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Show 1-- THE VISION OF X WORLD COURT With the law of nations in ruins, it is important that publicists should state plainly why it is in ruins, as Elihu Root did in his masterful address before.the Congress. Ona reason why international, law has been wrecked is that it was a thing, of shreds and patches. Another is to be found in the fact that ho means ha3 yet been devised to compel nations to observe the same standards of mor' I ; ality a3 individuals. !. Like, others who have written an u spoken on the subject, Mr. Root suggests an international court, but he does not fail to see that before there can be a court there must be law, and beforejhere can be.law there must be legislation in good faith. Before any of These things can come to pass, suspicion and greed Pan-Americ- an upon fear or aggression must be broken up and there must be a general appreciation of the eacred-obligation- JOU&HA1 Tnc TRM7EEKLV PAGR TWO s es. Europe is a shambles today because its jealousies prevented an honest settlement of - cont rovers ieorheoanse the' idea of conquest has never been dispelled from the minds of its Governments and because . the plighted word of some of them, embraced in the most solemn engagements, has been as false as dicers oaths. There can be no permanent change in this situation. until all parties - are brought in sorrow and humiliation to a sincere change of heart.. Evidently this is what Mr. Root contemof nations plates when he advocates-a-cou- rt with power to enforce its decrees. If the war should end in a stalemate, with both sides ex hausted, conditions would be favorable to the reconstruction of civilization on lines of honor, truth and humanity. A decisive victory by either antagonist might leave things about as they are. New York World. - o- PAY UP WEEK Some ingenious people have conceived the idea of a National Pay-u- p Week. to be observed February when everyone should be exhorted to pay his debts. The American people need a little prodding on this point. They have a joyous habit of throwing bills into the waste basket that does not promote general business prosperity. Not every one who lets his bills go unpaid is indifferent about it. Many people would gladly pay all they owe, could they collect the debts due them. But with many other persons, the more easily they could pay, the less ready the are to do it. It would make 'them very tired to sit down monthly and write off a dozen checks. By letting the bills run, they can do it all in one job. This saves them much hard work. Yet they may have idle money in banks. Some business men allow bills to run to save a trifle of interest, losing which would offendTheir thrifty souls. Of course the creditor is meanwhile losing interest. But creditors are considered grasping creatures who have all the money they need, A large percentage of the business failures are of people who would be perfectly solvent if they could collect their bills. It is surprising how quickly & dollar will run around a town. When you pay that Tong standing bill due the grocer, he is immediately able to satisfy the teamster. The latter can , settle with the butcher, who can now pay that old bill at the printers. So it goes. The net result is a new feeling of confidence and good will. If 'a general debt paying cus tom could be started during a Pay-u- p Week, a great many people would feel -- a new courage about their business future. They would buy more freely. A wave of new business would spread over the country. Let everyone do what he can toward iti the-Balka- n 21-2- 6, One hundred and twenty five children, grandchildren and great grandchildren assembled at the bme of Apostle Penrose in Salt Lake last Friday evening, to pay their respects to the venerable patriarch on .the completion of the eighty fourth year of his earthly pilgrimage. His has been a busy and eventful - life, fifty five years of which with the exception of missionary service abroad, have been devoted to the building up of Utah. On the twenty ninth of this month another veteran of Utah, Aunt Emmeline B. Wells, will have passed her eighty fourth year, though it will be but . THE WORLD WAR Commenting upon the vast extent of territory involved and subject to attack in the present great war, a contemporary remarks : The lands of the countries at war stretch from Vancou ver tcTLabrador, across the ocean to the British Isles and to France, stilT Russia in Europe,' and by the steppes Of ' Asia to Vladivostok and tthe Japanese isles, and so again across the Pacific back to Vancouver. Nor does this by any manner of, means give an idea of the territory of those Involved. There are islands in the Caribbean,and islands in the South Pacific, islands by Cape Horn, arid islands in ' the Polar seas, all ofwhosepeopleare at war, There are little colonies on the coast ..of. .South.Americat as there are c5fal just a" rfeefs1 in the Indian Ocean,. witHonly stray fisherman for an inhabitant, "subject to attack , at. any .moment. From Spitz- bergen to Melbourne the continents are continuously at war. With the exception v'of China and Siam, all Asia is ranged un- -' der one flag. There is not a yard of the coast of Africa which is not some enemys country. Men have fought in the jungles of the Rufiji river, arid on the railway from Walfiseh Bay