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Show The Alina sun, sauna, UiAH S ALINA THE r SUN n HOME, DAD AND THE BOY By FRANK Issued Every Friday at Salina, Utah. Entered at the postoffiee at Salina, as act of Congress second-clas- s mail matter under the ii RATES ' One Year Six Months The Trained Dad of March 3, 1879. .SUBSCRIPTION Lin IS the rn:tn It Ids business J '' 1 Advertising Rates Given on Application. Editor and Publisher WHO BENEFITTED M0ST? . ffiT ' 11 j American newspaper correspondents abroad, and American travelers returning from Europe are almost unanimous in stating that at present citizens of the "United States are none too popular in! European countries, principally because of Uncle Sams business- like policy in insisting that our foreign debt be liquidated in the interest of world credit and the American taxpayer. There is every indication that another drive for cancellation of debts is under way and that the effort will be made to have the world believe that the United States is the only country to benefit from the war, that all other nations lost. Even Mr. Churchill, Great Britains chancellor of the exchequer, is quoted as that Uncle1 Sam is getting all of the reparations. It Js a little difficult for the average American to see just how the United States was more greatly benefitted than other nations by the war. We had our lists of dead and wounded, and we have our increased taxes which we will not be permitted to forget for many a year. We received no indemnity, either in land or money, and all that we ask is that our foreign debts 'be paid up to reasonable capacity. But let us see how the allies shardd in the post-wa- r adjustments. Germany claims to have paid $ ,400,000', 000 in money and material in the way of indemnity to the allies since the war ended. The aljie.2 .claim they have only received a little more than three billion. The eight billion difference is a little error in arithmetic on one side or the other. American experts, if asked for an impartial opinion, would probably fix the sum at more than three billion and less than eleven. At any rate it is not a sum to be sneezed at. . And in addition to this indemnity there were some real estate e and the use of the Sarre. transactions. France got France and Great Britain, Belgium got Togoland, Kamerun, Southwest Africa and German East Africa. England, Australia and New Zealand got the German islands in the Pacific; Poland got a slice of East Prussia, Italy got a slice of Austria and somebody got Shantung. None of the spoils went to the United. .States, either in build lots or money. Evidently Uncle Sam didn't get it all. ing say-Th- 1 1 Alsace-Lorrain- V tii ft 'iPil KID - lM COUNTING ON YOU' Uc) u. THE TRUTH F 11. Cll use, lie realizes that parenthood is a profession, perhaps the noblest pro- a fine fession, in fact a art based upon genuine science, and seeks constantly to he Increasingly skillful. lie knows that each hoy is just a collection of twenty thousand wiggles, each niggle with a meaning, aiid trains himself to understand the language. lie believes the boy without a playground" will become the man w'thout a Job, and that to do too lunch for a hoy guarantees that he will do nothing for himself. lie is determined to master the Joli of Being a I'ud and uses every legitimate means. Denver, Cola AT LAST The Tariff Commission inquiry at Washington has been worth while. Already it has called public attention to the fact that seemingly a deliberate attempt was made to mislead President Coolidge into declaring a reduction in the tariff on raw sugar. Already it has shown that the three Tariff Commissioners Messrs. Culbertson, Costigan and Lewis who recommended the reduction of the sugar tariff refused absolutely to take into consideration the agricultural cost of sugar in Cuba. The Tariff Commission did not get the agricultural cost of the actual cost of production. Nor did they compare this sugar Cuban cost with the cost of sugar beets in this country or of the production of cane sugar in the American possessions. The minority of the commission Messrs. Marvin and Burgess pleaded with, their fellow commissioners to ascertain agricultural costs, which are the principal costs of producing sugar. These are the costs in which the American farmer is interested. They are the cost which must figure in his protection.. The majority of the Tariff Commission refused to consider these costs and arbitrarily closed their investigation without a proper basis upon which they could make a recommendation to the President. It has been charged from time to time by the domestic sugar interests that the Tariff Commission had committed this error. But now at last the indisputable proof of the assertion has been written into the record at Washington through the disclosures of Chairman Marvin, under the skillful questioning of Senator Reed of Penn- - - d government. "Every alien legally in this country has opportunity to become an American citizen, thus escaping any hardship that might be in volved under the proposed law in the necessity of registration and the payment of the tax of ten dollars for adults, with an annua! fee of $5 