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Show Ml Published Every Saturday Walt BY GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, ding six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal jjo per year. 8ingle 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 of March 3, 1879. Act under the City, Utah, Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah. Phone Wasatch 5409 311-12-- 13 CITY COMMISSION SHOWS LACK OF BUSINESS ACUMEN piuer - Lake staid and easy going Salt Lakers were startled last would sday when they read the newspaper story that the city reduce its 1921 budget by $40,000 or show a dericit at the jany 3 the ney year. They naturally could at the prevailing odds of 11 not comprehend where their to one had gone. The new mills set by the city commission some months ago. lie whole economic plan of the city dads, according to Auditor 11 mill basis and n. They had figured the budget on the old id revenue on the new levy. Thus it is that the two ends of )blem are quite far apart when appropriations are balanced funds collectable. a proposed remedy their will be no more appropriations this id some of the departments will have their allotments trimmed :o a minimum. This is an acute evidence of lack of business on the part of the commissioners and tends to lend force to repeated maxim that only experienced and successful business lould be trusted with the conduct of the aflfairs of this city, lesday, October 25, the citizens will have an opportunity to wo new city commissioners to represent them on the board for ;ars. The length of the term of office is sufficiently long that lould canvass well the field of candidates seeking their support primary election and choose only those who are acknowledged v of 10.8 business activities and who bear an untarnished private or otherwise. The citizens can make their choice leaders in tion, of candidates so emphatic at the primary that the qualifying election, November 8, will be merely a matter of form. Also the voters will do well to follow the trend of events and to note the great response that has been given the candidacy of Berkley Olson, a successful business man for many years, though still in the full vigor of young manhood. The Berkley Olson for Commissioner slogan has spread to all sections of the city and Mr. Olson is perhaps the most favorably talked of candidate in all the city of Salt Lake today. It is reported he is conducting a campaign void of all semblance of combinations and that he has made no promises to anyone. He is making his fight for the office of city commissioner out in the open, free from the baneful effects of secret conclaves and underground machinations. The light of pitiless publicity is closely following Mr. Olson and his numerous workers in their daylight campaign and it has pleased the people, judging from the many thousands of names that have been subscribed to his more than ninety nomination petitions, which his friends are circulating in his behalf. This Berkley Olson daylight campaign is contrary to all the set notions and pet schemes of the candidates who are being backed, covertly it is said, by political friends and aspirants. Mr. Olson realizes he is a candidate in a city election so designated by the supreme law makers of the sovereign state of Utah and he is openly conducting his campaign in accordance with this state mandate. non-partis- an . i fHE HIGH COST OF KINGS SENATORIAL POPULARITY whirlwind of gossip is rife among the old line Burbons of Salt because it is vicariouslv, and somewhat authentically, related of to vf junior senator from Utah, that recently, while still pur-bh- is s, campaign at home, during the late revue in he had occasion to attend a local jmpany uf several prominent Democrats and told them that his fial experience had cost him $280,000 over and above his sen- stipen. or retainer fee. It is also being bruted about, that rjtoin oilier occasions lie had related to certain friends that his in Washington was netting him $50,000 a year on the pir-terside oi the ledger. p these statements occupying the inner and most sacred anti-Kin- g of their Burbons minds, quite a contingent of Qcs r?tnotliiT harmonious meet the forepart of the week and conthat as the genial junior senator was about to become bv reason of his sojourn at the national capitol. King, self-glorificati- legis-jreces- on fist-cuffi- ng ni m liope-rjiinpoverish- ed he had better be replaced with a Democrat who would prove to be less of a spendthrift and who would pay more attention to national and state legislative affairs than to the dubious business of dissipating, a small sized fortune, during his senatorial term. forces declare that their ranks arc growing fast The 'anti-Kin- g and by the time the next state nofinating convention rolls around they claim that it will be just as pleasurable and easy as sipping duck soup to clear the track for Kings exit from the senatorial business a business that has cost him such a princely sum to date. Other stories uncut Senator Kings late Utah visit that are being freely circulated allude to the big banquet spread at the Ncwhousc hotel in his honor, a most spontaneous and nifty affair arranged .at which by certain fair damosellcs of the Womans Democratic Club, there were present many chairs, heaps of provinder and serving plates, with the usual stepped-u- p quota of paid servers, immaculately attired, but an alarming and distressing lack of Democratic guests and reputed |