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Show THE CITIZEN 4 and the Sacramento Region, and seems to be practicing what CITIZEN A Thinking Paper for Thinking People' he preaches. As we have said before, Salt Lake City has more to offer the tourist, the lover of nature and the souvenir hunter, than any other section of like area, and all we need is universal anS? intelligent effort to make this the mecca of all tourists from the east, west, north and south. IN THE HEAT OF POLITICS. This year Democrats are picturing the Republicans a party of Addition, Division and Silence, a way of saying Damn Published by THE GOODWIN'S PUBLISHING COMPANY. Thief with an oratorical flourish, in order to work the crowd 301 Ness Building, Salt Lake City, Utah into red-hfrenzy. Calvin Coolidge sits silently in the watchtower, so the thieves may not be caught in the act of adds Entered as matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt ing to and dividing their loot. Democracy, of course, is Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3. 1879. itself. but hu. The picture is dry. Not is ever base. 9 mor, excuses exaggeration. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United States, Four years ago the Republican elephant was painted and Mexico, $2.50 per year; $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. marching down the street with a fife, playing the refrain, I aint going to steal, I aint going to steal no more, while the Editor FRANK E. SCHEFSKI, Manager and Democratic donkey at his side rejoined, How in hell can the JOHN L. KOEPPLER, Editor. people know you aint gwine to steal no mo? It had the ring ED. S. DIAMOND, Advertising Manager of a laugh in it. Too, it left a little comeback. Might not the elephant who had digged a pit and knew it be now a safer A NEW BIG BUSINESS risk than the donkey who implied he had not even the propenRecently we mentioned that the advance guard of the army sity to dig? of tourists had arrived, and we want to say now that the skirBeware of the man who says he cant dig a pit. He is either mish line followed quickly and every night this week practically a statue, or ... . every tourist cabin in the camp grounds have been filled and Deep spiritual wisdom is the only guaranty against digging the City Auto Camp has resembled an enclosed tent city. a pit. The clever donkey has less of it than the clumsy elephant. And didnt the donkey also dig a pit, in the war? Oh, but the Is it not about time that we recognized the tourist industry as among our greatest assets and act accordingly? war hid that. Perhaps some figures and facts that you are overlooking might awaken an interest in this seemingly unsought but ex- IMMIGRATION UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD. Will immigration be an issue in this campaign? There is tremely profitable business. One of the visible, ever present reminders is the service much that government cannot do. It cant regulate agriculture, stations. Is there one reader who realizes that the assessed val- nor industry, nor commerce. But some things it can do. For uation of the service stations, land and buildings, in Salt Lake one thing, it can regulate immigration. It can make it difficult City, amounts to over $271,000, and they are supposed to be for aliens to enter, difficult for those to stay who enter unlawassessed at seventy per cent of their true value. The interest fully. All the races and nations of the earth, to be sure, are brothon the assessed valuation of the service stations at eight per cent would amount to $21,680. It is understood that the retailer ers under the skin. The blood that courses through their veins makes two cents a gallon on the gas he sells, and at that rate is all red. Universal brotherood is fine. It is the willingness it is neccesary for the service stations to sell 1,084,000 gallons of every man, whatever his color or nationality, to concede to of gas, or ten gallons each to 108,000 cars, to pay the interest men of every other color or nationality, the right he claims for on the assessed valuation of the stations now in operation. It himself, the right of being different. It admits of no haughty costs approximately a thousand dollars a day for labor to oper- superiority, no cringing inferiority. But racial integrity also ate the service stations, or a total expense of $153,000 for the is fine, and national integrity. Racial intermingling defeats five months season beginning May 1st. both, as does internationalism. At best amalgamation is a slow Just read that paragraph over carefully, try to realize what process. Sometimes, between widely divergent types, it doesnt it means, and then sit up and take your hat off to the tourist work at all. Ethnologists are not agreed that it ever works between widely divergent types. A world government would not industry. After you have given passing notice to the service station be desirable, even if it were practicable. Cooperation between feature of the tourist industry, give heed to the thousands who nations and peoples can come only through the recognition W natural differences, through the preservation of racial and nacome on the railroads. Do some figuring yourself on the investments in hotels and patronage required to make them pay- tional integrity. Thus is universal brotherhood attained. Let us be thankful that underneath our skins we are the same. But ing investments. that we And what is Salt Lake City doing to foster and encourage let us be. thankful, too, that our skins are this growing and important industry? What are we as indi- are different. Ethnics should be the controlling factor in our immigration viduals doing to make the thousands who are visiting us feel that they are welcome and that we appreciate their visit and policy. This factor also should be given recognition, that at want them to come again? present there is no need of increasing our population. Upon Other cities and other sections of the country are awake these grounds we must stand, without favor, without fear. Aland are establishing contacts and service features. The Sac- ready we have too many racial problems, and too many foreignramento region has a representative in Salt Lake City making ers are engaged in pursuits that it should be the particular bu of Americans to monopolize. It might be well even to reknown what his section has to offer those who go west from here and he is sending to chambers of commerce and camp grounds strict immigration altogether, for the time being, making isoin northern California road maps of Utah furnished him by the lated exceptions only for very cogent reasons. Continental Oil Company and the Bennett Paint and Oil ComImmigration is a problem which presses for consideration. pany. He is here preaching reciprocity between Salt Lake City Will it be a serious issue in this campaign? ot right-ousne- ss second-clas- self-intere- Self-righteousn- st, ess many-colore- d, ss g,-ne- |