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Show Friday, June 1.192a THE OGDEN POST The Ogden Post Published each Friday by The Ogden l'oat Printing and Publishing company, 2128 Kiesel avenue. Entered as second-clamatter October 17, 1927, at the post office at Ogden, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Price: $1.00 per Year ss Telephone 365 EDITORIAL THE CASE OF CAITAIN ROBERT BURK The case wherein Captain Robert Burk is accused with assaulting a city prisoner is another incident in the recent doings of the police depart-men- t. The case takes on addea im portance because the officer has been nailed into court. It is rumored that it is not new for prisoners to receive abuse at the hands of the accused captain and instances of attacks on prisoners held for offenses against the law have been reported to The Post, most flagrant of which is the alleged assaulting of Noorlander. It is common talk that gambling resorts flourish and that nightly poker games are prevalent, and that young boys frequent these places without hindrance. These places are seldom interfered with. The police department is not notoriously active in curbing the business of bootlegging nor does the third degree seem to be em- iloyed to discover the source of the i supply. The bootlegging bust iquor ness seems to be well organized in the city and in a flourishing condition. Surely the department of public safety is not hitting on all cylinders and there must be loose connections or burnt out spark plugs. Burk is said to be a highly efficient officer, and the events of the past few days seem to indicate that he is. Evidently Butterfield will subscribe to that imports, mainly from Mexico, have driven out the growing of egg plants and other vegetables in that state; and other produce, such as citrus, peas and onions are becoming increasingly unprofitable. In 1922 we imported less than 900 cars of vegetables from, Mexico anil the value of the Florida tomato crop was almost $14,000,000; in 1927 we imported 6000 carloads of vegetables and the Florida tomato crop realized less than $3,000,000, a sum insufficient to pay the production cost. Such examples as the above show clearly what a general adoption of free trade principles would mean to our prosperity. Anything detrimental to agriculture is bound to be felt by the country as a whole, and agriculture is but one phase of business that would become chaotic if the tariff bars were lowered. The risk is too great and the possible gain too inconsequential to make it wise or even safe to try out free trade principles. A protective tariff has always been a basis for our progress and prosperity and must remain so if our future is to do credit to the past. THE NATIONS DUTY TO OUR DEAD Once again the nation, pauses to ay tribute to its war heroes and to eep alive the memories and deeds of the brave men who have died on the battlefields in the service of their country. The veterans of all wars will gather at the cemeteries today and there, with flags and flowers and appropriate ceremonies, they will keep green the graves of their fallen comrades, the men whose patriotism and devotion to their country may be measured only by the breadth of their sacrifice and serve. Memorial day is a day of especial significance to the men of the American Legion. They, too, will go to the cemeteries and decorate the graves of their war dead, but they go with a sadness born of the realization that statement. it has been only a brief period of time since they marched beside their SIMPLE FACTS ABOUT buddies, since they too experienced THE TARIFF and turmoil of When the present tariff law was the horrors, the strife A conflict. armed a, go forth to they enacted a few years ago. all sorts of dire predictions were made that prices pay homage to the men who died inof clothing and all commodities es- the uniform of their country, the legsential to life would soar. Results have not borne out these theories. While wages have advanced materially in recent years, cost of living has actually been reduced. This has been due to mass production made YAKIMA, WASHINGTON, Msy Eossible by the great American our market has been kept 31, 1028. Spurred by the rallying cry for home producers by the protective of "Forward Farm Bureau" farmers tariff, which is simply designed to from eleven intermountain and west equalize costs of production in our coast states are planning a summer own and foreign countries. to Yakima for the annual It should always be remembered pilgrimage western conference of leaders in the that our country receives about Farm Bureau movement. The meetannually from customs duties, ing is to be held at the Washington which proves that our tariff does not State Fair Grounds in Yakima for shut out imports. If we did away with five days, from June 26 to 30 inthe tariff this sum would have to be clusive. made up by direct taxation. From New Mexico and Arizona, from Utah and Nevada, from ColoraGOOD ROADS MAKE THE do, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, CaliWORLD KIN fornia and Oregon, the most progresPaved city streets and improved sive of the farm leaders will gather highways leading to the city affect with their Washington brothers to the growth and prosperity of the com- tske stock of the state of agriculture munity in many ways. lay plans for its advancement in In the first place, cost of upkeep and western section of the United this of an unimproved street or highway States. is much greater than if the thoroughDiscussion of farm relief, tax refare were paved. form and other urgent problems of the The entire surface of a paved street is usable; that is, there are not two agricultural areas will feature the prolines or ruts which the traffic follows, gram and in the resolutions to be as on a dirt or gravel road. There- - adopted on June 2!) will be embodied fore, paving increases the capacity of the composite farmer thought of this vast region with its varied sentiments. streets and highways. Many of the pilgrims plan to come Paving enhances property values Caravans will start and acts as an inducement for home y automobile. owners to improve the