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Show IDEALS II DEEDS . ARE T0W1N WAR Sacrifice Is Necessary, F. P. Gallagher Tells Commercial Com-mercial Club. "If American ideals are imperishable we cannot lose the war," declared F. P. Gallagher, managing editor of The Salt ; Lake TriUune, yesterday in discussing ! "The Progress of the War" at the regular regu-lar Wednesday luncheon at the Commercial Commer-cial club, "and we cannot achieve victory vic-tory without putting forward the best that is in us. If God were not with us we would not tod iy be holding the line. "Ideals," Mr. Gallagher said, "are merely an inspiration to victory, and the allies will achieve victory because they will convert ideals into heroic deeds." Mr. Gallagher expressed the belief that there is & terrible day coming, when the Germans will intensify their great drive In France. The allies can only triumph, he declared, by the help that Americans must give to the limit of their strength , and power. America might as well cease to exist, he said, as to permit the Huns to triumph. "The hope that springs eternal makes us optimists," said the speaker, "but victory vic-tory will onljr come to us by sacrifice and striving. We must give more and more, all the time. In the purchase of Liberty bonds and to the Red Cross. If we are consumers we must consume less. If we are producers we must produce more. If , we are laborers we must work more. If : we are guides of public opinion we must devote ourselves sedulously to the task of ' educating public opinion and must all ! work together until the final great battle brings victory'- "President Wilson has clarified the at-i at-i mosphere. He has told the Germans i they may enter into the league of nations ! if they will yield to the demands of jus-i jus-i tice. If they refuse, the war must go 1 on until the conflict for the preservation of democracy is won. It must go on until un-til our ideals are achieved. Let us hope that the world has progressed so far in democracy that when the last guns are fired, might, as well as right, will be on the side of numanity." Will M. Cressy, one of President Wilson's Wil-son's four-minute men. now on tne Or-pheum Or-pheum circuit, enlivened the gatherine for fifteen minutes with some of his best stories Incident to the war. He deplored the lack of flags in some cities of she west, declaring that in the east a United States flag flies from every available ataff and from every factory and public building. build-ing. In the factories, he said, even the (mp)oyees are proud to show the flag over their work tables. The sentiment, he said, creates the proper ideal and enthuses en-thuses everyone to do their utmost in the service of the war. The McCormack autograph record, which twice has been sold at the Commercial Com-mercial club luncheon, was again disposed of yesterday, it was purchased by John C. Howard, president of the Utah Oil Refining Re-fining company, for $35. |