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Show W Has Zion Forsaken the Lord? A stake Sunday School officer said to a class last Sunday that one-third of Utah's people are on the census rolls as not belonging to any church. Sixty per cent of the two-thirds belong be-long to the dominant church and of these only 16 per cent attend at-tend their meetings and live their religion. We are not among those who believe Salt Lake is one of the wickedest of cities, but we do know that there are dens of iniquity here that would shame the devil, and it is in these dens that beer and liquor undo the work of both church and school for which millions are spent. Personally we would like war to rage with sufficient fury to wipe the liduor traffic from the face of the earth May the good Lord speed the day. They can ration sugar and food and useful materials but they will not cut down the liquror supply. Would that they could raise the curtain and see the evil that is wrought and the debauchery that results from the liquor traffic, |