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Show LUNCHEON ST THE WEBER CLUB FOP. OGDEN VISITOR At 1 he luncheon of the Ogden Publicity Pub-licity bureau. Warren 1. Wat lis enter-tained enter-tained Rev Godfrey Matthews and F. Telford Enckson, delegate of the Albanian Al-banian federation at the Paris peace conference and at present representing that affairs of that people at Washington. Wash-ington. in conversation. Mr. Brlckson explained ex-plained o the guests that the Albanian Albani-an .people have a district claim to be treated as a separate and distinct na- j tion, although for over two hundred years they have had to suffer the domination dom-ination of a foreign powe r He speaks in glowing terms of the national characteristics char-acteristics Of the people whose word ol" honor is sacred and whoso ideal Of home life can not be excelled anywhere any-where in the world. It was a surprise lo his hearers when Mr. Friekson explained ex-plained that there are some fifty thousand thou-sand Albanian residents in this country coun-try and that ihe population of their j native country at. tin- present time ,3 about two and one-half millions. Re-1 gret was expressed that time had not availed for the gathering together of I a large crowd of business men to hear Mr. Erickson speak of "Albania at the Peace Conference " m |