Show STUDENT LIFE PAGE FOUR There is a reason and it is not because they are all farmers Many students who no doubt Published Weekly by the Students would have been easily tempted of Utah Agricultural College by the open saloon have been s matter aided by surroundings and Entered as tubent lltfe ere in the Live Store we give second-clas- every man full credit for the possession of good business judgment we know that a low price without high quality offers no inducement to purchase and that to make claims in our advertisement that are not substantia ted by our merchandise is rank folly September 19 1908 at the postoffice have developed their better facat Logan Utah under the Act of ulties becoming good students March 1879” College Delivery is made from Student Life Office Room 275 Printed Earl by England Publishing Logan Utah & Co STAFF David W Smith B Bearnson ’14 Asst Editor Leonard Davidson ‘15 Asst Editor Langton Barber ’1(5 Business Mgr Asst Mgr Eastman Hatch ’17 Julius DEPARTMENTS Mable Spande ’1(5 Lcltoy Ilillam ’1(5 Arthur Caine ’1(5 Edwin Winder ’16 F Braithwaite Loiils Locals Athletws Exchanges Artist STUDENT BODY OFFICERS President J Howard Maughan Vice President Gladys Christensen Goldie Faux Secretary A C Carrington A J Taylor Veda Cooper Executive Committee Olof Nelsen Standard Bearer J F Woolley Football Manager Basketball Manager Grover Lewis Baseball Manager Tuttle Lloyd Leonard Davidson Track Manager Julius B Bearnson Debating Mgr G L Barron Socials and Theatricals John Sharp Cheer Leader Ik (k& i ’w m EhfTQ'h vfi t- - 0 ate jC1' If JC ' 1 vlr ft f i Volume XIII Numbei 7 1915 Friday May 511 THE COLLEGE OR THE SALOON The recent agitation starD’d by the liquor interests in their attempt to bring the saloon hack to Logan is something which afreets o"r directly school is nothing exThqre treme oj overdrawn in the decisive statement at the outset that this movement has no justification whatever from either a moral social business m economical standpoint Our most important con i! is its effect upon our school There are several factors which have contributed u the rapid growth of our r during the past five nr six years of which prohibition is by no means the least import-an- t Dozens— yes hundreds — of parents have sent their children to school at Logan because of the high moral standard of this community This same standard has induced many high students who are on their own resources to come hero In spite of the advantages of being at home and of other induce-irant- s at our state capital we ‘tvp sixty students from Salt Lake on our rolls this year r-a- Ih-- and trustworthy citizens Indirocntly our school is affected by anything which either the prosperity or social results of the “wet the town” Liquor men argue entirely from a business standpoint claiming an improved economic condition Let us meet them on their own ground They have not one single argument which will hold under investigation What are some of their claims' First they say that business is improved and the town’s prosNext perity thus increased they claim that the city is enriched by the revenue collected in taxing the saloons They in-lluen- -- K UPPENHEIMER CLOTHES form the "had: four’ of thin store's fine s tod: Any impartial expert mill tell yon that they are the finest clothes made Yon positirdy cannot yet them any place hut by anyone here At oar “(neater raine prices" they're truly economical HOWELL BROTHERS Logan's Foremost Clothiers further assert that prohibition does not prohibit and that due to “bootlegging” as much liquor ex :s sold as would be with the SERVICE open saloon though with no revenue to the city Their last argument is that a man’s liberty should not be taken away The two first claims — prosperity and the cit’ys revenue — can he considered together Any authority on economics will bear testimony to the fact that the total wealth of a community is increased when all waste is eliminated and all energies are directed toward productive rather than destructive work If the total wealth is increased business prosperity is increased If the city correspondingly needs more revenue to take the place of that formerly collected irom the saloons why not levy the tax directly instead of allowing the saloons to do it and then retain ninety or ninety five per cent of the tax for themselves Money is always lost by having a middle man to Fnare it and this is more true in levying taxes than in anyThe community thing else which has saved a liquor bill of Si 0000 can very easily stand a direct tax of $1000 and in the end it is richer and more prosperous hv $0000 to say nothing of the vitality which the saloon would have wasted There is absolutely no way of figuring out any economical gain to anyone hut the dealer and the manufacturer while even they could add wealth to the community and thereby indirectly to themselves by becoming productive rather than destructive The claim that prohibition does not prohibit is hut partly true and will lose importance with the enforcement of the recent Funk bill If it he true that as much or more liquor or even nearly as much is being sold now as when the saloons were open then why should the liquor men want an open town? Why should they not wish to save the money they are using Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank J for their campaign fight as well as that which they would have to pay for saloon licenses? They are certainly foolish to wish to ruin their own trade and at the same time increase their expenses As for the liberty of the individual to drink or not as he sees fit let it be remembered that the man with an uncontrollable appetite has no free will to exercise his liberty II is appetite overrules his will and the liberty of his wife and children is taken away If some of the near sighted citizens of Logan want to lower the moral standard and reduce the prosperity of the town it is time to remind them that such a thing is not endorsed by the students of the College that has done much to build up Logan's Listen Students K lossy Kollege Klolhes our way by selling TAILOR-MAD- E you the best E LOTI IKS at readymade prices Have some Individuality about Give you and look like a man us a chance We are' making ST1EFEL HARRISON St John’s Club Logan Who’s Your Tailor The College Tailor 36 West 1st North prosperity A Landis Shoe Shop TROTMAN Prop ELECTRICALLY C SHOES Willi 4 v 0 North E YOU 1st West FREE DELIVERY RE-PAIRE- WAIT D WILLIAM CUUUELL (The Rcxall Transfer Man) Calls Answorcd Promptly Phone 12—'"The Rcxall Store” Phone 456 W— Residence Prices Reasonable IOOAN UTAH |