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Show o BY. Published Every Saturday GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. FRANK E. 8CHEF8KI, Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: the United States, Canada and Mexico, 8Z.50 per year, Including postage 11.60 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. In 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 mattsr, June 21, 1919, at the postofflce it Salt Lake of Act March S, 1879. under the Utah, City, S1 Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah Phone Wasatch 6409 OUR FUTURE GROWTH Every now and then some of. our business men and interests get together and renew obligations to boost this city and state. That is as it should be. The Chamber of Commerce has outlined a program to boost the population of this state to 1,500,000 by 1937. At a meeting at the Chamber at which were present Senator Reed Smoot, Heber J. Grant, president of the L. D. S. church; Carl R. Gray, president of the Union Pacific Railroad company ; and Frank Wadleigh, general .passenger traffic agent for the Denver, & Rio Grande Western railroad, were all enthusiastic and advocated a drive for a bigger state population. President Grant declared the L. D. S. church would like to see more people brought in, as well as capital and industry to Utah. He also lauded the advertising campaign conducted under the auspices of the Chamber, which has put Utah and this city upon the map. Senator Smoot says that Utah with all her present resources should grow very fast from now on. The mining industry was never brighter ; the industrial movement is growing, and the huge irrigation projects mean greater agricultural results. There is prospect of large oil fields, and backed by the unlimited coal supply this state has a brighter future than any other state in the entire west. The Citizen advocates the building up of our payrolls. We need industry and we have the room for it here. People may come here, but they must find work and to encourage industry we must change our tax laws. A very large number of the corporations have withdrawn from our state. For why? Because of taxation. You cant bring an industry in here and then tax them out of their business. The sooner we realize that our own success and prosperity depends upon the success and prosperity of others, the quicker Oar community will grow. The interests of workers, of stockholders, arid of executives are mutual. The interests of groups in iron and coal are the same as the interests of the groups who work in rubber and concrete. The interests of the bankers and the manufacturers and agriculturists and the transportation groups have much in common. According to reports big business has tried to come in here at various times during the past two years. At first it looked good but talk was all there was to it. There was something behind the curtain y which prevented their establishment in Utah. We can get big business if we go after it, but it must be one in a business way, and those who put up their money must &e a bright future ahead. Our moral and financial support is necessary. The people will follow big business. No better example can be cited than Los Angeles. Florida passed favorable tax laws and the state was floooded with billions of dollars. A boom it was, of course, but good results must eventually follow. We do not want a big blowover boom, but a steady drift in busi- get-togeth- er out-of-sta- 4 te We must have industrial plants to provide the payrolls and every one may be assured that the people will follow the payrolls. There is absolutely no excuse for our present slow growth. This city is ten years older than Denver, yet Denver has nearly as many people as we have in our entire state. We have all the resources, while Denver built upon climate and health, and we have a better climate than she. riess. UTAH ROADS. Recently a tourist wrote a letter to W. D. Risliel, manager of the Utah State Automobile Association. Here is the letterit is self explanatory: ' - Utah State Automobile Association, Salt Lake City, Utah. Salt Lake City, July 8th, 1927. Gentlemen: I am a member of the Auto Club of Missouri and know that the A. A. A. auto clubs are always on the alert to look after the interests of visiting tourists, as well as conditions of the roads, I am taking the liberty of reporting an accident I had yesterday, coming down Daniels Canyon, which in my opinion was due entirely to the negligence of the men employed in repairing the road. In running the road scraper over the highway large rocks were pulled from the burrow pits onto the highway and left standing there. I was driving in second gear and as slowly as possible, but in spite of my best efforts I struck one of these rocks and tore the filler plug out of the drain in my crank, case, and knocked a tooth out of the fly wheel and broke the pan underneath my car. I had to be towed into Heber, where temporary repairs were made to get my car into Salt Lake where repairs had to be made at considerable expense to me . One other tourist broke his clutch one these rocks and still a third tourist tore a hole in his gas tank. I am reporting this to the Utah State Automobile Association hoping they can do something to overcome these hazards to tourists visiting your state. You certainly have wonderful scenery and a beautiful city which should attract tourists from all over the world, but it not encouraging if they have to wreck their cars to get here, and we cannot con- i' we meet on jhe road these conditions are allowed to exist. scientiously advise fellow motorists through Utah if to pass Very truly yours, The two detours between this city and Wanship, on the Lincoln Highway, are said to lie the two worst roads in this country by tourists who have lately been compelled to use them. The roads were practically abandoned before the main highway was closed and no attempt has been made to place them in any kind of shape for auto travel. The automobiles had to make their own road and the result is a series of bumps, chuck holes, big boulders and whatnot. It is a disgrace to our fair state. Mayor Ncslcn is responsible for closing the road on this end of the line .and the state road commissiion has allowed a handfull of men to rebuild a clmcky road down Silver creek canyon, when a large force of men would long ago have completed the road. The people of a part of the "Weber river valley are up in arms against the slow progress made on this gravel road, and it appears very much as if the work is strung out for a long period. It will be remem- - , |