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Show iUH IDHEN " DEPARTING SOLDIERS State and City Officials Will Attend Luncheon at Commercial Club. APPRECIATE SACRIFICE Recognition to Be Accorded Accord-ed in Absence of General Public Demonstration. Official recognition of the 5 yjo.r cent con tin Rent of Sit It lake's first quota of inTi for the national army will be accorded ac-corded today. The men will be the guests of the city eominlNslonrrM at a luncheon to bo si veil at the Commercial club at noon. In view of the abuf-my. of a public dem-onsti dem-onsti sA Ion, HUi.'h aa is bointf given in other ttltiea throughout the country In honor of llu: men who are going across the seas lo offer their lives In their country's cause, tlie city officials thought it pi oper that t ht-lr departure should not take place wl i liout some kind of public recognition lint! ericouifiyeinnt. Hence, the luncheon. In addition to the twenty-three men who lire to leave .Suit Lake at ll:5,r. o'clock tonight to-night for t he camp at American Lake, V ashing ton. Cover nor Hlnion Lianibcrger, Mayor V. Mont Ferry, the other city commissioners. com-missioners. Major W. C. Williams, the members of the draft hoards and the district dis-trict board, h V. KHz Cerald, secretary to the governor, and K. N. Young, secretary secre-tary to the mayor, will he at the luncheon. Cover nor Bamberger. Mayor Ferry and I,. Williams, chairman of the district board, will address the men. Sacrifice Is Appreciated. Keen use of the. fact that the officials n ml cit i.ens who will be present at I o-day's o-day's luncheon are acquainted somewhat with what it Is costing the young men to i i-spond to the call of their country, there will be no lack of sincere godspeeds at th.i luncheon. The members of the draft boa i ds know the men know the conditions condi-tions tnider which they arc joining the colors. All of the city commissioners are werviug on draft boards and Mayor Ferry lias been In touch with the work. For this reason there is to be no lack of heart-fell heart-fell feeling in the limited demonstration todfi v. Uni while the few of Salt Luke's population popu-lation "who understand" are bidding godspeed god-speed to the men who will be the first of the manv that must eventually join the national army, the entire populace of other cities, according to reports, are preparing pre-paring to honor the men who have been inquired to risk their lives while others remain home secure in the fact that they , are exempt because of age, physical dis-nbilitv dis-nbilitv or other reason. The question has been "raised as to whether the men who 0 "will understand" the attitude of the I thousands who are to remain, by chanc, ; pecurely at home. I The Roll of Honor. 1 The men who will he the guests of hon- j or and who will leave this city for Camp I Lewis tonUht are: First district Harold Blake. Raymond V. Cook. Ileher J. Shaw, William Eckstein. Eck-stein. Kmmelt W. Cutler, Marion S. Tan-1 Tan-1 nor, Reuben W. Riley (alternate). Second district Laurence Keebe, THar-ry THar-ry W. Green, Albert (.'. Carlson, Charles A. Sadlier. Third district William G. Keller, Leslie Les-lie K. Frank, John U. Cummock, Jr., Georse Otis Ogleshy, Wallace S. Partridge, Part-ridge, George P. I'ykes. Robert L. Fon-l'mes Fon-l'mes (alternate). Fourth district Cart Nyman. Martin Kruhman, William P. Morton. Churchill Shumate. Marvin C. Prennan. |