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SUBSCRIPTION 1 Salt Lake City, January 10, 1029 A Forward Looking Policy T3DAY The Citizen enters a new stage in its With many years of successful experimentation and struggle back of it, and with its eyes on the horizon of the future, it takes its place more securely than ever among the progressive forces which are striving to make the Intermountain West as great as its people and potential resources warrant. We can find no more worthy task than this for which to work. We have no private, political or religious standards to carry. We can turn freely to industrial and social issues as they arise and devote our utmost energy to the promotion of all that makes for a greater Utah. We shall strive to be lofty in our idealism, but homely and realistic in our treatment. Out of the mountains of the west must rise new em- -' pires. Great as has been the advancement of the West, there are dreams of future power and possibilities for development that, by their very nearness must be realized. The faith of courageous pioneers will be realized beyond measure. It is this dream a better era, predicted upon .the work being done today with which we are concerned. We desire, also, to measure our words and our columns in the defense of Utah and Utah people and industries as they now exist. The columns of The Citizen are open to any meritorious project which looks toward the unselfish realization of advancement in business enterprise or in civic and social lines. We shall endeavor to deal clearly, concisely, accurately and fairly with the issues as they arise. To this purpose, we dedicate the columns of the The Citizen. Of the mass of proposals which will probably tj'bc sumbitted to the eighteenth legislature, three or four, at least, are worthy of prompt and favorable attention. Some of them have been discussed for years, but for one reason or another, action has been blocked, or unfavorable. Among these may be mentioned prison removal ; taking the judiciary out of politics; revision of codes bearing upon legal procedure, so that justice may be more promptly administered; revision of the indeterminate sentence law; curbing the powers of pardon and parole and the establishment of a state school for. the education and training of the of data and evidence which An immense-mascan not longer be ignored by Utah people and their lawmakers supports the move to establish That such an the school for the institution is universally recognized as essential three may be gathered from the fact that onty states in the Union Utah', Arizona and Nevada feeble-minde- d. s feeble-minde- d. CITIZEN have not as yet provided for the training of this class of their citizenry. So urgent has it become in this state that the movement lias enlisted the support of many prominent persons. Establishment of such an institution was a plank in the platform of William H. Wattis, candidate for governor at the recent election. . Governor Dern and other state leaders have declared in its favor and it was included in the governor's message to the legislature this week. At present, Utah has no effective method of coping with the problem of the We have provided a school for the deaf, the dumb and the blind; other unfortunates are given proper care and training, but the most unfortunate of all the folk who grope about in the twilight zone of (some of them. adults with the brains of children) are not specialty provided for. feeble-minde- d. feeble-mindedne- ss The Citizen adds its voice to the chorus of protest that has arisen on the plan to build the addition to the Salt Lake postoffice on the property across the street to the north of the present structure. The sensible plan would seem to be to extend the building to Fourth South street, so that all the offices and departments may be housed under one roof and the long, unbroken facade of the building would make an imposing addition to the architectural beauty of the city. Dashing into the editors office the other day came a clean-clooking younster in a bright, natty uniform. In the few seconds allowed before he state his business, there was some doubt as to whether he was an emissary from one of the motion picture palaces, a new kind of a bellboy or a subaltern of a foreign army. It developed that he was a Postal Telegraph messenger in his new uniform. The uniform, a bright blue piped in red is set off handsomely by a Sam Browne belt and a swagger new type of cap. The Postal is to be commended both for its good taste and for adding a little color to the landscape. ut Conservation of ducks and geese through construction of the refuge at Bear River Bay will soon be a fact, and is the greatest constructive act towards conservation of wild life in Western United States of recent vears. Assurance that fulfillment of the plans outlined for the construction of dikes and dams will be made, is assured through conferences at Logan, Ogden and Salt Lake this week in which S. H. MeCrorv of Washington, I). C., chief of the division of agricultural engineering of the bureau of public roads, and other federal officials examined thoroughly the plans for construction preparatory to opening of construction. Some few property rights still are involved, but they will be straightened out soon and work can commence. The work involves expenditure of $225,000 in the immediate program on three units of the program. These plans contemplate the construction in the near future, of a marginal dike and dams to back up 20,000 acres of fresh water to protect the ducks against the salt water of Great Salt Lake. The marginal dike will be 12 miles long, 100 feet thick at the base and from 5 to 8 feet 1'igh. The proposed dam will be constructed in the vicinitv of the Duckvillc Duck club, near the mouth of Bear River, and will be about 100 fret long. Thus the feeding ground for ducks from" all of Western America will be made safe. It is the finest conservation move of the west. 3 It is to that the members of the Utah State Woolgrowers association will solve some of their outstanding problems in the annual convention scheduled tor the Hotel Utah luesday and Wednesday. At least three problems are due for consideration and occupy the outstanding place on the program. These arc wool marketing through wool pools, demands for the tariff and solution of the transportation of to and from sheep winter range and to shipping points. James A. Hooper, secretary of the association, stated that the sheep transportation problem is one of the most vexing facing the sheepand one that must be solved soon in order men, to avoid serious loss to the owners as well as to automobile drivers. As population increases, he points out, and as tourist travel gains, sheep on the highways are in greater and greater be hoped danger. Loss so far has been but slight, but increasloss and added ing inconvenience appear certain unless both stock and automotive traffic can be regulated, or unless stock highways can be devised. The sheepmen have but one voice in the tariff, and that is for increased protection. However, this problem will be discussed1 in connection with marketing and some definite solution along pooling lines may be reached. It seems odd that Chambers of Commerce generally do not appreciate the fact that golf tournaments attracting national stars are the cheapest possible forms of publicity. They spend thousands of dollars trying to line up national conventions that are worth only a paragraph or two in newspapers outside the place where the meetings are held and completely overlook the tremendous news appeal that goes with a national golf tournament. Such an event merits columns of space in every newspaper throughout the country, not only wliile the tournament is in progress but for months prior to the holding of it. Even the larger communities with a reputation for being progressive fail to realize the news value of such enterprises. So far as we are able to learn, for example, the San Francisco and Los Angeles Chambers of Commerce made not the slightest effort to secure the National Amateur nor the P. G. A. tournaments next year, and havent even put in' a bid for the womens national or the mens or womens western for 1929 or 1930. Del Monte has the mens national and Santa Barbara has the P. G. A. Detroit, it is understood, will have the womens national next year, but in 1930 it is promised to California. Influential individuals interested in seeing the womens event go to the Monterey Peninsula inprobably will carry their point because of action on the part of civic organizations in Los Angeles and San Francisco. There is good reason to believe that the womens western could be brought to California within the next year or two if proper efforts were made. But apparently the big towns think it the better part of wisdom to concentrate on the getting the Modern Woodmen of America, Loyal Order of Moose and similar organizations to hold their annual conventions out here. Country Club. The first picture made in and around Salt Lake City, produced by the Pioneer Film comWest instead pany, wiil be called All laces Its premiere is expected to of The Exodus. be held in Salt Lake not later than February 10. The Hollywood preview will be held next week. |