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Show THE CITIZEN 4 BEN-HUpast thirty days in trying to fly long distances over the oceans, as well as some women. The race for glory, world's records Ben-IIis coming to the Pantages. One mighty spectacle, and stellar achievements has so momentarily fired youth that no thought is given to danger and they plunge headlong into You have never seen anything like it before, and perhaps neve. eternity. Not even a marker for their graves and some may again. This is said to he the world's greatest show and it took temporarily he in the stomach of a large fish or denizen of the three years of the hardest kind of work to make this picture. It cost over $4,000,000 and has a cast of 150,000 people. In this deep. picture you see in the death daring chariot race, the fight in a BOOST THE WEST thrilling sea battle, together with the wonder of a thousand and one glamorous, breath taking scenes. In the cast are found the Now and then there appears to he some agitation among greatest screen stars among whom are Ramon Novarro, Betty the financiers of the Atlantic seaboard against western inter- - Bronson, May McAvoy, Francis X. Bushman and Carmel ests a sort of crushing effect and an effort to prevent our nat- - Myers. In order to take care of the big crowds that will go to see ural development in the west. Oil has become one of our larger industries, yet there are this picture, Manager Grant Pemberton will start the show many rumors that there is too much production of. oil in the promptly at 12 o'clock noon and the picture will be shown fiv$y, west and that it should be regulated. times during afternoon and evening. It will be flashed on the At this end of the line we might say, Why not curtail east- - screen for the first time next Wednesday, September 7 and ern production and go to the west for the oil?" will run for one. week. This is one of the most expensive pic- Why should a company like the Utah Oil Refining company tures that has come to this city and the theatre will have to be close its shops for the whims of eastern capital? The Utah Oil crowded at every performance to break even, All the big theatres in the country bid for the picture. company, makes as good an oil as any in the world, as was con- islproven in the recent airplane race to the Hawaiian ander Pantages took it with the highest price ever paid for a ands. One of the winners sent to this company for his oil, and picture, it is said. Pemberton says, There is nothing too good, the test was perfect, and Vico is now held in high esteem by all for Pantages patrons," and he is highly elated in being able to automobile drivers and airplane men. present this, the greatest of all pictures to his patrons. We want the oil business to boom in this part of the coun- FIELD UNPLEDGED try. We need the business. If there is too much oil in the east, R. ur Alex-clusive- ly let them store it. B. D. Field, mining man, says he is not afraid of politics and SMOKE while there is much said at present pro and con regarding many of those in the political arena, he does not in the least feel em- An additional appropriation of $7,000 has been asked for barrassed to announce his candidacy for city commissioner in smoke abatement by Commissioner P. J. Moran. If Moran the coming election this fall. He has several thousand en- cvould secure results with this additional sum, then we would be dorsers to his nummerous petitions that have been circulated by his friends who have induced him to run for the office. the first to recommend that he get it. Do you know, Mr. Moran, that if there was no coal burned In presenting his name to the voters, Field pledges his word by the residents in this valley, that we would still have smoke? and honor to work for the interest of all the people at all times Do you also know that if we have the same kind of breezes blow- - and to provide a business administration for the people by abol-in- g in the winter as in the summer that we would have no ishing political machines, reducing taxes and making necessary smoke? improvements commensurate with the growth of the city. When the winter weather sets in in November, we recom- Field says that he is the people's candidate. He does not mend that you, Mr. Moran, make a trip in your automobile belong to any organization which could or might dictate his from Provo north to the Bear river cut in the mountains north policy if elected to office and if elected, every voter will look of Brigham City and see if there is not one continuous cloud of alike to him. smoke all along the Wasatch range for a distance of about 125 miles. LOST ENERGY If we put out all the fires along this entire distance, then we will have no smoke, but to pierce the smoke "cloud" here From 80 to 95 per cent of the energy stored in coal is lost and there is but folly to believe we can rid ourselves of this win- - when it is burned in furnaces or stoves. It is only the gas in ter smoke. the coal that is burned, and much of the heat is lost, as well as The installation of modern furnaces and stoves is about as all of the valuable when coal is burned raw. far as we can go in smoke abatement. The careless fireman methods each ton of coal will pro- - & By modern should be given some attention, and it does not take a big pay- - ducc approximately 11,000 cubic feet of gas, 1,400 pounds of roll to perform that work. coke which contains as much heat as an equal amount of coal, five pounds of ammonia liquor, one and one-ha- lf gallons of zen- 1 by-produc- ts, gas-maki- ng JUDGE NOT zol, ten gallons of tar, and a considerable amount of sulphur and The Dearborn Independent says that there has been a great naphthalene, The gas can be burned with an efficiency of .80 per cent; the falling off in the success philosophy' which preached that sue- cess consisted of getting your bread and butter by dickering in- - coke can be used as fuel or turned into additional gas by the stead of by producing. Any kind of success that would put us all carburetted water-ga- s process ; the sulphur, ammonia liquor and in offices and leave none of us on the farm or in the shop would naphthalene can he converted into chemicals and fertilizer, and be rash. We must cease the injustice of thinking that the men from the tar can be obtained dyes, perfumes and drugs, who remain in agriculture, mechanics and manual labor, remain there because they haven't the ability to get out. FRONTIER GONE Nobody in America seems excited because we didn't make enough ship scarifices to assure an agreement in the Geneva conference; which indicates that somebody's propaganda machine wasn't functioning properly. The complaint is heard that modern industrial organization and the disappearance of the frontiers is destroying opportunities for individual independence. Big Business grows bigger. The good free land is gone. The Klondikes have been discov- - |