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Show THE CITIZEN 12 FRIEND OF WOMEN interested. Put your cards on the table. Counsel one another. Meet as men seeking the same end and not as ajr Assistant Manager 0. D. Coughlin of Walker Brothers Dry saries and out of it will come a solution fair and satisfae Goods company is coming in for a great deal of praise from to all. the women for his statement that it is a crime to pay the women such small wages as provided hy the Utah laws. He says BILLIONS FOR NAVY. ( that the minimum wage in other western states is from $13.50 to $18 per week, while here it is as low as $7.50 per week. Just a short time ago millions of dollars worth of neir tleships were sunk to the bottom of the ocean in order to coi WATCHING THE FARMERS. with an elleged and reported disarmament campaign in M the largest nations of the earth were represented. Wh Governor Derns Board of Equalization has sent special other countries sank any battleships, we know not, but agents to count the cattle and sheep in the state for taxation sink some. It appears we were the suckers and fell stuff. purposes. Why must the farmer and the livestock men always lie he the goat! Have not they troubles enough! Why not Now then we are told that we must put up about a li ( fair and why should the finger of suspicion be pointed at them dollars for new battleships. n alone! Is the Governors Board of Equalization going to send io What has become of the League of Nations! special agents into every mercantile establishment in the state Have the war lords and profiteers run out of niont18 to to count its yards of cloth and sacks of flour! Is it going Why are the big nations speeding up their war niacfjj count to send special agents into every mine and mill in Utah to nearly double what they were preceding the World every pick and shovel and mine car and what not! Is it going Is there another world war in sight! Is Europe preprailto send its sleuths into every power plant and into every to come over and annex us in sections to the various Eurofe m road shop! kingdoms! The daily press states that Governor Dern is to address We believe in adequate naval and army protection foi?5 in a meeting of one of the units of the Utah Farm Bureau Ogden but we do not believe in laying the keels of numtiu in the near future and we suggest that some of those present country, and then junking them after paying the con' ask Governor Dern a few questions. We surmise that he will battleships price. the issue. adroitly side-ste- p Does Washington fear some European power! like Congress ought to take the people into their confidence CHANGEABLE MIND. let us know what there is behind this blarney war math m campaign. obwho Burton It is passing strange that Commissioner Our harbors are already blocked with World War jected two years ago so strenuously to being forced to take It is true that we got rid of some of them, but there istg charge of the Department of Public Safety, now has insisted on more. iu to some he seems There that strange department. retaining In our mad rush to build a huge war machine let us not1 charm which is a mystery to us. to off the debts of the late war. Just because Engjjjj During the last City Campaign the Citizen took the stand get pay in poTja for a change of moral conditions in Salt Lawe City and we France, Japan and Italy are keeping their people intend to continue pressing our demands for such changes. "We in supporting war machines, is no good reason why this cofa should follow suit. again commend Mayor Bowmans statement in which he declares that these conditions must be remedied and that the LEAGUE OF WAR City Commission should cease to act as five separate and distinct departments. We expect the Mayor to busy himself with B. H. Roberts of the first seven presidents of the Sio the affairs of his own and all other departments. We shall fact that the Is watch for the interest, the activities of Commissioner Burton ties of the L. D. S. church, deplores the of Nations. He t" and Chief Buridge, and we will be more than ready to accord States is not a member of the League is the other siderj them praise when praise is due. We would suggest Mt they perfect right to his opinion, but there ip start in their good work by purifying the Purity Squad, and considered. Since Germany got into the League, she has about we can assure them that they need not fear that it will be a Of course, we do not mean that in at- vinced the Allies that they were responsible for the , case of gild the lily. h( tempting this process of prification, that they use a coat of World War. iffo laid white-wasIf we get in, we know that the blame will be door and we will be called upon to pay the entire war defta financed the war as it was, and right now we are holding SCHOOL TAX. I 1 i foi-so- i A 1 i. - i h. sack. The Citizen believes that talking across the table is an effec- tive means of smoothing over most differences. Extreme and somewhat violent expressions are often heard when the subject .of per capita appropriations for outside schools is discussed. We believe there is a happy meeting ground. The school children of the less populated sections of the state are entitled to proper educational advantages. No one will dispute this. The large tax payers feel, on the one hand, that extravagances are demanded while on the other hand the champions of the outside schools believe that they receive too scanty opportunities for the education of their children. We have heard this matter discussed in a general way only it is true by one of the men keenly interested, Owen Bennion, representative in the last legislature from Duchesne County, and to our ears at least his The Citizen thinks that quesviews are reasonable and fair. tion and the exceedingly important matter of taxation could well be settled by full and frank discussions on the part of all ; We hate to see the entire bloomin country turned' . to Europe. If the League of Nations is such a good thing, why it tolerate such an extensive war building machine pr deiua11! among European nations! And now this country billion dollars more to hold up its end of the line. Instead, league of nations it is a league of war. i i f COMING WEST ik The official opening of Yellowstone Park will be Jfljjj according to Dan S. Spencer, who has recently returned), the traffic meeting in Omaha of the Union Pacific system Mr. Spencer reports that many tourists are coming wests, coming year and now is the time to prepare for them. stone Park and Zion and Bryce canyons in southern Uta5, the most talked of points of interest. L |