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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13
ROTATION IN OFFICE.

It is a beautiful thing-rotation in
office. And yet, there may be draw
backs.
For example: The postmaster gent
eraI Of Canada holds his office perma-
nently. If he dies, or fails to do his
work well, he quits-for cause. If he
lives and makes good. he stays. In
August, 1903, the Canadian drop-letter
rate for cities having a carrier service
was reduced from two cents per ounce
to one cent. The second-class rate of
one-half cent per pound for regular
weekly and monthly publications which
required TO be transmitted more than
800 miles was abandoned, together with
the zone restriction, and they are now
dispatched to any part of Canada for
one-quarter Of a cent a pound, or one
fourth the United States rate. And
they have a postoff1ce surplus Of nearly
million dollars.
We have rotation in Office in the
United States and a nsw postmaster
general is sure to be selected a little
before his predecessor has an opportu-
nifty to learn the business, and our sys-
TEN shows a deficit of tWenty-seveT
millions.
Maybe differences in system has
something to do with the surplus in the
Canadian Office, and the deficit in oul
own.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13
TRUST THE PEOPLE TO LEARN.

You can't fool all the people all the
time. So near the birthday Of the
Great Liberator it Will not be neces-
sary to credit that adage to its author,
And the plain truth is, that the per-
manent fooling of any considerable
number, any controlling proportion,
win not be possible in the United
States of America.
Senator Smoot, in his recent address
in New York, told of the clerk who ex-
planned the increased cost of gloves to
the increase in the tariff on gloves"
But the tariff on gloves has not been
increased.
| The cost of living is very high. It is
unquestioned that expense of securing
| necessaries is greater now than it has
been in years-probably ever in the his
| tory Of the United States. And gentle
men with a motive for deception hasten
/ to say the increase is due to an in
crease of tariff.
Let the careful citizen, the man who
/ wants the best laws enacted and en-
/ forced, take the case OF any article on
which the cost is generally greater
now than two years ago, and then turn
to the law itself, and find the truth. We
know Of no instance in which he will
! discover confederation of the doctrine
that the tariff has increased the cost
because he will find that the article
now costing more in not included in the
! schedules on which the tariff rate has
been raised.
The people will find out. Cost Of liv-
ing is higher, but the tariff didn't make
it so. The too general habit Of leaving
the farm and fiocking to the cities has
caused the increased cost of living. The
right proportion Of producer to con-
sumner is destroyed. Too many must
be fed compared to the number left to
provide produce for their feeding.
Trust the people to find the truth
They cannot be fooled all the time.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13
IT'S AN OLD STORY.

At the banquet of manufacturers and
their friends, in the Commercial club
last Thursday evening, Mr.. S. H. Love
made once more those statements of
comparative freight rates for Utah
people and for the people who compete
for Utah territOry-and once more
stated a condition which absolutely
challenges belief, it is so unreasonable.
It is an old story, and it will not be
corrected until the winning Of fair
freight rates for Utah shall be
achieved.
If coal could be carried as cheaply
per ton per mile In Utah as in Mis-
souri,, this city would fill with factories
in five years time, and they would
prosper.
If freight could be carried as cheaply
from Chicago to Utah as from Chicag go
through Utah to the coast; or from the
coast to Utah as cheaply as it is car
ried from the coast through Utah to
the east
Well, it would make a big difference
in the cost of living here in the noun
tains.
Wherefore. we still live in hopes that
the interstate commerce commission
Will give us fair freight rates in Utah
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13
AN UNsoLVED ENGINEERING
PROBLEM.

