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Show : ' THE SAUNA SUN, SALINA, UTAH With imports to the United States mounting, the advocates of lower tariff in the United States are going to have a harder time proving their case. A few months ago it was predicted that the Issued Every Friday at Salina, Utah. opposition party would base its campaign on the repeal of the protective tariff. But we do not hear so much about this as formerly. second-class the matter under mail Entered at the postoffice at Salina, as It is becoming the general belief that tariff reduction will not be ' act ofCongress of March 3, 1879. exactly a popular subject in America this year. Even the farmers are not taking to it as was predicted. The reason is obvious. The SUBSCRIPTION RATES thinkng farmer knows that he benefits from the tariff both directly $2.00 One Year and indirectly. THE S ALINA SUN IT Jfirsttateanfe O S A L I N. A F , Six Months ..... ; SALINA-UTA- H A FOOD SHORTAGE? Payable In Advance A note of cheer for the farmers was struck in the convention of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxfood ford, England, when Sir Daniel Hall predicted a world-wid- e In making change of address, give old address as well as the new. Advertising Rates Given on Application. Member Federal Reserve System shortage, unless something is done to increase the production by Editor and Publisher science. Sir Daniel based his 'figures on present production and the present rate of increase in population. It would be difficult, of course, at this time to convince the WHY NOT A NATION OF THINKERS? JAMES FARRELL, Pres. H.sS. GATES, is imminent. the For food that farmer a American shortage past A remarkable man died in this country a short time ago. This H. B. CRANDALL, Cashier few years life for him has seemed to be just one surplus after anAmerHe a was man was not a "superman. just plain everyday C. E. PETERSON, E.'v. JOHNSON. Asst. Cashiers other. And yet we know that1 the margin between a surplus and a ican citizen, with an abiding faith in humanity, and the deepest reshortage is comparatively small. The failure of 'Canadian wheat spect for American democracy and freedom as guaranteed by our in 1920 came as a blessing to the American wheat farmer and t constitutional form of government. him a season of prosperity. It was not so very long ago He had a broad vision. He built up his business by helping brought that corn was considerably more than a dollar a bushel. He knew that if his manufacethers to build up their business. Hogs were comparatively cheap and so thousands of farmers tured articles were to have the greatest sale, consumers had to be abandoned the hog industry and went in for corn. For the past able to buy and willing to buy. year the situation has been reversed. Now hogs are high and corn 4 4 4 44 44 4 41 32 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 444 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 44 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 44 He could see that in order to sell a pump for irrigation pur- is cheap. The production of1 hogs will doubftess increase greatly It was build a besides lot whole do had he a to pump. poses, during the next year or two, and then a partial failure of the corn more necessary at first for him to encourage the teaching of scien. crop is likely to reverse th'e situation again. their supply of Old Wheat Flour Patrons advised to are tific agricultural methods, so that farmers could use pumps and have get will The thing which encourage the thoughtful farmer is that facthe money with which to buy them, than it was to build a pump NOW, before the new. wheat is on the market. Our store general agricultural conditions are gradually growing better. Folroom is filled with that GOOD, RELIABLE OLD WHEAT tory. lowing the greatly increased production during the war iame the He value the saw FLOUR the FLOUR THAT PLEASES. And so it was throughout his business career. slump which hit industry first and then agriculture. Industry, beof building up the buying power of the people as the surest way Farming is only now ing the first hit, was the first to recover. freE delivery to build up his own business. . is none-thless. convalescent but it recovering steadily He could see that exhorbitant taxes, radical legislation and disIt is not likely that Sir Daniel Halls prediction of a food shortturbing government policies were detrimental to the laboring man age of serious proportions will come true in this generation at least. and business, and that the laboring man suffered most by any pol- But it is safe to say that the farmer is going to do better and that icy which crippled industry and destroyed employment. the worst of the agricultural slump is over. This man started with nothing but a clear vision and an understanding of basis principles which underlie both individual and SUMMER ADVERTISING SCHOOL SUPPLIES 4 national prosperity. We are prepared for the opening of the fall term of school was the head of the greatest business of its There are some business firms that make it their practice to When he died with a big supply of Pencils, Tablets, Pens, Ink, Paper and all let 'up somewhat on their advertising in summer. Sometimes they kind in the world, and his piroducts were sold in every nation. sundries. The question will be asked, "What has all this to do with my may argue that many of their townspeople are away. ? In the line of wearing apparel