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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO INC. FRANK E. SCHEFSKI, Editor and Manager 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United 8tates Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communication! to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postofflce at 8alt Lake Act of March 8, 1879. City, Utah, under the . Phone Wasatch 5409 311-12-- 13 Neas Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah INVITE INDUSTRIES Are we to invite industries or keep them out? is a question brought to the public notice in the present application of the Salt Lake and Utah railroad for a franchise to extend spur tracks south into the Cutler property, from the present spurs laid into the Walker property directly north. Last week we voiced a sentiment under the caption of Save the Homes, but add that we had not investigated the matter further than taking certain reports into consideration. After investigation, however, we find that 93 per cent of the property owners immediately bordering the land are in favor of the franchise, while among the objectors are a majority that do not even live in the neighborhood. It is rumored that the Mormon Church had taken a hand in discouraging the granting of the franchise, but it is said that church officials contradict this and say that the people must set- tle that matter among themselves. So that leaves the church out of it entirely The argument in favor of the franchise is that this particular location will never become residential property. Here are about fifteen acres of land, which outside of their fences, are just as it was wjien Brigham Young and his followers first cast their eyes upon this valley. For half a century, the owners of this property have been paying big taxes. For some reason no one wanted to build homes there. Business interests now see where industries can reclaim all this vacant and idle property, hence the railroad, the forerunner of civilization. The more one looks upon the map of this city and considers all interests, the more they come to the conclusion that State street is the natural dividing line between the business and industrial section of the city. Even bginning at Murray, we find the smelters on the west side of State street, and business houses and industrial plants ato springing up all along State street from Murray into Salt Lake City, or vice versa. While there may be a few isolated residential sections on the West Side, it is doubtful if a real estate agent or broker could talk anyone into building a private home on the west side to cost $10,000. If one had that much money to put in a home he would go to the East Side. Inasmuch as industries have been allowed to locate in the neighborhood of the proposed trackage, and a franchise was granted to the railroad to run its road cast on Ninth South street, between West Temple and Main street, and is now running trains on said tracks, we cannot see any objection of running the spur tracks north or south of the main track. Two SDr tracks run into the Walker property, and if a spur was run south of these spurs it would not increase the present hazard, if hazard it is. Very few people travel between Main and West Temple on Ninth South street. One reason is that no one lives there and another reason is that there are no paved sidewalks for the people, and it is anything but an inviting place to walk. If this section of the city is to be made a residential section, then the City Commission should get busy and move all the present industries. However, we believe that the West Side is doomed to become the industrial, center of the city, and we cannot see any power in sight that can change it. Granting this, we should encourage the coming in of industries, and God knows we need them. THE WORLD (?) COURT. Miss LaRue Seegmiller, a brilliant student of the L. D. S. college, was assigned The World Court by her teacher as her theme in ethics for her class work and the following tells how well she performed her work. While she mixes a little religion with her story, that is quite natural in a religious school, but her argument is so well presented that we believe it is worthy of publication. She is a student of history, only twenty years of age, and shows the true American spirit that can only be acquired through studious work and serious thought given to the fundamental principles inculcated in the Constitution of the United States and our form of government of the people, She is a daughter of State by the people and for the people. Senator W. W. Seegmiller of this state. She is the winner of many debates in school and is a good writer: This seems to be the age referred to by the prophets of old when all men shall be crying Peace! Peace! and there shall be no peace. Those who favor the Worlds Court and, therefore essentially the League of Nations, make the great mistake of assuming that all who are opposed to the Worlds Court plan are opposed to worlds peace. It is essential, then, to the unbiased discussion of this subject to assume or rather admit that both sides to this controversy desire worlds peace. They differ only in the means by which they hope to accomplish the same end. When Woodrow Wilson returned from France it appeared that the people of the United States were in favor of his plan for peace. But, when the League Covenant was annylized to the understanding of the voting public it was overwhelmingly rejected. Article fourteen of the covenant provided for a World s Court to bo appointed by the Council of the League of Nations. Although a seat at the table of the Council has been set aside for the United States it still remains vacant. When President TTnrding assumed the duties of the presidency of the United States he advanced a Worlds Court. It was explained and generally accepted that this would he The Hague tribunal enlarged upon and improved for the present to this day need. The United States has always been friendly tribunal and it was generally supposed that this would be en- j . |