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She Standard. ' KST A BI . I SI TED K-n) An Independent Newspaper, published very evenln except Sunday, without a I muzzle or a rlub. TERMS O'F StTBSt'RTrTIOX. Dally in Offden City, per month $ .75 Dally In Oden Cltv, per vear 9.00 Dally out!dn nf Ogrden, per fMf 00 Dilly outidde of OpdM, 3 months.. 1 .88 Saturday IsiUS only, per yfiar 7.00 M asonvnicuf communlr.iti-.ns puo- j llshed William Olnsm.inn. Publisher. I COUNTRY LOSES ITS EXPORT TRADE Our great favorable balancn of trade with foreign countries Is begin ning to dwindle May Imports and exports, following the April record again present an unfavorable trade balance. This country last month imported imki, nor" in goods more than was exported. If this continues to the end of the year, the United State, instead of j selling to foreign countries more than ' it buys, as has been the invariable rule In the last ten years oi more, will have a balance ag.inst It. and once more we may become debtor nation, as we were in the Cleveland period. JKJ WESTERN PACIFIC A POOl INVESTMENT. There has been a great shrinkage of values in Gould railroid stocks, according to Hayden. Stone & Co . whose weekly letter has been received by The Standard Missouri Pacific is the parent com pany, having financed the Denver & Rio Grande, and. through the latter, the Western Pacific Missouri Pacifies S38.0OO 000 hold ings In Denver A Rio Grande, Texis & Pacific and Wabash have depreciat ed until they are quoted at less than $12,000,000. iHere is a comment on the financial condition of the roads The prospects for Missouri Pacific securing a return on these holdings do not appear bright at present. Den ver & Rio Grande has some $40,000, 000 invested in the Western Pacific, on which no interest is received, and the two roads combined are earning this year a surplus of only about $1, 800 000 toward payment of the $2,500, 000 annual interest on the $50,000,000 Western Pacific's first mortgage 5 per cent bonds, which are in the hands of the public and which Den ver & Rio Grande guarantees Texas Pacific is earning this year about per cent on Its Income bonds, but has been unable to pay interest on them because of inability to secure I other funds for property additions Some return may be received on the income bonds which Wabash is to Is sue in exchange for Its refunding 4S In reorganization, but an additional caeh Investment for assessment Is re quired on the part of Missouri Pa cific to retain its holdings of Wa bash stock." Western Pacific has been a heavy burden for the Denver & Rio Grande Since the construction of the road west from Salt Lake, not one dollar has been received by Rio Grande in return on Its investment of $40,000, 000, but instead a tremendous drain has been caused In meeting the in terest charge on the bonds of that road As shown in the foregoing Denver & Rio Grande and Western Pacific combined will fall $700,000 short ot meeting the 5 per cent interest on the bonds Issued In the building of the Western Pacific. The Standard has maintained that the Gould people made a blunder In constructing the Western Pacific Had only a very small fraction of the millions Invested In the road to the coast been devoted to extending the Rio Grande from Ogden north into the granary of Idaho, the Gould lines would have been made highly prosperous. uu WHY REPUBLICANS MUST STAND TOGETHER. Give us back our prosperity ! Re store to our Industries a protective tariff! Scat with the country's bete noire! Men of all parties are united in de claring there should be a change In our national administration. Wilson took office when the nation was pros perous, In less than two years he almost has wrecked the country. The Herald-Republican says the Professor will be rebuked this fall, and furthermore declares: "Removal of the Wilson blight Is the primary requisite to the restora tion of American prosperity. It Is as essential to individual as to national welfare; all other considerations, whatever they may be, sink into in significance as compared with it United effort on the part of all those who would replace Democratic hard times with Republican good times alone can effect this desired result. Democratic suocess at the polls next fall means a continuation of the economic policies which have brought a prosperous, happy nation to the verge of deapalr. The return of a Democratic bouse and senate means an elaboration of the legislation which has already brought dlsaeter THE OGDEN STANDARD, OGDEN, UTAH, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1914. upon us President Wilson is so firmly convinced of the efficacy of his theories that nothing short of a cataclysm can swerve him irom hi purpose As certainly as he controls both houses of the next congress like he does tho60 of the present, there will be further experiments with the foundation of our commercial stmc ture. Xo American needs Instruction las to the certain effect of all this There Is but one method of averting this disaster, only one road that we can travel hack to the prosperity we once enjoyed This method Is clear and the road unobstructed If the ma jority of the American electorate compose their differences and labor In nnlson t'pon this first and rore most duty of the adversaries of the administration. Republicans and Pro gressives are not at variance How ever they may seem to differ upon sociological issues which can in no sense he political, they are in thor ouph accord upon the one great economic principle involved. , Even dlttc-rences of great moment would become as negligible in the race of the condition that confronts, j the nation; the most violent q.iarre: ; between parties or Individuals would grow unimportant because of the ne cessity for united action There is, however, no serious breich to be healed between those who stood with Mr Taft at Chicago and those who followed Mr Roosevelt from the Re- JMJIMIVI1II IOI I, LNPtUlU VUVI UUU.