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Show rT UTAH STATESMAN - Editorial Comment Liberty Educational Contributions - get what satisfaction he ean out of this foreign stunt because he will never get the nomination at home, or if perchance he should succeed in getting it he can never be electe senator from this state. We must have a man who is for the people, not one who is against some of their best interests as for instance the school land matter. Republican campaigns. "Rum, Ro? maoism and Rebellion" waa aw example of a psychological blonder, and the resentment It aroused defeated Its cause. "He kept us out of war" to credited with having played an effective part In President Wilsons second campaign, and the foundation or tho Coolldge appeal rests upon tho one he word Prosperity." Utah statesman (Endorsed by the Democratic State Central Committee) In A Democratic state newspaper, published every Saturday at Salt Lake City, Utah, devoted to progressive ideas and to promotion of Flapper Fanny remarks that a.'man is known by the company the progress and prosperity of the state and party. keeps out of and we are of the opinion that county commissioners should be known by the places they keep out of. Office Room 111 Adas Block, Did you see our motto FREDERICK L. BAOBT, Editor C. 8. GODDARD, Business Manager WOMAN VOTERS DEPARTMENT Sponsored by the Salt Lake Womens Democratic Club RATES Edited by Per Column Inch $1.00 Mrs. D. M. Draper LEGAL NOTICES Notice of Assessment, 5 times- - $5.00 .50 3.00 4X0 5.00 Delinquent Notices, per column inch. Probate Notices, 2 times. Notice to Creditors, 4 times. Summons, 5 times Extravagance FhoM Wasatch 882 vote-gettin- ALWAYS, SENATOR? NO, NOT ALWAYS! ' "I have always set my face firmly against that which is not or loyal to our government, declared Reed Smoot, honest moral, senior senator from Utah, in an interview a few days ago, in which he virtuously denounced existing rottenness in the ranks of the; Salt Lake county organization of his party. While, under the circumstances, the senator may be pardoned for assuming an air of horror at the unsavory mess into which his party has involved itself locally, it may not be inopportune to point out that Mr. Smoots statement is NOT STRICTLY ACCURATE, and therefor not in accord with recorded facts. For instance, anyone with a fairly Bharp nose and a memory of average length, may still detect in the circumambient air, the traces of a putrid odor emanating from the "Little Green House on Like the Ghost of Banquo, memK Street in Washington, D. C. ories will not down, of the part played by the Little Green House on K Street, in the larceny of the Teapot Dome and other naval oil reserves, and of the happy booze parties staged there by high Republican government officials while that steal was being hatched by Fall, Doheny, Jesse Green and others who held power by virtue of Republican elective officials. "Always, senator! No. Not always! For WHEN did Senator Smoot ever vote for any kind of an investigation into any allegation of official corruption f On the contrary, if memory serves us right, Mr. Smoot not only did NOT move a finger to investigate that gigantic theft of public property, but he did his utmost to put on the soft pedal Without the records before us, we yet seem faintly to recall something about the Senator industriously passing hastily scribbled notes to "various persons in the committee rooms during the investigation, and it is not of record that these notes were written with any intent to urge the guilty to unbosom themselves, or to disgorge their loot. "ALWAYS SENATOR! NO, NOT ALWAYS. In fact, NEVER as far as we can recall offhand. --G. T. K. . LABRUMS ADMISSION County Commissioner Rulon II. Labrum admits, m his answer to the $10,000 scandal suit filed against him by one of the women present at the commissioners little booze party, "that he was there. He further admits that "something happened at this party. He significantly remarks, in the course of his official answer that "whatever occurred there was by the invitation and procurment of the plaintiff. Thus it appears that the commissioner admits being at a place which he and his companions have branded as a notorious bootlegging place and resort of loose morals. True, he denies charges of assault upon the woman in question but this is material only in the matter of determining the right of the plaintiff to damages. In the public mind the only matter of material issue is "were the commissioners at this place! Mr. Labrum has admitted in his formal court document that he was. The other commissioners .have publicly admitted they were there. Then, what were they doing there! Some one has aptly remarked that a man goes to a shoe store to buy shoes and to a bootlegging joint to buy booze. . GETTING THE NOMINATION ABROAD ! We note by the press that Win. Spry has gone abroad and like his master, Senator Smoot, ealled a .few of the faith ful together in California and had himself lauded to .the skies and indirectly nominated for a senatorship from Utah. He had better SUCH IS EASyiOASli AUt HARD TO ANSWER It f g Unthinkable. Her ancestors really did come over