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£;•,Salt Lake City, Utah) ^ r ^4qS|* |- ol/ASunday, December 26 JL JL J.v3 k-^ Qlt I ^Clikv. *f-« - -• ■'ramsThe Salt Lake TelegramD-'t!ESTABLrSHED/WOZ.■. (fatdlihed every ■ fternoon, except Suntfay, end -under ' m mominqjpy tb*. ealt Like Telegram Co'PRICE 15c A WEEK, DAILY and SUNDAYEstoi «t u,. eat £*k« nuTn withPRINTED IN TYPE THAT EVERYBODY CAN READ WITH-OUT STRAINING THE EYES.The Telegram guarantees that Its net paid Salt Lake City carrier circulation; daily and Sunday, exceeds that ol .any twoother Salt Lake newspapers.__-Germans Faced With Same Dangers That Destroyed Napoleon'.Utah’s I tide pendeni Newspaper JKeep 7his New Year ResolutionThere's one new leaf which .everybody plans to turn overevery New Year day. , ,,' It reads. “I WILL SAVE so much of my salary every week.Thousands figure—but few ever get that bank account started.' There are the young'men and women earning tliei? first money —wives who by economy can shave down their household expenses ^-housemaids—-middle aged women, old men on small but regular salaries—many whom experience has warned to be thnfty who would like to keep this good New Year resolution—if they could just manage to get that savings account opened.. -, ■ But the marble and bronze elegance of a bank appals them. Or.they shy at offering only $1 to a clerk wrho is accustomed, they think, to handle pi3.es of gold pieces. _ , ' ,n;!*’ Prosperity is with us. As long as Europe holds millions ol ■menin the .trenches and out of the industries, there will be as much work Tor-most of us as we can do.While this work lasts, there is a chance to save for a future time when ■work, will he harder to get. ...; There is really no reason, however, to wait until after New ' Year’s day to put such a good resolution into effect. Start tomorrow, for certainly no one can have his first hundred in the bank, nn-■ til'after he has saved his first dollar; ha can never boast ofbis ■■first thousand until he has saved his first hundred.Most Americans seem to agree that this nation is badly in , need of preparedness against war. Let them not forget that- it is -just as badly in need, of preparedness against WANT.Good'times and bad times come ip eyeles. When least expected, prosperity fails and the pinch of poverty is felt all over ’the land. 'The cables carry the announcement from Paris that .more than. 3,000,000 Frenchmen have subscribed to the “Loan of Victory.” The story ’contains this' significant sentence: “There was an infinite number of small subscriptions by the humble people. ”Tho citizens of France have been noted for their frugality in the past That nation has led the world in savings accounts. And now, when the republic has to raise more money with which to fight for its future, it goes to the people and they have the money with which to float a big loan.=’ This is not the first time the people of .France have been lend-. era and their government has been the borrower. Instead of parting hack huge war loans to private syndicates, the government has before paid them back to the people with interest Tmd will do so ' agalnV . * * . . , • ' ■,While, in the United States, it may neverhe necessary for the government, to borrow from the people for war, it is practically eertain(that there will be, other situations which will cause the people embarrassment, if they arc not prepared against WANT.. By FRANK H. S1MOND3. i In tho, Balkans to assure their Turk-For all military observers tho I Isb and Bulgarian allies of their eup-■ —— *+.Una airmail-1 , Pdrt. It will not co to leave Bui-campaign la the.Balkanshas already garia to bear th0 wMJe burdea o£recalled the parallel of the peninsular war, and the latest operations about Salonikl raise the Interesting questions: Is this city to provea Corunna; or will the Anglo-French force be able to draw before it such lines as Wellington drew at Torres Vedras before Lisbon? In all respects the situation both In Europe and in the Immediate peninsula battle ground suggests that of the campaign between 1808 and 1810.Going baclt to tho Napoleonic episode, It will be recalled that the year 1808 saw the great emperor actually at tho summit of his power, although his fortunes were to continue lavorable for several years to come. He had