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Show Friday, December 26. THE OGDEN POST 2 be prevented through the expenditure maintenance and the remainder for of a little time, a little thought, a lit- interest on bonds, purchase of equiptle money. Adult Americans need to ment, etc. return to school long enough to States are turning their attention learn the lessons of fire prevention. to the highway problem, recognizing that Rs speedy solu- perverted idea of party principle, par t ty loyalty, and political decency. To vote for a man because he is a V. P. EPPERSON, Editor revolutionary, political hell raiser, is all right, we presume, if he is elected Member Utah State Press Association. on a hell raising platform. But he rublished each Friday by The Ogden Post Printing and Publishing com has no right to steal into office through a party which stands for conpany, 417 Ecclea building. structive, sane legislation, and then hoist the skull and cross matter October 17, 1927, at the postoffice at immediately Entered as second-dabones and run the gauntlet of politiOgden, Utah, under the Act of March 8, 1879. cal piracy. A decent Democrat, an ardent un...$2.00 per Year Subscription Price. compromising Democrat is preferable to this brand of Republican. Mr. Lucas is not standing alone. Telephone 365 THE OGDEN POST farm-to-mark- et Utilities as Taxpayers 1928 EDITORIAL taxes paid by our public utilities reached the gigantic total of $388,326,000, according to Floyd L Carlisle, of the Niagara-IIudso- n Power Corporation, of which 46 per cent came from electric light and power companies, 25 per cent from the telephone and telegraph, 16 per cent from electric railways and 13 per cent from the gas manufacturing industry. In that year, for the first time in history, public utility taxes equaled those paid by the railroads. These 1928 levies would have furnished the entire tax funds of the cities of Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit and Utah Makes Urban What Use Congress? What Use Legislature? Racketeering Newspaper Men Disclosures following the killing of Jake Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter, focused attention of the nation on tho racketeering newspaper men. Happily such men are few and far between. In all but rare instances, the newspaper owners discharged em- who had been close to irioyes gamblers and their ilk. Most owners did not wait for conviction. The newspaper business holds an enviable reputation in the country. Whenever a newspaper man's greed for money leads him to grant protection to places he should expose, there is no legitimate place for him in the profession. Not far behind the racketeering newspaper man is the editor who writes columns of sob stuff and sheds bucketfuls of crocodile tears in arousing sympathy for murderers and other felons. Late census returns show that Utah has 2GG.264 people living in cities and Now that congress is in session and towns, and 241,583 living in the counis busy wrangling over appropriaOf her neighbors, only Wyoming, try. tions and striving to make party is- Arizona and Nevada have more counsues, it is well that the people keep try than city and town population. In check on its doings. President Hoov- Colorado the and country popuer has failed to drought appropria- lation, as in city is about equally Utah, tions within his recommendations, divided. which were surely large enough if California has a population of 4,-- 1 the taxpayer is to be considered. But GO, 596 in her cities and towns, and now that drought appropriation has 1,160,655 in the country. The prebeen voted, what about its ? of city population in ponderance How are the people to explains why most of the surknow if the law is constitutional? plus products of the mountain states They know it will be constitutional find a market in California. all right so far as paying taxes is conis stepping out in front, and Utah cerned, but how about the enforcement line in with the progressive states. and workings of the law? IIow do ten The next when Utah copper, they know when some federal district lead, iron andyears kindred products are judge will declare the law unconstitu- manufactured here, the urban or city tional, even years after its passage? will be greatly increased, population They do not know, and it seems they and markets from farm products imnever will know. proved. Mapy years ago, congress passed a series of laws on bank taxation, and they were in force and effect until a lawyer came before a court, and the laws were declared unconstitutional. The National Board of Fire UnderWell, perhaps they were, but it dont writers estimates that the fire loss Hger ipi tion of the legal profession and the in October totaled $36,836,614 over courts to wait a dozen years before $5,186,229 ' more than in the same it Is determined that a law Is consti- month last year. tutional. The same is true of the proThe total loss for the first 10 hibition law pronounced unconstitu- months of 1930 amounted to tional by a district judge after ten as compared with $353,426,-2- 1 in 1929. The United States is years of operation, the expenditure of millions and millions of the peoples once more on its way toward a recmoney and the sacrifice of scores of ord waste. lives. This year has been one of the worst, And what use legislature here in from an economic standpoint, since Utah? The legislature will meet, de- the war. Business has retrenched, liberate, wrangle, pass laws, including purchasing power has diminished and appropriation laws, and go home. But the employment situation has become what will it amount too? Will the critical In view of these facts, the Chicago combined. adminis-istration- Cal-forn- ia Fire Loss on the " The taxpayer, educated to new burdens since the World war, has shown marvelous stamina as well as patience. But there are limits to even his fortitude. The fact is obvious that lavish appropriations can only add further to our tax burdens. An iron curb must be imposed on congress and state legislatures against profligacy with with public funds. A Good Road Year $387,-300,26- 0, The Revolution in the Home anstate expenditures remain within the tragedy of our limit of the appropriations made by nual fire waste becomes more evident ed Make 1931 a Safety Year During 1931 a determined campaign to