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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOUllD, Business Manager . SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United States,. Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. i 8ingle 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 8alt Lake of March 3, 1879. Act under the City, Utah, Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah Phone Wasatch 5409 . 311-12-1- . 3 HOLLENBECK SCORES LOBB YISTS More men like Representative L. A. Hollenbeck of Duchesne in our legislatures would give us better laws and more of a business administration. Referring to his experience with the recent legislature, of which he was a member, he says in the Duchesne Courier: The legislature has adjourned. There is so much to say that a man is at a loss to say anything. The appropriations to the state university is increased about $122,-00They say that the government has withdrawn about $60,000, leaving about $62,000 above last biennium. But of course, the government in withdrawing, also withdraws a considerable of the expense. The agricultural college extension is also increased $50,000. The state npi behind in the last biennial period of over $100,000, and there has been an effort' to cut little bills, some of which ought to be cut, but the university where there should not have been a raise, went through like a greased pig. Of course we all favor the university, but the fact is that there is no end to the branching out and it has got so that the institution is bigger than the state. But there is no use talking about it. You only get run over. But then, I have not hesitated to get in the way and get run over whenever I thought I was right. If they had passed my school district bill it would have been the best thing for the school communities, but there was nothing doing. I passed the bill through the house to let the district court settle differences when the state board of equalization is insisting on a blanket raise of valuations against the protest of the county commissioners. But it had only two or three votes in tne senate. The fact is that the officers of the state house as a class, and generally with some exceptions, have been a lot of lobbyists, and it is easy to tell who they are. They are looking to maintain their power and to get more, and the people of the state can pay the taxes. The taxes will be raised instead of being reduced, and there has been too much pressure to do it. For instance, when the legislature was invited out to the university to look around. There was a big gathering out there and a big banquet. Of course the people of the state paid for that banquet, and President Thomas of the university presided. He is no doubt an able and an astute man. He invited the Republican leaders of both houses to speak at that banquet. That was good management on his part. He flattered them, and of course he had them grabbed and they put through his estimates as to appropriations. That is the way things move. I would liked to have been on the committee on appropriations, but it was wise to keep me off, I guess. But then it would have made no difference. The cards were stacked, and it had to be so. There arc two theories of a university. There is no end to the enlargement of a university. If 3 they go into all of the new professorships incident to the different specialties of each branch of such a system, it would cost a billion dollars to run it. But, there is another theory to make the studies largely general and let a student follow a course in an institution privately endowed, like Lelaiul Stanford or Cornell. That is where 0. . great private wealth has provided where a man can get snecial train- ing in any branch he chooses. The young man who takes a thorough course through the tenth grade at our common schools is well equipped for life, if he doesnt want to take some special course for a special business or profession. Let us take special care of our common schools, and the university too, but let us use plain common sense in the matter the same as we do in our private business. Well, we will have to foot the bills. It seems that a little state in wealth must ape the big states like Pennsylvania and New York. So it is the same merry chase for tax money, and we will have to make a continual fight all along the line. If a man tries to hit where the taxes should be hit, he will run up against a big howl, and the papers of the state who get a part of the graft, and especially the big papers, will see that that man is properly sat on. They dont dare to say a word. After all the country is run by the big papers and the big papers are controlled by the big institutions and the big companies. So there we are. -- PROPAGANDA. We are to receive a visit from Lord Robert Cecil, one of the prominent actors in the organization of the League of Nations. The purpose of his present visit to the United States is to tell us the real purposes and aims of the League of Nations, and to solicit our membership. If perseverance counts for anything we are liable to be hooked at an unguarded moment. Propaganda, the advance agent of the famous Englishman who is on his way here, has been going the rounds regularly and even President Harding has suggested that we should become a member of a world court, which is nothing more nor less than a step towards the league. What bothers Americans most is the fact that the League of Nations has no prestige in Europe and vital questions are not referred r to it. Greece and Turkey engaged in a war but the league did not step in and stop it. Quite to the contrary, England backed the Greeks in the fight and France furnished most of the guns and ammunition for the Turkish fighting machine. England and France are the real leaders in the league, but for some reason these two countries do not allow it to function when they are concerned. France has practically declared war upon Germany by invading the Ruhr, and the league which was organized to stop wars, paid no attention to the invasion and all that England said, You go in without my sanction. At every meeting the League of Nations has held, every effort has been made to draw in the United States, and so far the league has failed, and every meeting went to pieces because they say we did not participate and the Europeans failed to agree. At no time would any of the European nations take a decided stand in settling amicably any of their differences. At each conference the individual statesmen of their respective governments would spar for the big advantage in ' |