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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO- - INC. FRANK E. 8CHEFSKI, Editor and Manager .i SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: v Including postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, in for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal n, $4J0 per year. 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 Laka March 3, 1879. of Act City, Utah, under the Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah Phone Wasatch 5409 811-12-- 18 SOFT TRA VELING JOBS Pi Mg P. J. Moran takes a fall out of the globe trotters. It has become quite the fashion in this city for officials to. spend ,h of their time visiting other parts of the country. In fact, May-lesle- n is so busy on the road that it looks very much like we to remain on the job while the travelling as ' ft to. get another mayor or is doing scout duty on the outside. . Just what the big idea infect-iany.o- f CP one appears to know, but the travelling bug has securely our political office holders, mill Commissioner Burton now wants to send a couple of attorneys study law at an attorneys convention which is to be held in 0R5iist at St. Paul. Commissioner Moran tells the city commission that if they will lIeIjrce the law, provide suitable fines and make bonds big enough ld die criminals, there will be no need of going to St. Paul, which jar the Canadian border, to study law enforcement. Upon first thought it does look like a big joke, but then why jive the boys a paid vacation at least once a year. Look at the i;"')r. Hes gone nearly all the time. He must have a big contin-fund- , but then the taxpayers of this city have plenty of money fi .ey should worry about little things like that. r Commissioner Moran has taken the first move of any city to retrench and save money for the city. A. few more :s like this one Pat and we will all begin to see the light in eduction. i men and the taxpayers are called upon to pay for many serious mistakes. A glaring case confronts us on Seventh East street, between Thirteenth and Seventeenth South streets. This portion of the street was taxed to lay curb and gutter and now the city commission finds that all this improvement must be torn out if a good job of paving is to be done. The work was apparently done without a guarantee. Many of the taxpayers are making a loud protest because of double taxes. The present city engineer says that the work was poor and was not even laid to grade. Surely some one other than the taxpayers ought to be held responsible for such slipshod business methods, but anything appears to go under our commission form of government in which the people have absolutely no voice. It is bad enough to force improvements upon an unwilling public, but when such improvements are laid under protest and are then found to be of such poor construction that they must be torn out, it is high time to bring about a change in the city administration. GOOD LAWS com-ione- ROBERT TODD LINCOLN Robert T. Lincoln, the last son of the immortal Abraham Lin-ha- s passed to his eternal resting place at the ripe old age of 83 s. . Lincoln was held in high esteem and held several responsible ions under the government and proved a progressive citizen, eld the distinction, or rather the misfortune, of being present at 3sassination of two presidents, one being his father, and he heard lots that mortally wounded another president. He finally came conclusion that there was something uncanny when he was near sident of the United States and as a result he avoided Wash-- n as much as possible. For many years he was president of the Pullman company. He ed some time to politics and was minister to Great Britain and 5 served as secretary of war. CARELESS OFFICIALS Unnecessary expenditures, untimely or part construction of in which poor materials and poor workmanship neces- the tearing out and replacing with new, is a big item in local , lnment. However, those who order the improvements do not or them and the peoples will or protest counts for little. The trouble is that many so called engineers are only draughtsI & Realizing that good men are productive of good legislation, the Utah Taxpayers association is urging the best people to come forward in order that freak laws may cease and sane laws be enacted in ibis state. The organization is requesting both parties to get busy in all counties and name men for their respective tickets, whose work will n because of he a credit to the state. The organization is its general membership which includes people of all political faiths. Individually, the members unite with their parties. Secretary Rees says that it is the civic duty of every American to take part in his government and if every one would take part we wuold have a better and more satisfactory government. The less people take interest in their political elections, the more corrupt the officials become and the easier the offices are handled and controlled. Politicians do not want all the people to become interested at the polls because it is loo hard to put over some favorite. A hundred people can be handled more easily than a thousand. The Taxpayers Association will be a big factor in controlling radical legislation and no doubt will have much to do in having good men elected. It will he well for both parties therefore to see that they nominate good reliable men to represent the poeple for the coming legislature. non-partisa- im-jmen- ts TUBERCULOR TESTS Farmers dont quite understand why it is nearly always the fat cows in their herds that are condemned as tubercular, while the skinny ones escape. That may be just a coincidence, but neverthe- - |