| Show A r Writers Ridicule Utah or Arrests Under An Law Lawe 1 tv Punish j t the people who violate lt th thu the e ci garet g t law by sentencing n g them to live e in Utah is s the u estion of a New York City newspaper in its editorial comment upon the sit situation here ers throughout the country are holding the state up to ridicule not n a single editorial so J Ived having voiced rotted anything but pathetic sympathy for residents of this state under the theo o lews slut stands of Salt Lake which specialize in the sale of the home town paper report business Everyone is buying the papers from the home town and up upon n discovery of at lat home town says of this state make vigorous caustic comments to the newspaper purr pur pur- r ome ome of the remarks being vitriolic to to say the least A few gleanings from editorial editorials I s from Torn rom other cities follow Seen Seend a d en enn i ng Scope n e now being arre arrested ted In Ut Utah h hm m Ing g in public places Anyone o ogee gee Ie h na nka the reform reformers are not deIn deIn de- de In In their re resters olve to toc legislate status of ot al alco- alco c c to the present has another guess comp com com- g to split a 10 IOB o g once you p ea easy y I a aie entering wedge wedge Philadelphia Philadelphia ie f I lii eats Pena Penalty I ty L La ng in Utah a pu passed ed a law two years laces ago smoking In public places g public I 7 viding punishment for tor viola vlola- P punishment o ot he measure N No one ever pam paid last aid I attention to It until last ti 1 d daZ wh when n three men were arrest arrest- I rl nt In public a places Tribune T bune assorts that the land or ot n nd 1 Mormons Is taking th the lead i iu such u aw II w legislation Of Ot course I Ie e TO ro never could stand the the legal I i It Is our belief bellet the bravo brave in In a public restaurant have p a a a. court pass p upon p the statute was on the tho books IB a before any effort cHort was made madec madece made c ee ce It It and without do doubt the tho k of ot Utah wish to have haved It d Id hope to show Its absurdity t Ing someone one for violating It on that Utah Is serious matter However if It the tho peo- peo tah are arc In earnest about the tho wish to severely punish amok amok- have havo an easy way of ot doing em sentence violators to live New New York Morning Tele Tele- Im rom Vom Yorktown to toi tois i is ls i N. N Y World Jibe r anybody who wants an ought for Cor birth birth- recommend the three tl ens of ot Salt Salt Lake Lako City who een seen arrested on on a E charge o oin olIn ol ot otIn fw f In IU public bile There Is a la law w smoking In public In Utah county roum have havo ant an- an t that thit It it Is Js to bo be be enforced ho tu fall It to II live 0 up to th thu the e u must bo punished In accord- accord It tie th h the gravity of ot their crime Uld old have been her hard barq to explain p of ot that law to George Ih h landed gentleman of ot Vlra a a. nd rid with large Investments 1 Into lr In n to acco plantations It would hav have e to convince him of ot the salty of ot the eighteenth amend amend- amendt t or ho drank as did all an his aoto ao ao- to In antes ances whatever ho he personally Y v good for tor him General Wash Wash- o or would find plenty to amaze Impress ress reSH him In the Middle West vest t th lh h In governmental regulation n n ila ls So Bo far as he could ho he lefree let lef ree tee reo country It If he could vie view vie o he n might ml l ht have hav his doubts thai that i e would tamely submit o regulation of ot private e I a was worth having a o oho n ho he o revolution was a great dea dear r 10 to George Va Washington Ie I Ie It II f e best beet years aru of his life lite Ant An Am d t l to achieve liberty for a a. peo pet b can bo bl owed erred In 1923 by th thi lobbies that put over anti antl r and nd laws h of ot his country would tine fine d returning now in the class clasi n b by the Hev Henry I L L. L Bowlby t pt pl our sumptuary statutes or orIf oro o If Jf orge Washington didn't In it t he hp i and and he ho wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't-ho ho hoc lean c- c Now York World nit in Absurd gu I. I abon S S. S F F. V. V View lew freeborn fre I horn white adult Amerl- Amerl hll have 0 been arrested and with lih Wll h tho crime of ot smoking In InIn 1 In Suit Salt all Lake Lako City Five rive others other Pen i en for a similar of- of at the Utah state staten I J In n addition there have been i arrests arietta for fur buying and selling t r ds cia of tho lh culled accused are making f the charges one man In Ins Inton s ton n 0 r t c. c sending a telegram Why hy dont don't you m ge to the Slat 7 Unfortunately Utah It 1 a United States State Rod nd moreover r ro e a another I r state with i similar e h fact act Is that all over the United t here I. I In Is a IL reign of ot restrictive eta ilia Ion and n lid what was once the I o the tho l I. I Is now the land lend from il III IC being rapidly fa d d. d The Tho p people of ot America o l themselves to beb be belot beof b of the thi freedom for tor which their theira a a ors iori or fought fO and died Bond Mond BondIs re lot e I. I Is forbidden but tho the whip of ot to 10 Le rol has be been n put Into th thit the Ole Oleida ida ads it t f th the lawmakers rs and the lash lah locution