Show i i fo 1 I ban s A 4 1 S itkis ma WE FORGOT to mention last week the tact fact that the park record entered its eltty fourth year of service in park city its fust first issue made its appearance on february ath 1880 and tor for two thousand seven bundled and fifty six consecutive weeks since that date the record has been distributed to its patrons without a single miss notwithstanding a fire that destroyed its entire plant the close do down w n of mines aggregating labor troubles long drawn out depressions and other discouraging adversities it continued on and in all probabilities will continue contin a on and on until time Is no more our recollection recalls re calls no time la in its history when business was at so low an ebb as at present but we are not discouraged for in the offing we see the rays ol of prosperity flickering over the mountain tops and in our minds eye we visage greater mining activity greater growth and we hope greater patronage for the record than ever before and this will result if home town people and those who made their home here only temporarily because of good salaries ies will spend their money where they make it thus patro patronizing g home town merchants and home town tow n enterprises enterprise and professions instead of spending it with out of town concerns let bo be the motto of all our citizens WE READ in the papers that detroit automobile builders forecast a car thail that I 1 will go 50 miles on a gallon of gasoline as the next stage in building they eni en 1 i visage the new queen of the road as without fenders running boards or other protuberances to resist the wind the present car Is called too complex too costly to operate too unsafe it Is fash boned after an oxcart the perfectly streamlined and speedy new chariot harlot rc will take its form from a teardrop tear drop but the suggestion Is of form only mr average citizen will shed no teardrops tear drops because of a prohibitive purchase price I 1 a h afi fi fi I 1 SAYS THE christian science monitor mr franklin D roosevelt has friends in congress who are looking alter after his comfort while the president elect struggles with an economy program and office seekers at warm springs ga Is added to the house appropriations bill which will put a swimming pool in the basement of the white house also a plan Is on foot to call from the asiatic fleet the ta U S S isabel a yacht for white house use the president elect loves to sail the sea his only physical exercise Is swimming A nation that de mands so much work from a president can well be generous it can do a little something tor for his play afi F ib s I 1 PRESIDENT ELECT roosevelt unrolls ills his last dream of the tennessee river watershed tor for newspaper correspondents broadly the plan calls for ordination coordination co of water power development with reforestation hood flood control land utilization and application of the brincil principles lea of city planning to a vast countryside lie he will ask congress at an early date to authorize the undertaking the project would soon employ men and meance mean reclamation cla mation of thousands of acres of rich bottom land he believes this widest experiment ever undertaken by a nat nation nations ionI i can do an unusual thing it can call be made self belt sustaining fi fi fi I 1 THREE WEEKS from tomorrow march fth franklin D roosevelt will succeed herbert hoover as president ot of the united states according to press dispatches four hours crowded with activity will complete the ceremonies of the occasion chief justice hughes will administer the oath of 0 office forty to fifty minutes Is allotted lor for the address and two hours will be required to review the inaugural parade it Is estimated that people will witness the inaugural and of the bon ton of the nation win will grace the inaugural ban ball which will conclude the days festivities the shuttle shuffle for the new deal will aul then commence with hoover in the discard i I 1 T IT WILL be of interest to all masons that franklin D roosevelt will be the fourteenth mason elected president of the united states the other thirteen were george washington thomas jefferson james madison james monroe andrew jackson james polk james buch ananA Andrew johnson james A garfield william mckinley theodore roosevelt william H talt taft and warren 0 harding fi A a a PAUL pattii H HUNT state senator from this senatorial district Is doing good work in the present state legislature his banking bill and gold bill if pawed passed would prove wise legislation with lar far reaching beneficial results 19 W F LA AND TALKING about taxes which everybody Is doing in these days of per letual taxation the following interesting I 1 tax story was handed nad daw this week lor for publication ini A good many years ago a writer in tho the edinburgh review in commenting on british taxes wrote as follows taxes upon every article which enters thel the mouth or covers the back or Is placed upon the feet taxes upon