Show SEE AMERICA MOVEMENT LAUNCHED BY CONFERENCE See Europe If You Must But See America First Is the Slogan of the Delegates to the Salt Lake Salt Lake CltyAt 11 oclock Friday Fri-day January 2G the 200 men assembled assem-bled in the armory in the Commercial flub building wero called to order by the chairman exGovernor Heber M Wells and tho See America First convention became a reality On tho platform were seated In addition to Chairman Wells Governor George E Chamberlain of Oregon Governor John C Cutler of Utah and Judge O W Powers who represented Mayor Ezra Thompson and welcomed the visitors vis-itors on behalf of Salt Lake City In opening the conference exGovernor Wells set forth tho alms and objects of the See America First movement In a brief and pleasing address The results hoped to bo achieved by tho conference might be expressed In the following language of exGovernor Wells Speaking personally I have never been to Europe But I have bathed In the buoyant waters of both tho Atlantic At-lantic and the Pacific have gazed through southern mists out upon tho Gulf of Mexico and have traversed the great lakes and tho Thousand Islands Isl-ands of tho St Lawrence I have heard the great Niagara roar and have stood spellbound upon tho brink of tho Grand canyon of the Colorado amid that deathlike stillness of nature na-ture described by Mark Twain as so still you can hear tho microbes knaw I have stalked elk In Jacksons hole and caught fish In the Yellowstone river and boiled them hard by In a geyser without taking them off tho hook I have floated In the briny surface sur-face of the Great Salt lake and shot tho chutes on Sutro Heights I have looped tho loop on Coney Island and breathed the fragrant sighs of orange groves in southern California I have perspired In the humid atmosphere of the Mississippi valley and thrown spowlmlls at the altitudes of Pikes peak I have gazed In rapt wonder at the mighty Missouri rolling down to the sea and have visited tho great northwest where rolls the Oregon Short Line Yet I am not ready for Europe Upon a trip to Now York some years ago I became acquainted with a man from Albanya young druggistwho had acquired a competency and was setting off on a vacation I asked him whore he was going and wreathed In ecstatic smiles ho blurted tho one word Europe I asked him If ho had ever visited a place called Niagara Falls which lay a hundred or two miles to tho west of him and ho said Its nothing but a lot of water Now gentlemen I submit that that la the type of fellow we we after If we can spread the gospel of See America First so that some of these easterners who now spend their good American money at Monta Carlo can be Induced to come up and take higher high-er ground and visit some of the suburbs of their home towns I feel that our mission will not have been In win An address of welcome was made by Judge O W Powers while Governor Gov-ernor Chamberlain of Oregon made an address In support of tho See America First movement At the afternoon session the officers of-ficers were selected and the work for the convention outlined The officers of-ficers selected were Fisher Harris of Salt Lake City as permanent chairman chair-man and permanent vicechairmen as follows Judge J H Richards Boise Ida J A Runyon Kansas City MoL Mo-L W Pratt Tacoma Wash W F R Mills Denver Colo H M CaVe Portland Ore J K Persons Duluth Minn C E Edwards San Francisco Cal T J Nerny Butte Mont E J Westlako of Minneapolis permanent secretary James A Metcalf of Missoula Mis-soula Mont first assistant secretary secre-tary J A Runyon of Kansas City Mo second assistant secretary George A Cordon of RIgby Ida ser geantatnrms |