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Show THE SALINA SUN, SALINA, UTAH o - THE SALMA SUN Issued Every Friday at Salma, Sevier Cotmty, Utah. Subscription Rates One Year Six Months $2.00 1.00 75 amounts shown as expended for materials and supplies, taxes, public utility service, etc., was in turn paid out by those who received it, for wages and salaries. Thus does industry cause a rapid distribution of money among Conditions winch encourage industrial developwage earners. ment are the surest safeguard of prosperity. 1 - those who have our SAsk appli-anceswh- at kind of satisfaction they are giving. FARMING COMING BACK Those who have based their arguments about international and domestic economics on exports of farm products might do well to check up on some of the figures. Statistics show that the exports of leading American foodstuffs Mail Class Second as Postoffice the at Salina, Utah, at Entered in the 12 months ending June 30 had a wholesale value of Matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. which is just about twice the value of similar exports in when the export market was normal. 1913, Of course, the scale of prices is generally higher than it was ADVERTISING RATES. and some allowance must be made for that, but on the whole then, Display Matter Per inch per month, $1.00; single issue, 25c. it can be seen that the export trade in agricultural products has pickSpecial position 25 per cent additional. ed up remarkably since the post-wa- r depression. Legals Ten cents per line each insertion. Count six words to line. Readers Ten cents per line each insertion. Count six words to line Blackface type Fifteen Cents per line for each insertion. OUR COUNTRY Obituaries, Cards of Thanks, Resolutions, Etc., at Half Local Read Distinguished reformers have been rushing to Russia to get ing Rates, Count Six Words to the line. ideas on how to make our country worth living in. For Sale, For Rent, Found, Lost, Etc., Ten Cents per line for Each America, in 300 years of national history, has created a naInsertion. tional wealth of 300 billion dollars; while Great Britain, in 2,000 NO CHARGE ACCOUNTS. years of creative opportunity, has created a national wealth of 70 billion dollars. Mr. William Goodson of Balderton, England, said in New York H. W. CHERRY, Publisher. the other day that the English workman scarcely knows what it is to own an automobile. "American workmen are far better fed, KNOW YOUR TOWN better housed and better paid than those of England, said he. If this is a correct comparison betwen America and her nearest Many a citizen who brags about his own community speaks what would be the comparison between America and some rival, it local would A faith rather than from man suggests knowledge. other lands which our social reformers ask us to emulate? When me a good idea to "know your home town and he has asked us the American moron yells "On with the Revolution," Here they are. to print a few questions. straightStudy them, post yourAmerican labor is likely to reply "Not us! self on them, and the next time you go to boast about the town thinking Norman Hapgood in Hearsts publications and several U. S. youre proud of you'll be in position to back up the argument. I lere Senators who have recently been to Russia may be telling us of the of is How the the did the What site are population? questions: How did it get its name? What superiority of the Red Soviet system to our own. the town happen to be selected? Beware, gentleis the birth rate? What is the death rate? What are our chief men, what Labor will say. Ellis Searles, editor of the United Mine Workers Journal, deDo most of the citizens own their own homes? natural resources? Is the sup- clares Soviet Russia should not be recognized by United States. He What about our water? What per cent are renters? is all the in its effect, and and meet to water ply adequate emergencies, pure? Is said recognition would be a calamity world-wid- e that in United States there 6000 there proper ventilation and light in our school houses in this com are or 7000 communitsts trying within too from in of "bore What kind schools have labor we? Are existing receiving they organizations. munity? What have the of our citizens that they deserve? A SMALL BRUSH FIRE we here to offer the man who is seeking a permanent home? Those little words are in a report of the great Berkeley fire BEETS SUGAR PULP LIVESTOCK that burned over thirty-fiv- e residence blocks. little brush that A fire, got beyond controu and fanned by Here is a four-gu- n industry shooting prosperity into westerr the wind caused and left 2,400 people home$10,000,000 damage states in four different ways. less. On top of that the beet sugar industry affords stock food foi They saved their children," is the comment of one newspaper dairying and raising young swine. the on conflagration that started from someones carelessness, and Particulary fortunate is that farming territory which is favor the additional item that too many houses are built of purely comably situated for growing sugar beets. bustible material. Beets furnish a cultivated crop which forces good farming meth Such a distaster as is recorded at Berkeley can occur in any of ods and thereby brings about larger returns in all other crops. Beets afford the farmer the means of obtaining a larger annua our larger residential cities where someone makes a little fire outdoors and does not take good care of it. aggregate income and furnish work to more people in the communit; City architects, city councils, fire departmetns and city and than does the same area in any other crop. officials should all assist in educating people to lessen fire losses, state The sugar beet crop presents a greater resistance to alkili, hai which, iff most states are as great annually as all the taxes collected. and insect pests than do other crops. The sugar beet tops, pulp, molasses, etc., are jus what is needed to fatten animals on the existing large supplies of ha OUR VANISHING FORESTS Americans are using up their timber supply four or five times clover, alfalfa and dry foodder. Three-fourth- s of our original The sugar beet crop, counting from produce: as fast as new trees are being grown. soft wood has been down. So cut Colonel An acre warns other than food supply more surplus human Henry crop. any per acre of sugar beets will produce for human consumption from 2500 tc Solon Graves, head of the Yale Forest School. The Senate Committee on Forestry has been holding sessions 2800 pounds of sugar and about 500 pounds of beef, mutton, porl in the western lumbering states devoted to taking testimony of exor dairy products. d as the perts of the question of reforestation. Taken all