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Show i UTAH STATESMAN Editorial Comment - Educational - Liberty That ends - Contributions it Commissioner Dahlquist says he wont be a party Ita governing. . We( who had no part In procuring to such a suit Of course it takes two parties to a suit to make a our inheritance may, like rich men's suit and if Commissioner Dahlquist refuses to be a party to it," sons, valne It lightly. If wo do so we lay ourselves open to the criticism then that ends (Endorsed by the Democratic State Central Committee) which we hear frequently, that women are uninformed, that they vote Maybe. without reason, and are swayed by A Democratic state newspaper, published every Saturday at Salt Sooner or later some aviator will A popular none composer la a youns emotion and prejudice. This .however, Lake City, Utah, devoted to progressive ideas and to promotion of double-crosIs Just ns often true of men as of the ocean. Arkansas whose host of Imitators died women. It Is not necessary to bo seekthe progress and prosperity of the state and party. fore he eras born. Detroit News. ing nominations, Jobs or recognition This Is truly a mechanical age. Disarmament Is Uke a social Office Boom 111 Atlas Block, public officials are frequently tlon. Nobody wanta to arrive until with men to be good dtlsens.- As we machine made. Florence (Ala.) Her every one la there. St. Paul Pioneer see It, the greatest task before women today is that of educating themaid. Salt Lake City, Utah Press. selves and their children politically. FREDERICK L. BAQBT, Editor C. 8. GODDARD, Business Manager Ihr Utah gtatrsman 1 it s Gs-ma- n bs-M- e. func-Eve- n - Justice tain what lie or she may turn out to be. Haa it ever occurred to you that whatever else they may be they are dead aura to be voters? That Is one kind of knowledge they will Inevitably need, and yet It la apparently the laat thing fathers and mothers think of when they plan their chlldme'a edu, cation. INDIVIDUAL VOTERS. When we make speeches on Important occasions, and we say that thia country needs an "enlightened electorate," an active electorate, a "patriotic electorate," It would be a good Idea to spend more time In studying how ths electorate la going to be made all these fine things. We need to think more In terms ot Individual voters, of ourselves, our neighbors, our boys and girls. Our ebneera should A matron of tbs most determined be with practicable ways In which votcharacter was encountered by a young ers can be brought into realistic touch women reporter on a country paper with public questions, and trained In wbo was sent out to Interview lead- habits of Independent and responsible ing cltlxens as to their politics! May thinking. I see Mr. Blank," she asked a g Tbe League of Women Voters was woman who opened the door forced to face thia question when it at one house. created by the etaoln No, you can't." answered the mat- organised to meet the opportunity ron decisively. created by the Nineteenth amendment the advent of over twenty million "But I want to know what party he voters Into the electorate. At first we belongs to, pleaded the girl The woman drew up her tall figure, thought only of the needs of these new "well, take a good look at me, abe voters, their helplessness, their greensaid. "Im ths party he belongs to. ness, but as time went on, we began - WOMAN VOTERS Entered as Second Class Matter. July IS. 182J. at tbe Poetofflce at Salt Jake City, Utah, under the act of March S. 1879. Sponsored by the Salt Lake Womens Democratic Club Edited by ADVERTISING RATES Per Column Inch $1.00 stern-lookin- Mrs. D. M. LEGAL NOTICES Notice of Assessment, 5 times-Delinquent Notices, per column inch. Probate Notices. 2 times. Notice to Creditors, 4 times. Summons, 5 times Know the Truth $5.00 .50 3.00 4.00 5.00 L In a recent issue the "Citizen" takes occasion to criticize Governor Dern for inconsistency In preaching nonpartisan politics and r.t the esr e time making none but Democratic appointments. They sum up by taping, So far all hia appointments have been re- Phone Wasatch 852 REFUGE OF COWARDS Since the day when Adam blamed "the woman thou gavest me," for his transgression, cowardly men have been prone to hide behind the womans skirts when trapped in their own wrong-goinIt is the refuge of cowards. And, when such men, in their cringing weakness, seek to lift themselves from a slough of slime by dragging womans reputation into the mire, it ia cowardice of the most despicable sort. When the three county commissioners of Salt Lake county caught in a charnel house of scandal, seek to alibi their acts by blackening the reputations of their accusers, they are but casting forth the boomerang that will return with double condemnation upon themg. selves. The worse the place been there. the greater the reason they should not have there. Then WHY DID TIIEY GO THEBE! If the place is what they say it is ; If the people are what they say they are WHY DID THEY GO THERE! Dare