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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-26

sides the increase in the cost of trans.
portation.
cit appears to me that the national
lzation of our railroads is inevitable If
they arc to meet the requirements Of
the future, unless they nrc placed upon
an earning basis that will increase the
fnctor Of safety To investors and give
them stability which has been prog
ressively undermined since the inter.
state commerce commission was invest
ed with authority to control rate-mak-
ing, an authority which has since been
exercised almost continually down
ward,
''Our railroads are obliged each to
furnish large proportion of cars for
lnterline, interstate and interchange
traffic. Under existing conditions, the
burden of supplying the equipment
used for this tonnage movement should
be borne IN common by the carriers,
and none of them should be individual
ly burdened, under conditions that in
volve strain upon their credit and
prevent or embarrass them from readi-
~ obtaining money at reasonable rates
for their local needs.
1T occurred to me, therefore, as it
has to other railway executives, that u
plan for an association, financed by
the companies in common, for the pur
chase of equipment TO be used i'll inter
lue JralIlcs would meet tho present
difficulty. Twenty-Five million dollars,
distributed in five installments Of
$5,O00,000 each, contributed by the
railroads of our country distributed on
mileage basis, would mean $40 per
annum per mile for five years; or, If
distributed on a tonnagc-density basis,
would still be unimportant and furnish
within the period named enough to JUS
tify credit Of 100000, 900, sufficient
to purchase 100000 cars.
~ am convinced that with the joint
credit. twenty or thirty-year serial
equipment bonds could be marketed
readily from time to time, and with
tho cars acquired, distributed as re.
CURED by the association in control,
they would earn through the per diem
charge more than sufficient to pay the
interest requirements, renewals, in
surance and principal
"I have not el laborated the details
of this plan, which 7 expect to do,
however, but simply outlined it here, in
the hope that its presentation may in
vite a discussion on the subject from
those most interested Railway Age
Gazette
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-26
STATISTICS OF HIGH PRICES,

The Bureau Of Statistics, United
States Department of Labor, has issued
new bulletin on retail prices and the
cost of living 1t embraces comparisons
OF prices in the period from 1890 to Au-
gust, 1918
The price at retail for thirteen out Of
fifteen principal articles Of food was
higher on August 10, 1913, than on July
l5, 1918, The increase was more marked
for eggs and sugar than for other ar
ticles. Fifteen articles Of food entered
into the relative prices in this bulletin,
representing approximately two-thirds
Of the expenditure for food by the aver
age workingman S family, and reports
of prices are included from forty i'm
portant Industrial cities. in which live
onetifth Of the total number Of people
in continental United States.
Increases between July Is, 1913, and
August 10, 1913, occurred in thirteen
cases, and there were only two de-
creases. Hens decreased Ia per cent
and wheat flour per cent. The great
est increase was in fresh eggs, 11.4 per
cent. Sugar increased &c per cent.
The articles which advanced were sir
loin steak, round steak, rib roast, pork
chops, bacon, ham, lard corn meal, eggs,
butter, potatoes, sugar and milk
Comparing prices on August Is. 1913,
with prices on August 10, 1912, ad-
vances are shown in twelve articles and
declines in three. Sugar, -four and corn
meal declined in price and the change
was 10 SIS and 2.7 per cent, respective
ly The per cent Of advance OF the
eleven articles which increased in price
varied from 81 per cent for milk to 20
per cent for potatoes,
The most interesting table compares
for each of the fifteen articles the price
on July Is and August 10, 1913, with the
average price for the ten-year period
from 1890 to 1899 Comparing the price
on August Is, 1913, with the average
price for the ten"year period, 1890 to
1899, sugar shows decline of 2,3 per
cent and all other articles show an ad~
vance, the per cent of advance vary
ing from 279 per cent for -four to l3S
per cent for bacon Eleven of the ff
teen articles advanced in price moro
than 30 per cent. The table is as fol-
lows:
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-26