won AuBterlitz In1S05, Jena la 1806, Frledland in 1807, ■ 1 he hadOur NaVal Needs- The special report of the American navy’s general board proves that there is no intention to unnecessarily delay improve-^ monts in Uncle Sam’s sea fighting force. It sIiqws that- the program calls for an expenditure of $300,000,000 the first year while ‘the1 total for five.years was estimated, at only $500,000,000; under ■ the administration's plan.n-i,, ...... , .........and by these three victories disposed of Austria, Prussia and Russia. At the peace of Tilsit, in 18Q7, his supremacy in western Europe was acknowledged by his paly possible, opponent, the czar; of all his enemies only Great Britain re-Tnninofi formidable. • 'mained formidable.Triumph at Wagram.In ISOS, the British, having'failed in a number of expeditions, east an army to Portugal, which war successful In effecting a landing and in driving Junot out of tho Brnganza kingdom. To meet this menace Napoleon. crossed the.Pyrenees withihis victorious armies, and his mostua-mous'marshnls, swept before him the Spanish resistance, entered Madrid, where he made his brother- king, of Spain. At this point the Austrian situation began to worsen, and he was obliged to return ,to Paris to organize the operation which ended in the great triumph, at Wagram a year later. In Spain he left, or subsequently sent there, Masseha, Mar-mont, Soult and other less distinguished generals and marshals.It fell to the part of Soult. to operate against tho British, and he took the field against Sir John Moore, whose little army had 'crossed the Spanish boundary. By rapid retreat Sir John Moore reached the coast at Corudna and saved his army by putting his soldiers on transports. He was killed, in the operation.-The result of the operation was to leave the French masters of Spain, save only for .Cadiz and Gibraltar.Then Came Wellington.There remained in Portugal only a small British army near Lisbon. But at this point Soult failed to act with promptitude, possibly, as Home historians allege, because, he was negotiating for tho Portuguese crown. In. consequence, the British had time to reorganise, and Wellington returned to command the army he had headed’ against- Junot. Defeating Soult at Talavera? he pushed,Slim out of Portugal and entered Spain,“reeling the allied armies in Macedonia and Greece. If the Bulgarians should fall or wear out, when the allies were able to advance would not Greek sentiment compel a reluctant king to enlist? Bulgaria, getting weary of tho blood tax, might make her own peace, with much of her gain assured.More Anent PreparednessFRIEND OF. THE PE0RIWhere Numbers Count.The main thing from the allied point of view is to multiply the points of friction for this Germans, because the German’ numbers are necessarily inferior to those of their opponents and their reserves far less numerous. Some time it is likely that what happened In Spain will happen in the Balkans, and the kaiser will, have to call back Ms Balkan masses to help him In an offensive in Russia or a defensive in Franco. When this happens it will release the allied army at Salonikl and there will be an instant decline in German prestige in the Balkans.The chief concern for the Germans is to drive the allies out of the Balkans altogether, if they take Sa-loniki, jhere is no point at which 'the allies can make a really dangerous landing, because of the character of the country. Saloniki-is the; gateway to the Balkans and the one barber that offers a base for large fleets and has any measure of docking facilities. It is the center of three great railroads, too, which must play an important pari; In any future allied advance. If the allies are driven out, then Greek territory can. be evacuated, Bulgaria aan garrison Serbia and some hundreds of thousands of Germans and Auatrlans will be released for service elsewhere. The British Hold Saioniki.The whole military faith of the allies is expressed in the belief that the German resources in men and money are beginning to fail, and that, in some months It is going to be difficult for tho Germans to find numbers sufficient to hold all the fronts.Then the German wave will begin to. recede, as did the Napoleonic after Moscow.Superior numbers will tell the story, and-a recession at any point will