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Show PAGE FOUR Tke Weekly Reflex HUUmJ Vr SHE INLAND PRINTING W. I. EPPERSON, Eilur C CO. m Matter Ftkraary II 111. at Kamilla, Utah, utar tfca Act af lUrch S, 17. rata ings would imperil the future of the industry. There is one important phase of the situation that is not extensively understood. "Many of the western mines e ore. are working extremely If mine operating expenses increased due to taxation, it would no longer be possible to profitably work this ore. Mining, in many respects, is different from other industries. Con-- 1 tinual mechanical changes is production are necessary. It cannot be told, with certainty, exactly how long the resources of a given mine will last. The price of metal is to a large degree dependent on conditions outside the industrys control. And so it goes. Discouraging mining capital by overtaxation must eventually react to the wests disadvantage. low-grad- E4 iUr A. EPPERSON. AjmcUI AIrtrtUii THURSDAY, MAY l. TOE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, UTAII aa appUtaliaa Babscriptlon $2.00 a year in advance TELEPHONES fl W. p. Epparaaa, Na. C. A. Epparaaa, Na. 114 OMlca Na. ! Accident Prevention Is Good Business . . '' ' '- !'' -cr 4 I t ' .WA V; A A u.-fr- "rf- c - i?5z " m a. 'A Waterway Facts Accident prevention is good business and justifies itself in dollars And out of .rents return, in the opinion of H. N. theMuch capital has been made "cheap and convenient" Blakesiee of the NationaL Safety waterways of Europe by proponents Council. of similar development in this counTo illustrate, Mr. Blakesiee points nut two outstanding examples of the try. Yet, according to J. L. Lancaster, financial, as well as social, value of Industrial safety programs. In 1918 resident of the. Texas and Pacific the European plant employing 4,000 men spent -- lailroad company, be would waterways practically usebecause of industrial $175,000 , in less America. or about $44 per man. In 1928 the same plant, following a period of Transportation, Mr. Lancaster safety work, spent only 830,000 for points out, is so interwoven with all Accidents, or $7.50 for each man em- other kins of business that it could ployed. Another company reduced its not change its methods unless many industrial accident costs from around other different things could be $30 per man in 1926 to less than $7 changed at the same time. Au industrial district, established on a water in 1928. American industry has been remark- transportation basis, as in Europe, has so located that railroads can ably successful in reducing all types factories be built to them. But when an easily accidents. f According to reports from 700 selected establishments, a industrial district is built along the reduction in industrial mishaps of 21.5 railroad lines, as in this country, it per cent was achieved between 1926 cannot afterward be adapted to water and 1928. There was a corresponding transportation. The town cannot move drop in the frequency and severity to the waterway nor the waterway to the town. c ' - i , 1 ;;7dVa so-call- ed , . 1 . H 4 r H. 4 , accl-dent- s, rates. In still another field accident prevention has borne fine fruit. Due to fcafety education in schools, the death And Injury rate among children has consistently diminished for severs' years. . The automobile accident problem, however, grows constantly greater. Last year a new high death recon was established. Apparently we have long way to go in educating motorists and modernizing traffic legislation before the terrible annual toll o;1 death, injury and property damage caused by recklessly or incompetently driven motor cars is appreciably re' I duced. Drudgery in the Home Fourteen million five hundred thouare now smoothing out the wrinkles In American homes while nearly 6,000,000 vacuum cleaners are making those same homes, more cleanly, according to figures recently made public. We are also told that there are now 1,500,000 electric refrigerators in use in the approximately 20,000,000 homes equipped for electric service. These wired homes, in which electricity in some form is used, represent a greater part of all the homes and farms in the country. Which urould indicate that we are vell on the way towards the elimination of as much as possible of the drudgery of the home. Strange to say, this does not seem to be the case. The Society of Electrical - Development points out that only 12.5 per cent of available electricity production is consumed in the sand electric flat irons . Nor could American waterways provide service as cheaply as in Europe, Lancaster. A Rhine barge By of 500 tons capacity is worked by a bargeman,-livi- ng on the boat and working for very small wages. Ills family lives with him. One cannot conceive