Show THE CHAIUTY AND ITS DIRECTION During the past week the hearts of the men and women of Utah have been stirred as never before Today In a dozen towns bellk will be tolling long processions will wind their ways to the cemeteries and tears will fall like the summer rain rhe armies of war have less tragedies than the armies of peace It is not so hard for men amid martial music dancing flags and roaring guns to enter a battle and when they fall the nation embalms their names in history his-tory and draws Its protecting arms around the loved ones who arc left But when n little i nrniv of laborers with uu their childrens morning kisses warm I upon their lips go down Into the darkened dark-ened chamber of a mine and suddenly without premonition arc translated f there are no compensations for the catastrophe In the presence of the r of sorrow that comes from a tragedy that kind men forget their own troubles trou-bles in sympathy fot the dead and for those to whom the dead were In llfu the stay But as in the armies of war when after a battle the dead are buried and taps are sounded the march has to be renewed so with even a more inexorable necessity the work of the armies of peace must go on Tho homes the mills the ships out at sea depend upon the work of such men as I those who died in Scofield for fuel and that Is but a typo of the world Upon the work of the gold and silver miner the exchanges of the world are regulated regu-lated upon the work of the copper miner mi-ner depends the coaxing from the air and the use of electric power and so the work of ono man is interdependent w ith that of all other men Men often I forget these facts until startled out of their grooves and compelled to think and the fact of this dependence upon each other ought to impress upon all that when such a calamity as that of Scofleld comes then more than gcnor oslty Is appealed to It is a duly to close up as many wounds as possible to wIne away as many tears as possi I ble to see lo It that the young lives I left destitute and desolate are placed where by and by they will mature as useful men and women Those who are sailing clown the stream of time in strong bpats must bend and pick up those who are alloat upon puny rafts The donations up to dale have been superb but more is i needed and what still more is required is such a disposition of the fund lhat the utmost good will come of it This will require u high order of mind first class financial administrative business f ability and behind it all a greatness of heart that will control patience and the conscience sufficient to continue the work without faltering until it shall be completed It must be undertaken as a work of love and of duly but at the same time as a trust as though every dollar would have to be accounted for not only in the bcoks of the fund but In the ledger above where mistakes will be sure to show in the Ilnnl balance sheet |