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Show . f Friday, June THE OGDEN POST broupht out graphically by the war. The Cuban restriction is another example of the danger we are facing, and the power we have placed in foreign hands by giving them a preferential tariff. Domestic production must be encouraged: Our tariff must not favor foreign producers at the expense of own own citizens. It is necessary that through home production we place ourselves beyond the menace of another sugar shortage. A home sugar industry is also a heavy local taxpayer, which foreign sugar companies are not. The Ogden Post Published each Friday by The Og Printing and Publishing com 2428 Kies el avenue. pany, matter Oc Entered an second-clatober 17, 1927, at the post office at Ogden, Utah, under the Act of March den Post ss 3, 1879. Subscription Price: $1.00 per Year Telephone 365 EDITORIAL HIGIIWAY8 AS TUBLIC UTILITIES Highways should be considered as public utilities, on an equal basis with railroads, telephones and electric light and power systems, said Walter J. Woodall, editor of the international index, recently. Highways that have been properly mined are earn-i- d extra dividends,1 ing dividends, he stated. Twenty-fiv- e years sgo. when good, were practically unroads paved known, this statement would have seemed absurd. Today, with the revolutionary changes that a quarter of a century has brought about, it is no more than common sense. We depend on good roads as we depend on electric lights or telephone communication. They are no longer expensive luxuries, but economic necessities. CHIEF ANDERSON IS RIGHT The Post hastens to commend Chief of Police Harry S. Anderson for the ' Vf'' r Y I 4 t :n -y-.v.'- 'f 5 ? ; - -- 'l l I V f f; -- : 'Anii stand that he has taken concerning the enforcement of the ordinances of The chief is quoted as The firecracker ordinance saying: should be enforced or repealed. The Post is presuming that Chief Anderson is consistent and has taken the same position concerning all ordinances. It would not be doing him justice to come to any other conclusion. If this presumption is correct, the bootlegger, the gambler and the shake down man will fold their tents and steal away." The Post feels that it has helped the chief in coming to this conclusion concerning the enforcement of law, and feels amply repaid for its efforts. Ogden City. OIL INDUSTRY MET TEST s In 1923 there were twelve times as many automobiles as in 1913, while, in comparison, the amount of oil produced was but three times as much. Rapid development in the processes of refining oil was necessary to keep pace with its consumption. The oil industry has neve faltered in supplying the abnormally growing demand. In 1909, a barrel of crude oil produced 'four galIn 1923 efficient lons of gasoline. methods had been developed to the ;xtent that the same amount of crude oil furnished thirteen gallons of gasoline of a far better quality. The United States has led world oil production since 1857 when petroleum was first taken from the ground. Since that time we have produced seven billion barrels, 64 per cent of worlds production. Our nearest competitor, Russia, has produced but two billion barrels. Paralleling his, more money has been spent here than anywhere else. Up to 1923, our oil investment reached the amazing total of $8,200,009,000. The oil industry faced a great problem when the automobile came into popular favor with such amazing rapidity. Amazing efficiency and. engineering methods handled the situation without confusion. i- m. 'if'-- : . i .J . ..'L.i ' f ! ' f " i ' ;: i'-- f . fcij. A ; ;; y : ;LS t -. ; - ? ' i v ' ; .' ' , ivai Lv " f, ; .. REPUBLICAN POLITICS Republican politics is running true to form in Ogden and Weber county. Just now the fight is within the party, and the friends of W. II. Wattis and Samuel Dye are contending as to which gentleman shall be the Weber county candidate for governor. The threatened split in this county is encouraging candidates for the office from other parts of the state. II. E. Crockett is looming strong in Cache county; Carl It. Marcussens star is rising east of the Wasatch range; Malcom Keyser is showing up in Salt Lake City; W. W. Scegmiller is touching off his bomb, and a dozen other talked of candidates are hoping to get in the race. These conditions are pleasing to the Democratic party in Jtah. They well remember how it was that they elected the only senator they have ever had in Utah, and how they secured the election of Governor Dem; and if the squabble keeps going they hope to win again. While the Wattis and Dye factions are warring over the gubernatorial nomination, other Republicans hold that Weber county should lay off on governor and go out for John Walker for secretary of state, while others favor putting forward a candidate for attorney general or judge of the supreme court. It is get together in Weber county or get nothing. forty-two-gall- ? f 7 WHY COMPROMISE WITH I1 l . SOCIALISM? II. T. Sands, of