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Show That a prophet is not without honor except in his own country is again proven by the following concerning Emery county editors taken from the Grand Valley Times at Moab: "It is not pleasant to quit the company of the newspapers bovs. Scattered around the state in this work are some of nature's noblemen. Moffitt of the Cas-tledale Cas-tledale Progress and Miller of the Green River Dispatch, particularly, belong to this class." That the Salina Call believes in having hav-ing every family in town patronize the paper is shown by the following from the last issue: "The Call now counts on its subscription list all the families in town but two, one a well-to-do Main street family which keeps house without with-out any kind of newspapers or magazines, maga-zines, and to whom we gave the Call for eighteen months free; the other is a young family, the man of which was given $100 worth of boosting by the Call when he started work in a line in which he is said to be incompetent. The Call has spoken well of these people and no discrimination has been made against them. We have given them kind, gentlemanly gen-tlemanly treatment. In return they have proven themselves ungraceful pikers. pik-ers. We wrote to the towns where these men came from and asked if they had ever rendered any support to the community or had ever taken the home paper there. The answer was that they had not, but had been genuine knockers. A million years of evolution can hold out no hope of redemption for such men who delight in knocking the newspaper and insult a lady who thinking they were men had kindly asked for a subscription. One never knows when calamity is going to overtake him. Everything seems to be going along nicely and all at once something happens of fails to happen and things are changed. After learning to expect something good in the Moab paper every week and picking it out from the pile of exchanges we are rewarded by finding that the editor has said "good-bye. " C. A. Robertson, who has been the editor, has quit the ibusiness for the practice of law. Perhaps Per-haps he has done well, perhaps not we don't know, neither does he. It is natural for a live man to aspire and the law holds out a chance in the world without with-out continual application. Editing is a job that offers- no respites one must work while others sleep as well as while they work. There is one sure thing though and that is that Robertson was a good editor one who could keep his comunity in the lime-light an. at the same time earn a dividend for the stockholders. stock-holders. But if he could do these things he can do others so there is no time for idle regrets. Perhaps he has done the best thing the puzzle of it is though that even he himself will never know whether or not the change was for the best. Here's success to him in his chosen vocation and to the new editor. Colorado has started a fight against the conservation policies bequeathed to Taft by Roosevelt in a case in the supreme court. They question the right of the federal government and give as some of their argumeuts the following: "The brief develops the argument that by withdrawing from settlement and improvement large areas of land the western states are not being be-ing treated on an equality with their sister states, all in violation of the constitution. con-stitution. "Other states were left to develop through the settlement of public lands within their borders the settlers having pasturage upon such lands and timber therefrom for their necessities until the entire area of lands having any value became private property," it is argued in the brief. "To withdraw large bodies of land is to deprive a state of these advantages and to deny to it 1 constitutional equalities with other states." With one-fifth of its area withdrawn from development and permanently perm-anently exempt from taxation, Colorado haa been curtailed greatly in its right to develop and secure increase of revenue, it is declared. It is shown that the total forest reserve in Colorado is equal to the area of the states of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The question is asked as to what is the legitimate end, within the scope of the constitution, to be served by the system of reserves. According to the brief, the general answer is that it is to con- serve the national resources by providing provid-ing for a continuing supply of timber, regulate the flow of streams and pre- j serve power sites from being monopo-1 lized. It is contended that the federal government was not created to carry j on such work, even the "general welfare" wel-fare" clause of the constitution not being be-ing broad enough to include this object. Even if the power. did exist, it is argued, it could not be exercised without the consent of the states directly affected. "It is of infinitely more importance to us," it is added in the brief, "that the public lands become the homes of liberty loving citizens than the supply of timber tim-ber of unborn generations should be covered or that the national revenues j be increased by a few paltry millions." |