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Show THE OGDEN 4 range the sale of their product, manufactured, at reasonable prices. - Now copper, worth fifteen, cents in bulk, costs the consumer a dollar or more after five or ten cents worth of labor per pounds has been applied to it. The Ogdcn Standard-Examin- er PUBLISHING COMPANY .An Newspaper Published Independent every evening and Sunday a morning without muzzle or a club. - i.iwj Entered as Second-clas- t Matter at the ft V Pottofflce, Ogden, Utah. Established 1870 Member of the Audit Bureau of Clrcula. tlon and The Associated Press. SUBSCRIPTION IN ADVANCE Deliver- - by Carrier Dally and Sun- 110.80 day, 1 year By Mall Pally and Sunday, 1 year.. 7.80 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of any news credited to It not otherwise credited d In this paper and also the local news -- ' , herein. STANDARD-EXAMINETELEPHONE NUMBERS . 56 Classified Ad. Dept.... 58 Business and Circulation Deot. 423 Display Advertising Depfe 873 Edltorf.ii and News Dept "r Eighty-fiv- registered as Robert R. McLugh-- - . . - -- - )'-caus- d -- en- HOLDING DOWN OUR TAXES. -On Monday the board of county com- . -- profit, steel products for $20 per ton less than it costs the English to pro duce them. What kind of competition do you suppose they could give us?" Cotton cloths at Manchester are coming down 15 and 20 per cent. One big candy man in New York reduced his prices rlore than 33 per cent. Slow ly things are sinking back to the prewar level, and, as in the sinking of the earth's orust, the earthquake is painful. jWith our doors wide open to the competition of Germany, it would be only a few years when the manufacturers of iron and steel across the Rhine would' have the same monopoly on those products in America as they had on the dye and general chemical land drug trade of the United States prior to- the war. The German invaders of our markets need watching, as they are clever in forming combinations and all will take temporary losses if by so they can sweep away opposition and finally entrench themselves in h profitable business. - ' - oo- the Hearst papers, with their Democratic policies, an article as follows in support of the Republican doctrine of tariff: Pig iron production In this country for July was the lowest since 1903. That is getting back to "normalcy" violently. While" war was on, it was "stated in this column that with all the nations specializing in production of iron and steel those industries in this country would go to smash after peace, without complete ' tariff protection. They are going to smash rapid ly nd not in the United States only. Schwab is quoted to this effect. "The Germans can lay down In London, at a ho-te- l. missioners gave careful consideration to the tax levy and, in keeping with the obligations of the election of last year, the commissioners reduced the rate, so that this fall the taxpayers in do-in- g Ogden City will be called on to pay oo less than they did in 1920. INSANITY. One of the most perplexing prob-;- , Karl of Austria-Hungarlems before the county board was the is living in more or less regal demand of the school board of Ogden state near Lucerne, Switzerland. tor a larger tax revenue this yeari Extra Swiss guard3 have been called vthan in 1920 when the board of ed- out to prevent him from leaving his ucation jumped its tax levy from 7.05 retreat and making a try for the to 11.05 mills, or an increase in throne of Hungary. school taxes of nearly 60 per cent in Just why anyone should want to ex I one year. change the peace and quiet of Lucerne The county board of commissioners for the throne Gf Hungary is beyond recognize that the school teachers us .But tnen there always has been, should be paid good salaries and thata streak of insanity running through in the past they have been underpaid, the Hapsburgs. and they have no desire to make the oopaying1 of good salaries impossible, but DANGER. they maintain that, with an increase ot A Superior, Wis., man found that almost 60 per cent in school taxes lag,t mosquitoes in his barn were pesteryear and with $25 per capita of school ing his cow. He built a fire, to make population to be turned Into the school a smudge and drive them out. The fire treasury of Ogden this year by the got beyond his control and he lost ' state, the school board should not ask cow, barn and all. for more than $590,000. It was only Little worries pester each of us in Ta few years ago when the tax levy Ogden. Forget 'em. Don't try to for school purposes was less than. 5" "smudge" 'em. If you do, they'll get mills In Ogden City, and the assessed bigger and bigger until they, too, will valuation' of property was far below get beyond' your control. the figures of today. oo The alm of the county commission- ' ers is to bring about strict