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Show Friday, September TIIE OGDEN POST The Ogden Post W. P. EPPERSON, Editor Manlier Utah State Pre Association Member National Editorial Association. Published each Friday by The Ogden Post Printing and Publishing com pany 2428 Kleael avenue. . matter Oc Entered as second-clas- s office at the post at 1927, tober 17, March of Act the under UUh, Ogden, ; ' . 3, 1879. I V - Subscription Price; s 32.00 r Telephone f i yll For Monopoly f vl- ' t r. ; s ?ity i;,V .. $. tr ,. 1 y . j. i r ' :yi And now C9mes the big boys fight v rg in the courts for the exclusive on right to operate passenger buses the highways of UUh. . .. And why not? It is indeed a juicy to carry a plumb to hold a monopoly im- . passenger ten miles over a highly proved graveled and oiled highway by paying to the state the insignificent sum of ten cenU and receiving for the or to service thirty or forty cents; hard-sur- -. a over the passenger carry . faced highway 100 miles for twenty-servthe for and receiving five cenU ice three or four dollars. Just now the fight on Is between i the Union Pacific Railroad system V and the Pickwick Stage lines and tb Denver A Rio Grande railway and So far as this par", other bus lines. ticular fight Is concerned, the Union de- . Pacific people are entitled to the - cision over the Pickwick people. The . Union Pacific company pays hundreds thousands of dollars of taxes in UUh while the Pickwick people are but little Interested in the sUte other i" than in the use of the highways. , As a matter of fact the Union Parailroads do-cific railroad and other have been state in the business ' ing forced into the passenger bus business through bus lines being allowed to use the highways at a price per , year that would not build a mile of first class mountain railroad. Passenger bus lines have come t stay, but they should not be allowei i' to opersta over our highways at the expense of taxpayers. However, this is a. matter for the state legislature that at the next and it la ' session of probable that body the matter will receive their consideration. , V Before the state utilities commis pion Wednesday, George II. Smith, . general counsel for the Utah Parks copipany and its parent organization, the union Pacific system, was on the witness stand most of the day in the hearing being conducted before the public utilities commission on five applications for permission to operate automobile stage, lines in southern Utah. The application of the Utah Parks company is being protested by the Pickwick Stage Lines company and the Rio Grande Motor Ways of Utah, i ar subsidiary of the Denver &, Rio Grande Western railroad company, as well as smaller companies operating - In the same territory. v Mr. Smith based the claims of the company for the franchise rights on the need of the railroad to unite its bus and rail operations. Counsel foi the Pickwick company and the Rio .. Grande Motor Ways company attack the application on the contention that , interchange of bus and rail passen-gcr-a could only be accomplished at few points and the inauguration of such service would seriously threaten the continuation of the present bus routes, y Mr. Smith announced that the , haa already purchased the Union . Bus station in Salt Lake and that the .. companys application should be approved on the grounds that the company has a right to enter into competition for the passenger business, hav-- i ing pioneered the territory served. --- ;; ;r1! Vm , iii p . K'I i. J ' V'' :, s' ' ., rt . - , K-0-.. ,? H ... :S 4? NS'.? , . ;-- i s if l ? ' "i rW i: Vv tiK s li ty-- i : v 'S A? . ! sj.-.- - ,a ,N s ri t & - fM com-pan- . 1 i y y.--- : The. City Election Another city election will soon be with us. Already a number of candidates' for the offices of mayor, com- -' missioner and auditor are being talked of and are being groomed for the primary election race. This is as it should be. Candidates for these important offices should be carefully considered, and their capabilities and what they stand for should be care- -' fully weighed and investigated. Not only should the candidates themselves be considered, but their backers should be taken into consideration. Too many times here in Ogden, as in other cities, the under cover issue of a municipal campaign has been who will be the chief of police, police judge, city clerk and other appointive officers. While the appointment of city officers is import-'an- t, such appointments are in no man-- t ner as important as the office of mayor and commissioner. The management of the city of Ogden is a matter of grave importance to every loyal citizen. Ogden is a , fine city, it is a city of wealth and 'importance, and every good citizen should be jealous of its progress and g and finanprosperity, its cial standing. This being true, personal interests must be put aside and only those who can be depended to serve their city loyally and unselfish-- " 1 y should be considered for office. ' The administration of government for Ogden City is a d job .and there is no place for weaklings in the commissioners office. Ogden City must bo progressive, she must go ahead, but at the same time the interests of her taxpaying citizens s must be protected and ner credit main- tained. Her commission must be composed of men who know what to do ' and what not to do. They must be well balanced men, men of standing end integrity men who will not bo carried away by radicals, either for . or against. . ; - f , ? .'