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Show f ME SALtNA Entered at the postoffice at Salina as second-clas- s matter, under 1879. March of the Act of Congress 3, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ... $2.00 ..... 1.00 - Payable in Advance. In making change of address, give old address as well as the new. " Advertising Rates Given on Application. Editor and Publiaher H. W. CHERRY KEEP GOVERNMENT HERE IT BELONGS. M PRIVATE UTILITY ' LEGISLATION. Cnee again, according to the New Yoik Tun, government ownership has The great a. striking setback. go'.irnimnt farm implement works at! 1'irth, Australia, recently failed. In spite of enjoying a virtual monopoly, it .had piled up tremendous losses. Now huge quantities of its output have Leen sold as junk, and its' capital reduced to $1,000,000. In the interim, the Sun observes, better and cheaper goods are being supplied by ' private manufacturers. A s milar situation has resulted in New Zealand. The final report of the National Expenditures committee recommends that some of the countrys tourist facilities gov ei Le dosed, after having sustained a net loss for the financial year of innent-owne- d 90,-00- 0 pounds. In this country we nave had no such bitter cxpenence with public as Australia where, in 1927-2- 8 sh of the public debt had nearly one-ha.been incurred because of the public-owne- d railroads mainly because we in so deeply. But we have went n ver had our experiences, on a smaller scale, and some of them are memorable. Thousands of municipal electric, gas and water plants have sprung up, operated for a time, and then sold out to private concerns mainly because of deficits, poor and uncertain service, etc. And there is always the classic example of Muscle Shoals, which cost a gigantic fortune and is lf worth next to nothing, to remind us of the beauties of politics in business. We have been luckier than Australia and those other countries which experimented, at vast expense, with government ownership. And if were vv ise well stay luckier, and keep the government where it belongs. THE COOlERATIVES ARE SUCCEEDING. - Bills affecting public utilities have been introduced in 38 of the 42 legis-take- n latures in session this year, The bills cover a wide territory. They provide for stricter control of utilities, holding companies and se curity issuance; increased untility taxation through income, sales and kilowatt hour taxes; prohibition of merchandising by utilities; changes in regulatory bodies i laws requiring utilities to bear the expense of regulation; investigations of rate struc-uremunicipal and state power proetc. jects, In this vast welter of proposed laws there are doubtless some that are good some that are necessary to pro-- j tect the public aginst localized abuses by individual companies whose standards are below the desired level. There is no ranger in laws of that kind indeed, foremost utility figures are behind some of them, in the belief that the industry itself, a3 well as the public, should be protected against the occasional outlaw. There is danger, however, that through zeal to punish offending utilities, we shall pass laws that will damage and harass good companies at the expense of employment, industrial development, investors and tax receipts. During the trying days of the past three years the utilities have been one of the most stable of all industries. hae maintained employment levels and wage scales better than any major group. Their tax contributions to government have been extremely high. They have made additional progress in improving standards of service and lowering rates. They have proven beyond a doubt that they are one of the industries we can count upon in bad times as well as good. Consequently, any legislation affecting the industry should be examined with the utmost care and from the most dispassionate attitude of mind, to make sure that it will serve a valuable public function and at the same time not stand in the way of . utility progress. s; The suggestion recently made in New York that milk be declared a puLlic utility and be regulated by the state, which would control the machinery of production and distribution no doubt has good motive behind it. But it represents a danger- GO SLOW ON ous principle that the way to solve EMBARGO. an industrys problems it to let poliThe House Foreign Relations com- tics step in. The complications of such regulation would be unlimited, whether the product is milk, or wheat, or cotton, or walnuts. Acreage and herds would have to he rigidly controlled. The question of imports and exports to and from the state would be a ceaseless difficulty. Any change in demand might disrupt the entire process. As a matter of fact, the farmer is making a pretty good job of working out of the depression. He is doing it, not through a government, agency, but through cooperatives which he and his fellows control. The government aid that has been given to these ventures has been principally of a financial, rather than a managerial nature. And the cooperatives, low prices to one side, are succeeding. They are organizing the farmer, pointing the way to future achievements, laying a sound groundwork on which to build. They make for independence, not reliance on a political bureau. Anything that would change this would mean a backward step. During the next few years we are going to see a different sort of agricultural society than we have known before. It will be more aggressive, more intelligent, better able to run its business. The cooperatives will have bien principally responsible for this. They are the harbingers of honest and permanent farm prosperity. When a freight truck with marbles aboard was wrecked at Fellowsville, W. Ya., youngsters arrived from direction and every scooped up megs and shooters by the pocketful until the police arrived. In a petition for a divorce, D. O. Swenson of Salina, Kans., alleges that his wife fraudulently wooed him by taking him to theatres to see torrid love scenes and, then producing a marriage license. If this municipal scrip craze continue s, the advice not to take any wooden nic kies may come to have a literal meaning. