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Show xiLfci V riiuvu put 'SSSSSSBSSSSSi PRINCESS THEATRE EDITO RIALS JOHN BARLEYCORN x Tonight A WISE STAND DYING HARD Senaor lieed Smoot took a wise stand in the marching forward with f.rrat strides, old "John Barleycorn is fighting S( little a few days ago when he championed the iiuird for a place. lie realizes that he is just cause of the long list of civil service appointees. about on his last stand and is dying hard. The '! he measure parsed the Senate by a dose marhis fight and edict that booze must go is gaining prestige all gin, but our Utah Senator had made rt on a victory for more than 200,000 underpaid oer the "United States and within the next few lederal Those who will come in for employees. years the dry forces will be assaulting the last the raise in salary are at present receiving from liquor fortress by carrying the battle to the met- $480 per annum and less than $1000 per annum. ropolitan cities of America such as New York There is also a small increase for those receiving rod Chicago. Then will the end to old John up to $1800 per annum. In discussing the firght the Washington Herald says: Barleycorn come to America. asNew' However lie is fighting hard. Senator Smoot in urging his amendment press sociations are springing up on every hand and as Mtid that it was designed to aid those in the fed-(- . a result the newspapers are flooded with cleverly service whose salaries were hopelessly inprepared articles to combat the forces of prohi-- I adequate to meet present living costs; all increase :tion. The latest attack comes on the hill which in the cost of foodstuffs were ultimately paid by will undoubtedly drive the salortn from the Di- the consumer and the present salary scale for strict of Columbia. However,, the very tone of . inployes below $1000 a year was fixed at a time lt admits that the District when the- - salary envelope would : Iniy . twice as the' v ill have no saloons when he lower house gets much as it would now. Parsimony is not economy, through with the measure now pending. I believe in economy injgOTem And old John Barleycorn is dying hard in tor from Utah. so certain were friends Democratic Utah. Our meiit expenditures, but k is a mighty poor policy meathat it would be easy to pass a prohibition begin this conservation with employes who resure within a few days after the legislature con- ceive less than enough to live on.7 vened. That body had a bill prepared for it beSenator Smoot stated that'liis amendment but fore the first session was called and the bill was would add $13,000,000 a yea to the be could the amount of 1, instead a good one. But going through e cited that more than that bills House with a whoop, nearly half of the sixty-dasaved by, a judicious pruning of some of the bill the and has the for gone legislature period appropriating monethat would come before the conhas just now reached the Senate for serious Senate. sideration. The many changes suggested by Cut out tbe appropriations in certain meawill members of the Senate undoubtedly delay sures that cn wait a year or two, he said. The the bill still longer. Then after the Senate has government will go on and nobody will suffer if done its part the House must again has an innings we leUtbese things wait. And in the meantime, the sixty day period He declared that he w'ould retire 'from pub-of the session ir passing by very rapidly. The life before lie would be foreeJ by any organ forces against prohibition are very busy. They. q70(i effort to vote'for any measure that was not are well organized and are ready to give phe predicated upon justice, but he declared that in dry contingent Ihe fight of their lives. TheWets speaking for the underpaid federal employe he realize that an overwhelming majority of, the peo- was voicing a belief that it was time for Conple of Utah want a dry state, hut that,, has no ef- gress to remedy a notorious injustice. fect upon them, for they are going to defeat the Many of those Democratic Senators that if more cause once possible. voted for the Adamson law before election were prohibition We wish the Democratic legislature well opposed to the increase of the federal employes with this importan measure, apd we also wish to and made a vigorous fight to defeat the measure. sound the warning that delays are dangerous. However, the Utah Senator came out with enough Too much squabbling and quibbling over minor support to win a clean cut victory. details may pause the loss of the measure. Then, too. it is not safe to rush a hill through in the is the Young bill. Should this measure fail eneleventh hour, even though the governor he tirely there is not much hope from other measures. And now that the bill is before the Senate, we ready to sign it. Tere is hut one dry hill before the legislature hope that the Senators will leave it at least that must receive consideration if the state