The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05
LOCALIZED PRIZE
FIGHTS TO STOP
Authorities Will Be Compelled
to End These Palpahle
EvasiOns of Law.
OTHERWISE THERE WILL BE
DRASTIC LEGISLATION
Violations of Law Upon This
Subject Breed Contempt
for Other Laws.
BY D, ", FRANCIS.
ed Wire to The Tribune.

81 Leased Wire to The Tribune.
NEW YORK, June IL am neither j
prophet nor the son of prophet. but ii
] pretended 10 the gift OF foreseeing
should be inclined 10 say that the day oi
the legelized prize fight In this country is
drawing 10 a close, The efforts of The
church people of California backed up as
they are by The sentiment of the church
men of the whole country will not stop
the fight scheduled In san Francisco on
Independence day, but il Is merely 4
matter OF time when an aroused public
opinion will compel the authorities to put
stop TO these palpnble cvasions OF the
lHws against prize lighting or compel the
law making bodies to enact such drastic
measures will prohibit even harmless
Sport. That the proposed San Francisco
meeting is a prize fight pure and simple
cunnot be disputed, even by those who. in
order 10 evade the plain letter OF the law.
call it boxing contest, smile cynically
when they do SO. II would be better Tor
The community if all restrictions on
such fights were removed for such viola
tions simply breed contempt for the law
in other ways. There is another alter
native however the strengthening OF the
law TO prohibit all boxing contests IL
does not take much OF a prophet TO fore
toll which alternative the people of an
American state Will take,
Christmas Tree in June.
II is somewhat late and unreasonable.
perhaps you might say. To talk about
Christmas trees In these warm days OF
June but that is not true In the case OF
little 7-year-oid girl. Marguerite Rod
man OF Burlington y. j. Just when Mar
gueritcs Christmas tree was about TO
take on its precious fruitage last Decem-
Der she had to go 10 a hospital. That did
not worry her in The least except that 1T
grieved her 10 think that she would miss
her Christmas tree. She was comforted.
however by an uncle who promised that
her tree would be carefully guarded and
all its gorgeous burden kept on its
branches until she came home. That
promise has been sacred!y kept. The tree
still stands in It's original place. the
were put three days before Christmas.
and every night the trunk and branches
are carefully wrapped In damp clothes 10
keep them fresh and green, And in a
few weeks the patient little girl. with
health restored is coming home to have
her Christmas Tree in the good old sum-
mcr time.
Mystic and the Occult.
Judicious observers have marked with
some concern the increasing interest In
the mystic and the occult. One cult in
New York was recently shown to be
guilty OF practices that BODIED little good
70 the participants. and the professor who
manipulated the strings behind the scenes
la front was Il proper object OF attention
for the police These East Indian casuists
entrap the shallow and half-teuEht with
their wiles and sophistries, their fluent
use of obscure terms, and their rhaD-
sodies Soon We find the dupes parroting
the leaders, inane reDetltions OF "the
seven infnities.' and the mystic circles