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Show THE PRESS-BULLETI- N , mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmamaammmmmmmmmmmmmammmmtmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmm i , ,. ., ,, - - ., .... 7 - .... ED IT OR I A LS (By C. P. McNeeley) Spies in this country evidently are considered unfit to kill. Senator Smoot is now getting in the limelight by advocating an eatless day. Col. Roosevelt doesn't even stand a ghost of a chance at be-comi- ng a Napoleon. If those Russian generals keep on committing suicide and the common people keep on killing each other, Russia will soon be out of the war sure enough. Englishmen in America between the ages of 18 and 45 are now subject to the draft. They should volunteer, but where they don't they will be looked after in the proper manner. I HowTwo Business g 0 , (I 1 11 of them was wide awake. When he tstarted in busi-- VI 0One he straightway opened a bank account. The other N was many months in doing this. He did not see the vital M S- - need of a strong banking connection. O The progressive one, by careful banking methods, built M up a substantial credit. The other, because of careless methods, had no credit at all. When hard times ' Shanking . came, one was left in business. He had made a friend M of his bank. ( 1 : if Make this bank YOUR friend' J PJ C. II. THOMPSON, President. ; fj T. H. QUILLEN, Vice President. PJ R EARL RANDALL, Cashier. li Sol DOUBLE HID Oil I All GAS COMPANY Capital Stock $100,000, full paid, non-assessab- le. J $100 invested in Oil has paid $40,000, and it may do so here. K . Wages never made a man rich, but a small investment has. STOCK SELLING AT 10 A SHARE $20 buy 200 shares; $50 buys 500 shares; $100 buys 1000 shares. , If desired, send 2c a share cash and 2c per I share each month. : h discount for alT cash. Figure what it means if it advances to $1.00 or $10.00 as others have done. Our holdings are in Wyoming, Oklahoma, Kansas, Kentucky, Colorado, Texas, where wells produce as high as 10,000 barrels daily. One 100-barr- el well will pay $72,000.00 a year, which would enable us to pay 4 a month dividends on stock issued, as 50 of net profits are to be-- paid in divi-dends to stockholders. We are selling stock to increase holdings drill wells and pay dividends. Buy now before it advances. W. F. REYNOLDS, Secretary. GENERAL OFFICES 830 SEVENTEENTH ST., BOSTON . BUILDING, DENVER, COLORADO. PHONE MAIN 3937. I Salesmen Wanted. Send for Free Oil Mapt and Literature. Bingham People Stop at THE BEST LITTLE HOTEL IN SALT LAKE The New Salt Lake 372 South Main Street. Just South of Post Office. I 50 ROOMS I Telephone, Steam Heat, Hot and Cold Running Water in Every Room. Accommodations with Private Bath if desired Rates 75c to $2.00 per day. No higher. Special by Week or Month. Centrally Located. All Depot Cars Pass the Door. Just how much Bingham can be reformed without being ruin-- ed is a question. Just how to go about it all is also a question. Bingham might be made a better town, but it's difficult to accom-plish great things in oposition to public sentiment. The noise of that new store is now abroad in the land. Arrangements are being made to make it a big one, and it is said that the promoters count on employing a manager who is worth at least $3,000 a year. When the new store is opened it will most likely bring more business to Bingham. ' 1 SECRETARY BAKER'S TESTIMONY. There could not be a more complete and overwhelming answer to Senator Chamberlain's charge that "the military establish-ment of America has fallen down," that "it is a thing that does not exist," that "it has almost stopped functioning," than Secretary Baker's testimony yesterday before the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. I A military establishment that has raised and equipped the greatest army the United States has ever had, that has sent great numbers of troops to France and has 1,000,000 more that are ready to go, has not fallen down; it has not ceased to exist; it has not stopped functioning.. On the contrary, it has done a work for which there is no parallel in American military annals. "Republics," as Gen. Winfield Scott observed in his autobio-graphy, "are never prepared for war," and they never will be pre-pared for war. The test of a military establishment in the cir-cumstances in which the United States entered this conflict is not whether an army was ready to the last button, as the Germans, boasted that they were when they crossed the Belgian frontier. It is not whether there have been shortcomings and delays. It is not whether there have been casual errors in judgment or inci-dental confusion in execution. It is whether there were plans commensurate with the part that the country must play, whether there was energy in the execution of these plans, whether there was a disposition to correct errors and profit from mistakes, and whether the military establishment moved steadily forward to the accomplishment of its objects. - Measured by these tests, the War Department under Secre-tary Baker has written a new chapter in the military history of republics. - There never was the slightest basis for the sweeping indict-ment that Senator Chamberlain brought against the War Depart-ment and that Secretary Baker has answered in detail. It is not conceivable that the Senator spoke merely in ignorance, for. he had the means of ascertaining the facts. Even though the War Department was reluctant to make public some of the information that Secretary Baker spread upon the record, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs could have had access to it. So could his associates on the committee who did not wait to finish their investigation before framing legislation to depose the President of the United States from his constitutional office as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy and reduce the Secre-tary of War to the status of a clerk. There is not a fact in the Baker testimony that would not have been confided to these Sena-tors if they had sought it; yet they insisted upon going before the American people with a crooked record calculated to prove that War Department deficiencies, as Mr. Baker expressed it, "were characteristic rather than occasional." " Under the