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Show Friday, July 22, TI1E OGDEN POST The Ogden Post AND THEATRE-GRAM- S IuMixhrd each Friday by The Ogden Font 1'rinting and Puhlihhing company, 2420 Kieael avenue. Telephone 3G5 Editorial Of! DEN WILL FIGIIT TO JKotelt its future OgiK n ihamlnr of coirmuTce reach- ed a definite titnUion thia week to make a determined fight to secure an equal freight rate on grain through the Ogden gateway to San Francisco, as has been anounced to the coast by the way of the Roger-soIdaho-Weiln, Nevada s, cut-o- ff from Idaho. The determination to carry on the fight to a finish was reached at a meeting of the shippers of the city with the chamber directors and officers. Every person in Ogden is affected by the present situation and should join in this fight. Thia was the view of tho shippers at the meeting. James II. DeVine, president of the chamber of commerce, announced the decision of the shippers and the chamber to make a fight to save the individual, store, furtory and industries of Ogden and Salt Lake as well as the territory, lie said: If freight barriers are erected Against our city and our state, our industries will be wrecked and that effects us all. If it is only the matter of freight carried through our terminal and the number of men employed to handle that freight, we aro affected. Regarding the freight rate reduction, our proposal would be to suspend the Union Pacific's proposed Rogerson cut-owheat rale and, on hearings before the interstate commerce commission, to ask that the same rates be established by the way of both gateways the Ogden and the with people from a dozen western states. The medicinal quality of the the water effected some wonderful cures of patients suffering rheumatism and gout. When the resort was doing very well and seemed to bo on the point of adding fame to Ogden and the state, it was suddenly leased. The famous Utah Hot Springs soon became a thing of the past. Attention was not given to the matter of continuing the springs as a great watering place of the west, where the afflicted could go and make their home, but was turned into a resort. The changa in the method of operation, caused a decrease in the income of the and it passed .into many proM-rtbunds. The large spacious and pleasant dining room lyas turned into a dance hall. The sleeping rooms were closed, the bath houses run down and no money was expended in keeping the place up. The water of the Utah Hot Springs has properties that are on a par with those of any of the watering places of the country. The properties of the water at the mouth of the canyon are especially adapted as to medicinal properties. It seems that there is an opportunity for the building of a sanitarium, at either site or a sanitarium at each place and conduct them properly and it would be a wonderful advertising asset to the city. ad-juce- nt ff Rogenton-Welis.- " Eugene R. Alton, manager of the Globe Grain and Milling company, was named as'chuirman of the shippers committee. Reviewing the milling conditions in Ogden and Utah, as affected by the rate, said the Ogden mills have an annual payroll of about of a million dollars. He said the shippers appreciate the fight being made by the chamber of commerce. Many industrial leuders and shippers have indicated their desire to with the chamber of commerce in the fight to insure the future of the city's industries. It is just as President DeVine stated, the fight is one that concerns tho citizens and taxpayers of this city. Our industries, such as the grain and livestock business, the manufacturers and jobbers are threatened. Take all of these great payroll builders from Ogden and what is there left? But Ogden is not as unfortunately located as far as the railroads are concerned, as are some of the cities and towns of the country, which have felt the tenacles of the giant octopus stifle their industries. Then too, there is a court of last resort-inter- state three-quarte- rs EVEN AS YOU AND II I Ws very much interested in a portion of an article written by Amos Parrish of New York, that came to iny desk recently on the analysis of the average American. lie took his report from an investigation made by Harry L. Ilollingworth of Columbia University, and has this to say about YOU and ME: 'Here is the average man: Weight, ISO pounds, five feet seven inches tall. Ilis brain weights 13U0 grams twice as much as that of a great ape, but small compared with some brains, which weigh 2000 grams. The average man's pulse beats about 70 a minute. 'He has a vocabulary of 7500 words, (lies generous with me). Ask him to define dilapidated or philanthropy or coinage and youll find he cant do it. He does understand the words shrewd and insure. lie cant tell you accurately the difference between the words poverty and misery, nor can he tell you the difference between revolution and evolution. lie can repeat seven numbers, but when asked to repeat eight he will leave out one. He can do simple mathematical problems, but they must be very simple. This average man quits school at the eighth grade. He knows a little gvogruphy, a little history, and, a little bit about physiology, lie knows practically nothing about government, science or politics although he is a voter. And of literature, of course he knows scarcely a thing. On an intelligence test, he rates about what the average boy of 14 would rate, because he has never, developed any further than this old mentality. commerce commission, who His rjigion and his politics are will be asked to review the petition of the Ogden chamber of commerce and usually the same as his fathers. At the of 53 or before, this average shipper, against the alleged descrimi-natio- n man age will die. of the railroad company. lie is very superstitious. And he While Ogden is preparing to present its case to the interstate com- believes a lot of nonsense. About all merce commission, the suggestion has be talks about in. conversation is the lwen advanced by certain shippers of weather and perhaps a little exchange the city, that Ogden manufacturers of personalties. Now whut do you think of that? and shippers have a little trade Junket In some places he