Show E D 11 T I 1 A L WHAT ANAI ANAD DID yesterday morning orning iti life furniture company Coin pany put on a special sale ot of aluminum ware beginning promptly at 10 there was over one thousand pieces 0 of goods in the entire collection and the rules of the sale were that no person could purchase more than one of each article in the lot at the time the sale opened there was a company ot of ladles ladies and gentlemen many prominent businessmen ot of the city being among the crowd massed in solid formation from the entrance ot of inner r room oom where the articles were displayed on oil tables and back to the main entrance to the store on oil the stroke of ten the barrier was removed and the crowd moved in to wait upon itself and pay at the other door as the purchaser passed out ot of the building in just forty five minutes practically every article was cleaned up there being only a few 0 of one certain utensil that were not carried away the point dinall the foregoing Is that the company carried one advertisement in each ot lot the local papers on friday last and that the people read the advertisements was amply attested by th the e crowd which appeared an afi hour before sale time and the quickness with which the entire line ot of goods was cleaned up and carried away just one more diore cou concrete rete illustration of whit what advertising will do Yett Ye erday there dawned a taint faint i ah that condition is going to be chan changed jed it is indeed high time and the disappointment polut ment which friends ot of the law have felt in those whose oath of 0 office requires them to enforce it may possibly now be converted into stiff support ail and encouragement of ithe officials who are at last denoting an attempt to do their sworn duty it is not nol a question at all of the universal popularity ot of the law nor of the prominence and influence of those who dislike it nor of the difficulties which certain officials conjure up lip in the way of making it effective on the contrary it is a law of the state and it is the business of every citizen to obey it and the duty of every official to enforce it people wre are not permitted to choose without risk of punishment which laws they will observe and which they will violate officials have no discretion to say they will mill enforce some laws and will ignore oil others lers there plo probably bably 2 laver t ver was a law that did not displease soine somebody i the law against larceny is not lot popular with the thief nor the prohibition hibit hibi ion tion law with the boozer or bootlegger yet these thesa are ara laws the enforcement of 0 which all good citizens demand and they are no more regular and binding than this same antici anti ci cf garette law whose enforcement thus tar far has been nothing short of a farce it has often been said that the way to secure the repeal of a bad law la is to enforce it to the letter if this is true those who do not like the anti cigar ette law ought to be most cordial in welcoming this kind of 0 a test of the measure which they affirm was not in response to the popular will the news is confident that they are wrong in the latter assertion and that in any fair referendum the friends of the bill would be in the strong majority but that is now neither her nor there the simple situation Is there is ia a proper law on the books which has hitherto had no real enforcement 1 at all herein is a sign of danger for enforcement non of any proper I law breeds non respect and contempt tor for all law and multiplies infinitely the difficulties of society in fit keeping check and curb upon those C elements clements I 1 I 1 which need laws to keep them straight this Is an even more important and I 1 serious phase of the subject than the mere unpunished selling of cigarettes i or the thel belching of foul tobacco smoke from human mouths in places where have a legal right to protection com the autra ee news 4 w rw |