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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH South Cache Courier Harvesting The War iFruits of Published Every Friday at Hyrum Utah;; We entered this war to make the world safe for democracy; We have beaten autocrcy in WATER POWER MAPS battle, but after all we shall lose the war if there does not come Maps were shown in the Senate out of it a plan that will make that gave some very interesting similar vtars impossible in future. facts. One of these gave the locaWhen a private citizen goes on tion of 54,000,000 water horse power a rampage we lock him up. We contained in the United States, and do this to prevent him..' from ofVhich 5,000,000 horse power, or trampling on our rights. but ten per cent, had been developBut nations have rights just as ed. Seventy-twper cent of all the individuals do. ' The trouble has water-powe- r of the country is con- been that we have had no tained in the eleven far Western machinery for enforcing these States of Washington, Oregon, Calirights. We must now construct fornia, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, such machinery. ' There must Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyo- be an internatioalThe water-power- s ming and Colorado. body that will define the rights of these States are regarded of nations, just as national as their greatest asset, and although legislatures define the rights of nature has furnished this great individuals. There must be an wealth to these new countries it international court to enforce has never been utilized to only a international lawand an.intre-nationa- l small extent. The politicians have police to carry out the for years beep justifying their decrees of this court. Unless course of inaction on the ground these are provided the sacrifices that great private property interests of this awful war will have been were seeking to acquire the use of in vain.. . these natural resources. Therefore the rippling waters continued to , , murmur their sweet lullabys without ever having performed' a days honest work under the harness of industry. A. Edison 'Thomas once J. A. WAHLEN. Publisher. Sfa GIA 10 1U ON o - FLANNEL SHUTS' law-makin- g . Regular Values ' - $6.50 Special Sale Price 4.65 - COTTON , Candles For The Rich BLANKETS Regular Price ' -- predicted that the time would $4.65 Regular Price the average American family spent $22 a year for sperm oil and candles, and they got 23 power lights for their money. Then came kerosene, and this s form of light was only . $4.00 Sale Price' - - &2.8S candle-- was an evanescent politician on the political horizon of Washington, and when. Secretary Ballinger brought forward the question of conserva as expensive as candles. Gas tion, Mr. Pinchot grew into fame in the average home, prior and fervor by answering: , Boo! light cost about $54.00 a year, to 1885, Since that fateful day some of the but of course the .illumination most important of the, natural NaWas greatly increased as :com-pare- d tional resources have been in the to that furnished by canlanguage of Senator Jones of Washdies and oil. The average fami-l- y ington, mainly a sleeping and prois again back to thp $22.00 a fitless asset, due solely and 'entirely basis for lighting, but into the inaction and inertia of Con- year stead of flickering candles, they gress in turning a deaf ear to the have something like 13,500 voice and cry of the West, praying When the Lord for the passage of laws under which it there be light, its people can develop the energy said, Let, in been have must contemplacontained in our falling waters. tion of the present times. But Mr. Pinchot had a good, deal to reckoned, in the scaleof the cost say about the loot of Alaska in those of electicity has done living days. He demanded that develop- marvelous things ments by private ipterests within the Territory should be stopped. It that we may see ourselves as others ' is a long story to reach out of the us..'4 . see past, but it may be observed that " President Wilson has been insistMr. Pinchot had his way, with the ent in demanding that Congress act result that there are , fewer people "water-powe- r matters. All in Alaska today than there were upon through recent months leading eight, ten or a dozen years ago. members in both Houses have been Senator Shaforth says that the sitwith the legislation, and meauation in the Alaska coal fields, busy sures passed both branches. By J. where it was supposed that capitalE. Jones, U. S. Press Assn. ists would eagerly lease coal lands, ' has proven a failure, since the law If the party that borrowed my provided that all ones rights might be forefeited under many provisions tongue scraper last fall would reof the lease; therefore; capital will turn it, he would do 'me a great fa-Adv. A. Eliason. . not lend money on such security. has Conservation evidently V 4pen misunderstood all too long in the' United States. In a recent issue of the Congressional Record an irate Westerner protests to his Senator aifter reading the news of the day which said" that the water-powe- r bill had reached a deadlock in Con- -. For years we gress: He writes: have been reading just such rotten; Stuff. The House says we want it one way; the Senate says it .wont do. Now, any blamed fool knows that some kind of contract could be made satisfactory to both sides, and it would not take ten or fifteen years to do it, either; but a few hundred of what is supposed to be men the smartest and of our country cant reach an agree The Senator who got this raent. letter read it with the comment; I ami going to read it to the Senate, $6.50 Special Pr ice - A PHANTOM FORM OUT OF come when only the rich could afford to burn candles. In 1815 THE PAST Eight years ago Gifford Pinchot - two-third- Knitting Works - LOGAN, UTAH candle-po- wer-hour. , 'WANTED Hogs, Veals and Muttons, best prices paid. Adv. Lester Miller, Hyrum. ' MONEY .TO to Loan on real Time 1 year to quire of John W. 34 years. Jensen, j Ad. More than 150 years ago Benjamin Franklin wrote; Keep your shop and It will keep you. The stamp of greatness is on Franklins philosophy because it was, not alone of his time; it , holds for all time. Our ways have changed a bit in the economic life of this , republic which the great Franklin helped to build. No longer may every man, be his own shopkeeper. Most of us help (keep some other fellows shop and a certain element among the assistant shop keepers have become restless because they have no shop themselves and call themselves L W. W., Bolsheviks, and other names. , J Nevertheless Franklins homely sayto ing is as true today aid as easy uhe was as the day it with comply ' ttered it. The United States government provides the way. War Savings and Thrift Stamps, conceived as a war measure and non backed by the government as a per manent policy, give every man, woman to and child in Ameilca.the chance to allowed is Each person keep shop. put $1000 a year into the business the business of American government, cent The business guarantees 4 per' It per. annum compounded quarterly. is the 'biggest business in the world. One can invest as iow as 25 cents. The wonderful' thing about it is that well the investor helps his country as as himself. ! I our Prices ff On Oil,-Tubes- Tires and Accessories , Compare Them With Others , c ' NEW LINE Jaai Arrived ' i - , a Thatcher Hat best-poste- d En- FOR SALE Wilhelm , The, Anderson property located, two blocks south and one block east of tie Hyrum State Bank. For sale cheap and on easy terms. If ' interested, communicate, with Win. M. Howell or Luther HowAdv. ell, Logan, Utah. Get Under V Money I am still in the market for Liberty Bonds, New York quota; tions every day. I pay the highest maiket price. Adv. A. A., Savage, Hyrum. - 1 ,, LOAN estate security. HELP YOURSELF tf v We do'not claim to cut prices' way below others, but we claim to sell at prices that are right. Omr line includes Goodrich, Goodyear, Mohack and Quaker Tires, four, of best makes on the market. . Presto-Lit- e 7 4 Battery Service kinds of welding, on farm machinery, auto and tractor parts. It makes no defference as to the. kind of metal, its : all the same with our process. - ;We do all f w - ' - t ThcPiaco the Guaranies Fotdo Good tf HYRUM GARAGE - , ' |