Well. no one can say the authorities
Of Salt Lake have solved the engineer
ing problem concerned in the matter OF
caring for that volume Of food water
which comes down from the hills. First
South and Second South and Brigham
streets, from Third East to the high
ground, are in bad shape. They have
more water than they need. Incl
dentally, and also, they have more
rocks and a great deal more earth than
is good for the surface of asphalt
streets.
Down every north-and-south street
comes a perfect torrent Of water from
the hills. West on the intersecting
streets rushes a mad tide Of mingled
water and drift-a forbidding barrier
for every one who wants to cross or
even get to the car tracks. And it will
be so until the SHOWS are all melted,
and after that it will be so again after
every hard rain all summer.
And next spring the same trouble
will be repeated.
Paved streets have cost a good deal
of money. So have the sewers and gut
tiers. And they do not take care Of this
| problem of water-2 condition which
existed, we should imagine-even be-
fore the first attempt at improving
/ the streets was made.
This is not written in a spirit Of com
plant. Men do not always solve theil
riddles at the first trial. But here are
the conditions: A range Of hills to the
north and the east; a succession Of
streets. and a great city below. Water
runs down hill, and rains and thaw'
of snow are to be counted on. Tha'
forms the data of the problem. Surely
there is some solution. Surely en-
gfneering science, which can burrOv
under rivers and through mountains
can prevent the flooding Of the streets
But it hasn't been done as yet-i1
Salt Lake.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13
lIT is ATTRACTIVE TO EVERY
ONE.

In a sermon delivered at the CEN
tennial convention Of the Christian
church, held in Pittsburg last October,
the speaker made the following state
ment:
A distinguished japanese statesman
said to me recently that Japan would
never accept Christianity as a system
OF dogmas and sacraments. but that If
it were offered as a system of conduct
and character under the leadership of
Jesus, he believed that It would be-
come very attractive to his people.
That is probably true OF every one.
There is absolutely nothing in the
teaching Of Jesus that does not win
the heart and enlist the purpose of
men. They say they belong to no
church, but they are as prompt to de-
clare that they try to follow the re-
ligion Of the Golden Rule.
In the past fifty years in Japan the
total conversions by Christian mission
aries-Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic
and Protestants of every kind-are one
hundred ard thirty thousand. One
hundred and thirty thousand in fifty
years, in a nation of forty millions!
And yet, there is nothing in the teach
ings of Jesus repugnant to the spirit
of Japanese people.
That must be because they note the
lack of unity among Christians. They
are an observing and a sagacious peo-
pie They decline to come into one OF
because they find every one regards all
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13
MADE HIM SEE DIFFERENTLY

In Wyoming the law cOmpels the as
sessment of taxable property at its &C
tuaI cash value. Their rate Of taxation
is lower than that in Utah-amazingly.
The tax burden on a citizen is lighter
than it was in the days when Wyom-
ing made a fictitious valuation, and re-
turned about one-tenth of the values 1t
really had. And the states good name
is better.
And thereby hangs a tale:
Governor Brooks of the state men
toned was largely responsible for the
new law. He got very roundly cursed
by a good many property owners OF
Wyoming for his action in the matter,
but he believed he was right, and the
result approves him. One day he went
into the leading hotel of Cheyenne, and
there in one of the big chairs he saw
a ranch owner from a distant part OF
the state. The farmer was hardly rec
ogniZabIe. for he had usually worn q
rough and INTENDED beard, long hair
canvas coat and breeches, and the
boots that are made more for use than
for elegance. Now he was sheared and
shaved and combed, and he had on g
very good suit of clothes. The governor
spoke TO him, a little prepared for con-
fict, for this had been one of the bit
terest critics of his naturalization pro-
gram. But to his surprise the ranch
man said:
well, do you know, my taxes were
only ten dollars more this year thar
they were last, and yet have done {
good deal of improvement. And wheI
1 went TO the county seat and The
treasurer told me I was listed as wOrtf
fifty thousand dollars, I concluded
was too well off 70 go on as hat
been going. So 1 came down here Will
the wife and daughter, and fixed my
self up. They are out getting sOmt
things they will need in the new hOust
the carpenters are building. A maj
worth fifty thousand dollars can't af
ford to live in a shack with 500
roof"
Little children, there is a true picture
that can be made just as true herr
IN Utah. The state gets a better rev
enue, the burden lays as lightly on th'
taxpayer, and every man feels digni
fed by the open recognition Of a bet
ter fortune than ne dare confess while
the present system continues.
Is it not time for Utah to abandon
its old method?
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13

