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Show THE CITIZEN 4 the people like to go there, hut they arc getting tired of being does not mean that the auto driver has the right to blind bored to deatli on tliis side of the water with the rantings of re- into traffic. It is well known, and nearly every auk driver knows it, that if a person was to strictly adhere! formers who are well paid for their services. that such individual would not live a week, 1 Many convention dates are arranged in Canadian cities. Why should our people want to go to Canada? There must be are several hundred drivers in this city that should be One and two dollar some reason and there is. People are getting tired of having and made respect the right-of-wasome stool pigeon spying on them when they arrive in a strange a joke. city. The American people will not meekly submit to injustice UTAH GAS. and the prohibition law has done more to teach disrespect for law than anything else in the history of this nation. The people The opening of the new headquarters of the Utah should respect all laws, but radical laws will never be respected Coke company on North Main street is a credit to the dl by the majority. When will the people. awaken to their own interests? speaks well for the integrity and business ability of theofj If it is a crime to drink liquor in this city, for instance, why and directors of the gas company. Gas has become a popular fuel in this city and with 4 would it not be a crime for the American ctiizen to drink in a foreign land? Whsky is whisky whether it is here or in Europe, ent day equipment for heating and cooking there is nor and a crime is a crime, no matter where committed. The fact why the average housewife should be compelled to dru of the matter is that no person seriously believes that it is a with the old fashioned dirty coal stove. The company has installed itself in commodious crime to take a drink of liquor. where it has on exhibition stoves and heating furnaces I home. Courteous employes wait upon customers ande SCHOOL CHILDREN. gas in the home. Every person and home owner Thirteen thousand youths, all school boys ranging in age visit the new store, where all are welcome, and inform' from six years up, paraded the streets of the city last Saturday selves upon the economy of gas. More gas in the home smoke in the citv. in one of the most significant and inspiring parades ever 'witnessed in this citv. It was a spectacle which the viewers will never forget, and many proud fathers, mothers, relatives and SILVER MONEY. spectators crowded the Main street, the line of march. It was Young America marching to the front and anyone who say Recently the Burgess Battery company of Madison, to the these young and ontiotic Americans in line, keeping step paid its 1,400 employees their full regular "two weeks pr beat of drums, immediately come to the conclusion that so long of $72,000 in new silver dollars. The banks and stores ofi as the youth ore sn t?uurht end brought up there never need lie son saw more silver in the next two days than they hads any fear for the safer of tins nptiop Ever- little fellow in the years before for silver of dollar size has been almost hue Thats what we ought to do in Utah. AYe produce the? parade was as proud as a peacock. The students were divided according to their seh'Ws. Each school company bore the colors in this state but we use very little of it. If all western stall of their school, renonted either bv banner or some partial dared a silver basis, it would not take long to produce prc dress decoration, all of which made a pleasing contrast in the ity. It is another home industry that most of, us fail top line of march. ize. Prosperity knocks at our door but we turn our hack The parade was conducted bv A. T. Davis, chairman, and If silver is a good circulating medium, the Burgess con George Martin, grand roehah under the ausnices of the B. P. has taken the right means to put Secretary Mellon s money 0. Elks lodre No P5. and the success of the affair was a glowing into service using silver instead of paper money. "When tribute to the order. Sherman said that the way to resume specie payment is There were 53 school represented in the line of parade sume, he proclaimed a fact so old and so commonplace and there wee 53 mdect. Each school earned a rmV.e and they financiers and statesmen had overlooked it. That is the were so evenly matched for first honors that it would have been now ; the way to use silver is to use it, and the business of? a very hard matter to properly designate the winners. It was a mining will come back to par. novel idea to provide a prize for each entry, and the happiness Though silver has not reached a satisfactory price, ft created thereby was worth double the price. promises to be a better silver year than 1924. Silver is st This citv mav well be proud of its school children, the com- - worlds choice for hand money; the silverless nations pi to take more for coinage this year than during the past ing business men and leaders of Utah. years. Lead, copper and zinc, the metals with which silver most invariably found, wil be benefited by a greater use of; RECKLESS DRIVING. lie right-of-wa- y, y. . qm V on; Tli ran i s-- Ac k (i: ft Automobile victims are becoming numerous and they range from chihlre nto old men and women.. The careless driver who rolls into congested districts at the rate of 35 or 50 miles an hour depending upon everybody to get out of his or her way is the one that does most of the damage. There may be some unavoidable accidents but they are mighty few. The fellow who cannot wait, but plunges ahead as if he was on a fire run is the one who brings sadness and tears into many homes. Some pass on and leave their bleeding victims on the highway, while others stop and try to lay all the blame upon the unlucky pedestrian. It is a noticeable fact that the person driving a car that slows up sufficient to hold the car in control when approaching crossings and congested districts on the thoroughfare never have accidents ; it is also a noticeable fact that many of the same people have several accidents each year. Of course the highway is for vehicle traffic and when pedestrians step on to the road they should be very careful, but that ,TJ ir TOURISTS. The completion of the AYendover road is to he celebra the near future. This road now completes a circuit with fornia and Nevada, and on this circuit is seen seme of the wonderful mountain scenery of the world. The mitoist sti at Los Angeles enters Utah at St. George and ;dong tb can be seen Zions canyon, Bryce canyon, Alt. N cbo, can0 panogas and its wonderful cave in American then the entrace to Salt Lake City. From lien the tnrl turns to California by going west over the V endo'?r F-r- through Nevada to Sail Francisco. The eastern tourist that does not wish to - faT than Utah will see Utahs Lest rugged scenery :y ent? state on roads leading to the Bear lake, where sm inior J excellent, the going through the scenic Logan cimyon From there the roads are a boulevard to St. Georg? . if Gi |