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Show Published Ilini Single copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 3 Salt Lake City, Utah. Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409 Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: ludlQg postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, or tlx months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal rinL zini 311-12-1- $450 per year. ILLUMINATING CIVIC MAINTENANCE FIGURES the average Salt Laker is trodding life's pathway calm ranquil in the knowledge that he is doing his civic duty as best n that he at all times drives his auto carefully' and within the that he keeps his walks free from snow in winter and waters ,wn regularly in summer that he never beats his wife or mal-- 3 his children while he takes due account of and pride in all yet he pay's little or no attention to what he is paying toward pkeep of his citys government and the maintenance of its howl now which has caused much of the anti-ta- x Vhile -- vari-lepartme- nts evalent. ,Vith the view of enlightening said average citizen, The Citizen ,vith includes maintenance costs and revenue derived by oper-o- f various city departments during the y'ears 1918, 1919 and tary', Liberty' park and public safety' cost $9,929.32 in 1918; in 1919 it cost $9,954.45, and in 1920 co?l purchases totaled $10,831.40. In 1918 coal for the cemetary cost $691.68; for the year 1919 it was $398.94 and for 1920 it took the sum of $1,143.96 to keep cemetary attendants thawed out. We next come to a baffling item, from the fact that it is mostly deficit. Why' the city should have engaged in a farming venture back in 1918 does not appear cpiite clear, and for that matter is beside the cpiestion at issue. No doubt prompted byr patriotic reasons the commissioners wished to help out the food situation during the war and jumped blindly' into a big agricultural venture, which proved disastrous. No one questions their motives but the deficit earned added considerably to the tax ratio for 1918 and 1919 while the city farm venture failed to flourish except as a sump in which to bury Data covering 1921 is not included because complete and dc-- 1 accounting of upkeep cost and revenues- derived for that period taxpayers money'. The Ensign Peak farm cost the city $11,341.09 in lot been compiled. The figures submitted were taken from the the year 1918; there are no revehue returns catalogued. During the auditors books by Charles Bcngtzen self delegated city sleuth y'ear 1919 it cost the city $4,200.89 with the meagre returns of d are considered authentic. wheat duly' listed. Total charges $1,719.75, derived from the sale-oFor instance the city cemetary derived a revenue from all for the two yrear farm venture aggregate $15,541.98 and revenue deThe same year it cost $43,913.00 to rived as stated totaled $1,719.75, thus leaving a net loss of $13,822.23. :es in 1918 of tain. We note in this itemized account that new horses, harness Perhaps some farmer will elucidate how this all came about ; we will pass it up as a mathematical problem wagons entailed an expenditure for the year of $85.90. For the opine the average citizen 1919 the cemetary derived a revenue of $46,976.00 and main-ic- e beyond his powers of comprehension. It appears to be an incident cost was $67,551.21. Here, again, new horses, harness and of pure patriotism that cost a heap of money prior to liquidation days before back to normalcy became the national slogan. jns cost during the year $1,572.94. In the year 1920 the ceme-too- k and in $44,252.50 and spent lor maintenance the sum of $75,-New hor.us, harness and wagons cost $1,567.50. And the A TARIFF LESSON. ige citizen thought that the horse, harness and wagon business become obsolete years ago; but they' seem to be coming back Now that the great gift season has passed, go into any' toy shop :r strong despite the omnipresent flivver and kindred gasified - f $42,-105.3- 6. ions. is good to bathe and water, especially' warm water, is coned best for bodily abolutions. 1 cnce we next turn our attention rarm Springs and here the revenue for the year 1918 appears to 1 been $19,239.07 with maintenance costs given as aggregating 44.09. During the year 1919 Warm Springs took in the sum of 98.75 and spent $16,843.77 and in 1920 it had a revenue of $31.-while maintenance cost ran up to $25,847.42. It appears that and a credit to the til Springs is a going concern, in that it evidences the fact that we are a clean people and pre-se- d The only untoward to take a bath at least in the compilation is the labor cost which jumped from $7,283.50 8, self-sustaini- semi-annuall- ng y'. to $13 818.38 in 1920. extent to which the city' fattened the profits of the coal ns during the three periods under consideration, is shown in the that coal for Warm Springs, City and County building, ceme 18 trance and note the number of toys that bear a foreign made stamp. The number will surprise you it will show you to what an alarming state things have come in this one line alone. It will serve to acquaint you with the manner in which foreign labor can undersell our well paid American workers. Unless the American toy maker, as well as all other American industries are protected byr a tariff, the time will surely come when our merchants will be forced to buy' foreign made goods of all descriptions almost exclusively. They' are not unpatriotic in so doing. 'They' are merely' stocking up with what the international wholesalers offer them. It is a case of take foreign made toys or go without. of real culture is one who is more concerned about his dictionary and his encyclopedia going out of date than about whether the cut of his evening clothes proclaims them a creation of the cur- rent year. A man 2422S |