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Show i.ifc oAlina Sun "H"H"K":":"K":K":"h I The Only Real TOE SALIMA SUM - Issued Every Friday at Salina, SYer County, Utah. The Producers Market SALE Salt Lake Union Stock Yards Ever Staged in Salina at the Subscription Rates One Year $2.00 1.00 Six Months 75 Three Months PAYABLE IN ADVANCE North Salt Lake, Utah iStore Salina Cashfrom to 5 All goods discounted 50 discountof all sales $10.00 Sale closes Nov. 25th. ed lO per-cen- t, Before buying give us a call. A good demand Here at of all times for all classes per-cen- t, Tutored at the Postoffice at Salina, Utah, as Second Class Mail Matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. livestock. Local and Coast Buying operating Here daily.a All stock weighed with fill. P. G SCORUP, Proprietor "H ADVERTISING RATES. Display Matter Per inch per month, $1.00; single issue, 25c. Special position 25 per cent additional. Ten cents per line each insertion. Count six words to line. Legals Readers Ten cents per line each insertion. Count six words to line. Blackface type Fifteen Cents per line for each insertion. Obituaries, Cards of Thanks, Resolutions, Etc., at Half Local Reading Rates, Count Six Words to the line. For Sale, For Rent, Found, Lost, Etc., Ten Cents per line for Each Insertion. NO CHARGE ACCOUNTS. H. W. CHERRY, Publisher. JUST PLAIN FACTS Due to political speeches of radical candidates for office too many farmers have fallen into the mistake of blaming their troubles mainly to high rates charged by the railroads. In a recent address in Chicago, J. R. Howard, president of the American Farm Bureau, estimated the total annual income of the Of this amount farmers spent about farmers at$ 0,976,000,000. In$7,018,340,000 for goods, machinery, general commodities. terest took appriximately one billion dolalrs. Taxes amounted tc $663,000,000 and railroad transportation $1,123,000,000. This makes the farmers outgo, annually, according to Mr. Howards budget, about $9,804,340,000. The American Farm Bureau figures that the farmers pay twenty of the freight rates or about $800,000,000 a year in freight cent per If that is the case, then only 8 per cent of the farmers' total rates. The remainder of then expenditures is for freight transportation. for general commodities, machinery, interest, taxes, expenditures go all of which have increased as much or more than railway charges. It must be clear that the farmers are not being ruined by something costing them only eight per cent of the whole sum they spend every year. Instead of inciting farmers to vent 00 per cent of their wrath on the railroads, why not direct about 92 per cent of in toward other interests and taxes that get 92 per cent of what they spend? Politicians, and others animated by a desire to compel the government to take over the railroads, are spreading discontent among farmers by creating the belief that while they are undergoing hardships the railroads are reaping huge profits at their expense. None of these radical speakers ever tell the farmrs that the roads earned only 3 per cent in 1921 which is far short of making the fair return of 5 per cent, recognized by the Interstate Commerce Commission, but not guaranteed. How many business firms would be content with any such return? Farmers and others need to know that their worst enemies are the agitators who are striving to increase the kind of governmental regulation of railroads that has brought transportation facilities tc their present inadequate condition for railroad men do not deny that the demands of industry in general are exceeding the available 1 G Delmue Live Stock Gmmission -. more drastic traffic rules are formulated, and more or less enforced; more severe penalties are inflicted by th judges for driving recklessly, but the accidents continue. It would seem that the engineering brains that built a Panama canal, took 2,000,000 men to Europe in the face of submarines, and built and perfected the largest railroad and telephone systems in the world, might solve this problem, too. But while the remedy is left in the hands of policemen to formulate, no matter how interested or willing, or while the answer to the problem is given into the hands of aldermen, mayors and leading citizens, no matter how well meaning we will still continue to kill our children. Traffic accidents to the young is a subject of national concern state concern, city and town concern, of such gravity and magnitude that their prevention deserves the consideration of the very best minds in the country. IN 1 rI isher j- Union m tt t M Send for free Market in- - formation, J. H. Manderfield, General Manager Save Shrinkage Freight Scshipp-in- g expenses by selling at your Home Market. THE DAYS NEWS i Press dispatches of November 3 state that three girls were killed, three more reported dying and a dozen taken to hospitals seriously injured after a fire in a celluloid foctory in New York City. The point is that every day one reads about these disasters resulting in enormous loss in life and damage to property. Why is it that when working with inflamable materials such as celluloid a building cannot be so devided or partitioned and so constructed of materials as to reatrd the progress of a fire until employees may escape in an orderly manner and fire departments be given a reasonable opportunity to save both life and property? With I 5,000 lives being snuffed out each year by fire and with $500,000,000 in property going up in smoke, it is high time that he American people exercise their ingenuity and resources in public sentiment that will help reduce this terrible annual fire-pro- Gapital and Surplus $85,000-2- 2 de-elopi- oss. 1 -3 so-call- nilroad facilities. address, recently, in New York, Julius H. Barnes, presi-- c "it of the United States Chamber of Commerce, formerly head of the United States Grain Corporation, a grain exporter of 30 years experience, said farmers would lose about $400,000,000 this yeat because of their inability to move wheat promptly to the seaboard end added, "This is due to an over-rigi- d policy of regulation of ou rxilroads in the last ten years. The earning power of our railroad: has