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Show - ; ,: ' . f ... ' ' - ; - v ..'. . ' . . .. . r ' v - THE PRESS-BULLETI-The Press-Bullet- in I. H. MASTERS, General Manager. C. ft McNEELEY, Editor and Lesee. ubscrlptlon $2.00 a Year In Advance 1240 en Time. Entered m second-clas- s matter Jax, IS. 1915, at the poetoftlce at Provo. mat, under the act of March 3d, 1879 Issued Friday of Each Week at Prove, Utah. eAeefre.Keee-:-ee- e IT'S QUALITY 1 , ; f in coal that makes the heat, ;; that makes possible a 90 !r,N0m' i ; per cent consumption and a , 5-sL- '1 "Ns-Sd-- " 1 ; ; onsequtnt loss of but one-- tenth, and that light, clear ' .rvth v""V2 I ash that doesn'i clog grate l jTQ&M VtaA I or retard draft. Our quality , I (gfi j&M does this satisfactorily, V. rj MP I consequently lessens your S?n Wu fuel bills. A sample ton ' "Sjl TT .proves it better than ' we SJ 1 PHONE 39. "T" - CITIZENS COAL CO. f I ' Bingham, Utah CASTOR IA For Infants and Children in Use For Over 30 Years &lwaye bears - y signature of I obtained through the old established I "D. SWIFT 4l CO." aribein quickly 4 I Send a model or sketches and desorlptiirn 1 1 H of your invantkm tut FREE SEARCH ' fl and report on patentability. We got pat- - A ante or no fee. Write for Our freo book ff of 300 needed inventions. ID, SWIFT & CO. I Patent Lawyers. Estab. 1889. , The Double Standard Oil & Gas Co. is the owner of , valuable oil leasep in Kansas, Oklahoma and Wyoming, and I has recently added a valuable lease in the new Electra-Bur-k- f burnett oil field, Texas, with 8 producing wells, together with pumping plant, tanks and full equipment, connected with the pipe line, and selling oil. Price was $2.00, now $2.50, and expect soon to be getting $3.00 "per barrel for this high grade oil. The Company is pushing drilling operations in this new field, as rapidly as possible. Stock is now selling at 10c a share. You can join us in an exceedingly profitable business enterprise, and in doing so, help increase the oil output, which means, help win the war. Write us for free map and further particulars. Special inducements to live, active salesmen. DOUBLE ill I ' i ens con . Boston BIdg, Phone Main 3937. Denver, Colo. ' A visit to Salt Lake City is not complete unless you have a iig Swim AT THE "SARI" 52 Wcat hrtiwT Two big natural hot sulphur watar poola. Lady and Con tlomsn attendants. HHEUMATISM VANISHES TURKISH (SI BATH AND BED UJL BBMKiS5aB3SSBBBBS5SS9SBHIBSMSBBlBMB ' R The Evans Ice Co,... . , .. Wants to sell you your ipe this summer. Family trade is solicited. Delivery is made to your door every morning. If you want good, pure, clean ice call No. 9. , , , I fr5$ Our Hearts and Our Fortunes Are in the fray. It is a patriotic duty to , save. We are at the topmost peak of the greatest war the world has ever known. Be prepared ! Money will be a prime factor in winning the war. Save ! You may be saving yourself from crushing alien taxation and your country (from ignominy. We Pay 4 Per Cent Interest On Time Accounts Q. B. KELLY, Cashier mmwith ENGLAND RATIFIED TREATIES PROVIDE FOR DRAFT-ING OF ALIENS AFFECTED IN ARMIES DURING WAR. Sixty Days for Enlisting Given, It Being Estimated Forces Maybe Swelled by 54,000 Americans and 310,000 Canadians and English. Washington. Ratifications of the draft treaties between the United States and Great Britain and Canada were exchanged on July 30 at London, it was officially stated at the state department, making them effective from that date. , ' It Is estimated that 54,000 American citizens In the British empire, includ-ing 30,000 in Canada, and 250,000 BrltiHh subjects and 60,000 Canadians in the United States will be affected by the treaties. ..,', American citizens between the ages of 21 and 31, resident In the British empire, will be given sixty days from July 30 In which to enlist, enroll or re-turn to their own country for service, but after that time they would be sub-ject to draft unless they had been granted exemption by the American ambassador as provided In the treaties. All British subjects and Canadians between the ages of 21 and 31, the state department explained, who have made declaration of Intention to be-come citizens of the United States and who are liable to service under the draft law, may, during the sixty days' period., enlist or enroll voluntarily In the British or Conadlan force at any British