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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04
SOME RESULTS.

Half-hearted friends OF temperance
very often argue that prohibition is
barren OF results, but that does not
appear to be quite true. 1t is claimed,
for instance. that few days test in
Worcester, Mass, has proved a re-
markable success. The City has about
100000 inhabitants During tho first
twenty-five days, of May. this year. un-
der absolute Prohibition, the ar
rests for drunkenness were 49, During
the same period last year, the arrests
were 1856. The arrests for individual
days have already frequently shown
still more astonishing variations. For
the twenty-four hours ending Tuesday,
May 26, 1908. at ] a. m, there was only
one arrest for drunkenness recorded as
compared with twenty two arrests for
drunkenness last year during the same
twenty four hours under license
Figures for the first twenty-five days
OF Prohibition at Haverhill. Mass, just
received, show arrests for drunken
ness May to 25, 1908. under no
license, Is. arrests for drunkenness
under license May to %, 1907. 81.
How Prohibition works in Oklahoma
is graphically told by q correspondent
of the Nebraska State Journal. That
city has dispensary on a side street.
Liquor can be purchased there. but the
purchaser must have a physicians pre-
scription. At the dispensary he takes an
oath as to the use of the liquor; on re-
ceving the liquor he signs a statement
showing that he has bought 1t. A phys
ician cannot buy liquor for his own use.
A pharmacist who wants liquor to use
in tinctures and medicines must him
self give a bond, not less than $1,000
The dispensary was opened May 10.
1908. During the first ten days TO May
80, there were only twenty-four sales
made The sales average some three
or four each day. The agent receives
10 per cent on all sales. Thus far his
profits have averaged about $3.50 a
week. yet when prohibition became
effective there were about ninety
saloons in the city. The very fact that
with the establishment of the dis
pensary and the closing of the saloons.
liquor sales fell to twenty four in ten
days. proves that Prohibition can do
something One OF the Oklahoma pap
ers observes whether prohibition
prohibits or does not. there Is less
drunkenness observable on the streets
of Oklahoma City than before the ad-
vent OF the Prohibition regime"
Such are some of the results that
prove that honest efforts for temper
ance are not In vain. A great deal
depends on the officers whose duty it
is to administer the laws. Laws are
ineffective If the officers are in league
with the transgressors. But the right
kind of laws honestly administered are
effective.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04
THE sMooT DRY-FARM BILL.

One of the most important meas
ures passed by Congress during the
last session was the Smoot- Mondell
dry farm homestead bill. The signif-
icance of this measure to Utah was
explained the other day by Congress
man Howell, in widely published
interview. He said:
1.-THE state OF Utah comprises an
era of about 100000 acres, of
which only about two and half per
cent. IA under cultivation. The rea-
son Is that by far the greater portion
OF the lands of the state is so situat-
ed that irrigation Is impossible and
under the old methods farming Is out
OF the question. Then, too. the land
laws az they now exist require
homesteader to reside upon his claim
to acquire title. Without water resi-
dence Is impossible. and there are
millions of acres so situated that no
available water-supply can be reach
ed without travelling ten, twenty and
even fifty miles. II has been clearly
demonstrated that arid lands can be
made productive by the summer
fallow process That Is TO say, such
lands are ploughed one year and
allowed to remain fallow until fall,
when they are htted for a crop, and
the next season, after the harvest,
they are permitted 10 remain uncul-
tlvated, or rather without being sow
ed. The year following, In the fall,
another crop IL planted and by this
method fair crops are secured every
alternate year. The owners Of such
firms live In the villages. sometimes
fifty miles distant, and they are COM
PEELED TO haul all the water they re-
Quire for themselves and their horses.
The standard homestead under the
old laws was so acres. lnasmuch as
only half OF an arid farm can be Gull
tvated I'm one season It was decided
by those having the interest OF the
great Western plains at heart to
Thy 90 get Congress "a consent 70
double homesteads in the arid reg
ions, and the Mdndell-Smoot bin was
drawn with that object In view, and
the Senate added a section which
eliminates the requirement as 10 con-
tinuous residence upon such home
stead, That Is ~ say ns soon as the
President signs the blll, which l am
confident he viii do, II viii be pos
Mble Tor a settler To take up home
stead of 32O acres and 10 cultivate II
under tho method / have described,
and az the same time reside with his
family ln q nearby village, whore be-
sides the comforts OF life he can ed
ucato his children and enjoy himself,
hold intercourse with nolghbors ana
have the advantages OF church at
tendance Utah Is unique in It's
village life Villages dot the state
from end 10 end, and most Of our
farmers, instead OF living on isolated
farms, reside In the small hamlets and
towns and drive to their fields as oc-
oasion may require. / believe that
the enactment OF this new law viii
result IN the taking up OF several mill
lion acres and the cultivation OF the
thousands 10 the rural population OF
all the states affected and viii con-
vert the sage-brush plains into waving
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

