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Show UTAH STATESMAN - Liberty j Editorial Comment hr Ilia h WOMAN VOTERS DEPARTMENT (Endorsed by the Democratic State Central Committee) Sponsored by the Salt Lake Womens Democratic Club Saturday at Salt Edited by Lake City, Utah, devoted to progressive ideas and to promotion of the progress and prosperity of the state and party. Office Mrs. D. M. Draper Room 111 Atlas Block, Our Slogan: Salt Lake City, Utah HAPPENINGS As Seen by the National Womans Democratic . Club in the January Bulletin. Entered as Second Class Matter, July 18, 1922, at tbe Poatofflce at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the act of March 8, 1879. ADVERTISING Every Reader a Contributor POLITICAL FREDERICK L. BAOBT, Editor C. 8. GODDARD, Business Manager RATES Administrative Impotence There haa been no more remarkable exhibition of Impotence in recent yeara than that displayed by the, LEGAL NOTICES in ita attempts to impose Notice of Assessment, 5 times- its leadership upon ita own party dur$5.00 ing this present session of congress .50 Delinquent Notices, per column inch. In view of the unique quality of the 2 times.. .3.00 Probate Notices, situation it seems to have aroused reNotice to Creditors, 4 times. 4.00 markably little comment. In the house of representatives. In which the Re5.00 Summons, 5 times publican party has not merely a nominal but an actual working majority, Phone Wasatch 852 the expressed opinions and desires of the president have been repeatedly ignored- or definitely defeated and now UNITED WE WIN, DIVIDED WE FAIL. anothr- blow haa been aimed at the administration by the passage of a bill appropriating 813.4CO.COO for the upIf we come out of Houston united, we will win, said James building of the merchant marine in dito known and exII. Moyle, Democratic national committeeman for Utah, in an inter- rect opposition pressed wishes of the president, it la view in The Statesman upon his return from the national committee an interesting situation and one indicative or the power or the strong, silent meeting in Washington, 1). ('. man in the White Mouse. In this statement our national eommitteemun hit the nail oil Is This Prosperity? The New York state industrial comthe head. Unity is the one essential to a Demoeratie success in the missioner has Issued a report on the industrial conditions of that state, coming election. which may be taken as an Indication But, if we go into that convention with the chips or of the level of prosperity existing in issues on our shoulders, get these chips knocked off, then come out this country at the present time. The leporl shows that in the one state nursing personal grudges and factional feelings, the Demoeratie party i alone there has been a decrease of might as well fold its tent and steal out of the politieal a lean in the S6.C4I0 in the number of wage-earnein factories during 1927, and fashion of the Arab for the die will have been east to stamp the word employed that the index of employment In 1927 defeat upon party efforts. was below that of 1921, a notably bad In spite year, speaking. Then, let every Demoernt ponder well the thought that, united of thisindustrially decline in the number emwe shall win, but, divided we will fail. ployed however, the average weekly of those who remained emWhatever we do, let us not permit ourselves to heeome divided earnings were ployed fairly high. This, obviover issues, issues wholly irrelevant and immaterial in ously, is all right for those who are able to hold on to their Jobs, but it is the matter of party principles. not so good for the 66,000 who were There are sueh issues seeking to foree themselves into the Hous- turned away from the work they had is very probable that ton convention. Two of them stHiul out predominantly prohibit ion been doing. It or the high state prosperity prevailand religion. ing at the present time does not make impression uion these workers. Neither of these is a political issue in any sense of the word. inurh The Chosen People. Neither prohibition nor religion has any place in polities and oitics After bestowing upon the lean conference at Havana the bounty has no business to intrude itself into either prohibition or religion. of his presence, his and his There is no proper place in any politieal platform for a prohibi- benign assurance thatblessing, the republic's of tion plank unless some party can muster up the courage to declare the wesiern hemisphere weie devlne ly ordained by Providence as the frankly for repeal of the prohibition laws. We do not believe the time chosen people of the present and to-- : or public sentiment is ripe for such a step now lienee, we repeat, there t ui e. I Mr. I'oolidge returned home and left he to their own is no proper place now for n prohibition plank in any political plat- devices. And in spite of the Per Column Inch $1.00 non-politic- al non-politie- al Pan-Amer- -j J ! form. The soverigu people of these United States have written ; their sentiments expressed by the president or the United States, in spite nl his bland complacency, which follows the confidence of divine destiny, prohibition into tbe eighteenth amendment and the Volstead utonsidle of his authentic jin act. These are the supreme law of the land and the constitution statements of theassumedly divine will and pur makes it mandatory upon every public official to enforce these laws. pose, and in spite of his assurances that ail of them, and certainly - oh. When the president