The Discourteous Smoker

EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY 1097 tion. Here the future of the child is made or is unmade to his everlasting good or evil. Many careful students of economics believe that in Utah is the finest opportunity in the world for a working out of the ideal of equality in opportunity, and an investigation of the situation warrants this belief. We have here indeed a fine and great work to do. Consider the character of the people— at once idealists and workers, men who see as in visions great things, and whose muscles are strong and souls persevering in the working out of the vision. Men of purity of character and resolution to face any hardship in righteousness. Citizens are these of sterling integrity whom the world admires while it criticizes. Consider our social organization, one which reaches and gives a useful work for every member of its body. Of the men who built this organization we may talk, of the mothers in these mountains we can not say anything to add or detract. They are above our encomium. They have made this empire. They have given us a heritage unequaled in the world. No man who has given thought to this situation and to the character of the men and women who conquered for us what we call home, can receive with anything but reverence the fruits of their labors, nor can approach with anything but reverence the tasks which fall from their tired hands. LOGAN, UTAH The Discourteous Smoker People who don't smoke also do not want to be smoked. And yet people who do smoke, don't seem to appreciate this obvious fact. Why cannot smokers learn a little courtesy in this respect ? A woman and a man, her employer, were walking down the street together. They walked together merely because they happened to leave the office at the same time and their ways lay in the same direction. He pulled out a cigar, lighted it, and began to smoke. Whereupon she turned on her heel, and abruptly left him without a w >rd. Next day she said to him : "I am going to quit." "Why?" he wished to know. "Because I am mistaken in the thought that I was working for a gentleman !"