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Show P THE PBOV.O POST Phtoso fhe Enigma, Columbia Wed. EDITORIALS PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS PEOPLE AND ROADS There is a world of difference between public When a very amiable gentleman steps into ownership of railroads and political ownership. us car or climbs into a buggy and takes a drive When the general public own the stock in a out into the country and gets stuck in the mud railroad or utility it demands good management of a bad road, he immediately calls down someand good public regulation. . thing besides blessings upon the heads of the peo-lOwners of stocks and bonds demand a fair responsible for such conditions. on return their investment and are opposed to It never enters his head that perhaps he himradicalism in legislation or regulation. self is one of those people. ' One of the largest and best managed westHe is one of them because he has not done ern railroads shows earnings for the year end- his part toward compelling our officials' tT see . hat the roads are in proper condition. He has ing July-1- , 1916, of $105,000,000. This is an increase of thirteen million dol- not raised his Voice in behalf of better country lars over last year, and a net earning of $32,. roads, or if he has it has been so weak and half learted that it has neither been heard nor heeded. d 000,000 or five and per cent. It is the duty and it should be the pleasure This railroad (the C. M. and St. Paul, has of every citizen to talk and work for better $600,000,0000 invested as actual cost of its prop-tie- s country roads, for better roads mean more prosand could not be rebuilt for that. perous conditions generally. The man in town is It pays 44 per cent on its bonds, 5 per cent just as much interested in the condition of road i un its common stock and T per cmt on its pre- as the farmer, for when roads are bad and the marketing of crops is difficult anti expensive, the ferred stock. detHow can the railroad as an industry expand armer is less prosperous and this in turn rimental to the best interests of the man in town. build necessary branches and feeders if it canThis is an ra of road building, and the not get capital to work with? ime is opportune for us to rise to the occasion IIow can even such a magnificent property and look to the condition of our ow'n roads. We as a people are not paupers and there is pay good wages, improve its service, keep up its no occasion for poor roads in this property if not allowed to make profits? community. IIow can the general public be expected to That such roads do exist is simply evidence that we as citizens are not alive to our oportunities invest their savings in such a property if they or our duty, and that so long is we sleep we may are not protected in their investment? expect our officials to share our slumbers. Real public ownership of the railroads take While we are simply jogging along others in place when the public generally the stockholders other communities are building better roads and and the employes share in the earnings. reaping the financial results. Political ownership would mean destruction 0 0 0 of efficiency, increased cost of operation, little TRY THIS PLAN ONCE development in new territory. If you want to travel the road to Better O 0 0 Buying; if you want" to make your purchases YOU START SOMETHING with safety and with confidence; if you want a ull dollars worth for your dollar, and a load of in town. this Theres never anything new free with every purchase, your IIow often have you heard that remark? We satisfaction straightest course is right through the advertishad it hurled at us a couple of days ago. And why is there nothing new? Simply be- ing pages of this paper. - There are merchants adcause everybody waits for somebody else to vertising with us every week who can meet evstart something. We are all ready to talk if the ery requirement and who often give you more other fellow will do, but too few of us are will- for your money than they promise. They are the people to tie to, the people who always make good ing to take the initiative and start something. What made New York, and Chicago, and and their advertisements point the way. Philadelphia, and all of the other great cities ot the country? Was it their natural advantages WERE READY ARE YOU? alone, or the people who wait for others, or did Do you want to see good roads all over our they just happen? It was neither of these. It was the ability adjacent farming community? Sodo we. We and.the initiative of their do something1 citi- are willing to do our share of work, or dig down zens. There is no place in those burgs for the into our pockets, or use our columns as a booster; or any other duty it is possible for us to perform, fellow who waits. ' "We can do the same here if we want to. Not or ALL OP THEM if necessary.. But what are fj - on as Jarge a scale, ot course, but still we can YOU willing to do? You have the floor, 0 0 0 improve our condition a thousand per cent if and then we will only resolve to do things AS HE FOUND IT do them. A loud taking and overly critical pessimist There are just as many brains in this town in proportion to population as there are in New once asked a mild and gentle editor why in heck he he the as didnt publish found it. truth York, Chicago or Philadelphia, but they are like The week the editor did next the truth man while publish the the sleeping volcano , city he and found as attora it $500.00 it, required brains are constantly in eruption. fee the to out of the cuss keep pessimistic of come out is to neys our wakT It time to up and we penitentiary. trance it is time to do something 0 OO friend to the this statement address particularly who accosted us a couple of days ago. THE RIGHT TYPE We suggests that YOU do something, beWe dropped into a local store the other day cause we know that you have the ability to do. found the clerk nearly dead with a sick and And when they see your brain working to a pur headache. But when a customer entered a few pose, others will sit up and