| Show MAKE UTAH THE FIRST if the men of utah who have shown an enthusiastic desire to serve their country will take the steps necessary to come to an understanding and to act in concert it will be an easy matter to make this the first of all the states to furnish its quota of the new call tor for volunteers the number this state will be required to supply is and it is conservative to say that twice that many of her citizens are anxious to enlist probably it would be no exaggeration agger stion to double the higher figure so pronounced is the patriotism of the people some days or may be a week or even more must elapse before recruiting officers begin the actual work of enlistment in the meantime those who de sire to enlist can get together in their several counties and mature preparations for a rush upon the recruiting officers as soan n as the latter open up for business no doubt a a tacit arrangement could be made by which recruiting would begin at various points in the state on the morning of the same day and by sundown quota would be complete 11 it would be a credit to the youngest Q state rate in the union to say hat in a single day she enrolled her quota of recruits c under the presidents second call for volunteers to the number of it would show some of the slow going eastern easters communities of the union where are being developed the patriotism brawn and brain that are to take the lead in maintaining the honor and glory of the nation give uncle sams recruiting officers just one day and no more in which to get in their work in this state then let their occupation be t taken a ken from them let the last state to enter the union be the first to furnish its complement of volunteers make utah the first state of the whole union |
