OCR Text |
Show uu MUST KEEP BOYS FREE FROM DRINK SALT LAKE, May 25 Unless the governor, other state officials and municipal mu-nicipal authorities do their part to keep conditions clean in connection with the establishment of the mobilization mobili-zation camp at Fort Douglas, Salt Lake will lose its military post, is the warning warn-ing contained in an announcement made public yesterday by Secretary of War Newton D Baker. Mr. Baker made public in Washington Washing-ton yesterday a letter he has addressed address-ed to the governors of all states,, calling call-ing for co-operation in keeping the army mobilization camps free .from improper surroundings and immoral influences. Suggestion is made to the governors that their state councils of defense make themselves responsible for seeing that tho laws of their states and of congress in respect to these matters are strictly enforced The injunction relates not only to the camps established under federal authorities, au-thorities, but to the more or less temporary tem-porary mobilization points of the national na-tional guard units. It also relates to the large centers through which soldiers sol-diers will constantly be passing. This order is taken to mean that the secretary of war is aiming at the sale of intoxicating liquors to soldiers in uniform of the United States army and national guard Yesterday it was apparent in saloons and cafes in Salt Lake that a narrow interpretation had been applied to the prohibition clause of the army bill as a result of the order which went out Thursday night from Chief of Police J. Parley White, that no intoxicating liquors should be dispensed to khaki-clad military men. A few of the higher class bar-rooms' proprietors were inclined to be a little more liberal with the interpretation of the law and discriminated against privates, while officers were served with anything thev desired to order. In many instances the police appeared and requested soldiers to leave saloons |