- 11 Belt into the equation only when sub jects arise which have no bearing, either intimate or remote, upon the j main point at issue The one flag floats harmoniously over both in the i campaign thn has already begun, since the objective Is common to each; national and personal welfare : require- they march together under this banner Probably no administra I tion has ever been so unpopular in its second year as the present one j Presidents are weighed in the bal- j ance during the early period of their tenure and, if found wanting, are pun ished at the earliest opportunity which presents itself, ordinarily at I the first congressional election fol (no (V .. . ,. :..,, I.IM. .1 , itjvi nig in' ii uwuguiww viMma revolutions are not uncommon at these times but, unless all signs are misleading that now approaching will exceed all others in violence Mr Wilson cannot hope to escape a vote of censure except by further schism in the ranks of his opponents Bel shazzer was no more alarmed by the handwriting upon the wall as inter preted by Daniel than the president will be If the union of the Republi cans and Progressives should continue to completion " Roosevelt, in a recent statement, declared that the country is filled with apprehension and the pinch of poverty Is felt In many households. That being true, the first duty of nil Republicans is to get together! long enough to remove the blight from the American home uu LOWER RATES WILL BENEFIT THE RAILROADS. Wall Street today took notice of the lutermountain rate case decision by hammering down the price of rail road stocks. We see nothing in the action of the I supreme court which should cause any alarm over the future of our rail j roads To begin with, the western j railroads may suffer a considerable I loss in revenue, but eventually those J roads will profit by the change. Trade j in this region has been held back ty the exorbitant rates that have been assessed on all traffic. With a more reasonable policy enforced, there is BO reason why the intermountaln country should not develop rapidly and. through its expanding business, soon yield to the railroads a revenue greater than they now enjoy The Intermountaln states long ago should have been given better rates than they have received Had that broader policy been followed, this re gion would have double the popula tion It now has and the railroads would have been more prosperous. oo SUPREME COURT RATE CASE DECISION. No longer is the Intermountaln country to be compelled to submit to unreasonable freight rates. The su preme court of the United States, yes terday n rendering a decision up holding the Interstate commerce com mission In what Is known as the in termountaln rate case, wiped out a discrimination which has kept this part of the United States a producer of raw material on which the rail roads levied all that the traffic would bear, without regard to rates east or west of us. From now on, our freight rates from the east are to be determined by the Interstate commerce commission anJ are to be based on a direct haul, instead of the rate to the Pacific coast and the lo cal rate back. One of the members of the Com mercial Club Traffic bureau in Salt Lake, the organization responsible for the rate victory, In reviewing the his tory of the case, says: The intermountaln rate orders were issued in June and July, 1911, by the Interstate commerce commission, un der authority of the "long and short haul section" of the Interstate com merce act. This section clothed the commission with discretion to make exceptions to the general rule laid down in the law, that railroads should not charge more for a short haul I day Stocking Special Guaranteed Phoenix Ladies' Silk Hosiery H $275 Per Box 4 Pairs. UTAH KNITTING STOKE I 302 Twenty-fifth Street. Mm nW I , : GIFTED MISSOURI WOMAN PAINTS LIKENESS OF WILLIAM F McCOMBS Mrs. Harvat and her portrait of William F. McCombs. Mrs. George Harvat of St, Louis, an artist whose portraits have at tracted the attention of critics in many art centers, has just completed a likeness of William F. McCombs, the Democratic national chairman. Mrs. Harvat is a cousin of Mrs. McCombs, who was Miss Dorothy Williams of Washington and St Louis, and is well acquainted with Mr. McCombs, who is a native of Arkansas. than for a longer haul in the same direction and over the sanw lines or routes The orders were the outcome of a change in the law in 1910. From 1887 I to 1910, the law