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Show THE Cl T 4 I Z E N dividend payers. Many people held stock in the Tintic Standard munication. The telephone saves time, speeds mi For years and finally let go their holdings for a few cents a share. has scores of advantages in every office, store The telephone industry has recognized the algtr Then came a day when rich ore bodies were found and the stock today is selling for about $8.75 per share. Many became rich by bilities placed upon it by the public and is stilyjJffig$ holding their stock, while others who let go their stock now feel meet these increasing demands. There is r.o qnj juip the instruments and equipment have undergo sorry. Mining is one of the chief industries of Utah, and while ment during the past few years. Transcontii entalpjgyi many people have been exploited by cheats in worthless prop- vice is of recent date and is made possible thrJfcufffi erties, that is no reason why people should not take a chance in amplifiers at stated intervals. It is now possible properties located in ore zones. If no one put their money into this country to hold telephonic communications fejave lines of the United States, and the progress is still bv mines, there would be no mining. Mining experts of today do not waste money in drifting for en he GAS. ore bodies. Geologists can trace ore zones fairly successful, and diamond drilling is now being used to locate ore bodies. ral Gas was once looked with from as much suspfalf Many of our largest buildings in this city were built upon attach to the presence of a delegation of bootleg the net profits of our mines. enforcement meeting. ftliai One hundred and eleven years ago, a great at wit NOT GUILTY. on Westminster Bridge, in London. A new chapte. ,' The church federation of Chicago is becoming alarmed at be written in the worlds history of inventions, j the big increase of crime. They now blame the newspapers for bridge was about to be lighted by gas. Suddenly much of it because of the publicity given. A few years ago the flooded with light. The crowd fell back,'bewildepgovc saloon was blamed for ALL of our crime. Now we have no neer stepped forward and touched the gas pipes, fTA member of Parliament to do likewise. This genCi dan saloon. After a while when many guesses have been made the seat of until he had borrowed heavy gloves. He believeditOit; wto crime may be located. To go out and indiscriminately charge tained fire and would burn him. When electricity supplanted gas as an illmaigh some certain source with the production of crime is beyond the believed that gas was doomed. But today it is o&f bn: comprehension of the average intelligent individual. the g The truth of the matter is that if there was less heating agents of the world and is used in 5,000 of children in the home we would have much less crime. industry and is produced in greater quantities thaij The Utah Gas and Coke company is instalW18 tl Youth brought up to despise labor is hard to reform when actual work must be performed. Children that are not required to modern homes. Gas holds the record for getting ihe p per perform any work about the house are the ones that go wrong. fast, and it is a popular fuel in this city. sapii The girl or boy that has certain duties to perform when they get inert LAAVS. home from school are taught industry. 1918 The newspapers do more to catch criminals than our police Thirty-eigstate legislatures met during Janiis.tl departments. Pictures of criminals, their descriptions and habits are flashed over the wires and it is hard for them to escape. meets later in the year. In 1923, they received ovencre Even the farmers have detected criminals on the country roads and passed 15,000 as laws. There are nowT approve: andiBut by reading the papers. In our larger cities, the newspapers play 000 laws and ordinances in the United States, an active part in catching criminals and many a reporter has new ones being added yearly. State governmenby nailed the criminal for the police. If newspapers were sup- cost $182,000,000, an average of $2.26 per east totall pressed, a man who committed murder in this city could go to Og- 450,000,00 in 1923, or $13.10 per capita. The oid tional government cost in 1923 was 15 per cent den and live in peace. Our schools which are being turned into pleasure resorts, income, where it was onlv' 7 per cent of the natk18 i our juvenile courts with their reprimands, our good living and 1903. ny q entertainment in the penitentiaries, apd our lax laws in punishI CHANGES OPINION pa ing criminals, all work together, which is bringing about a con.tits dition which some day we must correct. Under our present sysFormer Chief Justice Frank II. Norcross sch tem crime will increase because it is encouraged by lax laws and lax living. AVe are trying to regulate the lives and habits of our supreme court says that because of the universal r pu people by law and it is proving a failure. Reformers' are now the prohibition amnedment to the Constitution, should jat i trying to discover an outlet for their propaganda which up to pleads guilty of helping to pass, Congress date has so miserably failed, but the truth of the matter is that of the country modify the present law in older ti( the one who tells you how to live needs watching. Every one may be brought about. He is convinced that thep? t of us must work out our own salvation. If your sympathy is has utterlv failed, and he does not believe in try38 with the criminal you must expect to make more crime. But dont tuate an evil when it can be corrected. to $ blame the newspaper. oss HICKS UNDER FIRE i t dif--a molly-coddlin- ht ol THE TELEPHONE. The telephone industry holds an important place in modern business and social life, and it is necessary that the highest degree of efficient service 1)0 given. AVlien communities were small, when business life was less complex and before time became a factor in business transactions, the telephone was regarded as a convenience and a luxury. But the telephone today is a necessity with most concerns. Experience has proved that it is more satisfactory to speak with an individual miles away than it is to send a brief message which becomes a formal, impersonal com- - Hicks of the Securities mnniif d one of the shooting stars to attract atten Ion dc sion of the legislature, a committee of which hivesfrlai the a charge preferred against the secretary found much room for improvement in handling the aft1 mission. Many alleged irregularities were troiw and deplored in the report submitted by the pccidni committee, which has created much talk on th streegi says that it is all noise and when the Sinope li8sow ho will be held blameless for things he is nov elun? Secretary II. C. L |