Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-08-27 | Page 9 | What Salt Lake City Needs Most

WHAT HAT SALT LAKE CITY NEEDS MOST lOST t Colored Group Problem Here I Given Thought Should City Take Progressive Action to Provide Better Hom Homes s for This II Class of Good Citizen Editors Editor's note sote Telegram readers' readers on the subject Whit What Salt Lake take City Need Needs Most 1 continue to tn pour II In More ar ire are printed today todar The Telegram solicits worthwhile proposals for tor title tIle Improvements but cannot can tan not print letter Jetter In fn behalf ot or cause causen All contributions must be signed o anonymous letters win be published What Salt Lake City needs most We ar are of the opinion that in determining questions s such cn as the bove b ve all groups of citizens shoud be recognized W We are re thinking primarily of the colored renting group When considered from Irom ill an 11 angles it i is is- isa a deplorable condition During the past spring and summer there have ha been ma marriages marriages mar mar- of the he younger colored genei generation tion The number of modern dwellings dwelling's available to those couples are limited so much so that a a. number h have ve continued living with parents We are wondering if the more progressive group of the city is aware of this condition and if so what is their attitude Jio To O doubt th the city housing committees an am and real estate estat dealers eal rs ire are aware of the housing pl plans ns for the colored groups in eastern ern cities These plans not only provide for healthier and b better living conditions but also profits profi to the authors of cit t the e plans p Or is there any philanthropist who sees the need need-as Julius Rosenwald of Chicago Mrs Irs Frank A. A Niles of f Kansas City and others who have helped the race and progress of the city by modernizing If there Is any doubt of such a project consider the attitudes of the he country's leading psychologists sociologists economists and pothers others engaged in the work of planning and studying for the betterment betterment better- better ment of humanity All agree that for progress all groups must be teco recognized Furthermore a group having a very low percentage of crime relief clients etc should be entitled to some consideration dont don't t tou you ou think p Here indeed is a social as well as business situation for any business man or group to investigate who desires progress and also more income for other purposes MR AND MRS WILLARD W. W SMITH Second East street