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Show THE SALINA SUN THE SALMA SUM Issued Every Saturday at Salina, Sevier County, Utah. Subscription Rates But life is greater than the Bible, because it came first, and will also be last. Therefore, life is your text, Mr. Minister, and the Bible your rich source of sacred illustrations. Life, life, life give me that on Sunday, treated truly, treated wisely, treated with the intelli-- ; gence which expect from any man who essays to become my er, and I will sit at your feet every Sunday, and profit by 1 teach-- i your teaching. But as for swallowing down triteness, or listening to echoes, I will not do it. Nature is the best church, and God the best preacher. If his spokesmen on earth fail, we have the hills, the valleys, the rivers, the meadows, and the sea. The stars will speak to us of eternity; the sun and the moon, of divinity and the Creator; and the blade of grass and the rose petal of the mystery of life. Forget the Entered at the Postoffice at Salina, Utah, as Second Class Mail inherited casuistries of the church and learn, then, of these And I Matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. ' shall then go gladly to your church. One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.00 75 Three Months IN PAYABLE ADVANCE Capital and Surplus $85,000.22 1 JAMES FARRELL, President PROTECTING THE PUBLIC TO ITS DETRIMENT. The Supreme Court decision of May 29th requiring the South to cancel its lease of the Central Pacific, sell its Central Pacific ern Pacific stock and completely separate the control and operation of the two companies, is the most perfect illustration yet witnessed of protecting the public to its great detriment. The Sherman Act, passed to prevent combinations of trade, has when technically applied to this case, deprived the public of a unified transportation with absolutely no resulting benefits. Since 1870 or for 52 years the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific have been operated as one railroad. Law became effective July 2, 1895, The Sherman Anti-Trufive years after the lease of the Central Pacific to the Southern PaH. W. CHERRY. Publisher. cific and 20 years after Oct. 12, 1870, when according to public records, the lines went under common control. WHY DONT I GO AO CHURCH? The Southern Pacific financed the Central Pacific, enabled it the to pay millions of dollars owed the government and (From Boston Transcript.) two systems into one unit of transportation. I have hardly stopped long Why dont I go to church? If this development work carried on for nearly a quarter of a enough in the busy rush of life to ask myself the question before. century before any one ever heard of the Sherman Anti-TruAct, Well, why dont I? had been done by either the Southern Pacific or the Central Pacific It it because I have lost the deep veneration I had for sacred under one name there would have been no suit under the Sherman things in my youth? Has my conception of the Deity changed, or Act. nry conception of the sacredness of the church, of the healthful inThe only question of present interest to the public is whether fluence upon life of contact, at least once a week with other persons or not the public is hurt by having this development work done by a who, like myself, are seriously trying, despite human frailties, to single control under two corporate names, instead of having it done live lives as clean and worth while as possible changed? by single control with a single corporate name. No The reason for my not going to church does not lie in any Feb. 28, 1920, the Interstate Commerce Commission was emof these things. My natural reply would be, Because on Sundays powered to consider the facts in a case such as this and although the I am too tired," and 1 do not believe that whether a man goes to Sherman Act alone rpjght firbid, the commission, where public inchurch or does not go to church is any evidence of his progress terest demands, may authorize the consolidation of transportation either in goodness or badness. Going to church will not make a systems. man a good man, any more than staying home from church will Pursuant to this act and to impfrove transportation facilities, make him bad. Goodness must be attained, not by act or actions the Interstate Commerce Commission, Aug. 3, 1921, announced on Sundays, but by the way we conduct ourselves during seven days plans authorizing various consolidations. In this plan the Central a week. and Southern Pacific were to remain one system. Clergymen are of many kinds. The ordinary minister is a trite This grouping by the commission affords the remedy by which person, whose mouth only utters commonplaces, echoes of bigger one of the principle transportation systems of the nation need not be men. 1 have had the pleasure and honor of knowing many clergytorn asunder, after unified operation in the public interest for sevmen, and many of them have not been of this sort. But in your av- eral decades. erage church on Sunday morning, the minister will rise and go The Supreme Court was forced to render a decision on a purethrough the same trade expressions which have been uttered in pul- ly technical question which involved a thoretical merger of these pits for the last several centuries. road contrary to the Sherman Act. Life is brief. 