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Show THE CITIZEN venience ih travel and expediance of business connections. Cement and steel have linked two states, and the ' formal dedication in June will mark another step in the ever shortening time in which the West will be " O The old fashioned man who used to leave home early enough every morning to shake hands with the milkman has a son whd gets home early enough in the morning to do the same thing. completely tamed. The presence of airplanes and a landing field will typify even more clearly the shortening links of the continent and the fact that the West looks continually into the air. Save Daylight. of warmer weather, long, clear WITH the advent and fine afternoons, New York and the nations other big business centers, have gone to daylight savings time as a means of expediting the conduct of its business. Clocks, turned forward on hour, bripg millions to work an hour earlier an release them an hour earlier in the afternoon. The sytem was introduced during the war and has found lasting favor in the Let9s Q , An optimistic way to look at the new smaller currency is to realize that it provides less harboring space for germs. Detroit Free Press. A Necessary Change. heart of Americas business. Daylight savings time is calculated on a sane basis. an accepted fact that the best business hours of the day sire in the morning when men are fresh and there still is zest in the air to induce clear thought and rapid action. The advanced time brings a man to work at what corresponds, to an hour earlier in standard or nature time, and he is through before the withering heat of summer days has worn him out and robbed him of his business efficiency. It is a great institution for the working man as well as the office man, and under its provision every man has time in daylight to take a long ridey play three or four sets of tennis, eighteen holes of golf, swim, hike, or enjoy the hours puttering about his home. From now until September, there is no necessity for this city being without daylight savings time. Its value cannot successfully be discounted, for iA conservation of man power, increase in working efficiency and as an aid for recreation there is doubt that it is a succesful experiment. There are several firms now operating under a schedule which approximates daylight savings time. These firms open at 8 a. m. and close at 4:30 or 5 oclock. Salt Lake banking houses likewise have become convinced of the value of conservation, of the early morning hours with an opening time of. 9 a. m. Salt Lake doesnt necessarily need to turn its clocks ahead. The system of adopting an earlier opening and closing hour would do the trick, and it would provide the city with golden afternoons when the day laborer and the business man alike can enjoy association of family and friends now denied them. The Citizen is all in favor of lining up tie city from now until the end of the warm weather season and changing the working hours in the interest of business efficiency and for increased leisure time. It Cheer up if you are a little short of real money. It is reported that Henry Ford has $72,000,000 less ih his caslr account than a year ago. U Even at Lee9s Ferry T TT SO LONG AGO it was possible to hold a bridge 1 dedication, or to open a new road or to stage some civic enterprise without the aid of the air. But apparently even that day is passing. It is announced that when the new bridge is opened over the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, connecting Utah and Arizona by direct highway through the heart of the scenic richness of the the tjwo states, an air field will be built at the site of bridge so that officials can make connections with mini- Qf REDISTRICTING of is ! mum loss of time. Even down there at Lees ferry, where the end of the yorld used to be, the air has become a necessity. Just one more of the ever present evidences that aviation is mans future ally, and his present most important con 5 -- voting districts and changes municipal voting wards, approved Wednesday by the county commission is a mighty good step to take. The city has outgrown its voting districts, and the changes meet with unanimous approval by those who seek expeditious handling of the voting strength of the city. The greatest change, made in the First Municipal Ward, relieves an unwieldy ward which became cramped through continued increase in population and extension of boundaries. This ward has been divided, the portion north of Seventeenth South to be known as First Municipal ward A and the portion south of that as First Municipal Ward B. The districts in other sections, almost without exception, have been rearranged, with the result that not more .than 300 voters are included in a district. The change is the result of agitation started by Alonzo Mackay, county clerk, following the last election when cumbersome districts delayed accurate tabulation of the vote for many days. Under the old system, too, many districts required two sets of judges, and it is noteworthy that under the new arrangement only one set of judges will be needed to each district. We dont know anything about the election prospects over in Great Britain, but the Tories must be in desperate straits as they are now offering the voters cheeaper tea if they win at the election. Ten More Days for Audit THE SPECIAL AUDITORS who have spent more two months in checking the accounts in the treasurers office which led to Salt Lakes latest public office sensation will complete their task in ten days. When that times comes, the citizens of Salt Lake City should be provided with a full report of the findings of the auditors. The city commission, in justice to itself, to those who work with it, and to the people who elected the men on that commission, should release the figures to Salt Lake's electorate. It is the funds of the Salt Lake public which were manipulated. It is their concern as to where those funds went and as to whom was responsible. The city commission i charged with a duty to Salt Lake and to itself. The Citizen charges them again, not alone to publish the figures of the defalcations but to pursue actively the person or persons responsible until full restitution is made to the public. It is announced that the Leviathan will serve in- - limit on toxicating liquors while outside the three-mil- e its way from New York to Europe and return. This is the first tangible effort to put the schooners back on the schooners . |