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Show I J ' SENATOR FUNK In the matter of "sky rocket" price of -" ' sugar, Senator Funk, Fair Price Commis sioner, presents some interesting argu- ment. Litsen to what he says: "As the federal fail price commission understands the Lever act, profiteering in any of the necessities of life consists in taking a large profit on the actual cost. "In justice to the sugar factories it should he pointed out that the Lever act, according to this interpretation, does not take account of wide fluctuations in market mar-ket conditions. And in justice to the su-J- gar company it may be said that is is ex- " periencing the hardship of working against market conditions. "Utahns should remember that, until the present they have been obtaining their sugar at a price 8 to 9 cents less than the actual market all' around, with ' . the exception of Colorado. "This meant that other markets were coming into Utah and obtaining supplies of sugar at retail and shipping them out of the state, thus depriving this state of sugar, which, in the usual course of events, would be consumed here. This . , was a class pf trade which it was difficult to regulate. Outsiders were making mon- ey out of it and! to the extent that -they took the sugar away, the people of Utah " were not benefitted, because their supply . of sugar was being depleted to that ex-, tent. " "At the same time, the amount of su gar so taken out of the state, while it E worked a hardship here was not large en- f ough to cut any figure on the nation's sugar market. The resident of the east did not get his sugar any cheaper on that account. From this point of view, therefore, there-fore, outsiders were making monev out of Utah sugar that might just as well hove been made by Utahns. "That point of view, however, does not take into account the provisions of the Lever act. The situation has been re-. re-. ported to the proper officials of the de- . partment of justice for such action as ' they, may see fit to take under the cir- f- cumstances." From the Senator's argument any per- I . son who can read the English language . ' must first arrive at the conclusion that Hv the case is one of pure, unadulterated M profiteering. Thus sayeth the law, and . : no side .arguments concerning the "fluctuations" "fluc-tuations" of markets, the price Utahns have been paying in comparison to other states, and any condition whereby it was advantageous for our friends and neighbors neigh-bors to cross state lines and buy our sugar, su-gar, will change the law. Of course Cori-missioner Cori-missioner Funk practically admits as much and closes by saving that the matter mat-ter has been sumitted to the proper officials- But the thing that is puzzling some people is who is the "proper official." We have been going along thinking that Commissioner Funk Was the "proper official" offi-cial" and are now wondering why he does not act. UK K PASS IT ALONG When you return to Logan from a trip to some other town, or one that took you into many, towns and communities, don't come back with reports of how far behind be-hind the times we are, or with how much more attention other towns pay to improvements- For that kind of talk is to apt to be construed as 'knocking." On the other hand, come with suggestions of how we can adopt the example of some other town with benefit tot all here at home. Point out the good things you saw in the other town we ought to adopt here and suggest to your neighbors that we get busy and make -'the same improvements. improve-ments. We learn largely by watching others, and good towns become better by adopting adopt-ing the things other towns have found by experience are worth something' to the public at large. We never get, anywhere by merely pointing out our home town's shortcomings, or making comparisons with some other town that puts us iri a poor light. If the other town has a public pub-lic place for narking autos, a vacant lot or a special ide street, where they 'will be safe and out of the way of traffic, then let us set about securine: something like that. If other towns have a better system sys-tem of keeping the streets clean and. in repair, let us know what it is so we can talk it over and adopt the same methods here. If other towns are makinga special bid for outside trade or new industries, tell our public spirited citizens about it .that they may think itoyeiv an$ ., devise some way to follow the example.' A', Suggestions are always in order, and anything that works well in another town will work well here. So don't hesitate to pass them along, remembering all . the time that one good suggestion offsets a thousand knocks. Cj ,h la There's one thing Mi. Wilson can't keep us out of, anyway, and that's a chance to swat the administration at the polls on November 2nd. Pi m Most people would be willing for once, to let the clock be moved ahead ten months in view of what is going to happen hap-pen on March 4, 1921. n h This 'is "Be Kind to Animals" week. The people are willing to be kind to all dumb animals but the Democratic jackass this year. ! |