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Show Published Every Saturday GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO.v INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Manager SCHEFSKI, Editor BY K E. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: . eluding postage in the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, tforiix rr onths. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal $4.50 pir year. 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 8alt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 5409 Phone Wasatch Ness Bldg. . Salt Lake City, Utah ' 311-12-- . 13 OUR CITY STREETS article published some time ago in Colliers Weekly, writ-.- ; we believe, by Julian Street the very direct statement was made Salt Lake City was the best lighted and poorest paved city of its 1 importance in the United States. The truth of this state-t- , complimentary in one sense and very derogatory in the other, is ily evident to anyone posessed of sufficient interest in the submake a personal investigation. Especially is this so relative to In an refers to paving. The people of Salt Lake, having convinced themselves of this should, in justice to themselves, set about to find ways and means rrecting this evil, for evil it is, and one that militates not alone t the general appearance of things, the comfort and convenience tizens and visitors alike, hut also very materially affects the itbook of the taxpayer as well. Probably the greatest reason for our city not having already ;ened to a full sense of our citys deficiency in this respect is due fact that we have become so accustomed to bumping and jolt-ve- r the scandalously uneven surfaces of the vast majority of that we take it as a matter of fact that there are no better or even surfaces and decide to make the best of it. Based on this oint we have much to learn and should commence to profit by periences of other cities that have mastered the problem of indent pavements and are rectifying that evil and profiting accord- - iart that Take Seattle, the metropolis of our great Northwest, for instance, several years, that city has been constructing almost ingbut portland cement concrete pavements of standard mix and ess. By careful attention to modem construction methods, concrete pavements are proving vastly superior in every sense word to the old and obsolete types of paving material that have their day. Just as sure as the cement concrete pavement has sup-w- l all other types on the heavy traffic highways of the country, sure it will take the place of other materials in making safe, h and durable the streets of our cities. Seattle is not alone in this respect, Los Angeles has already hun-- f miles of concrete streets and is building more, while many 8 of the great cities of the nation are doing likewise. We dont to leave our own state, however, to find wonderful examples terete street paving. A visit to Logan, Provoj Nephi, Spring-- 1 Spanish Fork and Price will furnish ample exemplification of tycrior qualifications of that type of construction. The execell-street- s of these cities is a matter of general comment on the visitors and they so far overshadow our own in the way of that our public officials may well take heed and the past 8 all-efficien- 1 y the cy example thereof. CRIMINALS decreed that a murder, probably a double murder, was Uusly avoided last Saturday when a would be murderous thug I snapped his gun point blank at Patrolman G. L. Schweitzer and- - fail- ed to go off. The officer was beaten to the draw and might have been instantly killed, but the snapping thugs gun refused to bark, which gave the officer an opportunity to bring his gun into play and that was made useless because of a jam. It should be a lesson to all police officers to every day carefully, inspect their guns to see that they are properly cleaned; oiled, fitted, with the right cartridges and in proper working order. By this time ; Schweitzer might have been laying in the cemetery and grieved over by his relatives and just because he was a little slow on the draw-anr held an unworkable revolver. The man who carves out his career for a police officer should by all means take every precaution for his protection and when he scents danger he should be prepared to meet any emergency. There is absolutely no excuse for any officer to possess a gun which jams or does not work perfectly. All high class guns, if given even ordinary : attention, are ready for instant use, and it is by mere chance that this brave police officer is walking his beat today. Men of the calibre of this thug who would destroy an innocent life should be held behind the bars until their criminal natures were curbed, even if it had to take a life time to do it. Society, has no room for such hardened criminals and officers should take no chance with them and should be prepared to shoot to kill. This thug was recently pardoned by our board of pardons. He has a long record of crime. Although a burglar of the murderous type, with a long record of crime and jail sentences, our kind hearted pardons board saw fit to turn this criminal loose upon the public and in less than one month from the time he gained his freedom he tries to shoot down one of our police officers. For shame, you members of the pardon board, have you nothing to say to the public, why you wilfully turn such criminals loose into our midst? What hold have the criminals here upon you that you turn so many loose before the expiration of their time? If you consider our courts a farce and the penalties too harsh, why dont you come out like men and tell the people that the judges in our courts, the police officers, and others connected in running down our criminals, do not know their business. Do you think for one moment that you can make a virtuous person from the one who is saturated with deceit, malice, cruelty and ingratitude? Instead your feeling should not be more mild than execration and scorn. Do not your tender mercies invite the criminal rather than discourage? Did the criminals elect you to office, or did the law abiding citizens elect you in order that peace and good will may be preserved among the people? Surely we cannot understand your actions as a pardons board, but surely you are big enough and honorable enough to realize that ; . d - -- . ab-horenc- e, |
