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Show THE CITIZEN q . ' Q: The Citizen is certain that congress will adequately provide for the ills of the farmer. It is satisfied, too, that tariff changes will be forthcoming. But its principal concern at the present time is that the revision for sugar and wool shall be sufficient to provide for stable marketing and consistent demands for. these two items on which we so much, depend. Maybe its a good thing that Lindbergh showed some people that, they werent the only ones who could throw mud. Towards Tax Reform . W. W. ARMSTRONG, Judge Samuel R. Thurman and Roscoe E. Hammond, recently appointed by Governor George H. Dem as the Utah tax commission to effect a revision in the general state tax situation, already are working to secure more equitable arrangement of the states taxation system. The men carry a heavy trust. Together with the legislative committee which has general supervision of their efforts, this trio of men will search out the existing weaknesses of a system which has been under constant fire, and will then make recommendations through which in all liklihood a special session of the legislature will be called to put the findings of the board into operation. It will be well worth a special session of the legislature if the cries of certain classes for tax reform can be stilled by adequate and just tax reformation. Undoubtedly, Utahs system has passed usefulness and is seriously in need of change. What the direction of that change w.ill be is not known. We hope, however, that the commission does not lean over backwards in .its effort to conciliate factions. We pin the hollyhock of welcome upon the rackeminent recruit to the magazine-writin- g et. We are sure .that Calvin Coolidge .will get fewer rejection slips from editors than he got from Congress New Yorker . Summer Sundays . TfITH the opening of. spring weather the motorist begins to search the stretches of road for unusual --and pretty drives for his Sunday outings. In and around Salt Lake there are enough scenic spots to satisfy even the most exacting and hardened pleasure seeker, and a drive of less than an hour will take you and your family out where there is little beside the mountains, and peaceful countryside. For your Sunday this summer, map out a touring campaign close to home. Make one of Salt Lakes seven canyons each Sunday or ride through two of them. Then take the high line loop from the lower dam in Big Cottonwood canyon to the south, swinging against the mountains for ten miles with the valley below until you drop into Draper, across to the Redwood road and back home. Take a longer drive the Timpanogos loop. Start out, perhaps, and go through Timpanogos cave. To the. north, take the cutoff north of Farmington and drive through as rustic countryside and as untamed as is found anywhere. Youll connect with Weber canyoout past the airport at Ogden, dip n,-drive down to the highway and roll home along 40 miles of good paved highway. There are enough drives around Salt Lake, to satisfy you for an entire summer of Sundays. Get out the car tomorrow, head it North, South, East or West and youll strike y a highway or that is well worth traveling. -- by-wa- Can you imagine Charlie Dawes at the court of St. James in purple satin trousers and that underslung pipe of his? We Point With Pride rJTHE Citizen points its editorial finger at Salt Lakes awakening beauty with a sense of pride at the unfolding beauty of the garden spot of the Rockies. No getting around it, Salt Lake is one of the prettiest cities ' in America in the spring awakening, and the long winter was well worth suffering to get the effect of the bounteous wealth of green and puffs of pink, yellow and red that are welcoming the spring. The city is better planted than it has been for many long years, and even the ordinarily drab sections are coming out with shrubs and flowers in profusion. It brings a swelling of civic pride to ride up the broad streets , and see the evidence of consciousness of home surroundings that is provoking new efforts to make the dwelling places not alone liveable but attractive. Give the citvanother two weeks of warm weather and it will not be excelled in beauty by half a dozen cities of its size in the country. And if we continue our planting program and pay attention to the appearance of our own property, the citv soon will be a criterion of civic gardening and landscaping all over the country. Its worth a trial. . ft. - . |