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Show AFTERMATH OF WAR HATRED IS SMITHS TOPIC George Albert Smith Says U. S. Has Leading Role In World's Safety Enlivened by friendly tilts over thfi 'league of nations ..mil by Interesting discussions of foreign relations, the first banquet of the Utah society. Sons of American Revolution, the twenty-eighth twenty-eighth annual gathering of Us kind of that orp:i nliatlon, wu held at Ui" Weber We-ber club last night. The. affair marked one of the two .occasions in American history most sacred to the society he anniversarv of the brittle of Lex-mgton, Lex-mgton, the other occasion being the birthday of George Washington. The banquet was attended n- members of :he society from Salt Like, Ogden Brlghum Clt and Payeon, :ind tho visiting vis-iting guests left well pleased with Ogden Og-den hospitality. CONTEST 11F,LI In the afternoon prior to lh contest the third annirtl contest between representatives rep-resentatives of the Kden high school and of the Weber Is'ormiU college was held at th tabernacle. The prize ,v i a medal offered for patriotic oratory by the Utah society to the win-' ss ners of 9uch contests, not onlv In Og- dp.n but also at the Utah .Agricultural college, at the Dnlversltj "i Utah and! I at a contest between representatives of the two Salt TiKe City high schools. Leonard Wright of the Weber Normal' college was the successful contestant' yesterday. Miss Helen Cleveland of the I ' gden high school being given second honors on a very clos decision. The j chairman at the contest wan the Key. llovr L Hcnriques of Salt La DOBUS INTRODUCED At tho banquet, after a musical program pro-gram by tho MlsJes Mary and Kath-vy-ne Fisher and Mrs Rae W. Carr, tho president of the society, Robert M. McConaughy, of Bait Lake, made a short addre-ss reporting ui".ii : I 1. - -Iects favoring tho bringing of the 1923 i national convention of tho Sons of the American Revolution i" Utah Which ho pronounced excellent. J 1 - then introduced in-troduced tho chairman of the banquet committee, Stuart P. Dobbs of ogden. tvYin hrtpfK- TV n Inn m eri the .-I'liK members of the society to Oajdett, an In turn introduced Abbot R. Heywood of Ogden, as the toastmastcr. Mr Heywood, before Introducing th( speaker, briefly touched upon tin functions of the society as commemorative commem-orative of the efforts of the ancestors of Its members in securing American liberty, and then gave way to George Albert Smith of Salt 1-ake, who spoke upon "America's World Position." AFTERMATH OF HATRED Mr. Smith, who recently return I from a visit to Europe In which he Visited Vis-ited a number of the countries n -canity engaged In war, spoke ol th aftermath of hatred which the war had left, and declared that a firm advocate advo-cate of the league of nations before hla visit, he now believed that America Amer-ica had wisely refrained from accepting accept-ing membership therein. H spoke of the message of peace and good will which tho United States gave the world of the four thousand mile boundar) line with Canada unguarded, and of the peaceful relations of this country coun-try with all others in its hemlephere-and hemlephere-and ended by declaring that while England and her colonies could not ( jli.1 alone keep the peace of the world, nor could that task be perform J bj the United States alone, it the English-speaking English-speaking nations of the world followed ;helr common ideals, dealt Justly and fairly and openly with each other, and actd in concert as forces In favor of peace, justice, and fair play, that they could advance the whole world towards the ideals of liberty and peace for which tho United States stood, MATTHEW'S SPEAKS Repeating his address which in the titernoon had won for him the society's socie-ty's modal. Leonard Tribe then spoke "ii "Law Enforcement," declaring one '. i use of the wave of crime from which, this country has been suffering