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Show PAGE TWO THE OGDEN POST Our Only Anxiety Member Utah State Press Association matter October 17, 1927, at the Entered ai second-clas- s at Ogden, Utah, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Subscription FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1933. THE OGDEN POST Over Inflation "JrAUmT.RtU post-offi- ce 82.00 per Tear Price Published each Friday by The Ogden Post Printing and company, 415 Fccles building. Telephone 365 will cook, but cooking is taught in modern schools. The high school automobile club provides safety education. It is no expense to the schools. TO THOSE inclined to Nothing is spent but the willBEER,intolerant and having a ingly contributed time of the narrow vision, appears as some- safety agencies. iTime to Change Viewpoint thing intolerable, a monstrous evil reaching out and corrupting the morals of the youth of the country. Why? Probably because beer was sold over the bar in saloon days with whisky and brandy. But even in those days it was not beer that caused the saloon to become a foul thing and a corrupting Influence in public affairs. It was the intoxication caused by drinking the hsrd liquors. The beer manufactured at the Becker Products company with a 8.2 per cent alcohol content is NOT intoxicating. The writer Is speaking advisedly on the sub Ject, having tested the thing out. One would have to drink quarts of the beverage to convince him that prosperity wu Just around the corner in this state. If the people of Utah were sacrificing the morals of the youth, If the return of 8.2 beer was injurious in any way, then it would be a different matter. But since BEER is Just another beverage, why should the state lose 8200 a day in taxes and thousands of unemployed go hungry and their families suffer for the 09 Extraordinary Powers MUST be borne in mind that President Roosevelt has not seized" any extraordinary powers but that these powers have all been concentrated In the executive by regular and orderly under our processes provided form of government. The Democratic party was selected by the overwhelming vote of the people in the last election to guide the destines of the nation, and it has accepted full Its members In responsibility. the senate and the house have unlimited faith in the leadership of President Roosevelt. Inflation, trade agreements, and other .processes of national and international affairs, are involved in programs practically unknown and untried under our The presiform of government. dent has been given discretionary powers to enable him to take quick action to meet any kind of means an emergency which that he does not have to go back to congress to obtain Its approval has already since its consent The short cutr been given. across unexplored fields is open If he chooses to go ahead" and that is Just what he is doing, and even Republicans are exmorning tolling his efforts. and one of labors nations greatest necessities of life? handicaps would vanish. 0 Against the racketeer the procedure is not so clear. Federal Silver Lining officials in Chicago are trying to operate via the income tax Appears evasion law; and Attorney General Cummings is investigating Wednesday EARLY entire world was anx0 to find out If the federal government might not pass new laws ious to know what Germany's Effects of Self-to make possible a determined new boss was going to say. The federal drive against racketeers French people especially were Interest on all fronts. It is to be hoped anxious, fearing that Adolf Hitthat definite action will come ler was going to start something THE WORLD chaos is the raised to out of this. of that he was going to make American labor is under three demands on the rest of the world arrogant selfishness Individual, is only and assume dictatorship over all corporate, national. This spirit curses. Unemployment has built great personal for- one of them. creation. OOP The French were happily sur- tunes, has promoted nationalisprised said it wss the best tic groups, has created extorHere Is More About speech ever delivered by a tionate corporate monopolies and nations. It has statesman in Germany. Natur- Imperialistic CLOSING BECKER CO. ally, President Roosevelt was built barriers between nations, of destroyed created confidence, pleased with the attitude (Continued FVom Page 1) Chancellor Hitler, and now the distrust, and vitiated the altru. silver lining is appearing in the ism inculcated by the fine arts, j; dark war clouds that seemed to religion and education, and with- the west where the lAnufacture al has rendered Impotent inter- and sale of beer has been legalbe hovering near. After all, this man Hitler may national agreements to maintain ized. I hare brought for your in turn out to be Just another the peace of the world. It has Musollni a dictator, yes, but wrecked the credit system of spectlon this folio of telegrams an asset to troubled Germany. the world, destroyed Industries, and letters ordering beer and While he demands the right for and left unnumbered millions of applying for agencies for our young Germany to live, he de- people starving in a world of beer from every western state, Honolulu mands nothing that he would abundance. and also including also from Louisiana, i Until Industry, business and Alaska; deny others. should remember, nations are motivated