Show I I I I I I I A Grievous Mistake Has lIas the b great r and soverign ign state of Utah Ulah been gype bun bun- coed ob obb or hypnotized into exchanging approximately approximate approximate- ly ly pile one million dollars of its badly needed road funds for the thep thousand dollars contributed by San Sall FranCisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- I paltry p a Y sum stun of fifty cisco I parties to further the interests of their own community Have those responsible for the proper and judicious expenditure of these permitted funds unwittingly innocently or deliberately permitted ed themselves to become plastic tools in the hands of clever manipulators with an exceedingly large ax to grind f These are pertinent p questions and bee become erne all an the more so after a careful analysis of the following facts j i i i I t I I I I Ever Everyone one knows s the intense and bitterly although well concealed concealed concealed con con- rivalry existing between the two principal cities titles of California Cali- Cali fornia fornia Los Angeles is the western terminous of two transcontinental highways that are open to traffic the year around and to and from the highly touted attractions ling ing in g access eb egress of that very interesting section of Uncle Sams Sam's domain San Francisco on the other hand has a n part year route encumbered with insurmountable snow barriers in winter and the scorching in Summer What is ismore l heat sand and dust of a veritable Sahara more natural then than that the latter city not desiring to filter filter filter fil fil- fil- fil ter its tourist traffic through its energetic rival to the south should be looking r about desperately for ways and anti means of overcoming this easily recognized handicap If fifty thousand dollars contributed to the road fund of Utah would accomplish this b by Y bridging the salt and mud flats westward from Salt Lake City it would he be a cheap and inexpensive way to overcome overcome over over- come me some of their difficulties So much for San Francisco Quoting from the time Salt Lake Tribunes Tribune's story of the official I opening of the W Wendover cutoff appearing Tearing in its issue of June 1925 titi we c have it that the estimated cost of the federal aid road from Mill hill to is Wendover is Seventy four per cent of this amount approximating ing is derived from federal funds allotted Utah for expenditure on such routes as may Inay ben be desi r n Pel by bv hv the flie state stale road commission as federal aid roads UJ b V v. v oJ is deducted the so magnanimously mag l From I the remaining n contributed by San Francisco leaving as the states state's portion which must be available for that purpose purpose Now what does all this mean otherwise than that we of Utah are expending upending this enormous sum with apparently no other motive mon moI mo mo- I tive in view view than lima n to help j one California city overcome certain advantage advantages held hell by bj another It means that we are expending over a million dollars ollars building r a road through the most Godforsaken Godforsaken region known to man A region wherein there is but a handful of people with no agri agricultural possibilities and giving to the tourist t or 01 traveler who uses it an impression of our OUI fair state which i is anything but that to be desired It means also that in ut the course e of time millions of other dollars which would otherwise be lie spent with the thc merchants hotel men auto supply dealers dealers' and other enterprises of central and anti Southern Utah 1 wherein are arc the states state's greatest scenic and social attractions will be spent spout elsewhere and lost to lo this state forever Who ho is there traveling for pleasure after experiencing the trials and vicissitudes of tl the te route westward from Salt Lake to our bord- bord Continued on pago page 8 I j 1 I A Grievous Mistake o Continued d from patio pago out one r line lisle slid and an attaining r his impression of the state as a whole its border again neat Heat that would care to enter lia liac hae onset all aU we have ex- ex oana a oust st a and ana nd desolations will c I 1 to 10 gain through ol of thousands or dollars nor or advertising 1 he traveler will return to his eastern home lome vIa vla either the northern or southern route and what he will have to LO say of Utah will be best unsaid it be lead had this money been expended expendI expend expend- I now HOW much better belter er would ed Gd d in building a suitable road f from on bait alt L Lake ke into th the Uinta have haveS vast inland lilland empire bounteously eu- eu basin There here i we c a S by nature inhabited by L enterprising and indus indus- l rious people who have been f for r years and anci are now bending I the dIe knee of oi supplication for help in ill the form lorm i of a highway of ot suitable nature to per permit m of them pouring the wealth yealth of their I valleys valley's into the lap of the world I n It was no motive that induced San Francisco lo to contribute toward the building r of the Wendover cut cut- off Loy Loyalty to his own state is paramount with the Californian California and it is is safe to assume that the average San Franciscan would much to travel down the coast line of his own state stale to Los Angeles and nd beyond over the superb superb- paved roads of ef that section if coming conling to Salt Lake than to brave the rigors of the desert by way of Wendover It is a fact that even now many tourists with the Yellowstone Park as their destination are being being be be- ing routed out of San Francisco via Wells Nevada and Twin lwin Falls Idaho SALT LAKE NOT EVEN l The official may y of the Idaho State Automobile Association recommends recommends mends the sank same route to those thos of its members and patrons de cle desirous sirous of visiting Y Yosemite te and mid and other California points This is considered probably a fair exchange The suns sum and substance of the whole thing it that San Fran Francisco Francisco Francisco cisco wants the thc first whack at the coast bound tourist and was willing to pay and and perhaps to more more to attain that end Bryce Fish Lake Zions Zion's Cedar Breaks the he Grand Canyon with all their pristine beauties together Wit wits 1 the attractive cities of central and Utah and their won wonderful wonderful derf ul surroundings are are sacrifices on the altar of sectional connivance connivance con con- and political intrigue while the silent and sullen desert receives the palm palIn Too bad we say and w os o's to blame There is only one practical all alI year car route to the coast via Salt Lake and that leads through the very heart of the state A prominent highway such as now now extends to N Nephi would if continued on to our southern be the greatest ass asset t from the viewpoint of economy utility and world wide publicity that we of Utah could possess Juab and Sevier counties have available funds for such construction and are continuously asking asking asking ask ask- ing that these funds be matched with federal aid and for that type of road only If the tIle state could find ways and means for expending on oil the wastes tf f the Great American cnn in Desert it could better have afforded to nu match ch this same money with federal aid and assisted the poorer counties of our so southland sO in constructing their part of a highway of this nature f The The Citizen I IVe I'Ve Ve We have heard of acts which brought the house down clown but the Charleston dancers were the Hie first to actually do it New York is talking about getting rid of all its surface cars This would make more room for I After all our oui In prohibition laws are pretty nearly y as effective as our murder laws I louses Houses should have three coats coats of p paint t to lo maintain beauty and preserve the surface says builders Some of the thc gir girls must get their beauty hints from the lumber magazines WILL ILL IN IN BUSINESS A A. very able judge recently gave this definition of goodwill Goodwill is the disposition of the well-pleased well customer to return to the place where lie he has been well weIr treated People with absent minds or absent absent brains hs d do not obe obey y y the automatic traffic signals I |