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Show 2 The Ocden Post W. P. EPPERSON, Editor Uember Utah Stato Press Association Member National Editorial Association. Published each Friday by The Of-de- a Post Printinf and Publishing company, 2428 Kiesel avenue. Entered as second-clamatter October 17, 1927, at the post office at Ogden, Utah, under the Act of March ss 3. 1879. Subscription Price; 2.00 per Year. Telephone 365 EDITORIAL Lets Have Taxable Property First Many Utah people are getting all heated up in their advocacy of a hardsurfaced highway all the way into the Uintah basin. This agitation has merit, but what the Uintah basin needs, and what it has long needed, is a railroad connecting Salt Lake and Denver and with the outside world both east and west, north and south. The taxpayers money will be required d to build this proposed highway federal state and county but a railway would be built by corporate funds and would have the advantage of'1 paying taxes with which to eventually build state highways. A federal specification state highway at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars is just being completed all the way from Salt Lake to Vernal, all at the expense of taxpayers. The wise move Just now would be to bring pressure on the Interstate Commerce commission to allow a railroad to bo built. The claim that there is not sufficient business to justify the construction of a railroad, or that the basin is already provided with transportation facilities is being used by those who are opposing ' the building of a railroad; if tnU contention be true, the building of a hardsurfaced road would be folly. Admittedly it pays to build railroads before building highways. hard-surface- . Friday, December THE OGDEN POST hard-surfac- hard-surfac- ed ed Is a New Constitution The Only Remedy For several years past a large element of progressive Utahns have held that the greatest legislative need of Utah is a constitutional convention. Conditions have changed since the adoption of the constitution, changed to the extent that many provisions of the constitution are being ignored and some declared void by the supreme court - Just now Utah is faced by a special session of the legislature, made lecessary to secure amendments to the constitution. The principal criticism to the Utah constitution is that it is too volumnous, covers too much ground, limits the powers of the legislature and makes important legislation impossible. In short it has become to a great extent unworkable. To make the Utah constitution workable, amendments must be adopted that will make it look like a crazy quilt. As has been said, the constitution provides for too much, it is longer than the constitution of the United States. Business Must Grow There is a good deal of loose talk flying around concerning the effect of the recent stock market slump on American business. Though thousands of persons have lost money in the recent slump in stock prices, they are not suddenly going to give up their mode of living and accept a substantially lowered standard, so long as their jobs are safe. And the latest government report on employment, showing that it is down only about 2.5 per cent from September and still well above last year docs not Indicate that these jobs are yet in any great danger. Business may be affected to some extent But there are millions of persons who own outright the securities of basic industries, bought on expert advice. They have little to worry about for the wheels of industry will keep turning and normal profits and dividends should be paid as in the other person, in any place in the the continuous educational work of world, at a low cost and with a mini- thousands of country weekly and small mum of delay. daily newspapers which stand for national stability and industrial development. These community newspapers devote much of their space to showing how the bulk of the payrolls and The prolonged drought in the Pa- smaller great industries maintain business cific northwest has, in many localities, and employment at a normal level all seriously lowered the amount of water the year round. Great corporations, available for hydroelectric plants. enormous skyscrapers, ocean steamIn Seattle and Tacoma it has been railroads, banking and utilship found necessary to place restrictions ities lines, mav be the backbone of the on the amount of power used. Two country, but the thousands of smaller municipally owned plants serving payroll and industry towns in the these cities are without facilities for country whose story is told week by generating power by steam or trans- week in the country press is the body mitting it from other sections. of our economic structure