Show i CAN YOU HELP THE UTAH NATIONAL GUARD GUARDI I The announcement of o General hat that improvements w Y contemplated o plated for 1910 in the thu National Guard of Utah recently prompted prompt d an nn editorial in this column urging general support of the organization g i 7 ti Citizens generally should encourage the work of the excellent nt organization o it is an institution provided by ly the govern government ment for the protection pf public life and aud property Hud and it will bo be found ever evo ready to perform its duty dut p pIn In k this connection the following comment of the thc lic licE lican n which applies in Ogden as it does in n Salt Lake is deserving of serious consideration It is just possible the young men of Salt Sat Lake do not appreciate Jho tho ho pleasures and and the benefits hen fits they the could derive from membership in inthe inthe the National Guard of Utah It is a little more than possible that I employers of young oung men do not realize the wisdom that would be expressed in their th ir encouragement of those to belong to the I j guard It is probable the tho people generally do not take quite the theus I I i u us view they the should sh uld of the Importance nee of the guard as a part partI ot of the national establishment I I For Fo the th government certainly wants a guard an army of citi citizen c ti tit I t zen sold soldiers rs Utah gets in ill the neighborhood od of twenty thousand dol dollars dolI I lars J TB a n year ear as its distributive share of government money mone appropriated I ted td for the equipment and pay pR of guardsmen It gives to young oung i men men an opportunity for drill for improvement in rifle practice for that discipline and exercise which is best expressed in the perfect soldier not to mention a very attractive social inducement realized by b bs every ever loyal loral member of the force HWe We do not at all overestimate the situation when we say sar that the th guard is a very attractive place pla e for young oung men An excellent class of young men have haye found place in the various organizations no man will feel contaminated who makes this one of his life J interests In some Borne other countries every e err citizen is compelled to give gie giet t froth from f three re to five tc years y ars of service to the nation and ever thereafter hold old himself hunsel in m readiness to be called to the defense of his country Here the government is trying to get an nn effective e military force with without without fi out disturbing the citizen relation re and yet et assuring that condition t of preparedness r without which even e this strong nation would be bet beI t I again gam kin in precisely the same condition it was at nt the time tune of the second secondI second I war var war with England when an au inefficient militia permitted the burning of f Washington t I But we wc want especially esp to urge employers ers of young oung men nen against the tire present p tendency to discourage membership men in Ui the guard The bigger the employer er the more reason he has ha for helping the guard gaard encouraging membership in it excusing for the ten ton tends days ds 1 is when they the must be annually aun absent at encampment The inter inte interests ests of the employer are re rc with the guard They can ean help it very err I greatly Pol |