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Show THE CITIZEN GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION HERE IS an outstanding example of a manufacturing establishment, that, although attainting tremendous proportions, yet stands strongly cor the competitive principle in industry. Thus it preserves what gave it power and prestige. America derives great benefit, yet the industry prospers. Mr. Sloan, the executive, has the happy faculty of placing., responsibility directly where it berongs--upothe shoulders of department heads andf managers in the field. His secret lies in choosing the right man for the right job and in leaving him free to function. The result is a splendid caliber of men, all along the line, men who attend to their companys business as if it were their own. thought: Would G. M. C. ju5e Comes to mind this what it is, if it had no competition, no resistance ? Would the management and personnel retain their high state of efficiency? cars G. M. C. competes against lower-priceand trucks. It must justify its own higher price at every sale, by demonstrating higher values. That means more resistance for the management to meet, overcome and grow by. When genius and organization combine with loyalty and energy in a great industry they together produce efficiency and economy and bring progress. In G. M. C. loyalty and energy is the dynamic force that under able guidance has brought the organization to its present eminence, that under the same guidance will carry it yet to far greater heights. n -- d MORE COURTESY NEEDED A UTAH COUNTY business man sent a letter to the editor of the Tribune the. other day in which he said, in substance, that at the time of the L. D. S. Primary Jubilee he came up to the city about 10 o'clock in the morning, drove on Main street past the Hotel Utah, intending to find a parking space until noon, but was informed by the traffic officer that the space was reserved for forming of the parade. Not knowing just what would be the parking rules for the day, he inquired where he could park for the day and the officer gave what he probably Right up on Enthought was a witty answer: sign peak! There i3 a nice flat up there, and , sauntered away without any further comment. The writer further stated he then drove down Main street and parked in the congested district, intending to make some wholesale purchases for his firm. He had barely gotten out of his car when along came an officer marking the parked cars. The visitor didnt lmow how long he could remain, so naturally asked the officer, who should have courteously told him, but who merely Cftnarked, You can stay there until I get back. Of course, that meant a lot to a stranger. True, both officers may have thought the motorist was a Salt Lake citizen, because his car bore a Utah license. That didnt make any difference. An officer is in the employ of the public, is receiving his salary from public funds, and because of this fact, if for no other, every citizen is entitled to be treated courteously by him. The writer of the letter went on to state that he drove away and instead of transacting his business in Salt Lake he sent an order to Denver for the merchandise. have been made before by tour-driviM Complaints around the city. For some reason or other some people ip the employ of the public take the attitude the public be damned although the public is paying for their services. Discourtesy on the part of any public officer should be reported and if the person complained about does not immediately change his ways he should be supplanted by someone more genteel. ng This is a tourist city and a business center. Thousands of people come here annually, either to see our scenic beauties or transact business with us. We cannot afford to keep discourteous public officers on our pay rolls. KEEP YOUR MACHINE UNDER CONTROL 5 Only love justifies a union. Love is union. It transcends all other considerations, like that of home, wealth or place. In high circles, Mozart said, they marry for reasons of state, but it is given us lowly to marry for love. What is love, you ask? It is Ingersoll: what makes gods of common clay. But the heavens are interrupting, and more of their secret they will not tell. Only this we glean: that when the twain go hand in hand they unfeel their selfishness. Thus they go wandering down the same long lane. Its love, you see, that leads them together and away. - " WHAT WE need to do is to face the fact that we will always have pedestrians swarming our streets, and among them will always be a lot of people who are reckless and careless, and a great 'many children who are not responsible. These two classes present the most serious problem for the motorist. We also have many old people who become confused and lose control of themselves when crossing a street, deaf people who cannot hear a horn, cripples who cannot take care of themselves, nervous women who become, frightened and do the wrong thing, and mothers with children who cannot hurry because of their little ones. Therefore, there is only one thing for us to do and it is the only safe rule to follow. When approaching a street intersection