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Show " THE SAUNA SOM, SALlNA, UTAH ' None of the important features on the regular program demanded by the American people, can be missed" or will be omitted at any date ahead where Uncle Sam has billed his continuous performance the greatest and best show on earth. THE S ALIN A SUN Issued Every Friday at Salina, Utah. mail matter under the WHAT IS READ BY AMERICANS Entered at the postoffice at Salina, as second-clas- s act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Historians complain that Americans today read little history much less than did Americans forty years ago. Re&ently John Masefield, British poet and novelist, bemoaned the lack of interest in poetry. People, he complained, sit in dark chambers and watch SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year Six Months '.7 $2.00 100 flashy and vulgar motion pictures rather 'than listen- to poetry beau' tifully declaimed. When did many pe'rsons gather to listen to declamations of poetry?.Never, save perhaps in Honrers day. What reasonr is there to believe that the motion picture has alienated affections frompbetry? 'None at all. The motion picture has create'd its own s drama of its public instead of depriving either poetry or natural public. As to history, it will be recalled that Wells Outline was a best seller for many months. Let anyone write an original, stimulating, readable volume on history, and the public will read it with avidity. Great histories are exceptional, as are great . . plays, or great novels, or great biographies. The present generation is not less eager or less curious or less thirsty for knowledge and culture than was any tof its- predecessors. Librarians will testify to that fact. So will the conductors of night schools and summer classes, and other competent judges of the intellectual interests of the day. Chicago News. . - - L Payable In Advance In making change of address, give old address as well as the new. Advertising Rates Given on Application. II.. W. CHERRY - - Editor and Publishei high-clas- GOOD CITIZENS ASSURE GOOD COURTS Associate Justice Jesse W. Curtis, of the supreme court of California, emphasizes the close relation between our courts and the 'Intelligence! of our citizens. He says: Our courts affect the interest and lives of all our citizenship business men, working men, farmers and, in turn, the stability and responsibility of our courts must rest steadily upon that citizenship. Our leaders and jurists have come from the homes of that citizenship good American homes, many of them IMPORTED STUFF farmers' homes and the closer our homes come ti the fundamental American ideals, the better will be the citizens they produce, Testimony of a witness in a recent trade hearing that he had and the higher will be the standard of our courts as they attempt to. been employed in stamping the legends Made in Germany and deal out justice between our fellow man and his neighbor. "Made in France and so on upon articles manufactured . in the f The wheat this year is extra fine and hard and we are producing a superior quality of Flour at our mill". It will please United States is psychologically interesting as evidencing a bit of the housewife. WIDER HIGHWAYS ADVOCATED snobbery of which Americans ought, long ago, to have been cured. BREAKFAST FOODS FEEDSTUFFS There was a time when certain foreign-mad- e products were apt 'to Construction of wider highways, to reduce the loss from inadebe superior to those made over here, but that was before the advent -- FREE DELIVERY quate traffic facilities, was urged at the recent national conference of efficiency methods, in which America has taken the leadership on street and highway service. since before the beginning of the 20th century. There are a few The adoption of wider highways is pronounced in some states, instances, as in restricted fields of artcraft and handiwork, in which 4 many roads known as "super highways being projected with at still be superiorly desirable, and there are some y traffic lanes, and sometimes six or eight, with the imported items may least four which considerations do control. in others commercial But the heavy trucks separated from the lighter automobiles, and with betk alien insists is who not inupon seeing an average buyer ter provision for highway safety. Commercial losses from traffic congestion are becoming .seri- terested in these, but rather entertains a notion that there is some distinction attaching to whatever comes from abroad. The ous. It has been conservatively estimated that the loss of the whole peculiar United States averages ten million dollars a day. The fuel loss and fact is, of course, that for the most part, place of origin neither adds Our new iines of Suits and Overcoats are here The MARX the wear and tear on cars and trucks due to stopping and starting to nor detracts from merit. Quality, character and suitability are for Wear and Service None Better for Made the chief tests. We do not for a moment contend that there should is considere4 comparable to the loss of time. the Money Prices VERY LOW Look Them Over. be no trade with other nations. The issue here is not one of ecoHighway officials, engineers and traffic experts are advocatnomics so much asj of sound, intelligent patriotism, and of the effect ing improvement with the less expensive types of such as asphalt penetration macadam, of the secondary roads ev- of the assumption on any large scale that the user of domestic artiSalinas Busy Store, erywhere, so as to relieve the trunk line highways, which must cles is inferior to one who imports them. Nor has it anything to do with the which the denies extreme the of value other, chauvinistic, is This the traffic. relieve to bear necessarily through congestion, and afford the higher-spee- d pleasure vehicles more room in which everything not made at home. Here is the point: It is only fair to our own manufacturers that they should be judged by what they to cruise on hard road surfaces. It is said that Queen Marie of really produce, not compelled to resort to any