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Show Tiik school population of Utah is To, -J")'.), out of a total population of 220,000. Of that number of youths between the age of G and IS years of age, 15,S27 are non-Mormons non-Mormons and o7,5o2 Mormons. The Richfield Advocate says in support of its value as a newspaper: news-paper: For every dollar that is paid the Advocate by the business men of Richfield, one hundred dollars of trade it brought to them by the paper. The Bi'glkk does its best to help those who support and patronize it. Any firm that shows a disposition dispo-sition to help us we will do our very best to assist in the way of favorably mentioning them to the public at every opportunity. We believe that without exception those who complain loudestngainst the treatment accorded their firm by a local paper are the ones who do the least to support the paper. Bear this in mind when you hear a man complaining of being shabbily shab-bily treated by his home paper. Til R BumnAM City Buolbu copies a notice which says it gets better with every issue. True; it has quit eflbrts at editorial writing. Trilmne. Groove training and childish child-ish credulity beget narrow-mindedness. narrow-mindedness. The wiseacre who wrote the foregoing clipping apparently j has such an exalted opinion of the I "editorial dash" that unless it 'follows an article in a prescribed j corner of the' paper, that article ; loses its dignity and cannot ap-! ap-! propi-iately be called an "editorial." W'e say with Goldsmith: "Fudge!" A dispatch from Alabama this week announces that the House has passed a bill prohibiting the sale, or giving away, or otherwise disposing of cigarettes, cigarette tobacco and cigarette paper in Alabama. It imposes a fine of not less than $10 or more than $o0and imprisonment or sentence to hard labor for not less than thirty days for violations of its provisions. The bill also prohibits the smoking of cigarettes in any public place. . Score one for the plucky southern slate. We hope they succeed in their laudable effort to suppress a I vile habit which is destroy ing body 1 and mind of a large per cent, of , the American youth of today. |