| Show URGES U S S1 TO EP UP GUARD GM Marine Officer Reveals 1 T nesses Shown By World orId War Wai When tho Germans were with with- withIn withIn within in 18 IS kilometers ot of Paris Paria the th French were retreating as os fast as would let them Cap Cap- taIn tam Captain P F D Cornell of ot the United States ma manor marine corps told the Xi- Xi wani club In its luncheon today noon In the Weber club I I know It it he said I was there We Ve W were given orders to retreat with them but the officer In command commando ot of our ou- platoons said I li-I 1 Weve We've just begun un It was ruch uch commanders who won the war Captain Cornell made a pica plea be- be be before tore fore tho the club tor for reasonable pre pre- pre I 1 do not my say that we should have th the tha largest army and navy In la In the tho world but but I do say ea that wo we should have a a nucleus ot of mIlitary men big enough to protect protect pro- pro Our countrY o against any emergency HAW flAW RECRUITS He lIe told of ot seeing AmerIcan regiments on the tho ho French rench fronts which had hall been In service ser for or a more titan than three week weeke The large majority ot of them had never neve r been on the tho range In England ho he said Bald there were sol aol diers In tr The British sal said they il they go to tho front un- un until Until until til they had had hail a 0 years years year's ears training Two hundred thirty nine thousand thousand and applicants for enlistment In lithe i tue tho marines were available a at the beginning of ot the World war the tho said Ot Of that number D men wore were medically u re- re rejected Ho Ilo praised J Utah tor for her men enlisting lit in inthe li i the tho marines marine He lie said that was wasI wasa wa-a wa i I a larger number than titan any other state In Ih the tha Union proportionate i to population He lie Bed the hope bope that Am Am- Americans Americans orleans of ot today would not bl be b so 80 unfit were they called upon for tor military service and l ex- ex ex expressed pressed d the time be belief lid that tIme the ox- ox extension tenton of ot education In grade s schools would materially at- at alleviate al alleviate the condition In speaking further of ot pr prepared prepared- prepared new ne newt ho he raid Aid America will never nover be an Im- Im Im nation Our Institutions do not point In that tion ton We e believe In live and le clive live On the tho oilier hand we must he reasonably prepared General Pershing has liaa always that wo we keep standing of ll- ll men Congress has hrs cut the figure from 11 to 11 It Ii ItIs Is a II fallacy to say eSy that we are arc reasonably prepared today tollay ThAI CUrAU TO T lie Ito denounced tho French In their campaign with the tho Amen Ameri- Americans cans In hi France saying the th never neer could bo ho depended upon and anel al- al always ways seemed scented too glad to retreat They weren't coming In platoons or out of ot the Marn Marno counti he said but they were coming In herds nearly as large lare I I never seen Men a 8 bit of ot coward coward- cowardice ice Ico on tho the part of ot an American either commissioned or otherwise was Willi tho the compliment he paid pail to his Itis countrymen When hen we wo vent over the ho top as a a whole no one could hold back We all felt the samo amo about ducking In big or lit lit- little littie lit little tle tie holes when In danger but we kept to our duty NOTES Along with denouncing the In their warfare he told ot of the uncivilized methods used by bythe bythe bythe the Moroccans on Ott tho the German front when the Allies were vere advancing antI and taking enemies Ho ne emphatically ally cally declared that he had seen leen them treacherously cut and whack oft off cars ears ot of Injured and captured German troops Misses Winifred McConnell and Virginia Anderson Andersen and Emerson Thatcher students of ot the Ogden school entertained with two instrument instrument-al selections Byron Dron W Matteson presented tho tIme bill baI on the tho city manager form ot of o government go which Is now before the Utah leg leg- legIslature legislature leg legislature A motion was passed giving the committee on public at- at affairs af affairs fairs power to study the bill and andreport andreport report Its opinion to tho the next nest meet meet- meeting meeting ing A motion to russ puss favorably on onAl onAl Al AI Hestmark for tor appointment as state fish fish and gamo game was killed on tho the motion of ot Robert Hoggan asking that keep out ot of o politics polities I 00 |
