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Show 00111 Free Press - Wednesday, August Suffrage movement marked important change in society granted women full suffrage when the territory became a state in 1896. However, the U.S. Constitution was not changed to grant women the right to vote until 1920, when the 19th Amendment was signed into law by Secretary of State 144 years Bainbridge Colby after our nation had declared its independence from Great Britain. Last Sunday marked the 75th anniversary of this landmark event. Given the role women play in our society in politics, in the workforce, and in all areas of life it is pretty hard to imagine an America where women were not full, active members. But the fact is, it took women almost as long to win the right to vote as they have enjoyed it. The suffrage movement in this country began in 1848 in Seneca Falls, N.Y., with 68 women and 32 men of signing the "Declaration Sentiments," including the first formal demand made in the United State for women's right to vote. In the words of two of the movement's leaders, Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler: "To get the word 'male' in effect out of the Constitution cost the women of the country 52 years of pauseless campaign. . . . During that time they were forced to conduct 56 campaigns of referenda to male voters; 480 campaigns to get Legislatures to submit suffrage amendments to voters; 47 campaigns to get State constitutional conventions to write woman suffrage into state constitutions; 277 campaigns to get State party conventions to include woman suffrage planks; 30 campaigns to get presidential party conventions to adopt woman suffrage planks in party platforms, and 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses." In the end, this "revolution" was accomplished without a single armed skirmish, without a single act of violence, without the loss of one life. In the intervening years, it has had a profound effect on our American lifestyle. While Utah has yet to have a woman governor, she has been represented in the halls of Congress by several women, including North Utah County's Reva Beck Bosone, who had a stellar congressional career. That is not to say that women have achieved the goal of equality. Salary scales, job promotions, hiring and other practices still demonstrate a bias towards males although the scales are constantly shifting towards a better balance each year. But the signing of the 19th Amendment marked a major shift in public policy, and the women and men owe a great debt of gratitude towards the women who led the suffrage movement through 70 years of political organization and personal sacrifice that ultimately led to the women's right to vote. Courage is essential to success In one of my rare moments when I take time to think, my thoughts go back to my younger days. I was so busy trying to make a living that I thought very little of the future. For example, when I lived in Provo I had a neighbor who played the stock market. One evening, he ran over to our place. "How much money do you have," he almost begged. "I think I have enough for some groceries tomorrow," I said. "That's too bad, there is a stock that is going sky high tomorrow. I was hoping you had some money to invest." The stock did go up but I bought some groceries. A writer has said, "Don't be afraid to go out on a limb, for that is where the fruit is." There is no doubt that courage is essential to success. To succeed in life a person has great need for courage of several types. He needs courage to venture and to keep going forward when people tell him he's all wrong. He needs courage to go back to his project or invention or writing again and again when most men would give up and accept defeat. He must learn to stomach disappointments when they come and learn not to be floored or to stay floored. He must pick himself up and carry on. Like the inventor who, everytime his machine develops a "bug" and fails to work, redesigns the defective part that was causing the trouble. We must be like a writer who, each time bis book is rejected by a publisher, sits down to rewrite the weak chapters. For example, several years ago I wrote a short article for a national industrial magazine. They wrote back to me and said it was not the type of material they wanted. I felt defeated and as far as writing was concerned I retreated into my shell and said, "What's the use?" A few years passed and I had the courage to try again. This time I received a Page 2 life of is the not spice variety, Surprise, Editorial It is hard to believe that there are still women alive in this country who were denied the right to vote because of their sex. Oh, there aren't many such women left, and there are none in Utah, which 30, 1995 - V letter of acceptance and a check and my spirits soared. Since then I have had some successes and some rejections. Only now they don't bother me. I like the philosophy of Charles Kingsley who wrote, "Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, diligence, strength of will and a hundred other virtues which the idle never know. I have complained many times in my life that my father took me out of school when I was 12 years old and put me to self-contro- Lehi. We were surprised to find that some of her third cousins are here, and are even numbered among people who are more than just acquaintances. There is also a lady, not from Lehi, that we've referred to as an "old bat" that is apparently a third cousin as well. Surprise! We may have to rethink our per- ception of her. What's more, my wife has distant relatives that have the Daly name. My chil- dren are related to them, but not in the that would seem the most logical to anyone else. I would like to surprise them by writing to them and telling them about the situation of some of their long-lorelatives marrying into some of their other long-lorelatives. They may also be able to provide us with information about their paternal ancestors that could fill in information about the sparse Daly line. Another one of the pleasant surprises we've had in recent weeks is when our friends called us to announce their move to Utah. We've known them for years, having dated together, marrying within a few months of each other, and having children about the same time. We've visited at their California home and they've visited us way st st l, work. Now, mind you, I wasn't the smartest kid in school, neither was I the dumbest. My grades were good and I once won a prize for writing the best essay. But I