which gives Privately owned competing hydro the backbone life. Rural press circuplants in the same area are providing lation reaches a majority of working, thinking Americans in their homes and adequate service, due to stand-b- y steam plants and interconnection is the great national stabilizer. which gives a coordinated system able The business stability of the nation to meet just such an emergency. depends, as President Hoover has Here is a great weakness in the said, on the pulse of the millions back whole structure of municipal owner- in the country, suburban and inter-urba-n ship. A municipal plant is necessarcommunities and does not exist ily localized and when a crisis arrives by the fiat or the decree of the metrohas no outside resources to draw upon politan brains and hearts and purse to maintain high standards of service. strings. Advantages of Interconnection The Frontier Spirit Record of Good What is needed to solve our crime problem may be an application of the old, robust, frontier spirit of America. The western empire was not tamed by professional reformers and n The flourished until hardy citizens, determined to wage a relentless war on lawlessness, gave them a taste of their own medicine. One dose of lead proved to be worth more than a dozen doses of sumptuary ' legislation. The old days are over. But much the same situation remains In the underworlds of our great cities. A ruthless, organized and intelligent criminal class is pitting itself against society. And so far society seems to have lost ground. The reason for this failure of law and order is clear. ,We have burdened ourselves with a maze of laws that have reacted, in the fashion of boomerangs, to the advantage of the criminal and the disadvantage of the good citizen. Legal technicalities, and the activities of and reformers make many of our trials travesties on justice. One wonders what those pioneers who founded American civilization would think of a nation where, in citimany localities, the zen is virtually prohibited from owning a gun for his protection or amusement, and cannot defend himself against the underworld with its own weapons. Perhaps in that they would find adequate reason for our abnormal crime record. law-passe- rs. bad-me- sob-siste-rs law-abidi- ng Safety in the School In recent years our outstanding industries have proceeded on the theory that safety is an integral part of good business that the safe plant is the efficient, prosperous and economical one. Following this trend, many of the schools of the nation have come to accept safety as a necessary part of their curricula. It has been advocated and adopted by a multitude of educational leaders and the result has been a tremendous success. In schools where safety instruction is well organized at least a 50 per cent reduction in child mortality has been effected. This direct saving in lives is not the only benefit of safety instruction. It prepares a new generation to take its place in line with a sound knowledge and Intuitive grasp of the accident problem. ' Twenty thousand children are killed by accidents each year. If all schools introduced safety into their classes this number could quickly be reduced. It is a proven fact that most accidents are unnecessary, and the result of ignorance or carelessness. Every American child should be given the information that may prove the means of saving him from accident Two Billions for Progress The confidence felt by public utility executives in the immediate industrial future of America is shown by the fact that gas, electric and street railway companies contemplate spending almost $2,000,000,000 during 1930 for new construction and expansion of fapast cilities, and for improvement to existIn the meantime business will grow ing properties. This will exceed the and new millions will be invested in 1929 budget by more than $100,000,-00its securities by persons who seek the advice of reputable bankers and This gigantic expenditure, accordbrokers. ing to public utility representatives who laid information before President Hoover, will not only be sufficient to keep utility employment at a high Progress might be defined as any level, but will provide enormous orders activity which brings the greatest pos- to be filled by the many thousands sible number of benefits to the great- of employes' in related industries. est possible number of people. None of the plan, In the light of this strict definition, or have even utility companies reducconsidered, wage twentieth-centur- y America is under- tions, and in a number of instances going the greatest period of real progincreases for emress in world history. will be forthcoming. ployes The fact that this nation has