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Show THE CITIZEN AMERICA FROM A TRAVELERS VIEWPOINT UNITE and WELCOME the TOURING WORLD A Way of Increasing our Profits and Pleasures at the Same Time A CALIFORNIAN, after spending ' a few months in Salt Lake Cityf wrote the following to an organization in his home state: Salt Lake City has more to offer the tourists than any other city, in the West, a greater variety of attractions. The great Salt Lake with its immense salt deposits and works; the Ssaltair Pavillion with its bathing, boating, music and dancing; Birds Island with its millions of gulls and other birds; the Mormon Temple, auditorium, information bureau and museum, all inclosed in beautifully kept grounds with flower gardens and monuments; the handsome Capitol building with costly furnishings and interesting exhibits; surrounded by mountains with picturesque canyons and beautiful rivers. A city of wide streets and fine brick homes. A city that will some day be the mecca of a million tourists a year. And that same Californian, writing of the section from which he came, says: The Sacramento region, twenty-on- e counties where opportunity and hundred knocks at the door three sixty-fiv- e days in the year. A region with nine national forests, hundreds of thousands of acres of forests so scattered that from any point on the the motorist can paved highways reach a forest in a few hours. This region has the boasted California climate, unexcelled educational facilities, recreational and playground areas, in fact here are all the things that the magic word California stands for. Here is where snowcapped mountain peaks look down upon orange groves; wher$ from picturesque and scenic mountain drives you can see lakes, rivers, orchards and farms. In the wonderland of this region is located Lassen Volcanic National Park, natures curioresity shop. It is an gion, where the wierd and the spectacular vies with the magnificent. It is the WEST where you are always maintain that highway. An organization has been formed by prominent . Nevada and California business men, headed by a Sacramento banker, for the purpose of raising funds to keep that highway oiled and in good repair. Utah should join that organization. Already the indifference of Utah has caused to be organized an association to promote a highway direct from the Yellowstone National Park across Idaho and southern Oregon to Cali- fornia. Utah should show an active interest in highways leading to California for it must be remembered that those ' highways also lead from California to Utah. California this year has entertained over two hundred thousand tourists. Were any of them invited or encouraged to go or return by way of Salt Lake City? Have you the remotest idea of the amount of cash those tourists have expended in California? Tourists from the east going to California should be induced to come this way and visit Salt Lake' City. Tourists going east from California should be induced to visit Salt Lake City. The Californian whom we quoted advocates a partnership with an agency in Denver, Colorado, for the purpose of interesting tourists in what we have to offer, and there is nothing better in the world. Let Utah and California adopt Nevada and go after the fast increasing and mighty profitable patronage of the tourist industry. Utah-Nevada-Califor- nia BELIEVES FARMERS FOR fiOOVER , awe-inspiri- ng Qlcome: The wonders of the Sacramento region are separated from Salt Lake City by the State of Nevada. From the Utah State line across Nevada to the California state line there is a graded and graveled highway passing through. Elko, Winnemucca, Lovelock, Reno and many smaller towns. That highway was built with federal aid by the State of Nevada, a state with less than ninety thousand inhabitants. 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For years Mr. Yoakum has taken an active interest in working out a program for the aid of agriculture and has opposed the McNary-Hauge- n bill. m, FIFTEEN AMERICAN products were used in building a motion picture theatre in Sydney, Australia, which probably made it a more and attractive place in which to show American pictures. cori-venie- Register Next Tuesday 3 nt By Horace Leaf, F. R. G. S. No serious traveler is likely to consider his wanderings complete if he has not visited America. In Europe the term America almost invariably means the United States. Canadians object to this exclusive use of the term. The objection is geographically justified: Canada is logically part of America. So are Brazil and Peru and Argentine, but they must be qualified with the term South America. This wholesale reference to the United States as America is not without significance. It is on a par with the word England in European countries. England includes Scotland, Ireland and Wales and is an indication of the relative importance of those countries. In a world dominated by commercial and political values economy of words demands that only places which really matter shall be named. The truth is that west of the Atlantic Ocean the United States counts for so much that her neighbors are dwarfed by comparison, and the fact may as well be recognized. Europe instinctively realises that America is truly great, not only territorially, but in size of population also. There is something else however. China and India have big territories and are numerically great, yet they call forth little admiration and respect. A nation to be really great must win these appraisals. America has won them. How this has been accomplished is not easy to explain. National greatness is always a complex problem. A good deal of it rests upon age. But America is not old as nations go. Her greatness must rest upon a more substantial basis. That this is sound is shown by Europe tacitly admitting that America is destined to lead the world. The casual visitor feels the security of this foundation, but he cannot define it. Perhaps America seems bigger when viewed from a distance. To the staid European whose country has reached a degree of organization when practically all its citizens think alike on big national issues, America presents a singularly unstable character. How much of this instability is real and how much fictitious no one can say. It comes as a shock to the visitor to find practically no Americans prepared to speak in terms other than disrespect of its most important institutions. The American if boastful abroad is certainly not so at home. I have sought in vain for the American, native born or immigrant, who has anything good to say of American law and American politics. The term graft is heard with depressing frequency, too frequently to be true. If law and politics were as bad as they are said to be there could be no order and no justice. The whole of the United States would be like that imaginary Chicago with which America has deluded the world. Chicago is not without sin, but it is not one hundred percent bad. Never- - theless, here is to be found the em- bodiment of Americas weakness: that lack of cohesion without which no nation can be truly great. One night there was a hold-u- p in Chicago within a few yards of where I was residing. The following morning a local barber chatted with me about the .affair. He seemed quite amused at it and laughed heartily as he told me what he had witnessed. A gunman had jumped upon the running-board of the unfortunate victims automobile and pressed the barrel ot his revolver against the mans side. At first the guy refused to stop, said the barber with a laugh, but he soon changed his mind. He turned and drove back to his shop and gave the gunman what he wanted. This appears to have been the contents of his cash register. What did you do? I asked. Oh, I ducked. So you let the man be robbed with out attempting to assist him? You bet; Im not tired of life yet Are you an American? Sure; but my parents were Roumanians. Here was a partial explanation of his conduct. The barber was virtually a Roumanian, the victim was a Jew, and in all probability his assailant belonged to some other foreign nationality. This, however, does not explain the attitude of my host, and American whose ancesters came over soon after the Mayflower. He solemnly assured me that had he witnessed the incident he would not have interfered on the ground that it was not his business. He meant it was not his cash register. This man, a serious thinker and something of a scholar, admitted that he had actually witnessed a killing in Chicago and had driven rapidly away because it wasnt his - fight. This of course is not altogether characteristic of Americans. It would be impossible for any country to hold the respect, of a savage if all its people were so devoid of patriotism. The strength of a community is mainly in its unity, and America being strong cannot be devoid of that quality. Perhaps no nation calls for more courage. The development of the United States rests upon courage and such as no older country demands. The cowboy is essentially an American product. A more daring race could not be found unless it be the forester whose occupation often to page 9) self-sacrifi- ce ued ODONNELL & CO. MORTICIANS Wasatch 6461 Salt Lakes Finest Funeral Home 32 South Fourth East CONTAINING UTAHS ONLY MAUSOLEUM |