of the United States and every other public very certainly the I'nited States. official rests bis band upon the Sacred Book and takes a solemn oafli ' were compounded or nobility, virtue 'and all Indications have of office, be pledges himself to eonseientiouslv enforce ALL TIIK jnot beenrighteousness. lacking that the sers-t- t of suspicion has entered the LAWS. Garden of Eden. Rome of the Wliat more is needed? Does this oath mean nothing, that poli- representatives of the republics are tieal parties must needs put planks in Ibeir platform pledging their not altogether sure that the will of Providence is Lehind high protective candidates to honor their oaths of office? tariffs. wOthers have ventured to turn Mill on i i j ! a questioning eye on the plan of the We believe not. I'nited States for guarding tin canal should we our time waste over Then, why bickering something zone, and the painful matter or Amerithat is not a politieal issue ami has no place in parly polities at this can intervention in Nicaragua threatens at any moment to enter the contime. ference. Human nature is a strung Our constitution also prohibits the use of religious beliefs as a 'thing, and refusal to see The light, even when held plainly before it, has standard of measurement of a mans fitness for public office. .always been one of its most disc our-- ! Then, low can consistently proclaim our fealty to tin consti- aging characteristics. tution and at the same time permit religion to enter our consideration Democratic Women of candidates fn- office. Governor be sane, sensible, consistent and not lct'lhese bogus issues intrude themselves into the Houston eouventioii. and Mrs. Dern j l u-- e - la-t- - . Entertain for : s Governor and Mrs. George II. Is-rwere honor guests Wednesday alter A LONG, LONG WAY noon at a tea at he home of Mrs. James H. Moyle on Hast First South following the regular meeting Suit litikr licpiililii-iiii.to linvc a Lincoln Day dinner Mon- 'Street .of the Salt Lake Womens Iieinorratic day. In view- of the course tlieir party lias lieen pursuing under the club. Governor Hern addressed Hie club leadership of Harding, Coulidge, Kellogg, Fall ami others in recent on "Utter Development (omeniing t Ham' and a musical years, those who attend the dinner might profitably seize the oppor- ; the Moulder I olio wed under the direction ol tunity, while discussing the efforts of the elief, to remind themselves Mrs. L. T. Kpterson. of the principles and ideals of Honest A he. Verily, rendered a far cry ' Mr. Alvin Wallschleger by Miss from Lincoln, to a lot of those who claim to folluw in his footsteps 'two violin solos, acromiwnied 'Iluby Kpicrson. the Misses Lillian from the cabin of the splitter of rails, to the Teapot Dome crowd anti Clair Holmes, accompanied by their sister, Josie, sang "Danny Hoy" in the little (irecu House on K Street. Oh Bov!!! land The Sweetest Story Ever Told." ! i pro-.grun- its i SUCH IS LIFE Jwuoite Zlttle aSlijaifle Contributions is better 'than a race of peons. Counsol to Dry Woman. The attention of Mrs. Blair being called to the recent convention in Washington of Democratic women who have organised nationally for law enforcement, aha said that the activities of these women had her sympathy and approbation, but that they were not proceeding along good strategic lines. They have, for example, put forth a long list of men on the dry side as available for the presidency. In my opinion this is frittering away an opportunity. The only way to get anywhere la to get behind an individual; there is no enthusiasm for a flock. The prohibition women endorse some splendid men like Senator Walsh, of Montana; Senator Barkley, or Kentucky, and Representative Hull, of Tennessee. Any of these would make for Democrats an admirable champion. If called on to specify any one my voice is for the Intellectual statesman from Montana whose great services to the people of this country are worthy or a nations gratitude. In alcoholism tatrsman A Democratic state newspaper, published every Educational - and Mrs. Emery G. Epperson, playing her own accompaniment sang "I Hear You Calling Me, Just a Memory," and "My Blue Heaven. The tea table was centered with a silver bowl filled with pink carnationa and ferns and was lighted by pink tapers in silver candlesticks. Presiding at the tea and corfee urns were Mrs. Dern, Mrs. Frank Page Stewart, Mrs. H. J Hayward and Mrs. Anna Meier. The guests were received by Mrs. Ernest Holmes, president of the club; Mrs. William Korth, Mrs. R. E. L. Collier, Mrs. James H. Wolfe, Mrs. George M. Bacon. Mrs. W. E. Traug liber and Mra. D. M. Draper. The committee in charge of the program for the afternoon Included Mrs. Frank W. Penrose and Mrs. George M. Bacon. The following women were members or the refreshment committee: Mrs. George E. Maycock, Mrs. Kendall Thomas, Mrs. B. D. Nebeker and Mrs. T. T. Burton. Seventy-fiv- e guests were in attendance. Noted Woman Democrat Analyzes Party Problems. Have Women Changed Highest Paid Woman Answers. Miss Gertrude B. Lane, editor of the Woman's Home Companion, la said to be the highest paid business woman in the world. No definite figure Is given for her remuneration as the head of one of the greatest periodical enter prises in the county, but it is known that she receives a higher salary than the president of the United States, and she also owns a large share in the 25,060,0u0 company which publishes this magazine and four others, of national note and enormous circulation. Miss Lane, in