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Show r THE CITIZEN 4 body for judgment. Notwithstanding the liorribleness of the recent World War, we find European nations right now calmly discussing war making every preparation to enter a fight. The common people have had enough of war, but the politicians are looking for advantage, not only at home but abroad as well, and they dictate the policies. Dictation makes enemies and unjust penalties embitters national feelings and the unchaining of the press will do the rest. If all countries would follow the unselfish example of the United States in the late war, there would not now be any need of any peace conferences. Instead we could have peace feasts and jubilees. The United States has not demanded one cent of ransom or tribute for its share in the war. We entered the war for a principle and if that principle will work justice in Europe, we then have accomplished a lasting good which is worth many times more than we have spent in the war. We do not believe in exploiting anybody. It is different in Europe, the nations of which are exploiting other peoples for their own respective benefits. The peole of Asia are all subject nations, more or less, and of Africa as well. The natives are continually living in hope of freedom to come some day and thereby is kept alive a spark which may cause trouble at any time. In Europe right at the present moment Germany and Poland are on the brink of war. Turkey and Greece could easily be led into another war. It is therefore as Mr. Lowry has stated that this country should hold itself aloof from all entangling alliances. Under present conditions we can work in harmony with any and all nations and be a great help to any of them, but if we join them then we become a party to their quarrels and no one can predict what a fight will lead to. Then again, how can we consistently become a member of an international body composed of representatives that do not believe in freedom and the selfdetermination of all nations? WETNESS. Between the censures and the praise directed towards Attorney General Ilarvey II. Cluff of Utah, part of his letter on prohibition recently published in the daily press has been read into the Congressional Record at Washington by Senator Bruce. The paragraph in question is: It, prohibition, has made popular the hip pocket flask. It has caused the bootlegger to flourish and the illicit still to spring up in all sections. And while I believe Utah is freer from these things than most any other state in the Union, because of the diligent efforts of the officers and because of the training of our people, yet I am frank to confess that prohibition in Utah is a farce, and is developing a citizenry of sneaks and lawbreakers. Senator Bruce says the same story comes from all parts of the countrv. The Senator could have added that even which has among his colleagues there existed a wetness created considerable talk in all parts of the country. ELECTRICITY. Electricity is responsible, perhaps more than any other one thing, for improved methods of building construction, making easier the burden of our workers and decreasing costs of production. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers and ethers interested predict that the din of the steel riveter on building girders may soon give way to the flame of the electric arc, and the steel skeleton of the future skyscraper may be a single, welded unit. Decreased cost, greater strength and lighter materials are all factors in the welded building that will, it is said, bring about the adoption of the new method of erection. Steel parts will be cut to pattern, much as a tailor cuts the parts of a coat, but without the necessity for the precise accuracy needed when lines of rivet holes must be matched. The cost of rjr of rivet holes will be saved; the strength of an to that of the parts welded, and a welded jointure water, oil or gas, while the expense of welding ig three-fourtXmfc that of riveting. hs iBti lent HABMONY. je The Box Elder Journal says that there are b?r ' c Jn mobile associations, routes and highways, and Jf fight that has developed between what is tena meaning the East and West Side high Ogden high school, and the men in charge of the; r f High School association. The fight going on in Utah over these matter: . ; to those who reside outside of this state and thesetc we do not get this stuff out of our system, get tdcai operate in handling the tourists that come to us mo ) ing a clean, wholesome spirit in athletics in Tesf money collected and spent in paid advertisememal newspapers and magazines, singing the praises t amount to naught unless these conditions above ii tl corrected. hag It is the same old story, Pin a badge on anted immediately he becomes important. Three, I ; TORNADO ter w I, Freaks of nature create and do much damagetornado which apparently was born in Missouri the southern part of Illinois, Indiana and then U winding upward flight towards the north, kille;g people and injured thousands, besides leaving after city in its maddened path. Entire towns iau and the buildings crumbled and destroyed. run into millions ; many are dead, many il for life and many of them have lost all their eari will be compelled to begin life anew. In the same breath comes the news from portion of Tokio has been burned with fire thousand people are homeless. While this was ijrgg ture, yet the loss of property is large. In Florida the famous Breakers hotel lias beeg fire with several million dollars loss. af Tornadoes in our central states are an unfort: " which engineers must solve, if there is a appears safe in the path of a cyclone, except titU Tliep-wil- l cellar. Here in Utah we can consider ourselv?s lutl the valleys which are protected by high sui roun we have had no tornadoes of any conseqv L'nce. did have a flood at Farmington and Willard many homes and farms, and considering r th were lucky in that the communities were iot ver Great Salt Lake. tv ill No one can predict what the morrow lon 11 s he POLITICS at The nomination of Charles Beadier Warr general would have been confirmed had Y 0 PT been in the chair at the time the vote was b ken. h address on March 4, Dawes said that tin viccfiL nothing to do with party division in the so. that in less than a week Ins words would c.oswelj that there was necessity for the victf'presi f political game. -- L |