economy in all branches of government in Weber Vcounty and Ogden City. With a little retrenching here and there, the school should be able to meet all its obligations, and, as a result, the for the first time in a number of years, escape higher taxation. In order to keep their campaign l pledges, the county commissioners were forced to take the action they as to the school levy in Ogden There's a fortune for a man who can invent a reverse gear for gas meters. ''City. y Ex-Emper- ; -- " ; tax-payer- THE ARMORY s, oo oo 1 The trouble is, you can get a man out of the city, but you can't get the What has happened to thm state) ar- city out of the man. oo mory in Ogden? Months have gone by and no move The eternal round of big appropriahas been made to start the structure. tions and big taxes forms a circle that If the bids were too high last fall, a canot be squared. oo readvertising should obtain figures their husbands will Women admit within the limits of the funds availhad better judgment than they did able for that purpose. Now is the time to do work of this when it came to marrying. oo kind. Furthermore Ogden should have The loss annual by fire Is $300,000,- an armory properly equipped and fired-mathinks his CTJtoith accommodations for those enlist- - i000; and every much. ed in the military service of the cou- employer lost that 1 oo ntry. f f Cl! co sis more vu- mine Diuce it gumJ oo than the product is worth, operators GREATER USES will probably start mining coaL FOR COPPER. oo .A suggestion which seems to have When hotels finish with American merit, has been offered to the copper the ambassador the Japs producers of America who continue to won'tJapanese have enough money for a navy. face a billion-pounsurplus; although oo the copper mines have been closed for Wisconsin women can wear pants. the past six months. A student of ln- They'll have full equality when husdustrial conditions says: bands can legally go through their ' Intelligent advertising might sell pockets. - some of the' copper, if those that build oo : houses were "made to understand the The small boy's ' Idea of heaven is value of copper roofs, gutters, leaders, a place where parades hare nothing Men build houses, one part to but bands and go around and around "last a hundred years, another, the tin his block. --ooViroofing, gutters and water pipes built to last four or five years, or less. All The farmer's own theory of relativmosquito netting should be copper, ity is that every auto owner in town '; 'which lasts indefinitely. It might be claims relationship to him this "vorth while for big copper men to ar- IN OGDEN. n A - A . A- I - : - -- d - ttc I THC5 OlivC2 TO YCAJ ou Finish ivant, T0 UITH rATES PROTECTION, BUT HOW? THAT ISSUE THAT STIRS PHILIPPINES X tcPor. QRQ William Philip Slmms, famoiw as a war correspondent and writer on Intern&Uonal affairs, has made a personal Surrey of condition today in the Philippines. Hla stories on the result of thi surrey are AKiO "CH(N YcnJ CVCNINQ. rVY2v. A NO X PON'T QCT A SCANT AT IT TlCC IT'S TlM TO tvfNT? THC and pux The evc ANf rioter THAT C-O- CK out ill Gat 1 Canadian or Austrian plan, they aaaert. might be Complete accorded them under yjwsrican aover-igntAustralia just as Canada art4 are locally independent whll pwnlng allegiance to England. Filipinos object to such a plais. Whereas Australians and Canadians belong to the sams rae as ths people of the mother country, Filipinos and Americans belonr to different races. They pull the Democratic platform of 1900 on all who spring on them this line of talk. That document declared "the Filipinos cannot be citizens without endangering our cirlllta-tlon- ; they cannot be subjects without imperiling our form of gdvernment." CRUEL TO FILIPINOS. Not being eligible to eltixenship. they say, their, status could scarcely be made to parallel that of Canadians and Australians. Democrats In the islands are just aa outspoken against setting the Filipinos free, minus American protection, as arry body. They have set up a platform of their own on the subject. "We denounce and repudiate." they and declare, "as and cruelly unjust to the Filipino 'people any policy which would cast this people adrift on the dangerous teas of International politics without adequate financial resources, and with no protection or gusranty of their national Integrity. "The Filipinos," he go on to say. "have trusted to our honor and beself-govemm- n. BY WM. PHILIP SIMMS. Written Kxprcsaly for the N. II. 10. - i I i i4-- 4" . A General Wood and Forbes have found the people of the Philippine Islands united on the question of American protection for the archipelago. Democrats. Republicans and Filipinos alike declare it would be a real misfortune should the islands be deprived of the securtty'afforded by the American flag. They differ only on