recruiting mission In the United States, or may leave the country for the purpose of military service fn their own country. h LESSON FOR FATHERS AND FOR MOTHERS iRecently three negro troopers at Camp Dodge were hanged, after hav-ing been convicted of the crime of rape, and due trial by a military court. ' The negroes were of a detachment of Alabama men. Late one evening In the latter part of May, they commit-ted the crime for which thejr lives were forfeited. A 17 year old girl ' was the victim, and the' circumstan-ces surrounding the tragedy are worth consideration by every father and mother in the land. The girl Tisited her lover at Camp Dodge, Iowa, and was with him in a rather obscure portion of the canton-ment after ten o'clock at night They were seated upon the ground when approached by the negroes, one, of whom Impersonated an officer and " called the white soldier to account for not being in quarters. At the same time another of the colored men struck the white men a blow which stunned him, after which the negroes dragged the girl into a thicket nearby. and committed the crime.' The writer would not raise his voice in criticism of the execution of the three colored men. In any event they certainly received their proper ,! deserts. Their crime was fully wor-- ' thy of a place with the atrocities committed by the huns in Belgium and France, and America cannot stand for such happenings. However, three oouls Were launched Into eternity because a girl lacked cither parental discipline or good judgment. Alone with a man in a remote part of a great military camp at an unseemly hour, is not. by any means a piece of propriety, not even if the man is a lawfully wedded hus-band. Much less if he Is only a lover, Still much less if the girl is only 17 years of age. The girl was a good ' ' girl,' so say the dispatches, pure and innocent and all that. iBut, neverthe-less, she was woefully out of place. She should have been at home and in bed. She now has a double life-lon- g . 1 regret her body violated and the cause of three men being hanged. It is not surprising that three un-tutored southern negroes might have the impression that she was not a good girl. They doubtless possessed enough Intelligents to get the Idea that she was out of her place, and, possibly, not of virtuous make up. . .Most white men, t under the circum- - of precedent for it At the close of our own Civil War, a number of Con-federate srldierB, known for their cruelty and oppression, were visited with tha death penalty. Notable in mind is the execution of Captain Wirtz who commanded the prison garrison at Andersonville, and who was known to have administered undue and wan-ton cruelties upon Federal prisoners. Following a military court martial his execution was carried out under or-ders from Washington, and this, too, after the ir had closed. If Wirtz was hanged of cruelty to soldiers, what shall we say of the hun whose desperate deeds of cruelty against women, and children are known? A soldier, when he shoulders his gun and goes into battle, expects to be killed. His enem gets him with ho compunctions of conscience whatever. Me is 1 awful meat. .But his wife and child, even though in the enemy's captured territory, have a right to be treated as fairly and hon-orably as prisoners of war. In Bel-glu-the women were raped and mur-dered. In one butcher shop in.Louvaln nine babies were hanged by their lit-tle chins upon meat hooks and allow-ed to die there. Is that war? Must we let such crimes go unpunished be-cause we have war? Not if we hang-ed Wirtz and we all called that a good Job! ; f If you don't believe the spirit of punishment is rife in allied lands, have a talk with the next Canadian you see. Go to England, France, and Serbia and ask the powers that be what is in their minds. America may not be thinking of it much today! but the death lists are not hardly long enough yet. An item 'the other day told of the bayoneting of American wounded upon one of the battlefields. When we hear of a little more of that, or of some American being cru-cified upon a barn door, as were sever-al Canadians, then we will commence to give the listening ear to the talk of retribution. The Canadian who spoke in Jeffer-son this spring was in Serbia when the retreat took place. He says the namea of every officer commanding troops who committed atrocities is known. The name and number