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Show I PRO BONUM POPULI The above caption remains of about all we are able to remember from what penetrated our mind in a rather cursory cur-sory perusal of sophomore Latin. Approximately, it means "For the Good of the People," and is deemed suitable to head this article. In the present discussion about town, originating in friendly enough fashion, on the subject of underground water legislation, there has been enough information divulged di-vulged to indicate that personalities are being indulged in and private grievances aired, which Would be carried over to the columns of this paper. They will not be. Further, it is not to the best interests of the public that tension, brought about by the conflicting interests, be allowed to exist. At the risk of appearing dogmatic, this paper will in the future close its columns to the present debate which originated in a frank, cards-on-the-table discussion of issues. is-sues. We ask the indulgence of one of the parties concerned con-cerned in our doing this, as the opposition to his side of the debate is "one up" on him as far as newspaper space locally is concerned. Agricultural - discussions have been found by us, judging from matter we are asked to publish, to have gone off on a tangent and now savor of personal recriminations. Our stand is paradoxical perhaps to our vaunted boast of opening our columns to the expression of public opinion. In the future, public opinion will be confined to the inside part of the paper, that section designated as "People's Forum," (or, "Agin 'Em), and will not be accorded space as news. News developments about any local industry will be treated as such and the public kept informed to the best of our ability. We reserve the right to delete from letters to be published pub-lished that part which is purely personal and at variance with the subject. But we close the water debate in this paper. It is asking too much of the publisher that he pay a man to linotype several columns of matter, free, when the energy of the staff may well be expended a little more in the securing and printing of material, for the publication of which business men are willing to pay money. There is no water shortage. Through seven of the dryest years this section ever paw, large crops were grown. Now, the present snows have put water tables back to normal, so let's not invent trouble. LEGISLATURE FACES TREMENDOUS JOB After a several weeks' flurry of introducing bills, the Utah state legislature settled down this week to the job of separating the wheat from the chaff. Some of it has been done, but by for the greater part of the work lies before the two houses. Several bills introduced seem to border upon asininity or indicate that there were numerous axes to be grinded. Others are truly constructive measures which affect not only one section of the state but all of Utah. Time will better bring a true perspective of the worth of the bills introduced in 1929 and if worthy measures are frowned upon hy the legislature at this time, they will come bobbing up again in 1930. A man who has been living in Milford for a week or so j went into one of the grocery stores the other day and asked for a bottle of lemon extract. He took it without the formality of having it wrapped. After paying for it, . with the awe-struck clerk gazing at him, he drank the liquid in a swallow or two, tossed the empty bottle to the rear of the store, and walked out. Evidently he knows his groceries. . He is a born newspaperman. How do you know? The first words he ever learned were, "blah-blah." Headline in Nevada paper "Discovery of Bones Throws Light on Geology of Nevada." Why lost their dice? |
