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Show ' DESERET DESERET gj Cmr J of douth Tampla Horae O 1 Btrla, and Eaat Tempi City, Utah Lk Sail not; and. perhapa. the speaker presumed upon anyone the intelligence of their audience. As mindful of current event could be ignorant of uses which team to be driving the country the to war with a foreign power! A If every effort known to the world of diplomacy had not been made paUen' y for more than two years In order that wsr m ght be averted! He proteated against entry Into iht war unless a referendum were taken. What referendum could be more expensive of the will of the people than the sentiment that is sweeping the country with inspiring unanimity? But t ha people are being swept on a war re no longer uelng their heads. wave and Indeed singular the the Socialists It alone aeern to have retained their mental poise. The event vu spoken of on the streets as un example of the abuse which Is sometimes made of the right to freedom of speecn in America It is a good thing to It is quite the contrary have such things take place In the open instead of in the secret, subterranean chambers common to the cults of revolt In other countries. It keeps the public mind Informed of the propensities of the various element of our complex rttlsenry. information that may. at some time under some conditions, be valuable In time of national calamity there can be no neutrality among our own people. They must either stand with the government or against It If the incident. for it Is only an Incident, holds any importance whatever, it Is solely for the reason that It gives this community Information which It Is good to have. Further than that. It Is but another rase of 'Much Ado About Nothing NEWS EVENING - - Whltn.y UMCRIftion frickh By Mall, par year By Carrlar, yar pr Saturday Nava. pr yaar per year Foralgn poatag extra Addraa all bualntaa eammur icatlnna nd all nee THE DEFER BT NEWS. alt l.ke City. Utah. Corraapondaar and othr raiding matter fur pqbll.atlon ahould ha addrvaaad to th Editor ember Audit Bureau Circulation Eotm P McKInnay. raproaantatlv. w York OBIc. 14 Fifth Avnu. Icaso Offlca, IS South Mlehlpan Avenu. attired at th poatofflo of Salt Lah ond elaaa matter according to Act of I. lift. OONITKENCE aa City, Congr. NOTICE. o alphty aaranth annual Oaneral of th Church of Jeaua Chrtat of Lattr-da- y Salnta will convane In th Tabarnaola. Salt Link City, on Friday. April a m . with eaalons , KIT. at K oclock also on April J and I A Oanaral Frlaathood meeting will on Saturday. April In th Tabamncl T. at T o'clock p m It la dalrd that irranamant for raunlona shall not conflict with any of th data above announced, and that uch reunion aa may b held on r evening be fixed for an hour not than I II o'clock. JOSEPH F. SMITH. Th n oon-ya- LEARNED TO OBKT. Is. y LUND. CHARLES W PENROSE. Firat Irealdency F ATRIA RrHS. Thg patriarchs gained will meat of the Church tha Bishops building Saturday. April p. m 7 at in 4 SO O. SMITH. H T RUM Presiding Patriarch. HUD CONITRT.NCE. SOCIETY The annual conference of the Relief teelely Saint f th Church of Christ of will be hald on Wdnaday and Thursday. April 4 and I, 117 Two general aeaalona will ba held la th Assembly hall on Wednesday. April 4. at IS a.m. and i pin All officer and Relief society worker are Invited to be In attendance. Th officer meeting will b hald an Thura-daat IS a m. and I p m. In th Auditorium on (ha fourth floor of th Blahope building. Th officers' meeting will be limited to stake officer. Make board member and stake rapreeantatlvas. EMMELINE B WF.I.LS Jua WILLIAMS. JUUNA L SMITH, Oenaral Presidency Relief Society. CLARISSA 8 DESERET SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION. trt Th Conference of the Sunday School Union will be held In th Tabernacle. Salt Lake City. Sunday. April I. 117. ai 7 o'clock p m Sunday School ntTIrer and teacher art aapected to b present, and all Interested tn Sunday School work ar cordially Invited A special meeting of Stake Superintendencies will be held at th Church Administration Building. Salt Lake City. Sunday. April i. 117. at 4 0 p. at. Slake Superintendents sheuld arrange for at least on representative to be present JOSEPH r. SMITH. Semi-Annu- DAVID O KAY. STEPHEN L RICHARDS. General Superrntendenry ...... . M SPECIAL T. M M I. V OmfHlf MEETING. A special meeting of the superintendents and other stake and sard officer of th Toung Men s Mutual Improvement Association will be held In r tlM Assembly Room of th Hishop building 117. at I 10 nclock All morning. April tT M offtcera and membera of sink pMpIdrncira and btahoprlca are specially invited l attend. JOSEPH F SMITH HIRER J GRANT B H ROBERTS. Sun-daj- MIA T L. M. I A. ind There will be a merlin of gareral ' Idaai officer." of th To ins Ladles Mutual Im 1 aaao.i-inon at , Monday. April pravemeni a.m Assembly Room Riahopa Building. All latareeted ere rordlallv invited MARTHA RUTH M Mae Oen t H TINOKT. FOX. nystrom. T. L. M. l'reetdency PRIMARY ASSOCIATION L A. S. There will b a meeting of Prlmerr on officer In the Riahopa Building of iinrday. April 7. Immedtaiely at the oloe of th afternoon session th General Conference. 