Show NEW EW STAR IN IX TILE THE FLAG G. Over O In the Weber county cou court t house the they M say Kay the first Hag flag with the new now star will float Hoat while the teachers are a. a assembled It is honor an that does docs Weber eber great greal credit The Thc addition of or a star stal to the tho flag Is a good deal of an event There was a proper spirit o of or enterprise among the wise men of the older states when the orIgInal thirteen colonies formed a nation The They wanted the help and the strength of oC the new states stales And for Cor years the addition of a n new neww star was a thing to be welcomed by the charter members of oC the Union But Dut as ns time passed they came cameto cameto to look with jealousy on the great West West the the country of or which their people knew little or nothing And the new state had hall to come with pretty prell convincing con credentials before It could blazon Its star on the field of the flag For the thc past fifty years cars new states have not been welcomed welcome by the time East Politicians there thele have recognized tho the fact that their Influence In the senate could be no greater eater than that of or the tho newest state And they forgot that the they had devised that very scheme for COl their own individual defending A new state stale has to make good rather letter better now than ever er before beCore And th the new now states have been doing doing do do- oIn o- o In ing It It Nevadas Nevada's contribution of oC silver sll went a long Jong longway longway wa way to saving the credit and the fate of the nation In war time and just afterward and then Nevada evada suffered from the operation of oC laws that left lert it less lets potent then it had been at the beginning It fell so low that It really was not much more appreciable than was Rhode Island or Vermont But the nation has come to recognize that after all there Is only one rule b by which to Judge jud a state state and and that Is the character of Its Us manhood And AmI the nation has found that the men of or the thc West Vest are arc the leaders in thou thought ht in do statesmanship in the power to command inthe inthe in the tho ability to secure obedience In the one essential factor factor factor fac fac- tor of le leadership The laws of ot the United States for Cor t the e past half hair century at least bear the Impress of or Western n men and of or Western thought The problems of or the nation arc are solved b by the West Tho The needs of the nation na nation na- na tion lion are arc supplied by the West The battles of or tho the nation r. r g. g rr by r the West a andt the commanders t d S ern ern men In the progress of or the republic toward a recognized recognize ni c position p in the nations of or tho the world it has been the tit c Western Vestern systems and the tho Western Vestern capacity for Initiative Initia Initia- t tive U and for far detail that has contributed most largely So o that In the addition of or a new star to the thc fia g one emir more step has been een taken in overcoming the donna domin dominance ance of the East's more dense population and greater grealer developed develop developed de de- d wealth The jh oC n of the balance balanco moves move s west of or the thc Mississippi river The spirit of oC enterprise e out of ot which witch th the tho nation nallon was born Ie regains i in n the councils of or tho the people The desert Is being re reclaimed re- re c claimed the mountains are arc being conquered the big spaces are filling with people AT And nd a new star In lh the e flag means a still further rece recession Slon from the tho narrowness s of the East and a broader national life for ever every one b between the oceans |