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Show Greater Utah Vailey Offers Suggestion 1 Three years ago when the snow was deep and the winter dreary, the writer went to a funeral in one of our nearby towns. All roads were narrowed by the ever-increasing snowpile and the sidewalks side-walks were only paths. Traveling along both was almost impossible. When we arrived at the home of the bereaved family we were stunned. The roads and walks were cleared and the snowpiles all removed. How could this have happened? Little can one think of that change in atmosphere as we drove up to this home of mourning. It was as though winter win-ter had been changed to spring. Dreariness had vanished and relatives rela-tives and friends alike appeared to have had at least part of their load lifted. We complimented the father on such an excellent i. His face lighted-there 4S Pvb' a twinkle in his heavy eves IV tears filled them as he said -w! is wonderful to have a neiM,! and employer like that?" " w Well, a neighbor, who haPpencd to be also an employer had n chinery to do this fine thin w cannot think that he could" knmf. what he had done for those who hearts were so empty v,? death strikes in a cbsei 1 family, the depths of threaten even the intellect ', dwarf the function of body 1 mind. But when a friend coml forth taking a . part of that W den, only the ones concerned ,i realize the relief and encoura,' ' ment it gives to the bereaved" And so, as people talked and praise went around on this rtl, an idea was born. All people do not have friends with equipment to do so much in such an emergency. emer-gency. Most cities do. Wouldn't" it be an everlasting monument , the Hves of our city officials i they, at the deatli of each of the constituents, would do such n kindly act? Certanly they would be many times repaid. Never doo one appreciate a kindness or a con siderate act more than when be reavement comes at the death of a loved one. |