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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. FRANK E. SCHEFSKI, Editor and Manager" SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, 90 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Ion 4.50 per year. 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 postofflce at 8alt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Salt Lake City, Utah Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 6409 311-12-- 13 REPUBLICANS Pi Mg The Republican county convention will be held September and a big Republican rally will be held August 15. ' houtl - The first gun in the campaign has been fired. It now oves the leaders of the party to get together and select a state s. fcrirman to direct the firing line of the coming election. John wman has been named as a good prospect. IT Competition for offices will be more keen this year than er. No doubt the aspiring office seekers figure that if they "Vtack on to Senator Reed Smoot, that the distinguished Seller will easily run over the field for a goal and touchdown. Most of the boys have their eye on Sheriff Harries job, ich is said to be worth more than that of the governor of the ite. AVe were wondering what the big scramble was all about. 0 Before election our present sheriff stated that if he would given three honest deputies he would clean up the bootleggers lathis county. An officer told the writer that he had the names witli- T over six hundred bootleggers all of whom were working the limits of this city. We are now wondering if Ben was ever able to get the three Nnest deputies, or why so many bootleggers now. Anyhow Ben Jj ows by this time that it is easy to say one thing but hard to another, but then he should not be discouraged because Mall t Hpople Andrews has not done as good as Ben, so there is .H some hope for Ben on the Democratic ticket. Arthur E. Morcton, who has made a good county attorney, to office. Enounces that he will not succeed himself 13 has proved a good public official and his place will be hard . . or-aspir- fill. t k In the county offices, we find that all the boys want to silenced themselves and they claim that they have the county tied w in their behalf. If that is the case, the party had better call -- the convention and save big expense money. ' However, there may be some surprise at the convention and Hark horses may put over a surprise. Cinches are seldom a fe bet, but we must not talk of betting because Commissioner irton has his eye on us. arrived in the city during ig Congressman E. 0. Lcatherwood e week and has already started to stir the natives up with some his good work at Washington, and no doubt he will keep go-- g from now on till the eve of election. He has thrown his hat the ring for another term in Congress, but will have a worthy Jponent at the convention in T. L. Holman, one of the party Riders of the city, and a lively tilt may be looked forward to be- een these two Republicans. So far Reed Smoot appears to have the unanimous endorse-sn- t of both parties. President Heber J. Grant has said that e Senator is a valuable man to the state and many other high irinding Democrats heartily indorse the Senator for his present st.. It is not known whether the Democrats will leave their :ket blank and endorse Senator Smoot or whether they will be f - 10 able to find some angel who cares to stake his all against Reed. ' POISON SPRAYING When The Citizen opened up on present methods of spraying with arsenic poison several weeks ago, we sure started something. It first leaked out that several shiploads of apples had been condemned and dumped into the ocean in England, and it also appears now that several alleged deaths lmve accurred here and thereby eating apples upon which there was a deposit of too much arsenic. A few days after we ran our story, The Salt Lake Tribune ran a story, claiming that the publicity given to the spraying might injure the apple producers. However, dont the apple producers care how many people are poisoned? Then the Federal Government announced that all those spraying their trees should use extra care because the government intended to destroy all apples shipped interstate, which were found to have too much poison upon them. A few days ago The Tribune in an editorial, Apple Industry Endangered, said: There rests upon the individual apple grower of the state of Utah this year a far greater rosponsibillity than he has ever before. carried. The way the individual accepts this responsibility will have a lot to do with the future of the industry in the state. The federal department of Agriculture, as an aftermath :f investigations' of deaths alleged due to excess arsenical spray residue on apples, has ruled that apples carrying more than one of a grain of spray residue per pound of fruit kvill be condemned for market. The Utah Board of Agriculture lias ruled that July 15th is the last date for safe spraying. It loos not say orchardists can not spray after that date, but it Iocs say that those who do spray after July 15 must either wipe their apples by hand, which will be an expensive and perhaps prohibitive procedure,. or take the chance of having them con- :me-hundre- th carload of Utah apples were to be condemned at a and scriurge eastern market the effects would be ms. Tt would be particularly discouraging, inasmuch as last 'oar saw the apple industry of the state ascend to new levels of mportance, through the energetic activities of the Utah Fruit nd Vegetable Growers Association. Markets developed last oar would be lost, with the'chancesfor regaining very poor. Through' the Utah State Farm Bureau and Utah Agricul-ura- l college extension division the seriousness of this situation a being conveyed to the individual grower. The state board has he power to inspect shipments of apples 'this fall and its in-- If oik? far-reachi- ng |