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Show THE OGDEN POST The Ogden Post t kkedom Published each Friday by The Ogden Post Printing and Publishing company. 2128 Kicsel avenue. matter OcEntered as second-clas- s the 1027. at post office at tober 17, Art of March the under Utah, Ogden, 8, 1879. Subscription Trice: 11.00 per Year Telephone 365 EDITORIAL THE PKOr.KFSSIVi:S COMING TO BAT During the month of July work or the big dam and the outlet works for the Echo reservoir has taken shape. Much of the work accomplished during the winter and spring was of a preliminary or preparatory nature and did not make any great showing. When the job is viewed in connection with the building of the new state highway and the changing of the Park City branch of the Union Pacific railway, it iecomes a sizeable job. The completion of the Echo reservoir will make a new epoch in Davis It will mean and Wclwr counties. that most of the water from the candoyon streams will be available for mestic uses, a very important feature when gas for manufacture is available in this valley. Davis and Weber counties should benefit greatly with this great addition to their water supply and the introduction of an economical and convenient fuel, both for industrial and domestic uses. Undoubtedly the population of this valley will be greatly increased by these innovations, and our irrigation companies, county and municipal officials should see to it that the ownership of the water in the canyon streams is retained for domestic and industrial uses. Time is coming and coming fast when we will have need for it. This valley with its transportation, its available manufacturing sites, its water privileges, its fertile lands and accessability to raw materials and economical fuel supply, in the form of gas, will take on a new era of progress. Denver and Pueblo have become great manufacturing centers and they have a higher freight rate and are farther away from the great consumption markets than are we. The dream of the progressive is now about to come true the day of the pessimist is passing. OGDEN WILL BECOME T1IE AIRMAIL CENTER What the air mail service is to Salt Lake, the part air and part rail service will be to Ogden. Already railroad officials are taking advantage of Ogdens location as the renter of mail service in the intermountain region, to jump from rail to air travel. On Tuesday, Paul Shoup, of the Southern Pacific lines, vice-preside- nt . another milestone is II ARRASSING HUMAN with a party of six left the train at Ogden and Jhroeeded to San Francisco by air. There were no planes suit able for the journey at the Ogden airport, and it became necessary to call on Salt Lake Airport for a FoLker plane. Salt Lake cannot become a part rail and part air station to the extent of Ogden, when located some thirty-si- x miles from the junction of transcontinental rail lines. ed THE PEOPLE'S MONEY DEPRECIATED 100 PER CENT The attention of the Ogden division of the Utah Taxpayers' association is called to the article on the first page of this issue of The Post, entitled So the People May Know. This article should be of interest to this association as it deals with the public expenditure of the peoples money. Particular attention is called to that part of the article which reveals the price to he paid for the publication of the official fist of nominations (three publications) is double the rate charged commerrial advertisers. The people are entitled to know why their money is worth only fifty cents on the dollar when paid by the county commissioners to the Standard-Examine- r. Will the Taxpayers association act ? THE GREAT AMERICAN EXPERIMENT The United States is the chief country in history where capitol, instead of usurping power to arbitrarily itself, has worked towards paying the highest possible wages, soiling at the lowest possible profit, Bnd earning as little on the investment involved as is economically and progressively sound. The old fear of gigantic finance came from a time when the financier was considered the enemy of the and the wishes of the people. rights Today that fear is disappearing. Knowledge has shown the people that American capitalism is a great influence, laboring to bring about general prosperity and national unity of thought and feeling. The present state of sincere amity between labor and capital is the direct result of a wise capitalism that nas made the American the best livmg and Wst paid inworker the world, him a definite and enl in society. d. not come the payment of high wages. Our people know they buy commodities at lower than would be possible under anyprices other system, with an equal wage and living standard. Few cries of trust are heard when it is understood that mass production is a means to reduce overhead, production, and so decrease C0RU all for the benefit of the Our citizens realize that people aous finance is necessary to ourtremem