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Show THE CITIZEN 6 WORTH THINKING ABOUT QUOTING in full an editorial recently appearing in THE CITIZEN as well as one of a similar trend from another Salt Lake publication, The Roosevelt Standard of March 22nd, continuing its efforts in behalf of an all year paved road into the Uintah Basin has the following : A WORD TO THE WISE IS SUFFICIENT There is no question how but that the people of Salt . Lake are thinking seriously about the future development of this wonderful inland, empire, as every day the mails bring us such articles as the following, as well as many personal letters from leading financial men of our .capitol city. It is now up to the citizens of the Uintah Basin to capitalize our possibilities, in other words, we must make liay while the sun shines. We have doubted our own possibilities and in doing so have caused such doubt to rest in the minds of those who are most able to help us. Why not gather together true facts and present them to such people who are willing to give us assistance. Lets make 1928 a year worth while, advertise and sell the Uintah Basin to the people of our own state, make them believe in us and the rest will be easy. The State Road Commission refused to let a contract to Carmel highway, claiming the build 10.373 miles of the Zion-M- t. low bid was far in excess of a fair estimate of the cost of con. structing and building the highway. Democrats will meet April 9 at the McCullough arena to select delegates to the national convention to be held at Houston, June 26. At this meeting, a date will be agreed upon to fix the time of holding the state convention to select the state ticket for . . Will Rogers introduces his sarcasm, All Reed knows is what he sees in the papers, and he probably never reads the paperi so far out west and can be excused on the ground that the Ne. vada steal had never come to his notice. Ely Record. the coming election. BUTLERS VIEWS WILLIAM M. BUTLER, chairman of the Republican National " Committee, says there should be no room in this country for any political party or any other organization which does not have faith in America and which does not put America first in all its considerations : the economic independence of America, first: PROTECT OUR SUGAR THE UNITED STATES consumes twelve times as much sugar, per capita, as it did a century ago, says United States Beet Sugar Association. In 1828 the average was 8.8 pounds ; people used molasses, maple sugar, or nothing. Today the average is 107 pounds. It would have been impossible to cripple America, if all the sugar imports had been held up, 100 years ago ; today it would be a national calamity. The beet sugar industry supports more than a million people, part or all the time; and it is definite1 insurance against a foreign sugar monopoly. Our domestic sugar industry depends upon a reasonable tariff to save it from destruction by cheap labor, foreign competition. GAS GROWTH WHILE the use of gas is growing daily in industry and the home, a comparatively few people realize the hundreds of different uses to which gas is put. Furriers use gas to dry rabbit skins more rapidly and uniformly than by any other means. Willow furniture is singed by means of a gas flame. A single plant for retinning milk cans is using 5,000,000 cubic feet of gas a year to heat the metal. An automatic gas iron has been developed to iron new hats while they are still on the block. A gas flame transmits sound vibrations with notable smoothness in a new type "'of phonograph. Combined 'with oxygen, gas is used to cut heavy steel plate into the most intricate patterns. Combined with hardwood sawdust, gas is used to smoke hams and bacon. Hundreds of miles of cloth in textile mills are singed by gas. It is estimated that approximately 5,000 industrial applications of gas have been developed in the United States, nearly all of them since 1900. SENATORS MISSFIRE the defense of America and its institutions, first; the political integrity and sovereignty of America, first; the peace and prosperity of America, first; the welfare of the American people, first. There are few, if any, national problems which do not involve America s welfare and to which the test of America first cannot be logically applied. Clearly, it applies to our problems finance. It is elementary that political independence cannot long exist if there be no financial independence, which, in tnm depends upon sound financial legislative policies and sound inancial administrative practices. When we come, to consider strictly foreign affairs, our policy should be America for America and not America for Europe. Washington never uttered a greater truth than his declaration that there is no such thing as disinterested friendship among nations. The history of nations does not warrant the ei alted opinion that we can safely commit our economic interests, the welfare of our citizens to whom we owe our first duty as if responsible government or our national safety and rights the friendly pretensions of any other nation or group of nations.! The foreign policy of America can best be described by onj I word, Peace. of f- I POLITICAL TIMBER WITHOUT discussing party politics in the least, there isj deeply underlying issue involved in selection of a president I Our Country for the next four years. political machines which strive Considering the national control and domination, is there not bound up in thed and the coiintryj sue the distinction arising between the city-bre- d I bred political ideals? In other words, has not Our Country found its highest pression in men of the Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, CooM country community type of leaders? Has not our nation tnnfl1 toward the country-bre- d type for its highest manifestations political leadership the men produced by the smaller coinmj ilomancl ties, rather than those trained in the political life and I of big cities? From the congested centers of great cities has been prodjl ed a different type of statesmanship, not understood by Is not W masses of citizens, who might be called country-brea real and vital issue on which the American people will dil I in 1928? so-call- ed SENATOR Jim Reed, in decrying dishonesty and in government affairs, could have chosen no better or appropriate place to voice his denunciations than Nevada. With two of the leaders in the Missouri statesmans political camp, now serving prison sentences for being beneficiaries in the most gigantic steal ever pulled in the West, the erstwhile presidential aspirant had a fine chance to make a big hit in illustrating King Solomon had several hundred wives. Some just how corruption hurts; But the fighting senator happened to modern sheiks have nearly as many but they dont keep have his eyes glued on Washington all the while. Perhaps, as under one roof. cor-cupti- on d. I of 1 ,elBl I |