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Show THE CITIZEN 10 ' may bo everlasin peace on earth and good will toward men. Likewise, let us return thanks for our present prosperity, tranquility, bounteous harvests, freedom from fam ine and plague, the protection of our great government, and all other blessings and mercies which a benign Providence has bestowed upon us. That the people of this commonwealth may have opportunity to properly observe this occasion, now, therefore, I, Charles It. Mabey, governor of the state of Utah, by virtue of the authority vested in me, do hereby designate Thursday, November 24, A. D. 1921, as Thanksgiving day; and I do also hereby declare that date .a legal holiday throughout the state of Utah. In common reverence and gratitude, let us recapitulate our blessings and in respectful recollection pay tribute to those sterling ancestors wrho gave their full measure of service that posterity might enjoy the fruits of their sacrifice. By humble and fervent prayer may we acknowledge his beneficence and supplicate a continuance of his guidance. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the state of Utah. Done at Salt Lake City, the capital, this 16th day of November, A. D. 1921. LEAGUE NATIONS IN BAD SHAPE. In his address opening the recent conference on unemployment, Presi- dent Harding called attention to the fact that conditions In the United States affecting the working classes were not due to any one factor, nor could they have been avoided by this plan or that, or this policy or that, or this international relationship or The. last phrase refers, of that. course, to the claim, persistently made in some quarters, that had the United States ratified the Versailles treaty and entered the league of nations, much, if not all, of the economic and industrial depression which now exists would have been avoided. If this argument of the partisans of the leao gue of nations was true, it must that conditions in those countries which did raitfy the Versailles treaty fol-lw- and joined the league of nations must be better than in this country. It is interesting in this connection to note what the comparative conditions are in this country and the old world. According to data collected and made public by the federal reserve board, the general level of wholesale prices in the United States is approximately only 41 per cent above the 1913 level. But in the United Kingdom wholesale prices are 100 per cent above the 1913 level; in France, 232 per cent; Italy, 400 per cent; Japan, 96 per cent; Sweden, 111 per cent; Denmark, 153 per cent; Canada, 76 per cent; Australia, 60 per cent. The States is today the cheapest country in the world in which to live. While prices have receded more in the United States than in any country which is a member of the league of nations, wages have remained on the average higher tnan in European countries which joined the league of nations. The average wage level today in the United States is only 15 per cent below the average of that of 1920. The average monthly wage in this country today is $95 a United month, whereas a year ago n $111. The average wage in the c States is still very much abov e level of 1913. On the other hand, the wage of Europe is less than it was Pri( the European war and a greater portion of working classes are oi employment in the various cou,, of the world than is the cas t ' United States. To recapitulate: The United a is not a member of the league ol tions. European countries are ing costs are lower in this cou than any other country. Wage higher and there are proportions fewer working men idle. These tl facts clearly substantiate Preg, Hardings assertion, that whatever pression may exist in industrial Ai ica cannot be attributed to the fai of this country to enter into any ternational relationship $ iilVI f st ern wty- - wor prei on 5 nth Cbii sore JfVVi man such ag ' lie league of nations. il o Loews Stall 3 - DAYS -3 NAC COMMENCING inac Sunday, Nov. 20 In Conjunction with am Star Vaudeville Show led m tl it itrol A Qt EADYFINGERSI nns ats clear your eyes of the soapsuds of boredom open them to tingling romance Its W thi a a screen thriller starring BertmU A BAYARD VEIIXER PRODUCTION Cl Th ae ODS :lie Pen Tl W rs Adapted by Lenore J. Coffee from Jackson Gregory's story AT THE PANTAGES adi P |