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Show THE OGDEN POST Scien- THE OGDENEditorPOST W. P. EPPERSON, Member Utah State Press Association. Published each Friday by The Ogden Post Printing and Publishing 417 Ecclet building. matter October 17, 1927, at the postoffice at Entered as second-clas- s Ogden, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription 1 rice............. '.'$2"90 ...... per 3Tear dustry. Telephone 365 Responsible are the factors of poverty, ignorance, The disease; on the other, the factors of alliances and graft, political-criminBuilding unenforcible laws. Until we approach Senator William II. King is now crime from the standpoint of logic, home on a vacation, fully recovered rather than blind emotion, the underin health, and he and the Salt Iake world will continue to flourish. chamber of commerce are all heated up over the delay in the building of the the new federal building in that city. chamlier the and aenator the Now that Power have awakened in the fact that there What is known sh the "power isof erection in the been has long delay d sue has become a much this building, red tape is to be cut, catch Regulation, must political phrase. the treasury department step, the supervising architect must get government ownership, holding companies, original cost versus replacebusy; and if they dont, Senator King ment cost, etc., are chiefly of interest is going back to Washington and put The old cry of to economists. the chairs the under mahogany dynamite "power trust is a feeble attempt to which hold the bulky part of hide a lack of reasoning ability becratic anatomy. hind a catchword. Now all thia sounds good. It makes The principal interest of the avgood newspaper copy. It is fine pubman or woman in the electric the and erage senator chamber, licity for the but just what are the facts and con- industry is restricted to the quality of the service and the size of the ditions In the cane? monthly bill. It is for this reason authorFor a year after congress a difized the Salt Lake building, along with that the politicians are having the public that time convincing a hundred or two more all over the ficult menaced incalcula is it by gigantic, United States, the time was pent combine. The pubgreedy power ably to as jockeying with the government the electric rates have been sites and prices. Property desired by lic knows down in recent years, even going VERY became the government very, level of commodity while the general valuable, and there was a difference servin opinion as to where the building prices increased. It knows that is This ice better. espeis continually should be located. Finally, location rural and semi-rurand price were settled; but it now ap- cially true inbefore the development areas where, pears that title has not yet panned to of interconnected power facilities, it is until and title the government, was common for small local electric passed congress will not appropriate plants to provide service only part of and for to the property, money pay cost. until the property is purchased the the day, and at a high electric The expansion industrys cunnot supervising architect prepare Ameriis rapidly providing program can neither for the the building; plans of standard same can the with farms or appropriations for either the land service now the building be made until congress provided American cities. This Li of meets in December. social and financial value Such is the status of the federal inestimable ' to agriculture. building program in Salt Lake City ' What "power problems we have and also in other cities where weeks, months and years have been taken up can be solved only by the application in jockeying with the government of facts and sound business principles to the electric industry. In the meanever location and prices. industry is providing the Us easy to condemn the govern- time, that more electric service at with people ment for lack of action, for red tape lower cost than is by the inand technical delays, and very often habitants of other enjoyed the world. of parts the criticism is just. The public building at Price, authorized in the same of Oil bill as the Salt Lake building, now has No its cornerstone laid, and the building is well under way. Price got action For many years estimating the there were not so many axes to grind in the coal mining metropolis of Utah. amount of our available petroleum resources has been a favored diversion of statisticians. However, every esWelling timate has been proven wrong in the light of later discoveries. Amendments Now it is said that the discovery of Through a agreement new fields and of cheaper sands in between Milton II. Welling, secretary of state, and the Utah State Press as- old fields make it necessary to again sociation the constitutional amend- revise our ideas regarding the supply ments will be published in every of oil we have in underground storThere is no of a shortEnglish language newspaper in the age. and those whodanger forecast depletion state of Utah. The newspapers, in age, consideration of the publication in all of our supply by lj30 or 1935 will have to guess again. newspapers, made the state of Utah This is encouraging news. Oil is a rate which has enabled the secretary not only to industrial and social vital, to save 'the taxpayers a large sum of but to our existence. And progress, and same the at time money give United States of tomorrow will the greater publicity to the amendments than ever before in the history of the unquestionable find new uses for state. great quantities of petroleum prodThe weekly press of the state con- ucts we know nothing of today. Rut, no matter how large our regratulates Mr. Welling for according