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Show THE WEEKLY REEXEX, KAYSVILLE, UTAH could bloomin The Ccnscientious . Objector; or, Coming Through Under Fire I Sergeant Arthur Guy Empty 0 0-0- Mr. Empey's Experiences During His Seventeen Months in theFirst Line Trenches of the British Army in France Dr Tb li rirsdictuu 12 ; - Wwipapae -- -- - What do I think of a blinkin' con sclcntious objector? answered Ikey Honney from the corner of the firebay. Well, what with this .bloomin', war on and blokes goln west by the thousands, a pacifist or conscientious objector is one of two things,' he's' either a blinkin coward or a' Moody But fts funny the wny some o' them blighters, with tbi4r West End ideas back in Blighty, changes their minds when they gqls.uj; here. In the mud, and gets their first .glimpse of a wooden cross. It's plther a firin squad up against a' wall, 'a bloomin' V. C. (Victoria Cross) or a 'rest In peace sign over their napper for them. A strange thing It is, but true ; those blokes never .go through the trenches In an ordinary Vvdy like we do; It's a case of extremes, no - pro-Germa- n. 1 stuff. -Next time youre oh a' burial party, tnke-- look at the- third; etoss from the left in the fourth row, as you, enter the cemetery. Yoq Know, that,, rath that leads through (he orchard Just .off the entrance of that big, ft. E. (Royal Engineers) dugout; well,' under 'that cross rests a bloke wHo'bdlt in Blighty professed to be a pacifist lie Wouldn't blinkin wpll volunteer,' not likely; they had to draft hint, an 'wlien they did he Refused to fight, so they stuck him in the N. C, C. (noncomfmtani corps) and hpnded him a pick and shovel and put him to repairin roads and dlggln' graves.- - Well, It. didnt take long before he was properly fed up with his Job, and he threw down the pick and shovel and grabbed up & Vine an bayonet Oh, yes, he 'clicked It all right and went west In. fnc he was burled In one o the graves bPi bclpc,d ,tp dig. suppose some o (hose, college oncers called It the Iron of fate,' or some other, blinkin 'phrase) but we knows that It was only Common ordinary luck, cause wd all knows that If youre going to get it youll get It r no matter If youre a gentlemans son or a bloomin chimney sweep, . -' This blighter Tm telling about was in my platoon when I was iq ,0 company, an' he used to give me the proper pip with his .arguments against fighting and the likes o that The first time I met him was In St Armand our was in the rest billets awaitin' a new draft before going up the line again. You see we had Clicked It pretty rough at Fromelles, an'. a platoon looked like a blinkin' squad when it lined up for parade; I was playlngJhause Jajthat-estamlo- et right across from that bashed-ichurch On the corner when his labor battalion came through and took over billets Just opposite from the I was sitting near a window and watched them pass. A sorrier bunch of specimens of men I never saw ; It turned my blinkin stomach to look at them, what with their pasty shoulders and faces," stooped-ove- r and there I then struggling gait Right il druTred the Germans for their of universal military training. If England had of bad a little more of it there fiCVer would have been a war and right now we would be In Blighty with our wives and nippers. Instead of sitting here in these bloody ditches waitin for a shell to come over with our name and number on -After the labor battalion took over billets several of them came Into the estamlnet and sat at a table near me. They started to dlscnss the war and voice their opinions about the top hats at home. This bloke Im a talkin' about was the loudest of the bunch; he seemed to have a grouch on everything In general. I listened to him a few minutes chucking his weight about until it bloody well got on my nerves. Chucking up my game of housed-an- d I had paid half a franc foe my board, too I leaned over to him and said : - - 'You must be one of those bloomin' conscientious objectors we reads about In the papers, one o' those blighters who dont believe In flgbtln but Is willing to sit back In Blighty and let us blokes out here do your bloody fightln for you, while you gets a blinkin good screw (salary) sitting on a Jifgh stool In some office. . f "I high-soundin- g . tat n esta-mln- et Tie turned , to .me and answeredi Ita the likes o you who