Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-29 | Page 4 | After Utah, California

Cj--terJUtadi ON HIS return from California, J. A. Hogle - . declares that It Is advantageous for ! Utahns to boost for California, after Utah. I Some of our people have hiad'the advice re-" re-" versed, boosting for California first and Utah ' after. There ts, however, an element of serious seri-ous responsibility In the declarations of, Mr. T Hogle, which Is not fully realized by the popu- - lations, either of California 'or of UUh. ! Each of these sections today feels more - or less Independent of the other, notwithstand- ing the fact that the welfare of the West vitally concerns fcoth of them. The West " coast, is growing rapidly and there Is a hope - that it will be a full grown rival of the East coast at some future date. This .condition : commands a Western loyalty from Western ' people. ' . .; w": ' We have long decried Intercity comperl-; comperl-; tion In Utah which had no consideration for ' the state rlewpolnt We have lamented the , competitions between Utah cities which re-; re-; suited in a prospective Industry seeding a loca-l loca-l tion elsewhere, our contention . being that . : cities should help each other In the general ; Interest' of the state. The same principle : Applies to the states of a particular section. : It Is plainly apparent that Utah is to b t fcelpecf more from the West than the East. : Pacific coast development is bound to reflect : knore benefits to Utah than development In : the East The natural condition demands the ,1 tort of royalty that Mr. Hogle advocates, v California is bigger than Utah and feels . its ! aire a good deal like a big brother. Cali-1 Cali-1 forrrians regard their state more or less as I tha paradise of the world, if not Indeed the ! world itself. . Z J They apparently have not yet felt the r pressing need of the rich resources of the intermountaln country, which they are bound T,to feel and realize before they can hope to take a place In commerce as a competitor of - the East The day Is coming when California '. will have to draw on the inland empires for I what she needs to fulfill her own ambitions. I California and Utah should remember that so fa.r as the West Is concerned their aims and I ambitions are identical. - Until the people of both states reach this realization they are bound to appear at "cross I purposes. At the present time California Is e Inclined to fear some sort of competition from the Rocky mountains and endeavors to create j and maintain obstacles to intermountain prog- ress which some day she will regret When California realizes that her reserve energy Is stored in our mountains, both Utah and Cali- - fornla will benefit ; ; jiTZI