Show WAR SPEAKERS GRIP AUDIENCE WITH TRUTHS Fi Fred d B. B Smith SUli l and Mrs 1 Richard Emrick Make lake Capital Addresses SOLDIERS IN FRANCE TO RULE SALT LAKE LAIE Men Overseas Are Stronger lc Than rhan When They Left S Says ys Speaker 1 2 j nv n nI i J s. s CO SS Scarcely a hundred persons composed th the e audience at nt Assembly hall halt last I Inight night when Fred B B. B Smith and Mrs Irs i the tho al allied allied allied al- al Richard rd Emrick representing of oC tho i lied war workers delivered two t first addre addresses sel ever e hoard In Salt Lako Lalo I upon upon war conditions in France France I Both speakers declined declined to fall fan Into t tho tIo o rut of 0 conventional con war ar talk but gripped their audience with vUlt plain dram dramatically dra dra- m horrible truths of 0 conditions i a ns' ns they exist Had every o seat in the Tabernacle been filled It would not have been a no fit audience for the re remarkable ro- ro talks which the they delivered Intro Introduced b by Heber J J. J Grant after nolos olo by Mrs Norman Gorman Atkinson nn and Hugh Dowell Mrs Emrick described first the scene in Sn Paris on July 4 when the American soldiers were returning celebration to their camps from the tho Standing on their big trucks ready rendy to depart dopart the they sang to a a. great audience audience of oC French people Joan of oC Arc the response of oC the l French rench coming in their national hymn The which was repeated b by our men as ns they moved ed awa away She told of or how the tho American men inca in Franco France wore won won- at for cor their laughter and happiness happi happl- ness nes and of her pride in leading oCho ot of othow ho how the thc they sang sans when whon they went into bAttle bt When Whan hen she to a a. French officer of or this his response was Ah yes es madame wo we French too sang pang But nut madame it Ills is hard Indeed to sing sinS after arter four years ears of or war var French Girl Is Ii Fc les rI 11 Mrs Emrick told of a a. mooting meeting at which 2000 French Frenchwomen women working In Ina ina a a. factory stood each one ono In tears while hearing a Belgian countess tell of oC American aid that was coming A French girl who was working in powder an and three times had escaped from explosions uninjured and was asked what if It tho the fourth time prove pro fatal hi had replied been protected three times I 1 1 have O madame by lo Ic bon boa DIeU The Tho fourth time Then one would die for tor France red Fred B. B Smith dwelt on the tho fact that our soldiers In Franco are men that the they donl don't want to be bo babied He lie told of at the tiLe three worst sins in the view of oC tho the soldier soldier the the first cowardice co tho second stinginess and tho third to tobe tobe tobe be a a. hard blowhard Ho called to the attention atten atten- tion Uon of tho the audience that for tor the first time In the history of Utah every sect and er e every Mormon Catholic Protestant and Jewish were represented represent represent- ed on one one platform and with one ono cause France Suffer rN Then Smile Speaking of oC Franco France as he saw it Mr Ill Smith described 1 Paris as almost Unchanged unchanged un Un- un-I un changed but bul this was due to the fact that France takes blow on blow smiles 1 and nl gets g-ets read ready for Cor or he the h next shock The greatest Indication of or the presence of Cf the tho war var ho lie said sail was the tho fact that OI f every ory mature woman save sa a few rew of oC the underworld was draped drar in the black le of mourning Describing Des the savagery sa of or the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans he said laid Not Kot ot a church spire remains standIng stand stand- In Ing in the part of oC country that was wa the Huns But their ie- ie e- e overrun O by am OIli not stop mere ot Ot a across across cross was allowed to remain standing In a a. I asked the reason of or this Hils and was told toM V Wo Vo o In France feel that that the sanctIfication of oC the ground wherein our dead are aro buried burled bol holds s them there for the coming comins of oC tho the thou Hon To drive even the hope of this from our lives the German commanders command- command ors ers have havo issued special orders that no cross shall be allowed to stand over our holy graves nun Hung War on Women No they did not stop here You Tou ar arold are old enough to hear the truth and this Is what was told mo me and I t believe belleve it from my soul For a stretch of or territory territory terri tern tory 17 mi miles s across a decree of or de devastation devastation do- do was issued running from Po- Po and Jand and through Belgium and France France- FranceIn in which the German soldiers were or ordered or- or dered to leave not a single le pure puro bre breed breed- l- l lug jug woman This was that the they might go back when the they were vere beaten as they must have known thc they woul be breed more of ot their dastardly tribe and then in thirty years more again descend de dc- de descend I and finish their terrible vork ork Above all let no addle addie pacifist ube urge you OU to consider for a moment a premature peace We Ye can have havo no peace I till the kaiser is forced to beg It on his knees Again how many of or you ou when those boys bos of oC ours come homo home will b be able to look 1001 them in th the face tace Those men when they come comeback comeback back will run Salt Lake Lako They are better physically mentally and morally morally moral moral- ly h than thc they were when they left lett Before the meeting th the tho visitors were entert entertained at nt dinner at tho the Commercial Commercial Commer Commer- cial vial club where short addresses were made by A. A E D. Carter of ot the war camp I community service Miss Helen Barnes of ot tho the Y Y W. W C. C A. A and Milton Mlton J J. Ferguson Ferguson Fer Fer- gu guson on of or the American Library association nUon The other members of tho the party part were Miss Cora Tatham of San Francisco Francl Fran Fran- cl cisco co Cyril J J. J Mee of or Australia Miss Bertha Conde of New York and Clarence Clar Clar- I c ence cc A. A Spaulding of or Pasadena Cal |