volunteered for this war what keeps it goln. If you had all refused to go at first, there wouldnt be any warf T couldnt see it his way at all, and went right back at him with : Yes, and If It wasnt for us volunteering, the bloody German flag would now be fly tng over Buckingham palace and King George would be In the Tower of Loni' Tie thought a minute or two and answered: 'Well, what of It; one flag's ns good as another, and as for' the loomin king what did he ever do for you but make you pay taxes so he 1 USEGIfl PROBE l!ITO sprang with his bare hands had choked end Well, If the king aint done noth- him to death, but he had a nasty Jag ing for you English, hes done less wound in his right side. ged bayonet lor us Irish, but I volunteered to come We managed to get him back to our out here for him, and here I am, and glad of It too, and hopes some day to get Into Berlin with the kings forces. Yoa wont drink his health; well you can bathe bis health. With that he threw the wine into the blighters face and smashed him In the nose with his fist. ,The fellow went over like a log with the Irishman still agoln for him. If we hadnt of pulled him off I think he would have killed that conscientious objector. The military police came in to see what nil the row yraa about , I had clicked three days C. B. (confined to barracks) and didnt want to get arrested, so in tho confusion I made tracks for my at him: -- , billet -- The next time I met the bloke was when we burled old Smith out bf the 'enth platoon In the cemetery at La Bassee. lie was one of the grave diggers. All during the burial service is stood looking. at the Union Jack with a queer look pn his face. When old Smith was lowered into the ground and the dirt was thrown on hlnl the conscientious objector Watkins waS his pame came over to me and said : " T hear he (pointing at old Smiths years old and has grave) is forty-eigh- t eft a wife and three nippers back In Blighty. He was too old for the draft, volwasnt he! - Then he must-havunteered. -I answered : Gf course he volunteered, and there he lies, deader than ; but Ill wager a quid his wife and kids will be proud of him and thats more than your kids will be about you. lie sneaked off without answering, hree days later I nearly dropped dead when our lance corporal came Into our lllet with a bloody nose and a beau Jfully trimmed lamp. When I asked im how' he "got knocked "about he told me that a fellow out of the corps named Watkins had mussed him up Just because he had called him a coward. -Watkins ducked twenty-ondays number one on the wheel, and when his sentence was finished they transpired him to a fighting unit, and bang I Into our fclatooa he comes. "M&ny a talk I had with him about that pacifist stuff he hadnt changed , . And Then He Died. trenches, but he died on the flrestep, Before cashing in he looked up at the lieutenant and with a grin on bis face said : Tell the bloomin king and the Top Hats at 'ome that I died for England, and I hope that like old Smith, my nippers will be proud of their father, God save the king,' ana then he died. We burled him next morning. No,, my opinion Of conscientious objectors and pacifists has not changed. They re either cowards or -You see Watkins wasnt either; he was a soldier of. the king, and a pro-Germa- damned good one, too. THE END. 7' non-combat- white-livere- SINCERITY bit In his Ideas but "he kept his mouth shut about the king and the Top Hats at home. , -Then we went Into the trenches and I knew his finish was near. A ring squad or Test In peace was to e his lot; they all get one or the othet sooner or later. After two days In, Frits got rough and opened up with a pretty stiff bombardment -Watkins was In the fourth squad In a" dugout "In 'the support" trench when a Minnie registered a direct hit SHOWN lit LIFE Venerable Declaration That Faith Without Works Is of No Avail Remains True. An author tells us that sincerity-l- a the supreme virtue; but that sincerity Is not expressed In words only la real life. The Venerable declaration that faith without works Is dead is true. And one will see an Illustration- ofthef act on every -- side -- every day. The fact is the world does not live what it believes. We noted In a book the other day that there would be little. If any, controversy If men said what they thought and felt This Is surely