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Show f ' ' V' ' - ' :V;, '., ! ; : THE BU1UIUETSN " VOL.39 BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1929. No. 13 MAKING UTAEI-APE- X A SAFE f.HUE T ii iV'--m i'.m PQ v -- J n'Xs ' ( r.; .T MlMiMM;ailWiilawiiiilWaM :. 'tei.liWJIiHin-.- .. .Wv.:.; jm w J UTAH-APE- X MINE RESCUE TEAM AT DRILL. I Through a plan with the U. S. Bureau of Mines, the officials of the Utah - Apex Mining com.pany have been giv-ing 350 of their employees spe- I cial safety and First Aid train-ing, 18 of whom have taken the Mine Rescue course. The re-mainder of their employees, numbering approximately 150, wild receive instructions at Salt Lake City in the near future. The management of the mine is doing all in its power to make the Utah-Ape- x the safest mine in the world, and have directed aU of their employees to take instructions in this work. This is the largest class ever to take this work in the West. Mr. Kessler of the Bureau of Mines is in charge of this work 1 and is assisted by C. A. Bonner, Safety Engineer of the Utah-- 1 Apex. I STRIDE FORWARD, $ Some of the things being done I to make this mine safe are, keeping all waste cleaned up, whitewashing all stations, ter-minals and billboards, requiring each miner to spend the first half hour or more if necessary, of his shift, in cleaning down all loose rock and making his work-ing place safe. This rule is mandatory and enforced. All miners are required to wear Hard boiled' hats and goggles. The latter as a protection against flying bits of rock when drilling and the former as a pro-tection from falling rock or other substance, and also the hat is made of hard enamel pa-per and serves as an insuation shoud it come in contact with light or trolley wires. An ambulance has been placed on the ten hundred level (the main level of the mine), this car is equipped with doors so that it may be closed to keep out the cold drafts, blankets and hot wa-ter bags filled with chemical, which when shaken, generate artificial heat, also are provided. These measures are bringing wonderful results and more than justify the efforts being put forth. Forty per cent reduction in accidents and lost time to em-ployees have resulted during the last year, from theS'S measures. For the first time in its history the company reported no acci-dent patient at the hospital last week. The safety committee and foremen meet regularly twice a month to discuss the problem of safety and all employees meet once a month on company time for the same. purpose. All acci-dents are reported in detail so that all may profit by the ex-perience of others. Another measure taken to keep down the accident rate is, to employ only those able to speak English fluently, all em-ployees of the Utih-Ape-x can speak English . and 65 are Americans. . THE COST OF VACANT SCHOOLSEATS What is the cost to our school system of seats vacant because of intermittent absence of pu-pils? Parents as a rule are not conscious of the loss involved when their children absent themselves from school loss through insufficient use of a Ml time facility, ' loss through interruption of the child's pro-gress and loss through hind-rance of classroom advancement. The waste in money and op-portunity is large and school ad-ministrators have, like other business executives, had to guard against it Business makes a strong point of looking after the health and morale of its workers. This attitude is not only humane but profitable. Loss of time through illness or otner preveniaoie causes to ex-pensive to both employer and employe. It costs the taxpayers no more to operate a classroom with a hundrwl per cent attendance than it does with a ninety per cent. In the r latter case the schools are being operated at 10 per cent loss. , The importance of this fact may never have oc-curred to the parents. There are those who are even inclined to consider the school meddlesome if it tries to keep close check on absentees. They regard it as an encroachment on their individu-al rights. They consider the school a place where children are to be taught when it is con-venient for them to attend. The financial loss is not the only consideration. There is the - handicap i to the pupil through scattered absences, as wdll as the lowering of the effi-ciency and progress of the en-tire class. No business enter-prise would tolerate the percent-ac-e of absence, as this would be too disorganizing to be profitable. Parents should bq impressed with' the importance of punctual and regular attend-ance, not only as a benefit to the child, a duty to the regular at-tendants and a