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Show 4 '' THE CITIZEN on that section of our state and she is surely gobbling up all the business at the present time. One very good reason is that products can be sent into the basin from Denver cheaper than they can be sent from Salt Lake City. Can we afford to sleep on this job? RED CROSS. Louis S. Cates, chairman of the disaster relief committee of the Salt Lake county chapter of the Red Cross, is in receipt of a telegram from Secretary Hoover, who states that there are now over three hundred thousand flood victims and that it will take not less than $10,0000,000 for the temporary relief of the flood zone. As a result, the amount to be raised by this city for the needy has been raised to $25,000, and the members of the Red Cross are actively at work and expect to raise this sum within a few days. Contributions should be sent direct to Red Cross headquarters in the Boston building. This is a national calamity which necessitates speedy action by all the people. i UPRIGHTNESS. An important Pacific Coast utility corporation, with an intensive campaign for the sale of its securities to its own customers, instructs its agents to urge no one to drop any other safe investment to take up its own more profitable securities. You pave the way to the change of making them gamblers, when you urge the switch for a higher rate, is the companys theory. Theyd quit you cold on the same argument by any irresponsible agent, once you get them started on that thought. Ask only for their idle money. The community that will invest its own money in the service offered by a widespreading corporation, is to be trusted and helped; for it proves its faith in itself, its integrity, its industries, its permanency. Money invested in a utility to serve ones own community, pays not only about the best financial return, but it pays the magic profit of cooperative development. Better water and power and gas and telephone service attracts industries, lower rates, multiplies comforts and homes ; and this betterment comes only by larger capital and collective faith. The community that waits for outside capital to come in and do all the things it has no faith to do for itself, does not deserve to prosper ; and it will not. This is wholesome advice that we can profit by in this city. PRIVATE OWNERSHIP. INDUSTRY AHEAD. A report written by President John E. Edgerton, of the tional Association of Manufacturers, shows that industry eclipsed the progress achieved by any of the professions on industrial pursuits. The report claims that politics anded tion have not kept pace with the success and progress of in tries. This in reply to an appeal of 41 bishops, ministers teachers asking industrial leaders to improve labor conditi The report states : If the same degree of progress in the reformation of political, religious, moral and educational lives had been mad our industrial life, America woulud have very much less tow about. TRAGIC DEATH. The tragic deaths of Lieutenant Commander Noel Davis Lieutenant S. H. Wooster, who were to have attempted the to Paris in the giant byplane The Amreican Legion, has newed the agitation among government aviation experts cerning the principles of airplane construction. The pert age of deaths among aviators does not seem to decrease and haps that is the reason why the art of flying has not beeni rapidly developed in the United States. 11 PRICES TOO HIGH. Propaganda is being sent out from Chicago by the i packers that prices are from 10 to 20 per cent lower now they were a year ago. It is quite evident that the meat packers do not include city in their louver prices. If anything, meat is much higher than it was a year ago. As compared with the prices paid to farmers, it is entirely too high. The higher price is also thee I of less meat eating. AERIAL RISKS. Aerial navigators have lightning to contend with du storms and electrical disturbances in the heavens. The o day a bolt of lightning struck a naval service plane and k four men. When lightning strikes a plane, no doubt the occup are instantly killed and the plane is put out of commission it crashes to earth a crumbled and charred mess, with its hn victims mangled and burned. No doubt some inventor will in the near future find a tective device to ward of lightning, but until such time, all! take their life in their hands when passing through an elect storm. Secretary Hoover, addressing the Atlantic states shippers regional advisory board, said that the railroads of this country under private ownership are doing 20 per cent more business and with 200,000 fewer employes than under federal control during the war. If anyone wants to argue the question of government ownership of railroads in the United States, he has to get over this concrete demonstration of the capacity of private ownership to solve its own problems, he said. When the government operated railroads had 1,900,000 employees during the war, without direct, close supervision, their number and the power of their inertia was growing at an unbelievable rate. The number began to decrease and the per capita efficiency to increase, the minute the roads went back to private control. As between a private ownership that must hustle to lower rates so that the public can pay without revolt, and public ownership that gives salaried greed a free hand to organize and plunder the payroll and reject improvements lest they cut th working force, the private ownership plan has proved incomparably the best, not only with railroads, but with all industrial and business undertakings. man-substituti- ng . UNPROFESSIONAL. The federal government is beginning to step upouj organizations which would eliminate the little fellow n purchasing and thus freezing out every one that is not a or who has not the good will of the larger sales company. r& Organization is an ideal condition to obtain good to providing such organization is not used as a club and W1 trade. Wheneveran organization begins to disriminate its customers, it becomes an undesirable citizen and its f inal acts should be brought to a sudden halt. Live and Id should be our motto. 1 s - DANGER WAS THERE. The merchants of the downtown district were told line of parade would be formed on Fifth East and the trek be down that street to Liberty Park, to eliminate as sible all danger of traffic accidents. u of sp The boys had formed in line and thousands crowded both sides of the street, when all of a sudden |