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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Manager e SHEFil, Editor SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: postage in the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, 12.50 per year, Jx months. Subscriptiona to all foreign countries, within the Postal ty i Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Phone Wasatch 5409 Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah 311-12-- ilOper year. 13 HY KEEP THE FA CTORIES CLOSED ? ical t recently, the Chamber of Commerce ran a series of sing article on home products. Some of the paragraphs this : e oil cant build a city if you send your orders away, pat build? a city! Business! And the faster the dollars flow through its the faster the city grows and the more ts citizens become. of trade; Is prosi- my business transaction made locally is taxed and the A for the education of your children, and the unit of your city. al concerns have their buildings and stock here and concerns fleers and employees live here. used Out-of-to- an office and a canvasser here.,, at is a fine stand for the Commercial JJy F wn club to take and it by the citizens, about the time these advertisements were being run in busi-i- , press, Mayor C. Clarence Neslen appealed to the and to the people in general, to provide work for the Be who had no way of living except through charity. !ie supported i also good. what is the real situation? Are we living up to irtisemouts ? Are we doing as we preach? fever, service with less maintenance over any other pavement, and Chicago says concrete is the most enduring pavement of all. The highest road authorities of the world are for concrete, and yet in the face of all such facts, T. T. Burton refuses to patronize his own home industry. Tliat is not all. In the Bates test in Illinois, the pavement of the same description which Mr. Burton proposes to lay failed in the test where cement pavements enduring which were only five inches thick. Every engineer of the world is familiar with the Bates road tests in which concrete was selected as the best road material on earth. Is Utah going to keep our cement plants closed? I)o California interests pay Air. Burtons salary and do they pay our taxes? By all means, let us use home materials and thereby pul our idle men to work. Thats what all other states are doing. The Chamber of Commerce says, you cant build a city of you send your orders away. Let us practice what we preach. This paper is for home industries, first, last and all the time. We can live under no other conditons. We demand that cement pavement be included in the citys specifications. advertising intention of CONCRETE ROADS between Thirteenth and utli Street. The engineering department was In constructing highways in the United States it is noticeT. T. Burton to eliminate concrete pave-i- d able fact that wherever one secs a table of roads, the concrete asked for specifications for patented bitulithic and cement from seven to ten to one in numpredominates highway ted bituminous California li products. He refuses to ber of miles laid. The cause of laying so much concrete paveproducts ! ment is not an accident; it is laid because it is the best road Citizen asks the Commercial club and the manufactur- material in existence today, and no pavement- is laid without Jsociation, if it is right to eliminate the home product in concrete base even if the top is of some other infcrioi matei ial. a for the California product. The cement plants of federal government encourages concrete roads and the The $jy,uicn.closed. When running, they employ between 300 of highwavs is no exception to the rule in Utah. Utah paving to Mayor Neslen asks us to give employment is blessed with a road commission of members of high moral The' Commercial club collects $75,000 anually to and integrity, which men are continuall) voiking for standing us and asks people to come in here, and right now the interest of the people. Rreston (r. Betci son is (ban man pV1 industry laying idle which is not supported by of the board, and Henry H. Blood and Henry W. Lunt are the commission. It is true tliat T. T. Burton is commis- twro members, with Howard C. Means the chief engineer other f streets, but who is he that the other four city commisis considered one of the best road construction engineers City of Salt Lake today is Fourth Last street four blocks i noti-Coimnissio- ner con-Jta- ?hould how to, and where does he get the information fj0,,t pawment is not good enough for the streets of 1 who of the west . 485.51 miles of high- With federal aid we have constructed about 70 miles under construcare there and state this in ways ,city engii Bering department is on record as Staying that all this mileage there are only 8.44 Of time. the at tion present puiing is as good as and if such is the case why any, of bituminous roads, while cement concrete runs into a miles pur I101110 want the products? Thats the question people much concrete road r? Twt rk says cement pavement is superior to all total of 88 OG miles or over ten times as bituminous. There are also 2(57.18 miles of good gravel &lauite concrete .JkeCity? jfj A dock; Philadelphia says gives good |