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Show THE CITIZEN AMO More than ever before, successful business requires Banking Service of the broad, permanent character we give. 0 IN Every Dollar Paid For Insurance in SECRET. By Robert W. Chambers. Book by courtesy of D. A. Callahan. Tr Is not surprising that such an old A hand as Robert W. Chambers, with war as his theme, should be able to SURPLUS CAPITAL ; hurl thrills as sucessfully as Jove was reputed to hurl lightenings. Nor is it to be wondered at that he understands the art of thrills as thoroughly as that clever poet Ovid thought he understood the art of love. If, therefore, one is satisfied with thrills one shall find them here in explosive abundance. The novelist might be described as a scientific gunner with thrills of all calibres as his ammunition. Big Berthas and Jack Johnsons explode with frequency and the. shrapnel is always bursting. Occasionally ,of course, there is a dud. These lifeless shells are the old thrills that have served so long that they lack explosive quality. The story starts with a heroine in the secret service of the United States. Amid a succession of thrills she unravels a certain which has been too much for the ordinary detectives and even the sharper experts. And what do you think? She uncovers the most amazing secret of the war in fact the Great Secret which the Germans have reserved for the final, crushing stroke. The reveals the fact that a certain prisoner of war who has, by acident, discovered this secret, has escaped from a German prison camp and is on his way to America. He is an American who has been held in Germany since before the war. His possession of the Great Secret has led the Teutons to believe that he is a spy of importance and, unfortunately for themselves, they do not execute him, but hold him for questioning. To break his power they had plied him with liquor and he had become an inebriate. At the time of his escape his will was so weak that he code-cyph- : The Guardian Fire Insurance : Company . of Utah code-cyph- Stays In Utah I: i The Agency Company Managers 1 , i f 334 South Main Street SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Apen All Night Tel. Wat. UNDERTAKERS AND S. D. EVANS Modern Establishment New Building 48 State St. Salt Lake City illlllllllllllllliniUllllllllllllllllllllNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIti ' Hr Wile Eijiyt Her Checkiag Acciunt i i is er er could not resist the slightest tempta- 6516 EMBALMER8 . MEW BOOK That's the word that comes from 1 hundreds of business men who i have to have their I wives arranged carry a checking account i with this bank. It's so convenient good busl- - 1 ness training, and its it is always 3 safe. tion to drink strong liquor, but he has enough determination left to bring him back to America for the purpose of revealing the secret to his government. In New York he talks so much while imbibing that German agents get on his track without knowing that he is the escaped prisoner who possesses the Great Secret. By the merest chance a chance, indeed, that seems too wild even for fiction, our heroine stumbles across him at this very crisis, saves him from death in a New York blizard, takes him into her limousine, rushes him to a hospital and, after a bit, obtains the secret from his own lips. Here we must pause to remark that the novelist apparently involves all I e s W. S. McCornlck I Pres. Anthon II. Lund... 1st Vice Pres. 1 George A. Smith.. 2nd Vice Pres, i Michelsen Cashier s D. E. Judd Asst. Cashier m,WNIMWNt(ttW,,,tW,MM 5 nwii M'Coibqck I Caj3ANKcn3 AM MOMOSM UTS ESTABLISHED 9 the rest of his story in absurdity. Having discovered the Great Secret he and the heroine, as it were, set out to discover it all over again. Just why they should sail across the seas to confirm something that is suffici- - ently clear, the novelist does not ex- plain convincingly. The Great Secret is a tunnel through a corner of Switzerland from German to French territory. The suspicion that such a tunnel existed would have been sufficient for all the purposes of the military authorities, but Erith and her sweetheart must needs penetrate into this wild, mountainous corner of Switzerland to do the discovering all over again. True, they obtain many additional, but for the most part unnecessary , facts and in the process they have wondrous adventures with Hun spies, British traitors and others. In the end they defeat the devilish devices of the enemy and gain for themselves the most splendid kind of glory the kind which only American novelists can invent for American heroes and heroines. It is absolutely A-- l glory , flawless and utterly dazzling. The love element is like the love element of practically all our novels. It seems to be a kind of oversweet conserve which all our novelists take from the same jar. They pour the decoction over their story which they serve with the business-lik- e detachment of a soda clerk serving a Sunday. Professional novelists blight love with a touch. The settlement-woridea of saving the hero from drink and making a man of him and then a noble spy 'is sufficiently ridiculous in itself and the author is not able to lift it to the seventh-heaveof interest. It is all very sweet and nice, and all that sort of thing, but as material for a spy story it approaches the purlieus of L.ADIES! Get the habit of lunching and dining at ROTISSERIE INN We serve Fine Salads, Cold Chicken Consomme Jelly, Sea .Foods and all kinds of Hot Weather specials. Special attention accorded our guests by C. Rinettl and F. 14-kar- at, k n soon Hin 323 STREET ujjnnmi More than 15,000 dividuals, in- firms and corporations representing every western industry, have with accounts Walker Bankers. 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That the state is the creation of the people has nothing to do with the ques-ion- . Unlimited powers cannot be entrusted to the hands of a lethargic majority. Minorities are not robbed of human rights merely because they are minorities. There must be some (Continued on Page 17.) When Buying or Selling Stocks See H. B. COLE, Broker Room 1, Salt Lake Stock Exchange Bldf, WE PRINT GOODWINS WEEKLY OUR CRAFTSMANSHIP SPEAKS FOR ITSELF Century printing Company W. G ROMNEY 1. Q. RYAN CENTURY BUILDING EDISON STREET 231 Phont Wasatch ,i 1801 Printers. Binders, Designers, Linotypers |