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Show THE CITIZEN Too Many Laws. II order to leave, a somewhat concise and yet complete summary of that body, The Citizen next week will publish its own summary of the highspots of the Eighteenth Legislature. The summary will be drawn up by a student of Utah's political programs who has sat through every deliberation of the legislature in its present session. Read it from the standpoint of The Citizen . All Quakers are men of peace. We have one now at the head of affairs who believes in peace by defense. Boston Evening Transcript. Don't worry about the new cruisers. -- for speed, and will be strong on the Evening Transcript. y They are built get-awa- y. Boston Costly Education October at the Utah State Fair there was, in LASTamusement section, a man who stated in perfectly guileless tones that the party who would place five round disks so as to cover a circle would receive a handsome prize oh, a very handsome one. It looked easy. We stood by and watched him do it a few times. Then he let us try it once for nothing. It worked. We placed a coin on the counter and tried it again and this time a little red corner showed at one side of the circle. Some fifteen minutes later we departed, sadder, finan- i . cially crippled, but infinitely wiser. But it was costly education. There was a magnet under the painted circle, and the disks were magnetized off center. And yet, that education has helped us a lot. Among other things, it has made it certain that we are not so doggone sure of ourselves as we thought we were. Rather rough on the conceit, but soul satisfying to realize, nevertheless. That incident, brought back vividly every now and then, reminds us of the people who periodically become convinced that they know all there is to know of business in the town where they live, and that they can cover the circle with the little disks somewhere where there are more people and bigger opportunities. Their education, if they follow that train of thought, is going to be just as vivid and just as true as the sideshow course was. They are going to find out that opportunity rests at home, among the people who are friends and in a business where the foundations are established on familiar ground. Spring is the uneasy time, and the wonderlust is real. It breeds the romance of other sectors that are attractive only because they are remote. There are not many men too big for the town in which they live. Perhaps there are not a dozen in Salt Lake City who would rise to a position higher than that they now hold were they to be transplanted. And of a certainty, the preponderance of our population belongs no further away from the town than it now is. So when the urge comes to rise to greater heights in other cities, remember that we are sure only of what is close to us. And stay home. ' nPHERE are too many laws to hope that all, or even a considerable proportion of them, can or will be enforced. So, when it is recalled that there is supposed to be an ordinance against spitting on sidewalks, about .all that can be done about it is to regret that it probably will never be enforced. There's much violation of this ordinance in Salt Lake. Recent seasonal afflictions of nasal passages probably account for much of the infraction, but neither the season nor the affliction makes it necessary to expectorate on the sidewalk. It isn't more than a mile to the curb just a short, bracing walk! Many things mark a person of good breeding and among them, certainly, is the refusal to indulge in promiscuous spitting. The fact that it is unsanitary need not, of course, be dwelt upon for a general observance of the less conspicuous sanitary laws is too much to expect, for another century or so. In Wichita, Kansas, some years ago, an effective means to enforce the ordinance was adopted. At intervals, brooms were attached to the telephone poles. When an officer aw aanyone spit on the sidewalk, he escorted the offender to the pole, presented him with the broom and made him sweep the sputum from the sidewalk. One performance of that sort usually proved effective. That might be done today, in Salt Lake, but for one thing. The cost of replacing stolen brooms would anti-spitti- ng be excessive. Among other gliding feats are those performed by men who swoop down from high moral grounds. Oak- land Tribune. Mexicos Who's Who is much different sort of a volume than the ordinary book. It's a loose leaf Tighten the Bars. from the prison last week. The just naturally stepped on the gas while testing an automobile belonging to a guard, and sped off and away. He is still to be rounded up if at all. Another lifer has been known to act as chauffeur for a state prison truck on a trip to the downtown district, not recently, .prehaps, but he was seen on at least one occasion to be so employed. In times gone by, it was said that trusties from the state bastile roamed Sugar House and, it is rumored, even attended motion picture shows at night. In this enlightened day, no one wants to revive the old cruelties of medieval prison administration, when offenders against the laws rotted in dungeons. But, just the same, a lot of the prison bars that have been loosened by overzealous prison reformers need to be McCOY got away tightened. To add to its perplexities, Chicago is having a scandal. There are 14,000 millionaires in the United States, and several thousand of them are doubtless members of Boston Evening Transcript. the don't claim to be a sleuth, said Luke Fcrrcl the other day, but so far I ain't had any trouble gcttin' evidence in. a speakeasy. v. Snow Bound, and perhaps a personal opinion of the well known novel If Winter Comes. Salt Lake has its own particular version to Men do not make laws; they do but discover them. Calvin Coolidgc. Los Angeles Times. j - multi-aristocrac- 5 You cant have goes by emotion.. - ' too much thought in an opera. Deems Taylor. Big business owes our girls a big debt. Norris. It Kathleen |