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Show READERS' OPINIONS (The opinions expressed in this column arethose of the writers, and nre not necessarilyconcurred in by the editor and m.mnprement ofthis paper.) I feel thai the Governor and the Welfare Commission are and sl.ou'd be exonerated from the charge of playing politics in the case of Dr Caldenvood, formerly of the ' State Hospital at Provo, It is said that in 1935 Dr Cald- i I' erwood condemned the "travesty of humane treatment." i One doesn't have to be very keen to locate the roots of the "rotten' polit ics charge. Every Good citizen should stand behind the Governor and Commission. Mrs A. N. Dadley j Here's how some capitalists looked upon the poor and j t needy a while back: "They should be taken out and j quietly pin to death." H. L. Mencken, editor Mercury. j "Pu poi-on in the free food you are giving them." Chic-ago Chic-ago Tribune, which called them "tramps, beggars and i thieves." Let me say to all poor and aged : How thankful thank-ful you should be to the progressive party and people who have done so well by you, One Who Gets Assistance. |