Show I KING EXPLAINS LAND PROPOSAL I Senator Would Administer Adminis Adminis- ter Public Lands in West The possibilities the probability and the feasibility of r establishing a branch office of the department of of ot the Interior of the United States States Stales In a centrally located city in the West Vest at which business pertaining g to to 10 public lands ands can be handled was the subject of the address given by Senator William Willam H. H Kink before the Lions' Lions club at its weekly luncheon luncheon lunch lunch- eon on at the Hotel Utah today Eighty per cent ent of the public lands of the United States ar are west of Nebraska but but still all an business must be h handled by th the department of of Interior at Washington D. D C. C causing all business to go through a great deal of government red t tape pe and causing som sometimes times years of delay said Senator King The public lands of each state should be handled b by each state itself I would much sooner let the legislature legislature legis legis- lature o of my s state t h handle the busi bus ness or ot man congress he said bec because use I consider it more capable In tl this ls respect than the representatives at Washington Seventy five per cent of the land In Utah comes under the public lands hands oft of the United States of which not one one acre is taxed he said The people of the states themselves themselves them them- selves should have more to say d the running of ot their own state than they do at present I believe believe belle be be- lle lieve Ve the government of ot these United States should not bo be wholly centralized at the national capital asit asuit is now he concluded The rhe music for the program was Juh furnished by Miss Ruth Jensen and Mrs Inez About members of or the Lions' Lions club will attend the first annual dance of the Ogden Lions' Lions club to tobe be beheld held In Ogden Saturday night Th The club cub will drive t to Ogden Ina inI ina In a Caravan cai caravan an of of automobiles The I dance will be held at the Berthana I hall haIl |