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t Vol. 27 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 26, 1917 , No. 46 I
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A n Independent Paper Published Under
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EDITORIALS B Y JUDGE C. C. GOOD WIN
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Decoration Day
YHEN a soldier is borne to his final resting
I place only funeral music is played. But
- when lowered to his past couch; when the
volley is fired and the last tattoo sounded; then
the thought is that the brother is hushed in his
long sleep and that it is man's work to resume his
place in the world's work, and the music is
changed to that which becomes the cheerful work
er's duty.
Next Wednesday will be Memorial day; the
day on which to garland with flowers the lowly
. couches on which are hushed to sleep those who
we loved, but who, over-wearied, have sunk into
I that coma from which there is no awakening. It
j is a lovely custom. It is not difficult to believe
f that only half the spectacle is witnessed by mortal
eyes; not difficult to believe that it is watched by
an invisible host that are saying to each other in
whispers that never reach mortal ears: "Death did
not break the ties that bind our souls together;
there is transition but there is no death."
Only solemn music will be played on the way
to perform tha coveted duty, and our thought is
that only funeral music should be played on the
return marci for we are in a state of war.
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As yet .its echoes have reached us, but
' today in F oe some thousands of men are dying
daily on A1- red battle lines. And before another
year, it may be ordained that the carnage is to bo
, transferred to our own soil and that our immedi
ate kin may be paying the toll that the mighty
war is levying.
So the immediate duty of this country is to
prepare to meet that shock if it is to come.
So far as our dim mortal eyes can discern, the
great ultimate object designed to be wrought out
by the war is gradually taking shape; it is to forgo
out more justice to mankind; more honest free-
' dom; more equal rewards; new privileges for the
human race; renewed hopes for the poor and
down-trodden; a more substantial justice to rule
( the eaith.
It may be that the final decision is to be upon
our soil, or at least that our soldiers, called from
all the avenues of peace, are to be the final ar
biters. And so this Memorial day is not like any other
since the custom of wreathing the graves of our
dead with flowers was inaugurated. Heretofore
it has been attended by thoughts of victories won;
this year men's thoughts will be flllod with ap
prehensions of the sacrifices that may be required
before the old thought can come back to us.
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A year ago we were all hoping that the groat
controversy might be speedily settled, and that it
might bo settled on the soil where the difference
oiiginated; today it begins to look as though it
must be our country that is to issue the peace call.
The nations of the old world are In what seems
to be a death-lock.
They all seem to have grasped a live wire that
is tearing at their very vitals but that holds them
so they cannot let go. So each day the earth is
ON ACCOUNT OF THE WAR
TOHN BROWN cannot pay me the
Jr money he owes,
"On account of the war."
The cook wants ten dollars a week, or she
goes,
"On account of the war."
The baker reduces the weight of his bread,
The butcher sends steaks that could muster
as lead,
The tailor's wool suits are of shoddy In
stead, "On account of the war."
The tinner can't patch up my roof where It
leaks,
"On account of the war."
The car that I bought will not come for six
weeks,
"On account of the war."
The cost of my shoes mounts each time that
I buy,
The prices on drugs are prodigiously high,
But when I demur, I receive the reply,
"On account of the war."
And what can I do when they airily say,
"On account of the war.'
What; else can I do but obligingly pay,
"On account of the war."
Yes, often I wonder what some folks will
do,
When all of the world with its Warfare is
through,
And they can no longer pass by in review
"On account of the war."
Brattleboro Reformer.
heaped with new dead, while behind the mighty
armies are the millions of civilians who are look
ing to our country as a last hope.
" And so, at present, no one can approximate
what our part is yet to be in this unparalleled up
heaval that may yet affect mankind much as a
geological period does the solid earth when the
crust of tho earth is shattered by an omnipotent
plough and prepared for now races of men and M
.new animal life upon the grave of a world shat-
tered by tho cataclysm. H
Tho present outlook does not hold much hope
in it aside from tho conviction that there is an JM
eternal purpose behind tho birth and progress of M
our republic, and that its destiny is being guided M
by the Almighty's hand. H
But we know that our flag has never yet gone
down under a battle canopy that it has not finally M
emerged with added majesty and splendor. So it
will be in this Imperious call, and when tho clouds
are rolled back and the world has a now dawn,
while thore will bo many more hero's graves to be
decorated, new securities of peace will be given
the world and our flag will shine out as the symbol M
of peace and irresistible power to all the nations
of the earth. H
A Panorama That Mighty Be H
i-jrE wonder why some moving picture artist M
JL has never tried to depict the panorama. zZ
the creation and growth of Salt Lake City.
First: The rugged mountain frame with its
frown, with tho sunbeams playing upon the
heights and the eternal snow;t tho valley with its
green, and the lake shimmering in the sunlight.
Second: The coming of tho pioneers down Em- H
igration canyon, and the praise service amid the
desolation. H
Third: The lowly hamlet taking form; the
first efforts at tilling the parched soil the strug-
gle to discount want, the cohesive atti action of
universal poverty. H
Fourth: The building of the TabeftfSWejethe fl
coming and going of Johnston's army.ifli1 the
opening of the first mines. - J" H
Fifth: Tho coming of Connor's command, tho
planting of the flag at Fort Douglas, the bugle M
calls, the morning and evening gun; the laying of H
the foundations of the Temple; the stir of a new
life in the desert; the founding of new, humble
homes and the planting of the first flowers.
Finally: The completion of the Temple; the M
building of the superb school buildings, new M
churches and hospitals, moro and more stntelv H
homes, and the great business structures and ho- H
tels; the arrival of the first locomotive; the trans- H
formation of the streets; the building of the cap- H
itol; and the thousand and one other landmarks
and incidents that have played a part in the '
building of this wonderful city. ,
Then as a fitting climax to it all, the unfold- pjl
ing of the spring, filling the original sombre 11
frame with glorious light. It is all very wonder- Sl
tful to fancy, and surely an enchanting picture H
could be wrought by a great artist. H
If the strolling angels who first on the Great H
Lake's shore painted the sombre frame and said t
to each other: "We will leave it to that race
which is to be, and which will he called men," l
were to return now, arriving at dawn, and survey H
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