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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-01-11
RAILROADS AND THE PEOPLE

1t must be kept clear through all the
wordy debates and voluminous explana-
tons relating to the railroad situation
that of all the parties to the controversy
only one, the people, is entitled to first
consideration.
1t is the people who must use the roads
The people are to be served. The people
must pay the cost of upkeep. The people
will suffer if the service is bad. The peo-
pie will benefit if the service is good
There is no other interest to be served in
the first analysis.
Many things will come up before the,
question is finally settled. They are the
rights of the railroad owners to be safe
guarded and the problem of how !, the.
roads shall be Observation-Disclosures they
shall be controlled by one federal board
and many state boards as heretofore, or
by federal Or regional boards, and how
competition and service are to be stim-
ulated. There must be an adjustment on
the basis of an increase of $500 000,0 900 in
wages and there must be millions obtain
ed in some fashion for reconstruction
and extensions.
But for the present these are all Sec
ondary. There is. in some quarters, a
disposition to jerk these things to the
fore and neglect the one prime considera-'
ton that Of the relation of Transports
ton to hepublic. The people of the mid
die west should make it their immediate
and paramount business to see that the
issue of service is not neglected, but kept
uppermost in the minds of congressman.
Railroad settlement must mean first of
all that the people are to be safeguarded
When positive assurance of this can be
uttered it is time to take up the issues of
ownership and control.
Those who are concerned about private
ownership if the carriers and those who
are zealously clamoring for government
control or government ownership and
private control or any other variation Of
the suggested plans are inconsiderate
minorities as against the overwhelming
equity of the people. If they are given
their way there will be an adjustment of
ownership and control and the public will
find itself damned indeed so far as bet
torment of service is concerned. 4
The middle west will find itself in
precarious situation, hundreds of miles
fro mthe sea on either hand and no trans
portation. hTe middle west is built on
railroads; every industrial tradition of
the neighborhood is one of railroads;
without competent, dependable service
the community is endangered.
The administration has frankly said it
does not know what it wants, and the
railroad owners are likewise up in the air
but the people are unit in knowing what
they want and they should not be back
ward in expressing it. The sole issue with
the people is decently operated railroads,
and this phase must be adjusted before
enters the tedious debate on CONTROL
Chicago Tribune.
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If Governor Bamberger asks for
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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-01-11
Salt Lake Herald

Theodore Roosevelt is dead His pas
sing marks a voidin American life which
time win not fill. No other man in his
tory stands forth more prominently as
the REORGANIZATION ofsAmericanismathan
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-01-11

If Governor Bamberger asks for
$4,000 more, for goodness saks give it to
him and appoint Armstrong, ,Warrum and
Mckay ex-officio members of the com
lnittee on expenditures Salt Lake Her
aid.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-01-11

And now Mexico has accepted the four
teen points.--Salt Lake Herald.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-30
The Vast Food Surplus

he public is being sedulously told,
and agitators are making great use of
the belief, that vast surplus supply of
food exists, that present prices are
criminal, and that tremendous fall
is imminent. A very considerable sur
plus exists only in two lines-hogs and
wheat. And if Europe takes the larger
part of what she was expected to take
and is said now to need this surplus
will quickly disappear. And. as MI
Hoover in his cable from Paris de-
clared a panicky killing of hogs now
might readily produce a vertablc short
age in the summer.
There is persistent belief that the
Wal brought a very large increase in
food production in this country. This
is a delusion. There was a marked in
crease in the hog supply under the
stimulation of government buying and
very high prices. But neither last year
nor the year before did the wheat crop
equal that, for example. of 1915. nor
were these two crops materially above
the average before the war. And this
10 true lor al tac farm averages.
lhs will probably be true also for
this year There has been Is per
cent increase in the winter wheat crop.
but that has been at the expense Of
other crops OF pasture. In conse-
quence corn. hay and fodder have been
selling at high record figures. The plain
facts are that the great shortage of
labor on the farms precluded any great
increase, and the present surplus in
few lines is due simply to the sud
den stoppagc of the European demand.
The same thing is true in the line Of
conserved food. Here arc the Official
llgures for the pack Of corn and to-
matoes, which are the two big staples
in canned goods
New-York tribune., 1919-01-30
Literary immunity

