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Show BB NOTICE. B Because of lack of space wc are B unable to print news from corrcs H pondents this week, and have omitted B neveral contributed articles. B Express your thoughts with mu- K sic. An Edison or Victrola record KjH makes a good Xmns present. QE LEIGH FUR. & CARPET CO. IH Advertisement HB Edward Crouso received word the Hj first of the week that his father, H llenry Crouso, had died last Sunday. I1H The homo of the deceased waB in llB Vfoab, Utah. B Dr. F J. Alexander of tho Alexan- Hi der Optical Co., will bo at the Ce- B dnrs Hotel, Wednesday, December B 14th from 1 a. m. to 8 p. m, Those BR having any trouble with their eyes Bb should not fail to call. It B The brothers, sisters and friends H of Mr8, Sarnn Ann Bu,Ioch Rnve ncr flB a pleasant surprise the evening of HmS' November 27th, it being her sixtieth jflftfl birthday. Tho evening was spent in IB a social way and at th,Q close deli- I'B clous refreshments were served. ' iBB ML," ", AVERAGE PERSON'S VIEW OF PUBLIC UTILITIES. Tho Average Person not the man in big business, nor tho college professor pro-fessor who knows so many things, nor the specialist who knows ono thing better than all tho rest makes public opinion. Tho avcrago Person is a wholo lot of people, from whom tho politician takes his cue, or thinks he docs, and on whoso views ho trades for his own political success. Tho Average Person reads the "flash" newspaper, the ono whoso managers think that commercial profit is to bo mado by Betting up quarrels between class and clasa, which doesn't necessarily mean bo-tween bo-tween rich and poor, but between producer and consumer, between buyer buy-er and seller, or between employer and employee. Tho Avcrago Person is of the class which reads this paper: tho butcher, butch-er, the baker, tho candle-stick maker; the King who's in his parlor counting out his money, and tho Queen who's in tho kitchen, eating bread and hon-oy hon-oy tho hall-room boarder and the head of tho family who joins tho good wifp in tho up-bringing of the family; tho preacher, the lawyer, the doctor, tho engineer, tho worker in tho field and forge, in tho mine and factory in the railroad cab and at tho street car motor, the "cop" who paddles pad-dles along his beat by day or night, the fireman, over alert to the call of duty. Tho Avcrago PerBon earns his living liv-ing by tho sweat of his face or tho activities of his brain, gets a wago for his work, and husbands it so that ho or hl3 family may live decently, pay his bills periodically, and have something left over for the day when it rains. Sometimes it is hard to make tho wago stretch all tho way round, or to have some left over. Tho Making of Public Opinion. Tho Avcrago Person wonders why tho wago doesn't go farther. His wonderment has created a modern profession that of telling him why. As the" good old Yankee salesman told his matea during one of our spells of hard times, "I never see .times so hard n smart fellow couldn't make his living telling other folks why they was so hard." One says its the stock exchange, another the grain brokers, still another tho middlemen, mid-dlemen, a few tho employers, some others tho workers, and a whole lot of them tho public utilities. So, by tho process of exciting tho Average person against somo ill thnt docs not affect him, they produce a state of forgetfulnc88 of the ills that really exist Tho doctors call this "counter-irritation '"making you forget the pain IN your leg by keeping you busy with the blister on the outsido. One of the most popular forms of counter-irritation i3 to "whack it" to the public utilities, by telling tho average person let's see, just what? First, that they are all owned by one little crowd of capitalists? Next, that they are in a class by themselves, them-selves, making product or giving sorvice out of next to nothing, and charging almost all there is for it. Again, that they serve only the well-off, well-off, leaving the poorer classes to do without the benefits of tho arts on which they are based. Considering utilities as investments, invest-ments, these wiseacres, who rarely have a dollar of their own to invest but who are long on advice, gravely ahnko their heads and are fearful of the lack of public confidence or the possibilities of government ownership, owner-ship, or the unwillingness of the people peo-ple to pay the rates, or of tho regulating regula-ting authorities to permit the rates to bo charged, and all along through the gamut of pessimism. Tho aver-ago aver-ago demagogue Btarts with high C and Blngs down to low A. Real artists ar-tists usually reverse this procedure. The average person busy with earning