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Show ' " " ,. - " ; ; THE PRESS-BULLETI- - EDITORIALS (By C. P. McNeeley) The price of liquor is now $5.00 a pint and scarce. ' Salt Lake City is now having trouble of its own. There is enough good water in Bingham to go around and Its doing it". The Popgun must have erred in saying that the Methodists were to give a dance. The man who enjoys some special immunity ought not to get aoused and brag about it publicly. That embarrasses his friends. Parley White says that the papers kept saying that Salt Lake --was wide open till so many bad people blew into town that it is impossible to keep the lid on. would not give a thought to who made his socks. There are many good soldiers in the army whose fathers did time in prison. There are many good soldiers who served, terms in prison themselves. There are men in prison now who are patriotic and who would gladly ..fight for their country. And if while serving their sen-tences they should like to render some service to the men at the front is the motive unworthy of recognition? If at add times they do a little knitting should they be upheld to ridicule? We think not. I The Herald-Republica- n has grave apprehensions for the safe-- 1 ty of women who visit the prison where the men are in chains and behind iron bars, and adds that it a "sorry spectacle to seej decent' women associating with criminals under the mistaken impression that they are aiding our soldiers in France." Those prisoners will neither injure nor degrade the women who might visit the state prison in connection with this work. The danger-ous criminal is the one who is at liberty and the one who is un-known to the public as a criminal. They who are in disguise may constitute a menace, but those who are in prison can do no harm. In regard to the prison reform to which the editor refers in a sarcastic manner, it is a badge of honor to Warden Storrs. Our prisons should be so that convicts would be made better instead of worse men for having seen service in them. The convict should be made to feel that after serving his term he had an op-portunity to "come back" and by right living enjoy a square deal in society. In former days when prisoners were in a pillory the men who advocated abolishing this relic of barbarism were sub-jected to all kinds of criticism by the morally elect. And the same is the case today. But men who do things in spite of criti-cism are the men worth while. None of us are so good but what we might be considerate of others who do wrong. The trouble is that most of us look on our own sins as white and that of our neighbors as black as night. Only a few of the state prisoners are life-terme- rs. What are we to expect of the great numbers who are being released from day to day as their terms expire? Will they be better than when they were committed ? It all depends on how they are dealt with by the warden and his assistants. And as for those who are serving life sentences they are already dead to the world in every-thing except for its miseries, and as Napoleon said of himself while at St. Helena, they do not live, they merely exist. WHAT SHOULD CONVICTS DO? The Herald-Republic- an last week in a leading editorial. took occasion to severely arraign the head of the state prison for per- - wnitting the prisoners to knit socks for the American soldiers on the ground that no American soldier would like to wear an arti-cle of clothing that has been produced by a despised convict. We failed to read the editorial at the time. In fact we do not always Tead all the editorial matter in that paper. But Mrs. Julia Staf-ford of this town read it and was pleased with the comment and 'wrote the editor to that effect. We missed seeing her commun-ication in the paper, but she brought a copy of her letter to this office, together with the editorial, which she thought would make S'ood reading for Bingham people. We do not have space for the ditorial, but we give her letter, which is as follows: "You express the same thoughts that I, a mother, exper-ienced when I read and saw the photos of the criminals at the state prison knitting for the boys at the front. Especially in the one murderer, Harry Brewer. I think many mothers will thank .you for the editorial calling a halt to some work. It would be as ;you said, the soldiers would not want to wear socks made by such men. I do not think the Red Cross should allow such to continue. 'There are lots of good men and women to do their bit. They are doing it right along. I, as one of the thousands that knit and help to make our boys warm, I hope your editorial will stop it. Thanking you for your efforts, I remain, yours truly, Mrs. Julia Stafford, 61 R. R. Avenue, Bingham, Utah." After reading the letter and the editorial we thought of an old adage which runs something like this: "There is so much bad in the best of us, and so much good in the worst of us, that it ill behooves any of us to speak evil of the rest of us." We fail tx see any merit in the editorial, and on the face it appears to be 3 petty thrust at George A. Storrs, warden of the state prison. As the world sees it, any man who wears the starless stripes, the ball and chain and the shaven head is destitute of all that is good and must necessarily contaminate anything he touches, but the bad men in prison do not harm society, Not