land is Of the sort that would be de-
sirable. No one, anywhere, is getting
any better-if as good.
But they don't know. They don't
hear Utah making any claims for her
self. They do hear other sections tell
ing Of valleys that burst with abund-
ance, and of water rights that attract.
Various projects in other states spend
money telling the people Of the east, in
advertisements, in letters, in personal
interviews, in exhibitions OF the very
attractive features they posses, and Of
fer to the buyer. Iteration fixes these
pretty stories in the minds Of those
who are possible movers in the west
and purchasers OF new land. Every
means is taken to get the names Of in
terested persons in every section of the
country beyond the mountains. And
the desirable people come.
All that costs money. Utah labors
under the disadvantage Of having been
rather unkindly advertised by some OF
it's own people, and the unhappy inn
preston so produced will have to be
removed by the repeated and repeated
and repeated presentation Of the truth
Let not the impression be gained
that the state will get settlers in any
great number just because we have
better advantages for them. They will
have to be told, and the telling will
cost money.
But it wilI-put a million of desirable
citizens in Utah in the next ten years
And that's worth whatever it may cost
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13
THE PERILs OF THE SEA.

That story of death in the Mediter-
ranean seattle wreck in which only
one soul Of more than a hundred and
fifty escaped-but repeats the endless
fate of chose who go down to the sea
in ships" Maybe the point Of view has
something to do with it, but the sea to
a Iandsman seems measurelessly pitt
less. The unstable nature of the ele-
ments under one, the fact that that ele-
ment its very self is struggling for the
destruction Of the Iuckless victim Of a
wreck, the fighting Of the wind and the
pain of the cold-these make "a life on
the ocean wave" assume terrors found
nowhere else.
Kipling tells it impressively in that
sailor song, THE Ballad Of the Boil
YER" Here are some stanzas that make
the picture very graphic:
Banged against the iron decks, bilges
choked with coal,
FIayed and frozen hand and food, sick
at heart and soul,
Last we prayed she'd buck herself into
Judgement Day
Hi! we cursed the BOliver, knocking
round the Bay.
Aching for an hours sleep, doing off
between,
Heard the rotten rivets draw when she
took the green,
Watched the compass chase its tail
like a cat at play
That was on the Boliver, south across
the Bay.
It is a very true presentation Of the
trials, the labor and the suffering OF
the sailors. One catches the note OF
1ubilation when they escape the mani
fold perils Of the sea, and pardons the
picture that is painted in the words:
Seven men from all the world, back tc
town again,
Rolling down the Ratcliff road, drunk
and raising Cain:
Seven men from out Of He'll Amt
the owners gay
Cause we took the Boliver safe across
the Bay?
Little pains of cold, little pains Of
labor, little wounds We receive in the
work-a-day life, family suggest the
agony Of their suffering, the burden o.
their toll. And the sympathy Of the
world goes out to them when they loose
their weakening hold on rope and spar
and drop to the graves which shall
hold them It'll the sea gives up it!
dead"
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13
IbIPROVE OR SURRENDER.

Editor neutrality-suspicious.: Your ed
itorial, Filings for Sale." suggests to
me that it will be another move in the
right direction when Congress makes it
illegal to allow land capable Of produc-
ing a crop to lie idle more than three
years in succession.
In my vicinity there are several hun
bred acres that would yield an average
of twenty bushels of wheat per acre by
merely sowing and harvesting. Some
Of this has never been plOwed, and the
rest is producing an annual crop Of nOx-
ious weeds to torment the neighboring
farmer.
This town could support a population
several times its present size without
any other revenue than that gained by
placing the now idle land in the prOduC-
ing class. And the same could be truth
fully said of almost any other village in
the state. A HAYSEED,
TOoele, Utah.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13
TO AVOID LOSS OF LIFE.