hits us all pretty or excursion to northern Utah and hard, southern Idaho and assure the peo- not so but as we think about it, hes far wrong at that ple of that district, that Ogden Is making the fight for them as well as this city. The auto trip to cover WHY STAY THERE? Just now people are dying in the three or four days, would also enable the manufacturers, Jobbers and eastern portion of these United States shippers to advise our residents to of America from heat. A few weeks the north, of what Ogden has to offer ago the people of the lower Missisas the intermountain milling and man- sippi valley were being drowned and ufacturing metropolis. It is estimated driven from their homes by flood. that at least twenty automobiles could About the same time the people of the middle west were burrowing in be filled for such a trip. cellars to escape cyclones and a few months before they were perishing WEEDS IN VACANT LOTS in blizzards. ORIGIN OF MANY FIRES The month of July has been one As a whole we are sorry for the of almost continuous daily service for people who dwell in a land beset with the fire department. The fire in a such hazards, especially for the peogreat majority of the rawa has been ple who are unable to get away, but weed fires. Little damage has been we are not especially sorrp for those done as a whole by the fires, but who arc financially able to live elsethere have been, those fires that have where. The rich people of the cast menaced the homes of Ogden resi- have these discomforts and hazards dents. coming to them. If they insist in There is a new state law regarding living in such a' country they must the extermination of weeds. The law pay the price. also authorizes the city to Out here in the valleys of the a weed inspector, whose duty appoint is to see Rocky mountains where weather conthat the laws are enforced. In cases ditions arc ideal we have only symwhere lots are found to contain weeds, pathy for the of the the inspector is authorized to have easterner. Those people are certainly the lots cleaned up of the weeds and stuck on their country and many of them prefer dying in the east to living charge it up to the property. One of the most unsightly in the west. This has been proven things that can exist in a city, is for lots time and again in the case of the to be covered with noxious weeds. In tuberculous affected. Mny easternmany cases the lots of the city whore ers have been benefited and partially the weeds are found to rxist, are cured of the affliction by a few owned by Those lots, months sojourn in the west, and then for the most part, are allowed to return to the g fogs and stand from one years end to the next. dampness of their eastern homes. If a grass fire does not burn out the dry grass and weeds, they go to seed LET THE LAW TAKE and the next year a large crop of ITS COURSE vreods is not only found on that propThe incident has stirred the erty but also on adjoining property people Ferry of Utah to the depths and which the seeds are blown. uPJn public opinion is on the rampage The immediate action by the city that the Ferry boys be demanding authorities upon the enforcement of There is a cry severely punished. the weed law. will reduce the fire hazthat the going up Jewish law ards and reduce the weed growth of should be enforced: old An eye for an the future. eye, a tooth for a tooth. No one can rise up and champion MODERN SANITARIUM WOULD the berry boys for their silliness and ADVERTISE OGDEN We have great symTwo weeks ago the Utah Hot the father and mother, out for pathy Springs buildings, nine miles north of are forced to say that the boys should Ogden were razed in a late evening lx? made to take their medicine. But fire. About a year prior the Ogden how about the hundreds and thousSanitarium was by ands of other booze parties which will fire. At present Ogden destroyed is without a he pulled in Salt Lake City and other sanitarium and bathing resort. Twenty Utuh communities before this long the years ago Utah Hot Springs was case ceases to be talked about? How made one of the most attractive wa- about the hundreds of booze parties tering places in the west. William J. which will be pulled in Salt Lake City bhealy, manager for the Ogden own- before this case conies to trial? How made ers, a great resort out of the about the scores of boose parties place, with an expenditure of nljout which have been pulled even since 80,000. The hotel was always filled the Ferry incident? Will one per 14-ye- ar non-residen- ts. death-dealin- . short-coming- s. cent of the members of these parties No. Can five per cent he arrested? of the members of these parties be No. Will arrested and convicted? solid public opinion demand that the prohibition law be enforced? Again the answer is no. ; Just now public opinion is demanding its pound of flesh from the Ferry boys, and that pound of flesh is due and payable, but public opinion is not demanding it from those who form booze joy parties which have a more fortunate ending. Many of those who condemn in severest terms the Ferry boys and their associates are champions of the moonshine fraternity and are aiders and abetters of the bootlegger.. One sees this statement proven every day, and we have otherwise good citizens who make no bones about it. Fact is, public opinion does nut demand the observance of the prohibition law on the part of the people nor its enforcement on the part of public officials. It is only when we become excited and shocked that we become Interested in the observance and enforcement of the law. We endorse the suspension of Officer Gordon and think it should be permanent, but as he says: Ilow about the great number of offending citizens who are continually throwing booze parties and getting away with it. A drunken man at the wheel of an automobile is worse than a drunken man behind a machine gun, but how often are these offenders placed under arrest. Officer Gordon is right when he intimates that there are scores and scores of booze parties being nulled off where no arrests are made. Will the Ferry incident awaken the officers to doing their duty, and will it cause the people to demand that the officers do their duty and