Show THE OGDEN The Ogden Standard - Examiner PUBLISHING CO J U Eldredge Jr A L Glaimann Publisher An Independent Newspaper Publisned every evening and Sunday morning without a muzzle or a club Entered as Second-clas- s Matter at the Postoff ice Ogden Utah Established 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATES -75c Delivered by carrier one month By mail in advance in Utah Idaho Nevada and Wyoming Three months Six months One year $700 Ail other states $100 a month $1200 one year Member of The Associated Prese United Press Consolidated Press NEA Service and A B C The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of any news credited to it not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein 53-6- Call 252 for All Department whether shipper traveler or taxpayer will be intensely interested in a case that comes before the United States supreme court at its January jsession involving the valuation of railroad properties This suit has been labeled by a member of the interstate commerce commission aa "the greatest lawsuit in history" It Is the St Louis & O'Fallon railroad case and in- volves the valuation placed' upon this little railroad which is only a few miles in length: but the supreme court decision will establish a precedent for the valuation of all railroad properties in the United States The purpose of the interstate commerce commission is to recapture excess earnings as the transportation act was originally tried a case The in year ago a special court of three federal judges the railroad setting up the- defense that the commis-- ! sions? basis of valuation amounted to confiscation of property This court 'decided in favor of the commission It is generally accepted as a test case by all railroads and tberjs final decision in the court of in last resort will be its' effect If the commission's plan of valuation is confirmed the ag gregate value of American railroads would be fixed at 23 to 24 billion dollars while the railroads claim a valuation of as much --as If the 35 to 40 billion dollars court finds in favor of the commission excess profits aggregating several hundred million dollars will be collectible and freight and passenger rates will not be affected On the other hand if the railroad's valuation Is sustained the amount of excess profits recaptured will be very small and the railroads will then be in a position to demand and enforce increased rates to insure the fair "return guaranteed by tne transportation act based on the higher valuation The commission has already fixed six per cent as a fair return based on the lower valuation The federal court did nbt go into the matter of the principle and methods involved in fixing valuations and this will probably constitute the railroad's chief argument before the supreme court The commission has taken property values of 1914 as a b£sls making allowance for new investment and depreciation The railroads contend that this is pre-wa- r stuff and entirely unfair considering the upset of valuation and taxation methods since the war Which ever way the cat jumps the traveling and shipping public will be deeply concerned A decision opening flhe way for a marked increase in rateswould be serious matter particularly to the agricultural sec tions that are already hard pressed As far as the recapture of half the excess profits above 6 per cent is concerned the burden would fail chiefly on investors in rail securities and result in the curtailment consolidations of many railroad now under contemplation The commission sums up its case in these words: "Public regulation of railroads if it is to5 be successful must rest upon a firm foundation and be guided by principles which will lend - far-reachin- g of justice" come back with The railroads l this rebuttal: "The commission's suggestion that a value enhanced by consideration to a substantial extent of the cost of reproduction would result in dire economic consequences— a consequence the carriers do not foresee — is no excuse in the opinion of the railroads for departing from the law 'of the land The carriers insist that under several decisions of the supreme court cost of rer production at current prices la a relevant fact to be consideed "The present value theory Is supby ported by principle as well-aprecedent The investment theory is economically unsound and rests upon the illusion that the dollar is a fixed and unchanging standard of s value" Out here where the west begins we will watch thi3 legal battle with eager interest We need more rail- roads and better rates to Insure development and stabilized prosperity Any decision opening the way to a revision upwards of rates would be a calamity RAILROAD VALUATION CASE OF INTEREST TO TAXPAYERS Every citizen of the