an address to an audience of editors and publishers a few days ago, answered the question: "Have women changed? She said: "Of course they have changed, in their attitude of mind, in their habits of life, In their' participation in afrain. They have changed so amazingly and dramatically that the past decade has become one of importance to everyone whose business involves women in any way. As regards the home, they are organizing it as evidently as the business man Is organizing its business. The day of the amateur home-make- r is passing. Democratic women of Utah could do no better than to study and assume the attitude of a seasoned woman politician, who has more than a superficial knowledge of public affairs and who is in no sense a fanatic, namely, Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, firot vice chairman of the national Democratic committee In "Politics' a new weekly newspa per published in Washington, D. C., Mrs. Blair gives some or ner opinions concerning Democratic problems. "I think that the recent celebra Hon in honor of Andrew Jackson was an arfair that will redound to the good of the party, it brought together "Whether womans rapid rate of proDemocrats Trom all sections and will continue for another decade though there was much diversity of gress no one can say. But it behooves all opinion, no ill feeling resulted, no re- of us who are engaged in shaping her sentments or rancor engendered. On the whole it demonstrated that Dem opinions to watchno her. One thing is longer the static ocrats are animated by a desire for certain she is creature we once thought her. harmony and unity of action and that rent there is no rule or ruin spirit in their of According to Miss Lane, 41 per Unitthe checking accounts in the ranks. This is the spirit that ir main tained will bring us success in Novern ed States are in the names of women, her. If asked what I thought the chief or are held by women Jointly with feature at the banquet Id aay that it men. Among other interesting figures cited by her are the following: wj6. the address of Claude Bowers. There are 14.000,000 bobbed heads It was unquestionably a classic In matin America today, and 3.E00 tons of In in ter, literary style and delivery. As long as we have nten to present hair have been shorn from the heads the truths of Democracy as Mr. Bow- of American women. Beauty shops collect $400,000.0(0 a ers did in his inspiring way nobody need despair of the future or the party year from 60,000,000 customers, and employ 70,000 people. that for so long a period guided the they American women spend $1,825,060,-00destinies of the nation. I do not think a year tor beauty, which has besome of the other speakers were as come a major Industry. happy in their utterances, but all must Salaries paid to women have Inconcede that John W. Davis excelled creased enormously in the past dehimself in the way he spoke and precade. There are hundreds of business sided at the symposium: and coutem concerns today, such as department plating Mr. Davis and the gentleman whom the voters preferred to him in stores, insurance companies, banking and newspapers, 1924 one cant help but wonder at the houses, magazines where 10,C0o salaries tor women are psychology of the electorate en ina.s. nothing unusual. About States Rights. Neither editors nor advertisers any "I believe in the rights of the sovtalk down" to women. There longer as s but doctrine it states, ereign may are 13.000,000 homes in this country, lie because, arter all. the end to be sought is the good of all and in most of them the major part or the people. We have grown so big the expenditure is in the hands or the that the business of the country nec- women or the. household. essarily had to be federalized. If left wholly to state artlon our iiopulaiion would be at the mercy of a rich and powerful class that does n6:. scruple to exploit those who are not callable Five million daughters or John Hull of protecting themselves. Federal leg looked torward eagerly to the 1928 sesillation is desirable to keep the states sion or iiarliament which oiened Febfrom competing with each other as, ruary 7. ror Instance, in the matter or inheriThey expect that Hie conservative tance taxes and the employment or leaders, who are now in power, will child labor. Such problems were not ottor tor the srrutiny or the house or up for solution In the time of Thomas commons the bill which, ir passed, will Jefferson and the invocation of his give them the vote. name to bolster up a poliry of nonThe whole country Is displaying inintervention by the central govern- terest in the proposed bill such as it ment is dodging the real issue. seldom evidenced betore, tor It apThe Prohibition Question. proved. the measure would hand the "My stand on the disputed question majority vote trom men to women. of prohibition is that there has been There are 3 OOO.OtO more women than no real, sincere effort of those In au- men in England. The bill, which is thority to enforce the Volstead law. the political child or Prime Minister I do not think it desirable to repeal Stanley Baldwin, would give women the Eighteenth amendment or the law the vote at the age or 21 instead or 30 to carry out its provisions. Irohibi-Ho- as at present. should be given a rairer test and Members or parliament, particularly more time la required before it can those running tor reelection, are exbe called a failure. In reality there pected to surpass themselves in arguare more vital things demanding the ments