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Show UTAH STATESMAN Editorial Comment Liberty ihrlltah tatPBtnan (Endorsed by the Democratic State Central Committee) Educational - WOMAN VOTERS DEPARTMENT Sponsored by tbe Salt Lake Womens Democratic Club state newspaper, published every Saturday at Salt Lake City, Utah, devoted to progressive ideas and to. promotion of the progress and prosperity of the state sad party. Salt Lake City, FREDERICK L. BAOBT, Editor 0. S. OODDARD, Business Manager Seattle, tells of her "Adventures In In a very Municipal Housekeeping." spicy manner, with frequent bits of humor, abe tells of bow she came to be Interested in politics and tbe steps which led her to become mayor. "I threaten to shoot on sight, without benefit of clergy," she tastes, "anyone calling me mayoress instead of Khtlng for J J,ok!n a principle In taking that stand. Let women who go Into politics be the real thing or nothing! Let ns, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all Phasls on sex and put it on being I Public servants Again aha states, "Municipal Housekeeping! It isnt Just a figure Of speech with me, Its a creed. A city la simply a larger home. City governments. exist largely because of tbe family and the borne, and their first duty la to serve tbeae two Institutions. Mrs Landes says that her chief charge against men In politics. Is not that they are dishonest or extravagant, but that they are often Indifferent to matters which seems to her vital and sometimes she has found too much emphasis on business and too little on tbe family She does not claim that she baa accomplished any "spectacular meta- A very pretentious project on the Entered as Second Claes Matter, July IS, 1922, at the Poitofflce at Balt Lake of women In Boxelder county, part under March 1879. the of act t, City, Utah, Utah, will soon be completed with the appearance of the History of Boxelder County, a book of th!rty-fl- v trated chapters, covering a period of RATES yean from 18S1 to 1927. Each chapter of the new history will cover one phase of the countys devel Column $1.00 opment The fontlsplece will be a LEGAL NOTICES picture of The Old Fort," built In Brigham City in 1858, and la being pre-Notice of Assessment, 5 times.. $5.00 pared by Shirley C. Horsley, of .50 Delinquent Notices, per column inch. Philadelphia, a former Brigham City 3.00 Probate Notices, 2 times. boy who baa studied art The gathering of data was begun Notice to Creditors, 4 times. 4.00 in '1918 by tbe Boxelder County Cen5 times Summons, . $..oo tral committee. Daughters of the Pioand later a committee was neers, Phone Wasatch chosen to continue with the work. This consisted of Mrs Jano E. Compton, chairman ; Mrs. Fred J. Holton, secreGOV. SMITH AMD THE CONSTITUTION tary and treasurer; Mrs. J. H. well-illu- a. m2r' ADVERTISING Per Inch Fors-gre- (New York 'World.) In his address to the New York State League of Women Voters Governor Smith stated frankly his views upon the Prohibition question. lie has not advocated nullification. He has advocated enforcement c i the laws as they stand.'. But he has not renounced his citizens light to seek the mending of ihose laws; One of the fundamental rights of citizenship is the right the (of people) to organize to oppose any law or any part of the Constitution with which they are not in harmony. In all my years of public service I have taken an oath as Assembly-maaa Sheriff and four times aa Governor to sustain the Constitution of this state, and there are parts of it that I hate. But I promised to sustain it and I will sustain it. But I did not promise to give up the right to oppose the parts I did ' not like. The governor illustrates by the constitutional provisions that give 10,000 people in one part of New York state the same assembly representation that 120,000 people have in another part of the state. Can anybody, he asks, defend that denial of proper representation in a democratic government f Yet as governor he must sustain the state constitution aa it stands, even while seeking to amend it in conformity with political justice. The analogy of this example with the dry amendment and the Volstead act is clear enough though the governor does not follow his example into discussion of the proper attitude toward them of a federal executive. Ilia statement will not satisfy extremists to whom the Volstead act is a sacred fetish which it is treason to attack. It will seem reasonable to a great and body of citizens. n, a . I fast-increasi- PASSING THE BUCK ' Passing the buck doesnt protect the people, doesnt enforce the law, doesnt accomplish anything. Yet, public officials, particularly heads of law enforcement departments of government are prone to resort to this method of alibi whenever confronted with a condition of laxity or inefficiency in law enforcement. The time has come .when the buck should be passed to the garbage can and each and every law enforcement officer should get down to the serious business of seeing that his part of the law enforcement work is done, promptly, efficiently and without fear or favor. If each officer, each branch of the enforcement machinery will perform its duty faithfully and fearlessly there will be effective enforcement and crime will be enrbed. , other fellows department out the the of ahortcomings Pointing in weaknesses own. excuse the our doesnt Let each department attend faithfully to its own business and there 1 be no time to pick flaws in the other. TRUE FACTS IN CASES SUPPREST JUDGE