nation pro-vided- confidence to Industry and Investment The current reproduction cost theory of 'fair value' i3 utterly inconsistent with this end and in our judgment it is equally inconsistent with any sound conception in LIVESTOCK SHOW IS OGDEN'S ASSET Ogden's tenth annual livestock show opens next Saturday January 5 That it will far surpass any event of the kind ever held in this western country is already assured and the men who have stood square-behinthe show since its small beginning 10 years ago are to be congratulated on the splendid fruition of their efforts However it is not enoygh to congratulate these men and feel proud of the fact that they have made Ogden the shipping and show center for the livestock in dustry of the intermountain west This show did not reach its present high standard by the hot air route or through and slaps on the back Like any other worth-whil- e industry it called for vision and courage with sufficient cash to consummate ideals into realities It called for hard work and plenty of it by capable men It called them away from their own business quite often at a per sonal los3 that the community of which they are a part might ac quire another important industry and be better served They did It willingly joyously and with the enthusiasm that is always the motive power of expansion They delivered the goods They placed Ogden as a white spot on the livestock map of the west They have drawn trade money and population to this territory They have provided housing facilities for a big show this year and' these facilities will be taxed to their capacity which means more expansion for next year and the years to come With these facts in mind what do business and professional men who are the direct beneficiaries owe to the livestock show? It takes money in increasing quantities to promote such an event and insure its future growth and stability Let every man whose interests are centered in Ogden take this matter to heart It is not enough to say "Well done thou good and faithful servant" You must also add "The laborer is worthy of his hire" and this stock show labors incessantly in your Interests Therefore cash contributions are in order and should be no Neither should longer delayed such contributions be charged to donations They are a sound investment and one of the best investments ever offered on the Ogden market Get out your check book and do your share now There are no pikers riding free on the stock d hand-shakin- g show train MELLON KEEP IN THE CABINET The courage of Calvin Coolidge and the wisdom of Andrew Mellon MR have been two big factors in the success of the present administration at Washington and Presidentelect Hoover cannot do better than to retain Mr Mellon as secretary of the treasury if that gentleman can be induced to serve his coun try another four years Andrew Mellon is extraordinarily rich in worldly goods but he is of that fine type of statesmen who are also rich in patriotism and sincere desire to promote their country's fortunes STANDARD-EXAMINE- The Annual "Drowning of the Cat" rather than play a selfish game and unfortunately this type of states- men are not any too numerous in 'public life today Mr Mellon holds bis job today at a personal loss His small recompense means nothing in proportion to the time his work takes away from hi3 own large affairs lie can well afford to retire from active business life and enjoy the fruits of his efforts Money has ceased to be an objective with him Yet the country needs his financial wisdom and his fine executive ability that hare saved many millions of dollars for the taxpayers during his term of office His unselfish service should stand as a beacon light to other big men when the opportunity presents itself to serve the country that made their success possible We have too many second raters seeking big jobs to plume their egotisis these days without any particular ability to commend them Andrew Mellon's name will be written alongside of Alexander Hamilton who served his country in time of need for his country's sake And four years more of Mellon will hot be hard for the taxpayers to take l"OQD MORNING all of us!" cried the Flapper cheerily aa she came il rL By D L Filer Man longs for 'scenes that rise above the place And hallowed sacredness of his abode: Self shackled in his grove be runs the race As does the loath or he who bears the load Of fancied ills along life's crooked road-- He does not pay the price nor stand the pace Let hixn who faithful runs and runs to win Forsake the dismal past — 'tis not his own To idly stand and wait and grieve within The thickening shade — he cannot there aton1 For what is past — He runs and runs alone Who doth each dawning day anew begin Not what wo say