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Show THE CITIZEN " 5 UTAH SWEET PEAS TRAVEL BY AIR. ADVERTISING. The first airplane load of Utah sweet peas left Ogden Thursday with a total of 2,000,000 blossoms. These beautiful blooms will command top prices on the Chicago market. Nowhere in the country are more beautiful flowers grown than in our fair state. Now that they can reach the large cities of the country in a few hours by airplane, it is onljy reasonable to predict that Utah sweet'peas and other blooms will be sought after' by the leading florists of the country. This Utah industry which is the beginning of another . is sure to develop rapidly. EVERY DAY throughout the country, firms are being closed, unable to longer carry on their business. These are not the firms, however, that have kept their names constantly before the public but the ones who have failed to realize the necessity of doing so. It costs money to advertise, but it costs more money not to advertise. The question is whp sells the most; the advertiser or . h i i A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. the non-advertis- The advertiser knows what er. he spends and can quite accurately estimate his returns. Big industries are appropriating larger sums each year for advertising and these firms are the ones who are paying the largest dividends canto their stockholders. The not estimate his advertising cost. Doesnt know how much business is lost but the advertiser builds a name for himself. Of course, advertising will not sell poor merchandise or a poor product, neither will good merchandise or a good product sell itself. It takes advertising and lots of it to do it, but the advertising done will double, treble and quadruple the amount of. sales, which makes the expense slight in comparison with the profits made. Billions are spent annually by the big manufacturers of the country to advertise their products. After they are well advertised some might wonder why they continue to spend such huge amounts. They do it .because they realize it . is only . by keeping their name and product constantly before the public that their business will continue to grow. , non-advertis- er William J. Harris, Georgias senior U. S. Senator, and a dry leader, has pledged himself .to support A1 Smith and has called upon Georgia Democracy to stand solidly back of the nation-a- l ticket. He stated, however, that he did not believe prohibition would be endangered by the election of Smith. I would not vote for him if I thought by his election Governor Smith could change the prohibition laws, was his emphatic statement. Evidently the Senators opinion is vastly different from that of the many enthusiastic wets who feel sure A1 Smith will give them back the booze they crave. KEELEY TO OPEN IN OGDEN. The Keeley Ice Cream Co. have purchased the Jules Chocolate Shoppe at 2463 Washington Ave., Ogden. Joseph McCune, who has been associated with the company for ten years, will take charge of the store. We are glad to see Utah firms spreading out over the state and feel sure this is only the beginning of wide expansion for the Keeley Ice Cream Co. A GROWING SPIRIT. The people of Greenland who have been under the Danish yolk for 200 years, are now asking that their doors be thrown open to world trade. Captain Godfred Hansen, Arctic Explorer and Greenland expert, now1 aide de camp to King Christian is leading the movement for commercial independence of the northern island. This same desire for independence is pervading the entire world, even to the remotest parts and if the dominant powers are wise, they will allow the nations, both great and small, under their control, at least a portion of the freedom they seek. These people want education and they have a right to it. They have learned that there are comforts and luxuries in the world which they have never been able to enjoy and they want to have them, and there is no reason why they should not. This spirit and craving for education, expansion and independence has grown by leaps and bounds since the., war and it cannot be crushed. ,0Whcn all the nations of the world work together in .harmony for the benefit of each other just like, good neighbors, the stronger, and wealthier uplifting the pooler and weaker, wars misery and suffering will be conditions of the past. There is plenty of good things in the world for all to enjoy at least a portion. WHEN LOVE and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. Ruskin. YOU MAY BE as orthodox as the devii, and as wicked. Wesley. t) AUTOMOBILES are to ride in, not to be den by. rid- FOOLS AND SAGES are equally harmless. It and half-sagthat are the realis the half-fooly dangerous members of society. Goethe. ls es 4 WHEN .THE people voted the school bonds they were told that taxes would not be ihcreased. If 'such statements are made by public officials, and then taxes are increased, is not that getting money under false pretenses ? Every