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Show THE CITIZEN 4 into our state is by the railroad or by airplane, and that is not much consolation to the traveling autoist. Not quality but mileage. Surely there must be some mistake about this. If such a statement came from the gasoline and tire companies, we would know the reason why, but when the leading morning newspaper comes out with such piffle, and then emphasises its stand by saying, those were words of wisdom, then we can come to the only natural conclusion that there is an effort to keep Utah buried from the public gaze. Our tourist trade fell off considerable last year and there was Poor roads was much newspaper comment regarding the same. given as the reason, and we positively know that poor roads did hold many tourists from visiting our grand state. The Chamber of Commerce has recently collected $75,000 for state advertising purposes. Wont this money be wasted if we send out the information that Utah does not care about the quality of her roads? If we could announce this coming summer that our roads are as good as any in the country, every tourist coming from the east would visit this city. If the Chamber of Commerce put this $75,000 into good roads, the United States government would advance three times that amount which would make a total of $225,000, with which we could build several miles of cement highway, and that would be about as good advertising as we could get. B. J. Finch is the district engineer of the United States Bureau of Public Roads for Utah. He is a member of the American Association of State Highway Officials. He appears to think gravel roads good enough for us. The president of this association, Fred R. White, appeared before Congress submitting facts and figures on road building, and the figures he furnished on road construction, and the wTear and tear upon automobiles and gasoline consumption upon all kinds of roads, from the dirt road to the best Portland concrete cement road, conclusively prove that there is a vast difference in roads. An automobile driven over a dirt road will probably go to pieces within three years; but the automobile driven upon a good paved road will last a life time. The figures submitted by Mr. White were secured from experiments which cost millions of dollars and the actual cost of the automobile upon the various roads is figured down to the fraction of a cent, and the tests that were made, some by states, some by the government, and some by our leading colleges, can be absolutely depended upon. It has been absolutely proven that where it costs $2.20 to run an automobile over a poor dirt road, that the same car can be run the same distance over a cement road for $1. Tire wear is in about the same proportion. If the automobile can save so much money running over good roads, then why not built them as soon as possible. We have been building dirt roads for 50 years and not one such road is safe in rainy weather. If the dirt road is kept in any kind of condition it takes from $200 to $300 per mile for the years upkeep. Now, it is a matter of record that it only cost $35 per mile to maintain the paved highway through Davis county last year. In other words if we try to build gravel roads in this state instead of laying pavement it would take nearly all the money collected for repairs. The farmer is tired of the dirt road. He also wants a good paved highway. We pave around our large cities and then we want to quit. Why not quit building brick houses and sky scrapers and go back to the mule streetcar? If the League of Nations is to be used only to promote interna-- , tional pink teas and is only a social organization, we believe that the officers of the League should donate their services instead of pulling down large salaries, under the pretense that the League is doing something for humanity. When France and Great Britain agree that the League of Nation shall not interfere in British or French affairs, the matter is settled; for those powers control the council of the League. They called a halt when the Council was anxious to take charge of the Corfu controversy. They have no difficulty in inducing Japan and Italy to agree to their program, as both of those powers have obtained concessions which constitute a satisfactory quid pro quo. The control exercised by the four powers in question over the League council is an illustration of the fact frequently emphasized in the United States, but overlooked by League of Nations zealots, viz.: that the League of Nations in its actual workings is merely an agency of the great powers and utterly unable to act independently of them or contrary to their will. Americans have no objection to this. They have no interest in the subject. Their objection arises only when it is urged that the United States should join this little ring of powers for the purpose of regulating the affairs of Europe, Asia and Africa. Why should we trust the League of Nations to regulate our affairs, if the two biggest powers already in the League refuse to he guided by it? If they dont trust the League, why should the United States? CHILD DABOR. The proposed twentieth amendment to the Constitution of the United States has become a national question and the reformers are working hard to pass states rights on to Congress. The proposed bill is as follows: Section 1. Tlje Congress shall have power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons nuder eighteen years of age. Section 2. The power of the several states is unimpaired by this article except that the operation of state laws shall be suspended to the extent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by the Congress. The people of Massachusetts overwhelmingly defeated this amendment. No doubt they thought that Massachusetts could take care of her own children better than could be done at Washington. But not all states will give the matter the attention it had in During the past few years it has been easy to pass new legislation, and no matter how detrimental it may prove thereafter, there is a lack of interest among the people to take up the fight to correct or repeal it afterwards. There is all kinds of propaganda for and against the amendment. What sentiment has been created for or against transferring the powers of Utah to Washington is yet to be seen and no douht will receive serious consideration in the house and senate when our legislature convenes after the first of the year. Farmers are being told that the bill will in no way effect child labor on the farms. The amendment does not in any way specffiy any exemptions, but distinctly states that Congress shall have t;c power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons und r LEAGUE OF NATIONS. eighteen years of age, and the person who can see any class legis in these two lines is a dandy. Some say that it is absurd to The British Government has very properly advised the League accuse Congress of being unable to use discretion in this matter, a .id of Nations that it will not tolerate interference in the controversy with ' no sane man would prohibit children from working on farms in t;ie ie Egypt, whether this interference is offered by the League or by any busy season, and the law is not so intended. If that is the way government acting separately. The questions at issue are declared to farmer wants conditions to be lie had better get busy and claim excii pnt be wholly domestic in character, relating to engagements entered into tion under the proposed law, because if he does not, and the pres between Great Britain and Egypt, and pertaining to the execution of amendment becomes a law, he will be just as. much subject to t at law as the factory man. If a youth is big and strong enough to Britains duty toward both Egypt and the Sudan. $ Thus it is seen how inoperative the League of Nations is. Greece work on the farm, lie can also perform in the factory. We believe that each state can take care of its child labor la vs went to war with Turkey and the League sat idly by looking at the w fight through a long telescope. Italy forced a neighbor to do certain Washington has already taken on too much trouble and worry adding another commission and it would take a government things and told the League to keep out.- Now England demands commissioner for each stale adding millions of dollars to the reparations with threats of war and the League is also ignored. Massa-chusett- s. n' t th-o- ut - ! |