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. .nri Arthur Brisbane recently quoted W. of the SeaA. Seddon, board Air Line, as stating that the one bright spot on the railroad map is the movement of perishable fruits and vegetables out of southern Florida. Then Mr. Brisbane adds the sigtariff renificant fact that formers have a scheme to wipe out these bright spots. They would, he adds, reduce the tariff on such food product, and throw our market open 1o competition. This would mean that Mexican perishable fruits and vegetables would supply this country. Everybody has a friendly feeling for Mexico, but Americans should eat things grown by other Americans on United States soil. There can be no question of the soundness of Mr. Brisbanes statement. The same reasoning applies to other products grown on the American farm, with which the foodstuff' counof Ca?iada and tries come into competition. The reasoning is sound in spite of the claims of the free traders that the protective tariff gives our farmers no bene- fit. When talking about farm pro ducts the free traders have only wheat in mind. For purposes of argument it is the only agricultural commodity of which they take any cognizance, although it is by no means the most valuable crop of the American farmer. Another bright spot might be created for the railroads in the business picture by the shutting out of foreign coal and foreign oil. This would undoubtedly be a boon not only to the coal miners and operators of the country but to the railroads who would get the job of hauling the black diamonds from the coal fields of Pennsylvania and West Virginia to the east, coast. In fact a great many things would be accomplished by a sane adjustment of the tariff which yvould be made with a view to helping America and not the New York importers and European and Japanese employers of cheap labor. Latin-America- n IT WORKS WELL IN ITALY; WHY NOT IN OUR COUNTRY? An American newspaper man, arriving in Italy, made an experiment to test the working of the Italian system of checking up on alien visitors. Alighting from the train in Rome, he checked his hand baggage at the station and wandered off in the city without going to a hotel and registering. In twenty minutes he was under arrest and was accounting for himself at the police station. He had learned what he wanted to know. The Italian system of keeping track of foreigners does work. Had this American, on arriving in Rome, gone to a hotel and registered he would not have made the acquaintance of the Italian police. His registration, which the hotel would have reported immediately to the police bureau, would have met every requirement. The police had made note of him, as well as of all his fellow passengers, when he crossed the bor der from Switzerland. They knew when his train arrived in Rome. When he did not register anywhere they immediately set out to pick him up. This suggests that if the United States had an adequate system of keeping tab on aliens this country would not be full, as it is, of foreign ers who have slipped surreptitiously over the border, and would not be, as it is, a happy hunting ground for alien criminals. In Italy in all Continental coup tries for that matter an alien cannot slip surreptitiously- into the country and stay for more than a few hours. He must register somewhere and when he registers he must have a passport If not, he is in the hands of the police mittee acted wisely the other day when it voted down a resolution which would have given the president of the United States authority in agreement with other nations to declare an embargo against the shipment- of arms anS munitions of war to any nation which it was sought to punish. The adoption of such a resolution would have been particularly untimely just now when there is considerable diplomatic friction between, the Unitel States and Japan. It would immediately have been construed in Japan as a move against that nation, and would have given the Japanese jingoes more material with which to fan the flames of public opinion against the United States. Furthermore, it would have been another step toward getting us into at once. In Italy and other Continental the League of Nations through the back door and without benefit of ac- countries it is impossible for the fortion by the United States senate. In eigner to dodge anonymously about case the League desired to punish a the country, passing here as Mr. certain nation, whose national policy Brown and there as Mr. Jones. The it was seeking to control, it might police will want to know at once who easily get us as an informal member this Mr. Jones vs who has not appearthrough the application of this em- ed on their records. All this puts no hardship at all on bargo if the president so desired it, and without congress having anything the well disposed foreign visitor. His to say about it This is not a criticism hotel or lodging house host attends of the probable intentions of any to the routine. The tourist can go president we have now in mind, but about Italy with no bother with the is a suggestion of what might happen police so long as he keeps himself some time in the