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Show s THE SaLiHA '7 nnuiF 41 41 (C5 Tf SALNa. UTAH SUM. YliY OJVUANU 414L4 v Vwut DO tci I tow7 Win. xc, ro.fOe Issoei Every Friday at Salina, Sevier Cotmty, Utah. OOT Woh7 'oor Subscription Rates ' $2.00 One Year 1.00 Months Six 75 Three Months PAYABLE IN ADVANCE I"' la joMt CUT eecwi c 0T 1b COMt Tb COM vW nwm . ou1' , AoT VpO Hwt ,Ti X) OS or- - 0 Mos-te- v"rt ws tv. VlOLtU errane- - , - e Or"4 '"eKS first Christian court 'A a V4 Fakirs Tut. REGULATE THE DRIVER' Sam, impaneled for jury service at murder trial, had seemed a little too anxious to serve. Do you know the accused? he was asked. Yassuh dat is nossuh, he replied, realizing that if he made an affirmative answer he would be disbarred from serving., Have you made up your mind as to bis guilt or innocence? "Oh, no, suh. You think, then, that yon could give his case a fair hearing? "Yassuh, replied Sam. Leastways, fair es dc ole scamp descry os, State legislators should go a little slow in voting bond issues for GOOD REVENUE PRODUCER fined It is reported that hereafter Australian citizens will be jiade changes at railroad crossings. would States The people are already distressed by tax burdens. What they "t $10 for failure to vote. Such a law in the United States United Itmand is tax reduction, not tax increase. produce a revenue of millions annually for the Ninety per cent of all auto accidents occur on the streets anJ treasury. highways away from the railroad. Grade changes at railroad cross-ng- s will not prevent these. ONLY ONE DANGER That we are entering a new area of prosperity seems to be the Practically all automobile accidents, on the streets and highways md at railroad crossings, are caused by carelessness, recklessness concensus of opinion all over our country. or inexperience on the part of the driver. Confidence in the sanity and solidity of our national administraIt is evident, therefore, that the remedy lies, not in grade tions, is the foundation for this belief. changes, The great improvement in the status of agriculture is having a which at best would only prevent 10 per cent of these accidents, (and leave the other 90 per cent uncared for) while at the same marked influence on all industries. however, which often breeds speculation and time heaping additional burdens on taxpayers, but in legislation which will eliminate the carlessness or inexperienced driver, which inflation, should be carefully guarded against. wJl cost nothing while yet safeguarding against accidents at railroad crossings and on the streets and highways alike. EXTENSIVE BUILDING PLANS That the motoring public may avail of the pleasures of comfortThere is to be no slump in building activities this year, but in- able automobiles and good roads, it i3 necessary that they be Protectstead a recent federal survey shows that building plans over the en- ed against hazard of accidents due tq reckless driving. This is the phase of the problem which should concern our lawmakers rather tire country equal if not exceed the 1924 record. han burdening the public with bonds for grade changees. This is good news for the lumber industry, as lumber is the Our laws in this respect should scrupulously police the issuance of chief building material employed in our country. icenses and the practices of drivers. If this be done there will be If properly constructed, a frame building is nearly as fire resistno occasion for burdening the public with taxation for grade changes. with as ing as any other. The loss is not so great id remodeling THE AMERICAN HOG other materials, for the lumber may be affordAlso, winter construction is possible where lumber is used, The American hog bosses the world. He totals 68 millions in slack season. labor a to during usually number out of a world total of 222 millions and thus forms 30 per ing employment! cent of the world s total, while the percentage in the years before WAGE EARNERS COLLECTING DIVIDENDS the war was but about 23 per cent of the worlds total. In fact, says A marked difference is seen in the class of people now holding the Trade Record of The National City Bank of New York, our the securities of our great corporations and the holders of such supply of this important food animal has made more rapid gains in recent years than in any other part of the world. Prior to the securities a few years ago. In 1917 dividends collected by wage earners amounted to war the1 number of swine reported in China exceeded the number but 9.5 per cent of the total. In 1918, this figure had risen to in the United States, those in China in 1914 being, according Jo the figures of our Department of Agriculture, 77 millions against 60 14.1 per cent and by 1921, to 22.7 per cent of the whole. millions in the United States, but the latest available figures put the jThe number of stockholders in the ctountry increased from total number in, China 45 at millions, while our own total for only 4,400,000 in 1900 to 14,400,000 in 1923, while the average number of $100 shares per stockholder decreased from 1140 to 1924 is 65 millions. These latest figures indicate that our own supply of this important food animal has made a marked increase in i -so. . v The ownership of our industries is passing rapidly into the hands recent years, while the number in other parts of the world has shown of the wage earners, not by a wave of the political wand, but by a fall off. In Practically all of the countries of Europe the number of swine recorded showed a marked reduction during the war sound business methods. period notably Germany, France and other countries actively participating in the war. MANUFACTURING INCREASING This big gain in our stock of swine is undoubtedly due in a large Census returns for 1923 show tremendous gains in the output of Hgree to the great advance in prices, which occured during the war. factories made in our country in the past ten years. The average of farm value of swine in the United States according to Totals for 1923, aggregate $60,000,000,000, or 2 Vi times as l.e figures of the deepartment of Agriculture advanced from $5.50 much as in 1914,5 