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Show TW0 ;v-- - , the press-bulleti- n , : ..y, .:, ' j EDITORIALS better armed than his own, and that our men use their arms just n Di t be iter ihan do the uermans. ' But perhaps the most important element of superiority is youth. That is an element which has been largely lost to all the armies of Europe engaged in the war. Our boys are at the ideal age lor soldiering, 'lhey are at the zenith of energy, confidence and physical strength.Salt Lake Tribune. ; IIINDENBURG CONFESSES When no less an authority than Field Marshal Von Hinden-bur- g admits that the German troops tanno: stand up against the Americans, it must be so. It is true that the defeated strat-egist does not make the admission explicitly,' but he who runs jnay read between the Hindenburg lines. A dispatch to Copenhagen from Berlin includes the fol-lowing: "Von Hindenburg said that the German soldiers would become just as easily accustomed to the Americans as to the black soldiers." " , The field marshal made that remmk after frankly admit-ting the defeat of the German army. The implication, there-fore, is clear. The Germans were defeated because they could not resist the American assaults. Hindenburg thinks that no ' doubt in time the Germans may be able to accustcin themselves to American intelligence, dash and courage, but he doe: not li'ce to put it that way. He compares the Americans to tho black sol- - dicrs of the French and British armies because he wishes to convey the impression that American tactics are a little strance . to the Germans merely strange, and nothing more. Having fought all kinds of soldiers, including the Canadians Who are much the same as ourselves, the Germans could not have found our methods extraordinarily strange. What they really found was this: About 250,000 American soldiers with a year's training were thrown into the battle, and all of them were determined to win. "They proved to be just as skilful as the kaiser's troop;-,- , who had been trained for two and three years, and their "will to victory," as the Germans would say, was stronger than the Hun's will to victory. Moreover, they were perfectly armed and equipped, which in itself was a surprise to llimiisnburg, who, to-gether with the other pan-Germ- an chiefs, had maintained in and out of season that the Americans would never amount to much in the war. He has discovered that our army is even Penciled "I. 0. tl.'s" are issued by some of the restaurants of Petrograd because of the shortage of money of the smaller denominations, A,currency of penciled promises to pay must be' pretty near the Bolshevik ideal of a circulating medium. New York World. V ' v-- :'.'..;. v N "A constructive critic," says Leonard Liebling in the Musi-cal Courier, "is one who constructs excuses for the bad perform-ances of those artists with whom he dines." Rocky Mountain News. '' n Things must be in Germany as Hamlet found them in Den-mark when the Turk dissolves partnership with the Hun. The Spokesman Review. ' j Burglary is increasing at an appalling rate in Germany, ac-cording to the Frankfurter Zeitung. The national policy is being individualized, as it were. Minneapolis Journal. i taa kEa toi I Thrift and Clothes , B . Thrift in its true sense, and j ! I Cw as we believe our government I wishes all to practice it, means j 1 the elimination of waste and We J fl avoidance of extravagances. J fl "fi A It does not mean to go around I I y V in clothes that are threadbare I I jf Jl'V and shabby with use and old I I Vvr I dence of thrifi or Patriotism I U l ne may be weU Messed J?n( I 1 ill V ever so thrifty. ; Good Clothes I U P$wO nave an important bearing on I H HI one's 'self respect. It is your I i ill T uy to look successful. I V III inspires confidence. Moreover I J Ir!1 mL Good Clothes are a personal as-- j I I set. It is the man who looks the I I fi part that gets the part. I j K v Buy Good Clothes. Buy the I I bes yu can Make sure of the I 'm I I value you get. Good clothes nat. I m 1 I urally cost more in the buying; I t jlJVfcw, tney cos ess n onS I run because they wear longer. I ' fit' better and add to your effi-- I I ' riency. . I . j. lays & Cut. I The Bingham & Garfield Railway Company The Popular Route Finest Equipments Best Train Sttvkt Two Trains Daily Between Bingham and Salt Lale City ' '""'i'V , TIMETABLE Effective February 24, 19J8 T Leave Salt Lake City: Arrive Bingham ! No. 109 6:55 a. m. No. 109 8:25 a. rrt. No. Ill 2:15 p. m. No. Ill 3:35 p. m. Leave Bingham: Arrive Salt Lake Citjt: No. 110 8:45 a. m. No. 110 ..10:05 a. m. No. 112 4:00 p. m. No. 112 5:40 p. m. TICKET OFFICES CARR FORK AND UPPER STATIOjL Take Electric Tram at Carr Fork Station. H. W. STOUTENBOHOUGII, A.O.1P. A. F. B. SPENCER, Salt Lake City, Utah. Agent, (Bingham, Utah. IMthe Government I The Chocolate Shop Will Comply With The Law, 1 Anything To Win The War And Get The Kaiser I We will ask the public to call before 10 o'clock evenings..If you get here before 10 o'clock you will be served, but this I . place will be closed after that hour to comply with the gov-f- ij ernment regulations. We will have at all times a full line of light lunches which you will find the best to be had anywhere. If you want fl the best call at the Chocolate Shop. fl Follow The Crowds