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Show TH SAUNA BUN. SALINA, UTAH ? Using that is objectionable tainly come into that class. THE SAUNA SUN Issued Every Friday at Salina, Sevier County, Utah. to others. And the road sign has cer- THE RIGHT TO WORK . Employers in the building industry in New York have decided to establish the open shop in the entire country. undertake to Subscription Rates Unionism has accomplished much for the workers in this nation One Year $2.00 It has a legitiand contributed greatly to the common welfare. 1.00 Six Months but just industrial in our machine, mate highly systematized place 75 Three Months if as the power of capital can be abused manipulated by unscrupuPAYABLE IN ADVANCE lous persons, so can the power of labor organizations become a tyranny when controlled by radical labor leaders who ignore all Entered at the Postoffice at Salina, Utah, as Second Class Mail thought of the public interest in the carrying out of their holdup Matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. programs. When any union tries to set itself above the constitution which ADVERTISING RATES. guarantees a man protection in his right to work regardless of his Display Matter Per inch per month, $1.00; single issue, 25c. religious, political or labor affiliations, it is headed straight for the rocks of public condemnation. Special position 25 per cent additional. line. six words to Legals Ten cents per line each insertion. Count Readers Ten cents per line each insertion. Count six words to line KNOW YOUR COUNTRY When addressing the Senate of the state of New Jersey, in Blackface type Fifteen Cents per line for each insertion. Lincoln said, "May 1 be pardoned if, on this ocassion, I menof 1861, Thanks, Resolutions, Etc., at Half Local Read Obituaries, Cards that tion away back in my childhood, I got hold of a small book. ing Rates, Count Six Words to the line. I remember all the accounts there For Sale, For Rent, Found, Lost, Etc., Ten Cents per line for EacI Weems Life of Washington. were given of the battlefields and struggles, for the liberties of the Insertion. NO CHARGE ACCOUNTS. country, and none fixed themselves upon my imagination so deeply The crossing of the a sthe struggle here at Trenton, New Jersey. with the the the contests Hessians, river, great hardships endured at H. W. CHERRY. Publisher. the time, all fixed themselves in my mind more than any single I recollect thinking then, boy even though Revolutionary event. AS TRUE AS GOSPEL was, that there must have been something more than common I am exceedingly anxious that that that these men struggled for. It is not often a business concern pays good money to say somewith the original idea for accordance in be shall perpetuated But thats what the Alabama thing thing nice about another business. which that struggle was made. Power Co. really did, paying for a e ad in many papers, anc g Freedom in life, liberty and pursuit of happiness was the using the following words, which Salina people will find not only which Lincoln referred to in these lines. true but interesting: What do the political parties and advocates of government "The weekly newspaper occupies a place in the social, religious, ownership and increased regulation of private and industrial activity domestic and industrial life that is peculiarly its own. Nothing car promise the people that would equal, or in any way compare, with tuke this enviable position away from it. The weekly newspapei the ideals which Washington and Lincoln struggled to maintain? This service is the dis- Think it supplies a service, too, that is all its own. over. semination of the community news. The big city daily, no matter how hard it may try, will never be able to render such service and PUNISH THE GUILTY What is news to the home compete with the country weekly. Punishment for campers, tourThe forest fire season is here. But paper in the small community is not news to the big city daily. ists or regular residents who leave smoldering fires or throw cigars this small news in the weekly means more to residents of the Farmlor matches into grass or underbrush, should be speedy and severe. and smaller towns than a whole column about the League of NaLumbering is one of the wests greatest industries and its future tions printed in a daily. as well as the prosperity of thousands of men it employs should "The big city daily supplies the news of the day from distant be jealously guarded by all. states and distant lands, while the country weekly supplies the news Let us cooperate to cut down the terrific annual forest fire of the week at home. The home is first in the minds and hearts of It is more necessary waste which we have suffered for many years. its people; their interests lie there; their thoughts and happiness are now than ever, as so many people are going through our forests. centered around its activities. Home is where the heart is. "The wise advertiser will find the man's heart, then take his If Henry Ford does run for the presidency it will probably be He will find it wrapped up in the community ir. message to it. on a "good roads platform. He will speak which that man lives, works, worships and loves. his message through the voice of that community and the voice of e in an auto, yet we never It may be as exciting as a the country weekly every community is its home town newspaper is safer. But the old found it so. the new electric Waffle Iron Cooks Hotcakes, wadies, shortcake, omelets, coffee, eggs in fact anything you want to cook- -- Come Telluride Power Co. 1 full-pag- "some-somethin- joy-rid- porch swing FARMERS AND RAILROADS Somebody has invented a gunpowder that is flashless as well The railroad owners have out a book trying to convince the is smokeless and waterproof. Now make it' and fanner that as a general rule farmers are not objecting to the pres- we ll have something to be thankful for. But theyll have