| relation between master and man ne
1 one purely contractual, justihes the
\ master in driving AS hard bnrgain
az his power and the employees need
| VIII let him drive and Imposes on an
employer no obligations not written
In the bond. In democratic America
| so moderate a measure as the EN-
ployers' Liability Act which merely
abrogates the ancient and unjust rule
by which an employer Is exonerated
from liability for injuries TO an employe
caused by the negligence OF a fellow
servant. is denounced as an extreme
concession to the labor vote--denounced
and buried In committee. In monarch
ical England on the other hand, whore
there is still n hereditary House OF
Lords. the Parliament In the interest
OF the working classes, has enacted
legislation which would seem TO our
conservatives to be nothing short OF
applied anarchism. What an uproar
there would be In tho "sano and safe
press of the United States IL Sam
Gompers were to demand OF Congress,
and President Roosevelt In a message
were to recommend such a law as the
Workmen's Compensation Act, which
has been In force more than twelve
months in England BY this act every
householder Is bound to pay any serv-
ant tncapacitated during his employ
ment half wages so long as the inca
pacity continues though II be for the
remainder of the servants life. This
obligation is imposed on the master,
irrespective OF negligence. The PEN
sion. however, under the act, Is not to
exceed Ave dollars q week. Should the
servant be killed during his employ
ment and leave any dependents. the
employer must find a sum equivalent to
three years earnings, provided this
amount is not less than $3.50 or more
than $1,000. This act, so radical In its
terms, alarmed English householders
at first, but the insurance companies
offered policies to secure the household
er against the risks imposed by the law
at premiums so low that everybody
seems to be satisfied. and the expert
ment in Il year has proved to be
success. The Insurance companies find
the business profitable,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04
LOW BIRTH RATES.
Chicago Record Herald.

French depopulation" is familiar
phrase. re publication of tho vital sta
tlstlcs In France never falls to cause
discussion OF the steady decline of her
birth rate and the grave consequences,
military and other, 10 be apprehended.
Until now, however 'depopulation" has
been used In q loose sense, for. after all,
up TO the publication OF the figures for
1907. no one expected an actual excess
OF deaths over births The average
annual increase OF population had been
slight, but there had been an increase.
Last year, for the first time since tho
agitation began there vas decrease.
The deaths exceeded the hirths--the fig-
ures being 10000 deaths TO IA, 900
births Whether this showing viii
change the optimistic views of those
modern" thinkers who claim that her
low birth rate is Frances proudest dis
tinction and the clearest proof OF her
culture. her desire for comfort and hap
pincss her horror OF congestion, Nth,
misery. disease rs n question. As 10
the majority OF thinkers. they win
doubtless oudgel their brains even hard
or 10 devise anti-raoe suicide remedies
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04
is DANCING SINFUL

