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Show Delta, Colorado Dear Editor, We would like to say "Thank You, Moab, for a wonderful weekend!" The barbecue, the Scouts, everything every-thing was superb. The "dessert "des-sert from Heaven" was delightful. de-lightful. See you next year. Thanks again. Sincerely. Mr. and Mrs. John McCoy Dear Editor: Poor old dog, victim of pettie politics. Mayor Bunce and the City Council declare war on the family pet. the chiklrens' pal. Old pal will be apprehended, appre-hended, even on one's own property by use of a tranquilizer tran-quilizer gun. so said Mayer Bunce, and owner will have to pay $1.00 extra for the li-cense li-cense after April 15. The. city fathers must need the money to pay for the new dog truck and the new policeman po-liceman to wage war on the family pet. To try' to eliminate elim-inate him. Old Pal Dog is man's best friend, the family pride an I joy. the children.?' playmate He protects them at plav. accompanies rhem on errands er-rands He protects them, their toys, their clothes and when lost, he finds them. Mother and Dad don't worry when old pal dog is with the kids. Old Pal roi is worth his weight in gold, but the city fathers want to eliminate him. He can't go on public property, pro-perty, even on a Ie.i4t lie can't enter on church pre. mises. nny public hall, puh-He puh-He garage or ga? station, office and etc. What do yon mean. Mr Mayor and the city conned member?' Do ynti nwn al! the public property and the church property too? No you don't. The word puhlie means belonging to the poo. pie, open to their general use and enjoyment. Do the city fathers think they own or administer all the church property? We thought It belonged to the members r,f the churches. You Say Old Pal Dog can't go or be upon any school premises or grounds at any time. Don't you know school grounds are public property. You didn't pay for them by yourself, city fathers. Old Pal Dog sometimes accompanies the children to school and brings them home, but you say he can't. Did the caretakers of public pub-lic and church grounds complain com-plain because the family pet wet on the grass? There's no serious harm to good fertilizer. fer-tilizer. Amonium sulphate costs hard cash and dog doesn't ask for pay. Could it be the city fathers are going to build comfort stations stat-ions for tourist dogs since the tourists were invited to come hi to and they love their d'g. You say dog cannot go on public projierty. No more than two dogs may bo kept at any one dwelling. This isn't Communist Com-munist Russia, city fathers, this is America, the land e;f the free We have some rights of our own With an-other an-other term in office you will be trying to tell us how ninny ohildn-n we can have and try to restrict their movements also. You tissue ns a lirrnso eur dog upein payment of a fee. License d. 'fined savs "Authority or liberty given to do or forbear nny act, formal permission from authorities au-thorities o permit or auth. orize. to carry on with permission." per-mission." Thout,'hless dis-crimination dis-crimination is less than normal nor-mal intelligence You should license all the pet? Cat? mess In the garden, and yowl a: night. And then thre'.? gold fish. Why rot liC'-ti-.o and limit th'-ir number num-ber to two also. Also there i? the canary, the parakeet and dem't forget the skunk They dig in the lawns, get in the way of traffic, have no respect fur public property pro-perty and they do make an awful stink! Citizens this is Our Country. Coun-try. Sincerely. W. 'g. Harding |