deThe utilities are probably the veloped the . greatest industries and best public barometer of American existing has the greatest potentialities for fuand progress prosperity. Their sucture achievement, makes it possible to cessful operation is dependent upon provide a hundred million people with the conditions within thousands of comforts, luxuries and conveniences factories and homes the which consume the wildest dreams of their beyond gas and powrer. They would be the The railroad, automo- first to feel a serious business depresbile, good roads, telephone, electricity, and the first to retrench. And sion, radio, schools, libraries products of the fact that their plans for the coman industrial civilization have made will make it the greatest ing year us an outstanding nation. period of progress in their history should be sufficient answer to those who have prophecied a gloomy future for the and producers of the nation. ' Both in actual number of telephones and in proportion to the population, the United States leads all other countries, with 20,000,000 of the world's 34,000,000 instruments. Americana make from 5 to 15 times as much use of the telephone as do At the conclusion of the greatest era of stock' speculation in history, Europeans. Europe is striving to equal us and, President Hoover checked mass hysin time, may succeed. When that day teria by mobilizing industrial coopercomes the world will be joined to- ation and showing the people that the gether by a network of wires that will business of the nation was on a sound permit any person to speak to any basis. What he did was in line with 0. What Is Progress? first-of-the-yc- ar , Food is the latest of the great dustries to adopt the principles of mass production and distribution. Great organizations are to manufacture scores of products, thus giving the consumer the advantage of facilities that improve quality and cut costs. Perhaps the only remarkable thing about this new trend is that it has been so long in coming. It is certainly logical that the most essential and basic of all industries should adopt the methods whereby other American industries have progressed to a point where they are the greatest in world history. The housewife of the future should get a superior food product for a lower price, even as mass production has given us better clothes, automobiles, transportation, gas and electric service and a multitude of other commodities. wage-earne- rs Country Press Stabilizes Nation in- ve Only Common Sense Mining, always a basic factor in the creation and development of civilization, plays a part of steadily increasing importance in the progress of the United States. The great industrial projects of the time have caused a tremendous and almost insatiable demand for the base The telephone, electricity, metals. radio, automobile, railroads without metals such industries as these could not exist. As the mining industry grows, its benefits to the nation at large are greater and more widespread. More and more people are supported, directly and indirectly, by mining, and the states prosper great accordingly. It is only common sense to aid the development of the mining industry by means of fair and reasonable legislation and taxation. 3, 10. Meeting Mortgage Co. The forest fire showing in 1928 fell To the stockholders of the Utah below that of 1927, which bettered that of 1926 in practically every point Mortgage Coj Tlease take notice that a special on the national forests of the United an- meeting of the stockholders has been foresters to the according States, nual report submitted to the secre- called by order of the Board of Directors and will be held at 11:30 tary of agrk'ulture. 20th day of JanThe number of fires covering 10 oclock a. m. onthetheoffice of the Comat 1930, acres or more almost doubled, ap- uary, 2511 No. Washington Aveaverage; and the pany at proaching the for the purUtah, City, fires increased nue, Ogden number of pose of voting upon and consenting to 42 per cent and exceeded the an increase of the capital stock of the Of all classes of average. railcaused Company as proposed by the Board fires only those by of Directors, as follows: roads showed any decrease. land national forest A. That the capital stock of this The area of burned increased 134 per cent and rose Company be increased from 77,000 to within 9 per cent of the average shares, divided into 2000 shares of cumulative preferred stock of for the period, which included 7V4 two bad years; the total damage ex- the par value of $50.00 per share, and ex- 75,000 shares of common stock of the ceeded $800,000; and penditures (mostly on large fires) ap- par value of $1.00 per share, to 83,500 shares, divided into 