Show INFLUENZA germs lias has been isolated so EO science informs us now lets hope it will be kept that way BOMB rare old colas coins were recently found on a golf colt course A friend rises to remark that antiques may be dug abw our own course hero here most moet any time 7 IT II IS uld mid that the price of a new 4 piano with two sets bets of keys and chimes and various other attachments Is prohibitive hibi tive lets hope that way AND EVEN some bome of our intelligent local business men are now ot of the opinion that the whole world Is flat IN THE country they graft craft and produce the finest of fruits in chicago they I 1 graft and produce an unusual crop 0 of pineapples NOTHING so unusual about a ue detector I 1 as used in a recent murder case I 1 many a local citizen can tell he has been married to one for some twenty or thirty years THE unconscious ARSONIST SOME MILLIONS of americans are unconscious arsonists I 1 this Is a startling statement and an any Y one of the millions would angrily deny it yet it Is true none of them purposely set et fires but all of them through ignorance or carelessness unconsciously start fires W the difference between the man who consciously fires a house and the mani man who falows wiring miring to go unattended throws thrown oil soaked rags in corners or drops his matches and cigarettes wherever he happens to finish with them Is one of law and motive effect we are with increasing success fighting the active arsonist and when he Is if caught lies hes imprisoned tor for long terms The unconscious arsonist Is beyond the law lavi and destroys more lives and property than the deliberate arsonist every fire hazard imperils Im perils the entire community A fire starting in a disused garage enrage may destroy a million dollar factory are you an unconscious arsonist tabulating CRIME THE international association ot of police chiefs lies has began the first system otic atle attempt at tabulation ot of crime ever made in this country an effort Is to be made to interest au all states in collecting crime statistics in rural communities monthly reports are to be prepared by the pollee police departments or of all cities in order to make readily available authoritative information on crime throughout the entire nation these are to be supplemented by annual reports dealing with different pha phases sea of the crime problem the value of 0 this program Is inestimable in estam the police department Is socie tys first defense against the criminal and its efficient functioning Is the notions nations surest safeguard the police have been hampered in past years because ot of the dearth of authoritative crime statistics and reports the actual causes ot of crime have remained undetermined it may be observed that ot of all great nations we ne have given our police the least chance to succeed in their fight against crime there Is nothing in the united states to compare with scotland yard or the parts paris strete kurete Sn Su rete with their amazing facilities for the collection of 0 information anil and their use of 0 the bostl fogt advanced methods I 1 NOW flow that our own police are makIng an intensive effort to better their own work great results may be expected it Is the certainty of detection and ana punishment that suppresses crime and well informed police departments are worth more than ban t volumes of restrictive laws which infringes on the rights of the law abiding citizens to the actual tage of the criminal who mho obes no laws I 1 uri UPHOLDING fOLDING A NATIONAL PRECEDENT THE ATTITUDE of the administration on the subject of water power development Is not encouraging to government ownership advocates secretary wllbur wilbur reflecting the views of the president lias has stated emphatically that the government connection with water should end when it goes over a dam any subsequent action such US os generating and selling electricity should be up to private individuals who take the risks and spend the money it has also been definitely stated that in the case of boulder dam or any other project the government will go no further than it Is compelled to in order to finance the cost of the structure this Is hardly surprising surely under our established governmental policy the government should have nothing to do with mith buying or selling government Is not a bu business iness to be run in competition with ith private citizens and taxpayers its proper functions are strictly limited sometimes by law and sometimes by custom to protecting its people and guaranteeing an fair play to all president hoover and S secretary ecret ary WU bar follow a national precedent when they keep government and industry separate once government goes into the power or any other bu business sines rie no matter how small the scale a basic democratic principle will have d died I 1 ed ACCIDENTS OF MENTAL ORIGIN NINETY per cent of accidents are of mental orl origin in according to dr harold S hulbert of the department of mental and nervous diseases university of illinois in an address before the national safety council dr hulbert explained that these accidents are the result not of insanity or mental incompetence but 0 thou thoughtlessness or carelessness tills this authority says rays that a person who Is comfortable in mind and body adjusted to his working and domestic life and Is not III perplexed discontented or fatigued stands hut but a small chance of becoming the causative factor in an accident on the other hand anger fi fatigue tigue surprise and of other her such factors are the causes of many accidents sigs dr hula bert we cannot of course cure such emotional disturbances as anger and surprise nor can me lie offset fatigue but the public should understand these ca causes 9 of accidents and guard against them A worker who ho grows tired khouli should become more careful because of it an automobile driver who Is suffering from some sit slight ht illness should match watch ills hij driving more carefully than when he Is in good health once we manage to exert some control over the mental hafard 11 our accident record will begin to decrease FACTS THE WESTERN STATES should do everything in their power to encourage mining development