Show FRIEND OF THE KIDS COMES TO AID the young boys and girls of moab have a friend in the person of engineer horace W sheley of salt lake city who enters a protest against the action of the local irrigation in closing the irrigation canals to swimming by the juvenile population of the town mr sheley thinks that at least one swimming hole could be provided for the kids and the times independent agrees with hunt in the following letter to the editor mr sheley makes his argument in favor of the small boy and the swimming hole when I 1 was in moab about the fourth of july I 1 was struck by a decided over some years back which was contributing to the comfort and happiness and probably to the health of the juvenile tion of the town I 1 refer to the numerous swimming pools around the town previously I 1 had always noted the lack of this essential of happiness for the sirril boy and I 1 had been glad that swimming holes were not for away from the little towns in missouri when I 1 was a boy now your paper which sometimes me joy in the joy of some friend and sometimes sorrow in the sorrow or sickness or death of a friend with the regret able tidings that the kids have overdone the swimming pool habit for such is the nature of kids 0 o thit they wont be allowed to have an now cant they be allowed to have ONE somewhere where the water will change often and thy will do the least damage the one above the power dam is too far away for most of them sincerely vours HORACE W SHELEY |