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Show THE CITIZEN railroads. The increase in general prices and costs plays its 5 IS THIS TRUE all-import- ant part. The railroads, like any corporation, business or wage earner, are entitled to make a reasonable percentage of profit on Railroad rates are established un-d-- .their investment or labor. strict government regulation in the interest of both the public and the carriers. The people are beginning to realize this and appreciate the superlative service rendered by American railroads. It is the worst form of hypocrisy to condemn the rates of common carriers and public utilities without at the same time condemning our whole system of public regulation by state and nation. Undoubtedly both the rates and the commissions need checking up occasionally, but so does every farm, grocery store er We cant help but make comment regarding one of the teachers of Spanish at the East High school. She speaks English with a German accent and her Spanish is also under the same1 fire. Teachers of languages ought to be thorough linguists with the proper accent in order that the pupils will receive the proper training as well as the proper pronunciation of words. One can imagine how Spanish sounds with a German accent. : The Salt Lake bandits are now beginning to steal the booze. A good fight among the criminals might clean out some of them. ROAD CONFLICT ENDS or manufacturing plant. The Citizen is glad to hear that the long drawn out battle to Public regulation of rates does not mean automatic rate get a good road through the state by the Lincoln Highway assoQreduction, it means the establishment of rates adequate to permit ciation has finally resulted in an amicable settlement. Part of the the rendering of satisfactory service to the public under good Wendover route is to be used by the Lincoln highway, and from reasonof return a and of the management, good wages payment now on tourists may be routed withont confliction. able dividends to investors. Comparing the tourist travel to Yellowstone Park and to Portland, via Wyoming and Idaho, we did not get anywhere near HOW PITIFUL our share of the travel this year, but there was a good reason for it. All summer we had two bad detours on the Lincoln Highway While the gunmen and burglars are pilfering the citizens, and the bad netfs was early circulated among coming to this the sickly and incapacitated men and women who dare to make a the tourists. city bottle of beer to sell in order to keep their starving children alive We hope that this highway will be open next year without law. court the for breaking are arrested and hailed into resorting to unsafe detours, such as we had this year. It will sick Who wants to hire a sick man? Who wants to hire a mean a big increase in tourist, travel for this city. woman? What a crime it must be to be so poor and so crippled that one must resort to making a harmless brew in order to susPATTEN SPRINGS SURPRISE tain life. A papa, seven-year-o- ld child pleads with the officers not to take Ye Gods, and they call that Christianity! ETERNAL MONUMENT It was real mean Cliff Patten to spring a surprise on the police department by pulling a raid without notice in die heart of the city. He could at least have put the police wise. Well, if the two departments work in harmony, we should be able to rid the city of most of the gunmen before the snow flies. of George Mueller, prominent local business man, has had his People all over the world are pleased to hear that Edward F. name inscribed in the hall of fame of this city by his magnifi- - Schlee and William S. Brock, globe fliers, have cancelled their cent gift of a 1,000-acr- e park, his summer mountain home, located proposed suicidal flight from Japan across the Pacific, ocean, in Bountiful canyon, a few miles north of this city, and only a The boys will take a boat from Japan to San Francisco, and will few miles east of the Salt Lake and Ogden highway. The gift was then fly from Frisco to Detroit, the starting point. Both fliers made on the promise that it become the perpetual property of the were sorely disappointed because of the great opposition shown people of Salt Lake City for their free access and enjoyment and against their proposed flight after the two men had reached remain the permanent possession of the public. The park will be Japan. There is no doubt that their lives have been saved in a standing cancelling their flight. Pleadings from Schlees children known as The George Mueller Mountain Park, to the benefactor for all time. ed the hazardous program of the determined father. Commissioner Harry L. Finch has now conceived the idea of PROGRESS cutting a boulevard through City Creek canyon, connecting with Bountiful canyon in order that the people, as well as all tourists, Electric light is displacing kerosene in the country and gas may secure the full benefits of the beautiful mountain scenery in the cities, yet the consumption of neither oil nor gas has de- -. nestled in this part of the Wasatch range. creased. On the contrary, more gas and oil are used than at any other time. New uses for them have been found, and uses for REMEMBER OUR CITY electricity. besides for light are continually being developed. The Mayor Neslen had better cancel some of his many social use of electricity for power and heat has only just begun, There is no limit in sight to the expansion of the electric engagements and direct liis attention to the welfare of the city. If we are not more careful, the yeggs will move all our belong- - business, for population is continually increasing and wealth is ings to some fence for disposal. It is a good thing our homes accumulating. But the creation of this business out of nothing is but one manifestation of that stupendous miracle which is an- are too heavy or they would be moved to some other city. chang-monume- nt The smoke nuisance is to be handled by the city commission as a body. This is a move in the right direction. If. all important matters were handled in the same way, the taxpayer would O get a better run for his money. other name for America. During the time in which the electric industry has been de- veloped, the automobile business lias become one of the largest in the country, the radio has hundreds of millions invested in production of receiving instruments, the people have money to buy and maintain these things and the money they have paid to of Many of the westsiders claim that the mosquito campaign the producers has gone in wages to hundreds of thousandsbilthis year has netted good results. Heretofore districts that were workmen and to dividends on hundreds of millions, if not heavily infested by this pest have been totally cleaned up. That lions, of accumulated capital. That is what electricity is doing for this nation. means the work next year will produce still better results. , |