Show PEACE MEETING program of music and speeches at tabernacle last sunday night enjoyed by large congregation gre gation A thought wave ave spread over the en tire civilized world last sunday night when religious and educational societies gathered to celebrate the hague peace conference anniversary doubtless Doubt lebs millions of people from one corner of the globe to the other allowed allo ed their minds to dwell for a time at leat on the same subject universal peace and the fact that so many people thought of the same thing at the same time will go far towards the establishing of this peace over the faco face of the earth whenever a great majority determine to have a thing they usually succeed there never has been a time in the history of this country when the masses were so BO intent upon reform growth and development as they are today we are approaching the era when government for forthe the people of the people and by the people will be a fact as well as asa a saying let us have peace will go from mouth to mouth until it has been uttered by every individual in every nation in all the world and the great prince of peace who started the movement more than two thousand years ago will tell us again and again that his death on the cross was not in vain the peace meeting in the uintah stake tabernacle last sunday night was attended by people from froan all parts of the valley and long before the hour for the services to begin the big building was well cilita bishop john N davis of the vernal ward presided over the services the ane first number on the program was an organ prelude by mrs lottie jackson thomsen and it s was waa inspiring that beautiful selection and the singing of america by thea the choir and congregation and the fervent j invocation by N G howards produced a receptive mood on all the minds and those present were delighted with what followed R S collett in a few well wel chosen words and in his usual give manner delivered the speech of ofa greeting the needs of peace was the theme of william J snows address and he brought out some inte interesting as well as appalling facts he called attention to what a difference diff deuce there would be in conditions today if the money spent on wars had been used in the up building of the earth he showed that from the days of sparta to the present that i wars wara have not only carried devastation and rum ruin along alone with them but that they have bankrupted nations and have brutalized characters during the century there were forty wars which cost twelve billion dollars and sacrificed five fiva million lives the civil war cost three billion dollars and sacrificed one million lives J robot robet robinson rendered the recessional cess ional which was followed by a song by the choir rev M J hersey pastor of the episcopal church spoke on arbitration and brought out the fact that the maintenance of the united states navy costs coats one quarter of a bilion dollars per year this address was follow folio ed by a qu ariette arette by mrs bassett mrs pack david and george E adams the outlook for universal peace was the subject assigned to rev lud wig thomson thomsen pastor of the congregational gat ional church the world is growing letter better all the time declared the speaker but it is not becoming an easier world to live in the time will never come when disputes and quarrels will cease but the time is coming when all disputes will be settled by arbitration there are numerous forces at work which will bring about peace and the 14 first of these is the economic force the people are realizing more and more 1 the wastefulness and extravagance of IV 01 war the destruction to life and property another great force is religion which had Us its great impetus when christ came into the world the time is coming when the cannon shall give way to counsel and the sword must surrender to common sense the services er vicea with the singing of the star spangled banner by the choir and the congregation 11 denver northwestern pacific acidic aci fic terminal company bonds tho the total bond issue amounts to and the moffat people place a value of on the property covered by mortgages plans for a depot at steamboat springs are being drawn and it will soon be built stage service between mccoy and steamboat springs has been established the road is now build ng of mccoy and it is ia claimed that enough ties are on the ground to lay the track to the utah line |