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Show SCHOOL BUILDINGS VOTED.. No feature of I he bond election will bung more real satisfaction than the voting of authority for the erecting of larger and better schools. The vote was a gratifying endorsement of broader and higher education edu-cation in Ogden. By making available $500,000. the taxpayers of Ogden have made possible the constructing of school equipment which will place Ogden in an envious position among cities of the 30,-000-to-50,000 clas in the United States. By careful planning, the board of education is in position to give to Ogden ample room for all the children of school age and provide for the increase which a grow ing city demands. Tire Standard hop:s the architecture will be simple and that very little money will ,be expended in frills; and that the essentials, such as ventilation, light and general sanitation will be stressed in the making mak-ing of plans of the new buildings. The Standard has confidence in the board of education and the officials who will be called in to help direct the new construction. WIPING OGDEN OFF THE MAP. Whoever is conducting government publicity work in Washington should receive the attention of the publicity bureau of Ogdcn Ever since the troop tiain carrying the Belgian veterans from Russia Rus-sia passed through Ogden, there has been a failure on the part of the man in Washington to recognize Ogden. This should be overcome even though it be necessary to send a representative rep-resentative to Washington to tracr the cause of these slights. Yesterday the famous fliers, who make up the Victory loan circus, passed through Ogden without stopping. They gave an exhibition in Reno, Nevada, a place of 10,000, and are to fly in Pocatello and Boise. But Ogden is ignored, although it is the greatest intermoun-tain intermoun-tain railroad junction and directly on the line of travel of the aviators. With three to four limes more population than Reno, this city is not deemed sufficiently important to hold the attention of the government govern-ment maker of itineraries. When The Standard last summer investigated as to why the Belgian Bel-gian soldiers were not allowed to parade here, after they were scheduled sched-uled to do so, but were transported 75 miles out of their way to march in Salt Lake, the answer received to the questions directed by this paper pa-per was that the men were tired and could not be subjected to the extra strain of parading in Ogden. When it was shown that the journey to Salt Lake added to the fatigue of the weary men, then the Belgian minister in Washington was made to accept the odium and he did. That peculiar situation was never explained to our satisfaction. satisfac-tion. We do not aim to be contentious and constantly exacting, but we do intend to learn why Ogden is being discriminated against. An individual, who has not sufficient sclf-assertiveness to resent being imposed on, can so lose caste as eventually to be spit upon, and a city is not exempt from similar treatment. But The Standard purposes pur-poses to sec to it that, when the spitting starts, some one high up is sufficiently jarred to bring him to a better understanding of the respect re-spect due Ogdcn. |