service to the community in getting the maxi-mum value out of school funds, but also as a factor in habit-trainin- g. It helps build a sense of responsibility and dependa-bility in the pupiL The great burden of responsi-bility for attendance now falls, necessarily on the teacher. ' She has, of course, cooperation from various agencies, such as the visiting or home teacher, attend-ance officers, etc., yet the major part of the task of keeping the classroom filled is on her should-ers. She must face the monthly attendance percentage, ' a baro-meter registering the interest generated in the classroom and the vigor with which the teacher follows up absences and insists on prompt and regular attend-ance. When the energy of the teacher is directed toward the attendance problem, it is being diverted from that supply which shoild be applied to her teaching power, or else is depleting the reserve energy, as essential in a teacher as is the cash reserve in a business or industry. It would seem, therfore. that the home should take more seriously this shifting to the teacher of an Added burden. It remains hers to do if the home does not do it. If she has concern for her own record, for the interests of other pupils and for the community making school finances possible, she has no alternative. Educating the child should be a cooperative labor divided be-tween s.c.h..o.o. l and home. The m .ii .11 1 responsibility 01 pupil attend-ance rests on the parent and ought not to be shifted on the school. SUHMARYOFTHiS ISSUE "ALL the latest local NEWS. EDUCATIONAL COMMENT Vacant Seats School and Home Two To-pics of the Hour and their As-pects. HOW MINING is being made safe for the workmen. THE HOME Betty Barclay Cooking receipts Latest fash-ions in women's apparel Co-mics for the children. COUNT LUCKNER, the Sea Devil live serial story. PICTORIAL PAGE OF latest happenings from all parts of the world. ATHLETICS and SPORTS. LEADING RADIO PRO-GRAMS. EASTER STORY. An dlast but not least, this paper carries exclusively the advertisements of all the lead- - jng Business nrms in BingHam, where you may not only obtain the best merchandise the mar-ket affords but also do so at a very substanial sving. New features are constantly being added ami it is our aim to give our readers the best service possible. That we are succeed-ing in our endeavor is attested by the fact that new subscribers are daily being added to our mailing list without solicitation. PROHIBITION AND CRIME Two Topics of the Hour and Their Aspects Below is what the editor believes to be a most comprehensive discussion with regard to the prohibition question and its relation to Crime. Its effect upon the nation and its probable outcome. The article because of its length wil! appear in two installments, this week and next. It is offered to our readers because of its merit and soundness of logic. Outstanding editorials, and . the world's best and most well edited publications were gleaned for most of the information We hope you will enjoy reading it and invito comment on it from our readers. As we write, a law has just been enacted greatly increasing the maximum penalties for violation of the Volstead act Its sponsors say that it is not to apply to amateur offenders only professional bootleggers. But this is not mandatory in the law. Under its provision a judge may send you to prison for five years for carrying a flask to a November football game. . The Sparish Inquisition made it possible to drive the Jews and Protestants out of Spain by the use of the rack and thumb-screw, but it's doubtful if the rack and screw will be permitted tha drys in the attempts to extirpate the wets. Short, however, of using torture or at Jeast the death penalty upon people, it is hard to make them change their religion by passing laws. r And even if capital punishment shoud come as the next step, we don't beieve it will wipe out the use of liquor. The desire for ' liquor in some hearts is so intense that it will drive a man to ruin his family and prospects to get it Othen, not so extreme, 'simply know what they want and are "willing to pay for it Ti e point is, they don't think it is wrong. , The American in a pretty individual kind of a bird. He came over here to escape restraint and get religious freedom. When a laws looks to him tyrannical hcopposes the law, and he has always done so. Such people think it better to fight for freedom than to give up without a sniggle. Prohibition is not a part of the religion of the Jewish people, nor of the Catholics or Episcopalians. And of course there is a vast number of people belonging to no established