New York, president of the National Electric Light association, told the delegates of the Fifty-firannual convention that the electric light and power industry has nothing to fear from an honest inquiry, and, in fact, wants the investigation of the Federal Trade commission to bo jnost searching. Mr. Sands voices the right policy. The utilities should have nothing to hide. They are owned by several million private American citizens. The investments of these citizens must be )rotected and made to earn a reasonable return. No industry is subject to more thorough or drastic regulation by local, state and federal governments han is the electric utility. No other ine of business, unless it be the railroads, is required by law to keep such uniform accounting methods, and no other line of business is more closely scrutinized as to its policies and the issuance of its securities. Even if it so desired, the electric ndustry, individually and collective-- y, under such a system of public reg ulation, could not operate its proper-lie- s successfully except upon a fair and square basis. The present investigation of the utilities originated more or less as a st REAL BEAST OF A comparatively few years ago, before our mechanical giants came into being, it was the custom to call the mule the beast of burden. lie was regarded as the extreme of patient, working energy. Today the real beast of burden is made of steel instead of flesh and bone, motivated by gasoline, instead tracof blood. It is the crawler-typ- e tor. How to solve farm problems is being demonstrated on 3,000 acres of wheat land owned by Mr. J. R. Whilhycomb, son of a former governor of Oregon. He runs one tractor practically 24 hours daily to pull eight plows, plowing to a depth of seven inches. The grade on which the work is being done runs as high as 60 per cent. And for six weeks the tractor has plowed on the average 85 acres of ground daily, without having once cooled off. It is machine methods such as this that" are revolutionizing agri- cultural efficiency. 14-in- ch . ; t t total $500,000,000. The first of June, the total number of persons employed by all Detroit motor car factories was 359,073, high cst on record -- real prosperity. VALUE OF HOME SUGAR INDUSTRY The action of the Cuban govern ment in restricting the amount o sugar to be shipped to the Unitei States, will be followed by expansion of the domestic sugar industry. Do meslic growers on the American mar ket, ar.rt to oppose the granting o any further turiff privileges to other nations. The United States consumes 0.090, 000 tons of sugar a year, 60 per cent of which in the past has come from Cuba and the rtiillippines, according In hti authoritative statement, am s'lemts $350,000,000 annually for for f itru sugar that could be produced at bme. The clanger of our not luiv inti n tuleipu'f v (Inmost!. supply v: & A kii th be eiel sm ani bt the count guard at Fort laiuderdtile, Fla., whence the speedy vessels are sent out to capture rum running ships front Culm Hnd the Bahamas. In the foreground Is a new seaplane hangar. View Chicago to Have $7 sie: the pi! a Beautiful Park Entrance tw Chicago will have perhaps the most beautiful plaza In the world when the Congress street entrance st Grist park Is completed. This architects sketch shows the twin driveways, which are being constructed, and the proposed plaza extending from Van Buren to Harrison street. Redwing Wins, a Wealthy Bride SLEW WHOLE FAMILY II. G. Lane & Co. BROKERS : GRAIN : COTTON STOCKS i Hotel Bigelow Building Rhone 234 ' OGDEN, UTAH B&ss lrlncess Rose Marie, said to be the wealthiest Osage Indian woman, hnd a fast one worked on her. Redwing, wealthy president of the Redwing blot ion ricture company and the Redwing oil company, of Ventnra, Calif, bad been talking of & wedding, but the date hnd never been discussed. Recently they met In Los Angeles, min Redwing suggested taking a walk. The first thing Princess Rose Marie knew, they were entering the marriage license bureau. We might J ns well now ns any other time," the princess agreed, and they signed on the dotted line. ra will J is Owen Oberst, evil. Brisbane replied that it is accumulated money that has harnessed Falls, built the Panama Canal, ami has placed automobile production on a quantity basis that has given the American people 24,000,000 inexpen sivc motor cars. Great accumulations of capital, Lke great accumulations of water going downhill, represent power. Eliminate accumulated capital and you woul eliminate possibilities of higher civilization. He says the people have brains enough to watch and control accumulated capital and take advantage o the benefits conferred by it, quoting these figures to prove that the coun try is prosperous: In May, corrora- tions in which millions of employes are stockholders declared dividends o: $347,900,405, and in June dividends long-establish- ed Headquarters cf the Rum Chasers in Florida I Ess ACCUMULATED MONEY In a recent issue csf his syndicated column, Today," Arthur