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Show THE CITIZEN The time of delinquency is 12 oclock noon, November 30. If the amount of taxes is not remitted to the office of the treasurer before 'jnoon of November 30 a three per cent penalty will be added. In these times a dozen or fifteen days notice is all 7 i tax-ridd- j Jnheuser-Muse-h en short. Had the notices been sent out on time the taxpayers would have had more than two months in which to so shape their finances d I U to meet the grinding burden of extra taxation. But the fear the candidates that their chances of election would be impaired Jf the notices reached the property owners at the beginning of the f1" campaign evidently constrained the county treasurer to hold back lethc. bad news until after election day. !too FAMOUS 1 er GIVES PUNCH TO THE LUNCH THOMAS SEEKS REINSTATEMENT m ts Our aforetime prohibition director, Mathonihah Thomas, is said "I to be seeking reappointment to that office. The Republican tidal Ivave, when it entered Utah, made direct for Mathonihah, who was pirn for congress on the Democratic ticket. In spite of his nt running Joud cries for help it swamped him and then left him marooned on a pile of wreckage. From this coign of vantage he viewed with ss an eager and a hungry eye the pleasant berth he had occupied in iSS I the federal service, and it looked good to him. ed j Meantime the world had not stood still. The tidal wave warned rle Mathonihah of that. He was confronted by the necessity of getting ta young Alonzo Richards out of the way, for Richards had received ng the indorsement of Senator King for the position and appeared to he well on his way to occupy the berth that Mr. Thomas had filled in leisurely fashion up to the time he was selected for the slaughter of November 2. From that terrible debacle, however, Mr. Thomas emerges with his appetite for office uncloyed, if not keenly whetted. bly When he held the position of prohibition director Mr. Thomas ten did not interfere with the illicit liquor traffic. He seemed to think it no part of the prohibition directors duty to interrupt rudely the lis traffic in moonshine. Joshua might order the sun to stand still, but Mathonihah let the moonshine. ted After he had quit the office of prohibition director to enter upon the I that sad campaign which proved his undoing things began to happen er I in moonshine circles. For example, only last Tuesday Samuel tiie Dorrity, chief U. S. deputy marshal, poured 1,200 gallons of wine into the gutters of Ogden. This was a descration never permitted when Mathonihah was in office. It was too much like prohibition. Mathonihah, it is said, argues that if he can but obtain reinstatement he will escape attention until long after the Republican regime begins its regimeing. He will be as quiet as a inouse, if one can imagine the portly Mathonihah enacting the role of a mouse. He will not disturb the afternoon siesta or the midnight snooze of a single bootlegger. He will let the stills be as still as he is still. He will not waste any of the bright red wine on unappreciative gutters. He will not even pour out a bottle of orange or pineapple extract. The colors are too beautiful. as Jess i 533-3- 5 ) 1 C. Olsen Distributing Co. DISTRIBUTORS Phone Wasatch 5664 So. 4th West Salt Lake City, Utah 1 S II Mention! I ! I j j j I I j Literature used in selling a State Service Certificate frame has led to the implication that THE AMERICAN LEGION is sponsoring this frame and will benefit from its sale. Such inference is absolutely untrue and misleading. SO FAR AS WE CAN LEARN, NOT ONE MAN CONNECTED WITH THE CONCERN MARKET-ING THESE FRAMES IS EVEN ELIGIBLE FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE AMERICAN LEGION. They have no connection whatever with THE AMERICAN LEGION. THEY HAVE NOTHING IN COM- MON WITH MEN WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO THE AMERICAN LEGION. Profit on the patriotic sentiments of others is the only M motive for their activity! (1 1 j 1 1 THE AMERICAN LEGION HAS NEVER AND WILL NEVER ENTER ANY ENTERPRISE OR COMBINATION TO COMMER-- 1 CIALIZE THE SENTIMENT OR FORMER SERVICE MEN. NOR WILL IT INDORSE SUCH COMBINATIONS, REGARDLESS OF WHO SHALL COMPOSE THEM! Salt Lake Post No. 2 THE AMERICAN LEGION. icse -- ,ake DECLINE OF BOLSHEVISM mo- :iceH Bolshevism in the United States is still a menace but not a grave icm 3EK peril. Two years of Bolshevistic propaganda have failed to dint the armor of been the lill$; I US levy or. ; ratic cno o'-- t ou: , ent representative government. Take the vote in the Literary Digest as an indication. Debs and other radicals candidates have a mere handful as compared frith the votes of Harding and Cox. Unless the radicals are casting their straw votes for Cox in the six pivotal states canvassed by the Literary Digest the figures indicate that Bolshevism is on the decline. Another indication is the decreasing sales of radical books, toteguzines and pamphlets in book stores. Eighteen months and a year ago there appeared to be a stampede for Bolshevistic literature. Evidently the appetite of the American people for this brand of Pabulum was quickly cloyed. Bolshevistic periodicals were a mushroom growth. The demand Jauscd many existing publications to change their politics and scores Now new radical publications appeared on the book stands. established publications are shading from red back to more neutral tones while the publications latest in the field are turning pale and dying by the dozen. The frightful fiasco in Russia has had much to do with these sudden transformations. Sovietism has turned Russia into something worse than it was under the rule of the czar. There has been more bloodshed, more hunger, more brutality, more disease, more disorder. It would be strange if the people of educated and thoughtful America had not learned the lesson. That they have profited by the lesson seems to be fairly well demonstrated by the indications we have cited. Bet those hunger strikers were glad when Acting President Griffith of the Irish Republic came out on his front porch and rang the dinner bell. |