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Show THE CITIZEN 14 OBSER VA TION PLANE make, blood run from his mouth and convey the expression of destructive (Continued from rage 8.) the Democratic status in Utah is precarious. It is manifest to the Democrats themselves. Without ' definite principles, their faith is weak. They see that they cannot hope to win in the state except by some marvel of politics at San Francisco which will unite the party on common ground, and this they do not anticipate. On the contrary, they fear the worst. They hear the most discordant notes from the delegates converging toward the coast. One faction wants no League of Nations" at all. One wants government ownership of railways; another opposes it. One wants a wet plank, another a dry plank. In fact, on all the leading issues there is a seemingly hopeless division of opinion. Samuel Gompers is on his way to . the convention with the avowed intention of obtaining planks favorable to labor, but the recent convention of the toilers at Montreal shows that they themselves are not agreed on one of the main issues. It was Gompers who led the fight against the Plumb plan and government ownership of railways. He was defeated and presuambly will accept the will of the majority and urge the adoption at San Francisco of a plank to which he is personally hostile. The Utah Democrats are disheartened by these conditions and also by the refusal of McAdoo to be a candidate. They rightly regard his refusal as a vote of lack of confidence in the party's ability, to win. The McAdoo message has given the Utah Democrats a chill, even those Bourbons who did not want him as the nominee. Nor are the Bourbons any better pleased with local sentiment. Outwardly there is harmony; inwardly there is only discord. Personal ambitions and animosities have well nigh ruined the Organization. Many Democrats who were counting on Moyle to furnish the brightest ferocity. ..... Farmington Detour Path Of Torture The state engineer or the official or board responsible for the detours from roads under construction, continues to permit a laxity that is a menace to life and limb. One of the worst detours yet inflicted upon the public was that out Farmington way on the road to Ogden. The one who devised that pathway of torture and terrors would have been considered a master mind in the days when it was the fashion to invent methods of inflicting strange and unusual punishments. If the offender can be caught he should be placed in a vehicle without springs and made to drive back and forth along that road two or thTee, times. Practically all of the detour was over rocks and in places where the rocks began to thin out the contractor or other who is to blame twisted the road over the most wonderful natural tobaggan slides of jagged . rock. There is no good Teason why the public should be afflicted with such detours. The Faramington detour is a thing of the past, but it long will be a horrible memory to motorists and truck drivers. i NEW BOOKS (Continued from Page 9.) This is the last time I shall ever be asked here. Think how I felt when I ' heard her say to the man by my side: Shut up, Labby; do be quiet and behave yourself properly! Then, taking pity on my scared face, she Come over here; hes a whispered: positive brute to tease you so. But he just wallows in mischief, especially when he has a good subject, and, my dear, youre about the limit. guiding lamp of wisdom are profoundIn the chapter on George Edwardes ly disappointed by his virulent attack and Others Mrs. Scott tells her veron Senator Smoot They feel that it sion of the beginning of the quarrel Sulhas hurt the chances of Moyle at a that broke up the Gilbert and livan partnership. It seems that time when the one point of agreement Michael Gunn, a rich man, who was among Democrats seemed to be the tired of seeing his cousin, George Edwnomination of the treasury official for ardes, hanging about the house doing senators. nothing, brought him down to the where Michaels Opera Comique, Democratic politicians more circumprompt relief had just saved the sitspect than Mr. Moyle are angry with uation and prevented the theatre from him for venting personal antipathies. being closed. They realize that he is hurting the parFrom the minute Michael Gunn unty by starting a spite campaign and dertook to finance the Gilbert and they are eager to dissuade him from Sullivan operas, impending disaster gave place to bustling prosperity. An- -' swashbuckling up and down the state other and better site in the Strand with a political broadsword, chewing, had at once been acquired; the imto glass, like some of the old pirates, posing and ugly Savoy theatre rose TTTTTTTT T'T W up on it, and money flowed in there so rapidly that they actually didn't know what to do with it. Every operatic speculation they 'invested in turned to gold, and the tiny gulf between Gilbert and Sullivan, which gradually widened and widened into a seeting sea, until all hope of stemming the relentless tide had to be abandoned, began over money. Gilbert arrived at the Savoy theatre one morning in a rather more petulant frame of mind than usual, and found DOyly Carte and Michael Gunn chatting pleasantly outside the room that he and Sullivan shared together as a kind of office. Laughingly, DOyly Carte suggested that, as Gilbert was now in receipt of such colossal fees, he might spare a few shillings to buy a piece of new carpet, as the strip outside their door not only looked shabby, but it had a hole in it. W.. S. G. instantly flared up, and declared that as Sullivan earned more than double the amount that he did, music being considered of much greater value than libretti, it rested with him to purchase another floor covering. At that moment Sullivan, feeling distinctly bilicus, joined the trio, and the discussion, which commenced With a smile, soon waxed into a furiously angry controversy. After this Gilbert and Sullivan did not speak to each other for a long while unless business forced them to do so. Then somebody tried to patch up the breach, but it proved futile. The trouble began again, and when their final work came out at the Savoy theatre, instead of taking the curtain call as they always did. Gilbert appeared on one side and Sullivan on the other, leaving the entire stage clear to mark the great divide between them. A pathetic sight, indeed, remembering how these two had hitherto welcomed cheers and applause writh hands linked together in sincere and honorable friendship for so many, many years. Astonishing what a little hole in a little carpet can do, concludes Mrs. Scott, and how money will talk. In the same chapter this entertaining raconteuse tells how Sullivan and Sir Alexander Mackenzie were going out to dinner one night in Savile Row and neither of them could remember the number. 'How can I recollect numbers? said Sir Alexander, 'All I know is, the door scraper is E flat. Away they went, kicking the door scrapers along the row. 'Here we are, this is E flat! exclaimed Arthur Sullivan. And it was the house, right enough. , , . , , groceries. , , , , SCHEFSKI AUTO PAINTING CO. 812 So. State Phone Was. 1550 . At thi Oil ClitkCirnir Banking Perfection Under U. I. 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