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Show .-LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: people. All tha German people were not solid for war. Premier Lloyd George, quoted, to the contrary notwithstanding. not-withstanding. I.KI.AI HILL. False Patriotism, Devil's Tool Kdllor Telegram: Editors posaew more puwer as moulders of public opinion than' any other class of men In the world. Are they aware of the great responsibility this power entails? Why do they not recognise that there is such a thine as false patriotism and that the world can be led straight to hell through the Jaws of war by this false patriotism? It Is found In every country in the world Including the United States. It's chief function Is to foster national egotism and promote hatred of the foreigner. for-eigner. It is the thing that made It possible In Germany for a brutal kaiser (to undertake his military operations! against1 humanity. It Is this false pa-j trlotlkm that Is even now, after the lessons ot the great war. Industriously and "practlotlrally" demanding In-1 creased armaments In every so-called! j civilised nation. It is a mixture of fear, j suspicion; hatred and agotlsm. In Its I I relations with the men, women and I children who dwell beyond the national boundry line a line that no human eye has ever seen, or ever will see. ' The boundary line may be a river, the top of a mountain, or the sea shore. Way may come and change the boundry line, but the river flows on unchanged. Its rippling waters kissing the banks on elther-slde; the mountains moun-tains refune to recognise any change; I they' Just continue bdlding and feeding feed-ing the whispering pines; the sea shore roars Its friendly unconcern; It Is dnly man that grows savage and ferocious about this unseen line; only man that will kill, malm and destroy his fellows fel-lows to orotect this imaainary line. War Lords Are Blamed for Conflict Editor. Telegram: The allied supreme su-preme council of the great powers approved ap-proved the German reparations plan, drafted by the special committee January Jan-uary 21, 1121. This plan provides that Germany shall pay an indemnity of 226 billions of gold marks In forty-two forty-two annual Instalments on a yearly augmenting scale; and In addition to this, a 12 per cent tax on German exports, ex-ports, which tax Is to be calculated on the general basis of Oerman exports In the year ItU. Two hundred twenty-six billion gold marks Is an enormous sum of money almost beyond one's comprehension; yet, when taking into consideration the thousands of farms In France and Belgium rendered useless by the network net-work of deep trenches, the forests demolished, de-molished, snd seakiring vessels sunk to the bottom of the oceans, as well ss the millions of lives snuffed out of existence by Germany and Ihe other central nations, this sum of J2.0OO.-000.000 J2.0OO.-000.000 marks will in no wise mske due reparation. Hence, we are not contending that this sum demanded by the allied powers Is beyond the confines of reason and Justice. We do j not coincide, however, with the allied i plan of collecting and Indemnity. The better way and the proper i manner. In my estimation, is to plsce the burden where it properly belongs, which Is upon those who fathered the Ideas, concocted the plans, and forced Into effect the ravishing results of the devastating wsr. Those primarily liable lia-ble for-thls are former- Kaiser Wll-helm Wll-helm of Germany, Emperor Frans Joseph of Austria, the crown prince and war lords of Germany. Von Bue-low. Bue-low. Von Hertllng. Von Hlndenburg, Von So and So. All of the property, both personal and real, owned by the ex-kalser, the i I In. I take It that one may undress the Httle cigarette, and In Its raw or nude form, one may Jam it into one's pipe, and smoke It even In the august presence pres-ence of a stats, senator. Thus one discovers dis-covers that a scrap of paper, surrounding sur-rounding a bit of tobacco. If seated be-- be-- tween- The lips of a human, Is the un. mlstakable hall mark of the criminal. The man may be honest; he may be upright up-right and general to a high degree; he may even be one of those two or three million who fought ,ln the world war, yet should he perforce put a cigarette Into his mouth, ha at once1 runs the risk of being put Into "limbo,' and the Ineradicable mark of the criminal be placed opposite his name. While writing this, I see In my mind's eye a sob sister arising in the congregation, congre-gation, and with a deprecatory gesture, begin to berate me for my overdrawn picture of woe of the cigarette smoker. I hear her say, "that the law does not aim at the abridgement of adult liber-Itles, liber-Itles, but at the corrective control of I Immature manhood"; she concludes with the stock phrase, "that the building build-ing of the character of the boy is worth more to the state than the momentary loss of pleasure to the cigarette I smoker." : I Does the dear motherly soul know that there already Is a law upon our ststute books that prohibits a fledgling from smoking cigarettes? Is she aware that a youth so far beyond the control of his parents that he will not hearken to their advice and admonition, Is also beyond the moral guiding influence of the community heads? Is the Inference to be drawn that the character building environs of an entire community be of a finer moral fiber than the Influences of the parental par-ental hearthstone? If this be answered an-swered In the affirmative, I will say that we need corrective legislation for the parents not the boy. Let the Juvenile Ju-venile Judge be empowered to hale father, mother, or guardian, before him: make them admit their neglleeitce ! The true patriotism la also at work. It teaches thst we must protect our country and our world against fear. Ignorance, egotism and blood lust. It teaches that we must prepare to feed, clothe, shelter, and educate humanity; not to kill. It teaches that the way to make people good is to make them ! happy. The way to promote peace Is I to Isy aside the gun and the butcher knife; the Impudent swagger of the Ignorant bully; the unspeakable na- j tional conceit; the moral cowardice that prompts men to assassinate every generous impulse) In their nature In order to become fighting beats for a criminal kaiser, or a cruel scar, or a bellowing Iudendorff. It teaches that militarism Is the social so-cial poison that la blighting the world, and that militarism in America la Just exactly the same kind of poison that It la In Germany or any other country. coun-try. And while we are taxing our people peo-ple to the limit to pay the costs of past wars and to manufacture more i guns, butcher knives, dreadnaughts, poison gassea. and other deadly doses j for "ths enemy." we are at the same time piteously begging them to givej liberally to save the lives of the millions of orphans mad by the last war. And, be It said to our credit, we do give. And therein lies the hope of the world. The God In man still survives. The devil Is In the aaddle now, but if we can get the editors on the Lord's side, we will unhorse him sooner or later. IX5UIS BAKER. Freak Laws Strike Blindly j Editor Telegram: It seems that the freak legislation that our country Is suffering from at present Is erratic and, like the lightning's bolt. It strikes 1 not Justly, but blindly. I The broad open-mlndedness . that one ususlly associates with men who' live in this great Western outdoors. I seems' to have ahrunken under the j cinching hand of church guidance and, the blithering sophistry of a few mis-. guided women. 