start theirs moving, miautes later he was all smiles and right to the too. If you, reader, have ever made such a com front with a hearty and whole souled greeting, his face and his spirits until the cusplaint of this town, we are talking to you, too and he kept fronr your own brains, and tomer departed in a happy frame of mind to Shake in time you will find others keeping the pace come again. No, never mind who it was; but fellow will get ahead in the world and the right by your side. Do something yourself anc that then you will never have occasion to say to firm he is with will always do business while he others that there is never, anything doing Jn is in the foreground. --o 0 0-this town. A sleeping .volcano never makes much THINK MORE; TALK LESS e Manager Ashton ot the' Columbia theatre la always on the lookout tor 'novelty feature attractions for his theatre.' He has secured the sensational vaudeville novelty, the original An act that has been Phrosa featured Jill over the principal cirPhro-scuits in America and Europe. London the Hippoat appeared drome, England, for forty consecutive weeks. Eight months at the Moulin Rouge, Paris, six weeks in the Winter Garden, Berlin, and sixteen weeks Hamersteins Victoria Roof Garden, Phrosos per. New York City. formance leaves the audience In amazement, doctors and sclenlsts differ as to Fbroso" really Is. Can you solve the puzzle? Phroso while appearing at the hlpodrome la London was command ed to give a performance before King Edward. VII at Windsor Castl May 14th. 1904. Phroso has been exhibited In all the capitals of the world and the people of Provo now bave an oportunity of seeing thi, Ninth Wonder of the world. Phroso will be seen at the?Columbia theatre .at each perform acne Wednesday 0T 15. Also In conjunction with this novelty . Manager Ashton has booked Davis and Florine in a comedy novelty singing and talking act. This acta comes well recommended, having just finished the Pantages circuit and Is en route East Miss Flora Is an eccentric comedienne, been featured with some of the big musical comedies In the East. - o Fior-rln- e hav-in- g . one-thir- 000 the-cobwe- ) Clothes may make the man, but hats make the woman, according to The charming Claudia Coleman, Girl with theHats,who shows -- the audience types of femininity distinguished chiefly by headgear. The transformation following the slight shifting of the same headgear is stirtllng, and as enacted by this bril- - liant Impersonator, Is most entertaining as well. When Friend Wife requests a new bonnet refer her to Claudias system and remodel the old one with a jerk. If this globe shrank to a single wire Kartelli the live wire balancer, would feel crowded. He can do anything but vote on the swaying strand. .1 RAILROAD3 ARE FINED MORE THAN AUDREY MUNSON IN PURITY AT THE COLUMBIA THURSDAY k FRIDAY, MAT. k NIGHT 170,000 Chicago, Nov. 11. Fines totaling more than $170,000 for violations of the interstate commerce law were assessed against several railroads and a packing company by Federal Judge JC' M. Landls here today. Rebating was the charge in most cases. Those fined were the Pennsylvania railroad, $20,000; Elgin, Joliet k Eastern railway. $20,000; Pittsburg, Cleveland, - Cincinnati, Chicago k St- Louish railway, $20,000 in one case and $50,000 in another; Swift k company, $60,000. Costs sent the to be paid several thousand dollars higher. am-oun- Purity is a film of beauty with famous model as star. Marking a new epoch in the history of the photodramg because of lta dir-Inand gorgeous features, Purity, the facoua art film de luxe, starring Audrey Munson, the worlda - most famous artists model, will be shown at the Columbia theatre on Thursday and Friday, Nov. with matinee dally at 2:30. In this great special production Miss Munson enacts a role the like j of which has never been seen on the stage or screen before a powerful g drama, filled with high pitched inter eat and suspense, yet all attuned to the dominant art note which lends a peculiar charm a wonderful atory of a beautiful Innocent girl with a won-a- . derfuf . form, poet with ; verse to an with artist ell, pictures to paint and a villain' with deviltry to by - the xelebrated , Clifford , 16-1- J try-wr-itten Howard. . , . . Purity" will be presented here ex-theactly as presented at the liberty atre In New York City. . CROUPINE first, last and all th time for Croup and Coughs. Guaranteed by all first else drug stores. SHE LIKES IT! Ask any houswife who has changed the family table drink from harmful coffee to helpful INSTANT POSTUM whether , smoke. 'Smith' and "Jones stood" gassing on a street OO OUT IN THE 8T0RM Why is it men who are sharp as tacks in most things are as careless as an infant mothers? Get in a car and drive around the. country and you !.... . wili everywhere-expose- d to corner. A young lady passed by and Smith made a pert remark and both men laugh ed uproar iously. A few minutes later another lady tripped along and Jones let loose a few'verbal shotsrAnd then tlje fight commenced, for the ' second lady was Smiths sister. Moral: Think more and talk -- the elements,' plows standing in the fields, mow- less. o ers, rakes, wagons, and dozens of implements out Christianity may Bave the world, but the in the rain from January to December. Lift a .. gun will rule it. five spot from the pocket of one of those fellows --0 0- to or send want wHfeither and he you .you Christmas in the trenches Wonder what-i- t the penitentiary to square up for his loss. But he lets many times that amount go to rack and wifi be. o o o ruin in exposing his machinery and implements In time, of course, we will read of the high to the elements without an apparent thought as 1.1-...1 cost, of breathing. to their, value. Queer bu Jrue. 00 1 . tits r :. the change has been a success. The answer may well induce you to make the change yourself. Less nerves, complexion, better temper, improved After digestion and the. trial, demon- - 2 strata conclusively that the change from coffee to POSTUM is a wise move whole family, -- for V Thereo a Reason r |