ' ; ; ronsequtnt loss of but one-- , ' ' ; ; tenth, and that light, clear CV ;; ash that doesn clog grate 1 -- Jv3fx yHtonv ' or retard draft. Our quality I rl&M' 1 t does this satisfactorily, V. r2f WP' ' consequently lessens your Wk iU I fuel bills. A sample ton "Twl proves it Utter than we jjjiP TMU' -- A ;; can ten yf ;; : phone 39. . ; ; II CITIZENS COAL CO. f Bingham, Utah 1 B.&GL NEW SCHEDULE The Bingham & Garfield Railway Co. The Popular Route Finest Equipment. Best Train Service Twq Trains Daily Between Bingham and Salt Lae City ' I ' TIME TABLE Effective Sunday, February 24, 1918, the passenger train schedule of this Company will be changed as follows: j i Leave Salt Lake City: Arrive Bingham: I No. 109 6:55 a. m. No. 109 8:25 a. m. No. Ill 2:15 p. m. No. Ill .'. 3:35 p. m. Leave Bingham : Arrive Salt Lake City : No. 110 8:45 a. m. No. 110 10:05 a. m. No. 112 4:00 p.m. No. 112 5:40 p.m. TICKET OFFICES CARR FORK AND UPPER STATIpN Take Electric'Tram at Carr Fork Station. H. W. STOUTENBOROUGH, A. G. P. A. F. B. SPENCER, . Salt Lake City, Utah. Agent, Bingham, Utah. i (By C. D. McNeeley) CONSISTENCY, THQU ART A JEWEL Early this month things commenced happening and they kept on happening till some things happened that apparently were not scheduled to happen in this town. Plans were laid for raids and the raids were carried to the limit, but that is not the question in ' point just now. As an aftermath of this work, and following close -- ' in the limelight something rather unusual happened which has set afloat all kinds of rumors and talk. We do not know the full facts in the matter, but the talk is persistent. Right after the work two of the deputy sheriffs quit the camp. The high sheriff himself was here the day on which this occurred, and the people said that he cashiered the two officers . for grave offenses, but the Salt Lake papers said next morning that they had resigned. We do not know whether they resigned or not, but we do know what the people are saying. The people say that the sheriff caught them red-hand- ed in the act of graft-ing. It is said that the matter developed from the arrest of a man the dilettante of a woman who conducts a rooming house here and he was imprisoned on a charge of vagrancy and some other offense. This woman it appears had money and she was grieved over the incarceration of her dilettante, and she Dusied herself trying to secure his release, but all her efforts proved abortive. Finally, according to the talk, she called the said deputies on the phone and asked what It would take to get the man out. The reply was $300 in gold, and they demanded her to bring the prec-ious metal to them in a bag. The woman declined to make the visit, but requested the officers to call at her place of abode for the purpose of effecting the deal. It is said that they made the trip and again demanded the rake-o- ff of $300 in gold. "And it developed that the sheriff and one of his assistants, so it is said, - wre secreted in the house at the time and heard the conversation. ' And the sheriff came out and q ueered the deal and dismissed the two deputies from the service. ' ' As stated we do not know that these are the facts in the case, hut that is the talk on every corner. If it is untrue these men are being greatly, wronged, but if it is true how can the sheriff, knowing the facts, let them off so lightly as the mere dismissal from office? The m en they arrested here charged with bootleg-gin- g have been dealt with in a very severe manner. Are they any better than the men charged with selling intoxicants? Is not the alleged offense of these former officers more heinous than that of selling liquor? There is no argument to the question. But it's up to the sheriff to come out and deny these charges if they are untrue, and if they are true it is his duty to see that criminal v action is instituted against them. The men who were charged with violating the statute prohibiting the sale of intoxicants have been prosecuted with great vigor, and if the charges against these officers are true is there any good reason why they should be immune from the operation of the law? "Consistency, thou art a jewel ; sought by many but possessed by few." CONGRESS RAISES THE PRICE OF WHEAT. Congress has again raised the price of wheat for the 1918 crop, which will eventually raise the price of fleur to the laboring classes. The President fixed the price at two dollars and twenty cents a few months ago, and had Congress had the good sense to let it alone the public would have been better off. But Con-gress is terribly alarmed at all times over the authority of the President and must take a hand and touch up his work by a bit of the spoils system. If the price of wheat for, this year would very materially increase the acreage to be planted there might be some merit in the bill, but since the majority of the wheat grown in this country is planted in the fall it will not materially increase the acreage nor can such a raise materially increase the number of bushels in the 1918 crop. The writer has had seme experience in growing wheat and has consulted with hundreds of men who have grown the cereal of the staff of life and the majority of these farmers