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Show THE CITIZEN at O q. door can be shipped to New York city, paying freight over two thousand miles, and then be purchased for about a dollar less than we can buy it at home. It matters not whether you purchase the sugar at one of our grocery stores or at the factory, Who gets the added freight charges upon unshipped sugar? If we have to pay freight charges what incentive is there to produce at home? We all remember, or at least many of us, when the Lehi factory was first built. It was constructed for the purpose of manufacturing sugar at reasonable prices to be sold to the local people. It could not live as it had been planned. According to the common talk about town, the new factory had to either get into the association or be forced out of business. If our legislatures could have controlled the situation by enacting special laws protecting home industries the fact remains they did not do so. Sugar made at home can be purchased much cheaper in outside markets than we can get it here at home where we produce hundreds of tons of sugar more than our local annual consumption. our-bac- k The United States Bureau of Fisheries announces that American top minnows are fighting malaria in Palestine. The first shipment of minnows to the Bible land arrived safely and they will be distributed in the mosquito breeding sloughs. The young fish feed principally upon the mosquito larvae. The Rockefeller foundation used 750,000 of the same species of fish to fight yellow fever in Peru. Since July, 1921, the disease has been entirely eradicated. The fish have destroyed all the mosquitoes. Special attention should be given our sloughs which cannot be drained and such fish ought to be imported in order to help control the pest here. lip to the present time, mosquitoes have not been near so numerous as they were last summer, but the cool weather has had something to do with it. . William G. McAdoo would like to sit in the presidents chair. If McAdoo can have his way there will be nothing in the Democratic platform containing international problems nor wet planks. This is in direct opposition to former President Woodrow Wilson who still believes that we should carry the league of nations on our back. McAdoo has come to the general opinion of most Americans that we had better put our own house in order before we step out to tell our neighbors what they should do or should not do. s, With one million pensioners and one million England has now a burden of deadheads that is crushing enterprise and initiative. More than 15 per cent of the people are riding on the taxpayers back. dole-taker- Clara Philips, the hammer slayer, says she will die before she allows herself to be returned to the United States for imprisonment. But for her bad temper she would not now be in her present predicate ment, and she has no one to blame but herself. The law of compensation treats all alike and none can escape. King Benjamin of the House of David and his followers have come to grief in Michigan. The law has uncovered a system which made slaves out of its members to be exploited by the leading and officiating members of the new religious cult. Some of the stories which have been told regarding the life in the colony is unbelievable. . Miss Roylance Fitzgerald, a beautiful young girl of the southern end of the county, died during the week from a pistol shot wound received last winter in an attempted holdup, and thus a bright future was brought to a sudden close with a painful and lingering death. Rex Aylett and William A. Farr have been arrested and charged with the crime and if the jury finds them guilty they should at least be asked in return for what they took. No more bold and dastardly crime was ever committed in the state. The law should be allowed to take its course and the punishment should be soon and severe. 5 The old line politicains of both parties are worrying somewhat as to what capers Henry Ford will cut in the political arena about two years hence. If every man who owns a Ford card votes for the manufacturer, it will be a regular landslide. Why cross the bridge until we come to it? Excavations for foundations are expensive. In many cases where no basement is particularly desired, but still where the size of the building necessitates the putting in of a deep and solid foundation is imperative, the work has to be done no matter what the cost of labor and material. Today part of this is all changed and the builders are driving cement piles for foundations. Such work can be seen in the construction of the foundation for the big flour mill which is in the course of construction on Fifth South between Third and Fourth West streets. The builders are driving twenty foot length cement piles, which are square and which taper at the bottom. A rubber cushion is placed on top of this pillar and the pillar is then hammered into the ground for twenty feet or the desired depth. The Cubans are kicking up a fuss because in some quarters of the United States there is a boycott on sugar. Why kick up a fuss if sugar is so scarce that there is very little for sale? The sugar companies all tell us that the present high price is caused by a pinched market and an excessive demand for the sweet. If. the market is in such condition, we all ought to ration our sugar in order that we may get through until the new crop. There are a lot of things we like about President Harding but we think his most valuable characteristic just at this time is his If the ship of poisei his deliberateness of manner his state ever needed a calm hand at the helm, it needs it now, and no one seems to be able to get Harding rattled. self-contr- ol. Lloyd George declares that British prestige fades under Bonar Law. The little Welshman still believes the Britishers should let The truth is that the colors in British prestige were George do it. running when they decided to put George on the retired list. Law may not possess the brilliancy and evasiveness and political finesse of George, but in point of reliability, sincerity, and practical common sense, he has it all over the former prime minister. Mr. Foster and his communist friends sought to pervert organized labor in this country to their own ends. They thought that if the Gompers machine could be ousted, the rank and file of the labor unions could be exploited for the communist cause, just as Gompers himself has boasted that he could throw the labor vote to the Democrats. The truth is that Mr. Gompers never made good in his classes claims, the results of our elections showing that are accustomed to independent action in choosing their political affiliations and picking their candidates. It would be a dangerous situation to have Mr. Foster and his lieutenants in control of the AmerGompers organization, such as it is, but it does not follow that ican wage earners would thereupon become converted to communism and seek to overthrow the government by force. the-workin- g Certainly. Why, of course, the allies want the United States to be paid every cent for the Rhine occupation, but they have split all German payments among themselves, so far. Money talks, Uncle Sam says, and so this is why he had a representative now in Europe to see about it. 'Marion Star. I ' Our exports for the first five months of the new- tariff law totaled $1,738,000,000, compared with $1,463,000,000 for the similar 1922-2- 3 period period under the Democratic law, an increase for the of $275,000,000, or slightly under 20 per cent. Under our present tariff law exports are steadily increasing. - . |