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Show Hi An Independent Paper Published Under ; ;; tfie Management of T. L. Holman :: B EDITORIALS B Y JUDGE C. C. GOOD WIN The Call To Arms XT is estimated that 10,000,000 Americans will be subject to the selective draft. , The first thought is one of exhultatlon Hi that our country is able to supply such a host. Hi The second is that they are the very flower of H the land, and what a pity if is that they should H have to be called from the ranks of industry H to the ranks of war. H Behind these men are ten millions ot young H women the brightest, sweetest, fairest women in H all the world. Even the unmarried ones among H that number have everything at stake, for deep H within their hearts is the longing of each one for H a husband, a home and children. With peace, H this dream would in moat cases be realized. So H that a generation hence, instead of ten millions H there would be twenty millions ready for such a H call to arms as the present one. H But, behind all, there is that other compelling H force called duty. And that, in its demands, is so B imperious that all else must be subordinated to H it. Our country was given its place among the H nations in fulfillment of a determination that all m men should be born free and equal. Not equal in H fact, for that is impossible, but equal in oppor- H tunities to achieve for themselves fortune and B honored names. H To accomplish this the fathers of the republic M offered their fortunes, their sacred honor and M their lives. M They did this, too, when there was no rich M government and country to reinforce them; they H wrought out their destiny amid sufferings and M hardships and dangers and poverty extreme, but m they never faltered; and at the end of over- M wearied Uvea they left priceless heritage to their m children to maintain and improve upon. It is B that inhcritage and the duty to maintain it that H brings the present call. H The sons of such sires cannot falter now. H The fathers fought to forge a wonderful dream H into a reality. It is the sacred duty of theii H sons to preserve that reality Inviolate. H When the fathers were doing their work, the m world looked on and wondered if they could ever B succeed; it has looked on ever since and marked Hj the mighty advances that have followed. Now H it is watching and wondering if, with those j advances, the high attainments of the fathers H have been preserved. This has been the ques- M tion all around the world since "the state oif M war" was declared by President Wilson. This is m behind Marshall Joffre's plea that a small Amer- m ican army be sent to France. It is to answer this B question effectively that Colonel Roosevelt is H moved with the burning desire to lead an army division into France. M I lid while the present upheaval may shatter M a great many hopes, it is a good thing after all. B It is the way that the manhood of a nation is H; kept exhalted; it is the way to emphasize to H. the world that free government, instead of break- H k ing the spirit of a people, lifts them up, makes Hj them jealous of their advantages and nerves them B to make any needed sacrifice to prevent free H .government from perishing from the earth. H Up to date, the old flag has never been car- M " ried into a. war that it has not held more and Hl more majesty in its folds on its return. It may H come back blackened by battle-smoke and rent by H the hostile missels of war, but it has come like H a sea eagle from a storm with plumage ruffled B and featherless pinions, but with a stronger sweep of wing and a Bhrlller, fiercer cadence to its scream. It will bo so this time and the strongest nations na-tions will take to themselves the thought that, whatever their future dreams may be, It will bo a dangerous venture to ever arouse tho American Amer-ican eagle to arms. Joseph H. Choate HOIt many years, looking from a long distance, dis-tance, we have held Joseph II. Choate to be about the foremost of all the great men of the United States. This belief was founded on tho fact that whenever, in a crisis or supreme emergency, emerg-ency, his opinion was called forth, it had the effect of moving the previous question it promptly prompt-ly shut off debate. H His matchless wit and repartee werd but the flashings of his sunny nature sunbeams on the surface of life's restless sea, but never disturbing disturb-ing or changing the course of the deeper cur rents of his mind. He was a profound scholar as the world est! mates scholarship, so profound that he himself realized that the utmost learning of man is, after all, but "the playing of the shells on the ocean shore that the great ocean rolled unexplored beyond him." Hence there was never anything like false pride in his makeup, no Imperious air of superiority about him; nothing cola or stern in his dealings with men save when he was insisting in-sisting upon the vindication of a high and just principle. He became the leader of the New York bar by natural gravitation to the place; he was there because he naturaly belonged there. He had not one trick of the politician. He would have scorned the highest office in the lanof If, to obtain the position, he would have been required re-quired to surrender one atom of his own self-respect. self-respect. When he talked politics, it was either to help his friends or to vindicate some principle that was dear to him because he believed it to be right. This is the impiession that emanates from his life work, and when one who has never seen him compares him with the other great men of our country, very few attain to his' royal standard. When ho accepted the ambassadorship to the court of St. James, we believe his uppermost thought was one of curiosity as to how he would measure up with the so-called great men abroad. This, not for public estimation but to satisfy him self. Ho surpassed all previous records and won an inner seat 1.1 Temple Bar. His lighter self, by which ho was generally known, was wonderful. There are a thousand examples of it. He made a friendly campaign with Chauncey Depew in Now York. Depew was famous as an orator and wit. The two wqre in friendly contest at every meeting. One night Depew was particularly