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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX KAYSVILLE. UTAH H liras STATE C. fkuse, f Salt Lake, near! death after being stabbed b to tied a unknown Greek. The stabbing resulted from a street fight. Joseph M. Martlnea of BeaverClty of the regular army and, Vern M. Mo Carroll of Vernal, a marine corps member, bare been reported severely hurt in action In France. More than 800 Utah boys now stationed at the United States naval training station at San Diego have carried off the honors of the Beehive state In every branch of athletic activity. The body of Louia Oldham, who wm lrownel In the flood which overwhelmed Mt. Fleasant, has been found. The body was lying in the open, face down, ward, and was badly decomposed. America Aroused and United Is Following the Shining Figures of the Leaders of 76 I - a Fourth' of July celebration that bids fair to be the most cosmopolitan In the history of Ogden Is being arranged for the nations birthday. Eighteen countries will be represented In parade and program. With a net decrease of $0,525,202 in the property assessments made by ths state board of equalisation in Salt lAke county this year, the total assessment yet shows an Increase for the county of $13,604,233 over last year. The annual convention of the Utah Bankers' association was held at Logan last week. Bankers from all parts of the state were" present, as well as representatives from' California, New Tork and Omaha. There was a good attendance. . John Van Valkenburg must stand trial at Salt Lake on ttie charge of having impersonated a federal officer in an effort to induce Ivan Tew to disregard the summons of the local draft board to report for service in the national army. That 7 per cent of more than 5000 war gardens in Salt Lake are overwatered and undercultlvated and that at least 00 per cent Of the lawns of Salt Lake are nslng from five to ten times as much water as they need, Is , 4C BooihTarMnforu . is economy to buy Good jewelry and a Dependable , watch. BOYD PARK MAKERS OF JEWELRY sum t salt lakx errv me main 1 posed to poison gas or' liquid fife, felt that It Imposed a reputation for patriotism to make virulent retort warriors who were ral attacks on these swlvel-clmi- r remaining out of the aone of fire remaining In WashBARGAINS IN USED CARS And so, some of the ington, with the congressmen. M ml OIOitHU, It. Ont ( Hrattk-t- lt m IMS. departments, 'yielding to oratory and oilier pressure, CmthiM t MflK ntil'lM-tHf um4 kf threw out' many men who had learned their Jobs flfftt ptttlM. Writ Mt OtuM Utt 14 twtrtf and were working more hours a day than any .union m. (14 Cm Dr., tt L.k. Citr Aim would have allowed; and then other men, some of them far less competent, and 'all of them beginners, were put Into the swivel chairs, and the work of the war was thereby Just so much disarranged and RECOGNIZE VALUE OF WHEAT just so much delayed all of which means something in the casualty lists. Shortage Hat Shown Us ths WonderWe had to learn that criticism roust know Ita ful and Unique Qualities Contained own Job thoroughly; It mustnt be merely blowing In the Grain. off steam." And enthusiasm Is useful only when It never takes Its eye off the bttll. Thousands of unfit As absence makes .the heart grow men were themselves 111 used and made a useless exunder, bo doe scarcity of wheat Inpense to Uncle Sam by too much Indiscriminate en-- vite attention to ita wonderful and unique qualities aa food. We have been eating wheat products all these year a a matter of course, and It never oj cnrred.to ua that wa might ever b called oa to go without them. Now that It la necessary to ns wheat sub! etltutes, we have discovered that useful as they are there la nothing, thak really takes the place of wheat flour. The magla of the wheat Ilea la Its gluten what the baker refers to as the binder." He must have a certain thuslasui on the part of boards that proportion of wheat flour to furnish the binder, or his oatmeal bread or bis packed them off to training camps. And too often certain drafted men rice pastry crumbles. The substitute were sent to the camps in sullen have the same nourishment aa the wheat. But they lack tha quality of moods, when tact and an eye on the ball would have sent them not tn a mood at all, but at least beginning to the wheat flour crust There la noth' glow with that steady fire of patriotism w'hlch no normal man can lack ing tn them to Imprison the gases libwhen he feels and knows, understandlngly, that hla country needs him. erated by yeast, and so they refuse to No doubt tha word slacker" has had Its uses; but It Is possible that w rise like wheat dough. Bread made of should have done better not to adopt It; and one thing Is certain; those the substitute la heavy and aoggy unof us who have never worn a uniform are not well entitled to use slacker," less there la enough wheat dough In Its military sense, as a condemnation of any other man who la not In mixed In to glva It life. uniform. We can nsa the word traitor" when we can make It good by Without