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Show THE 4 iiiiiiiiiiiiiii1 mu 1 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 The (SDOTi&J iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! iiniiiii!iiii Miimiiiiii ii iiiiiiniimii mu i hi iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii i 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. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year; $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the postal Union, $4.50 per year. SALT LAKE CITY, MARCH 2, 1929 Another Step Ahead weeks ago Tlie Citizen embarked on a forward-lookin- g policy. In the edition dated February 19, the following statement The reason for the great length of time was easily explained. It was sleepers on the road. Drivers who poked over the state road at 20 miles an hour and less slowing up the cars behind them, resulting in congestion, and making the progress slow. Several of them within every mile, leisurely going somewhere or other apparently. This condition on Utahs highways is deplorable. And it is unnecessary entirely so. It needs only the establishing of a minimum speed limit, and all will be well. Cars on the highway should average 30 miles an hour. That is moderate enough speed on which to travel over the arteries of trade and communication. When they are slowed beyond that, it is provoking to the driver who has somewhere to go and it results in congestion on the roads. Utah needs a minimum speed law of 25 miles an hour on the highway. Four wheel brakes, SIX appeared: Today The Citizen enters a new stage in its development. With many years of successful experimentation and struggle back of it, and with its eyes on the horizon of the future, it takes its place more securely than ever among the. progressive forces which are striving to make the Intermountain West as great as its people and potential resources warrant. We can find no more worthy task than this for which to work. We have no private, political or religious standards to carry. We can turn freely to industrial and social issues as they arise and devote our utmost energy to the promotion of all that makes for a greater Utah. We shall endeavor to deal clearly, concisely, accurately and fairly with the issues as they arise. To this purpose, we dedicate the columns of The Citizen And now The Citizen announces another forward step under a continuation of that policy. Begining with the edition of March 9, The Citizen will come to you in new dress. It will be reduced in page size to a new style approximately the size of the Liberty magazine. And it will be put on the newstands of the city at the sales price of five cents a copy. The Citizen will not cheapen its present policy. On the contrary. It is our aim, as sincerely as it was at the time of the first announcement, to continue a policy which will assure Salt Lake City and Utah a magazine devoted to the advancement of the interests of its peoples and of its industries. The Citizen, too, feels the urge of the new spirit of the age and its pages will attempt to reflect that pace. A step ahead, or half a step, Citizen readers will be able to keep abreast of the times through its columns. We deeply appreciate the welcome accorded the new policy to The Citizen. We fully realize the obligation under which we labor to justify the confidence placed in ns. And we sincerely feel that with the venture into our newly charted fields, The Citizen will maintain that contact with an ever widening circle of friends. Speed Em Up 1 SUMMER automobile traffic by no means CITIZEN CAPITOL HILL A Sonnet Jane Rawlings Sheean Oh for you with me to share in eager heart, As from a heavnly parapet, the view Of Utah crags, a lordly retinue By mystic power carved in olden Art, Where music of the hills is a mounting lark, And petals from the Rose of Beauty strew Incense round Mountain curved in Spriny-tim- e blue Afar as eye may search. Ah, they impart Proud visions of the grandeur that was Rome Aflame on seven hills of Tiber Land: For from our braver Capitoline Dome Irradient. splendors like wings expand Oer vale and peak, or weave a tender light Till Love draws near enraptured with the sight ! concrete highways, and increasing driving consciousness have provided all the elements of safety needed. There is not a car nor a truck that can not drive at least that rate of speed. There are many more that can drive at a rate of 40 miles an hour with safety. Lets get conscious of the fact that slow traffic is medieval. If a man cant drive a car 30 miles an hour on the highway he cant think fast enough to keep abreast of the world as it moves today. And if the counties that control traffic on the highways cannot realize that poking traffic is a hindrance rather than a mark of safety, they belong in the same category. There is a limit to safety, and reckless driving should be decisively discouraged. But fast driving and reckless driving are two very different things. The slow driver the dumb motorist more often is a reckless driver than the man who can drive with one hand along the highway, at 40 miles an hour and meet the emergencies. A little agitation will not do any harm. And it might do a great deal of good. The Citizen joins the cry for sane traffic rules and as rule the first it asks for elimination of the window shopper on arterial highways. is upon us, and the spring rush only lately has begun to get upon the highways, but last Sunday it took exactly 45 minutes of hard and wearing to make sixteen miles into Salt Lake on the state highway to the north. driv-ing--ha- rd In a recent misunderstanding at the National Capitol, Congressman Blanton of Texas was struck by a copy of the Congressional Record thrown by Congressman Elliott, of Indiana, but Those Texans surely are a was uninjured. hardy race. Class Legislation nor less than class passed through the Utah legislature now in session should be proposed amuse-metax be favorably voted. A measure de- finitely consigned to the scrap heap by the national government, the Utah legislature now takes it up as a hope of creating revenue needed to oil the wheels of state machinery and state NOTHING bemore nt needs. The Citizen sincerely hopes that the overwhelming sentiment against the bill, which has made itself manifest through the state, will not be disregarded in the State Capitol. The proposal is a direct blow at the man who foots the amusement bill, and as such is un-Americ- an. The bill would make nothing more nor less of the theatre box office than a collection agency for the state tax. It would require extra office help, added auditing, and entail considerable office fuss. But that is not the fuss. The big protest comes from the man who likes to go out and see a good show, attend a lecture, a concert, or athletic contests. Manifestly, the tax has been proposed because of its ease of collection, and based on the theory that an amusement tax is levied against a luxury. And that latter statement is false utterly. The luxury of the theatre does not appear until the price of the ticket reaches $4. Here the national government retains its tax on theatre admissions, the .theory being that a $4 entertainment is out of the reach of the ordinary person. But the other entertainments, the movies, the vaudevilles, stage plays, basically are no more nor less than a real necessity. The United States recognized that during the war when it placed entertainments in its training camps and took the entertainers overseas to relieve the tension, of the trenches. Its the same problem now. Amusements are one of the outstanding agencies that keep American business men and business women in mental and physical poise necessary to face the grind of the high speed business day. This The national government levied the tax as an emergency measure under the stress of national necessity during its participation in the World War. As such, a measure of national defense, it was endured by the people of the nation. After the war ended the business resumed its natural channels, the reasons which brought the tax about disappeared, and the national Congress recognized that fact with abrupt dismissal of the tax. That Utahs legislature should consider such a measure means only that it has a lack of clear discernment as to its duty to the people of the ' state. There is no excuse for the appearance of such a bill as a taxation statute in Utah. If the choice is between lack of relief of any kind or in enforcement of the proposed amusement tax, our plea is, to let matters stand as they are. the color cover cut used on The Citizen last week, is the first of a series, of four color cuts obtained through the courtesy of the Southern Pacific railroad for use in The Citizen. Chinatown, It is said that President Coolidge is preparing to publish a book after he gets out of office. We dont know what it is about but we are willing to bet that it wont meet the approval of either Henry Mencken or Sinclair Lewis. |