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Show uu DEMOCRATS NOMINATE. BRIGHA.M. Oct. 11. A Democratic mass convention was held Monday night at the courtroom of tho county courthouse to nominate a candidate for city judge of Brlgham and a candidate can-didate for constable of Box Elder precinct. Attorney Fred J Holton waa nominated for judge and R, A. Lee for constable. CROWN PRINCE FEELING LONELY Regrets He Can't Go Back' To Aid in Reuniting Germany BATjTIM( RF, Oct 11. Regret that he cannot po back to i.crmnny to all In reuniting his country is the principal princi-pal emotion of the crown prince in 0X-11c 0X-11c at Wlorlngen. Holland, according to an authorised Interview with him, to be printed by the Baltimore Min The cabled Interview whir h Is copyrighted copy-righted by the paper, w.i.s given to Henry U Mencken, the critic and os-saylst, os-saylst, v, ho has been in central Ku-rope Ku-rope for several months ISLAND is DREARY McKcnnu i omments on the drcar-I drcar-I iness of the Island, which entirely cut off from the mainland for weeks luring the Winter, His narrative proceeds pro-ceeds . i ' Hut this deadly isolation has failed Ito make any noticeable Impression on the spirit or frame of the prince. There are touches of gray In his sandy hair, but he still Is erect as a drill sergeant, and as quick in speech and movement Very tall, slim und lithe, and now smooth shaven, he looks much like a big boy. "Hut certainly thl re Is nothing Immature Im-mature about his ideas. Among all the Germans I have Ulked lo during the past six weeks, ranging from high Officials to newspaper editors. and from university professors to business men. I can recall none whose views or past and present events contain less of Illusion. He discusses the war objectively ob-jectively ami with great shrewdness, und at i ep(s his presi nt position uncomplainingly. un-complainingly. It is uncomfortable, but so Is every other German position. RE1 l 5ES H ANSWER " 'Germany,' he said, 'laces stupendous stupen-dous tasks and almost Intolerable bur-d bur-d ns and It is naturally hard tor any German to stand by without taking a hand. 1 wish I could be more actively employed, but certainly nave no desire to complicate the present situation by raising factional questions. I would be absurd, of course, to say dynu.stle considerations do not interest me, but they assuredly lake second place In my thoughts. In such days as these I am, first of all a German citizen and sol-Idler. sol-Idler. As such, my duty is precisely ,that of every other good German to 'subordinate personal fortunes and I even personal opinions to the common 'good. What we need today, above I all is national unity. A thoroughly j united Germany would be Unbreakable.' Unbreak-able.' I ..l.,l U -rln.A If V,. n,s.,.l.l Vrttf, 1 - ' ' 'I 1 1 C C' 11 . 1 ' " vmu . vfcv, supposing himself at home. " Certainly.' he answered. 'My wife always votere Why shouldn't I'." Watchful Major Mueidner evidently evident-ly feared I would ask him how he would vole, but the prince himself savvd the sltuatiun. " '1 refuse lo answer.' he said with a smile The ballot Is secret by law and 1 always try to obey the laws.' EXPECTED Mil si 'The prince takes a philosophical view of the etravugunt tales about him circulated in America during the war. For example, the stories of wholesale burglaries In France. He collects such fables with humorous Interest In-terest and was apparently delighted with several 1 contributed from the archives ar-chives of the Qreel press bureau. " 'Such nonsensical libels,' he said 'do not annoy me half as much as their authors probably think Abuse I of that sort goes with the trado I was I born to. If Germany had won a sweep-ling sweep-ling victory. I'd have got. as crown 1 prince, far more than my fair shuro lot the glory and applause. In defeat 1 get. perhaps, rather more than a fair share of the blam-- and execration both at home and abroad, but such are fortunes of war for commanding officers. offi-cers. I doubt that any sane American seriously believes today that I was guilty of the fantastic crimes laid to mo during the war. FROM BAD TO WORSE "Like most other Germans, the prince txMleves the Kuropean situation will never be genuinely remedied until un-til the United States takes a hand In It "It rather surprises me,' he said, 'that flio United states as a nation, shows little concern about the Immediate future fu-ture here. Things go steadily from bad to worse I don't mean In Ger- many alone, but everywhere on the ' continent Hero in rich, peaceful Holland, Hol-land, among people famous for industry indus-try and business capacity .the effects of the German situation are everywhere every-where visible. Hollanders must sell their goods, but their best customer. Qermany. can no longer buy. nor will iBhe ever buy again until there is a radical dealing with the evils which (beset her. 1 hear that trade Is al-, al-, most as badly paralyzed in the two Ami fid and for the same reason Ku- j 'rope cannot buy the surplus of the natural products of the western hemisphere. hemi-sphere. Thus, one-half of the civilized world sees lt,s crops rotting In the ; fields and warehouses and the other I half faces starvation. ' The underlying cause of all this disorganization dis-organization and distress Is the Versailles Ver-sailles treaty It "was made In anger and in total disregard of the most elementary economic laws and common com-mon sense. Today tho fact that It Js literally unworkable Is obvious to cv-'eryone. cv-'eryone. R Is doing almost as much ! damage In Franco, in fact, as to Ger-j Ger-j many, und scarcely less to the other j jallles and tho neutrals. The speech; I of Reginald Mi enna in New York last! i week ought to bo accepted by tho; i whole w orld as a plain warning. Mc-I K'-nna knows the situation thoroughly thorough-ly and he told the simple truth. HOPES TO SEE I s " The entrance of the United States, into the war, threw the balance to- ward tho allies and was largely responsible- for their victory. Hut the United States opposed tho treaty be- 'fore it was signed and has never rat-I rat-I if led It since. I am In hones that the i view of it thus indicated will generally! iwin over those who still believe it can executed. Failing In thatH . an eC n. throBM- i ata-tr.iphi I !, it ..it sf rophjH member is not r mote; it ::es dJ ly around the corner." .E The IT.- he WU.VH eager to see the i nited StatetM t t 1 n. m -1 wiit :or hetter UJ This Is no time for i,ermftD CSJf . i : 1 1 i c h do at i i lOttfBj |