Show WE ARE TWO YEARS OLD UTAH INDEPENDENT PASSES ANOTHER i This issue of the Utah Independent is In other Ave are starting on our third In looking back over the past two we plenty of hard work and but very little dollar that we could possibly spare we put into our circulation and today the Utah Independent enjoys a circulation of Not very bad for a new paper and an inexperienced one exception the Utah Independent has the largest circulation of any weekly paper in and it is one of the best mediums a. in the One of the principal factors in increasing our circulation has been Paul's nature At first a few said that they were not interested in but their children and the conversation in the family was changing from the five-cent prize Crippen to the feathered friends that sing around our doors and that furnish us music while we are working in the Such talks by the children and the mother soon interested the head of the and became one of the T A little later we sent our paper to every school trustee-and every principal in the per cent of them became and if the work and interest keeps up and we receive the proper it will only be a short time until both the children and the people of Utah will be better informed as to the wonderful works of about them than the people of any state in the We know of some boys and girls who have followed Paul's nature studies who can name and describe the habits of every bird they and they can also- tell the good such do ini destroying weeds and Our daily papers are becoming more and more the corrupters of rather the educators of the Their columns are reeking with hobble and other weird things that do not benefit mankind in the on the injure the innocent and tend to deprave the minds of their the daily papers find sickening sensation enough on this side of the they cross the seas for Crippen Charlton and the scandals rife among the It is no wonder that 60 per cent of the boys over fourteen years in most places use tobacco in some Some of the advertisements in the daily papers are worse The suggestive patent medicine advertisements should be suppressed by and their cigarette and tobacco displays are simply urging boys to One prominent a graduate from a large east- ern said recently in Salt Lake that he give all the quantitative cigarette carousing and the late that he learned while away at n if he could name and tell the habits of different birds and name the different shrubs and flowers that he sees while walking from his home to his office in this And why The things that we see and hear every day are the that we should know and Religion is rapidly changing from the in the and the to the things that are here and not make a similar change in he education of the youth Believing that good schools and the proper education of youth are the first we are about to add another important department to the Utah and that is Good Good roads are the arteries of of friendly and of happiness between towns and roads in a great the kind of people who live If the roads A v are well located and kept in good they always tell of the happy and prosperous people who use while poor roads indicate shiftlessness and ne'er-do- The Utah Independent has not catered to any class of to any political or to any church or We have published it as well as we knew how and have pleased When a person does the best for he does the most for his And as we start out on our third we desire to thank all of our friends and subscribers for the encouragement they have given and cheerfully admit that we are trying to do V. S. |