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Show H ' ' FOR PUBLIC SAFETY'S SAKE HHJ , "Something must bo done by the HHJ city or no will have to tako the mat HHJ ter In our own hands." is the sub HHJj stance ot.Jstatements recently .made HHJ by several prominent Logan citizens HHJ with reference to careless blcjcle HHJ . riders who use the sidewalks of Logan BBa ' without regard for the safety or the BBl ' pedestrian, who should have prim- H ary right. ' BBl Complaints are coming In thick and BBl i fast, nndv today wo record' the B l injury of another little child by, an un- H , j known offender. Such action on the BBm .' ' part of those privileged by raw (or BBV ' ' I , rather not legislated agalns,.) to use BBl certain walks can but bring rarth a BBl JuBt ''ry of Indignation from parents. BBI And not only are Infants and children BBI In danger under existing conditions, H ( but those of maturo years aro often BBS ' run Into, or what Is equal, literally BBBJ frightened out of their wits. BBflt Logan Is a city of homes, n beautiful BBBl resldenco town, and since we nil boast BBBI of these things should wo not encour BBBJ age any movement toward the safety BBB- . I of those who reside within her corpor BB nte limits? Wo liavo good streets nnd H ' In practically nil seasons the' afford Bflfl pleasant speedways to cyclists. Then BBH , why not ask that they bo used by Bflfl I lovers of the two wheeled vehicle? BBH ' vVe liavo paved walks by tlio miles, BBBj but do they afford us comfortable BBS strolling places and snfo wayB to and Bflfl ' from the business section? The reluct- BBBr nut nnswer Is that they do not Nor BBBj can they -ns long ns n pedestrian Is Bflfl compelled to glvo right of way to Hj every tlng-nllng Bounded for his re- BBBJ BBBj It Is grttntcd that preference, nnd BBBj even encouragement should bo given BBBJ the users of any time or labor saving BflB delse, In this age of rapid deve'opo K ment, but not, we think, to tho total HHfl excluslonj'bf all old customs. If pnv- BBBj ed walks aro constructed and public HHfl ly maintained for uso by wheeled con HHfl etmees then let It bo so designated Hflfl officially that safety might ho sought HHfl elsewhere, If, on tho contrary these Hflfl smooth nnd comfortable surfaces, or HHfl any wnlks for that matter, are for uso BflB by those who prefer employing BBBJ nature's mor-jls of locomotion, let It b BBBJ u so declared nnd bo made binding. BBBJ Getting to brass tacks Logan's bl- BBBJ ejele restricted district Is a Joke. BBBJ Truo it is, ou can't ride Into any of BBBJ the Main street stores hut who BBBJ wants to? You can ride to the taber- Hflfl naclo to meeting. You can turn onto Hflfl any Bldewalk hs soon as you reach Hflfl tho danger, or resldenco district and Hflfl that Is not all, )ou can une jour nio- HHH torcjele on walks as Boon as you get HHHJ nnlf a mile from tho center of town BflB at any rate that Is the practise. BBS?' The boulevard sidewalk shQws fre- HflBv quent matorcyclo tracks, and we have HflBy the word of prominent citizens that HHH the practlbu Is genernl In tho town. HHH Now lot us get busy. Why defer HHHJ this matter? Can not n consistent hnd HHHJ' satiefacton ruling bo p.ifceu Into ef-HHHL ef-HHHL orco? HHHB T' o larger cities hnvo legislatoi HflBV r nd enforced their laws, And let It Hflfll he said hero that tho density of pop- HflBV ulatlon cuts little figure. Prorata hl- HflBv cc'os aro as uumcrous hero as in HHHji f ny city of tho state, nnd on tho same B sco.o accidents nro Just as likely. HHHj; Aren't broken bones as painful hero HflBw qs there, nnd finally aren't tho lives HHHJ of our llttlo ones as precious to us B an to pa"ents In tho larger cities? BflHf Tin why this difference In Icglsln- Bflftw Tho question la vital, and should BflHr ' answered by Immedlato action. K Why wait until some ono is killed? H. ; BflflV THE DAYS OF 1893 HflflB' ' Senntor Hmoot'a contention as to B,J !'c ('use8 that undorlny the business Hjl ) depression of twenty years ago Is am- Hl I ply confirmed by the logic of tho pres- B R ent by the conditions that now ox- H'')l i-f- let- ln bis debate with tho member from Color.tdo, tho Utah senator