of ev-ery company or regiment participating in atrocities in France and Belgium are known to allied officials, It has not been hard work to find out. Spies have been on the job, women and girls who have been returned to France through Switzerland have given val-ued information to the allies concern-ing atrocities. There is planty of evidence and It is of record. It is ac-curate, unqualified and sufficient The day will come when the outrager of women will be at the mercy of the allies. . When that time comes the offenders will lay the blame where it belongs. A man on the gallows, or facing the fir-ing snuad will tell things he otherwise might not If atrocities have been ordered by those higher up the truth will come --out The captain, colonel or brigadier general, when facing eternity, Is going to give up his story. If it reaches Von Hlndenburg and the Kaiser it will be the duty of the al-lied commanders to see that justice Is fully satisfied. Monarchs of the fu-ture, the generals of the future If if there is a day of reckoning-fo- r ev-ery unsoldlor like act. They must know that unwar like cruelties are no part of the game, and that the perpetrator is not to be white washed and excused a'ter vanquished in bat-tle. The old saying that "all is fair in love and war" is a mistake as far as war is concerned. Throughout the ages nations have attempted to form-ulate rules of warfare that would cre-ate the smallest portion of suffering to those not engaged In battle. It has been a rule for many years that no un-fortified city be subject to bombard-ment of any kind, unless being de-fended by troops. Germany violated this in the case of air raids on London which never had for their object any-thing of a military nature, because the bombs were repeatedly dropped on sections of the city which German air men knew were Raids upon towns far back of the bottle line, bombs upon hospitals and the like, all measures up with atrocities upon civil-ians in conquered territory. The sink-ing without warning of merchant ship by submarines is another atrocity specifically forbidden by rules of war. Many such crimes are to be ex-piated at the close of the struggle. (What shall be done about it? Shall the end see the whole business ex-cused and forgotten because It was "an act of war?" The writer hardly thinks so. This war is being fought for a purpose. Its chief purpose, as far as tAmerica ns concerned, is to es-tablish the rights of in time of war. It Is a law as old as the Bible that no law can be Justified without ultimate enforcement, and enforcement of any law is not possible without calling Into use the penalty of tho law. We can prove this asser-tion by any Jurist. Then, such being the case, how shall we establish a proper and JuRt International law with-out being able to show In history the penalty inflicted upon the law break er? Jefferson Bee. 0 stances, would have had the same idea. Friends of the girl may con-tend there was no harm in her being there wlth her lover, but there was harm, great harm. Those who stood - about the scaffold last Friday morn-ing saw the sequel to this indiscretion The negroes would have made good soldiers, in all probability. They would have been a valued Item in American defonse in Europe. And yet, America will not have their services, all be-- cause of a. girl who did not know what was proper, or at least acted as though she did not The hanging wm private, only sol-diers or newspaper men being permit-ted to enter the enclosure of Camp Dodge during that time. This was a military mistake. Tho negroes should ' have been hanged in the most public place in Des Moines, and all Pes Moines parents, who let their girls run wild, should have been escorted there by platoons of soldiers and com-pelled to witness the deaths of the negroes. It would have been a most fitting and wholesome lesson for a lot of parents who bring a girl into the world, and then turn her lose at night upon the streets, there to sub-ject her to all the vlleness and licen-tiousness of the untrammelled liber tine who calls himself a man. But there is another phase of this hanging which the people of America must commence to consider. When this war is over there will be a de-mand from every quarter of the globe that those responsible for atrocities, committed in violation of all military codes, shall expiate their crimes at the end of a rope, or