legislation Is la flicking filching the tho Flo American people on the raw 10 r anks ankA ar am In tho the saddle mallI mall v I yo Q a digging their spurs Into th the th I Acy v t 0 ICY rann of tho Iho f ancient nt despots t m pre re irritating than tho the present to of ot f that t want to on e to fo act nd tin as the they think I Q ought to act The Ts nd personal pr preferences of ot t tan an zed sod few fow are in n nIs Is I. upon tho Jo Jor ty tyS y S 11 e of ot tho there t n for liberty rt now f l th the thA M is for the theof these se of destroying lne th it liberty e p 18 I permitted r tl to tieI tie de- e. e I jl 11 1 since we wo h h- h ho have o given tike the freedom to tt 1 tt wh what what- t. t Ir awe Ws they pleas I elUt TI The United d Ites stew to 10 under n a peri per- per tl i that thaI tho the host Hta lt from all ports of or the world orld and k It encouraged P and ind t enter enter- he e We 0 great not because our boundless natural resources ie ouro s JI I because b auG of ot the liberty to develop de Our heritage Is the tho richest in world but it was WM won von from theby the tho thoa by a a. free people Can it be red ref re- re d It f we WI are r to tn ho he no longer frT free ot of the habit of Interfering with onal liberty In personal matters matter amino the spirit that raised ralp I people on nn a 11 small 11 strip of ot Atlantic seaboard to muro than nun a hundred million st from the Atlantic to the It is not a a. crime to sm em smoke e a tobacco No man ever committed murder murder witha with a. a a pipe or a cigar In his mouth We taught the world to smoke and though the subject I la to beyond the roach reach of ot statistics it is III a conservative conserva conserva- co conservative serva- serva tive Uve estimate to say that more more comfort comfort com com- fort tort consolation and peace of ot mind have come to the human race through II tho use of ot tobacco than from any other material source I The people of ot Utah are not to be blamed for this gross outrage on the i rights of ot American citizens They probably are as human as the people of ot the rest reet of ot the United States But nut as in many other states and over the nation atlon as a whole they have allowed the 10 nuts and cranks the tho compact minority to override tho the majority If It a man may not smoke In a public public pub- pub lic c place he is about as tree free as a slave ave If It he may not blow the cool cooJ tobacco o cloud without the tho risk of ot beIng beIng beng be- be Ing ng arrested tho the next thing he will find nd himself regulated in to the matter ot of f his hie diet and forbidden to eat onions or beefsteak or any other thing ling offensive to a bloc of reformers I From Yom forbidding tobacco it is only a astep astep step tep to forbidden coffee cottee tea too or spices a a step that will be taken unless the he democracy awakes to the menace I ot of f the creeping paralysis of t personal legislation that is now threatening It San San Francisco Bulletin I New York Hints Rural lural Legislation Friends of ot liquor pro prohibition must be e heartened by tho trl triumphs of ot the sister Ister cause causo of ot tobacco prohibition In Utah Certain eminent malefactors the he manager of ot tho the Salt Lake Tribune TrIbune TrIb- TrIb une ne Mr Bamberger the Republican national committeeman divers sol sol- diem lera and civilians of ot distinction and some ome capitalists capitalists' are learning that the he Utah law against smoking in an any public enclosed place Is to be enforced en- en torce forced 1 rigorously and Impartially The Utah Tobacco Anti league has worked steadily and Ver po powerfully for tor years In ire favor avor of ot tobacco prohibition When the ho law which Is now wringing tnt withers of ot sin was still In the bill stage tage a a. clever campaign of ot paid advertisements advertisements ad ad- In Its favor was ca carried on In the newspapers As usual the cis-arlit cis was wai the torch of ot that most Inflamed the wrath of ot the righteous It was pictured plc- plc tuned constantly as the defiler of ot lovely ovely lips Before the tho startled eyes of ot rural legislators passed in procession procession sion women of all types and ages put put- Ing fing tho the unholy herb A representation senta- senta tion tation of ot Santa Claus with a t I In n his mouth swelled intolerably the public sense of ot desecration The Red RedCross RedI I Cross Cros tho the Y XI M. r. r C C. A the Knights ol ot Columbus Columlus were attacked for their dis- dis of ot among our oui r misguided boys boys abroad In the army The Salt r Lake ake Ministerial association and the tho Mormon church Joined hands hand t 1 In ht i tho the good work In March 1921 the bill was signed A grace of ot ninety days w was s given to the traffickers 1 lr In n tobacco to dispose of ot their a e wares cigars or pipes may maj not be bo smoked in n public places Cig areta may not be bo bartered exchanged exchange exchanged ny n or sold Bold In the tho though they may y bo be purchased outside At first the law was wu laughed at At last Jut Its terrors are falling on Us its violators vio vio- Tobacco Is a a. shoehorn of ot rum In tho the sixteenth and the early f seventeenth seventeenth seven seven- ven- ven century our ancestors drank tobacco The connection