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Show THE CITIZEN 4 CLEAN HOUSE. BREEDING A SCAB. JUDGING from the start already made, the Democrats expect to clean house in a most thorough manner in all positions to which they have been elected. The people by their vote showd that they wantd a change and a change it ought to be. It now appears that many Republicans are making application to the Democrats for positions. Probably some of these Republicans were the bolters who helped defeat the Republican party in the recent election, but they would be the last people the Democratic party would pick up. If they are traitors to their own party, they would be traitors to the Democrats and Benedict Arnolds do not m&ke a hit anywhere Democratic leaders are carefully scanning the list of all applicants for positions and any Republican that can run the gauntlet will be a humdinger. The Democratic boys have been waiting for county jobs for many years and they are going to grab everything in sight. We don't blamq them. The Republicans get the experience this year and the Democrats gather the plums, but such is political life. of these days the search of foreign vessels for liquor by U. S. officials is going to get us in bad. It is very humiliating for a stranger to come into your home and pry into everything you have under the pretense of searching for liquor. If our ships were searched in foreign ports, we believe that it would not take long to start fist fights which would lead to more serious QUEER LAWS UTAH must have some queer laws. The most vicious criminals get away with murder" in our very courts and people all over the city are talking about it. A young murderer cuts the throat of his sweetheart with a razor and the poor boy is given life. What about the girl who was sent to heaven or hell against her will; who was overpowered by a brute and her throat cut. What crime had she committed to merit such dastardly punishment? But she is dead just too bad. It appears to us that there is pleny of work ahead for the next legislature to strip criminals of their present apparent power and put them where they belong and keep them there. RUM RUNNERS. ATTORNEY General Harvey H. Cluff believes it would be wise to appoint Edward Southwick, chief state dairy and food inspector and his deputies as special prohibition officers. Much as we would like, we cannot agree with the attorney general. The moment the two offices are mixed neither will get strict supervision. Then again, if the officers are just ordinary men many of them will be contaminated within a few weeks after mingling with the rich bootleggers. ONE trouble. NOT A JOKE. SOME one slipped a joker into the treasury bill providing for department appropriation $270,000,000 to enforce prohibition. Well, they can provide ten times that much money and it will only, resort in less bootleggers and better booze, but it will not decrease drinking in the United States, the touted land of the brave and the free. The people have clearly shown that they will. not obey any law that takes away their personal rights and the prohibition law is held in contempt, aye, even by most of the deputies appointed to enforce it. Everybody will obey a just law, but an unjust law is held in utter contempt. SERIOUS. ONE GOOD pint of grain alcohol in every home would easily have controlled the flu" that has spread all over the country. Influenza is an old disease. It is not new. Before prohibition, people combated this disease with good liquor and while there was some sickness it was not like it is now. Liquor will not cure the flu but it is said to be a great aid in preventing serious sickness when taken in time. COOLING DOWN. DISPUTE over a boundary line between Bolivia and Paragua has led up to a preliminary skirmish in which about a hundred men have been killed and which for a time looked like a real war was about to break out on the American Herbert Hoover was continent. President-elec- t in the vicinity at the time of the hostilities. It now looks as if war may be averted and the two nations come to some amicable agreement. WHATS going to happen? Reckless driver barred from driving on highways for six months! The judge ought to have a medal. It would not take long to clear the highways if such penalties were properly enforced. OFFICIAL LAWBREAKERS. A KNOCKOUT. IN LEADVILLE, Colorado, recently, federal prohibition agents rode or walked into the city and arrested the mayor and some of the police officers. It looks like the entire city council, city attorney, and city marshal had been mako eyes at the bootleggers, and it ing is distinctly understood that no officer must flirt with a wet. Probably the boys were out to get some evidence in order that at some future time they could make arrests upon which they could get convictions in court. goo-go- AGAINST IMPORTS. IF PRESENT plans carry, United States fruit growers will not in their surplus fruits minister of finance to use his influence the future be able to dump into Canada. L. A. Robb, of Canada has been asked in parliament to raise the bars on imports and provide for better facilities in developing the local Canadian market. $500,000 each which will have to be paid, so that there is really a sizeable deficit. WE HAVE heard a great deal of talk in the past about Republican party deficits but following the election of 1928, strange to say, it is the Democratic deficit which is occupying the most space in the newspapers. According to reports the deficit now faced by the Democratic national organization is something over a million dollars. It is estimated that in order to be square with the world by the time the 1932 presidential campaign rolls around, Mr. Raskob, or whoever has charge of the Democratic committee, will have to raise nearly two million dollars, some of it, of course, going to current expenses. According to reports, the Republicans received in round numbers, $4,911,000 and spent $4,744,000 so that they closed the campaign with money in the bank. The Democrats collected $5,028,706 and spent $4,845,744, which shows a surplus but it is said that in the amount received were the proceeds of three bank loans of BEWARE! of Americans are today buying se- in our business and industrial organ- izations. The prosperity brought on by our modem industrial era has given the average citizen a confidence in stocks and bonds as a way to invest his money. In spite of our increased facilities for sound financial guidance and the many protections open to the investor, many millions of dollars are lost yearly through the purchase of fraudulent or wildcat stocks, or through investments made in honest enough ventures, which have little or no chance for success. Major stock and bond exchanges, such as those at New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco in- vestigate securities before listing them for trading, thus assuring the purchaser so far as humanSuch securities ly possible, valued received. chance stand a good of paying dividends and appreciating in value, with little danger of going bankrupt, and are referred to as listed securities. The investor should take care in selecting the brokerage house through which he purchases his securities. Houses which are members of one or more of the major exchanges are like banks as to safety because they are, through the exchanges, subject to audit at frequent intervals to determine their soundness. It is only common sense to choose securities which experts have passed on and to purchase them from brokers whose financial positions are scrutinized by audit and investigation. For every dollar made in a wildcat venture thousands of dollars are lost. The intelligent investor takes no unnecessary risks. MILLIONS 0 . TOO MANY JOBS ALL TAXES and revenues, whether city, county or state, should be collected by the respective treasurers. Under our present system, tax collections are subdivided in several departments and it is necessary for each tax collecting department to keep an extra set of books because of these collections. Hundreds of automobiles escape, it is said, from the tax collector. If automobiles were not so large there would be some excuse for escaping taxation. It appears to us that the past years automobile tax receipt ought to be presented before a new license is issued. This would bring the cheaters to the bar of justice. The state board of equalization will make several recommendations for a revision of the tax statutes which will add thousands of dollars to the treasuries. COLTON LANDS . REPRESENTATIVE Don B. Colton of Utah has been named chairman of the house public lands committee, a very important committee. As chairman of the public land committee, Mr. Colton falls heir to one of the finest suites of offices in the house office building, and also falls heir to a bit of increased patronage. ' XMAS PRESENTS LAST WEEK the Sugar Company distributed $1,200,000 to farmers for sugar beets delivered to the factories in November. So far the company has paid farmers this year $4,800,-000 for sugar beets, which is $700,000 more than was paid the farmers in 1927. This is an industry that entirely depends upon a high tariff to live. It is one of our best agricultural crops and is a sure money getter for the farmers every fall. Utah-Idah- o o |