Show CAN YOU HELP THE NATIONAL I GUARD I It is just possible the young men of or Salt Lake do not appreciate the pleas pleasures pleasures ures tires and the benefits they could derive from membership in the National Guard of Utah It is a little more than possible that employers of young men mendo meno mendo do o not realize the wisdom that would be expressed in their encouragement ot those to belong to the guard It is probable the people gen general Hall eral trally j 3 do not take quite the serious fv E they should of the importance of ot oft ti t guard as a part l art o of the national establishment C Foi Fo the government certainly wants a U guard an army of citizen soldiers I tali gets in the neighborhood of 01 twenty thousand thou and dollars a year as its G l share of government i LOI appropriated for the equipment an ae A pay pa of ot guardsmen It gives to 5 dung eung men an fl opportunity for drill for improvement in rifle practice for that eM tI and exercise which is best sed in the perfect soldier not to i a Ii very attractive social rocial in I realized by every loyal lo al mem mern I bt bl r of the force fore We W do not at all overestimate the sit siti sitt i t L tion Uon u when hen we say that the guard is a aery aHry ery Vt ry attractive place for young oung men menAn menAn menAn An excellent class of young men have found place in the various arious ti Uns ns and no man will feel contaminated ed tJ t J v who vho ho makes this one of his life in tc ts In Iii some other countries every citizen lItzen is compelled to give from three threet t j fu fi five e years ears of service to the th nation c td d ii eer thereafter hold himself in r to be called to the defense of i his Lis country Here the government is tt tr rug ing to get an effective military force disturbing the citizen relation ani an I yet jet r t assuring that condition of pre i pi ri edness without which even this st ong nation would be again in pre i s ly the same condition it was at the I timi timo of the second Se ond war Avar with England when hEn an inefficient militia permitted ti burning of Washington PIt Pat we want especially to urge em emI I of young men against the pres pros prese e nt tendency to discourage membership In the guard The bigger the tho employer the th more reason he has for helping the urd encouraging membership in it excusing for the ten days hen shea they the must be annually absent at ate e The interests of the em emI I yer are with the guard They can ep Jp p it very ery greatly |