1 In th m nd created worker thoe Primary wark ere Invited to b present LOUIE B FET.T ..atlon I MAY ANDEHHON. CLARA V UEEBE General Presidency of Primary. START 11 ri erks. Th aeml-annumeeting of the Stake Clerka be halfl et the office of 'b Presiding Blah-liai p m Friday. April ('HAS W N1BLET. GENKA I AM; 1C A - SOCIFTY. Thera erlll be a meeting of the Genealogical Hall, Society of Utah held In the Arremhly fltaurdar. April 7. it I II p m at which topic CC Intereet will he considered Stake and Ward rRireaentatlvea ar urged to he pretent The pub-llla cordially Invited. n ANTHON H T.t'ND Preeldent. TIIF Fl.T IN THE OINTMENT. DISPROPORTIONATE amotint of Importance aeetna to be attached to the rematke of a gentleman of the cloth who wee the headliner at the Socialist Iactf let proteat mecllng the other night. At th outevt wo can dismiss a wlinlly Immaterial t ho fact that ho In a clergyman. Ho waa not speaking a a clergvnian. but m a Socialist and proponent of the doctrine of apparently quite willing to ee hla country dishonored hi countryman murdered hf an unnrrupulou autocrat and the right of While humanity the comtrampled upon. municant nf the church of which he la the head tn this atate may not approve of hla conduct, it U a matter to concern them and not the city or ate. They doubtleaa will take whatever action ma appropriate, and. aa far aa It being a ttiuroh matter la roncrod, the Incident will hare A Wan closed 1W fit to command. IF' aar-Ua- H VOW ONE of the most pressing needs of the hour as it Is widely admitted to he. a sufficient number of men qualified to lead and Instruct the mtlltlA soon to become part nf the nation s military establishment, the ranks of the national guard which served last summer at the Mexican border should he abla to supply It. In that event, the expense of that vast mobilisation and training would prove to have been wisely made These rnen saw service under actual war conditions even though they fought no baffles, snd they mla-onar- y ANTHON EVENING had been invited to refute the presented by the speaker at Monday lfldpnt Bliht a maae meetlnf attended by more than ten Wtaand "peeudo-pa- t riot. a he termed them. He lamented thf fact that no arguments were WWnted aa showing the reasons why thta coun-gHr- y i contemplating war. Perhaps there were an experience In resl soldiering that he possible to acquire In a training camp In twice or thrice the amount of time they Harhapa many of them have not spent there the traits or thl rapacity that enter into the make-uof an efficient soldier, much leas an On the other hand, there must he many officer. s or private, of them, who aerved as who have, in addition to their practical training would not tfbn ns NEWS THURSDAY (MARCH 20 1917 m materialistic or IdiSlIstlo not havt historical of perspective. proper the present time. own their set? They relative positions of the nations, and they to be fail to understand that a nation Is not JudgelPhy one period of its development. if It does not remove, AI! of which offsets, W see the melancholy observation of Tagore that w aie regular people and have a fine chance to aucreed in whatever it is we are doing if we will keep at it. We usually prefer the books and films with happy endings, and so we feel eure that this pleasant -- speaking Hindu will be longer remembered here than thoarf1 who see us wholly lacking In the idealism that hss uplifted India while we have been marking lime as the world a sense marched by. AN INVASION WE COtLD NOT REPEL. But Peary explains thkt he worth notice Recalling ths not thinking of Zeppelins at all. distances covered In flights successfully made by our own aeronauts, and those reported nearly Inevery day from the European battlefields, he sists that it would be eaay for a tramp steamer, carrying u dosen or s aeroplanes and a few tons of explosives, to approach our coasts so cloaely that almost any of the cities named could be damaged if not destroyed in a single night. AI! things considered, such a fear Is by no means baseless Hardly more than a year ago three steamers of u foreign power, two of them large ouean liners, came Into Hampton Roads without the slightest advance news of their coming being known until they poked their noaaa The smallest of these steaminside the rg(es ers. the Appam. could easily earn' a squadron of aeroplanes, snd she could raa ily be arranged One to carry double that number or more thousand pounds of explosive beside driver is crrled by aeroplane in actual use abroad at the present time. Another Deutachland could easily bring a squadron of aerop anes and explosives to From the coast some secluded inlet on our coast to Washington, to