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Show THE CITIZEN 4 but make their money from the concessions. Get the people inside is the slogan and they will spend the money. Another mistake was made by our fair board when they permitted several automobile racing men to stage a race at their own terms at holdup prices. Automobile racing on a half mile dirt tack is a joke to begin with. Fast time cannot be made nor the larger racing machines be used, unless they are driven slowly. It cost $3 or $4 to get a good seat and then the spectator was given nothing for his money. A rider on a bicycle could easily have followed the machines around the tack in the time they made. A good bicycle race would have been far more thrilling and exciting to the public. The Salt Lake public is well trained in racing and when the racing card was announced it was then a foregone conclusion that the gate would not produce the $12,000 the auto racers looked for. The people refused to be held up and a small crowd was the result. The race promoter told the fair board that his card would draw fifteen or twenty thousand people to the fair, but oh, what a sad awakening! It takes men of experience to sign up attractions and be able to avoid the many sure things which come along and which try to get in on the money at the expense of the promoter. The kind of a fair we had this year, it would have been better had the fair been postponed for a year. It was not up to the standard and thousands of complaints and disappointments have been heard regarding it. CHILD LABOR. There is a national crusade on to prohibit called, in the United States. The contemplated vide that boys and girls under the age of 18, years ought to be the limit, under which they child labor, as it is legislation will some probelieve that 16 cannot work at any We believe in the Constitution of the United States which gives the right to every man, woman and child to make a living in this country, regardless of age, color or religion. Some of our newsboys on the street are business men, and some of our biggest and richest business men of today were newsboys when they were childr., dont forget that, and many of them have saved other members of the family from going to bed without a bite to cat. Let us have more constructive legislation, and less fanatical and crime producing legislation. ! j ) ! GIANT SHIP ARRIVES Aerial navigators have at last realized their dreams a nona stop airship flight over the Atlantic ocean. The Zeppelin, ZR-giant airship which was built in Germany for the United States left her berth at the construction plant in Germany and landed aV he Airdome, Lakehurst, N. J., 81 hours after starting. While other flights have been made over the Atlantic the present one is the longest and most satisfartory one. The flight of this ship was the talk of the entire world. Would the big ship be successful? and many other questions 3, were asked. The giant ship was first sighted in New York City and after making a few circles around the metropolis, the big mechanical air bird turned its nose to its future home in New Jersey where an immense crowd had gathered to give the aerial globe trotters a rousing reception. President Coolidge congratulated Dr. Hugo Eckener, German commander of the ship in the following as published in the Salt Lake Telegram: occupation, will be enacted. I congratulate you upon the successful completion of the When child labor is first mentioned the ordinary individual of voyage of the great dirigible, which you have brought from course is strictly opposed to it, because the picture of a five or to the United States. It is not merely a stirring experience child presents itself to his mind. Our reformers, however, Germany a splendid adventure. Far more, it is an epochal achievement belike in all cases, are going to the extreme and will endeavor to raise cause it demonstrates as never before the facility of long distance the age limit to where in many instances some of our fathers and than air craft and their ability to carry significant mothers got married, and not only that, but they made good in flight by lighter tonnages in passengers or cargo. The skill and efficiency of the life. Germans building such wonderful aircraft and your skill in sky The Citizen is opposed to infant labor, but where boys and girls without stop or mishap from Friedrichshafen, Germany can go out and make a few dollars during vacation time after school navigating interest. to Lakehurst, N. J., is an event of world-wid- e dollar and every closes, especially in cases where the parents are poor It is a matter of great satisfaction to me and to the people of counts, it is a blessing to have boys and girls who will work. Idleness is the best food to produce criminals. A boy or a girl the United States that the peaceful relations between Germany and that does not have to work until either of them attain the marriage- America have been fully reestablished and that this great airship has able age have a hard time in this life, unless they are born with a inaugurated the first direct air flight between Germany and America. I hope that your stay in the United States will be enjoyable silver spoon in their mouth, and they are the ones who are most apt and that the notable service you have rendered in bringing over this to go wrong because of lack of the proper training. airship will be a matter of satisfaction and pride to you throughout Of course any industrial business which makes a practice of hirlife. Calvin Coolidge. ing young people at a much smaller wage than is given older people, your This ship is what the United States has secured out of the World but who produce practically the same amount of labor, is a thing not to be desired. The law should provide that any one who performs War, and represents practically an expenditure of thirty billions a mans work, or a womans work, no matter what the age, should of dollars. be paid accordingly. Then there would be no necessity for the presGOOD TIMES. ent agitation, but where our public officials allow some favorite to promote his business with underpaid young people it is a crime and the fault of the law. According to present indications the American people do not What would become of this nation if no one under the age of 18 allow political elections to interfere with their business and industrial years was allowed to work. How many of our young people would pursuits. We find stocks, bonds, agricultural products, etc., on a rising be able to finish their education if they could not work to pay their market preceding a presidential election, something that has not hap- pened in the past. This speaks well for the country and a thrifty way through school? Has idleness ever produced a big man? people. Has labor a degrading effect ? GERMAN LOAN Does industry make a good citizen? Will not such a law produce more criminals? We say it will. The German loan only lasted 12 minutes in this country. The Because we know that idleness produces crime. If our laws make drones out of our boys and girls can it be $$110,000,000 allotted to this country was taken up so quickly that the expected that they can be reformed immediately they reach a certain promoters gasped for breath. It is said that $1,000,000,000 would have been taken just as quickly. age? We believe habits arc very hard to break. trans-Atlant- ic six-year-o- ld ! : j f : J j i |