Having been politely informed by Sen
ator Overman of what was going on in
his own Department of War, Secretary
Baker decided to make another explana-
ton. SO he sad
My criticism was upon list of sus-
poets which Mr.. Stevenson undertook to
produce and which certainly had no au-
thorization BY the War Department, and
apparently had other foundation than
the we'll known literary opinions of the
persons included in the list"
What pages of choice adjectives and
graceful sentences pass before the mind:
arrant pro-Germanism, asrant Boil
shevism, but-literary and therefore i'm
mune. If un- -Americanism is to be rated
unobj bjectionable when talked by intel
lectuals in words of enough syllables,
just how does Mr. Baker draw q line?
BY counting the syllables? Or does the
idea count, say, 80 per cent? Or-has
Mr.. Baker a third explanation?
New-York tribune., 1919-01-30
Japan at the Conference

There arc two kinds Of newspapers in
Japan. The variety commonly known to
Americans ard Europeans is the Eng
lish-languagc press that prints great
deal of advertising, largely shipping; a
little local news Of the kind that would
be interesting to foreigners resident in
Japan and much of the editors ideas
on what Japanese foreign policy should
be and what Japanese policy toward
foreigners doing business in Japan
should be. The other kind of Japanese
newspaper is the vernacuiar press 1t
expresses the opinions and ideas not Of
foreigners resident in Japan but of the
policy, both foreign and domestic. And
since Japan has taken her place silently
at the peace table as one of the five
powers composing the supreme council,
and since she has, like England, France,
America and Italy, two members on the
committee to frame the plan for a league
of nations, it is very interesting to hear
the voice of the japanese press on the cx-
pectations of the Japanese people This
voice is unequvocal
First Of all it demands equality of
rights and treatment for other than
white races. The league of nations, it
predicts, win receive no consideration
in Japan unless it eliminates race pref
udce and the laws and regulations dis
eliminating against Oriental races now
prevailing in English speaking countries.
This is the point upon which the Japa-
nese press insists with vehemence and
almost to the exclusion of all others.
The second point it makes in regard
to the league Of nations is closely bound
up with the first. In the Japanese mind
the two might we'll seem inscparablc
The second point is that there shall be
no weakening Of Japanese naval and
military forces.
After the pressing problem of assur-
New-York tribune., 1919-01-30
We By-Products

oid New Workers delight to chuckIe at
'ne procession of visitors within their
m'dst. Such is their service badcc--onc
chuckle Tor one year Of residence and so
on up. Yet whenever thew can aword
II they hurry off to dine among theye
anne scoffed-at visitors; and none knows
octter than any New Yorker. new, or old
what different and tanner and 1ess
oelec'aole spot our town would be if fol<s
from Wichita and Spokane and Terre
i'ause did not drop in every 80 often TO
'ake IN a show and buy thing or two
and thus enable US to live as cheerfullv
as we do
Exactly 1900 rooms and 4.2oo baths
nave Just been opened for these visitors
AZ tne new Pennsylvania and Commodore
hotels, and considering how iammed all
the old hotels have been of late there ;s
no doubt that every room and bath will
be promptly occupied. 1t is a fine art
this modern hotel keeping, an we'll AS a
colossal business. And every one here.
about is a beneficiary Our hotelkccpcrs
and shopkecpers and theatre managers
yet dividends in dollars and cents. The
rest Of ug have the use Of the best reg
New-York tribune., 1919-01-30

ing Japanese equality with the white
races by the constitutions Of the league
of nations comes the question Of what
Japan is 10 get out of the war, and the
fear is that the peace conference may
place some Western power in more
favorable position than herself in Asia.
There is a suspicion that the United
States is after railway and mining rights
in Siberia, and it is declared that China
must certainly remain under the tute-
lage Of Japan. Japanese rights IN
China, the popular newspapers argue,
should be strengthened rather than
weakened, and no other power should
have prestige in China superior or
even equal TO that cf Japan. If the
restoration of Using tau to China should
be required sooner than is expected,
China should be required to make it an
open port. Japan should be allowed to
keep the Marshall Islands, always pro-
vided she docs not give a military rea-
son for wanting them. There has been
general assumption that England
would keep the German colonies she
won. Why therefore, asks the vernacu-
lar press, should Japan give up her con
quests? But new chapter is being
written on that subject at Paris
New-York tribune., 1919-01-30
Aa Unpleasant
Recollection in Flour

