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Show THE CITIZEN Calvin Coolidge has accepted a position with a life insurance, company but somehow or other we can't visualize his trying to talk somebody into a twenty payment policy. (g n. if n fiiiiinii ii min in in ii ii !im in i ii iiiii iiiiiii ii mi min Just a Little Day TOMORROW is just one more day of 24 little hours. set apart from all other days of the mu in ii in mi it 111111111111111111 i Published by year for the homage of American manhood and womanhood to the mothers of the nation. It is a day more sacred than any other holiday of the nation, for it is THE GOODWINS PUBLISHING COMPANY 420 Ness Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 11, 1929 Volume 40 Number 2 Well Protected Sugar TPHE long delayed tariff bill reached Congress Tues-da- y when a document of somewhere around 100,000 words was submitted for disposition at the extra session. To most of Utah, the bill is just so many words with the exception of two of the most important items to all the west wool and sugar. Westerners who have viewed with apprehension the declining interest of the farmers in cultivation of sugar beets are cheered by the provisions of the new bill, and hope that it will be approved by the handful of men in Washington who hold the reins of farm prosperity in thir hands. Utah counties in which sugar factories are located faced, with some exceptions, the unescapable procedure of reducing the valuation on those factories due to decreased production of sugar in 1928. For several years the farmers have been laboring with a protection of 2.39 on their sugar. Under the new tariff schedule the unit is raised to 3.50. The people of this section cannot urge too strongly the adoption of this schedule upon the extra Congress. The Salt Lake City chamber of commerce; other chambers of commerce, county and local farm bureaus should join the organized efforts of the beet and sugar men themselves in fostering adoption of a scale which means sustenance of. the industry for the west, and therefore for Utah. A lower schedule obtains on Cuban sugar, and although this source is a sore one to American farmers under the new scale it is probable that the competition from that source will be materially reduced. The wool situation this spring also came near to approaching a crisis in this section by a decrease in the price of wool in Utah, Idaho and the other wool states. How much of that was due to foreign competition is open to some argument, but the fact that wool protection will be increased has enough stimulus to the American sheepmen to assure improved conditions for the coming season on the strength of the psycological effect alone. However, there is a very real grievance of the sheep man against the growing menace of foreign wool competition, and the American public should be awakened to that danger. The tariff is the first step .and it is, necessary that Congress recognize that need. We exhort every chamber of commerce in the state, every civic club, every farm bureau organization, and every municipality to come to the aid both of the sugar and wool duty provisions. Congress has no way of guessing sentiment. Big business organizes its demands. The plea of the stockman and the farmer should be just as strong. Memorialize Congress. Let our representatives know that a concerted West is demanding protection for the industries which mean existance of prosperity. , more a memorial than a holiday. The second Sunday in May. Erect on that day a monument to the staunchness of the womanhood of the nation that has built a nation of strength and of truth. Erect a monument, too, to your own little shrine of motherhood. Spend the time it takes to go out of your way on that day to make her happy who has made all happiness possible. Give her part of your day tomorrow. Just a part of one of the days that you owe to her. Give her an hour to make her happy. And know in your heart that her life is precious to you. Our idea of a real optimist is Marian Talley, the prima donna who announces that she has retired from the stage and bought a farm, and will live on its earnings. . Paint on the Streets brought out the yellow paint SALT LAKE itCITY hashere and there over new parkspread liberally ing zones, changed a few regulations, and in some other ways prepared for the summer tag season commonly known as open season on motorists. The Citizen has made semi-offici- al inspection of the new parallel parking zones and fails to find any fault at which to direct editorial shellfire. On the contrary, the new parallel parking zones should complete solution of Salt Lakes downtown parking and traffic problems as far as is possible with the husky amount of automotive traffic that has to be handled. There is just one hope that The Citizen holds out. And that is that traffic law enforcement will be vigorous and continuous. Respect for law with the nominal statutes, and there is no necessity for overlooking the , traffic regulations. As long as Salt Lake persists in handling its traffic like a village or a small town it will remain with small town impressions on its visitors. When traffic through the business section is speeded up, when parking is well regulated, and when Salt Lakes people know what the city streets are for, well be making some rapid strides towards big town com- plexion. Congratulations CITY acclaims a new district governor SALT LAKE for Utah and Idaho in the election of Rotary Edward P. Kimball, retiring president of the Salt Lake unit of the club, to that post. Mr. Kimball, long an energetic worker for the advancement of Salt Lake City and for the aid of the city through the Rotary and by donation of his own services, will have an additional chance for a widened service to these two states in his new capacity. He has earned the post through his years of service, and we are pleased to know that the Rotarians of the two states were smart enough to know when they had the right man. Heres to the new governor, and to his efforts in bettering the West. ; I u |