against a greater j charge for a short than for a longer haul applied only to hauls under "similar conditions but that proved unsatisfactory and led to the law br Ing amended by striking out the I phrase "'similar conditions'' and leav ing the commission with discretion to make exceptions to the general rule laid down in the law. Shortly after the passage of the act iu 1910, practically all the rail roads traversing the intermountaln region of the west applied to the com mission to have exceptions made so I that a higher rate could be charged on shipment from the east to inter mountaln cities, such as Ogdcn Spo kane. Reno and Phoenix. The rates to these cities from points east of 1 the Rockies had for years been made by adding the through rate to the Pacific coast and the local rate from ! the Pacific back to the interior city. The Intermountaln points rebelled I against what they claimed was a' monopoly given to the Pacific coast cities of the trade at all points from the coast back to the very doors of Jthe intermountaln cities. The mat 'ter was fought out in hearings be fore the commission. The decision of the commission was' a compromise, it refused to let the ; railroads charge a higher rate to the j protesting cities than wa6 charged to points beyond them, on shipments originating west of a line that would run north and south through St Paul, Minn , but on shipments originating between St Paul and Chicago, the railroads were permitted to charge an Increase of not more than 7 per cent; on shipments originating between Ch-j cago and Pittsburg, not more than 15 I per cent, and from the zone between Pittsburg and the Atlantic, not more than 25 per cent The commerce court set aside the orders on the ground that the com mission had no authority to issue ( "blanket" orders, or "zone" orders, but could act only in regard to the reasonableness or unreasonableness of specific rates. An attempt was made to have the commerce court hold unconstitutional the section of the law under which the orders were Issued, on the ground that congress had given no guide to the commis sion's discretion and therefore the leg islation was a delegation of legislative power. The majority of the commerce court however, found a guide to this dis cretion in the preceding section of i the law, which declares rates must be "reasonable" and nondiscrimina tory. Judge Archbald expressed a be lief that the law was unconstitutional. The ground upon which the rail-1 roads'asked for the exemption under the "long and short haul" clause was that water competition required the j railroads to carry commodities to the coast at an unreasonably low rate, ! and that the rates proposed for the intermountain cities were reasonable ; In themselves for the service perform , ed. Inasmuch as middle western cities would not be able to compete with New York and Atlantic coasr cities if New York alone enjoyed the low rates, the railroads claimed a right by virtue of "market competi tion" to allow middle western cities to enjoy the same rates as New York When the railroads appealed the intermountaln rate case to the com merce court and later to the supreme court the order of the Interstate com j merce commission was automatically I suspended. Since that time the rail- j roads hare been charging on the old 1 baels and not on the zone rates. The ' OgAnk TtUn are mostly classified i rates, which aie much higher than commodity rates uu THE INCOME TAX YIELD. New York Evening Post. The secretary of the treasury's statement that receipts from Uie in come tax on persons, payable on or before June 30. will fall slighth more than 000,000 below the treasury's I own estimate of last December, is in I some respects surprising and in some I not It certainly indicates a smalller ; yield, for the 10 months on which the : tax was assessed, than manv people had anticipated; for the treasury's $54,000,000 forecast, with its heavy reduction from the estimate of more than ?80,000.000 by the congressman who drew up the Income ta hill. seemed in line with conservatism But on the other hand, the productiveness of an income tax, when the experi ment is tried for the first time by a government, is always and necessari ly conje.tural The income tax of 1S94 was never collected, the law im posing it having been declared uncon- stitutional by the courts. It was j therefore no guide to estimates on the present law's productiveness But the treasury estimate on the proceeds tor the first twelve months under that tax which was '1 per cent on all incomes over $4000 was only $15- ,M 00 and the chief of the bureau of statistics, alter a carefully prepared i special report, cut down the first year estimate to $12,000,000 No "col lection at the source" was imposed in 1894. therefore the chances Tor eva sion were greater California's Volcano. Xevv York Evening Sun If California could have had one wish, must she not have wished of all boons just some such bouncing little volcano as this? It was needed to fill out her life, to add one more pre eminence over other states; to make her more like Italy; to leave her independent of all the rest of the world containing within her boundary even this the last lacking of natural features. And