Show wy hy Frnk Francis In a report to the contest grad grid ing ng committee of the National FIrE Waste council Washing ton II D C the tho Ogden chamber of ot commerce The Tho The chamber of commerce has hasa ha haa a committee appointed for tor the purpose of doing all 1111 possible In eliminating the tire fire waste Then a comparative statement of fires and fire losses In Ogden The Tho average number of fires fire for the tho years 25 1921 was wae Last year there were fires pr r only six lx short o of being double the number over a year five ear five pee pe period nod While the fires tires were ere more nu- nu numerous nu numerous the losses were less lesa The average for the years 1921 25 1921 29 25 was In 1926 the loss was less than There was no loss of life by fire In 1926 1326 and no one WU was Injured For three years eara a fire waste has been carried on In the United States and In 1926 the prize was waa won by Albany Georgia I with th a population of The per capita loss losa of the con con- contest con contest test teet cities In 1925 was compared with an estimated na- na national na national a average e rage of 6 5 6 tending to prove that the rivalry to bring about reduction in fire losses does r reduce duce losses Albany Georgia by arousing pUblic Interest cut down the num num- number nuni- nuni ber berof of tires fires from to and reduced the per capita loss to At the same rate Ogden would not have had a loss 1088 18 last t year ear of more than In the class of ot cities Portland Oregon stands first with per capita loss capita loss In 1925 of It Is disclosed that Ogden is well below Portland In the ratio of oV fire losses and while Ogden can Improve its present record Is a comparatively good one But lt now that Ogden i la Is enlist enlist- enlisted enlisted ed cd In the contest why not resolve to be first first Enlist the clubs the scout or- or organizations organizations or organizations th the tha schools and pro pro- proceed pro proceed teed to clean up The The- Standard Standard- Standard examiner Examiner will do Its part Ogden can first be in 1927 It Itt Itla 1 t a II rivalry worth winning for It represents property protected and perhaps lives saved It can be bedone bedone bedone done by aroused roused public Interests It i is a real puzzle to attempt to reason out why boys and girls of school chool age should have any de- de demro de desire sire to kill themselves Another high school girl has s ended her own life this time by tal taking ng carbolic acid which is ie an agonizing end A girl 16 active In school and church affairs and having ha no love lo affairs commits suicide list Her health was perfect and her molher could otter offer offer no motive for tor the tho deed What ails alls young humanity Is IsIt isit Isit It a 3 spell of nervousness or ts Is there something In the air Or Is suggestion playing a most Important role 7 Boundless should be the jO joy of living for tor a girl 16 Never hever II a thought of death should be l e pres pres- present pras- pras present ent An old woman tottering on the edge of the tho grave might contemplate contemplate plate a sudden from suf- suf suffering suf suffering fering feting or mental depression With Wills the tho tires fires of life burning low there may be bo drab moments when old people might say Well what Is the use But Dut they do not The aged hold on clinging te- te tenaciously te tenaciously but the young just opening the windows to let In the sunlight of ot a bigger brighter day are becoming morose What is 18 wrong Do the young people need a better philosophy than they have havo been taught or Is there too much gaiety In their lives with reactions reactions reactions too strong It Is not is-not not so many years ago self destruction of cL when hen the school boy or girl girt was an Un- Un Unheard un unheard heard o of tragedy 0 Yesterday Los Angeles talked with London London over th the e radiophone What a wonderful triumph for forman forman forman man Who can say where these wonders rs will end Tomorrow or soon some one In Ogden perhaps a daughter calling mother will talk with the theold theold theold old home homo In England and by so doing drive away the tho lurking pangs of homesickness After a few years there will be beno beno beno no such things as nostalgia the whole world will be so 80 Intimately related and distance will be bo so completely eliminated And that will be a great tri tri- triumph tn tri triumph for of all the tho heart pulls none Is more trying than that which comes from homesickness S S 0 There will be disappointment our oer the failure of the tha president to sign the tho McNary-Haugen McNary bill Continued oa on jago Jage IMO 1 0 NEt NEWS S AND I Continued from lage l'age One and oS as contradictory as It may seem there will be bo rejoicing Whole communities will regard the president as unworthy ot of o his I high office and men will say he has no vision and they will doubt the tho future of ot their country undera under II a leadership ot of ot that kind It I 13 Is a II reminder ot of the sliver fight back in 1896 and even prior when western people looked upon Grover Cleveland as a traItor to his country and the tho cr creature of we wealth But Dut tho the silver sliver men discovered that somehow the country went forward ant and the inequalities and wrongs complained against disappeared though their cause had failed It vas was a II great reat lesson in the wiSdom ot or bowing down don to the tho will sill ot of the majority and allowing time lime to work a 0 cure Even Eel economic maladjustments find a II way of ot working out It Il Is 15 generally recognized the farmers are in need of oe o relief The Tho plan proposed was deemed to be beby by the president and his cabinet II a dangerous experiment and so 80 the tho veto power was applied I Though the farmers have been denied what many ot of them have asked tor for it is quite certain that out of ot the agitation will come good tor for them i The administration acknowledging ing the tremendous demand for tor some form torm of or relief will bo be corn com compelled com compelled to act and bring forth it a solution of at the tho farmers troubles I 1 1 c The storm of ot early mornin morning momin- with with rain rilin In Ogden and snow on r the great pe peaks ks was a II j tion of ot spring and winter The Tho piling up of ot moIsture In Inthe Inthe Inthe the form of If snow In the high mountain range Is as though money was being deposited to thU credIt ot or the people living In the tho valleys When Then tho the days t ot of the tho come that money will be placed In circulation to the tho good of ot every one living in this region That 11 Ia one on- on reason r why the tho j storms storme are delightfully acceptable a |