Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-18 | Page 13 | Council of Defense will Fulfill Tasks

COUNCIL OF DEFENSE WILL FULFILL TASKS To perform the duties of a public safety safe-ty committee, having large part also in seeing that returning soldiers shall be given employment without unnecessary disturbance of industrial conditions, the state council of defense will continue in existence after the first of the new year, according to Arch M. Thurman, secretary. secre-tary. All federal functions, however, will be relinquished to the council of national defense. Another important item, which will devolve de-volve principally upon the secretary and which will consume probably a year of time, is compilation of Utah's war history. his-tory. Much of the data required in this compilation for the perusal of future generations will not be available until practically all Utah soldiers shall have returned home.