The Ogden standard. [volume], December 31, 1919, LAST EDITION - 4 P.M., Page 4, Image 4

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WHAT OF THE
NEW YEAR?
MV And now wo 9m facing 1920" What
IB I Sot the New Year? No ono can an
IQr swer, unless he be gifted ?.s were th
'j prophets of old.
jj George Eliot said, "Our deed BtlU
I (ravel with us from afar, and what we
111 have been makes us what we are."
SUi That being true, the year 1920 will
H bring a harvest from the seeds thai
III nave cen sown- 11 wo have cast ,n"
Id ferior seed on the soil we have plowed,
13 then 1920 will bring not a few dlsap-
BcU polntments. But if the sowing has
BlK l-fen good, then the reaping will b
jjl We speak of the new year. In our j
Wy lives there is no break in th"- years, j
li is all a chain of connected links, ono j
H year riveted to the others. What our
1 1 performance was this year was deter-'
ffi mined In a measure by our p.st. So
In it is not so much a iooking forward i
as it is a glancing back to predict as
Hi to what 1920 will bring us.
HIli Hotev r, welcome 1920!
I JOHNSON'S INDEPENDENT
FIGHT.
If Should Hiram Johnson become an
M Independent candidate for president. '
H he would be a serious obstacle to the I
HK success of the regular Republican can-1
K Senator Johnson i.s a vigorous j
Hi fighter and : progressive who has i i
r strong following, and he would cause I
IK a dangerous split, similar 10 the one j
that occurred when Theodore Roose
velt drove a great opening in the cen
ter of the party and assisted Wood
row Wilson into the Wi'rf House.
nci-
A YEAR OF GREAT
PROSPERITY.
Here we are at the end of 1919, the
most prosperous year in the history of
the United States a year filled with
uncertainties and yet crowded with in
dustry. All through the past twelve
months there have been strikes and
other upsets, but industrial America
has gone ahead as never before
Tremendous problems are bein
worked out by the forces of capital
and labor, aided by the guiding hand
of an inteiiignnt, sympathetic govern
ment, and the promise is that before
the end Of another yer many of the
points of friction will be eliminnted.
An economist, describing conditions '
in the money markets, says:
Facing the year 1920. the United
States stands as the only free gold
market jn the world, and by far the
greatest holder of gold in the world,
as the only important market for capi
tal on a largo scale and as the most
extensive source of raw materials as
well as of manufactures now In exist
ence. Its labor is fully employed and
its productive energies have more
than an ample field for their applica
tion. This inevitably means a contin
uance of a strong and active business
development. The shortage of imme
diate loan funds, the tightness of mon
ey and the effort to contract credit
an lenn nts in the policy of maintain
ing stability and solvency, and they
may be expected to continue. It can
not, however, dissociate itself from
European conditions. In Europe eco
nomic disorganization has not been j
overcome and requires our aid for its
immediate relief. The outlook for 1920.
given due business caution, is hopeful;
but the difficulties to be overcome nre
great and the necessity for self con
trol in the use of credit is more
marked than for a long time past.
However, as the year draws to a close
a distinctly more cheerful feeling is
discernible.
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OGDEN ON A GREAT
RAILROAD.
What promises to be another boost J
for Ogden is disclosed in a special dis
patch from Washington to the Salt '
Lake Tribune It is stated that the j
i Rockefeller interests, when the rail j
roads go back to private ownership,!
I plan to unite a number of roads into
a great, transcontinental system, with
Ogden as one of the nerve centers of
the new organization. The dispatch is
highly interesting, and is as follows:
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 30
Word has reached Washington
that if the Each-Cummins rail
road bill does not stand in the
way, John D. Rockefeller and af
filiated capitalists will soon
launch a plan for linking together
existing railroads into a single
transcontinental system to extend
from both New York and Balti
more to San Francisco by way of
Ogden, Utah.
