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Show MJi lt JUli fciM TRUTH (sued Weekly . and by TRUTH con PAN Y. PUBLISHING Central Block, West Second South Street, Salt Lake City. JOHN W. HUGHES, Editor and Manager. 12 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JAN. 4, 1902. TERnS OP SUBSCRIPTION. tin ad ranee) ONE YEAR $2.00 1.00 75 SIX nONTHS THREE MONTHS Postmasters sending suliscriptlons to Truth may retain 25 per cent of subscription price aa commission. If the paper Is not desire! beyond the date subscribed f r the publication should be notified by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. DISCONTINUANCES. Remember that the publisher must be notified by letter whenal1a subscriber wishes his arrearB mu8t h paid n Kf paper Requests of subscribers to have their attenmailed to a new address, to secure tion, must mention former as well as pres, ent address. Address all communications to Tbuth Pub XjISHikg Company, Balt Lake City, Utah B)' HAPPY CHILDHOOD New Years day comes as a head mark that lifts us on in our way to become men and women. In middle lift it comes as a ledger balance, exhibiting many failures and a few gains. In old age it comes like winters snow, blotting out the inscriptions on the headstones of our dead and soothing our unsatisfied wants with anticipations of the time when we, too, shall be still at last. But to all, in somewise, it is a benediction. Some future each and all expect to have, and the mind instinctively turns toward the future for relief. The new year lends us fresh hopes, the usury of which is dealth. Sometimes a new purpose in life starts from the which New Years day inspires, and scarcely a better fortune can fall to anyone than a new purpose in life. So may we all, in this new year, begin anew our environments to fill lifes highest responsibility to become each a perfect one. THERE ARE very divergent views as to the best manner of converting Utah lake into a reservoir for the storage of water. The residents of Utah county in the vicinity of the lake fear that by simply banking up the outlet so that the waters would be raised, would cause disastrous flooding of the low lands, and consequently they oppose that method and seem to favor dyking as the best means of accomplishing the desired end. Lowering the outlet by dredging is favored by others ' of the committee, who claim for that plan that by it more water can be drawn from the lake in the dry season without the necessity of raising the level of the lake above compromise point In the flood season. It is a big undertaking and should be well considered in all its bearings before a definite plan is adopted. When it is done, however, It should be done in the best manner : it; '.I lVi ytf.- 4 it if.1i, Vi I; v j !S! rj! I!- self-awakeni- - ;!i i . ) hi i - 1 . ir, I',', : :i! 'M :M if !; .X t v :. 14 m; n V; BOARD OF EDUCATION. The Board of Education will be ; 4 - m As a presiding officer and a parlia- mentarian he cannot be regarded as a success. On important matters requiring decision, firmness and tact he has exhibited woeful weakness, and allowed for promotion to the presidency, and it will probably go that way. Mr. Bamd business berger isa good and independent, and man, although he is a little short as a parliamentarian, on the whole he would make a good president, and one who would be absolutely fair in his rulings. For Giauque, Young and are mentioned. Young is well Moyle qualified, as well as any mexhber of the board, and if he should be to membership in the board at the expiration of his term next fall would naturally succeed to the presidency, a position which he would fill acceptably. Giauque is too much like Newman to make a good presiding officer. Moyle has plenty of ability of the kind necesbut sary for president or he is devoid of tact and inclined to carry things with a high hand. He has, however, been a member of the board longer than Young, and it will be no surprise if he is chosen to the vicepresidency. J. B. Moreton, who has been clerk of the board since it was first organized, without opwill doubtless be a been He has conscientious, position. hardworking official, and' is probably better acquainted with the practical management of the school system than any other person in the employ of the board. As superintendent of buildings, there of will be no dissent to the William Pinney. He has occupied the position for many years, and there is absolutely nothing in his record to criticize. He is thoroughly competent, painstaking and honest. This fall there will be an election of five members of the Board of Education. The retiring members are E.. B. Critchlow, M. H. Walker, W. J. Newman, B. S. Young and Simon Bamberger. A number of them will doubtless .clear-heade- self-relia- nt vice-preside- nt IT WAS with some surprise that the friends of Charles T. Harte read in the salutatory of the Initial number of his paper, the Milford Times, which appeared December 27th, that the Times Republican; that it will be straight-ou- t believes the prosperity now enjoyed by the State and Nation is the result of Republican politics and' Republican statesmanship, and that all good citizens should work for a continuance of Republican rule. Harte used to be a big Democrat, and not so many moons ago he was secretary of the Salt Lake City Democratic campaign committee. Its another corroboration of an utterance of Truth some time ago, that the Democratic party needs to be reorganized with an entirely new platform. The Milford Times Is a very neat, bright and decidedly interesting paper, such as a growing, young community needs. nd publisher be candidates for The name of tb? vice-preside- re-elect- nt, ed . . pi Kl' - i L, - ,vl,-r..a- S . re- organized next Tuesday evening by the election of a president and officers. President Newman has sat in the presidential chair for a year, but beyond that it can hardly be said that he discharged any of the duties of the office. re-elec- ted r,I t ng a telephone will be year. Looking back through 1901 and noting how rapid has been the advancement of Independent telephony, we have no hesitancy in saying that 1902 will be the banner year in the independent telephone field, and with the closing of 1902 we shall see an independent telephone exchange in every city In the United States, with complete e connection from New York to San Franclscoi. Of this wre can rest assured, that when an independent company commences to do business in a town, the monopoly of the Bell company is broken and the people will get that to which they are entitled, namely, the best telephone service possible and at reasonable rates. The Rocky Mountain Bell company, which operates here and is a branch of the American Bell Telephone company of Boston, instead of lowering rates as its