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Show Friday, November The Ogden Post football championship this year. All that athletics attempts to do for the been undone by the Jrouth has in which tho members of the association have found themselves. It is evident, from their first decision and promises that they made to the several schools, that matters did not work out as they had hoped and planned, and it is ever so from the small boy up to the grown man that rules broken takes its toll. Small boys can be excused for breaking a rule, but not grown men who are teaching the W. P. EPPERSON, Editor Member Utah State Press Association Member National Editorial Association. Published each Friday by The Off den Poet Printing and Publuhing company, 2428 Kiesel avenue. matter OcEntered as second-clas- s tober 17, 1927, at the post office at Ogden, Utah, under the Act of March boys by 8. 1879. Subscription Price: $2.00 per Year. Telephone 365 EDITORIAL mi A Much Merited Re-Appointm- ent Governor Dern is to be congratuof Henry lated on his H. Blood as state road commissioner. Commissioner Blood has made a remarkable record as a member of this commission as it was during his tenure of office that practically all the improved roads of Utah have been built. This appointment means that the Utah state road program will be continued along the same lines that have been followed during tho past eight years, a program which has given to Utah the best, and more good roads, than any of the states of like wealth and population. Commissioner Blood Is outstanding among state road commissioners, lie and memhas served as ber of the executive committee of the American Association of Highway Officials and is now serving his second term as president of the Western Association of State Highway Officials, a position he was first elected to in 1927, when the association was reorganised at Denver, Colorado, vice-preside- Not Much Required to Be a Detective Balt take certainly has an unsophisticated detective on its police force. He is so unsophisticated that while on the witness stand he swore he could not positively identify the odor of whisky, but had been told of its odor by other officers. nt A Merrier Christmas The post office department, in order As to Traffic SlaughterLake The Salt daily newspapers have at last been aroused and are now making a vigorous campaign against reckless and drunken auto drivers. Speed, booze, carelessness, conceit, in difference to the rights of others, and general cussedness are among the most prevalent causes of the highway slaughter which goes merrily on. Hundreds of near accidents occur every day, not only in Salt Lake City, but on the streets and highways all over the state. No effort has been made to enforce traffic rules, if traffic rules there be. Parking cars on the path of travel, both day and night; running without lights or with one light and without rear lights; passing on hill tops and on curves; cutting in and taking right of way from approaching cars; speeding through street intersections and along the rear of parked cars are the most common accidents. causes of The fact that everybody owns and drives a car has much to do with this general slaughter. The individual is lenient because he does not know when he will have an accident; and no matter to what extent he is blameless, he knows the driver of the other car and his friends are liable to swear until they are black in the face that it was all the fault of the other fellow. Near accidents should be checked up when it is possible to do so. How often has it been remarked on the road, when passed by one of, these speed fiends, that that fellow will come to grief and then find his car in the ditch a few miles further on. Not until drivers make it a practice to turn in the numbers of reckless drivers encountered on the streets and highways will any rta progress in highway safety be made. Even in Salt Lake City there is little consideration given to pedes so-call- ed law-abidi- ng trians. One comes to a street crossing, awaits the green "go" light, starts across the street and has to scamper for his life to give up his right of way to a speed fiend dashing down from the rear. If he is a little slow, he is struck and killed it's just too bad I well, But after all this slaughter is not without its compensation it makes business for the doctors, the hospitals, the undertakers, the repair garages, and the car dealers. Cheap Advertising ' Last Saturday automobile dealers and financing corporations pulled off a cheap show in Salt take City. Nearcars were asly 100 old, sembled and paraded, all labeled as menaces to life and all condemned to be burned that same evening. As the parade passed the federal remarked: building an have seen hundreds of wrecked autos, I have seen many people who were killed or injured, but I cant recall that many old machines participated in the accidents. My observation has proven that high priced cars, driven at terrific speed, a