The plan in contemplation is
similar to a scheme once pro
posed but never consummated by
E H. Harriman. In brief, it is pro
posed to link into on-- franconti
nental system a portion of the
Pennsylvania lines and the New
York Central with the Rock Is
land, Union Pacific and Central
Pacific in such a way as to con
nect New York and Ealtiraore
with Pittsburg, Cleveland, Chi
cago, Omaha, Ogden and San
Francisco.
Rockefeller interests, after sur
veying 'the situation, are report
ed to have concluded that upon
the return of thr railroads to
their owners March 1 many uf
the trunk line roads will find
themselves hard pressed finan
cially. By throwing an abun
dance of capital back of a single
trunk line system across the en
tire continent the Rockefeller in
terests (eel that adequate and re
liable transportation from coast to
coast ran be maintained over that
one system, regardless of what
happens to weaker and competing
road
Rockefeller is reported to have
gone far enough with negotiations
to be assured af adequate backing
for his enterprise, and, unless the
new rih oal la - nden uch a
combination o( railroads impossi
ble this consalidation would b
permissible under the terms of the
Panama canal act, which specifi
cally permits the combinations of
lines which arc extensions of each 1
other than which are not in com
petition. Under the Cummins bill as
passed no consolidation of rail
roads can be made without the
consent of the i r.'.nsportation
board, but this leafure of the bill
may be eliminated before the bill
is reported by the conference com
mittee which now has ii in hand.
It is thought this feature of the
bill was incorporated for trading
purposes and Ht it will not be in
cluded when lie bill finally be
comes a law.
Those who are familiar with the i
railroad situation in Ogden know that i
I high officials of the old Harriman j
forces r peatedly have said that Og
den has a great future as a railroad
point and that some day the Union
Pacific and the old Central Pacific
would be under one control with Og
den as the operating point. This latrst
proposal evidently is but the reviving
of the Harriman scheme to give to the
country a strong and efficient road ex
tending from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Special car service to Utah
Hot Springs tonight. Let's go.
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Judge Thomas O'Hara
Dies at Advanced
Age hi Chicago
CHICAGO, Dec 30. Former Judge
Thomas O'Hara, who during the sec
ond administration of President Cleve
land, was the president's personal rep
resentative s at to Central America
to smooth out the difficulties between1
the United States and r,rat Britain
over the Mosquito roast of Nicaragua,!
died today aged 73 years.
While a Michigan circuit judge, Mr.:
C'Hara refused an appointment from'
President Cleveland as a Justice of the
BUpremo court of the then territory,
of Utah. He had previously refuse-; the
Democratic nomination for governor of
Michigan, maintaining that It was his
fluty as a judge to remain on the bench
i until his term expired.
A widow and a daughter, Mrs Ben
Yaeger, of Glendale, Ariz., and two
sons, Major Barratt O'Hara. former
lieutenant governor of Illinois, and
Frank Hurburt O'Hara, an author, sur
vive.
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I Call on J. j. Brummitt at
2417 Hudson avenue, if you
want to sell your Liberty
bonds. Phone 59.
Judge Samuel S. Barny
Dies In Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE, Wis.. Dec 31 Sam
uel S Barny, 73, former eonrrcssman
land recently judge of the court of,
claims at Washington, died here toda I
at his home.
Judge Barny retired from his judi-
eial position in Washing'on last March
on account of ill health. He served
four terms in congress prior to hic go
ing on the bench. One son and 'hree
daughters survive. '
RATIFICATIONS
OFTREATYTO BE j
EXCHANGED 6TH
PARIS, Dec. 30. (By the Associat;
ed Press ) Exchange of ratifications
of the treaty of Versailles will take
place January 6 at the Qua! DTK say.1
Baron von Lersner, head of the r;er-
man .lelegatlon, and Paul run usta,
retary of the peace conference, tonight
settled all points in connection with
the signature except that relatlnc, to
naval material, which it is expected,
will be solved shortly.
The Germans will sign the proto-
col. and at the same time the allies!
will hand a letter to them agreeing to
reduce their demands lo four hundred
thousand tons if the total available!
tonnage has been over-estimated, ori
Germany is gravely menaced econom
ically. In any case, after the signa-j
'ture, the allies will get 242,000 i, ns
of mnterial. and the balance base1 on j
the report of experts who are now
Checking up at Danzig. Hamburg and
Bremen.
