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Show THE CITIZEN thiur'vji J: i .'vi di the puritan that civilization is value-- ' less and life is not worth living if one may not do some of the things he chooses. ji OBSERVATION PLANE i A cigarette does js&ette As Symbol Qore to some king To the precisian everything in this life of ourB is either good or bad, but not mean life, but it may mean liberty and the an-othe- - effectiveness. They would rather prohibition did not prohibit too strictly because then they could not look upon the vexation of their neighbors and take delight therein. They would rather be able to walk up to a table in a restaurant and compel their neigh-fa- r to throw away a filthy weed than to have the law so effectively enforced that their neighbor could not obtain the weed. They have their own idea boy who is bad enough to alive until he is in his teens has ur (noked cigarettes of some kind. Even L Ills daring goes no farther than corn curous cubeb he succumbs or re-ppin&- in' 5 j rabbi , this S !r' y of the pursuit of happiness. s deuce, for. ' jg liberty. . For them My neighbors liberty ends where my opinion, my comfort or my prejudice or my mere perversity begins. Skating In Streets A Deadly Peril It is ever a graceless and a painful task to impinge with criticism upon those in affliction but sometimes it is necessary in the interest of the public welfare Some would define personal liberty as the right to do as one pleases, but there is no such right, or, if there is, it is only for those who have attained to a higher state of perfection than any of us attain on this sphere. Because we are what we are we let no man do. as he pleases; we know that we must not do as we please in all things, for there could be no human society with such a boundless measure of liberty. spite And he learns the higher lesson iGurs. ..at by sacrifice he will help others raterto j. be happy while he is earning his i own salvation. som; But always there remains in his soul ie A of liberty. As a man he is not san Jove conventionalized, not so tyrannized And because there .must be limits to otic(?er by a society which has tried cei'ansform him into a machine, not so the precisian and the puritan find an ng ijcustomed to obey positive law and argument for prescribing what a man ill more positive and oppressive cus-m- shall eat and what, he shall wear. Anythat- he uoes not yean for free- - thing that interferes with the comfort who would or pleasure or even the prejudice of aSsgcpm and cry out upon those ' jetostrict the field of liberty. He be-- i this or that group must be circumnieves that there is a bourne beyond scribed or wholly banned, according to e Vhlch regulation should not go and the reformers way of viewing life. To the libertine who would permit J,0hat within that bourne man should i r. all things it is necessary to point ge left to regulate himself. Our constitution said nothing about out that there could be no civilization i)j if each were to be a law unto himself. obacco, but it did say something espe-i-tially pertinent about life, liberty and On the other hand it ought to be alhe pursuit of happiness. though it is not sufficient to say to 5nnyly, - . i s, - i 11 , i L 1 reformers have distorted, though, perhaps, unconsciously. Their rendering of the law would, be something like this: together. proclivities. He learns the a cosson that he must obey laws so that j may have a measure of peace and Bd ippiness and even of safety and lib- to mans right begins. It has proved a workable law. It is one that Naturally those who cling to their vices great or small try to enlarge the bounds of liberty. And those who try to wrest their neighbors from the paths of vice seek to limit the paths as much as possible or close them al- As he grows up he learns that there e laws, human and divine, which ap- ome. ld .al to his reason and he obeys them it another the road to happiness is to be able to pursue their neighbor with persecutions. . t old-tim- . seduction of the cigarette as a nbol, mind you, as a glorious sym-l4 of liberty. And most boys, when 3 symbol loses its lure, lose theiT droopire for cigarettes. meFor boys cigarettes are forbidden by retire i ligher law than that fiat of a legisla-n- . support-Mrs.- ; gy T:e the edict of the parent by the law of public opinion. But ughii youth all law appears in the sombre ippings of tyranny. To him all law mat .( , odious and he delights in lawbreak- s j. It is his way of showing the natLir rSl proclivity of man for independHe r, re-ve- al .V the aware that the slightest slip of the skater is liable to cause a fatal accident. It is difficult to dodge a skater in the daytime; it is much more difficult to achieve the feat at night. And it is, of course, impossible to achieve it if the skater is one with the shadi . a child is seen skating to get out of the path of the auto the experienced driver takes every precaution because he is the wise know that some things may be bad for one person and good for that all things are good all of , the time if they are not misused. Few of us would concede that the ows. right to liberty dictates utter freedom We agree that headlights usually in the making and distribution of narthe pedestrian if the driver is cotics. One who would advocate the watchful, and it may be that the driver unlicensed and unhampered manufacin this case was careless. We are not ture and sale of cocaine would be conso much interested in exculpating him sidered a madman. 'And yet the liberas we are in drawing attention to the tine might argue for such a condition in the name of personal liberty. All of madness of permitting children to us were, and, for that mattter still are, skate on the streets after dark. It familiar with the argument of personal 'hardly can be argued that a paved road liberty in defense of intoxicants and may be used legitimately as a skating ft. e even the saloon. rink. Our forefathers, casting about for a compromise, devised the cunning rule THE RETURN. that one mans liberty ends where pursuit of happiness. laying smoked only a few cigarettes Those who would regulate society ac- again,' much defense in their cahnot say cording to the consciences of an aca a as but cigarettes, symbol cigartive minority do not trouble themr a iTtfZ as as the selves much about glorified , e may, become liberty and the pur; girth about its tip. suit of happiness. Often they consid,.vv uquireoator Southwick is quoted as say-11- 1 er their own happiness and find it in enl that if his bill against smoking in regulating others. And not a few we ! 5nSlic meets with the approval trust no Utah legislator is among the d betv-:;- places associates he will, number are so dominated by perverjn(i: bis legislative r s, I pi years hence how blessed, once in sity that they would rather see a law enforced to the point of irritating their arhile, is that word hence he will 0,ent a much more drastic measure. neighbors than to the point of genuine :V ike 9 few nights ago a boy who was roller skating on the State street road at 8:30 p. m., was killed' by an automobile. We are apt to be stirred to in- i And so at last I trod the ways I once had found so fair To find the rose of memory Had drooped and faded there. Noon on the strange-familia- r ways; Dust, and the common things; Until at last the day spread out For flight its lovely wings. And let their golden shadows fall Across the fields I knew; And then the sudden splendor came And it was wont to do. Like the old smile across a face Whose early charm is spent, That light of unforgotten days Trembled and came A . dignation and feelings of vengeance when we read in the newspaper accounts that the ruthless auto driver sped on in the death car without stopping to care for the little victim. The chances are that the driver does not know yet that his car killed the lad, but it may be that, having read in the newspaper the account of the accident, he suspects with an overpowering sense of horror that his car is the death car. Auto drivers will ask themselves in amazement what folly it was that permitted a boy to be skating in the dark on the main traveled highway to the south of the city. Of all pedestrians that give worry to the auto driver the child skater is the most troublesome. Even when the and went. Selected. JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIM. J. It. Sebree II. W. 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