lived in an era when kids were expected to work and help to support the family. So I learned about machinery, furnaces and men, and about money earned. disco-danc- than that. It's a sunshade for skinheads and an eye shade for siestas. It's a pillow on the trail and protection for tall men ridin' under low limbs. It keeps him from knockin' the bark off. hat The broad-brimm- ed enough water to revive holds a calf down with the heat and enough oats for one horse's meal. country, a trail rider In can rest his leaning glass of gusto on that wide brim. to fan the campfire or t's also a fan cool can a fevered and it the forge-firhold to the chits used Stetson's The brow. 1 gallon e, Harvey News AIL 1995 Paul Harvey Products Inc. when the boys draw numbers for a quarter-horse race, to swat off flies and trail staples when dust, and to hold fence-lin- e the bag breaks. Maybe this will help you understand why a clean cowboy hat is like a it ain't done nothin' squeakin' saddle yet. Generations of cowpokes breakin' broncos have been spared busted skulls hat molded firm from the by a semi-har- d belly fur of beavers. 33 The lscii y nciiicb By RUSS DALY each time they visit their own families in this area. So we were ecstatic to think we would be able to see more of each other. But we were not at all prepared for them to move to Lehi, right in our own area. Our children go to school together and we attend church together as well. Through all these years, we had never considered the possibilities, but we have been so excited by the surprise. Over three decades ago, my parents were surprised with a baby after a 12 year gap. They let me stay so they must have been satisfied. We repeated history by having our own surprise just a little over a year ago. We thought our family was complete with three children, but apparently there were other plans for us. Like my parents, we've decided to keep him, too. A few weeks ago, I was in our new local hotel and happened to spy a flashy new brochure about our city. Well, sort of about our city. Unfortunately, the front cover reads, "A bad day in Lehi... beats a good day any place else." I think we've already had enough bad publicity to start off a brochure in that fashion. Inside, it starts out with some newsy information about the founding of the city in reference to the founding of the state, and gives a list of firsts, including the fact that Lehi is home to the first Broadbent's store. (Is there a second one?) ever-popul- ar past? The coming months and years are sure to bring continued surprises as our community continues to grow and develop. We may be pleasantly surprised to find that the growth isn't as painful as we had imagined in our "worst case scenarios" and we might be very surprised to find that we ; end up liking the growth. Whatever happens, though, it is most likely not going to be exactly what we expect, but we will probably be surprised. : What is behind Lehi's water woes? Editor: I see on TV that a Lehi housing development has a problem with underground water getting into basements and collaps- clay. Depending on how tight the fill, those conduits would lead water into some of all of the basements in the affected area. Under this model the collapse of the street would be caused by water softening the clay so it could settle and as it settled so also would the street surface. The TV showed the sinkholes along the middle of the street, suggesting that the problem was the settling of fill along the sewer and water lines. One can posit that this water is an emergence of the water table or that the builders penetrated a layer that was holding in artesian water. Could be, but if so the builders would have had to fight water and I think n that would be and as the cause. To me the most likely possibility is that a water main has sprung a leak. If the builders were careless in filling in their trenches, settling could have created sufficient pressure at points along the water well-know- well-accept- line to cause a break in the water line or cause a joint to leak. I laid a small plastic pipe under my driveway when the cement for it was poured, to get irrigation water to the far side of it. I thought I had a good bed for it but in the first week it sprung a major leak. What to do about it? If they, whoever "they" might be, will follow the line of trouble to its uphill end they should be quite close to the input of water into the trenches. The individual home owners can excavate a hole where their service lines come into the house, down to below foundation level, and put in an automatic sump pump there. Whoever does that should shore up the excavation as he digs down to prevent it collapsing on him and killing him. It is a sufficiently real danger and the consequences sufficient that not guarding against it is a gamble that should not be taken. Volney Wallace Not everyone wants 'optimal traffic flow' Editor: This is in response to north Utah County corridor study and interchange feasibility study. Congratulations to the Mountainland and Association of Governments Centennial Engineering, Inc. for casting the issue of traffic flow as one of favoring a particular "case." Clever. Especially when that ploy avoids the more fundamental issue of local versus regional control of lifestyle. I circled "none" on the first question of the blue form because I question the premise. Just because the population increases, does it automatically require the construction of highways to provide "optimum" traffic flow? My reason for selecting "none" of the cases is simple: I do not want the government doing something for me and to me that I do not want or require. I purposely chose to live in a rural setting. That is, I knew the level of service was not adequate or ideal and that's precisely why I chose to live in The hat that's more than that A "cowboy hat" is more than that. I've wearing, working in, just spent a week playing in and sometimes resting on one. It does not look like the fancy white ones those Dallas dudes wear on televior the mod modifications styled sion e floors and for wear on mechanical bulls. Even the macho Marlboro Man wears a clean Stetson for the magazine ads. A real cowboy hat is a whole lot more anrnrises continue as vou reaH Roller Mills and then Lehi about Hutchings Museum, but are left to wonder where they are located, since no address is given about either one. If you are looking for recreation, the brochure suggests the Willows Park. Sorry, folks, but Wines Park is by far more popular, and the few times