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Show THE SALINA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH THE SALINA SUN Livestock: Entered at the postoffice at Salina, as , act of Congress mail matter under the second-clas- s of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year . Six Months in .12.00 .. . 100 'In making change of address, give old address as well as the new. Advertising Rates Given Application. MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC PLANTS PASSING. AND . Municipal ownership of electric in 155 plants has been abandoned Illinois communities, 142 of which now receive service from private plants, 12 purchase electricity from private plants for distribution by the municipality, and one is without service at present. Since the end of 1921, 47 communities have changed from municipal to private sources of power, and now only 3G towns two per cent of those having service in the state maintain municipal generating plants. These statistics show better than pages of argument how fast the municipal ownership movement is dyinjj. Its death knell sounded with mounting tax bills, plants becoming obsolete, inability of towns to borrow more money and the advent of the. great interconnected systems that provided standards of efficiency, economy and service impossible for the small plants to supply. As a result, the small plant, whether public or private, has come to the end of the trail. Plants serving a single area can compete on fair terms with the large systems only if that area is highly developed, with a large population. Even in areas meeting those conditions, the municipal giant has customarily failed, because qf political interference and the fact Continual howling about reduced earnings of many corporations is doing much to prolong the depresand sion, intimidate thd individual drive money into hiding. Why shouldnt corporation and private earnings fall below the peaks of two or three years ago? We were then living under . Editor and Publishes H. W. CHERRY QUIT KICKING GO TO WORK. on . abnormal condi- tions. When salesman an automobile without any capital could open an ex- pensive showroom and sell automobiles as fast as he could get them, we were not living in normal times. When a bond salesman without any practical experience, capital or knowledge of the intrinsic value of the securities he handled, could open an cffico equipped with expensive furniture and oriental rugs, and sell securities, bonds, stocks, etc., to a clamoring public, and make money faster than he ever dreamed of, ordinary caution should have warned anybody conditions were not normal. When a real estate operator could take practically worthless land and sell it at fabulous figures which no normal crop value could justify, it that should have been so And was there something wrong. on through every line of industrial, agricultural, and financial activity. During ten years of inflation, countless persons came to think that that political patronage, rather than by their own ability and shrewdness business sense, has dictated the of plant managers and of, they were creating wealth for themselves by speculation when, as a mat- ficials. The advocates of municipally ter of fact, most of them were creat-in- g produced power are clinging fo an nothing and saving nothing while outworn institution. they lived in a fools paradise which j A GOOD COMMUNITY they thought would last forever. The majority of persons have more HOBBY. times today than they had in A itond . community hobby-ithe but they complain about having less fire And it is a hobby department. because they are making comparisons that pays every citizen dividends. on a false basis. asThe days when second-rat- e This is true of individuals and it is sembled and untrained apparatus true of companies. Industrial concerns trained volunteer personnel normal requireexpanded beyond any . ments. They have endeavored to main- were adequate, have definitely gone-tain operations on an inflated basis Fire hazards grow greater every which cannot be done because there year. Increased use of power, petrolis no longer any artificial demand to eum products and machinery of all kinds in homes and in business, means maintain such production. a fire has a better chance to that n indusAll over the nation, start. n startare farms tries and Good fire departments are tire com ing again on a deflated basis. You can drive through the country, and munitys insurance against disaster see little "shacks springing up on and, from the standpoint of value, are as essential as a fire policy. Tremencheap land and in the dous strides have been made in the of these little placesr homes are going to produce a living development of standard apparatus and gradually make a little surplus. apparatus capaple of operating for d hour after hour, under the most diffiThe big farmers who bought cult conditions, without loss of efland on the strength of crops, as well as the indus- ficiency. The fire department is yorth. any tries which built and equipped plants time. It should be cultivated, citizens and built up peak at peak prices trained and reequipped in accordance to to all have are overheads, going adjust themselves to the basis of the with the highest standards. It should man who is starting at the bottom to- he publicized in the local press. It day. The laboring man who enjoyed should be given every opportunity o e wages for the past decade, perfect itself to the greatest possible degree. is in the same boat. A dollar spent for standard The same inflation that affected inapparais money in every citizens pocket. tus individual and also the affectdustry ed government and taxation, and gov- The number of