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Show Cardinal Mercier Man Visit Salt Lake ST 5S S3 3 & Belgian Prelate Is Eager to Tour West I - 1 C' AEDINAL MEECIEE, PRIMATE OF BELGIUM, with Archbishop Kayes of New York at his side, revlowing j i parade of the First division from a stand in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral. In the panel, left to right , j are: Bishop De Wachter of Belgium, Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop Hayes, Bishop Joseph S. Glass of Utah, Mrs. I Brand Whitlock and Mr. Whitlock, United States minister to Belgium. (Times Wide World Photos.) w ?frv y yww..w7Wi w7 "V murKi-nrn "-JT" 5 W wvx-TO-w trauma iWJJy IftsaMTA -ri.U vvv v.u'K '-2 Bishop Joseph S. Glass .Interviews .In-terviews Distinguished Visitor in New York. CARDINAL MERCIER, the Belgian Bel-gian Primate whose name has become a symbol of righteous defiance of aul oerjicy, will visit Salt Lake if tb.y. convening, of the Belgian Bel-gian parliament is postponed, according accord-ing to a telegram received" here yesterday yes-terday from Bishop Joseph H.-Glass. Bishop Glass had a personal interview with the cardinal in Washington yesterday yes-terday in which IK? illustrious Belgian expressed his wish to extend his tour of i he United Stal es as far as the Pacific coast. Shun Id he make the proposed tour it is regarded as certain that he "will stop over in Halt LaK? and thai he will make an address. Probably no non-military figure in the great war achieved more renown than did Cardinal Mercier for his uncompromising un-compromising stand against tlie German Ger-man invaders in tlu'ir efforts to lat down the spirit of the inhabitants of oppressed Belgium. G;i rdiiurl M ercier, who f mpiently invoked upon himself the wrath of the invaders, was out of the most poVint fact ors in keeping hope strong among Belgians for the day of ret ributiuu v. Inch eventually came. Bishop Glass lias seen the cardinal many times during th' past few days, and was at his side in ih reviewing stand when Pershing paraded at the head of the famous First division on Fifth -avenue, New fork. TK? present itinerary of Cardinal Mercier calls for no a ppea ranee west of Chicago, but it is hoped by thousands thou-sands west of tvM city that he will find it possible to make the journey to the Pacific cuast by way of Salt Lake. |