back them up in' so doing. Judge Hendricks of Ogden seems to be In earnest in this matter and is parsing out jail sentences to drunken auto drivers. Let the law take its course in the matter of the Ferry brothers, but see to it that it takes its course in other cases of similar nature. When the best is done when public opinion is solidly against drunken driving there will be thousands of deaths from automobiles. Already they are more dangerous than war when driven by booze-craze- d individuals. for peace and quiet of the natives oh! gosh, it seems so long ago. The sound of the music made some W the merchants of the city rush to their front doors and see what it was all about. Even the pfedestrains showed more interest in life and said that it only required a band to wake up the Lets have a band for the ol town. fail fashion show. The Ogden post of the American Legion is a live bunch of peppy young men. They are planning to put on one of the biggest state conventions the Legion has seen since its organiThe general zation was effected. committee has extended an. invitation o Frssident Coolidge to be here one day for the convention, August 20, preferred. The Legionnaires are going o bring thousands of visitors to Ogden next month and the people of Ogden should unite in giving their whole hearted financial and moral Senator support on this occasion. Reed Smoot said he would urge the president to visit Ogden during Legion meeting. Mr. and Mrs A. W. Walker, Miss Mary Walkerm Spencer Walker, Misses Elizabeth Tomlinson, Dorothy Wilcox and Esther Lashus, spent the holidays of the Fourth at Spencer, Idaho, with Mrs. Iffie B. Spencer. Mrs. Walker and her daughter will remain in Idaho for a number of weeks. 1927 U. of U. Clinic Takes Intelligent Advertising year 1026-1- 7 the During the schoolclinic took care of University of Utah and 7 192 calls for medical advice student the of members attention from ot body. While the major portionsome advice alone, for were these calls were far treatments of a more serious nature such as setting of broken bones and bandaging of injuries. exThe purpose of the clinic is to for student amine each undergraduate specific and defects prescribe physical exercises or treatments to correct them. It also treats all ambulatory cases and renders first aid in and emergencies. During the year it gave very thorough examinations to 1135 new students with resulting corrective application of exercises. The clinic for next year will embrace also the work of proper mental in adjustment to school enviomment addition to physical attention. Problems met by students will be given special attention and courses taken will be largely dependent upon the results gathered by the examination to be given entering students. Through this work it is expected that a smaller cent of failures will result than eretofore. This is in line with the program of developement at the larger and most progressive institutions of the country. The world marvels at the of the American telephone Nothing has done more to j.ut t phones in practically every An: trie,, home, than advertising. Government owned telepi.'.;. tems in Europe see no need tor vertising. The taxpayer ha j eovw . deficits, and there is no fut officials to maintain a grow!: g &hone business and pay ot thousands of holders. To show why the American yitea grows, it is only necessary to rtH some of the advertising of W,l tie. phone companies. A good illustration in advertising appearing in Maryland newspapers during a recent Month. One advertisement appealed to the young person at school to ring up the folks at home and keep up per. sonal contact. Another, pointed out the cheer that it brought to parents when their young people hay, gone out in different walks of life make a little phone visit it, lead of merely trusting to an occasional Yet another, suggested that a young person away from home, when confronted by problems, gets comfort and help by ringing up the home for advice. Care of 7,192 Calls oci-den- ts A Builder of Business inc-.r- divid-hundred- s -- fet-te- More than 27,000 people were killed , by autos in the United States last year accidents and most of the were avoidable. In most cases where the booze fighter has money he buys his way out of killing people and the incensed public ceases to care about it. If the killer is poor and cant raise cash, the matter is dropped. After all is said and done it doesnt matter much if one Is killed by an automobile; in fact, it is so common that it is becoming quite fashionable. It is just another version of locking the stable after the horse is stolen. so-call- ed On the Street That Lindbergh may visit Ogden in September seems assured. It would be a good time for Ogden merchants and chamber of commerce to take steps for the holding of the annual fashion show and harvest festival on that occasion. Let the air heros visit We signal the opening of the show. imwill have Washington avenue provements done at that time and it sure would make an ideal place for the celebration. Our Main Street Is going to be all dressed up with its new jeweled tights along the curb line and a new dress with no fancy sandstone blocks in the center of the street to jolt the autoist and make him appreciate the good roads out of the business district. We will be mighty proud of the new street. The suggestion that the improvement work be carried on at night is a good one. It will give the laborers .a chance to accomplish much work, and then they will not suffer from the heat. Last week one of the railroad bands of the Union Pacific was in Ogden and paraded up the street. It was the first time a band has disturbed Che BLUE PINE MALT SYRUP This is the NEW STAR (Hop Flavored) O G 4 Rubber Suspended The most perfect product known for the purpose intended. MOTOR O G Guaranteed to please or your money refunded. Smooth Beyond Comparison G G When you can get a car with the velvety smooth-nes- s of a six along with the power, speed, comfort and economy that the Star has always had, why pay more than $822.00 delivered? Try a Can Today! Ride in it and be convinced! No boiling necessary. i G G OtdlO'Qlavozs 23rd R. T. MITCHELL CO. at Kiesel Phone 331 |