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Show THE CITIZEN 4 MMWIHH M WHlIMIIHMIHIMlWIHHtl WHIN IMIIMHM HKHHMIMMlWHIWniHI MHWHIHIII HMMMMWHmilHmiHMHIMHHHWMWMI THE CITIZEN A Thinking Paper for Thinking People' Published by THE GOODWIN'S PUBLISHING COMPANY 42flP Ness Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Fostofflce at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage In the United States, Canada and Mexico, 32.50 per year; 31.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, 34.50 per year. FRANK E. SCIIEFSKI JOHN L, KOEPPLER ED. S. DIAMOND Manager and Editor Assistant Editor Advertising Manager HARD TO SOLVE. NATURAL GAS is coming into this city, but it was a hard struggle. The long drawn out hearings and delays made a target of our local business men for outside papers and opinion and the residents of this city are still wondering what it was all about. Like a cow's tail we are always swinging behind, and a few more stunts like the recent one will no doubt create a demand to reestablish the state capitol at Fillmore instead of allowing it to hibernate in this city. Judging from general appearances most of our business men are all Scotch and are very careful in considering and admitting new businesses in our midst. Aye, even to such an extent, that Ogden has grabbed off many big important deals wrhile we were sleeping on the job. Probably we are working under the idea that the more haste, the less speed. But really we should wake up to our opportunities and take advantage of everything that is worth while. Let us accept the benefits from our advertising and hold out special inducements for all big business that wishes to enter our locality. We need more people and we need more payrolls. The Ohio Oil Company comes in here with cheap natural gas. This gas will be sold to the people at a price not greater than 50 cents, a price undreamed of in this city, and because of this cheap smokeless fuel many industries will immediately start after the laying of the pipes. However, in the future let us not make ourselves ridiculous by our snail pace. To show what other people think of us, we print herewith an editorial from the Ogden Examiner, one of the leading newspapers of the state. It appears to us that our officials should awaken to the1 fact that as the largest city of the state we should be leads. ers and not Here is what an Ogden editor thinks of us: tail-ender- SALT LAKE CITY STILL WANTS TO KNOW The commissioners of Salt Lake City are still circus on the fuel situaputting on a three-rin- g been This has tion. going on for several years and promises to continue indefinitely. The city and its Commercial club has paid thousands of dollars to alleged experts to tell them why a pall of smoke hangs over the city in the winter time and what to do about it. One of these experts a few years ago made the positive statement that the smoke really did exist in considerable quantities and suggested as a remedy that they bore a hole in the mountains and put in a suction pump to drain it out. Another expert reported that the Einstein theory would go a long. way toward solving the smoke nuisance. Still another suggested the use of smoke guns stationed at vantage points to shoot the smoke as fast as it appeared. Then the Commercial club took the thing in its own hands and appointed a committee to seek additional information. After an exhaustive investigation this committee confirmed the fact that the smoke really did exist. A chemical analysis was made of a large chunk of smoke cut out of a cloud that hung over Main street and it was discovered to be COAL SMOKE! As soon as this announcement was made public all the coal men resigned in a body from the Commercial club. But that did not solve the smoke problem. It only succeeded in making Pro and Con mad at each other. Then along came a Moses in the form of the Ohio Oil company and offered to spend $20,000,000 of its own money to supply Salt Lake and other cities with natural gas with the positive assurance that it would solve the smoke nuisance. .The city commissioners of Ogden and other cities made sufficient investigation to make sure the offer was made in good faith by responsible par-itand proceeded to grant franchises. Salt Lake is still hiring experts and holding meetings to consider the proposition. They may decide to hire another expert to commercialize the large supply of natural gas that has been generated by n out discussion of the smoke nuisthe fact-findi- ng es long-draw- ance. HOOVERS STAND ON IMMIGRATION. HERBERT HOOVER has consistently opposed National Origins Clause of the Imthe migration Act. But for his efforts it might be in effect today: In his acceptance speech he favors its repeal. By this clause the quotas of immigrants that so-call- ed The quotas of the Scandinavian countries and Germany are reduced. Those of