sharp and won great applause ap-plause by his jibes at Choate. When he finished Choate arose, drew a circular from his pocket and began to read: "The great Depew Gas Company, Com-pany, Limited." Then he stopped and looked at Depew; then for a second looked over the audience' au-dience' and said: "Why Limited?" That finished Depew for that meeting. When ambassador, to England, a Scottish lord invited Choate to be his guest for a week in the Highlands. Choate accented the invitation, and his host gave' a great banquet in his honor. The male guests arrived dressed in kilts. As they took their seats at tho banquet taMe, Choate whispered to his host: "I pray your pardon, my Lord. Had I known the fashion here I would have left my pantaloons at the hotel." The host was bright enough to see the joke and, rising, repeated Choate's words to the guests, which at once placed the distinguished American in full accord with the company. As head of the Bar Association in New York City, he presided at a banquet of the bar and bench. At the right time he arose and said: "My brothers, inasmuch as we are all lawyers except the judges, and some of them are " He could get no further for several minutes. His whole record is illustrated by his wit. It is a pleasure to think that when he arose to greet the English and French delegations last week his words revealed that his supem brain was still in perfect form; his royal heart was still throbbing with all that was high and true, though the machinery of his earthly self was so nearly run down. Peace to his sleep: the world was blessed by his splendid life. The War's Outlook HE only real hope that the war news pre-V- sents nowadays is that the very desperation with which it is being carried on will bring a collapse soon. There are limits to human endurance endur-ance and the present pace cannot long be maintained. main-tained. The armies are being called upon to do their utmost, and behind the armies are the people whose suffering, physical and mental, cannot possibly pos-sibly be estimated. The weak spot in the Allies just now is Russia. Rus-sia. Since the storm of her revolution suddenly ceased, she has been trembling in the rough seas made by it and has not yet recovered ner steer- ' -age way. The English destroyers appear to be getting the better of the submarines, and if we have any destroyers to spare they should be sent across the waters to help. Our belief is that on our destroyers de-stroyers are scores of young officers who are simply burning with a desire to engage in such work, even as Cushlng in our great war. If it is true that Italy has four millions of seasoned soldiers on the Austrian border there will be decisive news from there before long, for Austria, with the half dozen loosely-knit nations that comprise her empire, is already close to tho breaking point. From the dispatches, we gather that Turkey is like the man who has hold of a charged wire with both hands she is held tightly because she cannot let go. We still think that could a segment seg-ment of our 'fleet be spared, the place for it to strike in order to disturb Germany most would be on the Hellespont. Certainly, it is in this direction that the Teutons hope to begin recuperation recuper-ation when the war closes. The tension is terrible all around, and it is because of that tension that the hope comes that it cannot much longer endure. It is to men al. most as it is to the physical world when there comes one of those cataclysms called "a geological geolog-ical period." ' Our Part IIE enlistments for the army seem slow. It W- is because? the masses of the people are not impressed with its importance. To them the war is something remote a conflict between foreigners foreign-ers for conquest and the extension of trade. They take little or no personal interest in the affair and feel no urgent cause for interfering. The necessity for active patricipation must bo brought closer home to them. Were Mexico to make such a demonstration on our border at I would require 50,000 men to secure this country j from invasion, 500,000 men would enlist in threo days. When our republic numbered less than one-third of its present inhabitants there was no trouble found in raising four millions of men to defend it. Were the present danger to be mado apparent, there would be no difficulty encountered encoun-tered in raising three times four millions to go to the front. But there is a feeling that Europe should settle its own differences and not seek to involve the United States in the controversy. That is the chief reason why men do not rush to enlist. They do not realize that our's is at last a world power, and cannot longer afford to be indifferent to what happens abroad. Still much that concerns the United States depends upon how the present war shall end; whether militarism shall triumph or whether the inherent rights of men shall have a new vindl cation in the peace that shall finally be con-sumated; con-sumated; whether, after the war, the world shall be subject to Imperial edicts or whether all nations na-tions shall stand upon an equal footing. The solution of this momentous question is being worked out now and if, in the solution, the United States must give up its treasures in uncounted un-counted sums and its best blood in rivers, the country will be equal to the sacrifice. For, looking look-ing back over its history, it is clear that the creation crea-tion and advancement of this nation were duly ordered, and that its ultimate objective must be attained, no matter what the cost in blood and treasure and suffering. The Price Of Wheat iirHAT a shame it is that now, only two months vly before harvesting will begin, wheat is quoted in Chicago at more than $3 per bushel. We are not) exporting half as much wheat as we would be, were there no war. We do not believe be-lieve that there is any appreciable scarcity now and even, if the forecast for a less than normal yield this year is correct, that does not imply that there will bo a scarcity at home. It simply means that we will have less wheat for export. The conclusion is irresistible that the country is being bled unmercifully by a combine of speculators spec-ulators who would take advantage of the present