church who do not like to have the religious tenets of other people forced upon them. Among these there are many who abstain from liquor for economic reasons, to please the little woman, or because they got a headache the last time out That is an admirable thing - but we do not think it admirable to try to compel them to abstinence be-cause the Methodists and Baptists believe in it. The fathers of this country were right in providing for vari-ous forms of religious freedom and thought the right to wor-ship and think as one likes. It would be better if some similar de-gree of latitude in conduct entered into the consideration of the liquor problem, so that those who want it within reason might have it within reason, and those who do not might be permitted to do without The demoralization which prohibition has brought about over tl 4 kwirulfK fViA InnI fhn jiAvnmfiin ihn Irillmar nt citizens, the poison hooch, the confiscation of property by padlock-ing, the removal of trial by jury these are evidence that some-thing is very much amiss. ' We believe this recent step to increase the penalties for viola-tion of the Volstead act is a der.perate effort perhaps the last of one religion to enforce itself on others. It would seem that prohibition itself has become a religion in this country. It inspires in its followers the same devotion and spirit of consecration as aroused by the various other forms of re-ligious faith. In the minds of its proponents, prohibition is more h matter of religion than of economics or law. J . . In its essence it has nothing to do with Christianity. The point has often been made that Jesus was a maker and user of wine. '. ' By this of course we do not mean that it is not a widely ac-cepted belief of many Christian people. Many devout Christians are devoted prohibitionists just as they are sincere Republicans; but prohibition has nothing to do with the religion Christ taight Methodists and Baptists are generaly among the most exem-plary of Christians. And Methodists and Baptists generally be-lieve in prohibition. But in doing so they have added something to their Christian belief. And because this matter of prohibition is in dispute it has become the part of their religion which they are the most determined to enforce on themselves and others. Therein, we think, lies the error. Unquestionably, abstinence on the part of those who practice it is admirable. It frequently improves the character, health, spirits, temper, longevity, and pocketbooks of its adherents. The same can be said of goigg to church or abiding by the tenets of any of the established religions. They are acts of faith. But abstinence is most valuable, when it is practiced voluntarily. To this the prohibitonists do not agree. They seek to impose their belief in it on other people, and .this is where heat and passion come in. The great majority of the people entertained the- - ideal that when they cast their votes in the election that gave the country prohibition, the job of making the country dry was over. Little did they realize the enormous undertaking that they had placed upon the shoulders of the government. HOW DOES THIS CONDITION AFFECT THE CRIME AVA-LANCHE WHICH IS SWEEPING THE NATION? Every evening the sporting extras and the pink sheets blazon before us the accounts of new hold-up- s, of jewel robberies, of safe-cracking, of machine-gu-n battles between enemy re tachments of aggrandized thugs. Crimes grow in number and they take on a new cast. They even have a distinct touch of modernity about them, as witness the recent Chicago massacre. Once outbursts of crime were sporadic. Robberies would fol-low one another in quick succession and then outlawry would sub-side. . So familiar was this phenomenon that someone, with a csri-ino-W onfAohM ImAfrinatinn. invented the term 'crime wave.' It stuck because it was accurate. The phrase still fills the newspaper columns but overuse has made it meaningless. Crime no longer moves in spaced intervals; it is as steady and repetitious as noon. Sensational hold-up- s are as much a routine part of the day's pro-duction as the rise and fall of stocks. Furthermore, as the out-rages grow in number, important arrests and convictions decrease. There was a day when a spectacular crime was almost inevit-ably followed by police round-up- s nd ultimate prison terms, i To-day police still stage their round-up- s, but the results are not the same. The headline Tolice Baffled by Daylight Crime' lias become so increasingly common that most of us know it by heart, and there is nothing local about the situation; in Chicago, Detroit, St