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Show HOW BEAUTIFUL " IS UTAH? This is the fifth of a series of articles written for the Utah county landscape improvement campaign by Clarence D. Ashton, assistant assist-ant county agent. In the minds of those who visit our state, Utah is more beautiful than the staggering fences and ramshackled tris Teaning against old manure piles along some of our highways. We know the beauty of our state and know where to look, but our visitors can't help seeing the things we can easily overlook. There are not many unsightly places in each community, but one or two in every community within sig-Iit of the highway gives an impres'sion that we are far more neglectful than we really are. While we should not be primarily interested in making a good impression on our visitors, visit-ors, we should at least be interested inter-ested in giving them a fair impression im-pression of -your state and our attitude. The natural beauties of the state are so outstanding that our visitors cannot be misled about them by man-created mars, but our personal contact with these same visitors is so limited that our personality has little chance to correct the false impression they receive about our attitude toward life and our fellow men. We are not being fair to ourselves our-selves when we permit flagrant neglect to speak to our visitors as they travel the highways. Just a little effort on a fewN fe'eble fences and a few sick barns will make an entirely different impression im-pression on our visitors with respect re-spect to our attitude toward life. Or, are we a discouraged people with no vision, no hope, a people resigned ' to "a mere existence in' an unfriendly world? |