Show Editorials by the People Pe p le leTHE THE EVE EVENING NG TELEGRAM In It ell Its lla readers to write letters Jetter aou about current events e for publication In flit thI this II column There Thero Is s no better way for forthe forthe forthe the expression of public opinion Wd Write te on on of the paper and 81 n your name rama and give your address If you jou OU do not wish your Our namo nama published It will not appear in print Letters L criticising J rell religious lous beliefs or airing personal grudges will be rejected If It sos iou wu h manuscript returned send self elC ad ad- Pressed dressed tamped stamped envelope MONEY SENT ABROAD There arc are something like men sent zent to tho the United States c congress to make mako laws for tor the tho people Nine Nino men sit on tho supreme bench to declare those laws un un- constitutional Every one Including the president Is supposed d to moW know little when It comes comeI to Interpreting the tho laws law with the exception o of ot the su supreme court When tho the constitution was written the condition of th the tho country was vas fur different nt than It Is toda today Tho The country n needed ded immigrants im Im- Im- Im migrants to settle tho the vast tracts of land to the westward Those same immigrants grants Tant ria as a n. rule became citizens and aud had the Interests of themselves cs and ind this country country country coun coun- try at heart But tOda today U the Ole e majority of the immigrants who como come hero have the tho interests Interest of ot them themselves and their native land a Dt heart anc and make mako no attempt whatever whatever what what- ever to secure their citizenship papers Thero hero are se cra several million people hero here who are citizens of tho the countries now at war find and they have o been sending their earnings back across the water to help their respective countries and their folks tolke This kind of thing thins doesn't help this country country coun coun- try any financially lIy and Is lis a treat drain on on the money of ot tho United States ROY ROLLINS OVERCHARGES FOR LIGHTS I have hac read In your paper per regarding short hort weights an and Jour measures I 1 do not think that the people ought to kick at only a 1 part of the business firms that do so If you ou get ten ounces of butter for a pound nn and a bushel of DC potatoes that thatIs Is ten pounds short It does doea not amount to much Take for tor instance the tho Utah Light LIcht and Traction company If a renter Wants lI lights the tho first nut thin thing ho must do doIs doIs doIs Is to deposit 10 Then he gete lights If II the tenant asks what the 10 10 Is hi for why it St lit is that you ou are sure euro that tho the light lIht bill l is paid when you t O move mo On tho the other hand If tt he ho refuses to va pay 10 10 then ho be goes to tho the landlord and asks him to V Have the meter put P In tn so 0 he signs Igns tt ire 11 for the meter and pays paya for tor the lights If tho the tenant moves without puling payIng for tor them Tho lI light ht company la is a L good meter meIer r reader der If It a tenant moves out of a a. pl place and the house Is Isae ae vacant nt for two to or three thre months and nd ti the landlord is 18 out O of oC town when h he comes homo home he finds a bill for Cor two or throe three months' months lights for Cor a vacant house An Anyway J. J the landlord gets a fl bill for 1 8 for tor a month If only 25 cents' cents worth of ot light lIht la It burned So If you OU Lee ceo this way wey ay of doing doln 1 Is all right then them let tho the merchants sell ten oun ounces CS of ot butter for a pound po and a bushel of oC potatoes ten pounds short The light company sets gets more money mone for what the tha meters meter dont don't r read d an and makes enough to run Its entire plant and If It no kick is made mado at that then do not make mako a fl kick at the m merchants I 1 have hae paid bills for dead meters and I think others do the tho same I 1 think tho the light lighte e company gets sets moro more for nothing nothIng- than all aU the tho short hort weight merchants combined Get LANDLORD LA Salt Lako Lake CIt City Jan 22 22 1015 Editor Telegram Ae As a a. public publio spirited citizen and taxpayer and ono one who has half the tho good of all humanity at heart and ancl without without without with with- out thought of unkindly criticism I desire delre to 10 express my views on the question of ot freeing and keeping the sIdewalks clear of snow now and Ice It n seems reems to mo that thal th tho paramount p question liau been o overlooked d. d Tho The main Qu question Uon should always be bo What t 1 will Mill brine brim the most good to tho the greatest test num nuni- b ber lr r It has liaa 1 been een trul truly said that Justice I Is tho the moral signification of or law logical cOI conclusion n IB is that hat Injustice Is tiie of ot law u which you OU quote lit In your 1 issue of Instant Is faulty fault beca because It requires of many citizens that which Is next to Impossible for them tilen to perform In the limo given and under the pr present sent condition condition con con- made mad b by tho the city Itself The condition I refer Is that of oC the sidewalks after a snow plow and Ln the tho weight of at a man and horse has passed over them pushing pushing- to the sloes of tho the track about half bait of tho snow and packing tho the balance so 0 hard hm that It would tax the strength of oC an able bodied man with witha a n. pick and shovel to It A Again aln In tn order to comply with the or ordinance or- or when there Is not an ablo able bodied man In tho the home or when tho the man has to be he at his dally daily post of or dut duty at an early hour It would be necessary to hire a aman i man b by the month The Tho question now Is Is How flow loW many of or Salt lt Lakes Lake's citizens at thi particular Um time havo have enough over oer and above the tho actual necessities of life Ute to pay some one oneto oneto oneto to be bo on hand hane every overy time Ume a bit of oC snow or sleet falls on the sidewalks Many of Salt Lakes Lake's heft best citizens have ha no member In the family old enough or strong enough h to clean the sidewalks and If the mother Is out cleaning tho the sl sidewalk before 3 8 o'clock who vho will get breakfast and got get the little ones ore off to school Again how many housewives have time from their theft household duties to bo be sweepIng sweeping sweep sweep- ing snow enow or oi dl digging ng Ico Ice from the sidewalks sidewalks side side- walks at an any or all hours hourn of f the aa tray cay as os thoy they would have havo to to com comply pI with the ordinance Again I 1 do not believe e that an any rea reasonable reasonable reason reason- on- on able amount of salt would clear IZlear the sidewalks sidewalks side side- walks In their Dres nt con condition and tho the use uso of oC a 8 pick would certainly be ve very y In in jurious to the cement In Mw of the above facts it seems to tome tome tome me that the city officials would better get busy anti and revise rc the tho ordinance or devise de eIse e- e vise Ise some come plan for tor keeping the walks clear of Ice and snow ChOW MRS Ins B. 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