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Show Page 4 THE SIGNPOST October 11, 1968 STUDENTS SPQUT PR Liquor-by-the-Drink Walrus Divulges His LETTER TO THE EDITOR How would you like to get some high class entertainment at a high class night club ? The only way you can get top name performers (like Donovan at the Terrace last week) is to pay $6.00 a head to watch a performer . . . how cold and unimaginative. In another state, the favorite place for seniors to go after the Senior Ball is what the archaic, ultra-conservative tea-tottlers call a saloon. I saw Bill Cosby and a popular folk-song group at the Hungry I (a fool, evil place that served liquor by the drink to anyone over 21) and although I paid $2.50 for a coke for me and my date, I believe it was well worth it. How many times have you been able to sing along and joke with the Kingston Trio for only $2.50? Later on that night, I went to a hotel which served Hawaiian drinks (Mai Tais and sweet drinks for minors) and performed the best Hawaiian show on the mainland. Do you think people go to these places to get plastered? Certainly not! I couldn't get a drink except for a coke. The reason. I went was because of the quality of the shows that were staged. Now contrast these night clubs, these night spots with the "flea bag" bars in Ogden. There are only three I would even think about going into VtS x GET A "HEAD" START . . . Nobody skis toe tkls First time out. But becoming a good skier is far easier and quicker than it used to be ... If you want to know all about the best places to ski the latest ski equipment and ski fashions and the newest trends in ski instruction . . . come to PERKINS, LTD. a ski shop devoted to serious skiers and run by serious skiers . . . 352 24th STREET A SKI SHOP BUILT without the fear of being jumped.As of now, if you want a good show, you must go to Nevada. Now why should a tourist have to stop in Nevada instead of Utah for decent lodging and a good after-dinner show? Right now the private clubs have all the action at the expense of the regular night club that can't sell liquor by the drink. When opponents of the liquor bill yell "the bill is a product of special interest groups," I would like to remind them by defeating this bill they are protesting and guaranteeing the monopoly of a special interest (the private club.) If the clubs were allowed to sel liquor by the drink at $1.50 a drink, how many people would get smashed in this public place. Most of us have enough sense to realize that you could afford only one or two drinks at a place like this. In San Francisco, the most profitable restaurants can also serve a noon high ball (for those who want one ! ! ! ) with their lunches. This is a sacred institution when entertaining salesmen, fellow workers and for the common worker to buy a cute new secretary a social drink. I propose a brown bag day for the working men of Ogden. Have that noon or after work high ball that workers in other states enjoy in their favorite, respect- PHONE 394-8484 AROUND EXPERIENCE . . . the Story able restaurants with their secretaries, fellow workers and new prospective clients. Forces against the proposed liquor bill moan because the bill wasn't sent to the legislature and it wasn't sent to the committees to make sure it was a good law. What, they are saying is the "old guard" of Utah isn't able to supress it, or drastically amend it. They further infer that the common Utah voter is too stupid to know or read the law. It should be judged good or bad by the Salt Lake conservatives for you the voter. The anti-bill forces seem to make you think that this bill can't be amended if found to be inadequate. They give you a false picture that it is unchangeable.They hang it around your neck like the proverbial Albatross. If mechanics of enforcement and penalties for violation are iadequate, it CAN and should be amended. The main point is (and the anti-bill peopLe forget this) is that something must be done about the present obsolete, liquor by the jug, only law. Let's pass this law, watch it and amend it if the execution fails. Don't amend its principle but if it's not tough enough on juvenile drinking, make it tough through amendments. Don't let this chance to let Utah catch up with the entertainment and tourist levels (not drinking) of other adjoining states. (Nevada in particular) . I can think of only two legitimate stands for anti-bill groups. 1. The mechanics spelled out in the bill are weak or inefficient but they do support liquor by the drink. 2. Or it violates a religious belief. In case of the first group, they shouldn't fight to kill the bill, they should expend their energies to pass the bill while they have the chance. They then should immediately educate the public to its weak points and get the bill amended and make it a better bill. As for the second group, they have a guaranteed right in the constitution to practice their religion as they wish. Do they also have the right to tell people of other religions how to practice theirs? DON'T MISS CORONATION OCTOBER 18th l t- 0i "ink v..t h ft rfi "He sells The Ridiculous Situation By Byron Warfield-Graham Well, it has happened again! The Supreme Court is once more at odds with a law enforcing agency. The Supreme Court has decided to step on the fingers of the local law enforcing authorities, because when the justices voted 3-2 last week Tuesday to nullify 'a city ordinance regu-ating locker clubs this is just what they did. "Thank you for returning my charter." There is, unfortunately, a third group which I call the hypocrites or "defeat it at all cost group." They are the people that take the stand of the other two groups. That is, they want to force this moral issue of consuming any liquor to defeat by jumping in with the people that fear this liquor bill only because of its wording or mechanics but aren't against drinking with the right law. Bob Barnes, The Walrus BALL! ji j J. Jk yii V 4y 1 drugs and . Now Police Chief Dewey Fil-lis is upset because he is powerless to enforce the city law against private clubs unless city attorney Jack L. Crellin or someone else can come up with a way out of what the Police Chief refers to as "... a ridiculous situation . . ." With this new ruling by the Supreme Court I am convinced, more and more that Utah will be revising its liquor laws in the near future.I am also convinced, (after a survey I took on 25th Street between Grant Avenue and Wall Avenue) that wineos ... I mean prospective voters . . . are not entirely satisfied with the State's liquor rules and regulations. Not many law abiding citizens know that technically it is illegal to offer their friends a social drink. "Like you said, Rick, when you invite us over again we will bring our bottle." f ATTENTION MEM HAIRCUTS STILL i r Aa P , no, or J Ross Weaver Clyde's Barber Shop 1 block below V.osh. 332 36th Sheet J |