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Show 1 THE CITIZEN 14 cut around a car in front of a red light on West Temple and then cut through a SALT LAKE has so much natural beauty that everyone gas station. One would think he was on his way to the emershould do all in his power to add to that beauty and not detract gency hospital. There ought to be at least a $100 fine for such from it. Tourists speak of our beautiful trees, wide streets, capers. Visitors who come here say that we have the best regulated picturesque mountains, etc., but fail to say anything about the clean appearance of many of our store buildings and homes. We traffic in the downtown distrct, but on the highways we have can have every tourist leaving here with the message that Salt more than our share of reckless drivers. Stop signs entering Lake is the cleanest city, as well as the most attractive and beau- the highways are invisible to some of these drivers, but they appear to get away with it. tiful that they visited if we will only put forth a little effort. The next legislature should see to it that all hit and run drivSituated as we are amid scenes of such green splendor we should endeavor to doll up our buildings and homes a little. ers be forever barred from our highways. Such a law would imThere is magic in a can of paint, more magic than in a can of mediately put a stop to crazy driving; anything else. Paint isnt so very expensive. Dress up your NOISE home with a few cans of it. Paint the front porch, the windows, the steps, etc., and when it is all completed you will be delighted The Association of German Engineers is offering .a prize that you made the effort to do it because your home will look 50 per cent better. There are many buildings that are in good of $200 for the best solution for ending street noises which are It would be a wonderful thing if condition but are sadly in need of a little paint to brighten proving so nerve-rackinsomething could be invented to suppress the noise of the garthem up. bage men and newsboys in the wee small hours of the morning, here. A PROBLEM IN STORE GOOD-WIL- L The other day, one of these MAGIC IN A CAN OF PAINT road hogs . g. . Id rather have Louis K. Liggett once made the remark, twenty dissatisfied customers than one dissatisfied clerk in any of my stores. So would any real thoughtful merchant. Twenty dissatisfied customers can do a store a great deal of harm. But one dissatisfied sales person can do infinitely more harm, for he or she is constantly making dissatisfied customers. A disgruntled salesman or woman can make twenty dissatisfied customers in a single day or perhaps in an hour, if the store is a busy one. On the other hand, one happy, satisfied sales person can make many satisfied customers. Personnel workers have learned that most human beings require five kinds of pay one that comes in the form of money in their pay envelopes and four others that employers sometimes overlook. 1. Fair pay for their work. THE MAN WHO KEEPS HIS WORD. . The most important man today is the man who keeps his word. Never in the history of the world has a mans word proved so effective as it does now. There is nothing so harassing as to have a man agree to do something for you and then fall down on it. There is noth: ing so responsible for the troubles of every day as the fellow who fails ot deliver what he has agreed to do by word or deed. Whenever I hire men, the first thing I try to find out about them is whether they live up to their contract that is to say, whether they really do what they say they will do. To me it is the biggest asset a man can have. I would much prefer a beginner who keeps his word to me at any cost rather than one of brains who is careless about his promises. Many people are prone to prate about what they can 2. Reasonable hours. do, and promise to do it, yet never do it. 3. Square treatment. If this human trait could be overcome, everything would go 4. Recognition for good work. smoother for everybody. I wish it could be impressed on every 5. A sense of progress. It is a good plan for every employer to think of each of his person to perform his part of an agreement. The rest would he New West Trade. employees individually once or twice a year and check them easy. The i against these five points. To meet all of these successfully is to meet a contented working force that will build good-wi- ll FIGHT IN SIGHT. for the store because of the good-wi- ll that exists in it. Magazine of Business. The nomination of Al Smith by the Democrats at the ' Houston convention is apparently as good as settled. The Smith PROGRESSIVE leaders are now talking of his nomination on the first ballot possibly ,and inevitably on the second. There is no gain to be J. H. Rayburn, manager of the Newhouse Realty Cofhpany, had by the Republicans deceiving themselves as to the strength is erecting a huge electrical sign on the roof of the Newhouse of the campaign that is to be waged by the governor of New Hotel at a cost of about $30,000. The letters in this sign will be York. fifteen feet high and on a clear night can be seen for Unless a miracle takes place, he will have the electoral vote many miles. Improvements of this kind are to be encouraged and are of all the southern states, and it also must be admitted that the very attractive for any city. campaigns in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts (to pick ROAD HOGS. out a few of the seaboard states) will require all the energies which the Republicans possess. WHEN AN autoist hits children in Nevada, the expense bill Al Smith can, and will be defeated, but it is going to be a is something enormous. The Reno Journal recently reported man-siz- e job, and there will be no time for slackers. damages in favor of a schoolboy hit by an auomobile driver, of $18,169.80, awarded by a just jury. This drver will be careOUTSIDE OUR LIMITS ful in the future. A few cases of this kind in this city and the hit and run Much criticism has come to this office from taxpayers drivers would soon disappear. against spending big sums in fixing up Mueller park for a Salt We have a class of hit and run drivers in this city that Lake City playground. It is too far away from the city for orshould not receive any sympathy. We have drivers who cut in dinary use, and many of the poor will probably never even see and around automobiles that have the right of way. These hogs the park, not alone step into it. However, if it is a good tiling of the road ought to be well advertised in order that the people then why not also establish a city park in American Fork canyon will know them and their cars when they appear in sight. or on Mt. Timpanogosf |