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Show War Whistle to Be Sounded On Monday Next Will Be a Signal for the People of Ogden to Display Dis-play the Stars and Stripes as Outward Evidence Evi-dence of Their Devotion to Country and Loyalty Loy-alty to Head of the Nation. ij Congress meets Monday. News will be flashed daily jj jj direct to The Standard by the Associated Press. One long blast of the Southern Pacific shop whistle j ji will mean WAR IS DECLARED. Successive short whistles will mean a STATE OF jj WAR is declared to exist. Immediately on receiving this news, every citizen is lj expected to display the flag and to decorate his home or place of business with flag3 and bunting in token of patri- j; j: otic loyalty. .j: Chairmen of the thirteen departments depart-ments of the Weber county preparedness prepared-ness organization met last night in the offices of Chairman Tharles C. Richards Rich-ards and perfected plans for systematic syste-matic mobilization of all food and military mili-tary resources. Approval was given to the previous call upon all the people to display flags and decorate their homes and business houses with bunting and tho national arms immediately on receiving receiv-ing notice of the action by congrs? authorizing the president to use the army and navy in upholding against Germany the freedom of the seas, the international rights of neutrals and the honor and glory of the Stars and Stripes. Program In Congress. Congress convenes Monday, April 2. Immediately after the organization of the national legislature, President Wilson Wil-son will address a conjoint session, outlining the situation in respect of Germany's piratical agressions in her unrestricted submarine warfare, the toll-taking of American lives; the destruction de-struction of American property; the treacherous conspiracy to embroil America with Mexico and Japan; the necessary severance of diplomatic relations; re-lations; the imperative necessity of using military force to uphold American Ameri-can honor, and a candid submission of all questions involved in the complex international problem which maximum diplomacy and Job-like patience have failed to solve Full Authority Expected. To stop and prevent further murder, piracy and international outrage by the monarchist clique that is exploiting exploit-ing Germany and despoiling the world, President Wilson is expected to ask for full authority to use the army and navy as the situation requires, and as he may direct as commander-in-chief. Congress is expected to grant this authority with the promptness demanded de-manded by the great majority of the people. When this action is taken the news is flashed by telegraph to every part of the country. The people of Ogden will be informed in this manner-One manner-One long blast of the Southern Pacific shops whistle will m n that war against Germany has been declared, and repeated .-hort whistles, like the engineer's warning warn-ing to obstructionists on the track, will mean that congress has declared de-clared a state of wai exists, or that the president has been authorized au-thorized to use the army and navy as in 1898. to uphold the honor and dignity of America. Appeal to All Citizens Eerybody is expertr-d and is urged by the preparedness committee to li ive flags and bunting read for Lmmed display after receiving this n . - This display of the national colors, as well as the wearing of the tiny buttonhole but-tonhole flag, will mean thai the people peo-ple of Ogden, like all the rest of the country, are united in support of congress con-gress and the president The lack of these tokers, in the general opinion, will be regarded as either indifference indiffer-ence to unpreparodncss, or lack of knowledge of these BtupendoUS events The people of Ogden, through the preparedness organization. have evinced thorough recognition of the fact that the political events of nexl week, centering in congress, will be the most important developments in America since the outbreak of the Confederate Con-federate war in 1861. Mayor's Proclamation. Giving civic offiical'approval of the mass meeting of last Tin -day nlghl of the preparedness work of the mobilization mobili-zation committees of which Judge Charles C. Richards is the general chairman, Mayor A. R Heywood has proclaimed an appeal to the citizens of Ogden to display the flag In the manner man-ner above described as an expression of their patriotism and the common desire to support the congress and the president in upholding American rights. Call Unnecessary. The maor also is quoted as desiring desir-ing another mass meeting for the purpose pur-pose of adopting resolutions in duplicate dupli-cate of those voted at the record-breaking mass meeting of last Tuesday night, but it is generally recognized that this call is unnecessary and may lead to some confusion. |