Show Discrimination x on or m Retrenchment t THAT federal improvements at Fort Douglas have hav e I a L been leen abandoned is indicated in orders just yea reI received re ye- at it time the local post JUt As a n. n result o of or the order six hun hundred ant and fifty men are thrown out o oC work at a tin time when employment nt is difficult to obtain That men inca will at lea leu there t there can be be- beno no doubt but bat the tile elements attending the change of or plans arc are worthy of or n a w wider application The cessation of n activities ut nt Fort Douglas not only entails immediate difficulties es for fOI llen nearly lr one thou thousand n. n families but it m it 11 hi that the military l' l recognition Utah has hns sought for lor years is to be he withdrawn Only n a Spendthrift would ask the time govern govern- ment to carr carry tb through ugh all the extensions anti l improve c ments by hy the time war department in in the heat of or war S the tue citizenry expects a n. curtailment of Jl in iu all mill departments and this demands the abandonment of unnecessary projects The people of J however howo will with difficulty reconcile the fife aban j t of the only improvement 1 promised rom this state stats J with time tho continuance of lavish expenditures in tho the more fu favored sections of 01 the Hie United States r The rIi southern states received a great proportion of Ute time militar military expenditures during the period we were at nt war Utah arid and zulu number of a n other stales tate in the west vest re- re eed practically no military expenditures tures No o plaint i ll has s been offered to this state of affairs for the tho er cr reason that ivas us is not 3 q monc money making venture e t nn nna the whole hole country as ns a n would conform itself to the J needs of the tho hour It may be safely said that this jor jo- jo r po po- patronage for the time south has hus not c ceased with the i mn t end nd of the time war Cantonments and military training camps arc nrc being g made permanent notwithstanding the il 17 promises of 01 the cud of war Avar Tv- Tv i v In n v view of this 13 fact ac will not bo be easily conW con con- W minced that the abandonment of the time local activities is l discrimination T The e reconstruction hos t th h hospital tal j. j ry u proponed for Fort Fad Douglas would seem to bo be ono one of tho time necessary institutions oC or the tho future Certain it H is is that wo 0 o will have u moro more need of or them than of training camps if thu promises of 0 time Iho league of or nations ons are welli well i l. l Protests which have been forwarded to AN Vash against t this thi action uro aro in good 1 order and wo we hope that they will sill result in lii a l reconsideration of tho the action ordered |