of Americans working under J such conditions. Finally, the slowness jot waterway transportation, atill .using Europe as an example, would be entirely out of place in our industrial structure. Fast freights in the United States make 30 miles an hour, which is three times as as the movement of fst a barge, and five times as fast as its upstream speed. Rapid, cflicient transportation -American "in dustrial progress. down-strea- m Rates Decrease as Gas Use Gains According to reports from companies representing 80 per cent of the American gas industry, use of manufactured gas increased 9.9 per cent during 1929, while revenues increased only 4.1 per cent, duo to rate decreases. The most pronounced increase in use of gas is in the field of Modern, eficient and economical gas furnaces are replacing old style furnaces in thousands of Amerhouse-heatin- g. ican homes. Government Ownership in Switzerland up A recent survey claims the average cost of operation for all motor liicles in the United States has gone down to 6.43 cents per mile; including insurance, depreciation, tires, fuel and maintenance. On high type roads the average is but 5.44 cents: on low 7.5 cents. Thus good, smooth, j type, pavements pay for themselves m lowered automobile operating costs. . At present, the need of good roads is especially apparent in rliral districts. Trunk highways are laid out to go from city to city by th6 shortest possible route. As a result, the majority of farmers, who it is estimated pay seven per cent of the total road cratic superposition of authorities tax, live-o- n' unimproved, dirt roads which are In my opinion the greatest drawduring back to public operation lies in the many months of the year. Modern, yet inexpensive, hard sur- fact that, when all is said and done, faced or feeder roads it is the taxpayer who bears the risks. Stive the farmer "A private enterprise established on contact with his markets and adjacent an unsound foundation and run on untowns. They help relieve traffic con- economic lines loses its capital as well gestion on main highways and stim- as its profits and faces bankruptcy If ulate social and economic relations. it cannot begin again on an economic A number of states, notably New basis. On the other hand, public opYork, have adopted rural road eration, as. the state. .itself,. is. of iu which" should be emulated very nature permanent, and taxpaythroughout the nation. For every tnile ers are obliged to pay for the crockery of main highway built, between five broken by those in control . and fifteen miles of feeder highway "The country where economic out-ifihmilrf bebuilt at the Ame.time In i Put test, I refer to tbo United this way can progress be served States of America, is also a country where public ownership and govern!A. ment monopoly is virtually unknown. long-weari- totally-impassib- farm-to-mark- sedan,, practically all the steep Bills in the coun-try in high gear. Here in the West the Oakland tel dan has been put through its paces in a fashion surprising to all who- are interested in motor car performance, recently stated L. M. Dreves, regional manager of the Oakland Motor Car company, Oakland and Pontiac dis' tributors in the west. The tests have all been made with standard stock cars, with standard gearratio.and IheJiUla selected have been the steepest available, and where to eighteen per cent $rade, in high gear all the way. The test was officially observed and made without a bit of trouble. The car had plenty of reserve power on attaining the summit. "In San Francisco the Oakland V-- 8 climbed all the steep hills of the city, street from including California Montgomery to Mason. Then to make the test harder, the car was turned Horn Grant avenue into California street and driven over the hill in high gear, truly a remarkable test. -- In Oakland ihecar climbed the Fish ranch grade, a steep hill with . Since 1912, when the system was taken over by the government, Lord Wolmer says there was a net aggregate loss of about $12,000,000 up to March, 1928. He points out that in telephone density, Great Britain is only twelfth among the countries of the world and that London ranks twenty-sevent- h among great cities. High charges for service in Eng land are Jue to excessive construction costs. Lord Wolmer states that every British telephone has cost about $385 compared with $230 in United States where wage scale is much higher. To lay a miie of cable in England reof labor; in this quires 808 country, 384. Changing over 25 pairs of lines in England takes 25 manhours compared with two hours here. premacy in oil is threatened by the fact that production is far ahead of f i - it goes. the Apparently low-pric- Oil , 1 demand. Irrcsponsibles, for some years, have it impossible for the leading producers