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Show THE CITIZEN ft iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiai Does Your Printing It Cost More . To Live But Is Worth It TT appears that someone somewhere A has effervesced this epigram: : It costs more to live nowadays, but it is worth it. Where on earth did that optimist come 'from? Here is a new kind of a indeed, and one- - who revolutionist, throws bombs verbal bombs that explode in your brain and make you think. ' If you will believe the Bolshevik or the labor agitator or even the usually submissive bourgeoise you will be convinced that all the golden ages are Of yesterday, or of the future. Only today is drear, melancholy, sad, tearful. Once in a while an isolated optimist startles us with a paean of joy . ahda victory. It costs more to live nowadays, but it is worth It. ' wags might reply that his r .Some must have been a hard life, if he can But be ' satisfied with the present. perhaps he is like most of the toiling, perspiring, suffering, hoping, smiling, rejoicing human race perhaps he is ever, striving for a better condition and ' enjoying himself a little as he goes along. And perhaps he finds it a better world to live in every year of his life'; and if he does who shall dis-pwith him. Some things there may be that we do not do as well today as we did twenty-fiv- e years ago, but we do most things immeasurably better. 'Doctors tell us that they have added, ten years or so to the span of life in that time. A cynic would say glumly that they have added ten more years in which to paw around in the gloom. With them it is always Nothing to nothing but the refrain: eat but food; nothing to wear but , . ut hu-naa-n clothes. The claim of the doctors should remind us that a generation ago, if you had inflammation of the stomach, your relatives, as a matter of form, sent for the doctor, but prudently consulted the telephone directory for the About that undertaker's number. time the surgeons discovered that the appendix, the cause of the trouble, could be removed with little or no danger. In the good old days diphtheria, ty- phoid, smallpox and half a dozen other diseases ran their course and usually it was the course to the grave. Now these diseases are prevented or easily cured. Twenty-fiv- e or thirty years is a brief period in which to make such wonderful advances. Pneumonia and cancer may kill you, but if you live another decade the doctor probably will be able to tell you truthfully that neither pneumonia nor cancer are worth worIt is rying about. And the "flu? quite likely that the influenza is not serious in itself. There is reason to believe that its particular peril lies in the pneumonia it causes. ask, have our social and economic doctors been which only sound constitutions could to the body. But, the pessimist will During the Jungle investigation of the packers about fifteen years ago it transpired that most of the people of the country were constantly battling with adulterated foods. Every day they took into their systems poisons as successfuly as those who minister defy indefinitely. The pure food laws, state and federal, gave us more healthful food. And it may be remarked in passing that the rise in prices began as long ago as twenty years and that one of the causes of higher prices was pure food legislation. As long as dealers competed in the poisnous fields of Laissez Faire they produced cheap probably massacred more Innocents each year than did the Turks running amuck in Syria. Armenia or Macedonia. Bad food was more deadly than war. We pay more for food nowadays, but it is worth it. And wages? ' .? years ago Twenty-fiv- e I 5 . 1 5 ' Mountain Grown SIS IE OS and YB5IEIES P-- When you see among other things, 1,000 letterheads $9.25 do you wonder if you could save money by having your work done outside of Salt Lake? The Duchesne Record is known over the state for its low printing prices and efficient management. Compare these items : 5 m Ws Why risk those of doubtful pedigree and growth when you can secure Our Vigorous Mountain Grown Seeds and Trees. Our Big Free Catalog gives full details. Write for it Today. PORTER-WALTECOMPANY Salt Lake City R . riBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIiailBliailBlllillllBIIBIiailBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIiailBI'ailBIIBIiailBliaiiailBIIBIiaiiailBIIBIiailBIIBIIBIIBilBl" 1 Your Duchesne Record Price Printers Price $6.00 $9.25 $4.00 $6.00 Letterheads (1000) Letterheads ( 500) 5 We will underbid the big Shops from 10 to 40 per cent on any printing job you have. We print all orders the same day they are received. Every one of our workmen comes from the Salt Lake shops. We have every modern convenience in our shop. THE DUCHESNE RECORD DUCHESNE, UTAH SiBiiBiiBiiBiiaiiaiiBiiiiiBiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiMaiiaiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiBiiBiiiiiBiiiiiaiiaiiiiiatiaiiiiiBiiaiiiiiiiiaiiaiiBiiaiiaiiBiiBiiaii; the unskilled workman received about $1.25 a day and was out of work much of his time. At one time 7,000,000 men were idle and 20,000,000 more were denied the fruits of their labor. It was an era of low wages and short hours. In fact the hours were so short that millions of men did not work at all from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof. Of course, there is alwuys a fly in the ointment. In the good old days a servant, then called hired girl, worked gladly for $2.50 or $3 a week. Now the hired girl gets $10 to $20 a week and goes out riding in the car with, the children while the housewife does the scrubbing or the ironing. But the hired girl can join in the chorus, It costs more to live nowadays, but it is worth it sign its own death warrant and ask to be led to the electric chair. But wise politicians know that a law which is not backed by something more than a bare majority sentiment cannot be enforced. The federal statutes labor under the difficulty that their enforcement must be attempted in some states where the majority sentiment is against prohibition and in large cities where the prohibitionists form a comparatively insignificant section of the population. Even in prohibition states and communities there are scores, hundreds and thousands, of men and women who voted for rigid prohibition as the quickest means of getting rid of the saloon, although they were not utterly opposed to the use of spirituous liquors. food, but they MlBIIBIIBliBllflllBIIBIIBilBIIBIIBIIBIIB'IBliBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBliBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBlIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIIIIBI'BIIBliBIIBIIBIIBlIBIiaillllBliailBliBliBIIBliBi S Bill Hurt? Liquor Continues To Be A Strong Issue 'POLITICIANS of both parties are described by the Washington correspondents as anxious to keep the prohibition question out of the national campaign. The issue arises with all the geniality of Banquo's ghost on the question of law enforcement. No wonder the political wizards, experienced as they are in the ways of men, are afraid of that issue. In theory a party must stand for law enforcement. A party that declared against law enforcement would be perpetually proscribed. It might just as well, in a manner of speaking, Undoubtedly there is more of a sentiment in favor of light wine's and beers as a substitute for stronger drinks than there was a few years ago. was really directed against strong drink and the saloons. If there had been no such thing as whiskey in the country it is improbable that there would have been a. successful attempt to ban beer. Whiskey and such other familiar spirits as champagne, brandy and gin, not to mention such a foreigner as absinthe, were anathema to our peoThe drive ple. But today there has been a change of opinion about whiskey. The doc-(Continued on Page 18.) $ |