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Show PEACE DAY PROCLAIMED BY GOVERNOR Next Sunday Set Apart for Exercises Encouraging Ideals of Amity. Peace day Vtah wtll'lie observed next Hum! a v. and that night, at the First Methodist tpiaropal church. Sec ead touth and Hecooo felast streets, the Vtah Peace societv will hold its annual meeting. Gov. William Hprv issued proclamation this morning setting apart ext Sunday for the puriKise of a Peace dav celebration; and nrging on the " schools to hold appropriate excrctae. emphasizing the peace idea, next ri - At the Sunday maht exerciHes former Got. John C. Cutler, president of the society, will preside, and tea minute ad dresses bv representative, citixena from all walks 'of life will be a feature. Music will be furaished by the choir nf the church. The speakers so far selected are, in addition to Governor Cutler, who - will amaaa iha-auaauuf address i Rev. P. A. Himpkm. 'Mrs. W. h. Traughber, represent tag the Lad iea ' Literary lub; Jtidee J. K. Krick of the tupreaae court of I tab. Uaoiel Alexander. Alexan-der. Carl B. Badger and N. P- Utha kos. The exercises will begin at a o clock. Governor Rprr'e proclamation follows: "The eubiect of peace has been an inspiration for the moat heentiful thoughts that have ever found human expression. War haa written into the pages of history the most harrowing tales of earaage and suffering that the pea has ever pictured. Pear has knit families, communities and countrymen together ia the bonds of love; has huilded happy homes; haa reared beautiful beau-tiful eitiea and established the most prosperous of nationa. strife, ronflirt and discord have torn asuader tha tsm - plea of happiness, while war haa ruined ft hvea and homes, wrecked communities " and destroyed nationa "The aeeda of Christianity which have been sow a in tha nationa of the earth have bora fruit in a universal sentiment for peace. Representatives of th world powers have gathered in peace conferences to perfect a plan of ' international arbitration and do away with war, and through thia movement th crowning hop of Christianity has beea brightened. "Tbst thia sentiment for peace may be foatered aad extended until it pen-trates pen-trates the heart of every humaa being, a day haa beea set apart to be observed ob-served by th people aa 'Pear day.1 'Now, therefore, I, William ftpry, governor of tha atat of Utah, do hereby designate Sunday, May 81, 1911, aa 'Peae day,' aad do earnestly nrge that all religious,, fraternal aad benevo- lent organ ixat ions of the state gold appropriate exercieee that will have for their object the promotion of .international .interna-tional eoacord aad amity. I also recommend rec-ommend that Friday, Mar If), 1911, be observed in like manner by tha schools of the state. "The Utah State Peace society has adopted a resolution Indorsing the proposal pro-posal of the president of the United States for tha establishment of aa in-ternatioaal in-ternatioaal court and the development of a code of international equity which nationa will recognise aa affording; a better method of settling international controversies than war. I raapoctfullv arge that alL religions, fratereal and benevolenLorgaaiaations adopt and for " ward to the president- of tha United States, the United States senators aad representative of the state of Utah the following resolution: "'Whereas, the- president of the United States, la a recent speech en the most important subject, 'The Peace of the World,' urged that 'we must have some method of settling the tsaueo be twees nations, and rf we do nut have arbitration we shall have war. What teaches nstioee and people the poaaibil tty of permanent peace ia the actual settlement set-tlement of controversies by courts uf ar j bitration.' " 'Therefore, be it resolved that it is! in entire accord with President Taft'sl proposal, that we indorse the principle of international arbitration along the lines laid down by him and that we urge him aad our repreaentativee ia coa- Kress to use all meaas ia their power to ring about the enactment of such a treaty between the United States aad (reat Britain as shaU settle all future difficulties between theee nations by arbitration ar-bitration and, by tha power of example, bastes the dawn of universal peace.' "In testimony whereof. 1 have here uato set my hand and raueed to be affixed af-fixed the great seal of the atate of Utah. Done at Salt Lake City, the capital, this 17th day of May. A. D. JM. "WILLIAM SPRY. 'Bv the governor. WC. b. Tingey. Secretary of State." |