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Show THE CITIZEN 310 terested in anything they have to offer and has no desire MlSuM to cooperate. THE What Salt Lake City and Utah needs is a State Tourist anj Travel Bureau, managed by some one who knows the west anj is broad-minde- d enough to realize that the more highways leading to Salt Lake City the more dividends we will get from tie tourist industry, and the more friends we have in other states the sooner our dividends will double. H A Thinking Paper for Thinking People ft A good illustration of how far behind we are in the tourist industry would be a comparison of Salt Lake City with the city of Grants Pass, Oregon. Write in your memo that Grants Pass, Published by THE GOODWIN'S PUBLISHING COMPANY. with a population of two thousand, has nine up to date auto matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt camp grounds and any one of them will accommodate about as Entered as second-clas- s Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. many families as any three camps in this city. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United States, While it is true that Salt Lake City enjoys a very fair t to months. all for six and Mexico, $2.50 per year; $1.50 Subscriptions patronage, and it is also true that the railroad companies are Postal within the $4.50 Union, year. per countries, the responsible for most of it, and that we do not get one-haFRANK E. SCHEFSKI, Manager and Editor automobile travel that we should. It would not cost anything to cultivate the acquaintance and THE NEW INDUSTRY. good will of Northern California and southern Oregon, and to cooperate with them in every way possible. in our policy and go after our Let us make a radical SPHERE is one industry, unknown a few years ago, that is now share of the dividends fromchange the greatest industry on earth the the . in state attracting attention in every community in every tourist industry. Union, and has become so important in Canada that a government bureau now looks after it. DEATH LOVES A SHINING MARK The Tourist Industry the direct result of national highways and good roads. SOLEMN tribute accorded Warren L. Wattis, exWe can all remember when there were few large garages ecutive of the Utah Construction Company, at funeral to and fewer service stations in Salt Lake City. Now it is safe services which took place Tuesday in Masonic Temple, resay that the hotels, service stations and garages of this city Ogden, told a story of nobility of character and high dolceived from tourists during 1927 considerable over a million worth to fellowman, to industry and to progress rarely lars, and that sum was put in circulation here to increase our laid before the bier of anyone. prosperity. Outside money that came almost unsolicited and His unheralded death had come as a great shock at certainly without any great display of appreciation on our part. the close of his honeymoon. Few men were so widely Our natural scenic beauties and our strategic location makes it known and so generally loved by those who had dealt with him. Gathered in the Masonic Temple were dignitaries possible for this city to become the greatest summer tourist city of in the world, when our people and our state administration from every walk of life who seemed to settle in humble indifhighway affairs awaken from their apparent slumber of reverence as his exemplary character was weighed by ference the narrow-minde- d policies. What Salt Lake David 0. McKay and during the Maspnic cereApostle City needs is more interstate highways, more routes leading to monies at the grave. conour city and to the other Utah cities with which we are In the temple chamber about the bier sat President nected by good roads. The tourist wants a choice of routes. Heber J. Grant of the Mormon church, and among the We venture the assertion that Salt Lake City would have been mourners wrere observed dignitaries of many denominavisited last year by at least twenty thousand more tourists if officials of many great industries and those tions, high state administration had encouraged instead our short-sighte- d in the management of government. prominent of blocking the completion of the Lincoln Highway between this life story of Warren L. Wattis was one of inThe city and Ely, Nevada. The number would be materially inin every worthy effort, in which he had preserved tegrity creased if there was a good highway w'gst from Ogden instead an art that seemed to have improved and progressed of a cow trail. It would be greatly to our advantage if the with his business development. This was a poetic and highway between Zion Park and the Lehman Caves of Nevada bent which possessed him during early school literary were put in first class condition. It is our lone hand one highand known as a skilled writer of short stories, which days way policy that is responsible for the movement now on to conhad lent refinement to his character and he won an ennect the Yellowstone National Park by highway direct west viable circle of friends. through Idaho and southern Oregon to the Mt. Shasta and The judgment of Warren L. Wattis in civic and state Lassen Volcanic National Park section of the Sacramento region ranked him as a man of exceptional value to the problems in California. We are not getting and have never sought the Intermountain West. tourist travel that pours into northern California through Oregon every season, or that originates in. California. The city PATRIOTIC CITIZEN RETURNS of Sacramento, .California, judging by building permits, is growing much faster than Salt Lake City. Sacramento invites George Voris, manager of the Campbell Building Compaq and entertains the tourist. There are five highways leading buiMw from the Sacramento region to northern Nevada and the state who recently completed the Army and Navy Y. M. C. A. 1 is beginning the construction of the sixth, the Feather River at Honolulu, has returned to Salt Lake from the Hawaiian two yea Canyon highway, that will cost over six million dollars. All ands, where he directed construction for more than Busin Mr. Voris is especially known among Salt Lake these highways lead over the Sierras and eventually to Reno, of .and when the tourist over any.of them reaches Nevada and asks men for his endeavor in connection with the building Sabout Salt Lake City he is told that one higlrway comes all the United States air mail hangar when the Salt Lake Chamber of bo Chamber the in with Commerce one swords And border. crossed as no the Utah far as Ogden another and way California or Nevada is enthusiastic about giving information merce to decide whether Ogden or Sdlt Lake should have the about Utah because they believe that Salt Lake City is not in port. CITIZEN IWMMMINHIWMIUMmiMHlWIWIMMmUIMMMMIHHWMiMMHIlimilHMmMIHHIIMMiaWIMIIHMMWIIMMMimmBMHmW tour-is- I lf 1 ( a si m H ft , one-rou- te . ; 1 1 I ; ; J al B P w fe fe W) in co |