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Show THE CITIZEN :4 otters because they burn coal that gives off black smoke. j that many of our citizens have been hard put to tQ Ctty 'd 'Hud of coal, whatsoever, this winter, owing to the undent epidemic. Also they fail to appreciate that so long as state it must, because of neCCSSis Wed over a grate in tlie raw H gjy off dense clouds of black smoke. No successful device 011 n? th black smoke out of soft coal has every been devised 1 CC for treating soft a a gi)od chimney ; and no chemical process f entif ely eliminates its smoke has ever been discovered ; process of coking, which takes away fully half of the heat atf a the product and eliminates all of its volatile constituents, 1 Sufficed to make it smokeless. ealslto The Citizen that the only sane enforcement of the smoke nuisance project, in Salt Lake, is to nonoic; consumption of bituminous coal as it comes from f Natv utjen that question is finally settled so goes the smoke-aincom-Cntaiherw- ise H problem. ne Nnore than lavish hand and a munificence, that only mere It: pr( to casually contemplate in this brief span of life, pause inso-confined trillions of tons of soft coal in the recesses of e(l asWth, which mans ingenuity has taught him to utilize. With ew fish hand Nature bestowed certain constituents character-)lit- 1 of heat, which may only be transformed into virulejtueht characteristics by well known processes. It appeals, Y Preait is rather for man to adopt known means for transferring it beclt0 a; smokeless heat fluid, instead of continuously experi- )unterjth doubtful and evident delusinoary smoke elimination ents, tt great expense, when the question of with or without V ani community of the size and importance of Salt Lake. r s this-mediu- 0 the;, retirement iry Mellons plan for the refunding and steady oes orward as he Jias mapped it out. The latest SM0?nS le treasury department is to call for redemption on June the outstanding 3J4 per cent Victory notes, amounting to e At the end of January the total of all tes. outstanding was $3,513,000,000, showing a reduction 16 a'were first sold to the public of almost a billion dollars, lent wf 1 due to be paid in May of next year. Money available in lid' fund appropriations are being devoted to their purchase qe balance will have to be taken up by funds raised through temporary treasury certificates of indebtedness. Unless jency arises necessitating the issuance of more bonds or ion of. unlooked for taxation, the future management of 1 111 . debt can be forecast now. the f 10mely $400,000,000. t "imi irl business of Secretary of Commerce Hoover to look elfare of the nations commerce, not only foreign but ,3is reorganization of the department for the promotion bffe bringing substantial results, and his recommenda- betterment of our domestic trade will be as effective if jjjr lowed. Mr. Hoover recognizes the fact that the welfare 1 ofl t. s hiseparably bound up with the welfare of industry 'oniads s With impaired transportation facilities, commerce of all . The ifkfrCn ant omesc s hindered in its development.otherfinancial and assistance, cvery Prol)er M ie federal government to the roads until con-c- s that tPnec uch that they can support themselves and give efficient rade is 1 5 Among other things that Cuba lias recently done is to vote to end the war with Hungary. This is a bit of spicy news, at that. No one was aware that Cuba was at war with Hungary, or, for that matter, any other country, while most of us do know that she is. trying her damnedest to capper our sugar market. The first cargo of Egyptian cotton to be carried to the United States on an American vessel has arrived. The cargo is worth $6,000,000 and was shipped from Alexandria. This is the first practical evidence of the determined efforts of the Shipping Board to secure for American ships a fair proportion of the Egyptian cotton trade. It means a long fight with the British shipping interests that have enjoyed a monopoly of that commerce for many years. Yankee persistence and aggressiveness finally won out, as they have in every other phase of Chairman Laskers struggle to win and hold a proper place for the American merchant marine. cents are concerned, the present administration will realize very little benefit from the limitation of armaSo far as dollars and ments agreements. The big savings will be shown in years to come each year and every year. There is a new periodical in the bookstalls entitled, The Wilsonian, described as a national monthly publication that champions lie must be a the ideals and policies of our great courageous editor, indeed, who anticipates any considerable number of subscribers to such a magazine. One might as well dedicate a paper to the teaching of Voliva of Zion City. The policies of one are no more discredited than those of the other. ex-Presidc- nt. A climb from $37,446,785.05 in general taxes in 1916 to $72,665,-820.1- 1 in 1920, for the state of Washington, shows the tendency of the times in most vivid manner and indicates that industry is bearing a burden that it cannot hope to earn under normal conditions. Only by reprofiteering game may industry pay off such a turning to the war-tim- e gigantic tax load and survive. Washington is typical of all other western states. Every citizen should join in the drive for less need of revenue rather than for more and devious ways of raising revenue. Taxation will retrenchsoon reach the point of confiscation unless ment is inaugurated and all the pernicious forms of tax free bonds are taken off the market. honest-to-goodne- ss Recalling our war time experience with aircraft, now that the scrapping contract has been signed by the four naval powers, it is opined that the best way to actually scrap the ships would be to turn them over to Newton Baker, secretary for the navy during the war days. 1 t only . t, 1 piped sir.obcchwab, who knows steel and a few oilier things, speaking of The rise of electricity is evidenced in the fact that more than five billion dollars are invested in electrical utilities. In the past ten years the population of the United States increased slightly more than 15 per cent, while the number of electrical customers increased more than 250 per cent. The amount of electrical energy used increased over 350 per cent. ilia' flaws,, has this It to say: A prosperous America can help the America cannot. Until we can produce we cannot person Wr has come to put American standards in our tariff laws, itio1 it cheaper currencies of the world from saddling us with jpe Fluctuations in foreign exchange is playing havoc ie Uimination. ?nces and orders, because our present tariff laws were foreign moneys were normal. A sound tariff bill would ert action tfarantee to workmen and their best employment insurance. ami-sitorostra- i tc Under the name of the. new Progressive party, Idaho, California and other states have been invaded by missionary bodies of the League. The object is the destruction of the middleman, the capitalistic Non-Partis- an entrepreneur, and perhaps of the private ownership of land. It is essen-- t all) identical with Russian Bolshevism, whose effects it could be tnisted to produce if it could establish itself as the system of the country at large. |