need not have rested upon tho history of that time ns tho basis for his warning agnlnst the ptissngo of tho pending Underwood bill. When ho looks about him, observes the present halting of Industry, and reflects that stock values val-ues have decreased many billions ot dollars since Prosldent Wilson was mH'ugu-tJted ho finds proof conclusive (hnt tho 1893 panic was Inspired by democratic tariff tinkering. History hasw a most disconcerting jfiblt of repeating itself. JhefJ)reu-ards" JhefJ)reu-ards" of tho Cleyelnnd nnd Wilson. administrations, ad-ministrations, as regards their sffect upon business, aro slngulnrly parallel-When parallel-When Grower Cleveland was e ccted In 1892 prosperity was so great and so widely diffused thnt President-Harrison felt It advisable to refer to it in IiIb closing message to congres$ in Dtccmber of thnt year, llefore Mr. Cleveland was firmly seated on his throne in 1893, a discouraging pante had made such progress that ho wits forced to summon an extraordinary session of congress to ileal wlta tha situation. Conditions now nro nimost Identical. Identi-cal. Stocks nro falling, capital .u-J retreated to seclusion, going concern-) avo marking time nnd proposed new-enterprises new-enterprises nro deferred. 'twenty years ago, an alleged statesman named nam-ed Wllwm was drawing a tariff bill that included freo wool as does this present Underwood bill, nlso drrrui by a mah named Wilson. Hy a sin gulnr coincidence both these WIlBons entered public life' 'from ttio cloistered cloister-ed precincts of a college; each attacked at-tacked tho most puzzling economic, problem of his generation witnout I -re Iohb training, without experience. In legislative or administrative a-fairs, a-fairs, and without prior contact with commercial life. In thlB Interesting parallel. Senator Smoot will find ample testimony to the tsuth of his argument. b:ntto.-Thomas b:ntto.-Thomas ot Colorado may seek to avoid future odious 'comparisons by laying the blamo for, tho 1893 panic nt the door of.Wall street, but ho will find difficulty In explaining present conditions upon any such theory Wall street Is suffering even more greatly than tho remainder of tho nation; Its misery Is by no means Mcnrlous. Tho groans ot ptiln fro-n that quarters aro of such severe Ir.trn s.ty as to banish all suspicion that they aro artlficltil or pretended. Tho country hopes that to above analogies between tho Wilson and C evelnnd administrations may not rin tius to tho record of twenty years yo; there Is, however, but little has Is for that hope. Thus far with Ilr Wilson, ns President, tllo similarly between po cn Ironing clrcumst;.nc-ea clrcumst;.nc-ea of 1893 and 191)1 is so marked us t occasion widespread cbimsr.t. Kv-en Kv-en If Senntor Smoot's contentions were not accurately grounded In the history of the past, thp conditions of the present would certify to thol exactitude. ex-actitude. There Is a great ft"ea more than n coincidence In this. Tho same circumstances nnd the same Democratic Demo-cratic Insistence upon tho same economic eco-nomic fallacy are driving corumerco to Uo snme slough ot despond Into which It was precipitated twenty years ago by tho same blundering tar Iff legislation. Herald Republican. PUBLICITY When we speak of publicity wo bfeak of the most powerful force that arts today in the world of business. 1 shall not limit that statement to private business alone. It ib Just as tnii) of public business and public a' fairs as It Is ot a shop, a factory or a mill. The American pcoplo form by all oddB the best educated and most open minded public In the world. All thoy want Is th truth and when they got that, they ojet clearly, logically and sometimes with surprising speed. The public wants to- know. It wants to know the facts. It wants tho facts, abouj X kind of shoe or n brand of flour. It wants to know the kind of stuff thnt gocB into n suit of clothes or a piickago of crackers And that Isn't the end. This public wants to know JiiBt exactly what facts cuter Into every public hffuir It Insists on knowing oxactly what actuates a cong ess or a cabinet officer offic-er to the course of anion that Is given giv-en out