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Show 8lngle 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 City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah. Phone Wasatch 5409 Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN'8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager Hr SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: including postage In the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, to all foreign countries, within the Postal j for six months. Subscriptions $4.50 Jon, 311-12-- per year. 13 ARMISTICE DA Y TO WITNESS TWO SOLEMN E VENTS ner ike strangely differentiated events of national import are to devotion to country and of their sacrifice should be appropriately and patriotic felon November 11, shown with due solemnity by their laim the attention of Americas patriotic citizenship, of 1918, when the. low countrymen: js third anniversary of the first Armistice day Now, therefore, I, Warren G. Harding, President of the United lad tidings that the worlds most bitter conflict, in which more than States of America, do hereby call upon all devout and patriotic citizens ilf of the people of the globe were directly or indirectly engaged, of the United States to pause from their accustomed occupations id at last come to an end, flashed over the wires to the millions the and labors on Friday, the 11th day of November next, from 12 oclock jiting to celebrate the news. The first event in importance to Wash-onoon to 2 minutes past that hour for a period of silent prayer of hole world is the convening of the armament conference at where the sages of the leading nations of the world, will sit thanks to the Giver of all good for these valuable and valorous lives and of supplication for His Divine mercy and for His blessings upon own in amity to discuss and to conceive tangible plans to lift the armament burdens from off the backs of the people our beloved country. all nationalities ; the second event, more profound even in its gravity Furthermore, I hereby direct that the National Flag be displayed this country, will be the solemn services to be accorded to Amer-:a'- s at half staff upon all the public buildings of the United States and unknown-dea- d who answered the call to arms and gave their all stations of the army, navy and marine corps throughout the world, ives on the battlefields of France that freedom should always obtain, as well as upon all American embassies, legations and consulates, lot alone for their own beloved nation, but for all nations. from sunrise until sunset, on November the 11th, 1921. President Harding, under date of September 20, issued the folIn witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused ding proclamation, which is promulgated for the information and the seal of the United States to be affixed. guidance of all loyal and patriotic Americans : Done in the District of Columbia this thirteenth day of SeptemWhereas, the Congress of the United States, by a concurrent ber in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-on- e esolution adopted on the 4th day of March last authorized by the and of the independence of the United States of America the Secretary of War to cause to be brought to the United States the one hundred and forty-sixtExpedi-ionar- y idy of an American, who was a member of the American WARREN G. HARDING. Forces in Europe, who lost his life during the world war, : A. W. Mellon, Secretary. (Signed) Memor-jiain the l md whose identity has not been established, for burial the aftermath of the greatest conflict of arms the world Thus, : at National Virginia the of Arlington, Cemetery Amphitheater see the nations striving to bring about a decrease in And whereas, the remains of this unknown American to be has ever known, the machinery of death and the real cause of war s alarms , also Wight to the United States in pursuance of the said concurrent reso-utioit will witness a fitting tribute to the noble, unidentified dead, who will be buried in the said Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington all for the land they loved. So these two strangely differtheir gave jon the 11th November of next; day entiated events, one to promote the peace of the world the other And whereas, these remains will be representative of all unidentiof the heroic part played by an fied American dead who in the world war gave their lives in their a striking and solemn observance in the greatest game of war ever staged, will go soldier unknown countrys cause ; down in the annals of history together. And whereas, it is desired that grateful recognition of their loyal Two God-fearin- g- n, if h. , n, REVOLUTIONIZING AMERICAS TARIFF VALUATION PLAN fight is being made in the present congress to revolutionize Americas method of levying ad valorem taxes on foreign importatof the ions. In the past these taxes have been based upon the cost A the country of origin, as fixed by the consular invoices. It is now proposed to base the tax on the average value of the imported commodity, in this countrv, as fixed bv the open market, where such goods in V 9 sale in the usual wholeimportations are ordinarily sold or offered for sale quantities. It is intended that such valuation shall be fixed b artithe actual and fair market value of the goods independent of any ficial fluctuations. This plan, calied American valuation, has the support of such Marion De Vries, and experts as Secretary Hoover, Customs Judge I |