to be a negligent attitude towards law enforcement en-forcement on the part of the citizenship citizen-ship of tho nation, and urging a support sup-port for law as a patriotic duty. He vvas followed by the Row Godfrcv Matthews of Ogden, also a guest of the society, who spoke on "Then and Now." At all times in the history of the two nations, even In ll'i;, the sympathies sym-pathies of tho common people of Great Britain have been with the cause of America," declared tho speaker. Ho referred to the statement of Pitt that hod the colonials not revolted against Indignities and Injustices heaped upon them by the mother country the would have been unworthy of the name of free-born Englishmen, and to tho speech of John Bright at Manchester during the civil war, asserting that al-v-iy though the cotton operatives of Lan cashire were without work because of that conflict. tht-y h.iri . ote.j that, they i would starve before their hardships should be put forth as an excuse for tho Intervention of England on the side of tho south. At all times, tho speaker Said, the only persons in Great Britain not In sympathy with the principles of I berty for which the colonies, and later tho United States fought were those of tho so-called aristocratic lasses. II deplored a tendency he found In writers of school texts to cm- Iphasizo tho differences between na-Itions, na-Itions, rather than the underlying sympathies sym-pathies and ties which they held in Common, and asserted that In th J English speaking nations of the world would i,e fouint Aii. eric. i s best friends, just as those nations looked to America Amer-ica for sympathy and support in their Struggles against despotism and denials 01 liberty. JUDGE CALL SP1 VKs The last speaker. Justin D. Call, of 'lirlgham City, former ili-trlct judge of the First Judicial district of this state, Jspoke on the toast. "The Sons of the I American Revolution " He briefly ro-If ro-If erred to tho Ideals which had animated an-imated the colonists at the period which i began with the battle of Lexington icallcd attention to the problem of preserving pre-serving American Ideals which confronts con-fronts the nation today, and urged that the members of the society, lay-Inc lay-Inc aside all partisan feeling In matters mat-ters affecting the national Interest, devote de-vote themselves wholeheartedly to-IWard to-IWard forwarding the efforts of the president and of congress In their ef 'forts to solve that problem. His declaration dec-laration that no considerations of party should affect the attitude of clt-slzcns clt-slzcns in such matters brought hearty applause. Upon his reaching his conclusion, con-clusion, the banquet closed VI Till' BXNyi FT Among those In attendance were Mr and Mrs. Robert E. McConuughy. Mr and Mrs. George Albert Smith, Mr and Mrs Havid R ";ra: . Mr. and Mrs Charles W. Boyd. M J. Tanner, Frederick Fred-erick A. Boyd, Daniel S. Spencor, fcflSB I Johnston, Mr and Mr.-c George Jay riibson, Mr. and Mrs. F. J WestCOtt, Mr and Mrs Q. R. Bothwell, Rev, Hoy: E Henrlques. Mr and Mrs. Ellas A. Smith. Jr., Ellas A. Smith. Mr am! Mrs. E O. Loc, S. V Trent. Jr.. R!ch- ard R. Lman, Miss Margaret Lyman. Col. John Q. Cannon and Mis Cannon, I Mr. an. Mrs Hanlel H. Cannon, Judge Morris L Ritchie, C. P. Overfield, Mr 1 and Mrs. Benjamin L. Rich, and Mis Lulu E Parsons, all of Salt Lake City, Ernest L Wilkinson. Mr and Mrs Ed-jwyn Ed-jwyn W, Hobbs, Mrs. John F. Hobbs , -Robert C Nye Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P Dobbs.. Miss Evelyn Dobb? Mr and Mrn. Theron n. Llttlefleld. Ted Llttle-field. Llttle-field. Mrs, William A. Turner. Mr and Mrs. Abbot R. Heywood, Rev. Godfrey Matthews and Mrs. Matthews, Leonard! Wright, Helen Cleveland, Mrs. Rlxanna Gunncll, and Yolney C Gunnoll, all of I Ogden; Mr and Mrs Ju.-nln D Call, j Ml and Mrs. Rejamln C. Call. W V. Cal land W. C. Call, all of BHgham I City, and Rev. Wlldman Murphy of I Payson |