Aside however, from any possible prior
ity from the mother country. it would seem
that Canada would find ready market for
its wheat ncNt year, as in thc past, because
the high gluten content of Canadian-erown
wheat insurcs demand for it. in both
Great britain and the United States. to
miN with and add strength to the softer
grain from thc Argentine, Australia and
the United States The danger appears
to be, in fact that the demand viii bc for
Canadian wheat rather than for Canadian
four and as this difficulty is already being
experienced with the 1913 crop the milling
interests in this country arc decidedly un-
easy.
They have not forgotten that it was with
reluctance, and only after strong repre-
scn'ations were made to the British gov-
crnment, that Canada was permitted to
New-York tribune., 1919-01-30

papers recently for definite statement of
policy BY Ottawa, and the question viii ho
one OF increasing concern as preparations
Tor spring seeding are made, probably ho
ginning cary in March. So far there has
been practically no call for "a guarantee As n
the United States. ALTHOUGH there is CERTAIN
to be considerable feeling if the UniteS
States farmer receives S2.26 bushel for
his wheat and the Canadian farmer onl,
$l.5o. K may mean another black marl
against the Union government At Ottaw.
"meh already IS under heavy political drc
and party leaders may attempt TO exrloi, for
political purposes the difference in WHOM.
price
New-York tribune., 1919-01-30
What VIII a
Canadian DO ,

Will he be satisfied with a price for bis
wheat perhaps - cents bushc below thai
paid in the United States?
VIII he blame Ottawa for his disadvsn-
tagc and be further embttered against thr
present Dominion government. with political
possibilities which arc rarrcachinc?
VIII that sentiment which while lin
ited, was surely growing in Western Can
ade. before the yar, in favor Of politicsi
as well as economic union with tho United
states, be revived and stimulated by the
wheat situation, or has that outcronpine
been buried forever by the tide Of nafioral
consciousness which has been developed b
Canada's participation in the war?
Or VIII tho Canadian grain grower ofso'
against the higher price paid for UnitcI
States wheat the higher taxes and he higher
prices which the farmer south Of the inter
national boundary may have to pay for
everything he buys?
VIII the Canadian aericulturst resent
the United States embargo already in c.ec,
against Canadian wheat and accent the
charge which anti-rcciprocity clements are
NSely TO bring namely, that tho United
states dobars Canadian wheat when Fl r.
IN the interests Of the United states 10
embargo it and offers to Canada the mar
ket south Of the boundary only when the
admission Of Canadian produce Will prces
the United States rather than Canada
These arc interesting questions. bat a
|et it IS possible only to conjecture as to
the answers. Much viii depcnd upon the
crops. large wheat yield in Canada tins
year such as the huge freak" crop of
1910 for instance. m ght reduce greatly iho
Canadian farmers relative disadvantage a.
compared with 'hc grain grower in the
United States The Canadian West hes
had two very moderate crops at record
prices; bumper wheat harvest is about
due and despite considerably lower price.
might be as profitable as were the yields Of
1917 and 1918
New-York tribune., 1919-01-30
Pussy-F ooting
On Wheat

II a meeting recently of the Regina local
organization Of the Saskatchewan Gram
Growers resolution was proposed demand.
ing that the price OF Canadian wheat for tbs
year 1919 be placed on am equality with thar
of the United States. \ motion was
carried referring the resolution back fo,
further consideration, some Of the speakers
taking the ground that the demand for
high price for their wheat should be made
conditional only ON the cost OF production
remaining hien. The Montreal Board 81
Trade the other day passed = resolution on
posing a price guarantee this year for the
Canadian grain grower. As yet the Federal
government has given 10 ntmation of anv
Intention to Interfere with market factors
but for the las5 four months the Dominion
Department o. Agriculture and the Canadian
Food Board have been stressing the i'm
portance Of livestock production and pussy
footing on wheat
The best OPINION here appears to be that
The United States government will ind its
guarantee costly. even for an administration
which has been talking and spending billions
II is predicted by Canadian milers and
others that in order to enable a rcadiusi-
ment Of food prices and wages which viii
make it possible for United States mann
facturers to compete in foreign markets II
will be necessary TO allow prices Of -four a,
home 20 hnd natural level. based on the
world price OF wheat. The guaranteed price
which the United States farmer viii receive
for his wheat may, therefore, be consider
ably higher than tho price which the miller
viii pay for his supply. VIII the farmer in
sist on selling his entire production to the
government at the guarantee price and buy
back at the market price his flour and the
wheat which ne may require for feed etc
i the market price should be much lower he
would have to do so if he We're to be on "a
footing OF equality with the Canadian farm
er so far as prices of foodstuf are con
cerned. 1t is easy to see how the United
States Treasury nigh. lose close to 81 900
Oo0,000 as the outcome OF lis experiment IN
guaranteeing the price Of wheat, an cxpcri-
mcnt the issues Of which can hardly We, be
foresecn or even forecast.
Naturally. Capada Will be affected BIZ the
economic consequences of the guarantee in
the United States. so closely related are the
Commercial affairs of tho tWo countries. Bat
of al the aspects OF the situation as it con
Germs Canadian interests none affords op-
portunity for more delightful speculation
than the probable moral effect on the farmer
Of Western Carado
New-York tribune., 1919-01-30
Quotations

