Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-12-28 | Page 6 | Brawl in a Beer Tavern

Brawl in a Beer Tavern TavernA TavernA A At FEW DAYS AGO a Salt Lake City man died from the effects of a beating said by police to have been received as the result of a a fight which started in a Salt Lake City beer tavern That is not the first case in which some someone someone one has been beaten up and seriously injured in Salt Lake beer tavern brawls There are other other- unsavory happenings in our beer taverns from time to time time such such things as excessive intoxication and the plotting of robberies It would seem th that t the authorities ought to exercise greater control over these beer taverns to see that they are conducted in a better manner The burden of preventing unsavory happenings happenings happen happen- ings in taverns should be placed place squarely on the shoulders of the operators of these places If a few of the worst offenders lost their li licenses li 11 censes as the result of brawls robberies or other unsavory occurrences the rest of them would very soon see that such things did not occur So long as there is no penalty involved in operating a beer tavern in a fashion that turns it into the lowest sort of dive Salt Lake City can can expect the situation to continue and even become worse