Show VOICE HIKE PROTEST I I IA A ST HIGH FOOD PR PRICES Commercial Club Delegates l Denounce Prices Maintained 11 in Utah on Necessities 14 j 1 START FORMATION OF DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE rh ORGANIZATIONS IN INSTATE W STATE ARE REPRESENTED t tAT AT GATHERING J f 1 I ITODA 4 4 II 4 II II 4 f o t TODA rs CONVENTION CO PROGRAM 4 4 Call to order by b President Halloran f at 1020 f 4 4 Paper on The Conservation ot the 4 4 Natural Resources of the State by b bJ f 4 fJ J W l N of or coun count county f t ty f Discussion t 9 Paper on The De D Plan of 4 f ff f City Government Judge William WlIIlam 4 H 11 King J 4 Discussion 4 4 Paper on The Interest of the f State at Large Lu e in the Growth Growt and ana 4 4 4 Prosperity of or the Capital City by hr 4 4 Professor E B S Hinckley Binckley of Uth ut h 4 4 county 4 4 Discussion 4 4 AFTERNOON SESSION SESSIO 4 4 Paper on The rhe Economic Value of or 4 I 4 Good Roads by b D R H Roberts of 4 4 4 county count 4 4 Discussion 4 I 4 of the committee on 4 4 lions 4 t i I 4 Banquet at 60 in the Commercial 4 4 Club dining room 4 t 4 9 Report of the committee on plan 4 4 of permanent organization 4 t 4 Speech Sl ch on What bat a National Grand I 4 Army Arm Encampment Means to a 4 4 State by b Colonel Frank M t 4 4 rett 4 Selection of the next meeting place 4 4 of or the and anti other n ad id 4 4 4 dresses 4 4 t 4 t 44 t t I e eThe fa The meeting of or the commer commercial cial elal and industrial whose representatives rp gathered at the Commer Commercial i cial tRl club yesterday to form the Utah league was marked by th the scathing s denunciation of the prices prees which I Iare are maintained in Utah upon upon the necessities ne es i i of or life After ter the reading of ot a n i paper by b Lon Len J 1 Haddock on o The Mall t i j it iTlie Order Evil Eil the tIre convention broke Into a violent discussion In which the local It merchants Jn In n the th state were handled with without without tt out gloves But ore man rose in their defense defens and Iris his protest was drowned out by b a torrent of protest against the graft grafting ing tug merchants from associations association t F ii d Your four 10 ur delegates of re ye t scats I Ilion lion tion by the committee on credentials credential on 11 i ithe I the ground that their th f associations were wen 1 not public associations workIng br Dr the good of the state stale The organizations which participated i r represent the most powerful Influences I throughout the whole state and a mag magnificent magnificent magnificent t start was made toward the for of oil o the tIle league Unity Unit and cooperation constituted the tue i keynote ke note of the gathering and the dele dell delegates C gates attacked the many momentous problems pro lems which confronted the conven convention a tion In tn a businesslike manner The en enthusiasm enthusiasm which prevailed the attention which the papers received the earnest earnestness earnestness earnestness ness of the tIle subsequent discussion and tho the vigor with which the business was hand handled handled handled led all aU combined to augur a brilliant fu future future future ture for th tb UP The days sessions gave gae a good I I healthy health start to the Incipient organization The delegation dele was a II thoroughly one and men were there tl e from I 3 t all corners of the state stat Every EEr town ton and city of any an size was so that all communities In Itah etah had a hand In the f united effort to the state l Delegates Are Welcomed i 1 W J 1 Halloran president of the Jom om I dub called the convention to order r at 1030 1010 He named I 1 L Reynolds of the Weber eber club of Ogden as a secre secretary secretary I tary tan of the sessions and In Jn f trod ced Governor John C Cutler the tha p first nse speaker who welcomed the dele delegates delegates 1 gates Governor Cutler speech was wa aa as f follows J y yI r 1 I regard the combined social soda and com corn J mercial organizations represented hero today as a 3 great rent power for good In any an community It would be a good thing if every eer city and town of any an size In the tho state could have hae its commercial club or similar body bo 1 to Iok ok after the Interests Interest of the place and keep It abreast abre lit of othir 1 I e march of progress I w Where here herf e clubs club have hae been established e their benefits Ci have haxe been at once apparent r I cut ent nt and are Increasing as time goes on and ancl opportunity offers If this is the th case cae with a single Ingle Iso Isolated hated organization it seems poems Impossible to compute the good roo 01 I that the combination of 0 these organizations o into a develop development ment league can do for tor the state Like Uke all other states state Utah needs Urn the help of oi these organizations and the men i composing them J While th the commission on country life appointed d by President Roosevelt was wal In t ts session s at the governors office a week 41 a ago ro great emphasis was laid on the mat matter matt ter t r of sanitation in the smaller cities and towns and on the tire beautifying of those thosa places place It appears appear to me that there could coul f scarcely be considered more timely or orial vital ial subjects than these thee f fI I 1 believe but few fen