subterfuge in order Rumania will travel very simply e when she comes to the United merchandise. Ft. Wayne to sell DONT TRY IT States. Does this mean, that she We read in a daily paper a statement credited to Dr. Eric will go from the steamer to the HERES THE ANSWER hotel in a yellow cab? he on of the been tab effect has that to Hardner, London, keeping has found Kansas from the smaller A 401 editor auto accidents with the result that he finds or 45 miles an hour City why boys A Philadelphia minister says the most dangerous speed for a car. He says when an accident oc- towns make good in New York. He says it is because they do not ancient Rome was more that curs while a car is going 80 or 90 miles an hour, when there is a spend their time watching parades, an airplane writing smoke ads modest than Atlantic City. But collision or it goes in the ditch, the persons in it usually escape with in the sky or championship ball games. It is because they do not even this couldnt save her. a few brujses.. .This, says the doctor, is due to the fact that a per- spend their time watching streets being torn up and the elevated son's body in such cases is generally thrown with such force that it cars painted and the steam shovels and riveters at work. It is beOur idea of a real optimist is New York preacher who says the six-wonderskips and rolls along on the ground. But when the auto is going cause they do not spend their time reminescing about how is L. he for down-towHenry praying n will and soon was once 40 or 45 miles an hour, the riders are more likely to be tossed up ful it is that down-towused where of how be to roam now heads. their in the air in such a . manner that they usually land on bootleggers goats Everyone is entitled to his own opinion about this, and there is no have palatial mansions. That, says the Kansas City editor, is the We have now, as a nation, ren-Head -ireason why any driver cant disagree with the doctor if he wants to. principal reason why the small-tow- n boy makes good in New York. covered from the effects of the For our part, we prefer to let somebody else be in the car or in front He leaves all the things listed here to the boys who were born in war, but that is about all we have is. of it when something goes wrong, regardless of whether it is going New York and who live there all their lives without making good. recovered. 4 or 400 miles an hour. ; If the present average keeps up First a German baker breaks , When asked what she thinks it wont be channel until long d the channel swimming record of the flapper, Lady Astor WHO OWNS THE AIR? swimmers will be as common as 1 dont quite know what aviators. then a French baker breaks plied: There has always been a general understanding that when a the new record. How come these the flapper is." Neither do the man owns a piece of ground he owns everything above it to the sky bakers are so successful in swim- - rest of us, lady. Scientists say that rubber can be made from the Guayule plant. and everything below it to the center of the earth. But radio has .r.ing the channel? Maybe its they know how to hancome along, it seems, to change that, for radio passed over and be- because Several tons of: eggs arrived in And we have eaten some chicken dle the oceans roll. . New York from the Orient, the hash that seemed to be full of it, neath a man's ground, and yet he doesn't own or control the radio other day, according to the met- - too. waves; in fact, some fellow hundreds of miles away is taking posWe used to think of the Sul- - ropolitan newspapers. We sup-ta- n session of his "air, and using it as he sees fit. What come-bac- k It is always one thing after anof Sulu as a comic opera pose it wont be long now until ' other. has the owner of the ground? How can he prevent his air Just. as we had hopes of prince, but evidently he means they will be featuring in the, New the murder getting used? The answer is he cant. He has but one good way to more than that to the Filipinos. York press the arrival of the big off the case front , page again, butter and egg man from China. comes the get even, or to get a return on his air, and that is to get a radio set word that the Tenend enjoy other people's air. We are getting around to the seaPress dispatches report hot nessee supreme court is liable to Idaho growers want the tariff reverse the judgment son when people who do not know as yet of the great value of a fighting between rebels and gov- in the radio set will have favorable weather for finding out. Don't let eminent troops in Nicaragua, but on onions made higher. Person-s- o Scopes case so that we may have far as can be learned nobody ally we are in favor of keeping to go dirough all of that evoluthe belief that "radio isn't yet perfect" keep you out of a good has been hurt yet. out as many onions as possible. tion thing again. thing. Join the millions of radio fans who know what they are talking about when they tell you that for every dollar invested you can get more genuine good out of radio than out of either the phonograph or the auto. Cash in on the other fellows air and youll j always be glad you did. 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Just so with our country and its institutions. There will be storms and some of the wild animals in the political menagerie break loose, but all important functions of the great show called government under the constitution, must go on. Congress, the supreme court, the federal and state institutions and departments of government must perform their parts in the by the people, for the people and of program of the people the show must go on. nt 7 BEST EVER" PLAN TO BE THERE! The big Show of the yearl See the finest blooded stock, the best grains, fruits, vegetables, the champion of the Statel Newest farm machinery. Big auto show. Horse-racing- . Scores of amusements and FREE ATTRACTION3I EXHIBITORS: Get a Premium List from Your Bank or County Agriculture Agent Qltah State PRiNirp restore HAS, beeiv. for'dSusnds of business sic'ceses tFiroughoutKecouWry. 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