the essential unity of ot the tho two vices was was' thus ad admitted ad- ad A famous scientist of ot our time Miss Lucy Page Gaston tells I us that the furfural oil and fatal l In Ina Ina I Ia a single has a kick in it i equal to that of ot two ounces of ot whisky But the most infamous thing about smoking is that its victims enjoy it Therefore away with It Not only ohly in Utah but In Kansas Arkansas Nebraska Arizona and we dont don't know how many other states the feeling against this twin of ot King Alcohol Is deep and strong I Those of ot us who have been proud to see the United Stat States ranged with th that hope of ot civilization Turkey orf td the the foe toe of ot drink must not forget torget that thata a purer and better Moslem than the Prophet Mohammed el Abd-el- el Abd founder of ot the fought not only the use of ot tobacco but dancing and music When tobacco has followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed rum Into 4 coffee cottee chocolate cocoa shells must be banished too Utah Is but entering enterIng enterIng enter- enter Ing on the path of ot perfection New New NewYork York Times a t Law Declared Basically Wrong i 1 ISalt i iSalt Salt Lake City Is now In the tho throes of ot enforcing an law law which r carries besides an outright prohibition of the penalty of ot arrest for tor smoking tobacco In any form In a a. public public pub pub- lic He place Deputy sheriffs are raiding raiding- restaurants restaurants rants placing in arrest men found peacefully smoking cigars hauling them Into court to be prosecuted The law Itself is basically wrong Such a prohibition of ot a widespread habit regarded generally as neither a crime nor a sin can result In nothing but the of ot the law Jaw for tor policemen galore cannot enforce a II law to which the public conscience Is op opposed op- op posed Assuming that are bad for forthe forthe forthe the health the remedy lies not In writIng writIng writIng writ- writ Ing Into the tho statutes a prohibition but butIn butIn butin In tho education of ot the public Thou not in black and white In tho the law Jaw books does not mean that the smoker who believes his habit Is Is' not Inherently wrong will cease cease smoking It merely means that he will be careful careful careful care care- care care- ful to old avoid arrest while continuing puffing the weed And thereupon Is Is added another ker layer ot of ol disrespect J M for tor 1 law law W and 4 govern govern- meat ment Too IllAn many legislators eager to ac- ac overnight by a few written words SOme BOOM reform they think needful for tor the world are an forgetting If the they ever understood the true nature of law 1 Law technically Is anything a legIslature legislature legislature leg leg- may s see e fit tit to pa pus pass s. s True law however is the expression In written rules rule of ot those standards of ot human conduct which are supported by bythe bythe bythe the conscience of ot the people Too many legislators eliminate en entirely entirely eon eon- any consideration of ot the public I conscience or the t th j public desire They pass pus laws law a as a. the monarch of ot old passed them aa as the expression of ot I their own will wUl regardless of ot any thought the people may have ha upon the 1 subject I Which Is I the reason why our codes Jare Iare J I i I are cluttered with forgotten and disobeyed dis dis- disi disobeyed i obeyed laws which the citizens do not follow tollow policemen do not enforce and courts d dp not consider I If It legislators will remember they e ba of ot themselves no power other than I that temporarily granted them by the people as their representatives to write into law Jaw what the public conscience has come to consider as necessary rules rute for human conduct a a. lot tot of ot Impo Impossible and harmful sumptuary legislation will willbe willbe willbe be spared a suffering long country But nut too many legislators when elected elected elected elect elect- ed think the mantel of the unlimited power of ot Caesar has fallen on their shoulders And straightway they begin to grind out laws interminably to tell their masters and creators the people what they shall wear wear wear what they shall eat what tho they shall drink whom and how they shall marry and how their children children chil chU- dren shall be he educated AS 1 If the people people people peo peo- were slaves Instead of ot the legIslators legislators legislators legis legIs- being but servants The Utah law is not only silly It is harmful to the cause of ot good government Its enforcement to any degree Is beyond beyond beyond be be- yond the power of all the police and the national guard of ot Utah How silly it is when but a few tew years ago the regiments of ot of Utah soldiers fighting to make the world safe sate for tor democracy were being deluged with I by a grateful people Can the state of Utah explain to those soldiers ex-soldiers tOda today why they must cease smoking tobacco In the tho particular lar Jar form which five years ago was the conventional method of ot Utah's bit In contributing to the cheer of ot the army anny army The world war did not make Europe safe sate for tor democracy I Neither is the tho United States safe sate for democracy I Democracy Is being assaulted harassed har hare harassed assed limited handcuffed I The |
