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Show THE CITIZEN 4 MIIHIHHaiHHIIIMHNIIlfHIIHIIHNIIIHNNIlHIMINIIHIHHIHINIfllMIIMHIINMHHMNNMMIIIIIIHHMIHIII NaNIMimMmlMNIHMIHIIINNNtllNINIiaiiNIIMiaiHiniNaiMlINNIlHHIHIMNmNWNilllNMMHINIINN KING PROMISES VOTES. THE CITIZEN A Thinking Paper for Thinking People" niawiaaiaaiMMaawiWMiiawaiaaiiHannaHHaaaMiaHwaniMnitawaiawaiaaaawiWMiatitaiiaMaiaHaMaiaaaaaaiwaaa WMMW MW M WMM Published by THE GOODWINS PUBLISHING COMPANY , 420 Ness Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year; $1.50 for six months. Subscrptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. FRANK E. SCHEFSKI, Manager and Editor JOHN L. KOEPPLER, Editor ED S. DIAMOND, Advertising Manager SENATOR KING made a hurried call upon Governor A1 Smith of New York and promised him the almost unanimous support of the intermountain states, and then stepped on the train platform and came home. We are wondering what tactics Senator King will employ to secure the vote of the cattlemen, sheepmen and mining men of the great West. Surely Democratic principles are not appealing to these industries which rely upon a protective tariff for their financial subsistence, but the senator may have a political prescription that will turn the trick. Like the Democratic party, Senator King is ready to make any kind of promise for votes, but can he fool the prosperous business man ? We think not. After looking over the field King will tell his supporters whether he will run again for office. About every generation we elect a Democrat for president a homeopathic dose, as it were, and then live on herbs and roots for four years. However, the country has produced so abundantly the past few years and the people are so prosperous that they may forget themselves and vote contrary to past experiences, but they must remember they will reap the harvest as they sow, and we may be due for four lean years when men will clamor and fight for dollar day jobs. DISGRACEFUL HIGHWAY. SMITH ADVANCES. GENERALLY SPEAKING, the roads and highways in this county are very good with but one exception, and that is the Saltair speedway. This highway is one of the most important pieces of road in the county, and its present condition is a disgrace to Salt Lake, the county and the state. Numerous complaints have come to this office from tourists who daily travel this highway and our county commissioners should see to it immediately that the road is placed in proper condition, worthy of the great travel upon it. Not less than 2,000 tourists come and go on this road daily, and it is the most popular short stretch of road in the state. Five miles from the city is located the second largest airport in the world, from which branch airlines are mapped to all the principal cities of the west, which makes it a point of attraction to all tourists and visitors. Continuing a few miles farther the road leads directly to Saltair, one of the most beautiful summer resorts of the nation and world. People all over the world know of this resort and from a point of interest we have no place of greater attraction to the tourist. The highway then continues on and joins with the Lincoln and Victory Highways leading west across the great state of Nevada, into California and the big Pacific coast cities. This road has become the tourists favorite highway, but when they once drive over the road in its present condition they do not relish a return trip because of the chuckholes and dust. There ought to be enough pride in this city and county to see that this road be leveled and oiled. It would be one of the best advertisements for our community and the tourists would never quit talking about it. We realize that people should travel by airplane and avoid the dust and rough roads, but the time is not ripe yet when we all can take advantage of aerial navigation. However, in the meantime, let us not bury our feature attractions by inaccessible highways. By placing this stretch of road in first class condition, our county commissioners will be praised by the local people, as well as by the . tourists. DANA T. SMITH, on the advisory board of the Union Pacific in this city, has been promoted as assistant in the main office of commerce of the Union Pacific and has moved to Omaha to make his permanent future home, and take up his new duties. We deplore to see men of Smiths ability and high standing in the community leave us, but when fortune knocks at the door we all grasp it if we are sufficiently wise. We first remember Smith as a good football player when a student. He took a course in law in which he was just as successful as he had been in athletics and quickly earned for himself a good business name. In 1912 he accepted a position as consulting attorney of the L. A. & S. L. railroad company, with which company he was officially identified for eleven years. He next went into the offices of the Union Pacific where he has been for the past seven years, and now comes his transfer to Omaha to a still greater position. In Smith the Union Pacific has a good efficient man and that is one reason they are holding on to him. We wish him every success in his new position. AT LAST! AT LAST! IT LOOKS like we are finally going to get some action on the weed situation in the city. It is now conceded by city officials that lots overgrown with weeds are an eye sore and a nuisance to adjacent property owners. Also a source of possible infection. 1200 notces have been sent out to property owners, and all property will be cleaned at the owners expense if the owners refuse to act. This word comes from Mr. Rufus Johnson, who has the work in charge. Utah has many laws, and probably every other state has, too, which are not enforced. In fact, many people may violate the laws of the state because they are in ignorance of what they really are. A good law isnt worth anything unless it is enforced, and laws will not enforce themselves. On the contrary, after a law is passed there are always some people who think it smart to show their contempt for authority by breaking it. It takes a good deal of regulation to make the modem world respect individual rights, it seems, and if there is no power behind a law working to make it a success, it will not prove very effective. The law about the eradication of weeds is a good example. There is no question but what we have a lot of dad and useless laws which have become obsolete. Something should be done to repeal these! The public should then be enlightened on the remaining live ones and these should be enforced. People would then have respect for our laws and put forth greater effort to carry them out. As it is they are looked at with contempt. People who do not break them are the kind that dont need laws, the kind who always respect the rights of others. p MORE EXPEDITIONS PLANNED. DESPITE the fact that General Nobiles Italia has been wrecked in an v effort to find the North Pole, three expeditions are making ready to ex- - Q plore the region around the South Pole. Nothing seems to daunt nor discourage the fearless airmen of today. The expeditions being planned will be headed by Commander Richard Byrd, Captain George Wilkins and Douglas George Jef- frey. The National Geographic Society is sponsoring or aiding the expeditions of Byrd and Wilkins. These explorations are not intended as mere adventures. Two expeditions those of Amundsen and Scott have already reached the South Pole, and there would be no special significance in merely flying over that spot. The purpose of both expeditions is to collect data which may be valuable to science. Meteorological conditions in the antarctic will be given special attention. Douglas George Jeffrey, a retired British naval commander, who has been in this country for several months, will lead the third expedition. Americans will finance him also. It will supplement, rather than rival the other two. Jeffrey, who is a veteran antarctic explorer, will also depend on airplanes. Jeffreys real object is to explore and define the boundaries of Grahams Land, south of the Ross sea. It would be a surprise to all of us if one of these explorers should find another land of which we have been ignorant all these years. We think we are familiar with the. entire globe, but way back in 1400 the people thought the same thing. Such a discovery isnt probable, but it is PREPAREDNESS. DID IT EVER occur to you that Utah might have the best highways in the world and yet be without tourist travelers visitors? Our good roads, aside from their convenience to the home folks, are useless unless there are plenty of good roads leading into Utah. All our investment in highways will bring us small return unless we cooperate with adjoining states and secure theQ construction of good highways leading into Utah. During the past two weeks over sixty per cent of the visitors at our auto camps drove cars with California license plates. This reminds us that California, realizing the necessity for interstate highways, gave liberally to help pay for the construction of the Victory Highway from Salt Lake City across the state of Nevada to the California state line. Thanks to California the Victory Highway enables residents of that state and tourists to come direct to Salt Lake City from the Pacific Coast without crossing a southern desert in the summer time. But we must not overlook the fact that the state of Nevada can not finance the maintenance of the five hundred miles of Victory Highway passing through that state, and it is going to be up to Utah and California to raise funds to keep the highway in its |