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Show Published Every Saturday 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, months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal ' won? Wo per year. BY , 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 8alt Lake Act of March 3, 1879. City, Utah, under the 5409. Phone Wasatch Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah. 311-12-- 13 THE MATHEMATICAL ASPECT OF THE MILK PROFITEERING STUNT. committees have met nd given the- milk barons a can slate. Despite this fact The Citizen is receiving every day assurances that the milk consumers re back of it in its fight to give the community this vital childs ood at a fair price. What is a fair price? Here again The Citizen finds the public ivided in opinion, those who have to scrimp to pay for milk wanting at a price lower than obtained in pre-wdays; and those who ve a hunch that if the price of milk is brought down, their own ittle profiteering game may suffer the same fate, want the price (:ft where it is and where it was during the peak of all war prices The Citizen holds to the opinion that the members the two alleged investigating committees belong to the latter ass and would not, under any consideration, find any profiteering mbine in this city guilty. Also the committee that met last, and treed that milk prices in Salt Lake are not excessive, was, no doubt, ijlected with this very purpose in view. The fact that the alleged investigating committee gave out no ures on which they based their whitewash of the milk combine, acks of collusion, and while the children of many poor, but proud rents of this city suffer, these fair minded citizen, who so arlessly did their duty for the milk barons have taken no steps, parted no campaign, contributed to no private fund, to relieve the i ilk famine that faces the babe snuggled in its little, cheap cot in yiny an humble home, so far as is known to The Citizen. With recent history two investigating - i ar 1 1 1919-192- 0. . Xow for a few .figures plain American figures figures that not lie! hay was worth from $30 to $40 a ton ; bran was selling around $3.00 a hundred. Today these same products of the In 1919 creed, no commercial policy, no social movement, no national tension, was ever so painstakingly propagandized throughout the ,iu- M as is this fetish oT certain large financial interests called Xo y i I one-hundr- ed lf FOISTING INTERNATIONALISM UPON DEMOCRATIC AMERICA. I t farm, which enter largely into the feed of milk cows, arc selling for around $12 a ton for hay and at about $1.00 a hundred for bran. But there are few cows eating anything else but green grass now. of which Utah is happily blessed with an abundance this year of Our Lord 1921. One hundred pounds of milk reduced to butter fat at the rate of 30 cents a pound for 4 per cent milk, a good average, would net the farmer $1.12. Take the same amount of milk, same test, and market it fresh from the cow, at the prevailing price of approximately 18 cents a gallon the average price allowed the farmer by the milk barons and the result is far different than for the example above. Milk weighs approximately 8 pounds to the gallon, so that in gallons. pounds of milk there are twelve and one-ha- lf At 18 cents per gallon the farmer realizes $2.25 for the hundred pounds of milk when sold to the milk barons. One hundred pounds of milk costs the milk barons $2.25 we have seen, delivered, and he retails it for 12j cents a quart; if there are twelve and one-hagallons in a hundred pounds of milk we easily arrive at the conclusion that this amount equals 50 quarts, allowing four quarts to the gallon, which old time ratio of our fathers, ive presume has not been changed by the milk barons as yet, and at 12j4 cents per quart you get the handsome sum of $6.25. The difference between $6.25 and $2.25 is just $4.00, or approximately 200 per cent margin for the milk barons, who dont own a cow, buy no hay, and never invest in a gram of bran, but wdio do own the system of delivery and are charging the dear public very liberally, indeed, even though not excessively, according to our last investigating committee, for the privilege of doing this bit of delivering. These figures arc not held to be absolutely accurate, but they fit the case as it presents itself today and probably would be found to be not excessive by a fair minded investigating body of citizens. ialionalisiii. Ihere is a plethora of literature being devoted to its cause, a It i hide of it has even public speakers warm in its advocacy, and to be 'Hied its way into the pulpits and tire halls of our colleges theosized and held up like the brazen serpent of Moses for the adoration of those, who fanged.by their own selfishness, have lost faith in national identity. The cost of this insidious and inspired propaganda must be but it represents not a tithe of the stake for which its supwhich has for its ultimate end the porters arc playing a daring game of a worlds entanglement of this country in the meshes as designed and fostered by Wilson, Lloyd George, General Sniutts and all the rest of the adherents of the League of Nations sophistry. col-osa- l. super-governme- nt |