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Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah. 311-12-- 13 N FORECASTING THE A TTITUDE OF BIG BUSINESS IN 1921 - What may be considered a timely forecast of the attitude of big business in these strenuous days of 1921, may be had from perusal of the following editorial which appears on the back page the current issue .of the Southern Pacific Bulletin, a magazine so-!ii- ed by this' big railroad company and dedicated to e uplift of its working personnel, and containing much valuable d readable information to the general public. As this editorial deals particularly with the development of Utah d the intermountain west, The Citizen believes that it is doing its readers a favor in passing it along. Fifty-tw- o years of progress are bound up in the events touched npon in the editorial, which borrows a caption from the stirring : days of the worlds war and with carry on as its slogan, reads 'I Fifty-tw- o years ago, May 10, 1869, at Promontory Point, Utah, the rails brought westward and those thrust to the east met. and the last spike was driven uniting the two railroad systems which formed the western links of the iron chain connecting the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards. That day and that event were momentous in the history of American railroading, but they are doubly significant to the men of the Pacific system of the Southern Pacific Company. i The completion of the transcontinental railroad line marked the j birth of a new era for the great west, an era that promised the development of the great untapped resources of the western states, that promised the transformation of large areas of arid lands into stretches of productive farms, and the growth of frontier hamlets into centers of industry and commerce. These promises of wealth and W prosperity were based on the development of railroad service, and iblished monthly . r the Southern Pacific Company, Pacific System, has felt responsibility 'in aiding the west to realize for their fulfillment. Full its destiny has been viewed by the Southern Pacific Company as a charge. The Southern Pacific Companys Pacific System has' grown with and for the west. It has kept step with its development and is determined to do its full share in the continued development and progress of the western states which it serves: In the past as isolated districts have developed the Southern Pacific Company has provided production outlets. As population and production have grown, the company has provided further transportation facilities. The company has been ready to meet the need. Conscious of its desire to continue the policy of public service that it has pursued, appreciative of the faithfulness of its employees in the past, and confident of a reasonable and understanding attitude on the part of the public in general, this company believes the present trying period will be successfully passed. A just wage to its employes, full service to the public and a fair return to the investors who have furnished the funds which makes the operation of the railroad possible these are the definite aims of the Southern Pacific Company. It is only by the attainment of these objectives that it can realize its purposes. On the anniversary of a great accomplishment in the history of the Southern Pacifics System, this company faces the future with of its employes and the public confidence. With the wc can keep pace with the further development of this western country and play a large part in attaining the great things that lay before it. co-operat- ion self-impos- ed co-operat- ion ! CALIFORNIAS ANGEL CITY THRIVES AS OPEN SHOP TOWN Depicting the marvelous growth of I .os Angeles, the past decade & Mcrchant he monthly financial letter issued by the banners wideh is bitimiiil Hank of that city, has just been published and being ircuiated. The letter says that enterprising city ranks as the tenth n si'c in the United States and more marvelous still, the figures that it is seventh in manufacturing industries. !ie letter sets forth in a frank and unequivocal way the manner " :ch Los Angeles has achieved, not only a great population, hut of the nation, " viable place in the ranks of industrial cities lie vtter states that the high rank held by Los Angeles among is an onen shop pdii-- ; rial cities is due entirely to the fact that it h' I & 11 town; that investors are attracted to the city because of its free labor conditions and that they are guaranteed every measure of protactics too common in many of the tection from business-destroyin- g large industrial centers of this country. Ifomcscckcrs and makers, avers the letter, arc also given protection, and it is a cardinal principle of the directors of the great industrial plants that have sprung up in this thriving center of the west, that the right of the worker to work, shall not be abridged. in any Los Again the letter says there arc no signs displayed enter Angeles shop announcing that none but union employes may its precincts ; the one sign displayed in Los Angeles says, Here is |