Show J Pause Reflect d they first make snake mad Sen Sen- Whom the gods would destroy stroy J intro introduced in the state senate a aWl a l or Southwick of Utah county has Wl 11 to to bar cigarettes from the state stat of Utah This bill bilt not only sale of cigarettes within the state p prohibits the manufacture and lit forbids forbids the possession n of the makins and provides provid s pe penalties who who smokes a acl if bill bilt the man f for r such possession If this passes cl cg cigarette garette rette or has in his possession tobacco and papers for the purse pur- pur se of rolling rotting his own be becomes omes a criminal S All tt this is done in a bill ostensibly bly to prohibit the sale or gift c cigars gars tobacco or narcotics to to minors All All will wili agree that theS the narcotics to minors should be S side l or gift of cigars tobacco or prohibited but when the honorable senator from Utah tah county undertakes undertakes to prohibit the ale or possession of cigar cigar- cigarettes ettes tes for the benefit of citizens citizens' who have attained their majority iC tern of the state of Utah he infringes upon the personal liberty g those who presumably have att attained ined the age of reason and andl capable of deciding what is to their l presumably are quite as best est advantage as the honorable senator 4 i During the war newspapers club and organizations conducted citizens to contributions from patriotic t I fl bacco funds and secured supply the soldiers and sailors of the United States with tobacco and arid d cigarettes Thousands of dollars were collected throughout i e United States for this purpose This action was indorsed by members embers of the cabinet U United States senators and congressmen men en prominent in public life and by the soldiers and sailors them- them s sj Ives Tales from the trenches told of the inestimable benefit that the Yankee fighters derived from the use of cigarettes Letters from flom the trenches told how the wounded were cheered and made madet t to forget t some to ome extent the excruciating pain and torment of their shattered bodies by inhaling the smoke of the cigarette Cigarettes were sold at the army commissaries in the Red Gross canteens in the Y M M. G. G A A. A huts Their use by the soldiers ti was fas as sanctioned by the government their benefits were recognized g Utah gave men to the service of of the country during the war Many of these men saw service in the trenches of france France where a a cigarette was worth its weight in gold Every Everyman Everyman Everyman man called to the colors knows the benefit benefit to to be derived from the C Soling cooling ting smoke of the cigarette These men will not take kindly t tB tg Senator South Southwick's wicks wick's measure The objectionable features of this bill should be killed in the committee G Gentlemen of the senate its it's up up to you Scotch this is aut autocratic cratic measure by striking out the part that bars I ars cigarettes f f Utah om I II I |