To The Chocolate Shop Before 10. j Plenty Of Room, Plenty Of Seats, Entertainment The Best The Chocolate Shop Hotel;James. ' Under New Management 100 rooms single or en suite 50 rooms with private baths. MRS. TRESIDDER, Prop. 167 S. Main St. Salt Lake City VII Modern and Up-to-I)at- c. Newly Furnbhcd and Absolutely Respectable ' . (By C. D. McNeeley) FACTION SPIRIT IS GROWING For some time a spirit of factionalism has been growing up in Bingham and in spile of the fact that there is a great work to be done for the common good and the welfare of the country this suicidal policy of factional propaganda is going forward with unimpeded progress. The community is being divided and when it is separated into two hostile bands there is no telling how far the evil effects will reach. But in the first place neith-er faction will be benefited and the whole community will suffer. Where two factions undertake to control a community, each in its own way without regard for the other, there is a marked tendency for the one side to discount the good and magnify the V evil of the other. It seems now that the county and the town authorities are hopelessly divided and still the points on which they are divided are not fundamental questions. But small as are the points of issue on which is hinged the division the in-jury to the people is liable to be great. , , v s, f So far in the game this camp has been able to get all togeth-er in the matter of working for the Liberty Ponds, the War Savings Stamps and the Red Cross, but how lory will it be able to do so? That is a question. In the early fall rs will be called : upon to take part in the greatest Liberty Loan campaign ever put before the American people and we will need all our energy f 'to handle the big drive in a proper manner. The thing which .made the former Liberty Loans a success was the unity of action among our leaders. Without that unity of action we will have a hard time to raise our quota for the fourth Liberty Loan. We do not know but it may be possible to avoid the perma-nent establishment of two hostile factions in the camp. Owing to the exigencies of the war and the necessity for harmony at home it would be the part of good business, good citizenship and patriotism to put aside petty differences and strike' a happy me-dium on which both sides could agree. We do not take the posi-tion that there should be a compromise with wrong, but as a rule factions are not based on the question of right or wrong. ' There is generally something else at the back of such move- - . ments and in most cases something of small importance. There' is but one paper in the camp and it is not lined up Avith either faction, but before the advent of the next Liberty - Loan we would like to see the differences patched up so that the drive can be made without friction. We should by all means have a get-togeth- er movement. - , ' The crown prince is upon record as having said he would start a war just for the sport of it, if he were upon the throne. . It begins to look as if the sport of it is all he will get out of the war Daddy started. Courier-Journa- l. ; , Ft f Pa ' . i, .r Protection of Democracy . Must Come From Those It Protects By THEODORE N. VAIL President of the American Telegraph and Telephone Company Two thousand years ago a new era, a new religion, dawned upon the world. , j Whatever of civilization, of freedom or cf liberty 1 we have ami 'enjoy comes from the subordination by' ( man of human passion and selfishness because of the teachings, the ' incarnation or reincarnation of the ideals and principles of that religion, . '4..i(t. iK, j( Peace and good will on earth to men. Peace on earth to men of good will is the basis of liberty of fi mankind. "V I Our democracy is based on liberty, the liberty cf all to live and enjoy life, the fullest liberty to each individual consistent with the same right to all other individuals. More is impossible. Under this civilization has come greater peace throughout the world. Wider intercommunication and more neighborly feeling toward our fellow men have been developed. . Man's or independence of others, has passed, but in its place have come greater possibilities of life. Dependence of man upon man implies service of man to man. . . To maintain democracy, civilization and service,' convention, regula-tion and law, an organized government is necessary. The difference between the organization of the government by democ-racy and that by autocracy is that democracy is government by the will of the governed, and not the government of a few acting by usurped power or that of an insurgent minority. " - Government by democracy must be enforced as vigorously, impar-tially, unflinchingly as that by any other government. They who differ may express their difference, may do all possible to convert others, 60 long as it is not done in open defiance or in active rebel-lion, and so long as their actions are subordinated the will and authority of the majority. If and when a majority of all cannot be trusted to express the will of a people, cannot be trusted to act wisely, and all are not willing to abide by it, any government except government by force will fail. Our democracy is now threatened from without and the democracy of the whole world is at stake. The protection of our