to conserve oil and intelligently produce it without waste. Now there is hope diead. Various conservation plans have gone into effect in Jarge fields and are apparently achieving success. Every intelligent American will support the states, the federal government and the oil industry in preventing needless waste of a com modity which is essential to world progress. made rs reason for our splendid, telephone service is that the development has been left in private hands. England has the funds and the engineers and the executives as well as the United States. But when politics steps in, progress usually stops. ed and Prosperity American prosperity is dependent, to a large degree, on the oil industry. During 1929, the industry spent $25,000,000 for geological and geophysical explorations; $502,826,000 for drilling; $140,000,000 for oil and gas pipe lines; $270,000,000 for recovering petroleum and large sums in many other ways. The total, irrespective of overhead and administrative expense, lease rentals and the like, was '' " ' ' w y' 4 ir s Z."J:-- iTTiniYifiiWi .. How Much Do We Pay Our Criminals? The criminal class is one of the best paid in the United States. We usually regard crime as a social problem, overlooking the economic aspect. Yet one estimate places the nations annual crime bill at 13 billion climay, of Stockton, drove an Oakland w. dan from Stockton to Death valley h 47 hours and 37 minutes, and was out of high gear only 1.8 miles in the trip of 1011 miles. And the Stock-toparty stopped to eat and sleep, ' too. , These tests were all made simply to prove to the motoring publi that the Oakland V--8 sedan has Enough power to take it anywhere the driver wants to guide it, and that it will do were thought thingsoa high, gear-tha- t impossible a few years ago. erwise intelligent citizens adopt the attidude that because they have at insurance policy, fire waste is of no importance ,to them. They dont realize that every fire, great or small, destroys part of our national wealth and acts as an obstacle to emploand industrial dThe United States as a whole has yment, evelopment. lagged in fire prevention. We have For several years our direct finanthe knowledge and the means for outlawing the waste. There is no lack cial loss by fire has been close te of funds for fire fighting facilities. $500,000,000 annually enough to em Yet our annual toll leads all other play 400,000 people at $100 a month. It is said that the indirect loss is still countries by a wide margin. greater. .Apparently, American The reason, of course, is simple and economy end at the point ' personal carelessness. Too many oth where fire begins. gear. The Oakland did it1 without trouble. I In addition the car climbed all the sieep hills in Oakland, including some that no other car had climbed before in high gear. In Portland the Oakland V-- 8 sedan climbed the well known college street hill, with a grade of twenty per cent, and rough gravel pavement on the road. This hill was made in high gear without a bit of trouble. ' In Seattle the Oakland V--8 was taken over Queen Anne Counterbal-anc- e hill-ihigh gearrThe-car-w- as stopped at a Boulevard Stop sign at are most frequently the result of waste gasoline in sewers or accumulations of gas formed by decaying materials. Few American cities adequately safeguard their underground sewer In consepipes against explosion. quence, useless and unnecessary waste results. - e n j n home-owni- ng anj-do- AVork Shoe That Stays Soft and Wears A Thousand Miles! dollars. It will be said, of course, that our criminals are not actually "paid, in the sense of being employed. But it amounts to the same thing. Crime could not exist without public indifference and slothfulness. We talk about it and dont act We calmly watch our legislatures pile new laws each year on the sagging statute books. We read that we have the highest homicide rate in the world and, along with it, the lowest conviction rate for criminals. The American people pay for crime. It is to a large degree within their power to lower the gigantic annual bill presented by the underworld to society. i Explosions and Fires Recently there was a gas explosion under a New York street. The result was devastating. Telephone, telegraph and fire department wires were disabled. Streets were blocked. And four persons were injured. According to The National Board of Fire - U nderwriters,-suc- h explosions Vi le STRONG CHIX pro-"gra- DWTk Si flexible-sol-e v nd hr May and June . . . Natures months for BABY CHIX and tired after hard thotdd wear thia Wolverine Shell Honehide Work Shoe, The kxJtthin, and stay soft through all aole la the only flexiUVsoW Its tP mak? ft.MreathiltowearM.hoaao dipper. Wolverine Order Yours Now! mmUu k- ms Complicated Government-Owne- d So many factors contribute to the of the mine tax problem that the average citizen Is ataggered by In a recent series of article In the is told on the London Times, Lord Wolmer, a-- mem.conflicting views.