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Show THE CITIZEN AMONG THE NEW 'BOOKS NORWALK Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrn i High Pressure Casings and Tubes N this delightful book of recollec- Guarantee Tire & Rubber tions the vistas that interest the reader most do not go back beyond war days. Although the writer dips into the sleepy years as far back as 1887 the overwhelming importance and fascination of the great drama impels one to pass more or less rapidly o the strenuous period of the war and ihe slightly less strenuous period of peace- Company South Main Street Phone Was. 2222 Salt Lake City, Utah 451 iiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinf BINGHAM ! GARFIELD RAILWAY I 1 i AND a The Scenic Line to jj ! BINGHAM ! "Where Copper la King" I s PASSENGER TRAIN SCHEDULE NOW IN EFFECT No. No. No.' 109 No. Ill f 6:55 a.m. 2:15 p.m. No. 110 No. 112 Arrive Blacham Leave Blacham making. We gather from the author that the impressions of the detached observer were not always favorable to those who talked loudly of 'open covenants openly arrived at, for oftentimes they preached idealism while practicing injustice. One of the most pertinent and illuminating comments in the book relates to this phase of the peace conference . at the NEWHOU8E CLEAN, WHOLESOME -- LIVELY ENTERTAINMENT The Follydols appear under the direction of Mr. Grover Frankie, dinner, 6:80 to 9, and during after-theatsupper, from 10:15 to 12:30, on week nights. During dinner, 6 to 9, on Sundays. Tea, 4 to 6, Thursday and Saturday afternoons. DANCING for GUESTS re Gibbons was in touch with nearly every one worth knowing: Mrs. We kept open house for all from preof belligerent states and plenipomiers The peace conference was a Tower of to delegates of subject nationtentiaries Babel, where different tongues chamalities, Ignored by the Big Five. Greeks pioned divergent national interests. The redeemed and unredeemed, Roumanians only Esperanto .was the old diplomatic and Transylvanians, Jugo-Slaof all language of suspicion and greed. The kinds, Russians from Grand Dukes to mental pabulum that fed the public was B o 1 s h ivists, Lithuanians, Esthonlans, clothed in new terminology. When hammer struck anvil in the high places, Letts, Finns, Poles, Ukranlans, Georgians, Armenians, Syrisparks shot out. We caught flashes of ans, Egyptians, Arabs of every persualiberty, brotherhood, the rights of small sion, Albanians, Persians, Siamese, Chinations. But in the secret conferences nese, not speak of the specialists and decisions were dominated by the considand newspapermen of the eration of the interests (as they were propagandists wrote who their names in my Big Five, judged by our leaders) of the most powguest-booate at my table, and diserful. over cigars and cordials each other cussed One day there appeared in our press fire. before salon Few lacked honesty my room in the Place de la Concorde a of purpose and sincerity of loyalty to Lithuanian, who had made an incredibly ideals. But the ideals were those of their long journey, much of it on foot, to come own national or racial interests. Asiae to the peace conference. He had been from a desire to see justice done to fired by President Wilson's speeches. He and Belgium, there was no urmy, France wanted to tell the American prophet how no internationalism in the views of my the Poles, in his part of Europe, were inMost of them I respected; many guests. He did terpreting of them I admired; for some I came to not see the President. Although touched have real affection. My husband and I by his sincerity, we wondered at the formed ties that I trust will naivete. Did he really believe that the .never bepersonal broken. But I confess that the same principle could be applied everyniiore .1 listened to table talk and salon where? Practical common sense urged; talk in. my own home, the more bewn- -' me to believe that the liberty propaganda Na-was overdone and that it was impossible dared I grew. I saw the Society of tions vanishing in the thin air. My own to give justice to everybody. But I was narrow nationalism, that had been grad-- . clinging to my idealism as the Lithu&ii- -' lan clung to his. A plain body like me ually reviving ever since the A. E. F. started to come to France, was strengthcould not know or understand what was ened. After all, was not all human nagoing on. But why preach idealism in ture like the nature of my own patemai international relations, if an honest to apply ustlce impartially was im- - ancestors, who believed as they believed on the Old Testhe Bible, with possible? Surely the Great Powers could tament that emphasis act as judges in assigning boundaries beUlster will fight tween the smaller nations. Liberty, like the love of God, is "broader than the And Ulster will be right? measure of mans mind. I took refuge in the humorous side oi the peace conference, as I did not want to get mad or to become gloom struck The peace conference brought disilWhen Flume came up, for lusionment to Mrs. Gibbons and often and weep.I would s talk to and instance, disgust. She met statesmen who exItalians about getting seasick on the Naa Adriatic and the respective merits of of the that hope pressed League Abbazia and the Lido and whether they tions would be framed that would felt like d'Annunzios talked The usher in an era of peace, but they best fun was with mylovers own compatriots. were unwilling to give up anything. We Americans had nothing at stake as a nation, and (If I except a few of Wilsons conspecialists who never were listened In my attitude toward the peace to but always hoped they would be) the ference I believe I reflected all through the attitude of the common people of members of the American delegation lost France, especially the Parisians. We had no sleep while they were remaking the suffered too much and too long to want map of Europe. A Pole was explaining to me one day to see Germany let off easily. Our interthe Ukranlans were not and never that In nationalism had nothing itfof pity for a. nation, and. he. was. in dean had been the Germans. We did not worry about earnest. A captain In the American how. they were going to feel when they ' 15.) found out whiit they were up against. (Continued pri 'jPage i Czecho-Slovak- 8:26 a.m. 8:85 p. m. 8:45 a.m. 4:00 p.m. s .Arrlre Salt Lake City S No. 110 10:05 a.m. a No. 112 5:80 p.m. Hear the FOLLYDOLS mnhmhihh vs Leave Salt Lake City 109 Ill See and We knew that we could not make the Germans suffer as they had made us suffer. But we wafited written into the treaty conditions that would make our enemies realize their guilt by finding out that the enterprise had not proved profitable. But along with this natural ana justifiable desire we yearned for some greater recompense for our own suffering and sacrifices. Our hatred of war had' become as Intense as our hatred of the Germans who plunged us into war. We hailed with joy the assurances of our statesmen that they would make this time a durable peace, avoiding the mistakes and errors of the past. Imagine our consternation when we realized that the delegates to the conference at Paris were not making peace along new lines. They were plotting peace along old lines. Weary months passed. The censorship still muzzled the press. But Parisians knew instinctively that something was wrong. Before Easter we lost faith in the conference and hope in its intention os changing the old order of things. PARIS VISTAS. By Helen Davenport Published by Century Gibbona. Company, New York. ; s 9 34 s', k, No man or woman can drive this wonderfully responsive car without a thrill of gratification in doing the right thing quickly and neatly, and to the satisfaction of the motorists with whom they share the road. nEWKlOVEMNOffl mn nw a mm awn on. iiiMwiiiwiiiniimiiumHituwiiiiiHiiHinitiimiiiuniiiiwiiiaiiuiHiiwMiiiimirj ", 5 H. W. 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