now California has what she must have wished for, with- j out the trouble of wishing for it oo $1 0,000 FOR I00W0RDS $10,000 for an Idea, Which You Must Tell in 100 Words or Less. There will be no second prize. Only one first prize of $10,000 for the man, woman or child who gives the best idea to finish "The Million Doliar Mystery!" $10,000 for an idea. $10,000 for 100 words. Read the conditions; The Ogden Standard begins next Saturday the publication of "The Mil-! lion Dollar Mystery ," a mystery storv 1 for the solution of which a prize of $10,000 will be given Tbe story will run for twenty-two consecutive weeks In the Saturday Ogden Standard As each shapter appears In The Standard two reel film corresponding with It may he seen at the Orpheum the fol lowing Wednesday. Bv this arrange ment with the Thanhouser Film cor poration it will be possible for Stand ard readers both to read the story and see the moving pictures of It as It progresses from week to week. The j first film will be released on Juh tirst Each week another will be re leased until Wednesdav November 25. Conditions Governing the Contest. I The prize of $10,000 will be won J by the man, woman, or child who writes the most acceptable solution I of the mystery, from which the last two reels of motion picture drama will be made and the last two chap ters of the storv written bv Harold McGrath i Solutions mav be sent to the Than I hoiiser Film corporation cither at Chicago or New York, anv time up , to midnight. Dec. 14 Thev must be received not later than that date which will be just three weeks af ter the last chapter appears In the Standard before the final solution is published A board of three judges will deter I mine which of the many solutions re ceived i8 the most acceptable. I The judges are to be Harold Mac- Extra Special! j 200 PAIRS jjj. Ladies', Misses' and Children's Mary Jl V Jaoes, Pumps and Oxfords II P V-v& $2,50 to $4.50 B I "Vp, F0R QU,CK M0V,NG m J $1.50 Pair A complete line of styles and sizes in all kinds of leathers. Sale begins Saturday at 8 a. m. Come early for quick choosing. 1 j 300 pairs Boys', Youths' and Little Gents' Oxfords. All leathers, widths and sizes. Regular $2.50 to $3.50. For quick dosing . . $1.50 N. O. OGDEN COMPANY 236 Twenty-fifth Street j Grath Lloyd Loncrgan, author of the scenario, and Miss Mae Tinee of The C'hlcaeo Tribune. The judgment of this board will he absolute and final. Vothing of a literan nature will be considered in the decision, nor given any preference in the selection of the dinner of the 110,000 prize. The last two reels. Which will give the most acceptable solution to the mystery, will he pre sented In the theater having this fea ture as soon as it Is practical to pro duce the same The story correspond ing to these motion pictures will ap pear in the newspapers co incidental ly, or as soon after the appearance of the pictures as practical With the last two reels will be shown the pic tures of the winner, his or her home, and other interesting features. Solutions to the mystery must not be more than 100 words long. Here I are some questions to be kept in mind in connection with the my stery as an aid to a solution : No. 1 What becomes of the mil I lionaire? No H What becomes of ,he $1, 000,000? No. 3 Whom does Florence marr ? No. 4 What becomes of the Rus sian countess-' Nobody connected either directly or i indirectly with "The Million Dollar Mystery ' will be considered as a contestant. CAPTAIN MAKING RACE WITH DEATH Washington, June 23 - With his wife hovering between life and death, thousands of miles awav from him, Captain P H Ubberoth or thp revenue cutter McCulloch, now at Unalaska, Alaska, was expected to day to start on a two weeks' race j for her bedside In Philadelphia. Ev ery means at the command of tbe revenue cutter service here have been I employed in an effort to get word to Captain Obberoth of his wife's sen ous Illness but they were without avail until Saturday when the cutter McCulloch arrived at Unalaska. Wire CONGRESS SESSION TO END SOON, HOPE I Senator Francis G. Newlands. Members of the senate steerine : committee who are laying out a ! legislative program for the re- 1 mamder of this session with as early j an adjournment in view as possible are Senators Francis G. Newlands. chairman of th senate intergu3 commerce committee; Culberson chairman of the senate Judiciary I committee; Clarke of Arkansas I ?F ,th i JT1 O'Gorman,' e 1 less dispatches were sent but they failed to reach Captain Cbberoth's ships. Captain Ubberoth was expected to leave Unalaska on tbe steamer Dora for Cordova today Three day 6 will be occupied in making this first jump. He will then transfer at Cordova to a steamer bound for Seattle, a five days' trip At Seattle Captain Ub beroth will board the first train east and probably will reach Philadelphia five or six days later, making about fourteen dayss before he can reacii his wife's bedside. uu MILLION A YEAR IS SUNDAY SCHOOL CRY Chicago. June 23. "Add a million a year to the Sunday school rolls'' is the slogan of the 4400 delegates to the International Sunday School association convention here today in readiness for the formal opening ot the convention