Show TOBACCO ADVERTISING The difference of opinion which has arisen between the University faculty and the managerial board of The Utah Chronicle regarding tobacco advertising advertising advertising advertis advertis- ing has elicited from the New ew York Times a satirical editorial upon the situation The editorial is evidently not so much a comment upon the action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion of either the faculty or the students students students stu stu- dents as an invective against conditions conditions conditions condi condi- in Utah which could give rise to touch such uch a situation and especially against the Deseret Evening News which organ several weeks ago printed an editorial condemning the action of The Chronicle The Times not knowing the issue behind the fight is the question of or greater freedom for The Chronicle in conducting its own internal affairs has failed to treat the situation from this standpoint The editorial l follows The faculty of the University of Utah has to repress a regrettable regrettable regrettable regret regret- table case of what used to lie be e called contumacious conduct on the part of the managers of the university paper and certain misguided students The university university university sity organ had agreed not to print liquor advertisements The faculty faculty faculty fac fac- ordered the exclusion of to- to advertisements The perverse perverse perverse per per- verse undergraduates or too many of them murmured at this decree of progressive virtue The Deseret Evening News looks upon this unexpected recalcitrance with witha a severity of logic and a clear moral certainty that should quicken the conscience of the slaves of The same argument which would lead to the rejection of the theOne theone One done one class o announcements would also lead to the rejection of the other People of sense and discrimination will be amazed that any such question could 1 have arisen especially here in Utah Especially here in Utah is an I ous splendid panegyric pane pane- of that state There are states where liquor and tobacco are not regarded as the Siamese twins of sin where men puff their lives away prefer smoking and reading Balzac or Old Man Dumas or Mr Q Thackeray to the most edifying tract of the Anti- Anti Cigarette league become mere smokestacks on legs instead of of devoting their leisure to rescue victims of the tobacco habit The sons of darkness say that while a drink often makes males the container long for Cor a smoke a smoke emphatically emphatically emphatically em em- doesn't make the smoker long for a drink The sons and daughters of oC light know better Twin evils go together a pipe or cigar is a shoehorn for drink The phrase in vogue when Virginia first sent this noxious weed to England confesses guilt Drinking tobacco In regard to tobacco every meek inquiring spirit will accept cheerfully the opinion of those who dont don't use it The physical and moral ruin which it causes has been depicted depicted depicted de l by y abler pens Collect the complete works of the Rev George Trask It was not he however but a once renowned hygienist and Dr Dio Lewis who made the impregnable impregnable impregnable the final argument against the mind-destroying mind poison General General General Gen eral Banks does not smoke Whereas poor General Grant did How insanely fond the boys in inthe inthe inthe the trenches are of their pipes The fact has not been brought out but do not the military authorities authorities authorities au au- au- au encourage this vice Narcotized stupefied plied with pipes as well as liquor so and only so are soldiers dragged to battle The young gentlemen In the University of Utah should ponder Charles Lambs Lamb's stammering verse on tobacco If it is a sin sinto sinto sinto to use it it is a sin to advertise it And why should students be defiant when the salutary order to la lay down cigarette cigar pipe is served upon them Or is the attendant bulldog to b be banished with the pipe pipe New New York Times |