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Show THE CITIZEN 6 WONDERFUL MINING RECORD A CIVILIZATION WE LEAD. rises when the n When the outnumber the get the upper hand the civilization falls. Then the rats turn and eat one another and that is the end. Beware of breeding rats in America. James rat-me- n. During a recent month the metal mining companies of America broke all records, as compared with earnings during previous years. This is indicative of the progress being made in the mining industry. A few years ago conditions were chaotic, prices fluctuated violently, supply and demand were unrelated and a number of companies were paying no dividends. Today new and scientific methods of production, and intensified executive competence and efficiency have adjusted supply and demand, and evolved satisfactory and progressive general conditions. A price level free from radical fluctuations has been reached, and substantial dividends are the result. Few other industries have had to face such difficulties as have confronted mining. And fewer yet have been able to pass through them so successfully. TELEPHONE DEVELOPMENT IN THE United States telephone communication, both in quality and widespread use of service, has been brought to its hightest point of development. We have 70 per cent of the worlds telephones, with but a small percentage of the worlds population. In the United States there are 15.3 telephones' per 100 inhabitants, as compared with 1.6 in Europe. The difference is primairly one of methods of government. In Europe 88 per cent of telephone communication is operated by the government; in the United States telephones are privately owned. Our telephone supremacy is an adequate commentary on the wisdom of a government allowing full play to individual initiative and ability. DR. A. E. WINTHROP, prominent educator of Boston, has issued this statement: In proportion to its size the Utah Agricultural College has turned out more leaders in its field than any other educational institution in America. When you consider the number of colleges in the country, you will realize what a wonderful record this is for Utah. And yet, passing strange as it may seem, every fall dozens and dozens of our young people leave their native state to seek education in various schools throughout the country. The University of Utah is considered one-othe very best in the United States, but distant pastures look more enchanting. ' Our slogan, What Utah Makes Makes Utah should also apply to our young people. Utahns Profit by Utah Education. - Doubtless A1 Smith would not have mentioned the Teapot Dome at Helena if the $10,000,000 gold plated sewer graft in New York had been brought to light publicly at that time. He blam- ed Herbert Hoover for not saying anything about the oil scandal. We will wait rather im- -' patiently for him to make some statement about the 'new Tammany graft. Some of his political; spokesmen have declared to the country that A1 controlled Tammany and in that case it is just as logical to suppose he knew about the sewer graft as Herbert Hoover did the oil graft. beaver-me- n rat-me- J. Davis. HE IS NOT only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed. Socrates. President of this country YOU CAN be elected on what it costs to be elected Senator. Will Rogers. one-ten- th . . f THIS CAMPAIGN is nine parts alcohol and one pari, vitriol. Chicago Post. EVERY WAR is a national calamity whether victorious or not von Moltke. DISASTERS on land, sea and in the sky leave the impression that terrors of war should not be added to terrors that exist in time of peace. ' . HENRY FORD is about to construct a living Museum Village. Probably the most distinguished inhabitant will be the man who first had the nerve to buy a Ford car. A VISITOR innocently asks what is the tics of the Salt Lake daily papers? can answer and be certain he is right ? poli- Now-wh- - f It is a fact that American chewing gum is becoming right popular in many foreign countries. Even the English used 3,000,000 pounds. It is better than chewing the rag, anyway. AT THE END of the year American invest? ments in foreign corporate securities totaled . $11,-659,383,5- 29. . I HOPE I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain, what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. George Washington. THE MAN that doesnt know how usually does things. You see, he doesnt know how, so he goes right ahead and does it. ' COLUMBUS MEMORIAL LIGHTHOUSE of Santo Domingo where Christopher Columbus and his sailors landed in their first exploration of the West Indies all the ON THE COAST nations of the Americas are uniting to build a The project, Columbus Memorial Lighthouse. which is sponsored by the Union, has been planned with imagination and a genuine regard for artistic values. No political committee will handle the designing of the memorial but the choice will be left to architects from every nation of the world who care to compete for the grand prize offered for the best design. The international jury of architects, chosen by the competitors themselves, will award prizes of $2,000 each for the best ten designs submitted in a preliminary competition, and then will set the ten winners competing against one another to perfect the final design. The ultimate winner will receive at least $10,000 and his earnings may run to several hundred thousand. Towering perhaps six hundred feet over a memorial park of 2,500 acres, the great lighthouse of sea and air will overlook the island which Christopher Columbus loved more than any other place in the world. It will be more than a monument to Columbus. It will be a symbol of the potential friendship of all American peoples and a reminder that beauty is a more worthy goal of international competition than the range of elevated guns. The Nation. Pan-Americ- an A MAN is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity. John B. Gough. IN OUR COUNTRY and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration. He may have eloquence, he may have a knowledge of all history, diplomacy, jurisprudence; and by these he might claim, in other countries, the elevated rank of a statesman; but unless he speaks, plans, labors, at all times and in all places for the culture and edification of the whole people, he is not, he cannot be, an American statesman. Horace Mann. SOME efficiency expert may yet be found who will preserve the hours of occupation lost to the world daily by the man who is compelled to leave his desk and shift his automobile to a new parking place. UTAH is a Republican state, naturally, but it can easily be made''a doubtful state. A little religious intderance goes a great ways at times and this is a year when no mistakes should be made. GOVERNOR SMITH calls the campaign the open season for a lot of bunk, which will remind some of his opponents of his talk about amending the amendment and making the country both legally dry and legally wet v THE PEOPLE of the United States very deliberately framed their government with the view of remaining the masters of it, and not of being mastered by it; and they are not yet willing to abdicate in favor of any, even the most audacious John conspirator against their sovereignty. Bigelow. WE ARE MORE heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. Franklin. THE RELIGIONS of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men- - Emerson. ANYBODY can cut prices, to make a better article. but it takes brains Philip D. Armour. WHERE law ends tyranny begins. Wm. Pitt. GREAT POLITICAL questions stir the deepest nature of one-ha- lf the nation; but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half. Wendell Phillips. . . NO COUNTRY can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind. Carlyle. IT IS UNTRUE that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality; its sovereign law is subordination and dependence Vanvenargues. IN A FREE country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, but much suffering- - Carnot. ; WHEN the millions applaud you, seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good! Colton. THE STANDING eagle looks sleepy and the walking tiger sick; but these are their ways of snatching prey. From the Chinese. LET OUR schools teach the nobility of labor and the beauty of human service, but the superstitions of ages past never. Peter Cooper. BIDS fairs to become the im- passable detour in Smiths path to the presidency. Wall Street Journal. TAMMANY A POLITICIAN thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation. man Clarke. 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