period of excitement to rob their fellow Americans. Amer-icans. It would be a good thing to stand a few of them against a wall at sunrise, there to face a firing squad; for in our lu..J, men .who accumulate accu-mulate money by making little children hungry are not fit to live. The regulation of food prices should not be left to the federal government. Each individual state should assert its sovereignty and deal directly di-rectly with the problem. Citizens in this community com-munity have during the past winter paid double values for native food products. There has been no real food scarcity. A gang of thieves have j been bleeding producers and consumers alike, and this should not bo allowed to happen again. The governor should appoint agonts to koop tab of tho coming harvest, tho approximate amount of each food product raised, tho prices paid tho producer and the prices charged tho consumer. A census should also be taken of tho men who aro engaged in tho business of fleecing the people. When such information is compiled, then, if it is found that he does not have sufficient authority, ho should summon a special session of tho legislature legis-lature and demand that ample power bo granted him to tako tho situation in hand, in order that tho people as a whole might enjoy tho protection they deserve. It is an everlasting shame to charge famine prices for food anywhere in the United States. Press Censor Needed At Washington iirE read a month ago that the board of con-MS con-MS trol of the navy had planned to build a thousand small wooden ships with which to fight submarines. Now it seems that the plan called for a certain class of engine, and that a thousand of those engines could not be supplied inside of two years. Wo fear that there was as much partisanship as practical sense employed in naming the members of that board. That sort of business should be done away with. The present war is a call to the whole country; Republicans are responding as eagerly as Democrats, and party politics should have no place in tho plans of the administration. Then some horse sense should be shown. A naval board should have some members that know something about ships and what is required re-quired in their construction. Above all things, the sending of buncombe dispatches concerning its activities should be stopped. That press gang in Washington should, half of them, be put in a chain gang. In their anxiety an-xiety to laud the administration and everything connected therewith they not only disgust people, but disgrace the country and make us look like a nation of braggarts and incompetents. There are plenty of level-headed men in tho country to direct the practical operations of tho government in this critical period and they should H bo employed without regard to politics. Then JH what they aro doing should bo kept secret until jH something really tangible Is accomplished. If H this were done, then tho dispatches telling of jH any real achievement would bo most acceptable; 11 but an end ought to bo put to the practice of send- H ing out unreliable and absurd dispatches, and H it ought to bo done at once. 11 Joffre's Tribute To Grant jIIE great Marshall Joffro of Franco laid a 11 KJ wreath on the steel casket that holds tho 11 remains of General Grant. It was most fitting. 11 It was a hero's silent 3alute to tho memory of another hero. We wish that on his westorn tour M Marshall Joffro could havo gono down to Vicksburg M and looked upon tho scene of Grant's greatest military triumph; as splendid as anything that Julius Caesar ever accomplished. il But if there is a wireless through which mor- M tals cannot communicate, but which carries mes-' sages between tho two worlds, it was working M when Joffro laid that wreath upon tho sarcophagus of Grant. And tho message brought through it M to tho French Marshall must havo kept his hoart ' warm, all that day, for it was liko receiving a re- sponso to an S. O. S. call on an imperiled ship. M Many mon look upon death as the end; our bo- M lief is that it will be revealing to us how little wo M know in the environment that hedge us around M on this sido. M A Rare Spectacle H XT was an impressive spectacle on Capitol Hill Sunday when the "Creation was sung. The H thronging thousands in holiday attire, the parked automobiles, the opening spring in every direction, M tho great structure, the goldea sunshine and tho M lofty music filling tho air all mado a picture not H often seen, and gave an enjoyment not often folt. M Indeed, not many states could present such a M spectacle. In most states tho surroundings would all bo lacking; tho listening mountains framed in M sunlight; the distant lake aglow under the sun- M beams; tho far off valley in its spring garments H there was not only the music of tho "Creation, but H a reproduction of some of its real features; oven as it was when tho vapors were rolled away and M the command rang out: "Let there bo light; and H there was light." M And wo might add: "And God looked upon it H and it was good." M Farm Crops H JJHE farmers should plant plenty or potatoes M y this spring but they should not neglect M other crops. There was in the fifties a scarcity H of potatoes one spring and they soared to five cents a pound. That spring so many potatoes M were planted that when autumn came they were 31 piled by thousands of tons in- ricks in the fields, H and they rotted there (because they were not IH worth enough to pay for tho sacks necessary to EH carry them to market. IH Do not neglect to plant enough potatoes, but do IH not neglect tho other crops. Beans havo a largo IH area to cover; so has Utah colory; and so with XI Utah oats and barley, and cabbages and tomatoes, t and chickens, eggs, turkeys, young pigs and every- H thing else that the Utah farmer can raise. H If a colt Is to be raised, aim to havo the horso H suitable for cavalry or artillery purposes. The H field for the farmer this season is as wide as the H wants of mankind are numerous. H JvHia spring has been slow in coming, but its IH V presence is giving the' city a beautiful as- IH pect at last. The lawns are lovely and the trees IH in their new spring robes have grown most os- RH tentatious in their loveliness. RH |