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Show PAGE TWO. THE PRESS-BULLETI-GOD WILL NEVER LET THESE DEVILS WIN The above caption was the subject of a pastor's address in Los Angeles recently. In part he spok3 as follows, "When men become maniacs, and human beings more frightful than the beast of the jungle and lovely womanhood is made the victim of lustful liber-tines and unbridled passion, and homes, and temples, and schools become the objects of destructive hate, then it is time for a strong arm to handle a two-edg- ed sword. Machiavellianism, blood-thirst- y and savage, must have no place in the coming future, and will be obliterated from the earth which it has foully desecrated before this war can end, and a righteous and enduring peace can be, declared." He then read some first hand information concerning a num-ber of Belgian children which were sent by the German govern-ment to their Belgian friends in Idaho. Here is the exact state-ment: . "You ask about those Belgian children. There were 120 of them, that the Belgian Relief Society brought over that went through here last fall. They were orphan children from the part of Belgium that is occupied by the Germans. They ranged in from age 10 to 14 years. By order of the German generals, the boys were all unsexed and their right hands cut off, and the girls' breasts were cut off and a good many were pregnant from German soldiers. It is enough to make anyone who saw them feel like going out and killing a German or two, just for luck. War must be all the Sherman said it was in any part of theAUied country that is occupied by Germans." EDITORIALS .... ' (By C D. McNeeley) , Bingham challenges any other town in the state to show as good a record in the sale of the third Liberty Loan Bonds as we made. Think of it, $33.92 per capita and a total sale of $339,-26- 0 worth of bonds for a town of less than 10,000 people! The workers who put the big drive over are to be congratulated most heartily. ' The tendency of the Salt Lake newspapers is just as unfair to Bingham as their story published recently concerning the dis-charge of 125 Finns, claiming that they were members of the I. W. W. The Finns resented this charge in strong terms and denounced the Salt Lake newspaper which published the story. These papers from Zion seem bent on raking up all the muck pos-eib- le concerning the camp and shooting it through their columns yet they are mighty glad to accept our big pay checks in exchange jfor their shoddy merchandise. , ' Several people have expressed themselves as being greatly in favor of our plan to license salesmen who come to Bingham to sell commercial stocks of any nature. Besides, being a protection to the people in a sense it would bring some revenue to the city. The majority of these salesmen get from 50 to 100 per cent of the money they collect, and there is no reason why they should not pay a license, and we feel that it should be a heavy one, too. After listening to the harrowing story told by the British Red Cross nurse one almost feels like going out and taking a crack at a German just for luck. But that would perhaps be a little too rash, yet when you have known a man 29 years and he has lived in your country and made money off of your patronage, and then will aid and abet a horde which is planning nothing but destruc-tion and death to the innocent children of your community it seems that none of their clan can be trusted. The utter lack of ' manhood as told by this nurse and the complete failure to respond to the tender emotions of an innocent babe are inconceivable to . the human mind, and yet this seems to be the case with the Ger-man soldiers who murder and kill without regard to the innocent r guilty. When a soldier will march down the street and drive his bayonet through an innocent babe in its mother's arms and carry it thus before the public he is so depraved that he would dis-grace the barberous tribes which destroyed ancient Rome. . t i Children Cry for FIctcEicr's The Kind You Have .Always Bought, and which has been in use for over thirty years, has borne the signature of . -- 'wnii has been made under his per-- j fiPLzjFt-f-tf- l Bonal supervision since its infancy. -- AfvZ uc4iZ jmow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-go- od are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the. health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment - What isCASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, r Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has teen in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, -- "Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS yBears the Signature of . In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought . T fTAUW COMPANV. NlW VO WW CfTV, Bingham People Stop at THE BEST LITTLE HOTEL IN SALT LAKE The New Salt lake 372 South Main Street. Just South of Post Office. 