1t is strange that no complaint Of
misconduct against the visiting Ameri-
can blueiackets should have been made
in any of the ports called at by the
feet until it arrived at Naples. The
reports from Genoa and score of
other Italian cities were highly lauda-
tory; the men rarely frequented the
wine shops, but went about sight
like well-trained tourists. Many availed
themselves of the reduced rates made
expressly for them by the State rail
ways, taking short excursions in shore.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-26
Joint Purchase of
Freight Cars

Newman Erb, president Of the
Minneapolis e. st. Louis, has suggested
plan for financing the purchase Of
100000 freight cars through an associa-
tion to which the railways of the coun-
try would subscribe $25,000,000, the
balance to be raised by the sale Of
by Mr.. Erb in letter to the Railway
Age Gazette as follows:
1.-THE present condition of the rail
roads has become alarmingly serious,
and their credit is now impaired to the
point where additional burden has been
put upon them in the larger interest
charges for their money requirements,
difficult for them to obtain except
through makeshift temporary loans, be-
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-26
VANDERLIP'S PLAN,

Considerable obscurity exists in the
public mind as to the conflicting plans
for currency legislation in Washington.
The chief advocate of the central bank
plan is F. A Vanderlip, president of
the National City Bank Of New York.
When it was desired by the advocates
of central bank to frame a measure
along this line Mr.. VanderIip was
called upon for advice and suggestion,
and it was he who practically drafted
the entire measure
On the one hand we have the ad
ministration forces favoring twelve re.
Glonal reserve banks, and on the other
the Wall street financial experts advo-
eating central bank with MANY
branches. Some who oppose the ad.
ministration g plan are seeking to eff
feet a compromise by which only four
regional banks will be established.
such compromise, if we are to heed
the arguments either of the admins
tration or of Wall street, would be folly.
in his plea for the central bank plan
one of Mr. Vanderlip's objections to
.be regional reserve idea is that there
would not be enough regional banks
and that those established would not
be sufficiently big to meet the require
ments of any important financial crisis.
Mr.. Vanderlip takes the position
that twelve regional banks would mean
that several of thcse institutions would
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-26
BEACHEY,s WARNING.

The long list OF deaths among avia
tors Of the United States army and
navy, as published Yesterday, is suf
ficiently shocking, but more startling
still is the opinion OF an expert that
the government itself is to blame for
many of the fatalities. Lincoln
Beachey, an aviator now at the army
school at North Island. California,
where Lieutenants Hugh M. Kelly and
Eric l.. Ellington fell to death on Mon
day, declares that the apparatus used
by army aviators is unsafe; that the
machines are old and the equipment
poor. He insists that steps should be
taken "to prevent the slaughter of
these army and navy boys
This sentiment will be echoed every
where, and Mr. Beachey will be COM
mended universally for telegaphing
the Secretary Of War message in
which he says that the deaths Of FL
lipgton and Kelly illustrate radical mis-
takes in the government S policy of
aviation Beachey, in his telegram,
offered to go to Washington at his own
expense for the purpose Of Offering
suggestions as to what could be done
TO make army aviation safer. The War
Department at Washington should send
for this noted and successful aviator
and pay all of his expenses.
For the sake of the department and
the heads of the army, it is to be hoped
has made very grave charge that
should be investigated immediately. If
the criticism had come from one less
skilled in the art Of aviation and the
science OF flying machine construction,
the public would be less inclined TO
place faith in the objections. Fault
finding directed against the army and
navy has always been popular in this
country. We recall vividly the criti-
cjsms Of our navy prior TO tho
SpaHlSn American war. Inc dldTlnlstS
would have had us believe that the
armor plate was filed with blow holes
that the guns were behind the times,
that the ships were fire traps, and that
the equipment was most defective.
Two big naval battles were fought in
that war, and never in the history of
tho world did ships and men display
such high efficiency.
Mr.. Beachey's s criticism, however, is
of a different order II comes from
one who is at the same time the most
cautious and the most daring Of Amer
ican ayiators. Before he became a pro
fessional birdman he spent number
of years in shops where flying ma
chimes we're constructed. When he took
up flying he displayed a knowledge of
the aeroplane and its use beyond that
which had been exhibited by any other
aviators in this country, except pos
sibly the Wright brothers and the
Curtiss brothers. If he can furnish
the government with information that
will enable it to build stronger ma
chimes and thus lower the death rate
among army and navy avintors, the
War Department should avail itself Of
his advice without delay
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-26

