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Show Published Every Saturday GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD. Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: neludiry postage in the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal i. $4.50 per year. &7 sd 8ingle copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, H 7 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, 1879m Phone Wasatch 5409. Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah. 311-12-- 13 ARE YOU AFRAID TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED ? or tine citizen of sound principles and good purposes who re-inactive in forming local public opinion and in shaping public cies, may not be a positively bad citizen, but he is far from being ood citizen. He has been properly characterized as a slacker. There are no inactive citizens among the profiteers and the ues that still cling to the old war-tim- e hysteria of inflated prices maneuver with consumate skill and daring to perpetuate their The ns fts on the public. And there is ample room in Salt Lake for a readjustment to -- war conditions, but to date, many of the industries serving the taken absolutely no heed of the return to normalcy, for Sch the whole country is striving, and are as exacting in their rges and as arrogant in their defiance of public opinion as they njre when Germany was trying to get a strangle holt on the entire pie have named some of these profiteers in the past and enumerate more of them in the future; but for the present it jdtiires to call the attention of the citizen of sound principles to fthj evident lack of interest he is taking in this fight to bring Salt Lake out of the doldrums and place it again on that pinnacle of peace, prosperity and good will to all for which it has ever been famed and which distinction is fast slipping into a background, smudged with the paint of unearned profits. citizen of sound principle may take a walk down Vj The average nnr- ( Main street any day and see for himself how far the return to malcv has hit the average retail dealer. He will note that the prices oilmen's suits have fallen over 40 pet cent; womens garments arc today priced at about half what they were during the war period the tendency is said to be still toward lower levels; shoes for ini?D0th men and women have fallen in price fully 30 per cent and with hides glutting the market it is reasonable to suppose that, by fall, they will be back almost to normal prices normal prices in this instance meaning costs commensurate with railway rates and higher Pav for skilled labor which must be met by the manufacturer and The Citizen has the dealer. But it is a sure indication of the trend of the times, that the citizen of sound principles will have flashed at him. from the display windows of the Salt Lake emporiums an dhe will rightly conclude that the old law of supply and demand, discarded for a day while the world was ravaged by war, has come back to guide and direct the business activities of the city. Let the citizen of sound principles far farther afield and he will note that the prices of all provisions are far lower than a few months ago. Here again he will find that supply and demand are the governing factors in trade and that a shortage in any given line of provisions or fruits, has a deciding effect in the price it brings. The citizen aforesaid will connote all this and he will smile with satisfaction, as well he may, for it indubitly indicates that the state and the nation is once more on the highway to prosperity, to sanity and to future achievements. And on the other hand, the citizen of sound principles may profit from a casual glance at the price lie is paying for gas : also he may sit down and with a blunt pencil easily figure out how much he is being mulcted out of by the milk barons; again he may go out and buy a Denver paper and discover, possibly to his utter dismay, that this mile high city, with climatic condition and all things else, similar to our own beloved municipality, gets its ice delivered to the homes for 40 cents a hundred pounds, while the Salt Lake price remains at the old war level of 70 cents. The Citizen contends that these arc matters for the citizen of He should ponder over sound principles to take up them deeply and The Citizen believes the longer he ponders the nr ider he will get and that, perhaps, he will eventually get so duin mad he will institute proceedings to right these wrongs and communistrive to again place Salt Lake in that category of rational is both lothsomc and rcpellant ties, where the career of the profiteer if not criminal. to good morals and looked upon as highly indecent must But if this is to be accomplished the citizen of sound principles stand up and be counted. , and-conside- r. i PROCLAIMS FREEDOM FROM D0M1NA TION ! . P ; ; : t ' i A agut ) months- as .he . - after " TV U1L 'T. a, Ilt.111111 . . , . cessation ot X two vears and me - United States is concerned, is officially declared at an end. 1 . .. - remarkable chapter in the history nf the coun; trv il TIic that recounting the eycnM of the armistice period, V Pnple have been helpless to bring an earlier peace. I heir senators 1 io is no more I . and representatives in congress performed their duty when they enacted a peace resolution last winter and sent it to President Wilson for his signature; but he negatived their efforts in his usual arbitrary manner with an executive veto, thus serving notice to the that lie intended the war to continue until country and the world t on terms dictated by linn alone. be could written peace j Following his approval of the resolution which brought peace .. . |