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Show THE CITIZEN EXPOSITION. PACIFIC-SOUTHWES- T ExFor almost a month the position at Long Beach, California, has been in full swing. Many states and even foreign countries have contributed their bit to make it a success. Arizona has a $30,000. exhibit depicting the commercial, cultural and educational progress of the state in the last decade, with special stress on mining and agriculture. Twenty Chambers of Commerce, representing every district in the state, also all the larger organizations in the state, contributed to Arzionas exhibit. Hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world have visited the Do the people of Salt Lake City and Utah know about tjie Exposition? Is Utah represented? Anybody know? It isnt too soon for us to think, talk about and plan for a Worlds Fair in 1947 to commemorate the coming of the Pioneers into Utah and the West. Lets look forward to it, anyway. Pacific-Southwe- Pacific-Southwe- st Ex-positio- st m. WHITE RACE PREDOMINATES. IN A RECENT address before the Institute of Politics, Williamstown, Mass., Prof. R. D. McKenzie of the University of Washington, pointed out that the white people should have no cause for alarm at the rate of increase of the colored races. If there is any rising tide of color, it is that of the white race. The white population of the world during the last hundred years has increased faster than all the colored peoples put together, and the fear on the part of the white man that the orientals will eventually outherd him has no basis in fact. This statement coming from a man who, no doubt, knows what he is talking about should be consolation to many who have predicted that the colored races would eventually rule the world. They are trying to rule themselves, however, and with this end in view they are sending their young men to American colleges to learn our ways, our methods of government and the secret of our astonishing growth and prosperity. 137 Chinese , students are now on the Pacific Ocean, headed for San Francisco. From the remote corners of the world they come to America to receive their education, and when they have gained all the knowledge they feel is necessary they return to their native shores and try to instill into their own people the spirit of American independence. Eventually it will be China for the Chinese, India for the Indians. ' DOUBLE-CROSSIN- G. AT HOUSTON the Republican Party was roundly scored for its attitude on the Volstead Act, the Democrats pledging themselves to in these terms: Speaking for the National Democracy, this convention pledges the party and the nominees to an honest effort to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment and all other provisions of the Federal Constitution and all laws enacted pursuant thereto. His nomination a fact, Smith then executed a quick and complete about face, coming out in favor of modifying the law. The Democratic Party is still dry, but its candidate for President is wet. Democrats can now blow both hot and cold, using their platform where it serves their purpose best and their candidates declaration where that is likely to prove the more catching. In. the parlors down East they call this straddling; in the city slums,, slicking. In the wide west it is known as plain double-crossinThis is the performance of a party that preaches so loudly against corruption! A candidate who will take advantage of his own party in this fashion will also take advantage, of that section of the population whose votes he is trying so hard to win. g. : t ' But Americans are no fools, be they dry or be they wet, this fact and, therefore, are exerting every fluence to obtain their vote. TAMMANY would reform the national government. It would make grafting a respectable business. Such is the magic of organization! WHO KILLED OBREGON? GOVERNOR SMITH said the New York World, his strongest supporter, before the conven- tion, ought not to accept the nomination unless he can have it on a platform which id consistent with his own position in public affairs. He ought, in our opinion, to make his position unmistakably clear before the convention chooses its candidate: and then stand or fall on the willingness of the convention to endorse his position. Well, the Governor fell for the nomination. THE DEMOCRATS have deserted the League of Nations and the World Court. Once they had fourteen points. Now they havent one. DID YOU ever see such love and devotion to the farmer, and Smith, when he accepts, I bet he will tell how he and Tammany used to lay awake at nights just to think up ways to help the farmer skin the city slicker. Yours in sympathy for those who fall for all this. Will Rogers. BY 1940, it is estimated, the number of Jap- anese bom in Hawaii and entitled to vote will constitute a majority of the voting population. Birth control has no hold upon the little man from the land of the rising sun. Soon a smiling mikado will take his seat in Congress as a delegate from Hawaii. Is immigration an issue? WHAT A COMPARISON! WHICHEVER way we may vote next fall, says Colliers Weekly, we will elect a President belonging to pioneer stock and bred in the