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Show NO STRANGERS IN THIS TOWN 1 The first community welfare gathering in Ogden was held last ,'j evening at Lorin Kan park The ohjed of these meetings is to cultivate tlje neighborl) spiril and wipe out the feeling of distaiK jj relationship which take- possession "i so large a percentage of tin H people in places of more than s few thousand inhabitants The thoughl ba k of the work is the eliminatnig of the predis-j predis-j position to aloofness. J Instead of being strangers to each other, everyone in Ogden should at bast be acquainted, and, if possible, close friends J With this idea in mind, ;i prominent serial worker has sent, us lhis poem from a late magazine : ' There onht to he qo Btrangers iii this vale of tais. I I haven't seen a stranger s face for years and years and years H 1 see, of course, some people that I never saw betore, Hut the) re jusl like the others that I 'ye known in das of yore They've foil and known the self-same things the rest ha e known I and felt. They'll freeze up for Unfriendly folks, for kindly ones they'll I They've each one had a sorrow that they thought the) couldn't I But bore it, just aa folks do with sorrows everywhere. There ought to be no strangers in tins so-called world of woe! 1 I see new people that 1 love, just everywhere I go And everyone had felt some joy what I had felt some time; And each has had his little dream of higher slopes to climb; I And each has known the awt eta of home at some time or another, I And nearly every man you meet will rave about his mother. They thrill at things that thrill me. too. these friends I never H There ought to be no strangers in this misnamed world of fret." |