Every schoolboy knows that Patrick
Henry said "Give me liberty or give me
DEATH that Perry matched Casar's la
comic Il came, saw, | conquered with
We have met the cncmy and they arc
ours, that Nelson signalcd his fleet that
"England expects every man to do his
duty and ttat Napoleon inspired his
soldiers in Egypt with the reminder that
"Forty centuries are looking down upon
you
When the schoolboy o. distant gen
Grafton studies the greatest war, what
will be the phrases with which his lag
ging interest will be stirred into cnthu-
siasm? 1t is safe to predict that many
boyish spine will! tingle at the mental
picture Of the French at Nerdun grimly
declaring "They shall not pass" and will
better visualize the bulldog teNacity of
English courage which dares to admit.
as did Haig. that "Our backs are to the
WALL
There is litt!e question that The most
famous sentence the way has produced is
President Wilson's "Thc world must be
'i.'NS Sd1N lOi UClIOCIdtA. mere Is an
intensely dramatic touch in General Per
shing's "Lafayette. we are here" uttered
at the tomb Of the great Frenchman, and
Americans for all time will read with
pride General Bundy's my men would
not understand the order to retreat"
when the French high command. look
ing upon the defence of Chateau Thierrv
as too costly, directed the Americans to
retire. Likewise, the go to hell" of
Colonel Whittlcsey viii long appeal to
the popular imagination.
1t has not been war productive Of
MAN, individual heroes the ncccssitv
for anonymity for preventing Informal
ton reaching the enemy was too great.
l or the same reason many a saving that
might have been preserved in the annals
OF the nation has been lost We shall
never know. for instance the name of the
young officer who, standing on tho deck
OF transport slipping out of New York
harbor in the gray of the morning.
touched hi cap to the dim form of the
Statue of Liberty and said, in the words
OF the ancient 2ladiators, "Thosc about
to die salute YOU And in all the an
nails of war there is no more heart
gripping incident than that told of the
sinking OF the United States transport
luscanla. Up to one Of the boats already
hjlcd bcycEC capacity swan Il young
soldier fighting the icy water Of the
North Atlantic with Iusty strokes.
Warned that if he tried to get into The
overloaded boat he would capsizc it, he
called out CHEEKY "Oh, boy, where do
We 20 from here" and swan away into
the darkness to an unknown fate.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-30
For the Bridge Memorial
o the Editor of the Tribune.

To the Editor Of the Tribune.
Sir: While suggestions for suitable
memorial in New York TO our soldiers are
being considered. may make ihc follow
ing: That beautiful bridge crossing the
Hudson, near New York City, would be
fit and desirable memorial. its desisa
and ornaments being OF such nature as
to htly call attention to It's object
Such bridge would be Of great use, al
tording highway to the state park on
the west side, thus bringing recreation and
health to our city. 1t would open up the
west s'de of the river for residence. hclp
to relieve crowded conditions OF the city,
form quick means of transportation Of
supplies whenever necessary and give op-
porfunity for enjoying the very beautiful
views Of the river north and south.
O. f. 7. $
Redlands, Cal, Jan. %. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-30

These figures arc fairly representa-
tive Of the canning trade and show
how little was the actual increase pro
duced by the war.
Every one complains Of the dcarness
Of food, and yet a violent and panicky
decline in food prices might ultimately
produce unfortunate results. 1t would
tend to discourage farmers from going
ahead and paying adequate wages this
spring and getting labor back 1t
would tend to discourage all the re-
turning soldiers and muniton makers
who have had the back to the farm idea.
The final result might be lowered pro
duction, and even higher prices, next
winter
New-York tribune., 1919-01-30
A Cob" Defines Cob"

