Show Editorials by the People THE EVENING EVE TELEGRAM invites Its readers to write letters lettera about current current current cur cur- rent events for publication In tats column There Thero Is no better botter way for the expression expression ex ex- of public opinion Write on ono ona side aide of ot the paper and sign your Our name and give your address If Ie you do not wish your namo name published It will n not appear In print Letters criticising religious bell beliefs or personal grudges will be rejected If It you oU wish manuscript returned aen send self addressed stamped envelope Salt Lake Lako City July 23 1914 Editor Telegram D Dear ar Sir Sir Sir-A. A number of people to living liing between Thirteenth and Fourteenth South streets feel that the Mountain States Telegraph and Telephone company compin com corn pin pany is according them quite quate unjust treatment The company contracts to rent four- four I i party arty line r residence dence phone service for fora 52 2 a month to all an on and north of or Thirteenth South street Also those living living liv liv- I ing south of Fourteenth South are aro aros s served at a n. rental of 2 a month from tho the Murray Murrar exchange with probably more than four parties on a line The company now demands that those between Thirteenth and Four Tour South streets shall shaH pa pay an extra radius rate of 45 cents a month for each and eer every quarter mile mild south of Thirteenth South street A few Bain about three quarters of a mile south o of Thirteenth South must no now v pay par a month for service which is given north and south sooth of them at 2 Furthers Further Fur Fur- ther the company re refuses uses to install service from the Murray exchange and accept quarter mile radius radios rate fate of 45 cents but insists that they must pay I three quart three quarters mile ers radius amounting to 5 ox extra a a month and bo serve served from the Salt Lake City exchange This wo vo are told is the tho first step the they take tako towards equalizing rates B By that we are left to suppose is meant that between bet Thirteenth Thirteen and Fourteenth Four Four- South is quite guite out of reach although al ai though lines an ana equipment are installed installed in in- in- in stalled or else rates everywhere must eventually be brought up to that stand stand- ard W Wo we 0 see no just rM reason on why they cannot cannot can cnn not be served at the same rate as their neighbors a couple of ot blocks north or south of them and would like to know if anything can be done or if there is not a law to restrain a monopoly of public utilities from demanding such extortionate prices Lines and equipments equipments equip equip- ments ments' being already installed we think the service ice cannot possibly cost the company more to operate than to their neighbors Yours respectfully z Editor Evening Evenin Telegram Dear Sir Sir Sir-I I am inclosing what is practically an apology to the citizens of at tho the city Having lived in Chicago o and the tho East I had Dad a 0 somewhat hazy idea of Utah and Salt Lake City Upon my arrival here hore I at onto proceeded to chan change change- o m my mind I then realized that my education atthe at atthe the University of Chicago had been sadly neglected d in re regard ard to the West Here is to Salt Lake Lon Long may she flourish 1 Very truly yours LYNNE LYNN T. T WALKER E. E South Temple Street July 23 1914 Mr E Editor Dp D Dear r Sir Ordinarily we e are taught that slavery was done awa away with b by our mart martyred red president Abraham braham Lincoln and that millions of patriots fought and died in tho the Civil war to uphold the tho principles of freedom and liberty That was four fifty years cars ago And today I If we wo are arc to believe a 0 communication written by Frank M M. Connell In THE THEl l' l EVENING VE-IG TELEGRAM July 20 20 1914 then slavery ef is In full swing and Just the Ideal condition satisfactory to everybody everybody every even bod body here In Salt Lake CIt City and all those who fought ou ht and died to abrogate slavery were fools and knaves only What an Ideal condition It Is to bo be poor and without a remunerative occupation and fall as fl a 11 a vagrant Into the ungodly hands of ot ofa a Ill law and order outfit known as The Betterment League These are strenuous times Indeed Poverty of ot tho the rank and file me of tho the population Is steadily Increasing day by day and who knows I really how ne near r we are to tho the high watermark water watermark I mark of sorrow A man who has a Job and means to live lI on toda today Is liable to find himself tomorrow without a legitimate legitimate legitimate I mate Job and means menns to live on as a law abiding citizen I How soon might it happen that those who are adjudging today a poor devil whose fate fato It is to fall as a tramp Into I Ithe the hands of that Betterment League pretty soon to be In the same ame fix that Is Is to o be bo taken as a 1 penniless tramp by the tho collar and brou brought ht before a a. relentless police pollee Judge to be bo sentenced by him for tor weeks or months to work on the tho highways highways highways high high- ways of some town For what hat Just for tor tho the board and lodging so that a few tew respectable citizens known ns as 5 the better beter bet better ter er class may have a smooth sliding In their automobiles Yes we are aro going backward Instead of or forward forward backward backward Don Rodriguez Some who for obvious ob reasons have not invented gunpowder maintain that thero there Is 9 a Job for tor everybody 1 who wants work Let us see If It that allegation Is Js true Carroll D. D Wright ht the late government Jo ata statistician sD says s 's Today men aided by machinery turn out a product that would wold require the he labor of men if produced produced b by v hand Professor Protessor Herzog of at Austria en says 8 that peo peo- people people pIe with the machinery of today employed employed em em- at socially useful labor would beable beable be bo able to supply a population of or people with all the necessaries and small I luxuries of life Ufo b by working ono one and a 0 half halt hours per por day drw Matter Mattor time and space I are virtually mast mastered tod today y to such an extent that the possibility to create I wealth IB Is 19 so to sa say unlimited Never was there a time In the tho peat past when so much wealth was waR produced produce 1 aa as in n the tho present era And Aid still th the number of I vagrants and so raped called Weary Willies hungry and in ta tatters is la dally daily Increasing Is that a a. wonder No But nut It la lIS a Q wonder that not every fathers father's son sop and nd every mothers mother's daughter is not lI ih iha in n a palace with plenty to eat Instead of or of so so many having to roam as vagrants and In n rags over the tile country to bo ho dealt with b by those Ignorant and conscienceless Betterment Leagues All th these things must happen Th They y yare are aro the symptoms Indica Indicating the decay of ot the present world and the coming up of a Q new now world with pe peace ee and plenty for everybody o Coming Cen generations will read with surprise the history of at the present ago unable to comprehend that such things could happen in the midst of unlimited po possibilities possibilities at a Q time when the gospel of Christ was proclaimed In n nall all tho five continents of ot the world World the the Christ who is said Id to have ha taught the fatherhood od of God and tho brotherhood brotherhood of men C C. 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