fronting a firing party. Shall the American soldier be hanged for rape, and the Belgian girl and the French girl remain unav-enged? "But." we hear some one say, "This Was War." Not true. The fact that it Is war makes the case a more ag-gravated one. To subdue a people by force of arms and then visit shame and misery upon its helpless female population, Is not var. If war Is hell, then the women of the devastat-ed districts drank of tho super-essenc- e of damnation. If tho war ends, and peace comes without a dispensation of justice In all cahes of atrocities and cruelty, a world will hang its head In fhame It is not fair to say that such expres-sions as this arc due to war excite-ment and war anger. No fair minded man will excuse the dantardiy raping of ltl year old girls or any other age t for that maltei by xaylng "it is war." It isn't war, or three negroes would not have been hanged recently. War ts a contest between armies America entered tho war because Germany would not confine herself to the actual nelllgerents engaged. It Is ho less of an outrage for a soldier to attack the of a con-quered territory, unless such are raising tho striking arm. The rape of women Is outside the pale of army life. The rape of the young girls Is, in no way, a military measure as humanity views military measures. If It Is for the purpose of Intimidation, In order to make an enemy "give in" then its perpetrators should, by all means, be punished when the war is over. Such military methods must never be allowed to take root in the minds of any people. Some folks douht if punishment for acts In time of war will ever follow a truce. There Is plenty Gnastly Find In Arizona. Phoenix, Ariz. From 25 to 80 human skeletons were found In three caves on an Indian reservation 'i miles southwest of the city Tuesday. Eight skeletons' were found intact. Several skulls were scattered about In the farther recesses of this cave and skeletons were seen In the other two caves. The skeletons were those of adults and two children. Soldier Captures Brother. Kenosha, WIs.-Priv- ate Hormac, an American soldier In France and former re&ident of Kenosha, went "over the top" recently in an attack on an Aus-trian unit and was dumfounded to find himself face to face with a young-er brother, an Austrian soldier, whom he was about to bayonet lie took the brother captive. t New England Short of Coal. . ' Washington. - Increasing demands for coal from overseas and for the1 emergency fleet army, navy and other j government operations threaten the! New England fuel supply for next winter. Shipments to New England are now behind the schedule on the ratio of production necessary to supply j the needs of the district it became known. I You Cant Run Prom tha War. "The other day I heard about a per-fectly healthy man (not of military age) who said he was going to Hono-lulu to 'get away from the war.' He dldnt 'believe in the war,' thinks the war a mistake,' and all that sort of thing. i "Well, I wonder if he thinks the rest of us are Infatuated with the wart Are you? Ia France? Wouldn't we all like to get rid of it? And aren't we trying to? m "When I heard about this man I felt like sending him the following tel-egram: 'Say, mister, come back and do your share. This is your world Just as much as ours. Tou can't run away and leave the Job of trying to save it to the rest of us. If yon think It can be saved without Jhe use of guns and swords, come back and show us how. But don't stand there and look superior. Ton can't get away with that Cut out your airs and tell ns what to do. If you still think yon must go go for what you are a welcher and a qalttef. "American Magazine. War Tax on Autos. Washington. A tax of 10 per cent oo ' the sale of all automobiles was written into the new revenue blU by the waya and means committee Tuesday. Motor trucks, on account of their great use-fulness in war work, are to be taxed only 9 per cent The tax is to be col-lected on the gross sales of the manu-facturer, producer or lmpoiter. Epidemic of Qrlppt In Switzerland. Paris. Reports from Switzerland ay that the epidemic of Spanish grippe in that country has grown to alarming proportions. Entire families have died. Funerals are held at night j and relatives are forbidden to follow to the grave. The bodies of the dead turn black. Her Method of Reading. While mother was arranging the pantry shelves Mae