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir. Omitted States Naval Officer" tells
you "gob' is a new sailor, blue jacket"
seaman.
Only Official Corrc spondcncc." Omitted
States Naval Officer and "Yeomanettes"
ever heard the term "bluejackct" No sailor
ever used it. But every ono has referred to
himself and others az "gob
"gob IS an enlisted man of the navy
Those just from the training stations or at
them arc boots" There is no why" for
either term.
"u. S. N. o. probably did not intend to
mlslead, but there is a ot you do not learn
at H training station. "GOBr
Princeton. n. j.. Jan. IS, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-30
The Hand
Of Hoover

\ press respondent with the Official
Canadian delegation to the peace confer
encc has cabcd A statement to the effect
that the nter-Alhed Food Council of which
.ir Hoover is Director General. will have
charge of the finding, distributing and
financing Of the worlds food supply for
another wear. 1t is hoped in Canada that
such control will not Interfere with =
priority to the empire sources OF production
IN the purchase Of wheat 20 meet Great
britaln's import requirements. Indeed. with
the wheat surplus from Canada. together
with the accumulated stores and the current
years crops in the Argentine, India and
Australia. it is not impossible that Great
Britain might be Independent Of the United
States grain productions
During the wan tac British Ministry Of
Food and its agents purchased Supplies of
cheese. butter, condensed milk and other
food products in Canada at prices which
often were lower than those demanded and
paid in the United States, but Canada was
gwen preference if the supply offering
exceeded the immediate demand. Canada
VIII, therefore, hope for continued priority
TO BRITISH domnions and colonies in the
placing of orders for the British market.
The Winnipeg Grain Exchange and the
Canadian Council Of Agriculture will be
authorized By the Dominion government to
send representatives to London. who will
keep in touch with Dr. Robertson and
through him with the international food ad
mnistraton.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-30

taurants, the best shops and the best
theatres on the continent. We groan
about the price of theatre tickets, and
crowded Fifth Avenue and sky-hgh res
taurant prices. We groan, and would not
move away for anything in the world.
1t is all part of the New York that
entertains continent and Shat supports
us humble residents as a by-product
as well
New-York tribune., 1919-01-30
he Coming zower
~ ailkce'

~ ankce
With unusual apologies
went into factory to find Job to do;
The superintendent up an says: we got
no work for YOU"
The guy the, gave my old Job to. he z gglcd
fit to die;
! went into The street again. and to myself
said /:
Q twas Yankee this. and Yankee that,
and "Nankec. atabovr'
But its awful sorry, Yankee, from tn
people who employ
The people who employ. my boys. Il
people who employ.
Md it's awful sorry, Nan,cc. from the
people who employ.
went into Office with my chc1ron o
discharge;
The boss he grccts me joyful with Glad
to see YOU, Sarge
Il come to take my job again. I then begins
to sing,
The boss he says he's sorry. but he hasn't
cot thing.
Q twas Yankee this, and Sammy that
and dcNI-dog Marines.
But its pretty chilly comfort with no
jack within your jeans;
so dough within your ieaus my boys, no
kalc within Your jeans;
\nd it's hard to buy L dinner with no
acN within Your Jeans.
>ou talk o reconstruction an lot o. high
brow truck.
But a bird that's out o money is Jake
that's out O luck.
Hand out a job to every COB and doughooy
when he asks,
education tasks.
o twas Yankee this, an Yankee that an
">ankec, lick the Hun"
But it's Busy, call again, sir when The
dirty war is done:
The worksonc war is done. my boys. thc
irksomc war is dom;
\n lis where's the Job ior soldiers When
thc nasty war is done:
There are. cf course. employers, and
many of them, who arc taking back
their Old employees; and there are dis
charged soldiers who wouldn't have
their Old jobs back for twice the old
salary.
May not begs Whit (ex-Sst lst
Glass;, "speaking as one soldier to
another express to you my firm belief
that sentry duty is the outstanding feat
ure of army life"
The musical programme Of the Marble
Collegiate Church adrotly eludes the
prootroom with "March from Julas Mac
cabaens'