-- II one hand that the mines are earning ber of Parliament and exorbitant profits and should have postmaster general, severely criticizes their taxes increased: on the other, the government-owne- d British telethat further tax inroads on mine eam- - phone system, make-u- p a et et Problem W-- as $1,029,826,000. The petroleum industry supplies the that state enterprises, just as any United States with one of its most others, ought to be operated along important export products. In 1929, sound commercial lines. In fact, the exported oil products were valued at law itself compels public $531,172,865, an increase of eight per to act in accordance withenterprises 'the best cent over 1928. business practices. The real These statistics give some idea of at issue is whether they can. question the value of the oil industry as a naThe first obstacle lies in the laws tional asset. Tetroleum is twentieth-centur- y and ordinances upon which state engold. It operates great facterprises are founded. Such rules are tories, furnishes motive power for milnot usually made on a basis of busi- lions of automobiles, propels ness reasoning, but on political dif- heats a multitude of homes. We ships, have ferences and compromises. They in- been singularly blessed in the magnievitably hamper 'the free action of tude of our-o- il resources. Yet, public enterprises, and. can onlybe woridau- modified with difficulty and loss of time. The second obstacle is bureau- 'Themselves y TAeu 5.ow the outstanding steep hills climbed iy the stock Oakland V-- 8 Golden Rocket sedan, in various cities ,of the Pacific Coast. At the upper left is the Oakland on Queen Anne Counterbalance Hill in Seattle. At the lower left is the Oakland on College Street Hill In Portland. In the right is the Oakland on California Street Hill in San Francisco. At the lower right is the car on the Brick Hillupper in Oakland, and the center shows the Oakland climbing Cushenbury Grade near Los Angeles. All the hills were climbed in high gear. Hill climbing made easy is the none were available right in town,. the many turns connecting Berkeley with the foot of the hill, and then drivo plan of operation of Oakl&nd-Ponticars have been taken into the moun- the tunnel road in Contra Costa coun- over the well known, incline at good dealers throughout the country, who tains nearby. ty, passing through a part of Oakland speed with the automobile editors o( have been staging the "Golden Rock-j"In southern California the Oakland on its way over the hill. Few cars Seattle newspapers as observers. campaign, to show that the new was driven up Cushenbury grade, ten have ever climbed this grade in high To cap the A. H. Patter-sort- , Oakland V-- 8 will climb And so Switzerland, according to many of government ownership of bu.Mness, is the most progressive nation in the world. For many years programs of nationalization of industry have been pushed by the state and municipalities. As a result, of Switzerlands .electric three-quarte- rs Good Roads Pay for ' man-hou- home. . No doubt when the average American housewife finally realizes how much of the drudgery of her home wok can be taken away by following he lead of her husband, who uses In his factories and his office every pos- power is now supplied by publicly sible labor saving device, there will be owned plants; all main railways are icld by .the state, and the state also a different stoiy to tell. controls the telegraph and telephone For the present, however, it would aeem that, while the work of our men industries. A third of all bank capiIs being steadily made lighter by the tal is deposited in government banks, and adoption of these modern inventions, cent the state absorbs at least 40 per of the countrys insurance busithe conservatism of our housewives is ness. keeping them at the handles df their Those facts are brought out in an brooms and other backbi caking instruments of ancient vintage. From the aitide in the Nation's Business by Dr. Adolphe Johr, member of the DirecAtlanta, Georgia, Constitution. tion Generate du Credit Suisse, Zurich, who says: 'I do not believe I w'ill be contradicted if I lay down the general rule - I Telephones . Prices reduced after hjay 18th. STRONG GHIX on yoot Distributors Phelan Oil or Gas Brooders Lyon Electric Brooders are as comfortable Py too more for Yoo for any good work shoe. Come In and try fry tr ttyie, ankWcngtha to kneetixhs. sville Golden i HATCHERY OGDEN, UTAH - Yoa - : Rule Store ' Phones l5 and l03 ,We Give s. Kaysville, Utah & H. 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