f W will wi question the ur n r rent 1 gent dent ent need of or Improvement In these th e directions directions And I haw have not noted l consider considerable considerable c cI able advancement since I 1 became goer gover I nor here Is vt yet t room rom and opportunity for i Continued on Page 2 t J 1 i PROTEST AGAINST A GAI HIGH HIGHS j jt t S FOOD PRICES J S Page 1 much more morO to be done In the immediate future Secretary Reynolds read the official call for the tile convention at the conclusion of Governor Cutlers speech Mayor John JohnS S I Bransford was then thOn Introduced and ten tendered t n dered the welcome of the city of ot Salt Lake to the visiting The speech i ee eeb h Of Mayor layor Bransford was wasi wasI I 1 believe that Salt Lake L ke hardly yet realizes s fully full her responsibilities as the metropolis of ot the whole state What is 15 good fuT for your localities Is good for us to know and how hov we wo can help you we Ie should find out We Ve have here about peo people people pIe and an the tho city Is fast taking on Its cosmopolitan character I think most of the criticism of the administration would not be voiced jf If people knew more of the problems to tobe tobe tobe be encountered I 1 am nm a strong believer In good clean streets beautified wherever wherever wherever ever practicable and parked I am a believer In a main math state high highway highway highway way and think It will benefit every sec section section tion of the state through which It passes as well as the state as a whole I have talked with highway builders In every part of California about means of building highways and I 1 believe in a road with gutters at each side and culverts at frequent fr quent intervals to care for the water that drains off offIt offIt offIt It Is In fields such as this that Salt Lake and the people outside can get together to the best advantage The spirit s of knocking has grown to toa toa toa a considerable extent and It U has cost the tho state much For Instance each section I of Utah Is boosting bo sUng for that section alone lone and knocking other otheT sections to a n greater or lesser extent This TIlls Is what must be eliminated before the thC Interests off oD the state cah cati c n be advanced in their full force It should be the sense of this new organ organization or an therefore to put broadminded boosters In as officers Mayor Bransford further decried the i spirit of sectionalism which he said Is hampering the growth of the state He urged that all enmity or jealousy be between between between tween counties cities or towns should be killed and all people of all aU communities should pull together for the good of all He told what the new league will mean for the state and concluded with a talk on civic chic affairs In this ts city To Unite Strength of State President address of or welcome on behalf of the Salt Lake Commercial club was next on the program He lie said The official call for Cor this meeting which you ou have just heard will acquaint you generally with the reasons why the Com Corn Commercial Commercial mercial club Of Salt Lake City CIt deems the time has come for concerted action In the general care of of as a whole It has often been unfortunately stated and always I think without a shadow shado of a reason that Salt Lakes in interests Interests interests are the subjects of its own selfish endeavor and that there Is no Inherent purpose e here to advance athance the Interests of the state at large Such a statement I seems to me to be ridiculous I If Utah does not grow In population and tn In wealth certainly Salt Lake Lako can cannot cannot cannot not hope to realize the destiny of great greatness greatness greatness ness which all predict for fot her If there has been anything lacking for progress It has been a want of senti sent sentiment sentiment ment mont and of action In the tho promoting by b Intelligent and means the growth of o the state We 0 have haye been too tool persistent l In promoting the growth of localities and too Indifferent to the weaving Ie 1 I I ing lug of a strong fabric for the whole Re Realizing R this and believing the time has come come for the people of or Utah to unite their thelT strength and pull tin together for the making of a great state this meeting was called President nt Halloran prefaced his speech b t of the Commercial clubs new home now In the course of erection It will when completed he said bothe thA only Commercial l club home In the United States that will be built bunt used and Owned exclusively by ba a commercial club The fact that the tho club owned on d the Jand and on orr which It will stand he said will Trill make this club the richest In the world w In property ownership William E White of Piute Plute county count de dc delivered livered the response to the addresses of welcome in behalf of the del delegates delegates delegates He made a lively address for co cooperation operation and denounced Salt Lake min mining minIng mm ing Ingmen men for fOT knocking the mining In Industry Industry Industry In other counties that they might benefit T by y It He HP said In part Join hands and hearts for Utah by de declaring daring claring that Salt H lt Lake should quit knocking the Flute Plute mining country Colorado is a pigmy In mineral wealth compared to Utah and