Show HI i Preserve Local Pride J Ji i NE E of the things that modern America a t takes kes' kes pride in n is the fact fael th that thai l pr provincialism provincial provincial- i J ism a an t I sectionalism se are arc rapidly vanishing Automobiles uton newspapers magazines radios j t l and d similar iI r cO contrivances 1 have vide widened ed very every t mans an S 'S J S jt t I In Ina way ay this is is' is isan an excellent thing It is doing away wHIt narrowness and and andr prejudice 7 T Thc Jhc e man who lives on a distant farm faint is nott not nott t so so apt t to think th that t the city is a TIace of ramp rampant f sm sin and gilded wickedness he Je has been there himself and knows belter beUer I t People arc not sot in their ways as they used fo to fobe be firmly opposed to any change they y know how the the world is m moving ing and if ii New York takes takes' up a a new invention o oj 0 3 a anew i new flew custom today th the rest of f the country will will have have haveit it tomorrow However there is another nother side to it Provincialism Provincialism Provincialism Pro Pro- can lead to warped minds and cramped horizons but it can also lead to strength and solid well rooted 1 It can be expressed in ignorance and suspicion but it can also 1150 be be expressed in a wholesome sectional pride and a broad understanding understanding understanding under under- standing and appreciation of ones one's immediate r background 1 Pioneers fired by visions of a beautiful beautiful beau beau- city here in the desert beside an inland sea built one of the worlds world's choicest communities communities t Hies enshrined drama in the old Sat Salt t Lake theatre glorified music and pleasure in the old Social H Hall ll and built a tabernacle for f future ture generations The lofty mountains seemed to inspire them to lo lofty visions for the future I They bequeathed to their posterity some of the richest riche st traditions in all America Sur Surely ly p we would be losing something exceedingly 0 precious if we did not preserve their love for forI 1 I Utah and its capital city if we did not see seek to carry carryon on their cultural traditions if we permitted permitted per per- Salt Lake to become just another overgrown over- over 7 grown own American town devoid of civic p per per- r- r I A generation ago a ao o most Americans could t. t f he be recognized at a glance glanc as belonging to one cr another particular section The Thc N New NV V Englander En- En 1 slander lander was as utterly unlike the Carolinian I The Thc middle westerner had bad nothing in common j with the man from the A man from California differed profoundly from the T Texan xan Of course there arc are still differences in speech in minor customs and sometimes in 4 dress dr ss a and d stature But the old differences arc gone The man from froni Vermont and the man from Missouri think very much alike today They read the same books and maga maga- zincs listen to the same ame radio programs s buy the same kinds of goods in their stor stores stores- and and t as as like as not get in their automobiles and tour through each others other's states in the summer summer summer sum- sum mer time i In sonic some w ways ys of course this is a huge I gain ain But it is not all gain Those old quail quail- ti ties tics s bred by sectional differences were inmany in 4 j many cases cases very f fine nc It IL is good for a a man 1 to fo feel that his own section is a place dally daIly favored by providence A young man manI I growing up under such conditions stays near p his home and gives his own native nati country pr or state the benefit of bf his talents But today if brilliant lives in inthe inthe a YO young man anywhere the cast he is apt to migrate at once to New NewYork York if h he lie lives in the middle west vest Chicago is apt to claim him or possibly Detroit if he is an intermountain man Los Angeles or ort t San Francisco may get him hini This acts as a drain on vast stretches of the country impoverishing them of their most ambitious an and industrious citizens It is hardly hardly hard hard- ly hp a a. wholesome process t f tA A A. return of a little of pf r our old provincialism might not be a bad 4 thing for us Salt Lake City will become impoverished impo of civic individuality if its citizens citizens citi cHi I zens lens do not strive to maintain its tradition A i |