Show A Fine Place To Live But There is an article In Colliers Collier's I Weekly that has some somo application to I. I affairs here in Duchesne and for that reason perhaps some space Here It is Nobody in Gold Mountain Colorado Is kicking about the streets the public utility companies com com- 1 the city nail the churches or bootleggers There is ia nobody in the jail There areno are areno areno no persons needing charity T The e sch schools s are are sully fully u y caI capable e I of or handling all the pupils There Is a surplus In the tile treas treas- ury And there are no politicians politicians clans no quarrels between labor and capital Fine little city you say Not at all The reason reason reason rea rea- son for this peculiar condition of affairs is that nobody now lives in Gold Mountain Just the other day the last citizen moved on and the once ing community joined the other I ghost cities of the west When I your own town gets so o there is ia nothing to argue about you'll probably find that the folks have all gone The above article Is humorous but really theres there's lots lota or truth in It the more you think it over A town is pretty dead whon when everybody Is satisfied So when you perform some public service a and d there is a lot lotof lotof of kicking and grousing about It together with some efforts to ascribe u ulterior motives to our act why I Just charge it up to good old human nature which Is the same everywhere everywhere every every- wh where re whether in New York City or Duchesne Activity and strife strite spells I life Ufe and Inactivity and peace generally generally gener genor- I 1 ally sp spells slow decay and death One of our worst evils today is the tho spirit of self depreciation and self pity that is abroad In our r smaller American communities the pendulum seems to swing rather rapidly much too rapidly from a spirit of hectic optimism back to a n ablack ablack black despair and self We have it here in Duchesne as well as elsewhere and just now everybody is Is s working his hammer overtime until at times times' the anvil chorus is fairly deafening It is very foolish to indulge in roseate dreams and expect a little Inland town o o become a Salt Lake City or Denver overnight on the otner nan nand It ft is 8 equally foolish to knocK our Home bome Hometown hometown town especially to outsiders EV Every r knock even spoke in jest hurts every resident of the town and 1 if he has no regard for Cor his own Interests Interests interests Inter Inter- ests the knocker ought in fa fairness to his fellow citizens at least leave his hammer at home Especially when we go outside to Helper or Price or Salt Lake City we ought to leave the old hammer behind because it does docs us Infinitely more harm than when wielded at home Recently one of our worthy citizens offered to sell the whole town for tor thirty-five thirty cents but the highest bid he got was twenty-five twenty cents and all the on lookers agreed that the quarter bid was a quarter lost Of ot course this was Innocent fun but It Ind Indicates cates the spirit abroad in the land If we but open our eyes and look lookaround lookaround lookaround around us we cannot tail fail to see seo that this spirit of pessimistic hopelessness hopelessness hope hove is not at all justified by the facts We have a modern up-to- up date mill three hotels one of which cannot be matched In the Uintah basin or in any town of or this size anywhere a meat market ana grocery groce groce- ry that would be ra fa credit to a to yn Tn of three or four thousand population po population tion a hardware store and a drug drugstore drugstore drugstore store the equal of either of which h would be hard to find in any town of our size In the state We Ve have an excellent dry goods store two clean well conducted pool cool halls a furniture store a large and commodious commodious com com- garage and last but n- n nt not t least an enterprising creamery company company company com com- pany that brings thousands of dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars of business to the town every enry year In the near future we expect to have a see seed cleaning plant These are all solid substantial things thing that dont don't savor of day dreams In the least We Ve dont don't lack for day dream dreams either and when we want to Ind lad t f L. A AIn In such things we can always sit by Ly Lythe bythe bythe the fire and dream about striking oil or getting a railroad If oil Is found the town is made and f l a railroad ever does build into tha 0 01 sin it must come through Duchesne We dont don't have to worry any at all 11 allon allon on that score Some of or these days das we are going to get water on the Upper Blue bench We are the county county county coun coun- ty seat of a county with lots of ur undeveloped undeveloped un un- developed land and untold wate Ovate resources resources' that is ia Just as sure suro tc to grow and develop as little acorns make big trees Dont Don't ever lose sight of tho the fact that Its the slow gradual development that counts not the boom times Umes Look around over the at all the tho pac places that t tare are worse off orr than we wo arc art theres there's lots of them If you are a wild there are none In Duchesne right now you have a n warped perspective per and If you are a hopeless pessimist your perspective is Just as aa bad Do a little bragging once ina in ina ina a while If It a man lived on the north pole he ought to boast that his hb ice bill bUl Is low and say nothing at it all alland alland and a bully city council things cant can't get any w worse and they must get bet bet- ter Forget some of the bad things and think of all the good things we have and say Gee aint it a grand grans and glorious feeling Robert G. G Porter |