Show UTAH AD THE NAVY In view of tho desertion from the U S Navy of almost all the enlisted men from Utah our thought fs that It would be best not to try to enlist anymore any-more for that service from this State The work scorns to be a failure and the desertions would subject any Utah man Who may remain under enlistment in the navy to reproach and probably to a special surveillance that would be found very irksome It Is a bad record that these young men from Utah have made in the avy it shows that they expected to lead an unrestrained life similar to what had been their custom at home but that they were bitterly disappointed and found the discipline too galling for their proud spirits is no doubt the explanation ex-planation of their dishonorable course Butit may be asked do these young men have no regard for their relations and friends no consideration for the fair i name of the State In thus breaking their oaths of service and making themselves outcasts and wanderers on the face of the earth Do they have no selfrespect that they thus besmirch their names and blight their own future Do they not know that this step is one which shuts them out from companionship with honorable men and from all stead fast careers of usefulness and trust The answer to all these questions Is doubtless that they dont think they found their position so different from the frecnndeasy irresponsible lives they had been leading that they considered con-sidered it insupportable and took the rash impulsive and ruinous course to get out of It In this they took no care for the obloquy they thus put upon those near them and to whom they were dear but selfishly considered only themselves them-selves But there is a serious public phase tot to-t The Secretary of the Navy while here last May promised that if I Congress authorized five battleships during Its csslonsjhe would name one of them for Utah But he might very reasonably conclude from the history of Utah en Istmcnts and desertions that Utah has such a contempt for the navy that It vould be waste of good material ton to-n me a battleship for this State And If he should so conclude certainly he would not lack justification for a State whose citizens show so little regard for their oaths of enlistment and so great a contempt con-tempt for the service that they will I unanimously and dishonorably leave it at every possible opportunity surely will lave small claim on the Secretary for a name among the battleships of the Na lon along with her sister States I |