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Show Humorist, in Rotafy Talk, Tells of tyJ Desolation, j Treaty Terms Mild pared With Huns' Bw ity, He Says. Vividly describing ,l,c Uij hthon of those portions whirh experienced am,; i mm kultur, John ' kI', "'"'f noted humorist and writer n, J cidonts ot his three viit, t, , tilted areas during a talk , S eon tb. Salt Lakc Mr Bangs held l,is bound, so realistic, were W lions. His keen sense of was apparent, throwim, im,,", -nound oven the revoltL 1 t.eed by brutal victors t,,,,, people. Mr. Bangs, ,vi,0 ' by James W. Collins, u,t,)LZ Kotury club, said in p'lr,. ' 1 "One of the most imn-hli of my aevera trips to F,J on May 12 1918, the .lurk.-ft! the war, when the r'n.,,,1, WJ discouraged and tho America.,.; entered the fight in groat m,ib -t,'Ood women of Prance in k American motherhood, estraiU'.,r come to the young Yankee fMJ token of friendship and aiiiinU America's coming to ai.L 'd France. Welcome to U. S. Warm, ' ' Let me give von an idea o spiring sight of Frank's America when, in a tron,-M decks lined by men in khaki, ' up the Gironde river leailir.ji , deaux. All along the banks fold or forty miles, decrepit men,) with women and children, oonll'jn waiting to give a welcome. Vi' what we meant to them, tlift m; pathetic little American flag II hand made, some with only number of stars and stripes, waved with that happy simii " come. "I prayed at that time n never prayed before, that mv m try would not be found ivaiitiQ . later, when I saw the ahnnil ' human engineering feats aool by America, in the buihlini; . piers and stockhousos and over all of which floated that , -: prize of American idealism, th( . can flag, I knew that her ideal j was bringing results and wal nized. Later, when allowed to front-line trenches, I noticed j , of selfishness in the army o Sam as its members went thro -mud and slush to face the eneui :: "And after what I saw p realization came of what Frai other nations have had to ij -have thought a great nustakc :. that the war was not eontiiioj . we gave the Germans a ta.! own medicine, i have though the right thing had been done I treaty would not have been s Paris, but in their oo ca : Berlin. "We speak of the flowers many Frenchmen went to del . . flowers in their hands. The i fighters met their end with jo ' their lips. There is joy in : Former Disasters Slight., ; ' ' I also saw much in the i'r '' to admire, and the French n their bit with remarkable coal see them today at work in tM of desolation gives one an idea -sacrifice. 1 "When I visited the temt which the Johnstown flood r :.: district ruined at Galveston; I -x of the San Francisco cannd .r was present at the Dayton thought ruin had reached ij But if these were multiplied ti -vou would not have such a iJ witnessed with Mrs. Banp ! , crossed and recrossed all til v fields. President Wilson sai'l : saw was beyond description, a right. t v ' ' "Tho proud orchards of J .; day are not standing mmk been sawed down. Toe -however, have taken lit', j -sands of trees have since D ... though on the ground. ) ' have thought the Germans ;-; respected God's houses; .v churches have been ruinM., , yond repair. You know wcai men and children siifter ... "Then, people object to . treatv. 1 do not mean .M . nations. I mean that par" . to do with harshness to tie can anyone talk of mt ; Hun? , ,u "When I recently tra1 the vallevs of the '), Rhine. 1 saw the orchards still as thev visited the place thirty ; a roof defiled, the women . . the children happy. Children Forget PIa'- "On the other ha"'!', J but think of the chi'lrfn Thev even had forgot en ' Little ones of 13 jj.- ', . tality of intants. !;" 0 L comparison, with the . of repentance on tnc pai' B ; the greatest mistake t made by signing the peace . . where but in Berlin- ( , Mr. Bangs was c he. - of his address. ' t a resolution that. . m :; Bangs could not. visit the duty of Kotanans message. Mr Collin; a U. , club's support to tin if) devastated France, oi Mrs. Bangs are reprcscn , :. Visiting Kotanans, im ( lingsheiul of Portia"' Twin Falls and O.G.Uri were introduced, a s . of about L-0 l("'.an';fr. H. Mr. and Mrs. l?aC ' .(P, luncheon of the C ollctf';1 , H College club ci , :, ht i ' The couple left Ins "'iM , Springsand willthenee. |