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Show T H E C ;4 based upon the careful adjustments of the past several months ap- pears inevitable but since it would be a warranted form of increased activity why call it inflation? Why not leave hectic inflation indulgencies to Europe and continue our post-wa- r policy of positive conservatism? Let this country be the beacon light of financial stability and e inflations are already sug'not reversely as many of the gesting. old-tim- ROAD BUILDING After a great deal of expense and time investigating road cond ditions it has been finally and definitely decided to pave the four-mil- e stretch two miles, in cement and two miles , bitulithic or blacktop. Specifications which were drawn up and advertised for bids were such that it required a great deal more to build the cement road than the blacktop and as the government will only participate in the lowest bids, some of the bidding engineers estimated before the state bids were opened that thre would be a difference of more than $16,000 in the cost. The specifications called for the concrete to be one inch thicker than the blacktop and it had to be steel reinforced. As a result cement was rejected. Immediately a howl went up from the people and the county commissioners, a majority of whom appeared to favor a cement road, and a prolonged fight ensued. The matter was finally patched up by dividing the road in order to meet both sides, but that is evading the question as to which makes the better road. Experimental tests for various kinds of paved roads have been made in various parts of the country at a huge cost. There is then no reason for Utah to spend money in experimenting on roads. Those who urge experiments have an axe to grind. Road tests in many of our thickly populated states where heavy traffic and continuous use were the chief factors to be considered in the tests prove conclusively that the properly built cement road is the best road year in and year out. Illinois spent $300,000 in a road test and cement won out by long odds. However, if the citizens who pay the taxes and who live along a highway and they want a certain kind of road material, they should get what they want, provided that they pay for the upkeep of that certain stretch of road. But where the people of the state are concerned and where all contribute to the upkeep of the road, that road should be constructed from the best and most durable material that can be procured, and there should be no guess work about it, or string pulling either. Layton-Clearfiel- . COOLIDGE PARAGRAPHS. Men do not make laws. They but discover them. Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of the majority. Statutes must appeal to more than material welfare. Wages wont satisfy, be they ever so large. Nor houses; nor lands; nor coupons, they fall thick as the leaves of autumn. Man has a spiritual nature. Touch it, and it must respond as the magnet responds to the pole. Do the days work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a standpatter, but dont be a standpatter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but dont be a demagogue. Dont hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Dont hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Dont expect to build up the weak by tearing down the strong. Dont hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation. There is no problem so great but that somewhere a man is being raised up to meet it. There is no moral standard so high that the people cannot be raised up to meet it. It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. I TIZEN There is no need for Americans to lack confidence or rin their institutions. Let him who doubts them look about him. It is not a change that is needed in our Constitution and laws so much as there is need of living in accordance with them. AN HONEST CONFESSION. John W. Davis pulled a boner in a recent speech which he made while traveling in the state of Maine. In telling the people his hearers at Rockland, Me. that there was no room for a third party which Robert LaFollette was leading, Mr. Davis made the remark, We are, both Democrats ' and Republicans, striving for an honest and upright government in the United States. Mr. Davis told the truth but, as campaigning for the Democratic party and himself, Ke placed himself in an awkward position in his own party lines when he admitted that the Republican party was honest. When he arrived in New York, he found the gang-plan- k leading1 from Q4e boat not wide enough to hold the New York Democratic censors who were present in a body and who wanted to know whether Mr. Davis was campaigning for the Republican party or the Democratic party. If the great issue in this campaign is honesty in government, then why change the men in office? Why should we turn from those who are striving with four years training and experience and put in their places men who, however honest, are wholly inexperienced? Mr. Davis is just cutting his as it were, in politics, and in the future Republicans need not expect to be praised by Mr. Davis. The Republican boys ought to give him a vote of thanks, however,, for his praise as to their honesty. The same rule applies to Utah. If Governor Mabey and the other state officials have given us an efficient and honest government the past three years, why experiment at a cost of many thousands of dollars to break in a new set of officials? eye-teet- h INDIFFERENT CITIZEN. How are you going to make people vote? What cause of this great apathy in our government and the men placed in office to represent the people. According to statistics gathered in 1920, after the presidential election, it was found that only about half of the people went to the poles to vote. Was it the 50 per cent that did not vote that found fault with our system and are. they the present day calamity howlers who charge mismanagement and graft? It has often been said that our government is just as good as the people who make it, and if the people are not interested in it, they have only themselves to blame. If the people turn their rights over to a few ward healers and allow them to. dictate all the terms of government, whether that be city, county, state or national, the people cannot expect to have their just rights protected over and above the claimed rights of those who manipulate the elections. If every American citizen will vote and will take an interest in his local government and his national government to the extent of going to the poles, we need not fear the coris-th- ruption of our government. e S INDUSTRY MAKES MONEY. Henry Ford says that the last stamping ground of the money power is in Europe. Its failure to fasten itself upon the American people has driven it again overseas. The chief danger to our people in this is that Europe may assume that it is the American people who are doing what inevitably the Money Power will do to helpless nations. The need of Europe is not money, but developed industry. This would free her from control by the Money Power. Industry has amancipated the United States. The embassy of liberty to Europe should not consist of financiers and poliiicians, but industrial leadjjjV. who can actually start to make needful things, and introduce tne blessing of steady work, sure earnings, and plentiful exchange among people who need these more than anything else. Governments may need loans, but nations need industry. |