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Show THE CITIZEN present condition or improve it with and oil gravel. It is time to give heed to what will sooner or later become something of a burden, yet be a necessity. Some organized effort should be made to provide for the maintenance of this very important feeder to .Salt Lake City, and we wish to suggest that some of our prominent citizens who are interested financially and otherwise get together and. arrange to take the matter up with California citizens who are similarly interested. This season will put the highway across Nevada in bad shape in several sections and provision for its repair should be made now. . light reprimands, youth quickly takes advantage of the situation and they continue their course of crime and encourage others to enter. THE TIGER TURNS SAGE writes Georges Clemenceau, at eighty-sevea book, though it isnt his first. Early in life he wrote a Chinese playlet. The ultimate happiness, he says, is not to be bothered. . . . The supreme human achievement is to be a philosopher. . . . History repeats itself. Man should prevent history from repeating itself. . . . Peace is made by the biggest battalions. Peace is the creation of the strongest I power. . . I hate no one. I love no one. harbor no ill will toward the world, and maybe no good will either. Plato is his greatest philosopher; Caesar his greatest statesman; Napoleon his greatest soldier. Clemenceau is not a pessimist. He finds no fault with the NATURAL order of things. It could not be said of him, as it might be of Schopenhauer, that he quarreled with the sunshine, because it disproved his theories; that dark clouds he welcomed, because thus were his theories justified. When natural processes are thwarted, then history does repeat itself. Man can let them alone. He can, as Clemenceau says he should, prevent history from repeating itself. Clemenceau is more than a philosopher. His Poincare knows judgment of men is keen. Bri-an- d everything, but understands nothing; while knows nothing yet understands everything. At the Peace Conference, Lloyd George tried to play the part of a Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson gave one the impression of a second Christ. What a pity America didnt keep The Tiger here! But he got tired of teaching Baby French at boarding schools, for twenty dollars a week. So he returned to his native France and rose to fame. Yet after fifty years, when Nellie, prize pupil in his class of long ago, now too grown old, stood in line to shake his hand, he spied her instantly and burst out, Theres Nellie, my prize pupil! In the twilight of his career, The Tiger is reconciled to life. He can now speak frankly. He is going into history as The Sage of Vendee! n, ... A BEAUTIFUL DREAM. MUCH OF THE worlds progress has been due to dreamers. Many of the laughable and seemingly impos- 0 5 sible dreams of the past have come true. A visitor in Salt Lake City one day drove all day up one street and down another; along beautful shaded streets, in the parks, in the residence districts, on the busy business thoroughfares, through the wholesale and manufacturing districts, past the many fine school and church buildings and the magnificent residences and cozy cottages with wonderful green lawns and beautiful flower beds; and at night returned to his hotel, tired and happy, but thoughtful and somewhat puzzled. He retired early and was soon asleep, and he had a dream. He dreamed that a change came over the people and the management of Salt Lake City; he dreamed that he had been on a long journey and returned to Salt Lake City and could scarcely believe that such a delightful transformation was possible. All the shade trees were carefully pruned and the dead limbs and twigs were gone; all the vacant lots and city property was free of noxious weeds and debris; there was everywhere a cleanliness that denoted pride and a desire to appear healthy and happy; in all parts of the city contractors were busy building substantial homes for people who had been attracted to Salt Lake City by its beauty and attractions; and nowhere could one see a sign For Sale in a vacant window; Salt Lake City was the City Beautiful, the mecca of millionaires and home seekers. Do dreams come true ? Why not ? last-wee- k NOT FOR POOR. POOR MEN have been elected as presidents of the United States, but that was during ancient history. It now takes from three to five million dollars for a presidential candidate to handle his campaign expenses and this is a trifle high for a pick and shovel man. Senator Arthur Capper would limit contributions to $1,000 per individual, not allowing more than three million dollars to be raised for any one presidential campaign. O My, what a pull a man must have to go out and raise such a fund for a mere expense account. Yet we have men who can do it. No doubt Europe thinks it much cheaper to have a king. DELINQUENCY. Announcement that juvenile delinquency shows big increase