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Show THE PRESS-BUULETt- i EDITORIALS , (By C. P. McNeeley) otal robes went out to meet him and did obeisance to him, he and his army turned away. Of course every child knows that it was in the city of Jeru-salem that the mock trial of Jesus was held, and just outside its walls he gave his life for humanity. In the year 70, Titus the Roman general, took the city of Jerusalem and destroyed it and it laid waste for centuries. Jerusalem was the object of the most stupendous movement of the Middle Ages when the Crusaders, the flower of chivalry of the time, the most expert warriors, took it from the Mohammed-ans and for a short time gave a Christian rule. ; This only touches the high points of its checkered history. It would take an immense library to tell it all. It is one of the most beautiful situations for a city there is on the earth. Compared with Babylon, Ninevah, and Rome in the ancient world, and Lon-don, New York, Paris or Chicago in the modern world, this city at the time of its greatest prominince was nothing more than a village, as its natural population was never supposed to be over sixty thousand. It has many names, but the one of course that has been uni-versally recognized is that of the Holy City. The British flag floating over Jerusalem is a very quaint statement. From the Jacksonville, Florida, Metropolis. HISTORIC JERUSALEM. The capture of the city of Jerusalem by the British forces naturally brings into prominence this celebrated city with its wonderfully tragic history. It was on the site of the city of Jerusalem that Abraham of-fered up Isaac and it was in the same vicinity that Melchizedek met Abraham when he returned from the slaughter of the kings. It was the one point in Palestine proper that withstood for t enturies the effort of the Hebrew people to dislodge the Jebu- -' .Vites. Its ancient name was Jebus. It was David, the warrior king, who took the city and estab-lished the seat of his kingdom there. It was there that Solomon built, perhaps, the costliest and the most magnificent building that the world has ever known. It was made of polished marble, floored with fir, ceiled with cedar, the floors and walls overlaid with gold and fretted with every kind of previous stone that was 'known to that day and time. Nebuchadnezzar, the Golden King of Babylon, burnt the city v)f Jerusalem with fire, and after seventy years it was rebuilt by Nehemiah, under the authority of Cyrus and Darius, the rulers of the Medro-Persia- n Empire, the temple being rebuilt with a jreat deal less magnificent by Zcrubbabel. It is a significant fact that Alexander the Great never set foot in the city of Jerusalem. When the priests in their sacred- - DOES BINGHAM WANT THIS? Are the people of Bingham sincere in their desire for a con-crete road connecting our town with Midvale, creating uninter-rupted smooth surface traffic conditions into Salt Lake City? If we do and it Seems there should be no dissention in this mat-ter we certainly should get busy. The whole country is now on ; the verge of the greatest road building era the world has yet seen. : Every community possessed of a spirit of progressiveness will soon be looking about for ways and means to secure funds for this : purpose. Those places which are first to make application for government and state aid will have a most decided advantage over those which procrastinate and are dilia,tory in asking for it. Bingham needs this road and will need it more and more as time oes on and the traffic conditions become heavier. The govern-ment, quick to appreciate the fact that the motor truck is soon to become an essential factor in the moving of freight, is advo cating permanent road3 as it never has before. It seems as if our Commercial Club and citizens as well, should get busy on this matter and be among the first to secure recognition from those vwho have the handling of funds for this purpose. I DOUBLE Sill OIL J 1 GAS MRf Capital Stock $100,000, full paid, non-assessab- $100 invested in Oil has paid $40,000, and it may do so here. Wages never made a man rich, but a small investment has. STOCK SELLING AT 10 A SHARE $20 buys 200 shares; $50 buys 500 shares; $100 buys 1000 j shares. If desired, send 2c a share cash and 2c per I share each month. 5 discount for all cash. 1 Figure what it means if it advances to $1.00 or $10.00 'j I others have done. Our holdings are' in Wyoming, Oklahoma, Kansas, Kentucky, Colorado, Texas, where wells produce as high as 10,000 barrels daily. One 100-barr- el well will pay $72,000.00 a year, which would enable us to pay 4 a month dividends on stock issued, as 50 of net profits are to be paid in divi-dends to stockholders. We are selling stock to increase holdings, drill wells and pay dividends. Buy now before it advances. ' W. F. REYNOLDS, Secretary. O GENERAL OFFICES 830 SEVENTEENTH ST., BOSTON BUILDING, DENVER, COLORADO. PHONE MAIN 3937. Salesmen Wanted. Send for Free Oil Map and Literature. TO YOU, AND YOU, AND YOU. "It is our stern duty to feed the Allies," writes Food Admin-istrator Hoover, "and to maintain their health and strength at any cost to ourselves ;" which is a hard but a true saying. Although he refers now to sugar, the words apply to many things. In this case sugar serves only for purposes of