I've driven out to Willow Park I didn't even dare get out of the car for fear of bugs. I think the landslide elections surprised us a little by the degree to which the winners received votes, but the actions and attitudes of city government officials over the last months has probably been an even greater surprise. At the onset of the administration, citizens were told that the council had received enough input from the people and they did not need any more; later the Citizen Input time was eUminated entirely from the city council meeting. Now the Planning Commission is "interested in obtaining public opinion" and will be sending out a survey. (Don't you think a survey is merely deja vu?) Are they really interested in obtaining public opinion, or are they merely interested in looking like they are interested in obtaining public opinion? After this great effort, will the commission be surprised if the city council chooses to ignore their recommendations, as they have done on a few occasions in the Th Letters to the editor ing streets. I am a retired research chemist with a strong avocational interest in geology and ground water. It is my nature and the nature of my profession to play Sherlock Holmes. From the clues I saw on the TV presentation, I think I know what the trouble is. This is my reasoning. It is the nature of ground water to follow the most open channel as well as to seek the lowest level. It would be quite unusual if a broad sweep of ground water invaded the area. The water would most likely be following channels and there is a system of channels in that development, the excavations that were made for sewer and water lines. They would be conduits for water if the trenches were filled by shoving in lumpy Browsm By TOM GRIFFITHS Contrary to popular belief, variety is not the "spice of life." The real spice of life is surprise. Over the weekend, I was working on a sort of genealogy. My wife's family published a book several years ago that lists the descendants of a particular ancestor of hers. And while I have used the book to take her lineage back to William the Conqueror, this weekend I used the book to see what people have been born into the line along the way. My wife is from Cedar City, and as she was growing up, she probably had neither the inkling nor the desire to end up in Mine's a greasy headrest and a bump guard for working over, under and around farm machinery. It holds enough garden pickin's for a raw lunch. It's warm on cold mornings and cool on hot afternoons. But the cowboy hat is still so much more than that. It stays on for meals, bulldoggin' and dozin', but it still comes off for wavin', for prayers and for funerals. And for ladies. Next time you see a cowboy hat I mean a real one the guy under it's a good pretty guy. Or somebody probably would have knocked it off him. On our border, where the Stetson and the sombrero meet, there is no more significant symbol of status. A man's pickup can be fallin' apart, but he's still someWestern body if he's wearin' a 20-Stetson. Our nation has few symbols as significant and none more durable. The Constitution's been subtracted from, and the Stars and Stripes have been added to. But the Western Stetson you can count on! X this area. There are many communities on both coasts of America and in between with traffic congestion problems, and yet they are not complaining, because to construct an "optimal traffic flow" would disrupt the very lifestyle that initially attracted people to these rural or isolated or picturesque communities. The basis of the Centennial study is to enhance level of service for traffic flow. The majority of citizens in North Utah County, however, chose to live in areas with less than ideal vehicular access. Thus, the decision to locate here was primarily because of the of the area. If, however, on the premise of improved traffic flow we destroy, or seriously alter, the very aspect of the community that attracted people to it in the first place, will we have accomplished a worthwhile outcome? The top 10 improvement priorities for me are to: 1. Identify wants of citizenry. fla2. Preserve the rural or small-tow- n vor of the community. 3. Not build for business. 4. Build for neighborhoods. 5. Solicit owner input without bias. 6. Opt for plans. 7. Let each generation solve its own problems. 8. Not try to outguess the future. 9. Not destroy neighborhood integrity. 10. Think of quality of life rather than quantity of vehicular traffic. I call for a vote from each neighborhood and community affected by this study. If the majority decides the outcomes, 111 live with that decision. Without such a vote, it would be tantamount to giving up my indi vidual freedoms for the good of the state. And that is as as anything that places the individual at the mercy of UDOT, MAG, or any other government entity that is supposed to be serving the people and doing the will of the people. Perhaps we have only ourselves to blame for the current situation. We were not proactive about providing input to the engineering study (although there is some question about whether that input would have been welcome) and we have been very much against the present proposals rather than offering constructive alternatives. And we are not very happy as a consequence. What can we do to raise our community Joy Quotient (JQ): the number that results from dividing constructive responses by responses? A higher JQ results from making decisions that do not go against others, ourselves, and which do not give up our individual community responsibility. Among other things, it seems obvious that to get the outcomes we desire, we must have continuous and diligent involvement in the decision-makin- g processes of our communities. Although the noise of democracy is ugly, it can accomplish the desired outcomes if we do not get angry and demand a solution at someone else's expense, or give up and walk away from the conflict with despair, or cave in to pressures against our better judgment. Instead, we now have an opportunity to go squarely toward the issue, an4 in the spirit of creative problem-solvinrather than jumping to a solution, we can mutually grow a decision and a consensus. David M. Tuttle, Ph.D. g, Lehi Policy on letters to the editor letters to the editor. All letters should be typewritten and double spaced. Letters must also be signed, and must include the writer's name and telephone number. Please send letters to Editor, Newtah News We welcome Group, P.O. 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