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Show Friday, March THE OGDEN POST cause of this wondrous and happy and that scientific research and production from the key to succcbs in change." gas produrti9n and distribution, was W. T. EPPERSON, Editor pointed out at the recent midwinter conference of the American Gas asMembar Utah State Press Associatian Member National Editorial sociation, held in 1m Angeles. The Association gas industry in the United States today represents an investment of some Published each Friday by The In a recent interview, Thomas A. $4,500,000,000. "The gas industry cannot stand poet Printing and Publishing Edison made the statement that "govof 11. C. Abell, 2428 Kiesel avenue, still," busiernment never really went into Share and Pond Electric the company, matter Oc- ness, for it never made ends meet Entered as second-clas- s told the association. "It must pro 17. the at tober 1927, post office at the first requisite of business." made gress through research to keep pace No government enterprise ever Ogden, Utah, under the Act of March the greatest benefits to The post office, the govern- apd bring money. S, 1879. its services end to itwho use those ment shipping lines, the railroads self. Subscription Price: $1.00 per Year during the war all have been sub' "Research activities of the gas assidized from the federal treasury. The sociation include, besides those of a government makes ends meet but not 365 technical nature, such problems Telephone by business methods. It clears its very scientific as management, education, books by the simple expedient of of all branches of the var-ocorrelation .EDITORIAL to the loss the taxpayers. charging activities in the industry, end One of the wisest statements ever made is that the government exists public relations." for the people, not the people for the Menace government. It is the function of the laws necessary to a well state to Governor Allen of Massachusetts ordered pass and punish those who society has msde some suggestions concern- break them. It is likewise the busiIt has become the fashion in cer-ai- n ing traffic lews that should be con- - ness of tho state to provide, by tax circles to deprecate our modem ndustrial age, on the grounds that t exalts the machine above the individual, and mechanical above human The Ogden Post Government Never Really Went Into Business vice-preside- nt us Lowering Accident This Mechanical Age JsSSSi.TSrflSSl & wub .fcJlssr JL"K2 accident should have his sn action strikes st the roots of values. Yet the results seem to differ from re,he theory. The machine has, for the Such time in history, given a vast first voked, and that the granting of a ambition and individprogress and nnount of leisure to the great major-t- y license in the first place should be we are not ready In America uality. oi people. It has increased contingent on the applicants ability for the Russian that exalts the dh pro-ucti- system and shortened hours of work, to drive carefully and competently. and thrusts the private citIt is a proven fact that rigorous politician izen to a dead level ot down enforcement of traffic laws will do much to reduce the yearly death and injury toll. In Detroit fatalities were reduced by a year's severe The traffic administration. It is likewise true that all over the country, during Tho competition between foreign safety weeks, the accident record goes down, only to rise again after the produ week has passed. These sporadic ac- itics is, basically, a conflict between tivities are admirable in purpose, but wage scales and standards of living. their result will be negligible until It is an obvious fact that goods pro- y we have not only safety weeks but duccd with the lowest labor and I head costs can be sold cheapest. years. cures for .the auto-Such We, in the United States, enjoy the mobile accident menace as provided by I highest wages and best living liability insurance are II ards 'of any country in the world, to foredoomed failure. Aside from There can be no comparison between their economic and social disadvan- - the economic and social status of the tages, they could never do anything! American worker and hia European but substitute a dubious system of equivalent. If ail foreign-mad- e indemnity for prevention. It seema products were more logical that the cure lies in the allowed to enter our market, duty direction of education and rigorous free, this happy state of affairs would enforcement of adequate traffic and have short shut. We would enjoy the dubious blessing of cheap commodlicensing laws. ities, but at the immediate expense of our purchasing power as millions of Economy in workers must either be thrust out of employment or be forced to work at low wages. Our prosperity Would Efficient highway building now burst like a pricked bubble. calls for a thorough atudy of all conHence the tariff. Our ditions and circumstances before the tariff docs notprotective to shut out attempt yement is laid. Modern highway foreign goods; some of them it admits juilders, in considering the location If ree jj their unrestricted sale is not bf a pavement, no longer take the damaging to American competitors. y for granted the But what the tariff does, original to speak roadway is surveyed, and, if practi- generally, is to equalize the cost of cable, it is shortened. im production here and abroad rrofessor T. R. Agg, of Iowa State posing duties on competing by foreign college, declares that if a highway goods. carries about 1,000 cars a day, or a resent tariff provisions may be total of 865,000 tons of traffic a year, far from perfect with some duties too each foot of distance saved to traffic low, others too high. But it possibly will justify an expenditure of at least h. our tariff principle that stands be $60 for road shortening. In other! hind our American words, that it would be strict economy gygtem 0f high wages