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Show Some Local Conditions Not So Good. Harold B- Lee, one of the apostles of the L. D. S. church, preached a good sermon in the Wells stake conference last Sunday Among ohfr things he said that he was a member of a nation J committee whose aim is to- study and seek- to find ways and means to prevent social diseases, and that they have been unable to raise a hundred dollars in this state for that purpose, while the net revenue from liquor sales in Utah, for a single year runs well over $1,000, 000, and from sales of Cigaret levenne stamps alon well over $350,000. Considering Consider-ing this and taking note of the every day and holiday drunken-ess drunken-ess one is apt to conclude that we're going to hell in a hanging hang-ing basket. He also said he had visited the state prison and interviewed forty five inmates who were under twenty three years of age. Nearly ninety per cent of them said they were there because at a certain time in their boyhood there was no one to look after them no one to take any interest in them. Far to many fathers and mothers are somewhat like the father of John Dillinger, who cried out after his son was shot down, "I was too bupy at the store to look after John," |