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Show THE CITIZEN SiiUlllillllliUliiUiiiUiUiluiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiililiiiliitiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillHliiiiiiiillililHiiilinimtiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit Selling Babies The Remedy j of handling this problem properly the And Selling Babies is the phrase used by the juvenile judge to deicribe a growing traffic in Salt Lake. If babies were really sold like slaves on the block the phrase would be jusi-fiebut however regrettable the manner in which these babies are provided with homes, it cannot be described as a sale. What would become of the 200 babes each year if they were not given to foster parents? d, In some of our cities foundling homes are maintained to care for babies that have come into the world illegitimately and to find homes for them. Unfortunately Salt Lake is without institutions of this character except for the private . hospitals where the babies are born and are eventually given to those who pay the hospital bill and the physicians fees. The average cost is said to be $200. Not for a moment do we defend the system. It has its sordid and repellant features, but it is certain to exist and even to flourish unless the state or church or benevolent organizations establish homes for foundlings. It is sad' to contemplate the destiny of infants who are denied the care of good moth- ers and who are flung, as it were, into the very face of a malign destiny. But not all of the children are ill cared for after they have been adopted by foster parents. Some of them, no doubt, are much better cared for than they would be if they were left to those responsible for their coming into the world. Here is an apportunity for legislative investigation and action. If private institutions are unable to provide better means of caring, for these infants the legislature should see to it that a state institution is established. We have homes for delinquent boys and girls and doubtless some of the inmates are children who came into the world under unhappy circumstances and who are in nowise to blmne for their downfall. Would it not be saner, more civilized, more Christianlike, to establish a foundling institution that could look after the babies properly and see that they received good homes? Religious objections could be met by seeing to it that, insofar as possible, the child be given into the custody of those of the same faith as the mother. But so long as neither the state nor private benevolence provides a means lying in hospitals will exist and juvenile judges and others will hold up their hands and arch their eyebrows toward heaven in horror. Some will talk about the "sale of babies and the traffic in seek to fix But is not means are into- .' No matter how high you go you cant quite different The water-forceY 1 Burleson. the the boiler ' is from famfuis,' uQdi ' ' escape ' v V . on )ec. 28, after our language had dirty Warm Springs. First the water is warmed by Vulcan underneath Engrown somewhat subdued, we were sign Peak and then it is brought to moved to fervor again by reading this a boiling point by boilers which were headline in the paper: installed at the Warm Springs years Incoming Mail Is Delayed by Storms ago to convince the public that the on Railroads. springs really were warm. Now we know what was the matter - OBSERVATION PLANE I V.9 and will human beings, the blame upon individuals. society to blame if proper not provided to solve the problem? What would happen if no means existed for taking care of the babies? There is hardly the shadow of a doubt but that we should hear more of the murder of infants, more of race suicide. Babies would not be permitted to come into the world or would be slain in increasing numbers after birth. The lying-i- n hospitals are unfortunate, but not as unfortunate as that. - . The water is injected into the boilers and all. in its natural state-sulp- hur And our prediction is we are always predicting nice, pleasant things that soon Burton's boilers will be squirting water through sieves, for the boilers will be sieves. Of course, some people will say that we are forever interfering with the van of progress and cannot refrain from interfering with Burtons vans. They will say that a Democratic city commissioner cannot step out bravely into the forefront of things without getting a dart in the neck from one of our ambuscades. hot-wat- er Some will say that hot water is much better than cold water- - for flushing. And well tell the world that it is even better than that for Wait till the sulphur eats through the boilers and then come around and laugh at us if you dare. share of the blame. We believe that Commissioner Burton ought to seek some purer sources four-flushing- ., of water supply. He could use mineral -- Have Burton you four-flushin- g watched Commissioner the streets? Formerly it was the custom to flush the streets, but this has been replaced by the up-to-da- practice of te four-flushin- g. . Steaming hot water is used to scare the snow into the sewers.. wagon, Along comes the hot-wat- er and gushes gallons and gallons and even quarts of 1120, heated naturally and artificially, upon the unsuspecting innocent snow. Immediately the snow ups and runs for the sewer, but not all of it sometimes a double-Tieade- r, water brought to the right temperature on electric griddles and could then snuggle it up against Main street :n hot water bottles. In this way he could prevent the snow, from getting scared and turning to ice. We always wish to be helpful in our suggestions, and there is no problem that comes before a city commission that we will not be glad to solve with our suggestions. The city commission can apply to us at any time r.nd a suggestion will be ready. In fact, we will offer them without being. asked. The- idea of hot water bottles cn to the tax, Main street may not appeal payers generally, but we are sure that we can get the druggists to sign a pe- steaming juggernaut. What remains congeals into ice slip- tition for this form of flushing. We are sure they will consider it much better pery, slidey, slithery ice. In this way work is provided for the unemployed. It is necessary to employ forces of workmen to chop up the ice into futuristic formations and cart it away to the remote elsewhere. than the present form of Were it not that we fear to be branded as a friend of the salt trust we would suggest that the street commissioner first put salt on the tail of the ice before knocking it over the postmarked New York, 4 p. m., Dec. 23. To insure its swift passage and delivery he inscribed the wizard words Air Mail in unwashable ink on the envelope. The missive remained in the air four nights and dropped into our office late on the afternoon of Dec. 27. But we started out to say something with that Christmas card. It tried to sneak into Salt Lake on- the railroad' and got caught in the Wyoming snow- drifts. Far be it from us to suggest if got caught in snowdrifts at the local - postoffice. The publicity agent of the local post--- , office breaks things to us gently! He holds back our letters four or five -days lest he startle us to death. by delivering them on time. He knows we would nQt, be used to it. And after hd has da-1: layed our mail sufficiently .to suit his: own ideas of preventive medidirib h'6" announces in the newspapers that, vthet J mails have been delayed by snowdrifts.,, and train congestion. All trains have, been twelve hours late, he explains, but why should that make the mail six. . days late? . . -- s Thirty-fivtwo-ce- four-flushin- g. : . , How Snowdrifts Delay The Air Mail A friend sent us a Christmas thousand e stamps and nt 70,000 one-cen- t, 7,000 t three-ceri- stamps commemorating the tercenten- ary of the Pilgrims have been received at the postoffice and are being sold,qnr request. We consider the Pilgrim stamps fairly appropriate, but we think it would be more appropriate to get some stamps commentating. Noah. and i his ark. , . 4 p . , Buying or Selling Stock' When Rhone 1373 or Sec H. B. Room C0U 1,- - & CO., BROKERS'; Dld&. Stock Exchmfge Salt Lake City . . Tel. Watt. UNDERTAKERS AND Open All Night 55111.. EMBALM EUS S. D. EVANS Modern Establishment - can escape the head with an axe. , I When, therefore, we are tempted to go up to the altars to pray with the unction of the Pharisees that we are better than those who sell babies and traiffic in human beings, let us not forget that all of us, as members of the social organism, must bear our Flushing Main Street And Four flushing . 4S . New Building . St. Salt Lake City1State - WE PRINT THE CITIZEN' v i Century printing Company': G. ROMNEY W. :: , J..Q. RYAN. I COLOR PRINTERS , t V card -- Phone Wasatch ; .t 1801 Century Building ;231 Edison Slredt |