is to when they return it to the House for he legislated into the prohibition ranks, and that iuial approval. Witli -- pay-roll- s, y y ree-ogniza- does disagree with many. And in these days of accurate scientific knowledge theres no virtue in appearing astonished when this truth is faced. Coffee Caffeine (the drug in coffee, and in tea also) leaves the system in an overworked and debilitated state, and irresponsible for various serious ills and discomforts. Thousands who desire an appetizing hot table beverage with none of coffees drawbacks, find a most delightful cup one containing no deleterious substance whatever-i- n. - - Saturday , Feb. 3 Friday roll ilu tTon ;Tttacfr-otrthr-bi- we- eggafflng5sngagsgaa The GILDED SPIDER WilliamFox Presents' Bertha Kalich Ruth Stonehouse in FIGHTING FOR LOVE j This LIFE IS REVIEWED Provo. Big Indian mill in soutthern Utah will soon be completed and can handle about30O tons a day. Salt Lake Oregon Short Line - to spend J 75,000 on betterments here. Delta. First actual preliminary work starts on Sugar factory here. Provo. Utah Power and Light Co. to rebuild Telluride flume in Provo Requires extra food values to keep your body in good condi- Extreme Cold Weather tion. We have almost every thing in a grocery line that you need and when you buy from us you get the best the market affords. & m w at a cost of approximately Farrer & Whitehead $350,000. Pittsburg-Uta- h Potash Marysvale. company incorporated for $250,000 to begin development work in Sevier canyon. Potash will be procured as a Jrom elunlte. Salt Lake. Present program caUs for $1,032,405 expenditures for street Improvements the coming year. State printing plant to eost $250)f0 proposed. With this and a few other items already proposed, watch Utah taxes grow." Provo. Fruit box factory planned here. Ogden spends $100,000 on paving, walks, curbs and gutters past year. The silk industry iB the latest pro posed for Utah. Ogden. Amalgamated 'Sugar company will contract approximately 600,-00tons of sugar beets in Utah and Idaho for the year 1917 at $7 a ton or $1,200,000. This is the heaviest acreage and highest price ever paid In he Jntermountala counttry. to $10ojboo corporation formed erect jactory to manufacture sugar centrifugal dischargers, sprayers, a new pump and several other dcvDjr., the inventions of Eugene Roberts and Angus Gibson, former residents of LehL . Moab. New paper to be started by Patterson and Strong about April 1 Vast beds of oil sbales in Utah carry one to ninety gallons to ton of the rock, organizations are now loDevelopment cating large areas. will mean new industry for state. $10,700 canning company Ogden. 6 Quality Grocers Phone 67 - New Quarters 0 incorporates here. Salt Lake. American Smelting and Refining company has taken steps to enter field of chemical manufacture on large scale. It has been a producer of sulphuric acid for a few years, but will enlarge it operations so as to become a producer of a variety of chemicals. Appropriations have already been made to cover necessary expenditures for 1917. It has acid plants at Salt Lake and those will be greatly enlarged as part of new It Is proposed to make the plans. company as well known as a chemical producer as it now is in the metal smelting and refining field. close hardest Sugar companies year In history. Cold "weather for planting and haarvestlng. Vare and shrinkage greater than ever. War prices for sugar is all that saved the day, otherwise conditions would have been disastrous. New ore discovered In Eureka. The Monarch Shoe Repairing Co. m Has moved to the old Spencer Cafe building at 62 West Center We Are Ready For Your Work ATTENTION FARMERS We Want to Contract With Growers to Raise Us -- -- old Mammoth mine on 400 level. Salt Lake lets $98,582 sewer 1000 ACRES POTATOES 260 ACRES ONIONS T 250 ACRES CABBAGES "t 250 ACRES CELERY With the Fingers ! Says Corns Lift Out 100 ACRES TOMATOES - 100 ACRES ASSORTED . VEGETABLES Without Any Pain Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or any kind, of a corn can shortly be lifted right ont with the fingers If you directly upon the corn a few f freona, ayg aClncinnnti drop - See us for particulars will-appl- y vwir in AMBITION UTAHS INDUSTRIAL canyon Monday , Feb . 5 authoTtty.- -- the pure cereal food-drin- k Nourishing , economical and wonderfully delicious . Theres a Reason It la claimed that at small eost one can get a quarter of an ounce of trees-on- e at any drug store, which Is euffl- dent to rid ones feet of every corn or callus without pain or soreness or the danger of Infection- This new drug is an ether compound, and while sticky, dries the moment it is applied and does not inflame or even irritate the surrounding tissue This announcement will interest many women here, for it is said that . the present high-hefootwear la pub ting corns on practically every womans feet ! The Wm. M. Roylance Company 7 PROVO UTAH |