Show RAT REAT SUMMER RESORT TOWN But a Commercial Traveler Who Observes Says Parents Parents Parents Pa Pa- rents Are Careless V ith Their Children To T The Tho e Telegram Telegram Telegram-I I am of opinion that a majority of the people of Salt Lake City are summer resort mad In Ia my twenty years' years experience as a a. acorn co commercial corn com mercial traveler in which I have haye visited visit visit- ed d every important city in the tire United States from Augusta Me ATe to Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles Gal Cal I have never seen another people who take to the summer resort pleasure as do the people of this city I have spent from five fio to fifteen days in this city every summer for the for the Jast ast five years Yo Your r summer resort attractions attractions attra are superior to those of any other city in the country with a population three times the tho size of this cIty Your lake Jake your our mountains your canyon resorts resorts resorts re re- re- re sorts to say nothing of the other othar outing outing out out- ing places within a half hours hour's ride from the tho city are among the finest to be e found anywhere Yes you yon people are resort crazy You go o and go o. o and then go o. o It is one continual round rounel of pleasure But one thing impressed me ably That is the number of children boys and amI girls between the a ages es of 12 2 and 16 years jears ears who are allowed to go out outto outto outto to the various resorts and on the streets at night without either parent or guar guar- dian than Why do the parents of this city permit their children to run about at nights as s they dot I have seen in thelast thelast the thelast last ten days girls and boys not one or two but bat many of them at more than one resort who were not more moie than 16 years old drinking smoking and otherwise otherwise otherwise other other- wise conducting themselves in a a manner manner mannor man man- ner nor that was shocking I have two girls of my ray own one 11 14 4 years vears old and amI the other 16 years old They are with their mother in a little littletown town in New York State I would rather follow fonow both of them then to the grave today than to see them going the way that I have seen some young girls in inthis inthis in inthis this city during the last ten days Girls not out of their teens not over 12 to 15 years years old in dresses the neck of which is cut so low that no woman would dare to wear such dresses on the street sleeves cut off anywhere from the elbow to the shoulder are permitted permit permit- ted by their parents to wander up and down the streets of the city at late hours of the tho night I have seen not fewer than twenty of these children in inthe inthe in inthe the last ten days out with men old enough to be their fathers who unfortunatelY unfortunately were not drinkin drinking beer and otherwise conducting themselves in a manner that to me was outrageous As a father I should like to warn some of the parents of SaIt Salt Lake City You have plenty of good clean amusements amusements amuse amuse- ments meats you have a beautiful city none more so in fl the country Your future greatness depends to a certain extent on the purity of your men and women Take care of your sons eons and daughters Try to find out where they spend their evenings Parents look to your chil chil- dren A COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL- TRAVELER RA VELER |