acid test of the Secretary's testimony the Cham-oerla- in accusations shrivel for the most part to ashes and rub-bish. They leave the Senate committee and its chairman in a very unpleasant light before the country, discredited in method and on the defensive as to motive. Nevertheless, there is one lesson that the War Department itself should learn from this unfortunate episode, which is the necessity for fuller war publicity and for taking the American people completely into the confidences of their Government in all matters that are not undebatable military secrets. Everything that Secretary Baker told ought to have been told long ago. There was no valid reason for concealing it. It gave no aid and comfort to the enemy, but on the contrary was proof that the United States was going to war in earnest. Had the War Department kept the American people fully informed, there would have been no occasion for Secretary taker's taking the stand, and such mischievous accusations as Senator Cham-berlain made would have found no believers. The campaign that has been waged by American imperialists and jingoes to overthrow the war administration, discredit the President and take possession of the military machinery of the country had its roots in the Government's own policy of suppres-sion and secrecy in regard to the magnificent and inspiring work that it was carrying on. Had the truth been known to the coun-try, this partnership of Politics and Hysteria would have been bankrupt the day it was formed. Only under the cover of censor-ship could such a political conspiracy have been organized. N. Y. World. There are some people who say that Bingham is wide open. Just what wide open means is not altogether plain. Some people use the term to mean one thing, some to mean another, and some mean it all put together. It does seem that the gambling is on the Wink, but it is evident that a little whiskey, or stuff doctored up to taste like whiskey, is being sold now and then to thirsty per-sons. And the term "rooming house" has taken on a new mean-ing. That's what some people say. MARKH AM GULCH FLOOD DANGER. MMMMI There is quite a little talk in Bingham at present over the pos-sibility of another flood from Markham gulch when the spring weather opens up. The melting snow last spring caused floods which did much damage and cost the town of Bingham several thousand dollars. The question which now confronts the people is how to avoid the flood and where the expense of the necessary work should fall. To begin with the origin of these floods are outside of the town, and as a matter of fact the expense of arranging to properly care for the excess water should fall on the county and certain in- -' dividuals. There are people and concerns who are using the water route up there as a place to dump waste material. Then some one builds a barn or house right over the stream so close to the bed of the stream that it takes but little melting snow to make it full to overflowing. Then what is the result when all this waste mater- - ial, lumber, sand and melting snow all try to take the small channel at the same time ? There is an overflow. The water comes down the street or anywhere it can find a place. The people who dump sand there and the people who erect buildings over the stream should be compelled to make ample ar-rangements to care for the water during the flood season. As we stated, it is properly a county matter because it is outside of the town, but if nothing is done until the floods come then Bingham will be called upon again to spend her good money to protect in-dividuals from losing their property. The county should investigate this matter without delay and do its part in hedging against the repetition of such a flood as oc-curred in Markham gulch last spring. Also the people who are re-sponsible for the condition which now exists should be called to task. A law as old as the hills provides that where anyone inter-feres with the natural course or channel of a stream that he must use such precautionary measures as will prevent his action from causing injury to people and property owners who live below him. The town of Bingham is not responsible for the Markham; floods, and she ought not to have to bear the burden of protecting individual property owners. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE FARMER. t In his message of January 31 to the farmers of America, President Wilson points out the great governmental agencies and instrumentalities in the field of agriculture. Our Department of Agriculture, he states, is the greatest practical and scientific organization in the world and its total annual budget of four to six million dollars has been increased during the last four years more than 72 per cent. Its staff num-bers 18,000 and includes many highly trained experts. The agri-cultural colleges and experiment stations of the country have a total endowment of plant equipment of $172,000,000 and an annual income of more than $35,000,000. Ten thousand two hundred and seventv-on- e teachers with 125,000 students, together with a vast number receiving instruction at their homes, evidence what is being done in the way of agricultural training, and to these may be aciaed the Mob men and women working under the Smith-Lev- er Act. The banking leigslation of the last two or three years, the President shows, has given the farmers access to the great lend-abl- e capital of the country and through the Federal Reserve bank-ing system and the Farm Loan banking system farmers can ob-tain the credit, both short and long term, to which they are en-titled and which it is imperatively necessary should be extended to them to enable them to perform adequately the tasks the coun-try now requires of them. The President touches on another aspect of the relations be-tween the farmers and the Nation "The toil, the intelligence, the energy, the foresight, the self-sacrific- e, and devotion of the farm- - ers of America will, I believe, bring to a triumphant conclusion this great war." THREE-CORNERE- D WAR. There is a popular disposition to declare the Russian situation a hopeless puzzle and let it go at that. There is not, however, so much of mystery about it as there is misinformation and false theory. , The prinicipal trouble