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Show THE CITIZEN i 5 V These figures would, no doubt, show con'" is strong, on valuation when it wants an tjiat (i!e company is worth next to nothing, when in rai S and transversely, inspection at the hands of the state valuation board, common practice of all public corporators, however, is the dividend on considerable water, they usually idcs paving a y slick "ud the public has to foot the bill, jjl , ready-to-sercharge, like that at-- $ t0 th;., an onerous gas bill that is sent out to the home makers of Salt o eve i conclude that the local gas company has nd vor. ean rightly limit of public endurance in seeking to kite than rc:i "itrd the when the whole world is striving for greater it(g at a work is slack, wages falling, and industrial conditions y when d almost to the breaking point. E CITIZEN presumes that the Utah Gas & Coke Company, an opportunity, can so manipulate its testimony before the mmission as to show that it is on the verge of bankruptcy. J every service corporation can do the same thing if given a ;'itime to make preparations. They never take the public into confidence as to the amount of watered stock there is floating adjand uMially are able to show an increasing inability to pay Hs on their capitalization. Xk motto, live and let live, should dominate the people in this company case and they should not ask for more than the elimina-thi- s e time, of the charge which is a direct icnt tb a corporation without any direct return whatsoever, tcllful waiting should be the motto of the gas consumers and nuie Utah Gas & Coke Company gets its hearing before the utilities commission a mass meeting should be held and a estjloud enough to be heard in Europe, should be dinned .into the othe state utilities commissioners, lest they forget whom tax 'issessor. i ! ve ready-to-serv- . save. d GUARDIANSHIP OF FOREIGN NATIONS WANTED. accepted the invitation of President Harding to take armament conference, but has intimated that she cannot a lessening of her defensive strength unless she is guar-ed- France has m'jthc n1?to al security from any further aggressions by Germany traditional enemy. This constitutes a new Article 10 and one e as notorious as its predecessor of the somnolent League on There is no essential difference fr.om the American view-- t between guaranteeing the integrity of France against Teuton ultand the provisions of the league mandate which made it neces this country to guarantee the integrity of the British empire .the war, and the Pacific possessions of Japan. with the rocky doi ap thrown in for good measure. The United States has repudiated that covenant and has also dto consider an alliance with France by which we would have nsh to her defense whenever she should be threatened with solute c. from without. 'However friendly we to let her good may feel toward France, this country feelings run counter to her national intcr-anmust keep free from all such entangling alliances with all It appears that the armament conference is to be made orum for a renewal by Europe of the things she lost when the fe defeated the Wilson worlds government plan. This nation has ficed about up to the limit of endurance. She has given of her we uns tin i ingly and many of her best and most fearless young We now deeping in France. This country must not let its desire disarmament run away with its reason or she will come out o Tnjercne carrying the weight of the maintenance of the integ-.ri- d This is where the nations of upon her back. sPeA-ulplace us and this is also the dream of the allied money fW of thc world, which finds its chief advocates and protagonists 'J? the sc1, inlists, the internationalists and misguided men of the J all of '..bom would not hesitate to sacrifice every to witness the fruition of their ideal. Hmitati. of armaments is a beautiful thing, to be sought by per ueans. But never at the cost of thc lives of our young can-affo- rd cl d able-bodi- Ann-ris-- i i ed men arid boys in maintaining the integrity of any foreign land. Possibly some way may issue from this coming conference through which a practical realization of disarmament may be arrived at. But, much as this country desires and would welcome such an outcome,, she must not assume the guardianship of any other nation which may make that condition contingent upon her own limitation of armaments. The price is too great, and the principle involved is just a repugnant now as it was when the Republicans of the senate denounced the League of Nations pact. , BASIC FACTS ABOUT SUGAR. . Refined sugar a year ago sold at 26 cents a pound. Today at wholesale it is cents. For a year past the trend of prices has been steadily downward, and every possible depressing influence , natural and artificial, has been allowed full sway. The overstocking of the United States market during 1920 with sugar from every part of the world made a fall in prices inevitable. The constant hammering down of prices can succeed only while heavy' supplies of sugar are offered which must find buyers promptly. The quantity of sugar remaining unsold in Cuba is large, larger than is likely to find a. market in the United States before the end of the year. A plan has been formulated for removing five million bags of Cuban sugar from the sphere of market influences. With a prospective reduction of the next Cuban crop to the vicinity of 20,000,000 bags, .with drouth in Europe, probable decreases in output of many other important sugar producing sections of the world, and with the exhaustion of previous large accumulated stocks in the hands of distributors, manufacturers and household consumers, the underlying situation in sugar unquestionably is much more healthy than for a long time past. Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska is the author of an amendment offered to the soldier bonus bill directing the secretary of thc treasury to collect the interest due on the various loans made by thc government of the United States to foreign governments during the war, and to apply that sum to the purposes of the bonus act if it shall be passed in the future. Mr. Norris calls attention to the fact that on May 15, 1921, the total amount of interest due and unpaid was $922,550,143.22. Although there appears to be no doubt that the debtor countries are making regular payments of interests on their own bonds owned by their own people, there appears to be little inclination to meet their interest obligations to thc United States. Mr. Norris believes that vigorous steps should be taken to bring about those payments, and provide cash for the payment of soldier bonuses without placing added burdens on the people of this country. There has been noted a mercenary spirit on thc part of Euroaid thc pean nations that has attended all of Americas efforts to old world reconstruction. Great Britain did not scruple to lend millions of dollars to Argentine in furtherance of her own trade relalf tions, while she still owes the United States almost four and one-haon the part of Eurobillions. There has been little and other pean countries to aid America in thc distribution of 'food supplies in that neck of thc woods. France and Poland have taken over immense surplus supplies of our overseas army, but have not this paid a dollar for them or a penny of interest on their debts to country. What. about this refunding proposition, anyway? co-operat- ion The Democratic minority of thc senate committee investigating the Sims charges against the navy munidepartment during the war, makes thc astonishing report that tions and supplies for our army crossed the water in ample volume at all times. This statement is directly contrary to thc facts as set forth in General Pershing's final report in which he relates how the French furnished practically all the artillery and aircraft used bv his forces. Sims has been corrobatcd. |