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Show THE 12 C UIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIUII I For Whether they are or not it is fairly certain that majority sentiment will melt away when it comes to enforce- Home-Mad- e And Bootleg Cigarettes One more unenforceable law has been added to our statutes. The anti- ment cigarette law will probably go the way of the law 'already on the books. We have a law forbidding tlio sale of cigarettes to minors that never has been people renew thei enforced. Sporadic attempts at en- forcement have served to emphasize the fact that the law was futile despit e the public sentiment back of it. If a law with public sentiment supporting it cannot be enforced what chance is there of enforcing a law' which will not have public sentiment enlisted for its enforcement. . We must darw a distinction between the public sentiment that favors enactment of a law and public sentiment which facor s enforcement. The thousands of signatures attached to petitions of school children are a negligi, ble quantity when it comes to forcement. So, too, is much of the adult approbation of the measure; for many will advocate a law which they will ignore when its enforcement is asked of them. en- It is hardly an exaggeration to say that those who will be called upon to enforce the law are the smokers. Not the children and not the church folk will see to it that the law is upheld. And the smokers will see to it in a -- We shall now have bootleg whiskey and bootleg tobacco; and unless the r allegiance to indi- vidual liberty every legislature will increase the number of lawbreakers by increasing the number of laws which even respectable people will break whenever opportunity and their wishes concur. Thousands of respectable people throughout our state have become brewers and distillers. Many of them go to church of a Sunday after locking the cellar door. shall have not only bootleg but home-madcigarettes. Having never successfully rolled a cigarette in our experimental youth we realize that it is a delicate feat, but with the inspira- tion and compulsion of a law goading the young to we fancy that thousands of our youths will become experts in the art of cigarette rolling. Many of them with homebrew' in one hand and cigarette in the other will laugh hideous defiance at legislators and their laws. Wre e i . law-breakin- g We trust that we are mistaken in our irritating prophecies. We hope that boys and girls and their elders will lay aside the coffin nails and abide strictly by the dictates of the law, but our theory is that excessive poor sort of way and only when' they are forced to action by the fact that they are officers of .the law. From the ranks to the zealots who favor blue laws we shall have some spies and spouters and also well meaning folk interference with individual liberty increases that which it seeks to prevent. who will be consistent in their efforts to keep cigarettes from children. Legislature s Challenge Should Be Accepted Too many members of the legislature were constrained by their ecclesiastical calling to go on record" in o favor of legislation. The anti-tobacc- record was not at large as for the watchful church probably people. Moreover, there were a few legislators who wanted to have it said that iZon was not lagging behind other states in respect of reform legislation. And the record having been made these pious patiiots will not worry much about enforceso much for the voters ment Had the legislators been free from these peculiar forms of compulsion it is likely that they would have passed the law which licensed the use of tobacco and provided proper regulation. Those who say that the majority sentiment in Utah favors the measure that was passed probably are in error. publican, now a Democrat and at odd to dupe some one times in who believed that city government is desirable. "The bill will put the city government squarely back into politics," said Senator George Dem when the commission act was being discussed. How fantastic it is in this, our America, to denounce politics in government or government in politics! How absurd it is to say that party government is good for the nation and state, but bad for cities. n non-partisansh- fiiiimiiiHimiiiiiiHWMwwimiiHiuiiiiMiiiiiiiiimuiiiiinmiuiiiiimniiiiiiiiHiiiiiHiiiiiiiuuiuiiiiimiiiiiuiiiiuMiiiimiiiiHiiiiiiiMiiiiiHiuiiiiiuiiMiiiHiiHiiimiimHuuiiii Now m ITIZEN non-partisa- OBSERVATION PLANE m The legislature has challenged the people of Salt Lake to get along writh the commission form of government as best they may and the challenge should be accepted. If we are not to have a form of government that admits of responsibility at every election we can, at least, prepare to enforce some sort of responsibility in the next city election. We can mark for defeat commissioners who have been responsible for the present orgy of waste and extravagance and who have used the government for their personal gain. The people of Salt Lake should begin now to make up their minds about the next municipal election, to look forward to the political extinction of those professional office seekers, who, instead of being responsible to a single party, pretends to be now a Re- - ip know conclusion of the dra can one guess the conclusi one does not even know the But we know that spring again in Germany as well as Wasatch or in Manchuria; sun. shines for all and that world will not tumble out of t into perpetual night. We do not know whither going, but, after all is said and to be going is a wondrous booi have our part in the play and our best, whether. with sword or bells, is that which is expeX- y us by the Infinite Dramatist. God is in His heaven; all iil. with the world. - If You Have Optimism Prepare To Use It If all the worlds a stage and all the men and women merely players then the Playwright is God Himself. Every hour of every day men and women and nations, too, eneact the roles committed to them by the lines the Almighty hath writ. And always it is a mystery play with the riddle almost solved at times, only to be succeeded by other riddles. That is why, with all our experience, we are so poor at prophecy. We act the lines; we do not write them. When the armistice was signed some of our wiseacres said The world will never be the same again." But the world is always the same and will be the same so long as man is man. Neither radium nor the conquest of the air has changed human nature, and until the end men will go on loving, hating, fearing, hoping and making war. Only the means and the weapons will be new. The ace who rides the clouds does not look like the man of yester-year- , but he is his fathers son. Only the Pegasus he guides along the pathway of the stars is new. The nations are at war again. Peace, despite the League of Nations, is not with us. The play begins again and we wonder what the Infinite Playwright has written for Focli, Dr. Simons, Lloyd George, Briand, CONTENTMENT. Uo Tbhi I am contented with my lot, tai No envy fills my soul; I do not pine, and plan, and pi For plutocrats control! I would not in a mansion dwell Nor even in a flat; My suite is at a good hotel frc :ic Gc US "vl Im satisfied with that! T ri i i This summer Narragansett Pier I find sufficient way; A trip abroad each other yea- rEach year is 'too outre! One motor meets my evry need; I scoff at two or three! Oh, discontented folks who read. -Be satisfied, like me! a 1 We play the parts assigned us, comic or tragic, brilliant or stupid, for a few months or years, and then turn our cap and bells and our swords over to the new generation. And they will know as little as we t SURE SIGN. If a man can operate a cash is ter with sore fingers and never! the pain he is the proprietor o!' place. Toledo Blade. - ' S o I.& t i Lenine, Trotzky and all the rest of us. The allies stepped lightly across the Rhine and into Germany as if theyx wrere going on a picnic. There was no opposition; hardly could one scent tragedy in the air. But who can doubt that the years will teem with tragedy. Not one general, not one private in the ranks can see a day ahead. Mankind is on his way of adventure toward an ever receding goal. 4 . Bread is the one food that afl the people want all .the time. Plain and nutritious substan- i tial and nourishing. 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