Editor Herald-Republican: You ask
in a late issue Of The Herald-Repubh-
can, But what can be done to help the
miners?" or something to that effect.
I will say that I have a little scheme
70 that end. We hear and read so often
Of 'holes not going off," and the miner
goes back to see, and off it goes and
the poor man is blown TO atoms. Now,
if a red flag was set up at each hole in
blasting in an open cut, If the blast
failed to go off it would remain as a
danger signal. If in a dark mine a Chi
nese lantern would be used. If the blast
went off the flag or lantern would be
blown away and no danger signal
would remain to show all was safe.
Should not this be sufficient to prevent
many an accident? Yours truly,
w. M c.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13
THE HRDRpUBLCAM SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. SUNDAY

presence Of poets, Of great musicians
can array before them the fun-provok-
ing army caught or conjured by hu-
morists-can instruct, and delight, and
melt to pity.
It is a fortunate thing that any man
possesses that faculty. It is fortunate
for him that courage is not crushed
by that fate which seems so hopeless
to those who can see. And it is vastly
fortunate for the people who listen to
him. They receive the double impulse
of the great minds whose compositions
he draws upon, and his own trained
personality.
One can give no more than one has.
But when a blind man can make an
audience to see, what an inspiration ne
furnishes to those still in the full pos
session of all their faculties!
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13
PREMIUM FOB PRoMPTNEss.

In the offices of the Lehigh and the
Santa Fe railroads, office men are
given a new sort of pay for prompt
ness. Accurate records Of every man
are kept, and the clerk who gets to his
desk exactly on the mountaineering
and noon-and stays at his task till
quitting time-noon and night-he is
credited with three hours Of liberty to
be taken at the end Of the week. Or,
if he prefers to work those three hours,
it is considered overtime, and he is paid
accordingly.
Railroad men say the system works
well. In the Santa Fe there is, in ad-
dition, a cash bonus for faithful and
| competent service. And the double In
| ducement results in better efficiency.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13

the rest as disappearing Jesus and
misinterpreting His commands.
All the world is willing to be guided
by the law laid down In the spoken
words of the Nazarene. But the world
will never be all Methodist, or all Pres
byterian, or all Catholic, or all Mormon
never!
The un-Christian world will insist
that Christians shall agree among
themselves before conversion can be-
come general.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13
IT WILL COST MONEY.

Our people viii have to make up their
minds to one thing: They must spend
money before they can convince the
people OF the eastern states that Utah
is a good place for them to select as
places for homes.
This, even if there had never been
a hard word against Utah printed in
Utah papers, and circulated at the east
This, even if nothing at all had been
said about Utah. either to commend
or to condemn. There are tens Of thou
sands of people willing and anxious to
get exactly what they can easily get
here in Utah-land for homes. The
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13
CAN YOU ANSWER THIS?


Editor neutrality-suspicious.: As I am
a regular subscriber, and have been for
three years, I would like to ask you
a question that I am unable to find in
any history that 1 have.
It seems that on January 1 or 2, 1776,
Washington displayed a flag at Cam
bridge, Mass, which had thirteen
stripes Of red and white, with the Union
Jack in the place Of the stars Of the
present flag. Is this the first American
flag ever raised? What was the occasion
for which it was raised? and who
raised It?
Congress had not yet decided on an
official flag, and I would like very much
to know these points. Please give me
all the information you can on the sub
tect as soon as you can. Respectfully
yours. E, J. CHANDLER,
Preston, Ida.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13
THE BLIND MAY LEAD THE
BLIND.

After that Barratt hall entertain
ment by Edward Abner Thompson, it
viii hardly do to say the blind cannot
lead the blind. Here is a man from
out of whose eyes the light Of the
world has entirely gone. Not one shape
in all the beautiful earth finds redec-
ton on the retina of his eyes. And
yet he can lead his audiences into the
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
WHO CAN TELL HIM?

WHO CAN TELL HIM2
Editor Herald Republican: VIII you
please tell me of what substances the
head of a common friction match is
made, and how many parts Of each is
required? Yours very truly,
A. Z. LOVEGREEN,
Santaquin, Utah.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-12-02
A Gard of Explanation.

