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Show mt BT CHAPLAIN B. H. ROBERTS, 14Mb Field Artillery (First Utah). shall one gather up and express tha desires, emotions, longings, as and determlnatlona that throb In tha brains and well up in tha hearts of a regiment of Jnen T A regiment of men, moreover. asperated .from their loved onea at tha Yuletida, and upon tha era It Is believed of their departure fir some ona or other of tha battle fronts of E a rope. Such la tha task assigned ms by tha request made to formulate a greeting from tha 146th Field Artillery (1st Utah) to tha readers of tha Christmas News. First of all then, O. people of Utah, know that your regiment Is bleased with health and aweet content; that from tha Brat, at Camp Keemy.- - your regiment wan accorded high rating for soldierly bearing aad department Mhst In all that haa happened since. Utahs sons hava enWKh-olarged and deepened that Brat Impression. 1 may re--disparagement to other regiments, port that In camp sanitation, tn personal cleanand. both to In personal attention duties, line, regimental; In gentlemanly deportment between Individuals, and In town, and In camp; In athletics, and In educational activities; In musical and all endeavor, Utahs First Arstands among the first of our tillery regiment " great camps organised units. Words of commendation from camp visitors, people from San Diego and from Loe Angeles, and also from other regimenta of the divisional cantonment all bear witness of the Utah regiments high standing.. All Well at Camp Kearny. ' I take pains to say all this because you whs are fathers and mothers, wives and sweethearts, brothers and sisters, and other relatives more removed, will be glad to hear this of the regiment; and you citizens of Utah who have no ties of consanguinity binding you to these man will be glad to hear it out of pride for your, state; and it la my way' of aaylng, in this greeting to tha ( people of Utah, All is well with ns at Camp Kearny. Wa hava bean told by these from tha home stale visiting us that tha eyes of Utahs people are upon tha Regiment upon its officers and its enlisted men. They say that great things are expected of us; that tha honor of the state. In a Way, k In our hands; that Utah will be judged by our deportment tn the training camps and on tha battle Baida So bs U. Wa realise tha 'truth of it Wa accept both tha responsibility andthe -- "hazard of It; and zay: "Let tha trial coma, and witness the world "If terror be upon us; It wa fall, or falter in our Strength, ' "To meat the storm, when hardest U besets THE BATTLE CRY OF PEACE" Rktard HOW By Cot W. Young, Commander of the 145th Field Artillery. EACE ON EARTH" I have a conviction that, many times, tne only way to get peace is to fight for it.' I believe, also, ? that peace, not the peace that comes through subjection and slavery, bat that which comes through wiping out autocracy and compelling a decent respect for the rights of other nations, even the small onea, is the only peace worth having. Such a peace is inGerman compatible with German ambitions and impossible under - irV domination! , .I read that Christ taught that when smitten on one cheek wa should turn tha other I am unable clearly to fathom the Masters meaning in this injunction, but that he did not mean that we should lie don in abject unresisting slavery, is a conclqsion warranted by the statement made somewhere in the Doctrine and Covenants, that this government was ordained by God and established by him through the shedding of human b!ood."p Surety that which to establish was God worth fighting for must to perpetuate be in his ' Dghting for. main not is the thing. 'But rather to serve well let long that service be what It may. It is not dishonorable, perin bed, but it is surely creditable to die with your boots on fighting in some worthy cause. If and when your boys return their greatest boast and satisfaction will be and fill continue to be that they struck a blow for humanity should they not return, after the wound of parting is healed, their near ones and after them their descendants will form societies based oh the distinction of a lineage which they will count as heroic, Peace without victory, peace without restitution or reimburse-mrmean an unthrashed Germany, and, therefore, a beaten pan-- . Germanized world. We