and good living t? spent $316,800 to shorten a road by I conditions, one-thi- t has made possible the wide of luxuries at prices which it the average purse. Motor cars and teiepnones and heatiend-es- s ng systems and elevators and other mechanical devices have cssened the time necessary to perform .he duties of life, that more time mey e had for the luxuries. There can be no question that there are many who use their leisure poorly. Jut it is not the machine that must defend itself against the criticism, t is human intelligence. And it is not illogical to believe ;hat the machine will be the means a an end a time when education and knowledge will be really general and d leisure will create a this and greater Basic Tariff Problem rd over-safet- so-call- ed stand-compulso- ry new-foun- better-balanc- ed Rendering Service to Investors . Building right-of-wa- r to trial when the more tur charge of forgery was lodged come him. self-appoint- ed dont have to nurse a carefully to make it gror You Pro-ver- y Most people who have nothing tc 01 make the mistake of doing it. People who talk in mcir i. should tell the truth while awake Most of the work is done by who are too nervous to loaf. great industries. The Future of Utility Service Mr. Paul S. Clapp, in a recent article on the interrelation between the electrical industry and national progress, states that the achievements of the past are but a beginning; the foundation upon which great future to be based. development "Enormous fields of opportunity lie ahead of us," Mr. Clapp says. "Less of the population live than in homes using electricity. We should not be satisfied until we have extended this service to all of the people. Less than one-ha- lf of the homes now wired use anything beyond lights and We should not be satisa flat-irofied until it becomes possible for every home to buy and utilize the equip-- 1 ment which electrical science has and will make available. This is the largest single field of opportunity, of the countrys tass than one-ha- lf railroad mileage is electrified and but few of its terminals. The full utilization of electric power by factories is far from being accomplished. The lighting of the nations net work of highways and airways is just commencing. Radio broadcasting and the home movie give us but a faint opening of the curtain as to what future invention and discovery may bring forth. Never has an industry, or a group of men connected with an industry, been able to look back upon a scene of accomplishment equal in contribution to the people of their country. No industry or group of people connected with it nas ever been privileged to turn about and look forward with such hope and confidence to the enormous contributions which still lie in their hands for further development. "We are concerned in the physical problems, in the financial aspects, in the economic interpretations but much greater moment is our feeling that, in the span of time allotted to us for the expenditure of our effort and the expression of our hearts, we are contributing to the forward march of this great country. two-thir- LOWER SERVICE CONNECTION CHARGES ARE ANNOUNCED ds AT LOWER COST MOKE. SERVICE . bedroom, kitchen, library for any room In the house can now be had for leas than half the service connection charge that had been effective until March 1. This substantial reduction In charges for the connection of new equipment or changes In existing service Is an obvloua benefit to subscribers throughout the entire Mountain States territory served by this Company. Redncllona bare also been made In charges for the connection of business telephone extensions and for moving telephones from one part of the house or office to another. In addition, the charge for changing the type of your telephone (hand, desk or wall set) has been reduced more than one-hal- obti boil f. The reductions are entirely In line with this Company's policy and the aim of the Bell System "to provide the most telephone service and the best at the least cost to the public." INVESTING $4,650 A DAY 1929 almost $4,650 will ba of For every working day Invested In a Greater Telephone System for a Greater Utah. Put Into land and buildings, switchboard and cables, the 1929 budget, largest in the history of The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, poles and wire, will mean a continually Improving telephone service for this territory. Ask Our Local Manager for New Charges r social-econom- ic Du An extension telephone for your n. The functions of the modern stock exchange are of the utmost importance in stabilizing security issues and irotecting the vast investing public. The exchange provides a free and open market for sound securities and efore accepting them for listing makes an exhaustive analysis of the organizations behind them. All the nformation that is obtained is open o the public. The exchange rigorously combats "bucket-sho- p operations, by exerting Ijitle Sheep and Big Sheep strict supervision and regulation over Jud Tunkins says everybody is kind all member brokerage houses that o timid. The man with a million dolaccount safeguards the customers when carried through an exchange lars is pretty well scared of the man with a billion. Washington Star. member. Highway one mile. So, in addition to benefits which on A Correction The stock exchange does not pretend to have power over American business, and it is far from being a In reporting the sentence of Furl censor. Hut what it to docs do, in the public interest, is, Lindsey, 18, in The Post last week,the in 20 through a close watch of all secur-,tic- s serve from one toon a years of forcharge listed, employ moral suasion with state penitentiary American institutions that makes for gery, it was erroneously stated that autohigher and more stable business stand- Lindsey had been paroled on an been also had and mobile theft charge ards. of By combatting