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Show THE CITIZEN 8 THE CITIZEN i it has have been but a tithe what been. ' SIXTEENTH YEAR EVERY SATURDAY PUBLISHED BY GOODWINS WEEKLY F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Manager. PUBLISHING CO INC. W. E. CHAMBERLIN, Bualr.eas Mgr. 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: In the United States, Canada and Mexico $2.00 per year, $1.25 Including postage for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, 9S.B0 per year. 8lngle copies, B cents. Payment should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered at the Postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, U. Phone Wasatch 5409. 311-12-- Ness Bldg. 13 S. matter. Utah. Salt Lake City, A., as second-clas- s IN AN OBSER VA TION PLANE City Water Supply at Low Ebb . Salt Lakers are regaled with stories from our municipal water department about the abundant sources of water supply that have been acquired for the use of Salt Lake City. When midsummer comes the same sad story of shortage is sobbed into our ears. few years ago when Lakes Phoebe and Mary were added to our water supply we were assured officialA ly that enough water had been obtained to supply a city of 400,000 inhabitants, or was it 500,000? When summer comes, hot or cold, dry or wet, we are told that we are using too much water. There is much talk of water hogs and others of that species. The blame is put on the consumers because there are so many of them. Sleuths are going about at great expense to the city to detect those who keep the nozzles open after hours. Instead of securing an adequate water supply the city and that means all of us uses its money to catch water hogs. The next time stories are printed about the citys new sources of water the newspapers ought to be able to say with truth that we have enough for 500,000 inhabitants. It is only common sense to provide that far ahead. is vision through Of course, nobody in particular hardly were the boasts uttered than the sizzling summer closed in upon us and the water department sent out a hurry call to limit the use of water. It is manifest that we have not enough water for 125,000 consumers and a few hundred waterhogs. We are about to expend some hundreds of thousands of dollars for new water sources. Let us hope that the money is spent wisely, but while we entertain the hope we shall suspect cynically that year after year the water department will announce a shortage and beg for mercy. The other day the water department declared that an Incendiary had set fire to the citys watershed. Think of it! The citys watershed was so dry that it burned. The next time we acquire a watershed we should take out fire insurance on it. If we collect we can buy soft drinks. Some day the citizens will get the thought and hold it, as the saying goes, that instead of picking up a wrater supply here and there, borrowing from the farmers or filching from the mines, they should establish a gigantic source of supply worthy of a great city. Perhaps it is too fantastic to .hope that the city will be able to acquire a supply so abundant that water can be given free to everybody without stint or limit, if we may employ the words of the foremost advocate of wine and beer. At least we should look forward to the time when there will be water enough at reason- Lack of able cost for everybody and a surplus many years is responsible. When the for any possible growth of the city city was a village there was a wise in the next fifty years. man here and there who urged the Such a proposition usually causes acquisition of a great water supply. dismay. Think of the bonds that must When the city became a rural town be issued to consummate such ""a a few citizens talked about ! will be said ; but in the long run water supply. When the city passed plan it the picayunish policy the costliest. the 100,000 mark and millions of dollars had been expended for water Had men of vision won their fight sources it became the custom to boast years ago we would now have a about what city officials water supply twice as great as the to blame. far-sighte- d far-seein- g had done in providing water. And one we possess and the cost would , Salt Lake Employers Show Wisdom tcARLY Saturday closing continues to make progress in Salt Lake City. The employers are showing a most commendable spirit and one that should be appreciated by their employes. What they have done is typical of the times. Everywhere throughout the country the employer is taking a keener interest in' the welfare of those who work for him. He is doing things that bring him no immediate return in money. He does not expect it It does not require the vision of a seer, however, to perceive that a better understanding between capital and labor must benefit both. far-reachi- ng Some of the employers demurred to early closing because their most lucrative trade of the whole week came to them on Saturday evenings. Yet these very men have taken the risk of financial loss by joining the early closing movement We believe that in the long run they will find circumstances so shaping themselves that there will be no money sacrifice. At all events the comradeship established between employer and employe is a value not to be ignored. i Agitators have been active in spreading the propaganda of ill feeling. They stir up class hatred and adorn it with g the name of class consciousness. the anarch. Like in ists who destroy property the hope that society may be wrecked and a new order of affairs set up in the dim future, these agitahigh-soundin- . tors try to destroy the sympathetic understanding between employers and employes. There is neither rhyme nor reason in what they do, but unfortunately they otfen accomplish their immediate purpose. Nothing can do more to frustrate the propaganda and plots of radicals than the awakened interest of employers in the welfare of their employes. Because they have acted wisely and generously and because they are consciously or unconsciously sharers in the movement for a league of peace and understanding between capital and labor, we take pleasure in appending the names of the firms which, up to the date of this writing, have signed for early closing on Saturday: Walker Bros. Dry Goods Co. Salt Lake Hardware Co. Boston Store. United Grocery. Hudson Bay Fur Co. Helen Cox Shop. Hamiltons. Swift Hat Shop. Deseret S. S. Book Store. Shields Stationery Store. Co. Leyson-Pearsa- ll Boyd Park, Inc. W. M. McConahay. John F. Boes. Dayens Jewelry Co. Jensen & Sons Jewelry Co. The Gold Shop Jewelers. C. M. Diehl. Hubbard-Den- Co. n Paris Millinery. Auerbach Company. Z. C. M. I. L. & A. Cohn Dry Goods Co. Company. Keith-OBrie- n Solomon-Ingha- Company. Shoe Company. m Vincent-Smedle- y Christensens. Art Boltons Shoe Store. Butlers Bootery. Speichers Economy Shoe Store. Florsheim Shoe Company. McKendrick Shoe Company. J. J. Fontius & Sons Co. Bell Sample Shoe Store. Hirschmans. Shoe Company. Robinson Bros. Alberts Shoe Store. Busy Bee Shoe Store. Gardner & Adams Co. Walk-Ove- r Siegel Clothing Co. Co. Mullett-Kell- y Gray Bros. Co. Webster Wise Co. W. E. Fife & Co. Co. Crane-Rohlfin- g Dundee Woolen Mills. The Hand. Union Clothing Store. A. W. Gorey Co. Ruddick Hats of Merit. Holt Hat Co. Co-o- p Furniture Co. Crawford Company. Dinwoodey Furniture Co. Freed Furniture Co. Modern 'Furniture Co. P. W. Madsen Furniture Co. Standard Furniture Co. Eldredge-HatcFurniture Greenwald Furniture Co. Western Furniture. Broadway Furniture Co. Granite Furniture Co. Michigan Furniture Co. h Salt Lake Furniture Ashworth-OLoughli- Co. Co. Co. n Beesley Music Co. Chamberlain Music Co. Consolidated Music Co. Central Market. Daynes-Beeb- Sanitary Market Glen Co. e Bros.-Ilobert- s Piano Co. |