a hard time proving it. A ent high freight rates. less the freight. farmer sells his wheat at what it is worth at Yo udont hear much about the good old water wagon being The freight is taken out when the wheat is paid for, and its the sam in many traffic accidents. way with a load of hogs, cattle, corn, wool, hay and everything the Mr. Farmer pays the freight, man in the rural districts produces. The only thing that works 24 hours on a stretch these soft and in it advance, pays every man in this section knows this to be times is a rubber band. Now let the farmer buy a few implements of any kind. The true. dealer adds the freight to the cost of the implements, tacks on his Eve would have had a hard time tempting Adam if the price No business man pays any freight, profit and the farmer pays. for when the goods are marked in his store the freight is counted in of apples had been as high then as it is now. and added to the purchase price. Thats one reason the farmer It isnt much of a vacation for a president when he has to stop objects to the high freight rates because he has to pay the freight and make a speech every few hours, and knows at the same time that when he sells his stuff and he has to pay the freight when he buys ' the crowd didnt pay to get in. something from somebody else. non-explosi- sea-boar- , d, But counterfeit bill in circulation. as far as we are concerned we dont even know what the genuine You know them. Every town has them, and Salina is no looks like. We suppose that, like tumble bugs, pole exception to the rule. cats and other such creatures, in the inscrutable economy of nature Riches may not get a man into heaven, but poverty can often there is a place for the chronic knockers. Perhaps they serve a make him wish he was in the other place. useful purpose as a sort of counter-irritafor the lack of active in the affairs of their town that is characteristic of thousands of advice he needed during the period of The old fellow said of his dog, you supposedly "good citizens." prosperity, but he, with us all, sufferknow, that it was good for him to have a certain amount of fleas, There clearly must ed depression. The they kept him so busy scratching he forget to get lazy. have been something lacking to enable him to go on the even tenor of He chronic knocker is really to be pitied, rather than blamed. his way. The answer Is very plain. cant help it. His character is warned and twisted so that everyIt is that some means need to be proHe sees all public vided to enable the farmer, after bis thing in he world looked crooked to him. labor has been expended, when the He matters as going wrong, and all public officials as grafters." crops have been harvested, or when By WALTER W. HEAD simply judges all other men by himself. his live stock have reached the stage Theres a new THE CHRONIC KNOCKER nt fifty-doll- ar in-tre- st What Farmers Need Added to Credit And Good Advice PASSINGAWAY Credit still another good thing to the automobile. Before it came no one objected to signs stuck alon gth road. People generally drove by at a leisurely pace and sometimes they ripad them generally they didnt but either way they never considered the signs from the standpoint of danger. Today autoists see but one the about the and that is the danger it road thing sign along his He wants to see what is on both creates by blocking vision. sides of him, and especially ahead of him, and that is why he obThat is also why the auto clubs of many states are jects to signs. now making a concerted fight on billboards and road signs. And they are winning out. In many states today road signs are not permitted. Other It is generally realized that as an ad they states are falling in line. are worth very little now. People are riding in autos and autos fast g make too to The Utah merchant go satisfactory. who once believed in road signs possibly has an auto of his own now r.d I e knows that the road sign is a nuisance. He, too, is use the same, good judgement that millions of others are ,i.g to using, and help to put the billboard and the road sign out of busiHe isnt going to spend his money for any kinds of adver- ness. sign-readin- First Vies President American Bankers Association. If the farmer Is not prosperous there can be no permanent prosperity in other Industries, because the farm-er- s purchasing power, normal under where he must shlc It, to liquidate his indebtedness. He must have somebody interested in him sufficiently not altogether from his own standpoint, but from the standpoint of the banker and business man, so that he can put his products on the market at condithe time when they will bring him the tions, Is one of most. the most potent I do not mean to indorse every lm 1 n f u e nces we for hare in the Unit- aglnable scheme I do but believe the basic ed States. When marketing, of is idea from consideration worthy conditions with the farmer are the bankers standpoint as well as good, and he Is the farmers standpoint Bankers are receiving the certainly interested in the farmer, by cost of produc- reason of the fact that they cannot be tion plus someIn their own business unprosperous thing more for his labor, he Is in a less the farmer also is prosperous. position to buy from the manufacThey must interest themselves in the turer. in giving him the A condition that affects the fanner, farmer, not only cutting elf his purchasing power, de- business advice he nyeds and in stroying his belief in himself, tn the financing him during the period of banker and in everybody else, can construction, but also in helping him only bring about a chaotic condition, place his products on the market at a which affects every business maa and time when they will bring him the laboring maa la the United Staetee, cost of production I Vos a reasonable addition for bis eJ ret and a pay. regardless of what Job he may The farmer had all the credit and ment for his labor expended. in