true. Men differ as soon as they appeal from the spirit to ths intellect This Is because the spirit deals with the fundamentals and the Intellect wlth the" detallsT Sincerity belong to the former. It Is more than an opinion. It la bigger than a standpoint It Is where sincerity gets Its influence, which Is the still, small voice that comes out of the whirlwind that roars around every mans life. But we should remember that sincerity is not a concoction, but a virtue, as real as a mothers love.' And dont mistake sincerity for consistency. They may be acquainted, but they are not related. Ohio State Journal. - -- Hello Girls" In France. Two little paragraphs taken from Hamilton Holts study in the Independent (New York) concerning the vast activities behind the American front in France convey volumes of Information to those who would realize the scope of the organization at a ccr tain American base port -Not the least American thing in n this city, writes Mr. was a completely equipped Holt, American fire engine house with a crew Imported from as far distant a as Portland, Ore. And you should city One of Them Bloomin Be "You Must seen the boys slide down the polhave Conscientious Objectors. ished brass pole, Just as they do at on the roof and caved her In, Every home, when the captain sounded the one but Watkins was killed. How he gong. T forget - ho w - many - hundreds - of escaped was a marvel, the rest of the squad being smashed up something aw- telephone wire we had installed In our ful. We collected the pieces and bur- special American telephone circuit led them the next day. Watkins help- But test of all, you could say 'Hello, ed dig the graves. Just as you do at home and back -For two days Watkins scarcely would come the response from a real fpoke a wdrd. Just went round with American exported hello girl: Numa faraway look on his face. ber, please? - -- On the third night after the burial, volunteers were called for a bombing Their Need for. Safety Pina. An archeologist recently dug up a laid, and I could scarcely believe my ears when I heard that Watkins had safety pin from the ruins of ancient volunteered. It was the truth all Babylon. Judging from the pictures In the Babylonian section of the histories, right be went along. We crawled out in No Mans land however. It seems that safety pins under cover of our barrage and wait- were worn mostly by the grownups In ed. Watkins was next to me. Sud- - those times. Franeo-Amerlca- . UTAH STATE HEWS When in Salt l.aU The beet crop of the state will be cut short If heavy snows are not recorded soont It Is believed. vTbe West Cache ugar factory at Condsbr Cache county, finished lt beet cutting last week and put but 100,000 bags of sugar. John Coleman, an Austrian of Murray, who during a fit of despondency shot himself through the stomach, died at a Salt Lake hospital. To boys of uncurbed viciousness the chief of police at Salt Lake ascribes the recent wave of minor burglaries which has swept over the capital city. The L. D. S. university at Salt Lake, which has required students to wear Influenza masks ever since the epidemic became acute, has at last decided that masks are not necessary, Utah fields will yield as much hay this year as usual, eveif If there should be no more snowfall over the state, according to the field agent of the United States bureau of crop Industry. According to the present plans of the Utah National Rabbit association, an exhibit of rabbits will be held' In Salt Lake every February. More than fECRETARY LANSING PRESIDENT OF BODY TO FIX RESPONSIBIL-TFOR CONFLAGRATION. Y Wilt Establish Guilt of Those Responsible for Premeditated Violation of Treaties and Will Also Fix the Penalties. Paris. Robert Lansing, the American secretary of state, was unanimous ly elected president 6f the committee on responsibility for the war, which held Its first meeting on February 3 You are Invited to visit our See tho wonderful skill f , at the foreign office. In proposing Secretary Lansings name, Captain Andre Tardieu, the French member of the committee, said that before regulating a peace of Jus- tice It was necessary to impose penalties upon the authors of the aggressions which had brought death to millions. The work bf the committee, he ex at the recent plained, would be first to study the 300 rabbits were entered show. the establish would