outlaw the reckless and incompetent motorist from the public highways will be made in many states, adopt stringent licensing laws for Authorities are urging legislatures to drivers. In a majority of our states, anyone, irrespective of his competence or physical fitness, can obtain a driving license. Only thirteen states and the District of Columbia require examination of applicants. Those states report favorable progress in automobile accident prevention during a period when the casualty list, in states, has steadily risen. The Saturday Evening Post editorially recommends that automobile liability insurance rates, instead of being the same for all motorists, as at present, be raised for drivers with accident records and lowered for safe drivers. Casualty insurance companies are already doing this to some extent. This has a tendency to encourage carefulness and more equitably distributes the premium burden. It is estimated that ninety per cent of motorists are careful and responsible, but they pay the bills for damage done by the ten per cent who are reckless, irresponsible or incompetent. We have a long way to go before we settle all the factors of the accident problem. Prevention, cure, indemnity for the injured each requires careful study. The growing public am official interest in the problem is an encouraging sign. non-licensi- ng tion is essential to the organizing of agriculture on a sound and prosperin the ous basis. Nineteen-thirtmatter of roads, is showing great progress over 1929. During 1931 we should take a still longer step forward in providing rural areas with weathersurfaced arteries proof, of transportation. year-roun- d, Approaching a New Accident Record From the standpoint of deaths due to automobiles, 1930 is the worst year in our history, according to the National Safety Council which reports fatalities for the first nine months were two per cent above 1929. 'Hie report is based on statistics covering areas containing about half the nations population. Recklessness and carelessness are still rules of the road with thousands of motorists. However, it is encouraging to note that there are a few rays of light in the acident gloom. .Tremendous success has been attained in reducing the number of accidents to children by means of safety instruction in schools. Throughout the nation many organizations are working to prevent accidents, not only automobile, but those occurring in homes and industries. The National Safety Council announces that it will hold 25 regional safety conferences in various parts of the nation during the coming year, and it is estimated that 1,000 delegates will attend each one. Another hopeful sign is the strong trend toward laws requiring drivers examinations. Some of our states have such laws now and report exceedingly good results. When legislatures meet again it is almost certain that most of them will consider stricter licensing laws. Their value is demonstrated by Pennsylvania where 75,000 of 300,-00- 0 applicants were unable to pass the tests on the first try. Road statistics for the first months of 1930 are encouraging. According to W. C. Markham, of the American Association of State Highway Officials, during this period 12,503 miles have been paved, 15,763 miles have received surfacJust before the Fourth of July and ing and 9,951 miles have been graded Christmas the people are cautioned and drained. Compared to 1929, this fire and accident during those represents an increased mileage of against two great holiday periods. This is 5,715. well, and as it should be; but how At least 50,00z men, in addition to about each and every Sunday in the the regular working forces, have been calendar here in the good old U. when more lives are sacrificed to employed on state systems alone. Thus road work is playing an important the automobile accidents than in the part in mitigating the effects of the celebration of either of the great holiunemployment situation. days ? And that reminds us that while The states, this year, have spent legislation is more or less effective about $800,000,000 for roads, in addi- as to the method of the celebration of tion to more than $100,000,000 for the glorious Fourth, it seems to have payment on bond principal. Of the but little force and effect with auto former sum, 67.7 per cent was used drivers. During the past few days, for construction, 21 6 per cent for when the roads have been coated with Not Equal to Auto low-ty- the legislature, most assuredly not, than ever before. Thinking Americans and they never have. Then why leg- would do well to reflect that each year islature, so far as appropriations are we destroy, directly, an amount of concerned. So it is with all other property that, translated into cash, laws if occasion arises for opposition would employ close to a million men thereto, or a desire to twist their at wages of $50 a month I In addition, meaning. Utah laws have been held there is the vast indirect waste resultto mean almost anything interested ing from fire business parties may desire, so argued by at- loss of work, higher taxes, insurance torneys, and so held by courts from rates, etc. Fire waste is inexcusable. All but justice of the peace to district judge. Poois indeed, is the court that hesi- an infinitesimal number of fires could tates to assume jurisdiction in declaring a law unconstitutional, and time or usage is no bar against such action. It might be well for the legislature to require that the supreme court the constitutionality of Css upon before they are enacted, that would be the only way the constitutionality of a law could be assured; B but Lord! Lord! how many years would it be before a law could be passed before the supreme could pass upon it? But after all, the delay might be an unmixed blessing might prevent laws being passed. Sure it is the Utah legislature will be raided for appropriations as never before. Already the lobbies are lined up for new penetentiary, three or four junior colleges, addition to the capitol building, flood relief, countless charities, and all this in the fuce of more than a million dollars deficit a deficit made in excess largely of aj the appropriations made by the legislature. One may well ask why congress, why legislature? There can be but one answer: congress and legislatures furnish a working basis