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Show Urch i toman wmi FROM NATIONAL DEFtliSE CONERtSS ' " 'Oo your bit' has been changed to 'do your best.' tfiusiness men are taking tak-ing the attitude that one problem to be solved is the war and that business busi-ness is to be conducted in its relation i to the war. The attitude seems to have a decided change lately and the biggest business men have come to a realization of the fact that no business busi-ness can be justified in the present crisis only as it connects itself in some way with the present struggle.' Arch M. Thurman, secretary of the Provo Commercial Clue, returned Thursday night from his trip to Chicago, Chi-cago, where he went to attend the Congress of National Defense, the National Na-tional Security League and kindred organizations, which held conventions In that city last month. There were present many of the leading men of the nation, and iMr. Thurman reports that there is a great war winning! snirit In the east. Mr. Thurman has made the following follow-ing statement of Impressions received by him on his trip east: "The outstanding impression that one receives in the Kast is the intensity inten-sity of the war spirit which is everywhere every-where manifest. The farther east one goes the more intense Is the war spirit. Men in every walk of life are anxious to give their service to the end that the war will be successfully termlnat-' termlnat-' ed. Wherever one goes in the Kast the !one topic of conversation is the war and what we can do to help win the war. |