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Show THE CITIZEN 4 WM ft ttrtTffHf1mtfTftft1WfttmHMWflMWtMtlWIIIWIMIIWMItMIIIHMmiW MMMMMM IHIIIHHIHIIMMIIMHHHWIMHHIIIHimMMIIimmiMHIMHHMIIMIMIHIMIIMmnmilMIWWWHIM THE" CITIZEN A Thinking Paper for Thinking People' IMWWIWHIHWMWWHHillWIHWMIfMHmHIWIMHIHHWIimMMMMMIMMIWHIHHWHWHmi , f Published by THE GOODWINS PUBLISHING COMPANY 420 Ness Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. PRICE: Including: postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, 32.50 per year; $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, 94.50 per year. SUBSCRIPTION FRANK E. SCIIEFSKI ED. S. DIAMOND Manager and Editor Advertising Manager HIS FIRST JOB. When Herbert Hoover graduated from Stanford University he was unsuccessful in securing professional work, so took a laborers job for the first few months. When he had saved sufficient money he went from Nevada City to San Francisco to look for a job. Louis Janin hired him. He gave him a mass of papers and data in a mining suit and said, I want a technical report. When Hoover had made the analysis for Mr. Janin his name was added to the payroll at $50.00 per month. Before the year was out his salary was increased to $250.00 per month and shortly thereafter became manager of one of Janins mines. A British company doing development work in Australia wrote to Janin. for the best engineer available. Janin generously recommended Mr. because Janin Hoover. We say generously realized the extraordinary ability of the boy and it would have been to his interest to keep him. Mr. Hoover went to AusNot yet twenty-fou- r, tralia at a salary of $7,500 per year. The next year he received a salary of $15,000; at twenty-fiv- e he capitalized a three million dollar enterhe capitalized another for prise; at twenty-seve- n eight million. These achievements were based solely on the confidence of financiers in his character, ability and integrity. At the height of his career the properties over which he had charge or by which he was employed as an adviser were valued at far over three billion dollars, and at one time his mining operations employed more than 125,000 men. We are giving the details in the early life of Mr. Hoover, up until the time he went into the war work, in answer to propaganda that has been What did Hoover ever accomplish circulated. This is the answer. as an engineer? AL, THE HERO. POOR AL! They just wont let him stand on his own two feet. They try to put him in the shoes of Jackson, of Jefferson, of Grant, and most ludicrous of all Lincoln. The Democrats have asked us to stretch our imagination regarding vheir past actions and future promises almost to the breaking point, but to ask us to picture A1 Smith as another Lincoln is too much. Evidently they have Lincoln confused with Douglass. It was he who rode before the people in a costly carriage drawn by expensive white steeds, seeking to attract the attention of the populace by the splendor of his own attire and equippage. Abraham Lincoln, in his working clothes humble, modest and unassuming traveled on a decrepit old horse. Needless to say, he won the . hearts of the people. To imagine Al, the Happy Warrior in his brown derby and million dollar special, as the tall, gaunt, serious backwoodsman, in his humble working clothes, riding on an old nag no, our minds are not sufficiently elastic for that. Many have sought to ride to glory on the attainments of their ancestors, but they have failed. Each one must stand on his own two feet. We cannot live on the deeds of those who have ished th'eir work and gone on. Each has his own work to do. Each is different. Each has his own individuality, and it is impossible to make him identical with another. Herbert Hoover stands in his own shoes, on his own accomplishments. To place him on a pedestal and say he is like this one or that one would be wrong. Abraham Lincoln was Abraham Lincoln and no one will ever he like him. The same is true of other great men who have lived and fulfilled their work. They and they alone were capable He of filling the particular jobs assigned them. is a man who gets things done, is the best that can be said of any man and that is the high compliment we must pay to Herbert Hoover. His record shows conclusively that he is a man who gets things done. PARTY IS GETTING ROUGH. Looks very much like the Democrats are get- ting desperate for their campaign has developed into nothing more than a repetition of slander. The more they say the worse they make it and the deeper in the mud they sink. Nobody likes the man or woman who is continually running down the neighbors, or finding fault with the wife, or the husband, or the wifes family, or the husbands family. It gets on ones nerves and we soon become disgusted and wish in our hearts they would keep still, though