sources may be, there is no excuse this recognition to the rural for wnsting them. Whether we have fifty billion barrels of oil or five, the supply is definitely limited. It can' Special Assessment ' not be replaced. It must be used sane- Salt Lake Federal al Confusing Issue over-rate- . al Danger Shortage and the ' Were Eliminated In spite of the fact that 31,000 people were killed last year by automobiles, the general accident situation affords grounds for optimism. Accidents among children of school age have increased less than of one per cent in the last seven years. Less than 100 passengers were killed while traveling on all the American railroads in 1929. Hundreds of our large industrial concerns have made remarkable records in reducing their accident rates both in frequency and severity. A multitude of smaller plants are establishing one, two and even five-yerecords. Had it not been for the tragic increase of deaths and injuries due to the automobile, the national accident rate would now be 30 per cent lower than it was 17 years ago. The crux of the entire matter is that we have made good progress in preventing all kinds of accidents except those for which motor cars are responsible. Safety work and instruction in schools and industries, fostered and encouraged by casualty insurance companies, have been the means of saving thousands of lives in the last decade. This work is being carried on with increasing intensity and vast progress will be recorded in the future. The automobile accident record will not be reduced until we take decisive means to keep the reckless, the and both the mentally and from the incompetent Fihysicully where they menace thq lives and property of all other one-ten- th ar "no-accide- irre-sponsibi- le, lh This remarkable record, which has resulted in better conditions in all manner of manufacturing industries snd agriculture, was made possible by the famous railroad rehabilitation program which was adopted in 1923. The program required the expendi- duce the best possible results the rail- ture of six billion dollars for the reout placement of obsolete and worn equipment and general improvements to property. In order to make this program proroads then attacked, with great success, the problem of obtaining cooperation between shippers and receivers, so as to insure a type of rail service that would meet the nations commercial requirements. Shippers boards were organized advisory throughout the country to meet several times a year and discuss with the railroads any problems, complaints, or suggestions they might have. This is indicative of the vast progress made by the railroads in every phase of operation. Since the war, adethey have been unable to earn quate profits, and have been faced with unfriendly legislation and steadily increasing taxes. Yet they have never wavered in their effort to mpke their service to the public one hundred per cent perfect. It is the public that is the greatest sufferer from any conditions which retard or discourage railroad development Notice of Assessment Tampaps Minins and Milling company. Office addreaa. 1108 Firat National Bank build-in- r. in Oxden City, Waber County, Utah. Notica ia hereby given that at a mooting farmers have contact with the outside world through the me- dium of surfaced, weatherproof roads. T, Trolleys High-spee- 1-- high-spee- p, new-typ- Crime Problems and Industrial Problems pre-eminen- ce Future Hopeful for Mining red-tap- e. fair-prire- lae ent. 8uPeriiita Morning service and a. m. No evening service. rmon at u Notice to Contractors Notier b hereby given that Ogden City and Weber County Jointly Confollowing public improvement, struct oil mulch pavement on Twelfth Street Avenue to the iulnct from Washington in with the paved highway of Valley the vicinity of El Monte Spring, together with work incidental thereto according the the plana, specif icationa and profile prepared And sealed bids are by the City Engineer. invited for furnishing and hauling of crushed rock and gravel and building the. necessary bridges, etc., and will be received at ths the City Recorder in the City Hail at Ogden, Utah, until ten oclock A. M. on the Instructions to 6U day of September. 1930. bidders, plans and specifications for said imexamined at the provement can be seen and office of the City Engineer in the City Hall 1930. 3, on of said City September The right b reserved to reject any and all waivs to and any defect. bids, By order of the Board of Commissioners of Ogden City and Weber County, Utah, thb, the 28th day of August. 1980. J. C. LITTLEFIELD, City Recorder. Publication August 29, in The Ogden Past to-w- of Used COAL RANGES Terms! UTAH POWER & LIGHT CO. See VIADUCT Unde Sams Office Market & Groceteria 183-- 5 Twenty-fourt- h Loai Railroad Watches Street Diamonds Off the Regular Price. A Cash and Carry Market at Cash and Carry Prices for Cash and Carry People. 