Show we owe A debt parents owe the child an occasional studio photo for it to keep as a milestone on its journey through life these photos are memories ot of the past and are priceless dont delay THE ADAMS STUDIO decoction such laxity Is a disgrace to the tate state and it Is time a clean made de and an earnest effort put forth forth to have honesty and dependability prevail in public affairs instead tit of cheap scheming politics yet as the lie salt lethe lake tribune sills besides me e still I 1 have lave some boine legislators who would like to re public of 0 the necessity of publishing legal reports ot of the financial affairs of 0 government units HOOVERS HoO VERIS FIRST GESTURES i SHOW MORE BUSINESS POLITICS CAMPAIGN promises in matters of 0 firm farm relief and tariff and In inherited heried pro continued on page seven EDITORIAL A M 1 f ii K iati t 1 I 1 I 1 I continued irom from page four beems such as prohibition enforcement and the national origins quota law are the rocks and rapids in the course of the new leaders ot of the 0 0 P now it at the wheel of 0 the ship of state according to the wise tien of 0 newspaper world tile the first gei gestures tures to fulfill the hopes ot of the farmer mill be made in the special session ot of congress naturally the republican party will TIU continue to support the protective lit principle in doing so it will have to listen to president herbert hoover who insists on the business ol of government being conducted in accordance with more efficient business principles in the making of the new tariff bill the was and means committee Is giving careful study to clean cut statements and conclusions of the united states tariff commission regarding many dules that eliat have been investigated it looks look as though there Is an impasse between the art and science ot of depre n I 1 a tive government as it hns has been de 1 in several instances through the i united states tariff commission as opposed to political trading and dickering dictated by a few leading politicians at the expense of the consuming multitudes if hoover succeeds the tariff legislation within bounds lie he will prove t to many that the business man has not turned politician ST PATRICKS DW DAY THE GREAT green d day lay Is at hand st patricks day who can deny the thrill of it the bright color 0 of it everywhere jovial wearers of the green greena a festival both tor for participants and spectators a day of joy with balloted traditions and sacred ceremonies st patricks day when ve ie think of all the beautiful as lations this day has for many 0 of if us we ive look forward to it ft with the deepest interest we know that st patricks example Is such as to make finer truer men and women that tile the day Is an inspiration to tile noble impulses and the higher aspirations aspirations aspi pi rations of humanity and so we greet the wearers bearers of tile the green cordially hoping that this st pat ticks day will find them in the greatest health and happiness our utmost re I 1 j go forth to every person in this town celebrating the great day greit greet i 1 ings to every son of erin heartfelt greetings may djay each of you prosper and remain in our midst A TRAGIC JOKE JOK E IN A brief editorial entitled this Is ft a joke the cordell oklahoma beacon recently said many states have laws regulating toi rei I 1 gu lating the sale of revolvers and pistols others require that a person possessing a pistol should be licensed both regula re gula i 1 eions are for the purpose of presenting enting murder I 1 tile the up to date gangster buys a submachine gun with these new inspru mants erit of death he be Is efficiently armed armeda besides they can be bought without red tape and no permit Is necessary such a condition as the beacon describes Is disheartening proof of the futility of attempting to dispense with murder and crime by prohibitory legislation it Is almost unbelievable that many otherwise rational people cherish the delusion that by making it a crime to carry a concealed weapon meation criminals who almost dally daily commit far more serious of tenses ii will ill be immediately reformed As long as our legal system Is burdened with technicalities and red tape and the handling of the criminal Is guided by inexperienced reformers we lie must bow to the inevitable and accept our place as the most canless civilized nation in the w i orld orid THE VALUE OF TIIE THE BUREAU OF MIXES MINES THE united states bureau of mines Is the only representative of the mining industry I 1 in our governmental system steni it des deserves cries the support and co operation cooperation of every branchi brn cli of the industry nut but it ling has not hail had either cither in the measure ensure ni it must hilie have it if it Is to be the effect effective lic force it should be the bureau has been handicapped by the usual lark lack of 0 funds by the usual government red tape by the lack of cooperation I 1 from those it seeks to serve and hy by its own limitations but that ionly racing tile the ob obvious obi ious Alous and does not f C hange change the situation what should b lone done to bring ah about 0 u t a better understanding between tb bureau and the industry its appropriations tave lave been cut still further for 1929 thus increasing its handicap it Is time that hat son something willing be lone done about it there Is no real reason for the cut in the appropriations except the apathy from the industry itself there Is some feeling in the industry that the bureau Is if developing del dei eloping a tendency to become a dictator in its affairs rather than a cooperator in soiling its problems therefore when appropriations are arc up for discussion cus sion there has been 1111 no demand upon congress from the lie producers to the funds perhaps tills this apathy is responsible for the tact fact that agriculture to re calves 33 for every eiery dollar ap appropriated a ted to aslet mining the present cut in appropriate appropriations ions will go far in preventing the bureau continuing much of its effe effective ethe work and will prevent it undertaking anything new the bureau Is not all that it hou should be but it ft Is not altogether the fault of tho the bureau that this is tile the case if the industry will get behind director turner and its his stall staff tell them what the industry wants and needs and operate cooperate co in making it possible for them to do it there mill ill be a very different story to tell it Is high time that whatever underground current of criticism against the P bureau breau exists be brought to the surface it Is time that hat the industry Ind itself begins to understand what the lie bureau means to it ft what it is doing for it and how its sen ices may be it the bureau Is unsatisfactory to some brances of the industry let us get together and make it what u bat we want it to he be in pite of criticism individual or sectional the bureau of mines has done and Is doing much good work for tile the in mining ining industry it is the national representative of the industry that industry should be per cent co opera tive the with it it if it expects it to be per cent effective mining congress journal |