Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-04-06 | Page 12 | In Ten Years' Time

Il 1 In I. I In Ten Years Years' Time I 5 m ars' ars is not a l long ng lime tinie m measured by S. S standards Yet et ordinary f some p particular 5 dec d decades s seem in retrospect nearly as long a as centuries aM s. s S 5 n years as asago aS ago today tl the e United pt States tes an and andS S Ger Germany nany went to war vat S j ri of 1917 is still vivid in the mem niem- t S ori or ones S 01 of most But how bow ver very vety long ago i it it seems It is as if everything that that- happened before e- e that fateful month took place in son sone e age which we noV noy now remember only ly H diml dimly and fid imperfectly A gr great many things S have happened since that day ten years agoS ago S f fh when h n with curiously mixed emotions motions Americans Ameri Amen AmenS S cans read that their country was vas at at war var 5 f 5 That day marked the end of an epoch in ir 5 our ur history although lOugh we did dd not realize it a athe at j S the time Am America rica as asa a n nation tion ceased to be beS bean bean S an ni untried youn youngster ster and vaulted in in a rei remarkably re re- re- re i nl rk bly short time to the foremost positionS position S am among ng the powers of the earth We are not nol now what we were before April 1917 anc and we Can be bej we are separated from the prewar days by far more than ten short years 2 tf The war left Eur Europe pe bled white The TheS S Jask task tak of shaping the worlds world's destiny passed S cross the Atlantic and came cam t to America t av rs as no nation ever held before i is S Vi With the l the power has lias come responsibility ty S sIt v If s' s said long long ago that be ted from him to whom much is given n. n r S That remark mark is as tru true today as when it vasi was vas i uttered S 4 S So- So perhaps s the of this this' decade might S S i a be a good time for us to t ke stock of ourselves ourselves our our- selves seles of ou our purposes and of our future 5 Not infrequently you will hear people say say- that the that the war was a tragic tragic- mistake and that the aims for which it was fought have haye tall ran failed i S. S is not true Whether it ever ever will be b depends depends depends' de de- de- de S. S on us L f we forget that that we wear are living S in 1 a changed a-changed I a S i t St if we ignore our responsibilities and By to get along in the old lucky happy-go-lucky S m manner if we lose sight of the lessons the thelast 2 last t ten Il years have taught us then then indeed l 5 it it nay may be that the terrible sacrifices of the thet t b. b by y ill h have ve been in in vain f i 1