to Windhoek, in Togoland, and on the banks of the Suez canal. Asia ' Minor is as much a camp as is Australia, the Nile as open to sea raiders as the St. Lawrence, whilst the Baltic and the Mediterranean are as closed to the keels of the merchant ships of one or another of the belligerents as the Rhone or the ?DEE-UGHTE- PRUSSIAN GRANDEUR IS KAISERS DREAM nr .. jt f'T , Berlin. At a time when the enemies of Germany have openly proclaimed that the principal object of the war is to - crush forever the Prussian hegemony in Germany, the kaisers government announces that the come to realize the plan for the greater Prussia, .of which the kaiser has always dreamed. To emphasize the way in which feelings in Germany have changed since 1871, the government has chosen to reveal its plans through the medium of the Frankfurter the very paper which at the end of the Franco-Pressia- n war protested most loudly F. ga i nst-'-ak in g---t he nqttemL 7r - vfj;. m m40 X. U. - . . We get stronger every day because Europe wears out and gets weaker daily. If Wall street and the rich want a big army and navy, why not tax the income of the rich to pay the cost? If such a law is proposed there will instantly be' a change of opinion in New York city. President Wilson and both political parties should keep within due.bounds. We now' pay $1,000 a minute to Teed the wan lord imthiacountry, SentineL (Qhio4 - o AGITATORS NOT FIGHTERS The Phoenix- - (published JVIon-oha- by-Mich- ael n of South Norwalk, Conn.) contains the following very sensible warning: Dont forget this', Mr. Plain Citizen : The fellows who are shouting' the loudest for war and whose hearts are bleeding to death for the national honor, have no idea of doing any real fighting themselves not' if they know it ! Its you for the bloody fray and the human Omelette business, while these wise patriots will go on safely publishing or cutting coupons in Wall street. Militarism is alright it depends ' on the end of it you get The war urged by the manufac. Well said. turers of munitions and the jingo press is for you to fight while they make money out of the V- - war. Read this Mrs. Ridgeleys and weep: while out for a ride in a wheel Pomeranian, chair on the board walk, fell and broke a foreAnd yet some wonder why there are leg. Socialists. Macon (Ga.) News. o What a good time Johnny is going to have with his toys after father gets through playing with them. Wichita (Kans.) Beacon H , look -- Kirby in New York World. warred together, arid who with each other and with each other and with Johnsons Judge John M. Patterson of negro servant, Frank. this city, has come "into posThere is no doubt of the session of a relic which is of exof the knocker. It treme value to persons concern- authenticity is of oxidized iron, very much ed in literature, because it once weather beaten, but still good adorned the home of that, famto use today. It is auenough ous arbiter, and sometimes ar- thenticated by the British bitrary arbiter of English lit- museum. Judge Patterson ob. erature,' Dr. Samuel Johnson. tained the knocker from E. P. The knocker from Doctor Dutton & Company of New Johnsons old house at 7 John- York, who obtained it from sons court, just off Fleet street London. The knocker was London, is the... ancient piece (,movej (the house was which has come into Judge Tom down several years ago. Pattersons possession. Philadelphia North Principal interest in the knocker lies in the fact that it was handled by some of the HOSPITAL IN FRANCE IS RUN BY WOMEN most famous of English writand actors politicers, artists, In the Abbey of Paris. ians. King George III, with whom- the American colonies Royaumont-sur-Oissays the had certain differences which Paris Figaro, a section of the resulted in the United States of British Red Cross Society esAmerica, visited Dr. Johnson at the house in Johnsons court. tablished in November, 1914, Hospitalr David Garrick was a friend who often visited the house. which has been in continuous James - Boswell," wrhose fame operation since then. The en- lies in the fact that he was Dr. tire personnel of tha institution Johnsons biographer, was a consists of women. The directfrequent caller. Oliver Gold- ress is Miss Ivens, a Liverpool smith, Edmund Burke and Sir surgeon, who is assisted by sevJoshua Reynolds were others en women physicians and sixty whose hands undoubtedly rais- graduate nurses. There are two hundred paed the old time knocker which beds for-ovis now in this city. tients in the hospital. Many have One of Dr. Johnsons close very difficult operations been successfully performed by friend who often raised, The knocker to visit- - the eccentric these British women, and the genius was Mrs. - Thrale, who, wounded "have with her husband, was among lent care, resulting Dr. Johnsons best -- friends in convalescence. In charge of the hospitals all England. Mrs. Thrale later is Miss Helga Gill, a ambulance became Mrs. Pinozzi. girl from Bergen, NorIt was in the house which the youngDressed in a military cape way. knocker once adorned that Dr. chauffeurs cap and a with Johnson wrote his Taxation on her tresses, perched jauntily No Tyranny, an essay which ambulance her runs she along pleased King George highly, the rear of the firing line ready and emphasized the writers to the wounded as they Toryism, and which earned. him arepick