but what we really do Is most to count when(all our fruits are weighed 'Tis music when each chiming bell rings true — When every faithful soul is not afraid — With every duteous obligation paid Then life gives joy and Joy gives life anew A new year dawns from out the eastern sky And ripens into one more common day A precious jeweled gift while moments fly Whose worth is measured by the price we pay — Whose fruitage yield3 in satisfactions way If ve self honest be Just you and 1 jSaCi y he's down to Sunday morning breakfast "What's the matter with that skirt?" demanded Father looking at her over hi3 glasses "All right I'll let you spring your joke!" she laughed "S"Mr IVm-- a what is the matter with this skirt?" "It Is entirely too short! It shows too much of your knees!" answered Father impatiently "But dear heart I have on my lovely extra length stockings which Mom3 gave me for Christmas It really doesn t matter how short a skirt is if the stockings are long enough to prevent a hiatus!" "I don't care to have you considered one of these modern flappers!" replied Father "And why not pray?" demanded the girl "Civilization owes mors Ho the flapper than to almost any other people For a hundred years physicians have railed against women squeezing their stomachs up under tfefcir ribs where their lungs need the room but they never made a bit orneadway until the Flapper began to park her corsets with the hat check girl and finally threw them away entirely "Flappers were the shock troops who stormed thie main line defense of stupidity and won the redout If it hadn't been for them we would still ideals sour as a be living according to and maiden-aun- t vinegar pickle and unattractive as a pig sty "Before the day of the flapper women wore long trains corsets bustles and a flock of petticoats The flapper tossed these tilings into the attic trunk and lowered the temperature of her body to that or tht aify dry atmosphere of the mountain tops while you men still live in so many clothes'your bodies are in the humidity of the tropics "Before the flapper came into the world a woman who put a bit of paint and powder on a homely mug was supposed to be a sinful woman who ought to be run in at sight But the flapper learned something from the chorus girl and her ilk and began to show the world it was just as necessary to paint a homely face as to paint an ugly barn or picket fence "The flapper showed your sex that beauty is not necessarily wicked You once thought a woman made up so she looked pretty was a person or loose morals you round ner attractive accordingly ine iiapper stoio a few leaves but of thebook of the wicked woman andTnade herself go attractive she almost put the wicked women out of business "Think of a summer afternoon on the beach when every woman wore one of those atrocious bathing suits with skirts and bloomers both down to her knees and lisle stockings on her legs One dip and she was a bedraggled thing resembling a kitten whose drowning rock bas slipped 'allowing it to crawl out of the horse pond "Compare her with the clean limbed unembarrassed rollicking diving swimming girl of today and you get a glimpse of what flappers hav done to debunk bathing of all its naughtiness and eroticism an eleven-dolla- r word I use only when I'm very serious PROWMpeCJ chin-whisk- HERBERT DIDN'T COME HOME ANY TOO SOON It is a mighty good thing Herbert Hoover did not linger any longer in the society of those hospitably Latin folks who live so far south of us that they have not yet gotten on to our social curves and ouj modern habit of peeking through private keyholes Of course we are all willinff to admit that Mr Hoover's visit has brought about a better understanding and morf friendly relations with our southern neighbors which will result in the political amity and increased com mercial activity But what diet Mabel and her friends say when they read this dispatch from Mo de Janeiro: "Before leaving today Mr Hoove:-tenderea luncheon: to Presiden t Luiz at the American embassy Tc gether they went to the races af the Brazilian hippodrome where the Mr feature race was named after Hoover The race was a two-milaffair with 11 horses and the firs5 prize was $3000 "Hoover's motto was apparentlj 'When in Brazil do as the Brazilians do' as he drank champagne ii response to a toast to the Unitec States offered by President Luiz" For crying out ipud! 