towns that have been ernment is among the last to recog- saved from absolute destruction by s fire departments would nize conditions and reduce its mushmake list. a room expansion accordingly. long The trouble with government is that its managers, our public officials and NO MORE BUREAUS, public servants, will not. reduce their TLEASE. own functions voluntarily. The reOne thing to which the American duction will have to be forced by a people are unalterably opposed is the people who, after they creation of more boards and commishave adjusted their own personal and sions. If the tendency of the past business affairs, will turn to their twenty years is continued, it will not governmental problems which in a be another twenty years until praclarge measure they have permitted to tically everybody will be working for expand, by their own indifference, the and there will be government without check during the past decade. nothing left to regulate but the reguEmphasizing the term "hard times lators. has become more or less a racket inMany present day proposals would, dulged in by a growing army of theor- if the way for additionists who would remedy our ills al adopted, pave or extension of the present boards, through schemes which try to create boards and commissions. If the. govemployment at public expense, there- ernment were to out start suddenly by further discouraging industry on a drive of the kind outforestry through exhorbitant taxation, thus lined it is by Governor Roosevelt, creating more unemployment. Most to see where there would be opeasy of our economic doctors are afraid to state in plain English that we are on portunity for the creation of new commissions to buy the land, prepare a new basis; that products of all kinds will be selling at r prices; that war, which would be a terrific price a large part of our unemployed are to pay to stimulate employment. going to have to make employment It may be bard medicine to take, for themselves at wages more nearly but it is reality and the sooner we what they received before the war. recognize the conditions and adjust Many of the jobs they enjoyed will ourselves to them, the sooner we will never return because the' conditions conquer the depression by merely rethat produced them are gone forever turning to more normal standards of unless we start another world-wid- e living. self-evide- nt ; pre-w- ar s one-ma- one-ma- far-awa- y The-occupa- nts high-price- high-price- d tax-wear- y pre-wm- Salina - whatever he raisesfor immediate cash. Most producers of perishable commodities are forced to- move their products quickly whn Qrops mature, but not all. producers are &ble to get any other , agricultural commodity. During the years of fairly prosperous times up to 1931, most of the range cattle men were able td greatly reduce indebtedness, largely because tfrrir business was such that a cash turnover was possible each sell "... immediate cash. . As a result,, the fange cowman is. jjle to keep his business in liquid year.. . The fact that the range, cowman al- condition. Most raqge' nienf now sell a ways has a cash marketfor whatever good proportion of their calves each he has to sell places hirn in better season, and there is .likewise 'a cash position than most producers. .'While market waiting for cews, old bulls, Even at prices are not always Jo his liking yearlings and prevailing prices, which are lower it. for planting, find to look after the than normally, the average range. is able to do business at a trees after they were sent out. small to Garners profit. This is possible because put reposal Speaker Urvde Sam into thp pawnbroking' busi- he has reduced his overhead expenses, ness would certainly expand the idea taxes in most of the rarfge country of government 'activity, in a way m have not become excessive', and mot Which Speaker Garners party would range mclv have applied modem'pro-- . Smaller pastures, not approve,' if the question were duetion methods. of care stock and the ne'ed better to we What breeding it: up put, squarely bulls have brought' use ef i3 not more government in registered activity of calves, a about OfterrweH largerit. percentage but less of meaning peowhich-iturn the reduces Idcircumstances,-vou!carrying ple who, ordinary '' be 'the first to frown on the cost per cow. creat ion of new federal cqmrAissior.s "Many fange cowmen are lopking- in- -, to, to and burehus; are perfectly willing creep feeding of 'calves, By Du start one in tbe interest If a . pet method, feed boxes are located 'near scheme of .their own. . water holes' and corrals are made the openFor example, a few weeks ago.th'o available to the' calves-bu- t educational committee of oner of 'our ings 'are not large enough to admit creep feeding, the great church bodies went on record the as favoring a federal commission fpr calves have access to .'concentrated the regulation and control of movipg feeds and at the same time have their pictures. Just where this might lead mothers, milk and pasture. This comwith all the attendant evils of bination results in gains of as much censorship these goodpeople as' twq hundred pounds- a head pnore believdid not, stop to consider. They than on. animals that do not have, aced that the quality of moving pic- cess to. creep feeding. Gains on calves tures ought to be improved and in lieu are economical and, in many cases,' n feeds may be utilized. of any other id'eas on the subject proCalves that have had the. benefit of ceeded to pass the buck by wishing the whole job onto a federal commis- creep .feeding carry more weight, betsion. Just hoy such a commission of ter size and are hardier than ordinpoliticians would go about raising the ary fange calves. The