| Show housing condit conditions in salt lake cit deplored by writer surveys have been made in in salt lake and reports given which make many of the leaders blush especially those who have come face to face with the stark poverty that exists the situation cries to heaven for a public change of heart and mind the administration has done much and has provided a law under which homes may be built but even this is not enough the price is too high and the terms too severe it must be made cheaper and easier for the needy to obtain and pay for a home the government has now projected a move to use mass production in furnishing homes at a cost of and sell them at 10 a month this is fine and should betoken betaken be taken advantage of everywhere salt lake needs thousands of such homes this city and state and nation should be ashamed of the slum quarters the decaying neighborhoods and the almost indescribable poverty that exists if the son of man were to come and visit these he would be ashamed of all the governing and lawmaking classes the people right at our doors living in tents railroad cars ramshackle one room shacks are the ones of whom he said inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these ye have done it unto me t dont send your sympathy overseas while such conditions exist at your very doors when the visiting housing expert the mayors housing expert and dr J A widtsoe saw the conditions face to face they blushed and hung their heads as did all the leaders on the stand of a great welfare continued on page 13 housing conditions continued from first page meeting when told of condition r and dr widtsoe soe remarked it would be very startling to most people if they could see how some members of their community live get it out of your minds that you are serving god when your hearts and minds are untouched by such unchristian christian un un american A and n d uncivilized conditions not in ching china or spain but right here on the cites doorstep even hitler of is set ap an example in these matters when he says that it is his hia objective to see that every german has a home and a piece of ground progressive opinion |
