Show l 1 A Good Fourth In Salt Lake 0 Pagan of Flask I k Citizens 0 Disgraceful Parental Care Salt Salt Lake City Utah with Its suburbs represents a a. population ot of We have just scanned the paper for July 6 5 Here are some ot of the tho statements we dIscovered Alt 11 Salt Lake turned t the doors out for the city's sanest and happiest Fourth ot of July celebration NOT A SI SINGLE GLE AC- AC ACCIDENT lT CIDE marred the days day's ties a I According to police records only tour four arrests for drunkenness were made during the entire da day Only one person was arrested on a a. charge ot of selling fireworks Personally We can testify that It was the quIetest quIet quIet- est ot of JUly this writer has known In thirty rive years rears All Allot ot of which constitutes a most elo- elo testimony to the sanity and efficiency ot of those responsible for the preservation ot of order and life Bre In one ot of Americas America's fairly large communities On the other band Lamar Mis 1 Is a comparatively small town Because someone tossed a a. lighted fIt under a truck loaded wIth fireworks tho whole truckload exploded prematurely In a crowd ot of persons assembled In the public square serIously Injuring In- In injuring juring fourteen ot of them It would seen that the time had come and gone when people would insist on a pagan type of demonstration which a as takes Its toll ot of dead and In- In I I S SA A old 32 jeweler of Canon City Cob Colo came home drunk to hIs family at 20 o'clock one mornIng this week The little wIfe mother ot of the three sleeping children chU- chU dren remonstrated with the husband bus hus- band and father for coming home In such a a. condition After Atter a short argument the man pUlled a gun un from his pocket and shot and killed hIs 7 year old old ear daughter wounded hIs wIfe and another 5 old daughter and then shot and killed himself Now just how DO you feel when some one Insists that people OU to Ie be fr free e to deal In Inand inand and consume the stuff that de de- thrones throne reason and precipitates tragedies such as the above Professor 1 1 M. M Gre Gregg g of lea ka Wesleyan lan university at Lincoln Lin- Lin coin coln speakIng before the National Education association at l Its lis declared that It If the leading cItizens ot of a community are known to patronIze hIp flasks on social occasIons and the report thereof becomes a matter of levity in social circles an any teaching of the schools on the subject ot of respect for law is promptly nullified The above speaker strikes at the very root of nullification pt of law In his statement The adults of toda today to- to da day are goIng to have considerable to answer for when the routh ot of tOday race face the responsibilities ot of citizenship and social leadership to to- morrow The two outstandIng socIal social so- so cIal curses in America are parental and moral example To tell or to warn are not enough h. h Only as adults do will their Influence In In- fluence be effective And much ot of that Influence at present Is on the wrong side ot of the ledger Over In Newark New Jersey there are two parents who have taught their fIve sons rangIng In Ina inage a age e from 2 to 15 to smoke cIgars They plan t to wean theIr present old months child on cIgars on Its fIrst bIrthday TheIr contention Is that wIne and cl ars make chil- chil strong Th That t contention Is about as valuable to society as the fact that raw meat produces a more vicious tiger than a strIct ration ot of cows cow's milk mille The product Is quite apt to be commensurate In either case Contrast with the above incident the following The lIfe Ufe or of an 8 old day Missoula Mont baby was being sustaIned today due to the efforts of Bob Johnson la Ia aIrplane pilot who made a hazardous haz- haz mlle mile trIp over the mountains from Missoula to Wa- Wa lace Ida and back to carry three tanks or of gas necessary to save the child The one Item possesses possesses pos pos- a knightly rIng The other makes one recoil with disgust at tie parents and pity for the children |