the question of price. THAT "2o OK, Americans generally insist that the price of American protection should be full recognition by Filipinos of YnortPAPPr.R1 "DIDN'T --nutAmerican sovereignty in the Islands, "continued and permanent." i2s?Mcr "THIS svc?rvc Nicsm Filipinos, on the other hand. Insist on paying for projection with concessions. They want to cede to the United tUate-- certain privileges in their country in exchange for independence and protection. WANT CUBAN' STATUS. t. rr ; . "1 In plain language. Americans wish to retain the islands and establish there a territorial, or commission. form of government, while Filipinos would like to be put on the same footing as Cubans. Among themselves Americans have their differences. Democrats denounce the Jones bill if takan to mean America Intends to "'scuttle," leaving the islands to their ' late. Republicans denounce it no matter how interpreted. They are retention- ists pure and simple on a basis. You are going to hear a lot about condition of thj crop on July 1 wa the preamble of the Jones bill as soon 85.1 per cent of a normal, while on as congress begins to fight anew over It was 86.9 and the the fate of the Philippines. August 1 last year So, here it is: Aurust 1 average la 82.2. This Is 9.3 or "Whereas it was never the inten1.186.000. per; acreage year's cent more than last year's tion of the people of the United HAY: (tame) 81.600.000 tons; wild States In the Incipiency of the war 15,500.000 tons; condition (all) 82.5. with Spain to make it a war of con-- production of 81,695,000 tons was quest or for territorial aggrandiseforecast last month, while last year's ment. ana been. production was 91,193,000 tons and the the Whereas itof is,theand alwaysof has the Unipurpose for the five years. people average production 1915-1was 86.793.000 tons. The con ted States to withdraw their sovereignProspective Production This dition of the crop on July 1 was 79.5 ty over the Philippine Islands and to Year Much Lower, Says per cent of a normal, while on August recognize their independence as soona stable government can be estab1 last year it was 90.5 and the ten- National Report year August 1 average is 86.1. This lishd therein; and "Whereas for the speedy accomacreage is 73.842.000, or 0.9 per year's of such purpose it is de- cent more last than plishment year's. WASHINGTON. Aug. 10. Practito sirable SUGAR BEETS: 8,000.000 tons; place in the hands of the cally every Important farm crop condition 89.8. A production of 8.012,-00- 0 people of the Philippines as large a tons was forecast last month. control of their domestic affairs as can showed a loss in, prospective production as a result of adverse conditions- while last year's production was 8.- - be given them without, in the mean540,000 tons and the overate Droduc- - time, impairing the exercise of the during July. The department of agrlcuJture's monthly report forecast 52,- - tlon for the five years, 1915-1was right of sovereignty by the people of esti 6.218,000 tons. The condition of the the United States, in order that, by 0(T0.0QO bushels less wheat than mated a month ago. 91,000,000 bushels crop on July 1 was 90.3 per cent of the use and exercise of popular franless corn, 192,000,000 bushels lees oats a normal, while on August 1 last year chise and governmental powers, they it was 91.9 and the and 61.000,000 bushels less potatoes. may be the better prepared to fully August assume Forecasts of production this year of 1 average is 88.4. This year's acreage the responsibilities and enjoy the country's principal farm crops, us is 882,000, or 9.8 per cent less than all the privileges of complete inde interpreted from their condition Au- last year's. APPLE8: 109.000.0DO bushels A gust 1, and other details were an-of was 46,608,000 bushels. nounced today by the department production of 102.190.000 bushels 'was years. 1915-1forecast last in its report crop bushels. A 37.600.000 PEANUTS: while August month, last year's agriculture aa follows: production was 240.442.000 bushels was bushels of 36.568,000 544,000.000 and the average production for the production WINTER WHEAT: while last' last month, forecast A. production of 573,930.000 bushels five years. 1915-1was 182.706,000 production waa 35.960.000 bushelayear's and was forecast last month, while last bushels. the four for the average production bushels PEACHES: 31.300.000 bushels, A years. 1916-1year's crop was 577.763,000of the was 41.718,000 bushels. five production of 30.758.000 bushels and the average production was SORGHUMS: 130.000.000 GRAIN was 672,401.000 bush forecast last month. while last years, 1915-1pounds. A production of 124.723.000 els. This year's acreage is 38.7Zi.ouv, production was 43.697.000 bushelsyear's bushels was forecast last month, while the average production for the and or 2.5 per cent more than last year. five last year's production was 143.939,000 213.000,000 WHEAT: SPRING A cent. bushels; condition 66.6 per production of 235.482,000 bushel was forecast last month, while last year's crop was 209,365,000 bushels, and the average production for the five years. 