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Show MANY BINGHAM PEOPLE 111 Pill ADDRESS Commercial Club Was Taxed To Its Capacity To Accommodate Crowds Who Came To Hear British Officer's Great War Speech Actual Conditions Vividly Portrayed America And Other Allied Countries' Compared Audience Well Pleased With The Address. The greatest war speech yet heard In Bingham was the one delivered last Friday night at the Commercial Club by Captain Frank Edwards f the ' British army to the largest audience which has assembled in this camp -." for a long time, and it is needless to say that the address made a deep and beneficial impression upon the people of this community. The meeting was presided over by J. iM. Mays, treasurer of the , Utah ? Copper Company, who made fitting remarks concerning the occasion and ' presented the opeaken and entertainers. entertain-ers. The first speaker was Mrs. Nor- ton Johnson who represented the association as-sociation composed of the Y. (M, C. A., the Y, W. C. A., K. of C A.I A., Wl C. C. 8., Salvation 'Array, and the Jewish Society. . , , (Mrs., Johnson spoke primarily on the work of the Y. W. C. A. In which ?he outlined what that organization . has don4flor he , improvement of , . camp life in theanny c'.nce. the, be- ! j ginning of the war. She is a spfemlid , . pleased with lier address. , . . ' " This was followed by the address of Captain Edwards, a veteran of the Boer War. and who has served three years with the 'British army In France.. He spoke In-far plain, corapre-. I:enn1Me;' neloM manner nd told of '".' the actual conditions at the front and ' the condition the great conflict has produced In the war stricken countries coun-tries he has visited. He pictured the . serious side of the war and told of the many privations that the English and French have ndured and are still hemlcallv enduring In order that the world might be free from the German yoke. There was nothing bombastic In his talk. In fact It was the reverse. He said that In America wherever large bodies of soldiers appeared on the streets there was all kinds of shouting, shout-ing, a rather baseball kind of feeling, but In England everything was' serious. seri-ous. He told of marching a body of -troops through the streets of an English Eng-lish city last spring en route to France, and that while the streets wer l'ned with people there was no shouting. The soldiers were going to fight and would probahlv return no more. The soldiers realized it and the people d'd also, and It was not a matter of play, but a hard difficult ' task that must be accomplished at all cost. In speaking of the ravages already made by the war he fhU that there was not a family In !Fnglnd that did not have from one to fire golden stars renresent'ne the klllpd In action. He also said that no such rntherlnus as we had here could be , seen In FnIand and FranceThe men were all In the army. So practically onlr women could appear at the patriotic pa-triotic meetings. He told of the hard-j hard-j shins In the trenches and how during . the firpt two yearn when thev were , frequently cut of shelR He told of an j In'tnnoe where his company was be-I be-I ing. borphn'dfd by the enemy and that ; the English guns were not re'ilvln,-', re'ilvln,-', The mn were being kflld all around him and he sent a man back to the ardllrv to 8k that the b'g rttna nnen , up. Tie sent a second, pnd a thrd. , and when the answer came It said, ."carry on, carry , on; w can't rovl because we have no shell?, He said , that th prcd ''ers of material bepe . should never slacken In their ef'crt to make the things the men. need at . the front as there Is no telling what ' disasters may result from such a shortage. - . - After the speaking at the suggestion of Mayor Kelly, three rousing cheers ' we-o Riven tor Captain Edwards. He returned here Monday and gave an address at Hiehland iHoy and Inter in the afternoon delivered an addrpss , from the Bineham Mercantile porch In a laree aud'ence. At ibis meet'mc Mayor Kelly denounced the recent peace nropocal as German propngnnda intended for the discouragenunt cf tho fourth Liberty Isian. After the address of Captain Edward's. Ed-ward's. Judge John,C. Green del i' ered a splendid address on the Liberty -Loan and the war work. Before the meeting adjourned Mayor Kelly gavo the totals of the Liberty Ixinn sub- Bcrlptlons from a number of the uniti i of the camp which showed that pt- t v, . r was being rl' iie nnd h 1 -eport was 'enthusiastically apilsiudei!. , i 11 |