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Show 3 THE C T1ZEN s seen country. Already we ja undermine our tares among the wheat be. We are sowing will get the best of us. rposey ynih the hoe the tares ile 1 No the people in it, country Is greater than Th at this time is to clean house at home and good are ' b Jtimtfbeing. law lead the world in and unless we get and what we need forget Europe for about a it is to bring relorm, jjen Christianity resorts to admission of failure and the churches are the ones that suffer. 5 uor Parian Soldier you are marching in the wrong direction. itryivi. im TRAFFIC 5race: . el j ,otK We have a city attorney that likes to draw ordinances. It makes kind of an ordinance it is or how foolish some ; difference what as it is an ordinance. homtg provisions may be, just so long had some peculiar and ridiculous ; In line therewith we have which were trying this and trying that, some parts of mpwncrous enough to make a jackass bray. The last fiasco came cm the people were held on the unshaded street corners and pre-e- d from catching their streetcars home. Of course the ordinance rm P drafted to not only speed up traffic, but to make it more safe. in ar as speeding up traffic was concerned, it only created jams where ,ropiSenter of the streets and along the streetcar safety zones als People got off and on the cars. Then Chief Burbidge went east, visiting many of the large cities the cities tried to mKe was greatly surprised to find that none of late pedestrian travel. He also found out that failure had been untered wherever efforts were made to regulate pedestrian traf-and'rdinanc- es, 1 a. Probably now we will settle down to saneness. We still have the one headlight drivers, the cutout demons 3n the honking nuisance. The other day a citizen was driving 0 the 6treet and he had to pull over the cartracks in order to pass Three sheriffs came along and honked and . i slow machines. llsteried. The driver speeded up to get by the other cars and after he nian know why passed he pulled to the side. The sheriffs wanted to . ad not pulled to the side before. fT . ftDid you want me to run over those cars? s it Well, we are sheriffs and when we honk we expect you to get .at ?f the way. ,rUS11 Instead of taking a ticket from the deputies the driver should taken the number of the car and reported the matter to the fawff. ghould taxpayers support and provide jobs for men , ,bat? L anac lakei: ' RELIGIOUS UPRISING uorff. Mexico and the Catholic church are squaring away for a real The government is dictating how religion shall be conducted imsen its borders and the Catholics are re&enting the new ruling. As lt a mayor was killed the other day by an infuriated crowd be-- i of a quarrel between he and a Catholic priest, the latter nar-- r escaping with his life. . jThe killing of a Mexican mayor will greatly spur the govern-nouon to make the people comply with the new reforms, and no t for , a great deal of trouble is in store for the people as well as averament. J( Anything but a religious fight. In past history they have proved 'a'e; the most cruel and . torturing and many innocent souls have tf 1,5 sacrificed upon the altar of alleged justice. so to work, instead of leading a life of ease, indolence, where gambling and scheming is their chief occupation. Competent men should be placed at the heads of the prisons, and by competetent men we do not mean favorites slated for soft jobs. The warden of a prison should be an experienced police officer; one who has had thorough training in catching crooks and fathoming crimes. Too many criminals get away from our penitentiaries through wardens who know very little of pardon boards and soft-hearte- d criminal life. Frank Smith, the Springville bank stickup, appeared to have a winning way. He had gained the confidence of the warden at the pen and as a result did not serve very long before he was turned loose upon the public. Then came a robbery of $2,200 worth of. musical instruments. Riley Beckstead put two of his best men out to trace the criminal and the tracks led to Smith. The two officers went to the penitentiary to see the warden and the latter upbraided the two plain clothesmen in a most denunciatory manner, and the police officers were finally told to get out of the office. However, they followed up their clues and finally caught Smith trying to sell the stolen musical instruments, and the officers recovered all the property except two fifes, a very meritorious performance. About this time the warden at the pen awoke and realized the seriousness of his misplaced confidence in a common crook. Our laws should be so changed that any criminal caught would be compelled to reimburse his victim for stolen property and to pay all damages connected therewith. What saisfaction has the victim in seeing the robber behind the bars when he is unable to secure his lost property. It is a joke all the way through. He has not only lost his property, but must himself get out and work to feed the thug in prison. The law is all on the side of the criminal and the citizen has no chance whatever. This thing should be reversed and all the penalty should be placed qpon the criminal. SILVER QUESTION In order to create more western business for eastern industrial plants is to meet the west half way. The silver dollar is very unpopular in the east and as a result few are in circulation. If more silver was in circulation in the east, there would be more demand for silver, and western silver mines would employ larger forces digging out the white metal from the hills. This would naturally create more business and it would have a beneficial effect upon the entire country. In 1919 there was about 84,000,000 silver dollars in circulation but this sum has dropped down to a little over fifty million dollars, a reduction which cannot help hut effect the silver mines of the western country. PHILIPPINES 1 ;i i r ;,uev sol1 K PRISON COST : . How; much does it cost to feed our prisoners in the peniten- 'taii'? TCie average C0S 0f maintaining a man in the United States .f year, so probably in this state the cost is much higher, i iThe fhugs rob us when they are free and when they are behind cigars compel us to keep them. 5ome system should be worked out which would make the r ipffoitiary and every individual should be made s self-supporti- i. ng The visit of Carmi Thompson, of Ohio, President Coolidges special representative to the Philippine Islands, has naturally quickened the interest of Americans everywhere in our faraway Pacific possessions. Mr. Thompson has been received in a friendly way in the islands by Americans and natives alike. From the comment of newspapers and public men in touch with the situation in the Philippines, one gathers that it is the general opinion that the status of the Philippines should he fixed. If they are to remain permanently American the world should know it, and if the Americans arc to get out, something ought to he understood about where and when this evacuation is to take place. The prseent situation, with its uncertainties, is causing business This seems to be the unanistagnation and unrest in the islands. mous opinion of all authorities. Business men of all nationalities, fearing that America may quit the islands, do not like to expand their holdings, as they fear conditions would he much less favorable for commerce and prosperity under native rule. Of late vears there has been a great deal of agitation for Philippine independence, most of i from profssional agitators, and it has been met only in a half- - |