Show CEDAR CITY MARINE ADDRESSES OPEN LETTER TO IRON COUNTY PEOPLE the following letter from marine W S dub leigh of cedar city to the people 1 I of iron iran county was sent to us b by his mother mrs W H leigh with the the request that we pub lish it received too late for lbs last week a issue we are therefore ra pub lishing it this it comes from firm an n un on known know pacific island is undated and ad commences as follows to the people of iron iran county news came that walter K arang G 9 or er was was re elected by a small in mar gen but that mr granger hd did not carry his he home c county urty or his he home town own why should the people of iron imn county turn down the man who had bethew been bishop their american legion commander thew then mayor thew their state representative and their contrez Congressman W 7 just two years ago these same people cast a wong strong vote of confidence for far the then old friend ar and at ag neighbor hb ech what t had ban happened to cause this changed 9 e during mr agela Gg grangers Gr angers ela first congressional gresa onal is term in billions of defense and war doll dollars poured from was wash h ington we the people of iron iran county asked that thousands of t these h Cs a government dollars be spent I 1 in C om ra county to build an airport hospital etc when we found that the hoad ta is was to be built elsewhere we screamed we denounced our na dional and state representatives we hit mr granger hardest because he was a native son we his iron con county ty friends and neighbors helped to sen send d him ban to washington he falle failed to bring the bacon back to iron county but cedar city we was just a middletown what happened I 1 there h en was symbolic of what was happening in every community throughout ghou t the nation every town an and d every county was trying to grab the war dollar local business men and n it civic organizations g balio n a were spending sperato g tze their t time me and energy fighting for their so called share communities and states slata were pitted against each other in this grand free for all every new dollar brought into zenith made it a little easier for the local babbits to fe tea ther thew their nests the value of a government afi official was measured by the number bet of war dollars steered into his district the voters would condemn the atten rotten politics in their neighbors yard but so long as ithe the gocr local congressman deli delivered the he w war verell money he was not lees locally y accused wed of mixing politics into the w war ef f fort fat we now have a very nasty job to do to get the job d done a properly mp by the whole a of f our nation must be g geared to that end and that list end and on ly V th this is not at the tune to fight over sectional patro patronage nag but every y man and every woman should demand that them their congressman use his high office to insure as A speedy a victory as a possible afe william S dub leigh U S maxine marine corps |