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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W.RAYBOULD, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage In the United States Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year.. - o Single copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas-s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at Salt Lake Act March 3, 1879. under of the City, Utah, Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409 8alt Lake City, Utah 311-12-- 13 NA TION MOURNS PRESIDENTS DEA TH HIGHER TAXES FOR THE PEOPLE. A nation stunned, a nation mourning, its leader gone to return no more. The. shock of the death of Warren Gamaliel Harding, president of the United States, still holds the nation spellbound and the people are in deep mourning. Apparently on the high road to recovery from .a severe, weeks illness contracted by a trip across country, surrounded by many of his family, and everybody sure that the chief executive would soon be able to resume his official duties, he was struck down in San Francisco without .warning by the grim reaper of death, aye, even in. the presence, of his beloved wife who was reading the news of the day to him. The nation was not prepared for the shock, but the angel of death is no respector of persons. It seeks the high as well as the lowly. The news of his death was preceded in this city by the quaking of the earth caused by one of the most terrific rain and thunder storms in the. history, of. the city; The deafening peals of thunder shook the very buildings, the lightning blinded the people for the instant and the water poured from the heavens like a flood.' Then there came a calm and then, the sad tidings of the sudden death of the leader of the. nation. The people could not believe it. But a few days ago the president was here and talked with the people face to face, and even as a boy went out and played games with some of our prominent citizens. It is not the lot of every president to perform great things during his term of office, but history will write of President Harding as one of the great leaders of mankind. The armed conference brought about Ilardiiig, which approved a naval limitation treaty and a peace pact, was the first stroke in the history of the world to really curb the aggrandizement of designing rulers, and there is no doubt, that future generations will build an impregnable wall around this treaty which will finally eliminate war. When the president was sworn into office, the government was being run at an expense of over $6,000,000,000 a year and there were nearly 4,000,000 people out of work in this great country of oijrs. Today the national government expense has been cut nearly in half and everybody in the nation is at work and the nation is prosperous. We have lost a great man. by-th- . by-Preside- -- e s e . nt noil-interest- four-pow- er Calvin Coolidge has been sworn in as president. He is also a fearless leader. He will take up the work where our late president left off. There will be no change in the personnel of the staff. The nation is fortunate at this time to have such a man as Coolidge at the helm. The state board of equalization has announced that the state tax this year will be 7.4 mills, an increase of .3 mills over last year, and this is not the end. Just so long as the people allow their taxes to be raised just so long will they have to pay the fiddler. Governor Mabey ran upon a platform to decrease taxes, and! if anyone will turn back to the newspaper files preceding his election and check up on his speeches they will find scathing speeches delivered here and there denouncing the former administration for its great waste of the taxpayers money. That was proper and right. The peoples taxes had been increased around 100 per cent and the natural consequences were that the party in power was swept out of the offices. Now comes along Governor Mabey and allows a further increase in taxes, instead of making a thorough investigation and eliminating unnecessary fat jobs and reducing taxation. It means that the governor is being looked upon as a one term governor because the people have reached their limit and the people are not going to stand idly by and see their property forcibly confiscated city, county or state. The people are now working for taxes only and every year it is a very hard matter for the people to gather enough money together to pay their taxes. It has become an unbearable burden and one would think that the officeholders w'ould look around and try to somewhat relieve this heavy burden by lower taxation. Is it any wonder that there is such great unrest in the country? The politicians will say that it is impossible to lower taxes, and if anything the load is to be made heavier. A thorough investigation by a committee of people in city, county and state expenditures would reveal a very unsatisfactory situation. We liaye too many and undesirable boards, the members of which are drawing big salaries, which should be done away with. There is something wrong with the big expenditures of our school system, which also greatly needs a public airing and many loose ends snipped off. Money is squandered right and left on the pretense c education and our public schools today are costing much more than private schools ever dared, to charge for tuition. It costs a pupil nearly as much to go to the University of Utah as it does to go to Harvard or Yale college; As a result hundreds of poor boys and girls who would like to enter the university cannot do so, because the entrance fee to this public free? school is so high that only the middle class and rich can enter. Every year the expense mounts higher and higher with no limit in sight. It is a well known fact that many of our large school buildings are being used for socials and entertainment. The lighting and heatnon-operati- . ed ve ing and general expense is paid by the people, and this item alone amounts to thousands of dollars every year. The way vocational training is handled is also a Joke. In a |