wheat we go without roof, but we should leave slacker" to soldiers tnd those who have been bread, without cake, without pie, withsoldiers. We must Judge not, lest we b judged. Ret ua aav our bitter- out strawberry shortcake. Na affecness for our enetny. tion for corn pope can make It a subTo a nation war comes aa a great trouble coroes to a family. When a stitute for all these atand-byof the table. If It ia necessary for the sake great trouble comes to a family the members of that family draw closer; they anof the war, wa shall cheerfully go depend upon one another aa never before; and they are kinder to one that other than they have been In happier times. They forget differences without Any deprivation w may feel have come among them, and they make sacrifice to help one another. They ta as nothing to what our associates in find many goodnesses and nobilities In one another that they have not dis- arms already have undergone. But wa covered before. Their strength to meet their trouble cornea from their shall look forward to tha happy days unity : they cannot meet It If they bicker and fall apart. If one does not do when there wilt be an abnndanc of hla chare, the other will get less from him by scolding than if they say? wheat once more. Kansaa City Star, Come, brother T , . . . One day last April we had a Liberty Loan" (parade in Indlanapo-11aRECORD BELONGS TO SIRIUS' to Some 40,000 of us marched and the rest looked on and helped Cheer, ai)d perhaps tried not to cry when the flag went down the street; with the people who carried them singing Gloryl Glory Hallelujah 1" 8ma!l Vessel Was the First to Creoa the Atlantis Wholly Under Ita a Thera were soldiers Infantry and artillery In tha parade, and hospital Own fltoanv state were units, and lines and lines of surgeons and nurses, and there the but and senators and am city officials, and governors This spring marks tho eightieth angreat part of the marchers were Just tha people of a city at war. Factory owners marched with their men ; labor leaders marched with millionaire, niversary of an Important event in and unleaa you knew them you couldnt tell which waa which. The mer- modern history the voyage from Cork to New York of tho Elrtua, tho first chants, the hankers, the lawyers, the doctor, the dentists, the clerks, the railroad men, the barbers, the bricklayer, the steel workers, the canners, teasel to cross tha Atlantic wholly unita own steam. All that remains the- - Carpenters, the plumber they all marched and they all tang when der of that stanch llttl craft la a number Catholic The organizations the band played and when the bands didnt of bran made from the neof Thousands marched. Protestant and the marched, organizations metal work after It waa wrecked In lilts In the and and free war, church In their marched orders, singing groes Cnptaln Robthe rest And there were great clubs and organizations that had been Ballycottou bay In 387, 412-tocommander of Sirlua the erta, ant marched called he no German, they called German, but would longer on Ita maiden trip, waa later transGeron war of the a and most were and violently part sang absolutely to tha Ureal dent, which went many. There were Bulgarians, shouting the allied battle call, alnglng The ferred down with all on board. Titus both and and Serbians Battle Cry of Freedom," and there were Roumanians, Sirius and the her master met with Chiwere There In war. this and all Americans Greeks and Russians, all t end. tragic ;j nese and there was band of Japanese, dressed as antique bowmen. NoThe Sirius mads tha from voyage where In the city was there anything that wasnt at war with the Germans. And overhead sailed the airplanes. But it was not so with Indianapolis Cork la 19 day, reaching New York only a few hour before the Great alone, or with all the cities and towns and villages arid countrysides o Indiana alone. The same manifestation was visible all over America where Western, another steamship which had sailed from Bristol. Tho latter there are 100,000,000 people I made the best time, crossing tho in of worthies we So said: If thai.Rosenkrnnz andCullderstern pair ocean la 15 days, - The Elriua had e birds-eyview a could of nindendorff and Ludenburgh, only get Germany, what is showing forth today, if they could get but a glimpse of this America passenger list of seven on Its Initial voyage, the youngest of whom was roused, they might also get a glimpse of what Is. coming to them f E. Ransom, then four years Vincent trouble America united. Our . . but not America , only, roused, who was reported living a few old, We have said: Come, brother!" and we stand has taught us our unity. In Wiltshire, England, sgo years together, steadfast We are at war with militarism. The kaiser, knowing was he where long the rector of a detnllltH to of who wish that he is the front and symbol i, said: Those church. .ie knows well enough what we parish stroy us are digging their own graves. The Sirius waa a schooner-riggemean to destroy, and In hla rage he talks graveyard to frighten us. Hi and was 17$ feot ever all, with ship worst mistake