been destroyed, and their credit undermined so that they can-ro- t maintain their equipment, and keep it up to the expansion o this country. Railroads cannot be left without some kind of regu lation, but an adequate return must be allowed them to enable them to expand their facilities. Li an WHAT DOES FREEDOM MEAN? CLASS TAXATION JAMES FARRELL. President The Wyoming state highway department will urge next legislature to tax gasolene cent a gallon, to be used for construction and upkeep of highways. This is following the lead of other states which have placed a similar tax upon gasolene on the theory that the automobile driver dll receive compensating benefits. This class of taxation is merely "expediency taxation and is lot passed on the theory of equal taxation. In Oregon the tax on gasoline has been raised from cent to 2 :ents and a proposal was before the last legislature to increase this to 3 cents. A tax investigating committee appointed in the state of Wash-ngto- n to find new methods of securing tax revenue, among other recommended a 3 cents per gallon tax on gasoline. The three hings, lent measure was killed in Oregon and the State Farm Bureau of tax in WashWashington has come out against the proposed t. Vice-Presid- ent H. B. CRANDALL, Cashier J 1 nt ington. The practice of special or class taxation is now so firmly estab-ishe- d in this country that equal taxation has probably gone into the Jiscard forever. We put up with special tazes until the special tax becomes so heavy that every payment is an actual burden. The power of a state to levy a special tax does not make the proposition right or in any way weaken the basic principle of our government that taxation should be equal. The Boston Tea Party proved the ultimate necessity of equal taxation rather that special taxation. 3UILD HOMES NOW Breaking all previous records for lumber delivered by water, acific Northwest sawmills shipped gross total of 2,381,203 feet luring the first nine months of 922 as compared with 1,249,05 feet for the like peroid in 1921, an increase of 91 per cent. 1 Is a man free in any country where his government fails to pro-- t ;ct him in his right to work as an individual, without first paying t:ibute to some organization? Would you, Mr. Citizen, stand for taking this right away and fir our government failing to protect any workman in his right to whether he belonged to a union or not? Freedom for a man to join a union and work also means freedom for him not to join and still be free to work. Freedom is not for one to the exclusion of another, else we have no freedom. H. S. GATES, 1 This lumber went to California and other domestic markets, o Japan, the east coast of South America, Europe, South Africa, ind other points. The increase over corresponding period in 1921 ranged 58 per cent for European delivery, 84 per cent or Calif7 per cent for other domestic markets exclusive of California, ornia, 150 per cent for Cuba, 122 per cent for Japan, 157 per cent for Australia, 241 per cent for South Africa and 42 5per cent for the east coast of South America. Lumber shipped through the Panama canal increased 83 per cent for the same period. This means that Pacific coast and Northwest sawmills have been contributing greatly to prosperity and a return to normal conditions in states west of the Rocky mountains. The sawmills are one of the wests greatest employers of labor at good wages. The public has become convinced that it is useless to delay building activity looking for cheaper prices as costs have remained practically unchanged for the past year. There cannot be any further reduction in wages and this is not probable. Lumber is the universal building material that makes home owning by the average America npossible. 1 1 Christmas Time! The Yuletide Appeals to Young and Old. How Are You Going to Remember Your Friends, Relatives and Associates? You Will Want to Remember Them in Some Way. We are prepared to help you as we have secured a large stock of the finest Christmas and New Year Cards obtainable. are now ready for They your inspection. 1 NATIONAL CARELESSNESS Statistics of the health service of the American Red Cross show that deaths among children of school age due to accidents are proportionately larger than among other young children or older persons. Out of each 000 deaths of children between the ages of 5 and 9, 167 are due to accidents; of children between 10 and 14, 177 and due to accidents. In proportion deaths due to accidentss among children under 5 years of age and among adults are quite small. No parents need to be told that the most valuable possessions they have are their children. But it appears that there is great need fur some power to instill into the minds of civil authority the conviction that the most valuable asset the state possesses is its children. Accidents do not happen. There is a cause for every is this true if traffic accidents, which are assuming iuurmmg proportions in the larger centers. Of what use is it to the municipality or the state to spend learger sums in educating a child to grow up to be a good citizen if it permits him to be killed by an automobile before he becomes an economic factor in the community life? Cities and traffic bureaus search madly for remedies for traffic accidents; safety weeks are proposed, debated, held; ney find 1 ly r.fl Pickers Platform. d To use a platform fer the purpose of picking figs, wus the timely idea of a grower of that fruit to order to 'uarvest his crop quickly, described In a scientific Journal. three-wheele- Letter Genius and Eloquence. The secret of the roses sweetness, of the bird's ecstasy, ot the sur, set's glory that is rhe secret of genius and eloquence. FhllLlps. Heads, Envelopes, Bill Heads, Handbills and all classes of Happiness. Is the art fnot letting Happiness Sun done office. at the printing the thought of joys you don't possess Keep your work here we can do it. poll the pleasure uf the ones at hand. But your order should be, placed at once so that it can be made up especially for you, thus obtaining an individuality that cannot be secured with the ordinary greeting card. Come in and at our line of GREECE GAEBS JZ THE SALINA SUN HSSj |