1 Vnder the specious plea of "charac- I ter building" of our growing boys. the Utah state senate haa already paaeed . an anticigarette.law, which If concurred , in by the house of representatives, and ' the governor, may make a criminal of j every adult cigarette smoker In the: stste ot Utah. ' Like all acts that are conceived In the mind of the Intoleraat this mea-! sure la wrapped In the husks of ', hypocracy. Inasmuch aa It Is not the substance of the cigarette that la leg Is. I la ted against, but the form that It la' crown prince and war lords (excepting (except-ing sufficient therefrom to properly maintain them during the remainder of their lives), should first be confiscated, confis-cated, to be used as Indemnification and reparation for the ravages of the late war. If this Is not sufficient to cover the costs of Indemnity and reparation, rep-aration, then the balance ahould ba collected by a general tax on the people, peo-ple, their properly and Industries. It Is not proper, wise or just to place the majority of this enormous burden of Indebtedness upon the poor laboring labor-ing man, his wife and children many of whom are still unborn and will be I streaked with gray hair before this debt csn possibly be liquidated. MH-lions MH-lions of German soldiers fought In thla war not of their own volition, but at the commands of royalty and war lords gosded on by the bayonets, and who are the advocates of peace, harmony and good will to an men. ' According tn the present plan of Indemnity, these soldiers and their wives and children must bear the bulk of this burden by direct taxation, and dury Imposed upon their exnprta The supreme council or the allied powers, by the present terms of Its adjudication, adjudica-tion, requires the Oerman people to psy 11 per rent on all German exports. ex-ports. In addition to the 22 00o.000.0oA gold marks. Perhaps the greater part of this iH.060.000.ttOO marks will need to be paid by products manufactured by their Industries and exported goods abroad, which are not ' compelled to jpay a 11 per cent export dutyT This plan la nugatory. It I pregnant with I negatives and prohibitive In nature. It may possibly hsve a tendency to 'unite the factions of this already dis-irupted dis-irupted nation Into a aolld phalanx determined to loose, their hearts last Mood In fighting, rather than (as some of them seem to think) have their very existence crushed out by means which are beyond their power of m durance. On the other hand. It may probably have a tendency to tear asunder this already disrupted people, stifling all hopes for the future snd creating a despondency which forbids recuperation and auccess; - then the goose which was to lay the golden egg Is dead. Let's demand of the German people all that they can reasonably bear, and encourage them to redeem - their nation's na-tion's lost honor as one of the 'great national powers. Disarmament of the German nation ahould be a condition precedent to the paying of Indemnities Indemni-ties and signing of trestles. France. Belgium and other natlona can no longer trust to "scraps of paper," aa Belgium once did. It was ths German autocrat a royalty roy-alty and war lords, that caused 'the war, and was not the whole German of home life administration, and be penalized pen-alized therefor, or let them admit their Inability to rule their brood, thereby giving the state the right to wield the official slipper. This, aa a cure for the evils that beset the fledgling, is aa the brawny fist of the blacksmith la to the soft hand of the schoolgirl. As to law molding character, a dip Into the realm of philosophical thought, brings forth the following: "Law is a reflex of character character antedated ante-dated law, else law would not be. It were as well to say that the boy is father fa-ther to his parent as to say that the law is the mntder of character." I submit the foregoing for what It Is worth, and wish to say that If the above conclusion be successfully controverted. con-troverted. I will then admit that prohibition pro-hibition la good; that the anticlgarette law is just; that all manner of freak legislation Is logical, and that the abridgment of personal liberty Is necessary. nec-essary. In short. I shall subscribe to the belief that honor, charity, fidelity, and all the finer attributes that go to build character are solely and wholly wrapped In the all embracing arms of 'law; that before law was, the graces ! were not. ERNEST C MILLER. Editor Telegram: As If Old Lady Luck waan't dragging us over the rocks hard enogh, first with unemployment, unem-ployment, then typhoid fever, then the theft of our boy's bicycle (the fourth without recovery In three years and I our last little source of Income) then ! him catching the smallpox and Infecting Infect-ing the others. Including the typhoid patients, the police volunteer to hand us another kick In the slats by pulling off- their second fruitless liquor raid before we are even fumigated out of quarantine. The first raid was late at night I was employed out of town and had ! not been home for weeks. Ths wife and , little ones were alone and very nat- ; urally. petrified with fear at the sight of ten burly snoops, literally turning I the house upside down. Of course the: house was left that way. . Fruitless raids are made every day. : Wherein does such police hounding dlf- ! fer from the German kultur. the fruits j of which may yet wreck civilization? i An unemployed working man resid-j Ing peaceably In his own home to save' wear and tear of useleaa tramping; a! friend In the role of the good Samaritan ' delivering a box of fruit or anything! else. In the eyes of some fanatical busy- ! body, becomes a criminal and forever! after la hounded by the police on the strength alone of the fanatic's suspicion. sus-picion. Are we headed for witchcraft? j Haw much of our tax money la wast- |