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Show THE CITIZEN 4 views in colors of Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon. Other Sight-Seein- g in Salt Lake City, articles following include: by L. S. Mariger, president Salt Lake Transportation company; Salt Lake City as a Tourist Center, by A. S. Brown, chairman of the advertising committee, Chamber of Commerce; The Magic Lure of Gay Saltair on Great Salt Lake ; Capital is in Utah, by James W. Collins, president associated banks and trust companies of Salt Lake; Financial Salt Lake City, by H. M. Chamberlain, vice president Walker Brothers Bankers; Lagoon Resort, Where Pleasure Reigns as King, by A. C. Christensen, manager of Lagoon; Hotel Bigelow, Ogdens Million and a Quarter Hotel, Beautiful Ogden CanThe Sugar Industry of Ogden, yon, Ogden, the Livestock Center, Ogden Artesian Wells Provide Ideal Water Supply, and Ogden, Utahs Canning Industry Center, by the Ogden Chamber of Commerce; Women Work Wonders With Watts, by E. L. Bourne; The Iron Industry in Utah, by E. G. McKenna, Columbia Steel Corporation; Cooking for the Tousist and Traveler, and Metal Mines in Utah, by A. G. MacKen-ziRe-ward- ed in the last 25 years, and would have been impossible without t far reaching benefits derived from electrical development Large power plants and interconnected systems which liver power at practically any point, have enabled industries move from crowded centers to smaller towns, and even into t i i' country. Better living and labor conditions have resulted. Electricity has given every hamlet light and modern enti tainment, while the telephone and automobile have made neii bors out of the whole nation. Radio, the youngest child of el n tricity, has brought the rural districts into immediate and P stant communication with the metropolitan centers. Is it any wonder the country towns and smaller cities gro ied when they have virtually all the advantages and conveniences joyed in the largest cities, without the disadvantages! : Electricity is the reason for our marvelous rural and sma K 31 ( ;e. co er city transformation. oy it: PRECIOUS WATER e. California has a water project of its own rivaling the Co rado river project in magnitude. Under this project the laq scale water development of the entire state is to be unified a carried through in such a manner that the excess, unused a si otherwise wasted water resources of the states northern halfa make up the water deficiency in the drier southern parts throu TOO MANY CRIMES a series of huge reservoirs, canals and pumping plants. The cost of this vast enterprise exceeds a third of a billi Summing up the crime situation in this city, Commissioner timated n of size i in of the In the dollars. the value involved, property T. T. Burton appears to have entirely failed. There never were effect on the future of t I more con and gun men in this city than there are today expenditures and in the commonwealth this enterprise is by far the largest and mosti and some of the most heinous crices have been committed. launched singlehanded by any state of the Unio People are beginning to wonder if the chase after the whis- portant ever d in Columbia is basin even the than It Washingt beproject larger not is ky bottle responsible for the crime wave. Stores are to irrigate a million acres at a cost of about $150,000,01 i( which is fleeced check bad are there artists, ing by daily holdups, rapes and some murders, but all this is not surprising considering the Yet the California project is designed primarily to protect! d with an insufficie gang that is operating here. It all goes to show that the commis- isting homes and farms in certain districts ; a lands new water of the being development supply, irrigated of sioner public safety must be a man well versed in criminology. Commissioner Burton has expended more money than his pred- to the future. And California will undertak to finance and car ecessors and is not getting results. He is trying to do the best out the plan without assistance. Water development is not nearly as spectacular as a go he can, but he is absolutely lost in his department, not because I t of unfaithfulness but because of lack of experience in handling rush, but as the basis of a permanent civilization it beats greatest bonanza ever discovered. June Sunset. and keeping the criminal element out of thet city. Conservation of waste waters in Utah would be a moveme p In choosing men for commissioners this fall, the people farmi should see to it that men of experience be placed at the heads of in the right direction. We could materially increase our a matter th is state in and similar this under a it acreage plan, our municipal departments who can get results. should be given serious attention at the earliest possbile time. signed by forty- business three business interests in Salt Lake and twenty-eiginterests of Ogden. The magazine throughout is well illustrated with photographs of places of interest in the state. On page 41 appears a Welcome to Utah ht rs oi . i ei n far-reachi- ng 1( to to ai LIQUOR RULINGS LEADING TO RUIN P The United States Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in Kansas City that it is no felony to make liquor at home. However, when such liquor is sold, that is another matter. Prohibition officials of the federal government have time and. time again announced that it has not been their policy to interfere with activities of persons in their own homes. Many bootleggers have, and do, takq advantage of such rulings, but the law does not protect them. When the officers find that one is making liquor for disposal, arrests and convictions, fines and jail sentences generally follow. It was ma only last year that the federal oil commission a report to President Coolidge that there was a shortage of in sight and recommended some action be taken to protect o own interests in this country. Now, however, propaganda is being sent out from Washin ton and Wall street, that there is a big surplus of oil and thegfl ernment is being asked to control the oil situation so as to redu production. Some of the big interests are importing thousands of ba rels of oil from Mexico. We could stop the importation of era oil which would relieve the national situation somewhat. ELECTRICAL DEVELOPMENT The investigating commission must have been incompefe to have filed faulty reports on the oil situation. Was it a sene Many who think of our country as a great nation industrialto boost the price of gasoline, or was it just pure ignorance ai ly, think only of industries in the large cities. But the industrial did they know no better! output of country towns and small cities is gradually surpassOne oil company has gone broke in California and gaso ing in volume the output of the great metropolises. has been shot to 18 cents again, nearly double of what it Just as country towns and smaller cities hold preponder- selling three weeks ago while the gas war was on. ance of newspaper circulation in the nation, so the thousands As to government control, we believe the market sno of smaller industries hold the preponderance of payrolls and right itself without the interference from the government general production, except in a few highly specialized industries. ernment control- of oil fields will lead to government contro , events This remarkable rural growth has taken place largely with every commodity in the United States, which will - i 1 |