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Show H TIME FOR FURLOUGHS. WE note that the members of the student army training corps at the University of Utah may be granted furloughs within the I next few days, and from all that we can hear regarding the treatment of the men there, it is high time that the furloughs were granted. , ' An excerpt from a telegram sent recently to Senator William H. , King by his brother, Samuel A. King, reads as follows : Hi November 23, 1918. 1 Hon. Wlliam H. King, B U.VS. Senate, H Washington, D. C. m Several hundred Utah boys, members of the student M training corps are quartered at University building and m grounds without sufficient clothing or bedding and improperly M housed. m Weather extremely cold and stormy. Flue epidemic M spreading. Over two hundred new cases here yesterday. m Health of boys all endangered, by lack of protection from M elements. m They should be mustered out immediately or permitted B ' to return to their homes until arrangements are made for H their protection. H See proper officials immediately and secure relief. Am m wiring you at request of a number of parents, whose boys' B lives are being uselessly endangered. Governor will wire to- M morrow. SAMUEL A. KING. 1 It is reported that the number of patients at the isolation hospi- H ' tal at Fort Douglas has been recently augmented owing to the H development of the disease among the men of the student army train- Hj j- ing camp at the University, though Col. E. S. Wright states at this H writing (Tuesday night) that only eighteen cases have developed Hj ) there out of a body of over eight hundred. But that is enough, and 1 the other men should be allowed to return to their homes immediately. H! Those who joined expected to continue their studies, and receive i more or less military training, but unless it is purely a government Hi affair, they should have been allowed to return home when the educa- H tional institutions were closed on account of the epidemic. H There are a lot of people who have an idea that the war is over, HJ and that being the case, and with the schools closed, there seems to H be no need to subject the students to the discomforts reported at the B institution. H , The sleeping quarters are reported to be cold as a stock car, the H clothing inadequate to withstand the rigors of winter, and the enti. H situation open to considerable improvement. If these statements a) ; H true it is the duty of somebody to give the facts to the proper officials H and hold whoever is responsible to strict accountability. H Individual cases reported may in some instances have been ex- H aggerated, but the reports are so numerous that it would seem there H is considerable cause for complaint, and the mere fact that the influ- enza has appeared there should be sufficient in itself to discontinue the training for the present, and allow the men to go home where they can get all of the protection possible. BBs Jtf fc t i |