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Show THE CITIZEN GREETS YOU ITH this issue Goodwins Weekly becomes The Citizen. It is a plain, blunt name, but it means much to all of us in our daily lives. Every day, as citizens, we have a duty to ourselves and the public. As citizens we are more important than ever before because we serve a greater country than ever before, a country confronted by bigger problems, menaced by mightier perils. We shall solve these problems and dispel these perils only by being good citizens, by educating ourselves in the needs of the nation, the state and our community and fitting ourselves for service as soldiers of the common good. When France overthrew the ancient regime it could think of no nobler name for every man than Citizen. In our own age we have conferred citizenship upon women as well as men and, therefore, the name has taken on a wider significance because it connotes the civic, economic and social activities of both men and women. We have thought it fitting, therefore, in choosing a name for our growing journal to call it The Citizen. In making the change we give the journal, which is filling an ever widening field, a new dress which, we believe, will appeal to all of our citizens. We desire to make its aspect as pleasing as we hope to make its contents instructive and entertaining. The public has been good enough to show its appreciation of our efforts and we, in return, are desirous of holding the confidence of our readers by giving them as good a paper as is possible. In our salutatory last January we said that we would strive to be a friend to the community, to promote every worthy cause and only when condemnation is demanded by the publics This is still our aim and we hope to fulfill it without undue bias and without being too censorious. ing. If we make mistakes, as we shall, they will not be without benefit, for they will help the other fellow to set himself and us right. The most serious problem, perhaps, before the public is the ad- justment of the differences between capital and labor. The radicals, victims of the disease which we call pessimism, have adopted a despairing attitude, but the majority of our people are healthy-minde- d and, therefore, optimistic. We place ourselves on the side of the optimistic and shall assume the task, as best we may, of combating revinnovations and olution, of picking the flaws in reforms and, at the same time ,of promoting a spirit of conciliation in and effort to establish a reign of common sense. Americans will show their real greatness not so much by winning the most colossal war in history but by thinking out their reconstruction "problem so intelligently that they will be able to accomplish every necessary change and reform through the ballot. In less than six months the circulation of this paper has made a notable increase, many of our new subscribers living outside of Salt Lake. On this account it seems imperative to adopt a name of more general significance. In the same period our advertising has increased 100 per cent. We take a justifiable pride in the fact that our readers are recruited from among the most substantial elements in business, labor and professional circles. hair-brain- ed U. S. IN MEXICO wel-war- e. Occasionally some of our readers have disagreed with us And have task because, in their opinion, we have put too keen an taken us-tedge on our critical knife or because we have cut across some familiar prejudice or party proclivity. All of us should remember that the very life of our country depends upon a strenuous interchange of opinions. If, in a football game, the players lolled about on the campus and sleepily tossed the ball from one to another they never would make a goal. It is our ambition to kick goal even if wc arc ( compelled, upon occasion, to tip somebody over or be tipped over ourselves. But is is to be a fair game and friendly. Sometimes destructive criticism is as valuable as constructive criticism. Even if it is not always marked by unerring wisdom it serves a vital purpose. It makes people think. When our citizens critig stop thinking or even when they try to avoid thought-compellincism the last days of the republic will be at hand. The larger times presaged by the war are with us. New and titanic problems demand of us our best .thought and action. Wc cannot solve these problems without making mistakes. All of us will err sometimes and sometimes we shall even seem ridiculous otic to another because of the way in which wc try to cope with the changing order. In the end, because wc have not been afraid to think, to act nation from and, if necessary, to fight, wc shall have preserved our fundamental mistakes, we shall have produced a better and a more benign civilization. It will be the ambition of The Citizen to do its bit of the thinko ONCE more clashing with the Mexicans, despite our efforts to peace and to establish a League of Nations to assure permanent peace for the world, we have a chance to indulge in some moralizing and much hard thinking. By way of parenthesis it may be remarked that' the American people are getting into a fiery furnace of controversy over thp League of Nations ,and are displaying a bitterness of feeling which should be avoided. The supporters of the League bristle with rage at every criticism and cry out on partisanship .although the Democratic chairman has challenged the Republicans to make the League a party issue. Very wisely the Republican chairman declined to accept the dare. Surely the American people have not become so sensitive that they cannot endure criticism without demanding a duel to the death. The League of Nations is not a partisan issue and should not be distorted into one. Up to date both sides or rather the three sides have been sincere, but there is danger of hypocrisy. The defenders of the League are trying to assume for political purposes that all who oppose the league absolutely or who continue to criticise the covenant arc animated solely by political animus, llicy take this unfair position in face of the fact that the original covenant which they defended has been radically altered .although they were willing almost ferociously willing to accept it word for word. If we are to arrive safely at some desirable goal now is the time to hold our tempers and to argue this question to the end as dispas- - |