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Show THE CITIZEN POPULAR EDITOR DIES LeRoy Armstrong, NO CROOKS WANTED at one time owner of this paper, who also and edited the Intermountain Republican, died a few at the ripe old age of eighty years. ag0 at Hollywood, Cal., Istrong was a polished newspaper man and Was considered a While he lived only a few years in this A feature writer. he made many friends and was well liked by all who knew and made his acquaintance. He had many western experi- s during pioneer days and at one time was associated with tHarte, Mark Twain, Eugene Field and James Gordon Ben- came from Indiana, but loved the west, died , He originally folished west he and is buried in the west. is hoping that Chief of Police Burbidge captures the dais who destroy flower beds, etc., and makes an example of o. Hoodlums ought to be made to repair and pay for all laffe done with a stiff fine and a jail sentence besides. 6 Here oieij said that the death of James H. Waters has saved He- J. Grant from a big damage suit instituted by the Gray Line tor Tours, Inc., $50,000 being asked for alleged interference rade. It is said that Waters was one of the chief witnesses the case has been dropped because of his demise. It is npe 99 CANCELLATION Mr. Notification has been sent out by the powers that be that no crooks need apply for positions in the dry service. The prohibition service will employ about 1,870 spotless life employes at salaries ranging from $1,860 to $6,000 per year, and this new body guard of the drys is supposed to make a cleanup of the liquor question. The past life of every employe will be checked, probably through some detective agency. If you have ever broken the word of wisdom, don't apply for a job because the bogy man will get you. The department has evidently come to the conclusion that it does not take a crook to catch a crook and only Sunday school boys will be hired in the future. The department does not mean to infer that in the past some of the employes have been crooks. But some of the boys have been caught who were blind and with their hands held out behind them, and these careless fellows will not be able to get back into the service. It will take some time for this new force to get acquainted with the bootleggers. It would be a joke if the bootleggers converted these innocent officers and made of them drinkers. They must sample the evidence to see if it is liquor or just plain cold tea, and it is more than likely that the new may acquire a longing to sample the wet goods and become converted to the wets and thus besmirch their heretofore stainless characters. No good mamma should allow her Sunday school boy to be tempted by the fat salaries and the other prerequisites pertaining to the liquor business. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, took his pen in hand day and made answer to the college professors, forty them, count them, who recently broadcast through the news-r- s a demand that we immediately cancel all foreign govern-ita- ! other AN OPINION The Dearborn Independent appeared rather disgusted with, the results of the 69tli Congress. In an editorial it says : The 69th Congress passes into history with few regrets from the nation. Its achievements, most of them, were better left undone ; its omissions were as silly as its acts. It was the Senate of the 69th Congress which voted the United States into the World Court and then sang hallelujahs of relief when that body rejected its reservations. It was the 69th Congress which bill, fortunately vetoed, and the passed the McNary-IIauge-n Banking Bill, unfortunately not vetoed. Ignoring of the Constitution, the 69tli Congress took on action on itries. reapportionment, leaving the country unequally and unfairly If common sense dictates owed debts of the foregiveness represented as regards population. It did nothing constructive then equally common sense suggests a readjustment of the for d on Muscle Shoals and the prohibition ; it ies paid to these countries for supplies used even in battle. Power Trust, and took no definite stand on the political scandThat a mean will kind of the simply readjustment suggested als which have shaken the country. Doubtless there have been the German to the will transferred be debt reparation worse congresses than the 69th, but we do not remember ilders of the American that friendship, them off hand. taxpayers. Finally, onal friendship, is not a thing to be purchased and that any ament that a cancellation move will make for love and friend-abroa- d HOW COSTS TRAVEI j is ridiculous. After first shyly expressing his regret that before issued this world shaking statement that they did not see oat least call upon the Treasury oficials who had negotiated debt settlements for a statement of the situation, he d his views in the paragraphs printed below: That if we should forgive Germany and France debts d for the purchases of large supplies of food and ammuni-sfrothe United States then very properly France and and should reimburse us for the money we have already these several countries for supplies purchased in those debts. ex-se- in-e- m he Tij diffen adfoK rm shilly-shallie- finally en hg to fc Onal hat the BIG PULL iVfo it til? Who is the mysterious Professor E. W. Kemmerer? incident with his visits to foreign nations, it has following such visits big loans have been floated America as the stamping ground to gather the harvest. the New York World carried a news item from regarding the $100,000,000 loan which a Polish cj&l mission in America is seeking, the World was reliably today that the prospective lenders are making the loan firmal on immediate adoption by the Polish government of Iinancial and banking reforms recommended by Professor 1 e liap-short- lv War-statin- g, mg i- - vilio Kemmerer. be s ion Mc-Fadd- en professor appears to be a sort of little is known of him. frtor y o wisp, Johnson of California will not retire next year term of office Hiram says he believes he is expires. 0r many years yet and he likes the game. 18 , will-o'-th- Few pieces of legislation passed in recent years have been more impractical than the law requiring the Interstate Commerce Commission to determine the valuation of railroad property. Congress and the people were assured that the total cost would not exceed $10,000,000, and could be- accomplished in about three years. Already thirteen years have elapsed and the cost exceeds $120,000,000 with only tentative valuations effected on less of the total mileage. than three-fourtBy the time the tentative valuation is completed, the railroads will have been practically rebuilt ; which means that for any practical purpose the valuation is worthless, and $120,000,-00- 0 wasted, about $28,000,000 of which falls directly and the balance indirectly on the public. At the time the valuation bill was proposed economists of recognized ability throughout the country said it would serve no purpose, in that the time- required to make the valuation even tentatively would be so long that at the end it would have - hs - |