times the output in 1900, and ten times as much r head in 1900 to $9.85 in 1913 and $22.00 per head in 1919. as in 1880. China, as above suggested, is now the second g The 1923 returns indicate an output 52 per cent greater in value .ountry of the world with a total at the latest date, available of 45 than that of 1921 and increase in wage earners of 34 per cent. uillion:) and Brazil 16 millions, while the number in Argentina, a In 109 industries listed, the census report shows 1,335,289 per country, is reported at less than two millions, most sons on the 'payrolls compared with 993,328 in 1921 in the same f the farm animals of that country being sheep and cattle. industries. The swine supply of Europe, in which continent the meat; con Total of manufactures exported in 1850 was $23,224,000 and umPtion is higher per capita than in most other parts of the world in 1923, exports totaled $2,042,000,000. lecreased greatly during the war. The number in Germany dropp Factory roducts formed only 7 per cent of the total domestic .d from 20 millions in 9 3 to about 7 millions the at close of the exports in 1850, rose to 49 per cent in 1923 and in nine months var, those in France from 7 millions to about 5 millions, and the ended September, 1924, were 55 per cent of total exports. Thus nited Kingdom and the Scandinavian countries showed a slight does industry create employment and steady payrolls. The number of swine reported in all the countries of the for which statistics are available, decreased from 259 mill-cn- s vorld, TEACHING RESPONSIBILITY r in the period to 222 millions at the latest available School savings bank balances increased from $11,807,000 to ate $20,435,000 during the year ending June 30, says an American Practically all the world looks to the United States for its supply Bankers Association report. The number of savings bank pupils jf pork products and our exports of that class of foodstuffs have increased 328,475 or almost 17 per cent. In one group of 400 exceeded a billion dollars in the dozen years since the beginning o districts the total number of pupils increased 4 per cent, pupil bank .he war, ranging from approximately $117,000,000 in 1913 to participation 8 per cent, collections 23 per cent and bank balances $443,000,000 in ,1918, and approximately $210,000,000 in the 44 per cent. With the growing sense of responsibility, sch'ool honor fiscal year 924. rolls have grown from less than 30 per cent to more than 33 per cent. i Quite So Many an irresponsible man has been cured by giving him someTIMELY TRIFLERS A glib salesman tiad Just finished describing the glorious opthing to do. Many a bad boy, many a rebellious girl, can be Husbands are like babies easily portunities of his proposition to i started on the safe road by the responsibility of a bank account. spoiled. prospective purchaser with the ques No child was ever helped by being robbed of the privledge of tion: What do you think about It? I think, Prosperity's the very bond of love. drawled the previously property; the two dangerous extremes of society are the submergShake spea re. bitten man, that there is Just one ed few who have been so robbed, and the exotic few who have so thing that saves you from being a much that things have no intrinsic meaning or value. This school Lots of women get married before liar. bank account idea beats all the languages, dead or alive, for de- they can afford to. What Is that? asked the salesman. veloping character and social stamina. Lets have more of it; for Dreams the visions of Your whiskers, busy was the reply. riches the themselves were rich enough, as a nation but for( brain. Joanna Ilaillia. Chicago Dally News. what it will do in teaching responsibility. Square Deal ) , Much Mercury From Spain More than the worlds total output of mercury comes from the Monte Spain. Arniata mines mercury of Battery SERVI CE Refilling Recharging gepairs m Over-optimis- d. Perhaps one-fourt- h Boosting for His Job H. W. CHERRY, Editor and Publisher. ree-use- A New Fad We sometimes have to go outside of our own door to learn what is going on Inside. Thus from Canada we get the Information that the latest American fad is the sending of engraved cards announcing tne sender's divorce. An example given runs thus: Mrs. John Henry Howard is pleased to announce Her husband, John Henry, is given the bounce. Boston Transcript Christianity is said to have come Into Norway as the result of viking raids on England and France, says the Detroit News. Some of the hardy buccaneers brought the new religion home with them from these forays. In this manner the way was prepared for the conversion of the two kings mentioned. Thereafter the church was in close touch with England until the Twelfth century. s w per- mitted the celebration of the first Christian mass in 995 and where King Olaf the Saintly in 1024 set up the V,'a- - Mail Entered at the Postoffice at Salina. Utah, as Second Class 1879. Matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, ADVERTISING RATES. inch per month, $1.00; single issue, 25c Per Matter Display Special position 25 per cent additional. words to line Legals Ten cents per line each insertion. Count six Readers Ten cents per line each inseition. Count six words to line Blackface type Fifteen Cents per line for each insertion Obituaries, Cards of Thanks, Resolutions, Etc., at Half Local Read ing Rates, Count Six Words to the line. For Sale. For Rent, Found. Lost. Etc., Ten Cents per line for Eacl Insertion. NO CHARGE ACCOUNTS. Real Health Resort The Falkland islands have one of the most salubrious climates in the world. Against 55 births recorded there In 1923, there were only 15 July 29 Norway celebrated 900 years of Christianity in that kingdom. r Festivities on the little island of deaths. The population, estimated, is off the southwestern coast, where of which 1,205 are males. There stands the oldest church in the coun- 2,142, was no'slckness of serious character try, marked the event This church throughout the year. was built about the year 1100 at the place where King Olaf Trygveson 76. 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