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Show I jOm Goodwins IVqqJcIis I D 3V 0T since tlie sillkinS of tlle Lusitania jj3PH& has the world been aroused to the VBHW savagery of the Huns as in the tor- . MB& pedoing and sinking of the Hospital mk ' - I WF SlliP Llandovery Castle by a German K iSffiUJ undersea pirate on the night of June Hr i 27 resulting in the loss of 234 lives, R eighty of them men of the Canadian Medical corps and fourteen nK women nurses. When the vessel was struck by the torpedo she was P carrying all lights which included a huge electric cross over the bridge Hk and strings of white and green lights on either side while the Red BP Crosses on either side were illuminated. She was on a mission of HrI mercy. IBg Not satisfied with the destruction of the vessel the murderous D' savage captain of the undersea vessel shelled the boats which had WW left the sinking ship and probably sunk them since no report of them Pj has been received and to add to the horror circled the wreckage at ml full speed apparently intent on sinking all boats laden with survivors B of the torpedoed vessel. BT The Llandovery Castle had been chartered by the Canadian gov- gL ernment and in the service of carrying sick and wounded from Eng- Kp land to Canada. The attack was without warning when the ship was wi, about seventy miles off the Irish coast. Ferocity that would shame a X$m- savage marked the crime. igj It is such awful atrocities as this on the seas, such awful atrocities 115, on land as the spearing on a butcher's hook in a meat shop by the vital jE) organs of a British soldier, of the crucifixion of a child on the door of Mj a barn, of the mutilating of innocent and helpless children, of the hor- W rible outrages of young girls, of aged people torn to pieces by Hun tf bayonets that have placed the Prussian empire outside the pale of f civilization and which has caused all the civilized world to unite to LftJ . wipe it from the face of the earth. $ There are now in France one million American soldiers. There h are in training one million more. There is still a reserve of millions ftM more and all these will be brought into service if it is necessary to aid nt the gallant, brave men from other nations in whipping Germany to a Wfc finish. After this is done, after the awful, horrible crimes which have M. have been committed by the Germans have been avenged, after the Im Kaiser and his kult have been annihilated, after the German empire 'fcw - has been lain waste then possibly will be time to talk peace but until Op. then it is war upon Kaiserism, upon Prussianism to the end. fc$& P WAR SAVINGS CAMPAIGN. ll X7LE tnc Plqll&c camPain fr War Savings Stamps has just IVV ended the campaign for the sale of War Savings Stamps will continue until December 31 of the current year. In the two billion dollar War Savings Stamp loan the amount apportioned to Utah was $9,000,000 maturity value. It was expected that this amount would be met without difficulty. During the first four months of the year the sales were only nominal although there was a great deal of hard work done by the state committee through various organizations, the school children of the state doing most of the canvassing. It was to this that the ' thrift campaign caused many to believe that it was a children's job rather than a man's job and the term "Baby Bonds" was applied to the stamps. Throughout the several states the campaign was pushed but it remained for Nebraska to work out a plan by which it was expected and hoped to bring about the completion of the campaign at an earlier date than the close of the year. This plan, known as the Nebraska plan, which was to secure pledges from the people to buy War Sav- Ik ings Stamps at definite periods during the year the pledge campaign j H to close June 28, was adopted by the government after a conference H of War Savings directors and chairmen of State War Savings com,- 1 H mittees held in Omaha in April. r H In accord with this plan the President issued an address to the fa H people in which he designated June 28 as National War Savings Day n M on which date he urged the people to volunteer in the War Savings EyJ army concluding his appeal "there should be none unenlistcd on that j M day." Appeals were also made by the secretary of the treasury and i M proclamations issued by the governors of the several states. L Early in May an intensive campaign to secure the allotment to i WM Utah was begun. Thousands of workers were drafted through M county committees and War Savings societies and in a number of tl counties a house to house campaign was inaugurated. The mass of " the people of the state responded but the amounts from those who . M could purchase the maximum allowed one individual, $1000, were WiBbbI small. The membership in the Thousand Dollar club was not what J M it should have been. The result on National Savings day was that M the state had not met her allotment, that there were a number who ll remained "unenlisted" in the War Savings army. j M The returns from the several counties are not all in yet as in the , M counties where the allotment was not reached workers are making j M strenuous efforts to bring the allotment to the top so as to keep U.tah v M in the position which she has occupied in all calls made upon her, by , M the government. They will succeed. The