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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager INC. . SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, Inciting postage in the United States, to all foreign countries, within the Postal Subscriptions $1.50 for six months. Union, S4.50 per year. Single copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, pay able to The Citizen. Address all communications' to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Phone Wasatch 5409. Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah. 311-12-- 13 SALT LAKE MILK BARONS MENACE LIVES OF BABIES Citizens of this city must do something more than grumble to themselves if Salt Lakes annual crop of babies is to survive the j When the torrid season arrives then the little beones, who are today being supplied with short milk rations, cause of the inability of the parents to provide an adequate supply in the face of the milk trusts prohibitive prices made doubly prohibitive by the general industrial depression will feel more keenly and many a joyous, prattling the loss of this most potent baby-foo- d baby life will fade out, sacrificed at the alter of an inordinate greed for material wealth and shot through with an unholy desire to prolong the open season for profiteering brought about by the exigencies of a worlds war. I It" it is true as declared by Dr. David Andrew before the weekly meeting of the Progressive Business Mens Club at Hotel Utah last Saturday, that the milk barons who serve the people of this fluid, so necessary city with their daily rations of this to the infants and the children of all classes, rich or poor, are spilling from three to five thousand gallons of milk in the gutters, every week, to maintain the artificial price they have set for their product, an aroused public sentiment should call an instant halt to this nefarious practice. 1 If it is true, and The Citizen proposes to dig to the uttermost summer months. life-givi- ng ! i u depths of this disclosure, that the retailers are paying only twenty-on- e cents a gallon for milk sold over their counters for fifteen and fourteen cents per quart to the unwary consumer, then again an aroused public opinion should be invoked to checkmate this petty profiteering on the part of dealers wholly and absolutely dependent upon the good will of the public for their profits and support. United action may become necessary, to bring the milk barons and the purveyors of milk to the consumer to a full realization that they are not above ordinary mortals and that they cannot unduly prolong war prices in the face of a general decline in all food products, and when all signs point to a readjustment of wages and profits for all workers and businessmen of this section. The mighty pressure of public opinion has righted many a wrong, and in this instance it can and should show no quarter. The retail prices of milk products are now normal. Why should the milk trust and the retail profiteers be allowed to continue to reap unjust profits from a suffering public, and especially at a time when an industrial depression, rampant throughout the nation, has turned many a wage earner into a pitiful suppliant for a job? Unity of action will mean defeat for the milk barons and their lieutenants and such action should be speedily taken. LEAGUE A DHERENTS SPREA DING INSIDIOUS PROPAGANDA I Veiled in diplomatic vernacular and clouded with affirmations died in vague and indirect language, the adherents .of the Wilson the igue of Nations are now busy spreading propaganda through mins of the press which was known to be in accord with the I" Miian idea to scrap the constitution of the United States, and lace it with a super-forof world government, drafted in the the f f passion and with the ultimate end in view of placing countries. c ning powers in the hands of four dominant Luropcan 1 heir efforts have taken form in the usual manner a summar c.l'inet difficulties arising out of the foreign policy inaugurated Secretary Hughes and a direful prophesy of inevitable calamit) i'ii tlie irreconcilable group of senators start action. his conduct Secretary Hughes is praised and' felicitated upon f'eign affairs for the first three mouths of his tenure of office m and particular stress is laid upon his attitude regarding the participation of the United States in the deliberations of the league councils. The hope that such participation, hedged around as it is, with the specific declaration of President Harding, and later by Ambassador Harvey to Englands premier, signalizing the return of Americanism in our government, may yet involve the administration within the meshes of the league in such a way that it cannot escape without stultifying itself, is freely emphasized by glaring innuendos. While we admit that any form of participation by this country in the councils of the league, is frought with grave dangers for the future freedom of national action along international lines, yet we are willing to assert, without qualification, that the mandate of the the polls people, so magnificently and spontaneously expressed at last November, will be held sacred by President Harding and his |