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Show iLEWUir UNION OF NATIONS MOUNTAIN CONGRESS DECLARES FOR PARIS PROPOSAL TO AVERT WARS. Westerners Adopt Resolutions Approving Approv-ing of Establishment of League of Nations, and Urging Senators to Support Proposition. Salt Lake Oil y. Delegates to the Mountain congress for a league of nations at a meeting here Saturday' afternoon adopted resolutions declaring declar-ing that peace, liberty and justice among the nations of the world could be established by a league of nations and approving Ihe proposed union as set forth at the l'aris peace conference. W. It. Wallace was elected chairman of the Mountain congress resolutions conunillee, which included the following follow-ing : Ulah John C. Cutler, William Spry, Simon Bamberger, C. W. Xihley, W. X. Witlsims Noble Wiiri-um. (ieorire Ai- bert Smith, Alfred W. Agee, Ogden; Mrs. Kmeline Wells, ,T. Will Knight, A. E. Harvey, Dr. E. G. Peterson. Logan; J. W. Funk, Richmond; W. K. Wallace. Itev. Peter A. Simpkin, Dr. Ernest A. Smith. Idaho John W. Hart, lUgby ; D. W. Standrod, Pocatello; Mark Austin, Hex-burg. Hex-burg. Wyoming Charles D. Carey, Cheyenne; Chey-enne; K. H. Hadsell, Rawlins; Mrs. Cora B. Wanamaker, Hock Springs. Following are the resolutions as adopted : "We the delegates to the Mountain congress of the League to Enforce Peace from the states of Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, desire to express our opinion on the most important question of the hour. "The armies of Germany having been repulsed, her fleet given up and all the countries in arms against us and our co-belligerents having surrendered at discretion, it has become the duty of the victorious democracies to arrange the terms of peace and bring order among the peoples disorganized by war, so that peace, liberty and justice may be established and maintained upon an enduring foundation. "We believe that this can be done by means of a league of nations of which our nation is an essential part. We are convinced that the constitution or covenant for such a league as recommended recom-mended by the league of nations committee com-mittee at the peace conference in Paris is well adapted for this purpose and that in principle it should he accepted by our people and ratified by the senate; sen-ate; and we do most heartily approve of the establishment of a league of nations." A new state organization of the League to Enforce Peace was formed at a meeting held at 4 p. ni. Saturday afternoon in the Tabernacle. Senator W. N. Williams was elected president and Prof. B. It. Lewis secretary. The new organization is to be in the hands of an executive committee of eighteen prominent citizens of the state. Those named on the committee were Gov. Simon Bamberger, John C. Cutler, William Spry, Rev. Peter A. Simpkin, Mayor W. Mont Ferry, George Albert Smith, John A. Widtsoe, W. It. Wallace and J. Will Knight. The rest of the committee will be composed of nine prominent women of the state to be named at various times. Resolutions favoring establishment of a league of nations were adopted by the Women's Woodrow Wilson club of Salt Lake at a meeting held Saturday Satur-day night. Declaring that the retail merchant is in a unique position with regard to the progress of civic affairs, Edward A. Filene, Boston retail merchant, addressed ad-dressed the members of the. Commercial Commer-cial club at their luncheon Saturday on "Reconstruction , as It Concerns the Retail Store." |