handed her the spice boxes, mentioning each spice by name. Presently she said: "Mamma, I can read." "Con you, dear?" remarked her mother. - "Yes, mamma," said Mae. "But I don't read like you, I read by smelt" League Organizer 8eeks Damtgoa. Sioux Falls, S. D. J. P. Ma'oes of Butte, Mont., Nonpartisan league or-ganizer, who was arrested and run out of Lyman and Jones counties, South Dakota, June 13, has filed suit for $100,000 damages. Pope's Income Uncertain. It Is stated at the Vatican that out-side of the actual money capital In the pupal treusury, which Is the accumu-lation of many popes, there is no way to determine the uctuul income and ex-penditures, for the reason that the In-come varies from yeur to yeur, accord-ing to the popuiurity of the particular pope on the throne, according to world prosperity, and like cuuses, and thai tho expenditures must be fixed accord-ing to tills uncertain lucotue. Will Fix Price of Sugar. New York. The price to be paid in the United States for Cuban sugar next year has been referred to repre-sentatives of the two governments for the determination at a conference of American and Cuban sugar interests to be held In Washington. Big Telephone Deal on Coast San Francisco. The California public utilities commission has author-ized the Pucific Telejihone & Tele-graph company to sell Its property to the Oxnurd Home Telephone company. Price will be fixed later. True Friends Beyond Price. The most blessed reality In human life Is a friend who understands and can companion your heart. Don't al-low yourself to wear your spirit out ntone with anxiety or grief. "The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel." A true friend will xave your soul alive. Almost Ineredlblo Thinness. Ordinary printing paper is some thing more than 1.000 times thicker than the gold leaf that can be made oday. For commercial purposes the eaf must, of course, have Just a little more substance about It than that, but U Is a striking and impresNive fad that only about five grains of weight of gold is required to make up the books that are in ordinary use today by gilders, each of the 25 leaves In that book being usually luchei square. - Keeping News from Germans. Paris. Information reaching Paris from Swiss sources tends to show the Germans still are trying to keep from the German people the fact that Ameri-can troops are in battle on the Sola-- I sons-Rheim- s sector. Pancakes Muscle Makers. It is a common mistake to suppose that to get the necessary strength to do hard manual labor a heavy meat diet Is necessary. This Is far from correct Muscular labor does not ma-terially affect the demand for minerals and proteins, but nith-- r for sturches, fata, and sugars. Therefore any ad-ditional wastagt through mnmilar ef-fort could be mnch better repaired by pancakes arid sirup than by roast beef, for as much moisture and heat are 'vt'Ttod as tissue, ho It Is fud that U required. Populur Science Monthly. Nver Hoard of Bible. A boy of tea, called as a witness at Mnrlebone on behalf of the education department of the London county council and described as very Intelli-gent for his age tcl the magistrate ha had never beard of tho Bible and did not know what it was. ne also said be had never been to church or Sunday school. "Yon cannot do anything with tills boy," said the magistrate. "He does not eeem to know the nature of an oath." Perfectly Reasonable. Landlord (with a determination all his own) "In one word, when are you going t pay your arrears?" JIard-u- p Author (with an unshaken coolness) "I will satisfy your demands as soon as I receive the money which the pub-lisher will pay me if he accepts the novel I am going to send him as soon as the work Is finished, which Trn about to commence when I have foumi a suitable subjected the necessary Inspiration." Wanted It Understood. "Well, ma'am," briskly said the ap-plicant, "there Is one more detnll to settle. You are, I am told, a widow. Now, pardon me, but Is It your Idea that the proper way to keep n hired man on the farm is to pay him wages or to marry him?" Kansas City Star. His Best Wishes- - Billy, after hearing the relatives and friends ofTer their congratulations, stood admiringly befow the bride and bridegroom as If about o say some-thin- The bride (his sl.iter) smiled sweetly at Billy, who braced up ami said: "You look nice, sis, and I hop youll stay married." |