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Show Published Every Saturday bY GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager ws? SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: ae in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, S 2 Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal 8lngle copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen, Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at 8alt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah. Phone Wasatch 5409 311-12-- 13 HA T THE COUNTY OFFICIALS HA VE 1 ACCOMPLISHED .a A Lkecbimty has constructed many miles of modern paved highways the past few years. The program for Jentailed a considerable expense, but the permanent I work, coupled with the realization that no western atiSJoast of better roads, together with the great acceler-ftJravthroughout the county, has more than repaid ;for the big outlay. No community may be accounted J$f?.forward looking, today, that has not taken steps to ( pcnnanent highways or. handed down a comprehensive Construction. The auto has come not only to remain ienteature of social progress, it has also come to demand Fenian, long stretches of good roads that it may flit .Jel at will and fulfill its great mission of speeding up progress and contentment. term, L1 Burgon, county commissioner for a four-yefall of 1920, when the big Republican landslide, that return of Utah and the United States to sanity in public k place, has consistently and economically helped to ex-o- d roads program for Salt Lake county during his first el t - pr ar r. Qct that County Commissioner Burgon has liquidated a legacy of $11,487.84 and saved the sum of $74,967.12 in n of his department of roads and bridges does not indicate at all idle by any means. There was expended on county ridges during 1920 the sum of $409,523.35 including the ' .1,487.84 which Commission Burgon paid as against $334,-- r the direction of Mr. Burgon. This sum spent by Corner frurgon docs not represent old projects carried to comple-- " greater extent than was necessary ; it also represents 0)ind bridge work that was initiated during 1921 and carried i repletion. urnished bv Commissioner Burgons department shows I there were a total of 638 miles of county roads under miles of road JJp; that 215 miles of road was graded: 87-1- 2 i miles of road graveled; 16 miles of road shaled; thrcc-"-'Jlof road constructed with tarvia, 21 J4 miles of road yth tarvia : three miles of road constructed with bituminous es culverts constructed; 16 ay' Averts repaired; 21 concrete culverts constructed; 1,559 u ional culverts laid; 58 bridges repaired; 25 bridges con-X) feet protecting rock wall built ; 630 feet drain tile laid ; encing built ; 2 concrete flumes built over canals ; 5 miles wh dug and 2,305 shifts of road sprinkling 8 hours each together with numerous other minor road jobs. aPpears that Commissioner Burgon has added no little f the present Republican county administration and that Jucted his department with evident economy and marked W00(l m Averts repaired; 164 Salt Lake county highways have not been slighted in the least particular and incidentally the taxpayers have been saved a huge sum of money, while the democratic legacy of 1920 has been wiped off the slate, leaving it clean of all deficits for the beginning of active county road work this year. Next week The Citizen will have the pleasure of summarizing the first year of Republican county administration and will show, 'in detail, the exact amounts saved by each department, credited with a saving, together with the democratic legacies of 1920, all of which have been liquidated in full by the Republican incumbents. success. FOREIGN DRIVE ON AMERICAN TEXTBOOKS. Internationalism extended to our textbooks' would result in changing American patriotism into a hedious Minotaur, clothed in foreign vestments and led by a foreign halter. It had been hoped by Americans that, with the end of the great war, would also come an end to the pernicious and widespread propaganda campaigns instituted by different foreign governments, through and by means of their national resident in this country and their more or less prominent statesmen at home. Imagine the great surprise of the nation to discover, in the agitation now going on in New York, Washington and other large cities of the United States, against the use of certain American histories as textbooks in the public schools, even a more vicious form of foreign propaganda than ever before, from the fact that it is designed to strike down the cherished ideals of our free form of government through our own children. Indubitably the future progress and freedom of our country lies in the hands of the generation now receiving its education at our free educational institutions the public schools. We may not depend for successful education of the. rising generation to the point where it can take over and continue the present government, free from taint or any semblance of foreign entanglements, which might lead to foreign domination, upon any but the public schools of the nation. Those among us who would contribute to the friendly relations now existing between the United States and Great Britain, do their cause little good by attempting to belittle the exploits of our Revolutionary heroes, or seek to minimize that struggle for freedom from autocracy and the war of 1812, in the public mind and in the minds of our children. Those who in this subtle way hope to witness a reunion of Great Britain and these United States are dreaming a dream more fanciful and more unreal than ever disturbed the sleep of the most ardent advocate of simeon-pur- c bolshevism, such as has wrought wreck and ruin to the Russian nation. Americans, it may be said, are grateful to Great Britain for the part she played during and since the war, and there is every reason |