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Show THE CITIZEN 4 is repair the leaks when it rained, and when it did not rain there was no sun, where he ate his supper. His remarkable flight the talk of t rj necessity to make the repairs. As long as there was no trouble in the whole world, an accomplished feat which no one had ever thoue could be preformed. He raced with the sun, as it were, across i water department, things went along smoothly, but just as soon trouble appeared, the lack of experience boldly appears and it plains, valleys and mountains of this great continent. Had he exteiv may cost the tax payers a huge sum of money. Experience is always himself to his best efforts he would have landed in San Francis before the sun had vanished beyond the horizon. He played, san purchased at a dear price. The taxpayers are paying for it now. As long as the reservoirs in Parleys canyon are overflowing first, however, and took extra precautions at every landing pj;. there need be no great alarm over the water question because a real where he stopped to take on fuel and to have his plane overhaul-- th With failure twice before, nothing seemed to daunt Maughan in shortage can be taken care of at all times. stuff, and it would cross country flight and sticktoitiveness finally brought him gre Most of the big noise appears like not be surprising to have the politicians take advantage of low water aviation honors. He has paved the way for others and he has ptac illo for another big bond issue. Those city boys sure do like to handle the United States in the front in aerial performances. While Maugh large, sums of money. It would not be a bad stunt at all to frighten was making this historic flight, other American boys are flying arou the world having already passed the half way point and upon the the people into a bond issue. A bond issue at this time would certainly be a big boost for political campaign purposes. Of course we do return will also be hailed as heroes of the air. Uncle Sam is sure proud of his boys. not know that there is even a thought of a bond issue, but there is something peculiar about this water shortage. It would not be a bad idea for a committee of business men to NEW PARTIES. check the water supply in the canyons at the intakes and prorate it among the people as per water connections in the city. It will prove The independents, progressives, farmer-labo- r, etc., will meet Salt Lakers a revelation to the people and it will also show that we convention July 4 at Cleveland, Ohio, where Senator La Follette ms use more water per capita than any people on earth. become the candidate of a third party in the race for presidential hoi is a in the What is mostly needed capable ors. With a third city water department party in the field, it will be hard to predict who v and distribution the understands waterworks official who thoroughly be our next president of these great United States. It must not of the system. requirements discounted that La Follette has a big following throughout the coul try and the question at stake is which party will he injure the most GOOD ROADS Crafty politicians are behind the new movement which in this d; or of much criticism and fault finding in the ranks of both the old parti a( The Utah State Automobile association endorses our position in a number of into voters the new than ai may swing larger party regard to maintaining excellent roads, especially the main highways of the old party leaders have any idea of. It is almost certain th crossing the state north and south and west and east. No matter what several states can be carried by the new party. attractions the state may have, poor roads invariably diverts travel, The leaders of this new party will no doubt promise the peopj and as the average automobile tourist cannot see all the points of on the calendar and the easly influenced will take the bait- interest because of limited time, they always follow the good roads. anything hook, sinker and all. It is a well known fact that many of the labc Utah should have better roads than we have for the amount of unions are ready and prepared to support a new party thereby hopii has them. been into that money put to advance their interests materially. The following letter was received from W.D.Rishel, manager of Propaganda has been circulated of late years favoring more pa the Utah State Automobile touring bureau: ties in this country to combat the Republican and Democratic party vft Editor, The Citizen. Dear Sir - You are absolutely on the right track in your recent It is pointed out that in Europe many parties secure better resul SH editorial condemning the policy of Utah in not improving its highways than we do in this country with only two parties in the field, and tl Ij011 r&ni idea appears to be taking. leading directly in the State. There is room for another party also that is if certain interes mil 8 For the past two years we have lost thousands upon thousands ' of tourists to the north of us and to the south of us because our East believe in what they preach. If the drys and all those who ai f and West roads were not in fit shape for them to travel over. drawing huge salaries as officers in the various prohibition organizft We are now spending thousands of dollars to bring the tourists tions who claim that the people want the United States to rcmai here and then place a barrier against them coming by not improving dry are in earnest, they should put up a candidate for president. ii'g the nation is so dry as some would make us believe a dry candidal our roads so they can get here. The great stream of travel is East and West. Here is where we could be elected hands down. The truth of the matter is that a dry candidate for preside! are weak. Just remember, there always will be just as much East-boun- d tourist travel as there is Westbound, because every tourist would receive such few votes that the dog catcher around the conic who visits the West must return and every tourist going East must could beat him for the office. also return. In a race between a wet and a dry candidate for presioen Yellowstone Park and Grand Canyon are two big important tour we believe the wet would win easily. At least such are presem ii ?ic ist points. The only way we can get full benefits from these two points dications of elections held during the past two years. is the building and improving of short and direct East and West highSalt Lake, with side trips to these points from SALT ways into SPIRITED CONVENTION. B1 ' as-rea- l : pre-electi- on , :- LAKE. The more you agitate the importance of our East and West nections in your columns, the sooner will we get results. con- UTAHS CHAMPIONS Utah is fast gaining a reputation for famous men, especially in the athletic line. However, probably the greatest achievement yet accamplished by a Utahn was the flight by Lieutenant Russel L. Maugan, of Logan, Utah, when he hopped off at New York Gty just before daylight after eating a hearty breakfast, and landed safely in San Francisco an hour after the setting of the trans-continent- al If William G. McAdoo had any idea that he was going to b over easily at the Democratic convention in New York City is now in session, he reckoned without his hosts. Never before i history of the Democratic party were there so many aspirants f th joa nomination for candidate for president as at this time. It must 00 fie to the Democrats like sure victory and every one wishes to be j dent. At this writing, although the convention had been in sc for three days, the delegates had been unable to select a favorite an the varius candidates were all holding their pledged delegate.'-ia real race in which it is hard to pick the winner, who may yet man not mentioned by any of the leaders of the party. s v. |