In the Mayflower. Her ancle (the tote Stephen J. Field) was an associate justice of the U. & supremo court (1863-97- .) She had devoted moat of her life to welfare work and during some 62 years had failed to- exhibit anything In the nature of criminal tendencies. Yet last week. It required a pardon from Governor C. C. Yeung of California to save Charlotte Anita Whitney from an Indeterminate sentence of from 1 to 14 years In tbs San Quentin prison. For, In 1919, Mias Whitney waa arrested In Oakland after having defied civic authorities la making a apeecn la behalf of one ojhn McHngb, I. W. W. member. At her trial. Miss Whitney admitted having Joined the Communist party. True, ahe had never been accused of hurling bombs, preaching revolutions or even damaging machinery (sabotage),1 - but California had, still has, n criminal syndicalism act by which membership alone In certain prescribed organiser tlons la in itself considered worthy of a Jail sentence. After her conviction. Miss Whitney raftmed to petition for a pardon, maintaining that such an act would bo an admission of a guilt which she did not feel. Friends, however, carried her case to the U. 8. supreme, court which last May uphold the constitutionality of the Synldcaltom act. Miss Whitney, now 60 years old,1 prepared to serve her sentence. Last ' week, however, Governor unconditional Young Issued her an her In a cell to said that put pardon, waa "unthinkable." Governor Young under carefully added that thewaalaw undoubtwhich ahe waa convicted of the local political news from the various countles. and to read an article now and then from tho pen of some ana whoeo ideas are sot necessarily Jut those of our own. Ideas down The habit of writing when they come to ns to n most valuable one, and one ws must cultivate 1! we expect those Ideas to remain withna. We were pleased to receive from Mrs. Frank Penrose, associate chairman of the Salt Lake county committee, an original poem on thto subject which we print herewith. to Mrs. the Penrose says, "Since variety pice of Ufa," our colnmn would be much more spicy with a variety of contributors," to which wo heartily agree. - THE RIGHT TIME TO WRITE When you have a thought that gives you n thrill Or Idea of value thats clever. Pause for a moment and write It down lost forever. Or youll find that It may be at dawa when the world to calm, And you watch It slowly awaken; That you marvel at glorious changing - scenes As the shadows of night are ' fore-sake- Or at noon with the radiant sun afire, Sending down its raya, life giving:deWho has not thrilled with a great sire To write or the Joya of living. fre-que- nt The Peace Bridge d rp.refUIt Losing its Significance f, f, The Slogan Contest y Radical? . slogan as a voter , getter, several months ago the club announced n prise contest as a means of securing Ever since Adam blamed Eve for a real cry for tho Democratic party la causing bis fall from grace.lt has been 1928. Hundreds of catchy phrases customary for men to lay the cause were offered In the contest and the of most of their troubles at the feet one submitted by Mrs. Wilbur W. Hub-har- d of Cheatertown, Maryland, was of women. How much responsibility women should bear for (he Inability elected as the one most likely to offof their husbands to succeed, or even set the powers of Coolfor their succumbing to temptation It ldge prosperity which the Republicans Is Impossible to say, but men there are expected to emphasise. Honorable are who eay that the extravagance or mention waa also made of "Lorlmer, women plays a large part In breaking Newberry, Smith and Vare. What next will the Interests dure?" and "Lets down moral stamina. la It true that extravagance of wives bust the power trust," by Mr. Jeaae la the moat potent vice in breaking Lee Ilennett, and "Can we can Cal? down the family? Does the modem Ill say we can," by Mias Agnes Hart Phyllis expect her John with hU $15.00 Wilson. to another DEMOCRATIC ASSETS. from one roadhouse Mrs. Hubbard, in accepting the and spend from ten to twenty d liars s night? Can It be possible prize, made a strong plea for tbo contlwt men must become criminals to centration of the Democratic party of their upon the fundamental Issues facing satisfy the social Instincts wives and daughters? There may be the people today .among which la the but a old struggle between the entrenched another side to the picture, th din powers of money and privilege against stock taking to find not tion In which wo are going mlgh. and the rights and liberties of the whole Mrs. Hubbard made a carebe a bad Ides. A little shabbiness sav n heart- people. ful analysis of the Democratic assets simple pleasure now may break or scandal later. and liabilities, and in enumerating the assets she said: "Above all we have principles, the our basic principles of the founder of recentand the of time Jefferson, Thomas the party. At approximately trans-altedisbreakdown at Geneva of thenars1 be- ly we have had those principles foundations the and Into actlona armament conference, a bridge Fort of a new world laid by our peerless tween Buffalo, New York and Erie. Ontario, waa officially opened; leader. Woodrow