for tax expending officials, courts and lawyers, and there is no limit to their doings. shut-down- s, gas and speed the same as when the roads are in good condition. This U especially true out here on the Salt Lake-Ogdstate highway. Holiday Accidents lar Automatic heat has caused revolution in American domestic life. The basement, once the storage place for dirty, unhandy supplies of fuel for furnaces, has become a billiard room, a den or a playroom. Gas, a leading industrial fuel, is likewise a leader in household convenience. Its economy, efficiency, cleanliness and automatic action have made it a boon to the home owner. They would have paid the expenses of the navy, with enough over to meet the post office deficit. They would have paid the income taxes of all persons with an income of less than $100,000. In addition to these direct taxes, another gigantic sum comes to the government In the form of taxes on profits from the sale of securities, taxes on incomes received from utility stocks and bonds, and the like. Of equal interest is the fact that, since before the war, taxes on utilit-e have increased twice as rapidly as revenue from customers. While 1928 revenues were about three times those of 1912, taxes were five and a half times as large. Taxes absorbed 23 per cent of the net revenues of utilities in 1928 one dollar out of every $5.53 available. The utilities contribution to government, to employment and the maintenance of wage scales in short, to everything that goes to make up our industrial civilization is incalculable. Rise Tax Limits pe en Since the above was written, pre. liminary reports on accidents for Christinas day have been received. The report is most interesting when considered with the above expre. sion. The report sets, forth that its deaths occurred on Christmas, so fir as heard from. The list covers deaths caused from automobile accidents fires, drowning, hunting, brawls, and Two-thirpoison liquor. of the deaths are charged to automobile and only twelve from poison liquor. When one considers the returns it seems strange that such a nation-wid- e hallabaloo should be set up against poison liquor. The figures seem to indicate that the quality of moonshine liquor ie on the improve; if little more time is given, itand, may at tain the excelence our forefather asserted tax-fre- e moonshine possessed over the government-taxe- d product ds Lets Have Figures of Last Year Why would it not be well when the unemployed census is being made next month to make it so as to determine how many were out of employment one year ago? This is something one ought to know in meet, ing the situation. NEW HOMES FOR RENT OR LEASE One One brick, furnished (45.00 monthly. brick, furnished $50.00 monthly. New duplexes, fully gas equipped $47.50 to $52.50 monthly. PHONE 1625 OR 360 J VIADUCT Political Crookedness One is any at a loss to understand how ng of the Budget ds - 185 Twenty-fourt- ed Hail The New Year! Nineteen thirty-on- e is just around the corner Answer the challenge. Its a new year . new places . . . new business. Let us solve your printing and publishing problems. 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GOOD HEALTH and PROSPERITY to ALL The Ogden Post h Four Exceptional Featuiea of the Viaduct Market Cool-idg- nt I Market & Groceteria Ik newspaper editor; how an upstanding man in any profession ran condone the attitude of the socallcd insurgent Republicans when standing for Why a newspaper editor should be in sympathy with a political blatherskite who poses as a Republican, is nomin ated by a primary where anyone may vote, by a convention on a Republican platform and then goes to congress Eloquence where he opposes all and everything the party and the platform he was In a recent syndicated article, Cal elected on, is a mystery. There is no excuse for political ym Coolidge stated that the budget is eloquent against war and agains prostitutes. If a candidate for congovernment in business. gress disagrees with either the ReAside from the post office, the tax publican or the Democrat parties, it budget totals $3,900,000,000 of which is his right and privilege, but he has about is used to pay for no right to secure his election through wars, past and present, in the form either party and take advantage of of debts, maintenance of the army honest people who vote for him for the sake of party principle or party and navy and pensions. As Mr. e regularity. says, It pays to be at peace. Robert II. Lucas, executive director However, this war expense woul be nothing compared to the sums that of the Republican national committee, would be required once the govern-me- in his testimony before the senate went into business on a large committee on elections, has made it clear that he much preferred a Demoscale. Money now furnished private investors would be takenbyfrom crat in the senate to Senator Norris, the public treasury. In case of loss Republican from Nebraska. which, in the case of private busi- The opinion of Mr. Lucas is shared ness, is paid for entirely by stock-fo- by thousands of Republicans all over the people again would pay the land. Even in the state of Pennsylvania, leading Republicans are in the bill. t, Maintain world peace and keep the open revolt against insergent so it is all over the country government out of business and fed- where and the insergents have a following, eral taxes, at least, will automatically A man has no more go down. right to pose as Republican when he is out of harmony with the principles of the party Some People and its administration than he has to practice any other brand of hypocracy. These men are not only obstrucSome people seem to think that the tionists they1 are destructionists, and chief function of congress and legis- it is not to the credit of the latures is to extract money from the of the states who elect them. citizenry taxpayers for the benefit of prefer-re- d if they want to be communities and pot schemes. ct them stand forth likerevolutionary, men and go some Unfortunately people are to the polls as revolutionists on un right. If you dont believe it watch ndependent platform. the doings of congress and the Utah Surely the people of the states replegislature. resented by these men have got a two-thir- Gains ice and snow, auto drivers step oa the y, During si 1 Qan Kl |