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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1918
Page
2
Fragmented OCR text from Che. Standard referencing its establishment in 1870 and association with The Associated Press. Mentions publication timing and republication rights but lacks coherent events or names.
The piece analyzes whether Lenin and Trotsky are German puppets or genuine Russian patriots, noting conditions at Brest-Litovsk and Petrograd. It discusses Russia's military weakness, potential German influence, and possible shifts in alliance as the peace talks unfold. It also explains wartime manpower plans, class one registrants, and the projected three million soldiers and supply diversification to sustain the Allied effort.
General Crowder outlined that the manpower for the army will come from single, childless men aged 21 on June 6, 1917, or those reaching that age, under a new selective draft plan. The aim is to raise troops from within the unskilled, without families dependent on their labor for support, to fill the increase demanded by the war.
A milling executive in Ogden warns in a Paris related report that U S wheat shortfalls threaten Allied supplies. He notes insufficient domestic wheat to meet military needs and foresees reliance on Australia and India, while shipping routes remain constrained.
An editor notes Spearleg of Mayor A R Weywood defending his intervention in Judge Barker's sentence of L H Prouly for illegal liquor sales. The mayor argues the Constitution bars cruel punishments, while courts have long held the phrase limits only state or federal laws, not a valid sentence.
A judge’s misinterpretation of the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment is challenged. The mayor reportedly allowed punishment deemed cruel, while courts have long enforced valid statutes despite such misreadings, prompting critique of official guidance to higher courts.
The text traces the shift from waste to revenue in cotton mills through oil extraction from cotton seed and peanut oil and cake. It notes copra as pressed meat yielding high grade oil and cattle feed, with oil plants in the Philippines and expanding use in food production in San Francisco and New York.
A magazine view lauds physicians and surgeons in the armed services for their rapid volunteer response. From six assistants to hundreds, 143000 physicians nationwide, 26000 volunteers, 14000 commissioned, and a growing surgical corps driven by top medical minds. The piece notes the Allies may recognize Bolshevik government while detailing wartime diplomacy and divisions among German foreign secretaries.
A Daily News correspondent describes Bolshevik demands and German moves at Brest-Litovsk talks. Russia seeks peace terms tied to socialist aims while Germans push for nation favored trade rights. Russian soldiers report disorganization, hunger, and scarce fodder, yet delegates insist on continuing talks if Bolshevik terms prevail.
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