Premier Lloyd George will bo pres
eat at the ceremony, which will be
carried out without any display Dip-!
lomatic relations with Germany will b '
resumed the following day. when the
jFrench charge d'affaires will go to'
Berlin and French consuls will resume
their posts.
Allied troops will proceed on Jan-1
uaiy 12 to the territories which must
be evacuated by the Germans or where:
plebiscites are to be held. It Is esti
mated that 10Q trains will be needed!
for this purpose.
MOOSE DANCE I
New Year's carnival dance forj
Moose and friends from Wednesday at I
9 p. m. until you want to go home. J
Advertisement.
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OIL LEGISLATION.
MEXICO CITY. Tuesday. Dec 30.
Petroleum legislation making effec
tive Article 27 of the Mexican consti
tution which nationalizes ail iands.
must be re-submitted to the next con
vress which will reconvene next Sep
tember, as a result of the failure of
I the chamber of deputies to pas the
pending measure at today's session.
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Barkinp dogs never hiU AHA some
i one has been visiting in W'n shlngton.
I
No Soap Better
For Your Skin
Than Cuticura
Fi3iplr h (3P, Ointment TnJccm) f ree of Call-
cw LkbantoriH . 1-pt IfaMn Uul
END-OF-THE-YEAR
REVIEW OF CROPS
AND BUSINESS
I WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 Continued
industrial activity Is predicted by the
committee on statistics of the cham
Ibor of commerce of the United States
in its annual end-oft he year review of
business and crop conditions Manu
facturers, the report said, have orders
in excess of their capacity and In the
retail trade there is a feeling of con
fidence of the continuation, until an
other harvest at least, of the demand
for all classes of commodities.
Farmers are reported unusually
prosperous because of the high prices
of their products. The liberal spend
ing of the farmers, the review assert
ed, is the backbone and sustaining
power of the present volume of busi
ness throughout the country as they
are paying mostly cash and are pur-i
chasing more improved farm mirhin
ery and pure bred livestock than ever
before.
Of the general crop situation, the!
report stated that rain did much dam-i
age to unharvested crops in the south
and in the southern portion of some of!
the central states, reducing the yield
and impairing quality Winter wheat
acre;tgp will be materially reduced
his fall, the report said, as the farm-j
ers believed winter wheat production
at high prices was over for the pres
cnt.
"Great activity in building,' the
eommittee added, "is reported in sec
tions except where crop failures were
extensive, copper mining Is in a poor
State, silver" mining Is doing well, oil
production is good "
! Siberian Railroad
Sends Demand to
All-Russian Chiefs
VLADIVOSTOK, Sunday. Dec. 28.
(Demands regarding the operation of
jthe Far Eastern sections of the trans
; Siberian railroad have been sent to I
the all Russian government by the al
' lied railroad commission in an effort1
to stave off a transportation debacle
In eastern Siberia.
These demands form a virtual ulti !
matum as the commission stipulated
that if a favorable reply was not re
reived, the commission would not as
sume further responsibility for even
tualities relative to the operation of
the road.
