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Show Are Greed and Waste Eating the Soul Out of The American People? r Can it be that America will let waste and . greed weaken her effort. Sad to say, but such sem to be the case. It is said that some landlords have raised rents (iO per cent. It has gone so far that a young wife, after having been confined at the hospital, came home, in her weakened conditioned condi-tioned to find a sign on the door, "Children not wanted." For just one tiny babe she was turned away in order that a higher rent might be charged the next tenant. A little home in Ogden which rented for 135 a month is now rented to five workers at $125 a month. Hundreds of cases might be cited. In some instances hereabouts the waste is appalling. The case of the O. P. A. moving out cf the David Keith building is ODe of them. 320,000 had been spent for remodeling and they agreed to stay 18 months. After nearly four months they moved out and now rent likely will be paid in two places. They had better make the most of their jobs and good times j while they have them. There will be a different day shortly. j |