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Phone Wasatch 5409. 8alt Lake City, Utah. 311-12-- 13 EXTRA SESSION IS THREA TENED B Y ERRORS OF SOLONS - $.'t purveyors of pessimism and general mournfulness who say there is dire peril of an extra session of the late lamentable Fourteenth legislature. .Are not these times distressful enough without the aiding and abetting of prophets of unpleasantness who gracefully drape swords of Damocles over our heads? We had hoped that the members of the Fourteenth had gone where solons cease from bungling and haranguers take their rest; but in the midst of spring dreams come voices that warn us of lawmakers returning to their scenes of havoc. We depend, of course, on newspaper accounts; for naturally no word of such a painful import is to be uttered above a whisper in the And now we. have governors office. Fourteenth has bungled in such fearful fashion as is reported perhaps it will be known as the Fumbling Fourteenth or the Funny Fourteenth or the Fatheaded Fourteenth. You may choose your own epithets. We supply a few just by way of relieving our readers of inventing their own in a stress too big for words. If the A special session, if called, will not be to deal with a new war or with a portentious crisis suddenly arisen. It will be simply, solely for the purpose of trying to make bungled laws legal. It seems that the. solons poured their law into sieves instead of into and sinfully sacred and secure vessels. The law appears to have run out like precious liquor from a broken flask on a railroad train with the crowd sniffing and a prohibition officer concealed behind a smoke screen. A measure which was designed by its framer to remedy the defects of the workmens compensation law is said to be so defective itself that the industrial commission does not know what to do with it. The attorney general will be asked to probe into the flaws and see whether any of the laws will survive the test. But that is not all. Several other measures are in the same evil plight as the workmens compensation amendment. The budget bill period ending April 1, 1923, making appropriations for the two-yeis said to be fatally defective and the automobile license bill has an omission as to the date of the bills taking effect. To our horror and to the horror of the state it is suggested that an extra session be called if the attorney general holds that the measures are nullified by the errors. What a spectacle it would be if the legislators were reconvened to do their work over again. What a disgrace to the state if the only work assigned for the special sessions should be the rectification of errors. It is amazing that no one discovered the errors until after, the legislature adjourned. ar WORLD WAR CLOUDS LOOM ON WORLD WAR-WEAR- Y Premier Briands jocular remark that the United States, in for- warded the German proposals, would doubtless make itself responsible for their execution, was the gentle satire of a friend who wishes suggestion without giving offense. more Why should Germany' treat the United States with any respect than it has treated the allies? If Germany dallies with the allies, why will she not dally with us after we have employed our friendly offices to forward new' terms for the payment of reparations? for Germany has been talking about reparations and restorations two years and is no nearer settlement, perhaps no nearer a serious intention of settling, than on May 1, 1919. Each crisis brought some new evasion on her to the United States part. May not the appeal be simply to net as an intermediary, or rather, a messenger boy, anmlier ruse for delay? . he pleasantly That probably is the view taken by Briand when to convey a solemn i ..vA suggests-tha- t we stand sponsor for Germanys good faith in her latest maneuver. Well may be ask ourselves what magic there is in acting as Germanys messenger? Surely the Germans expect but one thing that the United States will obtain a decided diminution of the reparations demand and more lenient terms of payment. As soon as we transmit the German demand we put ourselves in the position of inviting the allies to suggest with their customary readiness that we, too, submit to sacrifices. There is, for example, that matter of $10,000,000,000 which we loaned the allies and which, If with the unpaid interest, amounts now to nearly $11,000,000,000. there is to be a scaling down of reparations why not a scaling down of loans? If we had to argue the question with Great Britain alone we |