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Show Snake Fiom the Weekly Pipe T WTBTtU are some folks toward ihom scandal just naturally H graitates. Airs. E. E. Shepard SH 1 one of them She cnn hear more HH about-town Gossip than the busiest HB little Newsgntherer in the Burg and H she is quite as willing: ns the next H one to let the rest of the folks share H tu-r Knowledge of Things. H Last Sunday she emitted several H SciikIuIouh Morsels which, taken by H and large, would not seem to Harmon- H ize with the annual report of Chief H of Police Grant that Salt Lake is Im- H maculate as to its Morals and . that H Naughty People are scarcer in Salt H Lake than they ever were before. H (Due to strict police regulation and JH stu eillance. under the Commission H Form of Government.) H Mrs. Shepurd, whose dream of the H I "tan Utopia is abandoned bars and Hj Two Parched Tonsils per capita, finds H fault with the operation of dance H halls, bath houses, motion picture H shows, rooming houses. She told a H Sunday night audience that on New B Year's night two girls in ns many bath B pools were distributed among a dozen H or so men and she left the inference H 1h.it this distribution was not only H Immoral but entirely Unfair prob- H abb to the Rest of the girls. H No one can prevent Mrs. Shopard H from gathering all of the scandalous H information she desires, but some one H should strongly advise her against ox- H plotting it to' the evident embnrrass- H ment of the chief of Police and other H keepers of the city's morals who in H making accounts of their steward- H ship have reported that All Is Well H along the Potomac. H H The Supreme Court has at last ruled H upon the contempt case brought Hj against the Herald-Republican, which B paper Is to b congratulated upon the B siucessful conduct of the case. Hiram H E. Rooth, United States district at- H torney, and also counsel for the B paper, made a much better defense of H the case In the state courts than was H made by Judge Whiteeotton for the H Herald-Republican In Its set-to with H Judge Marshall over the Silver King H suit. But even at that, a federal H judge is different from either a dls- H trlct or supreme judge of the state. H The majority members of the Su- H preme court Justices Prick and H Straup still believe that the paper H was guilty of a technical contempt, H however concurring with Justice Mc H Carty who absolves the paper wlth- H out qualification. In their opinions B Justices Straup and Frtck reverse B Judge Lewis because he punished jfl various members of the ITerald-Re- DB publican staff for criminal contempt Bk without a trial. Why they should hold B tlr -paper guilty of a technical of- B fense tinder the circumstances is dif- B fleult to Ta thorn. The p-iper printed as n matter of news the confession of Thorno that he and Riley had killed Fassell. When the state was obtaining a jury for trial of one of the murderers the paper again printed print-ed the confession and when the other defendant wont to trial" the confession was again printed. Judge Lewis held that this successive parading o the confession tended to obstruct the orderly or-derly administration of justice and to Influence the jury. In neither case was there difficulty In procuring a jury nnd later when changes of venue and new trials were requested the motions were denied by Judge Lewis on the ground that the trials had been fair and impartial and that there was no prejudice against the defendants in this county, thus making mak-ing it clear that he Was entirely wrong in his contention that the publication pub-lication of the confession prejudiced the case of either murderer. If Judge Lewis had been right In his contention that the Herald-Republican was wrong In -publishing, ns a matter of news, the confession of Thorne at the opening of the Thorne trial, then the whole'system of handling hand-ling trial news would have to be revamped re-vamped by the newspapers to comply with the law. If it wore improper to print, without comment, a "confession, "confes-sion, the printing, of any fact pertaining pertain-ing to the case would be equally improper, im-proper, If printed during the process of procuring a jury. We may not be particularly pleased with theXIoruld-Ropublicnn's general troaUnent of news, but we do certainly certain-ly rejoice In the Supreme court's upsetting up-setting of an attempt to put blinders on any newspaper that prints plain, unvarnished facts at a time when they are most attractive. K- tt Before the present city administration administra-tion gets very far with its meter idea, folks who are paying for a water service ser-vice they do not get will have something some-thing to say regarding the city commission. com-mission. Maybe they will toll the legislature jibout it, and perhaps they will wait until another campaign rolls around. Judge Colburn told of his experience with a meter which worked while he. slept whether the water was running or not, and when another citizen arose In the Commercial Commer-cial club to air his grievance against the waterworks department, aiming to show incompetency, he was ruled out because of the rank Irrelevancy of his remarks! If the waterworks officials can con the people of Salt Lake into believing believ-ing that the meter is the cure-all for waiter Ills, we may get meters, but before that time arrives It Is hoped that the waterworks department will hae made the best use of the supply at hand. Instead of making the situation situ-ation bad by incompetent supen islon of the water distribution. Jesse D. Jewkes. the new state treasurer, Is t lying to work twenty-five twenty-five hourg a day. He probably tries to count the state mone, dollar for dollar, each day so that he may be su the funds one Intact. At an rate, he Is earning a reputation for being the most diligent, stiektoitlye 0fl$nl of the state administration. Wherefore one of- his associates wfls led to remark that the constitution prevents pre-vents him frob being re-elected, and that no matter how hard he works he cannot hope to get credit for all of his expended effort. Maybe the late Fisher Harris had the right idea of public service, after all. By the greatest accident In the world he was olocted city treasurer along with the entire Democratic ticket In T003. He hud. merely permitted the use of his name by his party because he felt sure there was no chance of being elected. Frank Knox was double-crossed by some of his admiring friends In that campaign and he wont down to defeat with the whole Republican ticket. Harris was city treasurer. He hadn't been In office many months before the charge was made that he never paid any attention to his duties; that he had, In truth, never visited the city treasurer's office except to get his pny chock. "That's a cursed lie," said Mr. Harris. Har-ris. "I always have the boys mall mo the pay chock." |