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Show ,r- - TE PIteYQ POST. Fred Evans, city recorder, has sub, Chief of Police U. W. Shores will ADMISSIONS AS TO or nil ve disclaim to either ipltted .the following report to the SUBMARINE WARFAR justify " MADE BY GERMANY right to hold., the office qf . chief at city commission; f 1802 collected for police of Salt Lake. This was de- licenses for the quarter ending March April ' 13. Admission termined Saturday when the su- 21. Margaret StubbB, city treasurer, Washington, by Germany tilE n 'P')) PROGRESS OF. PREPAREDNESS CALL OF THE FARMS Great progress, lias been made in the State officials "whose business is invescampaign - being waged throughout the tigation of labor Conditions in Missourri, country for preparedness. What is neces- report an unusually small amount of unemsary to convince Congress is still far. from ployment; They also foresee such a shortbeing accomplished, but the indifference on age of labor on (he farms that some portion thW question that was common a year and a of the crops may go unharvested. This pehalf ago no longer, exists. This is not due culiarly harmful form of waste should be to any propaganda of militarism, nor entire- averted. The prices for everything cultily to a fear that we may be threatened with vated on the soil should give producers a an invasion iif the not remote future. . The good profit. Demand exceeds supply, with of need to the awahf?ned has been,. country an excellent" prospect that the favorable adequate defense, and has realized, the fact, market will be. maintained. Workers on the hitherto vainly emphasized by the nations farms have certain advantages that; they are Military experts that we had practically no apt to value at less than their true worth. defense at all. a farm hand has ordinary gumption he For years the experts responsible for If studies incidentally, a vocation as well as laour national defense have repeatedlycalled bors for wages. By saving apart of his inattention to our generally defenseless condicome he can become the owner " of a farm tion. Their recommendations were unacted himself and apply the knowledge gained. In upon because when no danger threatened it this country of opportunity the humblest was easier-foCongressmen to ignore than may hope to buy land and so take a first to neglect some local demand. toward an independent business The European war, without necessarily long step town In or city occupation, chances for proincreasing our need for an adequate national are much further removed, in defense, called attention to the fact that we prietorship many cases simply unattainable. But Unare practically without such a defense. cle Sams land policy leans to the side of the That public sentiment is, not opposed to industrious, ambitious worker and the risk preparedness, and that it is only necessary of failure is small unless strength fails. that the facts should be known to arouse unFarm work is healthful, and health is iversal interest in the cause,' is demonstrat- one of the first .elements of enjoyable life. ed by the popular reponse to the organized When all the benefits of tilling the soil are movements to enlighten the people. of crops going to waste When soon after Representative Gardner considered the, idea is a sad misfit: National and state agricul of Massachusetts called attention to the demore than ev-- e fenseless state: of this country, the first im- tural departments are doing for the instruction and general welfare pulse was.to discredit the accuracy of his in- of rural communities. Country and City are formation. At first it was disputed flatly But as that any such state of affairs could exist. It in much closer touch than formerly. that cities continue to grow faster neighwas insisted that his figures could not be true a to borhoods devoted agriculture official Then it was complained that his established.' A not has been euilibrium information should not have been made pubwho yields too far to lic. Now the pacifists claim that while our man is to be pitied the glamour of cities, discovering, after defenses may be as bad at the figures show, made a wrong choice we do not need as much preparedness as many years that he his time has wasted and his best years. and the experts demand. Those men in Congress who, reluctantly The state bureau says that farm wages will be good this year. Its predicyielding to the mass of facts produced, now tionexceptionally of crops left to rot on the ground points argue that we only need a little more pre- to an evil that ought not to be beyond, the paredness, were a little more than a year of measures of prevention. ago declaring that we needed no defense at range o o o . that her submarines re- cently attacked ships carrying American citizens andrfhat one of them torpedoed a .vessel In the vicinity of the point. whre the steamer Sussex was damaged by an explosion, has simplified the task of the state department in preparing for the next step of the United States-Ithe isstie over submarine warfare. n Following the receipt In cabled press dispatches .of the latest Ger- man note, it became known that the United States would continue to compile information indicating that the German submarines are operating In violation of the rlue of International warfare and that very soon a communication, designed to be the last word of the American government on the subject would go forward to Berllp, , A Japanese Tea will be held at the Congregational parsonage Tuesday, April 18, from 