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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. JAME8 P. CASEYBusiness Manager p. GALLAGHER, Editor. 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: In United States, Canada and Mexico $2.50 per year, the Including postage 1,50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal jnlon, $430 per year. 8lngle copies, 10 cants. Payment should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, pay able to The Citizen. Addrese all eommunleatlone to The Citizen. Entered ae second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 8, 1879. S 8alt Lake City, Utah. Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409. r, SII-IS-I- FIGURES REVEAL WASTE OF STATE'S FUNDS When the state land board was so generous as- to buy the nunicipal bonds of the town of Orem at par state bonds were selling automobiles now supplied by the state to its various departments. It should be noted that the use of automobiles has a special relation to the number of employes. Autos are supposed to increase 87 or less. the working capacity of each employe and yet, although the state It For its $6,000,000 road bond issue the state recevied only $5,755,-13.7has increased the number of autos in use by 75 since 1916, it has of discount an sold at were bonds Thus the road average found it necessary to increase the number of clerks and other office per help by 165. per cent, which makes the effective interest rate nearly 4 Of course the increase in trucks is due to the road work and may ent. Some of the bonds sold as low as 90 per cent. These are only two of many examples that might be cited to be considered unavoidable.- It appalls one to think what the state would have spent for trucks had not the government been able to how that the present state administration did not count the cost supply the trucks for Utahs road work out of the surplus left by ihen it was playing favorites. It was willing to give nearly $45,000 the war. o the Dixie Power company, headed by Democratic politicians, on a Notwithstanding this economy the overhead expense of the state Contract that promised no return at all. It was willing to buy at road commission, including 50 per cent of miscellaneous items, has been 243 per cent as compared with the amount disbursed for labor par the bonds of a tiny town which put through a wildcat incorporin building state roads. ation for the special purpose of getting what Governor Cox would These are significant figures. They show how costly is Demodescribe as a It not only secured an governmental underhold. cratic administration as compared with economical Republican adminInderhold but money out of the states school funds. istration under an efficient executive like Governor Spry. Which of a public trust it need cause no wonder should remind us that the view such lax a iWith present governor has expended someis a deficit of about $800,000. thing like $27,000 on his famous 100 to 1 bet that he would be abie Notwithstanding the increase in revenue the expenditures have to return a hundred dollars to the state treasury for every dollar increased' to such a degree that the excess of expenditurs over revspent in an investigation of his predecessors administration. Not all of the $27,000 has been confined to the administration eilles for the period ending March 31, 1921, will be approximately of Governor Bambergers immediate predecessor. The scope of the 800,000. In spite of the fact that the Democrats installed a budget investigation was expanded when not a dollar had been recovered deficits are into the treasury. At this very time a special audit is being made system, of which they formerly were wont to boast, there most of the states departments. of the land boards transactions back to the first day of statehood. .J While the state was lending its credit to wildcat schemes the A special auditor is being paid $1,000 a month in the hope that someministration was constantly increasing the number of state emthing may be uncovered to reflect on a Republican administration. Of the first appropriation of $25,000 by the legislature for the ployes. And the number would be even greater than it is were not. special favorites allowed to hold two or three salaried positions investigation, $13,395.09 was expended, and the legislature of 1919 one time. made an additional appropriation of $16,000 for the same general purpose. This $16,000 is being expended under the contract with i From 1916 to 1920, about 165 employes were added to the of the various state departments at an increase of $30,192 in the special auditor. In a word, the state administration is speeding jje monthly payroll, or an increase in the annual expenditures of up the expenditure so that all of it may be used before a Republican administration takes control of the states affairs. $62,311. - 75 0. - per-fjnn- el number of the state employes are not carried on the reg-a- r payroll, but are paid through special claims filed with the state ard of examiners, the total of 165 is necessarily below the real total. s When Governor Spry retired from office the state had six for all departments. Now the state has 270 trucks and itoniobiles. Exclusive of trucks there has been an increase of W a auto-obile- LIGHT FOR MR. COX In his speech at the tabernacle Mr. Cox, having been coached carefully by local Democratic politicians, alluded to the vote at the Taft meeting in March, 1919, when President Grant declared that |