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Show Published Every Saturday GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. FRANK E. 8CHEFSKI, Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: In the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, Including postage $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. BY Payments should be made payable to The Citizen. by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered ao second-clas-s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postofflo it Salt Lake March S, 1879. Act of under the City, Utah, Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 6409 Salt Lake City, Utah 811-12- 18 FOURTH OF JULY Independence Day, July 4, falls due next Monday. Among the first annual celebrations of our independence was held in Philadelphia in 1777, 150 years ago. Undreamed progress has been made since that time. From a minor nation of a few thousand people, the Union has reached the highest pinnacle and today stands as the mightiest and wealthiest nation on earth. Age generally forgets, but the people have not forgotten the Fourth of July and never will. The Stars and Stripes wave over the land of the brave and the free, where every man and woman has the opportunity to become great. A shining example is the hitherto unknown Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. While he is American born, his father was a foreigner, yet this American has the distinction of being more royally entertained than any man in history, because of his meritorious performance of flying alone from New York City to Paris. Many a poor immigrant boy has arrived in this country and in a few years has become a money All this has been made possible because of the Fourth of power. July, a nation of freedom born to the world, the citizens of which are able to develop their ideas to the fullest extent. Of late years, our internationalists have tried in every way to discourage Fourth of July celebrations and laws have been passed in some sections of the country even making it a crime to have a fire Fireworks are too dangerous, they say, cracker in ones possessin. and we must not have them. So is the automobile too dangerous for some people to have, yet they have them. Our civic program should include a big display of fireworks from Ensign Peak or from one of the other close-b- y mountain peaks. Fireworks properly used are beautiful and it puts a finishing touch to the day. It is going to be a pretty tame Fourth for the kiddies of this city. Of course they may go and hear some dry politician who will tell them his opinion of the day, but who likes dry sermons? Every city should have appropriate programs and they should be made interesting in order to attract all the people. The life of the vHation depends greatly upon keeping the nations early history before the people. Americanism must be taught and internationalism must be shunned if we expect'to hold together as a strong unit. The late President Harding said: Let the internationalists dream and the bolshevist destroy. God pity him for whom no minstrel raptures' swell. In the spirit of the republic we proclaim Americanism and ac claim America. The flag will be displayed all over the country and Americans in foreign lands will display the colors as well. The flag means much to every one, and the Fourth of July, above all days, brings us closer to the flag because of its march to freedom. We recall the words of president William McKinley, who said: Is it any wonder that the old soldier loves the flag under whose folds he fought and for which his comrades shed so much blood? He loves it for what it is and for what it represents. It embodies the pur- the achieveposes and history of the government itsself. It records ments of its defenders upon land and sea. It heralds the heroism and sacrifices of our Revolutionary fathers who planted free government on this continent and dedicated it to liberty forever. It attests the struggles of our army and the valor of our citizens in all the wars of the republic. It has been sanctified by the blood of our best and our bravest. It records the achievements of Washington and the martyrdom of Lincoln. It has been glorified in the hearts of a freedom loving people, not only at home, but in every part of the world. Our flag expresses more than any other flag; it means more than any other national emblem. It expresses the will of a free people, and proclaims that they are supreme and that they acknowledge no earthly sovereign but themselves. It never was assaulted that thousands did not rise up to smite the assailant. Glorious old banner! Its such beautiful thoughts of our flag and our independence which moulds patriotism, and the more pains we take in preparing for big Fourth of July celebrations, the farther away we will get from outstide influences. Foreign propaganda has made big strides in our nation. The insidious wiles of foreign influence are much more in evidence today than in any prior period of our national history. They take two general forms: the effort to substitute European for American conceptions of government and the effort to sacrifice the welfare of the American people in behalf of a spurious internationalism, of aleins. America which is or the must vindicate anew her Declaration of Independence. The theory that the stability of the United States can withstand an indefiniate and increasingly formidable campaign against itself from within itself in the interests of its financial and commercial competitors is not well founded. Our national prosperity is dependent are seeking to destroy. upon conditions a horde of These domestic aliens are burrowing away at the dike which stands between our country and an inundation far more destructive and costly than that which has just ravaged the Mississippi region. The Fourth of July should be the day of all days to counteract all such propaganda and our best orators should be brought into service in every community to deal with our patriotic life. This Fourth of July finds our country blessed with peace and a satisfied and prosperous people, and they are well prepared for a monstrous celebration which will be heard around the world. All business in Utah will be suspended for the day and the people will enjoy themselves. The spirit of the times is well expressed in the Song of Peace by Joaquin Miller, which is: anti-nationalis- m pro-nationalis- anti-nationalis- ts ts The grass is green on Bunker Hill, The waters sweet in Brandywine; The sword sleeps in the scabbard still, The farmer keeps his flock and vine. Then who would mar the scene today With vaunt of battlefield or frav? The brave corn lifts in regiments Ten thousand sabers in the sun; The ricks replace the battle-tents- , m |