50 ROOMS Telephone, Steam Heat, Hot and Cold Running Water in Every Room. Accommodations with Private Bath if desired Rates 75c to $2.00 per day. No higher. Special by Week or Month. Centrally Located. All Depot Cars Pass the DoorTj IT'S QUALITY I ' ' ; in coal that makes the heat, ; that makes possible a 90 I per cent coriaumption and a j j ; 'onsequtnt loss of but one- - -- Jwr" 11 f I tenth, and that light, clear ash that doesn't clog grate l VAvt5A ' or retard draft. Our quality IGKlM W&i ! does this satisfactorily, ' VWo ' consequently lessens your II rtw pvL " fuel bills. A sample ton " f"ijqg J$t - proves it better than we 4 pSt-- can telL UC. PHONE 39. i; ! CITIZENS COAL CO. jj. Bingham, Utah , THE SCHOOLS IN DANGER The American schools are in danger of grave depreciation unless the American people face the school problem squarely, as they have faced every other problem that has confronted them. The schools are suffering from the two problems of the day the war and high cost of living. Wages and salaries in almost every other vocation have risen pretty much in keeping with the cost of living. Still the teachers grind on at practically the same old starvation wages. If the harm done 'were only in forcing a number of people to live on inadequate Wages, the matter would not be very serious. But the harm does not stop here. The impossibility of obtaining living salaries is inevitably forcing the ambitious man or woman out of the profession and into some other calling that is more generous. The natural result must be the filling of the schools with a lot of second rate teachers, boys who regard the school room as merely a stop-ga- p between their own school days and a profession and girls who view it as a stepping stone between graduation and matrimony nice boys and nice girls, we grant you, but lacking much of being competent instructors. The only possible result :f this condition must be the grievous neglect of the youth of the land. And just at this crisis this country cannot afford to neglect her children. .America has had too hard a struggle to reach her present intellectual plane to afford to yield one fraction of the progress she has made. We have made too many sacrifices in the name of education and culture and intellectual and moral uplift to be willing to take one backward step. We must go on in justice to future generations, in justice to the ideals that have inspired us. Already the complaint comes from many sections of the coun-try that numbers of the more competent teachers, disgusted with the meager salaries, are leaving the school room for more lucrative callings. Once out. and this talent is forever lost to the schools because the channels of business will quickly and eagerly absorb them. There is but one remedy, and that is for the people to look the situation squarely in the face, and be willing to levy taxes for school purposes that shall put the teaching profession up and abreast the other professions. More, perhaps, than on any other class is the future of this country dependent upon the faithful work of her pedagogues. We must suit the reward to the magni- tude of the work. Logan Journal. ; RED CROSS s The week beginning May 20 has been set apart by the presi-dent for the contribution of another $100 000,000 by the people of the United States to the American Red Cross. The first $100,-000,0- 00 has practically been expended and much remains to be done to insure the comfort and welfare of our boys in the trenches and the camps, to say nothing about the needs of the civilian popu-lations which are being looked after by this noble charitable organization. It is entirely useless to advance any arguments why the great sun should be, raised. The men and women of the United States and even the girls and boys know full well that the Red Cros3 is our chief war auxiliary, and that unless the work is to be continued there is bound to be some sacrifice of human lives and a great deal of suffering that could be avoided. So it is an absolute necessity that we supplement the grand work being accomplished by the wives and mothers of America with the desired $100,000,000. That is less than a dollar apiece for the entire population of the United States. Surely each and every one of us can afford a dollar for, such a cause and we should be ashamed to plead poverty or "hard times" when the lives of our oys have been placed upon the altar of their country. Happy Hooligan is in China, and it is a great pity he couldn't have taken his brother, Gloomy Gus, with him. But he left Mm on this side and we are still afflicted with him. We meet him on every corner. He is in evidence wherever men foregather, and his pessimistic forebodings are as a wet blanket on the brightest enthusiasm. He just knows we will soon be fighting the Huns rom our shores. He can see no cause for satisfaction in the mag-- ' mficent stand of the Allies in Flanders, but sees the German ; hordes already pouring over fair France. He bemoans the slow- - ' ness of this country, but it is noticeable that he has done nothing ' to speed up operations, not even to the purchasing of a thrift I Tta,mpY.He.is a veritable rain crow, and as it is not permissible ! to kill him, he should be caged. I ... ... ., OUR MONETARY PROBLEM LARGELY ECONOMIC The financing of the war is only in part a monetary problem ; an a very