has been his thinking that terrbrlzatlon" terrifies; that beam of 23 foot and a depth of IS a I him roan and the mans child a subdues quiet keeps Zeppelins, murdering feet.. guns, poison gas, rape, setting peaceful towns on lire, submarines, turning machine guns on women, children, priests and old men these are London's Tsa Houses, the raw head and bloody bones he uses, hoping through fear to make all Tha death of Elr Joseph Lyon rethe wide world his own private ogres castle. But America will not have ft ao. Let him wave his raw heed and bloody bones; let him threaten minds ua what a modern Institution us with graves, and let him make the German people believe that It Is the teashop la. You need not be very old to remember the time wben pracGermany we mean to destroy; he knows wbat this republic means to do be know what the united democracy of the world means to do end It la tically the only places where a cup of tea could be obtained ta London were be that la afraid, and proves his fear, like a coward talking big In ths dark. tho old fasMoaed coffee bouses, with Leaders go before us, mighty and implacable America la marching. their boied-l- a compartments and narwe not see of them and in man, dimness, for America and for the freedom row. uacomfortabl seats. but ss ehinlDg figures, alive today and alive forever, at the head of the na - The customers were exclusively men, tion: Washington and Franklin and Hamilton and Adams and Jefferson if a woman required light refreshand Paul Hors and Jones and Patrick Henry and Francis Marion and light she had to scorch for a confecment HarWilliam and and Madison and and Scott, Decatur Henry Harry Lee; tioners shop, where, tea and coffee rison and Zachary Taylor. And the solemn, great figure Of Lincoln marches sometimes grudgingly served, at were there, at our head, with Grant and Sherman and Sheridan and Robert E, Lee famine men to prides. 'at Kttle round marfel a said these us: bat that the and Ston'e wall "JackSonl "We 'know table tucked away in dark earners. word to us was always the same, yesterday and today and tomorrow alLondon Chronicle. And we follow them. ways their word to us Is Forward over emperors and kings. For a while. Their way lies straight upward Said by a Cynic. In our prosperity, It seemed that we had forgotten our leaders, that we had TWre two literary maladies, are than of the the greater that the power dollars, of power splrfrls forgotten that we had even forgotten to keep ourselves nation, on and indivisible, writers cramp and awelled head. The worst of writers cramp Is that It la and had become ft collection of grabliera, living on fat and laughing at cornever cured, the worst of swelled head German the thus of was was It and and shame thought Never, ruption is that. It neveg JXka-tl- m JauLcomathat-hrl- a ua our test America tkere.,Jlswoke, and woke In arms. Not one true son of America doubts the future. ban, rtr.-B.i-tk. UlUNQ the apring of 1917 certain group of patriots In the East, particularly In New York and Boston, did a great deal of worrying about the Middle and Western states. These Easterners would come together at lnncheona and committee meetings, and after getting Into a condition of collective depression . about the apathy of the country, they would' appoint one of their number to act as an oratorical commission. Rudiger, go ont there," they would say to him. Rudiger, for Gods sake, go out there and rouse the middle West! And Rudiger would go out on his rousing expedition and make speeches before commercial dubs, and at larger meetings, and then go back home without having noticed that the Middle and Western states were already passing their quotas for enlistments of fighting men, whereas Rudi- geris own state, at that time; had filled Just about C, , mm. third of Its own enlistment quota. However, the Rudigers were not Easterners. About 100,000,000 people seemed to feel that the United States did not realize that It was at war. Rudigers name waa not legion, but. populace ; and yet he believed that he was almost the only person In America who comprehended the full seriousness , of the situation." He got a somber satisfaction out of hla forebodings. Theyll see! he would predict. "Theyll wake up and find out what theyre In for, some day when Its too late maybe; hut I tell know you wont what they It means! Theyre at war with the greatest, charged. openly tn the world, and they're sound asleep! 