Is 1t sinful to dance? Is the ball
room an evil in society? Or must 1t be
let alone as providing a necessary form
of relaxation and recreation for people
young and old, especially the former?
These questions are just now occupy
ing the earnest attention of many
thoughtful people. In general people
with a strong religious inclination and
who are decidedly orthodox, look upon
the ballroom with extreme disfavor;
while theses who believe broadly in
physical culture and social relaxation
are inclined to patronize the dance,
even while they hesitate to argue in f.
vor OF 1t.
writer in the Inter-Ooean condemns
dancing in these strong terms:
II used to go to dances three and four
times In a week. but 1 knew 1t was
uiong Please read what Paul says
IN Ephesians v, ~: Speaking for your
selves in psalms and hymns and spirit
ilal songs. singing, and making melody
in your heart to the Lord. Next time
You recommend dancing. advise all TO
take their Bible along, read a chapter,
and ask God 10 bless the dances. We
ran I HtiNb lNO iAAiNlflNs AJuT iAt-
deemer says In st. Matthew. chapter X,
80. And no that talSeth not his cross
and fOlloweth after me is not worthy of
me- His cross--does that mean TO be
IN the dancing hall? Christ said 10 His
disciples as you and ] ought 10 be;
Watch and pray, that ye enter not In
TO temptation and said we should fol-
low in His footsteps. Did He dance?
let your light so shine before men that
they may SEQ your good works and
glorify your father which Is In heaven,
Does a true Christian believe He IL
glorifying God by going to dances? The
only worldly dance ! have read about
IN my Bible Is Matthew XIV g. But
Herod's birthday was kept, the dauRh-
ter OF Herodias danced befuna them,
and pleased Hcrod. Did she glorify
God by taking the head OF John tho
Baptist2"
Another writes; II would Ike to
have word to say on the dance ques-
ton, as ] sse some are stIll trying to
prop It up, while others are busy white
washing IT'S face and back. TO try TO
make It appear decent and respectable.
llut Il cannot be done any moro than
you can make resurrection plant out
Of a rotten apple, simply because II is
like the saloon business, II f. rotten az
the core and win just say that no.
body can get anything out OF the word
Of God TO prop up the modern dance
with, because 1t is not there to get"
II dancing Is 10 b. discussed from
the Biblical point OF view we may
remind our soripturally inclined broth
er that there is a time to weep. and a
time 10 laugh, a time 70 mourn and n
time to dance" Occol ~; a, and that
IN Psalms $40 and 100 Israel IS bidden TO
to praise the Lord IN the dance
Dancing cannot, therefore, be wrong
In and Of itself though II may well be
that in the ball rooms as commonly
conducted in most parts Of tho world.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04
SURVIVORS OF THE GREAT WAR.

Forty-two years have passed since the
Civil war, md the ranks OF the armies
that took part In that struggle are
rapidly thinning out. According to a
computation by the New York Tribune,
there are only 20 men now living who
held the rank OF Major general. or
superior rank. during that war, and all
but one are over 20 years of age. There
are nine surviving Union major gem
| erals. two Confederate lieutenant gem
erals and nine Confederate major gem
! erals.
Those who fought In the Union arm
| les are Grenville M. Dodge of Council
BLUFFS, Ia. Benjamin II. Grierson of
Jacksonville. Ill. SO years old, cav
airy leader; Otis O. Howard OF Bur
llngton. VT. who will be rs years old on
November 8. Wesley Merritt, ~ years
old, n cavalry leader of great dash
and bravery. Nelson A. Miles OF Wash
ington, who will be SO years old on
August 8, Peter ]. osterhause of
Mannheim, Germany, So years old,
Daniel Il. Sickles of New York who
will be SO years old in October the
commander of the Third Army corps at
Charlottesville and Gettysburg, to
whom credit has been given for turn
ing Gettysburg into a Union victory;
Julius FL Stahel of New York. who will
attain the same age on November 3.
and James Harrison Wilson of Will
mington, Del, who will be II years old
on september 2, cavalry leader,
OF the Confederate leaders the two
still surviving who rose to the rank OF
lieutenant general are Simeon Il. Buck
ner of Munfordville. KY, who was So
years old on April l. and who prepared
the defences of Mobile. and Alexan-
der p Stewart of Chattanooga, Tenn,
who will celebrate his eighty seventh
birthday on October 2. and who served
as a corps commander under Johnson.
Stephen ID. Lee, who defeated Sher-
man at Chickasaw Bayou, Miss, and
served under Hood and Johnson. died
the other day, in his seventy fifth year.
with each year the exercises OF
Memorial day become more impress
siye because of the fact that the num-
bers of survivors of the great con-
flict is becoming smaller and smaller.
Soon IL will be a matter of history
only.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04
A Profit, Anyhow.

He was filling his first prescription,
and when he handed 1t to the lady he
told her it was 81 10.
She paid the s1.1o. and after she
had gone he Informed the proprietor
that the dollar was counterfeit. The
proprietor looked over his glasses at
the young man and said:
We'll. how about the 10 oents-is
that good money!"
The young man answered in the af-
firmatlve.
"Oh, WELL" the proprietor replied,
that's not so bad-we still make d
ickel."--Success Magazine.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

And have you any brothers and
sisters. my little MANI asked the kind
old lady. ''Yes'em." replied the little
man; II got one sister and one and
half brothers" WHAT" Yes, ma'am;
two half sisters and three half broth
ers."-Philadelphia Press.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

So John Hays Hammond is an avowei
candidate for the vice presidential nom
nation on the Republican ticket. He
must regard the prospect as good To
decide to spend money on It,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

Already over 100000 words OF
testimony have been taken in the suit to
dissolve the Standard DOL trust who
is this that darkeneth counsel by words
without knowledge"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

