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Show Friday, January 11, 1929 TIIE OGDEN POST 2 product. The result is a higher qua!-it- y the irrigation wells of the Escalanta curves are made gradual, hills avoid- on the average citizen" ROULDElt DAM cross will avoid tax mistown wise The are of silk at a lower cost than would tracks and railroad few ed and Cedar City around Lund, Already action is being taken on the desert, correct. to be if any other agent were take takes that possible years ed. and Houlder 'a rowan. a owns caused a revolution toGas used. has Member Utah State Preaa Association Colorado river compact When almost family every next three or four months The Darn legislation. of efficiency standards Editorial ward it uses National Member consistently GAS IN INDUSTRY higher and Utah motor car and On Tuesday the senate branch of iromisea to bring Arizona and and good Araociation business oth economy. for pleasure, states The importance of gas to modem the California legislature uncondi- to a show down. If these roads are a social, economic and safe-- y next the congress measure the less n after industry is well illustrated by the If you are suffering from a feeling Published each Friday by The tionally ratified the compact necessity. on to pass a four or be depended may paramount position it holds in the of inferiority, change your mind. It corn during debate, minutes and must than twenty we Post Printing to Publishing In addition roads, good ive state pact bill. g manufacture of silk. which no opposition was developed. is the fool who lies dormant in the pany, 2428 Kieael avenue. now have wider roads. These are in the on form must taken has dam ratification The of Each year 1,500,000,000 cubic feet seat of consciousness. The matter a minimum of expense secured at matter Oc- come before the six other states inter- minds of the people of the southwest, y building two and three-foshould- of gas are employed in the various Entered as accond-claa- a tober 17, 1927, at the post office at ested, and as each state legislature also with congress, and it will not ers on each aide of narrow pavements, phases of making the 500,000,000 To praise someone while secretly It is just as sure as chain and putting a top dressing of asphal-i- c yards of silk we produce. It is used condemning him is portrayed on your Ogden, Utah, under the Act of March will be in session during the next few down. S, 1879. months, action will be taken for or stores, truck and bus transportation, concrete over the old road aurface for washing, steaming, drying, press- countenance and advertises your real is probable that and natural gas in the Salt Lake val It the ing, printing, sizing and singeing the character. pact. etween against the shoulders. Subscription Price: $1.00 per Year the pact will also be ratified promptly ey. by Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado XDUSTKIAL GROWTH NOT as their senators were MAINE EDITOR MAKES and 365 Nevada, COINCIDENCE i Telephone favorable to the passage of the STATEMENT SOUND Before a public utility can give its Houlder Dam bill. DamariS' in utmost at public service it must first The News, published EDITORIAL It is a foregone conclusion that Art e prosperous and a business success, zona will reject the pact, and that cotta, Maine, says: so a to Matthew S. Sloan, pros' for the iccording of arguments . "Some likc-TIIE CASE OF state is hoping that Utah will do New York Edison com of of form the gov dent or CAPTAIN BURK wise, and thus prevent the building of cialistic andpaternalistic and for ownership pany. public in the ernment Captain Robert Burk's case has been, the dum. The action ofinUtah "What must a public utility do to of all public utilities are operation this hope, Arizona justifies dismissed. past a desirable servant and an efficient and e conceived presented. n wonderfully If this case has not been a typical and there is yet considerable opposi-.ioasks Mr. Sloan. "First, it Kennebec business? the bridge, For example, to the proposition here in Utah. case of legal horseplay, it would be a is must the state, recognize its obligations both operated by hard to find one. )n Tuesday the Deseret News editor-all- y built andproposition, servant and as a private as a public government ergo expressed this sentiment when i paying First, County Attorney Parley L. own- business. Second, it must live up to than better is private ownership ONE-DASERVICE Norseth disqualified himself, because said: them. It must live up to them beership for all kinds of business session he was a witness to the episode when its enyesterday, other which in "Opening But that does not prove the govern yond the measure Phone 2040 Captain Burk beat up Butterfield in January 7, the California legisment can operate bridges more eco- terprises live up to their business rethe city jail. At the preliminary hearbecause lature acquired a clear lead of a nomically than a private corporation. sponsibilities and obligations, ' week over the Utah ing Judge J. A. Hendricks fined J. The government, whether state or na- it is a public servant. in the A. Howell, attorney for the defense, and this lead, body, That our public utilities have amptional, pays no taxes and has no overfor contempt of court, and then backed matter of ratification of the overhead is in- ly fulfilled the ideals of such men as The head expense. water. Burk was bound over to the Colorado river dam bill at least, cluded in the salaries of public off! Mr. Sloan is evidenced by the part 2215 Washington Avenue district court, and Judge Barker sent will be surely increased rather and those are paid by taxation. electricity plays in domestic and inrials the with court Golden back to the it In the justice's than reduced. Former President Taft, in speaking dustrial life today. advice that the complaint was "faState there is practically no difIt is not a coincidence that our genof the claim that the post office was ference of opinion as to approval tally defective." A