Show I It was a poet who sang eang of the per per- perfect perfect perfect days da S of June but the Indian summer days that now are with us arc even en more snore delightful than those of June June days sometimes are not equal to their reputation for they the ate erratic while the Indian summer time is 15 dependable In Ogden the mornings are cool coolen enough en ugh to be stimulating to one with with- without without without out an overcoat The middle of the day Is a balmy warmth and the evenings e are pleas pleas- ing Izig The nights Induce sleep Note the fact act that Ogden Is not afflicted with Insect pests Since the free garbage system was Inaugurated six years ears ago the fly nuisance has been greatly reduced There are no mosquitoes at this season of the year and one can sit on his porch and enjoy life In Ii many of the advertised health spots of the country they have not the climate of Ogden For Instance In many of the Florida resorts at times Umes of the year ear fleas gnats and other Insects become seri seri- serious serious ous Otis pests and for part of the year the heat Is oppressive There Is 15 much for which should be thankful Every should cultivate a spirit of contentment and proceed to todo todo todo do all possible to build the ity Hy I 1 It Is 15 part of the duty of every everyone one who lives here to help make the home community a better place In which to live l li i i Bending to that task will mU give to tolfe life ife a greater purpose It Is not well to be always post post- postponing postponing postponing the day when you are to be begin be- be begin begin gin to serve In that way Business Is getting better as the money from the farmers' farmers crops be begins be- be begins gins to circulate Soon the beet growers will be re receiving re- re receiving their cash returns from a harvest hanest which the field men declare will be bc better than expected With good crops of all kinds and with the wool growers and cattle raisers doing weD with the mines of yielding Utah more wealth than ever before all Utah should prosper And Idaho also a Is feeling lIng the toning I up tip effects of big crops on cultivated lands and fine line range conditions S At Gettysburg on Wednesday President President President dent Coolidge accepted from Penn Penn- Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sylvania a statue of Major General George Gordon Meade who com corn commanded commanded the Union forces at the battle batlle of Gettysburg Gettysburg Is well back In the days of long ago ngo and young America may not understand how big that battle loomed In the minds of the people of this country It was fought July 3 1 1 1863 and was Wa a turning point In the great Civil war If you ou consult a II map you will discover that the southern troops were striking at the heart henrt of the then north n rth In the battle of Gettysburg the north lost killed wounded and missing or a total of The Confederate losses were report report- reported ed as 2592 killed wounded and or a total of 20 Measured In losses on both sides It was the greatest struggle of or the Civil war w r. r fought almost a year ear after caused a loss of to the union forces forcel with equally heavy cas cas- casualties Inflicted on the Confederates The records of the southern army were cre so poorly kept that the number I of troops on that side have been vari vail variously variously estimated from to Woodrow Wilson In his history placed the Confederate forces at drawn from a white pop pop- population population population of In the south During the thc Civil war the north north lost lostin lostIn lostin in battle and from disease The south lost The last jig jig- fig figures Urea ures are estimated I The north captured soldiers of the Confederacy The south cap cap- captured At the breaking out of the Civil war the population of the entire United States north and south was less than Since then the growth has been so great that the country has ha nearl nearly four times more population Though the battle batlle of Gettysburg was WU fought sixty-four sixty cars ago Ogden Ogder can boast of having at least one of the heroes of that great conflict In I the days of the Civil war the battle of Gettysburg burg was regarded even by foreign military experts as most sanguinary and considering the number of men engaged It was but bu many of the conflicts of the world war completely outclassed It In losses loss Oa On te tc Russian front t In the early Continued on rare Two T- T NEWS AND VIEWS Continued from rom Pate Pare One part of the world war ar whole com corn commands commands mands were wiped out The Russians before they were eliminated from the conflict lost killed U OOOO wounded and prisoners and missing I Those losses horses were only exceeded d by bythe bythe bythe the Germans who had killed and wounded The American losses were com corn comparatively comparatively small being killed in action died of ot wounds It Is made plain that war wu has been made mado more destructive of human life lite since the days of Gettysburg In 1863 there was no high ex explosives ex- ex plosives with which to blow up an entire regiment or poison polson gas with which to strangle an army I I But Dut in those days the fighting was wu wasas wasas as desperate s as ever it was In the Argonne or at Belleau Wood for men fought In lee the open When Hancock and Pickett clashed bayonet I met bayonet and ond men had lead I Ito to possess the courage to face cold steel which soldiers even today de de- declare declare de- de clare dare to be the supreme test As one reviews the great battles of the world and thinks of the sacrifice sacrifice fice lice of human life he is forced to express the hope that some day na na- nations nations na- na will settle seUle their differences with with- without without out resorting to war The Southern Pacific has Issued a beautiful folder on the West w t Coast of Mexico It is bright in colors and holds the eye When one reads of the extensive re resources re- re resources sources and then thinks of ot the dis disturbed dis- dis disturbed conditions in that republic he heIs heIs heIs Is forced to express regret that Mex Mex- Mexico leo ico is not stabilized If It Mexico with Ith its attractions of climate and soil had the stability and enterprise of the United States Instead of a population of or it would be a country of It is fortunate that Utah Cali Call California California fornia and Texas and all that country that hat once was Mexican became become a part parl of the lice United States in the days when the west was pioneering |