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Show THE CITIZEN 12 Congressmen Broke Representative Upshaw, Democrat of Georgia, is trying to organize Congress into a union in order that a strike for more pay may be succesful. He has introduced a resolution to increase the salaries of senators and representatives to $10,000 a year. It is reported that some of the congressmen are broke and have to borrow money to get out of Washington to go home. Why the hurry? The election is two years off yet. Guthrie Takes Reins Ralph Guthrie has been appointed postmaster of this city to succeed Noble Warrum. Guthrie has always been a good Republican and worker and when his name was mentioned for the position it was about settled that he would land the plum. He is deserving of the place and the boys are glad that he got it. Noble Warrum retires with a great deal of credit to himself. He has built e up an efficient organization at the and he was well liked by everypost-offic- one. Big Soda Deal Beardsley, manager of the Sodium Products company, which firm has extensive soda holdings near Salt-ai-r Beach and located on the Salt Lake, Garfield & Western railway, has consummated a deal with New York jobbers to furnish 100,000 tons of sodium sulphate per annum. This is a new industry and many men will be employed at the new plant. C. O. Hard Times Solved Hard times in North Dakota has been solved and a blotter on which are printed the ills of the state may bring prosperity to the state. At least there is plenty of food for thought in the fact that home industry has much to do with the money in circulation. This is what is printed on the blotter: There is nothing the matter with North Dakota, except that entirely too many of us get up the morning at the alarm of a Connecticut clock, button a pair of Ohio suspenders to Chicago trousers, put on a pair of shoes made in Boston, wash in a Pittsburgh tin basin, using Cincinnati soap and a cotton towel made in New Hampshire; sit down to a Grand Rapids table, eat pancakes made with Minneapolis flour and Kansas City bacon fried on a St. Louis stove; buy fruit put up in California, seasoned with Rhode Island spices, put on a hat made in Philadelphia, hitch a Detroit tin mule fed on Texas gasoline to an Ohio plow and work like hell all day long on a North Dakota farm covered with a New England mortgage; send our newspaper and magazine money to the Twin Cities, Chicago and New York and at night crawl under a New Jersey blanket and be kept awake by a damned dog the only home product on the place wondering all the while why ready money and prosperity are not more abundant in this wonderful state of ours. Why not keep the money at work in North Dakota? Why not start an active campaign in Utah for home products and keep the footlights burning all the time? HOMES AND BETTER CITIZEN- SHIP. Hundreds of thousands of new homes have been built in the United States during the past year. Owning a home tends strongly to produce better citizenship, both in children and in adults. The home owner has a more direct interest than has the flat renter in efficient and economical government and in the improvement of his neighborhood and his city, since everything that improves the communitys social or physical condition increases the value of the home owners property and makes his home a better place to live in. It used to be argued that property owners paid all the taxes and that renters escaped. The fallacy of that view is now well understood. Indeed, rapidly as taxes have gone up in the last few years, the rents of flats and apartment houses have gone up still faster. The landlord has passed his tax burden and more on to his ten- ants. It is good for any community that the "own your own home movement has made such progress. That movement should proper ways. be encouraged in all DIG8 OUT WAR RELICS. Otto B. Straubb, a familiar sportsman well known as Dutch, and a man who has given the best part of his life to Uncle Sam, has returned to the city to be operated upon. A veteran of three wars he has learned the game pretty well, but the late world war did him a lot of damage from which he is still suffering.. He lives in a small cabin on the banks of the Provo river this side of Charleston. Lately he dug out two large pieces of shell shrapnel from his left arm. He has another piece imbeded in his back near the spine and it is to have this piece removed which brings him here. He would dig it out himself but he cannot reach it. Dutch is a good fisherman and whenever the boys fail to get any they call upon him and he shows them how. He is one of the finest