slackers, and there are i M some, will be brought to realize that they must comply with the M Pledge cards returned to the State War Savings committee are ll now being arranged for convenience in collecting the pledges as ll they become due each month. While being arranged they are also ivl being closely scrutinized and whereever a pledge card is found signed lil for a minimum amount when it should have been for the maximum j H the pledgee will be asked to increase the amount of his pledge. This ' H is being done in practically every instance when attention of the ' fl pledgee is called. , H There is no question as to the state meeting the allotment by fH December 31 for the campaign for the sale of stamps has only begun. M During the six months remaining of the year the sales of War Savings Stamps in the state must aggregate around one million dollars per month or $40,000 per day. The workers will continue. The drive for I H pledges is over but the drive for the purchase of War Sayings Stamps' J vAwJ will continue. Utah will not fail. She never has. (Shc never will. j H One hundred per cent and then some is the slogan in 'the state when- Jfl ever Uncle Sam calls. ' "3? , fl THE SAVINGS HABJ-T. H NEVER before in the history of the state has there been as many Vfl savers as now, and Utah has always been classed as a 'thrffty H community, the savings habit having long been taught here,,-' Him- H dreds of people have for the first time in their lives begun the'ptacBce' of economy and economy means saving. Luxuries are being dis-i H pensed with, cut out entirely. Many things heretofore considered M necessities have been dropped, The savings habit apparently has be- M come contagious. M In Salt Lake county War Savings societies have demonstrated M how savings can easily be made what thrift can do. In 140 savings M societies in the county in which there have been enrolled 4680 mem- fl bers the savings which they have put away or pledged to put away this year amounts to more than $287,000. This does not mean that . the members have become parsimonious nor stingy but it does mean 1H that they have dispensed with many things which can be' classed as IH luxuries, IH m R '1 What is true of Salt Lake county is true of the entire state. m War Savings societies have been organized in every one of the coun- H ties. Every member of the organization preaches thrift and what is JB ii1 more every member practices what he or she preaches. And this K J propaganda which these saving workers spread is bearing fruit in 1 ! that at every meeting there are many applications for membership. Hf This is true of the young people. They have caught the savings H habit and are putting it into practice. H; Hiv UNCLE SAM HAS JUST GOT GOING. THERE'S a great lightening of anti-German hearts just now. Anr it is not all due to the splendid achievement of the Italians in re- H pulsing the Austrians on the Piave. That was a fine performance, but H it is as yet more of a promise of better things to come. The Aus- Hj trians are still on Italian soil but they cannot advance and indications H are that their morale is broken and they must fall back. Soon there H will be an American force in Italy and the mass of American troops H in France grows steadily more formidable. The anti-German man H power makes failure visible beforehand to those who confront it. H The inspiriting of the antagonists of Germany is all American. H The United States is in the war with almost a million men. The Hk promised help is at hand. This country concluded about six weeks H ago that the time had come for us to show results. We began to H grumble and roar and growl. Democracy's common sense knew that H time enough had been taken to get results. And the men who were H on the job just then began to deliver the goods. The transports be- H gan to sail. New ships began to take the water. The transportation H system began to haul supplies to tide water. Factories making war Hj material began to turn out finished products in vast volume. The H British and French just about heart sick from hope deferred and en- H gaged in the terrible third battle of the Aisne, saw the support in H I men and material coming in steady orderly but swift fashion. H ' And as the men and materials came they were handled with sys- Hj tern superb arranged long before. As our friends were heartened H , the enemy was distressed. The Germans tried to stop the stream of H help with their submarines off our Atlantic coast. They failed to get H anything but a few small ships, none of them bearing aid to the front. H France and Great Britain and Italy saw the United States making H good. It braced them up at once. There was a livelier spit it in the Hl1' words from their capitals and an electrification of their weary armies. ( , The United States has just discovered that it is doing well. What j doubts it had of its ability to live up to the expectation of itself and I its associates disappeared. The spirit of depression in this country Htj vanished. We know that our part in the war is being done as a work- H manlike job. We see now that we have done better than we thought Hif we were doing. H That old feeling has got into our associates in the war too. They H were a bit funky for a few weeks, but how they have picked up in the H past fortnight ! All because Uncle Sam comes up to