bottle of booze, and a driver who thinks he owns the qarth, kills more people than can be charged to all the old cars in that parade." He was right, the people who put on the parade know he was right, and the public knows he was right, but the parade went over with a bang and made first page in all the daily newsout-of-da- their example. Athletics teaches discipline, fairness, quick thinking, loyalty and builds up the physique of the boys and girls. If the association does not live up to its rules and legislate against the rules, discipline is lost, fairness is ini-red, there is no use in thinking and oyalty cannot be expected. The only value received' is the exercise the boys get on the team. Let's put an arbitrator and officials in at the head of the association who will enforce the rules and not let this situation arise again. The mis-ak- e was made, and it cannot be corrected now, but another situation like this cannot arise if the authorities observe and live up to the rules. to facilitate the handling of Christmas mail, has asked that business concerns in large centers suspend, so far as is possible, the mailing of quantities of circulars, catalogues, etc., from Derember 16 to 20. If the public will cooperate to the extent of shopping early and mailing early It will help provide a merrier Christmas for many an overworked postal employe, messenger boy, clerk and business man or woman. Suggestions For Preventing Accidents. Tho National Safety congress states that, last year, people were 27,500 killed in automobile accidents, and recommends uniform traffic laws, standard traffic signs and a drivers state to eliminate unfit drivers from public streets and highways. Our annual toll of deaths and injuries is harrowing proof of the in efficiency of our traffic and licensing ordinances. Thousands of reckless, in competent and otherwise dangerous drivers crowd the highways, a menace to the life and property of every citilicense law in every zen. Compulsory insurance laws have been advocated in most states, and a number of them, in various forms, have been passed. Yet little has been done to correct the conditions that make insurance protection for the public necessary. It is unthinkable that a civilized nation, possessing more highways and automobiles than any of the world's great powers, should allow the reckless and incompetent driver to run rampant at the control of a ton or more of metal moving with terrific force. Every citizen should realize, as he reads of automobile accidents in his morning paper, that he may be the next victim. , Opportunities in the Each year the American people tend more than 23,000,000,000 messages. U. S. Civil Service We can at a reasonable cost speak to many great foreign cities. Only 15 per cent of the worlds telephones civil service comare unconnected with the American The United States competisystem. In a fraction of a second a mission hss announced open voice by telephone travels to a listener tive examinations as follows: across continents and oceans. topographic draftsman, International civilization owes the Irincipal senior topographic $2,300 a year; telephone a great debt. a year; topographic $2,000 draftsman, draftsman, $1,800 a year; assistant A a year, topographic draftsman $1,620 A large county in a western state $1,440 draftsman, topographic finding its crime problem growing junior Washservice, recently adapted its legal procedure a year, dcpartm'ental to the English system of swift retri- ington, D. C. bution and punishment. As a result, Dietitian, hospitals of the public within a short time, murders and other health service and veterans bureau major crimes dropped to a minimum. the United States. The county is experiencing the quiet- throughout warehouse examiner Assistant est period in its history so far as and bulk and sack grain), $2,600 culof criminal ravages are concerned. to $3,100 a year, bureau of agriis The other side of the picture pre- tural economics department sented by one of the larger American culture, for duty in Washington, D. cities. In this community few crim- C.. or in the field. inals are ever arrested and still fewer Junior chemist. $2,000. a year, decrimes are punished. It is estimated partmental service and in the xieia. that the murder's chance of reaching The optional subjects are advanced inthe electric chair is less than one in organic chemistry, analytical chemisa hundred. In consequence, crime is try, organic chemistry snd physical on the increase and the underworld thrives. Yet this citys record in com- 'Allstates except Maryland, Virand the Disparison to other American metropol- ginia, Vermont, Delaware received less ises is merely average. trict of Columbia have in the of It would seem that the American than their share appointments at service than no more departmental should need proof apportioned people . has been advanced in the last few Washington, D. C. Full information may be obtained years that our method of handling crime is