Show Kid Days Are Brought Home to Elephant Man If the grownups of Salt Lake were as interested in the hope of their children as the youngsters are set in their foremost desire de de- de- de sire sire sire-an an elephant in Liberty park Salt park Salt Lake City could buy a whole hole herd of elephants for her youthful residents By THE ELEPHANT EDITOR Since I started out put to determine what the youngsters of Salt Lake thought of having an elephant in Liberty park I have been heen carried back to my own kid days I have not opened a a letter that th t tI I ihas li h s not rint dearr dearold old old memory memory of my S i I Listen I have reg regained in d the the kids kid's viewpoint on life tife I know what the youngsters of today think about about about- elephants I knew all aU the time me but I had forgotten The boys and girls of 1916 think of elephants as the boys and girls of 18 1800 1820 O 1880 and 1870 thought Maybe you too have lost the viewpoint viewpoint viewpoint view view- point for for the moment Letters of the little ones carried me back And I am an happy for for it Whether we raise the the money or not I 1 at least will know that the kiddies of Salt Lake were back hack of us These letters that have come to my desk in the past ten days they are not ordinary letters Little boys and girls do not write letters for fun There is isa isa isa a wish wish wish-a a desire desire desire-a a hope hope back back of every word they write I believe Santa Claus Glaus is the only i person in Salt Lake that has received more letters from the tho kiddies than I in the tho past decade As I said before these are not ordinary ordinary ordinary nary letters Every one carries some little childish thought roughly ex expressed expressed expressed ex- ex pressed in a great big frank childish scrawl Most l of these letters have been written by the youngsters themselves Some have haire been dictated to hesitant daddies and I can see from the handwriting handwriting handwriting hand hand- writing that the mammas have not been spared If you think childhood Is selfish you Just ought to look over the letters on my desk There is hardly a letter there that did not bring a dime The kiddies I have told me the history of some of i those dimes Many l of them worked for them They ran errands gathered bottles sold papers and did numerous little odd jobs that would make dimes of their pennies I do hope we get that elephant That has been the keynote of ot the letters letters my my wish and the hope of thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of children What do you think about the youngster who sent In a dollar and said there are nine dimes there for the boys lOyS and girls who cannot cannot cannot can can- not afford an interest in the elephant What do you think of ot the youngsters who say Turn this over to the babies babies' Ice fund it If we dont don't get the elephant Truly this is the spirit that makes the world better Those are noble thoughts and they come from the youngsters Surely these are dismal days when w we forget that we ever were kids Letters have been pouring in on the I Elephant Editor so fast that it is Im Impossible impossible im- im possible to publish all of th them m as fast im-I im as received Here are a few of the letters which reached the office today August 21 1916 Mr Elephant Editor Mama said you were going to try and buy an elephant if all the little boys and girls would help So I am sending ten cents in this letter I am six years old and I like to go to Liberty park to see seethe seethe the animals Oh I do hope we get an elephant ALVERNE WHITE 16 Gregson Ave State Street Dear Editor I am a littel girl 7 years olde and my lIttel brother 3 years we we are sending our dime to help buy the elephant MARIANNE WILLIAMS STANTON WILLIAMS this letter wood look better But Daddy sed cd I am a south paw S Frisco Ut Aug 17 1916 Elephant Editor Salt alt Lake City Dear sir sir Please Please put the big elephant Continued on page 4 KID DAYS J Continued from in libory Park so eo I can l came to Salt Sal lake to see e m here is two dimes 9 I Your Tour friends 1 m J. J DERN DER OSBORN I I MYRTLE MYRTL OSBORN To the Elephant Editor J 9 Dear Sir SIr m mI I lOc toward the for tor the Liberty park I picked bottles bottes and earned r rIn In Liberty park park m Yours tu ALFRED JEX rS 79 east so 6 ye- ye Elephant Edler yeI I Alta Dykstra and her 2 J E Emery e St St. give l 10 c each L If this I money Is s not te Elephant use it for the Ire fund |