Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 10 | January New West Interesting Issue

JANUARY NEW WEST j INTERESTING ISSUE i Contains Many Articles Ieesigned to Awaken Readers to Important Part West Plays in War. The January number of the New , AVest Magazine reflects the offorts of i the publishers to awaken its readers to the serious and important part the west i is able to take in the affairs of the nations under .changed conditions brought on by the war. Tho cover dosign by J. C. Anderson is particularly impressive, depicting the west marching to the front with its immense im-mense resources. "West to Manufacture Oil" is the lead story, and consists of the most comprehensive recital of the oil shale and oil sand resources now being developed de-veloped that has yet been printed. K. B. von Kleinsmid, president of the Arir,ona state university, has described de-scribed the formation and purpose of the Southwestern States' league recently re-cently organized at San Diego. C. E. GrunsUy, government engineer who helped to build the Panama canal, has a story of the Colorado river containing contain-ing valuable historical and scientific data. Uniter States senator from Idaho, Ida-ho, W. E. Borah, has pointed out the wastefulness of idle lands. A notice-ablo notice-ablo feature of the magazine this month is the introduction of an editorial edi-torial department conducted by E. L. Merritt. i Utah people will be particularly in terested with the (Jump Kearny" pic- i hires and the story by Raymond B. Kosdick, entitled tho "Soldiers' leisure ! Time," with an introduction by Sec-rotary Sec-rotary of War Now ton D. Baker. Miss : Anna Lynch has contributed another valuable historical sketch of early in- ; ilustries in L'tah. Doc. "Bird" Finch of the Denver Post has a humorous sketch entitled "Guessing Where the Oil 'Lies.' " In the Western Club ; Woman's department, in charge of Martha Mar-tha Sp.iuglor, the presidents of the Western States Federation of Wom- ', en's clubs have clearly outlined the I important part the women are taking ! to help win the war.