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Show A UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION Among the contributions to current literature as 'she is wrote" in this part of the country, none that we have seen is more entertaining than an article entitled "The Midland Trail" which appeared ap-peared in a recent issue of the "Good Roads Au-tomobilist" Au-tomobilist" and was penned or drilled by a gentleman gen-tleman named Dr. Wherry. The opening paragraph par-agraph reads: "We may not all agree as to which road is the most important on which should be built first. While we must all admit that any log book or map printed and distributed by the hundred and thousand, as the Kansas and Colorado, log waB as is, with their road mark, good to Mack, Colorado, there to end just as if in a bottomless pit or against an un-surmountable un-surmountable wall arp facts that hurt, and offset a lot of the $40,000 boosted money." Oh, Mr. Interpreter please come here. We don't quite get the Doc and must have immediate immed-iate assistance, though we think we believe he is right. When a ripe "log was as is" some people use it to find out where they are going, and others use it to sit on while studying the poor Queen's English as she is spoke. Further along the Doctor says: "I promised myself that I would attend to my practice and let the man with leisure build the good roads or anything that needed to be done. But the man of leisure never builds roads or anything else. He only enjoys riding over the ruts or chuck holes until some man or men who are real nation builders come along and build a road. Then he will use them, but not enjoy them for such an idler never enjoys anything. Se we will not begrudge him what little pleasure he gets from whatever source. It is little enough, God knows." Three cheers for you, little nation builder and your innate modesty! It is a doggoned shame you are forced to leave all of them there patients pa-tients waiting in that there office while you sacrifice sac-rifice your time and duck into such self abnegation abnega-tion as is known only in this region, while with spade in hand you create an Appian way where only chuck holes grew before. Further on in the article the Doctor says: "This was not what I started to write." That is an odd confession. We think the proof is in every word of the article. The author grows eloquent in closing and says: "Here is to all good road boosters in Utah and especially Salt Lake. Now that the money raised by public subscription has saved the day and .redeemed the name of our fair state, and all will profit by it let us put our shoulder to tho wheel and do the thing that Bill Rishel, the father of all good roads booster in Utah has been saying for years should bo done. . . . Let Salt Lake adopt Rome's motto 'All roads lead to Salt Lake." Did you ever see anything like that on tho sign posts at home, Cabiria? |