| Show What Our Readers Think e f Ivl t 1 a Editors Editor's note Contributors fo to What Read Readers n Think must sign their tm names and addresses although these thes will not be published If the tho he writer j quests Short letters will be given preference J On to Tokyo Should Be U. Slogan for All Editor Telegram While sitting sitting sit sitting sit sit- ting here shedding tears of sorrow sorrow sorrow sor sor- sor- sor row and fury at the execution of our American boys in Japan I decided to make a few What is wrong with us that we will allow v these cocky people to attend our best schools sit by us in public as our equal drive their big cars and practically practically practically cally laugh in our faces at our stupidity while our own sons are being tortured and arid starved to death S Instead of ot wining and dining their so called diplomats why not put them to work at hard labor and instead of sending our hams and bacon and the best of our food to the resettlement camps feed them rice and water for a change chang This is even better better better bet bet- ter than they deserve By nature nature nature na na- na- na ture the American people arent aren't inhuman and it is hard to resort to cruelty but I believe it is about time we demanded some more drastic treatment toward these guests at Washington and at home My ow own son will graduate as asa asa asa a bombardier next month and their slogan now v Is On to Tokyo Lets Let's make this our slogan too We cant can't get there half fast enough to suit me and andI I am sure every American mother moth moth- er and nd father feels as I do Of at course the answer to all this Is simple This is America but it is also war Mrs W. W G. G Nelson Scores Procedure on Passage of Dog Ordinance Editor Telegram In May 1942 five men the men the city commission com corn mission passed mission passed a dog ordinance I with which the public is well acquainted Most of the chosen few who demanded the said or ordinance ordinance ordinance or- or begged to have their names withheld from the public A local attorney arranged a petition whereby a sufficient number of subscribers could bring the matter to the voters in the form fonn of a referendum Let us see how the petition was handled In the late fall of 1941 my wife and I moved from district 46 where we had lived and voted for five previous years to dIstrict dis district district dIs- dIs In May 1942 we still were unregistered in district but signed the petition re requesting requesting requesting re- re questing a referendum on the dog ordinance We were counted count count- ed off as ineligible to vote Multiply Multiply Multiply Mul Mul- our case with several hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred other signers We voted here in the election of 1942 our property and two dog tax notices notices notices no no- tices were duly received and paid So the whole procedure was a contemptible farce I sincerely hope that all signers of that petition will remember this next November A matter of this nature cannot cannot cannot can can- not be settled by strangulation but should be discussed and acted acted acted act act- ed upon in a legal manner Let Letus Letus Letus us not make the war an excuse for every local crime J. J B. B Stone Draft Board Policies in Salt Lake Tooele Scored Editor Telegram The draftIng drafting drafting draft- draft Ing of men for service in the armed forces seems to be of secondary importance here in Utah Salt Lake City City and Tooele seem to have draft board officials who are handling the executive order of drafting men from 18 to 38 years of age l suit themselves f 1 gac You would soon see of young men entering t pl e eif armed forces from these ci citi t If action was demanded by oj 01 citizens who have their lov v ones now engaged in this unit JJ t U nations war overseas COY You can get deferred from ti W Ier er draft call If you are engaged t essential war work but let r demand a clean sweep of si 8 the so called indispensable dra dodgers found here working war work We might see a roundup dri these slackers by our feder government if some definite a all 1 tion is not taken by our dra dral G boards to promote fair play G GJ Gf together readers Send yo yo rH letters of protest to Washington Washingto I Demand a up shake-up in then the I A I draft boards now j I Send your letters to the sele 4 A tive service bureau J D. D C. C and get immediate I Your letters will not repose i iM the wastebasket such as if the t were sent to some of our p lit cal leaders j j. j T. T C. C ft f fLet's Lets Let's Open Our Homes CI fl To Those With Children F Editor Telegram There wa wasl I an article in the paper recently i about a sailor who looked for a tl f home for his wife and baby and couldn't find one Why should this be Mothers If youve you've eve ever been one open your hearts a and andY d If homes to these boys with wives esT esTand 1 babies 1 Mi Il and i ha- ha u U L r i ha- ha u U L r I I have v a mother whose hUS hu band is in Australia and who h ha haa has hasa s sa a year old child In n my home Also I have a couple with a pair patr I of twin girls 8 months old living lIvIngs with me My only child and husband are risking their lives for all you landlords who put th theno the Jj no children signs up They Theyon are on the front line trying to save your homes I favor passing a law whoever has a home to rent must consider children or not b be permitted to rent at all be Mi Those babies in my home are my my- pride and joy They keep me from getting too lonely Why cant can't you see there won be any homes if we dont don't all get together and work together I Those babies of yesterday a at atour are our soldiers on the front froit line lines today Why turn the wives a and an babes down as there may be bela far a tomorrow America wouldn't be worth living in if It weren't for our mothers and babes or or worth fighting for if everyone had such selfish ideas as to b ba bat children We were all children some sometime sometime sometime time or other weren't we Lets Let's' open our hearts as Christ said Suffer little children to come comeI come I unto Me Lets Let's open our homes home's and make these babes welcome welcom A Mothe Mother Raps College Education 1 For Japanese In Camps I Editor Telegram I see In the trie pap paper r the Japs are going to have adult education for a c col college college l lege degree I wonder what next for the Japs Put the Japs to work like most of the American Americ i people If they cannot be trust trus ed to work they shouldn't have havea a college education Right now now when help is needed so badly badly is is no time to waste money educating educating educating ing Japs Of course it is okeh to give the younger children their schooling 9 J If some of the Japs must have money put them to doing som som thing to help our country Fa Farming Farming Farm Farm- ing is one thing almost anyone can do if they are to be trusted For those that cannot be trust trusted d dout out of Topaz put some kind of factory In Irs their camp like camp like an n overall factory factory and and make them work or no food A college education for Japs when our own boys go Into the army out of high school Ands Anda good many girls have left high school to work to say nothing of the older men and women working at war jobs Red Cr Cross s work and farm work f Do you think our American citizens in Japan are getti getting g college educations G. G W W. |
