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Show EDITORIALS (By C. D. McNeeley) If you value the life of your dog very highly you had better see the dog tax collector before he comes up missing some of these bright mornings. ' : : . . The rapidity with which over $100 was raised the other evening even-ing in Bingham for the four boys who were leaving for service in " Uncle Sam's army is the best evidence of the true loyalty of the people of the camp. After Mayor Kelly's eulogy of the county officials which was published exclusively in The Press-Bulletin, it would seem that . these men would "get next" to use the language of the street and take up again the line of least resistance, which is the plan as suggested by the mayor, viz: "Co-operation". It sometimes looks as if these county officials were trying to persecute Bingham rather than simply prosecute the offenders. Years ago these deputies dep-uties were compelled to live one in Highland Boy and one in Upper Bingham, the districts which they are supposed to police, but now they are generally found around the town hall or some other place in lower Bingham. The pioneer builder who came to Bingham a little more than a quarter of a century ago has given out the statement that he will build another $100,000 building in the great copper camp. George E. Chandler has just completed a handsome structure in the heart of the business district in Bingham, and now he proposes to build even a better and more spacious building where the livery barn stands. It has been stated on good authority, that this man came here years ago as a telegraph operator with limited financial finan-cial resources, but today he stands well up toward the front among Utah's leading financiers. He has made the most of this money right here in camp, and from every indication he intends to plant eome of it here in handsome structures. , A man in Bingham who was being treated for D.T. recently .in one of the Salt Lake hospitals, states that you can buy it anywhere. any-where. We rather doubt this assertion, but if it is true some action should be taken by the town police force to run down the offenders. Bingham is honor bound to enforce the prohibitory law just the same as all other laws, and if it is true that liquor is being sold here the dispensers can be lodged in jail for such ar length of time for this offense that they will not repeat the act. A visitor to the camp the other day was told about the same story when asked, "How do you get along -since the town went dry?" The reply was, "Yes, but it has not gone dry." Let's look about and determine whether these things be true, and if we find they are let's take action of the right sort in order to prevent Bingham from getting some more disrespectful headlines in the Zion papers. |