1 tell you It Unless some agreement is reached military power drives a man almost to as I crazy see, war what do, this means, and then between the employers and the strlk look about him at all these millions of as If there weren't .people behaving lag street car shopmen at Salt Lake, any war at all I" are likely other parts of the system West, North and South, Rudiger got the habit of scolding. He to be affected and a general strike take felt East. that he had the whole war on his one pair of shoulders. For a day place, with the resultant tying up of he might a It and and out forget little, Then another go golf. play day street railway traffic. would come, when the weight of the war would He heavily on him, and Calling for help as he struggled to hed see eome other Rndiger playing golf, and Rudiger would watch him save himself from the water, Darrell from the clubhouse and groan and ecold. The big dunderheads I veranda, Delbert Myers, 17 years of age, was he would sputter. realize Juat cant They It!. Nobody doing anything! drowned la the Jordan river in the Nobody even worrying!" comsuburbs of Salt Lake City. Ills Yes; almost all of ns had a touch of Rudiger In those days. - We Imagpanions believed he was Joking until ined that we felt the war more than our neighbors did; the thought made It was too late to save him. ns Irritable, and there waa a vast scolding. We produced many thousands Notice has been issued to coal deal- - of editorials and posters founded on the YOU theme. The kaiser will era by the fuel administration that get YOU If YOU dont enlist, or If YOU dont subscribe to the Red Cross, they will be permitted on July 1 1913. or If YOU dont buy Liberty Bonds. Are YOU doing your duty? If not to Increase the price of coal In their YOU will be painted yellow. hands at that time In storage to the Of course this going after YOU in such an obstreperous way was prevailing mine priceplus frelghtjfcidered by advertising experts to be the most effective form of rousing, but and the regular fixed margin. n the light of later events one may venture to express n doubt and to ex Cross Red the also an opinion that the YOU campaign waa inspired mainly by shop press Saturday night at Salt Lake celebrated its third week its congeniality with the nervous irritability of the time. It was Rudiger-Ism- . Whereas, what has really made things happen on the great scale la In business. During that time receipts have been $1458, with expenses $29.00. neither the attack on YOU nor YOUR susceptibility to acolding, but the J "Thus the great mercy organization of WE, US and OUR spirit When a poster shouts at me, YOU arent in the trenches," I am apt America profits $1428.10 through the to a little antagonized, and my thought may bet "What business Is feel of sales the department. operation of It yours, you poster man, or advertising specialist? YOU arent fn the The Utah regiment at Camp Kearny either. YOU are aa safely at home as anybody, and YOU haven't trenches, has more men of one religions belle!! to be screaming reproaches and warnings at me. YOU- dont the right In the ranks than any other organtza Tm doing or trying to do for our cause. YOU seem to think know what When In tion the United States army. a canvass was taken some time ago It It's more your war than It la ralne, and YOU think YOU have to wake me d Or, If Im a selfish and person, was found that 1016 soldiers of 1300 In up, and YOU make me tired I YOU kind whom the the at is emotional aimed, shooting chiefly my process the Utah regiment were Mormons. take this form: Cut out the bull I Yelling 'YOU Isnt going to get The fact that there are 11,622 men may me to do anything I dont want to do. You cant work ME, 1)0! residing In Salt lake between the ages course there were Individuals who had to be shamed Into war efforts, of 23 and 45, and therefore In the new .and Of no doubt the YOU work helped to get them into line, but the really Immilitary age as proposed In the new American pronouns hgve proved to be those of the first person draft bill aow before congress, was portant It was WE, US and OUR that reached those citizens whom we pluraL brought out In the first reports on the formerly - called It was' WE, US and OUR that census beiag taken by the county asses- left of the hyphen and the hyphen had only smarted TEhe redder nothing sors. under the mustard pronoun YOU. When the In the suit brought by Robert E. as we called them, plaster found that OUR country was st war,, they erased the Knowldco, 145th field artillery, to re- hyphen. They 'might have remained if we had gone cover $50,000 damages from the San to war with any country except Germany, and this Is one great benefit Pedro, Salt Lake & Los Angeles Rail- that Germany conferred upon us when she attacked us: she killed the road company for Injuries suffered In a hyphen. She counted on killing It. and so far her calculations were corfall from a moving train while he was rect. But 6he is not pleased with her success In the matter, for she made asleep, the Jury returned a verdict ol! a mistake In an important detail: she thought the " no cause of action. would drop the American side of the hyphen; she thought they were really Wounds received In aiding to repulse Germans.' They werent The hyphen Is gone forever, and there arent " a German assault in the early days of any citizens any more in our country; there are only --June, when Hindenburg and Luden American citizens. From August 1914, until April, 1917, the dorff were hurling thejr crack shock often said YOU to the rest of os and the of us often said regiments at the allies In a terrific YOU to them ; but now all of us say WE, US and OUR, A young friend of mine,- of German descent, told me how It waa with drive