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Show f Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. FRANK E. SCHEFSKI, Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Addrees all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postofflce at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 31 Ness Bldg. ' 8a It Lake City, Utah Phone Wasatch 5409 CHAIN STORE i The chain store is raising havoc with the average business man who finds that he cannot compete in prices with the chain store. The average businessman puraclises through a broker where profits have already been taken out and when the goods reaches i i 3 i A i the retail dealer they are way up in price. Years ago the wholesaler was satisfied with a fair margin but today he doubles the price and passes it along to the retailer. We read about the cost of living going down, but when you walk into a store you find it different. Forty-eigpounds of flour today sells for $2.25, just 100 per cent dearer than it was in 1914. Bread is the staff of life. Potatoes are selling from $3 to $4 per bushel and meats arq also high. These prices probably would be higher but for the chain store, hence the people are not slow to find the chain store and they are getting the business. The chain store purchases direct from the factories and middlemens profits are eliminated, hence they ought to be able to sell much cheaper than they do. The small store keeper cannot purchase from the factory and if he did his price is fixed. The small storekeeper, however, lias himself acted hoggish. If an honest person wants to sell a shoestring pr some trinkets, it is the small town merchant that rushes to the eitv council and secures prohibitive legislation, barring all such salesmen. It is contrary to the Constitution of the United States, but local politicians are easily talked into passing prohibitive laws, and such people are denied the right to make an honest living. The store-ma- n is now getting a dose of his own medicine and it is beginning to hurt. He forgot the law of compensation in selfishly trying to protect his own interests and he is now meeting his own just deserts. The small merchant, as well as the big, have tried to hog ftforything in their towns. Now comes the chain store and upsets them completely. In trying to successfully fight the various conditions, designing brains have decised plans to fight the new conditions. Everything is organized. In fact, organization is being so perfect that in a few years we will have only two classes of people the rich and the poor. Competition in trade lias been entirely eliminated. Prices are all fixed. You can go from one show window to another, and many of the big sale events are only jokes. The small grocer if lie tries to undersell liis neighbor will be put out of business. He must too the mark. There is one price r all. Even the farmers who display their vegetables on the highways want as much for fruits and vegetables as the same can be purchased in our retail market stores. As a result many people have refused to purchase any more from the. farmer, but lie is in the alleged combination and he must toe the mark. The j j i ht t 5 4 i 4 i 9 i 4 9 farmer must not undersell the trade, and if he does he may wake up some morning to find his farm ruined. Just where our perfect organizations are going to lead to is a matter yet to be solved, but it appears that a day is coming when there will be a big explosion and a great many people will lose the money they have invested in these combinations. STOP STREETS. There is an amenia sweeping the country to make all streets and roads that intersect a main highway, stop streets, and it will not be long before every street we have will become a main highway. The people living on all streets will demand to be placed in the main highway or stop street class, and the result will be that it will take one an hour to travel a mile. Some say that the streetcar companies are behind the move for the purpose of discouraging automobile driving, and ride the street cars for safety and comfort. Many of our businessmen find the street car more convenient than the automobile which is nearly prohibited in the city limits because of parking rules, and it is also cheaper to ride on the streetcars than to drive an automobile. In crowded thoroughfares the stop street is a good thing, but in the open country where one can see miles in either direction a stop sign appears out of place. The careful driver needs no stop signs and the careless driver never pays any attention to such signs. Also a new headlight has been invented which lights up the entire surroundings at night, for which is claimed great possibilities for the reckless driver. What kind of a headlight should be used in the day time when many accidents occur? Wc mav cast about for reform laws to lessen accidents all we please, but they will not decrease until our courts positively prohibit reckless drivers from using the highways. Kids driving trucks at thirty, forty and fifty miles an hour through our streets are causing a great many accidents by forcing others out of the line of traffic. The only way to stop reckless driving is to stop it. Sign boards will not stop it. Laws will not stop it. But deny the right to use the highway will stop it. No doubt such a law would be in force right now if only the poor people drove cars. Who is going to punish the rich? PAROLE During the past two months several arrests have been made of paroled criminals. They were turned loose before the expiration of their terms upon the promise to secure a job and to walk the chalk line in the future, but upon the very first opportunity they found themselves enmeshed in the coils of the |