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Show THE NEXT GET-TOGETHER BURIAL "Keeping everlastingly'at it, brings success." That seemingly is the motto of the Commercial club of Salt Lake. After Ogden had reached the conclusion that the question of the best route of transcontinental trans-continental auto travelers had been answered in Ogden 's favor by the consensus of opinion 'being almost unanimous in favor of the Ogden route, the Commercial club of our neighboring city revives the whole subject and proceeds to push Ogden to one side. According Accord-ing to the papers of the capital, a joint meeting of the Salt Lake Commercial Club committee on good roads and automobiles was held Wednesday evening for the purpose of discussing ways and means of permanently establishing Salt Lake as a central) stopping point in the transcontinental tours of autoists. The feature of the evening was a talk by W. A. Peck, who recently re-cently completed a transcontinental tour over various routes to which he gave special study. Mr. Peck called particular attention to the fact that in the maps prepared for transcontincntalists, Salt Lake appeared nearly always as a side trip from Ogden, which was made the central point. Not until this tendency was corrected, he said, could Salt Lake hope to get her share of benefits evolving from cross-country automobile traffic. ' lie also mentioned that during dur-ing the afternoon, George II. Johnson of Protection, Kan., had arrived, ar-rived, after a round-trip tour of. the country, in which he followed the Mojave, Big Pipe, Tonopah and Ely route from the coast, declaring de-claring it to be the best road by long odds, as well as establishing Salt Lake City as a central point of the tour. It was found that about one out of every fiyc transcontinental autoists go to Salt Lake as other than a side trip. The committees decided to take energetic steps toward correcting this condition, and automobile dealers arc to be called on for united support in the move. Talk about burying the hammer! The Salt Lakers have dis-carded dis-carded the hammer and are using a bludgeon on Ogden. ' By natural choice, Ogden is the central stopping point in thfc region for auto parties on a tour across the continent. That has aroused the jealousy of our friends with the bludgeon and they purpose relieving us of the worry of caring for the visitors by knocking us in the head. i The next time there is a get-together movement in Utah, the burial ceremony must include not only the instrument of knockers but the wielders of the instrument, oven though it be nccessarv to inter half of Salt Lake. |