the commissioners give the public a truthful answer to this question! The Statesman believes that common decency and public demands an immediate, thorough and impartial investigation of this pestilential mesa. If these commissioners are guilty of the things charged they are not fit to continue iu office another day and should be removed. If they are not guilty they are entitled to have their names cleared. Delay is a challenge to decency. self-respe- ct PASS IT AROUND As told m last weeks Utah Statesman, disclosure that certain employees have, for four or five months past been drawing handsome cheeks for "overtime" work, reveals bad practice, to say the least. Assuming that the press of business required it, it would have been far better to hire additional help in the daytime to handle the work in the offices of the county treasurer and assessor. By hiring extra help instead of permitting certain employees illegally to draw extra pay, prosperity, of which there is none too much on hand under the present Republican administration, would have been passed around to a lot of individuals who needed a little of it. If the men who drew overtime pay in the treasurers and assessors offices did the work and we have no doubt they did fhey were morally entitled to be paid for it. Yet, the procedure was and is, illegal. This being true, the heads of those departments are subject to criticism for not giving others who needed work a chance to make a few dollars, rather than to fatten the pay checks of those who would have drawn a fair stipend anyway. After providing themselves with a new $10,000 suit apiece, the Salt Lake county Dads should feel sufficiently dressed up to attend any kind of a party. "I cruits from the Democratic piny." Nothing could be farther from the truth than this last statement, as any. one who ia Interested enough to check this matter will find. If there has been any criticism of the governor by his own party, It haa been because ot the very fact that he may have been e little too broad minded In tbla matter. A comparison of the poMcies of the two parties In Utah concerning appointments Is particularly appropriate at this time. What ia the cause of the present deterioration of the Salt Lake county organisation, If It la not the fact that the Republicans have placed Into positions men who were totally unfit for the places merely because of their loyalty to their own party and especially the much discussed organisation within their party, the Order of Sevens? The record of the Democratic party la exactly the opposite. For years they supported such Republicans as A. C. Nelson and Dr. E. G. Gowans for the office ot Superintendent of Public Instruction, and it was their efforts in this direction which crystallized the present nonpartisan sentiment with regard the cbool system. When a vacancy occurred in the supreme court, the possibility of placing on tbe bench even ao great a man as well-know- The commissioners say it was a "frame-up.- " Then the commissioners must have "framed" themselves. They went there of their own free will and accord. No one forced them to go. They had no business, either personal or official to call them SO, THERE NOW! DEPARTMENT The Party He Belonged To n Richard W. Young was waived and a Republican, Judge James E. Frick, was named instead. One of the latest appointments of Governor Dern was a Republican one, that of state fish and game commissioner. In fairness, let us have the truth. Draper 100 per rent of return to the state. What they are opposed to is the wasted dollar,' He might have mentioned one other kind of dollar had he lived In Salt Lake county.' However, we consider the governors Ideas of economy much sounder than those of the present national administration. No one wishes to curtail the extension and Improvement of education, especially in the rural districts. How many voters. considering the present use of the automobile, would wish to go back to the roads of ten years ago? Of course, as Senator Smoot suggests. If we do not spend any great amount for the Mississippi flood relief and rehabilitation of the sufferers, we may have a large treasury surplus to reduce taxes, but who wanta to hoard hia money In a stocking when he can Invest It In such humanitarian service? Tax Reduction Womens Club at Washington If Its In Print, It Must True clf-zenr- Now Ask One As a Man Thinketh a of public money when It brings An in one-hal- The Republican administration has postponed all action on tax mluction until the year or the presidential election. hoping to make great political vapltal of the question by applying the surplus In the treasury to reduction just before the csmpalgn. Senator Reed announced at tbe laat session of congress that taxes would be reduced to the amount of 8300,000,000 In the next session. It is unfortunate for their plan that President Coolldge has advised strengthening of the navy, and that public sentiment Insists on Another masculine that relief for the Mississippi