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Show I OPENING THE DOORS TO I THE VISITORS. I On Friday ihc Eagles' lodge offered its home on Grant avenue to the committee on entertainment, and the Woodmen of the World declared de-clared its intention to swing wide its doors to the strangers who are here ghllillg the Golden Spike celebration. This is the right spirit and is a reminder of the excellent work of the Elks of Ogden when, during the influenza epidemic, they gave their beautiful building to I the sufferers of that disease. When occasion demands, all our clubs and organizations should keep open house. It is doing a community service which will bring i rich returns in good will, and even in dollars. By the way, Ogden should not attempt to make money out of this celebration. The guiding idea should be to welcome in a most generous gener-ous way the people who are to be here. The strangers who are coming, and the old-timers who are to renew I'll the acquaintances of their youth, should be hospitably received and I made to feel at home. In the old days, there was no place where hos-pitality hos-pitality was more gracious than in L'tah, and it would be a delightful i experience for the old people who are returning to find that all of the kindness and thoughtfulness had not disappeared with the passing of H the years. There was a time in the west when travelers were welcomed wherever wher-ever they stopped over night. Doors were not locked and pantries! were not closed. The strangers simply made themselves known and participated in the comforts of the home. Even from a monetary standpoint it would pay Ogden to do the extraordinary by offeiing entertainment and accommodations with the least possible tax, for Ogden today needs advertising more than any other attention. The aim should be to bung in a great body T i people and then send the visitors home with pleasant memories. Keeping the arrivals in the best possible frame of mind, while ex-j ex-j i plaining to them Ogden's present developments and future possibilities, possibili-ties, would bung back to Ogden a rich endowment |