we dont like to come right out and tell them sou Especially do we feel this way when the party who is being talked about fails to offer much defense. We begin to think the fault lies in the complaining witmud-slingi- ng the Democrats are materially injuring their cause and turning the hearts of the American people to their opponents. ness. By continual mud-slingi- ng RECENT ACCIDENTS SALT LAKE CITIZENS have suffered from several serious automobile accidents recently. Three people have lost their lives. Several have been seriously injured. Little children have been left motherless and fatherless. We will not presume to say that these accidents could have been avoided. We were not there, of course, and do not know just how they happened. We do know, however, that there are a great many careless drivers in our midst and we see near accidents almost every day. Many Countless drivers resent waiting for signals. numbers start out when the yellow light comes on, too impatient to wait for the green signal to go. Many who cross the intersection diagonally do so at the same speed they travel when going straight along the street, disregarding the fact that the pedestrian has the right-of-wa- y. Pedestrians also take desperate chances by' crossing with the green light instead of the red, disregarding the fact that the automobile driver As long as people fail to has the obey the rules laid down for their safety there right-of-wa- y. will be many avoidable accidents, which .bring grief and sorrow to countless homes. If the automobile driver would always drive as though it was his wife, son, daughter, mother or father who was walking on the street, and if the pedestrian would bear in mind that automobiles cannot always stop instantly and that they are taking desperate chances when they walk in front of them, we would have less accidents and happier homes. UTAH FARMER-LABOFOR HOOVER. LEADER. R Martin of Springville, state chairman of the Utah Farmer-Labo- r association, has assured the farmers, as well as the laborers of the west that they will get a square deal and receive more sympathetic and intelligent consideration from a president westem-bothan from a president bom in a city of the east. Seven thousand votes were cast for LaFol-lett- e Utah Farmer-Labfour years ago and Mr. Martin has expressed the hope that every one of them will be in the Hoover column this year. C. T. m or RAILROADS! NO-BUN- K CANDIDATES VIEWS. Will Rogers, Presidential candidate on the ticket, probably made the shortest Since the No-Bu- nk but most effective political speech of the campaign If I when he said Smith is always saying: get in, I will appoint a commission to look into so and so. Thats what fills poorhouses is people that have waited for some government committee to act. Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees. The American people are too sensible to leave farm relief, protective tariff and other problems which vitally concern them to commissions that Al Smith proposes to nominate.. return of the railroads to private op- eration, in 1920, they have given every effort to providing better and more efficient service. The measure of their success is shown by recent statistics. While in 1920, 24.5 per cent of freight locomotives were in bad order, now but 16.1 per cent are unserviceable. Each freight car in 1920 traveled on an average of about 25 miles daily. Now they travel more than 30 miles. 1920 payments made by the railroads for lows . and damage to freight amounted to $2.66 every car loaded with revenue freight. This has been reduced to 72 cents. Average freight train speed has been increas- it ed 19 per cent. EUROPES VIEW. This is but part of the railroads splendid record of the past few years. They have faced a period of steadily mounting, costs and meager profits; yet they have never failed in their march of progress. Freight and passenger service is today the best, most efficient and most reasonably priced in the history of railroad operation. The railroads are furnishing public service in the best sense of ttoj , Word comes to the United States that the countries of Europe are more anxious for the election of Governor Smith to the presidency than Herbert Hoover. This is not surprising. Europe knows that the Democrats believe in competitive tariff or free trade. If they can flood the American market with their goods in competition with American labor they can readily pay their indebtedness at the expense of the American workmen. On the other hand, if Herbert Hoover is elected they know there will be no reduction of their national debt to Uncle Sam. It is very easy to understand why Europe is alarmed. term. MAYBE the Republicans havent got a chance to break the Solid South, but at any rate they have got the Democrats going down there to make speeches. 1 |