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Show HELPING THE POOR AT HOME. One of our local ministers, who is In close touch with chanty work, says the time ha6 arrived when Ogden must begin to plan to care for the beads at home instead of centering our very beet efforts on the Red Cross. He declares there are families hero In destitute circumstances and, on a late visit to Salt Lake, he met fellow lodgemen who informed him they were burdened with poor members mem-bers coming in from tho outside who bad been drawn to Utah by reports of prosperity in this state Charity certainly) commences at home. Our own misfortunate first must be cared for and then, if we have anything left, the hungry in the war zone are entitled to our attention. atten-tion. What poverty exists in Ogden is among strangers, but even those we do not know, who are in our presence, deserve our sympathy when besot with the sting of adversity, particularly particu-larly if the sufferers are women and children. At present Ogden apparently is in a position to not only care for the extremely poor, but also to do its fair shtre in ameliorating conditions in Belgium and other foreign centers of famine. oo |