facts which guilt The output of tomatoes of the Utah of those responsible for premeditated Violation of treaties and International canneries will be reduced about 40 per law, and, second, to fix the penalties cent during the coming year. The reawhich would be defined and applied, son for this reduction la due to the lie closed by proposing Secretary needs of the government being curLansing for president, which was ap- tailed. A man giving the name of William proved by the committee. At the meeting of the commission on b. Kile of Salt Lake, and driving a cases a society of nations Monday afternoon touring car containing fifty-eigthere was a general agreement to push of whiskey, valued at present prices at the deliberations as rapidly as possible. more than $8000, was arrested at Ile-bCity. AGREE ON OIL LEASING BILL. .Richard P, . Morris, former mayor and city treasurer off Salt Lake, has Alaska to Be Opened for Development been appointed a mint commissioner Under Leasing System. by President Wilson, and will go to ' demonths of After Washington. Philadelphia February 12 to attend a liberation, house and senate conferees meeting of the commissioners there on Monday reached a final agreement 'The Duchesne Commercial club has on the oil leasing bill, under which requested their representatives in the more than 50,000,000 acres of govern legislature to urge the passage of a oil, gas, coal, phosphate law permitting the county commisand sodium lands in western states sioners to levy a road tax to be used and Alaska would be opened for de- on county roads outside of the state velopment under a leasing system sub- roads. ject to a royalty, which. Ip the case of Waters of the Price river are to be ol( and fpid, will be not less than conducted by a canal forty miles In of the gross value of produclength to Marsing wash, where an tion. earth dam will be constructed to hold 300G acre-fee- t of water and which will Says Treason Lifts Its Head. reservoir covering about 300 provide a Washington. Criticising a meeting acres. here at which the Russian soviet govEffort Is being made at Duchesne to ernment was praised, Senator Thomas a fund of $25,000 to drill a. test raise of.Colorado, Democrat, declared In the well for oil at or near Duchesne. Eight senatethat, a powerful organization, men have started a subscription of which he did not name, was constantly each and every Indication is that at work to overthrow the American $500 the requisite amount will be subsaid a memgovernment The senator scribed. ber of ue house was -- conspicuous at Loren McCall of Green River, while the meeting, but that senate rules pro' ' hunting, met with an accident which hibited him from naming him. cost him the loss of a little finger and serious injury to his right hand. His Hordes of Idle Menace Berlin. In. the bushes, and as he Amsterdam. Berlin Is In the grip of rifle caught him it was disthe greatest unemployment crisis In pulled the gup toward charged. Its history. The government Is threatConcealed In 240 sacks of bran and a to Into effect of system ening put sacks of corn consigned ninety-nin- e compulsory employment, but the huge from St Joseph, Mo., to Mounds, Utah, army of Jobless men and women, now a shipment of intoxicating liquors of estimated at 150,000, Is taking a defiant value of more than bootlegging Most of the citys Industries itUtude. a few days ago at seized $25,00(1 was and stores are tied up by strikes. Salt Lake. Charged with violation of a federal Russian Capital Bombarded. has been act In permitting their cattle to graze Stockholm. Petrograd .00 government lands without a permit, bombarded accordRalph Htchford and John" Ryan, catmany people have been killed, tlemen, have been compelled to pay a to are who to. quoted travelers, ing this effect by the Finnish papers. Seri- fine of $1 for each head that, ranged ous disorders are prevalent In Petro- on the said lands. The soldiers and sailors employgrad, ment commission, through the secrePresident Addressee French Deputies. tary, is urglngvarlous communities Paris. President Wilson Monday of the state to; put as many men at apevening ofdelivered an address In the work as possible. More than 500 chamber-deputies, having'' asaudl-tor- s plications are' oh " file "with the- comPresident Poincare, the presidents mission by men wanting Jobs. of the chamber