new complaint once said he coulc eral prosperity and progress has been on a basis, paying was issued, and Judge Hendricks stat n measure. of the make any business pay if there were made almost in direct ratio to the ed in open court that he would not In Utah there Is much. Our no overhead expenses. Public owner- prosperity and progress of our basic hear the cane, but would postpone the railroads am neighbors beyond the Sierras, ship and operation is a fine theory industries, of which two case until his successor Simon Barlow i are jealousy though they may be beelectric utilities few outstanding in a cases, but except took office. Hendricks then proceedtween the north and the south ant and examples. is unsatisfactory expensive ed to set the hearing beyond the statuportions of their state, will be is tho end the taxpayers foot the bill." able to get together quickly and tory limit. The clerk of the court HIGH TAX THROTTLE failed to note on the record that the INDUSTRY stay together in support of this A TREMENDOUS attorneys for the defense had not At the present time the small com legislation which means so much INDUSTRY to tho southern part. Ratificagiven assent to postponement beyond munity is offered an unprecedentec the statutory limit. When Attorney With the exception of transporta- opportunity tion will follow speedily as a matfor industrial growth. The Howell and Attorney Pratt testifici tion, no industry is so closely interter of course. dissemination of power widespread inthat they hHd not given assent to post twined with the entire social and "Utah will be more deliberate, has made it possible for industries to dustrial structure of the Unitet operate outside of the great cities. ponement. then there was nothing for and she should be. There Is plenSam Blackham to exStates as is electricity. Its amazing Railroad expansion and good roads County Attorney ty of time for study gnd do but move for dismissal, as he was amination of the important quesprogress and expansion in two gener have solved the problem of adequate stone wall. a bearations has made it a basic element in transportation. The natural rural fcd strictly up against tion in all its angles and From the above recital of facts it our domestic and economic life. known well is ings. It tolerably vantages of reliable labor and uncon. appears that the responsibility for where and how Arizona is going The increased earning power of the gested space are important attractions this termination of a case, that mos to stand, and with some of this modern worker is directly traceable to prospective manufacturers. Taxes certainly should have gone to trial on we contentions to the use of power in industry, over are the one big fly in the ointment good neighbor's lies with the clerk of the city corn; this side of tho Grand Canyon half of which is of electrical origin. Commenting on this, the Evening for not making a full and complete have much sympathy. In fact, The laborer of yesterday was re- Copper Journal of Hancock, Michigan record of the case, and to Judge J. A tho balance of power as between stricted to a great extent to the said recently that "high taxes are Hendricks for extending the postponefriends and opponents of the bill,' of his back and hands; the serious handicap to industries, and strength ment beyond the statutory limit. in other words the very fate of worker of today controls machines they are about as effective as any. The question also arises as to why the great project, is admitted as that enables him to produce many thing could be in keeping new Indus it took from May 19 of last year unti in Utah's hnnds. This is times the amount produced by his pre tries out of a community. resting this week to determine the case. a grave responsibility, and since dcccssor. "Federal taxes are lower. But loour solons are doubtless fully See Mass distribution of electricityL cal taxes are still high in many com' scnidblo of it, they will act wisely REDUCE TAXES? companies serving wide munities. High taxes not only throt large through in refusing to be stampeded wildAs the opening day of the Utah legterritories, makes possible the indus- tic industry. They are also a burden ly in either direction. islature approaches, we arc reminds trial expansion of small communities. that the state is in dire need of a This editorial, which is also a re- Formerly only great cities could offer Old to in new penitentiary; an asylum for the flection of other daily papers, is not the power facilities necessary has feeble minded; a soldiers' memorial; so town al small the strongly backed up as has been dustry; now, additional buildings at the university in the city advantages, coupled with its past The Utah delegation In the additional buildings at the agrlcul High Quality Work. natural advantages of low taxes, plentho has opposed consistently turul college; an addition to the insane congress uncrowdct and Reliable. tiful labor, n bus pleasant bill in the past, asylum; an addition to the state in- it now seems that Senator King, tho living conditions. dustrial school and it must be said Democrat senator from 377 Another great steo forward ia being Utah, has seen that all are needed, and needed badly the farms. of electrification in the made W. W. as has also Wallace, light, At the same time there is a demant A few years ago this project was en that there be a reduction in taxes. IVniocrat, and chairman of the Utah Cleaning Co. in the experimental stage. Now This demand is also most praise Water conservation commission. Just tirely are being givGovernor Bern stands has not thousands of farmers Grant Ave. worthy; in fact, If owners of certain how been determined, but the attitude en electric service with its unrivakn kinds of property are to maintain yet 2450 Grant Avenue G. E. Hampton, and efficiency g Prop. of Senator King and Mr. Wallace economy, their holdings, it must bo made. to As a matter of fact, taxes eanno would seem to indicate that he of operation. It is not too much