this mineral wealth will yet make Denver DeneT look like a village In comparison to Salt Lake Were here her to care for our oui our own to build up our state We 0 have no room for the man who dwelling among us has bas no faith in inus Inus inus us Let him go hence and go quickly Retailers R Pre Are re Barred Organization was then therm taken up and the committee on credentials was the th first to be appointed app The men chosen to serve on It were Harry S Joseph of Salt Lake City William Marks of ot Tooele county C C Griggs of or Juab county John ParT Parry or of Iron county and Fred Mitchell of Cache county count The only Jar that characterized the first day da of the convention was the dispute which arose over the proposition t ad admit admit admit mit four men who represented organizations organizations tons Of butchers and grocers and a re retail tall tail merchants association as regular delegates to the sessions The four men were Herbert Horsley Stephen Hal Hail Hailstone Halston stone ston L C Moore and F W Middleton The dispute was threshed out In a lively debate and It was finally voted to reject the four men as duly dill accredited dele delegates delegates delegates gates though thoU h the they were admitted per personally as delegates at large The reason for or their rejection was that the associations associations tIon which they represented were not public associations working for the good goodof of the state Governor Cutler Mayor Bransford and B H Roberts were voted Into the new organization as honorary members by the he credentials committee The conven convention c ven tion Uon indorsed the move with hearty cheers The forenoon session then ad adjourned adjourned until 1 Ogden B F Luke of ot Emery Emer cou county ty Wil Hum Ham Roylance Rolance of Provo and an Joseph Odell of Logan The committee on plan of or permanent organization org comprised com of bf one oie delegate from each county represented d s was se so selected selected as follows John S White of Da Davis Davis Davia vis via county L c Moore Of bf Emery county nt L Ij W V Jones of o Iron Imn county B i 1 N V Stott of Juab county count A W V Francis of Morgan county W V E IL White mite tte of Plute county Willis Johnson Pf f Sevier county count Joseph T Farrer FatTer of Utah county George GeorgeJ J J Kelly of Weber county F A Mitchell MItchel of Cache Cae e county William S Marks Of Tooele county Anthony of San Sanpete Sanpete Sanpete pete county and Dr F K F of Salt Lake county count Fisher isher Harris was wa made ex officio member of the committee The contest for Cor the selection of the Salt Lake county member of this committee was wag a d one and several confer conferences conferences conferences and ballots were required before Dr F E B won out The report of f the committee on credentials wS then Ulen read by b II H s Joseph and accepted The Mail Order Evil Lon J J Haddock read Tead the first paper of or orte the te afternoon on The Mall Mail Order Evil kvil In Utah and Some Suggestions for Its Cor Correction Correction Correction His paper was as a follows 1 Among other matters that shall oc occupy occupy cupy CUP the attention of the Utah Develop Development Development Development ment league that of the practice of or maR malt maRIng makIng Ing lag retail purchases through the medium of the malls mails commonly called the mall malt order evil will come up for serious con consideration consideration and It Is upon this topic that I shall treat briefly at this time First as to the extent to which the theman man mall order evil is affecting Utah today toda From the best Information obtainable approximately are being beh g sent out of oC the state sro te annually In retail purchases mado made through the medium of the mailS Consider what the withdrawal of such lUch an ana amount a means mea s to every county c u t every eye city every citizen and ana every interest 0 oi i tho state If the mail mall order evil in Utah were suppressed for or but one year the sum saved to the state would be suf ant sufficient suffIcIent to pay the cost of erecting a II suitable building with enough left over overto overto overto to build a modern highway from Logan to St George And this drain upon the finances of the state stat has lias not been going oh on for tor one year only but for fOT many years In return for which Utah gets absolutely nothing For the mail mall order house pays pas no taxes tax Into the local l cal city elt county lor or state treasuries maintains no flo store warehouse or 01 factory on which to pay rent or insurance and employs no local people Its function Sterns ems to be to t sap the lifes blood out of time the community t tand and in return give nothing Causes of the Evil U ow as to 10 rue ine causes catnes mai uin jia n naive i c vu to the growth of the mall mail order evil While there may mabe be many minor causes all conspiring to ta bring about the condition of things as they the are today still the two most potent factors are nrc first the local merchant second the local peo people people pIe If in the past the local merchant has imposed upon the friendship of ot his cus customers customers customers betraying their confidence by b charging them all aU the trade would stand or by making fish of one and fowl 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