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Show m S for THE CITIZEN f se d obatye that under the fostering influence of a gentlemans the be of half the population California Japanese might jnistra;recment ty years from now. ie JaPanese are a great people. They are energetic, indus-- j city W" one-side- frugal beyond the understanding of our people; they are conquering, domineering, despotic, e wind :They demand equal rights, but wherever they go they assert Even among yellow races they do not assimilate. They tjle pij.astery. themselves aloof as masters. In California they assert a con- s affo aled but nevertheless assured despotism. Virtually all of the younger men belong to the Japanese army. wor-Ai- p , iicy maintain an unfaltering allegiance to an emperor they as divine and they sustain among themselves a disciplined sys-which makes them, wherever they are dominant, not merely of their white neighbors. d A e elua ut economically the superior The people of the east do not understand the situation. They toils', p, m H get in nissioE ifore, 3 has imagine that the Japanese are a meek, downtrodden race in California. In point of truth, the whites, in many districts, feel that they are downtrodden. At all events they have not been able to hold their ground against the Japanese and have practically quit the field. The Japanese army triumphs because it is a unit. Nowhere in the world is there a pleasanter or a higher civiliza- tion than in California. There the people of the white race have made for themselves a paradise. With the aid of all those comforts which modern invention has supplied they have established a standard of living which is a forecast of a golden era. From all the continents and the isles of the seas the pilots of the purple twilight are dropping down with costly bales. And there the American is creating an elysium where his kind may find respite from the rigors of less favored climates, surcease from the cares of industry in regions where livelihoods are gained only by sterner toil, rest for weary minds and and many joys. drooping bodies a land pf a light-heartedne- ss SMOKE? HERE IS A NEW THEORY ; collet act vr : ft ft t Witness the following: Iget j Editor The Citizen: You may think that your article on the igarette as the Symbol of Liberty is smart, but when the girls in roved ur state university smoke cigarettes as a symbol of liberty it is reveiime,to pass laws against a weed that is worse than poison. I suppose noticed also that the. women teachers in our schools are accused the pz ou I hear that of the girls at the state university eficit moking. moke. Of course that must be a guess, for no one counted them, ut it probably is a pretty close guess. Everybody knows that t to cigarette smoking has increased terribly at the university and even It is all right to talk about mill: he high school girls are smoking. iberty, but we must think about morals, also. A cigarette is a jymbol of slavery slavery to a vice, and we dont propose to let .your girls go to hell in that way. Better get wise. H AKER T. BROWN, Ogden, Utah. back. . one-four- th -- We noted the charge that the teachers in our schools were addicted to the poison weed, but we also noted that the charge was denied authoritatively. Perhaps Mr. Browns information regarding the young ladies of the university is far from the truth, no: We have just as much right as Mr. Brown to make a guess and and a half smokes at we guess that not one young lady in fifty-tw- o arfthe university or anywhere else. Of course, we have not made a count and, like Mr. Brown, we prefer to be unhampered when making :(l ca guess. Exact figures always interfere with the gentle art of t ev guessing. We realize, nevertheless, that the- charge is serious and wc do lnot deny that it has much to do with morals. But we have a theory a:of our own which we take this opportunity to exploit. s Mind you, wc are not admitting the charge made against the admis-Tirsios university girls. We believe in letting them make their own with or without advise of counsel or benefit of clergy, at Wc prefer to argue this question out, not with reference to the university, but rather with reference to smoking among women generally. Wc are I1prepared to admit that it has increased. Now for Mour theory. s The smoking of cigarettes by women is a result, not a cause. " It is a mode of expression. It tells of a disturbed state of mind. When a man drinks intoxicants to drown his sorrow, the alcohol is not the cause of the sorrow, but the result. stated our theory thus baldly wc hasten to make rcser- Having tin various. A man would need the courage of a company of the Blue Devils of France to make the charge wc have made without setting line of charge. This we do a white flag somewhere along-thup lor herewith formally and anxiously. )a.( .Among men the smoking of cigarettes is not a sign of vice, but ;id:r - ns : : 1 e it may be among women. In fact, cigarettes have long been a symbol of vice among women. Does that mean that the increase of cigarette smoking indicates an increase of vice among women? We hasten to distinguish. In large measure the smoking of cigarettes among women is a fad, but the fad has led to addiction. There is something about .the cigarette which,1 to the woman whose spiritual nature is awry, is a symbol not only of liberty but of license. She smokes a cigarette, as some men drink, to drown sorrow. And the sorrow to which we refer is not always produced by something positive like sickness or death. It includes, to employ a word much used in the jargon of the stage, a kind of spiritual blues and this may include anything from downright immorality to mere brainstorm or cases of nerves. Some girls smoke simply because they have been invited to smoke and some cling to the habit because they enjoy it. And they are neither immoral nor viciously inclined. Some like to be daring; some think they can attain popularity in that way. Some want to be outre or Bohemian or good fellows. In fact, since smoking has become popular, girls of many kinds indulge in smoking. But the cigarette docs not produce girls of these kinds. The cigarette is the result. And if we may venture on thin ice for a moment it may be one of the results of higher education. Some of our higher education is lower than it ever has been before. Some of it teaches girls, as well as boys, that right and wrong, in the moral connotation, are simply relative terms; there is no unvarying standard of right and wrong such as a commandment sanctioned by a Supreme Being. In fact, much of our university teachings conveys the impression that the teachers consider a belief in God a sign of arrested mental development. 'flic cigarette is probably a remote result of th.at sort of teaching. When wc see the result we are horrified and want to go right into the legislature to pass laws, not against the teaching, but against the cigarette. WANT MORE TEETH IN VOLSTEAD LAW While professing to be pleased with what already has been accomplished by way of enforcing prohibition the advocates of the Volstead act in congress would add more teeth and sharpen those which have shown signs of wear. It is suggested, for example, that' the penalty for selling liquor be a jail sentence, the judge being given no option to impose a fine. Making the penalties more severe does not strike at the root of the trouble. The first eighteen months of prohibition revealed circumstances which tend to demonstrate that you cannot enforce antiliquor laws st) long as the law enforcers are the chief bootleggers. ! ( |