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Show T HE CITIZEN This assumed morality has been reduced to a useless theoretical abstraction. Prohibition has created a crisis which has brought the Nation to a parting of the ways. The way of disaster includes far greater evils than those 0 identified with alcoholic beverages. The way of reason and normality provides opportunity for nothing less than a national rebirth of unity and true patriotism in which the power of the collective mind will be harnessed to a higher Wisdom which will impel progressive reform and limitless national advancement. America! America! God mend thine eyry flaw, Confirm thy soul in self .control, Thy liberty in law. HORNIN ON THE DESERT a The Nevada Highway News publishes a poem which was found written on the door of an old cabin in Southern Nevada, that is worth reading, and clip and paste it in your pocketbook. Here i tis : Mornin, on the desert, and the wind is blowin free, And it's ours, jest for the breathing so let,s fill up, you and me. No more stuffy cities, where you have to pay to breathe, Where the helpless human creatures move and throng and strive and seethe. Homin on the desert, and the air is like a wine, And it seems like all creation has been made for me and mine. No house to stop my vision, save a neighbors miles away, And the little dobe shanty that belongs to me and May. Lonesome? Not a minute ! Why, Ive got these mountains here, That was put here just to please me, with their blush an frown an cheer. Theyre waitin when the summer sun gets too sizzlin hot, An we just go campin in 'em with a pan an coffee pot. Momin on the desert I can smell the sagebrush smoke, I hate to see it burnin, but the land must sure be broke. Aint it just a pity that wherever man may live, He tears up and much thats beautiful that the good God has .to give? Sagebrush ain so pretty? Well, all eyes dont see the same, Have you ever saw the moonlight turn it to a slivery flame? An that greasewood thicket yonder well, it smells jest awful sweet, When the nightwind has been sliakin it . for its smell is hard to beat. Lonesome? Well, I guess not! Ive been lonesome in a town, M3ut sure do love the desert with its stretches wide and brown. All day through the sagebrush here the wind is blowin free, And its ours jest for the breathin, so lets fill up, you an me. DRIFTING The Federal Government has at last found out how to bring about strict enforcement of the Volstead Act. An order has been sent out from the White House to make all the police officers and sheriffs federal officers and pay them $1 per year for their services. Why stop at the police officers and sheriffs ? There are other I Tioncst people who would gladly lend their services for the privilege "bf using a federal badge for only $1 per year. After the enforcement was made in Washington there was so much newspaper comment upon the subject, that our federal officials became alarmed and now they propose to first try it out in California. 4 S Why California was selected we do not know! California may consider it a slam against her character, but she is to blame for selling whiskey so cheaply. It is said that a case of good whiskey can be purchased for $8.50, and any one can get a case or a carload at the same price per case. That may be one reason why California must be cleaned up ! The bootleggers of this city have surely been holding up the people here on the price, because the good stuff has brought more than ten times the California price. Can a police officer work for his city and for the government to enforce it, and local officials absolutely refuse to take either job. No truer saying than the old, You cannot serve two masters.. The decision of the government to enlist dollar-a-yemen to enforce prohibition is a tell-tal- e of how seriously the federal government has failed in its efforts to enforce the law. ' In many states, state officials say that the Volstead Act is a federal law and they are leaving it up to the federal government to enforce, and the local officials absolutely refuse to take a hand in the matter. It is a state of affairs that should not exist in our government, and we are highly surprised that a congress of so many intelligent men cannot find a proper solution for the absolute control of the liquor question. ar DEMOBILIZE No, it does not have reference to the Army of the Nation. It is the caption of a front page editorial of the Utah Taxpayer, and it is an idea that should have been carried out years ago. Here is what it says: 'When the war ended, millions of soldier boys were permitted to lay down their arms and return to private life. There was no difficulty in demobilizing them and removing their names from the public payroll. "Not so, however,, with many thousands of men and women in the government employ in the nation, states and their political The very thought that this army of employes should be reduced because their services were no longer required, met with immediate protest and opposition. From the date of the Armistice to the present moment, that attitude of mind has been largely maintained. "It is estimated that salaries and wages for people on the public payroll are now in excess of $3,500,000,000. This amount is going to 2,700,000 public employes. "A halt must be called. It must begin with the smallest governmental unit. Each board of control, each group of elective officers, must make a survey as to the amount of work that is required in their respective departments; how many employes doing a full day's work should be engaged to perform those tasks. If, then, it is found that the numbers actually on the payroll exceed that number, the process of demobilization should begin. "It is estimated that as a result of this process the number of employes can easily be reduced to 2,000,000. This will save the taxpayers about one billion dollars annually. Without impairing the efficiency of government this demobilization will add to the morale of public service, will unburden the taxpayers and will release for profitable employment these many thousands of men and women now subsisting upon the public. sub-divisio- ns. -- "Let us demobilize." It might also be added that since 1923, over 20,000 employes have been added to the already heavy employe list at Washington in the federal service. Secretary Reese of the Association says that if this advice, even in part, were followed and put into actual practice, it would be a great saving to the taxpayers of the nation. We would like to go a step farther and add that a survey should be made on home property and taxes reduced to such a point that a poor man may find it possible to purchase a home. The poor have the large families, and in these days of high prices and low wages, comparatively, after he pays his grocery bills at the end of the week |