by a will Florida, Texas, Tennessee, and Americans too, that all the while the Unit- to justice there is no permanent from the city of Boston. Whether ed States has been preaching basis for peace and prosperity. or not any of these prospective disarmament, the United States This moral law is as inviolable customers seeking good Utah has been carrying on a building as the law of gravity. There is beer will wait until the Huggins program, spending more money, some evidence that business and bill becomes effective in Utah according to Charles R, Weaver, national leaders are beginning to which may be July or Novem for the airmy, navy and air forces recognize the inviolability of this ber, is a question no one can than any other country on the moral law In business and among answer. We can only hope for The chart showing na- the nations. Herein lies our the best. It is gratifying to globe. defense tional expenditures only hope. Senator James Pope know that Utah beer made from pure mountain water and the places Uncle 8am first with 703 of Idaho. millions in 1930; Great Britain highest quality of barley obtain 09 able in the United States, grown second with 540 millions; France third with 455 millions; Italy Low Wages, Rackets in Utah, is held in high regard and eagerly fourth with 248 millions, and Menace Labor sought for, even though it is impossible for us to Japan fifth with 219 millions. labor extoday pre. sell the beer to those who want These figures do not Include AMERICAN of the oddest it and are so anxious to buy it, pur. penditures for people Not only have we been beselged poseS, nor do they include war Jumbles the American ever hod to tackle.' with letters and telegrams and pensions. With a man like President At each end there exists an delegations of men with their atFranklin D. Roosevelt on the evil so serious that the whole torneys from California points job in Washington the people labor field will eventually be de- who hare come to Ogden to see moralized if a corrective is not if they could contract for the can expect a "new deal" and soon applied. And In the middle output of our beer, but also by square deal for all nations. There is little confidence left there is a vast burden of un- hundreds of deserving men seekemployment which has Jarred al- ing work. Hungry men who any more, says the Omaha most to its foundations. knock at our doors every day for braggarts and Strangely enough, this burden begging for an opportunity to cocksure prophets. -- 09 of unemployment is In some work in order that their families ways the least menacing Qf the may escape dire calamity. If Teach Safe Driving three evils. Everybody recog. our hands were not tied nises it as an evil, and the would gladden the hearts of in High Schools We could strongest forces of government, great multitude. AUTOMOBILE driver of private Industry and organized bring happlneee to scores of Og Is the Sigh school labor are uniting to meet it. den homes and brighten the Sooner or it will be lifted. whole community life. At times of student today. This driver It is thelater disturbances at the am thoroughly dismayed and carebe a should of the future ends of the line that are really grievously discouraged as my ful, courteous and conscientious ominous. confidence is weakened, and motorist, mindful of the rights At one end there is the sweat- begin to wonder as to whether of all others and thoroughly inevil a thing which has its we are facing unaurmountable formed as to traffic laws and shop roots in human greed, which obstacles that cannot be overregulations. to demoralise labor helps and come. motor school That is why high alike which is This is my home; we have and industry paid in clubs are multiplying rapidly for by those least able to pay; been here in business for 43 the United States. Several hun- women, children and the aged. years. This is your home. We dred such organisations are acAt the other end is an evil have bullded together over the work. at tively aquallty disturbing; the racke-ec- years, and we cling to the strucHigh school automobile clubs He has been most active tures we have erected, hoping have three basic functions. First, in New York and but to go on creating new avenues the teaching of safe driving prin. many other cities Chicago, have felt his of employment and laboring to cl pies; second, accurate mechanhand. In some instances make a bigger and better Ogical Information; and third, ed- heavy he lias taken over whole union den. Each one to his calling, ucation in state, local and muorganizations; in others he has struggling in his modest way to In ordinances. and laws nicipal hiseled his in from the be a positive force for good and this program police departments, outside; but way wherever he oper- a source of strength to the com. inautomobile manufacturers, ates he has sold out work, munity life. surance companies and ell others ngmsn, taken tribute the from inFrancis States Views interested in traffic safety, are dustry and helped to raise probI think the situation in Utah to lend to hand a always ready lems that will take years to set- is summed up most concisely and speak- tle. provide demonstrations, truthfully in a letter written to booklets, ers, lecture courses, Pennsylvania, so far, has fig. me by Honorable Frank Francis pamphlets and other material. ured most prominently in the on his return