Louis, San Francisco, New York, in all the great cities, it is the same: the power of the police seems impotent to cope with the crook. , . Let us make no mistake about i,t either. Charges of police dishonesty and indifference do not get to the heart of the matter. Reform city governments have not shown appreciably better re-sults than their predecessors. Police shake-up-s, spectacular drives to 'clean up the town,' have no further effect than a temporary lulling of public apprehension and a soothing of political unrest Wholesale arrests do not curb crime unless you get the criminals. And the situation seems to be getting worse, not better, v JTo be continued in next issue). - : CONGRESS TO MEET IN SPE-CIAL SESSION. Farm relief and tariff revision will be the main item for consi-deration at the special session ol Congress whirh will meet April 15, according to an announce-ment by Representative Tilson, of New Haven, Conn. He said that the farm relief bill will be ready near this date and that the tariff revision bill will be in shape to Bubmit to the House on nr hefora AnrM 20. He Said further that the indications are that the farm relief legislation, requiring probably not over ' r week of consideration, would be considered first. " The tariff will probably re quire from three weeks to t month of consideration at the 'extra session,.perhaps longer, he stated, adding that he was not prepared to speculate on a pvob able adjournment date for the extra session. Among the important meas-ures passed by Congress during the session were: the bill to pro-vide funds for the necessary steps to be taken in the preven-tion of Mississippi foods, tht cruiser bill that will expand the naval forces, and a new act to materially increase penalties for violation of the prohibition laws. In addition, the Senate ratified the Kellogg treaty to have war renounced as a nation al policy of the nations of the world. I THE TOWN DOCTOR I (Doctor of Town) . ' SATS iI NO TOWN EVER LOST A I CUSTOMER FROM BEING TOO CLEAN. Calvin Coolidge, addressing The American Federation of Arts arid The American Federa-tion of Music, said, "If clothes make the man, and certainly good dress gives one a sense of self-respe- ct and poise, howmuch more is it true that clean, beau-tiful surroundings lend a moral tone to a community?-- ' And he added: We are gradually getting rid of the oppressive ugliness of, our communities. Oppressive ugliness: a good house next to a shack; a beauti-- lawn with a vacant lot Iful with weeds adjacent; outbuildings; highway entrances cluttered up with non-descript, claptrap, unpainted and otherwise obnoxious bill-boards ; store signs of every sort, shape and description protrud-- l ing at all sorts of angles from f store buildings some high, I some low aH derogatory to any sense of attractiveness; I poorly kept streets, open dumps, I unpainted buildings, a dilapidat-- I cd square, tin can alleys, visible I pollution of streams, and ugliest I and most oppressive of all a , i citizenship with an inferiority f complex, one devoid of civic pride. Oppressive ugliness is that which makes residents of a com-- i munity say, 'Oh, you won't mind that after you've lived here awhile'; and the absence of which makes a stranger say, 'I like this place.' Oppressive ugliness is that which creates atmosphere. How often have you gone into com-mumX-or mercantile establish-ments and given as a reason for not being sold on the place that there is no atmosphere Atmosphere is that which in-vites or repels; atmosphere is the making or losing of sales, prestige and good will. Oppressive ugliness relates materially to appearance How does your community lookk to a customer? Eighty per cent of those things sold or purchased to day, are sold through, or in-fluenced by the eye. Therefore, how your town or community looks is important. This is the season of the year when everything oppressivc should be annihilated. Nature is ready to help make things at-tractive. Start now to help take your community to a good ed house-cleanin-g? clean it up scrub it dress it up and keep it up!!!! ! Include yourself in the clean-ing: get rid of mental cobwebs that make everything about your place of abode so common-place. Rid yourself of the super-stition and prejudice that your town cannot be as moedrn, at-tractive and interesting as any city anywhere. Like life, your town or com-munity is what you and the rest of the people like you work to make it It is just as big or just as little as the people in it VAUDEVILLE. On April 12, a vaudeville show will be given under the auspices of the Bingham Volunteer Fire