1 must make the most of mine while 1 have it. Do As a matter of fact there never was a merger in this case as the you suppose that I can waste it in hearing sermons that contain no two roads grew and developed as a single unit like a common tree uplift, no originality, nothing but a dreary reversion to an ancient having a double root. theology which, however sacred (and it is sacred to me) is useful Action by the commission to maintain operation of this transonly by applying it in a practical way to our manner of life in this portation system as a unit seems amply justified by the general exyear of our Lord, 1921? perience of the territory served and the interests of the various I am frequently asked by ministers why more men do not go to communities dependent on it for freight and passenger service. I believe I can church. truthfully answer, that whether men go to is will the WhateVer to public interest prevail in the final dischurch or stay at home depends to a large degree upon the minister position of this case. himself. Or, perhaps would be more truthful if I said that the reason so many men stay at home from church is because of what minBEET SUGAR SAFEGUARDS SUPPLY. isters have said in the past the dreary dryness of their Sunday messages. During recent years 25 per cent of the sugar consumed in the When I have at my elbow all the inspired utterances of the past United States has been obtained from domestic beet production. It has been aptly termed our War ration of sugar" so that if and present great works that lift the soul up with them, that transcend the monotony of everyday thought why should I go and sit our importations were cut off a limited supply would still be availat the foot of a teacher who has nothing to teach? To teach, you able. must know life; you must be in contact with every side of it. Show This production of beet sugar has been encouraged and me that New Bedford clergyman whose message has not lost its in- brought about by a tariff varying fro 1.34 to 1.60 cents per pound. spiration or its power, and I will show you a man who has lived close Under production costs in the past this has enabled the American farmer and beet sugar producer to compete with the cheaper to the everyday man close to you and me and the rest of us. It is said that there is strength to be derived from the soil. The grown foreign product. Greeks told of a god who, every time his foot touched the earth, beThe British Isles, long the home of free trade, are now levying came stronger. Humanity has the same power. The closer we get a 5 cent duty to secure revenue and develop their beet sugar proto it, the stronger we become. The minister's place is in the world. duction. He must not turn a cold shoulder to this man or sect because they Our own Congress is considering a duty of 2 cents on impordiffer from him in their beliefs, nor discin and condemn what he tations from Cuba to prevent our own beet sugar industry from does not understand. He must not try to hammer out a world to suit being crushed out of existence by this cheap labor competition himself. God has made the world a steel block it will not yield.. He which it cannot otherwise meet. must take the world just as he finds it, and then try to hammer out The beet sugar industry is the life preserver which prevents his own soul to fit it. us from being absolutely at the mercy of the foreign producer who The ministers too often build themselves up bogies that are could manipulate sugar prices without the restraining influence of stuffed only with straw and spend much strength in banging at domestic supply with which to compete. with big words and much hot breath. The world The value of the United States beet sugar production last these, straw-evil- s i3 too full of real sin and suffering to waste time hitting at petty year exceeded one hundred million dollars figured at 5 cents a things. A cigar may injure a mans health; but is is a weakness and pound for fine granulated sugar. The obvious advantage of having such a sum of money connot a sin. Dancing is as natural an exercise as walking or swimming; you cannot damn those who dance God does not. It is tinue to circulate here rather than in a foreign land is apparent. No sane citizen can countenance the destruction of even a dancing in the wrong way only that is evil. Control it, do not rule it if you have small industry engaged in producing an essential food product. out. The theatre is a natural and healthful amusement the right kind of theatre. Man has always needed the play in his life. The church fathered it. The church must not and cannot cast A unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of the United condemn only bad plays States holds labor unions may be sued for damages done to propit out now. Do not condemn the theatre and players. erty or business by strikers. Decision was rendered in an Arkansas Be big and broad, and keep your hands clean of the dust of case where miners federation destroyed coal mining property and it was shut down and abandoned after rioting, and lives were lost. your library. You probably know enough of books Mr. Minister if you dont you should resign from the ministry at once. What you need is a little deeper knowledge of men. Gnauthe sauton know State, county and city governments need a more rigid enforceourself first. Have you accomplished that? ment of letting contracts for public work, equipment and supplies The Bible is a great book. As literature, I hold it first of any- to the lowest responsible bidder. thing ever written in the English language. I suppose the books of the Bible in their ancient tongues must have been even greater. But The campaign for lower taxes is on in every western state and the Bible was written several yeais ago. Only the divine power of there is a general reluctance to take up new taxes, in any form, esthe Christ makes it so well adapted to life today, and the deep know- pecially state income taxes. ledge of its authors had of life; for life, you see, never changes. It is the same today as yesterday and the same tomorrow as it is today. There are signs that the railroads of the country are getting That is the wonder of it, the miracle, the divine spark in life its into much better financial condition; they do not plan betterments when they are broke. ADVERTISING RATES. Per inch per month, $1.00; single issue, 25c. Display Matter 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. 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