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Show UTAH MECHANICS OFF FOR TRAK SCHOOL More Than Hundred Men From Salt Lake County on Way to Boulder. Upon the eve of their departure for Boulder, Colo., where they will go into intensive training in mechanics, to be followed by active duty at the front, 110 volunteers from the various draXt boards of Salt Lake City and Salt Lake county were entertained yesterday at a luncheon lunch-eon at the Newhouse hotel, as guests of the city and county commissioners and inembers of the draft boards. The men will leave today for Boulder. Mayor W. Mont. Ferry presided. Dan B. Shields, attorney general, delivered the raiting word of the state of Utah. Mr. Shields encouraged the men to do their best by telling them that during the present pres-ent war the man behind the gun will stand out stronger than ever before in the history of national warfare. Former Governor Spry said that hundreds of citizens of Utah, barred from service because of age or Infirmities, Infirmi-ties, envied the men who are privileged to take up the brunt of the fight for world freedom. At the same time, he assured the men that in leaving they carried with them the moral support of the people of the state to the last man. Major Emery S. West, who today eom-pletes eom-pletes his twentieth year in the military service, expressed the wish that the word "if" might be eliminated from the English En-glish language, declaring that "we are going to have no use for It," as far as the work and efforts of the American soldiers are concerned toward the winning win-ning of the war. While there will be manv delays In getting get-ting men to the front, said Major West, patience must be exercised, as patience is the shortest' wav to siipcpm u-an if the American army could be recalled from France, and if Germany would consent con-sent to restore northern Franco and Belgium, Bel-gium, he said, the war would not be won for democracy and liberty, and there would merely be a resting period. "Let us do the job well while we are at it," said Major West, "and let us never say 'come home" until the bloodstains blood-stains are removed from the face of the daisy and the fleur-de-lis, and the children chil-dren of Belgium and France are again happy." In closing. Major West urged the men not to forget the woman behind the man behind the gun mother but to write to her often and give her words of en- couragement tor success. |