reaching the limit of our possibilities. They know that this money power will be used for ends that will incrense general prosperity and happiness. This is the great American istic experiment. It has modecapitalus the greatest nation in the world, the wealthiest and the most unified. in-cre- demo-craticizi- fihaV7 in-cro- DANGEROUS Addresses presented at the International association Chiefs of police convention at Colorado Springs, rewhich, if heedcently, contained advice crime and ed, will help prevent thi moral tfindardis nml witty practices of the nation. Carlton Simon, M. D., traced the increase after theory of crime, it nations and dewars which demoralize and virile of numbers stroy large of tbe human courageous member on. ruoc, leaving the residue to carry lie said in part: Wc can limit and harrass human freedom to such an extent that even the normally balanced individual loots reason that he is oppressed without of exmeans unlawful seek will and the llns pressing his personality,crusades is vrhicn social those of futility would mold public opinion and have blue laws. inspired what arc termed These huve usually worked the other way, to defeat their own purposes, and creating a taste for theofforbidden and freedom to a perversion leading unbridled licentiousness," Mr. Simon states a great truth when lie he says thHt human freedom can exan such to harrassed limited and tent that the individual will seek unlawful menns of expressing his per-ilsonality. We have all seen this lustrated by laws proposed which would make it "unlawful to sell or own small arms. This has a more particular bearing on American citizens than on any other people because the second amendment to the United States constitution gives all citizens the right to way a possess and bear arms. to This us and not liberty expressly given enjoyed by the people of many other nations. Further, it was a national defense measure in lieu of maintaining large standing armies. Hundreds of thousands of Americans who have worked for crime prevention and low enforcement would immediately become law breakers if denied the right to own revolvers and pistols. Thus, as Mr. Simon points out, measures can he made so draBlic that they dtfeat their own purpose. Crime prevention can he promoted only by reasonable laws, prompt law enforcement, eduaction and those things that strike deeply into the mind through the avenue of precept and the urge of motion, the cultivai-- i n cf true sport Kwnt VlrtiiVea SEUT315 how 192$ fuel that 'Si;- - Friday, August 3. C(Xi wsUr ....1 .f1'"1 thousand central heatinghousehold gas in The great increase cen-tri the future will be in these develop-miheating systems. Us be- in this directiim has barely have to said is 91 since pun, arid ..gined 2.000 per cent. Hi" evolution of gas is toanother greatmilestone on the road leading comfort. li. er ir.g Tin lit ill im-pro- ve al nt vs. caxf. REFT and r.y every test known to science rook ry beet sugar cannot be distinor in it guished in the laboratory cane sugar. They are many uses from one and the Bame chemical compound, sucrose although derived from different sources. To admit a prejudice against beet sugar is to admit ignorance of the advance of this great Industry. jhe buying of more beet sugar mean better prices hence more profit for farmers of many states. sugar A GREAT SERVANT OF AGRICULTURE train-loa- d A short time ago a fifty-ca- r culthe used lie in to of tractors, tivation of cotton, was shipped into It is stated that there Mississippi. machine will do the work of 1300 men and 5200 mules in drawing multiple row cultivators. The Florence, Alabama, Times-Newin commenting on this, says that there will probably be no more development in southern ags, sig-nifici- riculture during 1928. The tractor has given the farmer new standards of speed, efficiency and labor saving. It will be interesting to observe the progress in cotton cultivation in the Mississippi delta that will be effected by the utilization of these tractors. The relation between manufacturer and employe is becoming closer, and benefits resulting from higher individual output are being shared with workers in form of shorter hours, higher wages and better working conditions. Utah Construction Co. Gets Contract WEALTH AND POWER COME FROM MINES President W. H. Wattis of the Utah. The president of a large national Lank was recently criticized for in- Construction company announced that vestments in a gold and copper mine. his company had been awarded the Ills reply as reported in a news item, contract to construct the railway line is well worth reading: at Wells, Nevada, connecting the OreMines will be producing millions in gon Short Line tracks with the Westgold, silver and copper in the future ern Pacific. While the connecting line is not day when national banks are unknown, he said. long, the new road must be built over A mine contains a crop already the