Show Hr HI Hi l H M t rI H T IT I i Ii I TEMPERANCE CE CED f D E PART M E N T y t I CONDUCTED BY W C T Tf U I j jf f EDITORIAL COMMITTEE COMMITTEES f 4 MISS FRIEDA DRESSEL MRS U WAY WM V A Y X S i S f EXPLANATIONS I rho Tho W C T U as s an organization har bar not been heon particularly stirred by b I the defense of the policy of the tho police department printed a few ow days ago a 0 and signed by b one of the Iho desk serg cants Tho W C T U open letter was not Dot addressed to the tho department l but hut was rather about It ii Ilane and about the tho city officials policy In regard to tain tam evils Tho The loiter letter was Intended to be an ap appeal appeal appeal peal to members of or tho Mormon church and was not for Cor the police de do department at nil all We VI understand from the letter from the police department that tho the police pollee 01 or at nt least the tho authors of tho the letter lotter arc are perfectly with present conditions which Is no news to any anyone an anone anyone one We Vo wore were asking If others out lido aide the department were satisfied Tho Tue statement that It IL Ills IB I uncommon to find Ogden young mon in such places will bear Investigation Tho The young delivery boy ho who committed suicide several years ago after aCter losing his Ills employers money moncy was an Ogdon Ogden S boy ho and the young oung nina man who lived In Inthe inthe the tho Opera House who committed sui suicide ul cide clde after losing all alI his money mone is was wasa as asa a resident of Ogden at tho the time limo If former Gentile mayors are arc for Introducing tho system of or regulation In tho the Alley AIle they tho will have hao to defend themselves es from the tue charge Most of them still live hero I The W C T U will still believe that thai whoever began It it Is 15 wrong to keep it il up tip tipAs As for the tho mayor maor of Denver and tho the high officials of Memphis quoted the they aro are probably professional poll poli politicians and not nol church members and andas andas as such sueh not safe safo examples for Og Ogden Ogden I den officials to follow Their fallacy Is in supposing that there thero must always bo be a virus Irus of o vice lu In n every city cither In tho shapo shape of or ora ofa a i running sore or a scattered orup lon lion Most of o us would have no faith In n a physician that talked such non nonsense nonsense nonsense sense about aboul tho lie human body bod We Wo have faith In the tho belief bellef that thal a city may bo be as healthy health as a human jody hod and that neither a running sore I or a scattered eruption Is necessary to o either cither While tho social evil has baffled I police all over oer the world we w venture the assertion that It Il has done so only where the police officers are nrc content to bo be baffled It Il IB 16 l weakness persOnified ed to lo admit that It Is impossible for or a mayor ma or and chief of oC police to enforce any law which they llie seo see fit to enforce and It Its ItIs itis Is s an assertion that thai must bo lo very tory er com corn forting to the lawbreakers I S Concerning the statements made about the attitude of oC tho ho Ogdon Ogden min ruin I and a certain Y i M C A pro professor I lessor fessor that is also something that thai I does docs not concern the tho W r C T U Those gentlemen can all defend them themselves selves if 1 they the have been misquoted In n any an way The statement that the tho outside world looks upon tipon this as a necessary evil is untrue unless by b the outside world Is IB meant the law Jaw politicians and office holders who consent to mako make treaty reaty with this ilo traffic for Cor tho ho sake Bake of a dearly bought political vie vic victor tor tory ory Ask one hundred average citizens of o oboth both sexes if this is a necessary evil ovll and note their answers There is really only ono one thing about this letter toller of oC the desk sergeant that concerns the tho W T C T U 11 at al all nIl That Thai is Thero There seems scorns to be he a mani mant manifest fest test effort on the thc part of the writer or writers to make It appear that the he W C T U has attacked the Mor 1101 Mormon Mormon mon church in the open letter leller and anti j I the W C T U declines to La be bo placed In n any such false falso position on tho ho po chess board of oC the police pollee sta stalon station station tion lon We e can easily see sec what motive the polIce station might have in trying j jo to o place us In the Iho wrong light It Il Is the he strategic move of o tho the crafty craft poll poU to follow out the axiom Keep the he opposing forces divided If iossi hIe le leWe We e wish it understood that there is ii iino no quarrel between tho W r CT U and ind tho the Mormon church Wo We happen to lo o know that tho ho great real bulk buIle of o tho the membership of that church does not approve of the present pre ent attitude of o otho ho tho city officials concerning those these evils any nn more than does docs the W r C T U Judging from rom a recent editorial in inthe he the l News Newe it does not look as iS iSIf asif If f Mr lr Desk Deek Sergeant Ser cant Is authorized to speak for tho the Mormon church In Iri ri tho the matter of or whether the church Is 18 con contented contented contented tented with present conditions and tending further developments along alons the he line of who Is I entitled to speak with authority We c await a decision I |