about Oompelgne, proved fatal Private Amistead A. Green, Jr., aged him, 'Until April, 1917. he had been and at times critical of our governments attitude toward Germany, 22, of Salt Lake. Only a week or ao after The executive committee of the state war was declared I met him and he was in uniform a fighting mans uniOf course I am !" he said. Oh, yes; everything was different of Utah council of defense has given form. Indorsement to a request from the until my country went to war. I loved Germany, and I naturally thought state superintendent of public Instruc- that Germany was right In her struggle with other foreign countries. Dont he gets Into a controtion. Dr. 11 G. Go wans, that high school you Jake your old and admired friends side when - Well, I think I was to who are with strangers versy people til yon? been graduates be told that It has made possible for them to enlist and right to have felt that way and to have taken that attitude up to the time the United States went to war, and I cant be ashamed of It, even though go to college at the same time. But Germany Is no friend of mine now. No, I may have been mistaken. Local draft boards were given In I moment the Not when she became the recognized enemy of from air structions last week by Captain F. V, My countrys enemy la my enemy and Im going to figtrt country. my Fit Gerald, executive draft officer for this enemy of my country If It costs my life."' Germany Is ray enemy I Im ..Utah, to guide them In the administra- out to help get the kaiser, and were going to do It! . tion and enforcement of amendments s . . . The encountered skepticism from people to the selective service regulations how a viewpoint can change with changed cirsee to difficult It who found which will become effective July 1, and cumstances ; and the doubt was galling and unhelpful as suspldousdsubt Fnowt, as the Work or Fight"' rules. nearly always are. A great many good Americans who couldnt get Into Copperfteld was the first community uniform and fight Germans felt the need of attacking somebody they could to go over the top in the Thrift Stamp get at and make wince. They suffered from the natural and just anger campaign. Copperfield was allot ed against Germany, hut Germany was too far away, and too sheltered behind $40,000. ud a let ? trr Jnt ctehfnt contain lIlRdefiburg,- - to bo directly - affected, ourselves we were so hot we had to let out and give something or Gua Snickers, 46 years of age, out reach Jgood cubing." .. We cussed the "Gerrna meriminer,' was ' fftunddead lq the ; main aii-nc. made it a little harder for them to declare their loyalty, but the comts tunnel of the Montana-Blnghaof them behaved so well under the stress that after a while disvat was majority panys mine at Bingham. lie So we picked abandon this means of blowing off oar steam. we had to of a face la puddle covered, down, slacker" and used it to vent our Irritation; and perword British the water end had apparently been dead up haps we did a little good, here and there, with oar slacker" talk; and about an hour. we did some harm. We were very free with the word, we editors, certainly Mrs. F. CL Schramm, puldbity diwho were not In uniform ourselves. We were epe-dall- y rector for tie fod administration fot writers and speakers, what we liked to call the swirei-ehal- r bitter warriors" In against Utah, and L. M. Bailey, executive secwere men of draft age. It appears, serving la some of There Washington. retary tor the fool administration for the departments In Washington, and without pausing to Inquire how many this state, have gone to San Francisco unfit for service !a the field, or how many had to attend a conference f the f'o.l and of these were physically in the portions they were filling, we raged against them. come fuel ediidaKtristor of the western Virtuous congressmen, who themstires had no Intention of ever being ex - - gnat-braine- German-Americana- ." German-Amerieans- ," German-Ameriea- German-Amerieans- , German-Amertcan- German-Ameriean- s" mt - pro-Germa- German-American- iinnumr ome-bodj- . 1 m in.Ii-perm- tone. It , s 1 paper-weigh- ts n t . d 70-mil- e - 1 u. Jri!ls,-ri?0I- Krr l - Devotion. ' ; devoted husband." a-- A Some Interesting Facts For home consumption Great BritA gasoline engine driven dynamo that Is entirely automatic In Its action ain Imports about 80,000,000 pounds of coffee annually. is attracting attention In England. Wisconsin must Increase her wheat Is the rain Frequent and moderate most effective of ali sanitary agen- acreage 30 per cent over last year If she is to produce her share la 1313. cies. beOver 300,000 loads of sawdust and now Flxty men a thousand are mill waste were used during last 150 other about and tn the war, ing killed men out of each thousand rre wound- year In the United States for making paper pulp. ed. . have a Uhl lie phones me from the office ever 1 day." , Aline phones me once cr twlcs cn the way down." Would Cava Time. till me the neurmt to Boylsfon ctreetT Can you f ay, If 1 c go yr-j- J J j.nt viy 1 1 1 vl;h you ari t V. show you Qrickir tlma I c J |