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Show I AMERICAN LEGION DAY ON MONDAY Next Monday la to be known as American Legion day and in Ogden is to be observed as ihe beginning of a clean up campaign which, while. Improving Im-proving the sanitation and beautifying the city, also is promoted for the pur pose of opening new avenues of employment em-ployment for ihe ex service men At present Ogden cilv and ih" re lief committee are extending aid to married men in particular, and this new move is to enlarge the opportu mties for single men in need of work, many of w hom are ex-servite men While ogden hat led off In this movement in Utah, the campaign is to be state-wide. Coventor Mabey having hav-ing issued a proclamation on Tuesday afternoon, urging the people to give employment to the former soldiers In his appeal, ihe governor says. "Of especial significance It the Rreat number of former service men who are unemployed. Statistics indicate indi-cate iha' Ton huh of ihesc nim .in- out of work, it is to be regretted that so great a number, who laid aside their civilian occupations to take up arms against a common foe, are now-obliged now-obliged to bear the bmnt of the Inevitable In-evitable economic reaction of a war in .which thev have already served and sacrificed. Every citizen should real ire that these are the very men who stood between his country and destruction, de-struction, and between his business and ruin during the war. 1 is la mentable that the patriotism of any community in this country could he 80 lax as to let 111 soldiers nnd sailors go hungry, shelterless or in need of work." There are hundreds of homes In Ogden in need of palm, cement, shin gles and other repairs which, n made, will save the owners heavier expend tures later on. Now is the time tc do the painting and repairing as t-vo ends will be at lalned one. Hie preservation preser-vation of the property, and the other the giving of work to a large num her of men In need of employment. Ogden homes, including the yards, ehouid be made more attractive. With the first days of spring, the rcnoat ing should start and continue until Ogden can boast of being one of the cleanest cities in the I'nited Slates, ('lean up, paint up. dress up! oo |