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Show Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Addrese all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clza- t matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at 8alt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Salt Lake City, Utah Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409 Published Every Saturday GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO INC. E. SOHEFSKI, Editor A. W. RAYBOULD, Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: bdlng postage In the United 8tates Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, rsix months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal 450 per year. DY 811-12-- 18 MOUNTAIN DELL DAM time ago The Citizen told the people of this city that the iin Dell reservoir dam was not safe, and the lives of the people e of Sugarhouse was at stake. Why the daily. papers come out with this news, we know not. However, after The told the story in a front page editorial, the Salt Lake Telegram ins up in an illustrated article, which condemned the old dam, vas practically a new dam, and which at this time should be ian when it was built. Real cement hardens under water, ie taxpayers money has been ruthlessly thrown away on this : One contractor had offered to put in a gravity dam for the :f the old dam, or. could have built at least three, dams that save safely held the water of the Dell dam, for the present cost property Dell t 'i dam. dam was built of rotten material. Parts of it could be nth a jack knife. Why our city engineer under whose super-li- e dam was built and the inspectors who were put on guard iat the proper ingredients were put into the dam, were not on f is hard to tell. Surely they must have known that a dam Kas to hold such a tremendous amount of water must be made best materials and solidly constructed, and they surely must id some! concern for the population of a large section of our ie however that we did not have any engineers here who aeir business, and did not have at the time the new addition to ms built. Hence, the importation of Noetzli. M not the city commissioners import Fred A. Noetzli, an product, to pass on the dam? Yes, and this same icame out with a statement at the time arid said that the old is safe. The writer went to the dam with several engineers and pronounced the wor a crime and an outrage and the sloppiest had ever seen. The contractors association of this city profit unsafe, and it was unsafe. Me did the people of Sugarhouse know, how close they were at 'door, for this old mud contraption might have gone out at any al-Mifor- iy o. IDOL OF BASEBALL DIES. old appears . . water proofing totals nearly as much as the old dam cost in the first place, and had it been constructed of proper materials there would have had to be no resurfacing. And so it is that the taxjayers money is spent at least three dollars where one would suffice. Here is a case for the taxpayers organization to dig into and see whats wrong. It dont take many of these kinds of jobs to washout the treasury. After another wall of concrete has been put over the inside face of the old dam, it ought to make it perfectly safe and the worries of the Sugarhouse people come to an end, but up to the present time they have taken a big chance with that reservoir full of water. 1 y believe that was one reason why there was so much make the people believe that the dam had to be raised, in or-to work to make the old dam safe. lt honestly H Christy Mathewson, the idol of baseball fans and a diamond hero that every youngster tried to emulate, with a record of sixteen years in major baseball that still stands unbeaten, this beloved player and mighty twirler, was struck out by that fatal disease, tuberculosis, culminating in pneumonia. Everywhere in the world where baseball is played the name of Mathewson is linked with baseball, and no player in the history of the game has ever been held in such high esteem or was so well known as this great player. To a great extent Mathewson was responsible for putting the Giants at the head of the National league. His best season came in 1908 when he struck out 259 men in 56 games, at which time he was crowned the king of all pitchers. He also pitched 83 shoutout victories. His death came on the day of the opening of the worlds baseball series, thus even unto death was this great players name linked with the national game. When all the world was talking baseball and the Pittsburg and Washington clubs were on the diamond at Pittsburg, Mathewson was on his dying bed and before midnight the fans were advised that the Mighty Mathewson had been and a fanned gloom was cast over baseballdom. Baseball has lost one of its greatest men and the nation has lost a beloved citizen. CHILD LABOR. Jat do we find now? cat lias been let out or of the bag. k imported Noetzli has changed his opinion, a privilege of khas a perfect right to, and according to Thursday Evenings Telegram, Mr. Noetzli informs the commission that it is Mthat e steps be taken to stop seepage of water through the con-thde- old part of the dam to prevent further and continued of the concrete. We would quote the word concrete, cslen also declared that the work was in the nature of an requiring. that immediate work on the water proofing be n sir 3 . repairs, 1 patching up and the additional $40,000 asked for President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, successor to the late Samuel Gompers, has found a live campaign hssus. If he had his way, he would amend the Constitution of the United States and insert the child labor amendment, a law which would practically take away all parental control of children and pass it over to the federal government. If every father and mother of this nation would take the trouble to read and carefully studv the meaning of this proposed child labor amendment, they would shun it as they would poison. There has been no more vicious legislation proposed in this country than to take . |