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Show THE CITIZEN 12 A BUSINESS GENIUS All business men and American well wishers were encouraged by the report of Secretary Mellon on business conditions at the beginning of the new year. The report, which is borne out by the surveys made by competent authorities will tend to give assurance to the men who are interested in continuing the progress and prosperity of the nation in 1928. The American people have now progressed to the point where they have a standard of living which has never been equalled at any time in the history of the world. This standard of living: is due to American business genius, to the efficiency of American labor and to constructive poliices which have made . our present prosperity general. Among these policies are re stricted immigration and the protective tariff, which have guarded the American worker against an incoming flood of cheap and undesirable foreign labor and cheap and undesirable foreign goods. Between our great and prosperous states there is a free exchange of goods with no barriers and this is possible because we are one commonwealths people in forty-eigeach with the same ideals and the same standard of living. But the case is far different when we compare our standards with that in the other nations of the world. The Washington Post recently well summed up the situation as follows: When American labor is employed at good wages the nation is safe and sound. A heavy influx of foreigners would tend to reduce wages. This would be advantageous to some employers, but it would not benefit the country as a whole. Similarly, a breach in the tariff wall would be highly advantageous to importers and certain bankers who make a business of lending money on questionable security. abroad These bankers would willingly sacrifice American industry for the sake of collecting the money they have lent abroad. But the interests of all the people require that tariff protection shall remain intact, and be extended ht NEWLY FURNISHED 3 ROOM APARTMENTS in other directions whenever American industry and labor are found to be insufficiently protected. Thus all Americans are enabled to become producers, and by producing they are enabled to consume liberally what their fellow Americans produce. The bulwark of American farmers is the tariff. It guarantees to them a body of consumers who can pay liberal prices for all farm products. As the farmers learn better to market their products they will increase their prosperity. On a solid economic system, found by experience to be adapted to the best interests of the country, the United States enters the new year in a prosperous condition. No one but Americans can destroy the prosperity of the United States. . TELEPHONE LINGUIST ns A few years ago From Greenlands Icy Mountains to India's Coral Strand was a phrase of purely academic sig- nificance whose use confined chiefly to those writing in the fanciful or inspirational vein. Today it suggests a which, while not yet telephone hook-ua reality, is at least indicated by the p A achievements in the America ental system. Today a persojlEi from the latitude of those ldT tains is able to lift his red move his ear muff and by three great telephone systenufsS an acquaintance in Mexico bkL- -5 through a quiet siesta perioJfc heat of the day. Over these systems flow guages and numerous dial even in America the diarf northern New England anflf4 Texas are as distantly related! other as the members of twhost whose ancestors came orX Mayflower and subsequent The presence on the sameLV two different tongues, may times threatened to burn outpV sulation. But the problem solved largely by employing? egic positions operators whotu both of the languages that h expected to come over the wii ; t : Bernard Shaw says that I like to come to America buti)gy of Ellis Island. He might go first and then slip across the I , coi Two steam shovels and twofle crews are working on Zion P-- ehi Carmel highway. Jfe . rot BINGHAM STAtroi LINES COMPAQ. or Regular Buts to ham, every two hi,-from 7 a. m. to 11 plGi ? Office: 107 E. Phone Was. ho 153 GUI SPECIAL CARS AT ANY TIME uni THE CLIFT BILLIARD PARLOR CANDIES CIGARS TOBACCOS REX HOTEL I happened to German credit when the Rhineland was occupied a few short years ago. Italy is fairly prosperous and from Vienna comes the report that for the first time since the war business men in 1927 were able to live on their earnings. All of which makes very interesting reading for the average American. It would seem that conditions in Europe are not so bad as they are sometimes painted, especially when the painter has an object in view, the object being the securing of some special favor from the United States. Doubtless the cry of hard times will be heard until the war is paid for, and if America can be induced to do the paying, all the better. Of course we want to help Europe all that we cab but not at the expense of American prosperity and the American standard of living. . We have heard a great deal from the internationalists and during the past year or two to the effect that we ought to reduce our tariff and cancel or reduce the European debts so that the nations of the Old World will be saved from a generation of poverty and perhaps permanent decay. We have been told that unless we do the things suggested Europe will collapse and that we too will suffer when the house of cards fall. In the light of all these dire predictions it is interesting to note the Associated Press report on conditions in Europe at the beginning of the new year. The survey indicates that the average European business man in checking up has found that the year 1927 was a good one, and it is declared that there is a slow but sure upward economic trend in all of the important European countries including Great Britain which has in some ways been the hardest hit nation of all. Of course, the Associated Press report continues, Mr. Average European has not yet paid all the bills for his fun and folly of 1914.-1- 8 and until the great vrar has been paid for the cry hard times is going to continue to be heard. The French, it says, were complaining at the close of the year yet their foreign trade balance is favorable. There is plenty of money there, much of which was left by members of the American Legion and American tourists during the 1927 season. In Britain, it is declared, the leaders of finance and industry are assuming a more cheerful aspect, 'while in Germany there has been a steady gain in spite of the increased burden of reparations under the Dawes plan. German credit is said to be absolutely sound, which Strictly Modem Including FRIGIDAIRE is significant when one considers what EUROPE IN GOOD SHAPE pro-Europea- . Strictly Modern Absolutely Fireproof THE CLIFTON 253 South State 283 E. So. Temple Wasatch 6781 24 West 3rd South . ' 111 L |