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Show ATTENTION GIVEN THE OLD FOLKS. Utah's "Old Folks" Day Is an ln-Rpiration. ln-Rpiration. The tender regard for those who arc aged is a test of a pco-p'o's pco-p'o's fitness to a claim of enlightenment. en-lightenment. Each step in the world's advancement has been marked by the degree of re-rpect re-rpect shown for the aged. The barbarians bar-barians beat their old to death; the half-clvllized. make beasts of burden of them: the civilized allow them to eke out an existence; the humanely enlightened tenderly care for them. Utah's annual excursions hae attracted at-tracted world-wide attention. We offer as a suggestion that the pood people ol this state take one more step vj advance in their regard for the old folks. Bearing in mind that tbe old people are in need of j kind acts and cheering words not only one day, but during the entire 3C5 days of a year,' would It not be well to take some concerted action looking look-ing to a daily offering of some pleasing pleas-ing attention to those pioneers. We notice the Ilarrlman loads are to grant annual passes, good any day in the year, to the men who hae been in the service of his roads ten, twenty and thirty years. Utah might ak Harriman to extend these privilege;, privil-ege;, to th? pioneers of 70 years and over who have helped to make possILj his roads and to whom the whole country Is indebted. The expense of carrying the old folks might be almost nothiag. but the graining of that privilege would great-1- please the men and women who are so near the cad of their journey. |