3 to 5 In the afternoon and 7:30 in the evening. Special programs at each meeting. ' Tea, ten cents. A 14. . preme court In an opinion by Chief Justice D. N. Straup and concurred In by Justices J. E. prick and W. Jd.. McCarty, overruled the demurrer filed by H. J. Dininny, city attorney to the complaint of H. Korns, who Instituted quo warranto proceedings to oust Shores from office on the grounds that he was not a qualified elector of Salt Lake City. Chief Shores Is permitted ten days - In which to file an answer. has reported 313,068.27 receipts for Of this amount, $3206.60 is for the general fund,, with the reMarch. mainder distributed as follows: Water rates, $2022.66; tax, paving sewer .tax, 6232.45; library, $16jJ8.66; $6.00. Alice Brown, city auditor, has reported for March receipts amounting to $13,068.27 and $9,873.88 disbursements. The following Is the auditors report of cash 'distribution: Trust department, $15,523.90; water' rates redemption, $28,169.78; outCONGREGATIONAL CHURCH standing check's, $953.74. Total overdraft In the general Rev. Frank L, Moore of Denver, fund, $42,368.68; cash on hand, waterworks bonds outstandColorado, superintendent Of Congre$150,00X00. Coloraoo and In ing, gational missions Utah, will spek next Sunday evenWANTED Stenographer, female. ing at 8 o'clock. L. Lee write Baker, attorney, Pay-- . 10 oclock held is at school Sunday son, stating salary expected.' Al9. in the morning and morning worship at 11 oclock. The pastor will apeak on the Beatitude, Blessed are they Make your East greeting a personal that hunger and thirst after Right- one. Send your photo. $1.95 per eousness. The church welcomes dozen. Larsen & Nygreea studio, (advertisement) all at services. you - $44,-6f?4- 2; 4; , - r. Business Is Booming 1 N is confidentially predicted that the merchants of (he United States are facing7the greatest era of prosperity they have ' ' ever known. It Mr. Merchant , lx all. I Advertise In Fanners Directory the most foreeful medium in Utah County- - because ITS DIFFERENT because ITS CIRCULATION 'is the largest of any other medium in the County because IT GETS TO THE PEOPLE who support yon IT GETS THERE AND STAYS THERE 365 days in the year and - before the meeting of the present Congress-- , but after President Wilson and" his Cabinet had become convinced through official knowledge of the need for national security,,. Representative Claude Kitchin of North Carolina, later chosen floor leader of the House, wrote to a constituent: . I shall oppose the big army and big navy program with all the earnestness and power I possess. However, my fear is that fhe president will push it through by an overwhelming majority. he declared that four-- ' In the same-lette- r fifths Of the Democrats were opposed to the national defense program but would do the presidents will. The Hay bill, which has passed the House, while in itself an acknowledgment that the army is deficient, is an inadequate measure of defense. An amendment making provisions for more nearly the number of men the war department declared to be necessary. was defeated by a majority of only twenty two. The facts as to the state of our Rational defense have compelled even those who have declared themselves as opposed to preparedness to seem to, yield something. ! Are you securing your share of this increased business which is now knocking at your very doors T If you are a real LIVE WIRE you can speed up your business by using something just a .LITTLE DIFFERENT, in letting the people know WHO YOU ARE, WHERE YOU ARE, and WHAT ;Y OU HAVE TO OFFER FOR SALE. Last-Novemb- er, defencelessness, have been growing rapidly and extending their, propaganda. The National Security league, among the foremost of these organizations, has since it was or ganized little more than a year ago, in creased its membership to about 100,000, and is now making a campaign for a membership of one million during the year 1916. The National Security--. league, in answering the argument against preparedness because it cost a great deal of money, calls attention to the fact that it. costs many times less to avoid war by being prepared that n would if we were drawn into a war when not prepared For-thicountry, whose national wealth amounts to $187,000,000,000, it is estimated by military experts that a full measure of military preparedness could be provided at a cost not exceeding a proper insurance premium and other nations would fear to s attack U37 The cost of the European war. not in eluding the cost in life, has been to England alone $25,000,000 a day and the other countries are spending nearly that amount. The recommendations of the General Sfaff yof :The various patriotic organizations the Army and the General Board of the Nathroughout the country which have been en- vy, for a permanent defense do not exceed deavoring to inform the public as. to what a billion dollars, .0187 per cent of our naactual conditions are with reference to our tional wealth. FOR RESULTS - there can be no question, because seeing an ad 365 times is just that- many times more effective than seeing,, it once. Repetition is what yo.u want and - The Cost Is No More k Dr. James Headache Powders lieve at once 10 cents a " package. ; N I 0Y' re- -, m take a Dr. James ITeadache rowder and in just a few moments your heal clears and all neuralgia and distress vanishes It the quickest and surest relief for headache, whethe dull, throbbing, splitting, or nerve, racking. 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