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Show THE CITIZEN 6 1 The Merchant and Wages labor is the best assurance of prosperity to the merchant. In a having 40,000 workers community earning $240,000 a day, the merchant will find prosperity. If that earning capacity be cut to $100,000 a day hard times will ensue and the merchant will not prosper, and if the condition be maintained for a prolonged period many merchants will find themselves Well-pai- d bankrupt. In many lines of business the entire trade depends on workmen having a surplus over bare necessities. If that surplus be removed, these merchants sooner or later find themselves without business. We believe these facts to be so patent as to need no explanation. The logical thing for the merchant who desires to continue to prosper is to favor a wage scale that provides something above a bare living. The matter is tersely put by Mr. C. A. Eaton of the General Electric company: High wages is the most economical thing in indutsry; workmen should earn a surplus above the mere cost of living, otherwise there will be no advance toward better civilization.. Better machines, better industrial managers, higher efficiency in labor, new inventions, work done in great economical units should solve the problem. FOREVER STRIVING TO REDUCE WAGES IS STUPID, OUT OF DATE, HARMFUL TO THE PUBLIC INTEREST, WORTHY OF THE MAN THAT REDUCED HIS HORSE TO ONE STRAW, THEN SAW IT DIE. If you have ten million men earning and spending an average of $60,-000,0- 00 a day, youll have prosperity. Cut that in two and you have bad times. If wages of ten cents a day interest you, move your business to China and go bankrupt. In addition to what Mr. Eaton says, we might remark that China has the open shop in all its pristine glory. An apt example of the benefits coming to the merchants is found in the present state of the electrical trade. In recent years there have been perfected and made available to the public many devices for removing the drudgery from housework, to minister to the comfort, health and happiness of the people. Many of these devices are of such value and importance as to have become necessities. Many others make life so much worth while that their possession and use should be open to all intelligent people. But, if the mass of the people find their incomes reduced to the point where they are unable to buy these new and useful devices on even the very liberal payment plans provided by the merchant, they soon become a drug on the market and the merchant and manufacturer is bound to lose heavily. What does it avail a man or woman to have lived in an age of electricity, if the comforts and advantages coming from the many ingenious applications of this wonderful power be not available to them? America has no privileged classes. The comforts, advantages and enjoyments flowing from the progress of invention and art and from the onward march of civilization should be available to all capable of their proper enjoyment. It is not to be thought of that all should have free access to luxuries and those things intended to minister only to the whims of the wealthy. But practical aids to health, comfort, happiness and enjoyment should be available to al. If, through unreasonable reduction of wages these things be not available, then business in these lines lags. The wise merchant will add the weight of his influence to seeing that his customers, present and prospective, have incomes sufficient to provide them with the vrares he sells. Joining with those who seek to destroy the incomes of his customers is simply inviting business disaster. Certain agencies, assuming to dictate to all created beings, are just now berating the merchants who are inclined to do those things which will promote their prosperity as selling their birthright for a mess of pottage. That is, the merchant who seeks to bring about conditions that will assure him prosperity, is selling his birthright. We are of the opinion that the birthright of the merchant is first of all the right to prosper in his business. Of what avail to him are other mystical rights, not clearly defined, if in heeding the cry of the regulators of his life and business he fail and lose what property he has accumulated by years of careful managing and finds himself at last reduced to the position of the wage slave who must still further accept the galling self-appoint- ed busidictates of these ness regulators? The merchants prosperity depends, first, last and all the time, on the prosperity of his customers, and if he is wise he will at least use his moral influence to hasten the return of such prosperity. If low wages interest you, self-appointe- d move your business to China and go bankrupt. Wages of printers in Salt Lake City, d era of the war during the and after never exceeded $42 a week of forty-eig.hours. Last week arbitrators in New York city awarded a scale of $50 for a week "of forty-fou- r hours, to remain in force until October 31, 1923. The week was agreed to by three national associations of employers nearly three years ago. Many of the firms composing these associations locked out their printers May 1, 1921, refusing to keep their agreement. Salt Lake printers have been so locked out and are still out. If, like many others, you find your printing service unsatisfactory, you should now be apprised of the reason the skilled men who formerly produced printing for you, with prompt delivery, are denied the right to continue that service. You should also know that printing of that same high-price- ht 44-ho- high-grad- e ur high class, with prompt delivery when promised and at reasonable prices can always be had from offices fair enough to continue the peaceful relations that have characterized the printing business in this city since the birth of Salt Lake Typographical Union fifty-thre- e years ago. Salt Lake Typographical Union. 