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Show THE CITIZEN salvation through some church finds many conflictions. church is right and the other church is always g 5 A high school education permitted farmers to own their farms three years sooner than those farmers with only common school education, it was found in the latter state. More and more emphasis is being put on education, and more boys and girls are going through high schools before taking up their life work. The trend continues on up into the colleges, and, especially in the science and engineering courses, is attracting an increasing percentage of the ambitious forward-thinkin- g youth of the land. Less hand and back labor and more brain management of machinery is the order of the day. These young folks who are stepping up from high school to college and our business and commercial world deserve our highest respect and at least an effort on our part to understand their viewpoint. They are starting with a great deal better equipment than our generation started with, just as we started with a better equipment for tackling the world than did our parents. Some will fail, perhaps, but the average will raise the average of this community if we can furnish them sufficient opportunity for advancement. similar trends. Confusion sets in the mind of the average layman he begins to read and finds that Christ did not teach any religion, but taught brotherly love and do unto others as tfould be done by. Christ did not build temples nor demand salary. He preached to make a better world and if all the Jle followed his teachings, we could immediately eliminate all police and brotherly love would rule the world. 3ut what have we got? The Catholic says his religion is The Mormon says that their only true religion on earth. et is the only personal living representative of God on and that it is the only true religion, and so on down the ire find arbitrary views among our religious leaders who are vying with each other for spiritual supramacy. Under conditions, how can the church expect people to flock to jng. 9 support? The moment a church endeavors to strangle the . inherent ts of the people, that moment it inaugurates contention and sition. There is a vast difference in appealing to the people their moral support, and in driving them with a club. LIQUOR DEATHS We venture to say that if all business was closed in this The Health Commissioner of the State of New York has asktry on Sunday, that the country would he placed into bank- ed the surgeon general of the United States Public Health seritcy within a year from the time of such fanatical legislation. wheels of industry must turn every day, which is just as es- - vice to conduct a federal inquiry into deaths from alcoholism. itial to our livelihood as is the sunshine every The New York official asserts that the increase in the death rate day. Man can work and seek pleasure, and still worship God. Peo- - from alcoholism in New York has been 260 per cent in five years. He claims it is due to illicit liquor, of which, according to his ican lead upright lives and be very religious and yet never go church. The church can do a great deal of good, and it can statement, there must be considerable in New York. ado a great deal of harm. . TEACHING PATRIOTISM BEAUTIFUL HOMES beautiful homes for this city. And pray, where would rich man find a more ideal city in which to live?. We have no frames in climate, and nature plays no pranks with our citi-nrMore y. Earthquakes, cyclones and tornadoes, and floods, we m not what they are. Louis S. Cates, vice president and general manager of the tah Copper Company, is erecting a palatial residence in at an estimated cost of $60,000. The arcliitec-r- e will be of the most modern design, the home being situated the most elite section of the city. W. G. Lambourne, president of the Park Utah Consolidated ines Company, is also building a palace in the same vicinity, ehome to be of Italian design and to be erected at a cost of Bonne-tte-on-the-Hi- ll, Incident to the holding of the finals of the National Oratorical contest in Washington, Randolph Leigh, organizer and director of the contests, states that in the last four years more .than six million high school boys and girls have taken part in these contests on the Constitution. He says the finalists are to the entire movement merely what the sparkling crest is to a wave, and adds: They are the heirs to the drive and surge and enthusiasm of six million minds. The National Oratorical contest has performed its great duty toward humanity, as Mr. Leigh states, because it is an agency for taking the Constitution to the people through the children of the people. In the act of informing and inspiring themselves on the subject of the Government of the United States, they also quicken and enthuse their elders and associates. hr $50,000. have made their money in Utah mines and they resi-fltip spending their money here in helping to beautify our district with the most modern homes that money can prot- I These men PROGRESS al o and build. DIPLOMA DIVIDENDS the day of high school commencement approaches and new army of youth steps out into the world with a ribbon gesture in the diploma in one hand and the world-wid- e jjer. The facts of the matter are that these young folks are pg to change the world greatly in spite of the traditional hk from the smart Alecks as to their intentions along that Again Here are a few facts, based on careful surveys as to the cash m of education common school, high school and college : A school education is worth twice as much as a common school p potion, according to a survey in Tompkins county, New rfy and a college education is worth two and a half times as rjh as the district school course and a third more than the school. Texas figures that every day spent at school is $9, a high school graduates earnings being compared to uneducated laborer s to get the value of schooling. Georgia, nis, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas and Wisconsin surveys showed j! The Citizen notes with approval the action of a committee putting forward independent candidates for members of the Board of Governors of the Chamber of Commerce. We commend this action because we believe it shows an awakening of interest on the part of a group of members promiennt in the business life of the city. It has been felt that the Commercial Club has been controlled for many years by a small group. This may be true and if so, it has probably been because others have not been interested enough to devote themselves to the work. The present and past officers are entitled to credit for the time and energy they have devoted to the affairs of the organization. No one questions their sincerity of purpose however much one may feel that their efforts have in many cases been misdirected. We believe that the Chamber of Commerce should give more attention to the interests of the general public than it has in the past. One criticism often heard is that the organization, composed of men in all lines of business, large and small, has exerted its influence to too great an extent in stifling discussion or agitation against existing conditions, whatever they may be. Then too, the antagonism has been raised because at different times some of the officials of the Club have attempted to use the Club for political purposes. While these charges may not |