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Show CHIEF JUSTICE IN OGDEN. Chief Justice William Howard Taft, on his way to San Francisco, wa.s met in Ogden on Sunday by a delegation delega-tion representing the city and the commercial interests and during a short interview the former president recalled his trip to Ogden when he made a drive through Ogden canyon and delivered a speech in Lester park. That was in the days when Theodora Roosevelt was President Taft's closes: friend. Although Roosevelt later on broke away and organized the Progressives, and said many uncomplimentary things about President Tan and the ' reactionaries" as he called the controlling con-trolling faction of the party, Chief Justice Taft was in thai amiable J frame of mind on Sunday to forget apy personal sting and declare Theo-j dore Roosevelt to be Hie greatest American since Lincoln Going back to the days of strain and stress, Taft laughed heartilv as he told of the characteristics of Roosevelt, Roose-velt, and one of those present re marked that the chief Justice had the J saving grace of humor and he replied j by declaring that one without good humor lacked the sense of proportion, and failed to see much of the beautiful beauti-ful In life. He said that b keeping a mental balance, a condition oi grouch was avoided and a finer out look on all our activities was pre 6ented. And by laughter, the chief justice Is aging only slowlv and is creating for himself an atmosphere conducive to the making and holding of fri Bds |