business Increased, has raised them; that is, it has raised the cost of the only perfect telephone service, which is the individual line. A few years ago they charged $60 a year for the individual, line for business purposes. For the same service they nowr charge $90, and if their monopoly of the business is continued we may expect a further increase in charges and the subscriber will be at their mercy so long as there is no competition. Since the opening of the Calders lines park extension of the street-ca- r Third South on the East the patronage streeit branch has increased from 25 to 50 per cent, yet the car company has not put on additional cars or made any arrangements for handling the increased traffic. The consequence is overcrowded cars and great inconvenience to the public. The cars on the East Third South line are so crowded mornings and evenings that half the people cannot obtain seats, but are obliged to hang on any way they can. At times the crowding is so great that many cannot get on at all and are obliged to walk. Sometimes the company puts on a trailer, but there is no heat in it, and those who are obliged to use it sit shivering during the trip. Before the consolidation of the two companies the service was every (twelve minutes, but now it has been scheduled for every fifteen minutes, although in actual practice it is anything from fifteen to thirty-fiv- e minutes. The patrons of the road are loud in their complaints, but no notice is taken of them. They have either to accept the service as it is or walk. The arrangements for running the cars are about as bad as they can be, and sometimes four or five cars run in one direction practically at the same time, while In the opposite direction there is but one car. The cars on Main street, Instead of stopping at the intersection of Second South and Main streets, now stop a good way north of that point, so that passengers have to walk quite a distance in the mud and slush. This practice has become so thoroughly established that ladies and others who formerly made appointments to meet their friends at Smiths drug store had to change their trysting place to opposite the Kentucky Liquor store. re-elect- ion pre-eminen- tly toll-lin- 4- - men will admit that the telephone completes the trilogy of business necessities, namely, the. mail, telegraph and telephone, the three great means for the transmission of thought; the three giants that have annihilated space. Therefore the telephone has become an absolute necessity, and the people are entitled to the necessities of life at the lowest possible cost. The franchise asked for by the Home Telephone company fixes the highest rate which the company can charge for telephone service for the next fifty years at $4 for a business telephone and $2.50 for a residence telephone, and also provides that a charge of a greater rate than this shall work an absolute forfeiture of the franchise. When a new railroad asks admission to Salt Lake we go out to meet It and give It every encouragement, even to the donation of city lands. We do this because we know that railroad competition is a necessity to our future growth and welfare, and because we know that it is only through competition that we get the best service and at reasonable prices. Suppose there was but one dry good 3 store in Salt Lake, what would you pay for your goods? Now suppose another store asked the privilege of doing business in Salt Lake, what would you sav of the people who tried to keep them out? That is the telephone situation. All other cities have granted the privilege to do business to Independent telephone companies. Utah is the only State in the Union that hasn't independent telephone companies, and as there is no reason why we shouldnt have the privileges enjoyed by other States, we feel sure the City Council will not withhold these benefits from All i ? A TELEPHONE YEAR. 1902 support. i THIRD SOUTH CAR LINE. is a guarantee that the Times will in every sense be a paper worthy of IN lx 7 TRUTH. 6 11 rtif!VMaiwtwwflat fair-mind- ed the people. We have no fight to make against the old company. It is doing just what every monopoly has done and will "do-t-ake advantage of the peoples necessities and make the most of the golden opportunity they enjoy. But what we do say is that the people should be protected from extortionate telephone charges, and these charges can not be regulated by law, according to the decisions of the courts, and relief can only be had by granting another telephone company the right to do business, thereby creating competition. The new city administration will reflect great credit on itself by seeing to it that this is done. August F. W. Orlob, father of Thorwald and Christian Orlob, died of old age at his home, 137 J street, on New Years day. Mr. Orlob was a resident of Salt Lake for twenty-fiv- e years, and was highly respected by a large circle of frienda, i I ii I I 1 I 1 t . i A 1 i i 9 f 1 I I 12 i I A CHRISTMAS PRAYER. The following gem is from the pen of Miss Annie Pike, Utahs gifted young poetess. Miss Pike is taking a literary course at Ann Arbor university, and the stanzas in the appeared Michigan Daily News of December 9th, that days edition of the paper being gotten up by the women of the university. Many of Miss Pikes poems have appeared in high-claEastern journals, as well as in Utah papers. She has the true poetic ss '. S' Y.? !. i fire. ;! God of the great white mountains, God of the deep, vast sea, God of the swinging universe, God of this little me! , How can 1 look at the still, white stars; IIow can I think of the sea, And the mountains, O Lord! and wonder not What Thou wouldst have of me? Thou who didst give us Christ, Hear Thou my prayer I am so willing so frail, tonight; Give me, O Lord, the light; Mountain and sea and universe Touched to one harmony. Think not, but follow Thy wondrous plan; What wouldst Thou have of me? . : . f 4 1 .1 feA Thou who didst bend my life Into one purposeful thought, Let me but gie to the world Out of my little lot; Christ gave His life, and I, O Lord! Facing Eternity, Iray lor the courage and strength to give All Thou wouldst have of me! HIS SISTER DID. was a smart man, The whose object was to disconcert the witness and discredit his testimony. What did you say your name was? was the first question. Michael Doherty. Michael Doherty, eh? Now, Doherty, answer this question carefully. Are you a married man? Oi think so, 01 was married. So you think because you got married that you are a married man, do you? Now, tell me whom you married." Who Oi married? Oi married a woman. Now, dont you know better than to trifle with the court? Of course you married a woman; did you ever hear of anyone marrying a man? Yes. Mol sister did. Northwest Magazine. cross-examin- er i m |