from Nevada, unStatistics for 1932 show that stories of sweatshops. It is in der date of May 6. I have 11,960 drivers under 18 were Pennsylvania that children have Francis permission to readMayor this Involved In accidents, although gone on strike against wages of letter to you. other Among few states permit youngsters of 81 to 85 for a week. he says: that age to handle a Car alone But there are plenty of other thingsThe people of Ely Informed in public. states that contain conditions me that the coming of beer had There is no better place to about as bad as anything to be Improved their social condition. Instill the principles of- any sub- found in Pennsylvania. They found themselves refreshed school. a In Two Carpentry potent remedies for the by the consciousness of doing ject then is taught in schools, but more sweatshop evil lie at hand; the openly that which many of them boys will drive automobiles than minimum wage law and the child had been doing clandestinely. will work at a bench. Girls will labor amendment. Get these two They had thrown off the false drive more frequently than they adopted and have them enforced and put on candor and a degree energetically and the . self-intere- st -- -- non-milita-ry World-Heral- d, rIE r. 60-ho- ur of wholesome self respect. I voted for prohibition, principally because the old saloon had become a foul thing and a corrupting Influence In our public affairs. I never dreamed worse of something growing out of abolition of the traffic which centered In the brothels of the old day. Men like Darrow dwelt on personal liberty, but I was willing to give up much of that liberty, if by so doing humanity as a whole could be benefltted. Gradually I was disillusioned, as I had discovered that when law ran contrary to the appetites or desires of a large number of people, classed as respectable, the whole structure of I was law was endangered. made aware that goodness could not be legislated into human beings and any movement in that A meeting of players and mandirection eventually would be reduced to a farce. I also found agers Interested in the American that the liquor traffic had shift- Legion Junior Baseball league ed from the open saloon to the has been called for tonight at home and speakeasy. 7:80 oclock in the American LeI cannot see the wisdom in gion chateau by Tim Larson, morals or in law of our present chairman of the Junior basebali which committee. contradictory attitude, prompts us to close our eyes to Mr. Larson has human behavior and pretend to that Al Hestmark, veteran basil-ba- ll believe that 'by some miracle of booster and former star duplicity we can clothe ourselves will be one of the speakers at with a smug goodness which al- the meeting. L. W. Nims, com. lows us to strike an attitude of mander of Herman Baker post moral superiority, when as a No.. 9 of the American matter of fact we are indulging will also speak to those Legion assemin something very close to hy- bled. Mr. Larson stated that most pocrisy. 'Today Utah would, gain in of the junior baseball clubs are self esteem if it were to ac- organised already and that about knowledge that it cannot main- 10 outfits are expected to comtain a puritanical pose while the pete against each other this people on all sides of us are summer in the diamond sport. manifesting a natural reaction to Play in the league is expected to an experience which has taught open within a week, the manathem to rely less on law and ger declared. more on common impulses in determining what is best for so- army couldnt 'keep'it'out! The ciety. late Hudson Maxim once stated Beer Being Sold Now that it would require a million I believe that sums up the policemen to enforce situation in Utah as it Is today; and it would requireprohibition another and whether or not that kind million to watch the first milof a situation should be contin- lion and then another million to ued, or whether this era of crime watch the two. Utah beer, if so profitable to the bootlegger legalized, could be sold at 82.69 should be abolished, I must per carton and the money kept leave to your own good Judg- at home and a dollar per barment and common sense. The rel tax paid into the state treasstate is full of honje brew and ury. the profit from moonshine, I am not a prophet or the which will pay the bootleggers son of a prophet, but I will taxes. In the states surround- venture these two prophecies: ing Utah where First, that sooner or later, this beer has been legalized, the rev- lamentable condition enue therefrom,, will help to pay done away with; andmust be the peoples taxes. I am reli- that while June 15 is thesecond, openably informed that eastern beer ing day of the fishing season, and Canadian beer is now being my prophecy is that there will sold in Ogden and Utah at be the largest delegation of prices ranging from $6.50 per fishermen and women and the carton to 841.00 per barrel, largest convention of Democrats draining the state of money that and Republicans and other should properly belong here to anthropic citizens held in philthe furnish payrolls and revenue for booming city of Evanston, Wyofar away points. ming, tomorrow. May 18, that It is here and will continue has ever been gathered together to come in and I am convinced from Utah in the state of that the whole United States Junior Baseball League Meeting Called For Tonight ' |