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Show THE CITIZEN H . AND THE write pared to other marketable commodities, is infinitesimal. What other desirable or necessary thing can be purchased with two cents Yet, a two-cestamp may ean, to a stranded person, escape from starvation or mendicancy, or it ay, and no doubt often has, saved the pride of one too proud to beg. that you did, for many of To the unemployed a little two-cestamp and a well written letter have POST OFFICE PUBLIC. S. Jtten Service.) ever stranded, you jq broke, out? and to Postmaster General for the National Press New, you ever have to money? did neii for Uming ive reduced to that extrem-0n- e time or another, did you ap-lt- e of tin 'f the; the value of the' little two-tarn- p that carried your letter 'tonli ap-f- or funds? told that values change ac-i- g to the intensity of desire or are to'rij ; jhed at-V- iJ iSacin! the coi hey lie he a glass of water But ually free for the asking. a man wandering for days In with a consuming thirst and to drink. He finally reaches with ge where he would part earthly possessions for one draught of clear cold water, value of a postage stamp, com For instance, ones) two cents is hot a dream, for the rate from Point Barrow, Alaska, well within the Arctic Circle to Terra del Fue-g- o at the southern tip of South Am-- , emica, is only two cents. The American citizen In the Philippines may send a letted to Spain for the same price. Only a few countries in South America are out of the two-cezone, while New Zealand, as well as the closer British Isles, may all be reached for two cents. nt nt often meant the difference betwen a job and no job. Neither is it far fetched to say that a postage stamp, witn the letter It carried, has proved the turning point in the career of more than one man. A man must needs be poor indeed who cannot afford the price of a postage stamp. Yet, with that possession, he holds within his grasp the power of Aladdin. With it, he may purchase a draft on human labor to the end that his message may be transmitted with celerity and delivered with safety to the ends of the earth. From the Arctic to the Antaitic for For the remaining countries on the globe ..the charge is five cents, yet. it was only seventy years ago that a letter to Australia cost $2.04, and, within the confines of our own United States only as far back as the Civil war days, it cost $5 to transmit a letter to San Francisco by Pony Express when that service was first lnaugur ated. Today, the same letter is transported by air mail from New York to San Francisco for ten cents and the time, instead of ten days as then, is only 36 hours. v TT that! the! tnretl 3inthee TO MAY 7 bootlegs at the i ingsten risona ;e the Is d he b lselfin' State IPaiir Girounimdls Under Supervision of Utah Racing Commission Utah Agricultural and Racing Association, WILLIAM P. KYNE, Gen. Mgr. anna Every Day Except Sunday Lve an? eady to S00 Leagot Kingly Thoroughbreds Best in the West & each1 Ladies. Free Tuesdays and Fridays. Tea thousand loosen scats in concrete covered grandstands, affording a perfect view of every thrilling moment. ineral PARI-MUTUE- or ; 1 ten great lant Under Ihe supervision of L SYSTEM Ihe Utah Racing Commission and State Fair Board GAGE RODMAN, Supervision of Mutuels s T; , : ' BIRD LIFE VALUE Science has come to the rescue of many industries that faced Injury or extermination. The invention of cheap, sure metal extraction from ores has remade the world; cheap transportation has prevented Industrial stagnation. Electricity has permitted the performance of more prodigies in the past generation than all g the magicians of history. But science is still one jump behind on one of the most important problems of American life the eradication of the white beetle that has so ravaged the sugar beet fields of the nation, and has stopped beet growing in many once important districts. Last year the white fly almost ruined many beet-eldof Utah and Idaho. The scientist who can find a way to eradicate this white plague, may confer' a greater economic blessing on America than if ihe had found and annexed a new continent. Incidentally, the beet fly seems to be immune to bird attack. But many other insects are not; the birds are their one great check. The country has ignorantly killed off its bird life, until it is a close race between man and the bugs as to which shall control. Birds are the cheapest, surest, safest, most attractive remedies for most insect infestations. It is more than sentiment tbat calls for bird protection; it is the knowledge that without them the country may be smothered by crawling, flying, murrowing bugs, insects and worms that birds would gladly destroy, if wed only let the birds live. . wand-wavin- Long Boy Big boy, wuz George Washington as honest as dey sez he 7 Thrilling Races Daily 7 Admission $1.00 (Plus tax) villd e 500 entered in onsfw png 19 MORE DAYS 10 litstof obilesl . . Lee Muss 11 In the postal service of America today there are 363,000 employees, alert, and with willing hands to push forward on' its way the letter of. the millionaire, the business man, or the pauper and it may be truthfully said that to none is given preference, either in speed or extent of service. To the man of the street, then, as well as to his more fortunate brother, the iittle oblong postage stamp is a seal of service and a symbol of transitory power lodged in its possessor to command willing and faithful service of hundreds and of. thousands of ' hands. .. far-awa- y ni been I Last Meeting Under Redd Racing Law wuz? Shorty Ah tell you, nigger, Gawge was de honestest man dat ever wuz born. Long Boy Den how come dey close de banks on his birthday? Rockford. y Physicians Supply Company SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS and IIoNpltal Supplies Truaaea Manufacturers of ABDOMINAL SUPPORTERS AND ELASTIC STOCKINGS 22 W. 2nd So. ' Snlt Lake City Phone l Was, 2370. P. O. Dox .1013 . s |