Show o 0 PROTECT THE SMAll TOWN Wise Apartment House Fait Fam- Wise Department House Fam flies r 1 May Be Bo In Vogue But Life Lifo Has Something To Sa Say Not only all over our country has this movement of society spread wherein rein people live closer and still closer together but the same force is at work right here herein in the Uintah Basin Th The smalltown small smalltown smalltown town is being eing gradually erased It is noted in school work and in business and that means also socially so- so socially socially so so- effecting home life in many ways Like ragtime music this trend will have its day Yet in the meantime many a community has suffered and will for some time time feel the ill effects of the effort effort effort ef ef- ef- ef fort to combine to centralize Here in the basin we have a vast expanse of territory and not enough public money with which to make nice e roads for o the Hundreds of families feel the dire results of taking away away a- a way from the community center that social life Ufe the personal contact contact contact con con- tact the close relationship of farm homes which healthy society society soci sod ety must have It is no more reasonable to wipe out the little town melt it into the larger town or city and make traveling more and social relationships strange and difficult difficult difficult cult than it is to have just one child to the marriage or none as the more elite would have it About five years ears ago a survey was made of a very highly cultured cultured cultured cul cul- cul- cul city block In one of the eastern eastern eastern east east- ern college towns There were eighteen families on the block seventeen white and one black and nd a total of of eighteen children lived in those eighteen homes A reversal of lifes life's demands on the most able couples to rear families is just a sample of r re recent recent re- re cent so-called so culture Thrift is not in pleasure alone But recent social life and business along with it is headed away from duty Ease and comfort with entertainment entertainment entertainment enter enter- justify lives of useful useful- ness So it is in this constant pull to cut out the small town It is wrong And this is printed as a news story because here in the basin our area demands that we hol onto these little towns Lands around them are not in any case half developed and population is not today half of what it will be beIn bein bein In ten years Hence this paper would warn the citizenship against a drift or trend that is danger danger- ous We are remiss in hi our duty if we do not state these simple facts |