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Show THE CITIZEN 5 his best alibi would be that the state had given him a license Surely the government does out mean to tell us that such conditions are businesslike. If we must have liquor for medicine, to drive a car. Statistics show that Connecticut has greatly reduced auto- then that is the first step to notify the people that the prohibition mobile accidents by not allowing reckless drivers on her high-- . law is all wrong. But why destroy liquor if we have to make it! Is it because ways, and not until such methods are employed in every state we have two political machines working one making liquor, and $will automobile accidents be reduced to a minimum. When irresponBible automobile drivers are made to realize the other destroying it! Surely no one but a fool would do such that their driving licenses depend upon their good behavior a thing, but that's what we are doing. Eminent physicians have repeatedly said that it is absoon the public highways, will it be possible to curtail the numerous accidents. lutely necessary to have alcohol for many diseases. If that is true, and they cant get the alcohol, should people be allowed to Why tolerate a menace! die like dogs! The stupid extravagance of flushing sewers with fine MOSQUITO. whiskies and wines makes us look like the foolish man who cast . Mosquito Destroyer II. W. Christopherson claims that he has killed at least 99 per cent of the pests in the city. Surely he jprast mean in the vicinity of the Salt Lake Tribune, because in other parts of the city this bloodthirsty pest is working overtime. It keeps the kiddies scratching their legs and it keeps the mamas busy bathing the bitten places with soothing lotions. Down our way the mosquito is as plentiful as ever, and we wonder from where it comes. The Tribune gave the people quite a story about the mosquito, and winds up with a paragraph on a tax levy for next year. The big story struck us kind of peculiar at first until we reached the last paragraph, when we found the meat of the nut. We are against any tax unless better results can be shown. In some parts of the city mosquitoes are so numerous that it is impossible to sit out in the open. The mosquito abatement is on a par with our smoke abatement. During the summer and breezy weather there is no smoke. Its during that time that the smoke commission makes its record, but in the winter some mornings it is impossible to see more than fifty yards they call that fog. In the winter time we have no mosquitoes thats the time for this commission to make a record; but during the summer we have the mosquitoes. We suggest that we all move to the hills for a day and let Uncle Sam fill the valley with poison gas ; that would get urn for a week anyhow. The reckless automobile drivers keep the mosquitoes out of the business district. It is costing the city $3,000 a month to pour oil over the waters. This is quite a feat, and it takes an experienced engineer to do the directing of the work. Well, if we have lots of money, it may be all' right, but down our way we cannot sleep without a protection against the flying swordsmen. his pearls among the swine. REDS The assassination of a soviet official at Warsaw has been followed by a score of ruthless executions in Russia, executions for which there is no pretense of a hearing to determine the guilt or innocence of the victim. A world wide protest has followed this reprisal for the tragedy at Warsaw and it is becoming apparent that public opinion everywhere is turning against the soviet authorities in Moscow. As one Berlin newspaper puts it: treacherous, insidious intrigues in the houses of others and the sanguinary reign of terror in its own must finally lead to the creation of a world wide front against the raging madness of bolsh- evism. The rulers of the Russian communism are certainly consistent in their inconsistency. Abroad they plot and intrigue against the government under which their agents happen at the particular time to be living, seeking to destroy stability and economic sanity, and they protest loudly when this plotting and planning is in any way interfered with. Let ay of their own agents be interfered with and the protest from Moscow can be heard around the world. In Russia, however, it is different. Anyone suspected of plotting against sovietism is shot down without trial, and his friends and relatives are fortunate if they escape a similar fate. This outrage of course is committed in the interest of the communistic march of progress and therefore is permissable. A case in point is that of Sacco and Vanzetti the two Boston murderers. These two men, convicted after lengthy trial, not for a political crime, but for a payroll murder, now facing the gallows. Yet the reds and pinks everywhere have rallied around them, not because they are believed to be innocent, but because the prisGILLHAM ADVERTISING FAIR. oners themselves are reds. Their proposed execution for payroll murder after a lengthy trial is regarded as an outrage by red The L. S. Gillham Co., Inc., will do the advertising for the sympathizers everywhere. Yet the reds themselves regard it as Utah state fair this fall. Through its state connections, this proper to shoot down without trial persons in Russia who are company is amply able to effectively do this work, and no doubt merely suspected of knowledge of or complicity in a political every man, woman and child will know something about our co- plot. Here wo have the very acme of inconsistency. ming fair long before any of them see it. MENACE Manager Ernest S. Holmes of the Fair association says that the fair will be bigger this year than ever. Many big improvements at the fair grounds will result in securing more entry exAn excited columnist writes : A hostile European nation hibits. Mining is to be given more attention this year than ever could send a thousand or two g air machines westand the exhibit will be located in an exclusive building. Owing ward across the Atlantic today, and within forty-eighours to the wet season, agriculture will be at its best and this display New York, Boston and Washington could be wiped out. This ought to eclipse any past attempts in the way of quantity pro- seems to be anticipating a bit. No European aeroplane has as yet made just such a trip, and no airplane as yet built could carry a duction, quality and flavor, and size. load of bombs across the Atlantic; besides no European or other KING ALCOHOL. nation lias a thousand g planes. Ami by the time the mahincs, the bombs and the flyer are ready to start they The United States government has decided that it is neces- might face a little bombing from as many airplanes arising on b this side of the Atlantic. sary to manufacture some liquor for medicinal uses. Now, what does the government do with the good liquor it confiscates from the bootelggersf According to the Americans who were there, Captain LindNow and then a big shipment of pure liquor is captured en bergh did not make a mistake while in Paris. Nor did he make route to its destination and the liquor is destroyed. any while he was en route to Paris. out-of-doo- rs . bomb-droppin- ht bomb-droppin- ' |