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Show J PHOllTlilS -, , BROUGHT HUES -Mi : : , K ' ' ,-, : "That prohibition has already greatly great-ly benefited Ogden is demonstrated by a walk down Twenty-fifth street almost any hour of the day or night. Districts where hangouts for drunks, '"it bums and other undesirables were lo- !.) cated are now a safe place for a lady v to walk unescorted." -rr This sUitement came from Municipal --vs ' judge G. A. Barker. He went on to ' say that, out of curiosity, to see if , there was a change In conditions, as ; had been reported to him, he walked ' .'A : a down the street as far as the depot. it was remarkable, he said, what a groat change had come about. Mayor Abbot R. Heywood also stated stat-ed he had noticed a great change for the better, not only on Twenty-fifth street but elsewhere in the center of the city. J. C. Jensen of the city employment bureau says that he has great difficulty diffi-culty now in finding any men at all who are out of work. He has been In tho habit of asking the men lounging loung-ing in the city park if they wanted work, "I was surprised," he said, "to see how the Idle men have cleared out. Most of the men seen In the park now are either working nights or railroad men waiting to be called on their runs. They have a lot better appearance than the class of men that used to bo . seen lounging on the grass." no |