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Show THE CITIZEN the trip to California in a special car. True, it was the car of a friend, but that car was an advertisement of the extravagance of his made to the public are no less clear than those to their client. It cannot well be expected that laymen will respect the law if lawyers defy it. ' class. MUST WAGE WAR J. Ogden Armour recently had a tilt with the Builders and Traders exchange, the members of which had voted to send him a pair of shoes because h? had stated that, owing to the high price of shoes, he was having his old footwear merited ironic The builders thought the cant of the pork-baklaughter and the packer, seeing thq mote in his neighbor's eye more clearly than the beam in his own, derided the profiteering builders and wittly remarked that they could easily afford, out of the ricli-.neof their extortion, to send him an entire wardrobe. An honest desire to set a good example of frugality and of the need of conservation will not express itself in such a fantastic guise. The American people are too intelligent to be deceived by such petty camouflage. They expect their millionaires to be spenders, especially if the spending provides work and wages. On the other hand, the rich can set an example of wise restraint. They should avoid riotous living. They should employ their money in production and not in dissipation. As a matter of fact, the rich are less inclined to ostentation than ball they were fifteen or twenty years ago. The Bradley-Marti- n and the orgies of Hazen Hyde are still an offensive memory of wastefulness. We have many more millionaires than we had in those days, but. the years have brought discretion. The 17,000 new millionaires produced during the war are conducting themselves reasonably, although here and there we see an example of asaninity. For the most part these millionaires are busy men and are employing their surplus wealth in the expansion of industry. Some of the veteran millionaires are not showing much sense. g If they think they can fool the public by this pitiful cant about shoes and living on a doughnut and a frankfurter a day they have made an underestimate of the peoples intelligence which can lead only to irritation and the growth of class feeling. half-sole- d. er ss . A SMOOT has had printed in the Congressional Record SENATOR cable of May 10 to his secretary. Referring to the proposed alliance with France, Mr. Wilson said : I have promised to propose to the Senate a supplement in which we shall agree, subject to the approval of the council of the League of Nations, to come immediately to the assistance of France in case of unprovoked attack by Germany, thus merely hastening the action of which we should be bound by the covenant of the League of Nations. Senator Smoots action was a lesson to those friends of the league who have insisted that Article 10 does not carry an obligation to go to war when one of the member nations is attacked. They have argued that the league council could merely issue advice when such a situ- ation presented itself, but the President clearly indicates the real obligation of the covenant. The Tokio government says the giving back of Shantung to China depends upon the attitude of China. We know the attitude Hands up. The Germans have established a new high command. commands come high but the Germans must have them. island if that half-solin- Evidently Joshua didnt use Being .unable j as distinguished from those void from want of jurisdiction, said Judge Stephens, can with impunity be disobeyed, then the judgment and desire of individuals are set above the law, and the line between organized government and anarchy has at one step been crossed. In a crisis of social unrest when the owners of property and administrators of large interests are crying out upon anarchy it is fitting that they should be foremost in setting a proper example of obedience to the law. If they invoke tlie law and extol it only when it affords them protection and flout it when it interferes with their selfish and sometimes illegal interests they are making high explosive ammunition for the. destroyers and despoilers of society. With perfect justice the court imposed on the attorneys a heavier penalty than that which he imposed on their client. While it is the plain duty of all to lend obedience to the courts, it is, because of their superior learning in the law and their consequent appreciation of the importance of obedience, and because of the example set, a particularly plain duty in the case of members of the bar, says the court. They are more culpable in disobedience, or in advising disobedience, than laymen. Their duties to the law and to make the sun stand still. secure j any of the Government J to Motor Truck we will continue to deliver King Coal in Blue Trucks and Blue Wagons. courts. If orders merely erroneous and improvident, a-vet- o It must be a big We know actors who have been causing walkouts for years. Lniiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii' ANARCHY IN HIGH PLACES a banker and his two lawyers for contempt of court BY finingthey refused to open a safety deposit box or permit it to be opened, Judge Harold M. Stephens of the Third district court, has taught a salutary and edifying lesson at a time when agitators are eager to demonstrate that the powerful may defy the law with impunity. Had Cashier Beebe of the Zions Savings & Trust Company and Lawyers D. H. Thomas and Ashby Snow, upon whose advice he acted in blocking the court order, been permitted to escape punishment our local I. W. 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