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P P 0 O 0 I Building Editor The Telegram Permit mo me to commend your jour our editorial edi tonal on the tho postoffice addition which was ns exactly to the tho point and was timely It Is time Mr Ir Editor to call a a. halt on the various factions factions fac fac- both In Salt Lake L' City and In Washington that aro are delaying tho the work on the federal building It is jg said that Senator Smoot was vas taken unawares b by the decision t to enlarge the building to the south but wh why Then it IL I Is said that he is thoroughly thorough thorough- h- h ly conversant nt with conditions re regarding regarding re re- garding tho the several sites so o wh why should he be taken by surprise This also applies to other members of or the tho congressional delesa delegation lion In view of ot the constant delays delas which havo hayo turned up In connection with the squabble it would appear that some one was en endeavoring endeavoring en- en dea to pay some somo political debt or else to get set revenge re The aYera average e Salt Lako resident Is becoming becoming becoming be be- coming pretty prett tired of or the bickerIng bickering bicker bicker- Ing InS and quarreling over the matter The public demands that thal it cease The government Is in need of or en enlarged enlarged en- en quarters for fOl tho the federal of of- of For two years the que question of oC enlarged quarters has been agitated agi agi- agi- agi The Tho mone money to purchase o site silo and greet a building buildIng- has been appropriated atM and the dela delay as viewed from this end of or the line Is a no quarrel cI Aviation Accidents To ro Be E Expected Editor rho Tho Telegram The most recent airplane disaster in California was a dreadful thing thin trul truly yet there thero is no reason for letting let let- ting ling it frighten us Into supposing that commercial air transportation Is too risk risky to bo useful There Thero is always this to remember about aviation it Is la the mishaps t that at get et on oat on th the tiles front pages The thousands on thousands of or safe afe uneventful uneventful un un- un- un eventful flights lights that go bO on year In Inand Inand and year car out are seldom mentioned But nobody can fall fail to see sef the thetla tragedies edles er E Every new form of or transportation has to undergo a series of ot accidents The steamboat Is accepted now as asa asa a n perfectly safe conveyance But less Jess than a century ago o Mississippi river rhel steamers were exploding their boilers with appalling frequency so that a citizen of or those days das could ha have ve been pardoned for fOl assuming that tho would always alwa's be bean bean bean an unsafe means of ot transportation AIR Il In the delegation Mr Editor you ou know that the citizens of or Salt Lake Lako aro long suffering they will and have stood a great deal but the they aro are near the point now of ot serving notice that action must bo be had and that now nos' or Ol tho dele delegation will make a n discovery that will vilL cause causo causo them to stand up UI and take prompt notice HOWARD CARTER Reader Writes on Meaning of Honesty Editor The Tho Telegram In a deep sense lan language not no gold Sold is our universal medium o or of exchange c The first value to be exchanged is information Tho The medium me me- Is Js lan language ua e. e Without this medium as 38 without space no kind kinc oC of social order can exist Without language In some form no kind o ovalue ot of value can be transferred from one person to another What hat then is the significance of or honesty honest It Is important because language e has no meaning apar apart from ft om the reliability of or words No social order can exist exit without veracity veracity el ac It ity among Its members Honesty Honest therefore becomes the outstanding virtue No merit b by the individual can offset the loss In terms of or so social social social so- so cial capital which grows out o of dissimulation or untruth Alt All that tha we wo call art science culture ha has been reared upon Integrity The Theone Theone Theone one great enemy of or progress Tess has been falsehood When you ou have tho the time and mood let your jour mind linger upon the consequences of or misrepresentation tion If Ie it were vere made mado universal for forten forten or orten ten days dars You will find rInd society in a a. amass amass mass of ruins On the other hand assume that language can cm bo be tt takei en enat at Its face value everywhere c You will see progress leap from rom the slow motion o of an team ox to tu the speed of oC an airplane There is one way to bC become an asset assel to society which is unmistakable le That wa way say is to tobe tobe tobe be truthful Thus the scrubwoman man ma may outweigh the tho orator as a constructive influence Let us bo be concrete In this matter matter matter mat mat- ter even en at the cost of oC being p personal per per- r- r In a recent issue of or ono one ol olour ot of our dally daily all n newspapers th resources of our OUI state were described describe in straightforward lan language But the demand for Ol embellishment b by some artist In the tho game same of or advertising was not satisfied He proceeds to fill nil out tho the pa page o with a portrait of ot Lincoln above o these wor words s Utah is tho the storehouse o of the na na- iia- iia tion What hat are tho the consequences a To those who recognize tho the fraud frauda a 11 medium of Information has been discounted When hen it speaks again though it mn may tell the truth someone someone someone some some- one is going going- to divide by bv four tour and extract tho the square root b For those who accept the quotation a great name namo which has become the of ot honesty honest has been ma made o to appear small The Tho ono one who Is i controlled by authorities and heroes will say jay ay ler bo s doing Heven it- it even Honest Abe Wo we Yo cant can't bo be too particular In politics and business Cc c Tho The outside reader who estimates estimates esti cat mates our people no nu less Jess than our native o resources by our newspapers will decide that wo we are aro below par For all aU who are aro concerned the false falso representation has hns done llono more mora harm than Soot good ALViN l BORGQUIST Murray Utah |