we have Shoes, Suits, Coats, But if that is the case, it is also usually true that a great Job or. my business?" Hose, Blouses, Overalls for the school children. It has everything to do wth your business or job, whatever k many ' visitors are in the region at the time, and are carefully j. INSPECT OUR STOCK AND BUY EARLY looking over the newspapers, and making such p.ur.chses of things may be. You have the same brain to think with as the man insight into hu- as they need. When people are away on vacations, they have I although you may not have the . man nature which he had. But you can profit by the record which considerable time in which they can put in shopping, and often Salinas Busy Store. he left. It doesnt take great intelligence for the shoe merchant buy more than they do at' home. to see that he will sell more shoes if conditions are good, nor for Frequently they like to carry some articles home as a kind of of their trips. The firms that keep their advertising up selves, to teach the souvenir better are understand that the insurance agent to prosperous people people that government can do things for them the summer draw a lot of transient trade of people who that through prospects. government cannot do and ought not do if it could. But as Get over the idea that you can make prosperity for yourself are visiting in the locality or who pass through it as tourists. long as these politicians can get themselves elected to office, they A great many firms have goods in stock at this time that, will will alone, and realize that you depend on! the "other fellow for your keep up the pretense o working on government to make it be a source of expense if carried 'over to another season. Styles fulfill ther business. promises. The United States is a world leader in many ways. For this may change, money has to be borrowed to carry goods that do who Nobody benefits from this except these reason, it should become a land of "thinkers." We should not bt not sell readily. A great many enterprising firms find that they seem to be in a terrible flutter of business, negotiating between at the mercy of political agitators and legislative buccaneers. The gain the best results by cleaning up their stock very largely as they the and the But this business beneficiaries. government expectant country editor should understand that an unsound piece of legisla go, and getting fresh goods on their shelves. They accomplish is all their own, and consists chiefly in creating new offices and tion or taxation which interferes with some industry three thousand this result by advertising freely through the summer. filling them. The people who expected to get something, get noIt is tremendous help to a firm if it can give the impression miles away, may take an advertisement of a local store out of his thing but the opportunity to; pay the costs of all this pretense. paper or create unemployment which will cut down his subscrip that it is pushing for trade every day and week in the year. The Are we as a people as blind to political jokes as the boy sent tion list. The local grocer may lose his business, because an un- firm that advertises constantly gives that impression. It makes the out to d get a monkey wrench?' We are just as apt sound tariff policy destroys the market for local fa'rm crops. Th public feel that it is alert all the time to pick up goods at a bar- to find a for state and national problenis in political prompanacea banker feels the effect immediately when any bhsinessls hdrt, and gain, and pass its good values on to the public. ises and government paternalism, as the boy is to find the wrench. Metropolitan department stores know the game of merchanit goes without saying that the day laborer is the first man to "get dising, and it is noticeable that they keep up a great deal of adthe axe when bhsiness suffers. has passed on, is vertising through the summer. It pays for them, it will pay for the FRIENDLY TOWNS The lesson to be learned from this man-w. plain and simple. He lived his life largely in the interest of the stores in this Vicinity. Small cities and towns that do not "have a "Welcome sign from the other fellow not from a purely lharitable angle, but on every main road leading into th? placo are regarded as "slow standpoint of "good business." As more of us follow his example, THE HOME OWNERS and out of date. many business problems and world sontroversies will disappear. As a rule, the signs' emphasize frien dliness regardless of wheFigures of the activities of the building and loan associations of the United States are always interesting because they form an ther the community has it. OUR WORLD TRADE indext of the prosperity and progress of the people of the counQnce.upon a time, it is related, there was a man who believed in These in and taking the one at tf.je edge of a strange town litermoderate circumstances. as signs, associations, everybody Interesting figures are found in a survey of the world trade of try in and prepared to be real friendly. He sat on the the he homes finance of drove who are unable ally, building by persons .the United States for the past fiscal year. These figures show knows, ficurb for an hour and not one person even looked friendly, much to pay cash. Of course there are now many other methods of that the balance of trade is slowly turning against us. France, less asked him any .question about what luck he was having among of but the and the and homes, building purchasing