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Show WITH THE STATE LEGISLATURE The swishes and swashes of con tending currents mighty r.ar swamped the state legislative last week as they dunked into the troubled liquid of the state liquor .ontrol laws; nigh overheated themselves in school financing tested out deep waters of election law changes, tentatively waded the shallows of old age assistance and actually made no declarations oi a positive character that will either beach or submerge any voter of Utah. Clifton Kerr, from Tremonton and Ward Ilolbrook the quietly intent senator from Davis had the fiieworks of an intended blow up of the liquor commission stol en from them by Governor Maw's reiease of an attorney general's oninion that every, or almost every, law on the books had been bcr.t if not busted by wholesale sales of intoxicating beverages. The longitudinous Adams of Pie.nsr.nt Grove chairmaned a bouse lioi'or committee with Kerr as ranking republican. Senator HolbrooV chairmaned a less regular re-gular but more pugnacious anti. . commission clique in the senate. Both wanted to and did vocally castigate alleged sins of he com-mission, com-mission, favoritism, omission and downright malfeasance by the! dispensers of drinking liquor, that gunfire hasn't subsided and probably pro-bably won't for another twenty days. Everybody thought when this twenty-sixth session started that the main idea was going to be to pass some laws that will provide : a better place in which, to live for the hoped-soon-to to he return ed G. I. Joes and Jennies. To date, it is regretfully reported, only two or three inconsequatiil I measures out of the 500 total of j bills put in have passed to even; let the men and women in the service know where Utah is. True there are quite a member of pro .j posal pending for post war plm nirig and the hoped for construe-J tion derived therefrom that will furnish the hoped for employment ' But at the end of the two-thirds mark of this session, none of them .have been put in law. Of course, if the legislature de-cides de-cides to get at all of the business, they can make some mishty worthwile determinations. But so far as the record now shows the possibilities have far outdistance ed accomplishment. |