Presidential Possibility. (proudly)--
Il would rather be right than be Presi-
dent" Sagacious Friend Quietly. sug-
gestively)-"That's all right; but
wouldn't you rather be President than
be left ?"--Baltimore American.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04
A GOOD LAW.

san Francisco Bulletin,
Employees in democratic America are
still, IN some measure, battling against
the closed shop and the right Of work
ingrnen 20 deal with employees through
the union and tie business agent. In
America tho law stlll looks upon the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04
Makes Talk,

Miss Gaddie-When 1t comes to gos-
sipy conversation she's very interest
ing.
Miss Ascum-Why, she's not an in
teresting talker at all
Miss Gaddie-Oh, / mean as a sub
ject.-Philadelphia Press.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

And now Senator Plat is sued for
Mrs. Lillian Janeway Platt's bill. The
amount, some s2,47l, shows that it 10
only a Widows mite.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

was it formal dinner?"
II should say so. There were 50
many knives, forks and spoons that
everybody had his eye glued on the
hostess to see which to pick UP next"
Washington Star
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

Perhaps the dirtiest thing In the
world is the inside of boys pocket"
says the Atchison Globe. No, the IN
side of boys hand is.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04
JUST FOR FUN.
A Wonderful Man.

Shakespeare wrote for all time
For instance2' Take his expression:
'Tis not, so deep as we'll. nor so
wide as barn door, yet twill serve.
How well that describes a 1908 spring
hat!"-Washingto Herald.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

The Laporte people will have to
spring something besides alleged con-
LESSONS TO keep up interest In the
Guinness farm murders.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

There has been so much rain on tho
isthmus that It has been quite impos-
sible OF late to make the dirt fly as il
has been doing in the past.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

The trouble with stocks these days Is
that when they are put up they. don't
stay put.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

Two Americans have just been muir
dered by Moros. From this it would
seem that all the Moros have not been
pacified.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04
The Mysterious Time.

Boots (who has overslept)-will We
Place to get up, sorr. It's an hour
later than it was this tonne yesterday
mornin, sorr.-Punch.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

"Our dreaded Fourth" says the Bos-
ton Transcript. Why dread it when we
have so many Dreadnoughts building?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

Hand organs are under the police
ban in Chicago. And the police declare
that they viii stand no monkeying.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

No one ever suspected that the Presl-
dent was riding for fall. Fortunately
it was not serious.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

This is the kind of weather that the
old Indian chief Rain-in-theFace de-
lighted in.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

At Spsom Downs in the Derby race
a rank outsider outranked everything.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

In oregon Governor Chamberlain MOI
Judge Cake took the cake.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

It may not be great year for pro-
hibition but it certainly is for water.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

Mauretania and Lusitania appear to
rule the waves alternately.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04
DEsERET EVENING NEWS THURSDAY JUNE 1908

wheat fields, and the jacltrabblt will
give place to live stock OF value to
the human rnce."
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

A school ard its money are soon
parted.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

It begins to look as though Tafts
band wagon would need n trailer.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

Gould you give starving woman
work?"
Yes; but I must tell you that we
have five children" Thanks. I'll keep
on starving" Courier
Journal
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04

The Iowa idea continues to be ALL
son.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-08

+ the Indian crude and rough he said,
that we may place him as a feature
| in exhibitions. There is no hesitation,
| either, in officially favoring the educat-
| ed young Indians being prominent in
| these exhibitions and then in officially
calling public attention to such educat-
/ ed Indians with view to disparaging
| their education
The presence of an Indian village at
the Chicago exposition was combated
strongly by General Pratt, who refused
to allow any Carlisle students to take
a part in it, although it was under the
direction of the Indian Bureau IN
stead, General Pratt took the entire
school, over five hundred pupils, to the
exposition by special train and allow
ed them to spend a week in Chicago
without any expense to the govern
ment. The situation between him and
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs at
this time grew SO strained that he
otfered to resign and rejoin his regi-
ment, which was not allowed
AT st. Louis, the Secretary of the
Interior blocked all attempts of Cen
eral Pratt to repeat his Chicago sue
cess, wild Indians being the dominat-
ing feature, and the same was before
the case at Omaha, Carlisle being stop
ped from taking any part as a school,
although Carlisle graduates were en-
couraged to appear in paint and feath-
ers.
The graduates of Carlisle are doing
Well" declares the General, in spite
of the reports circulated in Sunday
newspapers to the contrary. Official
reports prove this and the reports are
the more important because prepared
by officials not friendly to the school,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-08

1929 Is
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