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Show THE CITIZEN 4 and decent beyond the comprehension of the average law abiding citizen. OUR EVE fined to modified employment but without any impairment of tl higher standards of living. Obviously if Germany is afforded ar relief through the Dawes plan or Austria through the League Nations, there will be a return to the living standards of p:e-w- s days. Every now and then we find some person who endeavors to dictate as to how we shall live by regulating our manners and customs and mode of life, just recently Bishop Raggia of Prescia, Italy, has barred all women from his church who may dress contrary to his dictatorship. As a Bible student this Bishop ought to be among the very last to criticise. Dress or clothing for the human body is a custom established by style. When God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden they wore no clothes at all, whereas if God had willed he coiild have clothed them in the finest of raiment. It was the man and woman, and not the clothes that God was particularly interested in, which probably is responsible for the modern term, clothes do not make the man. Even today there are tribes, the members of which go unclothed. J Women of today know how to make themselves beautiful and attractive, and while some are rather bold according to modern ideas, none have yet appeared as bold as Eve. LAW In these days of promiscuous arrests by officers it would be well for each officer to read Article Four of the Constitution of the United States, which provides : The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. If this law is upheld by the judiciary, then we are at a loss to know why some justice of the peace or judge will permit themselves to issue John Doe warrants. Many John Doe warrants have been used upon innocent people, and such mistakes should not occur in our law. The Constitution has justly provided that such mistakes must not occur. When we insist that the post-wa- rperiod calls for a severe r adjustment or deflation of credit we have a more definite statime These readjustments, however, never take place, at least not to a pronounced extent. The credit readjustment that would be re.juisij after the gigantic debauchery of the world war could not be folllow out unless there was complete bankruptcy and practical elimin atidri of a large part of many European national units. d The curse of inflation and particularly of inflati is that we are carried further out into the sea of credit dissipatio and that we never seem to get on the same high dry land again, ft flation leaves its scares in the form of higher costs of living. At lea: this has been so since Columbus discovered America and made me intemperate in credit matters with his stories of untold reserves cj gold and silks in the New India. What is probably true is that all peoples in nearly all parts c the world are finally returning to a more conservative attitude It is noticeable so in this country where retail consumption is mos:jc carefully determined than at any in our past and where the bankin structure is maintained on a high level of strength because of thilfc war-perio- conservatism. In Europe it is more of a liquidation of nationalistic egoism and decision to pay against actual revenue rather than against what mallo be secured from the vanquished or the generous outside nations This business recession exists even in the Far East and there be cause the peoples have not been able to realize before this that over seas consumption in time of peace is not what it is in time of wa and reduced domestic production. We are able to say with due regards to every element of fac that the fundamentals of prosperity have not been destroyed in this n country ; our strength is greater than it has ever been. But we nee a new viewpoint and it is the hope of most of us that we have secure! i it and are now able to go on towards the business supremacy which In appears to be our right. ; . Why has the Constitution been violated in this matter? HEAVY DEBT. REACHING FOR BUSINESS Financiers claim that if there is not another war that it will tak In speaking of business, The Financial Review asks, what's the about fifty years to pay off the present debt of this country, which matter with business? Why are the experts so greatly confused wrhen was about $30,000,000,000 for our part in the World War. It ii they attempt to explain it ? Is it surrounded by some mystical element estimated that about 20 per cent of this amount was raised by direct that exacts the presence of a magician to be made clear and under- taxation and about 80 per cent from different kinds of loans. The public debt of the United States reached its maximum in standable to all of us? Is it due to such simple influences as the Congressional mania 1919, when it was $25,482,000,000, or $242 per capita. For 30 yeari for investigations or to the bonus and tax. measures of the same body prior to 1919 the public debt averaged about $1,200,000,000. Today; the debt is approximately $22,600,000,000. The annual interest on ? of or busy-bodithis debt is about $980,000,000. Is it because we must meet the of To this immense debt we now have to add the soldier bonus Or are we now about enter to dreaded that Europe? period when which has been estimated all the way from three to six billior dob; according to the academic we must readjust ourselves completely lars, and which will add another 10,000 employes. and return to the theoretical conditions where gold standard and not paper-mone- y values prevail? IT IS HUMAN TO ERR. Congressional investigations are generally salutory and hardly otherwise and as a severe business depressive influence we think that The importation to Park City of Salt Lake and Weber a unty the narrow-mindeand d would dare to insist that the sheriffs and George only prejudiced Mabey of Pocatello, brother of Governor Cl 'irles one or recent at is present Washington farreaching and of continued R. Mabey, for the purpose of raiding liquor traffickers of Su ninit importance. county, has resulted in the filing of a $25,000 damage suit by D putvj The bonus measure, also, is just as favorable an influence in Sheriff W. R. Jefford, of Park City, for alleged defamation of har- business as any other measure that provides for greater distribution acter. of wealth ; certianly it does not destroy or cancel it. In baseball we would call the entire transaction a bone; ead The tax law, even if the reductions are not as much as many , pky. be cannot desired, truthfully regarded as an unfavorable influence. If the liquor traffic was so bad in Park City that Governor abey And the in Europe is really the had to take a hand he should have done it in the proper way. He sacrifice of the peoples of Germany and Austria. It does not should have notified the enforcement officials of Park City th t he prevail in France, and if there is one form of it in England it is con- - expected of them to do their duty and round up the bootleg gers.; i law-make- rs es so-call- so-call- ed wage-deflati- ed wage-deflati- on on war-vanquish- ed j |