Eureka Reporter | 1917-05-04 | Page 7 | The Boys from Country Districts Save Our State

u u u u A ua ua a the boys Fro I 1 u districts save our state f u boys from the smaller towns u of utah have saved the state u from disgrace in the matter of ir furnishing the required num uber of recruits tor for the army and is navy salt lake and ogden u have 1 fallen down miserably ur G good O 0 0 d wages short hours and it the bright lights are things u that the city youth don t care fir to give up the farms the u mines thes the smelters melters the ranches and other lines alt 10 f industry are u giving up their theirl fulla full quota of cr men but there are no enlist r ments from among the vast u army of young men who crowd h the pool halls fill the midnight resorts and anda furnish the auda h ances for the prize fights and u blockade the streets in our larg u er cities u every patriotic citizen of h utah everyone who ris PIS a ibe the is llever liever in tio popular pular government ft Is proud because the young men ur of the state have responded so ft nobly to the nation s call fand tand u yet wo cannot help but feel that if tr it would have been much bett ter to have adopted the select is tive draft at the very beginning u and thui equalized the burden r and held more of the turdy sturdy u young men on the farms and in u other lines of work where their r services are going to be so bad s ly needed 1 ic b as h h h ts it h