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Show I T H E C name of America, the ideal of those who hold fellowship with Washington and Lincoln. COMMUNICATION. ADVOSCIENCE CHRISITIAN CATES TOTAL ABSTINENCE. The Citizen: Dear Editor To correctly inform your readers as to the position Christian Scientists take towards prohibition and to denounce the propaganda now being sent out to deceive the public on this subject, I respectfully submit to them the following statement: The Citizens last issue contained an article entitled Prohibition, re- I him to degenerate physically and morally. Strong drink is unquestionably an evil, and evil (cannot be used temperately: its slightest use is abuse; hence the only temperance is total abstinence. The position held by Christian Science churches and their members was well stated by the chief executive authority of the church, the Board of Directors of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. This body on the fifteenth of April last, adopted the following resolutions and caused them to be presented to the Senate Judiciary Committee: Whereas, A' determined effort is being made by the opponents of the prohibition law of the United States to invalidate the operation of that law and to legalize again the sale of intoxicating liquors in this country, T I Z E N lar communications to Washington for consideration of the Judiciary re-establ- ish self-governme- nt, 288-28- SWEET SIXTEEN. Com- mittee during its recent hearing. Not one official declaration hostile to prohibition can be cited as coming from an authorized Christian Science church. Yours respectfully, WM. CLYDE PRICE. Christian Science Committee on Publi- cation for State of Utah. 4 Citizen ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT Electrical development in our country is best shown by the fact that Chicago, with a population of 4,000,-00- 0 and 10,000 square miles area, produces an'd uses within 10 per cent as much electrical energy as all of Great Britain, with 40,000,000 people. Samuel Insull, of Chicago, an electric authority and head of electric light and power fcompanies capitalized at $1,250,000,000, recently advised a printed from a circular sent out by the publishers of the Christian Science Watchman. This publication is not be it Resolved, By the Board of Directconducted by nor on behalf of the Mother Church, the First Church of ors of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, that Christ, Scientist, nor has it nay conas citizens and as Christian Scientists nection whatever with this organizachamber of commerce in London to we do hereby pledge our hearty suption. It is not, therefore, to be confollow methods of developing power sidered as voicing the opinion of port to the eighteenth amendment to employed in this country. the Constitution of the United States, Christian Scientists who are followIn England, a public utility corporalaw Baker to and federal enforcement the of Mary tion must go to Parliament for its ing the teachings and of founder under enacted and that amendment; Eddy, the discoverer powers, while in America it simply be it further Christian Science, and who are loyal goes to a commission that has chartChurch Mother to her Manual of the Resolved, That we denounce the er regulating and rate making powers, and endeavor to repeal that amendment, Science to her and we have abandoned efforts to or to modify, in the direction of regulate monopoly by competition. Health with Key to the Scriptures, and to her other writings. The American people are constantgreater latitude, the Volsead Act as the traffic in ly getting lower rates on electric The Christian Science Monitor, an effort to known throughout the world as an alcoholic liquor, and as a menace to current over larger areas, as a result the industrial, economic, social and of mass production. International Daily Newspaper, pubmoral welfare of the people of the lished by the Christian Science PubConnecting vast territories by longdistance transmission lines leaves no lishing Society, has for years strongly United States. While each branch church enjoys its part of our country without electric and fearlessly urged the fullest supyet with power in case of drought or casualport of the prohibition laws of our own local one accord the branch churches and ties North Carolina without rain last country. It has been voicing the opinions of Christian Scientists on this individual Christian Scientists have summer, had its industries supplied followed the action of the Board of with current brought 400 miles. subject and has maintained the posiElectric power plants of highest tion of its founder, Mary Baker Eddy, Directors. More than 850 branch churches and societies, representing capacity result in cheaper power for of Mis9 who wrote, on pages local factories and more intensified cellaneous Writings: Whatever inmany thousands of Christian Scientoxicates a man, stultifies and causes tists, and 1200 individuals sent simi- - agriculture. text-boo- k, TO Now, you dainty misses, On whose cheeks the kisses Of Spring-tim- e still linger In colors divine, Im asking you merely To tell me sincerely, Tre they out of a box Are they truly thine? Your trim little figure Some small, some bigger, Drapes most sublimely Your well fitting clothes. Your noble conformation From the crown of your head To the tip of your toes. With your natural beauty I feel it my duty To caution you here Gainst attempted deceits. There is no cosmetic Or color synthetic To compare with the natural Bloom of your cheeks. You know that a flapper Arrayed in a wrap, or Transparent gown of Improper design, Is subject to criticism, Rude, vulgar witicism. Isnt maidenly modest, Or, is she refined? With (Complexion so rosy, It sure would seem prosy To disfigure Nature With pigment or paint. Only those whore deficient, With charms insufficient, Try to be that which We know that they aint. Pray dont get conceited By being thus greeted And told of your charms By a fellow like me. If you do Ill rgret it So you better forget it And remain the sweet girls We believe you to be. W. M. Wilson. PARK BINGHAM k At Iantages Theatre Now Q MINE. After many months of scientific development work, the Park Bingham Mining company of Bingham appears to be slated for a big mine. The work for the past month has been in mineralized ground and the ofier d ore was encountered in paying quantities and the outlook for a good mine are bright. Business men who have gone to Bingham to see the mine say the owners have struck the real thing. President A. C. Christensen, who owns a large block of stock in the property, is highly elated and if ore conditions pan out as some mining men say it must, according to the appearance of the property, Christensen will be sitting pretty with no more worries as far as this life is cojj cerned. Superintendent Guy R. McKay says that an intersecting fissure has been struck in the Andy drift. From its position, its strike and dip, and its physical appearance, he is convinced |