and see It-- - St THE SECRET OF WHY SOME MEN OBTAIN CREDIT, BUT OTHERS Various Meanings of Credit The Way Character Begets Confidence and Opens the Way to Trust Thrift and Honesty the Basis of Banking. The secret of why some men can readily obtain credit, while others are unable to borrow a cent, is disclosed in the present article prepared by the Committee on Public Education of the American Bankers Association. It tells an interesting story of how a man of forty, of good reputation and fair success, was nonplussed by his inability to borrow and had to pass up a good opportunity. Banka are said to deal in credit The word credit has various meanings. When you deposit money, your J80 from the bank, and paying it off out of savings. account receives credit" for that amount When a man borrows money on his note at the bank, he Is granted "credit When a railroad, a manufacturing concern, a town, or a government, Issues bonds, it uses its credit" When anyone buys goods without paying cash, at the time of purchase, credit is granted. Without credit, our present day business system could not exist There are circumstances, however, under which one should never borrow money. Never incur a debt in a speculative venture. OF THE PEOPLE Credit is possible only where people have confidence in each other, and confidence can exist only where good character exists. Every successful business man looks upon his credit standing as a most valuable asset, and he maintains it by square dealing. To get credit a man must pay his debts, or it soon becomes known he is not of good character and not worthy of confidence. Those from whom he would buy refuse to trust him and the banks decline to grant him credit Then come business failure and a long uphill fight to get on his feet again and live down the past More Than Honesty Needed Honesty is not the only factor involved in credit. For instance, Mr. Jones, a man of forty, of excellent morals, who has enjoyed a fair income for many years, sees an opportunity to purchase a business. He requires financial assistance. He calls on a banker and asks for the necessary credit. The banker asks the nature of the business, what it will cost, and what Mr. Jones can command in ready money, or other resources, but learns that he has no money or property of his own. It is clear that Mr. Jones lacks ability to manage his affairs wisely. He has not had enough strength of character to save money ty adapting expenses to income, and therefore has not proved that he could make financial progress. Moreover, if men do not invest some of their own money in the business they usually lack incentive and become easily discouraged. It would be unwise for anyone to assume such a financial risk, and Mr. Jones probably would fail to get credit from the bank. He must give up his opportunity to some one else who has saved money. Banks are public servants, but that does not obligate them to serve those who are unfair in business or lacking in the great principles underlying success. To be known as a careful and thrifty person is the best assurance that the bank will extend financial help when needed. Many people think that one should shun debt like the measles. They tail to distinguish between wise and unwise debt It is wise to use credit, that Is, go into debt, to buy a home. Such debt encourages thrift A student may wisely borrow money needIt is ed to complete his education. an investment that should pay dividends in greater success. Another wise use of credit is borrowing to buy good bonds, such as Liberty 20 down, borrowing Bonds, paying When to Shun Debt NINETY-FIVWHO SPECULATE, PER CENT LOSE. Neither should debts be incurred to purchase pleasure-giving Such debts possessions. are millstones around the necks of countless families. Progressive banks adhere to the same standards they exact of their E Their business methods patrons. must be beyond reproach. They exclude business of doubtful reputation and have no part in the feverish struggle for sudden wealth. banks are regarded with great respect, and hold a place of ever increasing importance.' Some thoughtless persons criticize banks for not making loan3 more freely but it must be remembered that a banks business is to receive deposits as well as to grant loans, and it is therefore the trustee of money belonging to others. It must safeguard its depositors funds and so control them as to be always ready to return them intact upon demand. That requires great care in granting credits. Well-manage- d THE MORTALITY OF SAVINGS ACCOUNTS The Savings Banks Association of Massachusetts has issued a tabulation made by a mutual savings bank in an average New England town showing that, of the accounts opened during a six months period, 85 to 90 per cent were open at the end of the period. At the end of the next six months about 70 per cent were open. At the end of one year about CO per cent were open; at the end of 18 months about 55 per cent; at the end of three years about 50 per cent; and then the figure rather steadily declined by 2 to per cent of the original number each year. At the end of ten years about 25 per cent of the accounts were still open. After that the changes were very small, mostly on account of death. 3 Federal Reserve Copied Peru is the first country in Latin America to reorganize its banking system according to Federal Reserve principles by the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act of Peru to develop the countrys resources along modern lines of financing. Perus new banking system is modeled after the United States (Federal Reserve, with modifications such as the banking conditions and', general financial situation there .require. It provides for the creation of a Federal Reserve Bank in Peru. The directorate of this bank is to be composed of nine members, three of whom are to be designated by the Government and the other six are to be elected by the member banks. i A CANT 1 |