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Show THE CITIZEN 6 BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! committee sent into the Basin now reports that transportation is the immediate need of the people, as well as for the develop. ment of the thousands of acres of idle and fertile soil. How much longer are we going to sleep on this one job which should have been completed at least ten years ago ? the only way to make a city grow and progress, folks. As a man thinketh in his heart so is Absolutely the only way. he, does not apply to the individual alone hut to cities, kingdoms and nations. If we think our town is dead, that it is the A LIVE ORGANIZATION. worst place on earth to live, that the climate is unbearable, that business is at a standstill and the town has no future, how on The Utah Taxpayers Association is pushing its school inearth is it going to grow? I met a fellow on the street the other morning who recently came back from the Coast. In the course vestigation still further and expeects to give the public much vaof our conversation he remarked, I wish we had all the people luable information. back in Salt Lake that have moved to the coast in the last twenJudging from the recent small vote, we wonder if the public ty years. We would have a real city. Isnt it the truth? And cares. Have the people lost all interest in their city? what has made all these SaltJLakers move to the Coast? Hasnt DESCRIBES FORCE. it been because all Californians boost their towns to the nth degree? The fever is contagious down there. You arent there General Nicanor Obarrio, former of Panama long before you succumb to it. I wish the germ would attack the of while visiting in this city, was very emphatic in his views of our people of Salt Lake so hard they wouldnt be able to think see present farcical prohibition law. We say farcical because liquor any other town for at least five years. If it did you would time can be secured in every city in the country, and no doubt the Salt Lake grow by leaps and bounds. In that length of from we could probably boast of our city limits being 246 miles general got his when he wanted it, that is, if he was a drinking man. the Court House. reGod has given us everything in the way of natural sources but we dont appreciate them sufficiently to even try to INDEPENDENCE. Los like develop them. If the Californians could build a city wonderCubans have come to that state of advancement that they Angeles with nothing to work on but a desert, what a unour ful city we could build with our natural scenic beauty, are able to contract foreign loans without first having to get the consent of the United States. Cuba is anxious to set her surpassed climate and unlimited resources! have We have been looking out of the wrong glasses. They own sails without the advice of Uncle Sam. In other words, to the Cuba wishes to govern herself without outside interference. magnified distant beauties to us and blurred our vision beauties at hand. Isnt it about time we changed our glasses, CAMPAIGNERS. got the right viewpoint and did some real boosting? Lets get citizens employsome industries in here so we can give our idle ment. Business cannot flourish when there are so many idle. ALWAYS an excuse for a third party. It is now announced them must have that if A1 Smith is nominated at Houston, a leader will be placed Pay rolls make a community prosperous. We on boosting if Salt Lake is ever going ahead. So boost, keep on a third ticket, which ticket will have the support of some get the boosting habit, and first thing we know the eyes of the Democrats and Republicans. world will be upon us. Probably half a dozen parties in the field would awaken the voters and get them to the polls. It has been a long time DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS. since more than half the people have voted. Most of them are losing interest very fast. In our school election here only 4,523 The other day two officers searched a private house for people voted. is being done to put Governor Smith out of the liquor. They showed no search warrant, just stepped in and Everything took possession. There was no one at home but the wife and an race, but the harder his enemies work the more popular he is. invalid daughter. Nothing was found and the officers went as He appears to have a cinch on the Democratic nomination for they came. The fact is that this woman has a small child that president. has spent the greater part of three years in bed as a result of the flu. Her doctor said that a little beer might help the child W. II. Wattis of Ogden has been elected one of seventeen and the loving mother did make two batches of beer and it did directors to the board of the United States Chamber of Cohelp the child. But if beer would cure her, the law provides she mmerce. This is an honor that comes to but few men, and men on must die. this board are recognized as among the leaders in business in Ever since creation of man law has punished the wicked, their communities. but never in the history of the world has any nation punished the innocent. When the world gets to that stage where eight billion people conThe more. There is no privacy in a man s home any are living on its surface, people will then begin drawing lots to stitutional provision for protection of the home is but a scrap of see who is to starve. Dr. II. L. Sliantz, botanist of the Univethe paper. rsity of Illinois, says the world can not support more than Yet in the face of all this, well known bootleggers are said above number of people. to be plying their trade. We do not need to go to Russia for reds or fanatics ; we TIMELY WARNING. unless the and have pleny of them right in this country, people wake up and assert their rights and demand that lawbreakers cannot eg in its present orgy, CONGRESS, be punished, we will soon see the day when we will have to move xcuse itself after the harm is done that it did n explaining by out of the country to get protection. While sniffing for booze, understand how the President felt. With a fine appreciation o the robbers are ransacking the city. the distinction which the Constitution and custom have set up between the executive and the legislative branch of the govern aI ASLEEP AT SWITCH. ment, he has been loath in the past to say anything directly ciner fecting bills under consideration. But he feels that the IN RECENT issues of The Citizen, we have called attention gency is so acute (and the public is in total agreement within to the necessity and great importance of constructing a modern that he has an obligation to warn Congress that the bills it highway into the Uintah Basin. Governor Berns fact finding framing he will be obliged to veto. It 5s vice-preside- nt money-spendin- s |