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Show Published Every Saturday BY iOODWIN8 WEEKLY. PUBLISHING CO., INC. V ' A. W. RAYBOULD, Manager 8KI, Editor SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: g postage In the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal per year. m mi . 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 March 3, 1879. of Act under the City, Utah, Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409 8alt Lake City, Utah 311-12-- 13 is :.t STATE WANTS MORE POWER al legislation could easily be applied to Senate Bill should have the sole power to regulate its water supply and only such a method can be secured the best results. I .. Mr, Finlinson, a measure which would work contrary through 1 j is really meant for. The bill is in relation to water JUST A FREAK. ulinary purposes by the people of the state, and pro-- ; the jurisdiction of the water sheds be transferred Senate Bill No. Gl, by Mr. McConkie would be a dandy law nunicipal authorities to the board of health. For in-- b bill: would make the. Salt Lake officials responsible for physicians and a good revenue getter for them. Otherwise ike?i water supply while the state board of health it is one. big joke. Just imagine a law in force which would revide the regulations. Any department which is held quire and compel the people to go before a physician every six e for its acts must of necessity have full power to months to be examined, and that all our people must carry ave sole jurisdiction over the same, or there will be around a certificate signed by a licensed physician that they are and good service is forfeited. healthy and fit to work. Mr. McConkie, who ever induced you to introduce such a ridicpplr this bill the city officials would have no say as to 'md lie done and what should not be done, and quite ulous measure! of course they would not. concern themselves about the If you had a daughter working in some ice cream parlor .s. Dr. Beatty or whoever was at the head of the would you want to have some doctor examining her every six d of health would make one or two trips up and down months! Thats what your bill provides for. ind that would about be all the time that official could is one department of the many the board is trying to SCHOOLS. should 'he because lax officials become would ur why city fere in a matter which has been taken out of their There should be no duplication of work at the; University n and the result would be that our present clean and of Utah and the Agricultural college at Logan. Both instituicted watersheds which supply the people of this city tions demand big budgets for their upkeep and both schools water would soon degenerate and become unfit for should be kept abreast of the times. The Logan school was an institution erected for a definite purpose-agricul- ture the present system of protection for the water supply where the youth might learn how to become an expert farmer 3 feel secure and know that their interests are given or mechanic and its energies should be confined to such purur ;ention. The canyons are carefully patrolled and suits. The University of Utah trains its students in a far differnd the water is analyzed frequently by the city board ent thought. There the boys and girls are trained to become and every precaution is taken to protect the purity of lawyers, doctors and professional men and women. Of course there is a certain rivalry between the two schools, but there M.aybr Neslen was seen regarding the matter he said ought not to be because of the vast difference in what the uld be folly to transfer the power of supervision to schools were intended for, and their rivalry ought not to bo alwhich could not possibly provide a safer means of lowed to plunge either of the institutions into a money spendh than is given at the present time, and the Mayor ing campaign to outdo each other at the expense of the taxpayers. legislation as provided in this bill should be LICENSE BOOTLEGGERS by anyone, because in the end it would only tend to inefficiency in the place of the present efficiency. According to estimates, unofficial, it is said that there arc right. It would .be another instance in passing the No one would claim responsibility, and with all the at least 10,000 bootleggers in Utah. In fact there is so much ced in the hands of a board there could bo no redress, whiskey on the market that a gallon can lie purchased as cheaply at present as was paid for a quart two or three years ago. It is lere.is no responsibility. to r tlie present system, if there are any corrections to said that one can purchase unlimited quantities from $G $8 per to the city gallon. eppi our water sheds, the people can go direct Would it not be a good idea to license all bootleggers at $100 ners and get results. The members of a board would 1 then do as per month. This would bring in a revenue of about $12,000,000 they pleased. bootCitizen believes this bill is entirely uncalled for and a year, which profits at present are being divided by the cement We believe every city leggers. Two year's revenue would build the best paved ,, Jo be killed in the committee. ' s- I . 1 can-y:suc- |