everything which it Is pleasant to see hear teel feel smell or taste taxes upon warmth light and locomotion taxes on everything on earth and the waters under the earth on an everything that comes from abroad or Is grown at home taxes on the raw material taxes on every fresh trash value that Is added to it by the industry 0 of man taxes on the sauce which pampers mans appetite and the drug that restores him to health on the ermine which decorates the judges and the rope which hangs the criminal on the poor mans salt and the rich mans spice on the brass nails ot of the coffin and the ribbons of the bride at bed or board couchant or levant we must pay the schoolboy whips his taxed top the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed whip on a taxed road and the dying englishman pouring hi big medicine which has pai paid dreven seven per cent into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty two per cent makes his will on on an eight pound stamp and expires in the arms 0 of an apothecary who has paid a I 1 license cease of 0 a hundred pounds for or the privilege of putting hira him to death ins his whole pro party Is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent besides thu the probate largo large fees are demanded tor for burying h him im in the chancel his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble and he Is then gathered to his fathers to be taxed no more T assifi ar 15 A RESTFUL calm was conveyed to the voters of the country wednesday when the tellers in a joint session of congress one of whom was senator wm H king of utah announced the election of franklin D roosevelt and john N garner gamer 1 as president sad end vice president of these united states it was the general opinion since the ath ot of last november that such was the case but any uncertainty was eliminated by the actual count to be good fellows and to avoid making thel the election ot of mr roosevelt unanimous the votes ot of six states were tendered mr mra hoover who graciously accepted them with the feeling no doubt that small favors were gratefully received the final climax will be the inauguration and the new deal thank god I 1 fi 19 B T sa S 1 THE JUNKETING lawmakers law makers of the state legislature were marooned in deep snow drifts wednesday when on their way to visit the agricultural college at logan they were vere hung up tor for several hours suffering much inconvenience and rescued finally by patriotic volunteers volunteers and it was no easy work it if our junket I 1 kg s legislatures must junk they should arst consult the weatherman as to climatic possibilities so EO that their pleasures and fea heastings stings are not interrupted Z MY MY dont us U S senators get upset and angry it only a vaguel vague intimation Is hinted at that possibly one cr c r more ot of the ninety six members might 1 tea 0 a least bit bent politically or other in their various dealings in public affairs the veteran sergeant at arms arins ol of the senate david S barry in a recent signed article in the outlook the new york publication of which alfred E smith la is editor intimated that such a thing could bo be possible thereby causing an immediate combustion of outraged indignation in that distinguished aggregation of lawmakers law makers resulting in the discharge of the writer ot of the article and a threatened liable suit against the publisher and editor of 0 the magazine of course in such a select body of men it is hard to imagine that a misdeed could even be thought of yet it Is within the realm of possibility that such a thing might happen 19 S T W T IT a fact criticism of congress slid and its antiquated methods of procedure it if heard on all sides bides in washington throughout the country the critics do not agree completely on what la Is wrong but william L chenery editor of collie colliers rs probably bums sums up the general eeling feeling well as anybody the congress first learns to adapt its procedure to spirit of the times by utilizing the research method of impartial inquiry will be something new in the world the fundamental da lack la ck of congress is informed intelligence aa B afi 5 L I 1 K LAME DUCK session or no it all applesauce in washington pineapple has replaced applesauce as the smart accompaniment pani ment for ducks geese quail and the more domesticated fowl upon which washington dines so frequently the fashion of serving glazed pineapple with fowl Is gaining favor dally daily ac colding to latest observations of the washington social outpost i 5 w F y T THE REPORT of the special committee 0 of f the lower house of congress recommending m that twenty eight activities bo be dropped from government control va will in meet with universal commendation in our opinion all ali the activities mentioned are in direct competition with private concerns of the country by the govern mont ment including the printing of private return envelopes and other unjust competition against legitimate private business enterprises |