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Show I Straight Talk B "Little by little the history of Orson 'Hewlett B during the last Commercial club excursion is E coming out, and each new story as it appears B tends to show the state of mind in which 'Brother Bl Orson and his followers in the Embitterment B1 league are laboring. B. During the trip to the northland, a stop was B made at Twin Falls, one of the most prosperous B and industrious little cities in southern Idaho. B A splendid entertainment had been prepared, in- B eluding a dance, which the majority of the ex- B cursionists attended. One of them happened to B' meet an old friend, an eminently respectable B lady, and asked hpr to accompany him to the af- B fair. She did so, and during the dancing re- H' quested that he put her purse in his pocket, B which he did, and upon escorting her home ab- B sent mindedly went away without returning it. B Ho then went to the train and went to bed. B After nearly all had retired a few gentle- B men still sat up to have a glass of beer in the B car reserved for that purpose, and while they H were seated there the lady above mentioned, H came down to the station accompanied ,by her H brother, and they Inquired if Mr. 'So and So H were there, as he had neglected to return her H purse, which contained their railroad tickets for H' the train leaving at seven in the morning. H The club members began a search of the H train, finally locating her escort of the early B evening, the purse was secured and returned H to her and she left the platform rejoicing. B The gentlemen returned to their libr d, H and had just gotten comfortably seated whv.n an H elongated apparition appeared in his majesty and m a nightshirt before them, with hairy legs and m funny feet exposed, and handsome eyes abllnk, M as he endeavored to come out of his slumber. H It was Orson, our Orson, spluttering with wrath, RH the picture of anger as one may imagine such S3 a picture as Orson would make atremble with B fury beneath the diaphanous folds of a robe do M nuit. B Then the storm broke. He was ashamed of B the gathering, singly and individually, and B thought that if they had no respect for them- B selveB they at least should have it for the club, 9 and denounced them bitterly for bringing women S to the train, inviting them on board and giving B them drinks at that hour of the night. Some of B I the boys were angry at firtt on account of tne B i gentleman's anger and the unjust attack, but B , some of the others prevailed upon them to for- B i get it and let him rave. H The attack was utterly uncalled for, the H i speaker knew nothing of the circumstances, and M $ just took the chance to berate them because H' ; another brainstorm had sot his Imagination go-B go-B J ing. violently, and he had convinced himself that I : something terrible had happened. It merely goes w to show the state of mind these supposed reform-IB reform-IB ers work themselves into. Bf It would seem to us that if there is another trade excursion next year Orson had better stay at home and lend his assistance in guiding the Embitterment league, for probably there will be those among the pilgrims on the club train who will not care to go unless they may be assured that Orson will behave himself. Taking a drink early in the day, engaging in fist fights, and getting get-ting out of bed to insult people is not a very high recommendation for one who is helping to lead an Embitterment league straight to the Lord. The railroad commission in California has denied the application of the railroad companies to exact a minimum of one and one-half adult passenger tickets for the exclusive use of a Pullman Pull-man compartment or a .minimum of two adult passenger tickets for the exclusive use of a Pullman Pull-man drawing room on journeys wholly within the state. The railroad companies represented that the measure was requested in order to prevent single sin-gle individuals from pre-empting the compartments compart-ments and drawing rooms to the exclusion of families for which the rooms were intended, the commission holding that the real question at issue was: iShould the passenger pay more for the service which he is now receiving? Finding that that question had not been put before it. The chatter about single individuals preempting pre-empting the drawing rooms and compartments to the exclusion of families is nothing but bunk, and the rawest piece of business the railroads have been guilty of for many a .day. Certainly, before the rule went into effect, enough was charged for drawing rooms and compartments com-partments to allow anyone who paid the price to preempt them if that was the purchaser's de sire, but irrespective of that there is another thought behind the hold-up which is that among those who travel considerably there are certain people who usually demand absolute comfort and privacy, and they will pay for it no matter what the price. That is what the railroadB figured on prl-marily, prl-marily, and secondly those who are obliged to take private compartments, such as invalids, aged people and others who, In many cases, cannot can-not afford the exhorbitant charge, but who are obliged to raise the price before they can travel would further increase the revenue. This holdup hold-up should have the immediate attention of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which could do nothing better in regard to the abuse than to follow fol-low the example set by the railroad commission of California. The statistics on drawing room and com- , partment travel since the new rule wnt into effect are not available, but it is safe to say that the drawing room and compartment travel t since the outrage was inaugurated has decreased rather than increased. If the Interstate Commerce Com-merce Commission hasn't the time to take the matter under consideration, the state commissions commis-sions acting in unison might have the desired effect. Before Miss Virginia Stephen, head of the art department of the Normal Training School, of the University of TJtah, resumes her work for the year it is up to those in authority in view of the reports when she went east in the spring, to get a statement from her as to whether or not she is in sympathy with the I. W. W. If she is not, there is no reason why she should not go on with her duties in the art department but if she has anything whatever to do with hat sinister organ- ization known as the I. W. W., she has no business busi-ness teaching in a state school. . iA daily paper reports that in an interview with Miss Stephen, she stated she did not care to discuss the matter of the collection of funds in the Ilillstrom case. It would seem to us that for her own sake she ought to make a statement state-ment that would clear up the matter for good and all. The declaration of the Butte mine owners for an "open shop," Is a move in the right direction, though it was scarcely anticipated that they would take such a stand. The report of the Salt Lake County Medical society through it's President E. D. Hammond, regarding re-garding conditions at Saltair, contains nothing new, only adding its confirmation to the reports of others regarding the disgusting conditions prevalent pre-valent there. In view of what hasn't been accomplished ac-complished since the attention of a lot of spineless spine-less officials was called to the nasty state of affairs af-fairs at the resort, It is probable that our visitors in 1915 will not miss any of the delights in the water or on the beach at Raltair which we have been treated to by the liberal management. |