The next table compares for each Of
the principal articles Of food the retail
prices on July Is and August -, 1913,
with the price on July 15 and August
10, 1912. within the five geographical
divisions. The table shows, for example,
that prices for sirloin steak on August
Is, 1913, compared with prices on Au.
gust Is, 1912, advanced N per cent in
the North Atlantic division, 60 per cent
in the South Atlantic division, 1875 per
cent in the North Central division, l2
per cent in the South Central division,
and 1872 per cent in the Western divi-
ali
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-26
SCHOLARLY POLITICS.

The New York Evening Post is n
most unreasonable newspaper, as the
following brief editorial viii show:
The tendency of ofhciaIdom TO elevate
distractions and unrealities to a posi-
ton OF mysterious sanctity, and to make
them crowd out the simplest common
sense facts, Is strIklngly llustra ted in
this statement OF Second Assistant Post
master-General Stewart:
"Our schedules are based on the closing
time of the mails, with a reasonable run
railroad terminals. II VIII be impossible
to maintain these schedules II mail
wa CONS are subjected to the speed limits
applying 10 ordinary traffic"
Now. instead OF talking about "sched-
ules" and "Dasing" and "maintaining, :"
let us Just see what the plain English
Of II all Is Does 1t mean anything more
than that II 1t takes ten minutes longer
to get from the postofhce to the rail
road terminal. then people who want
their letters TO go by given train Will
have to mail them ten minutes sooner
than they now do? If so, what?
Not only has the Evening Post the
reputation OF being the most cerulean-
tinted Of blue stockings, but it Is also
steadfast daily supporter Of the
policies of President Wilson, In either
capacity, or both, it should understand
the reason for Mr.. Stewart S state
ment, which it criticises Mr.. Stewart
seems to know, even if the Post
doesn't, that President Wilson is n
literary man and appreciates literature
Consequently, he uses fine language in
stead Of employing the everyday
verbiage such as the Post suggests The
POSTS idea might be all right if we
had president who lacked some of
the educational frills; as it is, it is
perfectly proper and fitting for official
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-26

"We wish to use so much Of col
lectiveism as will form the best basis
for an altruistic individualism, -
Roosevelt is reported to have said at
Buenos Aires. We knew that Roose-
welt would rapidly acquire the foreign
languages when he went to South Am
arica
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-26
Utah Savings a
Trust CompailI
235 Main Street
90 years old.
GET WELL IN NATUE
No drugs-no knife
Have Cured Thousands

W. W
Have Cured Thousands
Why Not Your
The Yes Eco Luu- c. Il
D., Chinese Herb Treat
nent will surely help you, N
90 matter how mlssrabls
snd discouraged you may
be. Thousands OF people
now ropto.cd to health
praise the marits OF this
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Yoe Foo Lun. c, II. D.
Chinese herbs are eless-
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10 harmless that even
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and incidence or many Chin,
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have takon my herbs and na.s
had f,rst triod doctors ana mAnS
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Thousand. suffering from eafs
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-26

A Mexican killed three Utah officers
1t will be hard for Texans to conceal
their contempt for Utah hereafter
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-26

measure of craftsmanship and the
medium Of oratorical exchange.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-26

documents to be couched in the most
gorgeous form that the writer 9 mind
can suggest,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-26

Lopez seems to be much more
willing to eliminate himself than does
Huerta,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-26
THE TRUST
CO MI PANY 4

Is making the |
sonal executor
thing Of the p
Why? Because !
sonal executors OF
die in the midst
administering an
tate, which me
delays and loss. !
Trust Company 9
not die. Shortc'
ings Of friends
relatives are \
given, because 9
are a side issue. ,
hold the corpoTat
to a strict acco<
Friends or relau
usually know "
about INTEREST," %
ing securities. M
the stock in u'
with the Trust %
pany. Friends g
to their memory;
Trust Company q
machine, See us
ALL trust functiQ
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-26
Beauty of Skin
Beauty of Hair

Promoted and maintained by daily
use Of Cuticura Soap and occasional
applications of Cuticura Ointment.
No others do so much to prevent
dandruff and falling hair, allay irri-
tation and promote skin and hair
beauty. Sample of each free with
32-page book. Address postcard
"Cuticura," Dept. 1oA, Boston.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-26

Prico July lG. Price Aug. 16.
1875 1913
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-07-04
Work Of the Doctor.