large part it is an economic problem a problem of con-serving the economic as well as the. financial strength of the Nation and developing our resources and productive power to the point where they will be able to sustain the great military opera- tions which are in prospect and all that is incident to them. .Ko one should, therefore, consume goods except to the extent that fheir consumption is necessary to maintain health and vigor. No one should draw upon the credit resources of the country xcept to finance transactions which are essential for a Nation at war. Credit, like goods, should be saved. Conservation of credit as regards nonessential enterprises is necessary in order to provide, without undue expansion, the credit required by the government and by business essential to the suc-cess of the war and the well-bein- g of the country. V Rumors of an attempt to send Henry Ford to the senate are ! interesting but alarming. Why take the best master mechanic J m America and make a senator, possibly a poor senator, of him' 3 New York Sun, J AVith 100,000 shells the Germans have blown the heart out of Rheims. But with 100,000,000,000 they cannot blow the heart out of France. New York World. An Address on Father he makes willingly. The boy must go to college and the girl must have music Iesons; something must be cut, and usually it is some luxury of fath-er's that perishes by the wayside. He is not so poetical a figure as mother, not so demonstrative In his affections, eo elated In pleasure, so depressed In grief. And yet many will remember a kind word here, or a thoughtful act there that stands out. clear and dis-tinct, as one of youth's happiest Im-pressions. " 'Not often In he appreciated by the growing boy. Often he stands in the family as the official admonlsher to whom the hoy's faults are related for punishment. On him falls the un-pleasant task of applying the rod; his is tlse arm that must enforce respect for mother and regard for the rights of others. In this light the growing boy Is likely to view him with a mix-ture of fear, awe and respect. Not until years bring a proper perspective is he rightfully understood and appre-ciated and perhaps not even then.' " "We have a 'Mother's day", but as yet no 'fVuer'i day' and that Is typi-cal: of an fnjustlce perpetrated In many forms without alleviation upon tne male parent. 'What Is home with-out a motherr This form or interro-gation Intended to stagger the imagi-nation of the average person, is never turned upon the. problem of the father-less home. A boy's best iriend is his mother.' There is no apparent prem-ium on paternal affection. When a child-- turns out well 'a mother's in-fluence'; when the opiwsite is the taso'no wonder, with such a father'! TIi chord of human sympathy is uni-versally attuned to the word or mother. Poets, dramatists and riction writers find it good material that never fails them. Jurlee are swung by it to acquit the hardest and sanest looking criminals. Father.' at best but a patriarchal quality. It Is of snch things that the Indianapolis News bids us tke thought, the while it rushes to the lather's defense, father must not be overlooked. It's editorial holds, for "'The avenge fallier succeeds pretty well In discharging his duty to society, lie labors along persistently and quietly for six lays a week that his fnmllv may he provided for; he Ftands between his family ami the world, shouldering the responsibility of the rent, the taxes, the grocery and thfl coal billy; he admonishes the boy r.nd advises the mother. eekln'g al-ways to make their burden lighter; he works uncensli.gly, without complaint, lighting, scheming, suffering to the one end that bis family may be assur-ed eomfert and independence In this be sometimes fails, but he keeps on jtrylng. cheerfully, stolidly, stubbornly plugging along to the end. "The sacrifices that must be made V " PROFITEERING IN WAR SUBSTITUTES ""While consumers are being asked to buy Liberty Bonds they are: being plucked by the food profiteers. A signal case in point may be cited from the daily market reports. The government has fixed the price of wheat at $2.20 a bushel. The price of corn per bushel one of the substitutes for wheat on which Mr. Hoover asks the American people to rely is $1.75, or 45 cents a bushel less than the regulated price of wheat. We are asked to consume o more wheat until harvest, Yet the price of wheat flour is quoted at 5.8 cents a pound, while the price of both white and yellow corn flour is six cents a pound in 100-pou- nd sacks. Mani- - ' festly, the profiteers are "soaking" the American people to the extent of 25 per cent on com flour, a cereal which they mast buy as their staff of life. If this were the only instance of profiteering xm foods, it would still be serious. As everybody knws it is not the only instance. It is typical of a wholesale plucking of the con-sumer, whose problem of supplying his family with bare necessi-ties becomes more harassing as prices go up. In Great Britain the profiteers are sent to jail for such business. Is there not power enough in the government, state or federal, to prevent the rob-bing of the people who are asked to strain their resources to the Utmost in order to suport the war? Philadelphia Public Ledger. GOVERNMENT URGES . 