Baltimore, to Philadelphia. Is a distant e the equivalent of Which Is dally covered by aeroplanes on the European battle This Is the cold logic of fseta. and fronts though our national habit of thought inclines us to disregard the words of those who proclaim bad tidings, it must le plain to all but the willagainst which fully Mind that the ooesibillty and protection ts imPeary urges preparat imaginary mensely more real th three-month- fr r: WE HAVE NOT MOVED A misconception has been permitted to go out from some quarter that we have moved. Sufficient to say this is absolutely without foundation. Furthermore, we have no intention to move. LEAKY has been the object of some ADMIRAL at the hand of ths thoughtless because of his repeated warnings o to dangers Impending over our coastal cities from air raiders These scoffers have apparently of war in CA assumed that he had in mind the Zeppelins which now and then have invaded England; and any poaslhle peril from that itouroo, with the wide stretch of th Atlantic ocean intervening, they have felt to t too remote and puerile to be the ranks, the education, the minds and the general qualities that would fit thorn for command. Hundreds of them can doubtless be found who would he Immediately available as Junior officers snd it would seem to be the part of wisdom In the war department to deviae a means wharf by their ability can be recognised In this connection it will not be forand used s volunteers who AND WAR. TnftKIATMH gotten that of the answered Lincoln s first call and who rallied around thf flag in its disappointing movements very long ag It would have seemed that could not be even a remote onnacticn at Bull Run. were afterwards the commissioned NOT officers of the real armiee that Meade commandlinking the pacific firmer tending ht Irrigation ed at Gettysburg that Sherman led to the sea and ditches and the min at the battlefront tending a If tHi farmer let too much water field piece that Grant brought against Petersburg and Richr mond The boys who followed the name flag In onto hie land an red his yield, what poaslhle the bloodleaa campaign on the Rio Grande will Influence couiv. bring to bear on the efforts On the other hand, what probably be found not a bit less fit nor likely of an army In the field for the work of leadership In the larger tasks that difference could It maka In war time whether irrith Immediate future has In store. gation was resorted to in regions of light rainfall to increase the yield per acre In a recent Issue ABSOLVES AMERICA. of Engineering and Contracting, a Chicago trad been the fashion to pay particular HAS Journal, the questions are answered. The article IT heed tolong the views of the Rost Indian, whether taking up the subject la of special intereet tn this he Is speaking for publication Just prior to besection, where modem irrigation was given Its ginning a lecture tour of the country or In his birth and whsre It haa reached its highest develpoetry, his books or In his art. Perhapa It Is opment This Is one of the bold statements of the If the Germans not press agentry. but did It ever occur to the writer of the article referred to had thoroughly mderstood Irrigation, they would lay reader of American magazines and newspa We are told that the crop pert that wtthin a few months or vears after the not now he sterving discovery of a new Hindu poet or a phtloaopher of Germany have been subnormal since the war he is almost certain to set foot on our free soil to tarted. and that the ihortage has been due to With Irrigation, as has been rainfall afford us an opportunity to see and hear him at varying scales of prices? Everywhere there are demonstrated in America, not only is a crop in'little groups of serious thinkers' or serious sured. but its abundance is Increased. The article referred to continues: groups of little thinkers who are everlastingly mystic men from the discovering some of the In many cases the yield of potatoes per No sooner are the discovered than they East acre has been doubled by Irrigation. In all cases the yield hss been very materially greata are announced early visitors to our shoren. er as a result of irrigation. evn in when they are made much of by thaae little humid districts Apparently the Germans groups who think not so much for thinking's have not fully appreciated the worth of American experience in irrigating garden truck as to be doing something the "common ask potatoes, etc or they would have spent more herd' Is not doing The common herd" Is givtime making pumps and pipe than making en to thinking more of the upward trend in the Zeppelins cost of shoes, groceries, meats and other vulgar In a nutshell, this expert of a big pumping company- - a man who has been gathering things; the little groups, to ravelling the mysIrrigation data for years assarts that a camteries of the souls vibrations, the accent of perpaign of irrigation in Germany, even If