278 25th St. Ogden, Util the advantages of these . all-ye- ar year-roun- Zg Give your car - long Wearing, serviceable Office at llOS First National Bank Bldg., Or den City. Weber County. Utah. First publication August 18, 1930. Lawt publication September a 1MO. EPISCOPAL CHUPrti r0F SHEPHERD Twenty-fourt- h street nue, John W. Hyslop, The eleventh Sunday after Tra. Ajigust 31. The church school meet, at a. m. Si Miss L Jennie Irout GOOD One-ha- lf There are 2,484,822 miles of unimproved dirt roads in the United States according to the American farm bureau federation, and many thousands of additional miles which have been only slightly improved. There are 2,747,732 farms located on the unimproved roads, and 1,988,-70- 4 on the slightly improved dirt roads. Less than 500,000 American farms are located on roads which are passable every day of every year. There can be no permanent agricultural prosperity so long as our farmers are isolated from their markets by a barrier of mud. Agricultural progress, both social and economic, will be retarded until ' our Ixiw-coat, - jsrsfia At the peak of the freight traffic movement last fall, when demands on County, Utah. which this assaiMiMnt may facilities were Any our transportation unpaid on the remain most severe, the railroads did not 1930 will be delinquent und advertised lor is auction, and, unless payment comElSs befool said data, will b sold on the have a single car shortage. In more of October, 1930. to pay the deba. parison, in 1922 they had 40,000 assessment, together with costa of quent of volume cars and handled a smaller and expenses of sale. alWM. Z. TERRY, Secretary. traffic, 'yet car shortages totaled Facts Speak surfaces have been developed which make it possible to provide rural areas with practical d roads. When every state embarks on such a program, we will have gone a long way toward permanently solving ag- "AK'cf Aiut. rT i- V . ' V. J ricultures problems. Wolf Cry Overdrawn Political attacks on industries and individuals have been carried to such an extreme that they are becoming ridiculous. If charges such as are continually made were true, or only partially true, a majority of our leading business men and candidates for publjc office should be in custody. The Iiublic is nowhere near as dumb as a would-b- e saviors of the people seem to think. NEW DEVELOPMENTS in motor oil Your car will respond brilliantly to this finer New Vico motor oil. It was almost like improving perfection itself to improve the dependable but Vico you have known in the past science at last found the .way. And now we offer it to you as the most important contribution of the year to your motoring pleasure and economy. Here are the new features that enable New Vico to give unequaled performance: ly and economically. The major oil producers, aided by the federal oil conservation board and other public and private agencies, have been waging an intensive fight against the menace of overproduction. Now, with the inauguration in several important fields of the unit system of production, by which supply and demand are equalized ami waste outlawed, it logins to lok as if success was in sight. An invaluable national resource must be conserved. The special assessment has long been one of the favorite devices of the tax collector. And it is likewise one of the principal banes of the property owner. The Santa Cruz, California, News, cites the experience of one of its linotype operators who, twenty years ago, purchased a lot for $350. lie paid $50 to fence it and $30 for a sewer. An assessment of $402.00 was levied for street pavement, and to pay this he had 'to borrow money at a high rate of interest. Then he paid a park High-Spee- d drainage assessment and $300 in city and county taxes. d trolley cars have been Recently he tried to sell the lot for modern traffic conmeet to developed $500 and was unable to find a purchaser. And finally he traded his ditions. From a dead atop the new cars can attain in five seconds a $1200 investment for a $600 automospeed of close; to 25 miles per hour, bile. rate of acceleration being 4 2 or their This experience is not so unusual as it may seem. Local units of gov- 5 miles per second. This compares ernment throughout the nation have favorably with the accelerating speed been passing through a "special as- of automobiles. motors d Coupled with sessment craze. The taxpayer can betonly be safeguarded by establish- and quick starting and pick-ument of a definite debt limit on each ter braking facilities have been dee street railway veloped. A piece of property involved in an car, traveling at 25 miles an hour, ran be brought to a standstill in 5 to 6 seconds. A few years ago it was thought that street railways would soon become a thing of the past. Itut experience has shown that, in large cities, no other is adequate to mode of The industrial of the move a transportation volume of traffic quicklarge United States is due largely to the fact that our best scientific and exe- ly, cheaply and without delays and cutive intelligences have given inten- congestion. sive attention to industrys social and economic problems, with marked success. In contrast to this, wc have failed A hopeful future is forecast for the entirely in handling the crime problem because we have, for the most mining industry which has suffered part, given it over into the hands of severely from the economic depresemotional reformers, rather than logi- sion during the first part of 1930. Metals are more essential to induscal, experienced thinkers. Probably every literate American trial progress today then they have is aware thut we have too many laws, ever been. The electric, radio, teletoo many legal technicalities and too phone and railroad industries to We know that these name but a few are virtually demuch d things give the criminal a tremen- pendent on nn adequate, Hut supply of the metals. dous advantage, over society. the agitation for more laws continTwenty yeurs ago, the mining inues with unabated force. dustry was still in the throes of "wild At present it i The scientific genius that has solv- west conditions. ed our industrial problems can solve operated on sound economic princiour crime problems. On the one hand ples that compare favorably with , How Car Shortages most 180,000. The Automobile Is EDITORIAL in Action those of any other industry. tific discoveries and innovations and improved standards of management have enabled it to make great progress. 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