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Show IMiaaMaiDtMMIMMMMMMMMMMaMI THE CITIZEN A Thinking Paper for Thinking People" iaaiaaaaaaaiaaaaataaaaaaaaaaaaaMMaataaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaf MaaaaaaaaaiaaaaaaaaaataaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaMaaaaaaaaaaaaiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaataiaaaiai MMaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaMaaaaMaMaaaBaaaaaaaaaMaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaMMaaaaaaaaaaai Published by THE GOODWINS PUBLISHING COMPANY. matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United States, and Mexico, $2.50 per year; $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. Entered as second-clas- s them with a filthy dust film, and the wind carries the dust into the homes of the people. Sometimes we wonder why the boards of health never try to regulate such conditions, but who are always preaching cleanliness. The people should demand of our city commission, to not only keep our streets clean, but also to provide means for laying the dust. If there is not sufficient water, let us use oil, but in any event let us do something. Let us keep up our reputation of having a beautiful city. Dirty streets is a poor recommend tion for any city, and there is positively no excuse for dirty streets, especially in a community that is being taxed like we are. A little service, please. AN AWAKENING 4 KYNE A VISITOR SINCE the disaster of the St. Francis dam in California, proposed meeting of May 12 to 25, inclusive. will retrun here in a few days and will look Kyne Manager the all the are over given country being engineering projeects over the local situation with prospects of planning for a short once over, and in the future dams will be more carefully watchHe is the most successful ed. If the dams were constructed out of good materials, the meeting here during June or July. he has left hazard would be very much less, but as a rule public construction race meet proomoter that ever entered this state, and state far extensive improvements at the is generally saturated with graft and the people do not get what his earmarks in without cost to the state. grounds, for. they pay Our Mountain Dell dam is a fair example. The old dam OUR COURT COMEDIES. was constructed out of poor materials and as a result it leaked like a sieve, and but for the exposure by The Citizen the dam There are a great many children in this city who have would have gone out long ago. It had to be reinforced and the in the case of automobiles. It is no wonew work put in by Enoch Smith was of the best. It helped to a taking way with them nder there are so many. When some of our judges call a be must The dam foundation. old inferior the strengthen man a child, and, whats more, have a law to back watched and if any leaks appear they must be taken care of crime among such children without further adieu and parley. This proved an expensive them up, it is little wonder that should rapidly increase. venture for the taxpayers. Any one who is a child at nineteen will be one at thirty When bids were advertised for this dam, P. J. Moran, who child of that age needs most is a good is now a city commissioner, refused to bid on the multiple arch fifty. What a criminal rock pile, with a real he man as guard as provided in the specifications, although engineers tell us that pick and shovel and a big to see that he earns his bread by the sweat of his brow. such dams are stronger and hold better than the old style grav-it-v to continue! is this How . - nine-- ! teen-year-o- ld or long dams. The repairs on this dam cost the city far more than the original construction, which only proves how flimsy the old structure was. Contractors should be held responsible for poor construction and the taxpavers should not be the goats. A GOOD OFFICER. i t Fine weather and March winds blew Bill Kyne into our fair city the other day, and the popular race track manager was met by a host of friends. He is on his way to St. Louis, where the directors of the Creve Coeur track want him to manage their FRANK E. SCHEFSKI, Manager and Editor i ? comedy going CRIMINAL PROWLERS. Another degenerate fiend is prowling in the residential sefr tion of the city, trying to lure small girls away from their homed feu Why not let the Red Lights take care of the traffic for a Id days and send the officers out in search of the demon, that may be caught before he despoils some child! Yes, and whenj caught, it ought to be death. WILLIAM M. KEYTING, who served for seventeen years as night police chief, has turned in his card and taken a long WOMEN WANT RECOGNITION. journey to the land from which no one has yet returned. Key-tin- g was one of the best liked officers on the force, and he was the near meet in will committee of the members The to and He was county attention strict efficient and just duty. paid very will W matters business which at in distress. to those aid and meeting important future, and was willing always ready kindly therf Before entering the police department, Keyting was suc- brought up for consideration, and rumors have it that cessful in mining and real estate and had accumulated some will also be some surprises. Women are going to demand more of the political ph wealth and really did not have to work any more, but was inthanII duced to enter police duty by former Chief of Police B. F. Grant. and several of the leaders arc showing greater activity former years. . CONSIDER HEALTH. The people are responding liberally to the Cominunifl canvasfflftl A BIG hullabaloo is raised in the winter because of a few Chest. Leading business men and women are out is no don there and much with is. in the are overlooked and success, to health a but menace meeting real city smoking chimneys, our dusty streets. The past week the city has been enveloped in that the quota will be subscribed to. . a cloud of dust raised by the speeding automobiles. Oil has created more combustion in the United States SOT There is no reason why all our paved streets should not be lid o I washed every night, and all our dirt roads well sprinkled during than it ever did in an automobile engine, and yet the the day. When automobiles travel at a high rate of speed, dust Teapot Dome has not been blown off. Thats one gusher clouds are raised that nearly suffocate the pedestrian, covers has made a worlds record. U |