It is asked that operating rules of
the railroad be obeyed by all military
officials; that all allied military trans
portation officers including Russians,
discontinue interference with the op
eration of the road; that all cars oc
cupied as living quarters be placed J I
Hi,, disposal of the commission whicfcfll
i3 given authority to place cars wher I
ever needed, and that the interalljeSB l
agreement be fully carried out, W'
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Three Men Saved
From Belgian Ship
, In Dying Condition
I ST. JOHN, N. F., Dec 31 -Hon J I
'that the heroic v.-,-r: of the sailors of
the steamer Ingraham, who saved'thel
three survivors of Ihe wrecked Belgian I
Bteamer Anton Van Drie yesterday nt1
St. Mary's bay had not been in vainH
was bold out here today. The rescue "
'men who had clung to the wreck or
more th w 36 hour." and had seen their 1
hlpmates die were brought herA;
last night in a scriou.-, condition. They'
were severely frost bitten and lhdr
chance for recovery was still doubtfj I
today il
, Their re-eue was ncrompllshed by
one of the most daring feats of b a-
manship remembered hep., while. Ine
fisher folk watched from the r'iff8 I
overhead, the lifrboat cr.-w of the In-J
rTah mi worl heir craft in heavyWj
and between rocks to the lee of
the wreck and found the three sur-
vivor? virtually helpless In the wheel-1
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Ptiebla Governor
Charges Jenkins
Wilh Duplicity '
MEXICO CITY, Tuesday, Dec 3011
Reiteration of the charge that w 0.1,1
Jenkins United States consular agent U
at Puebla, was seen in company witfl I
Federico Cordova, the banuit said toi
have abducted him during the periodjH
that Mr. Jenkins says he was bring j
held by the outlaw v.a- contained In 3
a tel. -ram from the governor of j S
bin o ' ii'. the interior dell
partment here today. ,j
' Government witnesses, it is saidj jfl
have "proved" tnat "friendly relations'
existed between Mr Jenkins and his :j
alleged captor while they were at the J
village of Santa Maria and San BeM 8
nabe Mr. Jenkins, it is declared, wrs
nur blindfolded and was aware of the
location of the place wh re he was
hidden. The telegram added that ihe 1
sei and Puebla M inimal court was con1 1
tinuing its investigation of the case. n.
It was decided by the supreme court i
yesterday that the federal districfB
court should have jurisdiction in the I
Jenkins' case. s
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OUG" FAIRBANKS m 1
II I ' IN HIS LATEST AND GREATEST SUCCESS 19 JiPi p
WHEN THE CLOUDS ROLL BY t w II3
Hj J It is a genuine novelty. We have come to expect great things from Doug Fairbanks; we some- B&' Wp
j 1 times wonder where he can possibly get any more new ideas from. Yet he comes with a - . Ek f mi
J i picture like this and sirnpiy carries us off our feet. "When the Clouds Rol! By" is so new and v m I;
I g original in story and action, so far away from anything that has been attempted before, f
I I that we go on record now with the prediction that every laughloving, thril3loving man, IJ
H 1 JL woman and child in town will be'talking about Fair- saH M
1 1 3P4 banks and his Picure before the week is half over. j:
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I 1 " $mm 0 A PARAMOUNT TRUH-X COMEDY I f$M X Bjdo
JW'' Ttf'f (TfTr T,X nPlT "IT) If the thou&ht of an Pal rin causes cold shivers to dance from one Jj fe
';&m ffi SfemAmlmfc 1UU vJEvJvU lO yf i lLJIli end of your spine t0 the othe' and tbe sight of the rainbow colored em j VO
9' W&J -W i ' JLil develops an immediate desire in your make-up to run a mile, would you H
:$m jjSafomJki Mb tttttttdOttfttttfgAAAdA AAiAAd be particularly happy if you suddenly discovered that the girl you adored M H
W BHHl & pi?lr vWVW ?r-vg iuit loved opals and insisted on that character of a stone as an engage- lu
ff M mim fm- i ' JM rMCES meat present? This is but one of the hundred worries thn beset Douglas
fl iSSHPlL 'B 1 000 SEATS SOC Fairbanks in his latest United Artists production, When t"e Clouds W Wmf
I I PbHI MOO SEATS ! 20c 711 v a a IP
I I kW children seat !oc I Are Y An Odd Person? 1
ill f ;Jsknikl If the statement of an eminent psychologist is to be taken seriously, H hav
m'; :llffHyf p.- fl& lBH W that nine of every ten people in this great big- world are made miserable I
sH V m B iBP in C wv-v because of the fear engendered by superstition in one form or another, pOlS
IH fteiv-'-IkB H wSb Wii UOCTS Upen I n IT Douglas Fairbanks ought to be a mighty gloomy young man for the re- q:1
I I 'flffi B B wBL -i Pircf Qhnw 1 mainder of his natural days. - 'Doug." in his latest United Artists produc m "
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