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Show H CLOSING THE SALOONS AT 9 O'CLOCK, H The mayor and president of the city council have reason to be TOU pleased over the action of the council in passing the most riid saloon restrictions ever enacted into lav,' by any city in the state of Utah. The amended law calls for 9 o'clock closing of all saloons and thin is a source of congratulation. A fevr years ago this measure -would have been rejected as the most drastic of surop- tuarr legislation, but today, with the people educated to expect strict saloon regulation, the law is accepted as nothing more than a community's right to that protection from the evils of the liquor traffic irtUch preyai; where saloons arc allowed to remain open late H at night. , . The advocates of prohibition are entitled to share in the credit ' for this great advance in the control of the saloon. The mayor and president of the city council were unable to make headway in their demand for reform, which was first registered a year ago, and it Trill be recalled how the best they could obtain when the last ordin- I anee was passed was a reduction of the time of closing from 1 o 'clock to 12 o'clock at midnight. When the demand came for the wiping H out of the saloons, the saloon people began to realize that, if they H I did not vicld to the movement to make Ogden the best regulated H "wet" tcrritorj m the West, they might endanger all their inter-H inter-H ' csts and invite the sanctioning of n law which would confiscate their 1 proper tv and leave the great majority bankrupt. M The new law has all the restrictive measures of the state law M nnd in addition, has several features even more exacting than anj- H ' thing written into the statutes of the state by the lust legislature. i No person, not a male citizen of the United States, and who does H not own at least all the personal property used in the conduct of the H business, is to be granted a license. The applicant for license, in H petitioning for license, must have the endorsement of five resident M freeholders, certifying to his good moral character. M No person under the age of 21 shall be employed in handling in-H in-H i toxicating liquors. " M The saloon shall be a single room, which shall contain no M booths, curtains or partitions. There shall bo no gambling or gam- M ing with cards, no billiards, music or other form of amusement; no H free lunch; no obscene or impure decorations; no female employes. H No minor, drunkard or intoxicated person shall be allowed in H a saloon. H There shall be no chairs, benches, tables or any other furniture H in the room, except behind the bar, and then only for the use of M the bartender. H No bar room shall be connected with any room wherein lewd H practices arc indulged, or where prostitutes are permitted to visit. ' Saloons shall not bo connected, by dumb-waiter, elevator, stairs H or other means of communication, with any other rooms. H Complaint heretofore has been made that the police have not H enforced saloon restrictions. It must be borne in mind that, up to the'time the present state law was enacted, Utah's laws on saloon regulations were lame. The officers of the law were handicapped by H the weakness of the law itself and the failure of public sentiment H to be assertive. Laws, to avoid becoming inoperative or obsolete, H must have back of them public sentiment. Today the aroused con- H science of the people of Ogden -will, be a potent factor in enforcing H the liquor laws, holding the saloons to a strict accountability, and the H city police forge to an equally exacting stewardship. The people H arc ready for it and the city authorities are determined to keep H faith with the best moral sentiment of the community. H Hereafter the saloons will be closed at 9 o'clock p. m. a little H after the hour when chickens go to roost. The mother, when the B curfew rings, -will know that the doors have been closed to her son; M the -wife -will know her husband has been excluded even from the M privilege of the social glass; and that if the grown up male mem- M bcrs of the family are not -within the family circle, something other H than convivial company has kept them out. Those "who will obtain M, liquor after the hour of 9 p. m. would find strong drink even if j Ogden went dry, and to attempt to cure them of their waywardness H or take from them their appetite would be a fruitless task either by H restriction or prohibition. |