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Show This is our farewell. For two years we have made you listen to us each I week through the columns of the Emery ' County Progress. We have enjoyed the privilege and believe vou have learned learn-ed to like our work. Now we come to the parting of the ways. Such a parting part-ing is always a sad time to an editor who has taken an interest in a paper and the welfare of its readers. The matter of keeping people supplied with the news of the county and of trying to keep a section up to the best it can be made to do stirs the heart of a man to an interest in his readers which in time binds him to them and makes a parting a sad time for him. Perhaps these sentiments are not shared by a great many of his readers - he does not expect ! sentiment from many of them. Money : is the only medium of exchange with some, and he is glad to greet those as well as the others. But let us state the fact: March 1, 1911, the Progress passed to James W. Johnson under a lease fo'r one year. This paper is his work. He is well known to most of you as he is a native of Huntington. He has not had newspaper news-paper experience, but has spent many years at school, has been on a mission and for the past two years has been a teacher at the Emery Stake Academy. He is young, ambitious and enterprising with a knowledge of the world, its ways, and its needs that fits him for the place. He will need your help and from the first day. One man can make a paper, but it takes a community to make of a paper what it should be. The editor needs your help and he needs a portion of your money. See that he gets both and a goodly portion of good-will. He will find his own troubles, you don't need to bother to furnish that for him. Help him along today and perhaps tne other fellow will notice your good works and do his share tomorrow. Emery county must work together for progress and development and she can use no better lever than a good paper. She can have a good paper if the paper can have the support of the people., another thing, a papor has to co.ne out each week, do not tire in well-doing but keep it up. As to the past two years: We have no apologies and no regrets. They have been good years for the editor and he feels that he has done his whole duty in his work. Mechanically the paper has been improved and delays in getting it to the readers have been reduced re-duced to the possibility of an accident. We have boosted for the country whenever when-ever and whereever we could, and to cut this short, we feel that we have done well by the people and that they have treated us well. Thanks. Tnjre is a great future for Emery county. It is rich in minerals, metals, oil, agricultural, horticultural and grazing graz-ing lands. We have thought we heard the foot-steps of the oncoming hosts who are to develop these things many times and again this spring the air is filled with gleams of hope. It is coming and the disappointments of the past will soon be a joke among the people who will throng these productive valleys and the miners who will respond to the resounding whistles of the mines in the hills. Leave no stone unturned that will reveal a resource to a prospective settler. set-tler. Above all else stay by the home paper and boost it in and out of season. Give the new editor of your best in ! hope and cheer and courage and he will j give of what he receives to the world. But, we have said too much, we must get back to that woid " Good bye." It is not a pleasant word to say but we know of no better. Wishing you all health, wealth and prosperity. Yours sincerely, J. S. Moffitt. Now that the truth has really been exposed, and you have had time to catch your breath I have a few words to say: It is with a full appreciation of the j responsibilities I assume, that I take ! this paper from the hands of Mr. Moffitt, ' whom you have undoubtedly found to be an able man and an untiring booster j for Emery county. I am the home j grown product and I desire, first of all, ! to extend my greetings to the many I patrons and friends of the Emery Coun- ! ty Progress and solicit your kind patron- 1 age and good-will. ' The paper is a real live wire dedicated j to the welfare and progression of Emery ' county. So far she has been loyal to ' the call and a credit to the people she j represents, and I propose that she shall cor:tin.!i'; to stand for right and progress- j ion. . ' I I do not intend to revolutionize the; world with my phenomenal editorials, but I will insist on crying in the public ear the good qualities of our country. ! until we hear the snorts of the great iron horse close to our ears and then ! I'll hang out our sign for something else. ' Should there be anything of an ill : nature existing between the paper and any of its patrons do us a favor by call-! call-! ing at the office and we'll have a friendly settlement. We are going to hold on to our excellent excel-lent job printer, Mr. Williams, anil we shall continue to do the high class job ' work that our name stands for, and we'll do it at the right price. The Progress stands by you ant1 your county. Do you support it with your patronrge and good words? Accept a cordial invitation to call at the office and see how we do things. J. W. Johnson. The following gentle criticism was offered our legislators in a recent issue of the Herald Republican: "Now, the best way to make and keep a man a good citizen is to insure him work and a reward for his labor. We need better roads; it will require labor to construct them; we need to have some remote but rich territory in the state put in reach or a marKet ami placed so that those regions will be able I to supply support to some more thous- ands of men than are now at work. We 1 need such legislation as will reduce the cost of living in Utah materially. It would be a great thing if the legislature of Utah would frame and pass an arbitration law which would just settle disputes between employers and employees, em-ployees, without resort to strikes and quarrels and losses which employees cannot can-not afford to suffer. We are paying thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands annually for food stuffs brought in from outside states which Utah could just as weil'suppiy as not. The legislature could help in this, by clearing the way to districts not now cultivated, and perhaps by adding a little bounty for exceptionally good work." Lets give them credit for the good they have accomplished, and hope they will to something do appease the unsatisfied. The bill introduced by Mr. Russell prohibiting gambling and providing for the destruction of gambling property, etc., ought to be passed. It makes gambling a felony, and it includes the slot machine' business in the category of prohibited schemes of making money. It imposes upon the sheriffs, constables, policemen and all peace officers, to seize such devices that are prohibited and take them to a magistrate who may cause them to be destroyed. The bill is modeled after the Nevada anti-gambling law. Some of the principal cities and towns are beginning to realize the necessity of (some such law being placed on our j statute books. Experience has taught ; our country that legitimate business suffers when money is spent in games of chance, and swindling schemes. j Unless some such a prohibitary meas-I meas-I ure is considered and the entire business made unlawful, Utah will be invaded by the gamblers who have been driven out of other states. Utah should not be made the dumping grounds for lawless corruption. She has enough troubles of her own to contend with at present. Here's hoping the legislature will take time to consider it. |