future. properly located in whatever town he If at any future time it seems to is staying. He will actually have in the best interest of the United States Europe much more liberty than a citito join other nations in an arms em- zen nas m the United States, but he bargo there will be plenty of time to,' must always be on the records. put it over then with the advice and Something like this could be very consent of the senate. There is no useful in these United States, where need now of a general resolution con- we now foolishly give ourselves little ferring extraordinary powers on the or no chance to know whether aliens executive department. are here rightfully or wrongfully or It is true that the House committee whati they are up to. San Francisco adopted a resolution which would en- Chronicle. able the president, if he so desired, to join in an embargo on arms being As the congregation in a south side but this is church in Chicago was singing Lead shipped to a different case entirely. Uncle Sam Kindly Light, all the lights went out, has a direct interest on what is going and candles were used to finish the on in the western hemisphere. There sendee. are still a great many people who Marconi predicts that the next war however, that the less he has to do with European and Asiatic politics will be avar by radio. Sort of slaytihe better. ing one another by static, so to speak. NOVELTIES The following Nautical Novelties are furnished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Station at Salt Lake City: The firing of a gun salute on entering a foreign port dates back to the introduction of ordnances aboard ship. It was the custom, in those days, for war vessels to have their guns loaded while at sea in case of pirates. Upon their approach to a port the guns of the ship would be fired to indicate that the mission of the vessel was a friendly one. The navy maintains the following trade schools at San Diego: Electrical si bool, radio ope rators school, aviation mechanics school carpenters school, machinists school, boilermakers' school, musicians school, buglers school, shipfitters school and hospital corpsmens school. These schools are open to a limited number of recruits who have completed their twelve weeks elementary training and show aptitude for the trade involved. Four states possess school ships for training young men to be officers in the merchant marine. These ships are Annathe Pennsylvania Schoolship the New York Schoolship polis, the Massachusetts Empire State, Schoolship Newport, and the California Schoolship California State. These four schools have a total atone has a tendance of 471 boys;-eacwaiting list of between 400 and 500 First State Bank OF SALINA Utah Salina H. S. GATES CRANDALL H. B. President Cashier Vice-Preside- V. E. JOHNSON Assistant Cashier We all hope that due to the depres-- . ion Bale Ruth wont have to cut his s er awards are worn suspended from home runs down to season. this in distinctive other . or neck posithe of placing medals, ribbons, and other insignia over the same place. High- three-bagger- tions. The words aye. aye, sir are used coirectly only as an answer to an order. Aye, aye, sir means that the boys. Prior to 1550 there is no mention receiver of the order understands it of metal bullets. Bullets of stone were and intends to carry it out. h Gangsters hab;t of going without meals before a job should put Chicago police on guard against dangerous men who have a kan and hungry look. San A.ntonio Evening News. used. Cheer up. If you didnt get an ofEpaulettes and shoulder marks now Popular in the Peiu worn by naval officers survive from A good many inmates of penal in- fice in November maybe you can get olden days when fighting men wore stitutions also would like to go on a yourself elected delegate to one of metal plates on their shoulders to pro- five-da- y those prohibition repeal conventions. week. Indianapolis News.- tect them from saber cuts. Naval officers below the rank Of commander are addressed as Mr. and in the case of officers of the medical corps as Doctor; and of officers' of the chaplain corps as Chaplain; officers of the rank of commander and above are never addressed as Mister out of their rank. Campaign ribbons and other decorations are invariably worn on the left breast. It is a tradition which has been handed down to us nearly a thousand years. When the crusaders went into Asia to wrest the Holy Grail from the Turks, the knights placed badges of honor over their hearts to proclaim their loyalty to the king. The custom led to the practice We used to wonder why bankers E. D. Kellerman of Montesano, wore that glacial look. But we dont Wash'., who lost his sauerkraut cut- Keller ter, advertised as follows: man kant kut.his kraut kause some, kussed kritter keeps his kraut kutter. Wd .re' n,6.. When those British delegates come Scientists say that they will soon over here we might offer to trade have means of measuring the nucleus em cancellation for the farm relief of an atom. Thats nothing. Our bank- problem. er does it every month when he sends us a statement of our deposit balance. F. O. BULLOCK France is having a tough time balancing her budget, but Uncle Sam hasnt much reason to be proud of his accomplishments along that line, ' either. DENTIST 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. 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SALINA REDMOND Always on hand at a, Sevier Valley Merc Co. be-li(v- e, i glacial .zen aa ?n Sunday Dispatch. Pbably-loo- 1 - Latin-Americ- l NAUTICAL vice-preside- nt Published Every Friday at Salina, Utah. - SAUNA. UTAM USING AMERICAN PRODUCTS. THE S ALINA SUN One Year Six Months SUfo, |