Our people remember that we hoped
to have hospital under the auspices
of the Kings Daughters here in Gren-
ada, and by different methods the sum
of one hundred, sixty seven dollars and
ninety-three cents ($16790 was raised,
which we still control. Owing to the
action of our last legislature appropri-
ating a sum to build Ssate Charity
hospital in Jackson, W. decided TO
abandon the idea of having local hos
pital, AS we thought il not wise to IN
cur debt OF S., 00o to begin, with, so
we voted to donate $i03 Of car fund on
hand to the Rescue Home to be bnilt in
Natchez, by the Kings Daughters OF
Mississippi-s -suca home beng q hos
pital for the soul as well<as the body.
The residue of the fund we retain fol
the sick and afflicted
Grenada Kings Daughters.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-12-02
A Thanksgiving Party

There are no two people in all tn s
land that possess, to such a charming
degree. the power to make other peo-
pie happy and forget for while their
worldly cares, as do Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Weir.
On last Thanksgiving evening, at
their home, seven miles east Of Grena-
da, they entertained the young and- old
with Thanksgiving party and made
all happy alike.
Cards and dancing were merrily eH-
gagged in till midnight, when splendid
luncheon was served, and il was {
pleasure in itself to see how they err
joyed the dainty dishes so bountifully
provided.
After luncheon another hour wa'
spent Ia merry making and fun, ant
| then to the strains of "Home, -Swee
Home" the happy guests Sade thei
host and hostess au revoir, hoping
1t would not he long before they coul'
meet again under this dear old roof
for such scenes stard out in life's voy
age like ver!an. islands in a tropit
sea. Xxx.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-12-02
Married

At the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. T..
McEwlrath on Second street in this city
on Wednesday Nov. goth, at 1l:3O
O'Clock, a. M, Miss Aubry Payne, their
niece, was led to the marriage altar by
c. w. Thompson, Rev. ]. c. Carothers
officiating. The home was pretty in
flowers and evergreens appropriate to
the event.
Quite a number of relatives and
friends gathered to witness the happy
union. Miss Mary Thomas played the
wedding march, which was the signal
for the approach of the tbridal couple.
They entered the parlor from the din
ing room. When they reached the
door they were met by the Rev. Ca
rothers who uttered the sacred words
that made their lives into one.
The groom was reared at Duckhill
but is now resident of Water Valley,
where he is engaged as conductor
for the Illinois Central railroad compa-
ny. He is held in high esteem by his
employers and by all who know him.s
Mrs. Thompson is lady of excep'
| tional attractions and prize worthy OF
anv mans love. She is daughter Of
R. T. Payne, who, prior to his death
was somewhat prominent in the poll
tics of Grenada county.
7 Numerous presents attested the in
terest of friends and their mar y swel
wishes. Immediately after the mar
riage, Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson lef
for New Orleans where they speht sew
eral days.
| The Sentinel wishes them lfe's Gu
full of happiness.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-12-02
Anderson.Morris

On Wednesday evening. in the par
lors of the Lemon hotel at jackson,
Mr.. H. G. Anderson Of Graysport. in
this county, and Miss Abbie Morris OF
Tougaloo, Miss, were united in mar
riage.
Mr.. Anderson is prosp .rous uaer'
chant, responsible citizen and use
ful man to his community. His bride
goes back to where ehs was reared
She Il . lady Of unusual intelligence. 81
/ "a amiabls disposition aud = character
that eevotes herself sacredly to any
duty, she undertakes. With these els
nsnts strmsiy dsvsleped~ II ssSsfs p
cay hat she win make = seodwdA
The Sentinel joins their many fsfsnd'
in ssngritulating ths1. and yishini
6sn : ssQDtAe 7sss9s Slrst1AWe
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-12-02
THANKSGIVING DAY
Most Business Houses Close
RELIGIOUS Services.

Thanksgiving Day was very gener-
ally observed in Grenada. Nearly all
the stores and other business houses
were closed, which gave the business
district quite a Sunday-like appear
ance Religious services were held at
the Presbyterian church, in which the
other churches joined. The sermon was
delivered by Rev. w. R. Cooper, pas
tor of the First Baptist church. The
discourse was very practical one.
The speaker used examples before us
in everyday life and pointed splendid
lesson therefrom. At the conclusion OF
the sermon a collection was taken and
the funds received were divided among
the orphanages of the several churches
represented.