Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-12-29 | Page 25 | People's Corner

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Be B Be X T fA 1 1 AXT T 0 Opinions pin I n Ions Welcomed f p ii lL Name Signed With PEOPLES PEOPLE'S L L Lj ff 1 IJ 3 CORN CORNER ER Please p I e a a Do Co Not L held upon Rc Jt JL JL y V l Exceed 03 Word II Disproves Disproves' View on Yank Yanko-panko Yanko War r Editor The Tho T Telegram 1 xAm 8 Reading Reading- The Tile Telegram the other allier evening that that war veterans vetera's s I Ito to the tho Dumber at of would be given preference In tho the appointment of ot census enumerators Fine Finel I x perked up up and nd gently thought thought-of ap plying for tor a 8 Job being a vet of ot the Yanko war Then I r read nd further r an and noted tho the preference applied to vets of ot tho the World war v waro o only ly Again fine Then I picked up k clipping taken from the tho official cial organ of ot vets of at a no war other than the S Yanko anko and In Inthis Inthis inthis this clipping tho the named last war Is referred to as just a a. little ruckus Not so fine finet Lest we we forget forget the tho Spanish Spanish- American war began In April 1898 With th rs every last mothers mother's son of at em cm a a. volunteer under arm arms This number did not Include do dothe the sailors and marines ready to to go to l it and and each of ot them was likewise a n. volunteer The peace cace protocol was signed In October Octo Octo- be bet ber of ot the same year car Then h o Insurrections In the the Philippine islands broke forth and before that trouble was quieted a a. total of around soldier and sailor anor and marine volunteers had been called caned colors and saw saw service The admirals major generals and al alother other commissioned personnel were were Included in tho the vol volunteer r array Again lest we the forget forget tho dead of ot the Spanish American war are areas as ns dead as any soldier r or sailor that ever ever died anywhere re and they arc as sincerely mourned the maimed survivors of ot that war and tho the aged survivors of ot that war are aro having a. a a heller of ot a n time of ot it lt than survivors of at any other war of or the United States And during the I WAr wr we had no welfare stuff stutt to toI I look after us but we h had hd d p plenty enty of ot the farewell sl stuff tt Our anthem was Therell Be a Hot Time in tho Old There TherO when was when Town Tonight was we did get Iet Into a n. town But It was was' s shot j hot day and night in the islands I Iacross across the Pacific and in Cuba and Porto Rico BIco In towns and out of ot them Our chaplains and hospital stewards were of ot the rough and mil ready sort we had no secretaries of this and that and the other to toI bother vis and us-and and We Wb are arc still gl glad fd of ot I that UINTAH Thinks Drys N Need ed to Reorganize Editor TAo TO Telegram Comes now flOw United States Senator William E. E Borah Dorah one one of ot the driest of or of orthe the dr drys s 's In ln tp senate and makes the tho open charge that with tho the present personnel of t th tho prohibition prohibition pro pro- officials n can be accomplished While this not fact has long been known to a large majority ma- ma jo of ot the people it h has s taken the drys in the senate a n. long time timet timeto timet t to t find It o out t. t The declaration of ot the sentor hall hak up the senators tor as they have not been I aroused for tor a long It was brought about by a a. move to have havo a survey made by tho tIo commission recently appointed by President Herbert Hoover Senator Borah added if It the commission should r report port It will not hot tell the tho senate anything h ln the s a riat hato does not know aft as to either cither the tho law or br as as to the tho facts V We h have lve the law the supreme me court has hns c construed ed It itt There Ther Is no difficulty about the officers understanding it H Haying having the law clearly d defined tined the next I thing thins and the only thing is to find tl d tp the ti t. t en I force torce It H. In my O opinion t tm will m f Indorses StaI Stand d on Sanctity of Home Editor The Phe Telegram I 1 am a a. believer er in prohibition but butI butr I r do indorse tho the stand taken by Federal Judge Judie PAul PAU J. J McCormIck who Is a member of ot president H Herbert Her Herbert Her Her- ibert i- i bert Hoovers Hoover's law enforcement com com mission If It he is quoted correctly in an address in Los Angeles ho he slapped what he ho de designated as il illegal 11 legal procedure by the United States He declared that the elimination dim cUm of ot government lawlessness ss w would result in a D. guarantee of or constitutional constitutional con con- rights to citizens Ho denounced tho the Invasion o of a home without a warrant pronouncing it ita ita a menace to life and lIbert liberty A Amans Amans Athans mans man's homo home Is his castle declared never bo be enforced with the present personnel from top to bottom This statement o of the tho Idaho s senator son sen n- n I ator is 19 as applicable to Utah as Itis' Itis it itis is is' to the world at large The Utah officers know what the tho law is It Is-It it has has' been pounded into them thorn They know the bootleggers know khoW where they reside but no concerted action has been taken to clean up the city and the state A As the law aw now how now stands upon the statute books it Isa is isa a dead letter as It is elsewhere An absolutely ly clean sweep is IsalY as Senator Borah suggests and this sweep must cover over tho the country G. G F. F FOLEY the jurist and no one has a a. right to Invade it in the cau cause e of at prohibition pro pro- without recourse to legal proceedings Hero Here in Utah homes have been invaded while on the streets and andIn andIn andin in various buildings b bootleggers ply their vocation unmolested Here thero there are sporadic moves to en enforce enforce en- en force tho the law Jaw an arrest or two is made the bootlegger taken before the courts and in most instances he is Js tho the stoolpigeon for the higher higher- ups He enters a plea of ot guilty and takes take a nominal sentence Meanwhile Meanwhile Mean Menn- while his boss continues to rake Inthe in inthe inthe the shekels shekels- while a new v individual supplants the ono one who h has gone to prison Tho The purity squad quiets down and the sale of or moonshine continues What a n farce I be believe believe be- be lieve here there i is mo more e liquor r drunk in Salt Lake now than before tion As I said I am for tor prohibition tion but prohibition that is regu regu- I Jated And I know that I voice Inthis Inthis in inthis this declaration tho tho- opinions atmore of at more than 90 per cent of the people people peo peo- pie Of ot Utah B. B T. T CRAWFORD I