tonight. Sunday school teacher training and the organizing of Sunday schools on a basis of real efficiency in deliver ing Instruction on the Bible and in building up Christian character will be the most important subjects of tlu spssions All evangelical denominations arp represented DENVER AND TOPEKA TEAMS IN A CLASH Denver. Colo., June 83. It was un certain today whether the game scheduled between the Denver and Topeka teams of the Western league would be played. As the result of a clash yP3terday, James 0. McGill. owner of the Denver team, announced that Dick Cooley, the Topeka man ager. would not be permitted on the grounds today. Cooley said that, his team was readv to go ahead with the game but that he would not sub mit to being barred from the grounds I McGill telegraphed President Norrls I U. O'Neill at the league headquar ters at Chicago, demanding Cooley's suspension on charges of using Im I proper language before the specta- iors at yesterday's game. I The Denver management charged J the Topeka play ers with attempting to delay the play yesterday, when j r:iin hegan in the early stages of the game. The Denver team was in the lead, and i Is claimed that the To j pka players deliberately tried to j prolong the fourth inning in order to I prevent the playing of the four and a half lnntng6 necessary for a valid game. Cooley declared today that the Denver players began the alleged un sportsmanlike conduct bv trving to get them elves put out In the third inning, so as to hurry the game along After the shower the game was completed. Denver winning by a score of 17 to 5. yjKj KICKAPOO INDIANS j LOSE PROPERTY Eagle Pass. June 23 Forced to I leave Mexico, they claim. because the r property was confiscated and1 I their stock stolen, seventy-five Klck Japoo Indians, who migrated to the southern republic from Oklahoma sev , era years ago. today are encamped at the army post here awaiting aid SfflSf, l nUed Statns government The Inelans crossed the Rio Grande yes erday Whit disposition will be SiaeV has not bee" deter ENLISTED MEN TO ENTER NAVAL CLASS aSnlSJ?' & S California. Ma rSan XCo; CaT SLftSSB for Lapcz Lower California to coal Rear Admiral Howard plans ?0 per 22 crew to go ashore at the Sll ted States coaling station there The sailors are In Deed of recreation ll they have not been granted shore leave here for fear of disturbances. The cruiser South Dakota will re main at Mazatlan. Three hundred and fifty enlisted men of various United States ships in Mexican waters have been formed c Into a special class for preparations 1 for entrance examinations of the An- ! napolis naval academy. 1 Wireless orders for text books for 2 their use have been sent to thj t states. I c . oo I s CHAMP GOLF AT GRAND RAPIDS I t Chicago. June 23. The Olympic f, golf championship of the Western Golf association will be played July 25 at the Kent Country club oi Grand Rapids Mich., two days be fore the sixteenth annual champion- 7 ship of the association stars over the same links. The Olympic champion J! ship, open to teams of four from the golf associations of the world, will close its entries July 24 at the Kent tc Country club, it was announced today. 81 The Western amateur championship t' calls for fifty-four holes of quaiiry- fc Ing play, it was announced. Thirtv- 8t six holes will be played July 27 and the lowest sixty-four will play eight- B een holes medal play the next dav. the lowest thirty-two qualifying for the first match round at 18 hole?. -which will be played the same day Play in the succeeding rounds will be at thirty-six holes. l oo r ; ; How to Banish Wrinkle Quickly If .,ur f;w is disfigured with wrinkles no platter what the cause, you can quiekiv dispH every line, even th mosi obstinate bj using simple, home-made wash lotlun Merolj dissolve ail ouno of powdered saxollte in a h.nir pint witch nasel Inexpensive Ingredients found In any drugstore Batho th fa- in t hi-, and presto! -you scarcelj believe your own eyeti when you lnk into your mirror and bohnlrl th- marvHnus transforma tion' ! Th rpmrtrkahlP strlnjrrnf notion nf th bh xoiitr so tightens the skin, wrinkles arc literally ptvssorl out Best of all this r? ault is not purely temporary for ih. lo- M tlon also has a healthful tonic a.-tlon. I Which tcnd9 to Strengthen and ton iTfj B tho weakonrrl llnsu.v tilld ..ddod bfll.ri' 1 may ho expected with continued use n 1 'anrini Injure th mo.i lcT) d,,. jgl treatment it.if leavea no trace tin on J srucses the sr-rot of vour Increasing Id youthful appearance. Advertisement 1 DANIELS' VIEW UNALTERED. B Washington, June 23. Secretary Daniels said today when the cabinet fl assembled that Turkey"s protest (SI against the sale of the" battleships f Mississippi and Idaho to Greece had 1 not altered his view nor that of tM administration in favor of the sale J ASKS U. S. TROOPS 1 j TO QUELL STRIKE I Governor Stewart. Gov. S. W. Stewart of Montana is the latest state executive to have the fj question of the control of rioting j' m miners come before him. Recently I seeders from the Western Federo- J taon of Miners rioted all day in the B II streets of Butte and the police prac- I ticaJly admltteJ their inability to - cope with the situation. jT