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Show MOMR OF SOLDIER PUTS A QUESTfOm TO THE SIMM Tooele City Utah, Aug. 30. To the Editor of the Standard: Dear Sir I am the mother of Corporal G. T. Marler, of Troop B, First Utah cavalry, cav-alry, now stationed on the border at Nogales, Ariz. Was in Ogden at the time the guards were given the "big send off." I also read in the Standard the sreat things the patriotic people of Ogden were going to d,o for the guard's families that were left without with-out support; but as nothing has materialized ma-terialized is the reason T am writing this letter. I want to know, has the patriotism of Ogden oozed out in two months? Troop B's, on the border lino, are not shirking their duties. How about the citizens of Ogden? Are they saving up their patriotism till the guards return? re-turn? Perhaps you will call this sarcasm, sar-casm, but don't you thing a little sarcasm sar-casm would be in order just now I am not writing on my own account, ac-count, but Corporal Marler has a wife and baby leftvin Ogden without support. sup-port. The wife has had to leave her baby with her mother, and is trying to do chamber work at the Healy hotel. ho-tel. And it also work a hardship on her mother, Mrs. Udink, for she also has u son on the border line, and he left a wife and baby, and they partly depend on her for support. Mrs. Udink is a widow, and has all she can do l IVUVUb llltOU U.bftl UUAUUO. X, U J DW am a widow, depending mostly on my needle for support. Corporal Marler Mar-ler had no employment when he left outside of what he was doing at the armory and the rifle pits. Therefore there is no generous employer letting hiL j.ay go on while he is away. 1 suppose of investigation were made, there would be many found in like condition. I would like to know how the people peo-ple of Ogden are going to meet it. Are they going to take a Rip Van Winkle sleep until the guards return, ,and then go out with flags floating, banners flying, drums beating, and with greaC speeches tell them how proud they are of the record the boys have made on the border lino? And will they expect the guards to feel proud of their home town? (Signed) MRS. MAY L. MARLER, nn |
