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Show PUTTING A MAN TO DEATH On Friday morning Nick Obllzalo Will be put to death at the state peni-1 tentiary. He killed Marco Laus, a; companion, in August. 1919, and now 1 is about to pay the penalty. Laua was lured to a lonely spot on the outskirts of Salt Lake and, in a I struggle which followed, he was stabbed and beaten to death. The vie I tim, realizing too late that he was in the hands of murderers, made a bat tie for his life but lost. All the evidence, together with the admissions of Obllzalo and his fellow murderer. Maalich, proved the desper ate and determined nature of the attack at-tack on the helpless man and the deliberate de-liberate purpose to kill, the motive being be-ing robbery. Men who in their quiet I moments can plan murder as a means j to obtain a few dollars, are an encumbrance en-cumbrance on the face of the earth. Capital punishment may serve but little as a deterrent, but It removes from the presence of humanity worth- farcical, from the 1922 viewpoint At lumber mills, teams used to haul boards 1o boxcars, where they were leisurely transferred by roustabouts. At a modern mill, the lumber is carried car-ried out to the boxcars on a long conveyor con-veyor belt, a sort of endless moving platform The lumber comes In a steady stream. An efficiency expert has calculated how fast the loader at the car should work, and the belt Is geared accordingly. The loader works at a set speed or gets burled under oncoming boards. We regard this arrangement solemnly. solemn-ly. But, having all the elements of humor, it will make future generations haw-haw In the future, automatic machinery and Inentions will free men from Industrial In-dustrial slavery. Cheap, fast-flying airplanes will enable all to live in tho country Cities, at night, will bo deserted de-serted groups of factory buildings. We' voluntarily imprisoned in cramped apartments or small houses, I will seem queer to our descendants 1 Dally we go to work In our prison cells, to pound tpewrlter keys, push1 a pen or perform monotonous opera tlons with machinery when wo might all be free in the outdoors of farmland Will the future consider us laughable, laugh-able, pathetic or crazy? It's a good thing the average person's per-son's sense of humor is not highly de-Veloped. de-Veloped. , Otherwise, we might either J revolt against the stupidity of civiliza ; tlon or laugh ourselves ro death at j our dignified solemnity . oo |