Brisbane refutes George Bernard Shaw, the English socialist, when he says that accumulated money is the root of all Ni-aga- on I BURDEN 'I' : all-arou- nd A ! - it 5 . JUSTICE ROBBED George Remus, wife slayer, boothighbinder, leg king and has been found sane by a crazy set of tribunals and is now free to take up his evil ways where they were cut short for a brief time. How Justice can be robbed in cases like that of Remus is beyond sane reason, yet similar cases are cited very often. political issue. It has been clouded to some extent by forces which would use the investigation to discredit private ownership, it has seemed to be the desire of some critics of the industry, to muke it appear that the utilities are pursuing an improper course when they fight public ownership schemes which would ultimately mean ruination of private investments. It is hard to understand why in a free country like ours, calumny and aspersions should be hurled at an individual or eompuny that fights the encroachment of policies which would not only destroy it but would undermine and take away the rights and privileges of individual citizens. Where is there anything wrongful in an individual or a company fighting the adoption of socialistic policies by our government? The aftermath of the world war disclosed that the much praised public ownership in Europe was a failure. This country's experience in operating its railroads is known to us all. It is right and proper that these lessons be impressed on every one of us that we many oppose every socialistic effort to extend the public ownership idea beyond the mere necessities of government. Utility executives would be criminally negligent toward the stockholders if they sat uietly by and allowed investments n their companies to be jeopardized and possibly ruined, without raising their voices in defense and in favor of private enterprise and initiative as established and encouraged under our constitution, and against practices which destroy our most trusted and principles of government. ' That utility companies must be honestly conducted goes without saying. If some companies are not so conducted abuses should be corrected. But this does not mean that the whole industry should be crucified, that the investments of stockholders should bs jeopardized, or that thousands of executives and employes in the industry who are furnishing the highest type of electric service in the world, should be embarrassed and unjustly criticized for conducting the properties for which they are responsible in lawful manners which they deem will best protect their investments, even if such policies Jiave to go to the length of fighting public ownership. Instead of being criticized, many leading utility executives, newspapers and periodicals should be thanked publicly for fighting the iiiroads of socialism. Why should any man in this country be criticized for upholding American ideals of government ? Why should the advocates of policies which would discourage and destroy private initiative and enterprise in this coun try be given such consideration and support as is accorded them today? The people should realize that tremendous economic disturbance is being engendered by forces which are attempting to initiate new and ex perimental governmental policies. They should realize that their interest in the whole matter is far greater than the interest of the utility companies, for the simple reason that individual and personal rights are at slake. Mr. Sands is right when he says Let the investigation of the electric light and power industry be thorough.1' Then after this investigation is completed, let the investigators center their inquiry on the forces that would cripple and destroy private enterprise in this country, and find what motives lie behind such a program and what forces are supporting it in. 22 seventeen, onlJ IT I S the William who were vlving member of family of eight burned to a crisp in the ruins w Be farm home near Bums, Kan. Iw killed confessed he shot and five &1., ther and mother and and sisters when he got craxj w after his father had refused P him money and the family to town to call on his gin I $40,000,000 BRIDE King Boris in Earthquake Region Now In Effort Daily to Srptemhrr SO Liberal Stopover En Route Return Limit Oct SI Choice of 3 Ways to the 1arifie Comt and Return advantajre of the luxnriou comfort unexcelled low round trip farra offered by Union Pad cific, fur yuur lUinmcr trip. California and the North-w- et aie raliinir! Proportionately low fare to other Take terrire-an- point. i o Ann!n and Return direct via U. P. Uw Anitrle. return via San Krancwco Lm A nee I ph, return via San and Portland or vice vera I4S.SS I47.SS . nei STS.SI EXAMPLES OF LOW ROUND TRIP Denver Ontahn Kanaa City Ihu-ai- KARRS New York .... $15.! 4.46 N.H 'New Orica n ioton .......... C4.SS 14.14 Waaoinaton .... I44.ll Ue.lt par fnrtkac lalnaatloa aantli C,l, 14 Davtd McKKtOHT. 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