we should always assume that someone is about to cross and should have our machine under perfect control. Too, at all times we should keep the pedestrian in mind and the child. A human life taken because of our carelessness or otherwise, upon a public highway, can only mean years of misery and regret ahead for the driver of the machine that caused the accident. IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS PROHIBITION didnt come by agitation. It came because America had changed to an industrial nation, a nation of factory cities; because machinery demanded careful operating and automobiles watchful driving. It came because the times needed more of brain than muscle. One whose best deeds lay in drinking whisky might go to sleep in his country wagon, while dutiful horses hauled him safely home, but what might happen now, were he at the steering wheel of a speeding car? He might lie down by the wayside and go unharmed in days gone by; not now. He might fumble around dumb animals, and they move on, but around a a bandsaw, or the like, his life would surely be in the laps of the gods. Soldiers and sailors drink, because they are homeless and their lives monotonous. Poets, like Omar, looked to the grape for respite from grief, and others. But these arent Omar days, and with soldiers and sailors drinking has become dangerous, too. No, taking a drink was not immoral in the good old days. But drinking is dangerous now, in this fast age. Drunken men (like children, madmen and fools,) all tell the truth. They know. Drinking is dangerous. Prohibition has been cloaked too much in the garb of morality. It is founded rather on necessity, and, because it is necessary, it will stay. fly-whe- el, PARALLEL LIVES IN AFFINITY These are times of unhappy unions and divorce. First we heard of trial marriage; then of eugenics and birth control. More lately companionate marriage has been the theme. Nothing is worse than a bad marriage or a bad divorce, Napoleon wrote. He knew. Marriage on trial, companionately or other, wise, has this weakness: in the minds of the pair the seed of failure is sown, and that in the very dawn of their wedded lives. A seed it is that will bo all too likely to grow in the inevitable period of readjustments that couples usually face as their love crystallizes and the haze of it is brushed away. To marry for keeps is still most wise, most beautiful. FORCED TO DIE MANY PEOPLE have recently called at this office and shown their indignation over the arrest and conviction of C. L. Bradford, discoverer of a food oil which gives great relief and cures in cancer, blood poison, goitre, etc. These living testimonials, a majority of whom have been given up by doctors and their cases pronounced incurable and hopeless, say they are curing themselves with this oil. They say they cannot understand a law which would prevent them from curing themselves or saving their lives and they ask, What's the matter with our law in Utah? The writer has personally interviewed several of these sick people, and was greatly surprised at what was being accomplished. Bradford is not a doctor and does not prescribe. He manufactures an oil and says that any doctor can cure the most vicious cases of disease with it. So far, a majority of those who have purchased this oil, were given up by the Recently a man was sent to the Mayo Brothers for cancer. He was cut open, sewed up and sent back to die, but hearing of this oil is now actually curing himself and is about his business which he has been unable to attend to for several years. It appears to us that such an oil should be encouraged instead of denounced. doc-tor- s. THE DOLLAR YOU DIDN'T SPEND Suppose someone were to offer you a job with big wages, which meant almost certain death before the first pay day; would you take it? You certainly would not! Suppose someone came to you with a plan to make easy money, to give him your savings and let him show you how to get rich quick; would you believe him? Not if you got the facts first! What you can earn is called a wage; what a dollar earns is called interest. As with a job, so, as a rule, with money; the greater the re. turn, the greater the risk. You probably spend less than you earn; most of us do. It is your business how much money, if any, you lay aside, but the difference between the man who gets ahead and the one who doesnt lies in what each one does with the dollar that is left on Saturday night after the bills are paid. Care for your extra dollar as you would care for yourself. Every dollar you earn represents just so much labor. The next time anyone, either friend or stranger, asks if you want to make big money by sending your dollars out on a job that looks profitable, but may be dangerous, do a little thinking first. Do not hurry. Take your time. It may save you from serious loss. Investment facts are not hard to get, if you take the time to get them. We must apply the rule of toleration. Because there are peoples whose ways are not our ways, and whose thoughts are not our thoughts, we are not warranted in drawing the conclusion that they are adding nothing to the sum of civilization. Calvin Coolidge. |