Wilson. aaaet? Isnt "Isnt this our greatest in the presence of It time to take this atone which the England. Canada which builders rejected and make It the head States. This "Bridge of Peace the the corner? When we fell from carwas so named because It waa began Wilson Woodrow opens which to war the of lights at the end aadaiMehj over ried ns, we fell In th lap of Wall a new roadway for been grovela bonier which la absolutely unguard- Street and there we have for aeven long years la materialing ed. la thought by many to exemplify alism. In selfishness. In greed, in arroa feeling of friendliness which has we United the between gance and Isolation, and where do ways existed the Isnt world with today? the stand States and Canada. country tired of it? Arent we ready Many people agree that thoof stupid n Great officials to hoist the banner of Woodrow WU-obetween controversy the the at scramble heights up to Statea and United try the and Britain Geneva conference did not represent again?" the true feeling of either country and GIVEN WIDE PUBLICITY to the conWide publicity waa given point to the opening of the peace there all test after a through the membership of the as that sign bridge serla no q aarrel between the two na- ctnb, local newt articles, the wire articles. and Among and vices Canada of syndicated If. the people tions. the United Statea are sensible enough these was an article by Mark 8ulllvan to know that peaceful Intercourse is published May 30 in which he said In to their mutual exonomlc advantage, advance of the contest "The efficacy why cannot thia lesson be carried one of slogans is related to one of the axistep further and a more cooperative oms most familiar to practical polipolicy be adopted by the United States ticians, namely, that daring presidential campaigns the public as a whole and European governments? tends to think In simple terms. If. the event and the energy of the Democratic women behind It have me flrient momentum, and if their choice The ort repeated Coolldee prosper! v for n slogan should have the happy cry is dwindling into whisper as the quality of bitting the public mind just opening of congress approaches and right, the slogan might go some disanother farm-relie- f fight appears. The tance toward determining both the great expectations of the Republicans campaign issue and the candidate." that Calvin Coolldge would be able to HAVE YOU A BETTER SLOGAN? claim a billion dollar rot In taxes for The contest waa so favorably the American people la far from the receivedslogan by Democrats everywhere sure thing it waa a few months ago. (hat tho board of governors of the WoIn a dispatch to the New York Even- mans National Democratic club acing Post, Senator Smoot stated: the suggestion or the Judges to cepted "We have to find $150,000,000 we a i a national slogan contest runrange had not counted upon for the navy. over a period of time sufficient It will have to come from tax reduc- ning to give every Democrat a chance to tion savings. If on top of that, wa make prizes are ofenta to have to make further take fered. anA entry. ofThree to the author $100 prize flood-reliefarm-relierare of and the winning slogan, a second prize other things, I dont know where we of $50 and a third of $25 to go to the ere going to get off with any reduc- of second and third best slogans. An ention of our taxes." This pathetic situation places the trance fee of $1.00 to cover incidental rosts is required with each slogan. Republicans between "the devil and THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SLOGAN8 . the deep blue sea." If they dont reThe psychological effects of the duce taxes what la going to become of all their promises .and If they catchy condensations of public quesdont relieve the farmer and the Mis- tion! which have become party sloIn political campaigns are well sissippi flood victim, the very cry gans known and have been repeatedly demprosperity la a misnomer. onstrated In the history or American politics. "Tippecanoe and Tyler too played Its famous part In the campaign "Fifty-fou- r of . forty or fight" Eight Years of Wall Street Give Main was an alliterative and easily rememStreet a Chance! bered expression of the predominant Will that slogan help to bring vic- American attitude toward the auestfen tory to the Democratic party In 192S? of the Oregon boundary dispute and The members of the Womans National did much to put Polk In the White Democratic club hope that It will. Real- House. Sinre the Civil War the full izing the value of a snappy campaign dinner pall" has had a prominent place Justice espouse a U. 6. citizen. Ileina," said Her Majesty ertoply. "will probably not marry for a year at least, nor will her brother Nicholas. . . . Deans liked the way American boys danced and conducted themselves. She liked their great deference and reverence toward womankind, too. I would have no objection to her marrying a nice young Ameri- can. If she really loved him and I thought they would get along well together." publication. Entered as Second Class Matter, July IS, 1922, at the Fostoffies at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the aet of March 2. 