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Show If COMMUNICATIONS . Ogden. Mann IS, l'J22. iiditor StanuanJ -K.v.uiiiiur . j There are three editorials in The ( Standard -Examlnci ol Friday the litii Ihst. that are worthy of note First, juries declining to convict bootleggers. I That Is hut one wi man laws thai is j educed to a farce.-' and much ot the blame can Justly be charged to the higher up. Tn police scandal un-! un-! -covered a Utile of It. ; J Second, The Governor Is For Lower i Taxes. I During the oast three years Ogden I City has not increased its tax rate, j although wiihln thai tune salaries cavo been increased, etc." " Seeing that salaries and wages of I nearly 100 per cent of the wage earners earn-ers hae been reduced would U not j be in line with economy to reduc. the i salaries of the city employes .' Why should their salaries lie held up to i Mar-time price'.' it is an injustice to ! "do so. I Third, The Sueets of Ogden. I If the din streets of Ogden were repaired with gravel insteuU of cluj as some ot them have been, there would be a solid foundation and they would not become impassable in the I spring as ume of them are going to Why is It that there is no plank placed between the track ot the Bamberger Bam-berger and Utah-Idaho Central tracks j I at street intersections outs;de ot ilie ' j paved districts.' Too expensive tor Xbe railroad companies? i When city, state and nation will set ' an evamnlo nf I a m m. r.rrimn . I will follow with convictions. JOHN W ALKER. Editor Standard-Examiner. I would like to see a few words about this bonus question in your pit per. This is not from the ex-service men who stayed In tue I B during the time of their service or from the men who have seen France long enough to say, "Wee wee, Madame." but this Is from men who have been going through the thick of the fighting from the last part of 1917 to the end of it. i My bonus would bring over $1,000. i sure a nice amount to help me and my ' family out. But I don't want h thai ! is. as long as the men who fought on , tne side of me, the men more unlor- ! tunate than 1 vas, the men who fell.1 are. unabU to do any work whatever! i In 1917 ibe word n as. "W never can do enough for the hr. ;.es Who BT( fighting for us." What is n today? Start today, lake care of the men who are in need. They don't warn any money for nothing; they don t want anything elso than work. Th.- men v ho fought for this country and s.iw.i it have the right to work for their living and have better work than an otner men. slackers or not. who stayed behind the skirt of a woman. Come, where are the feelings of i. ,,' f've J'ears' time we lo. U all, Mabey wants mo and you to BO our he9t, but where Is the slate of l tah and her bonus bill"' Every itate is working on It. trying to help the men forget the hard work of bat-Lt bat-Lt ' ih?L UrnJ thcy nave lost and the blood they have shed. Where are vou L '.ah, Queen of the West? EARL MASTERS -14 8 Stevens Ave. |