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Show Can Purposes Coordinate? The Chamber of Commerce of Salt Lake is this week f, ! busily ( agreed in the. solicitation of funds to the amount ; m s,.-e, nty-five taoasand dollars, for the purpose of adver-ti adver-ti n, c to the worhl many aiiva.raages that that city and Utah' in gc'ie,"-!, h--s to offer to the tourist, investor and l.-iin''vlir it is a i. lost commendabie undertaking and .j,',,. which will undoubtedly have the support of every wide i awake and progressive citizen in the state. ' 'Tim Chandier of Commerce should, however, at this time i-ke foil coemcuce of the fact that these very interests that P is . desirous of promoting, should be safeguarded from the machinations of an organization to which many cu its nwn members belone:. We have reterence to the Utah State J Autumobile Association, of which W. D. Rishe! is manager I pod reputed owner. , 'J'liis ore-'ii:z-;t''ou as an atfeiatmg member ot the .-v. A. A h-,s ti'ken exceplioas to the attitude of ths Auto Club of youlhern Caiiloioia in its desire to function as an mdepend-ent mdepend-ent organization. As a means of retaliation, tourist tra'tic is now and has b en directed, wherever possible into northern ,'..;iirnin via the V endover Cut-Off. Roaas leading m-.o ...m.hern California are being ciscriminated against m favor i-f this route. ICverv .town and city in the state, south ol v.,n I ake, is interested in having traffic directed over tr.o c oulhem route, and properly so, for it is m that direction tnat our greatest interests I.e. . From now on of course, and, until late spring, those tiv-.ing tiv-.ing to drive back and forth, to and from California, win or necessity have to take the southern route, on aeeoimi o. (lie insurmountable snow barriers through tne Sierras. Western West-ern traffic bids fair to be much greater next year man ihis. and effort on the part of any interested individual or ovgam-..-,i;,. to taboo the southern route through tins suue should he nipped in the bud and allowed to go no further. . V.'uh the big business concerns of Salt Lake catering to ihr. inwos oi' ceuiral and southern Utah or business, A seen:; poor poiitv on their part to countenance a condilion ol m.c pied T'nr pamle of these sections are becoming uV-1 vun.... i-ou'sed to the'siuiatieii and it would not be at ail surprising 4c them in turn, oifer some kind of business maar.-ion. i.'v'.,, now we understand, certain southern towns and cit'es b-'in- solicited bv California business houses , or iheir Vrade.' and in some eases with success This snouic, no. be. I i-e ,::,,ih of Utah as a whole believe in being leveUo then (nvu Mistb-etior.s. and will continue to so believe and to practice, prac-tice, as long as all do their part in working lor tne common l,,;nie proposition of one organization such as the Salt 1 -.he Chamber of Commerce, and another such as tiio Clan j ie utnmobiic association'with a membership :.i common, j v- -ri-ia.' to adverse ends, is hard to reconcile, it loo.es very '-'' h o e-.,eag on the gas and the brake at the same time ami expecting to get somewhere. It seems very m- ''!1STtv,ksltoUie good work of the slate road commission ;.,. v -'-'.'''s to our southern border are in excellent condition. -Vhcn-'V no excuse therefore from that source for any c.is-- c.is-- ,-rimieaiiou against the southern route. , |