illustration. Great Britain and France are on rations of less than one-ha- lf and one-quart- er respectively of the average American consumption. They cannot have even these allowances unless we deny ourselves, and there can be no appreciable denial here that does not express itself in the abstinence of the individual. This, then, is an appeal, to you! We are depending upon the Allies at least to hold their lines until our great man-pow- er can make itself felt in Europe. To feed the armies and the nations supporting them which are fight-ing our battles as truly as their own is with us something more than a duty. It is the highest obligation of honor and self-intere- st and it ought to be a pleasure. Here is an opportunity for real service on the part of millions of people of all ages and both sexes who cannot bear arms. The appeal is as personal as that which comes to the volunteer or to the selected man. It is to you, and you, and you, everywhere. You are not selfnshly to hoard sugar. You are generously and patriotically to use less sugar in all its forms. If for friends you spare and share, you never will have to do either for the enemy. PROPHESIES ABOUT THE WAR. Since the opening of the war there have been published a great number of prophesies which foretold the coming of the con-fli- ct and in a vague way hint at how it might close. One of these visions, said to have been the product of a monk of the sixteenth -- century named Johannes, was published in the fall of 1914 and is again going the rounds of the press. The prophesy attributed to Johannes reads much like it was first written in 1914 and has very little ear marks of a product of four hundred years ago than a few little references flung in to give it a flavoring of that period. Perhaps the most interesting prophesy on the war was that , of Count Leo Nikolaievitch Tolstoy, the Russian novelist and so-cial reformer, published a short while before his death in 1910. In it he foretold the war more or less in detail and the author him-self was so impressed with the vision that he presented it to the czar. It was" widely read before the war on account of its liter-ary merit and the strangeness of what it foretold. In his vision Tolstoy said the world war was scheduled to begin in 1913 and that in 1916 a new Napoleon would arise and dominate Europe for a number of years. This great military leader, he said, would be followed by a man from the humble walks of life who would weild a world-wid- e influence. This man, he said, was a Mongolian slav, unknown to the public at that time, and would remain in the dark-- , ness until the hour of recognition. The character pictured by Count Tolstoy has a close resemb-lance to Leon Trotzky, Russian minister of foreign affairs. Ac- - cording to the prophet this Mongolian slav was to reform the poli-tical, social and religious affairs of the world. Trotsky has the . appearance df a Mongolian-Sla- v, and only a few months ago the world had never heard of him. And even now very little is known of him. Beginning last Sunday the Salt Lake Tribune commenced the publication of the Trotzky book, "The Bolsheviki and World Peace." The Tribune might add interest to the story by giving in connection the Tolstoy vision of the mystery man of humble --origin who he said was to play such an important part in the war. WHAT TO DO WITH IDLERS. While the Senate Committee on Commerce is considering the question of conscripting labor for the ship-yard- s it might appro-priately take into account first of all the luxurious person who, appreciating keenly the big wages received, loafs three or four days out of seven. He is the man responsible for the shortage of labor of which so much complaint is made. No draft is required in this country to put industrious men at work. For personal reasons or for patriotic reasons, or for both, they are doing their best, and that is considerable. The fellows who want increased pay only as a means to lengthen their periods of diversion are the ones who need the discriminating attention of .statesmanship. When wages rise rapidly enough to encourage idleness on the part of certain elements the remedy is not conscription but pro-scription. Men who will not work voluntarily more than half the time ought to be conscripted, perhaps, but in legislating on the subject a distinction should be made between them and the willing toilers, not only in hours but in money. A man who cannot be put at work six days a week, at wages heretofore unknown, except by the operation of law, would seem to be a candidate for an internment camp, where work of one kind or another should be compulsory and the rewards a good deal short of the union scale. 