8HEEP FOR THE FARM Recently the government conducted a farm survey of this county, and ad-vised the farmers to get more live 6tock on their places, see Bulletin No. M2. A bunch of sheep should be on every farm in this county. They will convert farm and orchard weeds into mort-gage lifting profits, fence and enrich the farm, feed and clothe the family. Here's what ten head of old ewes did ttor a San Pete County farmer. Tuy paid for themselves the first year. By the middle of the third year he had fattened his old ewes and cashed them In; this, together with the returns from wool clips and mar-keted wether lambs pld the original investment with Interest, and all costs of feed and keep, and left him with a bunch of young ewea with which to build up a big business on a small farm. 'In addition to all this, the farm had been enriched and the weed crop greatly diminished. So get a bunch of sheep on your farms. I'rovo affords a good market for both wool and mutton. PROlO ELKS 111 ENTERTAIN STATE CONVENTION III Mil Patriotism will be the keyncte of the Elks' Convention, which will be the grand parade In which more than 1OO0 BIks will participate. They are having special uniforms made for this occasion when they will visit Provo Fxvlge No. 849 B. P. O. iK. Special floats sre being built for this occasion by the Salt Lake lodge and also by the local lodge. Provo has the reputation of being one of the leading convention towns In the state and this Is particularly true since the state wide prohibition law went into effect. In connection with the convention will be a carnival during the two days. Major J. II. Dcnhalter. chairman of the entertainment committee at Trovo in Salt Lake Saturday and in con-ference with the local committee ar-ranging a program. The carnival grounds will be known as the trenches. From No Man's Land, or rather from whiit Is designate.! the enemy's coun-try, there will be fiO balloons, each 10 feet In diameter, one of which will be named the kaiser. The captor of this air hip will receive a handsome prize. The other balloons will bear the names or various Prussians and the capture of any one of these will bring the captor a valuable prize. Opposite the trenches and on the pawd streets of the Garden City a bund, will phiy nd there will be dancing at night on the streets. Provo city and county officials, the n, Comtnercil c)ub end civic organiza- tions are aiding to nu;ke the meeting a success. The Kk propone to cRrry out the suggestion of President Wilson to make it a patriotic meet. ! SPEED NEEDED PRODUCTION ' ' There should be special efforts in every community of the country this season looking to closer in the drive for food production. American farmers, live stock breeders and truckers should abandon the old hit-or-mi- ss custom of operating every man for himself, get together, discuss the question of pro-duction with intelligence, and all pull together for a common object. The needs of the community should be developed and provided for. Where it is clearly seen that any particular crop must be increased or resort to shipping in from other points, this crop should be promptly speeded up. This is imperative if we are to comply with the government's request to draw as lightly as possible on transportation facilities. The government has urgent need for every available freight car In the country. I the farmers of the various copmunities can provide for the annual needs of their respective centers, this will help greatly in releasing cars for government needs. Each com-munity should also develop a fairly, accurate estimate of the prob-able amount of any supplies it will have for export. The com-munities that attend to these matters will be the wide-awa- ke centers, and will profit largely by their care. WILL INVESTIGATE CASTLE PEAK RECLAMATION PROJECT Manager J. S.. Lytel of the Straw-bTr- Valley reclamation project, has sent J. A. Hale to Duchesne to make investigation of the proposed Castle Peak reclamation project which among other reclamation projects is to be taken up by the reclamation de-partment after the war. The water will be secured from Iuchesne river aid will Irrigate about iO,0O0 acres of land, south of Myton, which has been withdrawn from entry to become a part of the project. In the event that me excess water of the Strawberry Valleye project Ih not taken In this velley It Is expected to be used in the Cattle Peak project. Emotions Make Us Human. There Is no great soul without great capacities of sorrow. As Intellectual machines we may be very elncJeut In common life very successful In what-ever our business may be ; but this firm purpose and masterly efficiency do not nrnks us men. They leave us pieces of effective luuehlnery. The finer life, though it must aot be exclusive and ty-rannical, is that of the emotions. We feel, we suffer; therefore we are hu-man. We crave to give and receive love; therefor we draw nearer to whatever we know of the divlue.Cht" cago Dally News. |