OCR Text |
Show THE CITIZEN 4 ATHLETICS IN SCHOOLS need of penitentiaries, but laws do not reform. Blackstone says that common sense is law, and we know from general experience that any law that does not meet with the general approval of the people is continually violated. If religion cannot reform the individual, the knout will never do it. Law is force and where force or the law is used to abridge thought and liberty, there crime is incubated. We believe that it is the inherent right of every individual to solely decide whether he wants to go to church on Sunday or to amuse himself in some other way. The preacher only fools himself if he believes that Sunday closing will swell his attendance and bring more money into the contribution box. Our Constitution was founded upon justice. If there is a better one in heaven we will wait till we get there. In the piean-timdont forget that good laws make good citizens. Representative John F. Tolton attacks the present in our schools of giving so much undivided attention j letics in lieu of education. Seldom are the studies refej except in class. From the opening of the year to the cl letics appear to be uppermost in mind, and more stress upon securing a good coach than a good professor. All astic athltics have been turned over to the professional and as a result amateurism is vanishing in the schools, It is desirable that the students take part in athletics, has never been and it is not the intention of the parents stitute athletics for education. There are many cases when athletes are enrolled because of their athletic ability the present system it will not be long before there will bidding for their services. We have a compulsory educational law. Under RECEIPTS TELL FISH STORY many students are forced to attend school against their The legislature should not overlook the financial record of the result is poor marks in all their studies. Those it our state fish and game department for the past year. For a interested in athletics are subjected to physical training very small and insignificant fee, the seiners were allowed to take an extent that they are compelled to work extra hard if thei out most of the catfish in Utah lake, with the result that the state to get high marks. How much money does it require to pay for all this lor lost thousands of dollars in licenses. The year ending June 30, 1926, which practically includes in school! Are athletics the first consideration in our ft two fishing seasons- and one hunting season, the department re- with education just a Tolton struck a popular chord when he brought thisi ceived only $38,268.60 in licenses. Money had to be secured from somewhere and a drive was made against the beaver of the state to the attention of the people. and together with fines, etc., the total revenue amounted to GREAT PICTURE $70,339.26, with a little more than half of this amount for lift e, ht cl fc by-produ- ct! - censes. The One Increasing Purpose, a feature picture prc This does not compare favorably with former years. Take the two years ending November 30, 1924, we find that the total at the Pantages theatre this week, is a moral lesson to receipts were $207,336.95, plus a balance of $37059.01, making who sees it. It is based upon the principles of right and and it took an English soldier who had gone through the; a grand total of $244,395.96. What is happening! The daily papers tell us about the World War to show his influential friends and relate excellent hunting and fishing, but the receipts tell a different home what beauty there was in life if wrongs were cor and one set about trying to make those around him happy. story. This picture has created much interest and enthusii; If the legislature raises the license fee this year, there will be more hard luck than ever, and there will be more of the boys over the country, and there is no doubt that it is doing m of: going to Idaho and Wyoming than formerly. The boys will not wherever it is shown. The picture is a thrilling scene and business life entwined with a real love story, toget pay for something they are not getting. Some of the people may be fooled, but you cannot fool the the usual business and love intrigues among people, yet & moral is set out so eminently and without apparent attempt boys who hunt and fish. effe There was a time, and that only five years ago, when one at the end one cannot help but comment upon the good could count all of 5,000 people fishing at Utah lake and the source picture has. It is a classic of the silver cloth and eve of the Jordan river for catfish during the early months of the should see it. season preceding the opening of the trout season. The story HIRING GUARDS today is far different. There are few fishermen. Why waste the time when you cant catch anything. The proposed bill which would prohibit business I How much has the market man paid into the state coffers and how many thousands of tons of public fish lias he sold at a from hiring their own guards borders on the radical. In the first place, no banking institution would lure good price! must A the not and for fit guard the to where of job. the Utal: be a physically mentally except past thing Hunting appears emergency fronb big duck clubs are located, hence few licenses will be sold for the essentials necessary to meet an unexpected bank. to rob a nresn shooting. Our streams must be stocked with trout in order to as arises when a band of thugs try The law might go a step farther and. say that no secure the return of thousands of sportsmen who have left us. & the be a president of a bank unless he had attained f Sens of chief of police. WESTPIIAL BILL .PKP is trying The proposed legislation looks like some one Jrante It is the opinion of most businessmen that Senate bill No. a corner upon all police jobs. If every business house in the city could afford a 118, by Senator Westphal, is the proper bill to pass. Secretary of State Crockett says that this bill embodies the essential there would be much less crime in our city and the policed So f; amendments which will not only make the law more liberal, but ment would not have the present worry. mental removes many objectionable features, as well as being a protecJordtl RAILROADS tion to the people of the state and to holding swindlers down Jisures to a minimum. not If it were not for the railroads Utah would Director H. C. Hicks says that the new proposed legislation ,ire railroad was drafted from records of the office which clearly indicated very much in this isolated western desert. The what was best for the people. The bill was drawn up and ready made our state what it is todiiy, and instead of disco r of ii for presentation at the beginning of the present session. It has them with high taxes and trying to regulate their busin tW The the endorsement of the Salt Lake Stock Exchange and many of law, they should be made to feel that we want to help th There is no denying that Uintah basin is one of the businessmen of the state. eve: -- uJ |