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Show TEST IS COMING. . Attorney General Gregory has characterized char-acterized pacifists and slackers as "mora! and physical degenerates, w-ho believe nothing is worth fighting for." All pacifists are slackers. The rule, however, does not work both ways, for some of the slackers are not opposed to war, but are too cowardly or too 6elfish to engage in it. We read that a youth of draft age has been fished up out of a cellar iu Xew York-, where he had been hiding ever since the law was first put into operation. This living libel on American manhood gave signs of joy when he was sentenced to prison for six months. Grief would have killed a Spartan mother who had brought such a worthless specimen of humanity into the world. It will only be a short time now before be-fore all the men in the Uuited States subject to draft will be called up for examination and classification, and the outlook for a short war is not so good as it was when the first 667,000 men were summoned. There have been great changes in the Russian and Italiau fronts, and, according to the view of Premier Lloyd George, "it is imperative impera-tive that the United States should send as many troops as possible across the Atlantic as early as possible' and he concluded by saying, "I am anxious to know how soon the first million men can be expected in France." It goes without saying that the Washington government is doing its utmost to send men across the Atlantic, and we dare say there will be a million or more of the boys in khaki in France before spring. But from present indications that will be only the beginning. Two or three millions more will be needed before we get through with the job we have undertaken, and there will be less chance for draft-dodgers under the next call than there has been during the past summer and fall. The ery from Europe for help grows louder and more insistent each succeeding succeed-ing day, and all the young men of the United States who are liable for service under the law should be making their arrangements to take up arms for God, home and native land, instead of figuring figur-ing on their chances for exemption. Utah has a fine record so far, and we do not expect many "moral and physical physi-cal degenerates," as Attorney General Gregory describes them, will be found in this state when the next summons comes. We shall be sorry to part with more of our young men when they march away to war, but our grief will be tempered by the thought that they are performing their duty and that they are brave men instead of cowardly slackers. |