and the senate, and The Influenza situation In Utah prac- large numbers of members of both tlcally has cleared up, according to Dr. houses of parliament, nod the person- T. B. Beatty, state health commisnel of the French cabinet. sioner. Fewer number of cases are being reported from every section of Western Men Coming Homo. the state, and Dr. Beatty Is sanguine Washington. Most of the" Fortieth over the outlook for the future. division. Including practically all of Down In San Juan county there Is the lnfanlry units, has been assigned a renegade wolf that is playing havoc to early convoy home, the war departwith livestock. Efforts to trap the ment announced Monday.' In the predatory beast have proved futile, as Nevada, Utah, he avoids traps and all the devices Arizona and New Mexico nathat are commonly used to Rnare wild tional guardsmen. animals. A reward of $1000 has been offered for the animal, dead or alive. Would Fix Wheat Price at $2.26. Theodore Roosevelt Memorial day Washington. Grain dealers appear-Inwill be observed in Utah on Sunday, before the house agricultural comdesmittee proposed that the government February, that date having been wil. it as the congress day by ignated pay the guaranteed price of $2220 a his Governor honor to do memory. 1919 and wheat bushel for the crop sell It to the consumer at the world Bamberger has Issued a proclamation market price, which they estimated In which he 'designates the day fixed by congress as Theodore Roosevelt would be about $1.25. Memorial day. No word concerning the whereHlnea Favors Federal Control. Director General abouts of V. R. Carter, who disapWashington. nines, testifying before the senate in- peared several days ago, has been reterstate commerce committee, declared ceived by the Salt Lake police. Carhe did not believe In government own- ter was financially able. It was beership, but In organlzationbf a few lieved, to disappear from that vicinity big railway companies subject to close without leaving trace of his escape. Tie had drawn $190 from the hank on government supervision. the day of his disappearance. Food for th Becoming despondent over continued rarls, The food administration 111 health, John Coleman, an Austrian headquarters has announced that the, miner, 48 year! of age, of Murray, atAmerican relief administration had retempted suicide by shooting himself ceived a shipment of 25,000 tons of the breast with a revolver, but through food from Trlest at Prague for the It is believed he wiH reegver, " ' w Czecho-SIoak s. With methodical preparation for Monument to Soldier in Scotland. slitting the throats of his four children Washington. The American. Red and Subsequently setting the house on Cross announced an appropriation of fire to destroy the evidence of his crime, Jojm Larsen. 40 years old, a $33.S2Q for the erection and maintenance of a monument on the Island of structural iron worker of Salt Islay, Scotland, where are buried 1T9 was only prevented from carrlug his American soldiers. plans into execution by the timely arrival of officers. er . d Col-orud- o, g -- , Czecho-Slovak- v Ppl. .Aj,la,M X si BOYD..PARK too 0 MAKER50FJEWLLRY MAIN STRUT SALT LAKE CtTY We Pay Cash for Liberty Bonds Now York Quotations. ' - Send bond to ns by mall and we remit toregistered you same day. Receipts for partly paid bond also bought Standard Bond & Investment Co. 305 5. Mala St, Soil Lake City, Utah BARGAINS IN USED M wlaaJM aw4 al-- M nra-Bal- ck. $. K naaln coa4irioa-a- w rifts raitto. Writ rio. Uh4 Cu Dirt, ReadoD-Dod- CARS Oldtmob in. N, CuaraalrM flr clan term M waairj t, 4uiW4 lis , Anto Co d 0 104 Silt Like Cr SEND OS YOUR FROZEN. 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Particular - . ; d e I H ment-owne- -- If don. denly a star shell went up and crouched dowoJn Its light I was lay. -This was too much for me, that Ing so that I could see Watkins blinkin Jellyfish a slinging mud at our bllme me he had no rifle or bayonet king, so I lost my temper, and taking I whispered over to him: Wheres my glass of vln rouge In my hand po ur rifle? ne answered; T threw I leaned over close to him and said: It away. Before I had time to reply, When you mentions the kings name the signal to rush the German trench lc Is customary- - to- - drink hfs health. waa.glven and I; lost. sight of Mm. Tt was rough going In the German