is that we were all taught, a few months ago, that Lenine and Trotzky were the conscious, paid agents cf the German government, bought like Judases for a price to betray their own country into the power of the enemy. And having seized hold of. that conception of the situation we have held onto it, like a dog to a bone, even when it has been found impossible to fit it in with the known facts. Suppose we start, not with a theory that won't work, but with just one simple, elemental truth. Lenine, Trotzky and their bolshevist followers who for the time being precariously control the Russian "government" are socialists of the extreme type. They are "reds." They are Their war is on "capitalism" capitalism in Russia, in Germany, in England, in the United States, everywhere. They hate "Wall street" just as much as they hate the Kaiser and Krupp. And they hate, in precisely the same way, the rich man in their own country. As we understand the word they have ; no patriotism. Their allegiance is not to their country they have i no country ; "the world is their country" it is to a class. Their present efforts are not to destroy, or to defeat any country, but to defeat and destroy a class the property-ownin- g class, the capital-ists, everywhere. Their1 own capitalists are nearest, and easiest to destroy, so they strike at them first. So they repudiate the national debt They confiscate the money in the banks. They abolish private property in land, in-cluding all mines, oil wells, etc., and declare them the property of the state. The weapons in their armory include not only confisca-tion and repudiation but assassination. Comprising a minority of the whole people they were not able to control the election of the constituent assembly, so by force they abolished it, and set them-selves up as irresponsible tyrants. Theirs is the tyranny of the mob, rather than of a single autocrat, but it is none the less hate-ful and appressive. Their war is not soley on capitalism and autocracy. It is a war on democracy as well. For they are not willing the majority should rule They are not willing that every man, rich and poor, sinner and saint, should have a voice and a vote in the establish- - j ment and control of a government. They will permit only "the i working class" to have sway and only that portion of the working i class who believe as they believe. j "In this particular cane the motor truck and one man are doing the work which formerly was only possible with perhaps a half dozen or more men," one of the superintendents said. Many loads are started from a dead stop, and a speed of 33 miles an hour is niude on a tangent track. The car takes all crossovers at about 10 miles. The motor vehicles have moved every-- , thing movable In the subway. MAXWELL TRUCK USED IN SUB-WAY SYSTEMS Animals and steam proving a failure when taken down into the New York subway the construction contractor turned to the ever faithful motor car for power to transport building mater-ial. 'Since adapting the motor car to the underground work the builders have not had a bit of trouble. Suam cars were out of the question, because of the gasses given off from the boiler fires. Flat subway cars could not be used as the current bad not been turned Into the third rail. The cross ties and rough ground work was a hindrance to horses and manual power whs too laborious. A superintendent suggested fitting a 'motor ear with flanged wheels. A Maxwell was purchased for the under-ground work. It. vv.is no sntist'Hctory that htter on u truck was put into operation. These ears are now oper-ated in the uncompleted sections of the. subway s steins, NO CAUSE FOR WORRY. There is a great deal of unnecessary anxiety among some small holders of government bonds. It does not make a particle of difference to them at what price the bonds are quoted on the Stock Exchange and they should stop their fretting because the price was about 91 one day. The ups and downs of the prices of bonds is only a record of the financial storms that the traders meet. The rate of call money may effect the price and so may a hundred other things, but as long as you have the bond Wall street's troubles are of no concern to you. The bond will be paid when due at its face value and the interest will be paid you on the date designated just as regularly as the sun rises and sets. The only possible interest'you could have in these stock ex-change prices would lie if you were compelled to sell your bond. But that necessity will come to very few, and only to those who must have at once the full value of the bond If a smaller sum i needed the bond will be good collateral at. any bank. A security that always brings a good return with the regularity of the move-ment of the planets is not a thing to worry about, and that is the kind of a security that a Liberty bond is. Giving the LI In Georgia. V Chief Justice Hill of the supreml . w-u- of Georgia said In Ilumsej Ualnst Itullard: "All the Judges ol this court, being 'to the manner born,' aro willing to take Judicial cognizance of a fact which as Individual '"Y l" ' well that In Georgia ( call a man a liar, even without raising sth k. usually provol;es a breach of tin pence, pud most generally brlngi on 9 flcht. There may be exceptions to till . rule, ".ml they nre rnre exotics, and nd lltrie lioiiriilmielit III our Southern sol.' sud beneath our Southern klea." Tobacco ImpoveHshea Sou. It has been calculated that a ton ol tobacco withdraws more than a hun-dredweight of mineral consacuent from uti acre of laud. This would ap-pear to be an astounding waste of ma-terial, w'.ileh must he of enormous value to the soil, considering that 75 per cent con!s;s of riilcluni and potas-sium salts and 15 per cent of mng nesluni and sodium siilts, Including nearly ft per cent of Hie essential con itO'ient to all 'ruts- - phosphoric acli i Romans Liked Cock fighting. In the New Testament the cock 1 mentioned In reference to the denial of the Iord and Indirectly In (be "cock- - "rowing." There is no mention In the Old Testament of the cock or hen These domestic birds were known to the enrly Greek nnd Itnmaus am! probably were introduced by the Ro-mans into Palestine. It Is said that these I Inls were prized by the Itoninuf both as food mid for k fighting. |
