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Show r THE CITIZEN : : ri i - i V. A therefore, Eric the Red reached Greenland, spent three years there exploring the southwestern coasts, and then sailed back to Iceland, carrying with him so excellent report of what he had seen that he had no difficulty in persuading other adventurous spirits to join him in a real colonizing enterprise. Eric would have made an ideal advertising agent. He believed that there was a great deal in a. name, and, knowing full well that to his fellow countrymen in Iceland nothing could well be more attractive than the picture of a country of many inlets OFFICIAL INEFFICIENCY flPTOBS ' : AVAU D ErV. I if Salt Lake City, July 26, 1920. Editor The Citizen: I would like to get an expression of the sentiments L! L! of Commissioner Green when he Bill now playing 7 Big Features LITTLE PIPIFAX & CO. WEAVER & WEAVER ABRAMS & JOHNS i 4 FASHIONS DE VOGUE MILLER & CAPMAN FLYING WEAVERS - 4 COMEDY PICTURE GREAT SUMMER PRICES - A GREAT SHOW LSelected firnt run pictures Sunday Starting vA liieltHlrnma ing for' ndf ONLY of thrill, vluterwoven with a charming love Htory in'Mter)' GEO. ROSS. cb ERIC THE RED W in?' r.i 1 Sa: The news that, on July 5, being the two hundredth anniversary of the Danish colonization of Greenland, the Danish explorer, Lane Koch, will set sail for Greenland with the object of completing the exploration of the northern part of the country, is a truly typical way for Greenland to creep, once again, into public notice. All through the centuries, since the day that Eric the Red set out d from Iceland in his ship to find the land which had been seen many years before by the Norwegian sea rover Gunnbjorn, Greenland has been fading in and fading out of history in a way all its own. Eric the Red, of course, was a typical sea rover. The fact that somewhere, beyond the western horizon there lay lands that had never been explored was in itself evidently quite sufficient reason for seeing to it that they were discovered and explored, as soon as possible, and, not only discovered and explored, but, in the true Viking fashion, colonized. In the year well-know- n i n dt; II at I kJ high-powere- ik,l RE ifea ! de- mands that the city cemetery and Warm Springs be taken , out of the park and public property department of the city commission and added to the department, of finance. Has he discovered any advantage to the city in such an arrangement or is it for his personal benefit? Last year he built an addition to the sextons house in the city cemetery which was to cost several thousand dollars; before it was completed the building cost twenty thousand dollars, quite a discrepancy in the estimate. There is constructed at Warm Springs a swimming pool that is a disgrace to this or any other community; also a residence for the caretaker of the springs and city property, all of which looks more like a practical joke than a business proposition. Further, the above mentioned buildings will all have to be removed before the contemplated public bath house is erected. Whether it is the city commissioners or the city engineer that is responsible for this waste of public money, we, as contributors to the city funds in the form of taxes would like to definitely know where the inefficiency lays. We certainly have had a few demonstrations of freak engineering in this city. If it is the engineers fault, discharge him and secure a competent man capable of producing results. Your water works department is another joke on the citizens. During the high water period men were kept in the different canyons looking after the water coming down. Why were these men permitted to leave the head-gate- s open so that the reservoirs could not fill? It is nothing short of criminal carelessness and the result is a shortage of water. ! 'a i I ives lib. ! Ill Frank. Mayo The Eed f,ane" CMVEZSAL AInu Uni vernal comedy OI-'F 982, HIS THOLLI3Y" International New, very latent Xinv playing T1IM Glliv IN THIS RAIJf Anne Cornwall Starring nlverNnl comedy International Ncwn Coming, July 8 SIIIUWHHCKF.D AMONG CANN1 HALS' , bordered with meadow lands, beech and willow, called his new discovery Greenland, and Greenland it has remained ever since. Now the colony founded by Eric the Red flourished mightily; farms sprang up in all directions; Erics people were joined by other settlers; the king of Norway began to take a keen interest in the new colony, and, in process of time, after the introduction of Christianity, Greenland seemed to be in a fair way to become a country of no small importance. At the height of their prosperity, the settlements are said to have had some 10,000 inhabitants, and although this is, in all probability, an exaggeration, the Greenland their sixteen settlements, with churches, their bishop, and their monastery, seemed firmly established. And yet they all ultimately faded away, and so completely that a large part of the exploration of Greenland, during the past 200 years, has been actuated by a desire to discover still further traces of the lost colonies. By the middle of the fourteenth century practically all communication between Greenland and northern Europe had ceased. The last ship that is known to have visited the Norse colonies returned to Norway in 1410; then for over 300 years, Greenland was neglected and, indeed, practically forgotten. To the Scandinavian, however, the story of the country must have ever possessed tremendous attraction and, in the early years of the eighteenth century, the Dane, Hans Egede, determined to explore it anew. Having succeeded therefore, in forming into a company certain merchants of Bergen, he set out for Greenland with two ships, holding an appointment from the king as missionary and governor of the intended colony. The difficulties which confronted Hans Egede were formidable indeed, but by his prudent and conciliatory measures and gentle behavior, as one chronicler has it, he overcame them all. He placed the new Danish colony in Greenland on a sure basis, and, although it has never forged ahead, it has, nevertheless, in its own quiet way, prospered ever since. Christian Science Monitor. n Ass ItWasatch 1492 I I ASK FOR COLUMBUS COLUMBUS AUTO & I TAXICAB SERVICE j It 373 SOUTH MAIN n i DR. C. M. BROOKER Optometrist Formerly with Columbian Optical Co. for past twenty-thre- e years.. Now located at 708 Clift Building. Phone Wasatch 5676. i i i If Your Grocer Does Not Carry Reifs Special We will deliver it Ice cold in cases of two dozen. TYNG WAREHOUSES Phone Was. 5522 Salt Lake WOMEN'S WORK. Mr. Bacon This paper says that eighty-fivthousand women are now employed by the railway systems of the United States. Mrs. Bacon Hardly proper work e HIS FAVORITE Farson: PARABLE. Do you know the par ables, my child? Johnnie: Parson: Yes, sir. And which of the ables do you like best? I like the one Johnnie: somebody loafs and fishes. par where for women, 1 should say. Mr. Bacon Why, whos had more experience in looking after trains and switches than women, Id like to know? Yonkers Statesman |