foredoomed to failure. In from A. R. Ward, secretary of the board oi England, for example, a single un-- 1 United States civil service or cus-foffice the at in is cause! a murder examiners post year punished thirf city, speeches in parliament and public tomhouse in indignation. In the United States hundreds of murders go unavenged CRIME NEWS PREDOMINATES almost without comment. Somebody wrote the other day, ve blame. The public must take the dont look for the usual things. That Public opinion has been grossly negli- seems to have been the generally acYou rememgent in its attitude toward crime. We cepted theory of news.famous old ediwill never have a reform until a ma- ber it was one of the a man, bites a use If their citizens who our of dog tors said, power jority man bites a a laws if our but of not to demand an application news, .thats and criminal procedure that will bring dog, that is news." On this same big swift retribution to the wrong-doe- r. theory one would think all theseabout headlines in the daily papers crime and accidents and distresses would cease they have become so usual. It does one good to' read the or whether is The test of progress not it benefits the average person. In Christian Science Monitor once in a the only big past centuries the greatest progres- while, for it is about sive momevents customarily benefited daily we know of that doesnt give only the nobility and aristocracy. So- such horrid details. cial or scientific discoveries seldom FOODS AND FANCIES . touched the lives of the greAt body of Have you had your morning air? citizens. soon be the query, when the Will this scatOur American progress has become common? Weve had tered its principal benefits the other airplanes water the cure," the sunshine cure," person whose the way. It is the every-da- y yeast cure, and lots of other life has been enriched and made hapnot the air cure for the cures pier by the great industrial develop- next fad?whyThe writer has a family automoments of this century. The who keep 25 or 30 cakes agen- of friends bile, electricity, the radio-s- uch in their ice box; a Sunday of yeast civcies as these have revolutionized or two ago they had three guests, two ilization. of whom were yeast addicts" and We live in an age where prosperity to go to that ice box. It certainglad belongs not to a 'single Ruling class, ly is true that this world is an inbut to every worker in every field of teresting place in which to live beendeavor. No discovery of the time cause of the variety of people who has failed to do its snare, great or live in of a with, it, social and economic prog- habits and fancies. greater variety small, ress of the average person. The United States is in the midst of the greatest period of real progress in world history. Practical Test . co--to- or V, in-th- e Business and Bunk But-wh- English Report American Prosperity and prevent erosion on Z9? 27 per cent, a condition, declare?0 Bennett, not possible on such Farmers of the middle west and m the mere humid east northwest, following the lead of southern fanners, are adopting soil erosion Just aa Good prevention measures as never before, erosion A specialist H. woman II. Bennett, driver ran into an em says of the bureau of chemistry and soils, bankment and bent a fender. It United States department of agncul-tur- e, ned her. She went to a erV. . rJ who recently returned to Wash- asked the mechanic: inCan you fix this fender ington from an extended tour of spection. husband wont know it w bent?117 Much destructive erosion has resultThe mechanic looked at the ed from gullying and sheet wash on fender then nt her. end the unglaciated lands of. Wisconsin and I cant. ;But I tell lady, In one y0 Minnesota, says Mr. Bennett. ..Lcanfix t ,o that locality, a farmer reported that he had, -3 a few days: you can ask up your BU4- in his lifetime of 71 years, built four band how he bent it. one on same in top the fences place, of the other, as the preceding fences were successively covered with eroded material washed out' of the fields above." In another place he saw one fence buried and a subsequent fence half buried by sand which had washed down from gulies laid bare by These conditions, he says, Old Man Winter Is are forcing the farmers to adopt the erosion other and prevention terracing at Our Door! measures which have been successfully used in other regions. Have your radiator filled with For the first time erosion is being We have Prestone, recognized as a serious threat to the aleohol and glycerine. productivity of the great wheat belt Courteous Service. of eastern Oregon, Washington, and northern Idaho. In this region erosion is beginning at the tops of ridges and Gwilliam working down the slopes. This year, Super-Servic- e with the maximum wheat yield at 60 bushels to the acre, many washed slopes, ridge crests, and points produced less than 8 bushels per acre. 23rd and Grant Ave Ogden As a result of these visible losses terraces are now being' built in this ,- 