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Show SENATOR SMOOT VISilSMILFORD I Milford was honored on last Satur-I Satur-I day evening by a short visit from Senator Reel Smoot of I't-n who delivered a short address in the Victory Vic-tory theatre at 6:30. tor Reed Smoot of Viah, who delivered deliv-ered a short address in the Victory theatre at 6 : 30. The Senator had been visiting Sne-theren Sne-theren Utah and was on his return trip to Salt Lake City. While not classed as an orator Sen ator Smoot is a mo.-t pleasing and convincing talker, c.tv there is not a man in the United F: tes who has the facts and figures of tite financial condition of our government better in hand. In speaking of the- n-'tional indebtedness, indeb-tedness, the Sen-tor ait!: "In order to give yen people -n ilert of the enormity of $40,000,009,000. the national debt at this time If one were to have started at the moment Christ was horn dropping forty dollars dol-lars every minute into a sack, and had continued up to the present minute, min-ute, the amount would not pay the national debt." The appropriations, he said, which were made to carry on the w-ar were given willingly, in order that the work of winning the . war might he finished as quickly as possimle. but the money was to have been uced to the best advantage and judicious-'' ly instead of beiig extravagantly and wastefully expended by men who had no idea of economy. The Senator snoVo of the thousands thous-ands of useless employees in thegov-ornment thegov-ornment service at Washington D. C. and is in favor of reducing the force to normal. He said there were, hundreds hun-dreds of little girls who are drawing from eleven to fourteen hundred a vear, who ought to be at home and their jobs taken over by. men with families to support. In speaking of his correspondence. Senator Smoot said that eighty-five ler cent of his letters for assistance on various matters, came from outside out-side the state of Utah. After his address, the Senator went immediately to the train and depart-ted depart-ted for Salt Lake City. a |