who are honest about the price of wheat state that the price fixed by the government was high enough. If a man is willing to be loyal to the government it will not be so much a question as to whether he is making money out of it or whether he is serving a loyal purpose and doing his bit for the government. One promiment farmer in the Missouri Valley stated last fall that he could make a great deal of money on wheat at one dollar and twenty-fiv- e cents a bushel, under present conditions of labor, etc. This is one of the few growers of wheat who is willing to be honest about this matter and who is willing to be satisfied with a fair margin. This man has accumulated in the neighborhood of seventy-f-ive thousand dollars worth of this world's goods in the farm-ing business during his life. In the sections where wheat must be irrigated and where the cost of producing same is practically as expensive as growing sugar beets, the above raise in price is not out of place. But when Congress rushes blindly into the question and fixes the price the same the nation over it shows how little study they have really placed on the subject. The government reports show that there is as much profit in growing wheat as in growing any other grain for the past few years, and even a little more in wheat than in other grains. The wheat growers may have had adverse condi-tions to buck during the years that have passed, but why should they suddenly become so arbitrary and so grasping in their nature as to want the earth. If the government fixes the price of wheat why should they not fix the price of wool, the price of silver and me price of a hundred and one other products of the farm and the mine. This looks too much like only another plan to profiteer curing the war, and if this is our scheme, are we much better than the Bolsheviki of Russia. We are criticizing severely the methods and plans used by the I. W. W but haven't these men a cause as worthy of consideration as the producers of our food products? The whole plan of our commercial and industrial activity in a sense is wrapped around this price of wheat, and we feel that Congress has not dealt with the thing in a scientific manner, but instead in a sort of haphazard fashion, and took a long guess at the result instead of a careful survey. The cause of the French Revolution was largely selfishness. The trouble in Russia today is the same. Unless we as a people of this great nation are willing to sacrifice instead of profiteer we are on dangerous ground. This rule applies to small and great ' alike and should, like the other good things of life, be applied first i at home and then abroad. i THE QUESTION OF SUBSTITUTES The Commercial Club last week took up the matter of the r ' high price of substitutes for wheat and the great difficulty en-- countered in securing these substitutes at any price. There was no disposition on the part of the meeting to violate the regulation. In fact every one present are men whose patriotism and whose work in aiding the governndlnt in every way possible for the suc-cessful prosecution has been shown in many ways. As a whole there is perhaps no community in A merica that has shown a more patriotic spirit in the, war than has Bingham. It is safe to say that this town has bought more Liberty bonds than any other town of like size in the country. And in the purchase of Thrift stampa and in Red Cross contributions this town will compare favorably with the best. v And iruthis" connection it. might be stated that the meeting with regard to substitutes was one intended not only for the bene- - fit 'of this immediate community but for the entire country. It Is possible that the food situation might be improved. It is not r reasonable to suppose that the food administration had the plan perfected for the entire country. There are sections of the coun-tr- y where the conditions are so far different that what works . well in one section may be a bad misfit for another. ' 4 . Therefore, wherever there, are defects the matter should be "brought to the .attention of the food administration and in this - way the men at the head of the affairs will be in a position to know how to fit the regulations so as to help the general govern-ment as much as possible and work a comparatively small harc-- j ship on the people. Utah is a great wheat growing state, but it raises, very few of the substitutes, and at present nearly all the substitutes cost i more than wheat. It is said that the farmers are fattening their hogs on wheat because they have the wheat in abundance and they will not exchange it for the higher priced substitutes. There should be some remedy for this, and the chances are that there , will be in the near future. As the men at the head of the food administration learn more of the necessities they will be in a better position to do better work for the government and for the people. The sooner the defects are pointed out the sooner they will be eliminated. It is purely an economic question, and in time it will be straightened out. In the meantime it is the duty of everyone to abide by the regulation. A Golden Key. ' A young Cambridge man who has not long been married usually confides his troubles