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Show ' A WAR BURDEN OR IMPROVEMENTS, WHICH? i I Salt Lake, uah, Aug. 14 Which is the better: To spend $12,000,000.00 in building a battleship bat-tleship like the North Dakota" and continue to spend $1,000.-000.00 $1,000.-000.00 after it each year for the upkeep and operating expenses or use that sum on forest reserves, arid land, merchant marine, good roads, navigable rivers and commercial com-mercial harbors? This subject will be discussed by President David Starr Jordan of Leland Stanford university at the forthcoming Trans-Mississippi Congress which which will be held in Salt Lake Aug. 27-30 in his address "The Case Against War." Following his speech the floor of the convention will be thrown open to debate. Numerous peace advocates propose pro-pose to take advantage of this privilege and are now loading up on statistics to scatter them in the "open forum of the West." Advocates for universal peace propose to point to the fact that the United States spent on preparation prep-aration for the war in 1911 the sum of $283,086,000.00. During the same year the country failed to build needed public roads.pub-lic roads.pub-lic buildings, and also failed to stamp out many preventable diseases dis-eases among animals and men. She has allowed 500 people to be driven from their home by preventable floods. The war debt of the nations accumulated since 1700 reaches nearly $37,000,000,-000.00. |