thereafter, and of $3 a year for every child between the ages of sixteen and twenty-on- e years. Registration involves nc greater hardship for those entitled to be in the country than is im posed by law upon every American citizen who owns an automobile or a dog, calling for a process or registration and payment of a fee. The unnaturalized alien has come to this country, in every case where his errand is legitimate, for the purpose of improving his economic condition; to share the better standards of wages and living this country affords. As compared with the benefits thus secured, the fee proposed is a small one." ... Dead towns have no tales to tell. ' The real community worker never watches the clock. Cooperation is born of understanding one anothers problems. A newspaper usually is as good as the people are at subscribing for it. A town is prosperous in proportion to the horse-powand horse sense of its boosters. A knocker is a mortgage on his home town, and every other citizen is paying interest on him. The home-townewspaper is the loud speaker for the community and it costs but a trifling sum a year to tune in. Ask the next peddler that sells you something where he will be when you want to make an adjustment on your purchase. A town isnt worth a tinkers whoop that doesnt have some fellow in it who has worked long and hard enough for it to become unpopular. Dirt, Iron, wood, stone, brick and mortar never build a city. They have to be mixed with pep, brains, muscle, and everlasting cooperation. Be thankful for our farmer and other labor friends. They toil from early morn till night producing the things that make men strong,, women fair and children happy. er n F S A L. I N A . S A. L. I N A -U TA H Member Federal Reserve System comparative They could not. And yet, despite all this, the majjority of the Commission went ahead, closed their investigation and recommended to the President a heavy reduction of duty a reduction which would seriously have crippled the sugar industry in this country and would have reduced the prices which .could be paid to American farmers for their product. Instead of getting the ac.tual agricultural costs, the majority of the Commission took the price paid to the Cuban growers at the Cuban mills. This price always has Been fixed by the price of sugar in the New York market and therefore has included not only the agricultural cost of raising "the cane but the profit made by the growers. , How ridiculous is such a system of obtaining costs of foreign production, for comparison with costs of production in this country, is shown by the fact that in 1920, when raw sugar sold in Cuba at 20 cents a pound and over, the Cuban grower was receiv ing $22 a ton, or more for His cane. At the present time, with the Cuban price of raw sugar at 2.15 cents a pound, the grower is receiving only $2.35 for his cane. Yet the najority of the Tariff Commission in making its rethe President figured this $22 a ton in 1922 as the cost of to port producing sugar in Cuba. The majority of the Commission deliberately went back six years, to 1917, tp. figure the average "cost" of production. The new tariff act was passed in 1922. No legislation passed by Congress can be retroactive. The flexible provisions of the tariff law provided for readjustments of schedules on conditions arising in the future. Messrs. Marvin and Burgess of the Tariff Commission, properly figured the average costs of the two years 1922 and 1923. The three majority members went back for four years before the acct became Fordnev-McCumb- H. S. GATES, H. B. CRANDALL, Cashier . C. E. PETERSON, E. V. JOHNSON. Asst. Cashiers JAMES FARRELL, Pres. V.-Pre- but their loud outcries had no effect at not at any time in the future. The advocates of free sugar proclaim from the housetops that President Coolidges refusal to reduce the sugar tariff would mean by his political opponents, the White House, and will ) sylvania. Mr. Marvin has just told the senate investigators that withIn defending the proposal of Secretary of Labor Davis for the out tha agricultural costs of raising sugar in Cuba, as a basis of registration of aliens, the National Republic editorially declares thal comparison with domestic costs, no proper recommendation for the move is naturally opposed by many people in America who do either a reduction or increase of the tariff on sugar could be made not have the best interests of the nation at heart. In Europe, it it either to the President or to congress. stated, there is the strictest supervision of aliens, and most of those "There were no agricultural costs secured in the course of the opposing the move in this country are the dupes or tools of Euro- commissions investigation, said Chairman Marvin on the witness pean radicalism. The editorial says in part: stand, "that- we deemed sufficient or adequate- for the determina For obvious reasons the proposal of Secretary of Labor tion of agricultural costs of beets or of cane. Davis that aliens be registered is vigorously opposed by aliens whe Were the domestic growers of sugar beets as much interestare in the country through violation of the immigration laws and ed in the agricultural