CHARGES City Judge Morgan Alleges Leek of Aggressive Prosecution in Liquor Matters. The police Judge and the police department appear to be engaged la a lively game of passing the buck" In the matter of responsibility for the "wide-opecondition alleged by the federal prohibition director to exist In Salt Lake City. The federal officials started the ball rolling by charging that Salt Like n in the matter of City was liquor traffic and Intimated that tha city enforcement machinery wu lax In Its efforts to enforce the prohibn wide-ope- ition law. SUCH IS LIFE POP THE? m TOEB TTW City Housekeeping Every Reader a Contributor History of Boxelder County to Appear Soon. ' Immediately the commissioner of public safety came back with insinuation that the court was to blame for the situation by imposing small fines and permitting installment payment of these fines The court then countered with accusations that the police were negligent about getting the evidence and that the prosecution was prone to recommend light punishment." A merry battle of words la In progress and In the mean time the bootleggers are reported to be doing a great business in holiday wet goods. We are Inclined to believe that If the police could busy themselves arand getting the eviresting onoffenders them and the court would dence of Imposing stiff Jail adopt a system sentences on convicted offenders, regardless of recommendations of the prosecution, there would be considerable more respect for the dry law. n, compiler, and Mrs. Olive Burbank Hamson. The book has been edited by Hon. John D. Peters, who bas served the county as teacher, school legislator, superintendent, banker, probate judge, and county clerk. The present history committee which consists of Mrs. Ella M. Bingham, Mrs. Charlotte B. Reeder, and Mrs. Sarah Z. Joeephson, are financing the publication of the book. All women are active in the Boxelder County Company of the Daughters of the Pioneers, and are to be commended for the effort, which may prove to be an incentive to women in morphosis" during her eighteen months in office but she cites Improvement in regulation of dance balls reducing liquor traffic better budgeting, traffic regulation, and putting the street railway oh a paying basis. 4 . National Council of Women Hold Biennial other counties to preserve the history ' of the state. Convention. The Biennial Cpnventlon of the National Council of Women of tbe Unit- Woman Educator Speaks in Salt Lake City ed States was held In New York City, from December 5 to December ,11. This organisation, which la not to be confused with the National League Cora Wilson Stewart, nationally and of .Women Voters, which la a later and Internationally known for her development In the woman movement, achievement In the field of adult edu- ia a direct outgrowth of the great concalled by Elisabeth cation, spoke In the Assembly Hall at gress of women Salt Lake City, Utah, on December Cady 8tanton, Susan B. Anthony, and 14th Her subject was The War on Frances Willard In 1888 the first and widely Inclusive convention Illiteracy" and her appearance was large made possible by tbe Extension Divi- of, women to be held In the. United States and probably In the world. sion of the University of Utah. The story of the moonlight schools, Guests from many nations gave It an as personally told by the Inspiring International aspect. A continuing was and shortly genius In the mighty battle against Il- committee nationalformed councils of women thereafter literacy, la really an epic tale of the southland Con Wilson Stewart, the compoeed of representatives from the modest heroine of the movement. Is national organisations In each country were and the today a world leader In her fight for councilset up composed of representatives educational enlightenment Her vision first took tangible shape in the feud from the various national councils was Today the International country of the Kentucky Lills, where organised. Council Includes 28 national councils aged mountaineers, many of them pest and the National Council of Women In 79, trudged over the mountains ny tbe United States comprises 85 naa The to moonlight get little larnln. tional organisations. e Uncoln-llkrapidity with which these Two things which have hindered the men of the hills learned. to read their Bibles and to write their own letters growth of great power of the national council in the United Stales have been sounds almost like a miracle the great and growth have Strange impressions prevailed in regard to the moonlight schools. of the member societies, and the tendSome have Imagined them, to be ency in the United States of combinschools where children study and play ing men and women together in all and scamper on the green, like fairies specialised humanitarian and educational work. by the moonlight; others have supFor this reason one of tbe principal posed them to be schools where lovers discussion at the recent stroll qoute poetry and topics of was tbe probability of dls. tell the old, old story by the light of a meeting a with glorious funeral." It banding bemoon; witching others, perhaps cause these schools originated In the was found, however, that there are mountains of Kentucky, have specu- many reasons why there should still council, and for tha preslated upon their being schools where be a national council voted to continue. moonshiners, youthful and aged, are ent the The other vital questions which the Instructed in the best method ot excouncil Qonsidered was the "Outlawry from the corn, and, tracting the Juice War" and the attempt to abolish the at the same time, one so secretive as of to prevent government Interference. federal children's bureau, which was ss the result of campaigns Moonlight schools were first estab- established orlished In September, 1911. They had by some of the councils member diswere These matters ganizations. KenRowan their origin in county and frankly, after adcussed tucky. They were designed, primari- dresses openly by Dr. Valeria Parker, presily, to emancipate from Illiteracy all those enslaved in Its bondage. They dent, and Miss Grace Abbott of the was left were, also. Intended to afford an op- childrens bureau, and action to tale for member the organizations limited of education portunity to those who desired to Improve their store of individually. Dr. Parker stated her desire for the knowledge. These schools grew out of continuance of the council, and menthe only condition that can give to tioned achievements three outstanding suband Institution permanent any of council. the human stantial growth an Imperative "The council waa the first to bring need. and Mrs. Stewart Is director of the Na- women of the Jewish synagogues In a comtional Illiteracy crusade and chairman Christian churches together of the International Illiteracy commis- mon social service transcending creeds sion. In 1926 she won the Pictorial or religion," said Dr. Parker. "It also colReview $5090 award as the American waa the first to bring white and woman who made the greatest contri- oredI women together In a fraternal or. gan ration for common ends of mubution to humanity for that year. tual good. It was the first to effectively unite one inclusive fellowship Mrs.' the representatives of many causes of moral reform and social service, to make the Golden Rule their only bond 'of union and mutual respect for the In The Woman Citizen for Decern-- J others faith' and work their only ber, Bertha Knight Landes, mayor of creed. inter-nation- . over-shadowi- arm-in-ar- Landes Speaks for Herself. I - - I Mrs. D. M. Draper Our Slogan: Utah WITH OTHER plat-for- Edited by 111 Atlas Block, Boom Justice - Senator Walsh of Montana advocates a brief platform for tbe Democratic campaign of 1928 so that "every, one might be tempted to read 1LH Such EDITORS an Innovation should be a great Improvement, for frequently in late yean many voters have felt that there was GOVERNOR SMITH SPEAKS OUT. too much wood in both parties . A Democratic Office Contributions - That women In America since their enfranchisement have progressed magnificently In their understanding of the machinery of government ia perhaps no better Illustrated than by the civic activity of the Woman's City Club of Chicago In the yean since the Nineteenth amendment waa adopted, thou- sands of women throughout tbe Unit-- ! ed States have shown Intelligent Interest' In using the vote effectively an Interest backed up by just such study and 'The special gifts women have Imbrought Into government are conmensely varied Yet It might be ceded that collectively they bring one notable ability developed throughout the yean before they had the fran-chlse They have, in this, merely enlarged tha scope of a familiar activity; and In the future If they do nothing more radical In their participation In government than further to enlarge this acope, they will be doing much. For, generally speaking, women are at present busy at city housekeeping. They are found more or leas setting In order the Mg home that la their community. Overcrowded regions attract their study; unsightly and Immoral spots are swept clean; smoking Industrial chimneys are not permitted to blacken their curtain of fresh air and sky; campaigns for sonlng laws are undertaken to effect a harmonious arrangement of city furniture. They concern themselves with making this home a united one. be The immigrant woman missed by the public night school Is found and taught; education, child labor, the Juvenile court, playground apace are tbeir special considerations. Budgets are watched. - Officials, as public servants, are checked up and aided, that they render the service for which they were employed. Tbeae are familiar duties. This la but borne making broadened to serve one huge city family. Obviously tbe day bas passed when a woman may consciously have an outlook limited by her dlahpan her front porch, and her neighbors affaire. May she not Join classes, clubs, and par ent associations concerned, with civic workT Or lacking tbeae, may abe not gain inspiration by following In newspapers and magaslnes the aplendid achievements of other women and ao shine tbe lenses of her vision that abe be ready to seise such' opportunities for civic service as are bound eventually to come her way? On one side, the community Is sure to- progress through sheltering such a citizen as she can be. On the other, a woman thus developing herself not only la likely to be sounder In her home and neighborhood adjustments for abe la thinking In bigger and more steadying term but also will probably gain a broader and richer home concept. Including as It does tbe housekeeping of a city, of a nation, and of a world. Christian Science Monitor. 