the fighting line H a thousand thousand strong, with as many more on the way and ships H to carry stuff to feed the fighters all abundantly. This is what there H is chiefly to note about the war this week the psychological uplift, H the spirit of exaltation that has succeeded the recent despondency and H j semi-desperation. The United States has just got going, just got !mmm'1 limbered up in this war. The old eagle is just getting ready to scream after we thought him drooping with inefficiency pip. hk We now know more of the big job we have done while we and Hl our friends were afraid we might not do 'it. The Allies know all Hl about it. They are rejoicing in it. Therefore I should say that we are HI to have this year the kind of a celebration in this country that a lot of HBf us didn't think we were going to have. We will celebrate the fact Hf that we aren't, as the enemy and even some of ourselves thought, a Hl lot of "four-flushers." We are keeping the word of promise to the Hj world's eye and ear and hope. Here's hoping that the Russians ob- H serve what we have done and are doing and take course therefrom as H assurance that the United States will stand by them even as it will HI stand by France. Hl The United States doesn't lay down. And we have ten million men, if necessary, to put on the fighting line and can put them there Hwl' u Tab . j -- iti , v Sum in spite of U-boats. And there are ninety millions of us ready to go "H a bit hungry and give up many creature comforts and cough up our mm last remainder coin to save the world from the Kaiser and Kultun 9r. This is the spirit with which we come to this year's celebration. It's l.j a fine feeling and all the better for that it is shared by all the peoples 9L who are fighting that democracy shall not perish from the earth. jji It's a feeling that will persist in the fighting and the working until Sf the big job of cleaning up autocracy is done so thoroughly that it mt will never need doing again. William Marion Reedy, in Reedy's JH Mirror. flf t r H p H JOHN PAUL JONES' BIRTHDAY. S TODAY is the anniversary of the birth of John Paul Jones, father H of the American navy. Born near the hamlet of Arbigland, in SjJ the parish of Kirkbean, Stewartry, now county of Kirkcudbright, Jej Scotland, son of a peasant, John Paul, he founded what is now one of ,M3 the greatest navies in the world. Coming to Virginia in 1773 he in- mj herited the estate of his brother, William Paul Jones, who had been J3m adopted by and had assumed the name and became the heir of a Jm Virginia planter, William Jones. In compliance with the conditions WM imposed by the inheritance, John Paul at this time also assumed the m surname of Jones. 'fill When the American revolution broke out in 1775, he was called p?!J in conference with the Continental congress concerning the organi- ,Jf zation of a navy, and in December, 1775, he was commissioned as I Y lieutenant in the newly organized naval service and assumed com- ';t mand of the Alfred. On this ship he displayed the first flag, the "Pine 111 Tree and Rattlesnake Flag," ever displayed on an American man-of- war. Later in command of the Ranger, he defeated and captured off M Carricfergus the British sloop-of-war Drake, the first instance in I modern naval warfare of the capture of a regular man-of-war by a M ship of inferior force. J His fame, however, comes from his command of the La Bon-homme Bon-homme Richard, an old East Indiaman, having been commissioned by King Louis XVI of France, then as now, an ally of the United States, the vessel having forty guns. Three other ships were placed under his orders, he still retaining his American commission, and in a memorable mem-orable cruise of fifty days, during which he made a circuit of the British Isles, and in a famous naval battle between the Bonhomme Richard and the British warship Serapis, forty-four guns, defeated and captured his antagonist, but lost his own vessel, which sank after the engagement. His active service in the American navy ended in - May, 1781. He was a vice admiral in the Russian navy from 1788 1 until 1791 and after leaving the Russian service he lived in Paris, where he died July 19, 1792. g "' The record of his burial place was lost but after a long search " 1 conducted by Ambassador Horace Porter, his body was discovered in &, IS the old St. Louis cemetery in Paris, April 14, 1905, and was brought f'ir to the United States convoyed by a United States squadron especially 1 1 sent to France for the purpose. 1 In the crypt of the naval academy chapel at Annapolis, Maryland, - : sepultured with impressive solemnity amid the Stars and Stripes, ' mosaics and gold cordage rails in a sarcophagus resembling Napoleon Napo-leon Bonaparte's the body of John Paul Jones, father and founder of the American navy, is at rest. r p n r California's earth has been trembling again. But the latest f shakeup was slight in comparison to that which will be felt in Ger- 1 many when Britain, France and America compel Von Hindenburg's j men to turn back. Troy Record. in m From the way in which .new quotations are being made on thirst 1 quenchers, prohibition has an able first assistant in war prices. Nor- ' m wich Bulletin. w 1 President Wilson still says, "Gentlemen of Congress," regardless , I'j of whether Miss Rankin is present or not. St. Louis Republic. JJ, K |