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Show METHODS OF DEFENSE !j GOUNCILARE PRAISED Requests Received for In-formation In-formation as to Working of Utah Organization. Progress made in the military survey of Utah, financed by the state council of defense de-fense and placed iu charge of E. C. Pen-roee. Pen-roee. Is highly satisfactory to Major Harry Chester Boyden of the national arnjy engineers, who called on Governor Bamberger and Secretary W. C. Kbaugh of the state council yesterday. Major Boyden saya that similar military mili-tary Hurveys are being rushed to completion com-pletion the country over, particular attention at-tention being given to the Dorder states, and when they are completed the military mili-tary commanders will he in possession of all necessary information for handling troops within all the states of the nation. na-tion. Dr. Ehftugh yesterday received a communication com-munication from Dr. Jessica B. Pelxotto, executive chairman of the department of child welfare. "1 want to say a word in congratulation of your excellent organization organiza-tion and plan," Dr. Pelxotto write to i the state council of defense. "It seems to me that Utah has made a record in Us organization. If the performance can equal the plan, the honors will undoubtedly un-doubtedly have to go to Utah." Yesterday's mall brought requests from the councils of defense in Arizona and Mississippi and the Carnegie corporation corpora-tion of Neu York for Information as to the methods used by the. Utah state council of defense In Us work. Eh. R. S. Joyce of Ogden, chairman of the council's committee on sanitation and medicine, has been called to attend a conference of the stato councils of de-Tense de-Tense and of the general medical board at Washington on May 4 and 5. Dr. Joyce will report to the council immediately imme-diately upon his return from the Washington Wash-ington conference. Increased emphasis Is made manifest throughout the country, Secretary Ebaugh says, upon Americanization. The national na-tional government Is co-operationg with the state, municipal and county councils of defense in providing means for educating edu-cating aliens In the language. Ideals and customs of this country. In New York the legislature has Just passed a bill requiring re-quiring compulsory attendance at evening eve-ning schools of all non-English-speaking and illiterate minors, 16 to 21 years of. age. |