Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-14

I thing, after all, is the South Platte
river, which flows right through the
center of the city to remind the
people that the days Of gambling are
over and the days Of home-making
are here.
Denver is a beautiful, spacious,
clean, well-built and splendidly laid
out city, and civic center which
might be the envy of any municipal
ity in America, a beautiful state
capitol, the second finest natural
history museum in the country,
with several mounted groups Of
bison, bears, deer and antelope, said
to be the peer Of anything Of the
kind ever done.
Joyous Air
Denver has parks, splendid
schools, beautiful mountain roads, a
set of privately owned public utility
concerns, which make the people
pay tribute whenever they turn on
the gas, electric Juice or take a
street car ride.
I have seen three feet of snow
on tho streets Of Denver, but that
as we say in southern California, sis
very unusual" I have also seen the
mercury mount well into the Dos
Of summer Gay, but that also is
unusual"
The usual thing is the air through
which you can catch glimpses of
mountain peaks so or 100 miles
away, and in which it Is a joy to
live and play and work and sleep.
Colorado, however. needs a few
things; for example, a couple OF
senators who purport to represent
the folks Of Colorado. OF course,
this state has no monopoly on big
business representatives in congress,
but she really ought to have ore
senator, don't you think? Phipps,
the steel magnate and owner of vast
mining and power interests, lives
in Washington and pays an astonish-
ingly low tax on his magnificent
estate in the District of Columbia.
In two days in Denver, I failed to
find any one who knew Senator
Phipps.
Maybe They Will
Senator Nicholson, rich miner.
| doesn't seem to represent any one
| in Washington excepting as Phipps
, directs.
How do they do it? Yes, should
think it would be real nice for the
people of Colorado to have sena.
| tor or two. Maybe they will some
| day.
And Denver needs first-class
hotel-one large enough and fine
| enough and up-to-date enough to
attract the free-spending tourist.
who, after all, is next to sugar beets.
her chief crop. In Denver you can
find a couple Of hotels, with tho
very highest prices, but neither can
| honestly make claim to being in the
| class that Denver attractions de-.
serve. I should say city-wide cam
paign for splendid hotel ought to
prove popular.
Then there is the transportation
monopoly in the wonderful Rocky
mountain national park.
Under the arrangement sanctioned
| by National Park Superintendent
Mather, one concern has the abso-
Lutte control of transportation in the
most beautiful natural park in the
world, days trip by auto from
| Denver
Pretty Soft for Them
The prices are agreed upon by
Mather and the company, in return
for which no leased car, no hired
car, no rival company, however
small, nor any other arrangement
by which money is paid for riding
through any part Of the park can
be made, excepting with the monop.
oly.N
A privately owned car can get in.
side, but, according to reliable re-
ports, it, must give the right-of-way
| to the stage monopoly when re-
quested to do so.
| But there are many other splen
did roads on which folks may trave.
clear up to the 12,U00-foot snow line,
in perfect safety and with keenes:
delight.
Taking it all in all, would ear
nestly recommend 81 fortnight in and
| around Denver as about the most
delightful vacation I know anything
about.
Undoubtedly, the most interesting
citizen Of Denver is Judge Ben Lind
sey.
| Tomorrow we proceed via the y.
& r. G.. over the mountains to
Colorado Springs.
Copyright, 1922, NEA Service)