states. Per- no woman wanta Is toprerogative be called "vethaps they have delayed reducing taxes eran" of anything. Arkansas Gazette. a little too long. On April 25th the Womens National Democratic club purchased a large brown brick residence on New Hampshire avenue, one of the loveliest of Since that Wsashlngtons streets. Be time the home has been beautifully furnished, and has become the meeting There Is always among ua a class place of hundreds of women who disof people who, without Investigation, cuss of Interest at luncheon or topics swallow eagerly everything In print tea. which seems to be in harmony with During the summer a series of their own political preferences. They bridge lessons an teacher are no more desirable as citizens tlrn have been givenby for expert the benefit of those who will have nothing to do the club, the being turned with politics because they cannot be- into a fund for proceeds the purpose of beautilieve anything they hear or read, dis- fying tbe grounds and making exterior missing It as "campaign talk. A very Improvements. Bridge teas have also light amount of Inquiry and Investiga- been st which the fine points tion will usually bring to light the real of the given game have been explained, and facts In the case. later Illustrated and taught at the The remedy for thia state or strain tables.. Is to take enough interest to find ont During the present month the dab Just what ia and what la not true, Is conducting a summer training and inthe mean time to adopt the school in organization for wohabit of being truthful and requiring men, and political students representing Wothe truth from our children. It la only men's Democratic dubs are being enby beginning some time at the source tertained yin rooms at the clubhouse that we may expert to develop a y free of and given free enrollwith a conscience. Systems of ment in charge the school. The courses ofaudits and may catch the fered Include: crooks and prison bars may confine 1. Permanent club organization. them, but without a public sentlme-- n 2. Campaign machinery. for honesty, new schemes for illeg.i.! 3. Political parties, ours and oth- personal enrichment arise from th ers. ashes of the old. and no progress Is 4. The federal government In made. The children of today are the tlon. office holders of tomorrow. Are thev 4. speaking. developing the ouaililes which mshe honest, dependable citizens? The time You to reform a criminal Is before he , one. The politicians are still trying tc puzzle out what President Coolldge meant by the word "choose. He might have said, "I do not want. Intend, proThe most valid criticism of wo- pose, expect, plan, hope, or desire tc men Is that they will sit and absorb run for president In 1928." Why did endless information which drops Into he choose that word? a vacuum. They are eager to hear both sides of a question and thn afraid to taka action." Frank R. Kent In The Woman Citizen. refuse to be a party to it." Pooh, Pooh, just like that Commissioner Reuben T. Dahlquist "dismisses" the- - $10,000 suits filed against himself and his fellow Economy a la Smith commissioners, W. IL Stenacker and Rulon II. Labrum by three In hia recent report to the people of women who charge the commissioners with attacking them during a hia state. Governor A1 Smith said. "The people are not against expend!-ture"boose party at the home of one of the women. to think less about the "first aid that women voters needed, and more Experiment about what kind of voters they were going to make. Brotherhood All this necessitated setting up At Lausane, Switzerland, there Is now In session, a conference which standards. What la a good voter? f of the Chris- What Is the Ideal for a woman voter? represents about tians of the world. The Roman Catho- Ia It in any way different from the Ideal for a man voter? What la to lic church declined to participate. be the characteristic contribution of These workers hope by free discus- women to the electorate? sion to corns to soma sort of agreement on certain doctrines and church MADE DISCOVERY. At this point we made ths surprisprocedure. This Is a very difficult task when one considers how fart ing discovery that we had to convince average man and woman that eduapart the churches are In these mat- the ters. The conference can make no cation for citizenship waa necessary laws nor has. it any power of en- at all; and, mors than that, that It waa forcement. When they dismiss they possible. The public waa familiar with hope to have a better understanding the Ides of school education In what of each other and a greater respect was called "clvica," but the thought of training adults specifically for the Job for opposing views. Some hope for success In this re- of voting, the conception of voters banding themselves together for self spect Is Inspired by a similar experi- education and continuous ment now three years old In Csniuis. In citizenahip thia was an absowhere three