as a gesture to attention of citizens than wet and their constituents. dry. It Is of far greater importance Among the keenest workers on or the Happer vole are Miss that a realization should rome to the men and women of America that this Margaret Bondfield, member or parliais getting to he a government of the ment and Miss Doris Beer, one or the rich for the rich. The mission of the earliest members or the Surrraglsts' Democratic party is to check this un- league. Miss Beer will lie given the wholesome condition, for a nation ran vote ir the bill goes through, and she survive without prohibition: the evil is typical or the girls who are fighting of strong drink la prefcrrable to the tor enfranchisement. Another strong enslavement of a generation by plu- supiHirter or "votes Tor riapiiera" is tocratic power. A race that indulges Lady Clare Annesley, who is s labor 0 . British Women Eager to Vote. n be-ha- ir - Justice candidate for parliament from West Bristol. Aside from the "flapper vote bill, prominent questions that may receive consideration are the suggestion of giving the house of lords more power, a reintroduced prayer book modification bill, restriction of betting on dog races, amendment or abolition of the defense of the realm act and the clearing of alums. New Utah Magazine Makes Appearance Something aa creditable aa it la new, made ite appearance in the local mag-axin- e field during the week, under the title of "The Utah Magaxine." C. N. Lund, well known in the Salt Lake Journalistic field, is the perpetrator of the new monthly, and haa succeeded in getting out. In hie first issue (February) a periodical that is alike a credit to him and to the community. The selection of material and its arrangement la well balanced, articles setting out the scenic glories of Utah being spiced In proper proportion with heavier matter which furnishes real food for thought to the citixenry of the state. There le an interesting article on the "Scenic Glory of Utah, for instance, balanced by a serious dissuasion under the title The Dreamers Are the Builders," calculated to show that upon men of vision depends the march o progress. The editorial page ia sprightly and toll of good ideas. This feature is noteable because It lacks the mushy ' softness which, too orten, is found in the editorials of Booster periodicals. An article on Crime Wave Due to Warped Christianity Is worth special mention. Mr. Lund's first issue is a good piece of work, and there Is no reason to think that succeeding issues will not be likewise. TWO FISTED DEMOCRATS CALLED TO RALLY BEHIND THE SPIRIT OF JACKSON (Continued from I'age 5) left over from the Wilson administration. Prosperity? Yes; in spots, few and all too far between; but over vast reaches of this continent prosperty I as the peace of Warsaw it blossoms in the midst of ruin and desolation. Ah, but they say that business is safer in their hands than ours, and we counter with the question: What business do you mean? And our answer is that the greatest single service ever rendered honest business in the entire history of this country was when the Wilson administration and a Democratic congress wrote into the statutes the federal reserve system the greatest single piece of constructive statesmanship in the last or a century. The Summons to Battlo. "All over the world today there Is a movement against democracy and toward 'the good plan that he may get who has the powpr and he may keep who can. Thus the issue in America is as fundamental as when Jackson rallied the people to the defense or their heritage. That battle must be tought anew. Permit the present trend to go on a little longer and held sacredly American by the generation or Jackson will be lost beyond recall. We are once more bark to the fundamentals. It brings to the tore the eternal and universal conflict or the two groat schools or political thought that are greater than parties and greater than countries and as great as humanity, because they go to the placing of the political and economic status or the average man and woman. The fight we are called upon to make in this rentenniul year goes to the determination or the very form or government under which we live, it Involves the principle or equality hero re the law and in government. If embraces liberty, monopoly, and home rule It takes in economy and an equitable system or taxation. Yes; the fight the rank and file demands the party make ia tor nothing less than the preservation or those tondamentala ol three-quarte- rs Americanism without which no people can be really prosperous or happy and no nation truly beneficent or strong. "Let Ihe word go forth that you fight again tor the tondamentala, and the people will rosiond. They heard ft when Andrew Jackson rallied them to the fight against the national bank plutocracy that had the people by the throat They heard It when Woodrow Wilson summoned all the ieople to the assertion of political and economic rights with a constructive program resting on the elementals r Jeffersonian democracy, "Let the word go torth-a- nd suit thV action to the word and the independent voters and Hie liberal Republican will come back home arter heir long unhappy sojourn among Ihe fieshimts in Ihe temple of privilege. The time Is ripe. The hour has struck. The duty Is imperative and sacred. No time tor discords now on nonessen-Hal- s - and no possible palliation. ' In this centennial year or Jacksons victory we go forth to meet the common enemy with old Jackson looking on. |