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Show THE CITIZEN 4 but in this event it would be required that all work efficiently eight hours a day and cut out politics. With a reduction of eighty per cent in the clerical and other help, which we understand would be entirely possible, were city employees required to actually earn their wages, the taxpayer would be greatly relieved of the heavy tax burden he is now paying to aid the five heads of the department of Salt Lake Citys government in trying to sustain their ambition of either landing in the Governors chair or winning a seat in Congress or the United States Senate, and we would be willing to bet that some of them even dream of building a political machine that would land them in the White House. Such nonsense the people should curtail by demanding that when the next city commission is organized an independent and uninfluenced efficiency expert report back to the people just how big the payroll should be and how many men be hired to conduct the affairs of the various departments of the city. Occasionally we have an audit to determine the status of our finances, but would it not be doubly important to have an efficiency expert with unrestarined hand go over the working forces of the various departments of the city government nad report back to the people whether the departments should be handled by efficient men or a gang of ward heelers, whose effort covering a week or sometimes a month easily could be duplicated by an efficient man or woman in a very few hours. . RITER FOR COMMISSIONER. Among the many names appearing for the candidacy of city commissioner, there is L. C. Dod Riter, a big property owner and taxpayer of this city. Riter hails from a well known family of pioneers of this city, and all his interests are here. In getting into this race for city commissioner, the salary end is of little or no consequence to Riter. As a business man he is not pleased with past conditions as they exist in the city and county building and he does not believe that the best interests of the people have been served. He points to the rapid increase of taxation during the past few years, during which time no big improvements have been made which call for large sums of money, yet the taxes keep soaring and big political machines appear to be the only result. Riter says that if he is elected there has got to be a housecleaning and he is willing to handle the broom to do the sweeping. He believes that every elected official should demand the same efficiency in political office as is shown in any private enterprise. He believes that men should be paid well for their work and that they should work eight hours or the prescribed time. Property owners have urged Riter to run for commissioner as their representative to see if something cannot be done to reduce taxation. At one time Riter was a member of the best and fastest high school football team of this city and the entire west, and his friends are legion. I OGDEN SPORTSMEN. The Ogden sportsmen have tired waiting for the fish and game department to put screens in the irrigating ditches. A meeting was held at Ogden the other week, which resulted in the installation of a Tuekfield screen in a canal of the South Fork of the Ogden river, about three miles from Huntsville. This canal has taken great toll of the trout in the river, but from now on the fish will not be able to get by the screen. This fish screen needs no supervision. It works when necessary and under ordinary conditions it cannot be clogged and will last indefinitely. It appears a little far fetched to see the sportsmen purchase their licenses, plant the fish and even screen the streams. The first license in this state was $1 for fishing and hunting; the license was then raised to $1.25, the 25 cents being added for the installation of fish screens in irrigating canals, but the money, which was collected from the sportsmen, was never spent for screens, and we have always wondered why the legislature would make provision by law and not enforce it. The Ogden sportsmen are to be complimented for their proJ gressiveness and with a couple of more screens in their county to confine the fish in the main streams and preventing the fish from becoming fertilizer on the farms, that county will soon forge ahead in good fishing. RUNOUT THE REDS. Troublemakers must all be classed as Reds. It matters not whether they are in the capitalistic class or in the working class ; they are dangerous to society and to the geenral welfare of the government. v AVe have had no labor troubles in this state for several years' But propaganda is being circulated, and the postoffice is being used as the common carrier and distributor, which, if continued, will sooner or later result in trouble between business and labor. Under our constitution labor has no moral right to attack business, nor has business any moral right to unjustly attack labor. As capital cannot survive without labor, nor labor without capital, it is essential therefore that these two classes walk hand in hand promoting the interest of each other to the best of their ability. When a fight is promoted between these two classes, the geenral public not only suffers, but it also pays the bill. Any agitator who daily tries to foment trouble between these two classes is not only a bad citizen for the community in which he resides, but he should be ousted or be made to behave. Vicious and unwarranted slanderous attacks upon law abiding people can never result in any good. What we desire in this state is peace and harmony among all classes a fair wage for the worker, a fair profit for the investor, and good fellowship among all. Dont attack your fellow man because he may not belong to your church, your lodge, your club, or who may be less fortunate than you. Just remember, while you are on top today, he may be there tomorrow and look down upon you. STORY WRITER HERE. E. S. Pladwell, former Salt Lake newspaper man, who has distinguished himself as a short story writer and is now delving into novels, spent part of the week in Salt Lake on his way to New York to discuss with the publisher the merits of a new novel he has written. Mr. Pladwell now resides in Oakland, Calif., where he aided in a rather important industrial development about the time that Joseph Cain, former secretary of the Salt Lake Commercial Club, served as secretarv of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce. Leaving Salt Lake just as ground was broken for the new capitol, Mr. Pldawell saw it for the first time this week and mar-- . veled at its architecture and fine selection of stone. Concerning the business district, he had a lot of nice things to say about the development of Main street since he was here fifteen years ago, but he cautioned the city builders that in order to construct a big city it will be important to give State street like attention. He urged that efforts be made to make State street as important a business street as Main street, with, large imposing buildings there to defeat the suggestion that Salt Lake is a one street town. Mr. Pladwell called 6n a number of newspapermen while in Salt Lake and visited with a number of former state officials. FAMOUS. CHARACTER. J. mine at Lone Yore, who recently opened a silver-lea- d Mountian, near Elko, Nevada, dropped in on The Citizen during the week and talked about the old timers, concerning whom the late Judge C. C. Goodwin, founder of this publication, wrote C. |