up out of the brought being a civil pension! trenches. The house in Johnsons court which was not named for the " Where? Great Cham, was near the Judge Where did the automobile Chesixe Creese, the famous hit you? , old coffee house which is still Rastus Well, Jedger if Fd been standing and in which John- carrying a license numbah it 'would son's stall and the table are hab busted to a thousand pieces. still preserved. The house is Puck. near Bolt Court near - Temple So to Say Bar, which is adjacent to the -fbeIn the which anqous Temple once had Arthur cause' lodgsays it is. " lexicographer MEMENTO OF DR. JOHNSON re-wh- - e, er -- st- awful-coldputdoo- i r JT territories part of the ambitious kingdom of Prussia No one in Germany Today, even in Bavaria - or' Saxony, thinks of denying the "fact, so persistently proclaimed by the last kaiser" during These months,' that the. splendid results achieved in this war are in the first place due to the splendidly organized ' and brilliantly led Prussian, army. Of the 70,000,000 people who make up the population of the empire two-thirare Prussians. Prussia is the heartland souljof the German empire and now the moment has come when she is to reap her reward. It will, in the opinion of the kaiser who is first of all, king of Prussia, never be possible to find propitious moment. The former reichsland (Alsace-Lorrainmust be made a province of Prussia while that kingdom stands on the height of her military power. There are people in Germany who see in. this desire on the part of the kaiser, at' a time like the present, a secret fear, that if the annexation be delayed until the end of the war some unforeseen calamity may prevent it. added - With Alsace-Lorrain- e to his present kingdom, the kaiser, as king of Prussia, will tower head and shoulders above the other kings of the empire, namely those of Bavaria, Saxony and Wuerttemberg. Alsace-Lorrain- e ranks sixth in size among the twenty-si- x states that make up the empire coming immediately after the four kingdoms and the grand duchy of Baden. From the viewpoint of density of popuindustrial lation, agricultural, and mineral wealth, Alsace-Lorraialso is highly important. would be a very choice morIt sel to add to Prussia. That the population of the reichland, if they'-cannbecome French, e) - , --c- o re , as if some of the tourists to get UjighF jbinTheTboysTnThe'trenches are being made to celebrate it p'roperfy. pe&ce. Grand Herald. Rapids (Mich.) ' Such occurrences, in connection with Old Folks Arthur? o ings. U. of J. SiArthurmometer. days, indicate that in Utah age is honored, es- " Sometimes it doesnt seem to pay to be The house also was the shel' ren. pecially when it has been accompanied by ac- good, but you dont have anything to be re ter of Dr. Johnsons pensioners, the motley" group of men . and complishment and zeal in public service. morseful about afterwards. It. has beem proved by actual women who lived on Johnsons ' - been has This group experiments that small rodents The Bull Moosers are playing in hard luck. - The president' may be Too proud to fight, bounty. ex- of arid regions. which eat dry most as characterized the Jane Addams threaten to quit unless Roose- but he . is not so big a fooRas to fight over traordinary assemblage of in- - seeds can live from two to ' velt does. Rochester Herald. nothing. Baltimore Sun. mates that ever was brought Three years without water. . It begins to T4 ds T-A- -X T-A-- A- - -- Zei-tun- g, THREE RED LETTERS Militarism in America means a perpetual sheeps clothing. If we prepare for war whence will come the added billion dollars? There is only one answer. Three letters tell Who will pay the fiddler? the tale. r -- Rhine. burden. A big army and navy adds one thousand million dollars to the load we now carry. On.e billion dollars is the war cry of the big lobby at Washington. a The government has already imposed war tax and still runs short of revenue. The claim, We must prepare to" fight Germany is the armor vplate and powder trusts in Tuesday, February 8, 191S. , LOGAN, UTAH. 1 1 1 r8i ne ot would far rather become Bavarians or Badeners carries no weight. Alsace-Lorraihas now In full played the part given to it by the statesmanship of Bis- mark, who made it the common property of all the states ne of the empire he created, in order that they might forget their mutual jealousy and distrust in face of the danger that was constantly threatening them from the French repub- " lic. Now that this internal jeal- ousy has at least temporarily disappeared and the position of Prussia as the dominating power in Germany hag been so fully established the probability of a strong opposition against the annexation is very slight But it will undoubtedly be maintained in Bavaria that the common enemies, of Germany ought first To be. defeated and peace established before the . kaiser, as king of Prussia, proceeds to , put his house in order, r Suspected Dont I know every one of tricks of your trade? said the new Leat-D- boarder, with considerably boardyou think I have lived In noth1 for fifteen years ing houses o Ingt! Well," replied the landlady, IclIfT I shouldnt be at all surprised, Tld-Blt- s. for Recently patented shears usin the work seams ripping ual way but have vertical cut ting, edges that project in the opposite direction from the . arms. I |