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Show Single copies, 10 cents. Payments should be 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 March 3, 1879. Act under of the City, Utah, ' Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah Phone Wasatch 5409 Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager 1 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: the United States Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, Including postage $1.50 for sixmonths. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year.;- r In - ; 311-12-- - 13 NATION FACES DRUG HABIT Under our present lax laws the dope ring has waxed fat and according to government reports hopheads are daily increasing in numbers. This loathsome drug has even been peddled in our high schools and universities, and under the present rate of increase it will be just a matter of time when the entire country will be subject to its use. The cost of manufacture is insignificant as compared with the price for which it is sold arid enormous profits are gleaned from the poor wretches who use it. Once the habit is cultivated, horrible and lingering death awaits the victim and there is no cure, that is cures can be made where the victims are isolated or placed where it is impossible to get any of the filthy drug. The habit creates a craving which completely controls the user and he will steal, kill or go through fire to secure the drug. Those who deal in this death dealing traffic seldom use it themselves. They need all their wits to deal it out to their customers who use it and they do it in such a way that it is very hard for the government to catch them in the business. .The drug can be. easily smuggled into the country because hundreds of doses can be brought in a very small package. The United States appears to be a very fertile field for dope traffic and the government spends millions of dollars annually running down these murder hounds. The charges for the dope run all the way from $1 to $10 and it is said that even It all depends whether the customer $25 has been paid for a shot. has money. If they are wealthy the dope sellers have a regular gold mine and their toll is heavy. Of course from the poor they cannot get but very little but they extract up to the last penny from the poor wretches who are ready and 'willing to give up everything they possess for a sniff or shot in the arm. Lillian Burkhart, a society woman of Los Angeles, who is a former star and actress of the stage, has returned to the stage for the purpose of trying to educate the American public as to the serious and fatal consequences of the drug habit. This week she appears until Tuesday night at the Pantagcs theatre in a playlet entitled The Straight Dope and after the act she ells her audience of the fight she is putting up to kill the dope business. Every father and mother ought to interest themselves in stamping out this drug ring which is making thousands of criminals every year, and all children ought to be thoroughly instructed as .to the hgrriblc results which follow the .use of the drug. If they hear of any of it being usedin the should immediately report same and sec that the pedschools :tly behind the; bars. dlers are-puin- its Now as&i),;tbe present form is not feared, it should be made so stringent that the habit would be stamped out. If it means an agonizing and torturous, death for those who contract the dope habit, the penalty ought to be life imprisonment or death. It is better that a crook die than a whole nation of good citizens. Large fines will never stop dope traffic nor will. jail sentences of a few years. But take away the greater part of a mans life behind prison bars and there are few, very few, who will dare to chance an the-mos- arrest. With a drastic law in force it would not be long before the drug habit would be entirely forgotten. Are we. to stand and protect our birthright or are we to sell it for a pill? Congress can make it so hot for those in this hellish business that they will all be glad to get out of the country, but the government cannot control this nefarious traffic by the honor system. If the men in the business of sell- t ing drugs had any honor, they would not be selling the drug, and the government must act accordingly. AFTER EFFECTS. Sheriff Ben R. Harris is getting an international reputation through the advertisement he is receiving by being drawn into the courts because of complaints filed contesting his election. The allegations filed against him set forth that he was elected through Mormon church influence and the efforts of the Ministerial association, contrary to the constitution of Utah and the United States, and therefore he should not be allowed to hold office. The matter has been pending in the courts for several months now. Harris is confident that he will be retained in office, while the opposing factions are just as confident that they will oust him from office. The trial is being watched by the entire country and is an unfortunate affair for this state. If Harris wins, the report will go out that the Mormon church is still in politics and those not belonging to the church arc not wanted. No matter how much advertising we do of. our great resources it will be hard under the existing conditions to induce people to locate here and bring in capital. On the other hand if the case is decided against Sheriff Harris it will end religion in politics, at least openly, and people will not be adverse to coming here. It is a bad thing for the state no matter which way it goes, and the Ministerial association and President Heber J. Grant made a serious mistake when they dictated as to who should be elected. Religion and politics can never go hand in hand. The members of every church differ in their political views, lliey can all agree upon their respective religions but when it comes to politics it is another story. That is the reason that the constitution provides a separation of church and state and that is the only method to secure harmony in political matters. SUNDAY MOVIES. t ..law--whic- t - The Presbyterians in convention at Indianapolis attacked Sunto clean day movie shows as undesirable, and these shows ought If movie shows arc undesirup and clear out of the Lords day. able on Suridays they are undesirable on the other six days of the week also. It is safe to say that a moral lesson can be learned from 99 per cent of all motion pictures presented, and if one soul thereby can be saved on Sunday, the work is well done. One can lead a horse to water but the animal cannot be made to drink. People can |