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Show MUST REPAIR WAR'5-DAMAGE Vigorous Pica Is Made By Idahoan At Annual Kiwanis Confab. POCATELLO, Idaho, Aug. 29. (L'.R) A vigorous plea to repair the damage done by the war and its j child, the depression, by building j in the wake of destruction was made today by J. H. Peterson, Pocatello, former Idaho attorney general. Peterson, himself a leading Idaho Kiwanian, addressed the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho district Kiwanis convention today. The present generation, Peterson said, is responsible : for more destruction de-struction than any other that ever existed on the earth. "We," he declared, J'are responsible respons-ible for the world war with its sickening butchery and destruction. And we, too, are responsible for inevitable result of that war, the present depression which is menacing menac-ing the very existence of governments govern-ments and the civilization that has been built up in many centimes." It is time, the speaker said, to take a new attack. The world must forego its present trend and concentrate con-centrate on building up the struc-' tures which have been weakened by the war and its consequences. Late today the'Kiwanians will elect officers foithe ensuing year. Two names dominated the list mentioned men-tioned for 'district governor, succeeding suc-ceeding H. - B. Aven. They are Willard Bowne, Pocatello, past president of the Pocatello club and now lieutenant governor of the Utah-Idaho district, and F. P. Beird of Caldwell, Idaho. Kiwanians heard Jarvis Price, international field representative of Chicago, speak at the afternoon session. W. Mont Ferry, Salt Lake, president presi-dent of the American Silver Producers Pro-ducers association, .was scheduled to address Kiwanians on the silver question later in the day. |