Department at the Princess Theatre. This show will bring out the cleverest local talent for which Bingham is noted, in ad-dition to professiona numbers. The proceeds of thi3 show wil! go toward purchasing gas masks for the Fire Department and first aid fund. Tickets are 50c and worth more. NEW MONEY. The Bureau of Engraving & Printing at Washington is turn-ing out millions and millions of dollars of new money in the small sizes and there will be enough of it by July 1, to replace all the old currency. The govern-ment will discontinue the distri-bution of the larger bills of the present issues about the last of this month and by July the country will have the gratest supply of dirty money it has ever known. . The average life of a piece of paper money is nine months, al-though some bills that travel fast and .work hard do not last more than one third of that length of time before they are caMed in. The new bills will not fit easily into many of the bill-folds and pocketbooks that are now being used, and when the come into general circulation the Christmas pocketbook of 1928 will go out of date and out of style. University of Utah, Mar. 27, 29. Superintendents and princi-pals of schools from all over the state will gather in Salt Lake City April 4 for the annual con-ference of Utah Educational Ad-ministrators held under the auspices of the University of Utah. Dr. Boyd H. Bode of the Ohio State University and Dr. Herbert R. Stolz from the Uni-versity of California have been sesured as special speakers for the conference. Besides the special sessions for superintendents and princi-pals there will be public meet-ings each evening during the three days of the conference at which the visiting educators will speak. The problem. of adult education and of educa-tional administration will be thoroughly treated and discuss-ed at the conference. WARMING UP. Although some three feet of snow descended upon Bingham last week giving every appear-ance of mid-wint-er the buz of the Baseball Bee could be heard in most every direction. Realiz-ing the winter flurry vould soon pass and be supplanted by wanr sunshine and gentle zephyrs no Stove League game was called on account of the weather. The Utah Copper Athletic n proceeded with the election of officers Monday and expect to put forth every effort to make 1929 a banner year in athletic sports. The High School fans arc lPMhirc at the bit for suitable weather to give the horsehide a ride. 'It won't be long now.' The organization of the six club Junior Baseball League is well under way at this writing and bids fair to be one of the major features of Outdoor sport here this summer. The Junior League win play six games each week throughout the season. j . f PROGRAM AT THE KIWANIS I CLUB. I One of the very delightful events of the week was the mu-- I sica! program put on last Thurs- - I day evening at Kiwanis Club I luncheon, by pupils of the Cop-- perton school f s Principal Miss Nabel Neprud, I assisted by Miss Jensen and I Miss Peterson, faculty of the I school, supervised the prepara- - i ion of this program and its ren- - I dition. . I Much favorable comment was I expressed by those present, with J reference to the training, ability I nnd conduct of these youngsters I displayed on this occasion. Lu- - f cille and Flora Waters and Ed-- I Car Fernley deserve special T"- - mention for their performance. V Following is the program : 1. Harmonica Band. a. Old Black Joe. b. Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes. 2. Song Bernice Barlow, Virginia Earl, Delia Macke, Jeanette Earl My Wild Irish Rose.' 8. Harmonica Solo Edgar Fernley. a. Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charm. b. Merry Widow Waltz. 4. Piano Solo Lucille Wa-ters. a. Russian Mazurka. b. Basket of Roses. 5. Solo Flora Waters. a. When Irish Eyes Arc Smiling. b. Raindrops. 6. Harmonica Band. My Bonnie. AUTO TAXES. The new law passed by the recent legislature requires that current taxes on automobiles must be paid to the county be-fore license plates can be issued to the owner by the Secretary of State, and in order to con-venience such owners, County Assessor Preece has arranged to have the local assessor Mr. W. V. Evans receive these taxes, here. You may receive clear-ance from Mr. Evans at the City Hall and avoid making a special trip to Salt Lake, for this pur-pose. . NO ANSWER. YouH never get anywhere go-ing around so much, growled dad. We'd be out of luck if the earth heard you say that and de-cided you were right, retorted the son. Mrs. Hannah Clark of Mt. Pleasant is the guest of her sis-ter. Mrs. John Knudsen at Cop-perfiel- d. |