should steel our minds into the determinafinish, let the cost tion to fight or sacrifice this thing to a clean-cof blood or treasure be what it must be. In the sight of sight worth To live the issue of haps, to die . nt ut ut u. Thla Is Dot boastfully said, but calmly, da- - Jv r BhIvs FORTY-FIFT- FIELD ARTILLERY. H Sack Row Left to Right Lieut. Guy Tan Scoyoc, Rvbert T. Jettison. Lieut. George W. Snyder, Lieut B. iL Roberta. Ueut. Guy H. Holmes, B. Thatcher, Major Fred T. Gundry Lieut Irwt-- Clawson, Ueut. Gordai R. Lawrence, Lieut Owen Sherwood, Lieut F. Ray Williams, Ueut Roacoe Classman, Ueut George I Barren, Ueut William Crawford. Middle Row, Left to Right Capt Thom is D. Foster. Ca stain Ale R. Thomas, Major Willard Christopherson, Lieut Col. William C. Webb, V,. Meyers, Capt Edwin Q.WooItey, Jr., Major William E. Kneaaa Capt Richard F. King. CaoL J. Rar WarL Cask, Fred Kammarmaa, Capt-AJW- rt ' j Chart Curtin T. Clawson, Mabey; ft Uapt.' Capt L'eut Don Williams. Ueut Ray V. Woods, Bottom Row Left to Right Ueht. Sa orl Mi.ipfro. Lle"t Jesse Farley. Ueut Irving D O Ueut Frank Bird, Lieut B. H. Wsjne. Ueut Joseph Babel, Ueut Elma P. Coburn, Lieut M. Ljman Young, Ueut Floyd Garrison, Lieut Glenn A. . i Jensen, Ueut Marcus Johnson. commissioned officers of the I46th Feld Artillery were -- ;sent. Thev are Major E. L. At the time this picture was taken at Camp Kearny Bourn, who la attending the artillery school of fire at Ft Sill, Okie., Capt Elmer Johnson. Ueut. A- - E. Wilfang, Lieut. Ray A? Young, Ueut. Theodore Peterson and Ueut R. K. Knighton. , Lieut Samuel t -- 'r 1 IFr Ii World-Wid- m-loving. Trsicfci Uttls packages will deliver their message of Christmas cheer. Spend Christmas la Paris. According to messages ceived In Salt Lake from France some of the Utah boy will go to,'Parle to epend Christmas. It seeme that leave of absence will be given to many of the men who have been in service steadily for the past few months nd therss little doubt that the Parislens will make It mich.y pleasant for the boys in kbasi. Many a Christmas package has been given over to the care the Red. Cross for the Ameri- at can soldier who hasnt a Christmas gift, and that organization expects to see that not an enlisted man from the United unremembered. States goes Three hundred packages have sent from the already been headquarters of the local chapter. Each package mad up by the Red Cross was wrapped in a khaki colowed handkerchief II inches square and from eeven te a dozen article placed tn each EVEN x. p. ' at, COMMISSIONED OFFICERS OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND CtoM&' Qk Uncle 8am in uniform recognize theip must be Christmas. For in male ing out bia official bulletins of late he hem given considerable apace to th soldiers and sailH ors Yttletld celebrations seema to know that war or no war the good St. Nick Is going to find some way of getting across th Atlantic to that desolate war line tn France and so he has just gracefully given up all opposition and decided he'd help. In consequence down at tha local post off ice there has been of late huge piles of packages marked "Christmas Parcel, Expeditionary American All such bundles have forces. been carefully examined by the postoffice clerks to see that no censored articles were being sent abroad and then shipped to the eastern coast. By now they are probably welt on their way across the Atlantic in th Hammles Christmas gift boats A second pH of packages those weighing more than seven pounds have been sent to somewhere along the New Jersey where they will be shore All shipped direct to France. these mysterious hoses have lord tn seemed It over fairly the ordinarv bundles because of their military address. Just what they ail contain wouldn't be difficult to Imagine, with the Red Cr a furnishing long lists of suggestions a to what to send ths soldiers and sailors, down town shops displaying all sort ef articles for comfort kits, and tha Sammies themselves giving plenty of hints, in their letters Mother and rweatheart hava been buy for eer ao long tttrhin and knitting away and cook In pungent fruit cakea and plum puddings and home candy. And tf a hen those - made package aro opened Chrlatraa morning they don t contain all the soldier might desire. It isnt because plenty of Christ mas cheer, patriotism and heart husn t been