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Show Published Every jBaturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO.y INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: n postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, x months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal 0 per. year. vmm. 8ingle copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, jay able to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at 8alt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 8alt Lake City, Utah. Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409 311-12-- 13 (. THE COUNTY OFFICIALS HAVE ACCOMPLISHED ne fajth in that scheme of government laid down by the Father admin-Ji- e mtty?and his eminent contemporaries, consisting of the cen-ha- lf judicial and the legislative, has endured throughout the that this nation has functioned as the most liberal form of nch&ement, the most enlightening investiture of political and code of rivilcges, ever devised and embodied into one general Itheforld was young. ince the crowning work of the pioneers of liberty served to set tee; thkt same form of government has been handed down to the litical?, divisions of the nation and has even been espoused and divisions of ' the states themselves, duty for the that we have county government, today, in all states, predicated . verities as those of the I sub-politi- cal federal-government- ame-constitutiona- l ty Commissioners Wirthlin, chairman of the county board, who was elected to .e big! campaign that swept the democrats from power all over rought to his official duties a keen conception of public duty fr jSon to make amends, insofar as possible, for the delirium t obtained during the previous four years. "jfirthlin has gone on record as unqualifiedly favoring a that obtained the first half of 1920; before the jineered by the democrats, went into effect for all public ij also outspoken in behalf of a voluntary salary reduction otitis of the city, county and state, and believes that because iiitihdustrial depression, coupled with the fact that many basic come back to normal and in the case of the farmer, fair normalcy that even more stringent economy should affairs than usual. lan Wirthlin recognizes that efficiency cannot be obtained rsimony and that a wage schedule to maintain efficiency, must I surate with the prevailing economic status, and must provide ing conditions for all workers with a liberal margin left over ndual sinking fund. among us who would burden the workers, either civic or th a wage merely sufficient to keep the wolf from the door, arc lie spirited or helpful to humanitys cause. 'They advocate all 3 for others than themselves and, secure in their own emolu-- F Sd suffer all others to gain a mere existence without evincing a of their adamantine mentalities, re-sched- ule ob-publ- over that of 1920. For instance the Infirmary was operated at a net decrease of $135,565.33, and the nurses home shows a total saving of while the poor commission was operated for $1,553.78 less than in 1920, despite a big increase in applicants for county help occasioned by $2,-687.2- 7, unemployment. Due largely to economic conditions mothers pensions increased over 1920, and health and quarantine also showed a slight gain amounting to $348.75, owing to extensive inspection and an increase in contagious cases totaling $3,412 for the year. Under the same head garbage removal for 1921 dropped from $6,356.17 in 1920, to $4,382 for 1921. Purchase of new machines, renovation and cleaning of the county hospital and the general increase in the numbers of patients treated, together with a substantial increase in the number of beds, amounting to 125, hospital expenses showed an increase in 1921 over 1920 of approximately $17,199.57 ; but balancing the indicated increases against the savings made at the Infirmary, a substantial decrease for the department, as a whole, is shown. The county commission is engaged in an exhaustive investigation of taxing values and necessary departmental budgets for the ensuing year. It is the belief of Chairman Wirthlin that a tax reduction of approximateof ly 25 per cent can be worked out, given the support and city and state officials. It is permissible to say that Chairman Wirthlin hopes for, and will work to attain, both a fair reduction in valuations toother with a reduction in the tax lew. wide-spre- ad $1,-874.- 20 X-R- ay co-opreat- ion 9 LISTEN TO MELLON AND McFADDEN! ic' rnrinl Secretary Mellon, in urging favorable action on resolution to amend the Constitution to prohibit issuance of securities, said : Desecurities would curb the exnial of the privilege of issuing travagance of some municipalities and local governments. securities is allowed to continue, a social If issuance of in effect as to underupheaval will occur, which may be so mine our constitutional government, says Congressman McFadden of Pennsylvania. It lias been estimated that approximately $30,000,000,00(5 of securities have been issued by the government and states and other political subdivisions. In the last few years we have seen personal wealth e of this country so rapidly segregated into the class that, whereas taxable income of individual taxpayers under-federaincome tax law was $992,972,985 in 1916, the amount decreased to $731,373,053 in 1917 and to $352,247,329 in 1918. tax-exem- pt tax-exem- pt tax-exem- pt far-reachi- ng tax-exem- pt tax-fre- .Wirthlin, as a member of the legislative branch of the in s n (rcc charge of the department of health and geArnmen affronted with abnormal economic conditions and the further collections were fully $235,366 short of the previous year, Undemocratic legacies approximating $25,000, he has been able ibstantial decrease in operation of most of his sub-departme- nts l With no check on bonds individual income taxes will totally disappear within a few more years, according to well informed statesmen, insofar as the rich are concerned. tax-exem- pt |