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Show 0, o 18 5 Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. FRANK E. SCHEFSKI, Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: sludlng postage in the United States Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, 6&r tlx months. ' Subscriptions to all foreign countrlea, within the Postal $4.50 per year. ity BOOST a The old year died last night, but as the most prosperous year this city has loorj11 t6 its death seem There was no big boom on during the year, but there mx steady business growth as well as in the residential dis- . ... MANN RE COWe hope Hardwgen to the Phono Wasatch 6409 S11-12-- 1S YOUR STA TE Bld&Coday is New Years. MMimiiinimiii Payments should bo made by Cheek, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entersd as sseond-clas- s mattsr, June 21, 1019, st the postofflee st Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March S, 1879. Ness Bldg. ' Salt Lake City, Utah . sj. variably a prosperous people, but any people who are burdened with discriminatory and unjust laws, spend most of their energy cussing the government instead' of applying themselves to producing profitable results in their various vocations. The scenic highway of America extends right through our state. It begins at Yellowstone. Park and continues on through Zion and Brpce canyons. Let us make the most of this excellent opportunity for which other states would pay millions of dollars to possess. Let us join with Colorado and the other intermountain states and organize the proposed Rocky Mountain league in or-- ; der that we may not only retain but hold and secure our just rights. It will help build up our state. Let us encourage mining and agriculture by passing just and sane taxation laws gov- erning the two chief industries of the state. In fact, let us put our shoulder to the wheel and push Utah to the front as the most progressive state during the year 1927. . that during the coming year our people will ; many opportunities within our grasp and become ggjboosters. To be a real booster, one must invest his money ie: Waome and not look for foreign markets. Many enterprizes lZZDe built up here. Why send our money to the outside when an produce at home? ttZKiphe legislature meets early in January and the businessman inff St0E.t to see to it that our laws be changed to invite capital in f Men we may build up our immense untouched resources, r id So. cannot e levy high taxes against the big interests, nor taxes against the laboring man and his home and build an empire. Just remember that high taxation was llllllllll!lause of England losing the greatest country in the world 3 United States. Taxation without representation is un- OF VITAL IMPORTANCE. and it is so today just as much as it was one hundred and years ago. The politician has never enough money to Under the heading, State Commissioner Declares Gravel a should d and that is one reason why the legislature put Road Upkeep is Too Heavy, the Tribune of recent date has the k on him. following: Preceding the convening of our legislatures we find the The time is coming when the state of Utah will have to; s full of suggested reforms, some good and some indifferent, turn to a larger program of hard surfaced road building,, somehow, somewhere, there is a slip and we continue to com- d in the same old rut. Johnny Holden, state auditor, has according to Henry H. Blood, chairman of the state road icated several reforms to which the legislature should take mission, who was the speaker Monday at the weekly luncheon of the Engineering Council of Utah. Mr. Blood said that gravel If his advice is followed, the state will save thousands roads are not proving entirely satisfactory, chiefly because they-arollars. Good legislatures produce good times ; radical too expensive to keep up. He gave as his opinion that ulti-- . virtually kill off all life and business during their inistration and in many instances never recover from mately all of the heavily traveled roads will have to be hard sur-rbur-om- ex-Iff- to . ; ; leg-ur- es . people k laws. Many of our merchants have got in the habit of saying giness is rotten. It is just as rotten as you want to make Ut the man who. goes out after business and is a hustler, he (business, and plenty of it. Let us change our tone during hew year and boost our business as well as our town. JJust at the present time, thousands of people are being made feless by flood waters in the great Mississippi river basin. e, we do not know what it is to have plagues extreme hot weather, earthquakes, cyclones and tornadoes and the mailt the outside. Let us get behind Utah and make it the best e in the country. What we need most right now is sane legislation and elimi- 3 some of the freak laws we have. A satisfied people are in- - mu'. . i . ' faced. ; ,v Few, if any, are better qualified to talk intelligently on road matters as applied to Utah than Mr. Henry H. Blood of the state, road commission. A successful businessman, whose honesty and; integrity is beyond question, he has for the past few years been devoting his full time and attention toward the betterment of Utah highways, during which time he has availed himself of every opportunity to study the question from the viewpoint of the: best authorities. That Mr. Blood knows whereof he speaks fully exemplified in the following article clipped from this months issue of The Lincoln Highway Forum, a monthly magazine devoted to roads and road matters and published in the interest of better highways for the country at large : HOW TO SAVE MONEY IN ROAD SURFACING , Figules compiled by the Minnesota State Highway Com-o- n mission show that the yearly cost of gravel roads on main routes is almost TWICE that of concrete roads. Depreciation, interest on investment, and the upkeep on the concrete truck highway No. 3 cost Minnesota $1,G78 per mile. The total cost ver mile on 334227 ; ; ; is-col- d |