appearance of rom New Mexico, Nevada and swelling as they progress their grounds and houses, making that street a more pleasant place to live through the states they will traverse until they reach Walla Walla. There on. Paved streets make a city more de- the divisions will concentrate forces sirable from an industrial standpoint, md escorted by a welcoming party for a factory or any business which rom Yakima, will descend upon this requires hauling will naturally pick a city in one giant parade. town where hauling can be done most At the conference the farmers will speedily and economically. e guided in their deliberations by ofWe are no longer living in the days ficials of the national organization, of the old walled cities. Good roads, he American Farm Bureau federagood streets and rapid locomotion tion, together with outstanding men have annihilated time and distance and women from diverse secand virtually made the whole world tions of the United many States. Speakers kin. have been chosen because of their peculiar experiences in some distinctive GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP phase of organization, so that the AND TAX DEFICITS gathering will partake of the nature A member of the British Parlia- of a clearing house for the exchange ment, in a recent issue of the Man- of practical promotional plans. chester Guardian, presents a devastaJ. 'Carl Laney, Yakima, secretary ting survey of government ownership of the Washington state farm bureau during the past year in European federation, will act as registar of the countries, where the movement toand will be assisted by Sam ward industrial nationalization has meeting,secretary-manager of the YaKiefer, been strongest. who is to kima farm bureau, county In France over 11 million dollars be master of ceremonies at the gatherd was lost by the railways and a still larger deficit is expected ing. M. S. Winder, executive sercetary at the end of this year. In the ten months to October, 1927, of the American Farm Bureau Federthe Rumanian State Railways incur- ation, will journey from Chicago headred a loss of more than 15 million dol- quarters. as will also Mrs. Charles W lars, and incessant complaints are Sewell, national director of the Home made of the high freight rates charg- and Community work of the farm bued. The railways, as well, are said to reau, for important places on the five-da- y owe over nine million dollars to priprogram. Mrs. Florence Bovett, vate industries for materials, sup- Verdi. Nevada, chairman of the Home and Community work in the western plies and repairs. In Austria, government ownership states is to be present, and on the proshowed a loss of about a million and gram also, are G. E. Metzger, Chicago, a half dollars on such undertakings director of organization of the Ilas the mines, post, telegraph, telephone linois agricultural association, A. O. and various theaters. The railways Fitzgerald, director of publicity. Unideficit reached four and a half million versity of Idaho, Professor M. I Dag-gdollars. Washington State college, and Australia, by deciding to sell the others. ships of her commonwealth line, conFred Rogers, Colfax, president of cluded inauspiciously one of the great- the Washington State Farm bureau est tests of government ownership of heads the list of farm bureau officials industry ever made. It resulted in a who will represent the agricultural loss during one year, 1923, of almost interests of their respective states on $49,000,000, At that time the opera- the program. H. J. King, La ramie, tion of the line was transferred to a Wyoming, W. I Stockton. Clarkston. board, and further loss was incurred Mont., E. P. Bcrgeson, Salt take City, to March 31, 1927, of over nine mil Dr. R. F. Davis. Denver, Colorado, A. lion dollars. Ahlf, Colusa, California, Walter R. These practical examples show that Strong, Arizona, each of whom is we cannot disregard those economic president of his respective state farm principles that history has proven bureau, are also down on the program sound, without useless and rrodiga of their organization woric. waste. It has been demonstrated conNot all the time of the gathering clusively that nationalization (govern- will be devoted to work, as liberal opment ownership) of industry is al will be Mr. for given portunity play. most a synonym for tax deficits. Giefer has arranged a huge banquet for Wednesday evening, June 27. and FREE TRADE DANGEROUS the following afternoon there will be TO AGRICULTURE a field day while on the final day, the The danger of free trade to agrl visitors will he taken on a ride around culture is shown graphically in Flor beautiful Yakima vallcv and to enids. According to recent information trancing bumping lake, Yakimas playin the Jacksonville Times Union, cheap ground and a fisherman's paradise. Farmers Plan Summer Pilgrimage at Yakima $600,-000,0- 00 Cali-orni- a, . state-owne- y. as it is for us to eulceii. any wonder that there was a needless he left undone which can improve their ish war, s! destruction of life? The wonder is lot and lessen their suffering. The those who have suffered and d that there are not more white crosses nation can never repay they veterans the defense of America. Our ett for the service they gave. The least tures on this day would indeed b. in France. the country can do is to provide them empty if we did not take this opDor! As much as we despise war, we ourselves to th must profit Ly the mistakes of the with the best hospital and medical tunity to orid war; we must not ignore those care possible and otherwise aid them service of the country, if we did not lessons and truths of war that were to resume their proper place in so- pledge ourselves to contnue to unhcM written in blood on the battlefields ciety. The interests of the disabled these ideals which have been so n&M on the battlefields. of France. America must never again have been well safeguarded by the defended send untrained troops into battle, American Legion cooperating with the we cherish the memory of these Lta its hope for victory in num-n- s United States Veterans bureau. The men and pay humble recognition to