331 Scott Bldg. Phone Was. 7762. (Adv.) The exemption allowed ior a ent is increased from $2co to Married persons living with h or wife and heads of famiiieg lowed a personal exemption of umas EVE C (instead of $2,000) unless the come is in excess of $5,000, in caes the personal exemption I The apP108 $2,000. The act provides that it is bei case shall the reduction of th ibt r of P sonal exemption from $2,500 to d alm operate to increase the tax I .'ood-would be payable if the exe dc tde tlde were $2,500 by more than the ai post pl of the net income in excess of $ g of the This is to overcome the dispari ta the case of two taxpayers, on ouiens whom is just within the lower $ church hi exemption and the other just gaj: ed the higher $2,500 exemption. igbter ai Single persons, and married pe rian ever not living with husband or wife, ltional a: allowed an exemption of $1,000. industrial resident aliens are allowed a si lot good personal exemption of $1,000. Per Ibeen abs having gross incomes for 1921 of $5 lour yeal or over are required to make a ret APPare regardless of the amount of net (Liii now w OUR NEAREST NEIGHBOR. Emile Belot, the French astronomer, suggests that, if one were able to straddle a light ray (which travels 186,000 miles a second) and thus voyage through space, observations along the route would be exceedingly interesting. It would take only a little more than a second to reach the moon and in four minutes and twenty seconds one would arrive at the planet of Mars. One would get as far as Jupiter in thirty-fiv- e minutes, to Saturn in seventy minutes, to Uranus in two and one-hal- f hours, and to Neptune in four hours. On the way one would come across a great many comets without tails neblulous bodies of spherical shape which are rarely seen from the earth. It would take two years to get outside the sphere of the suns attraction, and by that time our orb of day would look like nothing more important than a big star. The star nearest to us, Alpha Centauri, would meanwhile be looming up, and the wayfarer through space might expect to arrive there in a little more than four years. By this time he . would ; have journeyed 24,000.000,000 miles. PERSONAL INCOME TAXES UNDER NEW REVENUE ACT. On the subject of personal income taxes and returns under the new revenue, law, the following statement is issued by Collector of Internal Revenue James H. Anderson of the district of Utah: Enactment of new revenue legislation has brought to the offices of Collectors of Internal Revenue a flood of inquiries regarding various provisions. The revenue act of 1921 became effective November 23, 1921, unless otherwise provided for. To avoid error in the preparation of their returns and later difficulties with the bureau of internal revenue, taxpayers are advised to carefully note the changes when they become effective. The excess profits tax is repealed as of January 1, 1922. The rates for 1921 are unchanged. The surtax rates for the calendar year are unchanged, and range per cent on the amount of net 1921 from 1 income between $5,000 and $6,000 to 65 per cent on the amount of net income in excess of $1,000,000. For the calendar year 1922 the surtax rates range from 1 per cent on the amount of net income between $6,000 and $10,-00- 0 to 50 per cent on the amount by which the net income exceeds . come. jington tious an ant Par HISTORIC FOSSIL OF . NORTH DAKof; uvities. Fossils have been aptly called illustrations in the great book recot ing the worlds history, the pages which are the layers of rock that foi the outer part of the crust of the earl By looking at some of the phol graphic reproductions of fossil plai we can restore in imagination the cient vegetation of parts of the wor Fossil plants are very abundant the Fort Union formation, a series Tertiary rock beds in North Dakol where they are found in the s stone, in the harder concretions lenses, and in the clay between thf j beds of sandstone. Most of them, espial cially those in the clay, are preserve! with remarkable fidelity. About 301 species of plants from this formatioi have been described, and the total number of species it contains may perhaps reach 500 or more according to the United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior. This abundant fossil flora shows that what is now an almost treeless plain was once covered with splendid forests of hardwoods, interspersed with scattered conifers and finkgos. The presence of numerous and at many places thick beds of lignite make it clear that in this region there were great swamps, which must hav existed with but little change for long periods of time. Among the plants of this epoch were fig trees and a fan palm with leaves 5 or 6 feet across, indicating that the climate was as warm or warmer than that now prevailing on the South Atlantic slopi of the United States. j . SHE TAKES IT COOLLY. When a woman sees a man wilt collar discussing her clothes she laughs up where hre sleeve used to Ann Arbor Times News. . "sis j-- st e. W ai v n n |