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Show 1 THE CITIZEN should be allowed, and has become so popular, especially in our - em society. This can best be explained because of the innocent of the game, and the great desire to gamble. ion ;"! fortunes are w;on and lost in a nights play, and there is always bought that one will win back in the next game what has been )ur and ?) on the innocent plunger is headed straight for a precipice tion ruination. h spr-le fe rAES phe :'!ounge lizzard who hangs on the skirts of society is now ng in lo his own with this Chinese game and he has some excuse j? lis existence and a future easy life. The game here is young yet but in the course of one or two more 11 begin reaping the harvest of the seed we arc now ears we jfljng, and according to the experience of China, it will prove a U. S. A pof crop for the ap-in- AID YOUR POLICE. f ly u Hadley who drove his automobile into a crowd of people school who were about to get on a street car, th pi the West high He probably knows of some speed demons, who d j. dies not guilty. are not Prosecute( an(l be probably figures that ier n e jTWgh t should not be the goat. It is said that he had been drinking. llVl glow long is it going to be before our judges make a real example Furthermore it ought to be a felony for in f these speed demons? pull to interfere with the law. Support yuan with the car e J. G. jf . so-call- ed departments and put the speed demons behind the bars jd take their license to drive cars in the state from them. police on ier tjj f the i 1 commissioner of nagitation estimates that 3,500,000 tons of hoard vessels are cruising around their anchors and 500,000 at American ships are tied up. This means that ar, jarof privately owned rj.. jout one out of every seven of the privately owned vessels are idle, cen shipping board are idle, while in Great Britain ke; J leii is but one idle ship out of every 25. Our freight bills to England re very high. Why not cut the anchors and set the vessels afloat in le trade ? Are European lobbyists at Washington keeping our ships edjup? Who will tell the public? jThe j fib Senator Fall had a winning way. To get money without security However, he could not keep under cover. Had he co; asjhis hobby. Mne to Utah and investigated the methods of the coal and gasoline he could have run a race with Henry Ford in getting the ma-.runa. Then also we have a $20,000 city commission smoke screen which things can be done in safety and without the public e dujid ettmg next. ojjji u, I j:; 1 Former Director Forbes of the Veterans bureau is now taking is turn at a hearing. A few more investigations at Washington will j. estdt in a forced postponement of the presidential election four ears hence. Better clear up this mess now, even at the cost of an election. At the present going, the Republicans and Eingwill not have time for any constructive legislation, especially J insurgents in the saddle dictating the policy of the gov- ntfi a1' j fire the people of Utah willing to allow the $100 per acre land in Strawberry valley to be sold to a few selected for the trifling sum inf An awful howl went up when the B. Y. U. of Provo wanted j; is ICQ acres in Provo canyon. The grab in the Strawberry ie jju acre', which would give 1,000 people a good sized farm. V ho sjUled this deal and who is putting it over? as e;. fJ-25- nia df het c c Mil BILLBOARD REGULATION. ce s reTO 5 ? Repres.ntative E. O. Leatherwood of Utah has blocked Califor ?iln trymg to secure the passage of a bill controlling the upper fyado 1m sin. Before any action is taken by congress upon this ect' M Leatherwood emphatically insists that all Utah rights Leath-R&o- d fudy protected and the people of Utah aic behind Air. in his fight for our state rights. The current controversy over the power to regulate the erection and display of billboards along the public highways is invested with a certain piquant emphasis by the fact that Massachusetts is being looked to by other and far distant peoples as an exemplar in the case;. notably in France, despite the supposition of Laurence Sterne that They order this matter better there. The peasants and innkeepers of Normandy and the Basques, fragments of forgotten peoples, on the slopes of the Pyrenees, object to having their picturesque scenery, beloved of artists and tourists, disfigured with hideous advertising signs, and they have caused their senators at Paris to introduce a measure providing the desired protection; in urging the enactment of which the example of Massachusetts is often cited. There will be those who will hold that at any rate we must take no backward step from the position thus imputed to us, but rather must make good and live up to our i i i reputation. There must indeed be general agreement, save, of course, by those sordidly interested in the very abuse which it is sought to abate, that the public is entitled to protection from offenses to the eye. The senses must be respected. It would be intolerable to flavor our drinking water with something which, while quite innocuous to health, gave it an unpleasant taste. Unnecessary noises which distress the ear and rack the nerves, and odors which sicken the sense of smell, are rightly regarded as nuisances. No less objectionable are unnecessary structures or displays which obstruct the vision and offend the sight. Nor are such things to be condemned only in places of exceptional beauty or grandeur or along what are regarded as scenic highways. In such places prohibition of defacement is obviously imperative. But the senses and tastes have equal right to protection elsewhere. The public travelling along even the least picturesque and most commonplace roads, and the people dwelling in places quite devoid of scenic distinction, are entitled to exemption from all things that would unnecessarily affront them or annoy them. A community whose seat .amid scenery of picturesque charm is perhaps its chief asset, may well claim for that priceless possession protection against impairment. But one lacking such natural endowment may as legitimately claim the right to make the best of its meagre resources of scenry and not have the needlessly de- j i i spoiled. Whether such regulation be a state or a local function is a question proper for debate. From one point of view, the whole state is interested in the scenry of every part of it. Certainly it seems to be logical for the state to have authority over the steadily increasing extent of state roads, for their adornment and for their protection from disfigurement. Obviously, too, it is highly desirable to have uniformity of practice throughout the state, so that travelers will not find one town free from and the next town cursed with billboard abominations. Nor is it to be overlooked that only through state control can the people at the margin of one town be protected against signs in the adjacent town which may be just as directly offensive to them as though they were in their own. On the other hand, it is intolerable that a town which wants to protect itself against nuisances should be unable to do so simply because the state will not take action in the matter. Probably the ideal arrangement would be for the state to have an effective law, for general application ; and then for the individual towns to have the privilege of adopting additional ordinances, increasing if they wish, but never subtracting from the stringency of the state law. Let us protect our beautiful scenery and highways by strict billboard regulation. because lie wore no socks and Jerry Simpson got into congress same high honor by tearing off his Magnus Johnson achieved the collar while delivering an address. Wont some of the other freaks reveal what stunts they had to pull off in order to get there. . i i |