ths Elacing and the unflinching courage and government agency has worked in service they gave, we realize that close with the legion rehab- service is imperishable, that it patriotism of its fighting men. That itationharmony committee and suggestions been written in the pages of history is American the urgLegion is why the committee for improve- for all time and what little we mi made by ing Congress to enact the principles of the universal draft Such a meas- ments in the care of the veterans have say or do today cannot add to iu ure would put the fighting of war, if been received sympathetically by the glorification. As we go about today scatti-rinwar should come, on a business plane. bureau. Besides the disabled there is flowers on the graves of the dai This country would be prepared to meet the emergency and the war another class of pitiful war sufferers, we stand with heads bowed in' m e? would be fought on a basis of service the helpless children who were left ence to our comrades who have parsed for til and profit for none. All that orphans in the wake of the world on, we should let their deeds and the is required to successfully prosecute struggle. The legion has also accept- service they gave be a constant re. a war fighting men, labor and in- ed this charge, and to protect the in- minder that our power for service is dustry would be placed under gov- terests of these children the legion also great. We should take ernment control. The nation would be has organized a $5,090,000 endowment lion from their memory and resolve prepared to hurl its full resources fund. This money has been invested never to falter in our duty and to flag and country. of the inupon the enemy without delay, and in safe securities, one-hawith such efficiency it could be reason- come being used for child welfare Along with the veterans of ably expected that the war would be work while the other half is devoted wars the men of the American other brought to an end quickly without a to the relief of the disabled. Every kneel at the tombs of the warLegion needless waste of human lives. department of the legion has a well today determined that what these dead men Enactment of the universal draft organized child welfare division and have done for the nation will be honwould be the biggest stride this na- it is the intention of the legion to see ored and held more as time tion has taken towards the promotion that these orphans are educated and softens the sting of endearing their depassing, cared such until as for time of permanent peace since the guns of properly termined that their deaths shall inbe to earn able own their may they World a With war ceased the roaring. spire us on to greater achievements, national defense second to none, the way. that the principles of Justice, FreeOn Memorial day it is just as fitpeople of America could rest assurdom and Democracy for which ed that their homes, their American ting that we remember the disabled fought shall be ably defended they and institutions and ideals would be fully and the war orphans, that we discuss kept secure for all Ameri-ca- n posterity. There would be no fear plans to bring about peace and abol- protected. Legion News Service. of invasion, for then Americans would know that war-lik- e powers would hesitate to attack a strong nation prepared to meet the emergency and to combat the enemy with its full strength on short notice. As we go about decorating the graves of our comrades today it is well to recall why we fought the World war. We well remember those e slogans that it was a war for "Democracys sake," that it was a war Vto end all war," a war to "make the world safe for Democracy," In the training camps where we received instructions in the latest methods of warfare and prepared ourselves to meet the foe on the field of combat, it was again impressed upon us that it was a war for "Liberty," that America had entered the great conflict without hope of material gain, but to defend its national honor and to free the peoples of Europe from the tyrannical rule of imperialists. These are seme of the tnings for which we fought and those purposes, so glorious to us then, nave lost much of their glamour since the drums ceased to beat and the din and excitement of war has died. The armed victory has been won, but it has only paved the way for greater accomplishments. In time of peace we must make that victory complete. We must attain, as nearly as possible, those goals we set out to Teach overseas. But in its effort to keep faith with those whom we have met here to honcrown or today the Legion has encountered many obstacles. Stumbling blocks medium. show have been placed all along the line by certain misguided individuals who believe, or pretend to believe, that the way to end war is to weaken and to black. do away with our military establishment. That is a Utopian dream as far from realization now as it was when Sir Thomas More wrote his fathe fine, cool straw mous work of fiction back in the fifteenth century. This is an age of is light on the head. fare? common sense, a critical period in the The American Legion is composed worlds civilization when America can the price its of the men who served in the World least afford to try out foolhardy exwar, the men who have marched under periments that are without the basis the flag, who have faced the death- of either reason or sound judgment. dealing missiles hurled by the instru- Pacifism never won any war and it ments of modem warfare. They never wilL The rise of this country know what war is. Having only re- from thirteen insignificant colonies on cently returned from the worst war the eastern coast to a power among the world has ever experienced, the the nations of the world has been legionnaires are demanding and hav- fraught with bloodshed, but it was not ing served their country with honor the pacifists and the "conthey believe they have a right to de- scientious objectors that bled for mand that something be done to pre- their country. Yet they are the men vent a recurrence of a similar strug- who are spreading their propaganda gle. The nation cannot better show all over the