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Show A WELCOME FOR THE BOYS. Two weeks ago, for the first time since he had been in Ogden, a recruiting recruit-ing officer was iavited to one of the iiuixiea uj. mit ci.iy. "Up in the northwest and down at San Diego," said the mother of a soldier sol-dier boy, "our boys write that they are being made to feel at home. Why should Ogden not follow the example? Since tho war, all our homes have been contributing to the army. The army today is a very close part of our lives. Why not help exalt tho army?" That is the right spirit The boy who goes to war must be made to feel he Is a superior boy and to know that those who stay at home hold him in admiration. Those who go out to offer their lives as a sacrifice are entitled, first to our respect second to our greatest deference. defer-ence. To them must we trust to save us from humiliation and degradation, j from loss of liberty, from even human I slavery. |