at the present time the western empire Is on the verge of a new and unprecedented era it has potentialities beyond end any other part of the nation small in population by a comp comparative compart artive lve standard it Is rich I 1 in resources N metals atals are among the greatest of these resources the farmer selling his A crop the grocer selling merchandise the teacher in the schools the employ of an industry au all benefit from the mining industry when mining prospers every other business in a mining state prospers with it when mining languishes every other business alness feels the adverse effect but treat mining should be a western motto it pas back fair treatment in the coin of progress UNCLE SI 61 baag a too much of a good thing Is bound to make trouble like holding five aces in a poker game SO FAR AND YET SO 60 NEAR ONE can not visualize the industrial expansion of the united states without realizing that the basic factor Is tran port atlon more afore than 80 per cent of the products product of our farms 88 98 per cent of the products of our mines and forests and 87 per cent of the products of our factories require transportation between producer and consumer economically vital therefore Is thi the cost and quality of transportation it Is universally conceded concede ed that compared compard with cost and quality of transportation service fee in other countries the ted states has the advantage in that it has bas the lowest zt cost and nd ceiri bert service ot of them nil all rates bates evidence the direct cost whereas every shipper and economist knows that there Is an indirect cost such each as shrinkage decay damage of one kind or another arising from poor service which may easily camuy exceed the direct cost aorl poor service ECU ice Is dear at any price tor the indirect cost may be such as to not only consume the shippers profits but make production unprofitable what but rood good service enabled the producers of the pacific coast to con coa conf f ve vert their low lom producing grazing lands into high producing fruit ranches and increased the value of these lands a hundred told fold I 1 cantaloupes orun oranges apples and like fruit art am shipped by the thousands of carloads from the pacific coast and continued on page seven M SM MW EDITORIAL V MM 5 M continued from page paga four placed on the breakfast tables ot of the atlantic coast miles distant as fresh as when aben picked from the atnes and branches I 1 consumers and producers of pacific coast buy boy and sell ECU in the 66 primary markets ot of this country almost US ns conveniently as it if all these markets were at their doors that Is what sustains production and makes lor for general prosperity better equipment faster speed and reasonable rates combine to overcome the disadvantage of 0 long hauls continuation of 0 judicious public re guLit lon united with earnest co opera tion between shipper and carrier seem test best to insure the public welfare in this regard the carriers should be protected against unnecessary duplication of service and wasteful competition in order that the people may be protected in their right to good service and reasonable rates HOPING AGAINST HOPE ALL TRE talk about commodities and suffering workmen kmen and starting farmers and profiteering manufacturers manufacturer only serves to gloss over the tact fact that the greatest bone of tariff dissension Is politics the tariff farce Is very much like a play with its heroes heavies and villains it runs the he gamut from comedy to tragedy the defenders of the people rise to smite those who abo would increase tariff duties and the guardians ot of smite back bach at those who would tower lower duties it Is all very pretty and trivial in the meantime the me real producers our prosperity the corkers farmers and nn d go a on u in the hope that tome day the llie senate will condescend to consider the tariff problem at as a highly scientific business question instead ot of a great great political plum tree planted and I 1 maintained by ill all the tbt people tor for the special tat benefit of a few servants of the I 1 people A fair tariff la Is to protect home wage scales imd and living conditions condition and ana treat foreign produce justly it its primary prima ry ot ob lct Is not to furnish nn in exchange tor for log rolling and ana vote tote barter ing in between ambitious iser ant IS reasonable GAS TAX INVENTION INTENTION of a new tax to is always a 0 dangerous things thing however necessary it may be at times only a short 10 years ago the state of oregon led lea off with it tax tai of a cent a gallon on gasoline today er every state in t the he union and the district 7 tr t of columbia has ha such a tax and in SO 30 states the rate 1 Is four cents cent or higher it vas not until 1825 1925 that all state bbate revenues from this source exceeded but in D 1827 1927 they were odona abo t last year they mere and oil authorities estimate the total tor for 1929 at the average gas tax per motor vehicle lias has considerably sider ably more than doubled since 1925 taxation Ta atlon of 0 gasoline was originally justified and has bags since I 1 been easily extended 1 and Jn increased creased because of the sound argument that users of the public higi highways mays should pay for it them gem I 1 in n proportion to use these tax proceeds however are not everywhere confined to construction and maintenance ot of roads and it Is doubtful whether such a principle can be maintained against the temptation political officers officer 4 ire arc always under to td raise the revenue in the easiest way but it affords some measure ceasur 0 of reasonableness to consider that under the minimum rate of two cents gasoline Is now subject to a sales tax of some thing like 10 per cent of 0 retail value and that in many states the tm Is 20 to SO 30 per cent of value talus declining prices for gasoline lne no doubt explain the public acquiescence so tar far in so startling rapid an increase in the taxation laid upon its ita use A reversal ol of market conditions or even a period of 0 stability especially if coupled will a tighter grasp of the tax collector would tell another story stary wall street journal |