OCR Text |
Show THE CITIZEN 6 NOT FAIR TO NEVADA. Westbined, as have Richfield and ern. Some fifty other consolidations of consequence have formed this year or are in the process of formation. Up to a certain point consolidation tends to economy and efficiency, provided competition is maintained. When competition is eliminated and that is oft the object of consolidation and its danger the combination not only loses the gains it has made but drifts ever more under governmental supervision and control, an undesirable end. Thus government becomes an unwilling factor in business, and corruption of officials, a common occurrence. It isnt well to dwell in a fools paradise when problems so serious are looming. Pan-Americ- an A GREAT injustice is being done the State of Nevada not only here but in Denver and other western cities. Tourists are given the impression and often told that they must cross a desert between Salt Lake City and Reno, which is untrue. No one would call crossing the salt flats between here and Wendover, a little over a hundred miles, crossing a desert. From Wendover to Reno there certainly is no desert as the Victory Highway follows the Humboldt River over three hundred miles of the distance. The highway passes through considerable grazing land that is only used as a range for sheep and cattle because of lack of water for irrigation, but by no stretch of the imagination' could it be considered a desert Tourists asking for information frequently ask as to the length of time required to cross the desert between Salt Lake City and Reno. Between Salt Lake and Reno are many substantial and progressive towns and cities and all surrounded by fine farming lands. Northern Nevada is far from being a desert as those will learn who motor through Elko, Carlin, Beowawe, Battle Mountain, Golconda, Winnemucca, Lovelock s of the population and Fernley. About of the State of Nevada live along the Victory Highway. The people of Utah should help correct the injustice being done our neighboring state. two-third- OUR MEXICAN ADDITIONS. VARIOUSLY estimated, two million Mexicans have come to the United States since the fall d of the Diaz regime. They augment a labor supply, but they also change in marked degree the racial complexion of the border states. New Mexico is now half Mexican. Legislative and most court proceedings must be done in both English and Spanish. Uultimately, no doubt, when the older generations have given way to the younger, English will be everywhere spoken, even if Spanish continues to be the mother tongue. It is now too late and quite idle to consider whether so large and sudden an influx of Mexicans was desirable. They are here, and we do well now to make them feel at home. While teaching these Mexicans to become Americans, may we not also learn something of their mode of living? To take joy in ones work is good, but why work all the time? Why not leisure too, leisure to enjoy life. The Mexican can teach us that work is to get money and leisure with which to dance and play. He can teach us also a fine respect for parents and elders. We have less to fear from the Mexican than from other alien groups in our midst. In blood, the new arrivals from the land below the Rio Grande are perhpas half white. The ancestors of many of them were so for centuries. Intermarriage with whites is welcomed by Mexicans of mixed blood. Further amalgamation is not ethnically undesirable. In the process of assimilation, care should be taken not to violate fine cultural traditions, traditions that will enrich American life, if we will but let them. much-neede- LET UTAH GROW. practically, every eastern railroad of importance into one single system. comIn the motor industry, the Chrysler-Dodg- e bination was an event, which may be followed and by Studebakers acquisition of Pierce-Arrow- , other regroupings; in the oil industry, Texas Corporation and California Petroleum have com ; tary, that institution represented it as the first heavier-than-acraft in the history of the world ed self-sustaini- ng But how to bring this about? Give inducement to men and capital to locate here. Help them to their feet. Dont tax away their energy. Every man, every dollar coming into our midst is an addition which has cost us nothing and by which we are bound to profit. Other western states, not so fortunate, are preparing to double their population within a few years. By intelligent effort, Utahs population can be doubled in five short years. Will we do ir capable of free sustained flight under its own power, carrying a man, which slightly antedated the machine designed and built by Wilbur and Orville Wright. Orville, survivor of the Wright brothers, objected, and the Wright plane was sent to England for safe-keepin- . DO YOU FEAR THE WIND? Do you it? CONFIDENCE is very satisfying in a presidential year. It brings peace and happiness amidst confusion and strife. Think of the sorrow, the sleeping sickness, and the lack of incentive to strenuous activity among the thousands and thousands of Democrats if they did not have confidence in the success of their presidential candidate. And think of the lack of interest in the overwhelming success of the. Republican ticket if each individual Republican did not have confidence in Hoover and his election. But there is such a thing as We are led to make these few remarks by the articles appearing in the daily press. We note that two senators called on A1 Smith and assured him of the solid south and several doubtful states. A lady from Pennsylvania called, on Herbert Hoover and assured him not only her own state but Oregon and Washington. States r . are given away rather recklessly. But where there is such universal confidence. and we want there must be some to warn our Republican friends that we have a fight on our hands and there can be no lost motion if we are to make success certain. over-confiden- ce. , g. The attempt of the Smithsonian Institution to take from the Wrights the laurels that were justly theirs is indefensible. Yet there were other institutions in America to which Orville Wright might have sent the mother ship. Not even so rank an injustice warranted him in sending the plane to a foreign country. fear the force of the wind, The slash of the rain? Go face them and fight them, Be savage again. Go hungry and cold like the wolf, Go wade like the crane: The palms of your hands will thicken, The skin of your cheek will tan, Youll grow ragged and weary and swarthy, But youll walk like a man! Hamlin Garland. THE SOLACE OF CONFIDENCE. THE towering, protecting oak asks no tions of the worn and weary traveller; but man, the comparative sapling, insists on investigating the reputation of some unfortunate before stretching out his friendly hand. Selected. When Americans cease to be American, erica will cease to be America. Am- ; t . - ADVERSITY -has no friends. - Tacitus. 7 Jf THE world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. James Oliver. over-confiden- ce LANGLEY-WRIGH- T that soon a plan will be officially presented for the consolidation of , . SCENERY attracts the tourist, but flourishing agriculture and humming industries are far more universal in their lure. An opportunity to make a living, to enjoy the finer things, that is the greatest of all sirens. state. Her natural Utah is a much-favorresources make her as as any other state in this Union, barring none. And more: Few indeed are the states that can compare to her in natural wealth. What she needs is larger population, increased capital, more agriculture, more industry. A BIG MERGER YEAR. OTTO KAHN predicts owners and pilots, descendants of old New England pioneers. What took this treasure of American invention to the British Isles, to the Science Museum of South Kensington in London? Samuel P. Langley had long labored on a machine that would fly under its own power, carrying a man. Nine days before the Wright ?JT flights at Kitty Hawk the. Langley aerodrome made its second unsuccessful attempt. Langley man. died, a broken-hearte- d . : Till nineteen fourteen there was no controversy. To the Wrights went the credit of the first successful flight In the year, however, the Langley aerodrome was taken to.Hammondsport, New York, and flights were made in it by Curtiss, Doherty and Johnson. Evidence exists that the; motor was changed and the machine otherwise altered and strengthened. Thus, whether in its former condition it was or was not capable of flight is and . will forever, be involved in serious doubt Nevertheless, when the Langley aerodrome "J was taken to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, of which Langley had been secre- CONTROVERSY. AT KITTY HAWK, in Dare County, North Carolina, December the seventeenth, nineteen hunthe Wright Brothers made dred twenty-thremachine. four flights in their heavier-than-a- ir Orville and Wilbur as pilots each made two. Their plane was the result of four years of experimenting and seven years of study. It was an American product throughout, as were its e, CORRUPTED free men are the worst of slaves. Garrick. I WOULD rather be sick than idle. Seneca. TO LOVE and win is the best thing; to love and lose the next best. Thackeray. SILENCE is a true friend who never trays. be- - Confucius. YOU MAY depend upon it that there are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages. Robert Owen. 4l |