nation, preaching docits appreciation for the service these trines that if accepted will wreck evmen so willingly gave in time of war ery American institution that our than to hear their plan for abolishing patriots have fought for. war and get it in operation without While we do honor today to the delay. dead, those who in the words of LinThe men in the legion are men of coln "gave their last full measure of practical vision. They know that the devotion" to their we must time has not yet arrived when war is not forget our livingcountry, heroes. We must impossible, that no man may foretell remember today that for some the where or when war will strike, nor war is not over and never will be over what suffering and destruction it will until their eylids have closed in the leave in its wake. What happened peaceful slumber of death. in the World war? Almost overIn the hospitals of the land there night the war lords of Europe mobil are thousands of men with their ized their armaments and swung into health broken, wounded and maimed northern France to do battle with one for life, men who will never again be another. able to go forth and earn their own And was America prepared to en- living. They are the human derelicts ter the struggle? With only a hand- of men who are only shades ful of regular army troops we watch- of thewar, their former selves, struggling to ed the war clouds gather. Then war come back, a struggle which for was declared and feverish prepara- many will be in vain. tions were begun to meet the enemy. There are others more fortunate Thousands of fighting men flocked to who will carry the scars of war to the colors in answer to tho call to their graves, and although their span arms. But the government was not of life has been considerably shortprepared to take care of them. Bar- ened by these wounds, they are able racks were hastily constructed; men to "carry on" and go about their daily were hurriedly trained, many of whom tasks and the fruits of victory, were in the service for months before conscious enjoy that their service for the they were provided with complete uni- nation was honorable and worthwhile. forms and properly equipped. Other The disabled soldier is now am men with meager training were rush- ' always will be the first charge of the ed to the front. They were willing American Legion. its naand eager to fight, but many did not tional rehabilitation Through committee the know how. Some could not even load legion has put forth its best effort for and fire their rifles properly. Is it the disabled, insisting that nothing ionnaires have these war experiences fresh in their memory and they cannot refrain from comparing the quiet and peacefulness of this day to the dark clouds and rumblings of yesteryear. 'Ten years ago today the cannons of war were flaming on the western front of Europe, wreaking wholesale destruction of life and property in the most bitter conflict the world has ever known. On Memorial day ten years ago the American troops in France were called into the first of those outstanding engagements near Chateau Thierry and stalled the allied nations on their march to victory. The Americans fought valiantly, showing courage and heroism on the field of battle that won for them the undying respect and admiration of their fellow comrades from other lands. But victory had its price and today thousands of white crosses within the very shade of Belleau Wood record (he cost of that victory of Chateau Thierry and commemorate the valor and sacrifice of those who went forth to battle just a decade ago. It is not only here, but at many places in France is the cost of our triumph told in white crosses and stars. Mute and beautiful in their simplicity, standing row upon row, they picture more vividly than words the toll of life blood, of broken hearts and wrecked hearth- atones that was laid' upon the altar of war in order that our country might continue to live and prosper and perpetuate those ideals and principles of freedom for which our forebears so gallantly fought and died. Above these silent fields of the dead there hovers something sacred, something akin to holiness, a feeling that God watches over our heroes lest they be disturbed in their eternal sleep. These crosses are grandiose in ther solemnity, something apart from living things, monuments far more fitting and greater than man may ever build to those who died for the honor and glory of the flag. And over it all there is a feeling that these men have not lain down their lives in vain: that what they have accomplished through death will live on and on and continue to serve humanity through the dark and uncertain voids of the future. Can ths cost of that victory ever be redeemed? Can America, even in a small way, atone for the numberless white crosses that dot the fields of France? Are we going to keep faith with those who mode the supreme sacrifice? These questions are to be decided by the living, by the men who "came back" from the war. And it is sn individual responsibility that cannot be evaded by the good citizens who have the welfare of their country at heart. "The human lives that were snuffed out in the blaze of war can never be redeemed; that is far beyond any earthly power. But in a small measure we can atone, we can keep faith with our departed comrades by taking definite ana decisive steps to put an end to war, to banish such bloodshed, as far as possible, from every country in the world. The American Legion has shouldered this responsibility and it is the legion that is urging congress to enact legislation which will lessen the possibilities of war and provide 'is country with such an adequate national defense that no other power will dare attack us. What better memorial could we erect to our fallen buddies than to build for them the assurance that human lives will never again be sacrificed in ruthless war- e lievo-tio- n lf war-tim- the DOBBS SENNIT correct to the fraction of an inch its brim and are silk bands contrasting color or all -- $6 00 so-call- ed red-blood- ed Let Us Make Your I Car LOOK LIKE NEW BY WASHING! 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