fraud and lending its arrested for disturbing the peace divorce filed proaid to honest and sound ventures, the his wife, who had modern stock exchange is rendering a ceedings. Lindsey is unmarried, but great service to the millions of Amer- was, however, under a carnal knowicans who are now purchasing inter- ledge charge which had not aa yet ests, both small and large, in our lm 22. So. are I ordinarily thought of in connection I LiaiTOW Oil VTHHC with new be In a recent address, Clarence Dar Caving projects, may the I row, the celebrated criminal lawyer, shortening ! roadway to the least possible dis I said that the increase of laws agains tancc. This means money saved to personal liberty, was responsible for the motorist, who is also the taxpayer, a large percentage of the increase in and to the government through lower- crime in this country. ed maintenance and construction costs. "We are in the midst of the most reactionary period this country has ex perionced since the Civil war," Mr. Harrow said, with the laws being tightened so harshly in an effort to In 1927 a new world's record in tax jail the guilty as to endanger the in norent. collecting was established in this couna quarter of the persons when federal, state and local gov- nowProbably try behind bars are confinet prison ernments required $9,074,000,000 to which for offenses not consider were 12 keep going. This was per cent of our national income, a two per cent crimes 13 years ago." A great part of this modern move' increase since 1923. It is believed to curb liberty, which he calle ment that when the statistics for 1928 are a wave of hatred," Mr. Harrow lai gathered we will have definitely ex- at the doors of fanatic reform organ' ceeded this former high mark. Tax izations. records, unlike other achievements, Mr. Darrow speaks strong words. seldom outlast their year. no one with a knowledge of mot isl An interesting phase of affairs can den w he says, that the increase in taxes can mainly I be laid at the doors of state and local lhe.re ha? bcen n almost wholesale cntrol and rule against units of government. Federal econ- omios havejsept federal taxes fairly lt haa been a If nd. tbe. re 1" constant. The solution, if we can find I one, must deal with the unprecedented I ?con 8n,nst law and authority tha pur crime record to moun generosity or perhaps prodigality I, C,8U dizz , ie,8bts of legislators and state and municipal office holders. Progress of course costs money. And civic and state spirit, that wants to outdo everything ever done before, I tO IxOltCml FOSpCrity is more or less commendable. Hut year the railroads spent $1. community expenditures for luxuries 400.000,000 for materials and supplies and may easily bury the and $722,000,000 for new equipment, taxpayer under a mound of indebted- - additions to facilities and improve-nes-s that will make progress impos-- 1 ments. This combined outlay is the equivalent of $78.60 for every family . in the United States. . The r81111 of thesc tfsantic expend Itures is seen directly in faster, more 1 T I comprehensive, and more efficient freight passenger on transportation, recent ?nd adCommenting wage t1 situation which is P"ase vances in copper and lead mines the I Mining RcyW. pUUM at tremendous, contribution the railroads Lake City, says: These advances in wages, it is make each year to our general prosworthy of remembrance, are not the perity through the purchase of the result of labors demand for increased products of other industries. In 1923 the railroads spent pay; they are an example of the spirit for coal, thus providing ever; of good will and cooperation that exists between the employers of men and fourth dollar earned by the coa the men themselves; it is a case of miners. They spent $433,000,000 for division of the fruits of combined, iron and steel products which means harmonious efforts of men, money and that the employes of that industry of their inbrains to meet the requirements of received about one-fifcome rapidly expanding world trade and of all from the railroads. home industry. The world is demandwages paid in the lumber ining more and more of the useful and dustry came from the railroads. All this is in addition to the railneedful metals and, apparently, is willing to pay more to got them. The roads tremendous direct payroll. It likewise in addition to the benefits great mines of the country, the smelt- is derived by agriculture and industry works and ing, refineries, the fabricating plants and the transportation from cheap, efficient railroad service agencies are all working to a common and the important share borne by the end the welfare of everybody con- railroads in developing and supportcerned, including the ordinary, every- ing communities. It has been said that transportation day worker and unskilled helper in is the backbone of our prosperity and the hive of industry. The industrial forces are moving the facts seem to justify that belief. away from and out of the zones of Gas contention and bickering into the spotlight of mutual understanding and friendship; and the world is begin That former sectional problems of ling to prosper as never before e gas industry have become national ; Worlds Tax Record Broken atn Railroad Contribution Ist l GENERAL ELECTRIC Refrigerator & G Since electric refrigeration was essentially an ELECTRICAL problem, it was natural to expect from the General Electric engineers and scientists an outstanding development. The General Electric Refrigerator la revolutionary In its simplicity, in its quietness and in its economy of operation. , 0 non-essenti- SiinS Labor and Mining industry $439,-000,0- t i 00 Places a General Electric Refrigerator in your home ready for instant venient light socket or outlet no wiring or special plumbing to do. th One-four- will cause you to prefer this Electric Refrigerator. 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