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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. p; GALLAGHER, Editor. I SUB8CR1 PT1 ONP RtCEr the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico $2.50 per year, for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal ilon, $4.50 per year. r Including postage in f can- - AO Single copies 10 cents. Payment should be made by Cheek, Money Order or Registered Letter, pay- able to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postofflce at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Salt Lake City, Utah. Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409. 311-12-- 13 THE CITIZEN CHANGES HANDS. ? i j Mr. Ernest R. Woolley, who has been one of the principal stock- olders of The Citizen since it was established, has disposed of his Ittfest in the publication. His connection with The Citizen ceased such I of date of July 15 by the sale of all his holdings. During the time bat he was connected with the paper its circulation and advertis- increased. ar call 'Control and management of the paper are now taken over by ng to F to the j 1920 , r such a 1 j i should Iso be 8, pre i I j varies, week James P. Casey, city superintendent of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of Salt Lake City, and by F. P. Gallagher, present editor of The Citizen, who will continue in that capacity. Mr. Casey has been in the newspaper business in Utah for eight years, three years of that period with the Salt Lake Herald as general manager, The Citizen will continue to support Republican policies and will devote itself untiringly to the promotion of Utahs business interests. ; t' GOVERNMENT COLLAPSE AT WASHINGTON BARED working for the bureau and by their very numbers were creating a confusion that made it impossible for the bureau to function. Men rorth while by way of proving Democratic incompetency, inefficiency went to France and returned before any money was paid to nil waste. In other words they were happy in the thought that they their dependants. One Salt Lake woman received four letters telling ad not been found out. But manifestly the Democrats who raised her that her husband was dead in France and each time she wired comiiiit-imbe- r back. My husband is alive and with me here. r One hat cry of exultation were not accpiainted with what the Senator Smoot introduced a bill to cut down the number of ees had disclosed and they forgot that Senator Smoot was a whole at " employes to 5,000. nvestigating committee in himself. We are getting some results now that the bureau has only i Senator Smoot brings into the campaign a new interest, as all s and a 55, krill testify who heard his speech last Tuesday evening before the 8.500 employes, he said, and I believe that the work will begin to be done well as soon as we have the number down to 5,000. unties fating Mens Republican Club when he and formey Senator Suther- ttal an'(j firc(i the opening guns of the campaign. Whatever He said that the employes were falling over one another, those Senator who were unwilling or did not know how, getting in the way of those issue of the campaign lidate nay be the paramount who were willing and understood how to do the departmental work. Spnrf by his own tireless personal investigations in Washington. as created an issue of transccndant importance. lie is able to des- - Instead of finding the record in an insurance case all in one dossier, 8 Iribe a chaotic condition of governmental affairs which, though it the senator was compelled to look for the record in five or six dost ileged siers in different parts of the building and even in several buildings. be spalls, yet fascinates in the telling. ay And when we had done all this we did not get the record, he Because .of the reputation he had earned for personal investigatsaid. :011 (,f complaints constant appeals were made to him by those seeking. As a result of the senators inquiries and efforts the senate has ing relief or those who saw the fatal failure of government to function in its various departments and who sought patriotically passed unanimously a bill to reorganize the government. He discovered that the administrative departments had not been reorgantor a remedy. Senator Smoot cited only a few examples of administrative ized since they first were founded by Alexander Hamilton, that bureaus had been added at the whim of officials without any relation collapse, but stated that he could occupy the entire night telling whatever to the original plan and that, as a consequence, every jsiiiiilar stories. He recalled an amusing sequel to one of his investigations. Time after time he had been in the bureau of war risk department was suffering from endless friction and duplication. That bill will be passed by the house and then we can so reorganinsurance to make inquiries on behalf of relatives of soldiers. Every ize the government as to save at least $300,000,000 a year, he said jvisit revealed made the disgraceful incompctcncy and inefficiency amid applause. clearer to himself and to the humiliated employes. The senator had just been impressing upon his audience that for At length the watchman at the door of the bureau began to ring a bell every time the senator appeared in the building and the at least twenty ?five years the American people would be paying the highest taxes in the world as a result of the war debts. His whispered warning went about, Smoot is coming. Senator Smoot found that 20,000 men, women and girls were figures were an appalling revelation of the virtual bankruptcy of the s .'Democrats at San Francisco joyously felicitated themselves that ie congressional investigating committees had uncovered nothing 1111111111:1111 u i f |