1 THE CHAMBERLAIN BILL. "Senator Chamberlain ha3 introduced a bill in Congress pro-viding for permanent military policy in the United States. Should this become a law it will mean that after the war is over we will maintain in this country a standing army of several million men just as Germany did for many years prior to the great war in Europe. . Roosevelt, in speaking of it, says, "Senator Chamberlain in order to minimize the chance of future war and to insure us against disaster, if in the future war should unhappily come, has introduced a bill for universal military training of our young men under the age of 21." Any one who favors such a measure at this time is a militar--. ist pure and simple, and is a traitor to the cause of liberty and an --"impediment to the successful prosecution of the war. A little i body under the misnomer of National Security League has been advocating such a measure for some time and perhaps it was this ' organization which prompted Senator Chamberlain to introduce ' ; the bill. Also it looks like somebody has persuaded Roosevelt to move out to the middle west with his editorial writing to get that ; section of the country in line for adopting a peace policy such as was practiced by Prussia for more than forty years prior to the present war. His writings at this time are as bad as that of ex-treme socialists so far as disrupting the war plans of this country are concerned. The United States entered the war with one avowed purpose ' of crushing militarism, but according to Mr. Roosevelt when we crush Prussian militarism we ought to adopt the same policy our-selves, so that in the future we would be ready to fight at the drop of a hat. By such a policy this country might reach the place where it would be a match against the balance of the world, and when it reached such a place we would have some one who would be ready to start something just as Germany did in 1914. Do we want this country welded into a Germanic war machine? If we . do that can be had by following the plans laid down by Roosevelt. There is now intense suffering in Germany. Her great mil-itary preparations brought only trouble. Does this country want to imitate Germany? Does anyone imagine that we could carry on great military preparations after the war without exciting suspicion among the other nations? We are fighting to crush militarism and when we have completed the job we will have no need to adopt a system we fought to destroy. Those who are so blind as to advocate such a course ought to be muzzled during the continuation of the war. and in morals rightfully theirs. Instead of driving Russia into Germany's mailed arms President Wilson strives to hold its friend- - I ship and confidence by proving that we deserve it. If, after what I he has now said, a misguided Russia should conclude a separate t peace with Germany by a surrender to imperial aggression it will be through no fault of our own. And if Russia is encouraged to stand to the end, and at whatever cost, manfully for the right, it will be thanks largely to the friendly and sympathetic attitude so fully revealed in the President's address. i Equally important, pei'haps even more important, is the Presi-dent's renewed appeal to German liberalism. He makes it clear , that it is a divided Germany which today confronts the world.jOn the one hand there is the liberal element which dictated the rtOl-stag- 's formula of peace without annexations or indemnities. And on the other hand is the junker element which, in the negotiations with Russia, betrays the reichstag's mandate by demanding the right to impose a conqueror's terms. Who, the President forcefully inquires, is entitled to speak for Germany? What is the voice of Germany? For what is it that Germany really stands. The reichstag speaks with oj voice. The imperial government speaks with another. The reicjvg speakes for peace on fair terms. The militarists will consetVto peace on no such terms and demand imperial plunder. If there was a germany competent to speak and act, he makes clear, unddP the direction of the reichstag, animated by its purposes and ideals, peace would not be far distant. But the German negotiators at ; Brest-Livot- sk spurned the reichstag formula and fastened the whole German empire to the dead body of war of war which must continue as long as German militarism is permitted to veto the expressed will of the people. To the great commercial and industrial interests of Germjtoiy, hungry for peace and a restored place in the world, this apfeal, we may well believe, must come with telling effect. And so it must come to the masses of Germany, the plain people, the labor-ers, whose hunger for peace is even keener, just as is the hunger of the plain people the world over. And the President the appeal by clearing away any misunderstanding that may have existed as to our purposes with respect to the German constitution and the German govern-ment. We do not "presume to suggest any alteration or modifi-cation of her institutions." We do not say that, as the price of peace, she must become a democracy, or a modified monarchy, or any sort of government other than what she is. We must know only that when her spokesmen come to us they speak with the voice of the reichstag, the representative of the German people, and not with the voice of the minority military party. With such spokesmen we can conclude a peace of justice, a peace that will assure Germany its full rights, its place in the world, its free and unrestricted share in the world's commerce and industry. In a word, we are ready to day to treat for peace with Ger-many with the terms laid down by its own parliamentary body as a working basis. It is this that Mr. Wilson offers the German people, and this assurance of our unselfish and democratic attitude that he holds out to the Russian people. Wrhen we consider the misearble state of the world today, t Germany along with the rest, we are