in all, Senator C. L. McNary of Oregon, chairman of the committee, of the econ and important part are, form an interesting, profitable omic system of our country. brought out the fact that the Federal Forestry Department alone was capable of dealing with national reforestation. The facts developed show that it is clearly a national problem, STILL GROWING the timber supply being a national need and the entire United States In the opinion of the average man, homesteading has becom in literally destroying the existing forests. On the contrary being engaged But as a matter of fact it has not. a lost art. The states containing the largest acreage of logged-of- f lands it is more than holding its own and, according to some recent figure been impoverished by removal of the forests and are least able have given out by the government, thousands of people are still home to carry on large reforestation projects. steading land and laying out future farm property. The private owner of timber lands cannot be compelled to reAccording to these figures, 10,719 grants were made during the So there is nothing left but for Uncle Sam plant devastated areas. year ending July on lands for grazing purposes, each grant beinf. to do it. The act under which these homesteads were ob for 640 acres. tained was passed by congress in 1916 and since that time 31,523 The husband who has to sew on Discipline is a good thing. homesteaders have complied with the law and entered title to public his seldom wild buttons own sows oats. any land. It is stated that more than 7,000,000 acres have been claimThe homesteading of fertile land, ed for homesteading purposes. We see a fashion note to the effect that corkscrew curls are it productive has ceased, because make artificial to no help needing Will that violate the eighthteenth amendment. all of that kind of land has long ago been given out by Uncle Sam. coming back. irBut grazing lands, and lands that are fit for production through It would be just this countrys luck to have to face a cranberry Many young men in this section should rigation are yet to be had. for strike strike in time to spoil Thanksgiving. out bear this in mind, as it offers them an opportunity to themselves, and by hard but honest work, secure property that may Do you remember when the not be worth much now, but which may be made to produce richly girl used to warn Uncle Sam will help you get her beau by telling him what her mother thought about a lot of and in time become very valuable. And the kind of things? a start if you feel you cant get it another way. in than the is far better chasing off to long run help he will extend If thats true, a a distant city to work for high wages that wont always be high and They say that moths eat nothing but wool. where the necessities of life cost far more than if you raised them on lot of overcoats now being turned out in this coyntry are safe from moths. your own ground. Three Months PAYABLE IN ADVANCE E--- $762,-000,00- 0, 1 we sell the BEST electrical appliances Because we sell nothing but electrical appliances Telluride Power Co. the 100 " Electrical Store 11 GROW LESS WHEAT ON wheat on land without irrigation. One of the charges was 6 per cent for interest on $40 as an investment Too large a proportion of the for each acre of land. On irrigated good irrigated land in Utah is grow- land the interest would have to be says Director William charged against land worth froom ing wheat, Peterson of the Utah Agricultural $150 to $300. This item alone will In 1922 the probably figure wheat in the loss inExperiment Station. farmers in the state grew 294,000 stead of the profit column. It is acres of wheat, 150,000 acres was on necessary to grow wheat at certain land without water, but 144,000 acres intervals in the best cropping rotawas on good irrigated land. The tions of a well regulated farm, but roin the opinion of Director Feterson, chance little for offers land dry tations and change in cropping, wheat should be grown on irrigated therefore, the raising of wheat on land in Utah only as it is necessary to fill in to the crop rotation scheme the dry land must continue. On a visit to the dry farms of or to actually supply the feed needthe state recently a number of the ed for the poultry or animals on the best dry farmers of the community farm. Grow more alfalfa, more beets, were assembled and careful analysis made of what it cost each to pro- produce more dairy products, hogs duce an acre of wheat. The men dif- and poultry, and the iriigated land fered some in their opinions but the will maintain its fertility and profigures differed only from $12 to duce more profit, is the blief of the $14.80 as a cost per acre for growing Epxerimcnt Station. IRRIGATED LAND inter-relate- 1 old-fashion- That political writer who says that the 1924 campaign will be a quiet one evidently never heard a Ford running. always a matter of interest to know what becomes of the HOW MONEY IS SPENT It is large amount of money received each year by a great industrial Its about an even break with the votes. Henry Ford gets the The distribution of every dollar received in the years 1918-192- 0 plant. straw vote; Magnus Johnson gets the wheat vote and the corn General Electric Co. has recently been shown by the vote goes to Gov. Smith, of New York. 41.7 cents out of every dollar were paid to the employees of 40.6 cents spent for materials, the company as compensation. for enlargement of busisupplies, etc., 4.7 cents surplus ness, 5.3 cents dividends to all stockholders, 2.5 cents transportation, telephone and telegraph and 1.2 cents interest borrowed THE SAUNA SOK capital. It should be borne in mind that by far the greatest part of the S2.00 fffiae E&oadl So? AH SeaGomcCozicFeSe Because Concrete highway pavement stays hard and even through Spring thaws, is dustless and clean in Summer, and is not aSected by severest conditions of wear and weather, Concrete roads. Roads are recognized as the all-ye- ar By building with Concrete, Utah can have roads as good one season as another. In addition, the portland cement for Utah highways is made by Utah workmen in Utah mills. All raw materials the fuel and electrical power used are produced in Utah. So every mile of Concrete Road built in Utah helps home industry, and provides an investment that pays continuous dividends in service, saving, and safety. as well as Our booklet R-- 3 toils other Interesting things about Concrete Roads. fVrite for your copy. PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION 407 McCormick Bank Building SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH A National Organization to Improve and Extend the Uses of Concrete THE TEAR Offices in 23 Othet Cities |