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Show 'linin' i .y 8lngle 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 postofflce at 8alt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Salt Lake City, Utah Ness Bldg. , Phone Wasatch 5409 Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. - a: w. raybould, business MANAGER 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: Including postage In the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal L $4.r0 per year. 5 r 311-12-- 13 . SOLDIERS WIN BONUS FIGHT f the face of great opposition the soldier bonus bill was passed Whether the legislation will be er the veto of President Coolidge. leficial to the nation or prove a detriment is yet to be seen. Many In that the immense sums of money placed into circulation will mulatc trade and all will benefit as a result. Others argue that people will have to pay more taxes plus the already heavy burden lich is being carried. The fact remains that before the people are rough with, this bonus bill that close to five or six billion dollars have been spent, notwithstanding the approximate of a little er three billion dollars. Fifty per cent added to the sum will be Self-preservati- rue c H out r right. is 11 ec- - eta 1 on . About three and a half million soldiers, army and navy, will their fingers into the pie, although the first cash payments will t be made until March 1, 1925, a year hence. There; is one con-lin- g feature about the bonus granted the money will remain in country. Judging from the general outlines of the bill the banks reap the big harvest, as at the expiration of two years the hold-- s of certificates may go the banks and borrow money. There has been a great deal of argument as to whether the bonus is popular, but circumstances point to its disfavor with the major-r- . President Coolidge came out fairly and squarely against the easure and gave the. reasons why. Senator Hiram Johnson of lifornia stumped the entire country in favor of the bonus and his m state turned him down at the primary election in favor of )olidge. There is no doubt but that the people selected Coolidge cause of his desire to reduce taxation and to prevent measures nying big appropriations. Coolidge has thrown politics aside for onomy and by his action has become the strongest man of the tion today. The people feel safe with him in the White House. The initial expense to piit the bonus bill into operation will be employment of 1,000 paid employees, and it is reported that it illtake double that number to place all the political machinery in nation to connect the soldiers with their government awards. Many are predicting the defeat of all the congressmen who voted r the bonus bill this coming election, be they Republicans or Demons. The political senators who expect to make capital out of the Ms scrap will find a cold response from the people. People demanded lower taxes and a majority of the senators will be ifed upon for explanations when they get home where they will bably find that their constituents have already aligned with new enfor the senatorial race. i E motorists as a class are accustomed to do despite the continuous cam-- , paigns of the Stop, Look and Listen variety. is supposed to be the first law of nature but consideration of statistics would seem to indicate that this law is. not operating effectively at grade crossings. In the last five years, 9,101 persons (almost twice the number killed at the battle of Gettysburg) have sacrificed their lives at highway grade. crossings in the United States. In every instance it was the fault of the driver of the motor vehicle! It has been suggested that all grade crossings be removed. There are 250,000 crossings in the United States and at a. moderate estimate of $50,000 each it would cost $12,500,000,000 and at least thirty of the value years to remove them. This expense is about two-thirof all the railroads in the country, as tentatively found by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and neither the railroads nor the states and municipalities have the money to do the whole job at once or. within the next thirty years. It would take several generations to eliminate all the railroad grade crossings but in the. meantime grade crossing accidents would absolutely cease if every automobile driver would stop, look and listen at every grade crossing, and then cross c HESITATE AND LIVE. i . f The Union Pacific railroad company recently put out a little under the heading : At Grade Crossings He Who Hcsi-le- s Is Safe. It is signed by C. R. Gray, president, and contains carefully prepared food for thought. It is evident that the rail- companies give more thought to- the grade crossing peril than ,, - . ds . in second gear. The first grade crossings to be eliminated of course should be those on main traveled through highways like the Lincoln highway where the danger of accident is proportionately increased by the vast volume of travel. In the past ten years nine grade crossings have been eliminated on the Lincoln highway along the Union Pacific railroad in the state of Nebraska alone, seven through realignment of the road, two by separation. Nine more will be eliminated through relocation in 1924. as the permanent relocation of the route and its pavement progress the majority of the balance of the grade crossings (15) will also be eliminated, not only in Nebraska but in other states traversed by the Lincoln highway. . FOOD TRUST. The local food trust is an organization which is being investi- gated by the United States government, but it should be brought'' closer to home than that. The mayor of our city should take a hand as well as the governor of the state. If the stories which arc being circulated are true then there ought to be a house cleaning and the manipulators given a well deserved publicity which would cling to them as long as they remain in this city. Do you know that you cannot open a wholesale food store in this city? Do you know that you must sell or retail the foodstuffs in the small grocery store at dictated prices, or go out of business? The small storekeeper is at the mercy of the trust and that is . . ; |