Show the attention of our patriotic citizens is called to tile the notice in this issue signed by mayor welsh calling a public meeting to arrange for a fourth of jul july V celebration on next wednesday night there should be a general response to acael and a rouin rousing meeting held let the th eagle scream for by so doing it will keep heep many of our citizens at home where they will enjoy a better and happier day titan by dragging themselves off to some other place get to together ether aim with true american pride anti and patriotism boost for a fourth in the best town in tile best state of the best country in the world the city council is to be commended for its loyalty to the federal building proposition it has aided the c committee in every possible way and never lias has a request been made ot it by y lle persistent committee daviu having n the affair in charge but what has been willingly granted tile the committee and citizens generally appreciate preci ate its action it has from the first shown a desire to help it along a spirit of progressiveness for the public good which to say the le ast is cheering and jencova encouraging in m for goodness knows there is ah always ample room for such manifestations in every comman community ity especially our the certainty of good times fill I 1 m park city everybody catch tile the spirit of the present administration and boost and then boost again never has tile the outlook for park city been brighter than at the present time the old producers of the camp were never more prosperous and the smaller ones or prospects are rich with future promise instilling confidence and assuring grom growth th and good times for our city the fact that resumption of work on a large larg e scale is under way at the old ontario mine and mill that such men as ab the derns have become interested in the development i our resources all portend a and a steady growth lor for it will sure be the means of inducing other capital to invest and thus attract constant attention to the almost limitless opportunities tuni ties of our comparatively un touched mineral resources of thi great mining section the sentiment manifested at the city council last thursday night to have home work done by home people is truly bommen dable this is the true spirit fr for the up building of local communities and should be adhered to whenever possible and ene encouraged oura under all circumstances the city administration lias has under contemplation a great deal of public bublie work and home people should bi given the preference when it comes to awarding contracts it has been fully demonstrated the past year that giving contracts to the lowest bidder does docs not big signify fy less cost or satisfactory work home people have a pride in their town arave a local reputation to maintain as to work manship their money go to keep up the town it is put in circulation where they live and indirectly benefits the entire community as arule arille they are trustworthy and competent competency compe capable of doing the work for as little outlay as any outsider and in a manner assuring ina greater permanency and far more satisfactory patronize home labor ibe be loyal to home industries ignore mail order bouses houses and thus reap the resulting in benefits of prosperity and contenti contentment nent amid the political excitement of tile past week but little attention was paid to an event in congress 0 f real importance says the new york evening Post This was the announcement that the rome house and the senate had come to an a arcement agreement on tile the form of amendment anen airen dment providing for the direct election of united states senators th the e que question stion has been long in conference As a bill passed ite it gave a certain amount of federal control over the new way of electing senators such as now exists in tile the election of representatives that is to say it reserves to congress tile the right to inquire whether elections i had been held in compliance with tile the law whether any class of citizens irid hid been dis franchised etc against all this it will be remembered some of tile the southern S 3 gators protested strongly alleging the fear of a new force bill or something of tile the kind this bostion was also taken aub ab ly by the majority in the aliouse but representative bucker announced last week that the committee of conference of which he is a member had decided to recede from the house vieland vie wand to accept the bill as it passed the senate it is expected that the formal report w w il 11 le mad anad this week and final action ta kenTher thus appears to be no doubt that the new constitutional amendment will soon be submitted to the states for ratification and that in due time we nye shall have tile the direct election of Serin senators tors established as the law of the land ten years ago such euch a step would have been regarded as not only impossible but revolutionary ution ary but we have been getting accustomed to revolutions di is tile the name for that distressing obsession from which many of us are suffering the peculiarity of this malady is that the afflicted ones are not those who have the disease but are merely the friends and acquaintances quain of those who have fallen prey to it the telephone is intended to be a convenience not an inconvenience yet it is difficult to appreciate this when we are interrupted in the midst of dinner summoned away from concocting concoct ing some dish called away from visitors or aroused from the first sweet sleep of night or the even sweeter sleep of morn in ins abuse or of the telephone has heon been discussed with stormy elou enough h to enlighten any one who does docs not already realize the situation we have been exhorted a thousand times to remember that the telephone is not a proper medium for gossip that children should not be allowed to monopolize a party line for a half hour as they translate their latin or compare their sums we have all suffered more or less from women who chat idly over nothing at all although the cherry note of a friend calling for us and telling us her where sometimes seems to counterbalance all the evils of the system the exaggerated forms of 4 tele phonetics are happily becoming less frequent but nearly all of us could by taking though less troublesome troy standard press people who write things wie vic they would like to see printed in a newspaper should bear in in mind that what they write a as their personal opinion should be gathered by theland the mand when they write stuff that is not fit for them to attach their names to it should not be printed remember the rule of all decent newspapers and you will never have occasion to put on the shoe this is the rule which we give in all kindness never ask a newspaper to do anything you are ashamed to do yourself I 1 the public have little appreciation of the value of well conducted local newspapers their offices of beneficence to tile community are arc so common that tha t they are unnoted but none the less no town or city can advance without its newspapers are in the forefront of its advancement they must lead in every effort to invite capital enlarge industries and enthuse the people in of their theirld the irad advantages vantages |