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Show 7 . THE CITIZEN were not hard to get at. The ation; and other classy fortified liquors with scream line heads the ext day the metropolitan papers announced of the city, had been raided ews that an obscure tea house, on the outskirts been the wise minions of the law, and that four bottles of hootch had uofiscated. f When we think that here in Salt Lake we have to depend on a deucedly of moonshine to slack our thirst, we are prone to get a bit 0Or quality The inconsistency of the thing hits us an be in New York ffful smack right in the face. If we were rich we would the best beverages ever made in France, r any other old town, licking up :il$ r any other foreign land; and we would be immune from arrest. Well, because we dont ere not rich, so were not drinking much these days, dukj anker for moonshine in bottles. the In a recent address, President Harding woke up to the fact that flat ibition law was hard to administer practically admitted it was a cited over this disclosure. could be manufactured and one, and that, thereafter, only replacement cars that the business would suffer a mighty crash. In much the same way the scientific mongers have told us wonderful l and amazing calming stuff about our oil and coal reserve supplies. a They loudly bemoan that we are eating up our oil and coal supply at anti-sou- terrific rate, that when it is gone it is all gone forever; that fifty- - seventy-five- , one hundred years hence, we will be as oilless and coalless as the middle of the Atlantic ocean. And the oil and coal barons shout amen and up go prices. And it seems that if we go on with this miasma of complaint about production and consumption, we will shortly become so and keep our addled that we will be running our autos on tobacco-spi- t - I houses warm with cuss words. Anyhow, the auto makers turned out 2,550,000 cars for the last fiscal in excess year and no one has been hurt overly much. This is considerably of the 1920 output which reached 2,025,000. Americans are the motor t hounds of the universe. " didnt know; :atfilure. And at that he wasnt telling the people anything they all of them are not so familiar with the fact that it is so darn easy while the rest of us go Mor the man with the jack to get the real stuff, OD ease up on round with tongues hanging out like a blacksmiths apron, or When will it end? THANKS OVER DUE! 93) While The Citizen holds the revolting details of such escapades of I'Jkali water! be-- 4 villainy, as that which landed the youngsters Rex Ayllet and William Farr, rial) And to add to this carload of distress we are now laboring under local behind prison bars; a bandit raid in which a prominent young girl of the our real of hootch, distribution the in discrimination the of cause southern district was seriously wounded, and perhaps crippled for life; in are than figurin eat, state solons, who would rather suppress something were ruthlessly held up and commanded to forcitizens which and corn-coiJ lather strong on slipping one over on the feit either their valuables or their lives while such thrilling and amazing frame earnest such an in details of crime are anathema to this paper yet The Citizen does feel that j 'pipe. And it would be real funny if they were not to were of mind and spirit over the proposition. If we thought they Sheriff C. Frank Emery, his efficient criminal Deputy Leichter, and the we few a for nights, make the smokers of Utah lay awake ith totalize us and rest of his force, who spent upwards of twenty hours each day, for more we would say very much about it. two days, in rounding up these two modem criminals, are entitled to than eer jnt think The sai But an heres where the shoe pinches like the dickens! more than the mere thanks of the entire community. their enforce to cigarette "indigo-blustalwarts, have lamentably failed to brook two wayward young men, who had long Here was brought all mankind because of that defeat. walked in the avenues of American society. They were exposed as law; and now they crave to get back at good our will be brought to bear on So it appears a cinch that hefty pressure the instigators of a saturnalia of crime, dating back for many months. ivo be to no matter who they are, nor how averse they may and ambitious young men, with pleasing perof legislators-elect- , were shrewd, conniving They this to stand them in line for another saturnalia of fanatical sonalities but possessing unusual criminal propensities and predelictions. measure. But the sheriff and his men proved as shrewd, as adept, as they were. In the truth that such a measure will transgress We hold to the of his duty, in what seems to be the closing hours of a successful discharge constitutions. J the personal liberty provisions of our own and the federal and honorable career as chief purveyor of peace for the county, for four will the blue faction are so cantankerous they and beloved by all )0 But we believe, also that past, C. Frank Emery, will step aside respected years the at over law that they will put this try anything once; and sane Americans, because of his official zeal and the exceptional efficiency And there you are! g f inext legislative session if they can. of the force he has lead and personally inspired to perform great deeds his term of office. TEAPOT. A IN TEMPEST ASKS SANE LEGISLATION. late the frazzle in to a Disgruntled Democratic candidates, whipped the taxpayers to liquidate, in the State Division of the International Association for IdentificaUtah election, are now stirring up a mess for The counted into office. Tain hope that some of them may he, graciously, convention assembled, at the Public Safety building, on December in tion, susDemocrats advance to There is little in these realities which the for a comprehensive campaign looking toward the enactment 27, planned which might, at any time, appeal Identificatain their claims to a 'recount, but that of legislation for establishment of a State Bureau of Criminal of political propaganda. to parlor intellectuals or unconscious purveyors This body also took action to have a petition circulated throughout tion. S. J. Lindsay came through to accomplish the abolishment of the board The whole thing centers around the fact that officers, the peace among state, than Commissioner W.rthlin, and the election fracas with a few more votes of pardons. office. It is presumed this over county contest At this convention were assembled representatives from every county hinges on the premeditated for a contest and calling this association was only organized last November, that Wirthlin knows what he is doing in instituting the state. Although in evide y sufficient cause, but his action has a recount, that he has discovered to be a power in its chosen line of endeavor in all has it grown already like a pac and into line, m rebuttal, of Utah. It is the contention of the association that affiliation brought the whole Democratic party parts fever. between state criminal departments will bring greater close ionary saturation point and and tend to hold down crime, which has become lamentably ramefficiency WORLDS MOTORING HOUNDS. pant of late. of Police N. P. Pierce, victim of youthful street bandits, was Sergeant a than more first reached in the organization and resolutions of sorrow and Seven years ago when motor car output life a membership given about viloud wailing moans rent the ambient atmosphere million-a-yea- r condolence were passed. fever. law-abidin- old-tobacco-pou- g b ch , jut e I law-makin- anti-tobac- g, co ! self-evide- nt i anti-tobacc- o dur-ine- over-producti- on co-operati- sional saturation point and over-producti- on howlers who invariably pestiferous calamity American industry starts an amazing do the wolf act every time an of the country is only pointed out that the population to buy and child -Ithat every man, woman Ford was optimistic about the future of his a car- - that not even Henry who could afford a car had That everybody horseless carriage. Hard-boile- d, Stfi-- 1 peculiar u blue-nose- d, d into a home. Now they put the home They used to put the spare pennies into spare tires. who would And now if the average citizen could only get a servant girl this would be. han" on like an office holder, what a great nation I |