2S10 ft Th Hi Ro W ue do Gr hoi nl tfc bet anti-freez- e. til da; Chi str lord Station er ten whi tki die hoi Sev bos A. Mn TUI (ho I D tert iTl 2S5f lien far the and T phia the Era Kit ... itself. KAMMEYERS 2416 Kiesel Avenue on port Emu tin, Whi H da i the iu u tn peny were nitti It will furnish running water under pressure, furnish heat and light in the poultry houses and thereby increase egg production, light the entire farm yard, operate various machines and take the chores out of farming altogether. back-breaki- EL A J.M Xra. ton, Brow Deft X. F lay Georj C.E. D C. C, B J.M. CL Todd, revie XeBi ng Mary Dane A serve fhibi owed ire ii nd i -- Part 0, I A dnr M ahui Bids &pla nina fceta. dab fvenii f the win; & n d a raas fair k Gi Combination Rates Now in Effect d & fra. Hey, B dM 7. Miri Mid These rates make it possible to equip your farm and farm home with labor-savin- g service at a reasonable cost. Please call upon our office nearest to you or drop 1 discuss and the application to your home cf iVr of labor saving services. Y ou are in no way obligated. Washington Avenue Terms If Desired. prev Lesl a Columbia or Buy these gifts that last or of hundreds other useful items. Bicycle Iver-Johns- This service will operate in many ways on the farm UTAH models at prices that are right. i l over-grazin-g. Those who have had installed in their homes electric service that from now on will cook for you heat water for you furnish electric refrigeration and render a dozen more helpful services in the home-- have brought happiness with them. Plan to have these in your Christmas budget. when you arc ready to buy that good Used Car. Practically all makes and I 0 Jo Case; Robt. H. Hinckley, Inc. Utah Athletics Need a Landis Pi tfc .0, ONT FORGET cremated cars during 1929 than from auto financing corporations. II a Helei papers. It is also well to remember that there were more tax returns from the Coaches and school officials in all of the schools in the state should make it their business at the next annual meeting of the Utah State High School Athletic association to get officials who will live up to the rules of the association, if there are any. If there are no rules it is important that there should be some in writing. If this Is not ,done athletics in the high schools is sure to die. There has been nothing so disgusting as the situation arising in the withgood proipect of feature of the . es. of the northwestern wheat bdt ui? ability to hold terrace, on steep Years Ahead Now for Dependable Electric Service The United States is a creditor nation to the extent that the world owes us approximately 26 billion dollars. It has been easy to loan this stupendous amount, but how about collectbother, that is a mating? ter for future generations to contend with. History tells us how other world creditor nations have collected, or secured their loans in the past, and we will collect, or attempt to collect, exactly in tho same way. Junking war and limiting the size of armies Shows ships will cut costa for a season, but it's a cinch force will be required, and be before these world obligations used, The American worker is the best are settled. paid in the tforld according to a recent survey made by the ministry of QUAKERS HAVE AUTO JAIL labor of Great Britain. This unbiased authority takes into They have an annoyng habit in consideration not only actual wages Philadelphia that is annoying to the received, but the real wage the motorists who park in prohibited buying power of money in the various zones, but helpful to the other folks countries concerned. On this basis, who want to use those places. The with the real wage in England count- police simply come along with their ed as 100, the average wage in Ger- service car when they find a promany is 05, in Italy 45, in France 55, hibited car, hist up the front end in Canada 143, and in the United of the criminal machine, and off it goes to the pound on its hind legs. States 179. In other words, the United States Wouldn't it be an awful feeling to worker is three times as prosperous come out in a hurry and see your as his brother in Germany, four times car being rushed off to the car jail," as prosperous as the Italian worker, and you could see visions of parting and more prosperous than from a ten spot" as the only way the worker in Canada, who comes you could redeem ? One of lifes darkest momenta. But why not? Parknearest our standards. ing laws should be reasonable in the first place, with the idea in mind of the greatest good for the greatest The work of the telephone in aiding number, and then they should be obeythe social and. industrial progress of ed. So should all other laws. We the world cannot be estimated. wonder if there isnt a tendency for The United States has 19,500,000 people to be a little more particular telephones and the number is increas- about obeying laws generally. It's ing at the rate of 800,000 annually. time. 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