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Show Ii OGDEN MUST BUILD. : t noon Tuesdav, the Chamber of Commerce listened to a report re-port bv a committee 'on housing, advising that the organization lcna its support to a movement to build 50 cottages in Ogden. I Tnat there is an urgent need for more homes is evident . Yesterday a printer reported that his wife had gone over Ogden Og-den from end to end, searching Lor a house. ".Want" advertisements j had been inserted in the Standard-Examiner and friends had been enlisted, but no rental house could be found. "I will be forced to leave Ogden," he declared, "if 1 cannot rent a place. Either that or L" will be compelled to erect, a tent an a vacant va-cant lot. I wonder if I can obtain ground on which to stake a tent? Another Ogdenitc recited how his landlord had raised his rent over night from $25 to $-10, and he was emphatic in stating that he I would undergo many conveniences in preference to yielding to a f ; hold up. ..,.,. i 1 1 "My wife is going to the country," he said, and 1 m going to the dogs, if conditions do not, improve. " Here are two instances of how this bad housing situation is af-1 af-1 fecting Ogden. Both men s.sid they may be driven to some other i community, if accommodations do not improve. m I , Ogden is at that stage of its advancement when to fail to pro-P pro-P mote building in the residential district may close our doors to opportunity' op-portunity' and make further progress impossible. II |