fCedlot operator standard' of moving picture produc- likes them because ther is no setback tion, is a little difficult to see. Too when the calves leave tjieir iqothers many people have formed the habit to go o'nto.fu.ll feed. Many range catof leaning on the federal government tlemen are in position to practice to do- things which they ought-t-b- e creep feeding and the practice, should doing or thinking about doing for result in greater profits for their themselvesr A a result, things do not owners', as well as supplying the westget done, but, on the other, hand, there ern market with more, desirable is created an office-holdin- g class 'and calves for the feedlotC a paternalism, the like of which was not dreamed of by the founders of catZs President Hr. s. J government homfe-grow- CRANDALL H. B.' Cashier -- Vice-Preside- JOHNSON E. Vi cdt-tlern- - Utah . - Assistant Cashier of Hanford, When a committee pf citizens called at that divorce the home of in testified Robert suit, Cal., her, ill 'Kern 'county, Calif., to comher Husband 'bullied her into promis ing never to play or- sing in his mend him for saving a companion frolii drowning, they found hin .' . g presence. in a haystack. . Because Mrs. Ora B. Foster is "so her beautiful that shes F.O. BULLOCK husband. jof Springfield, Mp., .has di' DENTIST vorced her. . . Hours 9 A.M, to. 6 P.M." " In Gunnison Each Wednesday France and Germany are still argu- Utah Salina. ofis who about starting guilty ing the war, which s.eems to us about as futile as the Sunday night discussions on. the village street comer of who SAUNA to was guilty .of losing- the Sunday af' ternoon1 ball game. Mrs.- - W. D.'-- Mohler Al-ki- re - hid.-in- . man-craz- y, . . - CHICAGO . A stalled pilot with more than 800 .. flying hours to her credit, Mrs, Leslie Bowman of Los Angeles, has taught her husband to fly theif plane. ; $4.75 ..After An old sock found on a dumping ground in Chicago contained a Liberty bopd, a fountain' pen, two watches and a pipe. . ' Ladislaus BalacS of Karczag,- Hungary, who" buried, his wife at .10 oelock in the morning, filed application for a new marriage at . that afternoon. by TELEPHONE' . ' $2.75 (Station-to-sfcatio- n TEL E P fl.O When .the. family budget must be curtailed, the amo'unt of care exercised in buying foods must bp increased. Red Star Salt Is a Better Salt for Animals first-qualit- We live in a modern age of faat production. Competition if spurring- Stock Growers as well aa farmers to bigger and quicker of meat, Iambs, wool and milk. Just as the elements taken yield from the soil must be put back in the form of fertilizer, so the ls body, sapped of. its strength, must be rebuilt. To preserve their strength and insure sound teeth and normal bone structure, minerals must be fed. We know of no better, safer, or more econom- ical way of supplying these minerals than by daily feeding of Red - over-indul- foods. . Milk belongs on every table. The housewife should take every precaution to make sure that it comes from a responsible source of supply, and is of unquestionable purity. . ani-ma- . Star-Mt- fish story that may possibly be true comes from Fort Jefferson, N. Y. Two anglers fished witn worms for several hours without much luck, because- the fislv stole thier bait as fast as it was thrown into thq water. Finally, the fishermen began baiting their hooks with chewing gum and soon hauled in a big catch. A . V ... Red Star Salt is Natures own containing as it does the bodybuilding elements of Calcium, Iodine, Phosphorous and Iron ele-ments that promote good digestion, stimulate blood circulation, build bone, and tone the system generally. If you want your animals to put on weight, have a healthy appetite, produce big yields and to be' against ravages of disease feed them Red Star Salt. safe-guard- ed Wild animals are driven by necessity to find their own salt. They take it from natural Mineral Salt "licks. They are rugged; the growth of their young is normal; the female grows almost to the full' size of the male; they are peculiarly free from the maladies that afflict domesticated animals. . . It is said that Bulgaria has a building boom and that there is now no unemployment. There is something useful for congress to investigate. Judge Cage, of New Orleans, believes in a moratorium on alimony as well as other war debts. When George The lesson is plain! Feed Red Star Salt, that has Natures own balance of minerals. Feed it plentifully and Eitmann appeared before him and declared he could not pay his divorced wife $35 a month because he was out of work, the judge reduced the payments to one cent a month until gets a job. Eit-man- . health-impartin- g n Great Western Salt Co. BONO Tfe use It when) SAUNA GOOD JOBS Give Us Yours REDMOND Always on hand at PRINTING r. . ' rates) Plus .F.ederal tax on amounts ovefr 60c - THE INDISPENSABLE FOODS. Certain foods are essential to the health. of. bqth adults and children. Among these are cereals; citrus fruits, leafy vegetables, vggs and most imy milk. portant of all Milk, in its various forms, contributes more than half the total calcium consumed in the ordinary American diet. It is the greatest of the bone builders. According to health authorities, better health is often enjoyed by thin children who have been properly fed with milk and fruits, than who by children of normal weight in filling and fattening . &:30 P. M. Only out government war-tim- first-clas- OF SALINA The average range cowman today is ;.nd do not always afford a profit, better condition than the producer nevertheless it is- always possible to of almost Payable In Advance First State Bank Situation bsued Every Friday at Salina, Utah. Sevier Valley Merc. Co. N E |