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Show Published Every Saturday GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. FRANK E. 8CHEFSKI, Editor and Manager 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: Including postage In the United 8tates Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. BY 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 postofflce at 8alt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Phone Wasatch 5409 811-12-- 18 Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah DOES PA VING RING CONTROL People are beginning to wonder whether this city is controlled by a paving trust. It appears nearly impossible to secure anything but a certain type of pavement, the materials of which are not a Utah product. Then again every effort is made to lay patented pavements, which in nearly every city in the United States of any importance, is prohibited. Our best national engineers very plainly state that the patented pavement is not superior to the unpatented, regardless whether that pavement be cement or bitulithic. For patented pavement there is a royalty charge of not less than 25 cents per square yard, and as much more as the minipulators can secure by boosting prices. Why the taxpayers should pay for something they do not get has never been explained. We do know, however, that wherever patented pavement is used there is always one company that is a representative of the patented article, and they are in a position to eliminate nearly all competition as regards bids. And heretofore the request of the people as regards a certain kind of pavement asked for has been entirely ignored. Whenever it becomes known that the people on a certain street want pavement, agents become busy in boosting their product. The royalty, plus the big profits is worth going after, but the taxpayers are waking up to the fact that there is something wrong and that they have been paying for something below standard. All large eastern cities have gone through the same fight that we are having here at present Just recently a western city held an election and ousted the entire city council and engineer in order to get rid of the patented octopus. The new officers even refused to receive bids from the patented company to lay other than their own pavement. On Thirteenth East, between First and Second South, we find a similar condition. Here the gravel teams, the coal teams, all take to the car tracks, winter and summer. During the summer the blacktop pavement is so soft that it is impossible to pull a heavy load and in the winter this pavement is so slippery that horses cannot travel it. Thus the car tracks get all the brunt of travel and of course it makes it harder on the streetcar company to keep its track in repair. This is not hearsay. It is an actual fact. If any citizen wishes to satisfy himself as regards the true conditions, a few moment of his time will suffice to convince him. The people of First West, between Third and Seventh South streets want their street paved. Residents on this street have called at this office and have complained of alleged underhanded work which is being done to pave this street with a certain kind of pavement. They claim that if matters are allowed to drift, the taxpayers 'will be compelled to pay for a royalty pavement, and they do not want to pay this royalty. The city commission should take a decided stand against any kind of patented pavement, whether concrete or blacktop, or they should go on record and tell the people that the patented article is the best. If this patented pavement is not good enough for Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Washingon, it is not good enough for this city. GENEVA If our senators at Washington are not now disgusted with the present proceedings at Geneva in regard to the League and the Court, then we must question their fitness to remain at Washington . Such bickerings and intrigue as is carried on by You cant fool the automobile driver. lie knows from ex- the European politicians in playing their game, each to win, American a strict nationalist, to make every perience that it is much easier on his car and gasoline supply ought cement, than over the if lie was not one before. to drive over smooth and Even at this writing it is being rumored in diplomatic cirgreasy, soft and wavy blacktop. In all tests that have been made of pavements, cement pave- cles that Italy is planning right now to divide Austria, Romo ment is placed over all other pavements as superior. The state taking half and Belgrade the other. It is reported that Germany of Illinois spent $300,000 in paving tests ; the officials wanted has a big standing secret army and France trembles in her to know which was the best. It was natural that the representa- shoes. England fears that the Siberian Bear may turn loose in the far tive of every paving material proclaimed their material the and with the aid of Turkey attack English interests East. In fact there is no peace talk in Europe, it is all Avar talk best, and a test was the only solution. the history Then again what sense is there in putting two inches of a and there is more talk of secret treaties than ever in in peace time. tar composition upon a good concrete pavement? A picture in of the Avorld. Treaties mean very little exceptthemselves with another part of this paper shows the results on a hot day, where When Avar breaks the European nations align the prospectire Avinncrs and it is this doublecross that is so tlZ wagon wheel has cut through the blacktop to the cement. trafnervously feared in Europe. During the summer months we find that all the heavy President Coolidge noAV says that avc cannot join the World fic from the depots is over the streetcar tracks, which are paved on either side with granite or cement blocks. Teams find Court if our reservations are not accepted. member of the court bo IIoav resenations can the over any by than any these to over easier places much rough it pull forced upon all the members of the court? smooth but softer surface in the street. red-blood- non-skiddi- ng ed |