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Show 'i THE CITIZEN 6 . overstress and exploit the sex impulse, as in popular magazine publishing and in the motion picture field. Interest in physical conflict has been greatly commercialized. Quantity production is so profitable that American industry tends to center its attention on elemental interests that furnish unlimited markets. More diversified interests, which require much intelligence tq satisfy and furnish small profits,, and largely ignored. The tremendous growth of tabloid newspapers is in the man on an intellectual and cultural level so rudimentary as to make the order yellow journalism by comparison an intellectual aristocracy. The mind of childhood and youth is chiefly fonned by whatever isi presented to it. If commercial standardization limits its appeals to the stimulation and satisfaction of primitive needs, the temper and tone of our civilization will change. Human interests will be simplified and standardized on primitive levels. In the east the channels of expression have been formed by a cultural aristocracy. Church and school and press, controlled by an intellectual minority, have kept in view the cultural standards that were slowly won through the generations. If our rapidly increasing leisure is to make us into something more than standardized consumers for a steadily mounting production of commonplace goods, this leadership of intellectual, moral, and cultural superiority must be regained. The uses America makes of its surplus are good, bad, and in- . There. stands this great property, a potential oro nitrates for farmers and power for industries. Our edt provide the method for leasing such government prop useful purposes. In spite of the fact that the leasing pDN GiRi is clear and specific and duly protects the public in ert years time have been wasted playing politics with rled bill fM 9 Shoals. , Finally, after considering its disposition from cvei iture pi $racti Congress, in March, 1926, on the recommendation rcf fejsq Fai , of Coolidge, created a joint Congressional committee to a proper lease of this property for the production and other fertilizer ingredients primarily, and for pot ar poses the power to be equitably distributed between feature munities and states to. which it may be properly irai Madge After exhaustive hearings, bids were called for, baseSuinm terms specified by the committee. From the bids submff committee has recommended acceptance of the offer nf, whi group of public utility power companies operating in; roies, the southern states. It now remains for the House anjr sends to authorize the secretary of war to execute a contract iflB pictu of the United States government. wheiori the has the opporihas gon Therefore, present Congress finally settle this problem on terms that conform to there Madg ments made by Congress, insuring operation of the plan!8400' different. Scientific research, disease prevention, good housing, purposes for which they were constructed, and payme: Q1j and humanized industrial relations are pushing back the limits government of a large annual cash rental. If the proprc p. cull of barbarism; but our chief defense against the demoralizing ef- lation fails of passage at this session of Congress, the8 Esda fect of the guantity production of standardized commonplaceness will again be deferred for perhaps another two years charact is the American system of education. The undertaking of before new legislation can be considered and acted oi,in88 at erica to lift a whole population to a high standard of under- gress. In the meantime the promise of fertilizer assii standing and appreciation is a new phenomenon in human so- agriculture and the diffusion of surplus power to iome BlJ ciety. throughout "the South will be unredeemed, and the beiadder w The fact that we care enough for character and intelligence the investment of $150,000,000 of public funds will be feet of to spend for education a large part of our national surplus, the public. promises well, which has so often been espoused in Antioche its importance for political effect By magnifying Notes. Yet spending public money is not enough. American Shoals has been an apparent public value out of &l(XIE given teachers on the whole are of good intelligence and constructive tion to its relative and the time Congress importance of to methods use purpose, but they, too, are under pressure on it to the exclusion of more pressing matters. AVe in stations need standardized quantity production. pioneer HA education," where, free from the pressure for mass production, STADIUM improved methods may be developed, and the latent possibilities of the educational process may be revealed. A stumbling block has been encountered in the WIT erection of the University of Utah stadium according to PULL POLITICAL It appears that the contemplation was to build part of E5DL dium on the Fort Douglas reservation. When negotiati-tThe new county officers will be sworn into office Monday, the bonding companies they would not, or will not. 3. of the some be made will in offices, Many changes January money unless there is a clear title to the land, so the while others will remain about the same. Thousands of applicato build have been materially slowed up. tions have been filed for positions. Among some of these appli- plans cations are requests for positions by married wumen whose husBIBLE READING bands are earning from two to three hundred dollars per month. If everybody was at work we would have nothing to say regardThe Rev. Goshen has started more Bible reading LOOt ing this matter, but we. do hot believe that any married woman tabes custom recent his of been because the past whose husband is earning a big salary should be given a political position, especially when therfc are so many men out of Bible. In the past people have been satisfied to have tell them what was in the Bible and to interpret it to' work. cording to the speakers own beliefs and ideas. Nov ti are reading and thinking for themselves and much gwl MUSCLE SHOALS. , : & . NS I 1 of-ha- s i s . . done. Juggling is an art, but we never thought that our Congress was practicing for the vaudeville stage. It appears so, however,, when we sum up all matters pertaining to Muscle Shoals. Ten years ago, as a national defense measure, Congress started a development at Muscle Shoals to produce nitrates for. powder and fertilizer. The war ended and there stood Muscle Shoals, the nitrate plants practically complete, but work on the power dam only about a third compelte. To date this project represents an expenditure of about $150,000,000 of public funds. Nothing could better illustrate the blighting effect of politics in business than the years of failure by Congress since the war ended, to make some disposition of Muscle Shoals, beneficial to the public. PANl Red Grange, famous grid player, is alleged to MIDI come too enthusiastic recently and partook of the vine FRO! was red and full of kick, scoring a touchdown of ten the callaboose. NEW EVE The Seminole Indians have, after four hundred 1 last been completely conquered. A people like that eal. to succeed, but they never had a chance against the G spiirt of the times. Eastern dentists are warning the people to stop they wish to avoid disease. Give us the death & pena SFECI AND ON T |