put Into them. , Whether the fighting will gc on along that front Una on th birthday of the Prince of Peace whether the crumbling of th. gtrtid VriTI cease a little remain for tha war gods to decide, but at any rate in tha midst of th Bochea ahella. tha mud and ooce. creaking ambulances, tired drivers, glum faced, wounded men and. noisy mess table tha ,, glorious evidence of It if needs b. 4 Prood of Utah. now And a word from th regiment to the people of Utah; If th ayes of the people of ptah have been and are and will be upon the First Utah Artillery, let the people of Utah . know also that th First Utah Regiment's eyes are upon th state of Utah. And up to the present time every man of the regiment Is proud of th Bute." To the question, Who ere you, BiifT Every rozn of us Is proud to answer, A Utah Man, am L, 8ft,F and state pride fairly vibrates in the answer, Wg are proud of Utahs record of past achievement. We are preud of her present spirit, as manifested In her prompt response to every call of duty in the present crisis ef our countrys history. Proud of-tlon to the first and to the second Liberty loans, to the Red Cross proud of her to th Sofund; proud ef her ldier Welfare Work fund; proud that shs stood so high in th number volunteering In tb regular army, la the navy, in the marine corps, in the field hospital corps, and the medical and roud also of the num, sanitary detachments, ber and character of the men she has furnished In the selective draft, and are confident that they will make good, equally with the volunteers who have enlisted in the service. We are proud also that Utah has not failed to'' give to the American army a complete volunteer unit, which will bear the name of th state throughout th war The 14Sth Field Artille'ry. The men of this regiment may be pardoned for being especially gratified that Utah did not fall to respond to the volunteer opportunity to express her patriotism, and that It falls to their lot tq be identified with that unit. Confident of Victory. From all this it will appear that th officers and the men of th 14fth F. A. (1st Utah) art a proud of Utah as Utah can ever be of her regiment. They are equally, and in a larger way. proud of their country. They are confident of the righteousness of that countrys cause. They are strong in tha faith that God will, give th final victory in this great world's war to those who stand for ths world-wid- e freedom 0 e nations: and the and lasting peac that Is to com. Grant it Almighty God! Hasten th day of IU realization, O, God of Liberty and of Truth: of Mercy and of Justice; and the freedoand th justice-lovin- g people of the world will pcom th kingdoms of men which become the Kingdoms of our' Lord end of . shall his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever." hr self-cultu- re ' and with firm determination to perform what we promise, and this by men who realise that they face a stern and perilous adventure. phis is the spirit of our regiment as far as I am given power to feel It If Utah x- -. pectx every man in our regiment to do bis duty, I answer that every man in this regiment Intend to do bis duty, even up to giving the last liberately, . kit. , Training Camp packages. Then there were th Individusent direct from al package Utah to Camp Kearny. Camp Lewis and other camps where Utahns are stationed. Club and church organizations are sending gifts to their enlisted members. The girls of ths university have made up packages for each enlisted man from that institution. Th high schools are following out th same plan. Holiday cheer and hospitality will no doubt be offered them by th different communities In which they are stationed and the Christmas of ltl7 Is bound to be a pleasant one. , Maay Vacant places. Because the war has not dealt to Americans except in a few cases its more brutal blows, the Christmas-tid- e will pass according to plans of the sromen of this community much as In other years. There are plenty ef toys In the down town shops for the children, plenty of Christmas eatables in the larders of most Utahns but th1 will also be .many a vacant place at most of th Yuletid festivities. But th Christmas bells r their echo even Mars cannot drown, and in Utah, at th camps. In mid ocean, and out there on Deo. St will echo the refrain, everywhere, Christmas ' tonight." rt ( ( i 4 a |