1915-1- 9 was 258.495,000 bushels. The condition of the crop on July 1 was 30.8 per cent of a normal, while on and the August 1 last year it was 73.4 August 1 average is 73.2. This per acreage Is 18.023.000, or year'sless cent than last year's. ALL WHEAT: 757.000.000 bushels. bushels A production of 809,412,000 was forecast last month, while, last year's crop was 787,128,000 bushels, and the average production for the was 830.986,000 five years, 1915-1bushels. This year's acreage is or 0.8 per cent less than last year's. CQHN: 3,032.000.000 bushels; con0 dition 84.3. A production ofbushels was forecast last month, while last year's crop was 3,232.267,000 bushels and the average production for the five years, 1916-1-conwas 2, 797. 625,000 bushels. The dition of the crop on July 1 was 91.1 per cent of a normal, while on August 1 last year it was 8 6.7 and the August 1 average is 78.1. or This 4.1 year's acreage is 108,901.000, per cent more than last year's. OATS: 1,137,000.000 bushels; con0 dition 64.5. A production of bushels was forecast last month, wiiile last year's crop was bushels and the average is production for the five years, 1016-1-conwas 1,432.697,000 bushels- The dition of the crop of July 1 was 77.6 cent of a normal, while on August per 1 last year it was 87.2 and the Agust 1 average is 81.6. This is. 44,829,000 acres, or year's acreagemore adver3.6 per cent than last year's. BARLEY: 171,000.000 bushels; newscondition 71.4. A forecast of 184,288,- 000 bushels was made last month, while last year's production was bushels and the average production for the five years, 1915-1was 208,098,000 bushels. The condition of the crop on July 1 was 81.4 per cent of a normal, while on August 1 last year It was 85.0 and the August is 1 ten-yeaverage is 80.8. This year's acreage is 7,716,000 acres, or 4:5 per cent less than last year's. RYE: 64.300,000 bushels. A forecast of 69,956,000 bushels was made is month, while last year's produclat tion was 69,318.000 bushels and the average production for thfc five years, 1915-1was 69,159.000 bushels. This year's acreage is 4,544,000 acres, or per cent less than last year's. BUCKWHEAT: 13,000.000 bushels; cqndition 87.2. Las year's production was 13,800,000 bushels and the condition for the five years, average 1915-1was 15,000,000 bushels. The condition of the crop on August 1 last year was 90.5 per cent of 1 a normal and the average August condition is 8 8.6. Last year's acreage was 729,000 acres, this year's 691,000. WHITE POTATOES: 316.000.000 bushels; condition 65.8. A forecast of 376.977,000 bushels was made last month." while last year's production was 430,458,000 bushels and the average production for the five years, 1915-1was 371,283.000 bushels. The condition of the crop on July 1 was 83.4 per cent of a normal, while, on August 1 last year It was 87.0 and the August 1 average is 81.0. This acreage is S, 9 72,0 00, or 1.1 per year'smore cent than last year's. SWEET POTATOES: 114.000.000 bushels; condition 84.. A forecast of 112,023,000 bushels was made last month, while last year's 'production was 121,863.000 bushels and the average production for tha five years. 1815-1was 84,749,000 bushels. The Aur. " :. - ir A....:-. ' - r - - .J- -' v ' ): 1 la S2r an . ! ,l - s t " '' "'- - - ' I T". 'X . . ." lieved in our good faith. A SACRED TRUST. "The United States, by abandoning the islands would dishonor Itself and Justly forfeit the respect of the nations on the earth and of the people who look to us for protection, and for, whose safety we have assumed re- sponslbllity. I "We brand as unworthy of the Gen. IveonaM ttootl (aboie) ami W;lAmerlcan namt A pol,cy mvolvlnr thee rhcs former governor a of .abandonment sacred trust for rea-thm.T?n survey Philippines, now mating a Utc nB aHt(1 to h9 concerned, with our re own greater of conditions on tike llajwLs at security. of President qnest "If giving proper protection to all Ilardlyg inhabitants of the Philippine Island, until such time as our obligations shaB etc.. Therefore pendence have been honorably fulfilled, does. In etc. truth, constitute a menace to our at- want this here preamRepublicans safety-r-whlwe do not con Jtlonal ble wiped off the records. we cede war and even say. better, the but binds claim it nobody They than dishonor." defeat, Democrats. The island Democrats underscore imSenator Jones, they point out, Conthis last sentiment. of mediately after the passage FIGHT IX CONGRESS. in the Jones' bill, up got gressman soon as the Wood-ForbcomAs resiSenate and warned the