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Show Single copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING C0.( INC. RAYBOULD, BUSINESS MANAGER SUBSCRIPTION PRICE:. Including postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, .50 for six months. Subscriptions to all. foreign countries, within the Postal A. W. lion, $4.50 per year. 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. Salt Lake City, Utah Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409 311-12-- 13 SERVICE LAUNCHED AS LEGION SLOGAN Unselfish service to the state and the community is a slogan rhich is being developed by Commander Darrel T. Lane, commander f the State Department of the American Legion, attracting very ide attention. Service, says Lane, should be the fundamental of somc-lin- g very organization, as its right to exist and prosper. To give in genuine and unselfish effort, coupled with the backing of :rong organization, is working betterment in America being felt i all large communities. During the early days of the American Legion membership unpaigns were fairly fruitful, but then the men who had been ver in the trenches, matching wits and skill at arms with the enemy, und absorbing problems confronting them in the direction of towards a productive livelihood. Now, however, most the service men have established themselves in commanding and business positions and they have time to offer the ser-ic- e of their strong arm in pursuits of peace. While Salt Lake post of the American Legion, now under the jmmand of Ruel Halloran, is experiencing growth, which means lat in a few years it will be one of the most numerous organiza-on- s in the city, its members are bending much of their time This highly finding How best to serve the community. jmmendable attitude is rapidly gaining form under efficient planing. And soon we will be able to say with just reassurance, when iere is a civic problem to be met, Let the Legion do it. Throughout Salt Lake it is being quite generally recognized that s post of the Legion is capable of doing big things. But it would lrprise you to know how effective this inclination has become in nailer communities. The mayor and commissioners, or the town oard, have discovered that the training which went into making ood soldiers, easily can be converted into masterful attention to .vie movements. And what is most interesting Lcgionaires seldom sk for anything. To do without having a mind filled with the de-r- e for glorification or remuneration materially is the acme of en-enchm- ent in-ustr- ial E to-ar- ds ser-ice- . With his fine slogan rounding out into the development of :tion, Commander Lane is to be congratulated and we wish hftn iccess which ultimately will win him absolute realization of his dendid program. As was characteristic of his term as commander Salt Lake post of the American Legion, the state department of le Legion now is experiencing exceptional growth and soon, it is lid, every hamlet in the state, where there is a group of Legion-res- , will have a Legion post. And what is also interesting, the Legion docs not get into Dlitics and it is safe to say that thus far insipient efforts to use le Legion for political purposes have been frowned upon c suc-;ssfull- y. Of course, there arc Lcgionaires holding political office; the Dvernor is a Legionaire and so arc many other officials, but it be remembered that there were some 27,000 of the best blood a.ust 3 of Utah that enlisted for service in the World war, and should there not come forth many shining stars politically or otherwise from this magnificent group, it would be sad indeed. Every Legionaire attends primaries, conventions, if he can, and goes to the polls to vote; that is one of the fundamentals of his program of Americanism. And then he is striving every day to make Americans of those who have not as yet embraced the true meaning and tremendous importance of the successful progress of the melting pot. FORD OUT: WILL SUPPORT COOLIDGE. Leading Democrats in Utah and especially of Salt Lake City appear to have mustered sufficient courage to decide upon a presidential candidate, William G. McAdoo. Students of the swing of the political pendlum are wondering if their courage asserted itself only after Henry Ford had decided to support Coolidge. Rarely has anyone enjoyed and grasped so great an opportunity to please everyone and profit himself as that recently afforded Henry Ford. In coming out for Mr. Coolidge, Mr. Ford has demonstrated that, however poor a politician he may be, he is still a Mr. wonderful business man. All the politicians arc pleased. Coolidge, for obvious reasons; W. G. McAdoo, because he dreaded and Hiram Johnson because he the competition of the flivver-makefeared Fords candidacy might draw from him a portion of the progressive vote. And Mr. Ford who probably would have made a spectacle of himself as a politician has demonstrated his sound business sense. Henry Ford, it will be recalled, was an ardent Wilson man when Woodrow Wilson was president, a strong Harding man when Mr. Harding was president and, now that he has put away his own presidential ambitions, he is a strong Coolidge man. Whoever is elected next November doubtless can count on Henry Fords being strong for him, regardless of party. Henry is a good businessman. While Mr. Coolidge and his supporters arc delighted to receive Henry Fords support, those disposed to look beneath the surface are asking how large a part Muscle Shoals played in his decision. Henry, according to Senator Norris, is seeking to purchase from the government a $500,OCO,000 property for $100,000,000. Through one of those infirmities of temper to which Henry is subject, he recently so bitterly attacked the secretary of war as to make impossible further negotiations with that official. But President Coolidge included in his message a few kind words regarding Henrys possible operation of the Muscle Shoals at the White House. Then came his announcement that lie was for Coolidge tor president. Now those in the know arc looking for stout advocacy by the president of the sale to Henry for 20 cents on the dollar of the Muscle Shoals property. Of course the basis of such advocacy will be the farmers need of cheaper fertilizers but the property, would have been sold to Henry iong ago if he had been willing to bind himself X24223 r; |