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Show mu J V BY - Published Every Saturday GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. : A. W. RAYBOULD, I 50 BUSINESS MANAGER SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: In the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, icludlng postage for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal c , $4.50 per year. 8lngle copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by. Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Add rose all communications to The Citizen. at Salt Lake Entered as second-clas- e matter, June 21, 1919, at the postofflce : City, Utah, under the Act' of March 8, 1879. Salt Lake City, Utah Ness Bldg..; " Phone Wasatch 5409 J:., 311-12- 1 13 McADOO LOOKS LIKE WINNER It was about 1950 years ago that Jesus Christ rode into Jerusalem a the back of a donkey. He was hailed as tie king of the Jews, he prince of peace and the ruler of the universe. Jerusalem was the irgcst city at that time. Today we have a similar circumstance. William G. McAdoo, vho is called the crown prince, rode into New York City on a ionkey, where he was met by thousands of admirers and hailed as he next ruler of our country. He also rode into our largest city, vhere legions do obeisance to him. The opening shot in the Democratic campaign will be fired next "uesday morning at Madison Square Garden, where the national ielegates will assemble to choose their chief for president of the United States to oppose President Calvin Coolidge, on the Repub-.- 1 :can HP: jj ticket. The Democrats are so sure of victory that the leaders selected !ev York City, the largest city of the Union, for the gathering of he clan and where a fit celebration may be held for this pompous ccasion, which is to mark an epoch in Democracy. The present generation has not witnessed a Democratic convention 111 the metro-olita- n city, and according to reports the visitors will receive a of welcome which will be long remembered. Governor Smith of New York is also out for the nomination. ilr. McAdoo has shown that he is no coward and a real fighter by The McAdoo ;oing into the state of his opponent to give battle. forces are piling in by the hundreds and it would not be a surprise New York City lat the country boys will just swamp them-tha- r hides, and parade McAdoo down Broadway and Fifth avenue as he next king of our country. The Utah delegates will be there with bells and the entire delegation is pledged, heart and soul, to the Hon. McAdoo. They believe e will make the best president the country ever had. re-.epti- 1 - on UTAH ROADS We are in Utah. How can you tell, I dont see any road sign? Just look at the road and you can tell. This is the kind of talk that runs its course among tourists and traveling men who go back and forth over the state line. It is a condition that should not exist in Utah. Idaho, Wyom-:n- g and Colorado roads are all better than our roads. We have spent ur millions in trying to make roads but so far our investments to not net the results obtained in other states. What 15 the matter? Is our state road commission not competent to handle the mat-:e- r r arc the members not concerned much? Are contractors get-:n- g unearned money for unfinished road work? Surely there is chough revenue collected to make' repairs on oads as well as to build some new roads. . : ap-if- . ar In these days of great automobile travel, good roads are the best advertisement any community can have. Travelers will go out of their way to get on good roads. As a result of our poor roads a dilarge portion of the. western tourist migration from the East is verted north and south in Colorado in order to miss our rough roads. These conditions must be remedied immediately, and more attention must be given our main highways. We have already spent more money than is sufficient to put a good road across Utah. A tourist who arrived from Denver during the Week said that he had refused to be diverted from Utah by the reports of bad roads. the moment he hit the Utah line he After leaving found a very rough road and many detours from the main road on account of washouts and neglect of repairs. After leaving Cisco he came to a broken bridge which necessitated a two mile bad detour. There was lumber at the bridge for repairs, and judging from appearances several cars had run into the gap. From the Colorado line to Spanish Fork, the highway for the major portion of the distance was in very bad condition, chucky and rutty. Here and there was found a short stretch of good road. Any tourist going over this road once never attempts the ride again. Going from Salt Lake to Evanston or vice versa, the road from this city to Echo is a boulevard and in splendid condition, but from Echo to the Wyoming line the road is harrow, chucky, full of ruts and not taken care of. In Colorado a road patrol has been established. The men em- ployed have a certain mileage to look after and all holes and ruts in the road are immediately filled with appropriate road material and it is a real pleasure to travel on the highways of that state. Grand-Junctio- n . . OUR DRYNESS At the convention of physicians held in Chicago recently, it was announced that drunkenness has increased considerably unde the Eighteenth amendment. A demand was also made for more liberality in the use of alcohol in the treatment of disease. Wines, porter, ales and beer are said to be effective in certain rundown conditions and at least bring temporary relief to sufferers and there appears to be no good reason to prevent prescriptions in cases of illness. Reports have it that the bootleggers have a way of treating wood alcohol, fit for consumption that is instead of killing the consumer immediately, it takes about two or three years to bring about death or a deplorable condition of miserable existence. Willful murderers who peddle this poison should be dealt with in a most severe manner, and in all cases the makers of moonshine should be held responsible for the conditions resulting from their nefarious trade. The bootlegger is undermining the integrity of our country and why our officials do not get rid of this ulcer is a mystery and , |