Filipino Its report to President maks dent commissioner, Man,uel L. Quezon, mission, and the president. In turn, that it was "nothing more than a Harding,the to the out a passes alonr report declaration carrying parchment ana probably with recommends- Diatiorm will begin. that it will have no more effect thanJtions, a great fight or tne various Tactions the declarations of the 1Democratic In ine atmuaeare the Islands here sketched. Oen-fa- r yeats so during the last platform as the independence of th Philip- - ral Wood and Mr. Forbes have already been treated to reams of report pine Islands is concerned." If the Filipinos want America to- nnd bales of documents bearing on the toreign ag .uujeci. guarantee them against them let forget the oneOut of it all. however, looms, the say, gression. they central idea: bill Jones preamble. Nobody wants to see the United CANADA C1TK1I sever at once and for all time Many Republicans here say the submits connection wtth the islands, leav amble could be made all right by"lnde-'in- g to them for root, hog, or die, "self government" eense of stltuttng pendence" and making the to thla J "Rimm nest story tells of the the declaration conform ' c1aJ1 Problem In the Philippines, the on crtu of tho Island dlfflcjilUe. the The Philippines might be run i i I j j FARM CROPS ; j ten-ye- ch ar SHOWING LOSS A ; es congress, 9, - j i pre-Stat- 9, ten-ye- nt y, at thU time especially valuable when the Wood-Forb- c eonrmi-sioHardappointed by Iretdcnt ing, Is making a tUmllar survey, to determine what course United States shall pursue with the Islands. MANILA. NECESSITY ALIVE. Well, the Roland It. Mason mystery Is in great part cleared up. Mason has been found. He was in a Denver . - OF TARIFF. It is somewhat surprising to find in MASON IS lfn. He claims to have suffered lapse Of memory. To be charitable, that be may true, but before his statement is accepted without reservation, much ... is to be explained. Men of fine impulses, boy scouts and others searched the Weber river and Weber canyon in an effort to find his body. Others were worried and distracted, while he had lost memory, or was off on an escapade. Let us hope : the full evidence will show the Idaho Falls man suffered aberration of mind : and that he did not make of himself a ; ridiculous fellow. , : Mr. Mason owes it to this community to return and help clear up the of his disappearance. If he waa "dealt with in a treacherous manner , if he was held up, if bootleggers him, Ogden's peacfc officert ; 'should be made aware of the facts as a means of preventing others falliug ; into the same trap". If his own follv brought upon him his present predicament, that, too, should be known. price- -- R r. of this country's T GAT tVHeNCVT TrrO tVHAT'S M4TTCR - an inviting 1 OUTBURSTS OF EVERET trouble isN extravagant, extortionate, stupidly managed distribution. The great trouble has been In getting copper at a figure which would warrant the placing of copper on roofs. Heretofore the price has been prohibitive, but it may be that with between the right kind of manufacturer the prodand producer uct could be offered to the public at pub-lishe- - per cent e WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1921. STANDARD-EXAMINE- R es -- flnan-chang- e. ar rcl , for Jeff Smith of Bayonne. Nr. J., in a bushels and the average production 86.107,-00- 0 1915-1was five nodecUIon bout last nlrht. the years. bushels. slowed Smith up after the early rounds ooand the .western boxer landed more blows. Gibbons weighed 155 pounds SMITH OUTOLASSElJ and 8mith 159 BY MIKE GIBBONS Gibbons waa floored In the second round with & right hooK to the Jaw TCtavv PITT v. J Aur. 10. ed but was upinImmediately, 8m!th had this round. the, honors Miko nihbons of St. Paul, oiitbox 12-rou- 9, 9. -- 9. 1-- 9. 9, ten-ye- 2. , ar 7-- 2 9. 56,-744,0- - 00 Your Greatest 3.123.-139,00- Time-SaV- er 9, ten-ye- ar Reading advertisements saves 'time. They-telyou wlien and where to buy the things you want l 1,328,-957,00- 9. - ten-ye- 202,-024,0- 9, . ar 9, 9-- 9 9. ten-ye- ar ar 00 Aimless searching avoided. Shopping trips end not in disappointment, but in success. The tisements n your paper are messages from the business world to you. Read them. They tell you new in markets what and stores. They inform you of all that the world of invention and discovery doing to make your work easier, your home more pleasant, your clothing and food problems less difficult Merchants and manufacturers are putting these advertisements -- in v the newspaper f or. rour benefit as well as their own. Your ig required. You' must sread them in order to be well informed .and reap the advantage that is yours. co-operati- on Acquire the habit of reading advertisements regularly. You will find them your greatest time saver. 9, ten-ye- ar 9, : t , r nd |