democracy must come from those it protects. Every individual to its protection owes all life, liberty, substance. To the protection of that democracy he must if necessary devote all. Let us dedicate to our country, in whatever way, whenever and wher-ever we may be1 called, our unhesitating, unflinching service, implicit in its obedience and subordination to duty and authority. INVISIBLE FORCES IN WAR While launching the movement for a one minute prayer for the success of the nation's cause at 11 o'clock each morning, we are reminded of the fact that war is not all mathematics. Early in the war a French officer visited America fresh from the tren-ches and the hospital where he recovered from a severe gas at-- attack and the loss of an arm. is audiences here were impress-ed in a dramatic way with his belief that all the iron and steel, all the system perfected by years of preparation, all the readi-ness backed by adequate wealth of an autocracy, could not con--' quer the souls of men fired by right and justice. Defenseless ranks of men, lacking numbers, munitions, preparedness, might be. terribly diminished and defeated, but nations of courageous souls would not be conquered by the monster of militarism in these twentieth century days. And so, he said, the Germans did . ' not reach Paris, in the early days of the war. Private Peat, in his book, telling of his experiences in the . trenches in 1914-1- 5, when the thin Canadian line stood between the horde of perfectly equipped invaders and Paris, expressed his wonder that the Germans did not come through. He told of the deficiency of shells phich prevented the use of the guns they had day after day, and described the charges of the Canadians from time to time, just to let the Germans know that they were there. That the invader did not march straight to Paris was to him a modern miracle. ' But something did prevent the Germans from getting Pari and the channel ports in a comparatively short time. We are not sure it was altogether because of strategy and we cannot figure today why the carefully planned campaign of the kaiser did not work out in the field. Other great military plans in history have as signally failed when the, world seemed all ready , to be conquered. The doctrine of cruel despotism and conquest , has no place in human progress. Brute power is not triumph-- ant j when the fiery test comes. '.: '.' . For lack of better expression, we may say that no on" " knows the power of the invisible forces. There is a spirit which. aroused and spurred by the spectacle of a great wrong, will. . overcome the mightiest of injustice. It will lead a nation through , undreamed sacrifice and unmeasured suffering to a glorious goal as is being exemplified in France today. The invisible fortes that cannot be estimated or understood are in themselves a power that mathematical system and brute force combined can not shake. Those forces have been working in this great re-public, leading it to an achievement in war that is astonishing itself as well as the rest of the world. If our, cause were not right, we cannot imagine the result which is apparent today, of America's, entry into the war against the insolent, lawless and .Jn' uman autocracy of Germany. Hn. M N Build Up the Virtues in Children and the Faults Will Disappear By MRS. ELVIRA HYATT V " It pay to have high ideals for our children and to respect their indi-viduality. 1 Much can be accomplished by expecting children to be good, and .by showing them that we trust them. Ve should never call a child "bad," never wound his self-respe- ct This does not mean that his naughty actions should be "glossed over, but as one wise educator has expressed it, we should realize that every fault is simply the absence of some virtue, and we should try to build up that quality in which the child is deficient, rather than condemn him for that which he has not. Build up the virtues and the faults will disappear. If a child to selfish we should dwell on unselfishness ; if the child is untidy, on neatness; if slow, on quickness; and we should always remember to praise even the slightest sign of the virtue we are working to cultivate, A child will try to live up to the thing for which he is praised. "How quiet and helpful my little Teggy is today" will do more good than a dozen scoldings about noise and mischief. Stories can bo told to arouse and stimulate high ideals. Stories have a wonderful educational value and almost any lesson can be taught In story form. Tell stories about birds, trees, flowers, animals, groat and good men, simple stories of home and family life, stories from history and from the Bible. The eager little minds are ready for anything yon wish to give them, and if you are a natural story-tell- er great indeed is your oppor-tunity. Ideals of right conduct, love of family and sympathy with every living thing can all be given through the right use of stories. Much has been said and written about parental influence, but vol-umes more are needed on post-nat- al influences. One of the first things a bnby learns is to "smile back" at his mothor, and in all his carlirst years the child reflect the altitudes of thn around him. He imiUu-- s the things widt h ho sees and bran, in order to understand them, and "as the twig is lent the tree's inclined." t |