his living and making his wages go tho farthest, and making no pretense to grave wisdom, takes it all in, and thus somotimes, Public Opinion is made or a part of it Tho Bigness of the Light and Power Industry. Tho electric light and power industry in-dustry in tho United States today has a total investment of more than five billions of dollars. Tt has a gross income of more than nine hundred millions of dollars. It employs directly a force of ono hundred and forty-five thousand men nnd women. It employs Indirectly nearly two hundred nnd fifty thousand other workors tho miners who dig coal, tho railroad operatives who haul it, tho employes in factories who make lamps, generators, nlotors nnd appliances ap-pliances of all kinds, tho sales-peo- 4 plo in commercial institutions who vend these to tho public and tho army of repair men who keep them in fit shnpo'for use. This industry consumes annually thirty-thrco million five hundred thousand tons of bituminous coal and thrco million seven hundred thousand thou-sand tons of anthracite coal, or a total to-tal of 37,200,000 tons of coal, which furnishes two million two hundred and fifty thousand days of work for tho men who mlno it It serves with light and powor tho peoplo of moro than fourteen thousand thou-sand cities and communitcs. Tho populaton of tho places served ser-ved total moro than aoventyono millions mil-lions of tho ono hundred and five millions of people in tho United States. In somo parts of tho country tho electric light and powor service reaches so largo u pcrccntago of the population as to bo almost unbeliov-ale. unbeliov-ale. In Massachusetts 98 out of every ev-ery 100 peoplo may havo electric light and powor. In California 05 out of every 100 people may havo it In Connecticut 88 out of every 100 aro in reach of service. In New York atnto and Maine 80 out of 6vcry 100 may enjoy this facility. Still tho business has not reached its limit, in Mississippi only 17 out of every 100 of tho population can avail themselves them-selves of electrical service, while in South Dakota only ono third of tho population can get electric light and power. ' Tho Industry has harnessed tho falling waters and mado their energy I available to the extent of six million 1 horso nowcr, while there is a potenti ality of fifty-fife million horse power pow-er yet to bo improvW in tho rivers of the country, according to the United Unit-ed StatcB Geological Survey. Tho capacity of the producing stations sta-tions operated by Btcam, largo and small, is fourteen million horse power. pow-er. Every Coal Mine a Potential Niagara. Tho electric light and power industry indus-try furnishes curent to light a single lamp or turn a great engine, in somo cases two hundred miles from Jfcha place whero tho energy is generated. Theso aro the case where water power i3 used for generation, yet this is not tho end. Already physical physi-cal interconnection cf systems ia bo Ing brought about in order that a surplus of energy from ono may bo transmitted to caro for a shortage of energy in an adjoining system. Surveys of so-called super-power zones nrc being mndc with a view to further interconnection of syotems nnd the establishment of huge generating gener-ating stations at the mouthB of coal mines whenco electricity will bo sent out over long-distance transmission systems, just as it is sent from a hydro-electric plant located at a waterfall, water-fall, thus saving the frolght on tho coal and making the electricity haul itself over tho wires. A little moro of that sort of development and every eve-ry coal mining territory will bo a potential Niagara. Tho production of electricity requires re-quires more than thirteen million barrels of oil a year, which is used for fuel. That makes the electrical industry n contributor to tho success of tho oil producing business, and an employer of a part of tho labor used In oil production and in transportation transporta-tion by pipe-line or tank car. Tho business of producing electrical electri-cal energy furnishes tho largest existing ex-isting market for copper. From that standpoint, again, It is an employer of the largest part of the labor used in the mining, refining, drawing nnd rolling of copper. Next to tho automobllo trade, the business of making and distributing electrical energy Is tho largest user of manufactured and spun brass In tho country. It Is found in machines in the electric light and power plants, In tho connections, the fuse boxes, tho lamp3, and all shiny and covered cover-ed with nickle In the toaster on your breakfast table, the electric washing wash-ing machine and electric iron in your laundry, the heater in your bed chamber, cham-ber, tho refrigerator In