churches, the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregational, lutely new thing In democracy. Starthave formed what Is known is the ing quite modestly to meet what seemed to us an obvious need, the United Church of Canada. In the three years of the Union denomina- League of Women Voters finds It has tional lines have vanished and differ- been hewing out a new path, that It a pioneer working out a new method ence! of creed are negligible. Agree- la ment has been achieved on essentials, in democracy, a new field for adult minor points being left to individual education. interpretation. We Have the Vote. Now What? To the women of Utah suffrage The pioneer women easily. marched, tolled and planned with the men In building a commonwealth and It la not peculiar that they should have been consulted with regard to came A School of Adults That the league of women vaters Is a planeer working oue a new method In the woman citizen for August Mias Ludlngton says In part "After casting about for a retoon as to why our democracy la working badly , It la easy to blame those elemenfa In our population with whitch we are least familar, whose ways are string to us, who do not think and act along the lines that aeem natural and safe to ns. So ws use expressions Uke "the ignorant vote," the controlled vote, the dangerous vote, and we are apt to Identify all of these with the vote." Of course no one will deny that Ignorant voters are a danger. They are more prone to blunder, more apt to be swayed by charlatans, more open to crued propaganda. These seems to be just one point on which the alarmists agree, and that Is that the dangerous voter is always somebody else, never ourselves. WE are safe, intelligent, sane. I submit a proposition for you to think owr. It Is this: the most dangerous vote In this country Is our vote if we dont use It! If the really good, patriotic, dependable people' Uke ourselves stay at home or play golf on election day, we can have no control whatever over the results of an election, and we cannot complain If things do not go to please us. We leave the field to those elements of which for-elg- n ne CHILD NOT WARD OF COURT SAYS FRED R. MORGAN Denying that the juvenile court was responsible for sending Glenn Raymond Kraus to the Florence Atkinson home, Judge Fred R. Morgan haa asked The Stateman to publish his denial. As told In recent stories In The Statesman, the Kraus youngster, 2tf years old. Is alleged by his relatives to have been terribly beaten during a five weeks' stay st that Institution. It la also alleged that the Juvenile court declined to Investigate the matter. According to Judge Morgan, Glenn Kraus Is not a ward of ths Juvenile court, and the county charity department, of which Commissioner W. H. Stenacker Is the head, was respon slble for sending him to the home. Although the question of who committed Glenn to the home Is a very minor one, The Statesman la glad to make a correction. The important things In connection with the story of this little child are, not who sent him there, but was he beaten? Wbo beat him? Why did not Judge Morgan Investigate the alleged beating? Sevens City Plans Ruthlessly Upset Plana of the Sevens to grab the city election this rail and put three good Sevens on the rommistlon and thus run the city like they have been runwe are most afraid. ning the county, have been ruthlessly GREAT EXPERIMENT. We have set up. here In the United upset through the recent exposures of and theft on the part of States, s remarkable experiment In corruption Sevens who are or have been In ofrepresentative government The best fice. brains of the past and present have There la a very definite movement been expended on making the system on foot among citizens who are tick perfect and on getting the best men of the present mesa to draft some b'g to administer It But recently there men who are known to have no politihave been signs that ws are dimly cal gang strings on them and elect recognizing a third factor in the situa- them to office thia fall. tion. We are realizing the part that must.be played by the electorate, from whom all power derives, and Sevens Are Wearing whom In the last analysis all ques-by Worried Expression tions are settled. And yet, curiously nough, la educating the Inhabitants of thia country, the last consideration Leaders of the Secret Sevens are seems to have been that these Inhabwearing worried expressions since the itants are voters, whatever else they expose of the little Follies or 1927" moy be. after twenty-one- . sre on the part of the county commissionvoters If they are naturalizedthey citizens ers, the defalcations of Judd. Groea-bec- k and not In prison. tnd Johnson. Yon puzzle and ponder how to direct As one man expressed it, "They've or your boy's your girls education got six of the Seven already," and whether to train him or her as a both the Sevena and the public are teacher, business man. a minister, s wondering when "they're going to get a lawyer, you are uncer the seventh." home-make- r . |