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Show Published Every Saturday G00DWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING BY A. W. RAYBOULD, CO., INC. BUSINESS MANAGER -SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: . Including postage In the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal 0 for si :: ' $4.50 per year. . Single copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money ' Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. to The Citizen.j Address all communications - Entered ,econ City, Utah, under the Act of' March Phone Wasatch 5409 V 311-12-- 13 1 J,U nfR?Q I, Ness' Bldg:, i.: '! Salt Lake'. City, ;iltah WHOLESALE CORRUPTION Wholesale Grocers association has been called ,n by the federal government to answer a complaint charging act. It is charged that the firms lation of the Sherman anti-truolved arc banded together to regulate trade conditions and to fix ces. The complaint is sweeping in its allegations and the charges specific. Government men have worked in this territory for sev-- 1 months past in securing evidence. If there has been no price fixing in this. city, then our merchants possessed of a sixth sense. One can wander from one store to ther and the food prices are practically, all the same. It has been talk of the community for the past several years, and similarity prices today cause a great deal of discussion. Here and there one ets with a person who claims they have had business connections they say that price fixing in this community has developed into The Utah-Idah- o st 1 cience. Among ns Co-operat- ive the numerous defendants named in the complaint is the Mercantile Institution of which Heber J. Grant, and prophet of the Mormon church of sident Latter-da- y Saints, is sident. Surelv, m C. M. I. de ! President Grant cannot be aware of the fact that the is part of an organization to fix food prices and regulate I., which has been named in the complaint, is the est mercantile institution of our state and is under the control imminent Mormons and church officials. Hundreds of people are denying that the Z. C. M. I. is guilty of ing mixed up in this mess. They cannot and will not believe it. The Z. C. M. the federal authorities have listed it among many other Siness firms of our state, charging law violation, The jl complaint charges the several defendants with wilfully and fcnvingly, unlawfully having conspired to control the manufacture, Induction, purchase, sale, shipment and transportation of the in which they deal. And to have absolute control over all rlness in dictating at what price retailers may sell and who shall who shall not do business. : According to the complaint no man can come here and start Grocers associa-j1- , ('ness without the sanction of the Utah-Idah- o M this is true, how can expect this state to grow? boost Utah becomes a frost. v Competition is the life of trade, but when a few merchants are Quitted ! band themselves together and their dictation is supreme, v anT ( 'ic believe for a moment that under such conditions the Je "ill ;;row? j eha e had no competition in price in this city for many years, lkes difference whether one wishes to purchase a bunch of ns fr(Jl the grocery store or a board from the lumber company, coinpa itive prices seldom vary. urts most is that prices in this city are held higher than wever, com-jwiti- es u j-o- I ; V in the surrounding cities. The Citizen welcomes the governments investigation and we hope that the price manipulators will be put out of business. Then, any person may come to our city and invest his moifby in business without dictation of how to run it. ' BIG NECK PROPAGANDA. Since March 1, 1924, Utah has been paying $300 a month, for an alarmist. He is of a type who should be muzzled; he plays oii tlie imaginary ills of mankind until, with his presumed knowledge, and his title of doctor, together with the publicity he has received from the daily press, one would be ready to believe that the stores of Utah would have to order collars of the size, such as never have been made, and that within a few years it would take at least a yard or two of cloth to cover the neck of a Utah woman. We understand that he was employed by the secretary of the state board of health. The thinking taxpayer is wondering right now if there is to be a raid on the taxpayers at the next session of the legislature to pay this $300 a month man ; or if the secretary of the state board of health . has something else up his sleeve? that during sessions of the state legislature for at least the past ten years the secretary of the state board of health has got busy with an alarm story either during the session of the legislature or before it was to meet. Is it not about time that this special man be called off? Is it not about time that he be stopped from. going into the ' It is a notorious fact schools of the state, as lie has been doing for over a month, and alarming, not alone the children, but their parents as well? If this man has the facts, why the publicity? Usually a man who is employed to make a survey does not rush into print with his report. He makes his report to those who have employed him and then leaves it to them to make it public if they wish to do so. This alarmist is posing as a doctor, and he is apparently violating the fundamental ethics of that profession, one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of professions on earth. Publicity is not sought by the good medical man, he is content to let those who know him tell of his skill. This man, who is being paid $300 a month by the state, wants publicity, he seeks notoriety, he has been trying to tell the people of Utah and the medical profession that they do not know what is the matter with them and that unless his advice is followed what is going to happen? If the medical profession of Utah, which numbers among its members some of the best surgeons and practitioners in the United States, respect their .prqfession, as we think they do, they will demand that this alarmist be called off. |