1272. . at the top departIn olden days it was said that'all roads led to Rome. In this of thoto pegs? It means this ment for you. You are invited to modern age of prohibition it is quite proper to say that all paths end la unsolicited any new Items, comments or articles you may have of graft lead to law enforcement offices. Wo wish to hear more for Salt Lake City, Utah ADVERTISING Speaking of Slogans - Jnat berore darkness envelops tho earth And the sun has relinquished hto constitutional, but that abnor- edly power, mal conditions attending theandtrim, reverence you the to express that You long greatly Influenced the jury the feel. "under ordinary circumstances hour. In that marvelous twilight case never would have been prosecuted. These tatter remarks Pre,ViX But more often an inspiration youll referred to the tact that in 1911.20 ta a widehave the U. S. nation engaged Bolahevlkl For a theme you are' wishing to spread Radical-hun- t, and . write; became a common epithet for one When the glory of aura beam down mail hoy to hurl at another. from above. In .the sweet perfect stillness of night -- Mrs. LAW SET AT NAUGHT . BY POWERFUL ' CLIQUE Frank Penrose. Mrs. Blair to Resign at National Committee-woman- . (Continued from Page 1) and acpermitted to visit these places rotten on liquor the drank Mrs. Emily Newell Blair of Joplin, tually get served. Misfrom woman national rommittee An Incident la reported Just recently souri and vice chairman of the Democertain citizens protested to cratic national committee, announces of where woman operator of on of these he will retire next year. oFr sever- ' the report that the woand they been recoghas places Blair Mrs. al years them declaring defied man boldly leaders nized as one of the foremost and she was among Democratic women of the Unit- that "she had protection own j going to ran her business her ed States. "One does not want to blow ones i W--" The liquor ring Is not confllnlng Its own horn," Mrs. Blair writes, "bat I believe yon will find many Democra- ' operations to Salt Lake City and tic leaders ' nationally and national county by any means. A recent trip newspaper men who think I have done through certain counties of tho state what few other women have done brought Information that the "protectmade a place for myself in the coun- ed" bootleggers In this city and coin-tcil of politicians, not merely as a woare ranching out into the little hamman politicians, but as a person whose lets throughout the state and that regopinion has value. Since I believe that ular boose runners are carting their thto to what women moat do In poli- wares around in automobiles selling to tics, If women are ever to gain any soft drink proprietors In the outside place In politics, I am Jealous of the towns. recognition of that fact, not as a boost Only recently a man with an auto for me, since I do not wan anything In load of boose drove up to a soft drink politics, and am a magazine writer parlor down In Sanpete county and soand publicist by profession, but as n licited the' purchase of n supply by the boost for women in politics, which to This proprietor Is authoriproprietor. something about which I care a great ty for the information that the peddeal. I would like for auch achieve- dler Informed him he made weekly ment! aa I have made In politic to trips through Sanpete county from. count for women." Salt Lake supplying the trade. He showed the proprietor n large quantity of liquor in hto car. to see Queen How do yon gat by the officials? Conventions asked the proprietor. "Oh, thats easy, I boy from the In a recent Interview Queen Marie right people," was the answer of the of Rumania told correspondents that bootlegger. as soon is the period of mourning for The ontslde ramifications of tho liher husband Is over she expects to re- quor traffic all seem to lead back and visit the United States. center In Salt Lake which to the source Addressing a correspondent directly, of supply. And everywhere the inforher majesty said: mation cornea that the peddlers are "There are a thousand and one able to carry on their business "bethings I omitted seeing on my last cause they bny from the right people." Journey and legions of people I failed . This can mean but one thing and to meet I want to see one of your that to that they buy their supply great national political conventions, ' from "protected wholesalers or mann- -' and if time and my duties permit next facturera" here who are enjoying the summer. It la possible that I shall be privileges of an unlawful but lucre-j able to leave here in time to sea such tive business "for value received. I a gathering. In view of all thia we cannot help "I carried back a thousand pleasant recalling that the present sheriff of memories of my stay In your country, Salt Lake county waa elected on a platbut there were also some mistakes form and pledge to the people that made whlrh can be rectified on the he would enforce the liquor-lamore next trip." stringently than hto predecessor. He Lastly. Her Majesty replied to a promised ABSOLUTE ENFORCE(mention as to whether her unman ted MENT. Princess Deans, Whats the Answer? daughter. might 1 I y Marie Political I |