1 who-ma- - Public Affairs. North "Are you In favor of women taking part in public affairs, South its all right If you really want tbe affairs public." Bristol Evening News. His Need A University of Chicago professor, invited to address a club meeting, chose as his subject, "Need of Education. Tbe following day a newspaper headline reported, "Professor's Speech Shows Need of Education. MAN JAILED FOR FINE RELEASED Additional Penalty Not Hold Enforceable If Sentence Is Served. On the ground that where imprisonment and a fine are imposed the fine la not enforceable by additional Imprisonment aa a penalty against a defendant, District Judge Chrl Mathlson ordered Henry Rlckenburg released from the county Jail Wednesday on a write of habeas corpus. Rlckenburg was sentenced by Judge M. I Ritchie for the sale of whisky to SO days In Jail and payment of a $250 fine, with the understanding that he serve an additional 125 days if the fine waa not pail by September 17. The case was appealed from the city court. Basing his decision la the habeas corpus proceeding on two decisions of the Utah supreme court, Judge Mathlson held that a Judgment of fine la enforceable by imprisonment only when It stands alone and Is not connected with a sentence of Imprisonment. The fine Is only collectable on execution, aa lndvll cases. It wss said. Spontaneity and frankness stand out la tha statement by Governor Smith of hla attitude toward prohibition. It waa made on a fit occasion. He waa addressing the League of Women Voters In New York. They were pushing a resolution calling for a new state enforcement act If tha governor waa to apeak to them at all he could not well avoid dealing with the question which they, as It were, thrust In his face. When tbe time came he spoke to It with the utmost directness ' and simplicity. His language had none of the appearance of having been carefully studied, but waa the extempore and Instinctive expression of his real sentiment Tbe whole thing waa thoroughly "in character" for Governor Smlta. It has been treated aa a political senaatlon, but this can be only on the ground that It la a sensation for a presidential candidate honestly to speak out hla own mind. The governor had the air of only telling the ladies what they already knew. Hla position regarding prohibition and its enforcement has, in truth, been publicly taken, and there should be no Ignorance about It. But If there were, be waa anxious to dispel it He does not believe the law to be wise or desirable, but so long as it Is the law, and he la a sworn executive, he will do hla best to enforce It As for objecting to organisation by dtlsens to modify or repeal It, be pours sewn upon the Idea which some people are putting about that a piece of statutory legislation, or even a constitutional amendment, la too sacred for the people to alter or obliterate if they choose to do so. We bear much loose talk about "Jeffersonian principles." But this Is one genuine Jeffeisonian principle which bas cone to Governor Smith by inheritance and conviction, and by which he notifies the country that he. Intends to stand. No one can accuse him of making a bid for delegates In what be said to the women at Albany. Hla bold and clear utterance will probably repel certain delegates who might have come to hla support, ir he had kept quiet, or been content to leave hla stand in doubt For weeks all the signs have been pointing to bis nomination next year All that be had to do waa to alt tight and see the tide flow In hla direction But he would not have anybody anywhere in the country under a false Impression about his views In hla own way and In hia own time and in hla own state, be chose to make the whole matter perfectly plain. While many of hla party leaden are going about with their fingers ontheii; lips and crying "Hush! and while - other influential Democrat! are saying that If the prohlMtlon question In the national convention or In the campaign It will be fatal to their party, Governor Smith calmly and simply tells what he things and what he hopes to do. He, at any rate, will not pussyfoot on an Issue about which millions of bla countrymen are agitated. If they want him, they must know his honest thought, and ao be tella it to them. Whatever else may be said about hla course. It ia the course of courage. Even his political enemies must admit this; and unless the American people have greatly changed, even those of them who do not like Governor Smith and do not intend to vote for him will not refrain from paying him the ancient Yankee tribute: ."By time, I du like a man thet ain't afeared! Two chief obstacles, and only two, have stood In tbe way of Governor Smith's nomination for the presidency. One la that be la a Catholic. Tbe other la that he la against prohibition. With both of them be has now dealt In a way to command admiration for being both frank and sincere. Politically, this may hurt him. Morally, It heightens hla stature In the yea of the whole country. East Interested . in Parks' of Utah Interest in the western national parks, and especially In Zion National park, among eastern people Is at a high point, according to Randall L. Jones, lecturer for the Union Pacific Railroad company, who returned Monday from a lecture tour that took him to the principal eastern cities. Mr. Jones declared that at lectures he gave In Philadelphia, Washington, D. C.; Boston, Montclair, N. J.: St. Paul, Minn., and Pittsburgh, Pa., there were many questions asked on Utah scenic wonders. He said that tour bureaus In tbe east report that they have constant demand for ' Information on Utah parks and that much travel booking In thla direction Is being done. Eastern newspapers, Mr. Jones said, were recognizing this Interest by giving space tn their columns describing western wonders. |