machinists in the country but is unable to follow his trade because of war injuries. He was also gassed. Past Addresses Present The Past addressed the Present, and said: You gather the harvest of seeds I spread. I toiled and I toiled, and my heart and my brain Mixed blood and thought with my soii and my rain. Henry to accept the Newtonian theory, but finally the French Academy of Science at Paris, in 1775, publicly declared that perpetual motion was an impossibility and thereby branded all those who still insisted upon experimenting with it as charlatans. Pittsburgh Leader. G. Kost. HERE AND THERE f I "You boast and you blare of your progress rare, Your comfort and happiness everywhere. You vaunt your stream, you conceited Utah Oil and Refining company has made public declaration of 1400 per cent stock dividend on 500,000 shares of common stock. Under the arrangement new capitalization will be $7,500,-00- 0 divided into 1,500,000 shares with a par value of $5. Hyrum to install new lighting sys-- - . microbe, And your speaking-spark- s cle the globe. that encirm tern on main street. Eureka Eureka Hill mine reopening You prance upon fields my muscle laid bare; You dash through the sea, you enslave the air; And you utter with pride, that none else, beside Your own ships, rode ever on fortune's tide. various levels.. Utah spent $5,000,000 on roads in last biennium. Kaysville farmers contract tomatoes for $10 per ton. Sanpete county adopts patrol system of caring for roads. Eureka Dragon Cons, mine retimbering shaft, to be electrified. Ogden making effort to get new i i You speak of your mercy, my blood-thir- st decry, To viewith your era all others defy, In grace and in prowess, in justice and fame, Your praise with your brazenest trumpets proclaim. Union depot. Utah Power & Light Co. distributes annually more than $3,000,000 in wages. Logan to double capacity of power i I lived as you live, and the human heart Can not be transformed by fit and by passenger station. Layton Sugar company produced 135,000 bags this year. railCompletion of road will add much to development of state. Moab Drilling under way at Big start I fought as you fight, and my heroes were great As any you offered to crown and to Delta-Fillmor- state. thought as you think, and the human mind Is riven by doubts and by prejudice I Parowan Local farm bureau to I slaughtered for faith, and you slaugh- swear by your culture and, madly, you pace, It need be, destroy an obstructive race. I ate, when I hungered of human flesh; n Your quarry hangs limp in your trade-wove- mesh. Price. Heber endorses $50,000 school bonds. Provo school to get auditorium. '"Richfield to get increased fire-fightin- g equipment. Payson to get $20,000 business block. NIGHT CAMP the bell; I people the heavens and rancorous hell. You sansack the sky, and the stars you hand down, Mere ciphers, to puzzle both scholar and clown. i "Your comfort for body, your haste for the mind The soul to its earthly abiding-plac- e bind; its aft wings and you hem its rapt flight To the luminous orbs of the olden night re- organize. Lehi Plans made for early completion American Legion memorial building. Midland Telephone company to extend lines west from Green River to tered for gain, And death is but death, though of names he bear twain. You clip e Six well. Fairfield New sheep shearing plant completed at cost of $4,000. blind. You plant. Ogden More than. $200, 000 to be expended for new churches this year. Eureka Union Pacific to erect new I worshipped the sun and I tolled Perpetual Motion Discredited. It seems hardly credible, but up to the year 1772, there was no scientist in all Europe who knew enough to catagoricaly deny that there was such a thing as perpetual motion. It remained for Sir Isaac Newton and the French scientist, De La Hire, to demonstrate beyond doubt the impossibility of. attaining it. Quite a little time passed before the scientific world in general was willing Yet day follows day, and the time, too, will be When your breed shall scoff you, as you now scoff at me. For pride meets its doom in its surfeit and age, When the Author of All turns thev self-sate-d page. (From the Arkansas Gazette.) A horse to ride and a dog to love And a fire to warm me by, .nd of the trail and high above The sweep of the starlit sky And where is there more for a mans desire Than a horse and a dog and a fire? pine-woo- d The horse will bear me far and swift And the dog will guard my rest When I lie down on a dead leaf drift Close to the brown earths breast But ah! the ache of an old desire And the face that glows in the pine-woo-d fire. |