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Show j ABOUT THIS, I THAT AND T'OTHER By D. J. G. i There lis a good story circulated j among the celery growers of Weber : county. It 9eemn there was a Tfollof hero that only Chinese farmers could raise good celery Many farmers held to this belief. These listened to the Instructions given bv exports on eel- ery culturo, but wore doubtful ntM dQtlbtfU ones decided they would I6 j how the Chinese did It and do like- wise, letting tholr neighbors follow i i the. white experts' method. And now i cornea the climax. The fellows who thought tho Chlnnc wore the only j good celery growers are gottinjr about BO cents for their product while ho I growers who followed the white men's Instructions are getting about $1.50. T heard something else Interesting, but thlfl was about tho lettuce grower grow-er A Lou Angeles lettuce handl-r came to Ogden as the crop began to head up and ho told several of the growers they must cut their crop it onoo or it would bo no good would buy It for $1 50 a crate. Several Sev-eral b ileved and sold to him Insteafi j of marketing through their local association as-sociation Morgan growers to a limits! lim-its! extent did likewise- This fellow got four ears In Utah at the low I price! and sent them east labeled , California head lettuce Eater the growers hero learned he cleared 1 3.000 on the four cars Incidentally the Becker sfanufai -turlng company's cold storage facili- . ties have been a god-send to the lettuce let-tuce and celery men. The Becker company was exceedingly generous in ! tho arrungements made with the ! farmers, thereby lending great en- ! couragement to a new farming line which gives evidence of adding con- ; Blderable to the agricultural wealth of the community. Some persons jump from moving I airplanes In parachutes, some be- i I come "human flies" and others are I careless where they eat -hllc can j carne. Election may be comedy for some folks, but It is tragedy for the newspaper news-paper worker. One of the gosh-iwfullest gosh-iwfullest jobs In tho newspaper profession pro-fession is the gathering and dlesem-! dlesem-! inatlon of election returns In the , rapid-fire method demanded on this I I occasion. I don't know of an actlvi newspaper worker who welcomes the job. But It Is one that must bo done. I The people demand the returns the night of election and they expect the newspapers to furnish them. And I the newspapers elo. It Is astonishing how accurate are the results obtained In the hurry and excitement of elec-tion elec-tion night by the newspaper folks j w hen compared with the official can- a?s w hich Is made leisurely anl calmly several days later. But there are many redeeming features fea-tures to this election night Job It la gratifying to know that you are among J the very first to know the news which Is about to be given out. If your paper has been taking a decidedly I active part in a campaign, you aro j very much Interested to know wheth- ; er our papr has won or lost. Down on the late Herald-Republican we had I e'ectlon night diversion In a race be- tween a mechanical adding machine and a human adding machine Bill j O'Connor, a widely known Elk of i .Salt Lake, was the bumas adder He would get in a room by himself V. would ehovo the figures on tho dilfe -ent candidates under rno door to him and ho would ad them up, oft"n more rapidly than the man could at the I adding machine. The pity of poverty becomes stnk-lngl stnk-lngl evident as cold weather come. Who can restrain a tear at the sight I Of poor fellows, with nothing better Chan battered open Forels driving up and down Washington acnu trying to pick up damsels In competition With the rich fur-coated fellows In the handsome closed-ln cars ii"v sad.; How hopeless, : One of the finest pieces of business busi-ness reconstruction in tho history '.f the state. I think, is the reconstruction reconstruc-tion done In the case of the Amalgamated Amal-gamated Sugar company by tho business busi-ness men now in control of that company. com-pany. That tho company has been placed upon a firm foundation again Is indicated by a daily perusal of the quotation listed for Amalgamated I stock, preferred stock and bonds. Bbme of us, still aching from the ?2-a-sack sugar burden we earned, were somewhat gleeful when we heard the sugar company was In difficulties Wo were tickled that some of tho rich cusses had their beads bumped And then we found that while o few wealthy fellows had been hit, there were a great many of our relatives, friends and neighbors who were hit decidedly harder. Consequently we arc glad that these folks vho invested invest-ed their savings In an Important Utah industry are not to lose that which they piled up by thrift. We begin to realise what a really valuable member of society is the first-clas3 conservative conserva-tive business man |