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Show THE CITIZEN Where but in America can the section hand attain to the position of president to the very road that he helped to build? H Where but in America can a farm bred boy arise, through i honorable means, to the highest office in the land, and partly because of his exceptional advantages, meet with dignity, ease land calm assurance the inherited title bearers of other lands? ) Where but in America are the rich tills of opportunity open o the poorest comer, the only limitation being the mental capacity of the individual? Where can a more tender spot be found on the face of the ilobe than right in the heart of America? Who replies to the Sarth cry of distress with a greater outpouring of ready relief ( lhan our own country? r j In short, what is wrong with America? Would that every jjtizen of this country could be summoned to the bar of his Wn conscience and made to answer that question. No doubt every real American will say in his heart, There Vt much wrong with America. And there isnt. It is the to come and dont want to , inly country where people want - 5 appearance of the city generally. Surely a citizen should not be taxed for making such improvements. . THE ADVANCE GUARD EVERY state in the Union the advance guard of the great army of tourists that will invade Salt Lake City this season are arriving. The skirmish line has reached the front and are giving us the once over and at the same time expending XjTROM money, buying supplies, buying gas and tires, buying souvenirs, patronizing our hotels and restaurants, enjoying the daily organ recitals and the freedom of our parks, and then moving on north, south, east and west. A majority of the advance guard are from the south and yet there are some from every direction. Monday two cars drove into a service station on Main street at the same time for gas, one wore a Massachusetts license plate, the other a California license plate, one from the Atlantic and the other from the Pacific, and at about the same time three covered trucks drove into the City Camp grounds with over forty Texas school teachers. Just after the arrival of the Texas We want this prosperous condition to continue. We dont delegation a young man and his mother from St. Paul, Minnerant hard times, panics or near panics in our country. There sota, drove out of the grounds and headed for California. This advance guard, moving on in every direction, will pre, we should weigh well our past history before casting our meet thousands headed this way who will ask them where they Jallot in November. have been and what they have seen, how they were received and A PEPPY BASEBALL TEAM treated and where the best places to stop are found. It should be our policy, and it is surely good business, to be sociable and THE SALT LAKE CITY baseball team, in the opinion of a friendly and make a good impression on the advance guard. k m who is visiting here and has been enjoying the games at the Send them away with nothing but praise for Salt Lake City, her xi W park, is getting less support than any team of equal ability attractions, and her people. The tourist industry ought to mean a million dollars to Salt v i the United States. While it may not measure up with teams Lake City this year and should be given consideration accord;hat have played here at times in the past, it is a good, peppy, aard working team, and worthy of better support. It is quite ingly. j j ( pdent that Salt Lake City is not a good baseball city. BJG BUSINESS In the first place how can you expect a team to play frst r jlass ball and the people in the grand stand to be real entliu- -' THERE is no question but what nastic when the only street car running to the grounds is No. big business l3 A petition should be sent the street car company at once should be subjected to strict laws and regulations to prevent the ? l ift change the numbers and send either Number seven or eleven abuse of power. On the other hand, there is no reason for cruci;o the ball fying big business just because it is big. park and let Number 13 be used for funerals only. The Bees are playing good ball and seem to have a string Big business is just as honest and well managed, in fact, As a mat-- . )ft until the last man is out in the last inning of every game, it is generally better managed than little business. Wl you are sure to see an interesting game every time you ter of fact, big business is nothing more nor less than grown t :o to the park. Probably the team would play even better if up little business conducted upon a broad basis which gives i here uniform service over wide areas. was more encouragement from the grand stand." ieC The owners of big business in the United States today are millions of small stockholders who are wage WRONG METHOD OF TAXATION lit earners, housewives, clerks and workers of every description. Therefore, legislation, regulation and taxation affecting big Why should a citizen who plants a lawn and otherwise to beautify his home surroundings be charged a higher business vitally affects countless individuals doing business ax than the one who allows the weeds to cover his lot and park-jag- ? in a very small way. : j . Jw ; so-call- ed :o so-call- ed rS- en-ieavo- rs Why should the citizen who keeps his home in good re- rair, who gives it a coat of paint every two or three years, be fY. jaxed a greater amount than the one who allows his home to y i jieteriorate and become an eyesore to the people of the in which he lives ? The practice should be reversed. The jitizen who is so lacking in pride and public spirit as to allow 'jis place to degenerate year after year should be taxed the com-?unit- ROAD BUILDING It is expected that 1928 road building activities will exceed all records. Twenty thousand miles of surfaced roads are to be built, and about 8,000 miles' graded and drained. Throughout the country a multitude of plans have been laid for improving the be .4glior rate. If this practice were rigidly followed many of the build-tio- - existing highway systems as well as extending them. A high degree of road service is assured, by the fact that )W that are now n a disreputable condition, would be repaired ad kept up year after year or else demolished. The worse a about 240,000 miles of the total 288,000 in state highway systems 1 jlace looks the greater should be the tax. People would then are this year to be maintained under state highway departjake a practice of cleaning off their weeds and repairing their ments supervision. Vopertv. In two or three years Salt Lake wouldnt have the Early estimates give amount available for road expendiof our city tures as being much greater than last year. From the various us Rightly vacant lots she has now, and every part ould be beautiful. It is rather discouraging and hard lines to sources, it is expected that highway funds will be upwards of taxed for every improvement made around a place. Just $1,300,000,000. These highway facts should please everyone. There is no I Wise a home is kept in a state of repair, and beautified by )vns and flowers. doesnt make it worth any more in actual such thing as road building expense, unless it be shortsightedcollars and cents. It merely adds to its appearance and the ness that constructs poor or inadequate roads. Every dollar 1 1 |