Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-01-02 | Page 4 | Ogden Were a Small New York

. jjSgDEH WERE A SMALL NEW YORK. JM" This wildEST4, to 0Dtain population is a senseless struggle after all. Here is j7York City with its 4,766.883 human being3; a dispatch dis-patch from tfreJBays one in every nine persons in that congested place receivoliance from charity overy year. It requires a directory direct-ory of manyied Pes to describe the many societies devoted to charily. $ What anonaesirable condition? There smon with 7,429,740 people, at least one in every seven sev-en of wIioub1 tbc verffe of starvation ! Who v? t Hve where such misery is constantly present and growing mSfsgravatcd? Here inden, the cifyvas thoroughly canvassed for poor fani. ilies during0 holidays and how many were found? Maintain the same proportion as New York City, there should have beenji2 Persons in need of help. The Sation Army found less than 50 families in distress, and a majority those families are not to be classed as dependents. If Og1 bad approximately 3,000 poverty stricken, miserable people tofpttly remind us of the world's misfortunes; a majority major-ity of ujwouid pray to escape the terrible ordeal and some of us would bcjfonipted to flee to the mountains away from the heartaches.