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Show THE CITIZEN payers, just for the purpose of promoting laziness instead of thrift among our youth. Some of the biggest men we have at the head of our largest corporations today are men who started to work when mere lads, and if they had their lives to live over again there is no doubt that they vvould want to start to work even younger than they did before. We cant see what the agitation is all about. Any youth that does not have to work before eighteen years of age has an Uncle Bim or a rich father. AMERICA QUITS IN DISGUST. Bishop Brent of the American delegation at the international opium conference at Geneva has resigned in disgust and is coming home. He says, this is the last time I shall take a share in any interFor a score of years national gathering on this great problem. Bishop Brent has been attacking the drug evil, and thought he saw af? opportunity to deal it a body blow through the committee appointed by the League of Nations. Article 23, of the League covenant pledges each member of the League to entrust to it general supervision over the traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs, and there was every reason to believe that the League would proceed in good faith to execute that duty. The American delegation, headed by Congressman Stephen G. Porter, of Pennsylvania, went to Geneva with high hopes of accomplishment, but their optimism has faded away before the constant rebuffs to which they have been subjected. In its handling of the opium problem, the League seems to be guided by just the same considerations that govern most of its other activities. There is no disposition of the members to step on' each others toes in settling controversies likely to lead to war, neither is there any intention of interfering with members who are deriving a highly profitable tax from the traffic in narcotic drugs. The two Geneva opium conferences have been practically fruitless from the American point of view because of the selfish attitude of those countries in which the poppy is grown and where opium and its derivatives are manufactured. The conduct of the opium discussions by the League gives us a very accurate index of what would happen to American aspirations if the United States were a member of the League and endeavored to present its side of any question coming before it. Every such controversy would be decided according to the wishes of Old World nations which completely dominate its proceedings. To all intents and purposes the United States was a member of the League so far as its participation in the opium conferences was concerned. Its case was carefully prepared and effectively presented, but the American argument made no impression at all against the sordid diplomacy that has always prevailed abroad. If we could not win our point in a purely altruistic cause like the present, what chance would we have in a cause in which we might have a selfish interest of our own? THE CITIZEN has always held that the League of Nations was never organized to help us. Had we become a member our one vote against combined Europe would have received no more attention Aan we got in this nefarious opium drug traffic out of which for-tq$ne- rs are reaping millions of dollars. It is now up to the United States to subdue this traffic in our own country by the most stringent laws. A drug addict eventually becomes the most loathesome and despised human wreck in our criminal code, and some of our most heinous crimes are committed while under the influence of these imported drugs. The man who peddles such dope should be given life at hard labor. It is worse than murder to slowly poison a person with such a deadly drug, and our s courts should have no mercy upon these unscrupulous poison who are continually undermining the morale of our citizens. Now what do you think of the League of Nations which refuses to suppress this inhuman traffic of drugs? traf-ficer- FORD AS CRITIC. Did you read the Presidents message to Congress? Or did you pass it over because in the past, presidents messages have seemed to 5 be directed to the politicians and not to the people? Calvin Coolidge has just made a communication on the public business that can be understood by any citizen and that touches every citizens concerns. There is nothing high-flowabout the message; it comes down to matter-of-fac- t treatment of the nations daily affairs. It takes up the matter of taxes in an almost revolutionary way it says the things that the people always say and that presidents so seldom seem to know. It goes directly to the roots of the tax trouble and it proposes action which is so full of common-sens- e and so practicable that it seems to be the production of almost any place other than Washington. Henry Forbes in the Dearborn Independent. n FIREMENS SANTA CLAUS. While the people of this city were in slumberland and dreaming of a merry Christmas, one of Salt Lakes most important business blocks was on fire, and our brave firemen, who also had planned a merry Christmas, were bravely battling the fierce flames which for hours defied all efforts to stop it. It was several degrees below zero and the water froze nearly as fast as it was applied to the flames. Most of the firemen appeared like mechanical objects moving back and forth, with their wet clothes frozen stiff on their bodies, but daunt-lessl- y they fought the fire until it was put out regardless of the biting cold and their intense suffering. We have a crew of firemen the city may well be proud of and it is a crew which can be depended upon regardless how hazardous the conditions may be. Chief Bywater of the fire department says that the loss sustained by the business men damaged will be in the neighborhood of $150,000. -,- iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiirL'"''iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiia Society Poetry Music - I ?iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniHiiiiiii The Veterans of Ambulance Company No. 343 will give a dancing party at the Salt Lake Tennis club tonight. The affair is in charge of Bob Hatch and arrangements have been made for a good time for all who take advantage of their invitations. The biggest social event of the year was celebrated on Christmas day, when everybody had a party at their home. The deep snow made it possible for Santa Claus to visit all the homes in the city, and it was the best Christmas the kiddies have had for many years. Daniel Eugene Livingston and Miss Ilortense Stohl, who were married in the temple last week, will spend their honeymoon in California. They will after January For Wedding Invitations (engraved or printed), Programs, etc., see or call CENTURY PRINTING CO., 235 Edison Street. Wasatch 1801. Adv. GOVERNMENT ENGINEERS REPORT ON WATER POWER . In 1900 the installed capacity of the water-powe- r plants in the Great Salt Lake Basin was about 14,000 horsepower; in 1923 it was more than 225, 000 horsepower. These are two of many interesting facts shown in a report on the water powers of the Great Salt Lake Basin just published by the Geological Survey, Department of the Interior. The first thing required in a waterpower investigation is a reliable esti- entering TO REFINED PEOPLES o of Fort Douglas, and Mrs. Martha Candee Thompson, of New York, announce Captain O. W. Gralund, their engagement. " ? 4 1 1 ''i!MiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMii'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiimiiiiuiimiiiiiiii entertained a large number of friends at a dancing party at the Country club Christmas night. I Those Delicious I M&0 CIGARS Mr. and Mrs. James H. Moyle will i leave for Europe the early part of the year. Miss Evelyn Moyle, who is in Washington at present, will join the Moyles on their extended trip. i 'r r:r,liiriiHi:ii,ii"i!ii.;i::i:!iili:ii!li:i:i::i''1 ,:l Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Dicke, Mr. and Mrs. V. P. Strange and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Shay ' Phone Hyland And Make Reservations Table DANCING AND REFRESHMENTS air. So. Tenth East FRANK COPP, Manaiter ; 4(1-1- 10. ? 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