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Show C4J J5S- -. 5:45 :1T ' Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager Ten iALLAGHER, Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: '.'lacluding postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, :5uK?for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal ed Ul Bfc enge 18. $4.50 Single copies, 10 cents. Payments should he made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at 8alt Lake of March 3, 1879. Act under the Utah, City, 3 Phone Wasatch 5409. Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah. per year 311-12-1- fra u. rJ HOLDUPS GIVE GAMBLERS PITILESS PUBLICITY policemen are warned not to visit gambling houses. of. the most irritating characteristics of the crime wave inal is that he has no respect for the poses of the police or the nses of our commissioners. ake for example, the two inconsiderate holdup men who raided steins gambling den at 234 South Main street last Saturday ifternoon at 4:30 oclock. The police had announced a week or so before that all card clubs had been closed and would. remain closed or sixty days. There was to be an intensive campaign against criininals during that period. SMThe beauty about Bernsteins palatial parlors of chance is that jCard club can be closed and gambling remain open. If you are card 3L, Jlonger able to cast the festive dice or pick the unlucky can play the ponies and lose just as easily. And you need not visit the pleasant parlors. There are runners who will bring .Xbets to you and the bad news later. How ungrateful it was of Mr. Bernstein to squall to the police r all they had done for him. Just as soon as he and his friend had lost their $500 the owner and proprietor hurried over the police station and made a complaint against the holdup men. j'fLJs this the way the police were protecting the taxpayers? Here was Bernstein shouting for pitiless publicity at the top was Xjhis voice and the police trying to quiet him. And what OO to him? Did he not glean that much in an hour from the card fables or from those who contributed to his pony game? ITe told the reporters all about it. ' fj But he could not be silent. Tfue, he told them that no card game was in progress because of! the chiefs order that all card clubs be closed for sixty days and the reporters courteously put it in their respective and respectable and onh -family journals that way. Mr. Bernstein is very popular a grumpy weeklv journal will treat him with anything but courtes. Dne ; anything wrong they must report to the purity squad and let the squad do the rest, and rest is the best thing the purity squad does. The unlucky gamblers might as well have been out in the wilderness as in the card club. If a policeman had been told by anyone that the club was being raided he would have dashed madly in another direction, thus obeying orders. And when the bandits had ambled downstairs with their plunder the ungrateful Mr. Bernstein began to bewail bitterly and his lamentations got into print. And the public discovered that the gambling dens were not closed. Isnt it irritating? We use the phrase gambling den instead of card club because it is so descriptive. The city commissioners would be glad if we always spoke of card clubs, for that is the name under which the gambling dens are licensed. Think of it! Gambling in Salt Lake is licensed by the mere devise of passing an. ordinance which is in violation of the state law prohibiting all gambling. By simply describing the parlor of chance as a card club the city commissioners are able to provide entertainment for devotees of chance among our population and for visiting criminals. Temporarily the privilege was denied the visiting criminals, for they had been abusing police hospitality. The gambling dens were closed. But Mr. Bernsteins was open when two of the visiting criminals visited his place. Is it possible that Mr. Bernstein was operating in defiance of the order of his good friends at police headquarters? llow sharper than a serpents tooth is mans ingratitude? No doubt the police would be pleased if the credulous public did not know that Bernsteins place ua The anti-vic- e squad j ou maybe formed the opinion that the gambling den was open in violation of gentlemen knew it. operating. But energetic hold-u- p the order. Perhaps the credulous public will form that opinion, but sure that they had been there before and were quite aware of time for their raid. They were not taking chances of capture may they not get a sudden gleam of intelligence and ask why the And the proof of their knowledge lies police order gambling closed for sixty days when a state law places by raiding a closed shop. others present and a perpetual ban on gambling. May they not demand to know why in .the fact that they found Mr. .Bernstein and it is that city commissioners grant licenses for gambling under the well supplied with coin when they arrived. of giving permits for card clubs? J One of them held a bottle of 1120 above his head and informed guise If the city commissioners think it right to license gambling why and that he ias pl.anning the crowd that it contained for other forms of crime? Why not to blow up the joint if any of them dared so much as to wink an do they not. grant permits license holdups or murders of policemen? But, come to think of it, means of per ejelash. He also carried a revolver as an additional is just what they arc doing. When they license gambling dens suasion. After he had finished his lines in dashed the other bandit that which are frequented by criminal elements they license all kinds with an automatic cannon and made his argument. I or a of crime. And not a policeman to protect the poor gamblers! . the-.rig- nitro-glycer- in j If they see ht |