. (: n f" ; well-bein- u- man-size- fci r s Electricity for Agriculture use of electricity Removal Bus Lines Fighting i t-- liv-in- State Prison 365 EDITORIAL V'i product, working against taxation and high labor been mefaff The point haa now when a slight increase ,n op seems essential to In f ore gn between cost of production g of standards countries with low of cost proand and cheap labor, duction in our own country. with The tariff has nothing to do matbusiness a is It strictly politics. our present ter. If we wish to retain let our cannot we of living, standards markets be flooded with cheaply produced foreign product to the excluthe how of city matter to As the sion of domestic commodities. state regulations and ordinances and laws governing, and these and not personal interests can only be considered. Ogden City mufet be governed in the interest of her people and not in the interest of any clique or den. con Ogden is now blessed with a commission, city capable scientious, and the good work they are doing, and the good work they have done must be continued. Let the campaign slogan be; Ogden for Ogden and not for any private interest. shall be conducted, there are Tulls, per Year, V v A odds of high on the farm On January 1, .The The campaign for the removal of is expanding rapidly. the Utah State prison to a new mte 1924. electric service from high power and a new prison is again on. This line was applied to 175,000 farms; on matter ha been agitated for several January 1, 1927, 325,000; and on Janestimated years and was before the legislature uary 1, 1929, 600,000. It is sessions. time 1929 practically the present during the 1927 and ,i.a During the 1927 session it was gen j QOO.OOO farmer In the United States erally admitted that the penitentiary are uaing electricity. Of this number ought to be moved, but the plan pro shout 500,000 have individual plants.-Th- posed was so ambitious and expensive development of rural electriiithat it was found impossible and was cation la yet in its infancy. Tbean turned down. about 6,500,000 farms in the United The' proposed plan called for a States. Electricity should be used on ihouaand-acr- e farm, equipped with all of them. The farmers, constituting machinery and livestock, new peniof the country s population, maof the electentiary buildings, manufacturing was use only the United in chinery, work shops, etc. There consumed trical energy cona general feeling in the legislature capita per The average that the plan, as advanced, was not States. of electricity in the United economically or financially sound. It sumption was generally' admitted that convicts should be required to labor, but not with tree along lines competitive trades or be In the tabor, whether it Aside from agricultural farming. products which were required for the prison, it was thought that efforts in that direction should be discouraged. It was also thought that prison building expenditures should be limited. It was patent that Utah wa not able financially to enter into an elaborate, extensive, modern, prison building running into millions of e ' ' one-four- th nd T. L. Rampton, R. I Hansen, L. Kenneth SpurW. E. Heaton, Brown, Metropolitan Life Holds Convention Special delegates, due to their qualifications for the 100,000 club are Mr. II. J. Black, Mr. B. B. Black, both of Ogden, Mr. L. C. Christopherson, of Garland, and Mr. E. W. Heaton, of Brigham. . It is interesting to learn from Third Williams that the Pacific Coast Territory is ranking well towards the top in every department of the company. Conditions throughout the Pacific Coast territory are tine, and considerably ahead of last year. The Ogden district is eontribut ing nicely to this fine record. Government Service Exami? DisFifteen members of the Ogden trict office staff of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company will leave Salt Lake Monday, September 23 for aton theywUl Tuesday where City, Frederica which tend a convention, at J Williams, third ofheading a party of four company be will ficials from San Francisco, the principal speaker. The conference disia being held for the purpose of comthe in cussing improvement to its policyholders. service panys It will be concluded by a dinner and evening meeting. Ex-Servi- ce Men The delegates who will attend from V. S. Prows, Ogden are Manager . Hold manager D. F. Crandall, agents B. B. Black, R. I Wilmot, H. J. Black, The 362nd Infantry association will A. T. Doxey, S. D. Gam, V. D. Wood, hold its annual banquet and reunion K. J. Martin, L. G. Christopherson, R. at 7:30 p. m. on Saturday, September in the Mens club rooms on the 28, The ave- 6th floor of the Tribune building. States is 580 kilowatt-hour- s. on all This will be in the form of a stag rage per capita consumption ' . 