'Mr Hoover will have to "explain this Braziliar party aQd If the facts are as stated we will not eat any more Brazi: nuts in this country But that ex planation will be a mere bag oi shells as compared to the em' harassing moments he will have ir his home state when they confront him with the following dispatel:: from the same source: "The beauty of the capital anc the grandeur of the mountains hemming it in impressed Mr Hoover He told friends he could not recall that in all his travels throughout the world the finding of a picture which would quite compare with what i?ature had done for Rio Janeiro" ? Can you imagine that? A native Californian admitting' that nature has poured its horn of plenty on any other place in the world Verily a president-elect'- s path is thorny when he comes under foreign in ' fluence - d o -- j Breakfast orning Sunday By ROE FULKERSON TODAY National Men and Affairs (By Arthur Brisbane) (Copyrighted 192S Star Co) $180736 TO $100000000 THE KING'S BLOOD STREAM NO1 MORE ICE AGE WHY" PERMIT SELF- TORTURE? If Kellogg Pact Is Adopted Secretary vFor hundreds of years women have carried five pounds of hair and of War Will three pounds of wire hair pins on their heads It was a wonder they weren't struck by lightning every time they got caught out in a summer Be' Secretary of Defense War Ships Defense Ships And Army Will Not Be Used For War But For Defense By WILLIAM HARD Real estate dealers old and young paste this in your hats! One hundred years ago a small piece of land part of the old botanical gardens in New York was bought for $480736' The land three blocks Is on Fifth avenue John I Rockefeller' Jr has just secured that piece of property for $100000000 an increase to make a good single taxer shudder (Special Correspondent of The Standard-Examine- r) WASHINGTON Mr Rockefeller will use part of the property for a new opera house to be built in a fashion to allow students and others that have musical talent but no diamond necklaces to see and hear The money goes to Columbia college which now owns the land That probably reconciles Mr Rockefeller to so large an investment He inherits from his father who gave tens of millions to the University of Chicago an Interest in educational enterprises The king's condition worries his doctors once more Actinic rays artificially produced stimulating the blood's white cells to activity have worked wonders But they must work with such blood at intervals of three or four is tired poisoned by the invading streptococci Transfusion of young energetic of three or four If you don't believe there was a blood at itnervals should small in quantities days Santa Claus watch for the January have been resorted to 1 mail Dr Leopold Stieglitz a disAnother New Year's resolution— tinguished physician of NeWvYork could tell the king's doctors of a to be a Good Fellow 3 65 days 'ixi recent in which case in his the year for the poor we have with a blood infectipn practice almost invariably fatal caused by the streptococcus us always mocosus entering the blood stream Now that so many Utahns have from the mastoid sinus was clearup as though by a miracle in a received refunds on their federal ed few days thanks to blood income tax let's organize another Christmas party Follow the discussions of five thousand gathered In Joneses with the may New York scientists Keeping up wisdom and gain be a pleasant pastime for the fam The various ice periods made us ily but it doesn't strew any roses what we are largely Chasing living creatures from the north toin pawpaw's path ward the equator they mixed up As our prosperity increases let the races of men and animals us hope that Mr Hoover will pu Before the first ice age 1250-00- 0 j on our years ago the earth's climate postage enough mucilage was It will remild everywhere stamps to make them stick turn to that condition about If some chemist will work out a 100000 years hence formula guaranteed to make us We have seen the last ice age love our enemies he can make probably shall never haVe another and should be grateful tor those more money than a rum runner we have had They made men use brains and drove them into their Once upon a time ska enforcement caves to escape the cold There officer made a raid' on a private sitting around a smoky fire primiman got acquainted with his residence and found s sack of flouif tive That civilized wife and children but not a drop of liquor in the him and permanent marriage house The ice age started the clothing-businesA chemical has been discovered This is not as was forto prolong lif§ Now if someone a young planet believed merly will come forth with a chemical tcj only 500000000 years old It is old 000000 1000 at years least care we how don't pay days prolong in among ways This is many proved long we live others by the amount of salt that and rivers have washed streams Talking about skidding on icy into the ocean during the billion pavements who can remember the: years days when we had to drive a slicki Herbert Hoover is at work on shod horse seven miles to get corks his inaugural address a document on his shoes? important to the