begun sonality. the Interpretation of emotion in the after the war started, might have entirely dance and the thousand and one other things that changed the outcome of the war. We must admit that there is more than mere speculaordinary persons haven't time to give passing tion back of this suggestion. In fact, tbs evithought dence all points toward ths soundness of the contention that irrigation of German crops Tagore w is one of the swarm lately among would have so increased the yield as to have f course he must be spoken of us from afar eliminated the present shortage of food. will with utmost respect, or his fond admirer It ahould b remembered that America pronounce terrible maledictions upon any deleads the world tn agriculture, and that In tractor. But as he left this country, he voiced Irrigation by pumping Its leadership is unquestioned even by those who Insist that keenest disappointment in us. We didnt measure behind Europe in "intensive farmAmerica up to hla expectations At all. "The Eset Is East, By the sophistics! method of comparing. and the West is West and never the twain shall ing our average yield of grain per aero with that In Europe. It has been frequently athla sentiments But. fickle meet" expressed tempted to prove that America has much to people that we are, the adulations of the little learn in agriculture from Europe. But the groups are now being bestowed upon another fact is that not the yield per acre but the cost He Is newly come swatni. Benoy Kumar Parker per bushel should bo the final criterion of efficiency in grain production. Judged by that among us. and we Jancy he la going to be better criterion America has led every nation on liked than hla poetic countryman, for he likes us. earth Tver since McCormick developed hla We are Just like other likes ua exceedingly well first harvester. people, like the people of India and all points ORIGINAL MI STER ROLLS WANTED. In an interview graciously granted upon East. his arrival he told the reporter that he had noted Importance In attached to original MUCH rolls the habit of tha foreigner visiting the Inited In eNtablluhing a record of servIdeallack of to comment American States upon ice for Indian War veterans, and It Is greatly He thinks It He cannot understand this ism aertoue if not irreparable damage to more feared that y. absurd io Instance, that India the cause has resulted In some and possibly Ideall otic than America or America more mamany instance from carelessness on the part of A a sociologist," he said, terialistic than India custodians who have regarded them as simply as a student of comparative institutions from 'scraps of pspsr" and allowed the muster rolls Hpenewrian standpoint. I find that the mento become lost or destroyed. of that Europe and tality of Asia differs from It la possible, however that s good mSTiy of that of America neither historically nor philo- these rolls may still he In the handa of private sophically It Is absurd to any that America lacks individuals or ward historians throughout th Idealism in any branch of thought or action state, otherwise. It Is sail to contemplate ths He believes It futile to classify a country actrouble and disappointments that may result cording to Us Idealism, morality, or anything of from the absence of thec enentia! documents In the aort and expresses surprise that Fir Rabindtitle to the pension which at lost has ranath Tagore ahould do such a thing He eya proving been awarded by Congreaa to the surviving a he cannot understand how he caine to utter the ns snd their widows. parting criticism of America which the papers It ts urgently requested that any person knowattribute to him Tagore knows, he says, that of the existence of a muster roll uead In any the young men of India get great inspiration from ing The poets campaign egainst ths Indians communicate the American htatory and literature Information to Geo. C. Umbert. 41 B. North and the artlsta ahom ua." he told hla Interviewer, Rt.. this city, without delay, that the Tsmple "that there is little difference In the passions of aame may be made available for the benefit of mankind wherever mankind may be found. those entitled to tha pension. .Mankind has worked upon the aame gamut of paastons from Homer to Maetarllnck and from Those who cannot see much difference between the Pharaonic 'Book of ths Dead down to an "overt act" and ths covert article, find an QlUuUa.lt.' equal similarity between rutblsas warfare and He thinka people who hastily classify a na- - ths truthless variety. In A I m We are here to serve you with our usual low prices and courteous treatment. SALT LAKE KNITTING STORE 70 MAIN Main Street Goods House Knit Utahs Biggest Exclusive On the West Ssilde of A Breakfast Delicacy :on If you dont think there is a difd ference in bacon, just order a Mountain box of sliced one-pr.un- Brand Breakfast Bacon. 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