Show t f. f f One I tj 5 1 t rom the presidency of the t. t of commerce Beverly Deverly S t greater interest in civic 4 n the general public lie He indi- indi S 'S fh ate and city welfare should have k r being one of the few Th re all classes and creeds can be bet t u l in in progress and adv advance advance- nce- nce nent he rich and the poor alike benefit f m progressive tt activities of S m Civic interest is not alto ino- e u a matter of finances for it is accessible very individual regardless of his n life In California there is tn an active civic con can Sometimes we laugh h tt at the extremes ox- ox it takes but in the end we are bound to admit that it is per cent loyal The average Californian native or otherwise i is a devoted defender of his state Galifornia air airis is more its fields more productive its people more progressive and its industries than toon those of any tny other section When ve re pause to laugh we find united front and the defense makes the outsider begin to doubt himself Skeptics simply cannot sur- sur ur- ur I v. v in Cali California fo Most of this spirit is to be attributed t to interest Some of it is boastful but 1 it is optimism of the first rank Is does not mean that California has lost rii t sense of proportions If she enc iTs she m makes kes consistent efforts to change The dr dream of Utopia is ever before I the people of California and if you talk to you are likely to think it is already y J. J Disagreeable weather is forgotten in inS S comparisons with the delightful or else it is gien a financial rating that makes even the fp smile 1 d S In Utah Q t good part of our people for forget et delightful things in rem remembering the dis- dis 1 Ua A tot of them simply cannot see incomparable weather of today for think think- f r Of last st winters winter's coal bills The chief diff dif dif- f fence fence between California people and Utah I people is that the one looks for the doughnut 1 nd frequently finds it and the other looks qt t the hole and gets it a t good part of the Civic pride would change much of this nd civic interest and determinationS would the rest Civic oride would provide a m foundation for a a. fi fighting front a against a artificial evils that may afflict the state h difficult handicaps the public taking an a active tive interest affairs and civic taking fictive active interest in public affairs we can an alliance here which will do a way away many evils hind and most of our discontent Wic Ith organizations m must st help the public ts as a fole and the public asa whole must support tIie r se civic organizations Then either ele- ele 1 nl descends to class distinctions they cease Ui the the opportunities that i. i here S I |