whole" world For the first time eince George New York yeggs are getting hu- - Washington the president is an and one that knows the mane They put sleeping potions engineer United States its problems and in their victims' coffee Instead of knows thoroughly the science of shooting them It eliminates the! engineering noise and sloes not muss up the No knowledge is more important ' x to our industry an prosperity in place so much which science and engineering play Deadwood Dick whiskers' and so great a part Scientific engineering can promustachios are no longer part of tect the United States against all the equipment of an accomplished possible danger of invasion or air bandit Many of our very best ban- attack can find work for all those fit need dits are not old enough to grow it work for the governthat whiskers while other experts in the ment and tremendously profitable stickemup business belong to what: to the government was called in romantic days "The An association organized in gentle sex" of Woodrow "Wilson held its an- - "implicit" They have learned--thinkthat the word "defense" can — storni Wh§n flappers came Into the world they chopped off woman' J crowning glory like the new Chinamen chopping off their queues Head aches and heart aches store hair hair pins and curling Irons went by the board like pirates walking a plank headed for the bottom of the sea "A lot more people ave stopped and can't start than have started and can't stop Ifs a moving world To keep up with it the flapper shed her useless clothes and her moth eaten notions In her happy independwoman ence she has done more for her sex than all the hatchet-facereformers of the last ten generations "She has debunked sex too She studied biology and realized that there is nothing nasty about nice people She has her babies and she talks frankly about them and knows that storks are all bunk and — " "I do not care to listen to you talk about such things!" Interrupted - be stretched to include any armed combat that the United States has ever conducted or could ever wish to conduct They may be wrong In this conclusion but in large numbers they have come to it Publicly they assert that they are abolishing war Privately in the cloak rooms and in the lobbies they maintain that everything will Father be for us as it has been before "Why?" asked the Flapper The belief of the public regarding "It is not nice" this treaty ia one thing The dom"Whv ?" inant belief of the senate regard- "I do not care to be by my children!" cried Father ing it is another Most senators be- sternly "When I was a young man children were seen not! heard" Heved that as much blood can be I'll bet a lot of times they weren't seen either!" laughed shed for "defense" as for "war" the "Yeah and as walked out of the room he This is why they do not seem to 7- Flapper in themselves to be inconsistent (Copyright 1928 McNaught Syndicate Inc) also favoring the bill for fifteen more cruisers for the navy They are quite prepared however to accept a change In vocabulary even if it implies and accelerates a fundamental change in point of view and in philosophy and so perhaps World Famous Aid to Beauty day may fall in with Dr they somenew Cibanses and purifies the skin and hair restoring Butler's suggestion them to their natural fresh and wholesome beauty Its daily use maintains them in a delightfully healthy Dr Butler holdi that we now condition Cuticura Soap has been remarkably sucmoment at the logical have arrived cessful for fifty years in the treatment of affections of for merging the secretary of war the skin and hair and is today without doubt one of and the secretary of the navy into the most popular spaps ever produced for the toxkt a combined "secretary for nabath and nursery tional defense" Dr Butler agrees with our eminent international Sop 25c Ointment 23c n! 50c Tilcom 25c Sample each free r SOX1 Addmst "Cuticux" Dept 1 7 D Maiden Mschueta jurist Dr John Bassett Moore Cutteiu-of the permanent court of Sli"rtng Stick 25c international justice who in effect has said: "When we have ratified the treaty outlawing war let us never speak of 'war' again" One Dr Butler perhaps wilt therefore expand his suggestion He will perhaps amend th© constitution to prevent congress from declaring "war" and to enable it to declare "defense" ft He will perhaps rechristen our "warships" into being "defense a i k k k m T OK SAYINGS ships" ¥?1 the He will perhaps change m m ' W I'lfi w "rules for the amelioration ot the horrors of war" into "rules for the amelioration of the horrors of ded Dec 29 — When Kellogg was in signing the multilateral treaty for the abolition of war' he received a handsome present enshrined in a case which bears "the Para inscription: "Vis Pacem Pacem" That