The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-08-17

trial and rlbulatlOn.---Salt Lake Tribune
MORALITY IN THE ARMY
One marked feature Of the present
war has been the almost paternal solicit
tude Of the United States government, as
manifested throuhg it's military and ma
val authorities, for the moral wellbeing
Of it's soldiers and sailors, the extent and
efficiency to which this interest has been
exerted being entirely new in the history
of nations.
This attitude of our government is the
result of numerous conclusions forced
upon it not only by the growing spirit of
the age which steadily tends toward
moral uplift, but also by lessons learned
through Spanish war experiences.
This spirit of the age is the gradual
growth of moral and spiritual refine
ment which has been long manifesting
itself in the political social and religious
activities-of American life, moving on
with increasing power, gathering
stlengtlgs like the rolling SNOWFALL, until
it has come to be a force against which
currents of the underworld beat in vain;
for the power of the Almighty is behind
it.
The Spanish was was strenuous oh
ject lesson as to the bold, lawless way in
which the force of evil could rush into
the great army camps to demOralize and
destroy the morale of the American SOL
der. Stories that came to the public ear
from some Of these camps startled and
shocked the decent, religious element Of
the nation. Except in a few instances
the officers did not seem to. think the
moral welfare Of their men was any par
ticular concern Of theirs, except within
rather loosely defined limits. So the
gambler the lewd women, the saloon.
keeper and others of their ilk set I'D trade
near the camps with the lamentable re-
suit that many q young soldier who went
= to the colors free from moral faint. re-
. turned home grievously impaired and
bearing seeds Of disease calculated not
only to make his own life miserable, but
% be transmitted through the third and
fourth generations Of posterity.
The denizens Of the underworld
thought they saw their opportunity again
when war with Mexico was threatened,
and they flocked to the border. But by
this time the sense of the nation had been
awakened; and, being reflected through
the. national administration, the vile
brood of buzzards were early checkmat-
ed. They found an organized system of
moral forces arrayed against them and it
was not long before they became, con-
vinced that their doom had been pro-
nounced in advance.
Still more complete las been the course
of the authorities since the United States
came into the war with Germany. "A most
thoroughly organized move was made in
the outset to protect our soldiers and
sailors from the immoral harpies ready
to prey upon them both in this country
and in Europe; and the effort has been
attended with such success that,the con-
fident assertion is that the boys have
been shielded from vice even better than
they were at home. 1t has excited the
I wonderment of other nations to such an
: extent that they, too, are proceeding to
follow the example thus set, as they see
the lastingly beneficial effects upon the
American soldier in the field and the
American sailor on the sea.---Deseret
News, n.