your pantry, tho vacuum cleaner, nnd the hundred nnd one other appliances for domestic, domes-tic, commercial and manufacturing uso. Tho elcctricnl industry is tho largest larg-est user of wooden poles in tho country. Thero are moro miles of electric lines than thero aro either ! telephone or telegraph lines. That means again a contribution to labor ' in tho forest and on the skidwny, on ships nnd enrs and trucks from tho forests where the trees grow to tho points where tho polos aro placed. Tho electrical Industry is tho largest larg-est single user of tho production of pottery products In the country. When you see a porcelain insulntor 1 In your house, or a string of insulators insula-tors supporting tho crosscountry high tension line, you arc looking at tho tributo which it pays to tho pottery business. When you seo tho trench-men trench-men laying underground conduits in tho city Btrects, through which tho wires aro led, you aro looking at another an-other tribute to tho clay industry. Rough'y speaking thero aro a half mion workers In tho United States so'ua or all of whoso tlmo is occupied in satisfying the demand for prooducts used and useful in tho production of electric power from tho making of it until it responds to your pu3h botton by giving you light or putting your mnchino to whirling. What the Peoplo Pay for Electricity. Tho peoplo pny a lot of money for olcctricljV and for apparatus to uso It Last' year tho cBtimate was thnt 'electric light and power companies sold $UO,000,000 worth of energy; that tho manufacturing companies which mako nnd sell electrical supplies sup-plies sold 9750,000,000 worth of product pro-duct Besides these, tho street car lines earned $850,000,000, tho telephone tele-phone indu itry $475,000,000, the telegraph tele-graph i) cablo lines $200,000,000, nnd miBCtllancous uses of electricity consumed $150,000,000. Hero aro 3,-225,000,000 3,-225,000,000 paid annually for service or property which could not exist without the electric light nnd power companies producing electric energy. A hundred million dollars in wages wero pnid byJtho producers of electricity elec-tricity to their direct employes last year. Twice as much moro was paid for tho indirect employment which tho industry calls for. Thero is always a demand for moro service, moro capital, moro of tho labor of men and women. Take electricity, elec-tricity, generated by steam or water, wat-er, out of tho national industrial Hfo of the country, nnd a very largo holo Is mado in that life. The Industry Alwnj'H NccdH Fresh Capital. Thero is always need for moro money for light nnd power business. Every now houso in every city, every now factory thruoutho counvry, every now public oririvato ubo of light or power calls for a new investment, in-vestment, big or little, by tho company com-pany rendering tho service. On many farms throut tho country part of tho "work in tho field and around the farm buildings is done by electric elec-tric power, while tno houso is electrically elec-trically lighted and household conveniences con-veniences aro mado possible. Mlllionn of other farms remain to bo reached, and aro being reached as rapidly as interconnecting systems nnd extensions exten-sions of individual syBtems make that possible, the farmers having learned from their moro fortunate neighbors that electricity has mado life different from what it used to be. A largo part of the hardest work has been lifted from the shoulders of agriculture and tho "back to the farm movement" has been accelerated. Extensions Ex-tensions of such service to farms not now enjoying it also means that new investment is needed. That money comes from no clique, no small group, no set of controllers. It comes from tho wholo people. The investment bankers of the country figure that ono million four hundred nnd fifty thousand peoplo In tho United States havo somo sum of mon-oy mon-oy gren,t or small, invested in tho electric light and power industry. Theso aro in addition to tho Innumerable Innum-erable banks, Insurance companies, churches, societies and other organizations organ-izations which havo investel tho funds of their depositors, policyholders, policy-holders, or members in the securities securi-ties of electric light and powor companies. com-panies. Somo of tho larger companies have as many as 30,000 stockholders. stockhold-ers. How many bondholders these companies have, no ono can accurately accur-ately figure, because many Iwnds change handB without being registered. register-ed. In one little city of Wisconsin, every sixty citizens has a little or a lot of money invested in the local electric light nnd power compnny. How many ownerB of these securities secur-ities nro