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Show I " 1 COMMUNICATION 1 Lditor Standard-Examiner: In your Issue of last evening under, th headint; "Utah Legislature Son! I'on.ml't.e Nil!!..-,'' I m-.- ihnt (juli.-j ney is ih- father of "8. B. 15, enabling I I Women by agreement betweeo em-1 ploycr and employe to xvork more i than eight hours a day." Now, Mr. Kdltor, we have a la v i on the hooks now wherein women in I this Mato must not xvork more than eiKlit hours a dit . This law Was eel - j tainlx a Godsend to working women,, especially In the ittiaAier towns of the i jstate, where the proprietor! of coun-j i try stores worked their employes fro:i ; I ten to twelve hours per day. I Now In my opinion If this bill t ! Air. Qulnney'fi pasiei it will render j the eight -hOUr law null and xold be-: cause the majority of th employen i wish to get all the work they can bul ! I of in. ir help. And lots of i ui i ! men In order to keep the positions ; they hold will consent to work almos' j any number of hours. Talk about j freak legislation, tins iinlielgnret bill, I by Brother Bodthwlek and 8. it. 46 Qulnne are the limit What do you! think 2 J. I, SMITH, Opdcn. Feb. I. 2biZ Grant Ave. Kditor Standard-Examiner: Since so much is belnK said by those vx ho smoke, against the proposed Antl-( Clguret bill, 1 would like to say some-, ihiuK upon the subject bearing upon .. i- vx angles of the question Which have not as yet been dlacuascd. at least i . . public tnn nner. , PcVhnp! it Is chnracterletlo of th l rage smoker that , he recognises j ..,.l one class ..t people that he thinks; oi . being ;n .n Interested In thls ubjeet, namely, the adult male of the! species. Not having at hand any ac-1 Ctirate statistics as to the proportion I of men to ihc xxomrn and children of the good old state of Utah, lei us i j r. herotai and say thai be numhers one- third of the population, and that about three-fourths of his clan erookesj either 0 i pi', IR i or . iffi.ret I M I III, Now that chivulroiis slogan called tlio law ..r the .sea. Which xv;us quoted i so often after the sinking of the laisl-tanla, laisl-tanla, "Tin women nnd children first" j tiover eeeme to occur to the smoker in connection xxith tin- antl-clgaret bin I at all. Perhaps he think" that It never! did aiply to affairs on lund. anyhow. me writer complains thai .i few rti n flrho do not smoke are trying to take .smoking away from the largo class of men who do smoke. There in no suggestion In nil these articles ih.il the legislators were sent up to make laws for any one but the men' of the state or that they were elected bv ;im other than those of the men, i 1 1 i rs OS BOYS. !.-t us i.il..- Mi,' ease ol th,. growing boy. If cigarets are bad for him, physically mentally and morally, andi Loth phvsielaii' and edm-'itors aproo that they nrc, then it Is certainly worth while to abolish them for tje future good of the state. If the present law Resigned to protect the growing, boy i from his immature judgment. Is not so well enforced as It should be. it is largely because ins adult friends and relatives are .setting the wromc kind J of an example before him and he longs to lmltato what he considers a manly 1 attribute. But, personally, I think that!' LitUOUgh like prohibition It Is not vol 1 1 feetiy enforced, it Is again like pro- 1 hlnilion tn Ihnt it hn h r mif 1. 1 .il.ont n 1 1 wonderful change for the be',t r. i ok i of i mpij:. Before the bill prohibiting minors' . smoking was passed, I used often to see a group Of school boys, n.ino of xvhont could be over ten years old. and one 'or perhaps two of the numbers would be showing tho others how oai 'it vva-s to smoke a clgaret. I have not iseen anything of that sort for a long Jtlmo. Neither do the dellxery boys of fourteen to eighteen smoko as frequently fre-quently as they used to do. They j haven't the time to lay off from work and appear before the Juvenile court. 'Now these boys, being members of th! genu! home, have some rights that perhaps the smokers will concede. That I3 they have the right to grow up stronc nnd healthv and to be protected pro-tected during their Immature years from the exercising of poor judgment. RIGHTS Ol xxoMl Bul the women nnd children well, that is something else again and perhaps per-haps the smoker will not concede any rights for them at all. but nevcrthe-! loos some one ought to venture the assertion as-sertion that they renlly have some rights guaranteed to triem under t !io constitution of the I'nlted Suites. Now as a matter of fact, there are so few women vx ho smoke that tho number is very negligible as compared with tho population. Also, as a matter of fact, there aro n large number of xvomen who are made deathly sick by having to (nhah tobacco smoke in a Close room. Not being used to inhaling inhal-ing the poisonous fumes as nearly all j n ' 11 l.otn smokers ;tnd non-snookers J are accustomed, their system immedi-; ately repudiates the poison It is the lame with small children A woman friend who is very healthy told me! that tho only times she has ever been) 111 enough to feel that life was no I buiqer desirable xvas when she xvas shut up on a trans-continental Pullman Pull-man car for several dais with most ot tho tobacco smoke from those little i Jokes called "smoke compartments" '.owing back Into the car. Thousands of women suffer that way annually. So, utterly Oblivious is the smoker to the idea that anyone could find his smoke obnoxious that when he asks a I woman if she. would object to him imoking, he does not expect anv other' inswer than the usual polite "certaln-lly "certaln-lly not." If kibe should be frank I enough to objec t he would consider her fussy and utterly unreasonable Bul women end children counted, the majority of the people do not smoke, .So there Is some reason In asking that ,mon shall not smoke In public places According tb (he law proposed the smoker .still has hie home, his office 'and all out of door! in which to smoke, although considering the number of .xvomen stenographers in offices It! I would not be unreasonable to include1 "those places, also So are not the plaCei mentioned above enough, without with-out the smokois wonting lo Inflict, themselves ou everybody, exery place land all the time? 11 IKGKS (. MXST TRUST. Muring the war. the American To-1 haceo trust t..rt -, numerous subscrlp ' jtions lo buy cigarets for our soldiers and mnny KOod people subscribed in ai good faith, thinking that the mends of the boys hsU .started them .1 now print.., 1 petition! arc belnr I ' ulated In all ho ,.iet. store n5l tne petitions are not frank enough to! say who sponsor them. But, Mr I bnioker, vx:.' no: -the women and. I children first" In this matter? LEOTA K HUTSINPIL.LAR ;i |