Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-09-27 | Page 6 | What Our Readers Think

I What Our Readers Think I of Service Man Hits OPA CPA Rent Cutting Editor Telegram Just a few lines Unes to ask why do the wives of ot service men who are fighting the battle on the home front also have to be hounded to death by the 0 O P A. A In order to maintain main maIn- tam tain the home and make payments payments pay pay- payments ments which are high and all other expenses they rent small apartments and do otherwise to tomake tomake tomake make up the remainder of at the income that their husbands cannot cannot cannot can can- not send them themo Have any of ot these 0 OPA P A men menever menever menever ever tried paying for tor a home on a a. month paid taxes upkeep and lived Ill I'll bet there isn't a man up there drawing less than per month yet they'll demand a cut from the service mens men's wives We wives must keep our homes intact because our husbands husbands hus hus- husbands bands and sons may come home wounded and disabled and we want them to come home to the homes they left Does Docs the 0 O P A Just put pressure pressure pressure pres pres- sure on the ones who are left behind with no one to fight for them here on t the Ii e home front Must I go on being tormented tormented tormented tor tor- tor- tor by these people cutting my rent 1 They are causing a hardship Is this a a. morale builder build r A Service Mans Man's Wife L. L B. B F. F No Money for Politicians In Getting Rid of Flies Editor Telegram To enlighten en J. J C. C H. H on the fly situation I would like to say that under the present system no dollars are spent without first knowing who will get them theta Fly traps are simple to con con- and millions could be put on the market at a trivial cost with a a. reasonable bounty on flies But there But there Is la apparently no profit In the deal or some politicians would long ago have thought of ot it It parallels some of at the other criminal of mankind I remember a few years back when thousands upon thousands of at cords of ot deadwood were ly lyIng lying lying ly- ly ing about on our local watersheds watersheds watersheds water water- sheds threatening the growth of vegetation which is so urgently needed to hold snow BO as to conserve conserve con con- serve our water supply After a afew afew afew few terrible forest fires some someone someone someone one might wake up As we all know this same wood could have kept a lot of ot families warm during those winters But lets let's push this fly ily deal until we get results Jack Emery