pioneer way of thinking and doing . . . Hoovers strugplaces, while Smith had to gles were in far-o- ff fight through the jungle of tenements . . . Rising far above differences of birth, religion and and politics, there is an Americanism recognizable alike in the crowded tenement districts and in the open spaces of the West. It is the Americanism of the pioneer. Pioneers, oh pioneers, fresh and strong the in the slums of New York, world we seize! where cops are thick on their beats, where men eat in soup factories and sleep in beds of charity, where the washings hang out of the windows! The sturdy Americanism of the pioneer recognizable in the tenements of the East Side! Verily, this editor must grow long hair, and part it in the middle. WOMEN AND THE VOTE. WHEN WOMEN picketed so tirelessly at the White House in an effort to secure national enfranchisement of women, they probably did not foresee that in a few short years both the Republican and Democratic parties would be clamoring for their votes and that in their hands they would hold the destiny of a nation. Both parties are bending every effort to secure the votes of the women of the country, realizing that they will be the deciding factor this year. It was the women who determined that the Eighteenth Amendment should be annexed to our Constitution, and in all probability it will be the women who will decide to keep it there, if the question is put to a vote. Women have become independent thinkers in the last decade. They no longer vote as their husbands or brothers do but reason things out for themselves. They have entered the business world, have an understanding of business and business methods. Both parties arc cognizant, of I : ' I ' in- 1 APPARENTLY, a Mexican nun has been selected as the scapegoat on whose head is tot be held the crime of directing Obregons murder. When Mexican justice has been meted out to her, the real criminal will be prepared to enjoy the political emoluments resulting from Obregons removal. But the plot was so clumsily carried out that it cannot be hidden by a maladministration of justice upon an innocent woman. Such is the viewpoint of the Wall Street Journal concerning the matter, which further states: The circumstances of the murder were planned by someone else than Toral who was merely a tool to divert attention. In fact, he was not the only one who actually fired the shots. How was it possible for young Toral, unknown, shabbily dress ed, carrying a 45 calibre pistol, the heaviest type made, to gain admission to the room where Obregons party were having their gay dinner? A stranger to all there, he walked around the room with that heavy revolver in his thin clothing. How is it that the police, so vigilant at other times, permitted his entrance to the room ? Obregon sat at the head of the table, and Saenz at his left. Toral with his big revolver now under his pad of paper walked around to the left of Saenz and asked permission to show a cartoon to Obregon. Did no one then see that gun in his hand ? Obregon turned in his seat to face him as he stepped around to show him the drawing, with the revolver still concealed, only by the pad. He was now standing at the right of Saenz, between him and Obregon, and was in this position when he fired. How long would it take Saenz to grapple with him? In the circumstances could he fire more than one shot? An ordinary pistol holds five cartridges; the authorities claim he fired five shots into Obregon, but they do not state how many empty shells were found in his weapon. Given the opportunity, without the slightest interference, would it be possible for the most expert gunman to empty a five shot automatic into a man before the body fell to the floor? Would it be possible for this youth to do that with Saenz and others grappling with him? After the first shot was fired and Saenz said to be grappling with the man, did anyone else fire a few shots at Obregon? The body was whisked away so quickly as to excite suspicion and one Mexican City account, published in New York says Obregon was shot five times in the back and shoulder. Toral was in front of Obregon when he fired. Another Mexico City news item that got past the censor said that the testimony at the preliminary hearing showed that, notwithstanding the hasty removal of the body of Obregon, an autopsy was held, and there were thirteen wounds in his head and body. Did someone else shoot at Obregon? Was tin? first shot by Toral to be the signal for others to do as the accomplices of Brutus did with Caesar? Apparently so, for in such circumstances, no one man could account for five, to say nothing of 13 wounds in Obregons head and body, front and back. After the commotion was over many of the guests had revolvers in their hands, professedly to kill Toral, but no examination of those guns was made to see if any shots had been fired. That some others in that room fired most of the shots is a more reasonable hypothesis than that Toral, with Saenz and others wrestling with him, fired from five io thirteen shots from a fiv' shot pistol. THE GREATEST powers cannot injure a mans character whose reputation is unblemished among his party. Chesterfield. |