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Show Speaker Tolton Writes Collier's When we printed something complementary com-plementary about the recruiting record rec-ord of Harrison, Idaho, we didn't mean to double our letter mail. We didn't know, for instance, that Cashier O. W. Mikkelson would com-municate com-municate the record of Wyndmere. N. Dak., and that. Mr George H Flagg would be reporting on Prairie City, Ore., and thai Speaker Tolton of the Utah House of Retresenta-tives Retresenta-tives would be taking up the cudgels cud-gels for the town and county of Beaver. Bea-ver. AVe did not look for the letter from the superintendent of schools of Stevenson, Wash., saying: "Every one of the boys in my graduating grad-uating class volunteered for the navy, na-vy, and all were accepted but one." Edward Walker who signs himself "A Florida cracker temporarily marooned ma-rooned In, New York City" notes that the little town of Sarasota, in Manatee County, has enlisted a full company of naval militia since the break with Germany. (Sarasota has good boosters: another of them Is Warren Purdy, writing from the navy na-vy Yard at Charleston, S. C.) Other letters come to us from Mississippi, Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arizona, the Dakotas, Oklahoma, Ok-lahoma, and Colorado and Kansas. (Trust Kansas) Mrs Leon Smith sends us a clipping from the Scran-ton, Scran-ton, (Pa.) "Times": "75 Per Cent of Town Join Navy." (It is Camp-ton, Camp-ton, Pa., that is referred to, and there were only 12 men eligible, by the newspaper account so that the percentage is a little less terrific than it looks. We like C. G. Manning's Man-ning's letter from Buhl, Idaho a town that was nothing but sage brush eleven years ago and Is now about 1,500 strong. There are 75 boys from Buhl in Company K of the Second Idaho, 3 in the Officers' Reserve Re-serve Corps, and 17 in other branches branch-es of the service. What we like about School Superintendent Manning's Man-ning's letter is not just the figures but these sentences too: "This year will see the Buhl country coun-try pro'duce the greatest crop per acre every acre being cultivated ever produced. The high-school students have sent over $200 to the Belgian Children's Fund. The citizens citi-zens are giving each month $150 to help the boys sent out from here. We have a Red Cross organization with nearly 150 members, organized only two weeks ago. It is our duty to help in the great work which the President has so nobly begun." Last of all here is Mr. R. S. Jensen, Jen-sen, Harrison. Idaho, the town that started all this trouble, writing to us that since we wrote our paragraph not 10 but 41 boys in the army and navy are to be credited to little old Harrison. By the time we have said ; as much we shall expect to be corrected cor-rected all over again, but the risk's worth taking. Collier s Weekly, i - . |