release subject populations, for Germany is bow inside hostile boundaries oa all sides. Belgium, Poland, Serbia will rise to any German withdrawal, as did Spain and Prussia a century ago, Greece and Rumania will probably enlist, if German defeat seems to be assured by any considerable retrograde movement.In the present phase, of the great war it is essential to recall the Napoleonic parallels because, Germany seems now, so far as any one can judge, quite in the position of France when the emperor had won his greatest triumphs and was alreadv beginning to suffer the gradual decline in the material of his armies and France was slowly'beginning to manifest a weariness of war which no field glory could emit a eatisfv.Editor The TelegramDuring same recent controversies In papers ot Salt Lako City, an article by a certain person, whose name I cannot recollect, attracted my attention. It was of the usual optimistic kind, that no combination of power: can do any serious injury to the United States, full at the usual swagger that one untrained American can easily dispose of three trained Europeans totally oblivious to the real facts of past American history stating so me half truths, which were as misleading as II they were pure on-duiferated falsehoods. Ono of the main points against the campaign for preparedness was “What of it did not the embattled farmers of tho revolutionary period with their nondescript arms and squirrel guns, do, effective service against the better armed redcoats, thereby insinuating .that this mythical million men that would spring up in their majesty and might twlxt sun up and sun down to quote tho glowing phrase of that Inveterate cloud chaser, the peerless Nebraskan,” armed with nondescript weapons, shotguns, etc., would stand an equal chance’ against modern armed and trained adversaries, as did their forefathers in the trying days of the revolutionary war; Now for a few momenta let us analyze the fasts and one will soon discover that 111 trained and Hi equipped men, no matter how devoted their courage, have far less chances today against well armed and disciplined troops than was the case at the time of tho rsvoiutionary war. Farmers and Shotguns.For the sake of argument, let us grant all the claims made for thrs exploits of tho embattled farmers of the war of independence- this fact remains, namely that their squirrel guns and other nondescript firearms were very little Inferior in accuracy to the erratic; Brown Bess musket used by the redcoats and other regular troops. These weapons could not be depended upon for accuracy at much more than 75 to 100 yards, and miss-fires were of frequent occurrence, whereas on the other hand the long barreled rifle used by the Pioneers and backwoodsmen of that period for hunting and other purposes were superior weapons, both in range end In accuraoy’to the -aid brown bess musket. But would those favorable conditions prevail today? Certainly not.What ghost of a ehancs would 50,-000 farmers and other citizens, however brave, hastily gathered together, armed with shotguns and other nondescript firearms, have against a brigade of European or Japanese troops, armed as they would be with death dealing magazine rifles and equipped with their full quota of deadly machine guns, eachSalt Lake, City, Utah, Dec. 24. Friend of the People,'Salt Lake Telegram. .Lear Sir: We were having an argument regarding leap year. One party maintaining that any year dl-wisable by four was leap year, and the,other stating that leap year did ■not occur every four, years, but that it skipped occasionally. We were in no position to produce an£ authority on the subject therefore would thank You to settle the dispute.,Yours truly.It. II. D.. A leap year has 386 days, and is-so called because it leaps forward a day as compared with the ordinary year of 363- days. It so happens that the leap years coincide with the years that are dlvisable by four. Of the years concluding centuries and known as the hundredth years, that is.- lstlo 1900 only ev.ery fourth is a leap year’ beginning with 2,000. The twentieth century will have the greatest number of leap years possible for a century—twenty-four. The year 1904'!.was; the; first one; then Cvery fourth year after that to and including the year 2000. The Seventieth century wili contain 30,525 days, which lacks one day of being exactly 5213 weeks. The middle day of the cenury will be^ January I, 1951.FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE.MS, He _ said, iaiiMm at 1 hadscene,* Lloyd o S wrote to the biographer5 ‘ ® ^Beve that the™ Jr.