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Show TITE CITIZEN 4 custom should be written into law in order to prevent international A mans home is his castle and it is considered complications. contrary to all law to force entrance therein. A ship is a countrys property and it should be respected. Many believe that some of the European countries will claim damages against the United States for the search and seizure methods resorted to in forcibly confiscating stored liquors held under seal while in American waters. If these cases are taken into court it is no telling what the final result will be or what new laws may be placed upon the statute books governing the rights of international shipping. It need not be said that if an American ship had been treated in the same manner in a foreign country that a loud protest would have Arisen in this country. . sought why there should be such a material difference in tnc popularity of the two richest men in America. The answer is easy. Ford builds factories and pays good wages. In fact, if all employers in the United States did what Ford has been doing and is " doing, we would have no Samuel Gompers today because there be no need for any unions. Ford, at one time a poor machinist, fi never forgotten how hard it is to live on the average weekly wage and when he was blessed with money he never forgot his fellow-ma- n with the result that he pays high wages in all his business ventures. ' Now about Rockefeller. It has been about twenty-fiv- e years ago when a group of men standing on Broadway were talking about a certain donation Rockefeller had just made and how liberal he must be. One spoke up and said: Just watch oil for the next day or so and see if it dont go up a cent. He will not only get his donation back but will add millions to his bank account. It is his employes that are making the donation and not the old gent. Ever after at least one more of that party kept a partial check on Rockefellers donations and invariably oil went up the next day or so. It may have only been a coincidence, and the liberal donator of vast fortunes had no idea that oil kept pace with his donations, but nevertheless, it happened, and that is one reason why Mr. Rockefeller never made a popular hit with the masses. The prevailing opinion was that he taxed his donations against the oil users. Andrew Carnegie was another liberal donator and gave away his millions, in fact he stands at the head of the list as a contributor to many causes and funds, not only in this country, but throughout the world. But his men in the steel mills where he made his money worked twelve hours a day. Had he distributed some of his enormous profits among his working men and bettered their lives, he, too, would have been a great man. Elbert Gary, president American Iron and Steel Institute, says shifts in the steel mills to that it is impossible to cut the eight hours because it would increase the cost of production to such an extent that the steel mills could not sell their products. The public would refuse to pay the high prices. And Mr. Gary preaches religion in order to hold or try to hold his men in line. Mr. Gary may be popular with big business interests, but he will never make a hit with the masses. Henry Ford .comes along and builds his own steel mills, works his men eight hours a day, and it is reported that he pays about twice as much per day as the men receive in Garys steel mills, and yet Ford can produce iron and steel much cheaper than he can buy it in the open market. That is why Ford is popular. He places his men above others by working them shorter hours and paying them more money, and under his present system he is making more money and making it faster than any man on earth, excepting, of course, the mint in Germany which has not only broken all records but has established a worlds record which no other nation ever hopes to equal. George Washington did not make himself popular because' of any donations he may have made. He gave his all, the best par, of his life, that America might live. Abraham Lincoln was not popSiar because of some donation. He freed mankind and abolished, forever, we hope, slavery from these United States. Teddy Roosevelt was popular with the people because he fought for their rights regardless of what personal consequences might result. And so on down the line we find the dividing line which brands the citizen, whether rich or poor, high or low. People love a champion but only respect a donator. wtjl . ROAD INFORMATION. A great deal of criticism is heard from tourists who arrive in Salt Lake and then arc sent over the proposed Victory highway west by way of Ogden, etc. It takes about eight days of slow travel over this route to Placerville, by following a very poor road where in some places temporary bridges are made in order to get over. People who have taken the advice to go over this route and who have returned over the Lincoln highway are at a loss to understand why the misinformation as to road conditions at the present time. The Victory highway is a talked of route through Utah and is not a made road for the convenience of travel as yet, whereas the Lincoln highway at the present is in very good condition. Tourists should not be subjected to the jealousies of factions, and the traveling public should always be sent over the best roads. Misinformation always returns home with bad effects. Tourists who ccme to this city, en route to California, should not be talked out of taking the Lincoln highway, because at the present time that is the best road leading to Sacramento and San Francisco. The Arrowhead road is in good condition all the way to Los Angeles, and this is the road to take by all those who wish to see Bryce and Zion canyons, among the most wonderful creations of nature. PUBLIC SERVICE. Politics reduces some branches of the public service to an absurd proposition. It is well known that almost without exception men have been appointed to places on the shipping board, Republicans and Democrats, who knew absolutely nothing about handling ships, and whose only recommendation was their familiarity with political steering gear. Talk about building up a merchant marine by political methods, and competing for shipping with highly trained maritime men of other nations, who have grown up on board ships, so to speak, and who do not have to play politics, should give the people some comprehension of the fallacy of governmental operation of transportation organizations on land or sea. American built ships are still rotting in squads and flocks in our great harbors, like abandoned decoy ducks ia a hunting preserve. The palsied hand of politics tries to manipulate these fleets, valued originally at some three billions, which the taxpayers are gradually being called upon to liquidate. Coleridge in the Ancient Mariner fitly described this kind of merchant marine as painted ships on a painted ocean. ' DONATIONS VS. POPULARITY. Some twenty-fiv- e years ago John D. Rockefeller came into public prominence by his liberal donations for medical and scientific researches, also to churches, schools, etc., and ever since he has been a big contributor to such causes. Mankind has surely benefited by his work' and no doubt the country in general appreciates what this rich man has done. Still he is not 'popular. '1 V. On the other hand Henry Ford has never bceti a contributor to any research institutions or for other causes, but keeps all his money, ' : ' and he is popular. The question has been asked and discussed and the reasons -- . . . i 12-ho- ur As a rule cooperative agencies for handling market products produce favorable results, but the same cannot be said of the hog market. The agencies have proven an absolute failure. The Q)icc of hogs in June, 1922, brought $11 but the month just past found pork selling at $7. It is said that the farmers will lose aoout this year. The agencies have rounded up all the hogs in the country for disposal but with so much stock on hand at one $300,-000,0- time the price has been hammered down to a very low figure. 00 -- |