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Show Republicans Utterly Fails! To Encourage Utah Towns! as easily be done in Beaver, or, Santaquin, as in Dallas, Texas, :r Camden, New Jersey, and just as profitably. Then why haven't we done such things? Simply because Republican philosophy in our state administration admin-istration has been to yell about encroachments upon local government, gov-ernment, without doing anything whatever to provide the local industries in-dustries that in turn could bring to Utah the wealth that could support those local governments and the state government, as well. In other words, they have been operating with their heads in the sand, neither willing to go all the way backward to such heroic measures as employed by Brig-ham Brig-ham Young to develop Utah industries, in-dustries, nor willing to move forward into today's modern industrial in-dustrial age. By Joseph II. Weston For nine years, successive Republican Re-publican administrations in Utah have utterly failed to obtain or encourage the development of the decentralized small industries indus-tries that could have kept the state's small towns and rural populations in a healthy condition. condi-tion. Instead, they have encouraged a mad speculation and scramble for wealth in a uranium boom and stock-promotion schemes. The solid, secure and steady advancement ad-vancement of basic land products prod-ucts and their allied processing industries have been completely neglected. Such encouragement of industries indus-tries that has been done by the Republicans has served only to further concentrate them in the Salt Lake City area, where approximately ap-proximately half of the state's population is now huddled together, to-gether, an ideal tsrget from an A-bomb attack from without, or strikes or civil disturbances of our own from within. Because of this undue, unnecessary unneces-sary and unwise concentration of industry and population in Salt Lake county, a prolonged strike there would almost completely com-pletely paralyze the entire state's economy. Business would virtually virtu-ally come to a standstill through- burden, where income cannot in- crease? I'll tell you why. ' It is because Republican state ! administrations have looked on state government, not as a power ' that could lift its people out of poverty and lethargy and lead it j into a profitable association with ; 1 this modern industrial world, but ! 1 as a necessary evil. It is because 1 the Republicans have utterly 1 failed to go out into the world ' and bring this state the industrial j 1 ideas that are needed. It is be- j : cause they have seen no necessity ' in sending out salesmen to find world markets for products that can be made from raw materials that abound on every Utah farm and every Utah mountainside. j As an example, the wonderful j industrial field of cellulose plas-1 tics has passed Utah by. ' There is no reason why the j popultion of such a Utah town as Moroni, for instance, could j not have been profitably cm-; ployed for the past five or six j years in an industry as the press- j ing of phonograph records from j vinyl plastics. This work is done j in factories that are set up in small segments. A factory could profitably operate with only one or two pressing machines, or one or two hundred of them. i The molding of plates, table- j ware and thousands of other ; items of modern commerce could i out Utah if a strike in any major arm of industry, such as transportation, trans-portation, should last as much as a week. If a war should come, and after the Republican national administration admin-istration has shown its complete failure to keep us ahead of the Russians, that nation could reasonably rea-sonably expect to win such a war, and therefore might be willing will-ing to start it, half the population popula-tion of Utah would be roasted in a nuclear blast that would have to last only a few minutes, or even seconds. Excepting for the uranium and construction boomtowns, where prosperity is at best only temporary tem-porary the small towns and rural areas of Utah continue to suffer economic losses. Young people get up and get out, to states where they have better opportunities. oppor-tunities. Older people, tired of fighting cold winters, and convinced con-vinced of the fruitlessness of holding onto farms or small businesses that have no future, leave for states that have warmer warm-er climate and a more humanistic attitude toward pensions and social so-cial security benefits for those who have reached retirement age. In the meantime, more and more of the raw products of Utah farms are being shipped out of the state to be processed, and the portions of this state that happen to lie outside Salt Lake county are becoming mere rural colonies, colo-nies, unimportant appendages of the industrial centers of the west coast. Shades of Brigham Young! Whatever has become of the Utah spirit of .industrial enterprise? enter-prise? Why cannot modern industry be fitted into Utah small towns? Why must the county governments govern-ments of most of the so-called "cow counties" of Utah dry up from lack of capitol which they can tax? Why must the schools in the rural areas become an increasing |