«’arytfeittb ;fo3aa?”r SU®.1?1the writ!, ° it wore yestprrin*downstairs ina^Sf!Friend ^f the People:When was Robert Louis Steven-sons 'The Strange Case of Dr. JekyU and Mr. Hyde first published? How long was he writing it? READER.It was published in December, 1885, and the author was engaged on it only a short time. After he had be-gun to frame the story In his mind he had a dream which partly alia led it His biographer says; The story delayed till suddenly one night he had a dream. He dwoke and foundsrsaiaway ajraJn~Ks^-ss«afesay.j. of course, it mu*B»J suppose;, that these three dav?t sent ail the time that Steve*, upon the story, for after thM?S working hard'for torn: ” bri,leini’' 3*= A fp:FRIEND OF THE PEnpi ■ ,*Friend of the People:)r J;’ the Panama canal a ■lt;lt;, track, so vessels going west«yi,™ tana ve'-' !sThl Ji® °, !';r alde7 ‘r UDEfThe canal is a. single line age width being 6-J4 feet and™ *». but ali the loSksJar unPl^S 3n? **«» ■'« shipLflh'r, ia lhe opposite dire, may be going down. Ships gob opposite directions mav nas-vi other at certain wide pla^slilhf i a!5y ol ’be l will be the case ultimately,!-presenttho ca:;al JS oWtruitea Slides. FRIEND OF THE PEOPXFriend of the People: 9What population do sclent™ the earth can maintain easilylTt out new inventions for rnakiS-' more productive? PBiRPLFXj-; “ has been estimated thati i -can maintain a pop-clat! .Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl? and Mr 9 r-ate ot ^crease.Hyde He dreamed those scenes in! considerable detail, and so vivid was Impression, that he wrote thestow oil at a red heat.” Mrs. Stev^ enson told the biographer; In the small hours of one morning I was awakened by eries or horror fromand In doing this no foreign power win be doing nothing contrary to laws governing international warfare’ and not only that, but terrible re-prisals will be tnade on uny city of locality where armed civilians will attempt to molest the enemy's troops, ,« C®3,1 an(1 mo3t beloved citizens will be held as hostages and instantly shot if the enemy’s troop* are fired upon by overzealous citizens. So the armed civilian who has waited until it wag too late to take up arms on defense of his country not only risks one , owri worthless careers,FRIEND OF THE PEO«L'mmyflCFriend of the People: ._Which has the largest arm™ many or Russia? ALEE!At lie beginning of the warjG many had an active army oflS70 and reserves, 4,530,000; Russia’s tive army, 1,500,00(7, reserves S 590 -The war strength of both wasTaiequal. There is no .statementfbf ~ ‘ it|firespective forces now In tbel The estimated population of theli countries at the beginning of the-So.r311* eMoo’cM:ucauijr iuaumuu i oTc.rt Willcapable of pouring forth a stream of „^^a,dlzJ ,the hves anci property missies at the rate of GOO per minute. + innocent victims, whoWould such a contest, though the | ® to pay the full penalty forpatriotic citizens outnumbered the “|s nnti^ely and reckless acts,enemy by anywhere, from 10 to 20 to j Mo™ anent various phases of this all 1, be a fight. No, It would be noth- / important topic later, ^Respectfully,Jng more or less than.a massacre? not j Of the enemy, but of the citizens who/ arose in their might to disperse the/ invaxlers, Tho greater the courage of this untrained and poorly 'equipped mob, would only mean grtliter losses on their part, without any compensating balance for the useless sacrifice^ of their lives. Anent the deadly ma* Chino gun, even the United States army is but poorly equipped with this modern engine of destruction as oneGarffeid, Utah.JOHN MORGAN.FRIEND OF THE FEOPLI91 gstlFriend , of tbs People:Please -tell mar where I can g._, names and addresses of Utahleei growers. A SUBSCRIBF;:Utahns have been seen to^r the opportunity for celery grov-Chinese gardeners provide most the local supply. Most of the celery Is growi?. adjacent to) Lake. Any commission bousej aid you in compiling a list ?of 1 growers. jMFRrEND OF THE PEOPUFEAR The
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