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Show INGRATITUDE Efforts to aid the needy is often met with ingratitude. Even in Milford oases are reported where families actually in need of clothing to keep themselves and children warm, have refused other aid than cash. Probably the greatest case of ingratitude is reported in Park City. The Record, published at that place says: This free eating house, conducted under the management man-agement of the Park City Civic Relief committee, is still , feeding on an average of forty per day, but, strange as it may appear, is not giving satisfaction to the "free lunchers" who are daily getting "something for nothing." noth-ing." At the beginning complaint was made because the building donated by Mr. Beckman, was too small, and through the efforts of Committeeman Beckman, a larger i room wias donated, Which is now in service. A regular cook, who willingly donated her services, was placed in charge of the larger room. But it was not long before some of the "boarders" declared the new cook unsatisfactory, unsatis-factory, and complaints made that the food was not sufficiently appetizing, and further that two meals a day (were insufficient for the proper development of "the i gentry," whose only exercise was walking from "soft drink" parlors to the free dining room To still be "good fellows" to the ever hungry no workers, a new cook was employed the past week and the menu added to a bit, but the two meals a day pro- gram, was not changed and this fact may yet cause a "strike" for there is no telling to what limits ingratitude may go. : o |