in the counties of Piute, Sevier, Wayne and San Pete, comes as a big surprise when all things are considered. Away from Dig city life, it is hard for one to contemplate increased crime among the rural population. The laxity CTof officials in handling and meting out severe incentive to punishment is no doubt the greatest commit crime.. Light punishment breeds contempt for law. Where tears and sob stories effect the courts and the guilty are allowed to escape with SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL The United States Supreme Court has upheld the legality of wire tapping. Telephone wires may be tapped and conversations used as evidence in decision, the macourt. It was a was not an unjority holding that lawful search and seizure such as the constitution prohibits. Justice Holmes vigorously dissented. Calling a dirty business, he said it were better that an occasional lawbreaker escape than that government become a party to dishonorable The greatest dangers to liberty, he practice. continued, lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding. For the majority opinion it may be said that government agents cannot be expected to detect crime, much less obtain evidence of it, if their hands are tied. On the other hand, eavesdropping, snooping of every kind, is, in private affairs, a most detestable thing. Bad is the lineage whence comes the inclination. may lead to serious Legalized consequence. Might it not be cited as a precedent in the future for other like infringements? Government needs sustaining when it seeks to enforce law. Still, watchfulness is as necessary, that liberty become not mockery. Society and the individual are never good bedfellows for long. In late years laws have five-to-fo- ng wire-tappi- ng BEAUTIFUL SCENE. ON THE front cover this week we show a scene on the Lincoln Park golf course, through the courtesy of the Southern Pacific. It is near San Francisco beside the Golden Gate Americas hills, thronged harbor, Latin quarter, Chinatown, cosmopolitan hotels and flower filled streets is fascinating to every tourist and visitor, as well as the model yacht harbors, bridle paths and playfields. There are shrines of romance everywhere. You can see where Sir Frances Drake beached his little galleon 350 years ago; where Spanish padres built the missions; where gold was panned by the Argonauts of 1849. A GREAT TASK. IN THE days of the saloon, the federal government found it impossible to enforce liquor laws against moonshiners in Kentucky. Now the moonshiner has spread to all parts of the country. He has come down from the mountain tops and makes his moonshine within the shadows of a church or police station and defies arrest. We have them all around us, and no matter how many arrests are made, whiskey seems to be as cheap as ever. HELD BACK. NEARLY EVERY visitor coming to Salt Lake is surprised with the beauty of our city and the untold resources surrounding it. They cannot figure why this, the oldest city in the intermoun-tai- n country, has grown so slowly while other cities have gone far to the front. Denver business men say that if they had our payroll they would boost the population to over half a million in a few years. The late Ilarriman said this city ought to be the largest in the west. Denver is ten years younger than Salt Lake yet has nearly three times the population. We admit that we have been sleeping on the job, but we are awakening and the next few years will see us growing very rapidly. Big industries are headed this way and once the trek starts this city will see the biggest boom of any city in the west. Some day this entire valley will be one big city and the time is not far distant. ur wire-tappi- wire-tappi- multiplied, many of them inimical to freedom. Modernism has a distinctly bureaucratic flavor. The stronger the flavor the more thinking men regret the time that gives rise to this blight. May a good end be attained by bad means? ng WHEN IS AN ISSUE? CHAIRMAN HUBERT WORK of the Republican National Committee says that prohibition will not be an issue in this campaign, will not be discussed by the Republican speakers. No doubt he feels sure that the Democratic women will say all that is necessary. We are in accord with Chairman Work, but feel that there should be no prohibition plank in the Republican platform if it is not an issue. Most every one knows that the attempted enforcement of the Volstead law has been a farce, and that while every attempt has been made to enforce the law it has resulted in absolute failure. Prohibition is not an issue it is a failure; but what are you going to do about it ? Most of the credit of wording the Republican party platform at Kansas City goes to Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, and President Coolidge- has highly complimented Smoot upon his excellent work resulting in an ideal platform around which Republicans are rallying. - POEMS are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree. Kilmer. |