49. ia only farm party. men who were memMore attention Is being given to All supplying farmers with electricity at bers of this regiment" are cordially ina cheaper price than ever before. vited to attend. Farmers are using electricity for more Maid: No, maam, Mrs. Hughes is purposes each year. They are beginelectricthat the realize out. to part ning conI When better How in fortunate I .Visitor: can developing play ity ditions on the farm. The rapid de- saw her peeping through the curtain velopment of rural electrification is as I came up the path I was so afraid she would be in. highly desirable. Vice-Preside- vice-preside- nt, nt The United States Civil commission has announced petitive examinations as foil!! Radio operator $2,500 a year, Lighthouw Ljjft0 partment of commerce. Home demonstration a year, less $180 for agent and light, Indian field serjfc? Junior biologist (fur w nt Junior cartographic a year coast and feodSfit department of commerce Stag Party 000 Whinon, D. :r 1 C., Policewoman, $1,800 a year deprtn,en'' &oIi CAiln states United States civil servir.Ti4. examiners at the post office W eu, tomhouse in this city. 4 i vV I v. i Iirogram Had the bills providing for prison removal, introduced in the legislature been less ambitious and not provided ing criminal agricultural for permanent criminal road, camps; perhaps a - boulevard along the Bonnevile water mark; perhaps an auto road connecting the islands in the Great Salt lake; perhaps a tunnel camp at a site for a tunnel through the Wasatch range to bring water Into Salt Lake City from the Grandaddy lakes country favorable action might have been taken. Another stumbling block was the fact that the state constitution provided that the state prison be located in Salt Lake county, and a thousand acres of land in Salt Lake county would cost a lot of money, especially when it became known that the state was In the market for the property. In this connection, opponents to the bills pointed out that the state already had in other counties a hundred or two farms, which had been taken over by the state for loans but were not available for a prison site. It is possible, and probable, that if Salt Lake City and prison reformers will present to the legislature a more modest plan for prison removal and for. college--provid- . provide has a mission to bring more comforts into the is M In the large or small communities along the lines of this company, in your own home you may have all the comforts, conveniences and J.- I i 4 Out of Swaddling Clothes g, bring to you. as much as 10 per cent of the entire gas production, and the proportion is growing rapidly. Automa tic heat, with its economy, efficiency AXld tiin6 and g qualities, has taken the American home by In farm, factory and shop you can do more work and better work with electric-driv-e ifiaphlneg and labor-savin- S , storm. And Reed Can Do It, Arthur! f . can produce for friends enough money to buy all tho diamonds In South ' . i Monuments of Private Initiative and attain- must always come before general progress. It is the aggregate V., 3 ' H . per-pari- ng a 1 f h , . We invite you to call at or telephone our nearest offio for a representative of the company to explain the man uses available to you and the low cost of installation an - Growing of sugar beets ia a valuable industry to the farmers. Sugar companies have spent thousands of dollars building factories and a place in the market for their ; , " own-erfth- ip The Sugar Situation ... There are literally hundreds of ways to speed up work with electricity and to operate with greater economy. Africa by subjecting ordinary table sugar to a tariff pressure of two cents or so per pound. Yes, he can not only buy the diamonds, but a few thousands airplanes to make the world safe for results of private initiative and enterprise in many fields that haa made our modern industrial age possible. The great progressive movements in this country have been started and given momentum by individuals not by government. When the government goes into business, forcing out the private citizen, the result is economic and social paralysis. We had an instance of political domination during the war when the railroads were taken over by the government. The tremendous losses sustained and the retrogression of standards of service are well remembered by our citizens. Our telephone, railroad and electric facilities are supreme and give the best service at the lowest rata. They are a living testimonial to the wisdom of public regulation rather than and operation of business by the government. ' . at a saving of money. Arthur Brisbane in his weekly colsays: In another laboratory, the Senate, Mr. Smoot ia about to prove that he umn of paragraphs Individual prosperity . : house-heatin-g absorbs ment can economies Gas according to Eugene D. Milener, of the American Gas Association, is emerging from its swaddling clothes and la now available in nearly every section of the country. In many large cities i daily lives of more people action. house-heatin- a i for mors permanent public improvement camps for road building and maintenance in our wilderness wonderland, they might get favorable ' EFFICIENT PUBLIC SERXTICB gv!Li. except Maryland. V gima, Vermont, Delaware and til, ' tnct of Columbia have than their share of appointaS,; ex-servi- ce .r- - CTStf WdSKSMft t. 200 W 000 to as-ista- 9n |