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Show SMOOT GETS UTAH WHAT UTAH NEEDS, RECORDS SHOW Keep Experience and Influence Working for Utah and You, Is Sound Logis of Republican Re-publican Party. Reed Smoot, candidate for re-election Tuesday, Nov. 2, on the Republican Repub-lican ticket, who is now rounding out twenty-four years of what is perhaps the most eventful public career in the history of America since the turn of the century, has endeared himself to all citizens of Utah and the nation at large because of his life-long and impartial devotion to the public welfare the poor and rich alike and because of his splendid qualifications of leadership, and his thorough ability- in facing problems of government and legislation legis-lation with a zeal and fearless courage cour-age never before equaled in the annals an-nals of American history. Utah's Senior Senator has long been the Republican party's chief advocate and supporter of the Protective Pro-tective tariff, for which every Utahn who depends upon the wool and the sugar and the lead and nearly every other industry in the state for his livliliood and general prosperity. nd now, after nearly a generation of faithful service in the upper House of Congress, his fellow citizens citi-zens throughout the state, regardless regard-less of party, point with pride to the fact that they have contributed to the leadership of the nation's business busi-ness the chairman of the Lnited States finance committee, the chairman chair-man of the joint congressional committee com-mittee on reorganization of the fed-i fed-i eral branches of government, the 1 ranking member of the important senate committee on appropriations, 1 the ranking member on public lands ' and surveys, and the senate's representative repre-sentative on President Coolidge's international in-ternational debt funding commis-f commis-f sion which has during the past year handled the most tremendous finan- cial transactions in all the history of ! the world through the settlement of ! hiilions of dodllars of indebtedness due and owing the United States by j her war-time allies. In spite of the i numerous national and internation-j internation-j al problems he is constantly called upon to solve. Senator Smoot has always had Utah and her interests at heart, and by using his tremendous tremen-dous influence has been responsible in bringing about the following: The Strawberry Valley Irrigation project, which still furnishes most ! of the water to Utah county. The Federal Reserve Bank in Salt Lake City, almost completed, at a cost of $320,000. The munitions building, south of Ogden, at a cost nf 52.000,000. The Forest Service headquarters at Ogden. The great Echo reclamation project pro-ject just starting i-n Utah which cost the United States government tl,- 223.000 to begin, and will still re-j quire $4,000,000 to complete. j Numerous appropriations for federal fed-eral buildings for post offices thru-out thru-out the state of Utah. The law creating Zion National Park. Laws or the conservation of Utah and other western forest lands. The Smoot dry farm law. The law to grant additional pensions pen-sions to Civil and Spanish-American war veterans. Law pensioning veterans of Indian wars. esides these actual accomplishments, accomplish-ments, Senator Smoot has also introduced in-troduced bills to establish a military aviation academy in Utah; to provide pro-vide for the acquirement of rural homes in the publiyc land states; to stabilize the irrigable Indian lands; to establish a game sanctuary in the Wasatch forest; to quiet title to the school lands, as well as a great number num-ber of bills for the purchase of sites and erection of public buildings in the various cities of the state, many of which are now receiving the earnest ear-nest eeBsldratlen ef congress. |