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Show Hj MAKING READY FOR H a crisis. B j I Saturday, In New York, 150,000 men Hn inarched as a demonstration in favor Rf of preparedness and half a million H people stood on the line of march to Hf jj cheer them. HL Wo find here In Ogdcn, among our H; most prominent men, very strong scn- Hi timents in favor of having the United B ' States prepare for a day when this B' country may bo attacked. W. H. Hf. Waltls of the Weber club and A. P. H Bigelow of the Ogdon State bank are Hj; j far Irom being visionaries. They are Kj ' sound-thinking men, free from undue Kf alarm or apprehension, and yet they Kjl are firmly of the opinion that If the Hull, United States fails to equip itself Hv for all eventualities, the day will come Hj: when our regrets will be written In Hj deepest humiliation. Hjf! I That our brightest engineers realize Hjf the nation's weakness is brought ouc Hf! by F. J. Haskln in one of his articles ' in which he tells how the engineers' Hkj. preparedness movement had its bogin- Hyfii ning in New York. The engineers' Hj work as a rule is such that he lives, BuJ or at least makes his headquarters Htil in a big city. Hence the idea as it Hlif spread, went from one metropolis to HE) another, until the list now includes HI! such places as Chicago, Pittsburg, HI j Philadelphia, Detroit and Buffalo. The Hi: latest recruit is San Francisco. Like HD many another of the preparedness HI; " movements which are sweeping the His1 country, the project had for Its basis H' the idea of making known a need that Hh' would confront the country in case Hl of war. The engineers took up the HR scheme with an enthusiasm that sur- HjjT prised even the men who conceived it. Hi: The lectures which were delivered HE; under the sanction, of General Wood, Hit' who himself addressed one of the HI;, meetings. General Wood asked for HP an assurance that at least a hundred Hi'jj nien would attend the first meeting. H ! Oter 2,000 were present, and It was H necessary to turn 700 awav from the doors. The training given tho engi neers consists in a series of lecture on military engineering problems, th suggestion of useful reading alon? the same lines, and a series of confer enceB on the works thus read. Be sides this, hundreds of the men art actually drilling, with tho intentior or attending the next Pittsburg en; campment. |
