Show Ylllt CLOSE SALOONS Liquor Dealers Ass9ciation Acts in Matter SALOON MEN UPHOLD LAW p Seventyrive SaloonKeepers Have Agreed to Kcop Their Places Closed Tight Today find Every Sunday and to Do All in Their Power to Stop the Salo of Liquor on Sunday in RoomingHouses Restaurants and Saloc l1sWill Fight RoadHouses Road-Houses S eO Seventyfive of Salt Lakes saloonkeepers saloon-keepers havo pledged themselves to keep their barrooms closed on Sunday In accordance with the law and to do everything In their power to put a stop to the sale of Intoxicants on the Sabbath This rule which the saloOn men have tuvorn by went Into effect at midnight and will be closely observed ob-served loday and each succeeding Sunday This action In the result of the efforts ef-forts of the Protective Liquor Dealers association of Salt Lake county At a meeting of the board of governors of the association held during the week the decision was reached that an edict go forth directing each of the seyenty live members to close their doors on Sunday as required by law The com mlttce appointed at the time to visit the different members of the association associa-tion reported lust night that all promptly agreed to close their doors In accordance with the law There was not a single demurrer to the edict Asa As-a result It Is expected the law will be more generally observed today than alan al-an time since the Sunday closing ordinance or-dinance went Into effect ASK POLICE ASSISTANCE The association has requested the Chief of Police to look lo the enforcement enforce-ment of the law In restaurants and roominghouses A pctlllon signed by the officers of the association was bunded to Chief Paul Friday asking that the members of the police department depart-ment enforce the law In a number of restaurants and roominghouses that were named In the communication We are going to close our places as the law requires to show that we arc lawabiding citizens paid Secretary Secre-tary Slg Simon of the association last evening The law orders the closing of saloons and while perhaps the law could not bo very closely enforced If the saloon men were Inclined to disregard it yet the fact remains that the majority ma-jority of saloon keepers are lawabiding citizens and willing to do what Is right That Is shown by the fact that not oneof the seventyfive members of the assocIation hesitated In pledging themselves lo close today and each succeeding Sunday We want to conduct tho saloon business busi-ness In a respectable manner which ls quite possible It was wllh this In view that the board of governors decided de-cided lo Issue the call for the observance observ-ance of the Sunday closing law I fully believe concluded Mr Simon that the members of the association will keep their word and that they w lll not sell any liquor today Any member who disregards the associations edict will loose his membership AFTER OTHER SALOONS While CO per cent of the saloon keepers keep-ers or the city are now members of the association which was organized but a few weeks ago It Is hoped by time ofllcers of the i8joclntlon lo have every saloon man in the city admitted to membership In the course of a few more weeks The saloon keepers of the county will then be visited with a view to securing their membership The board of governors have decided not to limit the upholding of the law to keeping saloons closed on Sunday but also will wage war against the road houses throughout the county At the meeting of the board these road houses were denounced as being crime breeding Iiilrn which should be abol ished No action has yet been taken however In regard to the road houses OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATION The ofllcers of the association all wellknown saloon proprietors were selected se-lected nt a recent meeting of the association asso-ciation M E Mulvey Is president Ike Wolff vicepresident A P DaVies secretary sec-retary Slg Simon secretary B F Caffcy James IJcynoy Patrick RIley M Levy A Bonettl and Prank E Browning directors |