all bad men are in jj prison. Those who are taking their punishment, and no matter ji how well they may be treated, their punishment is severe, Shut off from the blessings of. liberty and denied all intercourse with! 4 he world they are reaping what they have sown. J If the convicts are to work they must have something useful, j In some states they work' in the factories and the fields, produc-- j j ing food and clothing for the markets and no doubt the products! of their labor are now being used, to increase the efficiency of the j rmy. But what does the real' soldier care whether the socks he j wears are produced by state convictstoilers in sweat shops or 'members of the Red Cross? The Herald-Republica- n .thinks that the American soldier would rather go barefooted than wear socks made by a convict. " 'Silly talk! The soldier who has the guts to unflinchingly face a firing squad or stick a bayonet through a man It has been officially denied by local Methodists that a dance to have been given by that church as announced by the Salt iake Popgun last week. The Tribune and the Herald-Republic- an are now fussing over the question as to which of those papers will nom-inate the chief of police for Salt Lake City. The one that loses will of course be pinched. S Highland Store j -- I Company 1 I General Merchants I OPERATING I I Highland Store f 0 and 1 Boston Store " HowTwo Business g I Men Started g 1 0 ! pr One of them was wide awake. When he started in busi- - H fu ness he straightway opened a bank account. The other was many months in doing this. He did not see the vital 0- - need of a strong banking connection. p The progressive one, by careful banking methods, built up a substantial credit. The other, because of careless methods, had no credit at all. When hard times Shanking one was left in business. He had made a friend U of his bank. 1 ! j Make this bank YOUR friend. jjl 1 HUHM ill SC.H. THOMPSON, President. U , H. QUILLEN, Vice President. Bj H EARL RANDALL, Cashier. H j Kfiieetilftrozmiyoru:r i life teStf isrSa loH'rao .Uin.r.d ...h.rK,t p'jRHAM DUPLEX RAZOR CO. JerseyQtvN.JV - . KiKvOtv. As Age Advances the Liver Requires frwmZ of"'"1 I'"'"''''"- - CARTER'S LITTLE A' wtt:i LIVER PILLS correct CONSTIPATION. Colorless or Pale Faces VTVtitt Carter's Iron PiHs It is possible that the affairs of Salt Lake may at some date be so handled that Bingham boozers will have to look to other places for their supplies of wet goods. The movement in Bingham to arrange for infantry drills would not be a bad idea by anymeans. It is now possible to have .some one conduct the drills who knows how and the young men here could acquire the first rudiments in military training. People writing to the newspaper about other people ought to always exercise great care how they handle the truth, for it is the truth that hurts. Especially when the people written about do not desire special mention made with reference to certain facts. Watermaster Robbins says that there is plenty of water that is pure and that it will not be necessary to turn in that impure Carr Fork stuff if the people continue to do as well as they did during the past week. Heretofore the people wasted more water -- at night than they used in the day time. An Italian company from Bingham would look mighty fine and there is good reasons to believe that there will be one. There . ia plenty of material to draw from. Such a company on either the French or Italian fronts would reflect credit both to the Ital-ian colony and to Bingham. THE WHOLLY SAFE INVESTMENT. It is said that the fall in the price of stocks and bonds has greatly reduced the Rockefeller fortunes. John D. and William Rockefeller are said to have sold over $50,000,000 of stocks and bonds lately, and to have orders in for Liberty bonds which are in excess of the available supply. They do not bid for the bonds, but take them as they are offered in large blocks, and they are deliv-ered to the two rich men in blocks of $100,000 each. They divide them equally, it is said. It is believed that these two men have resolved to get a snug share of their wealth into securities that will not fall in price and on which the payment of the interest will be certain. That is a good hint to the small investor who is looking for safety and the certainty of interest payments on the dates speci-fied. Even if there should be a great bear movement and Liberty bonds should be sold on the stock market for less than their face value, the interest will always be paid, and the principal at matur-ity. That is as certain as anything in this world can be. The thousands of persons who have distrusted banks and stocks will find in these bonds and thrift stamps a safety greater than any they can provide for themselves. It has been said that no invest-ment can be absolutely safe. That is true in the sense that the age of ice might return, or the Kaiser might conquer this country and annex it to Germany, but the United States government bond will be safe until something like that occurs. The Bingham basketball quint is developing into a fast team. It is composed of good players and they are now in excellent shape. Also the team has the support of the town and it is safe to guess that Bingham will carry off the honors for the great majority of games which are yet to be played. The city fathers are to be