DR.. Stephen Paget has some interest
ing observations on the doctor and his
rewards in his "Confessio Medici." "If
medicine is trade why should the
doctor so often work for nothing" he
asks. 'If 1t is an art what works of
art does he produce? None, says
Claude Bernard, lie medecin artistic
ne cree rlen.' But surely he Is wrong
The doctor, SO far from creating moth
ing, creates life, for he saves or pro-
longs life, creates more life. II Miss
X. is seventy, and the doctor by an op-
Grafton enables her to live till she is
seyenty-fye he has not prolonged the
seventy years. for they were ended be-
fore he came, but he has created five
brand new years, If he had not been
there they would not be here. That Is
creation. London Chronicle.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-07-04
CHARGED THE ENEMY.
Il Wasn't Because He Was Brave and
Defied Death, Though.

DeHed Ueath, tnouqn.
General Basil Duke OF Louisville,
commander Of Morgan's cavalry fol-
lowing the death OF his brother-in-law,
General John Morgan, told this story
at reunion of the survivors of the
battle Of Shiloh.
He said that during one of the Ten
nessee campaigns Morgan's men sur
prised and drove back a regiment Of
Federal troopers. In the midst of the
retreat one of the enemy, who was
mounted upon big bay horse, sud-
denly turned and charged the victori-
Gus Confederates full tilt, waving his
arm and shrieking like mad as he bore
down upon them alone. Respecting
such marvellous courage, the Confed-
crates forbore shooting the approach
ing foe, but when he was right upon
them they saw there was different
reason for his fooIhardiness.
He was a green recruit His horse
had run away with him. The bit had
broken, and. white as sheet and
scared stiff, the luckless youth was be-
ing propelled straight at the whooping
Kentuckians. begging for mercy as he
came.
JEFF Sterritt, noted wit of the COM
mand, stopped the horse and made a
willing prisoner of the rider. Sterritt,
who had not washed or shaved for
days and was q ferocious looking per-
son, pulled out big pistol. Il don't
know whether to kill you right now,"
he said, "or wait until the, fight is
over"
Mister" begged the quivering cap
tive, don't do 1t at all. I'm dissi-
pated character, and amt prepared
to die" e."-Philadelphia Saturday Even
ing Post.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-07-04
REAL ROOF GARDENS.
The Kind They Plant on Log cabins
In Rural Norway.

The Kind They Plant on Log Cabins
In Rural Norway.
The log cabins of rural Norway are
built Of heavy pine logs hewed square
and Of equal size from end to end.
They are usually stained or oiled, and
their rich yellowish or brownlsh color
is in harmony with almost any sur
roundings. Their roofs are sodded, n
circumstance that adds picturesqueness
to the general effect
81 have come across roofs that were
a riot of wild pansies," says writer
In the Craftsman, "and have seen
wonderful roofs where wild roses hung
over the caves or a daisy roof, the ef-
feet of whose white, starlike flowers,
topping the dark brown structure, was
exqulsitely picturesque.
"Some roofs produce only pasture
grass, and the story runs in Norwegian
folklore that lazy man led his COW on
the roof-the cabin was built against q
hill--instead of taking her to the pas
ture. have no doubt that the story is
true. for have often seen couple of
white kidlcts gamboling on the soft
green housetops while the mother goat,
grave and ruminative, was tethered to
the chimney.
SOD roofs are just as water tight rs
others If they are laid correctly. A
board roof Is first laid upon house,
and this is covered with layer Of
birch bark. On top of this comes
layer of sod with the grass turned down
10 the roof, then rather thick layer
Of earth and finally another layer of
sod, this time with the grass up The
result is most exquisite and poetical
covering for the house."
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sehooIroom tiumor.