Perhaps he Tiever did s nythlng special for me, but I have never done trench, and we had quite a little of fighting. Star shells were anything special for him, and even at that Ive done a damned sight more going up all around us. One of our than you have for him,, so take this blokes In front of me was Just goWine and drink his health, or YlJ ing around the corner of a traverse dent that napper of yours so you wont when a big German got him through be able to wear that tin hat of yours. the throat with his bayonet and he down. Something sprang past Tie got kind of pale and answered: went me a wildcat and dosed with. the like likeDrink to the kings health; not ly. Its through him and his bloody Frit. They both went down toTop Hats in parliament that Fm out gether. Just then another German here. .Why In the blinking hell dont came at me from the entrance of a he do his o&n fighting and let us poor dugout and I was busy. I managed to get him, Tbqn our lieutenant and two Llokes alone T came round and gave the order T saw red and was Just golu to hit men to back to our trenches. The get him, when a big Irishman out of the over lieutenant stumbled the three Royal Irish Rifles next to me grabs bodies In front of us. One of them the glass of wine from my hand, and It was Watkins all right groaned. looking the blighter in the face yells Unarmed he had at the German sys-dot- - doing hand-to-han- d Author of Over the Top," -First Call- ,- Etc. 1SJT. tit around - & ' kOopTTtfbt. well nothin! Burma. The world ruby center Is Mogok, la upper Burma, some 70 mile north of dandalay. Here are the great ruby most valuable mines, one of Burma London the Weekly ay monopolies, Telegraph. Indeed, not only does thl country produce the finest of these covet 'igems, but they are recovered n such quantities as to enable her to dominate the market. Few - are aware that, weight for ruby Is more valuable than a weight, diamond. It Is estimated that one the color of pigeon blood, weighing five carats, will sell for ten time the value of a diamond of (he same weight. Furthermore, the price increase with the size of the stone. As the -- byon," or earth containing the coveted gems. Is taken from the ground It Is placed In a great revolving tub. Here It la screened and all loose earth removed by water. Tbe residue a then Upped on tbe sorting table. A white overseer carefully examines the file, selecting the true gems from the worthless debris. H hes lucky be may st one sorting find gems worth many thousands of dollars, while on the oth- er hanf? tbe yield may be but a hundred dollar or two. Tbe yearly output of rubles from these mines totals about $400,000. - Precious Salt -What la known as radium is a radium salt, usually either radium irotnlde or radium chloride, sometimes radium sulphate. Tiny grains of these salts are extremely precious and are usually sealed up In little glass inlba. Tbe radium to one of tbe first bulbs that were received in London had curious history. A physician In Portland place was applying the bulb to a It fall, patient when he accidentally let under It crushed and a moment after ila foot. The value of tbe radium to rethe physician was very great Be cut and moved his boot from bis feet out a square of his valuable carpet He had boots and carpet burned, and out of the ashes refined the original radlqm salt. Balsam Gum. The gum of the balsam fir. Ablea talsamea, Is known commercially n Canada balsam,' and is largely used the manufacture of optical Instruments and In various other ways abou ro scientific laboratories. There is a n vary stant market for It' the price with the quality and th supply. Some time ago a fair quality was worth cents per pound. Rara Visitors Recorded. The appearance of snowy owls, a rare occurrence. Is reported. These remarkably beautiful birds come fro the Arctic regions. Only four previous visitations have been recorded in the ornithological history ef the country. s. Bracelet for Lunatic. Bracelets have been worn from time Immemorial, but few wearers of the golden band of the present day that they were once used to dist8 wtr gulsh tbe iBsane.' Before lunatics confined to asylum they wore an let for distinction. r'' Several Guesses Allowed. Pnz Copper to Remain Fixed." to readers headline for gentle Guess whether it refers to tbe Bu- -s post, or something else again. 4 |