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Show GflEAT BANQUET 111 DEPLACE PARADE Hi 11 Ml Auto Men Will Gather to -Organize Industry Here for Best Interests of the . United States at War BALKED in their of fort v to . stage the biggest parade iu history to be pulled off in the in-terent in-terent of recruiting in Utah, the Utah, Automobile asaooiaji ami the Auto. Tradea association have settled set-tled op the next best plan, the staging of an "s home affair. At the Newhouee hotel, at t o'clock Tnesde evening, all the automobile dealers men, officials, and foremen, . will gather at a monster banquet a glgantla motor military preparedness , supper. . From present estimates probably more than two hundred local automn- ' bile men and members of the two aa- sorlations will be present. .The assembly will discuss the ways the motormen of Halt Lake City can best benefit the United Htatee government, gov-ernment, according to word given out yesterday. . The meeting wlltr probably he addressed ad-dressed by prominent ftalt Lakers, and possibly by recruiting officials of Uelt Lake. . - - - -' It was the original proposal of the association to stage a parade which promised to be the biggest thing In 1 Western history. The line of march I waa to have been from Selt Lake to " . Ogden and return. State and city officials of-ficials were to have taken part, motion pictures were to have been taken, two thousand persons were to have appeared ap-peared In the processions In automobiles. automo-biles. . The damper was placed on ihee preparations when everything had been arranged. Committees had been appointed. ap-pointed. It waa all settled. Then came the telegram, from the president of tfle United rJ tales, through ths war department-No department-No reasons were given for the cancel. It Is thought, however. Inasmuch as the line of march waa to have been ; through farming districts, the government govern-ment called the demonstration off, because be-cause the government wants to conserve con-serve Ita farm labor, and not to Arouse an enthusiasm In the agricultural districts dis-tricts which will bleed the labor supply of the food producing sections. ' ' |