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Show DEBT PAID HI 24 YEARS JIOOT SAYS U. S. Can Soon Absorb Its j War Obligations, He Tells Rotary Club. Good Highways and Influx of Tourists Forecast j at Luncheon. That the national debt of $33,000,-000,000 $33,000,-000,000 will be paid in twenty-four years was the opinion expressed at the luncheon of the Salt Lake Rotary club yesterday by United fe'tates Senator Reed Smoot. Mr. Smoot declared he believed be-lieved the debt could be absorbed at the rate of 2V4 per cent annually. The time is not far distant when the government will build highways equal to anj' of Europe, and the country will be benefited to a wonderful extent commercially, he said. The automobile is destined to play an important role in the future development of the United States. Because of its position. Salt Lake is destined to become the center of tourist travel to Little Zion canyon and Yel lowstone national park, Mr. Smoot said. Thousands of automobilists will pass through the city on their way to these and other points of interest, according to the senator, and the city will benefit materially. The zeal of the Rotary club is promoting construction of highways high-ways was praised. Patriotism Commended. The patriotism of Utah in subscribing subscrib-ing to Liberty loans was commendable, he said, and added that the record of the state can only be appreciated when one knows that only one-thousandth of the money loaned by the state was used within its boundaries. In the case of the eastern states, he said, much larger proportion of the money was spent within . the borders of the 'states in which it was raised. The nation will lose $500,000,000 through prohibition and $100,000,000 from, other sources, Senator Smoot declared, de-clared, and the country must subscribe generously to the next Liberty loan-Anarchists, loan-Anarchists, radical Socialists, I. W. and conscientious objectors were assailed. as-sailed. Senator Smoot declared the country is facing serious problems because be-cause of the activities of the radical element. . He stated he was not in favor of the United States relinquishing the power to control immigration. To Send Condolences. Upon the motion of F. S. Murphy the club voted to send a resolution of (tondo-lonce (tondo-lonce to George E. Chandler of Bingham, Bing-ham, father of Lieutenant George Chandler of Salt Lake, who died of pneumonia in Paris, and to the officer's wife, "who 'is a Red Cross nurse at Neuilly, France. Lieutenant Chandler was one of several young men , who enlisted, en-listed, for ambulance work through the campaign of the Rotary club. Mr. Murphy Mur-phy as Utah representative of the American field service in France, was chairman of a committee to enlist the men for overseas duty. Lieutenant Colonel R. M. Thomas, who arrived in Salt Lake Saturday to take tho position of professor of military mili-tary tactics at the local high schools, and that of commandant of the junior division of the reserve officers' training camp for this city, was a guest of the club. Lieutenant W. B. George of the Twenty-sixth division was also present at the luncheon. Visiting Rotarinns were Horace H. Dunston of Pocatello and C. A. Findley of Sault Ste. Mario, Canada. |