building Italy, Great Britain, Russia and Europe as. a whole purchased less nancing financloan in associations occupy a very important place home ' strangers. goods of us than in the previous fiscal year. On the other hand, and from the This is a mistake; cor.unon to us all. We boast of our friendactivities their are always ing significant standpoint the value of the goods purchased by the United States in the above liness and advertise the Fact to the world, but we never exercise our of the modest home owner. named countries and in Europe as a whole greatly increased over F. H. tiie shaking arm on strangers, and never discommode ourselves in order According to Cellarius,of Cincinnati, secretary of the previous year. national of these organizations, to association American 500,000 give them pleasant remembrances of their visit. 2 To give the exact figures, Europe as a whole bought last homes The touring seasron is at hand.-- Thousands of motorists are gobuilt on loans or were securec bought year mortgage less goods from us in the fiscal year 1926 than in the fiscal trom building and loan associations. There was a thirty per cent ing to be passing through. Some' of them will stop here if they year 1925, while we purchased from Europe goods to the value of increase in residentialb uilding in the country during the same year, get the right kind bf a reception; more of them will be our guests $104,376,855 more in 1926 than in 1925.' It must be understood There are more than 12,000 of these associations in America and if We show' ourselves hospitable. that the fiscal yeir closes on June 30. The figures for the month If we are going to be fr their assets amount to more than five, and a half billion dollars. iendly, lets loosen up and act human of June, which clossd the fiscal year, show that this decrease of exTen million Americans hold stock in these organizations and the when a stranger comes with ports and increase of imports from Europe is continuing. If it increase in assets during 1925 amounted to $743,238,957 or 15.6 keeps up during the pfesent fiscal year, of course, the balance of per cent, while the growth of membership in the associations was THE CHAMPION PIE MAKER trade will be against us. The situation, is quite different from what it was two or three 1,332,645. With a record of approximately 40 ,000,000 pies to his credit, The growth of institutions of this kind is indicative of the prosThen the in balance of Richard of trade favor was years ago. Webb, bf Toledo, Ohio, is said to be the champion pie greatly of the workers of the United States. So long as the num America. Gold was p6uring in and the free traders and interna- perity baker of America.. Webb has been baking pies for 39 years and ber of home owners increases so rapidly there is little danger of bol tionalists were declaring that unless we took away our has averaged more than 3,000 pics a day ' during this period. Some shevism in America. The American worker is rapidly becoming tariff barrier, and forgave the European debts to the United States, and he is going to be slow to riskhis assets and his op- days production has run at the rate bf 11,' 3'00 pies a day. a the time was fast approaching when we would have all the money capitalist, Webb was botn in Brighton, England, in 1858. He came to for betterment for the promise of a Utopia whLh he and all the goods, Europe would be ruined and Uncle Sam would portunity the United States in 1881, and went to vro rk with a Toledo baking knows has never yet been made possible in a world of human follow suit. concern. The oven he uses for pie baking is ' ' rotary brick The thing has not worked out exactly that way. The tariff oven, 20 fet in diameter, 8 feet high, with a concrete foundation still stands, and is not as much of a barrier aswas anticipated. 7 feet deep. The walls of th e oven are, more than 2 feet thick and MONKEY WRENCH The European debts were not cancelled, and, there is no consider- A the entire structure contains is d house. many bricks as a able sentiment in the United States that they be cancelled. And The American Bar association, at. its recent Denver session, yet our balance of trade is steadily slipping. This ought to con- condemned what is terms paternalism in the federal government, A guest at a Miami hotel re The qu een of Roumania is coming cently vince us that the situation in most European countries is not so declaring that "the American citizen of today is bartering his indi- committed which suicide by leaping from to America in September, desperate as it has been made out. If Europe is buying less from vidual liberties and rights, for government bounties and bonuses. the eighteenth floor of the be the to take will have we ilding. means that us and sending us more it must mean that she is more And more Commenting on this resolution, the Kansas City Times saYs: Doubtless the guest was r endered moth balls out of the pockets of our supplying her own markets and at the same time increasing her "The evil has grown up with the extension of the activity and desperate by receipt of the dress suit ah out a month earlier than sales in the United States. ' of politicians who have found it good business for them- - ary hotel bill. usual. .AH. W. CHERRY V.-Pre- s. Us 41 GET SUPPLY NOW! f i e Salina Roller Mills t merr-tione- God-give- d, The Fair Mercantile Co. n . "left-hande- ho $326,-053,14- . - so-call- gas-fire- d, LEFT-HANDE- D fair-size- .,.4 . ..-- a |