is a parody on an old proverb Th© old proverb was "Via Pacem Para Bellum" That meant: "If you want peace organize for war" The parody means: "If you want peace organize for peace" The parody expresses a profound That repsychological reversal versal is the heart of Mr Kellogg's support of the multilateral treaty It is the heart of the popular pressure for jit Irrespective of the technical merits of the text of the treaty the communications reaching Washington show that the general public believes that it will turn the attentiveness of governments from preparations for war to preparations for peace Thereupon rises — naturally — since rising i3 his habit—the gentleman from Columbia university Dr Nicholas Murray Butler France s NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 30 1923 R Dr Butler demands that the word "war" be eliminated from the vocabulary of the cabinet at Washington No longer should we have a "secretary of war" How can you have a secretary for a thing which does not exist? With the passage of the multilateral treaty "war" It is admitted howdisappears ever that our army will not disappear The person now called our secretary of war will still have an army on his hands That army however will never wage "war" It cannot under the treaty What then shall we call the person commanding it? He must be called something — wThat shall it he? Dr Butler as befits him is instantly ready with his answer The treaty while not permitting "war" does permit "defense" In fact it so much permits "defense" that there is the most enormous difference between the popular conception of the treaty and the general sensatorial conception of it Senators have read the treaty with a microscope which discloses They its invisible Interlineation have listened to Mr Kellogg's pri- vate explanations of the ideas in it which are not "expressed" but cross-questione- d A - (Duticura SoapJ mm ex-mem- i a 39 ears Under t Continuousflanaqcment IW?ffM V 41 ft i 7 ill — u ' to m t m m — "IB — fense" But this sort of change will have to run through the whole area of our speech The truth is that this multilateral Kellogg treaty— which really should be called the not a treaty—Is It is a mere political document knife that cuts down to the very roots of our ordinary daily thinking and talking If we take it one spirit it is nothing If we take it In another spirit it is the greatest revolution of all time The complication is that both nual dinner but didn't give a peace are present in the executive Kelspirits to anybody Secretary prize momentum which senatorial and logg certainly worked hard enough ia carrying It jo passage to deserve a prize Levinson-Borah-Kello- gg - A is as important to any business enterprise as its material equipment or its organization DADDY OF 'EM ALL President Coolidge deserves two his PEKING — The Roy Chapman prizes — for continuing to mind the own business and for minding: Andrews Asiatic expedition has rebusiness of the United States leav- ported the discovery of the "greating Europeans to mind theirs grandfather of the prehistoric monsters" The head of the monPerhaps the Woodrow Wilson ster Is estimated to have weighed committee doesn't like to honor any 400 pounds the colored lady Republican Like was invaded by whose apartment a burglar while a Bryan parade CLU-GR- IP was passing asked why she did Check before it starts not scream she put her head out Rub on— inhale vapors "I and window of the replied was didn't want folks to think I hollering for Bryan" Ogden and Weber ounty business men have found a relationship with the OGDEN STATE BANK a genuinely valuable asset since 1889 N Let us demonstrate how we can make an account here of value to you in 1929— and the years to come A collection of miserable human beings losing sleep undergoing useless torture engage in a "talking marathon" The one remaining awake and talking for the greatest number of hours received $1000' A civilization that does not allow one man to torture another should not allow human beings to torture themselves for profit The "Holy Man of Benares" who sits all day on sharp spikes collecting cash from the devout ought to be taken off his spikes and put to useful work assuming that he was not a fraud Even the Reverend St Simeon Stylites sitting on top of his column would have been 4 better Christian had he climbed dtwn and worked for the poor STOCK WANTED buy Western ture Corp stock in blocks of 100 to 1000 shares if price is right Answer Care Box promptly Standard-Examine- StateB Ven- "Will r 1-- 4 Good Banking Connection A P B1GELOW PRESIDENT OJSTILWELL D E DAVIS T G L DECKER T TRUST OFFICER CASHIER ' BARKER W N FARR ASSISTANT CASHIER ASST TRUST OFFICER ! 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