Show LOCAL patriotism AND CIVIC PRIDE PRICE what loyalty to town county and state means mean and how it develops communities it if my town Is the best in the county it must be a good plage place to live if my county Is the best in utah it must be about the best beat county i la which to maintain my home it I 1 havo have decided to maintain my home here I 1 owe it to myself and my neighbors to make my home one of which we all may well feel eel proud it if any reader cannot subscribe to the above sentiments we ard wasting valuable space so far as he Is con berned and he be is also wasting his time in reading this article many a laugh has been created by the mossback moss back who rejects all improvements in the home or on the farm with the remark that these things were good enough tor for my father and my grandfather and they ought to be good enough for me and my children utah does not need the kind of man who takes this stand regarding improvements that go to make life easier and more pleasant but utah does need the man wao ano will say the state of utah was good enough tor for my father and it Is good enough for me and my children there Is room in the state of utah for a million such men and every good citizen that Is added to the population of utah increases the desirability sir str ability of utah as a place to live and increases the value of every home and every farm already established in this state there may be room tor for differences of opinion as to the extent that competition is the life of 0 trade in financial and general business circles there la Is however no room tor for argument on the question of whether or not competition in the matter of the establishment and improvement of homes is the work of such progression surely it if the utah as found by the pioneers sixty five years ago was a land of promise at that time the uth of 1912 Is a land of promise fulfilled this Is a sentiment that should appeal to the patriotic instinct of 0 every citizen of the state of utah and moreover it is a sentiment that should hould be spread abroad as far as our facilities will permit during the next few years the state of 0 utah will receive a vast amount of publicity through the work of the utah development league and organizations lions especially during 1915 will opportunities come to let the world know that we have here a state as fair as any in the union and one that is capable of producing grains fruits and mineral ora la in quantities that will au aport hundreds of thousands of settlers and homesteaders through the medium of hundreds of thousands of visitors loyal citizens of utah will have ample opportunity to correct false impressions which have been so widely distributed throughout the united states regarding utah and her citizens utah his has its capital city of which all citizens of the state should be proud but of more importance than any one locality Is the general prosperity of the entire state the spirit of boosting which has made so many of the states of the west and which Is ig becoming more noticeable in the state of utah than ever before is a spirit that surely should begin at ones own home and from there extend to ones home town to ones home county and thus circle the entire state many of the towns and cities ot of the northwest have discovered within the last few years that the expenditure pend iture of one dollar to five dollars tor for each inhabitant every year in publicity work is a profitable investment this is a lesson that utah towns and communities are beginning to learn and although we may not be prepared to expend a large amount of m money ney tor for favorable publicity we can all expend a little careful thought and intelligent personal effort towards disseminating the idea that our home town is about the best little spot in the best big state of the union talk may be cheap but good work for our own community Is an investment which unfailingly brings big returns in self respect and also in dollars and cents |