commended for their action in re-- ': trard to the water situation. Their plan to curtail the use of water and supply the citizens with the pure Cottonwood water is working fine. From this source there is a supply of 60 gallons per day for every man, woman and child in town, and that is a sufficient quantity The radical change in the operation of railroads will cause a , great change in coal mining. Heretofore railroads controlled the coal mines, so it is said, and likewise controlled the production .and distribution. This, it is said, prevented the opening and peraton of many mines. That condition is out of the way and it . will mean much to the coal production in this and other states. RAISING A FAMINE CRY. It is remarked by a good many men that there is a censor needed for some of the bureaus connected with the food depart-ment of the government. Every few days some of these officials announce a famine in some article of food. The last was a dis-patch under the head "Egg Famine Threatened," dated at New York, saying: "An egg famine threatens the United States, ac-cording to a statement tonight by W. F. Priebe, head of the poultry and egg division of the federal food administration." The only effect of such an announcement as that is to start hoarding of eggs and force a rise in prices. Only a few days since there was an official statement sent out from Washington saying that there are about a million more cases of eggs in storage than there were a year ago at this time. But this later statement de-clares that 85 per cent of the eggs in storage had been consumed, the other 15 per cent will soon be gone and there will be none left for anybody. All that is insufferable nonsense. There was a large increase in both poltry and eggs last year and there has been no excessive exportation. The allies need wheat, beef and pork and thy are not investing at the present time very extensively in eggs. It looks like gambling is a thing of the past in Bingham. Tinhorns are now out of employment and their former play-grounds look as lonesome and deserted as a churchyard. Also booze and other good things in the line of amusement are growing - scarcer in quantity and higher in price. Still there are people v who can find substitutes for almost everything. So we will have near-bee- r, near-booz-e, near-gambli- and other things nearly as good as the real, article. ARMY DOCTORS ON MEDICAL RESEARCH IN FRANCE. The extent to which condemnation of the Red Cross is being carried by antivivisectionists, because of the $100,000 appropriat-ed for medical research work at the war front, seems astonishing. A dispatch from Gen. Pershing's medical staff states that the medical department of the army is in full accord with what the Red Cross has done and is doing. It was asked to help in the study of the many problems of preventive medicine, and of medical and surgical diseases, against which the medical army corps must struggle, and the Red Cross promptly responded to that call. English medical authorities are vigorously in this re-search work. The critics will probably not be surprised that the medical department of the United States army holds strong views about the matter under dispute, but in any event there is unlikely to be a letting up of all the opposition, whatever motives may in-spire any part of it. Pride of opinion and sensitive feelings have been aroused, in addition to any secret purpose to hamper the prosecution of the war, and opposition so mixed does not readily subside, but let it be hoped most of it will. There will be much interest on the part of the impartial pub-lic in learning what the men in Gen. Pershing's medical staff have to say regarding a controversy that has become bitter and is be-ing used to injure the Red Cross. All can see that anything cal-culated to hamper its work is much to be deplored. In response to an inquiry of the Red Cross war council a cablegram has been ' received from France in which the following statements are made : "We feel that any one endeavoring to stop the Red Cross from assisting in its humanitarian and humane desire to prevent American soldiers from being diseased and protecting them by olving the peculiar new problems of disease with which the army is confronted, is in reality giving aid and comfort to the enemy. "Research work so far undertaken includes studies of anaes-theic- s, shell-shoc- k, and trench fever, which last will be the main line of investigation this winter. We are also investigating trench nephritis and foot wound infections, including gas gangrene and tetanus. The animals used are principally guinea pigs, rabbits jand white rats. If operations causing pain to animals are per-- j formed, anethesia is used. Actually, very few animals have been jused for this work." ' Patriotism calls on all of us for sacrifices, and in view of this statement,, is it too much to hope that antivivisectionists will give the Red Cross and the national cause the benefit of any doubt they may have regarding the way in which the safety of American soldiers can best be conserved ? The doctors are not wantonly wounding the feelings of ' the sensitive in this matter, and their most efficient help will be needed by our soldiers. Let us give them all the aid that can be brought. The lives of men stricken i with wounds and disease are at stake. Springfield Republican. |