year there is a little raise in the rate. Under this system, we wonder how many poor people will own homes in fifty years hence. THE COLORADO RIVER BRIDGE. ARIZONAS bridge across the Colorado is A gate is being driven nearing completion; through the southern wall of Utah. Strange and lonely corners of our country are gradually consenting to be conveniently viewed. The rugged buttes, the deep canyons, the tortuous stream will never be tamed, but man is succeeding in outwitting them. Our southern neighbor has been so near, yet so far, but now we may look for an era of closer relations. North, east and west, the routes are open. To the south they soon will be. Utah needs the open door. No community can long live within itself, without becoming stale. Utah has much to give the country, and by giving she will receive. In every way her interests will be enhanced. When the doors are finally opened and the house is full of welcome guests, Utah will have the same fascination as before. Many of the guests will decide to stay, and the state will be enriched. IS THE COMSTOCK COMING BACK. TRACKS NOT WANTED. WITH THE tearing up of the tracks, the repaving of East South Temple is to the fore again. The people have protested the paving on this street, but now they may let it go through and make a nice street out of it. The street car company will go ahead with its improvement work whether the other part of the street is paved or not. At first people were rather dubious about the street car company pulling up its tracks, but since several streets have been put into excellent condition for the automobiles, and the noisy cars to be soon displaced by a noiseless bus, a majority of thp people appear to be of the opinion that the city would get better service all around if all the tracks were torn up and buses put on the main thoroughfares. Like the horse, the old fashioned street car is doomed to the scrap pile. THUGS ARE starting early this summer and there are nightly holdups and robberies. But what can you expect when the undivided attention of the officers of the entire country is directed This combination has on wine and bad women. always been the downfall of man, and the thugs are apparently taking advantage of present THERE WAS a time when America took all the cream at the Olympic games, but now the foreigners are showing us the way. It may be that prohibition is undermining our youth and they no longer are able to compete successfully with the wine bibbers of Europe. The big question is whether America has gone backward or Europe forward. CHICAGO is trying very hard to reform the criminal. It is reported that over $25,000,000 has been spent on new churches the past year. If only one of those Chicago criminals are converted and reformed, it will be worth the price. UTAH DEMOCRATS are debating whether to follow Al. Smith on a wet plank or switch off to a dusty and dry road. The trade is much better where it is wet. PRESS dispatches state that the Comstock mines are now in the control of new interests, and that development operations are already under way, with a view to placing the properties again upon a producing basis. No mine in America has a history quite so glorious as the Comstock. The wealth she yielded seven hundred million dollars went mostly to other parts of the country to San Francisco and New York, where silent monuments still attest her wonderful generosity. Had that wealth remained in Nevada, she would be today one of the richest states in the Union. But Fate willed otherwise, and her decrees it is useless to dispute. bowels Who can say that there are not of the earth, near the old Comstock, treasures as fabulous as those which she brought forth? With' increased knowledge of mining; with modem machinery, and with the latest- - methods of operation, another great strike is in no event beyond the realm of possibility. That reputable men should have undertaken the task augurs well. All honor to the enterprising men who have set out upon .this great work. May their efforts be crowned with even greater glory than that which is the heritage of the old Comstock. ir-th- e , i THE MOTHER OF CALIFORNIA. Look at the peninsula of TAKE A MAP Lower California. We read little about it and hear still less, except when some rumor starts the rounds of a plan projected by Japan to plant a colony there. should Baja California belongs to Mexico. It is of belong to the United States. The country little use to Mexico, separated as it is from her mainland by a long gulf. By and large, Mexicans do not consider the peninsula worth anything, and the few inhabitants would probably welcome a transfer to the United States. obWhat advantage would the Unitpd States tain? The Panama canal a reality; another, across Nicaragua, coming into view, the United States needs a harbor south of San Diego. Magdalena bay is that harbor. Once we had Baja California, only to cast it Alaska away as the tail end of an earthquake. |