our all in few a that years hope very The ratification. favor govbe reduced even if there be no build "might" ing program whatsoever. Tho las ernor may make recommendation agricultural sections will be complete legislature cut appropriations to l Monday in his message to the legis- ly electrified.been the contribution Such has point that many departments of state lature, but he may delay until later to our modern life. It is "ere not properly financed and the in the session. It is by no means sure electricity educational institutions were stintc( that the measure will not be ratified a great servant of industry and our civilization. for funds. The taxing limit has been before the session ends. It is hardly reached hero in Utah, and there are possible that the legislature will purno funds to be had for an ambitious sue the dog in the manger policy A BOOM FOR program of any kind. which has been suggested it will be MINING Were it not for federal aid for roads for or against, and it begins to appear "A mining engineer who knows the and education, Utah would indeed be that it will be had politics to be needs of mining is to be the next in a bad way. Unless additional prop-ert- y the Denver Mining says against. president, for taxation is uncovered, Utah As a matter of fact there is a strong Record. "The importance of the tari: will do well to go along as she has sentiment The expanc developing hen in Utah in has been stressed going during the past few years. favor of the Boulder Dam, and there ing manufacturing business is fabr The man who can reduce taxes in who holds that it will be of eating greater tonnage of the metals. Utah under present conditions does art those great benefit to Utah. The Salt Lake Lessened production during the past not reside on this mundane sphere. Elks have already pointed out that few years has increased the ratio be Salt tween supply and demand. All these lake City is the A RECORD OF OIL to Boulder Dam, and factors are favorable to Increases the gateway l'ROG It ESS there are others who see the wisdom mining activity. Since 1919 petroleum production has of The mining industry is now in standing with southern California Increased 13t! per cent, leading al rather than Arizona where it can advantageously with position other mineral industries. Along with las Yegns, Nevada, has gone wild extend its activities. Business and this tremendous growth has been a over the dam proposition, and real scientific progress in the production, corresponding improvement in the various phases of selling and refining estate has already attained prices refining and marketing of metals has . higher than $300 per front foot. las been felt by greater prosperity in the QJJ' Scientific discoveries have increased the possible recoveries from Vegas, the nearest railroad point, is metal producing states. oil; modern filling stations bring oi located loss than thirty miles from the site, and has visions of becoming SAFETY AND GOOD products to the public with a maxi dam a city of 35.000 population. ROADS mum of efficiency. Southern Utah is also becoming There is a strong connection beExtensive research is now being carried on by the oil industry am restless, and is hoping for benefits. tween good roads and safety, accordother interested organizations wit It is pointed out that St. George will ing to Uhailcs M. Hayes, president of the object of producing a better motor be only sixty miles from the reservoir, the Chicago Motor club. fuel. Gasoline is tested for speed, where it will back the waters of the l'oor roads increase all the dangers power and the results of its use on Colorado river up the Virgin river of motoring, from broken springs to automobile motors. Good roads impose a micanyon, and that this point of the pro- blow-outThe industry is working to avoi. posed reservoir will he within thirty-tw- o nimum of strain on the car, and when miles of the Utah stnte line. It a new road is built, engineers with a Ya?t.e.n unnecessary duplication oJ facilities through cooperation between is also pointed out that a line of about scientific understanding of safety, see producers and conservation of petrol 150 miles will bring electric power to to it that it is properly marked, that turn resources. When a satisfactory program for this is evolved it wi greatly benefit both the industry an the consuming public to whom oi! products are a basic necessity. I The Ogden Post de-Jc- at Oi-de- be-.n- ot so-call- ed Mens Suits Dry Cleaned or and Overcoats Pressed Y law-maki- QUALITY CLEANERS Swing-Johnso- A Still Finer COMMANDER at a ; LOWER PRICE This New Studebaker Established Cleaners at Swing-Johnso- Phone Carman Motor Co. Superior labor-savin- social-econom- ic -- ljn trans-continent- mow al the best suits and overcoats from the shops of Hart Schaffner & Marx s. THE FUTURE OF TIIE TELEPHONE The outstanding development of the telephone industry in less than 20 years is gradually bringing the industry to a point of prefection when practically every person in the world can talk, quickly and at a reasonable cost, to any other person anywhere in the world. In 1915, for the first time, a voice was carried over telephone wires from New York to San Francisco, and now the dream of transoceanic communication has come true. Service is continually being ed. Apparently the telephone improvindustry is never still, but is searching for new worlds and new problems to con-que- r. I have looked upon all the works tnat my hands have wrought, and all was vanity. Biblical. The words of a wise mans mouth arc gracious, but tho Jin- - (,f a fed ' iv.tI: IV i;.,. Warm Sale prices Cars- - You ride in comfort these cold, winter days when you 'RIDE THE STREET GARS. The street cars are always kept warm for your convenience. Ride the street cars for comfort and economy. NO PARKING-N- O WORRIES An Unlimited Weekly Pass Costs Only $1.00! BUY A PASS AND SAVE Utah Rapid Transit Co. $35 10 $40 $45 to 50 $55 to $60 values are values are values are now now now 27 37 47 |