2000 shares of proached $1,200,000. cumulative preferred stock of 1928 all of the Although fires were held to less than 10 acres the par value of $50.00 per share, 6500 cumulative pretach, the bulk of the damage was done shares of 7 of second value of $50.00 the stock ferred 100 acres par covered fires which by the of comshares and 75,000 share per or more. of value the $1.00 stock of mon par Owing to severe fires of the sumshare. per calmer and early fall of the present endar year, 1929, a deficiency of at B. That the 7Vi cumulative preleast $3,000,000 will probably have to ferred stock shall have the same prefbe sought. The activity of the fire erences, priorities and dividend rate, prevention and suppression forces on voting power and redemption prothe national forests this year is indi- visions as heretofore, all of which shall cated by the fact that only ten per be set forth in the amendment in subcent of the fires reached the size of stantially the same language as now ten acres. That speed and effective- exists in the amended articles of inness in fire suppression are directly corporation of the Company. controlled by the adequacy of the road C. That the 7 second, cumulative and trail system has been demon- preferred stock shall have the same strated with increasing force in re- preferences, priorities, voting power cent years. The present annual ap- - end redemption provisions, with reiropriation for minor roads and trails spect to the common stock of the Coms $3,000,000. At present costs, and pany, as is provided for the 7 Vi 9b cuat that rate of appropriation, the mulative preferred stock, but subject needed work of this character which and subsequent to the said 7 Vi cumuis now planned will be completed 37 lative preferred stock as to preferyears hence. Meanwhile losses will ences, priorities, payment of dividend be mounting through the destruction and redemption provisions. of merchantable timber and of scenic D. That the rights of the common and recreational values, through flood stock shall remain the same as is now damage, the impaired value of water- provided with respect thereto in the sheds, and the conversion of timber-land- s amended articles of incorporation of into unproductive wastes. the Company. . E. To take any further action neeInfluence cssary and appropriate in connection Cop (stopping drunk motorist): with the foregoing, and to transact Are you drunk! such other business as may properly Drunk Motorist: No, shir. , come before the meeting. Cop: Do you know Abraham LinBY ORDER OF THE BOARD coln?., OF DIRECTORS. D. M.': "Hes a personal friend of J. BYRON BARTON, mine. Secretary. Columbus Jester. Dated at Cop: Drive on. Ogden, Utah, December 26, 1929. What Better? First publication December 27, 1929. Magistrate: Prisoner, you are Last publication January 101930. charged with habitual drunkenness. What excuse have you to offer? Offender (brightly): Habitual Notice thirst, your worship. man-caus- ed ar man-caus- ed hs . , , of Annual Meeting The annual meeting of the Stockholders of the Tower Petroleum Com' pany will be held at the office of the Company at 2433 Grant Avenue, Og den, Utah, on Monday, January 13th, 1930, at two oclock P. M., for the Probate and Guardianship of electing Directors. Also purpose Notices to vote upon an Amendment of the Consult County Clerk or Respective Articles of reducing the Signers for Further Information. par value ofIncorporation the Common Stock from Twenty-Fiv- e Dollars per share to Twenty-Fiv- e cents per share. Also to Estate of Roy H. Peck, deceased. authorize the conversion of four thou Creditors will present claims with sand shares of Preferred Stock hav Notice to Creditors Delinquent Notice Lackawanna Mining Company Principal place of business: 278 25th Street, Ogden, Utah. There are delinquent upon the following described stock, on account of assessment No. 2 levied on the 16th day of November, 1929, and the amounts set opposite the names of the respective shareholders aa follows: Name Cert. No. Shares Amount 491 Allen, T. R.... 1,000 $ 5.Q0 344 Bush, Geo. A- 1,000 5.00 345 Bush, Lillian G 500 2.50 154 Blair, Isaac 1,000 5.00 155 Blair, Sylvia 1,000 5.00 106 Cronwell, R. H... 500 2.50 191 Crazee, Roy 2.50 192 Campion, L. 2.50 97 Cartwright, Wallev-er- al ter 1,000 5.00 ..M.........10,000 2,500 50.00 408 409 410 411 412 Christiansen, A. 419 C. M.MMM Dawson, Ben F 507 188 283 217 449 514 443 Ecklund, C. G Fouiger, Joseph.. Harrop, Annie M. Haas, Sidney Ivory, Lida 149 Jensen, Arcoa. 493 Leavitt, James Q. 444 Moore, A revs .... 