costs as the sugar mill owners? asked Sen' by interests engaged m bootlegging" immigrants into the country ator Reed. ' It is also opposed by communists, socialists and liberals "More so, replied Mr. Marvin with emphasis. in sympathy with them, who fear the apprehension and deportatior "Why didnt the Commission get the comparison of agricul of alien agitators engaged in carrying forward the bolshevist plot tural costs in the two countries? continued Senator Reed. to overturn the American government by violence. To these must "The majority of the Commission would not vote to secure be added some deluded sentimentalists more concerned about the them." individual hardship the enforcement of such a law might impose "How could the President or the Commission or Congress upon aliens, than about the safety and welfare of the Americar act intelligently on the tariff without these costs? BOOST SALINA, ,.Q . life-callin- ALIEN REGISTRATION IS NOT UNREASONABLE self-style- JfustJtate2fomk boy-natur- In making change of address give old address as well as the new. H. W. CHERRY to study the Ills slogan is: "It pays to know." lie Is a student of his problem, lie recognizes that the more one the iesS knows about physical punishment one needs to 1.00 m vim has made I $2.00 Payable In Advance - II. CHELEY er a law. They did all this, they rushed their report to the President during a Presidential compaign, when political pressure by forces opposed to President Coolidge were being brought to bear upon the Commission. It is small wonder that President Coolidge cast aside such an erroneous and unjust report and courageously declared there was nothing in the situation to justify a reduction of the protection afforded to American f aimers. For this he was sharply criticized an immediate rise in the price of this necessity to the American The price of sugar consumer. But they have been confounded. has continued to go lower and lower, until it has reached the point where the manufacturers are making no profits. A1J of which that while the present tariff protects the American their farmer and prevents foreign, competitors from, "dumping the in factor is the it not price controlling products in this market ' of sugar. goes to show FIGHTING FOR THE MARINE A note of gratification for the action of congress in appro- priating ten million dollars to fight foreign shipping lines which sfeek to destroy American lines by cut throat competition is sound-- , d in the following editorial with ed .by the Birmingham which all good Americans will agree: The United States senate warns foreign shipping interests, who have fought the" American Merchant Marine at every step of its progress, that the American flag will be kept on the seas by the federal government, if such action becomes necessary. The senate did not state the situation in so many words, but in approving a ten million fight fund to operate ships that may be taken over from private operators because of practices employed, by foreign competitors to destroy the American merchant marine, the senate virtually serves notice on all comers that the issue is joined and will so remain. What other logical course could the federal government follow? What influences are opposed to the development of the American Merchant Marine? Why should there be such a persistent and sinister campaign to retain control of American commerce method of transporting by foreign interests through the pre-wThese American goods in foreign, bottoms? questions are of deep concern to the American people, and when answered will show that a combination of unpatriotic American and foreign transportation interests is in existence whose object it is to prevent the. American people from having a merchant fleet of their own. Few citizens of this country realize how dependent the United States was on foreign shipping until the world war opened their eyes. Even today, there is much confusion of mind regarding the subject. But there never was a greater mistake than the belief carefully fostered in certain quarters, that by embarking in the shipping business the American government has followed a foolish and wasteful policy. Expensive, it may be, but foolish, never! The reason why so much difficulty has been encountered by the shipping board is that selfish interests at home and Abroad have placed every conceivable obstacle in the way of success. It is absurd to say tha American ships cannot transport American commerce; they can and will perform this service for the American people, and are doing it now. The American government cannot afford to surrender to a combine of American railroads and foreign steamship lines. To take the American flag off the seas would be the most humiliating defeat the United States has suffered in its 150 years of history, and; would eventually be the most disastrous. There can be, and there will be no turning back. Age-Heral- ar Now B AKING Our New Bakery is operating daily and we are prepared to supply you with FRESH BREAD, CAKES and PASTRIES of all kinds. Take home a lof of FRESH Perfection Bread PASTRIES MADE TO ORDER ON SHORT NOTICE. FRESH BREAD AND PASTRIES EVERY MORNING Salina Bakery |