The following schoolboy "howlers'
come from New Zealand:
eGross darkness Is IA times darker
than ordinary darkness"
"Aiarconi is the stuff you use to make
delicious puddings."
"Charon was a man who fried sOles
over the sticks
The German Empire.
The German empire was constituted
as at present Jan. I, 1871, After pre-
liminary negotiations during the course
OF the Franco-prussian war the par
lament of the north German confeder-
alton with which Baden, Hesse-Darm-
stadt, Bavaria and Wurttemberg had
recently allied tIemselyes) In an adj
dress dated Dec. TO- 1870, requested
King William OF Prussia TO become
German emperor. All the sovereign
princes of German states and the three
free and Hanseatic towns having join
ed In offering the imperial crowns, the
proclamation OF William /. as emperor
was made at Versailles Jan. IS, 1871.
The first rcicbstag was opened at Ber-
lin March u, and the imperial consti-
tuition was adopted April Ia, 1S7L.--
philadelphia Press.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-07-04

ssSt. Elmo" grand old play, is
coming to the Athena opera house.
Sunday might. July 9Th. The pro-
duotion is,ty the Kenworthy players.
a company Of exceptionally talented
actors and actresses. Miss Helen
Duffy has received great deal of we'll
merited praise from all the coast
papers, for her clever Interpretation
Of the part Of Edna Earle. On Mon
day night the COMPANY will te seen
in Tempest and Sunshine.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-07-04
Velocity Of Light.

The velocity of light as determined
by Simon Neewomb is 200,S00 kilome-
tiers, or 1S6,327 miles, per second re-
duced to a vacuum or space specific
speed. Time required for light to come
here from moon. 1.3 seconds; from
sun. 8 minutes 10 seconds; from near
est star, 4.35 years; from Sirius, 81
years: from Arcturus. not less than
40 years. and from others vastly more
remote. from 1000 to 5000 years.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-07-04
Not SO Serious.

A doctor who had been summoned
hastily alighted from his carriage to
find q woman awaiting him ON the
doorstep, but without the anxious look
he expected In the circumstances. III
understand" he said, "that your boy
has swallowedd a sovereign. Where
Is hep"
"Oh, sir" was the reply, I'm glad
to tell you We made q mistake! It
wasn't sovereign; it was only half
pennyv'--London Mail.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-07-04

What men want In not talent. 1t IL
purpose: not the power to achieve. hut
the viii to labor BulwerLytton.
Many n young man todny burns the
midnight gasoline that bis old dad
burned the midnight oil 10 pay for
Florida Times Union.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-07-04
Notice.

ETo whom 1t may concern: Notice
Is hereby given that / will not be re.
sponsible for any debt contracted by
Louis LaBrsohe, and ell persons are
hereby warned to govern themselves
accordingly. Dated at Athena. Ore
goD, June 20. 1918.
Mrs J. O. Baddeley, Guardian.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-07-04
A Mere Bsaatelle.

Gabe-I see whore n waiter In st.
Louis has purchased II hotel out of the
tips he received in five years. Steve
What did he DO with the rest OF the
oney?-CinciDnat Enquirer.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-07-04
A Good Excu.s.

Now, then" demanded Lusehman's
wife the next morning, whats your
excuse for coming home In that con-
dition last night?'
"Well, TO tell you the truth, IN dear"
he replied, none Of the hotels would
take me in. Philadelphia Press.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-07-04
Neceanary Knowledne.

why are you learning French?"
"Why? Because I've just got dog
from France, and the silly beast can't
understand word Of English. LION
don Tlt-Bits.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-07-04
a Rin niharenna

How rejoiced the knights of old
were when they got their lady's glover
And how mean they look now
when their girl gives them the NIT
ten!"- Baltimore American.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-07-04

Fogg-l understand Dobson married
a rich widow. l'cn' 'rson-So he I'M
dsrstood. too, but 1t proves to I've
misunderstanding Boston Transcript.