68 89 90 185 186 245 85 234 407 391 177 285 286 Marlin, W. S. Miller, W. H Mururi, Sam Marshall, C. H McIntyre, F. W... Newby, Ward .... Neal, Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt. 515 Nelson, Sumner P. 275 482 243 319 431 455 m 210 114 545 272 273 450 122 249 Payne, Louis M Porter, A. P. , Smith, Le Roy.... Smith, Verginia R. Protection Vital As traffic congestion on streets and highways grows, with consequent increased accident record, the wise motorist naturally considers safety features in his car. He looks under the shining surface, knowing that a good paint job may conceal a multitude of weaknesses. The materials used, the degree of strain that braces and joints can withstand, such things as these, within the province of the automotive engineer, in case of an may prove a all-ste- el A New Year Filled to Overflowing with Happiness and Prosperity That Is Our Sincere Wish For All! . As we have merited the patronage of those who use our products, so may we continue to do by daily striv- ing to improve the high quality of goods bearing the Globe A-- l trademark. GOOD Globe Grain .and Milling Co. Manufacturers of the Famous Globe Ogden, Utah 5.00 5.00 1.25 1.25 1,000 250 250 1,000 250 2.50 5.00 1.25 5,000 2,000 5,000 5,000 2,500 500 25.00 10.00 25.00 25.00 3,000 15.00 1,000 1,000 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 10.00 2.50 1,000 500 12.50 2.50 25.00 5.00 5.00 10.00 102.50 Turner, Geo. .20,500 12.50 Wilson, A. E 2,500 5.00 Wilson, Imogens.. 1,000 Waldron, Jos. T. or Margette 500 250 And in accordance with law and an order of the Board of Directors, made on the 16th day of November, 1929, so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be necessary will be sold at public auction at the office of the company, 278 25th Street, Ogden, Utah, on the 8th day of January, 1930, at 2 oclock p. m. to pay the delinquent assessment thereon together with the costs of advertising and expense of sale. J. E. STOREY, Secretary and Treasurer. 278 25th St, Ogden, Utah. Dates of publication: December 20th and 27th, 1929, and January 8, 1930. CHURCHES EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE SHEPHERD Corner of Twenty-fourt- h street and Grant avenue, John W. Hyslop, rector. The first Sunday after Christmas. The church school meets at 9:30 a. m. Morning service with sermon and special Christmas music at 11 a. m. Holy baptism at 12:30. Christmas cantata by the full vested choir at 7:30 p. m. Announcements: Monday, December 30 A silver tea at the home of Mrs. Carlson, 2737 Jackson. Tuesday, December 31 The children of the church school will hold their Christmas party in the afternoon in the Guild hall. 1,000 5,000 1 Cars in all price classes are using the body to insure greater protection for passengers, along with the other safety appliances. It is the automobile body that must protect occupants in case of a crash. Travelers are insisting more and more on protection while being transported. 10.00 Smith, Chas. S... 1,000 1,000 Smalley Bros. Tribe, Beatrice L. 2,000 life-sav- er accident 12.50 2,000 500 Pitt, F. R.. 1,000 Packard, Fred .... 2,000 ng Transportation fore-father- s. Making Telephone History 10. Forest Fires Greater Stockholders Meeting Stockholders In 1928 Than in 1927 Notice of Special of the Utah five-sixt- - metal-produci- January 3, . The recent stock market experience gave conclusive proof to a statement that has been made for years by our Industrial leaders that the intelligent investor will buy only sound stocks, on the advice of experts, and not obligate himself for more than he can pay for if necessary. Such investors had only, a paper loss. Good securities are already coming back. People who had a childish faith in Mtips and the safety of narrow margin speculation have learned an expensive lesson that is taught every few years. In the meantime, well managed stock- exchanges, their broker members and investment bankers have handled a previously unheard of situation in a remarkably efficient manner. The Wall Street Journal shows that there have been fewer failures of members of the New York stock exchange during the last 10 years than of national banks in the same period. Modernizing the Oldest Industry 602-60- fire-fighti- Management ing a par value of One Hundred Dol. lars per share to Common Stock with a par value of twenty-fiv- e cents per share and for the transaction of such other business as may be brought before the meeting. E. II. CHAMBERS, Seeretary Tower Petroleum Co Publication dates, December 20 Ecdes Building, 3 Thursday, January 2, The Young vouchers at before or on with meet April 20th, will Ogden, Utah, People's Fellowship Miss Gladys Hartman at her home IMA A. FRANK RYNDERS, 861 2Gth street at 7:30 p. m. Administrator. Scouts 3 The Boy Friday, January December 20, Publication dates, meet at 7 p. m. 27; 27. 1929 A- -l Products |