entitled to hope and belief that Mr. Wilson and Lloyd George have brought the day of peace appreciably nearer. Russia has spoken, Britain has spoken, the United States has spoken, essentially with nn vVp Tf ia the voice, in effect, of the German reichstag as well. It is the voice of peace with justice. It is now incumbent on the German go- vernmentthe imperialism that has dared to override the reichstag to answer it. If the answer is defiant it means the assumption of an indefensible position that brazenly gives the lie to every-thing Germany has heretofore professed. Such an answer would multiply the Kaiser's domestic troubles, already gravely serious If, on the other hand, the answer is reasonable, then the serioOte-discussio-of peace terms will be under way, and once such a d cusssion is entered upon there will be no turning back. ONE STEP NEARER. It is again as a leader and spokesman of liberal and progress-ive thought that President Wilson has addressed Congress. He has met, as Lloyd George met last week, the reasonable and righteous demand of the Russian people that the nations at war with Germany should state definitely their war aims and the terms on which they would be ready to conclude peace. In a general way President Wilson had stated those terms be-fore. He repeats them now, with greater precision and particu-larity, and applies them definitely to the map of the world. In-terest does not attach especially to this part of the President's discussion, since it covers ground already familiar and covers it, for the most part, in a familiar way. As to the essential ends to be accomplished the President stands where he has stood since the beginning of the war, without yielding or compromise. Deep interest and great importance, however, attaches to his discussion of the situation as it exists between Germany and Rus-sia. Mr. Wilson attacks and finishes handsomely a task too long deferred when he sets us right with the Russian people. He places us in sympathy and spirit squarely by their side. He pays high tribute to the ideals that animate them and to the loyalty and simple-minde- d courage with which they have stood by those ideals. Of that carping, querulous, unsympathetic criticism of I hem and their conduct witli which we have all grown familiar there is not a suggestion in the President's address. Rather there is sympathy, understanding, faith and support. There is the promise to uphold their hands in the fight for what is in law HURRAH FOR DEMOCRACY! When it comes to efficiency there is after all much to be said for democratic government. Its orders are willingly and gladly obeyed in a way that no "force" from above could command. All that is necessary is an intimation of what is needed, whether men, property or the service of the whole population. When the news :ame that the government needed more sweatrs, stockings and mufflers than the department could furnish for the soldiers a mill-ion women started to knitting. When it said we want surgical dressings another million of women flocked to the churches, the school buildings and private houses and worked harder than money could hire them to work at any wages. Save sugar, said the gov-ernment and immediately the sugar ration in 10,000,000 families was cut down. Save coal was next suggested, and thousands of rooms in dwelling houses were cut off from heat, the family gath-ered in two or three rooms to keep warm, and many thousands who had been in the habit nearly all their lives of buying their coal for the winter in one order, cut down their oders to a ton or two at a time. At the request of the government for a million soldiers, nearly 10,000,000 men registered for service. It required no soldiers to enforce the order. Several thousand busy men stopped their work and offered their services free to help in the enrollment and see to it that dependents were not left to suffer at home. No such eight was ever seen in all the world before. No autocratic gov- ernment taken by surprise, with the necessity of creating a great army, a new navy and merchant fleet, could have 'forced" com-pliance with its orders and done what the democratic people of the United States accomplished. Hurrah for democracy ! The members of the Typographical Union take exception to the criticism which has been offered in various parts of the nation regarding what the union typos are doing for the nation in this crisis. A little booklet has just been issued which gives the names and the total number who have enlisted in the service of Uncle Sam since the declaration of war. The number is 1518 and the front page of the booklet is made up in a service flag setting forth this number in two colors. This booklet also states that 55 mem-- jbers of the Typographical Union have been killed on the batt! t leld. Oyer $17,02.) has been paid by this organization to rel.C.; tives of those whose lives have been given to their country. ' $00,000 has been invested in Liberty Bonds by this organization and the claim is made that $2,000,000 has been invested in Liberty-Bond- s by subordinate unions and organizations. Mr. Gerard says that if the- German people rose against their government, they would make the French revolution look like a pieimc. We have attended picnics that would have made the Trench Revolution look like Paradise. |