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Show THE CITIZEN S In Bingham for the year 1927, the fines have averaged Some say that we did not want the tourists to see too much of $102 per case collected, while in 1926 the. fines averaged $85.50 Utah because they might want to locate here. All last summer the Silver creek highway, part of the Linper case. Looks like Kelly is running true to form. coln highway, and the main entrance into Utah, was impassable, and a detour was provided over which no driver ever took the WOMEN PLAN ART DRIVE. second chance. Then part of the Parleys canyon road was closed, and the detour there was much worse than no road The women of the nation, under the direction of several at all. federations and national organizations, are planning an art Such conditions are quickly advertised by the tourists and drive. Their goal is a municipal art museum for every city, the figures show that Utah suffered in securing her legitimate town, village and hamlet in the country. In larger cities they want tourist trade. When one considers the tourist travel in Denver, a museum; in smaller towns they will be satisfied, Yellowstone Park, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland, the at least temporarily, with a comer of the school house or the thousands of people who visited these points, and we are in a direct line with them and should have most of them, one may public library. Anna Steese Richardson, commenting on the scheme in the well ask, what is the matter with us? November issue of the Womans Home Companion, presents a Our main highways should not be tom up during the open Cither startling picture of the value of municipal art, giving traveling season, but if they are, suitable detours should be proconcrete examples of how much better pupils of certain schools vided. cared for their balls and class rooms when the rooms were bung We must also remember that the more we knock the with pictures of the better kind. Lincoln highway, the national cross country route, the less travel The art movement, Mrs. Richardson thinks, might well he we will get. We must remember that other states have scenery extended to take in a good many things besides pictures. She and attractions appealing to the average tourist, and good roads sees no reason why playgrounds are not as useful if well planted, is the only manner in which to attract the tourists to our state. as if made of glaring clay or concrete and littered with ugly apOur road builders should wake up. paratus. And a garden club for young people has as lasting an WHAT PRICE STRIKES? effect upon their morals as any amount of preaching and scoldThe coal strike in Colorado has developed into general hosing, she adds from her vantage point of twenty-fiv- e years leadtilities between operators and employes and machine guns have ership among women. Richmond, Indiana, is a model small town from the view- been placed in trenches on the battle field. We do not know who is in the wrong, or whether there is any point of the art lover. It has had sufficient enterprise to establish a community art gallery, where exhibitions of paintings are held wrong, but both sides claim to be fighting for their constitutional from month to month, the pictures being lent by big dealers rights. who are anxious to build up an appreciation of truly good picIn the meantime, the dear public is footing the bills. The tures. working men are losing their wages by the strike, the operators Richmond thus far stands alone in this artistic enterprise, are losing profits in their business. with the possible exception of Santa Fe and Pueblo in New MexWe cannot for the life of us see where anything can be ico, San Antonio, Texas, and Los Angeles. gained by strikes. Whats the matter with our federal labor board? Is it not SLACKER ENFORCEMENT. functioning, or is it just a figurehead in which political jobs 6 full-fledg- ed . Charles P. Taft, youngest son of former President William Howard Taft, and now of the United States Supreme Court, lays the present crime wave to idleness. Difference of opinion is what makes a horse race. We lay the present crime wave directly to the door of our insane prohibition law, which has created the illegal bootlegger and subsequently the disrespect for law and order, and the leniency shown all criminals in our courts. THE SUGAR BEET. mainly control? If the miners are not satisfied, they have the right to quit ; they have not the. right to destroy property. Every man has a right to protect his own property. t SHIPPING DISASTER Another great country has met with disaster in trying to operate a government-owne- d merchant marine fleet in time of peace. The national shipping publication of Australia, called Harbor, speaks of the result in a headline, Calamitous NationalAfter contracting for their beets at a minimum of $6 a ton, ized Shipping, that tells the story. the Utah-Idah- o That country acquired a fleet of 54 cargo vessels and missSugar company has paid a final price of $7.36 a ton to the Utah growers. The final payment is based on the ad- ed the opportunity to sell them at a profit or cost at the close of the World War. vancing price of sugar. Like our country, it has been operating them at a loss ever Sugar beets do not always yield bumper crops no business on earth invariably succeeds. But sugar beets., under the tariff since, and now they are becoming obsolete and worthless. This is but a repetition of the experience of other nations protection that gives the American farmer at least part of the d difference in labor costs in competition with foreign competition, with government-owne- d merchant ships like most have paid splendidly over any extended cycle of years. And they industries, the expenses always seem to eat up all the profits save the nation from entire dependence on foreign supplies. and then some. public-operate- AUTO TOURIST ROADS. A Maine grandma aged 101 and a New Hampshire grandpa aged 100 took An airplane ride the other day and enjoyed it. Why should auto tourist travel in Utah decrease, or we Some of these days they are going to carry this flaming youth might ask, why should it not decrease under the handicaps and stuff too far. hazards thrown in its way the past two years? The Citizen has many times called attention to the poor deAccording to the New York Times, a noted French observer tours and the tearing up of the main highways during the height declares that the League of Nations is sick and needs our aid. of the touring season. Just why this was done, no one knows. Probably he would suggest the gold cure, eh? |