Great Britain, Italy and Russia are increased. Why admit additional immigrants from Great Britain, when even her own colonies, like Canada and Australia, do not want them? They are not agricultural immigrants, but the surplus of Great Britains industrial population, the unemployed. Havent we unemployed enough? Italy's quota is nearly doubled! Why reduce the quotas of the Scandinavian countries and Ger: many, with a criminal percentage of less than 8, of Italy, with a percentage of and increase 25.9? Russias percentage is 14.6. Why increase her quota? Are we deporting bolsheviks only to admit them in greater numbers by means of the National Origins Clause? Our best immigrants, rural folk, have come from the countries whose quotas are reduced. It is refreshing to note that Mr. Hoover has set himself against this infamous clause. tht WHAT PRICE COAL? NOT MANY people are storing coal. High do not warrant anyone for putting their prices money into a coal bin. This year will establish a record for single ton deliveries and the coal men will be the losers. If the coal men tried to kill their business, they could not have selected a more direct course. Under existing conditions, the cheap natural gas will make big inroads into the coal industry. We boast and advertise the large supply of coal in this state, yet our coal prices are such that it will bring much misery to the poor people the coming winter. Every man believes in a fair profit but exorbitant prices do not pave the way for legitimate business. When it is considered that one man can produce twelve to thirty tons of coal per day, it can easily be seen that there is something wrong with the present prices. When tRe overhead is so much greater than the production of any article it puts one in mind of political owned, instead of private owned, business. SMITH AND IMMIGRATION. GOVERNOR SMITH in his acceptance speech, touched upon the immigration question in these words: I am opposed to the principle of restriction based on figures of immigrant population , contained in a census 38 years old. tj This statement sounds very plausible until it is analyzed. The present census law was chosen and adopted to accomplish specific purposes which have had widespread national support. These purposes would be entirely defeated if Governor Smith is given an opportunity to put into effect that which he advocates. The first immigration quota law became effective in June, 1921. This law allowed European countries a quota of 3 per cent of their immigrant population in this country as shown by the census of 1910. However, this census reflected very large immigration from southern and eastern Europe in the twenty years prior to it which resulted in relatively large quotas for countries in that part of the world. It was, therefore, found necessary and most advisable to scale down quotas from southern and eastern Europe and increase those from countries in northern Europe. Consequently the new immigration law of 1924 used the 1890 census as a basis and reduced the quota from 3 to 2 per cent. In some individual cases the law has perhaps worked a hardship by the separation of families, but in the main the law has proven far superior. By cutting down the immigration from southern and eastern Europe we have been enabled to digest the great masses of immigrants that flocked over here from those countries and settled in our great cities during the years prior to the restriction. We do not believe that sound thinking Americans will agree with Governor Smith on his immigration stand. If the bars are let down and the quotas increased for the southern and eastern countries of Europe how can we hope to maintain a fair and equitable wage for American labor in this country? We only need to look at the labor conditions in New Mexico and Arizona, where it is impossble for anyone but a skilled mechanic to obtain a decent wage for day labor, to realize what the result would be. Hasnt it always been true that a great many men come here, especially from the southern and eastern countries of Europe, with no intention of bringing their families, but merely to make When money to send to them in the 1924 home-land- ? they have accumulated sufficient American dollars they return to their native shores to live. This is not true, however, of the people from northern Europe. They come to America to make their homes. They become naturalized at the first opportunity and America is their land. Where will we draw the line when it comes to separation of families? Men come with each quota. Shall we then be compelled to admit their farV lies simply because they are here? The time may come when it will be deemed advisable to let down the bars as Governor Smith intends to do if he is elected, but that time will not arrive until every man in the United States is able to find employment at a wage which will |