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Show jdSTITDTi DAY DESIGNATED Mayor Issues Declaration Call-inn Call-inn for Its Observance Throughout City In a proclamation issued today Mayor Frank Francis has urged that Constitution Day. Friday, be fittingly observed in Ogden. The proclamation proclama-tion follows: "I urge that the people of Ogden, Friday. Fri-day. September 17, observe Contltu-j Contltu-j tlon Day by having public evcrclses at all gatherings and that the whoo!? devot.C a j arf of their Hn.e to pro-! pro-! grams explaining the manner in which ' the constitution wax framed and the ' high opinion held of that document i by the people, not cnl of this country, ' but by statesmen of the world. I "There art a number pf books, at I the public library dealing with the history of the constitution and they should be brought out and read by , young and old. "The purpose of the celebration of thl-s day is to impress upon the people that the strengtn of the republic lies in observance of law and order and that the people have it within their , power to change our fundamental I laws whenever oar laws do not meet tho needs of the hour. "There is no other country that has a constitution a flexible as ours or which provides so readily for amnd-ment amnd-ment and change to keep pnt c with conditions. |