Southern Pacific lines and the raised, harvested and on deposit for Rtate highway which makes the unyou to check against at your pleasure. dertaking one of major importance. The wealth gathered, from the Connecting the two lines permits the Western Pacific to compete for trafmines immortalized King Solomon. Mining made Great Britain the fic originating on the Oregon Short Lino roads, and has attracted conworlds commercial dictator. Mining mude the United States the siderable attention in railroad circles. richest country in the world. Show me the country without mines and 1 will show you the people in degradation and poverty. We all know that poverty makes cowards of nations as well as individuals. Mining has transformed more poor We will take in your men into inillionaries and raised them to positions of honor and trust, than any other business. Mining has scored less than 35 per rent of the failures against 95 per' cent of failures shown in the general : merchandising business of the United THE REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OF is BERT HOOVER, SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, FOR 1926,! i S s AL GAS FOR HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES IN TWENTY-TW$167,940,000.00, AN AVERAGE OF 58.1 CENTS PER TH0US F SUMERS DEPENDED ENTIRELY UPON NATURAL GAS NATURAL GAS IS THE O Best and Most Econc YES!! OLD TIRES ON NEW ONES 1st. IT IS CLEAN. Natural gas burns 2nd. IT IS CONVENIENT. Natural! ' pipes, when and as needed. No amount used. You need not wait for old States. To be criticized for intelligently investing money in mines is to be critiz-e- d for assisting the development of one of our great necessary basic in- ones to give a lot of trouble. dustries. POLITICAL OPERATION WASTEFUL One of the best examples of the wisdom of private ownership as com- pared with public ownership railroads. They are privately owned and publicly regulated, with the result that we have the largest traffic, best service, highest-pai- d labor and lowest rates, of any country in the 3rd. IT SAVES LABOR. Natural gas a light to the gas burner, and cooking, turn the valve off and coal No labor building fires. 4th. IT IS CHEAP. Compared with is twice as efficient as mqnufad when used in the usual type of go will give as much heat as one too 5th. YOU CAN USE YOUR PRESENT ard gas range it can be used form quired, which our expert service o type natural gas burner can be In most cases, your present water 6th. SAVES TIME. With no kindling' soot or dirt in the house, with no out when through cooking, the o rest, study, civic problems, or world. In contrast w'ith this, Great Britain, Germany, France and other European countries where the railroads arc publicly owned and politically operated, pay 50 to 75 per cent lower wages, and charge rates much higher than we pay, while giving service which is gen e rally inferior to ours. There may be theoretical arguments favorable to public ownership of industry but they fall to the ground in a free country like the United States. The greatest objection to such a system is its inseparable companion political operal ion' which makes public ownership in practice an economic misfit. We had our experience with political oiieration of the railroads during the war. With imparied service and the highest freight and passenger rates ever imposed, expense of operation exceeded by hundreds of millions the revenue received. The changed conditions since they were returned to private control is an unan swerahle argument against this socialistic plan. JARDINE LEAVES FOR ALASKA Secretary of Agriculture Jardinc left Washington today for a three weeks inspection tour in Southeastern Alaska. En route to Seattle, from which city he will sail August 7, the Secretary will spend Sunday evening and Monday with President Coolidge at Brule, Wisconsin, For the past two years Secretary Jardine has planned to visit the various agricultural experiment stations conducted by the department in the territory, lie is also anxious to see the country in its undeveloped condition and to study its possibilities, particularly with reference to forest and wild life resources and power sites. His first stop will be at Ketchikan. Other stops will he made at Sitka, and at Juneau where he will visit the governor and other territorial officials. It is folly for the people of Our Country to clamor for federal ccon omy and for tax reduction, and yet permit their cities and counties to be recklessly extravagant in admini-trativ- e afairr-- The New Shoulder Built LEE TIRE 1 let Tires are guaranteed for one year against all road driving hot Kim Cuts, rors. such as: Blow-OutStone Bruises. Punctures, etc. s. hi Burkhead Super Service Dont Forget! You Can Join the 1 5,00 Home in the Coldest Weather at a 2!ih and Wash. Phone 3811 Day and Night Servire" U. J. BURKHEAD, Gen. Munuger I.l.S PIERSON, Hon. Sales Mgr. . KE3EJ raau'rerraiggssp.i |