trom tho capltol or from tho departments. The ono thing nbovo alt ot.icrs that tho public demands Is publicity It has learned to ho very skoptlcnl about any event that occurs in the dark. It wants tho searchlight of the press turned sll tho time upon i .in thing that affects Its health, Its comfort, Its safety or Its iKrosperl'v. Tho tlmo Is long since gono by when tho public or nny small section of It Is to bo long kopt In tho dark It I wants to know exactly what Is going on nil tho tlmo overy whore In all lines And It Is this irrostlblo public demand which has called Into being tho grew fo-co called publicity Gov Rugene N Fobs. THE CENTURY OF PEACE The Ilritlsh committee for tho cele-1 cele-1 bratlon of the one hundredth anniver sary of tho signing of tho Treaty of Uhent, which ended, let us hopa for ver. ootllltles between tflls country ind (treat Urltaln, has now ipjd pub Uo an-fippeaj .'to tho British people for support of progTam,ngreed'on. The program Includes, Wong other oth-er things, tho erection ot u memorial u Iveatmli.luer oiey of Uie cttue-iary cttue-iary of pence, perjnTsslon ijoft ifbtcli t.4 b en obtained from jhftD'&inlplji'u Chapter, tho purchase 'ptisfr&satc. Manor, the antfestrohilteiifc; th& v6c Sv'iuhlngton family' artdts srfnmteli anco as a place of PliKrimngejfpr Americans In England, nnd nB a.' .symbol .sym-bol of the kinship of.the two peoples; and tho foundation of 'A. permanent chnlr of Anglo American history and tho endowment of a scheme of annual annu-al prizes In the elementary and secondary se-condary schools for essas on topics ircemnne to tho objects or tUs cele bratlon. " '1 . ,' In this country, tco, a '.prorarri in eluding ifpiHopn'rue' exercises'? In Chu dies nnd sKo J, Mid tno erec tlon of some suitable monumont wilt be carried out. It Is hope'd that the observance of this, anniversary win remit In the strengthening ot the public sentiment throughout tt c world for unlersal peace Homo havo criticized tho Intended ijlebriitlon ns a concealed effort at i.rnwlng the United States and Urea' Britain closer together agamst'jOt"-many. agamst'jOt"-many. There (e, of course? noac,: Intention' on the part of Hie commit-, ti-es- In" charge; nor Is' It cohceivaDle J thit any such effect will follow. U.tt xt order to remove all misunderstanding, misunderstand-ing, It might be JuBt hs wei: to gle tfce celebration p broader scop tai'n j originally Intended. Other countries should be lcvlteu to Joln::i artnj!; peace celebratlun without particular reference to the treaty of oheat. Jjl it would for Instance, be pnrttculh'rj ly appropriate to invite the two KlnV doms of the Scandinavian peninsula to take part In a general peace con 'gress. For since 1814 those two countries coun-tries have enjoyed uninterrupted peace. They liavo had no war with eny country. In that year Denman wis compelled hy European powert, to cedo Norway to Sweden, but Nor ny did not accept the dictum of L'u-ropo L'u-ropo hut declared its incependence and plnced a Darnell prince upon tne Norwegian throne. This was on .lu 1", 18U. Subsequently a Swedlsn t v u. under Prlnco Dernatlotte rnvad.-'i. Norway and threatened Christiana 'Ihls war cuded In an ngreemsn ' whereby tho Independence of Ncrwnv was recognized by Sweden, nnd tho t o kingdoms united under one Ulng s nee then there has been no W'tr, aahough the, union has been illssph-fd. illssph-fd. This Is so unusual In the annnH o- history as to merit special t'.en-i t'.en-i i.it .it nn International peacs trie,-b trie,-b atlon. It Is so unusual that the king who gave up his crown peacefully, peace-fully, rather than to plunge two nar tlons Into fratricidal strife, ceserves a monument If ever'mortal man could claim such distinction. Wo do not know whether the committee com-mittee In charge has fatten tiny steps to secure tho co-operation of the Scandinavian Scan-dinavian governments or of the numerous nu-merous Scandinavians In tho United Stntes. Hut It would seem eminently proper that tho century ot penco which Norway and Sweden htivo enjoyed en-joyed should be noticed by tno peace friends of tho world, as a trumpnkot tho principles they are proclaiming Deseret News. " |