to a friend whose matrimonial exper-ience covers a period of twenty years. One day the former re-marked very despondently: "I said something to my wife she didn't like and she hasn't spoken to me for two days." The eyes of the old married man brightened. "Say, old man," he exclaimed eagerly, "can you remember what it was you said ?" Argonaut. Her Defense. A witness in a Milwaukee court incurred the wrath of the judge by taking a sack of potatoes to the stand with her and start-ing to peel them while testifying. To his honor's rebuke she replied calmly : "If those folks," nodding at several other women in the court room, "can knit, why can't I peel?" This brought up a point which the judge is still trying to answer adequately. New York Times. . THE SEARCH AND SEIZURE LAW Utah is a prohibition state, and under the prohibition law intoxicants wherever found are liable to seizure, but the purpose of this feature of the law was intended as a leverage for the officers in apprehending suspected bootleggers. It can hardly be supposed that the lawmakers meant that every man who had a little of the goods stored away for private use and for medicine should be disturbed unless there was ground to believe that he was engaged in the sale thereof. There are a great many people in the state, who, preparatory to the adoption of the prohibition law, stored away various quan-tities of whisky and other alcoholic beverages. This is a matter of common knowledge, and many of those who laid in private stock3 have made no secret of the fact. This fact is not a menace to the operation of the prohibition law and only those who stocked up "for commercial purposes should be molested. In the raids made here last week no one can have any serious grounds for complaint for those directed at parties alleged to have been engaged in the sale of whisky, but it is a matter of regret that some places were entered and goods confiscated from people who were not supposed to have been engaged in the sale of intoxicants. Should this action be universally applied a large percentage of the people in the state, including many state officers, would be found technically violating the law. We think the raid here last week was carried a little too far, and it may hinder rather than help the enforcement of the pro-hibition law. It is not likely that the whisky stored prior to last August is being used for Ijootlegging purposes aside from a very few who .stocked up for that purpose. The man who put a little aside for his own u.se is not violating the spirit of the prohibition Jaw. But if the officers will do for Salt Lake City what they have for Bingham whisky will become very scarce all over the state. It is said that some people in Salt Lake have stored vast quanti-ties of the wet goodi. Not Guilty. i j An old negro went to the office of the commissioner of regis-- : jtration in a Missouri town and applied for registration papers. "What is your name?" asked the official, j "George Washington," was the reply. "Well, George, are you the man who cut down the cherry; tree?" j "No, suh, I ain't de man. I ain't done no work for nigh onto a year." Everybody's Magazine. Piaitery Like Modern Guitar. The psaltery was a strinKod musical Instrument to accompany tha voice. In the prayer hook vprslon of the I'salniH the Hehrew word Is given ai "lute." This Instrument resembles the f.iltar, hut was larger with a convex buck, rese:r.llliui a gourd. Don't Lone Your Temper. lie who loses his temper, ksvs muoh besides. He lose his ftclf-rcspc- ; he iones the respect of others; ho loses an rlement out of his character and repu-tation which he cannot retrain; he loses vital force, and stamps an Im-pression on his whole being which time cannot efface. The work of our volunteer firemen in Pingham is worthy of special mention from time to time and the rapidity with which they have quenched the flames which have started to destroy property here is seldom equalled by the various paid fire fighters! in other cities of the state. Our boys do this work without com-pensation, and yet they perform it more readily than many of the firemen who are under a salary throughout the year. Many other towns have more expensive fire apparatus than has Bingham, but! nevertheless few succeed in stopping the flames as quickly as the local firemen. In fact the short time in which our local firemen have reached the scene of the fire has done much toward reducing the rate of fire insurance in this camp. The rate is still too high, ' but this is no fault of our local firemen. The Secretary Bird. The secretary bird Rets Its name from the tufts of feathers which crow 3n either side of Its head and look Piactly like a bunch of pens stuck d a clerk's ear. This bird has Ion less and large wings, with which It can a.scend to a great height. It builds 9 strong nest In a tree, ami lives lu It ytar after year, subsisting ou small inimals and iny ynakes. Authorship Long Hidden. The Waverley novels were so called because the first of the series was called Waverley. It was published anonymously hi 1S14, and was fo!ov ed, year after yur. bv other noveUt 111 published anonymously tint il when at a public dinner party Scott admitted tin- - auilioisliip. j |