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Show Friday, July is, THE OGDEN POST A Lot POST THE OGDEN Editor P. V. EPPERSON, Member Utah State Press Association. Labor Supply Is in Excess of Demand of Dunk There is a lot of bupk in this talk that is going around concerning ovfr production of food stuffs. There sfre The Associated Press dispatch retoo many empty bellies in this world state- ceived in Salt Lake Wednesday from to make the ment good. the employment service of the United States department of labor at Denver states that the supply of skilled No Room for and unskilled labor exceeded the demand in Utah and Idaho at the end If there were ever two interests of June. which have a common cause at this The release of numerous sugar beet time, it is farming and mining. This the as and thinners left a large supso far weeders Rocky is absolutely true Mountain states are concerned. We ply of unskilled labor in the Idaho do nut propose to argue this state- district,. the report said, but part of ment the man to whom it is not the surplus was expected to be absorbed during July by the harvesting patent is indeed dense. of various crops. Box factories and lumber compaThe nies, especially in north Idaho, further curtailed their operations in the Problem but reopening of several We cannot qualify liberty. There past month, and canning factories fruit vegetable can be no arbitration between the offered considerable employment to forces of individualism and the forces Although jobless men and women. of paternalism or socialism. relief was in sight at the first little quarter-centurWe have seen, in the last the month, factories resuming opan amazing increase in the of erations before the end of July were individover the power of government to employ many hundreds. ual. We have permitted the whole- expected metal mining development little now almost Very until laws sale passage of was reported during June, but work business and social in act the every operation of the mines continues, eslife of the average citizen is dominatpecially in the southern part of the ed by a bureau at Washington. state. Several metal mines resumed can save societies "Democratic operations after idle periods. Highthemselves from mediocrity only as building increased somewhat, but life much of way possible by leaving as to individual initiative, says Everett railroad work slowed up during the month. Dean Martin. over-producti- Published each Friday by The Ogden Post Printing and Publishing 417 Ecclea building. matter October 17, 1927, at the postoffice at Entered as second-clas- s March S, 1879. of Act under the Ogden, Utah, Argument $2.00 per Year Subscription Price Telephone 365 EDITORIAL Republican Candidate for Congress i is not the purpose of this article to discuss the qualifications or merits of any of the numerous proposed candidates for congress in the second congressional district of Utah. There are five or six avowed candidates at this time, all presumably good men, all more or less qualified for the office. However, the people of Utah, especially the Republicans, should know where these candidates stand on questions of importance to the state questions and measures for the industrial growth of the state. The man who is nominated should be asked to state his ideas on the further development of the Colorado river. lie should be asked if he favors and will work for an appropriation or a rider on the next Boulder dam appropriation bill for the Dewey or Flaming Gorge projects the one considered the most beneficial to Utah. lie should be asked if he will at all times back up Representative Colton in the continuation of his federal national forest and public domain road It program. It should be determined to what revolutionized the world economically, socially and politically. In the short period between 1919 and 1925, inclusive, primary power per wage earner increased by 30.9 per cent, and this largely explains the even greater increase in productivity per wage worker 63.6 per cent between 1919 and 1927. In the United States, where most highly developed, wages is power In are the highest in the world. China, Mexico, India and other countries where power is least developed, wages are lowest" Practically all the increase in power used by workers, during recent years, has come from electricity. And more and more of this is being furnished by large central power stations and interconnected lines instead of small plants. The record made by the utility companies of the United States in providing a constantly rising standard of service at a constantly decreasing relative cost has been one of the Greatest cnxixeaim Dd aicOn s . .. may be ideal, but present day geography makes a daily dash to the ocean a bit impractical for Ogdenites. Patio is the answer! Drink Patio magnesium water for your healths sake; swim in it for your bodys sake . . . and see sake! Patio for y, IpsiCtudD SQDirniingjs DRIVE THROUGH OGDEN CANYON TO PATIO! greatest industrial achievements of the century. Cheap, abundant electricity is essential to civilization as we know it Our workers would be the first to suffer from any policy that would retard our and use to European standards. power-developme- nt ex- tent he has been mixed up in the in ternal squabbles wheih has well nigh wrecked the Republican party in Salt Lake county. lie should be required to show that he had been active in the councils of the party and that he would, if elected, stand with President Hoover in the support of administration measures. The candidate who does not measure up to these requirements has no right to ask for, or expect, the nomination at the hands of the Republican party. He should be a man whose Republican record is clean; a man experienced in politics;' a man who has faith in his political principles; a man who does not believe that party politics is only a means to gain office; a man who believes that all public business which comes within the purview of the law is politics and is entitled to just consideration that and nothing more; a man who believes that the farmer and owner of real estate, public utilities and corporations, whether in the city or country, is entitled to a fair break as compared with those who deal in money, notes, and solvent credits. Making New Wealth Mining is one of the few industries that create new wealth. It takes metals from the ground, . where they are worthless, and transforms them into wages, taxes, and the necessities and luxuries of life. It literally makes new dollars, which have never been used before. divi-deu- ts . V Every other industry has a use for metals. It has been well said that there never was a great nation without metal resources and that is truer today than even before. Thus, every state and every citizen has an interest in mining, and particularly western states where it is one of the principal employers, taxpayers and purchasers. Mining is a mainstay of agriculture and other in- -, dustries within those states. It is vital, not only to western progress, but to western existence. Efforts directed toward raising mining taxes to an exorbitant level In this day of independ- and over regulating the industry are ence in politics, which too often is only inimical to the prosperity of every indifference, it is only fair for the citizen of the west. people and the party to know where a man stands before asking their Use Silver WHY is Electric Cooking the choice of the modern housewife! WHY does she emphatically declare that there is no substitute for Electric Cooking? 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