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Show CHILDREN I DANGER OF MESS : Dill j i Editor Standard I am writing to make a plea ior the lives of the chil-i chil-i dren of i teden I live on lb.- corner of Twent) fifth Street and Jefferson avenue. Then an three great schools oear here iii .Madison, the Central Junior hlch. and, the Weber college Hundreds ot youi J people and children in going to and coming irom school are compelled i crosa i he street at thi . point at noun, especially flo swarms of children pour out of the park at this rotnr Man treea and shrubber obstruct the View. A multitude of automobiles . running in Twenty -fifth street rp. (Jefferson especially at the noon hour land many of lhe.se cars run at ih r:u.- oi twenty-five miles an hour. 1 Man;, never slov up e en when man; children are irosslng the ,n,, Should n child stumble or slip j, j would mean death or possibly a enp-ple enp-ple for Ufe. In the name of fathers, mothers and ! children 1 enter my protest against such reckless driving There should be notices at least a I block away such as "slow up " B) the way. while i am on this aub-jcrt. aub-jcrt. I desire to say that I have lived; In man) cities In America but have' ;netr been In a city where drlveia of . ITS arere more reckless than In the city ot Ogden. I do not say all. butl manj I have seen men drive down Twentj fifth street almost io Wash-P llngton avenue at the rale of thirty miles an hour Many times I have i seen cars racing through Bfadison ! avenue. If we have an ordinan- t ;Osden covering many things conccrn- um w.im- g-?rvcspr 4iw i uuuj ing auto driving, they are most shamefully shame-fully violated not only in regard io speed but In many other ways. If we have no strict ordinances, it Is high time we had them. If drivers I TASI 4i cap : hi re no n -aid in. burnan hi. . ii:- .dt ti) Should Ii' '..i-.-h )iiin.-h.-, fni ),,,, lgijj reckless disregard of othi ? (Signed) RAY PALMER, I iiaiiu.i4jyUVJ jt,4WMWW, J ;2o |