thero in tho larger cities? Ono rubs elbows with them every day. Not Wall street of New York, nor Milk street of Boston, nor La Sallo street of Chicago, nor Market street of Snn Frnncisco, owns them; it is tho American people, your neighbors and friends. Electric Security Incomes nre Stable. In most of the states which aro well settled and prosperous, commissions commis-sions hnvo been established for tho purposo of regulntlng rates and service ser-vice of theso and other public utilities, util-ities, with .tho result thnt incomeB from theso properties nnd their securities se-curities nro both ndequato and stable, sta-ble, Tho regulation of electric ser-vico ser-vico in practico provides for an ado-quato ado-quato return such as will pay for Tho Service Star Legion will hold its unnual meeting Monday evening, December 12th, at seven thirty o'clock, in the Relief Society building, build-ing, nt which timo it will elect new officers for tho coming yenr. It is requested that nil members bo present pres-ent nt tho meeting. ExprcaB your thoughts with music. mu-sic. An Edison or Victrola record mnkca a good Xraas present LEIGH FUR. & CARPET CO. Advertisement Wm Pryor has been appointed as deputy marshal and ia now on duty each night as watchman as well an, deputy marshal. Do you want to seo her smllo? Give her a "Polly Prim" apron for Xmas. Golden Rulo Store Adv. Mr. and Mrs, Geo. Hunter are happy hap-py over tho arrival of a lovely girl bnby to brighten their home. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kclsey arc tho proud parents of a newly arlvcd baby boy. The.annunl ball of the Woodmen of the World will be given In tho Ward Hall New Year's Eve. Don't miss it Mrs. Tilla Kceler went to Delta Sunday for n few dayn visit with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Tipton Ahlstrom aro rejoicing over tho birth to them of a bouncing boy. Mrs. Will Davis recently gave birth to a bouncing boy. All concerned doing nicely. Sho would like a "Polly Prim" apron for Xmns. Golden Rulo Store. Advertisement. Ask to see tho "Polly Prim" aprons at tho Golden Rule Store. Adv. A handsomo son was born this week to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cower. Express your thoughts with music. mu-sic. An Edison or Victrola record Mnkes a good Xmns present LEIGH FUR. & CARPET CO. Advertisement running plants, kcoping them up, taking caro of depreciation and giving giv-ing a fixed and proper return upon the investment Involved. Alongsldo this, in the Interests of tho consuming con-suming public, tho right is accorded to operato without wasteful competition compe-tition in tho territory served. Under theso conditions investments In elcctricnl elcc-tricnl public utilities aro mado moro attractive to now Investors becauso they aro kept safe. Tho light and power business of tho United States is ono of tho most useful, economical nnd safely remunerative remu-nerative of tho industries of tho nation. na-tion. Yet it is only one of tho public utilities. There aro'othors. DIXIE POWER COMPANY. Copyright, 1921, Darby Richardson in Financial Dept, Now .York Globo. . (Adverti8omcnt) NOTICE OF SALE OF ESTRAY B ANIMALS. ,B State of Utah, County of Iron, ws: B To whom it may concern: I hnve in 'B my posbession the following described IB cstruy animals, which if not clnjmed iH nnd taken away, will bo sold at pub- jB lie auction to the highest bidder, at 11 my corral in said Cedar City, Utah, B on Monday, December 12, 1921, at H the hour of 2 p. m., towit: jB Ono red cow and young red calf B cow about 6 year old with a blotafc. rB brand on left hip and crop in the left j'l cm. ijB Said animals were taken up by m lB on Wednesday, tho 30th day of No- tB vcmber, A. D., 1921. M ANDREW HANSEN, H Poundkceper. M Mr. and Mrs. Geo Gowcr are wel- ft coming a new boy into their family , ft circle which arrived within tho put M week. M CLASSIFIED H ADVERTISEMENTS. H iB FOR SALE Hot nir blast heating H stovo, in good condition. Reasonable M price. Inquire nt Biederman Bros. M FOR SALE-One right good young ' H Jersey milk cow; has just freshened. H Also a few pigs. See Joe or George 'H FoBter. It. 4H FOR SALE Two lots and twe fl houses in eastern part of town. En- B quiro nt Record office. B Adv. It. pd. " fl FOR RENT Steam heated rooms H Ccdnrs Hotel. Hot and cold water, j H privilege of baths. Single room ?1V j fl per month; 2 persons $25 per monthi. 1 H Advertisement Vi 1 fl FOR RENT Five offico rooms, iA ; fl eluding a suito of three rooms; pri- fl vato consultation and drafting room, ifl otc. Stenm heat, electric lights and jfl water; janitor service. Clean, Sard- ifl tary and inviting. Inquiro for terca IB at Cedar Sheep Association. Adr. P 91 B |